Around them was absolute darkness and silence, only the faint sounds of their breathing and heartbeat within the shadow, and below, the increasingly clear, gradually intensifying energy pulses like muffled thunder.
After descending a considerable distance, the cleft widened slightly, but the surroundings remained oppressive.
At this moment, Benjamin, who had maintained high vigilance, suddenly furrowed his brow and gently tapped Anya's shoulder.
Anya immediately understood, controlling the shadow to stop, hovering in a relatively spacious "node" shadow within the cleft, while looking at Benjamin in confusion.
Benjamin did not speak, instead raising his finger cautiously, pointing towards an extremely concealed horizontal fissure on the rocky wall of the cleft above.
The fissure was very narrow, pitch-black inside, almost merging seamlessly with its surroundings.
