The connection with the Ancestral Beast had already hinted at the fact that the matter was huge. The Mutated Battlefield's unnatural magical beasts had even pointed toward nightmarish reasons.
However, Liam felt that everything he had seen surpassed his wildest imagination, expanding his idea of the world in ways that he didn't think possible.
The subject of laboratories had come up during the Alchemy Elder's lessons. Liam's far tidier cave had been the result of those teachings, but they had also involved broader, more general aspects.
So, Liam knew what that hidden chamber was. It was a lab for what looked like human experiments, which was somehow the nicest side of the whole matter.
The five carvings on the broken containers depicted something every child in the Dragon Kingdom could recognize when inspected together. After all, they belonged to the fairy tale everyone knew so well that Liam couldn't help but list their names in his mind.
