Leon watched with growing disbelief as people continued streaming out of the dungeon gate. The blue portal rippled with each emergence, figures stumbling or walking with exhausted determination into the fading sunlight of the outside world.
This doesn't make sense, he thought, his analytical mind struggling to reconcile what he was seeing with his expectations. I was almost certain that either they'd all be dead or only a handful would survive out of pure luck.
Yet the numbers kept climbing. Ten. Twenty. Thirty. Forty. The count passed fifty, and still more emerged.
