Murai had doubts about secrecy. That kind of stuff always bothered him, so no matter how he listened or watched her, Lisa felt wrong or her expectations were misguided. He had a hunch she knew something important yet unclear, and she wasn't making it as evident as she should.

Thus, he came to two conclusions—three if he were more skeptical or like before, but he was not.

As it stood, Lisa had guesses and no guarantees. The second idea was about change, doubt, and clarity, and how her history had pushed her to a point, as if she knew what the current mess was about. Murai knew that fifty years had passed for her, yet she felt as if it had not happened. It was an undeniable truth: she was very confident in her abilities and didn't believe she was wrong in many objective facts.

Or it might be a fearful, foreboding consequence that was not worth calling out loud. The two Helpers, whom she didn't trust with her life, were outside of this idea, unlike Murai. So why was she not considering him and her voice further?

It was messy from the maps alone. Many mining shafts made the Gate of Suffering look like a small and charming hall in comparison, even if Foolisch was quite adamant about their clearance and art.

He suggested several sites and devised numerous routes and charts, providing all potential miners with valuable recommendations and a clear understanding of their destination. From remote mines or caves, or even destroyed shafts and caves, there was a value in research noted not just from him but Lookish alike.

They were good sources since this place was old, but not so old that the newest research was required on a yearly basis. Perhaps it was better to pass them down or alter them because of companies.

It was unmistakable that they were looking for something older, and Bagus stated it a few moments ago, which Lisa noted. It should be ancient. Weird as fuck, too, and absolutely hideous for whatever case she saw in Murai and Mindarch and everything else! Lisa glared down as if those maps hurt her pride, and assumed the bottom was her last route because she couldn't see it anywhere else. She thought it would make no sense, yet now.... she decided she was far from perfect and others might play with her too.

Her eyes shifted down and up, going over ideas as the others looked at her. She jerked her head in five minutes, not giving Bagus or Itrosh more attention. She shook her hands into whirlpools of energy that messed with the papers.

"Ahh, I give up."

It was worth trying the unthinkable, and Murai wondered if his ideas about her were right, or if his hunches changed like himself. It was about time, or himself, that made him more drastic.

This world did not change it this time. It merely aroused it until something else finished the job. Lisa said it in the past, or how the possibilities of secrets were not a question, but a planned expectancy.

"Before going further," Murai said to her, "let's not pretend that our course is good or bad. It is a mere process to get to the bottom. Let's say it is somewhere deep. Where? The deepest? Well, you said what Levandis would think, so let's think about her. It is a good idea to take it with a grain of godly thoughts, which Bagus started."

"So what? Do you think I don't know her?"

"I didn't say that. Look at it further, at those holes and the bottom. Why hadn't she gotten even deeper? Because of Paradise? That is a bashful study that came to my attention recently. I doubt Paradise is too large and these mines crawl for hundreds of kilometers because of Materium, right?"

"I suppose."

"Alright. That goes for many kilometers deep. Now, let's imagine the whole temple. It goes even deeper into the earth than my patience, so what are you thinking, if not some meager peeks? It is clear that Gods has hands in this place, and there is something at the heart of this idea. Doubt Levandis. You think I don't know you keep thinking about her?"

"What makes you say that?" Lisa called to his soul rather than out loud.

"Your eyes? You blink and shift that sona of yours at the given notes. I had been around you enough to notice your irritations."

Glaring at him, Lisa wondered if his argument had hit her pride or not. It definitely moved something, or it was the residue from their previous talks. She didn't turn angry or upset. From the time with David in Helltrim City to this research and these books and maps, overlooking meaning and ideas was more than reasonable.

What? Where? Murai swallowed his pride and accepted Lisa as someone who could help him with more than just his hunches. Going deeper was a matter of time, and it wasn't about mining. A sufficient start was when the journey reformed, or where the terrible things came to an end.

"I said I gave up," Lisa argued, flew up, and flinched her head, acting as if her pride was hurt, until Bagus angled his face closer to hers in a questionable grimace. "What? We go onwards. That's the goal, and you two will protect this."

Bagus and Itrosh nodded, feeling that it wasn't up to their words. After all, whatever Murai communicated to Lisa wasn't in their ears.

Murai kept glaring at her, who lost her stubbornness.

"Don't look at me like that. You might be right, and I may be wrong. Perhaps it is right to assume everything is wrong, like us, and this whole charade. To start, going to the deepest parts has been part of my plans, yet for different reasons than this, so prepare your mana and life so you won't get roasted. The last time I checked, Anatidae can be considered quite a delicacy. Before roasting, season yourself because we are going to hell off these maps."

