The squad was right at the front of the dungeon gate. Egor stepped forward more and the gate started to open on it’s own. Around the gate, there were two platoons worth of soldiers pointing their weapons towards the gate; the massive structure moved easily; it didn’t make any sound what so ever; the experience was quite bizarre.

As the gate completely opened, reveling the inside, a massive hallway that led into total darkness, Egor looked behind him, nodded to his squad, and started to enter the massive structure. Right from the start, they turned on the flashlights attached to their rifles, looking around for possible targets.

No sound came from the darkness as they moved forward; they did have the light on their back coming from the entrance but that too was fading away as Kurt received a communication and quickly looked behind and his squadmates followed.

The Gate was closing behind them, like before, quickly and didn’t make a sound; there was no point and even running; it simply closed, immersing Egor’s squad in total darkness, with only their flashlights as a source of light looking at one another.

'So... we are dead; that was quick.’ Asher gave a nervous laugh.

‘Don’t be dramatic, soldier, They can open from the outside but can’t maintain open for long, Kurt here can call and they will open for us, Now focus.’ Egor turned around and started to walk forward.

'So... if kurt is taken or the device is broken, we are dead, got it.’ Asher took a deep breath before following the others.

The lights they used showed how houselike the hallway was, with massive pillars on the sides. The squad was walking in the middle and from their point of view, the walls were 6 trucks from the middle on each side.

‘Sarge, how is the ceiling higher than the gate, i just noticed that.’ Ethan pointed his flashlight in the direction of the gate.

The light was already dim because of the distance but it was like he said and it didn’t make sense because the gate was projecting out; it wasn’t like a tunnel in the rocky mountain.

There was no sound coming from anywhere other than their steps on the floor; it echoed and made them feel more nervous with each step they took forward.

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‘Sir, there's an entrance on the right side.’ Oran pointed his light to it.

‘Alright everyone, you know what to do; Ethan, take the lead.’ Egor walked toward the entrance at a faster pace.

Ethan looked at his team, nodded at them, and ran towards the entrance with his team right behind him. He pointed to the left side of the entrance and Samal and Oran separated; Ethan, with Caleb and Asher in the back, were on the right side of the entrance.

Ethan looked at Samal and with his hand, he counted to five using his left hand. At zero, Samal entered, followed by Ethan, and the others, one by one, entered what appeared to be a room with multiple entrances, like water; they filled all spaces, and each time, like in training, they yelled.

‘Clear!’ Ethan yelled as he scanned one empty room.

As he returned to the main room, Egor entered and looked around the place that was well lit because of the light coming from the soldiers rifles and flashlights. It had different detail on the walls and pillars carved in the walls; he didn’t think it had purpose.

‘Well done everyone; we are going to take turns doing this until we get to the city.’ Egor turned around and got out of the room.

‘We are always the firsts; i don’t get it; i blame you, sir.’ Asher sighs, looking at Ethan.

‘Just do your job Asher, and you will comeback to your new Velvent girlfriend.’ Ethan laughed as he walked out of the room.

The others looked at Asher with smiles on their faces; he was starting to blush when they started to walk out of the room. As they continued to go forward, other similar places were also cleared, but with nothing different within them, just more rooms, or there was another with a second floor and more rooms; nothing more expanded them than that.

As they continued to walk right in front of them, there were rubbles similar to the walls. Looking to his right side, Egor noticed how heavily damaged the wall was, like something bust out of it. He putted his left hand up and halted; everyone took a half-moon position with him at the center, aiming at what looked like a hole in the wall.

As they got closer to the massive hole in the wall, the light didn’t find an end to it, and like the massive hallway, they were current it. Egor looked at Kurt.

‘Give me a line with command.’ Egor extended his hand towards Kurt.

‘Yes, here and give me a second.’ The soldier started to move some knobs in a device he had in hand.

Kurt them gave the radio to Egor, but this one was attached to his backpack just like the device with knobs the soldier had in hands. That anoyed the sargent but he looked around for a second, focusing on the task at hand.

‘Command, this is spear; do you copy?’ His voice echoing more because of the massive hole in front of them.

‘Yes, loud and clear, what is the situation? over.' Alon’s voice came out of the radio.

‘We cleared some rooms to the sides but now we found a massive hole on the wall and from the surroundings, it looks like something came out of it; there is rubble everywhere, over.' Egor looked around for a moment.

Maybe it was the darkness or the openness of the hallway but for a moment Egor felt like something was watching him, but nothing was behind him; even the other soldiers pointed their rifles towards the hallway where the rubble was more prevalent, because now at the hole, they noticed more of what looked like more rubble, but they couldn’t see where it could have come from.

‘Spear, don't explore the entrance; move forward wit caution, over.' Alon’s voice came out of the radio.

‘Copy, moving now, spear over and out.’ Egor gave the radio back to Kurt.