Unbelievable!
As it turned out, this mysterious cavern was extraordinarily rich.
Its resources were abundant!
The crystals embedded in the walls were not merely decorative.
Up close, with the trained eye of Adventurers who dealt in the material value of discovered things, they revealed themselves as high-grade formations—dense, consistent, and in quantities that would require a significant hauling operation to properly extract.
The glowing algae had properties that Carra identified quickly and with the quiet authority of someone consulting an internal catalogue built over many expeditions: bioluminescent compounds used in alchemical preparations, preservation agents, and certain medical applications that were apparently in consistent demand.
The floating lights—the firefly-adjacent orbs that had danced so prettily when they first entered—had mostly retreated to the upper reaches of the cavern during the battle.
