Chapter 1145: Section 1146 Collapse
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Angel’s first concern right now was, Where is this place?
It seemed to be an underground tunnel.
Angel looked at both ends of the tunnel, and aside from the spot where he was, which had some light, both ends were pitch black.
Although he was curious about where the ends of the tunnel led, he didn’t have any plans to explore. Staying here at least allowed him to see the exit, so when the battle outside was over, he might be able to leave through here.
But if he went to explore, no one knew if there would be dangers lurking in the depths of the tunnel.
After all, this was Lassudral, the city of demons. Even if a weak demon popped up, Angel might not be able to defeat it.
For Angel, Lassudral was hardly a place with relative safety. That was why Angel had never ventured out despite having been in Lassudral for so long.
Therefore, under these circumstances, Angel chose to wait where he was.
However, Angel didn’t put all his hopes in one basket. After all, waiting in one place was almost entirely reliant on luck, and might still end up in sitting ducks, so he had to have a backup plan.
He took out two Scouting Puppets from his bracelet and threw one each towards both ends of the tunnel.
The Scouting Puppets, Alchemy constructs, had very faint energy fluctuations and were relatively concealed. Using them to scout around was clearly the best choice at the moment.
As the Scouting Puppets flew away, the situation inside the tunnel gradually came into Angel’s view.
The two Scouting Puppets flew slowly, and for a short while, Angel didn’t notice any change; both ends were still pitch black, silent, and unchanged.
After a while, one of the Scouting Puppets finally saw something different.
—Spots of light and a dead-end wall.
This puppet saw one end of the tunnel, where there was a wall, appearing to be a dead end. However, there was a spot of light remaining on this wall.
This spot of light was actually the remnant of a Pattern.
Or rather, the wall was covered with a strange Pattern, and the lines that made up this Pattern were luminescent. However, at this moment, more than 90% of this luminescent Pattern had gone out, leaving only the last bit of light.
And even this spot of light was continuously shrinking; it was foreseeable that in the near future, this luminescent Pattern would be completely dimmed.
This Pattern gave Angel a strong sense of déjà vu.
Through the eyes of the Scouting Puppet, Angel felt as if he saw a vortex within the spot of light that sucked his consciousness in. At the endpoint of his consciousness, there were strange luminescent Inscriptions. These Inscriptions surrounded him completely, not letting him escape.
Angel even had a hunch that if he tried to touch these Inscriptions, his consciousness would likely be stuck there. These Inscriptions felt very dangerous to him.
The only solace was that these Inscriptions were disappearing gradually, and after not too long, they completely vanished.
At the same time, his consciousness was also kicked out of the vortex.
After snapping back to reality, Angel realized that the spot of light on the wall at the end of the tunnel had completely disappeared, and the area had reverted back to darkness.
“That feeling, it’s like…” Angel murmured quietly to himself, as his thoughts seemingly traveled back to not long ago when he had seen Aoluxiya in the Misty Cabin, and the armor it wore had similar Inscription lines: “Could it be an Inscription?”
With that thought, Angel had an epiphany.
The wall bore an Inscription, and the reason the spots of light on the Inscription were fading was as Komodo had said before, someone had sabotaged the Inscriptive Central Hub underground. This led to the Inscriptions gradually becoming ineffective.
Angel felt somewhat fortunate that after feeling his consciousness sucked into the vortex of light, he roughly guessed that the Inscription drawn on the wall must serve the purpose of “trapping enemies.” If the Inscription hadn’t been damaged, he surmised that his sliver of consciousness would have been permanently left there…
Since this place had Inscriptions, a sudden guess about this underground tunnel sprung up in Angel’s mind.
To corroborate this guess, Angel turned his attention to the Scouting Puppet that was flying in the other direction of the tunnel.
This Scouting Puppet kept flying forward, and by Angel’s estimation, it had flown nearly two kilometers already.
According to his guess, having reached this distance, he should soon see a change—
Indeed, just as Angel muttered about negative distance in his mind, this Scouting Puppet finally saw something different.
At the end of the tunnel, there was a door that appeared to be crafted of metal.
The door was closed, unable to be opened.
Although he couldn’t know what was beyond the door, Angel’s guess was nonetheless corroborated. From the moment he fell into this underground tunnel, Angel had combined previous external information to deduce the spatial coordinates of his current location.
Then, Angel silently constructed a holographic simulation sandbox in his mind.
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This was thankfully thanks to the power of the Gate of Dreams, which allowed Angel to have a profound understanding of the holographic sand table. Thus, constructing it wasn’t too difficult.
Angel roughly replicated the important landmarks of the core area of Lassudral on this sand table. Then, with its help, Angel estimated the direction and distance of this tunnel before and after, ultimately arriving at a conclusion:
The direction of this tunnel was precisely heading towards the Void Tower at the very center of Lassudral.
Previously, as he silently counted distances in his heart, he was also calculating the distance of the Scouting Puppet from the Void Tower. When the Scouting Puppet entered a negative distance from the Void Tower and a door appeared, Angel was almost certain that this tunnel should be the underground passage connected to the Void Tower!
Having reached this conclusion, Angel still couldn’t do much about it.
Because he had no knowledge of the Void Tower, or rather, even the demons living in Lassudral knew nothing about it. Half-Blood Demons like Canaan didn’t even dare to approach the vicinity of the Void Tower, fearing they might come across a great demon who would find them displeasing and then… there would be no afterwards.
The only thing Canaan knew about the situation inside the Void Tower was that no one could enter except for the seven seat-holding great demons.
Therefore, even though Angel knew where this place was, he was still unable to act.
Moreover, combining the information previously obtained from the outside, it could roughly be inferred that Yadasai should be inside the Void Tower… Although Angel had once met Yadasai, he couldn’t be certain that if he encountered the other party here, they would let him go.