Darius had no interest in wasting his time dealing with those weaklings as there was not even a single Adept bug present.
He used Group Teleportation to travel through the tree to the central part down below. In one of the dark tunnels underneath the tree, the trio found a shaft that went further down into darkness.
Gunner jumped in first, just as he had done back at the sinkhole, then Darius duped Xela into following after him. Eventually, they arrived in a subspace that was no different from the one they encountered before, down to the size and the details of the door.
This time, Darius directly emulated Source Energy as he pressed his hand to the door. Despite its so-called sentience it did not seem to care that his biological make-up was not that of a member of the Polito Race, it just slowly opened up to reveal the room with the pedestal.
