Chapter 544: With different enemies, comes different approach
Instead of going out, we went even deeper inside the dungeon. This time, I didn’t even need to deliberately make my face look serious and menacing. Aside from how angry I was at Angwi’s story, the deeper floor was also more eerie.
The black stone of the wall felt colder, and the sconces let out a faint blue light that might be mistaken as drifting souls. Our footsteps echoed loudly through the narrow stairs and hallway, drowning my increasing heartbeat.
After going through corridors that felt as if it was modeled after a haunted house, we reached a metal door with more lock formations than the most secured bank. The formations weren’t just in the door, but also the walls, ceiling, and floor, making it a huge vault.
In that room, even if someone were to die, their soul would get trapped there instead of swimming into the world of nothingness.
Four guards activated four formations on the wall, and a small, circular hatch opened in the middle of the door. Angwi, who was holding Natha’s key, placed it inside the hatch. With a hissing sound and blue glow, the locking formations on the door activated and the metal frame slid to the side for an inch.
I counted, and it took twenty-seven seconds for the whole contraption to work.
The guards pulled the heavy-looking metal door to the side, allowing a path to the chamber.
That was where my ’Iron Maiden’ lay suspended.
It was tied with several chains, hanging from the ceiling. The thorns were still there, inside and out, and the cocoon wriggled with the sound of painful cries and furious wrath spilling out.
I looked at Natha while we were standing in front of it. "Are you sure it’ll be fine?"
"Yes, the isolation chamber is intact," Natha looked around to check on the arrays littered the chamber.