Thor let An continue her collecting journey, then turned into a feather and drifted underground.
He didn't use a faster way to descend. The bottomless pit An had mentioned, along with the large amount of inert Black Dust in the soil, made him cautious.
A single Feathering Technique took almost no Magic Power to maintain.
After descending about a hundred meters, Thor found that the Rift hadn't narrowed. It was about as wide as it had been when he'd first dropped into the ground.
A hundred meters farther down, he spotted half the remains of a White Bone Monster embedded in the nearby soil. He then told Xiao Zao to gnaw the bones out of the cracks in the rock.
Xiao Zao loved the job and found it as exciting as treasure hunting. Without waiting for Thor to tell him what to do, he began searching the cliffs on either side.
Thor was descending slowly, and Xiao Zao had a very sharp mouth. Before long, he had gnawed out several more chunks of White Bone Monster remains.
But Thor soon had no attention to spare for Xiao Zao.
After descending another five hundred meters, a sudden sense of dread shot through his mind.
He lowered his head slightly and looked down.
It was still pitch-black below him. Not a ray of sunlight from above could reach this place, and Thor's Mental Power still couldn't find the bottom.
Just as An had said, this seemed to be a bottomless Rift. If he kept descending, all he would find was more of the same.
"How could a Rift this deep suddenly appear here? Was this place once attacked by a Tier 4 Wizard, or was there some other cause?"
Thor had already formed a few theories about what kind of world the