The passage to the gill chambers became increasingly treacherous as they climbed higher through the Leviathan's anatomy. What had started as rhythmic pulsing in the creature's blood vessels was now becoming violent spasms that threatened to crush them the longer they stayed inside.
"She's fully awakened," Shen Lao said grimly, as another massive tremor shook the entire structure. "After millennia of dormancy, the BloodGate's energy is warming the water too much."
Through the translucent walls of the blood vessel they were climbing, Grim could see other parts of the creature's anatomy beginning to move. Massive muscle groups were starting to contract, and somewhere far below them, he could hear what sounded like the grinding of enormous bones as the Leviathan began to stretch its limbs that had been dormant for who knows how many years.
"How big is she?" Lin asked, her voice strained as she maintained her ice barriers against both the rising temperature around them.
