The interior was disappointingly small, barely the size of a modest room, with crystal walls that still radiated residual heat from the energy battle that had just ended. In the center, almost lost in the space, was a mana vein so small it was easy to overlook.
"That's all!" Bloodwyn murmured, disbelief in his voice. "After all this, that's all our natural enemy had?!"
The vein was too small even to be worth taking its mana for Yino.
Hagen approached carefully, his explorer's instincts analyzing every detail. The mana vein pulsed weakly, like a dying heart. Something had been feeding on it, but had been destroyed without leaving a trace.
They searched for hours, examining every inch of the chamber, but found no trace of the golden energy that had filled the space. It was as if it had never existed.
