Cold air wafted up from the tunnel, though fortunately there was not much dust.
It was clear that Les Kazan himself frequently used this underground passage.
The circulating air inside was fairly fresh, nowhere near as murky as the underground Ruins Zong Shen had entered before.
This was the kind of exploratory experience only adventurers possessed; they could glean a great deal of information from the air alone.
Les Kazan led the way ahead, still wearing that bathrobe. Barefoot, he moved down the cold stone steps at an angle.
The tunnel itself lay twenty to thirty meters underground.
This place had been dried and sealed.
There were quite a few subterranean caverns containing groundwater beneath Lentax Great City.
Some led directly to the surface, some lay two or three meters below it, while others were scattered anywhere from dozens to hundreds of meters underground.
That was why Lentax Great City had so many wells.
Even the small lake within Count Les's manor was essentially fed by overflow from an underground cavern.
The city's sewers, meanwhile, avoided the areas where those caverns were located.
They formed underground passageways built through artificial construction.
But that did not prevent the nobles from breaking ground within their own manors or castles to build secret passages and chambers of their own.
Most intelligent creatures had an innate sense of security when underground.
It was said that this came from the trust in the Earth Mother Goddess carried within their bloodlines.
They continued along the tunnel. It was not particularly eerie, only somewhat cold, but that was not worth mentioning to Zong Shen's powerful Physique.
Even Les Kazan himself could easily withstand the chill within the tunnel.
After proceeding several hundred more meters through the passage, the two arrived at a secret chamber beneath the manor.