The secret chamber narrowed into a dim stone passage barely wide enough for two people to walk side by side. The walls pressed in on both sides, rough and cold, marked by age and streaked with faint traces of energy that shimmered like dust caught in moonlight.
Max walked at the front, his senses with Three Dimensional Body spread out in every direction, ensuring that nothing unexpected approached them from deeper inside.
The others followed in silence, their footsteps echoing softly against the cramped stone corridor. The further they walked, the more the air seemed to grow colder, as if the cave itself remembered every person who had ever passed through and carried the weight of that memory.
