Intense heat blazed, and it felt as if the air was boiling. The heat seemed to choke the breaths out of them and stood as proof that the toharis they had been searching for were here. Yet the whole team, including Chi-Woo, was too distracted by the scene around them to think of retrieving one. That was how shocking the space lit by the dancing firelight was.

Glass containers hung down from the sky with dozens of tentacles attached to them. The containers were filled to the brim with semi-transparent bluish liquid, and each had a humanoid figure floating in the center. They stayed locked inside, unmoving with their eyes closed. And there were more than a couple such glass containers; there were hundreds and thousands of them…! Like a fierce waterfall that had suddenly stopped in time, the containers filled up the space from corner to corner. It was so packed that some of the tentacles intertwined in complicated patterns. The sight was so shocking and vivid that everyone stood frozen for some time.

“Not all of them are humans…” Yunael murmured to herself in a daze. As she said, there were creatures besides humans in these glass containers. Some looked to be part of the Cassiubia League, others were demonic creatures and even creatures they had never seen before.

“What is…that?” Yunael felt an instinctive repulsion and frowned.

Chi-Woo shook his head. There was no way he would know what these creatures were. But for...