“Oh, Guardians,” Felris whispered as we crept to the exit of our side tunnel and surveyed the larger cavern.Countless tunnels had been dug through the walls, each a possible route towards the surface. Presumably, some of the tunnels led deeper into the ground, where the queen and her egg laying chambers must be hidden.Dealing with the queen was much too large of a task for me. I was not ready to be some kind of hero and attempt to single-handedly solve the ant problem. No, we just need to escape.“Any idea which way is out?” I whispered.Felris pointed. “Most of these tunnels are small and look dug out, but that one looks bigger and… more natural? I think that might be the dungeon’s original path to this cave.”I thought back to our fall. We couldn’t have fallen that much deeper than where we had been camping, or we would be much more damaged by the fall. Though, we did have to descend deeper to make our way back out, since the tunnel had been dug upwards towards the surface, and I had to assume we were deep enough for this kind of tunneling to have gone unnoticed by the people who hunted the dungeon as part of their work. The tunnels weren’t likely to be a straight shot out, so we would probably still have a lot of ground to cover before we made it back.The longer we waited, though, the worse off we’d be. Without food, our hunger would become a debilitating problem. Unless we eat the Nightmare Ants, but I don’t know how much actual meat they have in them.“Maybe we should head back,” I muttered. “Wait for someone to dig out the collapsed tunnel.”Felris shook her head. “There are no skilled mages in the barony, and to excavate that much rock in such a narrow space, in time to save us, they’d need magic.” She took a shuddering breath. “We’re going to need to try that tunnel.”The problem was, there were quite a lot of Nightmare Ant workers (...)