After walking for just a few more minutes, he finally saw it, the Shri'kilian tree.
The tree stood solitary, like a looming giant, each of its branches big enough to house whole cars. It was like standing in a cemetery, and though there were no graves in site the smell of death filled the air.
The skeletal remains of a large creature, seemingly fused into the tree marked its entrance. Which was a gaping black abyss that seemed to stare at him, daring him to enter.
Lucius carefully walked in, and just like Asclepius had described, the path descended into the darkness. A pitch black hole large enough to swallow large construction vehicles.
Lucius used his knives to anchor himself onto the walls and slowly made his way down. After going down for about 30 minutes, he finally reached the bottom, the start of the maze that Asclepius had described
