Progress is being made.

Progress is being made. Slow and at great cost. But progress. See all that structure below water. We (well mostly Dak) built that to access the temple itself. The basic engineering solution was to drop blocks of sand to displace the water, then surround the sand with blocks of glass. Afterwards, the sand is removed.

That's Vance and Dak on the platform. Both suffering the debilitating effects of guardian poison. Much milk was consumed.