They felt a considerable number of presences inside the building. However, they weren’t certain if the presences they sensed were the captives. They needed to check it with their own eyes to make sure.

‘It seems like there’s a high possibility though.’

The group went to the door of the first floor where most people were gathered. The people inside were cautious about the sudden intruder and scattered all over the house to conduct a search. However, Zich was more concerned about the unmoving presences on the second floor of the building.

‘There are three of them in each room.’

Among the three, two of them were close together while one was a slight distance away. Sensing that, Zich thought, ‘Looks like two of them are guarding one imprisoned person.’

It appeared that they had imprisoned one captive in each room. Usually, it was better to distribute the captives in entirely separate buildings, but it seemed like they had gathered them inside one building for logistics reasons. Zich felt three presences in each group and a total of eight groups.

‘Five elf tribes. One of them is the Iron Tribe, so the total number of tribes with missing captives is four. Since they are a pair of kings and queens, eight is the right number.’

Yet, Zich wasn’t satisfied.

‘What about the shaman?’

The shaman was the mother...