Ethan never would have guessed the Divine Sea Temple was basically a glorified obstacle course.
He stood there staring at the four men, completely at a loss for words, trying to reconcile the grandeur he had imagined with the absurd reality in front of him.
"Look, kid, you might as well go in," the spearman said at last, his tone steady but heavy with something that lingered beneath the surface. "That's the only way out. Otherwise, you end up like our ancestors… stuck here forever."
The last words faded into a bitter quiet, as if even he was tired of hearing them.
"What?"
Ethan's brain stalled for a moment, like it had hit a wall it couldn't process.
This was bad. Really bad. But even so, he was going in. There wasn't any other choice.
If this place really was some kind of trial ground, then there had to be rewards hidden inside, something worth the risk, otherwise no one would bother building something like this in the first place.
