Angor didn't know much about the second floor. The layout of the rooms here was similar to the first floor, except that there were a few more smaller rooms. Also, he didn't find anything like a book on the second floor either.
However, there was one thing he was sure of. There was no such path in the second level.
The change in layout here was probably caused by the void storm.
Since there was no other path, Angor didn't hesitate and stepped onto the invisible path.
After walking for about ten meters, they saw the first room floating in the air. Or rather, the remains of a room.
There were no walls or ceilings. Only pieces of broken floorboards were left behind.
These floorboards were mostly separated from each other. They were drifting around in a small area and would occasionally close up. It was similar to the wooden floorboards they saw when they first entered the hanging staircase.
"Should we go up?" Cael looked at the wreckage on the floor and hesitated.
"What? Are you scared?"
A teasing voice came from the side. Kael didn't need to turn around to know it was Dorcas.
"No." Kael shook his head. It wasn't that he was scared. It was just that Wai's fall had left a bad impression on him. Now that he looked at the scattered floorboards, he subconsciously wanted to resist.
"Just admit it. It's fine. Academies are always afraid of death. That's a well-known fact. I won't laugh at you. "
Before Kael could say anything, Wai muttered, "There's more than one academies here."
Dorcas was surprised and looked back. Angor didn't say anything. Meanwhile, the Wise Overseer was looking at Dorcas and Kael with a curious look.
Dorcas snorted in his heart. Could this old monster be from the Academic Faction?
Wise Overseer … Wise Overseer … I think he's from the academies?
Dorcas pursed his lips but didn't say anything in the end.
Kael finally spoke up. "I'm just wondering if the floorboards will stay here forever. What if they just happened to be standing on them and drifted away? Then … "
Wa Yi swallowed his saliva and continued, "… It's gone."
Seeing the two apprentices singing the same tune, Dorcas said unhappily, "Don't you know how to judge the safe distance? Even if the floor floats far away, do you think Jin will watch you die? "
Wa Yi's exaggerated expression immediately disappeared. "That's true."
Dorcas said, "What are you talking about? You didn't come here with your real body. Do you believe that even if you cry and jump down, Gold won't save you … You should be begging me. I'll come with you later, not Gold!"
Wa Yi pursed his lips. "Sir, if you can't find it, then don't come in. It's just a waste of time."
Dorcas' eyes narrowed, and his mouth was already at the tip of his tongue. However, before he could even open his mouth, the nearby Sovereign of Wisdom smiled merrily and said, "I think he's right. Now it's the same as all of you searching together, but you can't find it even with so many people searching together. Then, can you definitely find it if you search alone? "
"Even if we can't find it, we still have to try," Dorcas retorted, but it was obvious that he lacked confidence.
The Sovereign of the Wise said casually, "If we can't find the wood spirit, we should at least bring something else with us, right? For example, a dense stone? "
Dorcas didn't say anything. If someone else said something like this, he could still argue back. But since it was the Sovereign of Wisdom who said something like this, he didn't want to get himself into trouble because of a slip of the tongue.
While mocking Dorcas, Angor and Black Earl had already arrived at the broken floorboards.
Angor looked around and didn't see much information left on the floorboards. Most of the furniture was already broken.
The only thing left on the floor was the light source tube made of fluorite, but it was also broken into pieces.
Angor checked several floorboards but still didn't find anything useful. He glanced at Black Earl, who also controlled the floorboards to move around.
Black Earl also came here before, but he didn't find anything either.
Angor sighed and looked at the others. Dorcas had also arrived at the floorboards. He looked around and touched the floorboards from time to time. But from what he touched, Angor could tell that he wasn't looking for the wood spirit. He was simply interested in the materials of the floorboards.
The Sovereign of Wisdom and Vait stayed behind. Vait didn't want to burden Angor's calculation, while the Sovereign of Wisdom simply watched from the side.
However, when Angor met the Sovereign of Wisdom's eyes, the Sovereign of Wisdom didn't stay out of it. "If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. For example, is the wood spirit here? I don't know its exact location, but I can give you a general idea.
