When the creature finally died, its many body parts stopped moving, receding into its brown gelatinous body.
The surrounding group continued to stand in front of this now-dead creature as it finally fell silent in this dark underground area.
Minos sighed as he swam towards the body while the rest of his people stayed where they were.
But he quickly warned them. "Don't stay outside this crypt. Close the doors to this place immediately. We'll only be safe here if none of the beings we've diverted on our way here enter this place."
Those individuals had already realized that the doors of this place had some kind of special power capable of suppressing the power emanating from the purple crystal at the center of that crypt. So, the less tired members of the group soon joined together to close the grandiose doors in this area.
