Inside the grand hall of the Wise Man's residence.
The one-eyed young man looked at Angor with a grin. "I didn't think you'd be so bold as to talk to her like that."
"The Wise Man doesn't look like he didn't expect anything."
The Sovereign of the Wise: "Not showing anything is already the greatest performance. Otherwise, you'll say I'm exaggerating. "
Angor gave it some thought and agreed. If the Sovereign of Wisdom had been surprised or stunned, that would have been strange.
The Wise Man stood up from the carpet and tidied up his wrinkled robe. "Let's go. Let's find a 'quiet' place to talk."
The Wise Sovereign specifically mentioned 'silence'. At the same time, his gaze drifted towards the bronze mirror above the fireplace, seemingly hinting at something.
"She can come and go as she pleases?" Dorcas asked curiously.
"Whether she can come and go as she pleases depends on whether the owner of this place has a mirror or not," the Wise Man replied.
"When you act as a human, you have to manage your appearance. Therefore, you can't do without a mirror, but you don't need to have one in every place."
Dorcas muttered in a low voice, "After beating around the bush for so long, isn't he just giving her a window to vent her anger?"
"A window is a window. Ventilation is another matter altogether." Angor gave the mirror a meaningful look. "Well, that's not the case."
As long as there was a mirror, Adanis could come and go as she pleased. However, whether she dared to come to the material world through the mirror was another matter altogether.
The Wise Man glanced at Angor. "So, you think she won't come, and that's why you're acting so tough."
"Um … Of course not." Angor was speaking seriously just a second ago, but he quickly changed his tone and teased, "Of course not."
The Wise Sovereign: "Oh?"
"It's because she has a backer, right? Besides, I'm not going to the mirror world. Why should I be afraid of her? "
Angor didn't mention who his backer was, but everyone agreed that it was Black Earl. The Sovereign of the Wise had other ideas, but the Black Count was indeed one of the people he could rely on.
The Wise Ruler: "But if you offend her like this, aren't you afraid that she'll make things difficult for you in the ruins?"
"So you're saying that I still have a chance to enter the abandoned place?"
After all, the Wise Sovereign had clearly said that only Noah's descendants could enter the ruins.
The Wise Ruler hurriedly denied it. "I saw how determined you were to challenge her, and how determined you were to continue forward. It seems like you have a way to enter the ruins. That's why I asked you."
Angor blinked. "A solution? Didn't you use it just now? "
The Wise Ruler: "You mean to provoke her into letting you in?"
Angor only smiled.
The Wise Sovereign muttered to himself, "There's a chance of success if you do that. However, if she really wants to deal with you personally, she might not necessarily let you enter the ruins. Just like how I could control the magic array near my residence, she could also control the magic array near the ruins. So, what you used on Hidden Slave might be used on you instead. "
"As long as she doesn't have the core authority, the magic array will take care of it."
He didn't think Angor would win, but he had to admit that Angor did have some tricks up his sleeves when it came to magic arrays. The Wise Overseer didn't expect Angor to do it so quickly and accurately. Angor only gave a casual suggestion, and Angor actually did it. This was beyond the Wise Overseer's expectation.
The Wise Lord smiled and did not continue on the topic of the magic array. Instead, he returned to his original question. "You haven't answered me yet. Aren't you afraid that she will cause trouble for you in the Legacy?"
Angor didn't seem to mind at all. "I have a backer, don't I? If not, I can always open a plane passageway."
Angor glanced at the Wise Ruler. "The core authority is in the Wise Ruler's hands, so there won't be any restrictions on using spatial energy, right?"
The Wise Overseer knew Angor would say something like that. Opening a plane passageway without warning had become his trademark behavior.
"I can control the core of the magic array outside the ruins so that you won't be affected by spatial energy. But the inner part of the ruins isn't controlled by the magic array, so I don't know what's going on there. I don't know if there's a planar passageway restriction."
"There shouldn't be. Otherwise, she won't even be able to enter the Mirror Realm."
Before coming to the underground sewer, Angor had been studying the mirror dimension because of Mirror's Wrath, and his research had yielded some results. This could be seen from the fact that he could reach his hand into the mirror.
Based on his own research and the information he got from Laplace, Angor was sure that the Mirror Realm was a special world. It wasn't attached to the southern wizarding region like the other subordinate planes. Instead, it existed in many different worlds.
There were certain requirements to enter such a special world. The most basic requirement was to travel across time, which included the use of spatial energy.
In other words, both Angor and Adanis would need to use spatial energy to enter the Mirror Realm.
If the ruins didn't allow the use of spatial energy, Adanis wouldn't be able to enter the Mirror Realm either.
Therefore, Angor was sure that he could open a plane passageway in the ruins. Since that was the case, he didn't need to worry about anything else.
The Wise Ruler looked at Angor's nonchalant expression and shook his head without saying anything.
Outliers had their own ideas. If an old antique like him forced his own ideas on Angor, what kind of outlier would Angor be?
…
While they were talking, they had already followed the Wise Sovereign to a bookcase on the other side of the hall.
They didn't see any path or door.
Just as everyone was wondering what was going on, the Wise Sovereign reached out with his hand towards the bookcase next to the wall. He gently slid his hand down the surface of the bookcase.
There was a flash of white light, and the bookcase disappeared. Instead, a giant oil painting appeared on the wall.
It was the same bookcase that appeared in the material world.
Did the world change from three-dimensional to flat? The path is on a flat surface?
Angor immediately recalled his first meeting with Magic Painter, which was in an oil painting. Did this painting have something to do with Feng?
Angor soon realized that he was overthinking.
The path wasn't inside the painting. It was behind it.
