Bruno and Bevermeni

To be safe, Linsey climbed down into the hole without even lighting a torch.

He swapped the Swift Boots in his Equipment Slot for the Gray Fur Rabbit Shoes, reducing the sound of his footsteps.

Only then did he maintain his stealth state and continue downward.

Linsey jumped down into the hole.

He advanced step by step, his movements barely affected by the darkness.

Aside from his already astonishing perception, Linsey had also received a round of enhancements in the Underground City.

So even in this dark tunnel filled with murky air,

he would not encounter any of the difficulties an ordinary person would face while walking forward.

Drip—

Water dripped from above, pattering onto the damp ground.

Because this was beneath an island in a lake, the soil in this hole was quite muddy. Yet it had somehow avoided being flooded by large-scale seepage, creating a rather unique environment.

Stepping across the soft, rotten ground,

Linsey descended more than ten meters.

Although he had yet to see the explorer, he had already confirmed on the map that the other party was not far away.

Linsey continued sneaking toward him.

Before he reached the cavern where the other party was located, the perception naturally possessed by an Awakened allowed him to sense a surge of powerful life force.

"..."

"That strange object is on this explorer?"

The eruption of life force overlapped with the explorer's location.

Puzzled, Linsey arrived at a bend in the tunnel. Before taking that final step across the mud, he noticed a faint blue glow ahead.

Linsey slowly approached.

He did not rashly step out of the passage. Instead, he cautiously peeked around the corner.

At the end of the tunnel was a cave.

Unlike the hastily excavated mud-covered ground before it,

the soil here