Chapter 63: Into the Dungeons
The castle was ruined.
Lirian stepped over chunks of broken stone and shattered wood, her boots crunched against the debris that littered the once-grand halls.
The walls were cracked, and parts of the ceiling had caved in, leaving gaping holes that exposed the cold, gray sky above.
The oxygen felt like the acrid smell of smoke, mixed with something far more nauseating…the metallic tang of blood.
She paused in the corridor, her heart started sinking as she saw a maid she barely recognised lying crushed beneath a massive beam.
Her lifeless eyes stared blankly ahead, and Lirian quickly looked away, a bitter taste rose in her throat.
Further along, she saw others who had been less fortunate.
Some maids had managed to escape the initial collapse, only to meet a more gruesome fate outside.
The remains of their bodies in pieces, torn apart by the monsters that had overrun the castle.