*Read Authors Note
[Third Person POV],
As Ace and the earth mage continued to navigate the tunnels, they encountered more blocked tunnels, forcing them to continue charging toward numerous unfamiliar tunnels, and it didn't take long for them to become lost due to the number of tunnels they had already charged through.
Ace and the earth mage were unable to find their way back to the pit where they had engaged the dragon phantom at this juncture.
The primary reason for this was not that they could not remember the tunnels they had travelled through because Ace was able to memorise the tunnels they had travelled through, but rather because as they continued to ascend the tunnels, there were times when the tunnel became blocked at their back because of the collapsing den.
One could already tell from this that the den was actually crumbling.
