Chapter 149
"YA-HOOOOOO!!" - Lily
"MAKE IT STOOOOOP!!" - Karnel
Sorry, but the rail cart express to the depths of the dark underworld does not have an emergency break~.
If anyone joined in right now, they would understand most of the situation from my joke above. We’re rushing through the Tunnel of Fear using a minecart that Lily had produced from the beak of her pelican friend, Store.
The reason for using this is because Karnel and Lily’s three birds’ night vision abilities aren’t on the level to see through the darkness that envelope the Tunnels.
Lily and Zaria are doing okay. They both have [Night Vision] at the highest level. I was confused why a bat (Therianthrope or not) would want that skill when she got [Echolocation], but Zaria simply replied that some creatures may notice the soundwaves created by the skill, so she went for an alternative method as a backup. Can’t say she’s wrong.
As for me? I’m seeing stuff better than in the daylight. Considering my eyes aren’t a-okay with the sun, since I’m an albino after all. That’s nothing to be too impressed over, but you gotta take what you get.
We had left the original route to the exit of the tunnel and went further down the depths looking for whatever monstrosity may have made its hive down there.
According to the supplementary info from Karnel, the tunnels used to be another mine until Lightless Ores started to appear.
Ores in this mountain will gradually be restored in time due to the aether veins in a similar fashion to the mining points in Damavand, but something must have glitched, which made these ores appear like weeds. In the end, the locals had to abandon this mining shaft and it gradually turned into a tunnel to test one’s courage...or for getting traumas like Karnel here did.
I put on the brakes on the cart when I saw the end of the rails of the alternative path we had taken and we all jumped out. Karnel and the birds needed some assistance due to the darkness.
"You can wait in the cart." - Garami