Barracks. Or the equivalent - structures designed for housing large numbers of people in conditions that prioritized efficiency over comfort, their uniformity suggesting that whoever occupied them wasn't expected to develop individual preferences about their living arrangements.
The system had called this Floor 1 the Barracks District on the dungeon's original assessment, but the original assessment had been built from limited scout data, and Jake understood, looking at it now, that Floor 1 was an entire district rather than a single room, occupying a footprint that made the ground floor feel like an anteroom by comparison.
It was also occupied.
His Blood Sense found them before his eyes did - distributed through the grid of barrack structures in the way that soldiers distributed themselves through a defended position, not clustered but covering angles, the positioning speaking to tactical awareness rather than domestic arrangement.
