I watched her wave to us, then walk aside to make room. Although she was a very small dark figure, I could at least see her clearly in the light of the fire that had been thrown in earlier.
So I reached out to Hikari, made sure our hands were firmly clasped, fulfilling the premise of seeing each other as one, and then recited the words I had prepared beforehand:
Let the wind carry us, like feathers!
As the words fell, a gentle breeze enveloped our bodies like a thin veil.
This is a simplified version of the Featherfall Technique from the academic school, and it's one of the essential skills for incoming freshmen. Even someone as unskilled as me with wind-related spells can easily master it, effectively reducing the vast majority of injuries and disabilities caused by falls from great heights.
Soon, the wind enveloped Hikari and me as we drifted silently down from the crack, as if we were really just a feather with little weight, falling steadily with the wind, and finally landing on the hard stone surface amidst the scattered wind.
"...Are you performing some kind of juggling act?"
Shenxue's expression told me of her surprise, and then she began to mutter things like, "Should I also learn some mage techniques to help with my cultivation?"
Hmm... I found it difficult to tell Miyuki the fact that she didn't seem to be very suited to learning spells, so in the end I could only offer encouragement in a roundabout way, and say, "If you want to be proficient in both, you need to do more practice and put in far more effort than the average person."
"Perhaps it's more important for us to find out what's here."
After a brief moment of contemplation, Miyuki seemed to decide to put the issue aside for the time being, and then led us to the entrance of a passageway.
Following her directions, we passed through an entrance so narrow that only one normal adult could pass sideways, and soon we saw a bright light ahead, faint but ever-expanding.
That's the end of the crack, leading to another, man-made, normal passageway.
After emerging from the darkness, we finally escaped the suffocating darkness and came into the bright light reflected from the moonstone.
Perhaps this was once the residence of a recluse.
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