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This process keeps on repeating over and over again until it finally attracted the attention of the Sandstone Lord Spider.

Whoooosh!

Webs shoot out from the Sandstone Lord Spider's mouth, blocking all the holes immediately.

After doing that, the Sandstone Lord Spider didn't let down its guard as it waited down below whether there would be more holes that would appear or not. It waited for a few minutes before finally moving away, thinking that it has finally solved the problem.

However, the moment the Sandstone Lord Spider turned away, the ceiling suddenly exploded.

BOOOOM!

WHOOOOOOOSH!

At this moment, a huge hole appeared on the ceiling as a lot of sands right after began falling down to the Sandstone Mother Spider's nest. Because of that, the sand on the ground quickly piled up into a hill.

ROARRRRR!

The Sandstone Lord Spider immediately became enraged the moment it saw this.

Whoooosh!

Webs shoot out from the Sandstone Lord Spider's mouth once again, immediately blocking the big hole up in their ceiling.

Right after doing that, though, another explosion actually exploded.

BOOOOM!

WHOOOSH!

The hole became more bigger, causing more sands to keep on falling down.

Whoooosh!

Webs shoot out again.

BOOOOM!

WHOOOSH!

Right after, the hole became even more, bigger, causing more and more sand to continuously gush down to the small hill of sand, further increasing its size.

The Sandstone Lord Spider shoots its own webs again and an explosion would explode again.

This action keeps on repeating over and over again for nearly an hour until the explosion finally stopped.

The Sandstone Lord Spider waited for a few minutes, eyes fiercely looking up at the ceiling, with its mouth ready to shoot its webs to cover any hole that would appear once again.

Unexpectedly though, this time no holes actually appeared anymore.

Still, the Sandstone Lord Spider waited in case their unknown opponent would try to attack again.

.....

At this moment, Leo was standing nearby the two holes. His head was looking up, while a mischievous smile was plastered on his face.

"Finally, it's done!" Leo can't help heaving a sigh of relief while looking up the tunnel leading straight to the surface.

Sunlight right after reached over his feet, causing the dark place to brighten up a bit along with his mood.

A while ago, he really thought that he would fail. With the existence of the Sandstone Lord Spider, it became extremely hard to keep on making holes using the Earth Elementals.

Although he had already long expected the Sandstone Lord Spider to involved itself. But he just didn't expect that its webs would post a threat to the Earth Elementals, considering that even the webs of the Sandstone Mother Spider were easily torn apart by the Earth Elemental's sharp and powerful hands.

He finally understood that unlike the webs of the Sandstone Spiders below the Galaxy level, the webs of the Sandstone Lord Spider were extremely tough. It would take hours for the 5 Earth Elementals to poke a hole out from it.

Fortunately, he has some Magic bombs that Mayor Jong had given to him. So, he ordered one of the Earth Elementals to come and get them, which is the reason why it took a few minutes before the first explosion exploded.

With all the Magic bombs in the hand of the Earth Elementals, it became really easy to keep on destroying the webs that the Sandstone Lord Spider had a fire to block the holes.

Every time the Sandstone Lord Spider shoots its webs, he would right after sending an order to the Earth Elementals to throw in a Magic bomb before detonating it through his consciousness.

While that was happening, he ordered the first group to quickly finish their task. But soon he notices that it was very difficult, considering that their number wasn't enough to quickly finish the task. Hence, he quickly sent 3 Earth Elementals from the second group to help the first group.

Anyways, the only task of the second group was to keep on throwing in the Magic bombs, so there is really no need to have 5 Earth Elementals over there.

With the addition of 3 Earth Elementals, the first group was finally able to increase the speed of making the tunnel to the surface.

And after nearly an hour, the tunnel was finally finished as it was then quickly drained out with the sand inside, finally creating a pathway to the surface.

To be honest, at the time when the tunnel was finally finished, there was also only one last remaining Magic bomb left. If he didn't think of sending 3 more Earth Elementals to the first group before, then his plan would have most likely failed, no kidding.

