The earth around me opened with so much fierceness, a low rumbling that seemed to tear the very earth asunder.
Before I could even turn, the ground had split, and I was tumbling into chaos.
I landed on hard earth, the impact knocking the air from my lungs.
It was all chaos, dust, falling rocks, the sound of distant shouting echoing off cavern walls.
As I struggled to my feet, the dust began to settle and my eyes adjusted to the dim light filtering down from above.
I froze, the image around me blurring as my mind tried to wrap itself around what was happening.
We fell into some sort of large underground chamber, ancient and hauntingly beautiful.
Strange symbols carved into the stone walls glowed with a silvery tint of light, unlike anything I had ever seen before.
It was a relic le
