After dealing with the elves, Shane sat in his chair within the command chamber of the floating fortress. After a few moments, he reread Tessa's last report.
A human farm.
This concerned him heavily since he still had a conscience…
He had no attachment to the captives. He didn't know their faces, their names, or what kind of lives they had lived before ending up in the clutches of the vampires. There may even be some evil people for all he knows.
But that didn't matter. His conscience burned at the thought of blasting the ruined city from above, possibly reducing innocent people to ash alongside the bloodsuckers.
'I can't… not like this.'
From how Tessa described it as a human farm, Shane knew that the situation there was not good.
She didn't have to describe everything, and he could already imagine it.
He exhaled slowly.
Soon, a map of the ruined city was projected before him with Cloud's help, based on Tessa's scouting and the fortress's scrying devices.
