Takahashi Yū shook his head, shaking the stray thoughts out of his mind. Right now, he only wanted to confirm the state of the Dragon Vein's seal as quickly as possible!
Following Salan, Takahashi Yū and the brutes arrived at a stretch of ruins, where a squad of soldiers was already digging downward without pause.
With a thought from Takahashi Yū, his dark red killing intent split into dozens of tentacles and bound every soldier digging in the ruins.
He set them down safely in the clearing behind the group and said to Salan:
"Right underneath here?"
Salan and the two burly soldiers stared in shock at the killing intent surrounding Takahashi Yū, their knees weakening at its chilling aura.
Salan nodded with difficulty, pointing at the pile of sand and wreckage.
"There's a passage underneath here that leads straight to the underground Dragon Vein."
Hearing this, Takahashi Yū immediately shaped his killing intent into a huge hand, scooped up the building wreckage, and tossed it onto a nearby dune.
The remaining sand was also lifted by a platform formed from Takahashi Yū's killing intent and dumped onto another patch of open ground.
"Lead the way!"
Salan stared in shock at the dark red killing intent swirling around Takahashi Yū and swallowed with difficulty.
With the soldiers' help, she entered the pit. Seeing that the door was intact, Salan breathed a sigh of relief.
She was also planning to pack all of Rōran's people into the underground space built specifically for the Dragon Vein, sheltering them from the desert's daytime heat and nighttime cold.
Pulling open the door to reveal the dim underground passage, Salan and the two soldiers led the way.
Takahashi Yū and the brutes all followed.
Following Salan through the long, narrow passage, they arrived at the