Chapter 119: Shattered Ritual
The heavy air inside Valerius's underground interrogation chambers hung thick with rot and cold dread.
The battered captive cultist hung bound to a stone wall his limbs locked in enchanted iron restraints truth binding magic gnawing at his will until every guarded secret split open for their hunters to take.
The senior knight stepped forward his boots scraping across cracked stone and dried old blood as he turned to face Bart Mike and Mimi.
"He broke," the knight said his voice low and grim.
"The ritual cavern lies deep beneath the fog covered western hills sealed behind layered stone gates and warded with anti magic cancellation stone. The entire underground network is built to snuff out royal bloodline magic and bind chosen sacrifices for underworld summoning."
Every member of their group tensed at the words.
Relief tangled with sharp urgent fear cold and sharp in every chest.
