Pant! Pant!
Clung to a ladder in the dark, a man of imposing build was currently huffing and puffing on the verge of asphyxiation. His muscles were shaking and his skin was red from congestion. Regularly, the sound of drops of sweat hitting the ground a hundred meters below could be heard.
Right now, Jake almost regretted having his eyes bigger than his belly. When he had absorbed all this liquid metal, he was far from imagining the ordeal it would be just to get to the surface.
When he had tried to move through the rock with his powers, he had almost sunk like a rock to the earth's core or whatever was at the bottom of the asteroid or that Sanctuary Bubble. If the catacombs were not isolated by a thick layer of metal, he would probably have disappeared into the depths of the earth forever.