Her voice was still weird, yet Murai no longer bothered her. For a while, he couldn't stop thinking that a disaster was coming because he accepted her excuse and unwillingness to adapt to his discussion.

After cleaning the papers, the group resumed their journey by entering steep, deep mining shafts that resembled stair-like structures and holes. The arrangement was suitable and empowering.

Hunters hadn't bothered them either, which only one of them found odd. Everyone had their guesses, some of which sounded right and others wrong.

Soon, they reached the bottom routes, full of old mining shafts that were no longer used for regular mining. There were no obstacles. No guards. No entrances. They no longer served many purposes, but many of them retained their value and still held their potential.

Wooden pillars supported the walls or lay on the ground—or were completely missing—giving this place a dangerous sentiment.

There was more unkempt reinforcement everywhere, with old plates of runic formation flickering around walls, and to steal pillars protruding into dense stones.

Magic lost its depth, leaving scraps around the walls and ground. There were not that many Materium veins, so Itrosh brought out her fist-sized Gem.

There was far too much weight on everything, yet they had walked through many spots. This one wasn't their answer, and deep parts of the mines weren't as different from the middle ones.

They still counted for something, while the deepest ones were yet to come. After all, they were so dense and wide, ending in a nice line, that Lisa doubted a portal could exist in any of them.

By now, she was finding it ridiculous for weird reasons, so she risked her words with the most profound depth.

There were around two dozen levels in this section before the very bottom. All in all, it was roughly a quarter-kilometer of towering caves and mining shafts, all arranged into an insensible mess, unlike the ones in the middle and upper sections.

The bottom was more intriguing than the top, despite the loss of ideas and mining that was no longer very prevalent. Companies had strict rules about where and where not to dig. This here? It was a private and out-of-touch region.

Lisa found it odd; if it were sensible, there would be obstacles and additional rules about this Challenger Run, so she observed and found nothing was here.

There were no guards, runes, or any activity that should be otherwise present. Mindarch's work, she assumed, or it was a preparation for their upcoming reasons.

The elevators might be the true keys, all things considered, and Murai was correct that something malicious was going on with that bottom. It pissed her off a little bit, yet could anyone blame her? She lost her mind in this portal business days ago, and with hundreds of kilometers of mines, finding it was shitty like juggling with his sudden Resonance, that Mother, and various other matters.

As they wandered deeper, they soon encountered proper mining shafts still holding tons of Materium. There was even equipment lying around, or characteristic machinery resembling broken drills and golems.

Nobody was around, though little veins and dull flickering lights at corners revealed a surplus of wealth. The heart of this region was dense and rocky with gray colors. Nothing was muddled.

Ultra Materium left a strong impression, and many of them resembled what Murai had felt and seized before, but it did not entice or invoke him anymore.

He felt just mild discerning quivers in how his mana and these rocks felt one another. As for his feelings? Oh, he felt wrong no matter where he stepped.

He was not stupid, however. He discovered that a vehicle and rider mattered, and his body and soul were made of different matter.

To an extent, they clicked together and didn't reject it too much. It needed no rejections. This place touched him enough until it adapted like himself.

But the Brightlife? Lisa was too interested in how she discussed it or how she made him think about it. At least Bagus proved to be a great vehicle after Lisa barked to get quicker on his feet. So much so that Itrosh mounted his neck and quickened their overall pace.

The majority of the following shafts were either dull in color or the exact opposite. They were dangerous, sparking the walls and ground with blazing colors of flames and dangerous Laws.

In such cases, they either changed direction or continued with force. Lisa often did the worst job, regardless of anything before them. She acted not just as a scout but more like eyes.

Her body allowed it and turned many physical problems obsolete, so many of her acts shocked Bagus more than anyone else.

Murai had no issue with her tries, as long as she considered herself reliable. She even took his Token with her on a couple of those expeditions, leaving him alone for a few minutes at best.

Such was the bottom of these mines, which was surprisingly smaller than Murai had believed.

A quarter of a kilometer wasn't a lot if they walked through the midpoint. It wasn't the exact center, but it was a close and steadfast part of their plan. They had walked around like this since the very start. They considered a two-hundred-meter diameter ahead, down, or above. That was it.

In the dark caves, there was no issue for anyone, even with no Materium in sight. Much to Murai's surprise, he found out that Bagus had Night Vision. It was part of his Bloodline, which was no surprise. His species was splendid, and his power was even better.

