While Rae was enjoying her time with the new monsters, Karl finally reached the other team of miners.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, as I’m certain that you noticed, we have found an unforeseen feature of this dungeon. It appears that fighting the bosses was not the intent of this place. We were supposed to sneak past them, and find the hidden door.
Possibly doors, as there are three bosses, but we only found a nest of Tunnel Worms.
There is a chance that they ate everything else, but I suspect that there are actually more hidden doors in the dungeon that will lead us to more Earth Elemental Golems, and more Manticores that are not bosses.
Rae reports that the tunnel worms are much smaller, and do not have the durability of the boss.
They’re also susceptible to poison, and ... Yeah, that’s the important part."
The Yizimon Elders looked suspicious.
"What did you leave out?"
Karl sighed. "She says that they make a lovely mess when you blow them up with [Blood Destruction]. And that they hold over a hundred gallons, if you happen to like slightly wormy smelling earth element blood."
The Elder smiled, as he realized Karl was just reluctant to relay that parts that were only really important to a Blood Destruction Demonic Spider, and that he wasn’t holding back vital information from them.
"What are the chances that we’re interrupted?"
Karl shrugged. "As long as they don’t tunnel through the stone between where they are and here, we should be fine. Evidence suggests that they cannot, or do not, do that. So, the odds of you being interrupted are the same as the odds of one of them getting past both Rae and Dana.
Most of my team is going down to clear them out, while some of the constructs are sweeping the dungeon looking for other traps or hidden entrances we might have missed on previous passes.
It was pure luck that we found this one.
The team was following a vein, and dug a bit further than usual, to see if it continued, and ended up in the tunnel that leads to the other worms.
That’s how we found the hidden door.
You can close it behind you, by the way. So, you can pass through it, kill the other worms and mine that section. At least, that is the assumption. We already killed the bosses, so we don’t know for certain if one will return to protect their brood."
"Alright. That actually sounds like it might make the fight manageable. If we only had to clear the brood, and then fight the bosses one at a time, we could definitely manage it. It’s just being ambushed by more than one boss at a time is impossible for most groups."
Karl nodded. "Ironic, really. We found the secret to the dungeon entirely by accident. Usually, the basic mechanisms of the dungeons are pretty obvious."
"Or, they’re not, and half the special events that are triggered are just someone finally doing it right."


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