Chapter 49: The Night of Brilliance(3)

Yeriel woke up again with a headache. Her vision wavered as she blinked multiple times, squinting her eyes. Her head was a bit dizzy, but the fever came down, however, she’s not even in the faintest mood to celebrate.

The reason being she was tied up in the corner of a dark room, arms behind her back with a dirty cloth against her mouth. She had the faint remembrance of waking up here before, but about what actually happened—she didn’t remember much of it.

The silver lining was that she was not alone. There were about a dozen more like her tied up all over in the cramping the small room, while a heatstone radiated warmed all around, though the icy wind never stopped giving her shivers, finding its way through the crumbling cottage.

A couple of the rogue practitioners stood close to the heatstone, keeping their eyes open, even though all of them were tied with their channels sealed. Yeriel found nothing else to note other than them, and apart from a few familiar faces.