There was, of course, more than one way to enter the Golden Kingdom besides the "Death Pit."
In fact, while they were moving away from the Golden Horse Knights and conducting their frantic search, another group had successfully deciphered the writing on a stone tablet and confirmed that the Golden Kingdom lay directly beneath their feet.
Once the location of the Golden Kingdom had been confirmed, digging out a passage leading straight into the underground world was not particularly difficult for an experienced mage.
—Him's team was the first to enter the Golden City!
"Rumble!"
The earth-element Magic Spirit finally dug through the passage, opening a massive hole in the ceiling somewhere within the Golden City.
A moment later, Him's team emerged from that enormous hole one after another.
Unlike Gold Digger and Ali Baba's teams, which had become especially bloated due to their excessive initial numbers, Him had brought fewer than ten elite members into the Death Desert this time.
Not only had he borrowed mages from the Lord's Manor, but he had also made use of his connections to invite several deeply hidden experts to accompany him. There were even two members of the Sand Tribe among them!
One of the team members was a desert beast tamer, a profession that had nearly vanished. This beast tamer had tamed a large number of Desert Giant Eagles.
Those fewer than ten elites had ridden the Desert Giant Eagles into the Death Desert at a speed even faster than the sand carts.
Him himself had used a mechanical compass to confirm their direction. Though they had set out later than Gold Digger's team, they overtook them in less than a day. Afterward, they found this place with the sacrifice of only one member, then dug their way underground.
And then,