"Whether Angel is an Academy Faction White Wizard or not, you can observe for yourself from now on. I don’t think he’s a White Wizard, and he may not even be from the Academy Faction—a question mark remains."
After saying this, the Black Earl stopped paying attention to Vay. But Vay was completely unaffected by the Black Earl. With the precedent of a few prior events, it’s very hard to dispel the filter of the little fanboy currently.
...
In this hall, apart from the bloodstain of the Star Color Stone, there were no other discoveries. There were some pieces of furniture made from Extraordinary Materials, but... as the previous people who searched didn’t take them, it shows that these things wouldn’t be worth much to take out.
Since there were no clues in the hall, their only choice now was to continue upstairs.
As they climbed the stairs, Kaier rubbed his chin and said, "This is a bit strange. The place we came out from should be the basement; this is the first floor, so going up would be the second floor... where’s the door then?"
Generally, the exit door would be on the first floor, but they had just wandered around an entire corridor without seeing an exit door. They did see two windows, but these two windows happened to be at the "corners" of a square, leading to alleys outside, without other findings.
"Does it matter if there’s a door?" Dox said lazily, "Moreover, this is the Underground Maze; who says doors here have to be built like those on the ground, necessarily on the first floor? Maybe the door here is upside down, on the top floor."
"Is that so?" Kaier was a bit skeptical.
"No need to worry about that. If there’s truly no door, I’ll make one." Dox said as he twisted his mouth with a grin, rubbing his fists with a look as if he’d punch the wall if met with defiance.
No one replied, not wanting to engage, and Kaier didn’t dare respond, afraid that the fist glowing red would land on him.
Silently, they continued upwards.
The second floor—or let’s call it the second floor—had a similar layout to the first, with a "square" corridor, just slightly smaller without windows.
This second floor also had three small rooms and a hall. After their search, they finally found the first clue to the building: a plaque on each room’s door.
On it were familiar words.
Universal Language of the Continent, though from an earlier, unsimplified version.
Everyone recognized it.
The plaques defined the rooms’ functions: Cleaning Room, Evaluation Room, Transfer Station.
Though they knew this, they couldn’t precisely deduce their purposes. The Cleaning Room didn’t look like it held cleaning supplies; the Evaluation Room was odd too, with nothing inside.
As for the Transfer Station, it was the most peculiar place.
Because they found a familiar material here—the Human Face Eagle Demon Bloodstone.
However, the Human Face Eagle Demon Bloodstone here was merely a base; on this base was a broken altar. This altar was mostly shattered, revealing some magic patterns engraved on it.
Unfortunately, it was too fragmented, and even Angel couldn’t restore it. He could only barely identify a few magic patterns, seemingly related to teleportation in space magic patterns.
But if this was a teleportation array, why was it built like an altar? Moreover, the altar wasn’t big; it would be difficult to teleport a person.
Angel shared his analysis and asked, "What’s your take on this?"
Dox, eager to show his presence, answered immediately without thinking, "Let’s not talk about the other rooms, I have a hunch that this room was definitely arranged later, with the Transfer Station being its original purpose, only for it to be taken by the Mirror Demon God’s followers later, setting up this altar."
"Do you have a reason?" Angel looked at Dox.
Dox hadn’t thought it through, so there was no reason, but not wanting to admit he was spouting nonsense, his eyes darted around.
Not long after, Dox pointed to a wall: "Look at this wall, the color is slightly different, like a kind of imprint. The size may be similar to the cabinet in the basement."
"Meaning, there might have been a cabinet like the one in the basement here. Consider the material of that cabinet, then look at the material of this altar—they’re obviously not of the same style. Therefore, it’s possible I was right about it being arranged later."
The more Dox spoke, the more convincing it seemed, and everyone thought it made sense.
Just as Dox sighed with relief internally, almost everyone believed Dox’s reasoning was sound.
Only Angel sensed Dox’s emotional shifts, inadvertently guessing the truth.
Yet Angel didn’t point this out because Dox’s subsequent explanation might actually be possible.
"Since this place might be set up later, and by followers of the Mirror Demon God, then it might very well be a sacrificial altar. As for the sacrifice target, it could be the so-called Mirror Demon God."
After speaking, Angel contemplated and added, "I remember a friend in the Abyss once told me that for an altar of an ordinary Demon God, the corresponding Demon God’s mark, also known as the true name marks, must be engraved. Only the altar of a Great Demon God or the Unparalleled Great Demon God can skip marking the true name marks."
This was mentioned by that adorable clerk Canaan during casual chats while he was running a shop in Lassudral.
Though, this isn’t considered exclusive information.
Humans have dealt with demons and Demon Gods for so long that this could be figured out, just not by lower-ranking people.
People present, like the Black Earl, were aware of this information.
As for Dox, he had the qualifications to know but as a Wandering Wizard, lacked cutting-edge intelligence sources.
"I don’t know if the Mirror Demon God is a regular Demon God; if so, we might find some traces related to Him on this altar."