Once they got started again, things were peaceful for a while.
Any major threats within hundreds of kilometers had already been dealt with, so no other creatures of the deep bothered Lilia and her companions. At least for a while.
However, as the nine of them dove deeper, a new type of threat presented itself.
In the Virborg Trench, there were essentially three types of monsters and beasts that thrived.
The first two they had already encountered, being those that were immensely powerful singular entities, or large groups of similar creatures that all worked together for the good of the collective.
As for the third, they became very intimately aware of them once they were around only three kilometers to the bottom.
Lilia barely even noticed what was about to happen.
Truthfully, it was just a vague bad feeling that she could not place.
