The exploration of the caverns below the Forgotten Shore was proceeding smoothly, but slowly.
The Dark Sea — and the Corrupted abominations populating it — had spent thousands of years hiding from the obliterating sun there. So, the ground was covered in countless layers of mud, shards of pulverized coral, shattered bones of dead Nightmare Creatures, and everything else that the receding tide had pulled with it underground.
All of it was resting in eternal, undisturbed darkness… and there were harrowing things hiding in the darkness. Powerful abominations that had not been swallowed by the Crimson Spire when the Great Titan was sealed, swarms of microscopic parasites that could consume a human in moments, pockets of true darkness that rendered Sunny blind, and so much more…
None of it posed a serious threat to him, but he had to proceed with caution.