"However, questions are still equal. As long as I answer your question, you have to answer one of mine."
The Sovereign of Wisdom already stopped asking questions when they were outside. But now, he suddenly brought it up again. Clearly, the Sovereign of Wisdom was very curious about Angor's behavior after entering the Stairs of Hanging Prison.
Angor looked at the Sovereign of Wisdom's glowing eyes and spoke in a soft voice, "If I need to, I'll ask the Sovereign of Wisdom."
Or vice versa.
The Sovereign of Wisdom shrugged nonchalantly. Even if Angor didn't want to ask questions, the Sovereign of Wisdom could still find the answers through observation or other methods.
Angor walked around the Sovereign of Wisdom and looked at the only other Sage in the room — Khael.
Khael was standing at the edge of the floor, carefully inspecting the broken pieces of the floor.
Angor walked closer and saw Khael holding an Image Stone in one hand and a microscope-like device in the other. The man was carefully inspecting a piece of broken floor in front of him.
"You're still worried about the floor?" "Don't worry. The floor is broken into pieces, but they're still restrained by the magic array. They won't go too far."
Khael quickly stood up when Angor approached him. "N-no, it's not that. I just have a hunch. "
"A hunch? If it has something to do with the wood spirit, why don't you tell me? "
"I once read a book about a heavy-armored knight who was exiled to a foreign land." Kael replied.
Angor raised an eyebrow. "A heavy-armored knight? The Knight of Dorago and the Demon's Castle? "
Khael widened his eyes in surprise. "S-sir, you read it too?"
"Yes, I've read a book about a heavy-armored knight. But I don't think he was exiled from his home. Instead, he fell into some demon realm …"
"Blood … Blood Demon Realm." Khael scratched his head in embarrassment. "The author made it up himself. I'm sorry."
"I know. Mortals always think about supernatural worlds based on their own knowledge. It's nothing more than fighting and killing, going back and forth, opposing sides. If there are humans in the world, then there must be a world where demons live. "
Angor spoke casually as if he didn't care about such books at all. In fact, after becoming a talent, Angor enjoyed reading such books for a while. Mara never taught him a channeling method, so he could only imagine supernatural worlds through books. Also, he had nothing else to do on The Redbud, so reading books became his only source of entertainment.
"What? Did the book enlighten you?"
"It's not really enlightening, but there's a part of the story that I still remember." Khael decided to skip the details. "When Knight Dorago first entered the Demon's Castle, he hid in the hallway to avoid being chased by Flesh-Eaters …"
Angor listened to Cael's explanation and understood what he meant.
Knight Dorago was a heavy-armored knight who wore heavy armor all over his body. How was he supposed to avoid the Flesh-Eaters in the hallway of the Demon's Castle? His method was very simple. He put on a helmet and stood beside an oil painting, pretending to be an armored sculpture. He successfully avoided this problem.
To put it bluntly, he was hiding under a lamp. In other words, the most dangerous place was the safest place.
Khael wondered if the wood spirit was thinking the same thing. Maybe he disguised himself as a wooden board and hid right under their noses.
Khael carefully observed the wooden boards one by one.
"That's a good idea. But I don't think the wood spirit would do such a thing. I think it's just hiding, not playing mind games. "Angor looked into the distance." What do you think, Lord of Wisdom? "
The Wise Sovereign: "Are you asking me a question?"
"If you have something urgent to ask me, Lord of Wisdom, feel free to ask. I can use it as a reference. Should I treat it as a question? "
The Lord of Wisdom looked at Angor's unwavering gaze. "We can talk about it when you really want to ask me something. As for those unimportant questions, you've already guessed them yourself, haven't you? "
The Lord of Wisdom's words confirmed Angor's guess.
The wood spirit was too timid to play the game of "hiding under a lamp". It already had a hidden talent, so it didn't need to explore the edge of danger. Besides, a wood spirit with a blank mind couldn't win against the Dark Earl in mind games. If the wood spirit was hiding under a lamp, the Dark Earl would have found it long ago.
Although the wood spirit wouldn't do that, Angor still searched all the hidden spots in the area.
Just like the Dark Earl, he found nothing.
