Gimble lead everyone into the mine without any problems since the guards were distracted at the moment. He did motion for everyone to stop so he could check out the next area at one intersection. No guards were there so he waved for everyone to follow down and around a rocky path that lead to an over look. At the bottom, the sounds of whips snapping, picks chiseling away at the rock bed, and the occasional yelp echoed throughout the cavern. In the center was a partially covered glowing blue crystal radiating magic off of it.

"There! Somewhere down there is where you'll find the overseer." Gimble pointed downward.

"Lazheros, your eyes are better down here than mine," Serna confessed, "Tell me what do you see. Are there any more Bullywugs or Gnomes or anyone else about?"

From behind the party, the elementalist literally phased out of the solid rock and knelt down. "So, those patrols I distracted kinda of ran into some larger creature, some sort of giant tortoise. Yeah, it wasn't happy when I accidentally cracked one of its eggs but I was able to get out of there just at the bullywugs showed up."

Irzen appeared from the gloom and joined the others, "That was one heck of a nasty trick, Alyson, I like it!"

"Which trick?" Alyson whispered to Irzen.

"Ooo! It's so pretty!" The kurori became mesmerized by the huge crystal down below.

"What's that globe of light for?" Serna asked no one in particular, "Aside from giving off light down here."

"Globe?" Lazheros surveyed the entire area, "That crystal is pure magic, or at least created by magic. A rare form of elemental magic, perhaps?"

Nathosot nodded, "It's been here for hundreds of years. It's kept our people safe from the outside, from down below, and we have never known any sort of conflict until a few weeks ago. Some stranger showed up, said he was an explorer looking for crystals. So, we showed him that one."

"Yeah but then things changed suddenly and there was the sound of hopping bullywugs coming down in droves." Gimble huffed.

Alyson spied a warped and twisted version of a gnome cackling from down below talking to a large individual in red garb. "There, I think that's the overseer, the large humanoid."