Marvin perked up his ears to listen and indeed heard a muffled drumbeat coming from the darkness. No... it wasn't a drumbeat!
A rhythmic melody—it was a heartbeat!
He lay on the ground, pressing his ear against the stone. The heartbeat grew even clearer!
How could a heartbeat be coming from underground?
Yunia tried breaking the ground, but even her full-strength attack left only a shallow scratch on the stone. This stone was unlike any other.
If they relied solely on brute force, who knows how long it would take to uncover the source of the heartbeat. But...
"Mermaid's Tear!"
Marvin had Yunia take out the blue gemstone. Somehow, an inexplicable sense of destiny surrounded it, as if this gemstone was meant to unlock this land.
Activating the Mermaid's Tear, the hardened ground beneath them began to shift, revealing a passageway leading underground. Marvin and Yunia ventured deeper. As they walked, a faint scent of Divine Grace wafted through the air!
