The girl failed to notice Adell, but he surmised that his position was quite hard to identify when so few natural light sources existed in the catacombs. He saw her quite well, but he had the high ground. And she wasn't trying to remain hidden.

He continued alongside her in secret, but the winding ventilation shafts left him with a byzantine bunch of interconnecting mazes. Considering that she was descending into the lower levels, the demon couldn't keep up with her at this rate.

As she turned the corner and down a flight of stairs, Adell poked his head out from a ventilation shaft. He gently lowered himself down onto the same level as her with a soft thud, and peeked around the corner. There she was, the tomb raider.

And considering how she was marching blindly into the lower levels, the soon-to-be corpse. There was a reason why the people of Widds did not dare to chase him out of the catacombs. They always knew he was there, but the skeletons and even the occasional sealed demon was not what they feared.

Inside the catacombs was one of the gates of hell. The sort that brought this world to its knees. He recalled the flaming abyss that first appeared in his country, the desperation of his country's soldiers against the demons that spawned from it, the pain that shot through him for every second he was near it, and the leftovers of his nation when he woke up as a monster. It was almost 500 years ago, but those sorts of thoughts never left him.

She wouldn't see the gate immediately, but the larger amount of 'pure' demons (demons that were not previously races of this world) she would encounter on her way there would kill her. These gates did have magical artifacts, but one had to have some sort of protection, cure or immunity to the corruption it emitted. She probably did not.

He took in a deep, hesitant breath. What would this girl do if she saw a demon like him?

Without stepping out of his hiding spot, he yelled: "Don't go down! There's a demon gate!" Adell tried to sound as 'human' as he could, even as his voice crackled with the dry tone of a demonic accent.