If only he wasn't an extremely cautious type of person, then he wouldn't have been able to make preparation for such a situation. The sands would have overflowed from the hole that the second group had made and filled their place up very quickly.

"Let's go!" Leo said to the others as he then quickly walked up to the surface.

Cassandra and the others, who were currently preparing for a place to sleep, as they thought that it would take Leo a day or two to finish, quickly dropped everything before following behind Leo.

Along the way to the surface, Leo unsummoned all the Earth Elementals before summoning 10 Wind Elementals.

As soon as they arrived on the surface, Leo right after taking out a map from his Storage Ring that was given to him by Mayor Jong. Ethan also has the same map as him, as the both of them had asked for one. This map showed the surrounding area of the Sandstone Mother Spider's nest.

Through the help of this map, he was able to vaguely guess which likely direction would Ethan's group enter from. But just to be safe, he spread all 10 Wind Elementals 1-kilometer distance in the north direction, specifically in a half-circle formation. Once one of them detects traces of Ethan's group, he would immediately go there to stop them from going any further.

"One day has already passed, so I guess they are either close by the location of the Magical Beast hoard of the Sandpit Worm or they are already luring them to this place," Leo talked to himself while scribing many straight lines from the Sandstone Mother Spider's nest to the direction where Ethan's group would most likely be entering from. He continued, "Considering the speed of the Green Eagle Flyingboat and assuming that they didn't rest for the night, then they should be arriving tomorrow."

Leo then turned to look at Cassandra and the others who were observing the seemingly never-ending dessert right in front of them, with amazement evident in their eyes. Not for the desert, but rather to Leo.

"Have you finished preparing everything already?" Leo asked, making Cassandra and the others turned to look at him, shooting him a blank look on their faces.

Just from their reaction alone, it was very obvious to see that they still haven't pulled themselves together from the shock after seeing with their own eyes just how Leo made a very detailed action to successfully make a tunnel to the surface. It wasn't only detailed, but it was also very quick.

Indeed, that was the current case right now. For Cassandra and the others, they were sure that if it was any of them in-charged of finding an easy way to go to the surface, all of them would suggest that they should go back to Sandy Town and from there they would travel back here on the surface.

Absolutely none of them would think of using the same method as Leo, even if they themselves have the capability to summon Elementals. Though they know it's still possible that even without the Elementals' help they would still be able to successfully achieve the same, but just thinking of daring to do it is already enough to stop them from doing it.

Only confident and daring people like Leo would think of putting such a plan into action and also achieve success.

Cassandra was the first one to snap out of her thoughts as she hastily replied, "Oh, yes, we have already prepared everything. There are already seven beds comfortably set-up down below with a place to start a campfire. Torches have also been put up to lighten up our temporary camp until the entrance."

Elizabeth and the others finally snap out of their thoughts themselves in unison after Cassandra finished with her words. They turned to look at Leo with admiration in their eyes.

They really weren't mistaken for becoming Leo's woman, because this man is really capable.

"Then let's go back to rest," Leo said before turning around and going back down to the tunnel. The only reason why he made his way up on the surface was to check the safety of the surroundings and to also sent out the Wind Elementals to make a perimeter in order to alert him whenever Ethan's group finally arrived. And since he was done with that, he made his way back so that they won't accidentally attract any Magical Beast nearby.

Cassandra and the others were immediately rendered speechless by Leo's action. Did this guy just seriously invite them to go up on the surface with him, only to go down after spending a few minutes?

Though it only took them less than a second to understand. This was clearly just Leo being cautious. The reason should be because if ever they arrived upon the surface and found some Magical Beast nearby, specifically powerful ones considering where they are right now, Leo would immediately have a way to fight back since they were with him to lend a hand.

From this point, they finally understood the level of Leo's cautiousness; this guy is certainly the most cautious person in the entire Celestial World!