Chapter 281 Lith signaled to those behind him to stop, scanning the place with Life Vision.

’What the f*ck? I can feel the lingering presence of healing magic emanating from them. I can even smell traces of soap coming from their bodies. Someone has been taking good care of them, but why?’ Lith thought.

’Maybe I can answer that.’ Solus felt there was something terribly wrong there.

’All these people have only two things in common. Each one of them is older than twenty years and has at least an orange core.’ ’What?’ Lith was bewildered by her words. So many people and no one with a red core was something impossible to achieve by chance. Not coupled with their age. Twenty years was the threshold of a mana core natural evolution for non Awakened one.

“Is there something wrong?” Yerna asked.

“Everything is clear. The grille is just a grille. Why no one is trying to escape?” The more Lith looked at them, the more the cellar reminded him of pigpen instead of a prison.

Yerna walked past him, placing her hand on the keyhole turning it into an icicle before crashing it with her fist. She only needed to smell the breath of one of the prisoners to answer his question.