Of course, he was still thinking about Xiao Ke's haunted house.
Ever since he entered the haunted house, he had been wondering why there had to be a "safe house" procedure.
In Angor's opinion, if there was a way to find a safe house, it would most likely be hidden very deep and hard to find, which was a negative characteristic. This was the common characteristic of many powerful alchemy products, semi-Mysticular items, and even some Mystery items.
In other words, it was a restriction or a cost.
There were countless such restrictions and costs in the supernatural world. For example, the "red sword" in Dorcas's hand was something he had specially found a famous alchemist to refine. When he was refining it, the alchemist had given him three choices: either it had extreme sharpness and agility, but the blade was relatively weak; or it had extreme bloodline capacity, but the blade was relatively heavy; or it had extreme sharpness and bloodline capacity, but it wasn't outstanding.
In the end, Dorcas chose the second option.
When you wanted to reach a certain limit, you had to pay a price in other places. It was like a scale. When one side was pressed down, the other side would be raised.
Of course, it wasn't impossible to achieve the best of both, with both having their limits. However, this was a test of the refiner. Even if both sides were good, there was still a price to pay. It was just that the price would not be obvious.
For example, expensive materials and superb blending skills were also a price to pay.
Apart from the red sword, there were also similar prices for Mystery items. However, it was not a problem of the alchemist. The price itself was a part of the Mystery item.
For example, the "Dark Movement" would force you to have a second personality. However, the second personality would be evil, and you would lose your name.
Or the "Master Key", which could open all locks. However, the more you used it, the harder it would be for others to open your heart.
There was also the "Seed of Death". To receive the blessing of luck, you had to go through a tribulation where you faced death directly.
The last two were the costs. In other words, they were the costs that humans assessed from their own perspective. If it was beneficial to humans, it would be a positive effect. If it was not, it would be the cost.
Therefore, it was normal for Xiao Ke's haunted house to have restrictions.
You had to cross mountains, spend energy, and go through untold hardships to find the safe house.
He wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
As for restrictions, it was normal to spend more effort and time.
However, that was not the case. From the looks of it, the limitation of Xiao Ke's Haunted House was the maximum limit of the Daily Mirror Monster's attack and time sense, not the search for a safe house.
Because finding a safe house was too easy.
This time, the safe house was considered difficult to find, but it only took a few minutes. The safe houses in other environments, such as the magnificent castles, were simply placed in front of them. They did not even need to look for them.
Since that was the case, why set up a process of finding the safe house?
This question was perhaps a very boring question in the eyes of Luigi, Barbaregon, and the others.
But Angor found the whole thing strange.
Searching for a safe house was an "unnecessary" action.
He could have gone straight to the safe house after entering, but he had to go through the process of finding the safe house. Wasn't that superfluous?
If the haunted house was built by a human, it might be due to the creator's fault. But this haunted house was born "naturally". Angor did not understand why there was such an unnecessary step in its design.
In the Transcendent World, many things that you find inexplicable are usually related to a certain situation, and that is a ritual.
Angor wondered if the process of finding a safe house was some sort of ritual.
But he still shook his head after giving it some thought. It was a guess that could neither be proven nor falsified. He could not find any trace of a ritual in the haunted house. Besides, would a naturally-born semi-Mystic-type object have a ritual? A natural ritual?
Aside from that, Angor could think of another possibility: the search for a safe house was probably a simulation of Xiao Ke's situation, where he ran into the safe house in a panic.
After all, the haunted house was created because of Xiao Ke. It was possible to simulate his search.
But it was also hard to prove.
Angor suddenly remembered something. Luigi mentioned that there would be Xiao Ke's diary in the haunted house.
Xiao Ke's diary could not be taken out of the haunted house. Instead, it would appear in a corresponding safe house every time the haunted house changed. Sometimes, it would appear on the bookshelf in the castle, sometimes on the table in the tree house, and sometimes on the floor of the amusement park.
According to this pattern, Xiao Ke's diary should also appear in this cellar, right? Maybe he could find Xiao Ke's entry before he ran into the secret room?
With that in mind, Angor looked up and scanned every corner of the cellar.
But he did not find Xiao Ke's diary.
The cellar was the same as when he first saw it. It was completely empty and there was nothing around it.
Angor believed that Luigi would not lie about something like this. So Xiao Ke's diary must still exist. He just could not find it.
Maybe there was a hidden space in the cellar? Or a hidden storage area? And Xiao Ke's diary was hidden somewhere?
With this in mind, Angor released his spirit feelers. But they did not work.
His spiritual tentacles could reach out, but they were surrounded by a dense and constantly flowing mysterious aura. When the spiritual tentacles reached out, they felt like they had entered a swamp or a sandpit. They could move, but they were surrounded by dense matter. It was very difficult to find a hidden space in such a situation.
It was not only his spirit feelers. His other spells were the same. Angor could use them, but he could not sense them clearly.
The only things that were not affected were illusionary spells. However, illusionary spells could not penetrate the walls and the ground that were affected by the rainbow light.
Since he could not sense anything, he might as well walk around on his own and measure the hidden space with his hands and feet.
Angor was not the type to hesitate. Since he had decided to do it, he would do it.
Since the mirror monster was not here yet, Angor stood up and walked into the illusion to search for a hidden space in the cellar.
Luigi was still immersed in his "clergy dream", so Angor did not have to worry about being disturbed by the illusion.
While walking, he tapped on the ground with his cane to check if there was a hidden space by the echoes of the sound.
Ten hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Angor checked all the tiles in the middle and found nothing.
