As long as the Trespassers have regulated privileges within the Magical Energy Array, the "breaking barriers with cleverness" plan should be feasible.
Concerning the Magical Energy Array’s solution... That’s hardly Angel’s primary concern. Whether hard or easy means little to Angel; his actual focus is on the time spent, fearing delays might lead to more complications.
However, considering the Wise Sovereign raised this option, it likely won’t consume excessive time.
Seeing Angel prepared for the trial, the Wise Sovereign ceased continuing on this topic, returning to discussing the True Words Tome’s contract...
...
As the Wise Sovereign elucidated contract terms with Angel, a faint light emerged in the depths of the dark legacy site.
In the pitch-black space, a mirror slowly appeared.
This was a square mirror with a rope-textured bronze frame, floating in mid-air.
At the center of the mirror, there was a black abyss that spun continuously, resembling the eye of a storm.
Below the mirror, a slumbering blonde woman suddenly opened her eyes.
This blonde woman was undoubtedly the "she" referred to by the Wise Sovereign. She was also the female twin represented in the Mirror Demon God’s symbol... Adanis.
Adanis stood up and looked towards the mirror with the black vortex, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"Why don’t you show yourself? Did the task fail?" A ghostly voice emerged from Adanis’ mouth.
The vortex in the mirror stopped rotating for a few seconds before a hand, seemingly made entirely of ruby, appeared on the mirror. This gem hand was not complete, with a visibly broken little finger, from which "blood" flowed.
If Angel were here, he’d immediately recognize that this was the gem hand he saw in the dresser mirror deep in the room on the second floor of the Hanging Jail Stairway.
The broken little finger of the gem hand had been self-snatched, used to write words with the flowing ’blood’ on the mirror.
The gem hand appeared in the mirror and repeated the scene that had played out in front of Angel.
The gem hand extended the broken finger and left a line of blood-red words on the mirror.
"I am unworthy of Your Highness’s grace."
Adanis glanced at the unclear, even "mirror-reversed" blood-red words, furrowing her brows, "You’re not the main body? Talk to me."
The gem hand slowly withdrew, and the mirror reverted to a vortex.
But soon, the gem hand reappeared, this time with a mouth made of pink gemstones in the center of its palm.
The mouth slowly opened, and a childish female voice came out: "Goddess, forgive me."
With the still lingering blood words on the mirror: "I am unworthy of Your Highness’s grace," Adanis understood that this unclear phrase actually meant nothing more than a ’sorry.’
To twist ’sorry’ into such an odd and incorrect expression, Adanis realized who was in the mirror.
"You Nu’s child-like spirit?"
"Yes. I am the child-like spirit of You Nu," the childish voice responded.
"Where is your main body?" Adanis asked, puzzled, "Did it send you to inquire about the situation?"
"The girl-like spirit of You Nu is helping the Dominator clean up experimental residues, the mother-like spirit of You Nu is accompanying Little Bao, so only I am free..." The child-like spirit of You Nu said with some wistfulness.
Adanis: "Aren’t you usually the one accompanying Little Bao?"
The child-like spirit of You Nu: "Today, Little Bao didn’t want to play, it came to complain because Second Bao ignored it..."
Complaining child? Adanis rubbed her temples, feeling a slight headache.
Adanis: "So, your main body is handling these trifling affairs? And then sent you to gather intelligence?"
The child-like spirit of You Nu dared not reply, but silence was also an answer.
In Adanis’ view, the main body of You Nu comprised the girl-like spirit and the mother-like spirit, as their intelligence was at least capable of normal communication. The child-like spirit’s intelligence... was even less than that of the one-eyed Little Bao.
Of course, the true essence of You Nu was a combination of child-like, girl-like, and mother-like spirits. Singling out one or two doesn’t constitute the main body; they are merely avatars.
Adanis took a deep breath, faced with the aggrieved child-like spirit of You Nu, she could only suppress her displeasure.
She understood very well why it was the child-like spirit sent to probe. Ultimately, it was because You Nu had never changed its perception of itself.
You Nu never considered the child-like, girl-like, and mother-like spirits as separate entities; they were all itself, only possessing memories from different stages.
Therefore, regardless of which spirit went to investigate, You Nu considered it was itself, hence didn’t see the issue.
The real problem lay with Adanis herself; she should have explicitly instructed You Nu to send the girl-like or mother-like spirit before dispatching it.
Thus, Adanis could only quell her internal dissatisfaction.
"Forget it, tell me the situation. How did your mission fail? Weren’t you tasked to investigate why the outpost was destroyed and their situation? Which part went wrong?"
The child-like spirit of You Nu pondered for a moment, saying: "I hid in the mirror, trying to secretly observe who destroyed the outpost, but... I accidentally got discovered."
Adanis: "Discovered? What happened?"
The child-like spirit of You Nu wasn’t sure how to describe it, especially since it didn’t have the girl-like and mother-like spirits’ clear ability to recognize humans’ faces. In its eyes, those two humans looked identical.
After thinking long and hard, it couldn’t come up with suitable wording.
Adanis understood the child-like spirit of You Nu very well. Seeing it remain silent for so long, she resignedly held her forehead and said, "If you can’t think of how to say it, never mind. As usual, mirror reconstruction."
Upon hearing "mirror reconstruction," the child’s vexation instantly vanished.
"As expected, Your Highness cares for me the most." The youthful voice carried a hint of affection and coquettishness.
Adanis sighed inwardly. When You Nu was brought out of the Mirror World by her, it only had the child-like spirit; the girl-like and mother-like spirits hadn’t been born yet, so Adanis had spent the most time with the child-like spirit.
So, her favoritism towards the child-like spirit of You Nu was only natural.
You Nu’s main body probably had the child-like spirit handle this matter, considering this reason too.
"Alright, start talking."
"Obey Your Highness’s rules!"
A line of blood words appeared on the mirror.
Adanis was expressionless, too lazy to correct the child-like spirit of You Nu’s misuse of words. She just silently stared at the line of blood words, waiting for its next move.
Under Adanis’ watch, the line of blood words on the mirror gradually blurred at a visible speed, as if mixed with a lot of clear water. The mirror surface slowly became clear, with only a bit of light red remaining at the edges.
Under the child-like spirit of You Nu’s control, the clear mirror began to generate an image.
Silhouettes emerged slowly within the image.
If Angel were here, he would find that this silhouette was exactly how he looked in disguise.