An utterly sinister stairway appeared before Karin and his companions.
It was hard to imagine that such a bottomless stairway lay hidden beneath Karazhan's cellar. Did Karazhan's tower actually extend below the cellar as well?
"I think we're walking to our deaths!" Khadgar, surprisingly still in the mood for a rare joke, said, "Going down to face the most terrifying mage in this world."
"But we have to!" Lothar said gravely. "Once Sargeras completely devours Med's soul, it will all be over... nothing in this world will be able to stop him!"
Everyone remained silent. They knew Lothar was right.
"I'll take the lead!" Lothar said quietly. He looked extremely cautious.
Following Lothar, they descended one stone step after another, a sense of dread slowly rising in their hearts.
The rough walls and floor were damp and pitted. In the firelight, they looked like writhing lumps of flesh.
The stairs spiraled downward, taking them farther and farther from the surface... Karin was surprised to discover that their surroundings increasingly resembled an inverted image of Karazhan.
This is a reversed version of Karazhan, he mused.
An enormous room appeared before them...
Judging by Karazhan's layout, this should have been the meeting room.
But here it was a dungeon, adorned with countless chains and instruments of torture... yet there were no prisoners.
Who was this dungeon intended for?
The next floor should have been the dining hall.
It did indeed look like a dining hall, except that every table held not food, but all manner of bizarrely shaped bones.
There were not only human bones, but those of all sorts of other animals and creatures as well... Karin even saw a skull almost as large as the table it rested on. It was a dragon's skull.
At the sight of these