The Giant Dragon's footsteps sent tremors through the ground, each step seeming to hammer at the Drow Elves' fragile hearts.
Afraid the Giant Dragon behind them might change his mind, they wanted only to get farther away from him and urged their Four-legged Lizards to move faster.
Following close behind, Tang Qi saw the road ahead grow steadily wider.
It almost felt like returning to that moment many days ago when he had first glimpsed Lightless City, marveling at how vast the underground world could be.
Compared with the surroundings outside Lightless City, the road to the Golden Country was even smoother. Along the way, aside from densely packed stalagmites, broad platforms, and fungi and moss peeking through the gaps between the stone ledges, they found no other signs of life.
Perhaps that ancient, uncontainable aura was the reason no living creature dared act up before a Giant Dragon.
"How much longer?" Tang Qi asked.
"Not long."
Night Shadow sounded even more humble. Not everyone, after all, was qualified to reason with gods and Giant Dragons. "Look, these are all traces of where we once lived. That means the Dragon's Nest isn't far away now."
She pointed toward the houses scattered on either side of the road ahead. They had been built from [zekwood].
A variety of enormous mushroom that could grow dozens of meters tall, it resembled a lush, bent tree from the outside. But rather than leaves, its branches bore
plump green spores like ears of wheat, clustered together to take on the appearance of foliage.
Besides the spores being edible as grain, its huge, hard stalks could also serve as scarce lumber for building houses.
Now, however, the houses on either side had been reduced to ruins, littered with the black embers left by the ravages of