Next, he began to knock on the walls of the cellar more carefully than before. Normally speaking, the chances of finding a hidden space on the walls were higher than on the ground.
Angor kept knocking for six hours.
He still did not find Xiao Ke's diary, but today's mirror monster showed up.
The first wave of mirror monsters was not a human. They looked more like a stick with wings.
If it was a little smaller, a little thinner, and the color changed from black to pink, with a heart on top, it would be very similar to the wands used by the magical girls in the novels.
Angor did not know the name of the monster, so he decided to call it "Wand Ghost" for now.
As Luigi said, the first wave of mirror monsters was very weak. Wand Ghost was one of them. Apart from being able to fly and use its wand to release negative energy attacks, it did not have any other supernatural abilities.
According to Angor's estimation, it was probably as strong as an early level-2 apprentice.
Normally, level-2 apprentices would not be able to kill Wand Ghost, but Wand Ghost would not be able to do anything to them either.
It was so weak that when it entered the mist illusion, it began to fly around in panic, which only made it more confused.
Angor did not even need to control the illusion to get it under control.
Wand Ghost was not strong, but the way it came out was quite interesting. It came without warning, and it didn't come in from the door, but from the ceiling above.
Angor's attempt to set up an illusion around the staircase was useless.
The way it came in was not normal at all.
He wondered if Ghost Wand was one of the Mirror Ghosts outside the Haunted House. When the time was right, Ghost Wand was dragged into the basement by an invisible force.
Angor did not know the answer to this question. After all, he could not go out and count the number of mirror monsters.
Instead, he went to the ceiling where Wand Ghost first showed up to see if there was a hidden space there.
The answer was: no.
Angor did not give up. He still had plenty of time. Besides, the first wave of mirror monsters showed up at the sixteenth hour, which meant he did not have to worry about them for at least eight hours.
With that in mind, Angor picked up his cane and began to knock on the wall again.
"Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong!" The sound of knocking echoed in the cellar. Every knock was very dull, which meant that he still hadn't found the hidden space.
The cellar was too big. When the second day came, Angor only managed to knock on half of the walls.
By the time he finished knocking on all four walls of the cellar, there were only fourteen hours left before the third day arrived.
Unfortunately, there was still no hidden space on the walls.
Angor could only look up at the ceiling.
Could it be that the hidden space was on the ceiling? Angor did not think so. If there was a hidden space on the ceiling, it would be too strange.
Besides, Xiao Ke's Diary was not that hard to find in other haunted houses.
Still, Angor decided to give it a try. He released Hand of Spell and kept hammering on the ceiling with his cane.
The hammering process was normal, and it was not worth mentioning. The only thing that could be said was that two hours before the third day, the mirror monster of the second day finally appeared.
This time, there were three Mirror Ghosts.
They came out from three different walls. The first was a humanoid Mirror Monster. It had a human shape, but Angor could not see its face clearly. Even its eyes and mouth were completely covered in darkness. It looked like a shadow made entirely of darkness.
As soon as the humanoid mirror ghost appeared, it crawled on all fours like a wild beast.
His movements were extremely fast and agile. He could easily float and stick to the walls as if he had broken free from the shackles of gravity.
However, Angor did not see it using any powerful abilities. Maybe it would only use its power when it saw someone?
Unfortunately, as soon as he entered the cellar, he was surrounded by the surging mist. No matter how agile he was, he was like a hamster running on a hamster wheel. He was fast, but he was running on the same spot.
The second and third Mirror Monsters showed up at the same time. They came from the left and right walls.
Their appearance was more like ghosts in human imagination. They floated in the air with a "large bedsheet" over their heads that covered their entire body.
However, one of them had a black sheet, while the other had a white sheet. There were also horns on their heads.
One of them was on the right, while the other was on the left.
Angor still did not know what kind of Mirror Monsters they were, so he could only call them "Sheet Monsters".
Neither of them was strong. In fact, their energy waves were even weaker than those of the wand ghosts. But Angor had a feeling that they could "merge" together.
One was white, the other was black, and the other had horns on their heads. They seemed to be complementary to each other.
The only way to make them flawless was to combine them.
Angor did not know if he was right. But if the two Sheet Monsters could combine into one, they would not be as weak as they were now.
Unfortunately, they came in from the left and right sides of the cellar. The mist easily surrounded them, so Angor did not have to worry about them joining up.
The second wave of Mirror Monsters was not strong either.
However, Angor did not let his guard down. The second wave of Mirror Monsters was not strong, but they all had "potential".
So, the third wave of Mirror Monsters would be the ones with real potential.
There was only one Wand Ghost in the first wave, but there were already three Mirror Monsters in the second wave. Would there be more Mirror Monsters in the third wave?
If that was the case, Angor had to be extra careful.
Angor thought for a moment and released more illusion nodes. After making sure that the mist was everywhere from the ceiling to the ground, he stopped.
Angor did not pay attention to the Mirror Monsters that were trapped in the mist. Instead, he kept tapping the ceiling with his cane.
The sense of time continued to extend, and the third day arrived as scheduled.
Earlier, Luigi said that he could finish learning Black Sheep Confession in half a day. Angor was sure that he was just bragging.
However, it had to be said that the "Black Sheep Confession" he played today was obviously much more emotional than the previous two days in terms of emotional abundance.
It was also much more appealing.
Angor even believed that if Uriel really liked Black Sheep Confession Song, Luigi might be able to get into the top three.
Luigi's improvement was obvious, but Angor's progress was … zero.
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