After leaving Ivory City, Adam did not stop to rest. He feared that the steel golem would come for him, enraged by the fact that he had stolen its master's creations.
However, the golem was still continuing to patrol the ruined domed building, tirelessly guarding the armory that contained nothing. It mattered little. The directive had been given, and the construct would obey until the day its power source finally burned out.
But Adam had no way of knowing that. His cautious—borderline paranoid—nature drove him to dash through the jungles of Mabi for an entire week before he finally allowed himself to properly rest.
Perched high on the hillside, the cave's mouth was partly hidden by dropping vines and moss, overlooking a vast stretch of jungle with a river meandering through it in the distance.
