There had only been five Undercurrent Hounds in the cellar, and now all of them had fallen into a deep sleep.
Angel had not dealt a killing blow either, for the same reason Gleipnir had considered: a ritual with bloodshed and one without bloodshed were fundamentally different.
Moreover, the three prerequisites for the ritual coordinates were: a place without light, an enclosed space, and traces of life.
The reason this cellar could serve as the ritual site was precisely because it fulfilled all three prerequisites at once. The so-called "traces of life" referred to this pack of Undercurrent Hounds.
Angel suspected that killing these Undercurrent Hounds might cause one of the ritual's prerequisites to be lost, resulting in problems with the final ritual.
So, to be safe, he merely used illusion to suppress their thoughts and send them into slumber.
Without the Undercurrent Hounds' attacks, the cellar was noticeably quieter.
Other than the faint rustle of water, there was almost no other noise.
Angel and Gleipnir dragged the Undercurrent Hounds into the compartment on the left—the compartment where they had originally lived.
The moment they entered this compartment, before they could inspect their surroundings, they caught a strong scent of dampness.
The air was also clearly more humid than outside.
Gleipnir lowered her head. Through the projection within her mind, she could clearly see that the black muddy ground was covered in pooled water.
The source of the water was a small pool in one corner of the compartment.
According to what Angel had said earlier, this pool connected to the shallow Underground Waterway, and the Undercurrent Hounds had crawled out from here.
Gleipnir walked over to inspect the pool and found obvious traces of brickwork around its edges. From those marks, it could be inferred that this small pool