Barry had been making his way from dragon village to dragon village. It was the duty handed down to him as one of the top guild members. Just because he was the vice guild master did not mean he could sneak out of this. It meant that he had to go wherever he needed to go.
Did that mean he was happy to be trudging through a cave? No. he hated it. "Why are there dragons underground anyways!? The mud? First everywhere? Don't dragons like to be clean?" his exclamation just echoed through the tunnels he had been directed to by Ignus.
When he had left the lava lands, he had received some guidance but not much. Just enough to find his way to the current village of the earth dragons. Where he would find the royal dragon Terron.
The cave itself had been carved many years ago. Even with his untrained eyes, Barry could see that the claw marks used to create the walls were old and dried out. This was not freshly cut stone. But it was cut stone.