We skirted around the dark palace looking for an entrance. Ravi and Atith led the way. We found a heap of broken mountain rocks, which the demons had used to build their hive-like palace. The rubble piled against the wall below a dark corridor with no sentries.

"This can bring us halfway there," said Vorac thoughtfully and turned to me. "But we will have to climb the rest, Nikita."

"Geez, we should have brought a rope," Atith said.

I knew it would be the case.

"I do have a rope with me," I told them. The avatars gave me a relieved look. Then we started towards the heap together.

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