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"I was half-worried that the water would start pooling into these tunnels around us," Kane told Rui when he returned back to him.
"Nah, don't worry, I made sure that there was no way that that could happen, there are plenty of tunnels leading deep down into the dungeon, so we'll be fine," Rui reassured him.
He turned towards the lake. "I knew that this was not going to happen instantly, but damn, it's a ten-meter wide hole and the rate at which the water levels are receding is painfully slow."
The water level was falling a few centimeters every second, which indicated just how enormously wide the lake was, given that water was gushing out of a ten-meter-wide hole.
"It's just a matter of time now," Kane shrugged, before leaning against a tunnel wall.