Remembering the size of the Lord of Dreams that had gone inside earlier, Elliot retreated another considerable distance and watched from a safe position far away.
The opening kept expanding and contracting, and the walls inside writhed constantly.
Just moments ago, that spot had clearly been solid sand and stone, with nothing beneath it. Elliot had spent ages digging there himself.
Yet now, it had suddenly turned into soft flesh.
The opening writhed for a while, then spat out an enormous creature with a pop.
Elliot looked closely. Sure enough, it was the Lord of Dreams he had ordered inside to investigate.
He checked their spiritual connection again.
"The [Hypnosis] on it is still active."
"So where exactly does this cave lead? And what did it go off and do?"
The fact that this monster had returned was itself a problem.
Elliot had ordered it to "crawl inside and investigate," but he had never ordered it to return.
Which raised the question: how had it come back?
"Could this cave loop around to the entrance?"
Elliot shook his head, not quite believing it.
He circled the Lord of Dreams several times, then suddenly fixed his gaze on something.
A piece of clothing was actually tangled around one of its slender limbs.
Elliot reached out and untangled it.
It was a hooded robe made of coarse cloth, stained with quite a bit of grime.
It looked vaguely familiar. He examined it carefully for ages, but found nothing unusual.
It was just an ordinary robe.
Looking at the somewhat shabby robe, Elliot pondered for a while. Then something suddenly occurred to him, and he activated [Spirit Vision].
Before this, he certainly would not have dared activate it carelessly.
After all, he had no idea whether it would provoke these monsters into attacking