Angor cleared his throat a little.
Luigi was startled when he heard someone coughing in a dungeon where time and space were frozen. However, he soon realized the source of the coughing.
"Angor?" Luigi asked in a small voice.
"Yes, it's me. Miss Laplace is here too. She's looking at you."
Luigi scratched his head. "Why are you here again?"
"Again?" "What's wrong? You don't want us to come? "
Luigi sighed and sat down on the dusty ground. "That's not what I meant. It's just that I'm too embarrassed to try the main quest again."
Angor remembered that Luigi didn't feel this way the last time he came here. Now that he suddenly felt embarrassed, it could only mean that Luigi's way of thinking had undergone a drastic change recently.
As for the reason? Angor glanced at Laplace in silence.
Laplace said indifferently, "He feels embarrassed."
Angor told Luigi what Laplace said.
Luigi showed a rare look of embarrassment. "Yes, it is. I didn't think the challenge would be hard. But for some reason, I can't make any progress each time. I've rebooted the main quest ten times now. I was confident at first, but now I'm feeling lost. "
Rebooting the main quest ten times wasn't a lot. If Luigi kept repeating it without taking any breaks, he could probably do it more than a hundred times.
The reason why he only did it ten times was that Luigi would always make a self-assessment after each failure.
At first, he would only summarize his own shortcomings. But as time went by, Luigi's failures began to shake his confidence, which caused his self-assessment to take longer and longer. This was because … he still needed to do some mental self-improvement.
But now, Luigi's confidence was waning because of his lack of progress.
Because of his lack of confidence, he didn't want to be watched by Angor and Laplace.
Angor didn't know how to comfort Luigi. "How about you rest for a bit before you go again?"
Luigi quickly shook his head. "I'm not tired. Besides, I'm not running away."
"I'm not telling you to run away. I just think you need to calm down."
Luigi still shook his head. "I'm actually very calm."
Before Angor could say "I don't know", Laplace spoke up first. "He's really calm and self-regulating. He's the best I know."
"However, calmness is meaningless to him right now."
"It'll be good if he can calm down. At least he'll be able to see the situation clearly."
He tried to talk to Luigi again.
"If you are calm right now, you should be able to analyze why you keep failing."
This time, Luigi was silent for a long time. Then, he said in an almost inaudible voice, "Perhaps I've misunderstood Uriel's dilemma. Or perhaps … I'm not good enough."
"If you know you're not strong enough, why do you keep fighting with Uriel? Do you want your confidence to crumble faster?"
Luigi said weakly, "Didn't I say there were two possibilities? Maybe I misunderstood Uriel's thoughts. If I can understand Uriel's thoughts correctly, I might be able to pass."
"Do you believe that yourself?"
Luigi held his head with both hands and remained silent for more than ten seconds. After messing up his hair, he sighed and said, "I admit that my attainments are insufficient."
"But … I don't want to give up."
"I'm not telling you to give up, and I'm not encouraging you to run away. I'm just saying that you can choose to calm down."
"What do you mean?" Luigi looked up at the sky in a daze. It was as if he could really see Angor through the illusory sky.
Angor rolled his eyes. "What else can I mean? You can't clear the dungeon, and you don't want to give up on the main quest. So there's only one way to get out. Log off. "
"As for what you're going to do? Study, of course. If you're not good enough, go learn! When you're good enough to talk to Uriel, come back to the dungeon. "
Luigi thought about it and found it reasonable. "But … who should I learn from?"
"You don't know anyone who knows how to play the arts?"
Luigi shook his head. "I don't know if there's anyone in the Daylight Mirror Domain who knows how to play the piano."
Before Angor could say anything, Laplace suddenly spoke up, "Piano? Why piano? If he wants to improve his skills, shouldn't he be learning harp? "
Angor told Luigi what he just heard. Luigi put on a serious face and said, "I'm sure I'm good enough with the harp. Uriel's piano is the only thing I don't understand."
In Luigi's opinion, "not good enough" wasn't referring to the harp. Instead, Luigi was referring to his lack of appreciation for the piano, as well as his lack of depth and breadth in the field of art.
Angor didn't comment on this. Luigi's harp skills were top-notch, and he couldn't clear the main quest because he was too good at playing the piano.
People always said that music was the best language for communication. Or rather, music was universal.
Angor didn't deny this fact in a broad sense.
However, if one looked at the details, they would find that there was a certain barrier between different instruments.
Of course, there was also music that could be combined well with different instruments. However, there was a prerequisite — the creator of the music had to have a deep understanding of the different instruments. Or rather, two players of different instruments could learn from each other and create music that could be played by multiple instruments.
But Luigi's situation was neither of those.
He didn't know how to play the piano, nor did he have a master pianist to talk to. He had to rely on his own talent in music to solve Uriel's problem.
But no matter how talented he was, he couldn't see the sun through a screen.
If he didn't want to give up on this quest, the only thing he could do was to go offline and find someone who knew how to play the piano.
Angor said, "If you're talking about piano, I have someone I can recommend. He's also a good teacher."
Luigi asked, "You mean humans?"
Angor nodded without hesitation. "Yes, a human. And he's also my first teacher."
Luigi believed Angor's suggestion, but …
"Your first teacher? Does he really have time to teach me piano? " "I mean, I'm not going to learn piano. I'm going to learn how to play the piano, and how to understand it."
This was all theoretical knowledge, and it would take more time than learning how to play the piano.
