Chapter 275: Minecrawlers [XV]

"Have you checked the area further back?" he asked as he walked back into the cavern.

Venari corpses were sprawled all across the floor, most of them half charred-flesh and half bone —Lucius's handiwork.

Others had chunks of flesh missing from their necks, and claw marks all over their bodies. But the most unfortunate of them were those with the charred eyes, no doubt Pagan's doing. Who knew what reason he had for taking their eyesight before killing them?

"No, not yet," Ghost replied.

Lucius pointed towards the darkness at the end of the tunnel, and Ghost understood her task. With a whisper, she disappeared into thin air, and Lucius felt her presence withdraw into the darkness.

"Start picking up anything that looks valuable and put it in a pile over here," he announced to the rest of the group, pointing at the cavern's centre.