The two of them looked around and realized they were halfway up a mountain. White mist still shrouded the area, and they couldn't see the base of the mountain.
"Come on, let's head down."
Garen took the lead.
The inside of the Amethyst Mountain Range was also completely shrouded in white mist.
"The gravity here is incredibly strong. I can't even fly."
Linley said.
Garen tried. His feet soon left the ground, but the gravity was so strong that even when he managed to fly, he could only move very slowly.
He landed again. They might as well walk.
Before long, they followed the slope all the way to the foot of the mountain.
"The mist seems thinner here!"
Linley said, looking around.
"Yeah. Let's explore a bit and see what we find."
Garen kept the Map Function active. It displayed the terrain within ten kilometers, and if they found a cave or something, that was probably the place he was looking for.
Along the way, they often came across piles of amethyst. At first, Linley was excited—amethyst was worth a lot of Ink Stones out in the outside world.
But he soon got used to it. Whenever he saw some, he still collected it.
After all, with Garen by his side, he was confident they'd get out before long.
"Whooooosh..."
A faint sound of wind came from ahead.
"Come on, let's go take a look."
Garen knew they had probably reached one of the Amethyst Mountain Range's eruption vents.
Free amethyst was free amethyst. They might as well take it.
"So much? H-how much amethyst is this?"
Linley stared at what lay ahead, dumbfounded.
A huge pit, dozens of meters across, lay in the ground a hundred meters away. At its center was a cave about ten meters in