"Using an External Array Disk to alter the flow of Energy, then diverting all the Energy in a given region so it converges at a single point—that’s what he did." Adanis said softly.
"Huh?" You Nu didn’t understand.
Adanis sighed inwardly. If she were saying this to Dabao or Erbao, she wouldn’t need to explain again. But You Nu... though its strength was indeed great, and its body was gradually capable of materialization, its thinking had not yet changed; it was still like the other creatures in the Mirror, empty-headed and disdainful of everything in the Material Realm.
Even so, You Nu was still her subordinate, so Adanis patiently explained: "You can think of it this way: he took control of a part of the Magical Energy Array’s Authority, so that the moment you appeared at a fork, your confrontation with him would turn into a confrontation between you and the Magical Energy Array."
You Nu said, half understanding, half confused: "Then if I hadn’t held my ground at the fork, would I have been able to avoid a clash with the Magical Energy Array?"
Adanis shook her head. "Since he could discover the Magical Energy Array Power’s flow at the fork so quickly, and in just a single second throw out the Array Plate to block your appearance, that means as long as you were in the Underground Aqueduct, no matter where you went, he could restrict you using the same method."
"I see. He can manipulate the Magical Energy Array... no wonder Dabao and Erbao didn’t stop him." You Nu nodded. "In that case, it’s only natural that I lost..."
Adanis did not believe that Dabao and Erbao had truly lost to Angel. Dabao and Erbao did not rely solely on their devouring ability to run rampant; with their Special Talents, they might not be constrained by Angel’s method of manipulating the Magical Energy Array.
Most likely, they hadn’t even seriously exerted themselves; she even had to question whether they had actually met Angel and the others at all. After all, those few brats from the Cyclops Family had all been brainwashed by the Wise Sovereign.
Adanis could not very well point this out. Dotage had made the doting-mother-hearted You Nu trust those two children implicitly. If she exposed the truth and something unexpected happened, then with You Nu’s innate Temporal Body-splitting Talent, the motherly heart could split again, creating Temporal Bodies like a strict-mother heart or stepmother heart; that would be equivalent to directly dismantling the upper limit of You Nu’s core abilities. Moreover, Adanis would definitely be resented by Dabao and Erbao. So the best method was still to maintain the current balance of mutual checks.
Adanis vaguely nodded, glossing over the topic. Then, after offering You Nu a few words of consolation so it wouldn’t be too dejected, she motioned for You Nu to return and await orders.
Once You Nu left, Adanis’s expression instantly turned grave.
She looked again at the Array Plate in her hand; the beautiful and smooth Magic Patterns gave Adanis a faint sense of familiarity.
Adanis lightly raised her hand. An engraving pen appeared in her palm. She found the first stroke of the Magic Pattern on the Plate, closed her eyes, and slowly retraced it with the pen.
When she opened her eyes again and looked at the Array Plate... the lines the engraving pen had followed overlapped with Angel’s Magic Pattern by seventy percent; among the overlapping parts, even the angles were unchanged.
Although Magical Energy Arrays had always demanded extremely strict engraving, the positions in which one laid down Magic Patterns—their orientations—could be adjusted according to one’s personal habits.
Yet Adanis and Angel’s engraving direction and habits when carving Magic Patterns turned out to be almost the same!
This was what had seemed unbelievable to Adanis the moment she noticed it.
"Could it be her?" Adanis looked at the External Array Disk on the staff and murmured under her breath.
She could think of only one possibility.
Angel was connected to... Margaret.
And although Adanis had never truly met Margaret, she had obtained the Magical Energy Array inheritance Margaret left behind from Olao.
Precisely because this was a direct lineage, Adanis’s habits while engraving were almost identical to Margaret’s.
Angel could actually reproduce several of Margaret’s habits.
Did that mean Angel had obtained Margaret’s inheritance? Perhaps with some deviations in the transmission, so while his Magic Patterns weren’t exactly identical, they were at least seventy, eighty percent similar?
If things really were as she conjectured, Adanis could somewhat understand why Olao had behaved so strangely upon seeing Angel.
Margaret was Augustine’s partner, and Olao’s birth had been entirely engineered by Augustine’s own hand. If Augustine was his "father," then Margaret could be considered his "mother." Although the analogy was a bit off, there was no doubt that, to Olao, if one of Margaret’s students came knocking, he absolutely would not dare turn them away.
If that truly was the reason, even Adanis felt somewhat conflicted. After all, she could also be considered a student of Margaret’s; looking at it this way, Angel might even share the same lineage as herself.
However, this did not make Adanis give up her attack on Angel.
Adanis had never met Margaret in person, so she felt very little sense of identity toward the status of "Margaret’s student."
Compared to a dubious "student of Margaret," Adanis now placed far greater value on Olao and on the normal operation of the secret domain.
She would not allow a variable to enter the secret domain.
Unless Margaret and Augustine personally came, she would absolutely not change her stance.
Adanis’s gaze once again grew firm, and now that she had "guessed" why Olao valued Angel, she would be even more composed in dealing with today’s group.
No matter what, Angel was at most Margaret’s Disciple and had no direct connection to Olao. The reason Olao valued him lay more in his "respect" for Margaret.
Therefore, Adanis believed that as long as Angel completely disappeared, Olao would not care too much.
Just like in previous years, when she made one Noah descendant after another vanish.
She had struck at Augustine’s descendants, and Olao had never rebuked her—let alone this mere student of Margaret’s?
Thinking this, Adanis hesitated no longer and vanished from this reflected space of mountain and sea.
Angel had already passed the trial of You Nu, which meant he was not far from the secret domain. It wouldn’t be long before Angel and the others left the Hall, so she had to prepare a response.
She herself could not go after Angel for the moment, because she had to return to the secret domain and keep Olao occupied.
However, this did not mean that Angel and the others would have smooth sailing.
After leaving the Hall, what they would face was a monster from the Otherworld. And this monster, even Adanis had to admit, possessed power that had reached a terrifying level.
Even You Nu’s devouring had no effect on it.
So, Angel’s attempt to use the same method he’d used against You Nu on it was almost impossible!