Midnight rushed over to Onyx ahead of the others. She was ready to see what he had to say about the newly hatched abyssal serpent that he was not looking over. "Sister, they already named themselves. Can you believe that? They named themselves after the order they hatched. I will teach them to get to the ce I am tomunicate with others but they recognize their order. It''s perfect and easy. But they are too hungry." The small abyssal serpents had already consumed most of the light elemental mana in the first elemental crystal.


    There was no hiding his words from the others. They all heard him since he had basically shouted it to the world mentally. "You seem pretty happy. It looks like they can even hide in your shadow too. That''s so cute!" Su was broken. Her serious demeanor was washed away by the little abyssal serpents hiding in Onyx''s shadow when the rest of the group arrived.


    "I will let them know who you are and that they are safe with you here. They don''t really understand much of what I say but they know I am bigger and here to help them. They really like Alice since she was humming before and made the light elemental mana easier to eat." It seemed all too easy to make Alice blush with this. She was somehow bing loved by her own fan club of abyssal serpent hatchlings.


    "Oh? You have already started to get them to like you? How is the heavenly serpent going to feel when it hatches and finds out that its ner sister has a nest of siblings for it to contend with." The teasing earned a soft p to Walker''s arm. But he could tell that she liked it. She was thinking about how it would be nice to have so many friends around to help her train, keep herpany, and most of all live a better life.


    "They can be family. All of them."


    "Now that is well said. They will be wee in the guilds and out on every adventure!" Remey''s shout in response to Alice caused the little hatchlings to slither back in to the shadows yet again. They soon reemerged to look at her curiously. They didn''t know what she had said or why she was so loud. However, they could sense the light elemental affinity of the two interchangeable knuckles on her hips.


    Before they could continue on and keep chiding about the abyssal serpent hatchlings, there was a soft rumbling. The dust from the ceiling began to fall on them while clouding the air. No one knew what was going on. "Is this another earthquake?" The earth spirit didn''t seem to agree with Su''s theory. It just melded back in to the earth dwelling shield. Everyone could feel the tension in the air.


    "Then it might not have been an earthquake that caused this to burst open. It could have been monsters." Walker had everyone on alert immediately. The shaking stopped leaving them all ready for battle without a foe.


    "As the party leader, we are leaving. We do not know what caused this and what further damage coulde of this. The tunnel seems safe but I heard you call out that the continuation of the tunnel had copsed. It''s not safe. We will leave. The people we send here next can investigate." Onyx was sobered up from his joy. He was ready to be more serious and get somewhere safe. He had watched Walker procure the dormant eggs and carry the one soon to hatch. He also saw that Walker had stored away many of the stone bs with runenguage written on them. That way they would more easily convince people toe and explore these ruins in depth. They just needed to hope that the ruinssted longer.


    "I agree with that. I don''t n on staying here too much longer. I prefer where I can see the target I can shoot my arrows at." the rumbling seemed to have stirred Zephyr from her rest in their bow. She looked a little confused.


    "Can you feel that? There''s a lot of earth elemental mana around here now. I think there might even be a spirit like me."


    "A spirit like you. A grand elemental spirit? Is that a good thing?" Walker waited with bated breath. So far Zephyr had been kind but that didn''t mean that all grand elemental spirits were.


    Her reaction was the same as any other person would shrug. But when Fleur started to pull Walker''s hair back towards the entrance he felt it was better to leave. The mana was imbnced and the area felt dangerous. At the very least they were better off getting somewhere safer.


    "Come here. Hide away in my shadow and stay close. We will keep the light for you to eat while we go." The whispers of Onyx were still transmitted to their minds because of his excitement. It also helped them know where the hatchlings were so that they could better guard them. Su was prepared to use the earth fortress skill with her partner at a moment''s notice.


    The entire cavern had be dusty and harder to see. "I can feel a new airflow. Maybe another cave opened up." They all trusted this information from Gil and Zephyr. The pair had the best understanding of wind elemental mana, therefore, they were able to feel the slightest shift in the air traveling through the caves.


    "There was that tunnel we did not travel down. We don''t know where it went. What if it went to another room like this." The thought urred to Onyx and then hit everyone else with the realization that they could be leaving even more monster eggs to spoil and lose the chance to live. The thought would eat away at them if they did not attempt to check it out. But there was still the danger of what was causing that rumbling.


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