Jahi walked forwards with a confident gait, her great sword resting on her shoulder as she marched down the tunnel towards the end, her eyes alternating between the branching tunnels around us as she kept her guard up for any monsters that would try and surprise us.
Anput and I walked on either side of her, plugging the branching paths with Earth and Ice as we journeyed deeper into the Monster Den, hoping to find something that might stymie the production of these monsters even just a little bit, so that when we began our siege on the mountain we could do so without as large of a horde following behind us.
Leone was in the center of us all, with Nirinia following behind as we delved deeper and deeper, the air becoming stale and hot as we moved further and further away from the surface.
