Chapter 570: Ley bare for the taking
Sofia peacefully fell down, her legs crossed, lightly opening her wings every so often to keep her falling speed in check.
“How many times have I jumped down dark holes like this one now? The abyss under the holy-see, the Veik secret passage on Fenrir, the ladder down to the center of Cerberus Beta, then the multiple holes in the palace… I feel like I’m forgetting some… Nothing can ever top jumping from the Sun back to Veliadren anyway… Space is the largest hole out there.”
After a while she stopped, stopping something strange. Stepping on air, she jumped up a few times.
“Oh…”
The hole had relatively cleanly cut sides, but right there, the hole had a hole.
“Some kind of cavern? … No, that’s a tunnel. Something dug up to this point, encountered the hole and decided to turn another way. A monster of that size capable of digging through the stone without causing everything to collapse… Stone Drake? I wonder if I could kill one without cheating now. Shouldn’t be too hard, right? The one from the trial was only level 333.”
Now is not the time…
Sofia let herself fall down. A free fall was much faster than going down stairs, and even with frequent breaks, she reached the bottom in under an hour, finding herself in another small room like the one she had departed from, a closed door hiding what was to come next.
Velania had not lied, the mana here was thick and suffocating, saturating the air so much that it felt almost like walking through a dense invisible fog. There was so much of it that in corners it gathered densely enough to be visible to the naked eye, looking like white wisps of mist.