Chapter 184: Underground

The hands numbed from biting cold and digging into the ice, faces damp with ice particles and looks haggard. The ice boulders laid about, sturdy and solid as stones or iron, but the group hauled this damn adamantine ice with lots of hard work and formed a long passage on the mountain foot. No matter how freezing it was, still not enough to shake their resolve. The group peered at the new found discovery, the hole, and exchanged excited glances.

"The thing must be in there," Ayaan exclaimed. He looked at his companions and urged them to dig faster, and he dug vigorously with newfound energy after looking at the hole in front of them. Eventually the hole enlarged, and a passage formed. When the hole was about the size of the human, the group stopped digging. Now they could go inside and see what was hiding there.