Will closed the journal. Outside, a hatchling Saltopus pecked at his windowsill. Cirrus crooned.

The World Beneath would keep its secret. For now.

The salt-scoured journal lay open on Will Denison’s desk, its final page trembling in the warm Sauropolis breeze. Beside it, the newly inked map showed a labyrinth of tunnels, hot springs, and a chasm so deep that Arthur’s spidery handwriting simply gave up and read: “Light continues downward. No bottom found.”

“It doesn’t hunt by sight,” Nallab hissed. “It senses vibration. Don’t move. ”

A secondary map flickered on a crystal screen. Red dots marked volcanoes under Sauropolis, Canyon City, and even Waterfall City. The World Beneath wasn’t a ruin—it was a detonator .


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