Tezka looked around to familiarize himself with the place, showing no care for the riches or the prized artifacts that Faluel stored inside enchanted crystal cases placed in a circle centered on her bed.
This way, whenever she woke from her slumber, she needed only to stretch one of her long necks to check that everything was still in place and that no thief was hiding in the shadows.
'This may be her house, but it's not her real lab.' Tezka thought while casting a life-sensing and an array-detecting spell. 'There is no mana geyser here, and the framework of her containment arrays is not enough to channel the full power of someone like her for more than a few minutes.
'Any complex experiment or powerful Forgemastering processes performed here would suffer from energy leaks that would compromise the final result. Judging from the number of barriers of this place and how they can stop people from both entering and leaving, this is a fortress.'
