Ethan felt the brand-new power coursing through him and didn't linger in the cave.
His eyes went to the massive fissure in the center of the floor—the one the grotesque creature had torn open when it burrowed up.
The crack was bottomless. Darkness spilled out of it like a living thing, with not a trace of light inside. And yet the closer Ethan got, the more active the Infernal Abyss runes inside him became. Even Lily's presence sharpened, noticeably more awake.
There was something down there.
Ethan didn't hesitate. He jumped straight into the fissure.
The moment his body dropped into the dark, the cave's faint light vanished behind him.
All that remained was the sound of air ripping past his ears as he fell. The fissure felt like it led to an endless abyss—far deeper than any normal underground space. Ethan kept plummeting, ghastly white lightning sliding along his skin, but it couldn't illuminate more than a short distance ahead.
