Kaier: "To avoid forgetting, I drew the part of the mural that I remembered and kept it."
Angel originally wanted to suggest using illusion techniques for Kaier to simulate the mural, but since he had already drawn it, it saved some effort.
Kaier: "Wait a moment, let me find it."
Kaier closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, leaving only the index and middle fingers stretched out, faint energy fluctuations dissipated from between the fingers.
After about half a minute, the energy reached its peak, and finally, a Space Rift appeared in front of Kaier.
Seeing the Space Rift appear, Kaier let out a long breath.
In the next second, Kaier performed a "hand tearing the rift."
The initially small slit expanded under Kaier’s effort into an opening the size of half a person.
Looking inside this opening, you could see a pile of things as high as a mountain. Most were books, and there were some low-level materials, all messily placed. If Kaier hadn’t opened it on the spot, one might even think it was a pile of garbage.
Perhaps opening a private space in front of outsiders for the first time, Kaier showed a bit of embarrassment: "Inside are the goods from my shop... I, I usually organize it, but I was in too much of a rush this time and forgot."
"I’ll go find the painting now." Kaier was eager, with half of his body already inside the rift.
From the rift, sounds of rummaging could be heard; it seemed Kaier was searching for that so-called "painting." However, to those present, Kaier seemed more like he wanted some place where others couldn’t see his face to quiet down...
On the other side, Vay looked into the space through the rift: "This space doesn’t quite look like a Spatial Artifact... Besides, although there’s a Space Rift, the surrounding space hasn’t changed in stability at all."
Angel also felt it didn’t look like a Spatial Artifact, as Spatial Artifacts don’t need that long to open.
He vaguely sensed some familiarity, as if the space knowledge infused in him had mentioned similar spaces. However, this type of space shouldn’t be within an apprentice’s ability.
At this point, Dox patted Vay’s shoulder: "Don’t overthink it. It’s a private space passed down to Kaier by his mentor, Esos."
"Private space?" Vay was stunned for a moment.
"You can think of it as Esos transferring a well-constructed stable space to Kaier through magic pattern means... you can’t envy it."
Dox’s last sentence was rather emotional. Saying Vay couldn’t envy it was probably expressing his own feelings.
He didn’t have such a large space when he was an apprentice.
Even though this kind of private space has many limitations, such as taking a long time to open and not being able to use personal spiritual power due to attachment to the original owner’s spiritual power to search for items, one has to directly reach inside and search one by one like Kaier to find stuff, which is purely usable as a big warehouse.
But even so, Dox envied such a large portable warehouse.
Although he had a Spatial Artifact, the space inside was too small. If possible, he would indeed prefer such a private space with flaws.
At worst, items that need urgent use could be placed in One-time Spatial Capsules, while those not that urgent could be stacked in a private space.
While Dox was emotional, Angel also showed an enlightened expression.
So, it’s the private space inherited from Esos; it makes sense now.
Though this event was minor, for Angel, it was another enlightenment: even after being infused with a significant amount of spatial knowledge beyond ordinary people, when it comes to real situations, it might still fall short.
Knowledge isn’t just about remembering; it also requires thorough understanding and practical application. After all, real situations often need multi-faceted problem consideration, from details, background, relationships, personal abilities, and so on, performing comprehensive evaluation to ascertain the ultimate truth.
After Dox’s sentiment, he suddenly thought of something: "Speaking of which, more than his private space, I’m actually more curious about his claimed painting... could it be one he painted himself?"
Vay: "What do you mean? Is his painting skill not good?"
Dox paused for a moment: "It’s not about painting skill; it’s just very special, hmm... special."
Although half of Kaier’s body was inside the space rift, he heard the outside discussions: "No, it’s not painted by me. I found a painter in the Royal Capital of Laksum Principality with the excuse of a dream to have the painter help me paint it."
Upon hearing it was done by a professional painter, Dox breathed a long sigh of relief.
If it were really painted by Kaier, probably besides Kaier himself, others present wouldn’t understand... Kaier was excellent in many ways, except he had some "slight" flaws in painting.
Not long after, Kaier emerged from the rift, already holding a framed painting in his hand.
With a flick, the space rift successfully closed. — Opening a private space takes time, but closing it is easy.
"Found it, here it is."
Kaier held the framed painting to his chest, signaling everyone to look.
However, everyone’s attention was drawn to a piece of parchment falling from the back of the frame.
The parchment floated gracefully from behind the frame and spread evenly on the ground, clearly showing a strange space structure constructed with thick and thin strokes.
Next to it were a lot of space analysis formulas.
"Is this the structure of space tricks?" Vay asked curiously.
Kaier followed everyone’s gaze and lowered his head, only then noticing the parchment spread on the ground. Seeing the image on the parchment, his expression was slightly awkward.
He stammered "uh" a few times and then remained silent.
However, though Kaier didn’t speak, there was no way Dox, the professional debunker, would remain silent.
"Didn’t I say earlier that his painting is very special? This is his painting." Dox said: "Earlier he asked me about some Magic Blood Ore names, and I asked him to bring it over or draw the appearance. What he gave me was this kind of space structure diagram with a bunch of formulas attached, who the heck understands that!"
After saying this, Dox looked toward Kaier: "Isn’t this your so-called mural diagram?"
Kaier’s face was full of embarrassment, but he nodded: "Uh, this is just my casual sketch. I had a painter draw the line draft."
Kaier gestured for everyone to look at the framed painting.
If ignoring the parchment on the ground, the painting in the frame was indeed very normal and realistic.