After collecting these blue crystals, the Dwarves immediately began mining Cold Iron Ore. They worked with incredible efficiency, and due to their innate talent, their Cross Pickaxes always hit the weakest spots in the rock layers, never showing signs of fatigue, growing more spirited the harder they worked.
Kalalin cast a 0th-level Light Spell to brightly illuminate the surroundings, then studied the corpse of the shark-lizard beast until she could no longer stay awake and fell asleep in a corner, wrapped in her cloak, unaffected by the intermittent tapping of the Dwarves' mining. Lancelot, meanwhile, sat cross-legged, meditating, cultivating, and expanding his Divine Sense, to stay alert to any threats that might approach.
