The tunnel they had descended opened abruptly into a massive, roughly spherical chamber. The sheer scale was disorienting, a vast, echoing dome carved into the deep rock. But it was the floor that immediately seized their attention.
It was a nightmare landscape blanketed by tens of thousands of Kadiliman eggs. These weren't small objects; each black, leathery orb was approximately half the size of a human torso, and they were all tightly compacted, leaving only narrow, uneven gaps and crevices for them to navigate. An oppressive red energy pulsed faintly from within the eggs, causing the entire floor to appear to breathe with a slow, infernal rhythm.
