"Oh? The room is much larger than I imagined," he was a little surprised.
Cells lined both walls from the entrance to the far end, constructed from the same dark glassy stone as the fortress above.
It was reinforced with containment arrays on every surface, the suppression field coming off them dense enough to be physically present as a pressure against his mana sense.
And inside them... There were obviously people, but not just humans, but other races as well.
The first cell on the left held three dwarves, stocky and broad, even when sitting, their characteristic grey-brown skin carrying the pallor of those who had been underground without sunlight for too long.
One of them was awake, looking at Gray with the flat, assessing eyes of someone who had stopped expecting rescue some time ago.
