“I guess the Nerve Shaker will e in haually, let's just hope it isn't as expensive as everything else I use.” He muttered, and then he gestured for the rest of the group to try and steal the same ability from these carcasses.

  For a few mi was difficult for them to uand each other, because their ears were still ringing, but eventually they uood what he initially meant. Ear pain was one of the worst pains of all, they were not happy.

  Anyway, Ortana was very keen on Tim's Idea. She didn't have that many abilities to begin with, due to the fact that oftentimes she had to sacrifice them in exge for shapeshifting. She had shapeshifted a lot before, however now, when an opportunity to obtain new powers reseo her, she did not hesitate to take it. She cut off, and ate four fat pieces of snake meat, regardless of how tiny she was by stature, and she hat it was delicious!

  Ortana mao steal a quarter of a snake's power, and that amount was good enough, because Timothy couldn't do aer. She had the ability at her disposal now, she could pour mana points on it, and that was what mattered the most, as the quality of each power she had, improved along with her mana anyway!

  “A bit sour, but food is food.” She joked, but she also had this dangerous look in her eye, whily firmed that she obtaihe ability.

  This was a good day. They got new powers, and did not get killed by six-foot long snakes either! It was definitely something worth celebrating about, and they were celebrating inwardly, however, the rest of the group wasn’t as enthusiastic about eating snake meat.

  Arvena expressed, “That's a fool's game there, eating animals to steal their powers. Nurture what you already have, or open a book, as it's the only honorable way to cultivate a new ability.”

  “We’re fish, there weren't any books in the sea.” Tim pointed out.

  There was ing that part, so Arvehem be. After all, she didn't have to like their methods in order to cooperate with these people.

  Skendus however, had a better excuse as to why he wo snake meat. “I didn't have any books either, anyway, I'm an illusionist so I don't his… nerve shaker? I paralyze a person in a huher ways, both physically aally. I'm good.”

  There was a lot of talking regarding this issue. Tim hadn’t realized that a simple suggestion from his side would end up sparkihical debates, but yet here they were. He wasn't happy about this, he could see the repulsion that his two friends felt, and quite frankly he didn't expect this from them. Arvena had doreacherous deeds before, and she hadn’t been ‘educated’ as rigidly in parison, so this was odd.

  “Looks like the snakes pissed on everyone's nerves already,” He thought.

  However, they didn't have time to debate right now, as they were on a little mission here. The dragons ended up eating all of the snakes, which was a bit of a waste, because for some reason they couldn't obtain any powers iurn, but that was the ethical debate fihe meat was wasted in a sense, but the dragons did seem pretty happy about their meal.

  Anyway, they tinued walking through the tunnels afterwards, and they did so fidently, because they mahis first attack really well. They figured that if they were attacked again by whatever creature, they'd be able to hahemselves!

  The torches they carried were a symbol of their radiant fidehey weren't scared, though iably they ran into about eight more dead ends along the way which mao halt their stride. The dead ends weren’t surprising. This tunnel system was beyond plex, as there was a lot of work doo create it in the past, perhaps decades of work even!

  With that said, they could uand why the priest valued this puch. Though there was no written record of how the mines had operated, anyone could guess that a mining operation that was this huge, had likely required hundreds of men to have it fun. Any mihat required hundreds of men, truly had something to offer!

  In this case, it has had so much to offer, that the mines hadn’t been pletely fotten, even though several geions were born after those old miners! The Forbidden Caves might as well do the city some good, this pce had potential, the team saw at least fe iron deposits so far, for example, with some minor sulfur deposits. It lentiful.

  After a few more dead ends, the team ended up in another cave. This couldn’t be that first cave that they left behind, because it didn’t have the doorway that Timothy had made, no. This was airely different cave, and it was far bigger in parison, well, half of it featured a major elevation drop!

  There was a fifty-meter deep ditch of sorts here, and they guessed that it was about fifty meters, because they tossed a stone in it, and it took a few seds for the stoo hit the ground. It was deep, and if Tim hadn’t been careful, he would've been the first oo fall ich because he was at the front of a line.

  “I prevented aragedy today, I saved myself.” He joked, inwardly, and theched. “Okay, looks like we're gonna have to fly down there. your dragon fly in caves?”

  “I don't know, we both met him yesterday, and I don't think anyone own a dragon, that’s a weird thing to say. He's probably smarter than you are.” She said, though no one really uood why she was so defensive over bels right now.

  Either way, they figured out that Geie could fly them down there. He even sat down, just so the goblins could climb on his back, which firmed the notion that he was a very smart boy. At the very least he was very cooperative, but either way, they could progress deeper within the cave now.

  They flew down to the bottom of the ditch, and they nded safely. Afterwards as they tried to decide on what to do , a faint hint of yellow light caught their eye!

  The ditch was surrounded by about seven walls, which together almost formed a circle. One of these walls featured a gaping, three-meter tall entrance which led downwards through the aid of yet aunnel, and it was there where they spotted that faint little light, it was about fifty meters away from them!

  Curiosity was their strong suit, so the team followed the light, as it looked like a good lead. It looked iing at the very least.

  Ohey made it to the other side of the tuhey heard, and saw a very rge pool of va! It was right in front of them, poking at their pupils, and looking overall amazing!

  “This 't be what scared the miners, right?” Ortana asked, and they were all w the same thing.

  Moments ter, they saw a weird, yellow creature flying about teers above the va. This creature looked a lot like a dragon, and it had spotted the team, so it was flying their way with all the speed that it could muster! That thing may have scared the miners.