But that didn't mean the wood spirit wasn't here. Maybe the wood spirit's hiding talent was so strong that they couldn't find it even if they all searched together.
It was possible, but Angor still decided to leave. If he really missed it, he could only blame it on fate.
Besides, if the Dark Earl couldn't find it, it wouldn't be embarrassing if he couldn't.
With that in mind, he bid farewell to the others and returned to the void path to continue his journey.
Since Angor already left, the others didn't have any reason to stay, so they followed him.
This time, they walked for about a hundred meters before they saw the ruins of the second room. Just like the first room, this one was floating in the air with large amounts of debris floating around.
However, compared to the first room, the preservation of this room was more complete. The ceiling was gone, but three of the four walls were still intact, which was much better than the first room.
Moreover, there were more items in this room than in the first room. This also gave the wood spirits more space to hide.
The first thing Angor saw when he arrived at the second room was a painting hanging on the wall.
In other words, everyone's eyes were focused on the painting at the first moment. It was obviously different from the other rooms. The other rooms were just empty "cells", but this one had an extra piece of art that attracted everyone's attention.
From afar, there was a human silhouette in the center of the painting, but it wasn't very clear.
Dorcas took advantage of his skill and boldness to get closer to take a look.
However, just as Dorcas arrived in front of the image and wanted to take a closer look, he turned into a black mist and disappeared with a gust of wind.
Dorcas died right in front of everyone's eyes. And this time, his death was very strange.
Kael couldn't help but take a few steps back. He almost reached the painting as well. If it was him, wouldn't he end up like Dorcas? Dorcas could still come back to life, but Kael would be as dead as a doornail.
"What's going on?" Kael asked in fear.
"A trap." Angor pointed at the painting frame. "He touched the middle frame of the painting. There's a trap there."
"Is this the Picture Frame Trap you encountered before?" Angor looked at Count Dark.
The Black Earl did not deny it and nodded. "Yes."
"What kind of trap is this? How can it kill someone without a sound?" Kael wondered.
"It's an old trap. It releases a cloud of poisonous mist. But it's already very weak, so it won't do much damage. It just stinks a little. "
"But it's not that strong. How did he die just like that?" Dorcas asked.
"You didn't come here with your real bodies. You're just illusions. Let's say you're just mortals. No matter how old you are, you'll still end up dead. "
No one said anything after hearing Angor's serious explanation. But in their minds, they all thought, Who's going to believe this?! It's definitely a trick to save computing power.
They all had their own thoughts, but no one said anything. Saving computing power was for the sake of a better livestream.
Dorcas sacrificed himself so that everyone could have a better experience.
Besides, Dorcas could still come back, right?
Dorcas had already appeared in front of them while they were still thinking about this. He probably sprinted up the stairs.
As soon as Dorcas arrived, he locked onto Angor and was about to charge at him.
Angor said, "A normal person would be out of breath after climbing such a long flight of stairs. Who knows, it might even cause sudden death or something? "
Dorcas' expression changed when he heard "die suddenly".
That was a threat!
Did he look like someone who could be threatened?!
Yes. He was.
Dorcas quickly stopped. "Yeah, I'm out of breath. But I'll be fine after walking for a while."
Dorcas turned around and walked away from Angor like a coward.
Seeing that Dorcas knew what was good for him, Angor did not really kill him. Instead, he focused on the painting again.
He had a feeling that something was wrong with the painting.
"The wood spirit isn't here." Count Black noticed Angor's interest and whispered, "That's the answer given by the Wise Ruler."
Angor also heard the conversation between Count Black and the Wise Ruler after they entered the Stairs of Hanging Prison. When Count Black came to a room with a painting, the Wise Ruler encouraged him to touch the frame of the painting.
Count Black touched the frame and naturally fell into a trap. The Wise Ruler explained, "I'm also warning you that there's a trap in this room. The wood spirit isn't here."
Since the Wise Ruler was sure that there was no wood spirit here, there was no need to waste time here.
This was Count Black's plan.
However, Angor had another idea. If he remembered correctly, this painting didn't belong to the second level.
(End of Chapter)
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