Gabriel sat on the thick tree branch several hundred meters away from the crack in the rock wall. He did not move any closer, nor did he show the slightest impatience from waiting.
Crimson Judgement rested horizontally beside him, while his gaze occasionally swept across the two goblins guarding the entrance, his senses simultaneously covering every nearby location where movement might occur.
Since he had already decided to wait for the transaction to begin, the last thing he needed now was to alert the people inside because of some unnecessary movement.
As for Erin, she had already been gone for nearly forty minutes.
With an elf's movement speed inside a forest, as long as there were other underground exits nearby that could be used normally, that amount of time should have been more than enough for her to complete the first round of searching.
Just as Gabriel was thinking this.
Rustle.
An extremely faint sound of leaves rubbing together came from behind him.
