If his mind had not been exceptionally clear at this moment, the scene before him would have made Zhang Tie think he was dreaming. Hadn't he been captured by the Sainer Family? Wasn't he already their prisoner? How could he be receiving such treatment?
Had he been thrown into a dark cell, Zhang Tie would not have found it strange in the slightest. But this exceedingly luxurious bedroom made his mind pause for a moment.
In that brief instant, the women who had crowded around him had already deftly begun changing his clothes.
Zhang Tie remained outwardly impassive, letting the women fuss over him while secretly checking his condition—his Battle Qi had been sealed, showing no response whatsoever when he tried to mobilize it. His muscles retained a faint numbness amid that comfortable state, leaving him with little strength, like the brief exhaustion after the height of pleasure. Within his Sea of Consciousness, his spiritual energy had also become sluggish and murky, like a pool of frozen water that could not be stirred in the slightest.
In summary, Zhang Tie found that he had now been reduced completely to an ordinary person. Any random Level Three or Four Battle Soldier could probably knock him down.
The one thing that reassured Zhang Tie was the miraculous archway in his Sea of Consciousness that connected to the Castle of Black Iron. It was still there, unchanged in the slightest. It seemed that the force restraining him had no ability to discover the archway's existence. He remembered that, under certain special circumstances, that archway seemed capable of concealing itself.
"Heller, can you hear me?" Zhang Tie tried to contact Heller through their minds.
"Fortress Master, I can hear you!" Heller's voice rang through his Sea of Consciousness, and Zhang Tie finally let out