Xin walked east for two hours.
The new signature grew stronger with every step. It was not extraction energy. Not white fire. Something else. Something old.
He reached a cave at the mountain base.
The signature came from inside.
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Ren caught up to him. "You walked off. No message. Nothing."
"There was no time."
"There is always time to tell me where you are going."
Xin pointed at the cave. "Something is in there. Something I have never felt before."
"I feel it too." Ren pulled out his notebook. "The signature matches nothing in the archives. Not the Hollow. Not the mass. Not the Old One."
"Then what is it?"
"Only one way to find out."
They walked into the cave.
*****
The cave went down. Deep. Steps cut into the stone. Old. Thousands of years old.
"These steps predate Lo