The Wise Ruler pushed the oil painting from the side like a sliding door. As the oil painting moved, a passageway that didn't exist before appeared in front of everyone.
"Let's go. This is where we won't be disturbed."
After the Sovereign of Wisdom finished speaking, he led the way in.
The others didn't seem surprised by the Wise Ruler's actions. In the wizarding world, there were all kinds of encryption methods. This was why some people found nothing when exploring ruins, while others found treasures by solving puzzles. There were simply too many ways to encrypt something. Some of them were impossible to understand, while others just happened to fit your needs.
Speaking of which, Kael was able to obtain the alchemy blueprints of the ruins after solving a certain riddle.
Therefore, most people didn't care about the Wise Ruler's secret method.
The only one who cared was Angor. The reason was simple.
There was a bookshelf in Nether City that looked exactly the same!
Angor visited the Wise Ruler's Hall on his way to Nether City's underground sewer. Only the alchemy boiler and some bookshelves were still intact. There were still some books on the shelves.
Angor also recorded the contents of the books, but they were all ordinary and worthless.
But if the projection in the Nightmare Realm was the same as the one in the real world … Did that mean that there was actually a path hidden behind the bookshelves in Nether City?
Angor thought about it carefully.
If there really was a path, would there be other secrets hidden behind it?
Following this hidden path, the group arrived in front of a stone door. The Wise Ruler stopped and opened the door, revealing what was inside.
Behind the door was a place that looked like a "study". However, this "study" referred to as a "reading room". The walls of the room were filled with wooden bookshelves that reached all the way to the ceiling.
In the center of the room, there was a velvet blanket and a luxurious sofa, as well as some unknown food on a table.
The standard desk in the study room was not available here. It looked like a place for reading and leisure. Angor could tell how "casual" the owner of this place was just by looking at the food on the table.
At the very least, Angor would never eat in a place where he was reading.
Whether it was fruits or other foods, once they were stained with books, it was a sign of disrespect to books and knowledge. This was what Angor was taught since he was a child.
But now … he didn't really care. He could use a simple cantrip to get rid of the stains on the food.
Still, he rarely relied on food to replenish his energy. Most of his meals were formal ones, such as Greya's cooking. If he did something else while eating, Greya would definitely feel humiliated. Angor could only say that he would try if he had the chance. Most of the time, he didn't have the chance.
"Come in. This is where I read when I have nothing to do." The Wise Ruler entered the room first and gestured for the others to follow.
Everyone followed behind, but Angor didn't do anything.
He stood outside the door and looked into the corridor. "It's bigger inside, isn't it?"
Angor didn't use his spirit feelers to check. It would be rude to do that in front of the Wise Ruler. Su Ling only came to this conclusion by observing the flow of the wind.
According to Su Ling, the deeper part of the corridor might not be smaller than the Wise Ruler's Hall outside.
This was another surprise for Angor, who had been keeping an eye on this secret passage for a long time. He was going to visit Nether City in the Nightmare Realm anyway. If he could find more hidden places to explore, he would definitely find more.
The Wise Ruler: "Inside? It's where I sleep."
"It's not comfortable to sleep in a human form."
This meant the Wise Ruler's bedroom was where his real body, the Three-Eyed Blue Devil, slept.
No wonder it was so much bigger than this place. The Three-Eyed Blue Devil was already huge.
"What? You're interested in my bedroom? Want to take a look? " If Angor agreed, the Wise Ruler wouldn't mind showing Angor his bedroom.
It wasn't just a bedroom. It was also where the Wise Ruler believed it to be — a place of silence.
Wouldn't it be fun to show someone his future grave while he was still alive so that he could express his thoughts about it?
As for whether he would be disturbed in the afterlife? It didn't matter. Once he was dead, he wouldn't care about what happened after he died.
Besides, just because the Wise Ruler believed this place to be a grave didn't mean it would be used. This was only urging the Wise Sovereign to change, to change the present, to change the future, to change the future, to change the fate of the future … so that the Nirvana Lands would not become the Nirvana Lands, so that Nether City would not fall completely.
For the Wise Ruler, the bedroom inside was both a death knell and a warning bell.
"No, thanks." Angor didn't know what the Wise Ruler was thinking. Common sense dictated that he shouldn't visit someone else's bedroom, so he refused.
The Wise Ruler shrugged and nodded nonchalantly.
Finally, Angor entered the door as well.
The stone door closed, and the Wise Sovereign let out a long sigh of relief. Then, he stretched lazily and lay down on the soft sofa in front of everyone.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
Sensing the silence in the air, the Wise Sovereign raised his head and said, "Don't mind it. Here, in my bedroom, I'll always feel relaxed."
That was true. But this was too much of a contrast.
The Wise Ruler used to be so aggressive, but now, he was behaving so differently.
Still, everyone was a multi-faceted person. Despite their surprise, they quickly accepted it.
The Wise Ruler gestured for everyone to sit down.
"Want something to eat?" The Wise Ruler pointed at the food on the table.
No one said anything.
"Never mind. Let's get down to business then," the Wise Ruler muttered.
"Since you've made it past Netherslave's interception and came to my place, I'm glad you're done with your test. There's only one thing left. You'll do it even if I don't tell you. And that is — "
"Reach the ruins and leave without a hitch."
"What's the point?" Dark Earl asked.
"Not much. They're just some ideas I came up with on the spot."
Everyone frowned. They felt like they were being played by the Wise Ruler.
The Wise Ruler continued, "I know you have a lot of questions. Don't worry, I can tell you everything now. About the ruins, as well as the questions you've asked me in private.
But before that, there's one more thing you need to do — "
The Wise Ruler didn't continue. Instead, he raised a hand, and countless runes of light gathered in his palm.
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