Chapter 176: The Accelerated Clock
The heat of the lower tunnels was a suffocating blanket.
Nyx slipped through the dark stone corridors. She kept her footsteps completely silent. Her eyes scanned the shadows for any Dwarven patrols.
Right behind her walked Lucien. The swordsman was sweating heavily beneath his human diplomat uniform. He carried the Captain over his right shoulder in a fireman's carry.
Natalie brought up the rear. She kept her Elven bow knocked with a glowing wind arrow.
They had successfully left the pulsing red glare of the Verdant Canopy far behind them. The crisp air of the Elven gardens was replaced by the heavy scent of sulfur and burning coal.
They navigated deeper into the mountain. They moved past the roaring blast furnaces and the crowded military sectors of Stoneheart City.
Nyx raised her fist. She stopped in front of a massive iron grate built into the side of a jagged cavern wall.
