Only Kaier seemed a bit dejected, the reason being that he discovered another incredibly large Star Color Stone, enough to serve as a stage curtain.
A Star Color Stone of such size must have been engraved with beautiful murals back then, and if they still existed, they would be invaluable historical materials.
But now, the Star Color Stone is completely blank, with nothing visible.
Kaier enjoyed the process of exploring ruins and digging out those secret and interesting matters in history. Seeing murals that could have been easily obtained but missed due to bad timing naturally made him frustrated.
"The quality of Star Color Stones also varies, maybe we’ll encounter one that hasn’t faded yet," Dox comforted.
The others’ consolation was just comfort. Dox’s comfort, that was blessed!
Instantly, Kaier regained his enthusiasm: "Let’s continue upwards; the higher we go, obviously the higher the rank. Perhaps there are still colorful Star Color Stones above!"
Once Kaier finished speaking, he eagerly rushed to the side of the stairs, looking expectantly at Angel.
Angel didn’t speak, instead responded with action. With one step forward, he simply said "Let’s go," and headed up the stairs towards the third floor.
As soon as they reached the third floor, they felt something different.
Because the place where they appeared was no longer a corridor but directly in a hall.
This hall was much larger than the halls on the previous two floors. The reason is simple: this floor only has this hall, and looking out the windows showed alley scenery outside instead of corridors.
On one side of the hall was a spiral staircase leading upwards, bringing a cold and damp wind from the staircase’s mouth.
Everyone immediately probed with their spiritual power and discovered that above the stairs there was only one door, behind the door was the exit. The wind was blowing in from outside.
"Deserving of an Underground Labyrinth with such unconventional exits," Dox clicked his tongue twice.
"Finding an exit is a good thing," Angel said, "Before leaving, let’s explore this hall first."
The hall had also been looted, but many cabinets remained scattered messily. These were the first things they checked.
They didn’t expect to find anything valuable, but getting some intelligence like the altar fragments on the second floor would suffice.
But even after rifling through and scanning with spiritual power several times, they didn’t find any traces worth investigating.
Just as everyone was disappointed, Kaier’s voice suddenly called over: "Over here, over here!"
Everyone looked towards Kaier, who stood on one side of the hall, in front of a desk. In the wall behind the desk was embedded a square blank Star Color Stone.
"What’s up, any discoveries?" Angel stepped forward.
Kaier crouched down, tilted his head to look at the edge of the frame below the Star Color Stone: "Sir, take a look, isn’t there a hint of color?"
Angel followed Kaier’s pointer, bent down to look with his eyes.
Indeed, at the corner of the frame, he found a faint transition strip of gray-black colors.
Angel reached out and touched it, no powder fell off, it shouldn’t be dust or blood in the cracks.
Angel pondered for a moment then said: "It does seem like color, but why is it on the edge?"
Kaier didn’t hesitate, directly responded: "Could there be a painting hidden behind this?"
From Kaier’s quick response and his excited expression, it was evident he had long entertained this idea and was eager for affirmation.
Angel’s dialogue drew the attention of the others too, but since Kaier and Angel were already in front of the stone slab, the others could only watch with spiritual power.
Through the spiritual power perspective, the gray-black color gradient was indeed visible. However, they couldn’t see the back of the Star Color Stone.
Though Star Color Stone isn’t that impressive as a material, it’s still a Transcendent stone, and it’s also embedded in a wall inscribed with a Magical Energy Array, so spiritual power’s inability to penetrate is expected.
"Is there a painting behind it?" Angel murmured: "We’ll know if we take it down."
Though he spoke of dismantling, removing the Star Color Stone is not that easy. One must avoid the Magical Energy Array behind, hence it’s necessary to investigate the array’s condition.
Spiritual power can’t directly penetrate, so to observe the Magical Energy Array, one must take a detour.
Angel began wandering in the hall, looking for exposed Magic Patterns while sensing the energy transmission routes represented by the patterns.
While Angel deciphered the Magical Energy Array, others chatted leisurely at the side.
For they truly can’t help even if they wanted to; they could only move aside and lazily set up a wager, betting whether there’s really a painting behind the Star Color Stone or if it’s an empty effort.
But in the end, the wager wasn’t put to action because it was initiated by Dox, and the only participants, Kaier and Vay, both chose there was a painting.
They weren’t foolish, in the previous level Dox had spoken with his blessed mouth about the possibility of encountering a colored Star Color Stone.
And here it was.
As for Black Earl, he flew to the outside along the stairs. But he didn’t fly far, staying near the door as if perceiving something.
After about five minutes, Angel returned to the Star Color Stone.
"The quality of this Star Color Stone can’t bear most of the Magic Patterns of the Magical Energy Array, so there might not be many important Magic Patterns behind it. The only thing to note is that the energy channel I sensed is broken in two places, likely because the Magic Pattern Drafting for the energy channel is within the Star Color Stone."
After Angel finished speaking, Dox immediately asked: "Then, is there a way to bypass these two energy..."
Before Dox could finish, Angel turned and replied: "No need to bypass, I’ve already prepared an External Array Disk. Now it should be possible to pry off this Star Color Stone directly."
Once Angel finished talking, he made a "please" gesture to Dox.
Although prying open the Star Color Stone is simple, he disliked seeing Dox leisurely observing coldly from the sidelines. Hence, the physical labor should be left to Dox.