Kaiser continued his exploration until the increasingly rough terrain and the gradually heavier air signaled to him that he was entering an unknown zone. The rock, uniformly black and polished, seemed to have been vitrified by extreme heat.
"What a place...",he murmured, his voice low as he advanced with heightened caution.
Looking more closely,he made out on the walls a complex network of deep gashes, radiating cracks, and violent impacts, all undeniable stigmas of a conflict of fierce intensity that had once taken place here.
"It seems someone has already been here.Don't tell me it's that damn Kris? "
The deeper he went, the more oppressive the atmosphere became. Though he was accustomed to the perils and monsters of the cave, this sensation was new, of a different and more insidious nature. An abnormal silence reigned, so thick that the sound of his own footsteps seemed absorbed by the stone.
