The town once had thrived due to the dungeon, but now it was considered depleted, it had been well explored and looted over the years. It now provided scant few resources or monsters.

But a few Treasure hunters still scoured it, eking out a living from its depths. Mao was the leader of one such group along with her boyfriend Ruvik, and her sister Xiao.

"Well, it doesn't look like much has been generated," Xaio complained as she walked "We're barely going to make anything from this." Ruvik hefted the sack containing the pitiful amount of crystals and other rare goods the group had found so far.

Before Mao could interject she tripped and fell forward. Landing on the ground with a yelp of surprise. Ruvik moved forward to help her up when the ground gave way and Mao found herself vanishing into the depths.

She hit the ground and after a moment was able to look around and see that she was in an unfamiliar part of the dungeon, Ruvik called from above "Mao? MAO! are you okay?"

Mao stood up and began dusting herself off.

"I'm okay! I found something!"

"We'll get a rope set up and come down," Ruvik shouted back "Stay clear of the hole."

As Mao stood up and looked around she found herself in a corridor, the usual crystals that were mounted in the walls every few meters were still present. But the signs and marks that the Treasure Hunters guild marked the locations where resources could be found were missing.

"I think it's undiscovered!" Mao said, excitedly.

The rope dropped just behind Mao, and Ruivk and Xiao quickly climbed down. Ruvik stepped over and hugged Mao "I'm glad you're okay. You scared the crap out of me when you vanished like that," he said.

Xiao made a disgusted noise and was instead examining the corridor "Can you two find a room or something?"

"We will find one when this adventure is done," Mao said. "But first let's explore."

Ruvik chuckled at the sister's bickering, and then rolled his shoulders "Well, let's see what we can find then." he said.

The corridor had strange frescos showing scenes that seemed to be from some peoples myths. Great cities floating in the clouds, warriors wielding weapons of fire and lighting, fighting strange creatues that Mao hadn't heard of before.

Ahead the corridor seemed to open into a chamber from where strangely hued light could be seen.

"That must be from some kind of amazing treasure!" Mao said, heading towards it with a skip in her step.

"Wait! What about traps?!" Xiao shouted as she dashed after her sister "If this place hasn't been explored you don't know what might be here!" she said as she scolded her older sister, Ruivk just ambled behind the pair, his hand on the haft of his hammer.

"Come on now Xiao, Mao is a hunter as well. She knows what she is doing.." he said and after a moment added "Probably"

As the group approached the light, a faint hum could be heard coming from the room.

Mao snuck forward, her tome drawn.

The doorway opened into a vast chamber with strange metallic things that hummed, the strange light seemed to be coming from them.

Above the machines were ledges with statues of soldiers in similar equipment to those Mao had seen on the frescos.

Pipes led from the machinery towards the far wall of the chamber, and attached to that wall was an even larger metallic object that seemed to have a huge crystal in its centre, from the doorway Mao couldn't be sure, but it seemed as if something was within the crystal.