He looked up again. "Can't we dig our own tunnels? If we start digging near their nests, maybe we can reach them before the rain comes."
Professor Catherine shook her head. "Wouldn't work. They'd sense us long before we got close. The moment they detect a stronger presence, they start sinking the tunnels behind them to escape. It's instinct for them."
Isaac turned toward Leora. "Does the Sword Empress know a way to deal with them? She's old, and has been alive long enough. Maybe she's faced something like this before."
Leora's lips twitched slightly at the mention of her master's age.
But that was the only reaction she showed.
"No," she said, shaking her head. "My master has never fought these monsters. She doesn't know their weakness."
Isaac sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.
From what he knew, Leora was a reincarnator.
She was someone who had lived in the age when the apocalypse first began.
That was thousands of years ago.