In Luigi's opinion, Angor's teacher must be a wizard, and wizards should be busy studying the so-called truth. Did he really have time to teach piano theory?
Angor understood Luigi's meaning. He smiled. "My first teacher is a mortal. Because of his illness, he can only stay in the dream wasteland most of the time. Don't worry, he has plenty of time. Besides, he's teaching two children every day. "
By "children", Angor was referring to Alda and Sunny.
Luigi's eyes lit up. "So you're saying that I should go to the dream wasteland and learn piano from your first teacher? Then I can come and solve Uriel's problem? "
Angor nodded.
The more Luigi thought about it, the more he found it feasible. Besides, learning how to play the piano would help him broaden his artistic horizons.
"That's a good idea. But does it count as cheating?" Luigi mumbled.
"Can learning be considered cheating?" Angor blurted out without realizing it.
Luigi felt that Angor's words were illogical, but he decided not to think about it. To clear the test, he had to improve his artistic skills first. Also, since Angor gave a name, the man must be a master pianist.
If it was a top-tier master, Luigi might not even need to study for too long to find the solution.
"Then I'll log off and come find you. Are you still in the Chamber of Solitude?"
"No. I'm in my heart space. You can come here first."
Heart space? Luigi's eyes were filled with question marks.
"You'll know the details when you log off." Angor didn't explain too much. It wouldn't be as fast as Laplace sharing information with Luigi when Luigi logged off.
Luigi did not probe any further. He nodded and disappeared. Clearly, he had gone offline.
However, "Uriel's Choice" didn't disappear. It was still frozen in time, and the only living place was the small area outside Luigi's attic.
Even though Luigi was gone, the unfrozen space was still alive, as if it was waiting for Luigi's return.
…
Half an hour later, Luigi arrived at the heart space.
When he saw Angor, he had a complicated look on his face. He never thought that the outside world would change so much while he was wandering around Wonderland.
And Angor was the cause of all these changes.
Luigi hesitated for a while and decided not to comment on Angor's actions.
After all, he already got all the information he needed from Laplace, including Laplace's opinion on Angor.
Unlike Gleipnir, Luigi didn't like to overthink things. Since his main body was showing friendliness to Angor, Luigi would just follow the "master"'s will.
"Are we going to see your teacher now? Do I need to bring a gift? " Luigi cast aside his complicated thoughts and focused on the most important thing to him.
"No need. Besides, you can't bring it in anyway."
He had to use the Dream Whelk if he wanted to bring a gift. But using a Mystery item in Billon Tree Garden … Forget it.
"You can just come with me." Angor waved his hand and opened up an eye in the heart space, which led to a mirror passage leading to the buffer space.
Angor led Luigi outside the building.
Before he left, he did not forget about Laplace. "Do you want to take a look at the dream wilderness?"
Laplace shook her head. "No need. If Luigi goes, I'll go too."
"…" Angor was speechless.
Angor and Luigi left the heart space while feeling a little jealous.
Laplace thought that Luigi wouldn't come back for at least half a month. Even if it was just learning theories, he still needed time to digest them. But what she didn't expect was that Luigi would return in less than five minutes, let alone ten days to half a month.
…
Five minutes later, Laplace looked at Angor and Luigi with a puzzled look.
However, this doubt only lasted for a moment. Laplace immediately sensed what Luigi was going through.
"Luigi can't enter the dream wasteland?" Laplace wondered.
According to Luigi's memory, he couldn't even step onto the dream bridge when he fell asleep in the real world. This was completely different from what happened in the Dream Crystal.
Angor nodded helplessly. It was true that Luigi couldn't enter the dream wasteland.
Angor could sense Luigi wandering outside the dream bridge, but he couldn't pull Luigi onto it.
It was as if Luigi was separated from the dream wasteland.
"Is it because the dream wasteland doesn't accept non-humans?"
Angor shook his head. "No. There are too many non-humans in the dream wasteland. There are even half-legendary elemental creatures …"
Elemental creatures existed in every world. If they could enter the dream wasteland, why couldn't Luigi?
"I don't know the details, but I have an idea."
"What is it?" Laplace asked.
"Maybe it's because the dream wasteland and the Dream Crystal shared the same body, but I don't think so. Not only that, but Luigi's freedom is also restricted. "
The so-called restriction of authority meant that the authority of Wonderland restricted Luigi's freedom. According to the rules, Luigi was still trapped in the "Uriel's Choice" dungeon.
Also, the dream wasteland and the Dream Crystal shared the same body. Since Luigi's body was trapped in the Dream Crystal, he couldn't enter the dream wasteland.
"We just need to test it out to see if it's true."
"You're telling me to go to the dream wasteland?" Laplace asked. "Yes, I'm not.
Angor nodded.
Unlike Luigi, Laplace wasn't trapped in the dream wasteland. If she could enter the dream wasteland, then Angor's theory would be correct.
Laplace considered for a moment and nodded. "Sure.
But even if I can enter the dream wasteland, I won't be of much help to Luigi. "
At most, Laplace could help Angor test whether Luigi couldn't enter the dream wasteland because of the dungeon or because he couldn't.
But she couldn't help Luigi if he wanted to learn how to play the piano and its corresponding theory.
Angor knew this as well. The only thing he could do now was to visit Jon and see if he could help Uriel. If that didn't work, Angor would have to find another piano master to teach Luigi.
(End of Chapter)
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