The bodies were spread across the chamber in broken groups, but Gabriel noticed something strange before anything else. He raised one hand before anyone from ChaosKnight could step past the entrance.
"Do not enter."
VV's boot hung over the stone line for a moment before they pulled it back. ChaosCleric swallowed, and the small blue light at the tip of his staff shook slightly with his hand.
The Tianlan cultivators had not died while running in every direction. Most of them lay facing the entrance, while the rest were turned toward the far door with their weapons still in their hands.
IceQueen stepped closer to Gabriel's side and looked across the room without crossing the boundary. Her eyes moved over the bodies, and her fingers clenched around the hilt of her sword.
"This was not a normal fight. They were trapped between two exits," she said in a low tone.
