All hope had gone to nothing. Mave found herself kneeling along with Izan, all bruised and beaten up after the hunters dragged them out of the dungeon. The fight was pointless; she realized—ten hunters, including Stein, all against her? What was she thinking? But it surprised her when they didn't kill her immediately in the dungeon. She thought they would t*****e her here with Izan, but she had spotted no torturing equipment around.
The Black Solar spoke up to its name, revealing its gray-painted walls, dark ceilings with no windows, and floors of black quartz. At the center of the solar—a circular, iron plate with a meter in diameter—covered the lip of an iron tube like a large can. Mave had no clue of what the wide tube contained, but it seemed to be connected underground. Was this thei