At times, Itrosh relaxed and tensed up depending on the relative darkness and travel. Reading the maps wasn't a massive task after their latest restart and plans that seemed to finalize their assignment.

Then, Lisa showed her surprising passive ability. A living lantern, or so Murai's hilarious attempt called out, but this joke left no laughs detected—only a grim Lisa.

Having Gems set the mood straight, but that was no longer about them. To everyone's shock, Murai started to glow in more obvious darkness, which he found weirder than their looks or comments.

From his eyes, head, beak, and feathers, there were many patterns even when he wasn't Shaping anything. It seemed he couldn't sneak around like usual anymore.

He deduced that he couldn't control this Brighlife even when he squeezed his mana and acted like holding his breath.

Called Mana Veiling, it was an ability not officially recognized by Will of the Battleworld, but he had it since the start of his mana journey, or to be accurate, Anatidae Panacea. It wasn't that weird after Murai got further into this world and understood how stuff worked or didn't.

Magic was boundless, and options and readings of possibilities were part of countless charts, rules, and racial matters. For now, he recognized his spirit as the cause of this shine, while his feelings and failures were more about personal sensations that sought to change the impossible. Then, there was his body, which should be the cause of most issues.

He dismissed it within five minutes and realized Brightlife was already affecting his body in multiple ways, and moved on.

Later on, Murai learned how much Bagus and Itrosh had mined and fought when that Resonance swallowed him. Hunters were apparently shocked by their strategies and frightened because of changes on the surface.

As for what that was, they hadn't found any reasons besides incoming Razmund, which was no surprise. It was a fact that David had shared with them a while ago, after his failure to show up had changed a couple of their strategies. Having Ultium would be assuring, after all.

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Either way, Hunters hadn't gotten far since Bagus and Itrosh killed them or ensured no one would come close to where Murai was. That was hard but optimal. Afterward, they mined Gems. It wasn't their job, though, who would complain about it when they could scam this whole mining business?

Murai was quite surprised when they gave him everything they had mined, plus some more, saying that it was better left with him for the time being. Bagus even called it an interest capable of helping everyone.

Lisa pursued him to take every single Gem, which he later learned was their decision because the rules of this mining did not apply to him.

It wasn't culpable or bad. Murai still found it bizarre that Levandis would accept this method, or perhaps it was a loophole designed by Lordis, who had gotten these outer Challengers started.

It was neither surprising nor easy. Still, Murai didn't know how he would pay this respect back, or return those Gems to them, or... when. He had so much under his wings that he wondered if he would even see them in the future.

There was still a high possibility they would be left behind, so just to be sure, leaving Gems with Murai sounded like an acceptable idea. They had no desire to give anything to any company, let alone to Levandis, who was kind of a prick about the exclusivity of these gems. Sure, denizens could buy them, but they couldn't sell them to the outside. Personal use was fine, though.

Hours into this journey disappeared in a flash, and even Lisa changed back to her sizable appearance, which was a bit bigger than Murai's current size. Both of them were smaller compared to Bagus, who was larger than horses, let alone Itrosh, who was comparable in size to humans.

"Still nothing?" Lisa cursed the mines. "I called out there would be doubts."

Her body did not trouble her, so she snatched the map from Itrosh, who was aside and free. Thanks to her body, this place meant no problems.

Flying helped much more than one would guess, similar to her size, but the biggest nonsense was the sheer ineffectiveness of Laws and natural elements against her.

Murai once watched how the blazing light and flame swallowed her, but she perked up from there within minutes, shaking her head and disregarding this place. Of course, his Token was fine. It was built to last, and it was a wonder how old it was.

Murai would sneeze if he didn't need her, and he was unwilling to test the degree of his Brightlife, body, and hoodie. One was a precious gift, the other a cursed possession, while the last was his cursed existence.

Pointing forward, Lisa called out the next route.

"Alright. Further in, there are destroyed sections, and one of the most dangerous sections of this route. They follow one of the elevators, so take care of any Hunters or something like that. Same shit, basically. The area hasn't been thoroughly researched in detail for decades, and even Foolisch has some issues with it. My lacking head formed maps and old information. The sources? The point? There is none. We go in. Nothing else."

"Should we cheer? This place irks me," Itrosh said and shivered, "and I feel a constant sense of danger."

"Nothin' new," Bagus added. "There are no dangers without any gains, and we are having a nice parade without one single stop to those hells and fissure storms or whatnot. I call it a win."

