Chapter 15 The Heart Of Darkness

The tunnel grew darker still as they moved deeper into the heart of the ancient labyrinth. The air was thick with moisture, and each step seemed to sink deeper into a chilling abyss. Kaiza’s hand tightened around the obsidian fragment, its glow casting weak shadows on the walls around them. The oppressive silence of the underground world weighed heavily on him, each crack in the stone and distant echo making his nerves burn with anticipation. The death of the creature, that monstrous amalgamation of shadow and stone, had only momentarily silenced the place, but Kaiza knew better than to believe they had escaped. The world they had stepped into was ancient, tied to forces much older than anything they had encountered, and the heart of the labyrinth was still ahead.