Previously, Nis thought it didn’t matter to stretch the time, but now it couldn’t be done, he hurried back to the display case to continue the selection.
While Nis was earnestly choosing, Angel briefly described his situation.
Previously, Nis asked Angel to check whether they had triggered any Magical Energy Array on the first floor. During his inspection, Angel found something interesting.
The first and second-floor Exhibition Rooms were vertically aligned.
This meant the ceiling of the second-floor Exhibition Room was the floor of the first-floor Exhibition Room.
More interestingly, the mechanism for the Authority Eye was hidden in the gap between the two Exhibition Rooms. The mechanism contained two Authority Eyes, one for the first-floor Exhibition Room and the other for the second-floor Exhibition Room.
Because the Authority Eyes were in the same mechanism, it provided Angel a perfect opportunity.
When the second-floor Exhibition Room’s door opened and the Authority Eye was activated, Angel seized the chance to control it, which led to the current scenario.
Clearly, Angel was at the first floor’s sub-control node, yet using the Authority Eye’s vision, he saw the situation in the second-floor Exhibition Room.
"Is this considered a design loophole?" Nis said distractedly while sifting through exhibits, speaking through the Mind Ribbon.
Kanter: "Perhaps, originally this was a kind of design. It was just Angel’s appearance that turned it into a loophole."
Nis: "That’s possible, after all, not everyone can crack the Magical Energy Array to this extent..."
After expressing his sentiment, Nis suddenly thought of something: "By the way, since you can control the Authority Eye now, can you make it not glow to extend our time in the Exhibition Room?"
Angel: "... I can control the Authority Eye not to glow, but not glowing doesn’t mean not triggering the room’s rules, they are two completely different systems."
Angel’s meaning was clear; he could control the Authority Eye, but he couldn’t control the second-floor’s Magical Energy Array rules.
"Then how did you just discover you could only take two items?"
Angel: "I’ve answered before, I saw it, using the Authority Eye’s vision."
Nis pondered for a while before understanding Angel’s meaning; he didn’t sense it via the first floor’s sub-control node, but directly observed the magic pattern directions in the second-floor Exhibition Room through the Authority Eye, discovering the clue.
This kind of remote operation... Nis could only express admiration.
As time passed, the three-minute countdown began.
Since there were many organs Nis didn’t recognize, he finally chose "Obscure Demon’s Tentacle" and the "Snow Monster Arm from Northern Territory Wizards’ Realm".
The Snow Monster Arm was obviously for Angel, mainly to see if Nausicaa wanted it.
Although from Angel’s personal view, the Snow Monster Arm seemed a bit too weird, compared to the crab claw Nis took on the first floor, it was more human-like, and such a powerfully filled arm, Nausicaa might accept it? Thinking of Sanders transplanting the Phantom Mantis’s scythe arm, which was actually mimicry in usual hand form, from an aesthetic perspective, it seemed acceptable.
After selecting the exhibits, everyone prepared to leave the Exhibition Room.
At this moment, Angel’s voice sounded in the Mind Ribbon: "Remember to bring this Authority Eye with you before you leave."
Nis didn’t question why, directly manipulating a Soul Arm to grip the Authority Eye at the moment the time limit ended, bringing it out of the Exhibition Room.
Standing outside the tightly closed Exhibition Room door, Nis asked: "Are you planning to use this Authority Eye to achieve your vision?"
"I have that thought, as I can only control this Authority Eye. However, besides using it as my eyes, I actually have a small idea."
"A small idea? What idea?"
About ten minutes later, Nis and others stood before a narrow corridor.
Though they hadn’t stepped into this corridor, the crisis sense within their souls started urgently warning them.
Do not enter.
Absolutely do not enter!
Even though Nis didn’t know what the danger was, it was certain that this seemingly ordinary corridor was the source of danger.
Even Kanter, at this time, had a solemn expression.
Reynaud, however, hid several meters away, eyes filled with terror: "This is the Forbidden Corridor, absolutely can’t enter!"
"Forbidden Corridor?" Nis looked over in confusion.
Reynaud: "Everyone in the laboratory knows, this is the Forbidden Corridor, containing the most dangerous mechanisms, left behind by the laboratory’s creator. Even the top three sequences are forbidden to enter!"
Hearing Reynaud’s words, Nis’s face turned livid, speaking word by word through the Mind Ribbon: "This is your ’small idea’?"
Even through information transmission via the Mind Ribbon, Angel could sense Nis’s gritted tone.
Angel: "Yes, unless there’s an accident, inside is the second-floor Magical Energy Array’s sub-control node."
Nis: "You want us to go in?"
Angel: "Not all of you need to go in, just choose one to enter, remember to take the Authority Eye."
Nis: "You want us to take the Authority Eye, actually to see the second-floor sub-control node?"
Angel: "Correct. Don’t worry, although the corridor is dangerous, with me here, nothing will happen."
After a pause, Angel astutely didn’t provide a choice of "go or not," but directly asked: "Who will go? Wizard Nis or Lord Kanter?"
Nis evidently was hooked on stirring things up: "Why not let Reynaud go?"
Angel nonchalantly replied: "He can go too, you hand him the Authority Eye, and I’ll guide him to the position inside."
Nis really wanted to hand the Authority Eye to Reynaud, but Reynaud had more important uses; should he take the wrong path, he wouldn’t even have the ability to save himself.
Just as Nis hesitated, Kanter reached out, taking the Authority Eye from Nis.
With a light touch of his fingertip on the Authority Eye, it flew up, revolving around Kanter.
"I’ll go." Kanter paused: "I understand a bit about Magic Patterns, at least more than Wizard Nis."
Nis’s forehead veins bulged: "..." No need to drag me in.
"I’ll go first, I also want to see the characteristics of this laboratory’s Magical Energy Array."
That said, Kanter gradually walked towards the corridor.
...
After entering the corridor, Kanter could confirm that this corridor was indeed very dangerous. With any slight misstep, the full power of the Magical Energy Array might rebound onto oneself.
With Kanter’s ability, he could barely preserve himself, but leaving unscathed would be difficult.
However, under Angel’s guidance, Kanter moved very smoothly, advancing unimpeded.
In Nis’s eyes, Kanter seemed to be casually strolling, effortlessly reaching the corridor’s end.
At the corridor’s end was a door.
Angel asked Kanter to pause, carefully identifying the magic patterns around the door.
On first glance, there was nothing unusual about the magic patterns, but recalling that hidden trigger point on the first floor, Angel meticulously checked multiple times.
Ultimately, he really found a trigger point on the inner side of the doorknob.
Informing Kanter of the trigger point’s location, Kanter naturally found a way to avoid it.
Seconds later, Kanter smoothly entered the door, finally seeing that radiant, elaborate, starlit galaxy-like magic pattern projection.