Ben returned to the main base and headed straight for the excavation site where the krell workers had been digging for grimslate rock.
The area had grown a lot.
It now stretched almost one hundred blocks across, and some parts had turned into narrow tunnels pushing deeper underground.
He had ordered the workers to dig toward the north and east, hoping to break into another chamber or underground structure.
So far, they had found nothing important.
Now he planned to speed up the excavation with the talismans Elvira had made.
He reached into his storage pouch and took out one of the talismans, a small, polished sphere made from white gemstone.
Its smooth surface shone faintly, and thin magical runes were etched across it.
At a glance, it looked like an expensive piece of jewelry that someone rich might wear as a pendant.
But he knew better.
This thing is no diamond, it is a grenade, he thought.
A disturbing idea crossed his mind.
