The dead ground trembled. Chunks of blackened-grey earth and fractured stone were hurled through the air one after another as dozens of Awakened dug like madmen around the perimeter of the Spike Beast lair.
What had started as a single half-crazed idea had turned into the only hope left for everyone trapped inside the gate. Nobody needed to be convinced anymore.
Not after the first few test pits dug out proved that the ground beneath the lair was far weaker than the lair itself. That discovery alone would have motivated the people to work hard for their salvation.
But better yet, when one of the many Awakened discovered that the outer wall of the layer started to become thinner once he reached about three metres deep into the ground, the excitement of everyone there reached a new high, boosting the work productivity indirectly.
