Chapter 145: Hidden Gate!
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Kai went next, spear haft braced across the rope like a riding bar. Luna came after, Miryam secured in the chest-sling, her tail whipping at copper droplets.
Ten meters ... twenty ... forty. The crevasse widened into a winding slot canyon. They landed on loamy sand beside a subterranean stream whose surface bulged with green bubbles of mineral gas.
Heart Mason uncapped a jar and spread a thin resin sheet over the water, it hardened in seconds, forming a floating walkway the sled could roll across. Miryam chirped, fascinated by her own reflection shimmering through resin. Luna steadied her claws on the slick surface, laughing softly when the wyrmling pounced at bubbles.
No predators or beast came, Shadeclaw’s intel held true.
They exited the canyon onto a dark plain of obsidian scales, shards forced up by ancient lava flows. Each fractured plate overlapped like a frozen black fan. Sharp edges hummed in the wind, static skittered across them with faint blue sparks.
They crept ahead, When he dropped one onto a plate, the fireline ran in a lightning-shape, revealing thin fractures. Skyweaver sprinkled aura dulling dust so the glass wouldn’t mirror their silhouettes to skyborne predators.
Kai switched to half crouch gait, spear butt tapping each slab. At intervals he’d pause, eyes glowing with predator instinct, strings of pale energy danced under the glass. Where they brightened, he redirected the party, those veins led to sinkholes.
On one detour a cluster of glass wasps erupted. It was transparent exoskeletons beaded with mercury. Kai signalled: