Chapter 2801 Delusion <TOC> Chapter 2803 Yes or No Questions
Translator: SumTLMan
Inside the hall of the Sovereign of Wisdom.
The one-eyed youth, smiling with narrowed eyes, looked at Angel: 「I truly did not expect that your courage was this great, to actually dare speak to her like that.」
Angel: 「The Sovereign of Wisdom’s expression, does not look like the expression of 『did not expect』.」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Not showing it, is the greatest showing. Otherwise, you would say that I was exaggerated.」
Angel thought about it, and that was true. If the Sovereign of Wisdom had shown surprise or astonishment, that would instead have been strange.
The Sovereign of Wisdom stood up from the rug, straightened his somewhat wrinkled robe, and immediately afterward said to everyone: 「Let’s go, we’ll go to a 『quiet』 place and talk properly again.」
The Sovereign of Wisdom deliberately mentioned 『quiet』, while at the same time his gaze drifted, intentionally or unintentionally, toward the bronze mirror above the fireplace, the meaning of the hint extremely strong.
「Even in the Sovereign of Wisdom’s place, can she also come and go freely？」 Daus asked curiously.
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Whether she can come and go freely, depends on whether the owner of this place wants to hang mirrors.」
「When acting with a human body, one has to manage one’s appearance, so a thing like a mirror, cannot be absent, but not every place needs to have one.」
Daus muttered in a low voice: 「After talking in such a roundabout way for so long, doesn’t it just mean that you opened a ventilation window for her.」
「A window is a window, but whether it lets air through or not, is another matter.」 The one who took up the words was Angel, and after speaking, Angel’s gaze, carrying another meaning, looked toward the bronze mirror.
As long as there was a place with a mirror, Aedannis indeed could come and go freely. However, whether she could, whether she dared, to descend into the material realm from within the mirror, that was another matter.
The Sovereign of Wisdom turned his head and glanced at Angel: 「So, you judged that she did not dare descend, and only then did you show such a tough attitude.」
One second earlier, Angel was still speaking very solemnly, but the next second he said unseriously: 「That…… of course is not the reason.」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Oh？」
「Isn’t it because I have backing? Besides, I’m not going to the Mirror Realm, so why should I be afraid of her?」
Although Angel did not say who his backing was, everyone tacitly took it to be the Black Count. The Sovereign of Wisdom, however, had other thoughts, though the Black Count indeed was also among the backers he had in mind.
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「But by offending her like this, are you not afraid that she will obstruct you in the Ruin Site?」
Angel: 「The Sovereign of Wisdom means, I still have a chance to enter the Ruin Site?」
One must know, previously the Sovereign of Wisdom had clearly said that only Noah’s descendants could enter the Ruin Site.
The Sovereign of Wisdom hurriedly denied it: 「I saw that you were so resolute in confronting her, and were also firmly expressing that you wanted to continue advancing, and it looked as though you seemed to have a way to enter the Ruin Site, that was why I asked you that.」
Angel blinked: 「A way? Didn’t I just use it?」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「You mean angering her, and having her let you in?」
Angel smiled, but did not answer.
The Sovereign of Wisdom pondered: 「Doing it this way also has a few points of possibility for success, however, if she truly wants to deal with you personally, she may not necessarily let you enter the Ruin Site. Just as I can control the magic formations near my residence, she can also control the magic formations near the Ruin Site. Therefore, what you used on Younus, perhaps may in turn be used by her on you.」
Angel: 「As long as she has not mastered the core authority, the problem of the magic formations, should still be solved by the magic formations.」
What Angel meant was that he could compare the level of magic formation skill with her. The Sovereign of Wisdom did not think Angel would win, but he also admitted that Angel indeed had his own set of abilities when it came to magic formations. Previously, he had merely given a casual hint, yet Angel had truly been able to do it, and had moreover passed beyond Younus with such speed, precision, and ruthlessness, this was something even the Sovereign of Wisdom had not expected.
The Sovereign of Wisdom smiled, did not continue the topic of magic formations, and instead turned back to ask the original question: 「You still haven’t answered me, are you not afraid that she will obstruct you in the Ruin Site?」
Angel still had the same attitude as before, and said indifferently: 「Don’t I have backing? If that still doesn’t work, can’t I still open an interplanar passage?」
When he said this, Angel looked at Sovereign of Wisdom: 「The core authority is in the Sovereign of Wisdom’s hands, when the time comes, you probably won’t forbid the power of space, right?」
The Sovereign of Wisdom had probably also guessed that Angel would give a similar answer. Whenever words failed, he would open an interplanar passage, it had practically become his signature behavior.
「As for the magic formations on the outer perimeter of the Ruin Site, through controlling the core I can make you unaffected by the power of space, but inside the Ruin Site, that place is not controlled by the magic formations of the underground sewers, so I also do not know what the situation is inside, and whether opening an interplanar passage is sealed there, I also do not know.」
Angel: 「Inside the Ruin Site, it probably will not be sealed, if it were sealed, she would not even be able to enter the Mirror Realm.」
Before Angel came to the underground sewers, because of Mirror Wraith, he had been studying mirror space the whole time, and that research had also produced a few results. From the fact that he could stretch his hand into the mirror surface, this point could already be seen.
According to Angel’s own research, together with the summarized information he had previously obtained from Laplace, it could basically be confirmed that the Mirror Realm was in essence a special world. It was not like a subsidiary plane, attached to the Southern Region, but rather existed universally and extensively in various worlds.
To go to this kind of special world, there were certainly some necessary conditions, and among them the most basic condition was crossing spatiotemporal distance, and within this was included the power of space.
That is to say, whether it was Angel or Aedannis, to enter the Mirror Realm, the power of space would be involved.
If the Ruin Site sealed the power of space, then Aedannis should not even think about entering the Mirror Realm.
Therefore, Angel could basically be certain that inside the Ruin Site, an interplanar passage could be opened. Since an interplanar passage could be opened, then why should one need to worry about any future troubles?
The Sovereign of Wisdom looked at Angel’s wholly unconcerned appearance, gently shook his head, and did not say much.
An anomaly naturally has the thoughts of an anomaly. He, this old antique who hoped for the arrival of an anomaly, if he were to forcibly impose his own thoughts on Angel, then what kind of anomaly would Angel still count as?
……
While they were conversing, they had already followed the Sovereign of Wisdom from a side corner of the hall to a bookshelf on the other side of the hall.
Here, there did not appear to be any road, nor did there appear to be any door.
While everyone was puzzled, the Sovereign of Wisdom stretched his hand toward the bookshelf by the wall, and lightly slid it downward along the grain of the bookshelf.
Only a flash of white light was seen, and the bookshelf by the wall instantly vanished without a trace, while on the wall there was instead an extra enormous oil painting.
What was painted in the oil painting was precisely the bookshelf that had previously appeared in the material realm.
Had this changed from three-dimensional into two-dimensional? Was the road inside the plane?
Angel immediately thought of the scene when he had originally met the Magic Painter Wizard, they had their first meeting inside an oil painting. Could it be that this oil painting also had a bit of a relationship with Feng?
Very quickly, Angel knew that he had overthought it.
Because the road, was not inside the painting, but behind the painting.
The Sovereign of Wisdom pushed the oil painting aside from the side, just like a sliding door, and with the movement of the oil painting, a passage that had not existed previously appeared before everyone.
「Let’s go, inside is a place where one absolutely will not be disturbed.」
After the Sovereign of Wisdom finished speaking, he walked in first.
As for the Sovereign of Wisdom’s whole string of operations, the others did not show any unusual expressions at all. In the Wizarding World, all sorts of concealment methods emerged one after another without end, and this was also why, when going to explore a ruin, some people came away with nothing, while some people could obtain treasure after solving a certain puzzle. Truly, there were too many concealment methods, some concealment methods you could not understand, while some concealment methods just happened to fit you.
Speaking of which, the reason Kael was able to obtain the Ruin Site’s alchemy blueprints, was also because he got them after solving a certain puzzle.
Therefore, on seeing the Sovereign of Wisdom’s method of concealing the secret passage, most people did not care.
The only one who probably cared, was only Angel. The reason was also very simple, because
Nightfall City had an identical bookshelf!
Back when Angel went to the underground sewers of Nightfall City, he had passed through the Sovereign of Wisdom’s hall, and inside it was already battered and broken, only the alchemy furnace and part of the bookshelves were intact, and there were also some books on the bookshelves.
At that time, Angel had even recorded the contents inside those books, it was only that all of them were very ordinary and had no particular value.
However, if reality and the projection in the Nightmare Plane truly corresponded completely. Then did that mean that behind the bookshelf in Nightfall City, there was actually also a hidden path?
Angel seriously began to think deeply about this question.
If there really was a path, then might there also be some secrets hidden inside?
Following this concealed path, everyone arrived at a stone door. The Sovereign of Wisdom stopped, opened the stone door, and revealed what it looked like inside.
Behind the stone door was a place similar to a 『study』, however, the 『study』 here specifically referred to a 『room for reading』. Because the walls on all four sides of the room were entirely wooden bookshelves, densely packed straight up to the ceiling.
At the center of the room, however, there was a rug and gorgeous soft sofas, and also unknown food placed upon an exquisite low table.
The desk that was standard equipment in a study, was not here. This place looked, purely, like a place for reading and leisure. Especially from that food one could tell how 「untroubled by trifles」 the owner here was.
At least, according to Angel’s upbringing in the past, he could not do something like eat in a place for reading.
Whether fruit or other food, once it got onto books, it was disrespect toward books, toward knowledge. And this, was the education Angel had received since childhood.
But now…… Angel did not care much, anyway, the simplest cantrip could clean away any stain left behind by food residue.
But now he rarely relied on food to replenish energy, generally when he ate it was very formal, for example, the delicacies made by Gloria; at such times, if Angel ate while doing other things at the same time, Gloria would absolutely feel that she had been insulted. Therefore, Angel could only say that if there was an opportunity, he could try it, but the overwhelming majority of the time, there had still not been such an opportunity.
「Come in, this is the place where I usually read when I have free time and nothing to do.」 The Sovereign of Wisdom walked into the room one step ahead, signaling everyone to follow.
Everyone else walked in, however, Angel made no move.
He stood outside the stone door, and looked toward the corridor deeper inside: 「Inside, the space seems to be even bigger?」
Angel did not use mental power to probe, doing such a thing in front of the Sovereign of Wisdom was very rude. The reason he reached this conclusion, was that Speedling judged it through the flow of the wind.
According to Speedling, the deeper space might not be smaller than the Sovereign of Wisdom’s hall outside.
For Angel, who had been paying attention to this secret passage, this was probably another layer of surprise. In the end, he had to go once to Nightfall City in the Nightmare Plane, and if there were more hidden places that could be explored, the gains would presumably also be greater than last time.
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「Inside, ah, is the place where I sleep.」
「Sleeping with a human-sized body, is not comfortable.」
This meant that the so-called bedroom of the Sovereign of Wisdom, was the place where his true body, the Three-Eyed Blue Demon, slept.
No wonder the space would be much bigger than here, after all, the Three-Eyed Blue Demon’s body size itself was enormous.
「What, are you interested in my bedroom? Want to go have a look?」 The Sovereign of Wisdom was also not speaking ironically, if Angel really nodded, he would not mind taking Angel to the bedroom to have a look.
That place was not merely a bedroom, it was also the place of eternal rest he had designated.
While still alive, bringing outsiders to visit one’s future grave, and expressing one’s thoughts from when the grave was being built, was that not also quite interesting?
As for whether he would be disturbed after death because of this? That did not matter, after death all things were extinguished, who would still care about what happened after one’s death.
What was more, the Sovereign of Wisdom designating this place as a grave did not mean that it would definitely be put to use. This was only urging the Sovereign of Wisdom to make changes, to change the present, to change the future, and also to change prospects and fate…… so that the place of eternal rest would not become the place of eternal rest, so that Nightfall City would not completely fall into ruin.
To the Sovereign of Wisdom, the bedroom inside, was both a funeral bell, and a warning bell.
「No.」 Angel naturally did not know the thoughts in the Sovereign of Wisdom’s heart, but according to normal logic, one definitely could not go visit someone else’s bedroom, so he directly refused.
The Sovereign of Wisdom shrugged, and nodded indifferently.
At this time, Angel also finally walked into the stone door.
The stone door closed, the Sovereign of Wisdom let out a long breath, then stretched lazily, and right in front of everyone, directly half reclined onto the soft sofa.
Everyone looked at this scene, and looked at each other.
Sensing that the air had become somewhat silent, the Sovereign of Wisdom raised his head and looked over: 「Don’t mind it, here, and inside my bedroom, I will both have a feeling of relaxation.」
That was what he said…… but this contrast was too great.
Just how aggressively pressing the Sovereign of Wisdom had appeared before, this contrast was just that great now.
However, everyone had many sides, and although everyone was somewhat surprised, they accepted it very quickly.
Under the Sovereign of Wisdom’s signal, everyone sat down one after another.
「Want to eat something?」 The Sovereign of Wisdom pointed at the food on the low table.
However, no one spoke.
The Sovereign of Wisdom muttered: 「If you won’t eat, then so be it, then let’s talk about proper matters.」
「Since you have passed Younus’ interception and arrived here with me, this is very good, the test I gave you has basically already ended, only the final item remains, and as for this item of the test, actually, even if I did not say it, you would certainly still do it. That is」
「Smoothly reach the Ruin Site, and smoothly leave the Ruin Site.」
The Black Count: 「What meaning do these tests have?」
Sovereign of Wisdom: 「They do not have much meaning, they are merely some thoughts I had on the spur of the moment.」
Everyone frowned one after another, having a feeling of being toyed with by the Sovereign of Wisdom.
The Sovereign of Wisdom continued: 「I know that you have many questions, do not worry, now I can tell you all of them. About the Ruin Site, as well as the questions you asked me privately before.」
「However, before that, there is still one more thing to do」
The Sovereign of Wisdom did not continue speaking, but instead lightly raised his hand, and countless light patterns emerged, gathering within his palm……
Chapter 2801 Delusion <TOC> Chapter 2803 Yes or No Questions