"Be careful." Lisa pointed at them. "Some of the mines may be vertical and tight, others horizontal or angled in weird angles downwards to make smaller shafts, or even reaching lower levels. On the left, there should be residual cave systems that go to the absolute bottom. At least, according to the notes, some unusual veins are following along. Dangerous ones, or so it is said."

"What? Dangerous Materium?" Bagus shouted, shocked. "Where? Don't see anything other than life-threatening ones. Oh, wait. This is nothing new. I know this is dangerous, yet... You fly to them as if you are going for a swim. You are insane. For a ghost."

Lisa glared at him. "It is a warning for your sake. That is all. I doubt you've visited this place in your lifetime if you are acting like a scared cat."

"CAT!" Bagus shouted and felt how Itrosh smushed his head and scratched his chin again.

"You are acting as if you did, Lisa," Itrosh commented.

"No," Lisa said, "but that doesn't mean you shouldn't trust me or those dangers. Frankly, you shouldn't. Don't trust anything."

Was it a subtle hint for something? They didn't know.

"Then what will we do after this section? We aren't in the middle section of this bottom anymore, so what are you planning?" Itrosh asked, standing in the shade of Bagus and looking at a bunch of destroyed shafts.

It made her face appear a bit darker and scarier than usual due to the Gem she was holding and the light Lisa was emitting.

The same could be said of Bagus as well, but calling a tall Grifhart not scary in such an environment was a rather big understatement. It was Murai, who wasn't one bit scary. One might even add that he was the odd one in this group.

"We dig." Lisa suddenly said, "You are, by the way. I can't do much with such a frail and radiant body." She touched her hips and traveled with her fingers toward her eyes before smirking at them like a devil. "Now, get to work if you don't want to travel to hell."

This section was one of the few they had to dig. The reasons were a lack of shafts and depth. There shouldn't have been a need for this because of Murai's Token, but Lisa was no longer playing around.

Bagus got to work without any complaints, and even Murai joined him.

Itrosh had snarly comments about yet another digging they had done three times on similar fruitless occasions, but even if she wasn't that heavy or powerful, she had to go along. They dug out one of the old, broken shafts and uncovered a long-forgotten path.

Lisa floated above them, aware that she couldn't bring out the Token through these walls, so this was the only solution. Glancing at the maps as they worked, this section was one of the three potential places at the bottom that held quite a few loose gears around the notes and maps.

In practice and walking, she noticed missing parts and different parts. For example, further in, only a few tunnels ran through here, with one being located higher up, which was obvious on the maps, while this one wasn't marked almost anywhere.

The elevator could be the reason, as it needed stability, but that could be bullshit. There were still hundreds of other issues, and she saw no connections.

The dangers could be another reason. Wrong. There were no flames or nasty elements after this digging. Lisa felt this could work, so she reminded Murai to mind the Token in his pocket. Its acts could be subtle if something they were getting closer.

"Wow, I didn't know about this being here," Bagus said, looking into the new shaft. "Looks not that broken, does it?"

"Paused runic formations make obvious claims," Lisa said absentmindedly, observing the maps and the walls.

"What? What runic formation? I see nothing." Itrosh asked, turning to her, and smiled in curiosity. "Are you lying? What is trust?"

"Are you stupid?"

"Hey, no brawling on top of my back!" Bagus called out as he walked in, bearing Murai on top of his back, who got there after this digging was over.

Lisa wasn't a problem. It was Murai who was intriguing. His beak was still shiny, and his mind was full of thoughts after testing mana and letting shivers down his spine.

It was true how they were yet to discover anything wrong about this place, but he and his mana were another thing. Throughout this underground, many mines hadn't seen a soul in millennia.

Materium was either long gone, structures collapsed, or the truth no longer remained. In some sense, it was a suitable place for secrets and hiding.

Lisa changed the way she thought about it after hearing Murai and Bagus's declarations. She remembered her previous remarks and realized something.

It doesn't look wrong at first. To think of this place as a large mining prison... It is intact and lifeless, so what is going on with the secrets? Mining can be done everywhere, so where have you locked or concealed that portal, you cheeky Levandis?* Lisa thought and pressed her arms together as she closed the map.

Murai might be right. What if there is much more about this place than my head can handle? The absolute bottom of this place is not my past life. There was nothing, even though I spent days wandering around and digging out the inspections as she wanted.

Well, there is something wrong and wonderful about it anyway, because she left it out. Murai is right in that regard, but not the portal. That's just great. Wonderful. It shouldn't be recent. Well, that is doubtful, like myself.

Lisa shook her head and floated down, discovering that more locked shafts were around.

It was about time for a systematic approach to this digging project because there was no way this place wasn't hiding and playing with her head. Barking orders to dig again was the easiest job ever.

"Are you sure about this?" Itrosh asked her as she rested her hands. "I know the places for portals aren't always small, but have you calculated the potential places, or just guessed them?"

"That's the first thing I've done, Itrosh. But once again, thinking isn't your forte. We play and are being played." Lisa said, knowing that she and these books used many calculations and common sense.

The maps let her know about the disorder and the facts. All doubts then created paranoia as if they were specifically designed against her.

There were a couple of intriguing facts. It was almost impossible for the upper or middle parts of this underground to contain the portal room.

Mining shafts and caves were too densely clustered together, and they went through multiple large enough places and caves to validate that possibility. It came later, but it was better than never.

Further down, there was more room because it was more accessible to mine in the less dense, rocky grounds. Ultra Materium made it very difficult, yet also enticing, because it was commonly clustered in large quantities.

Difficulties went hand in hand with the depth of this place, but not every mine and shaft was the same. That was why the topic of the bottom came to Murai's mind.

Tasked with his Token, Murai had an easier time than the rest. It did nothing so far, but he paid special attention to it.

Lisa considered cheating methods and advantages with his Token but found nothing that could work. Unfortunately, David made it more than apparent. No mage capable of feeling the Chaos Space would willingly work with them here, let alone because of those strict rules and shit. Most of them were wealthy and mighty individuals who could work with tools about Chaos Space. It had certain appeals and respectable honor.

Considering the mess they were part of, no one should want to cheat right before Levandis's eyes, let alone make a stupid decision when the world lacked order.

"You think what I am doing isn't enough?" Lisa asked Itrosh.

She cocked her head, scratching her hair. "Haven't said that. I am getting nervous, sorry. We are deep. I've never been so deep. There are places we shouldn't visit, or so it is stated. Yet you do it without a blink or fear because you can't be hurt. We can. I fear that some companies may not like where we are going, but when I think about it... you know this already."

Lisa wanted to argue, but stopped midway through her ideas. She opened her eyes and mouth wide. Then, it hit her.

The answer.

She ignored some glaring, clean, and fair images.

Screaming as if Lisa found the most upsetting victory, Itrosh almost jumped away to the darkness when she heard her like that.

"That's it?!" Lisa called out, and her sona wobbled and soared like a consuming water fountain.

"What are you shouting for?" Itrosh said in shock and hugged her head.

"Companies. Secrets. Levandis. Portals. Mines. Everything. It is right there. It is all about connections from the past. Large past. I was right in my doubts, close but infinitely further away from it. " Lisa pointed forward. "There is nothing in restricted places. Secrets are jokes. Problems are where we fear to look. They hide things for a reason, yet behind it, there are others."

Itrosh didn't know what she meant.

Murai walked from the darkness of another digging, dirty and glaring at Lisa, who screamed like a maniac. Bagus kept digging, shoving his beak and wings deep into the tunnel and creating enough destruction that Murai felt insignificant. Itrosh was the same.

"What was that? Did you eat something bad? Got something stuck in your head?" He asked her with his Will.

Lisa smiled. "You were right and I was wrong."

"Oh, lords have mercy." Murai sighed and angled his beak upwards. "I think I am still stuck in the Resonance again. Which, should I ask?"

"Hey, don't play with me. There weren't any wrong approaches to most directions, but I've done them for the best. Some matters are simply not there at all. And you were right about one of them,"

"Oh, tell me something new." Murai chuckled and turned his beak at her. "Does that mean that the portal is within your perception? Should I just fly at you and be done?"

"Could be. That would be harder, but it is still a guess. There are at least three places that have it all." Lisa said as she pointed forward again. "Connections. No Chaos Space moves by itself. History and people do. It is about the spheres of influence. Places that were forgotten are not that. Destroyed places are a joke. Then, we have this bottom that is considerably smaller than the rest of the mines, yet it has the most doubts."

"So...?" Murai asked.

"There are a couple of places here that set things apart. Elevators are part of it, but companies, people, and history left it out, even with Lookish in the way. If not this one, the next place has it. We go in. Feel that shitty old Token for any little tremor. It is going to be sensitive and rough, as... even I don't know what to look for it, but I sure as hell know it is real."

Murai nodded and resumed digging. It took them less than an hour to reach the other side, and much to everyone's expectation, they discovered a section of mines and caves that were bright in flames and destruction. The temperature was insane, and a sense of direction was nonexistent.

Lisa recalculated the options. Seeing this insanity, she went right inside after Murai refused to go along. When she wanted to go inside, protesting or changing her mind was impossible.

In the end, she took his Token alone and did his job instead, but he never knew if this worked for her as well. It should. There was no bond between it and Murai, and there was no way Mindarch or Levandis would bother with that.

Alas, Lisa found nothing worth mentioning.

A different route of the same properties was close.

At the bottom, noteworthy mines had long histories and forgotten melodies. Companies were irrelevant. Under Levandis and her privacy, elevator shafts, and notes from a few books, she knew there was no pity. Murai wouldn't find it without her.

It was difficult, but they still had to travel through a hellish place that seemed to be a true hell. Lisa had no issue with them, but the rest of her team did.

Murai spent almost all of his mana on Water to let Bagus and Itrosh survive a stretch of a wild run, during which Bagus endured the worst run of his life. They went through the other side, where it wasn't that bad, but many rocks were in the way.

That was when Bagus seriously turned upside down and blazed like a crazy Griffin. At that moment, when he began to dig again, sweaty and dirty, all doubts escaped from everyone's mind.

Surprisingly, Murai wasn't as disturbed as he thought. Anatidaes and their feathers did have elemental properties, so he didn't feel worse, let alone being cooked alive.

On the opposite end, maybe Brightlife was another cause, though he wasn't sure if it involved his overall Bloodline and body or just mana. It was still an elemental Affinity in his Beast Core, so he judged it to be a work of his hoodie and overall body.

After that hell, Lisa provided them with clearer directions than ever and changed completely. She let them into a place that was full of old, broken mining shafts.

Murai watched the map from the top of Bagus, discovering that she was leading them to no reasonable place. This had no restriction, but one thing was unique about it. It had many private and notable Ultra Veins the size of a mountain.

There were nearly a hundred of them alone.

"Why have we gone to the middle?" Murai asked her. "Have you figured it out, or are you just guessing?"

"Not at all. You will get it. Probably," Lisa said and kept persisting in that direction. There was much better stability and architecture. There were many clean and strong metal pillars, and sturdiness appeared to be a key component of this section.

Weirdly, there were numerous forbidden zones and dangers. Those mountainous Materium veins didn't weigh a lot.

It was restricted because it was far too good. It had almost no publicity and openness. The ones that were too big would never open up because Levandis had to be cautious about what was valuable and worth destroying. Do it too obviously, and even a God could turn stupid.

Some research was still available, but it was half-mistaken and mixed with the wrong direction. Lookish and Foolish had access to these shafts at a couple of points in their lives, and Lisa learned about them more than with her eyes.

The group went in, witnessing the soft hues of boundless Ultra Materium littered around the walls and the ground. There were even bridges where Ultra Materium broke into millions of pieces. They looked quite good, almost like art, or warring machinery due to their weight and stability.

At last, after more than a day below the Ip'ur Mountain, Murai felt his Token shudder in his pocket. At first, it was vibrating and irritating. Then it was noticeably faster until it disappeared within a second of Bagus's pace.

It was numb and so sudden that Murai yelled, surprising everyone. Lisa turned and smiled after calling out her victory.

It was also a moment where Fate found the way in, giving them no room or time to breathe. The worst change occurred behind their back. A deep tremor, a cave shattering, came like exploding evidence of destruction. It was a source of craziness that walked and jumped into their current path.

Revealed in a moment, bright and chaotic waves of sharp mana cut the stones and pillars apart. Parts of the mana were azure and white, but many showed a sharp red color, indicating a colorful Awakened Mana.

It was a wild coloration. There weren't as many sources of colors, and every one of them indicated what mana and qualities possessed. Frankly, texture and aura were more important, but the color was more eye-catching.

Azure was pure mana, which was known as Purity Affinity. Whiteness was the epitome of further clarity and cleansing, but also a dangerous glint under enough cleaned density of other variants of Purity or other affinities.

Sharpness was usually white for a reason, as it wasn't very characteristic, similar to other Affinities under the same principle. Red was insanity, murder, and the power of blood.

It was like with languages. Some colors had their meaning, but how one called them out and used them conveyed the greater truth.

And Razmund sure as hell wasn't speaking much today. He acted like a wild dog and finally found his damned prey.