The questions from the Wise Sovereign didn’t start with the previous ones about Olao but instead began with those concerning Angel and the others’ experiences.
First and foremost, what was the anomaly in the slow corridor?
Angel glanced at Adanis at the top and, seeing no reaction from her, finally spoke: "The magical creature we encountered in that corridor was an Infant Spirit from the Otherworld."
Angel detailed the appearance characteristics and abilities of the Flower-holding Infant Spirit.
Upon hearing about the weaving net and red wax abilities, the Wise Sovereign showed a surprised and doubtful expression. One absorbing energy and the other causing madness, targeting not the physical body but the Mind Space and Spirit Sea, sounded quite formidable just by listening to it.
The Wise Sovereign curiously asked, "How did you deal with this Flower-holding Infant Spirit?"
"We didn’t deal with it." Angel scratched his head, showing a lucky expression: "It was quite well-behaved and didn’t attack us."
It didn’t attack Angel and the others?
The Wise Sovereign believed it because, according to his observation, the progress of Angel and the Black Earl was completely unhindered, almost smoothly reaching the door of the Skies Poetry Room.
But was the truth really as Angel described, glossed over with just a simple sentence?
The Wise Sovereign didn’t believe it; he couldn’t help but look up at Adanis, trying to discern something from her eyes... After all, the Flower-holding Infant Spirit must have been sent by Adanis; she surely knew the inside story.
Maybe it wasn’t the Flower-holding Infant Spirit being "well-behaved," but rather something happening in the Skies Poetry Room that distracted Adanis, leaving her no time to spare for the Infant Spirit. And the Infant Spirit itself, being low in intelligence, might have just let Angel and the others go without Adanis’s orders?
Faced with the Wise Sovereign’s inquisitive gaze, Adanis paused for a moment and said, "What he’s saying is currently the truth."
After speaking, Adanis lowered her eyebrows and remained silent.
The Wise Sovereign could affirm that Adanis wasn’t lying, but he was also certain that there was definitely more to this story. Moreover, from Adanis’s silent demeanor and her intentional avoidance of Angel’s gaze, the Wise Sovereign couldn’t help but have a bold speculation:
—Could it be that Adanis also doesn’t know what happened?
On the surface, it might truly be as Angel said, with the Flower-holding Infant Spirit behaving well and not making any moves. This is also what Adanis saw, so she said it’s the truth, which is not wrong.
But sometimes the truth is like a pinhole in the swamp; on the surface, it seems insignificant and can even be overlooked if not paying attention. But inside, it might be linked to a vast underground insect kingdom.
And could the situation Angel described be this "pinhole connected to the outside of an insect kingdom"?
He only described the surface-level pinhole, while beneath it—those intertwined, path-crossing layers of the underground insect kingdom—were all decorated by his rhetoric?
Even Adanis might not be aware of the specific reason.
As soon as this speculation emerged, it quickly dominated the Wise Sovereign’s thoughts.
In reality, this guess is quite bold. The Wise Sovereign’s usual thinking wouldn’t suddenly take such a big step, imagining such a complex scenario.
But he knows Adanis too well; her expression is just like a writing board, even if she maintains a frosty demeanor, her thoughts are completely projected onto this board.
Adanis is also puzzled, but she doesn’t wish to show it in front of the Wise Sovereign, so she follows Angel’s narrative, only speaking of the surface facts and not discussing the internal truth.
This is the reason the Wise Sovereign dared to make a bold guess.
However, even if the Wise Sovereign had this guess, he didn’t continue to pursue it.
Because from various indications, Angel would not reveal the true answer to this question. Otherwise, why would Adanis also show a confused expression?
Even if the Wise Sovereign believes his relationship with Angel might be closer than with Adanis, this closeness means he needs to consider Angel’s perspective even more.
He doesn’t intend to oppose Angel, and in the future, he hopes to use the relationship with the Wood Spirit to establish good relations with Angel and the Barbarian Cave behind him.
With such considerations, the Wise Sovereign naturally wouldn’t cross Angel’s line.
Moreover, Angel himself is already shrouded in mist, so a bit more mist isn’t really a big deal.
With this in mind, the Wise Sovereign stopped tangling with this question and began to ask a new one.
"From what I understand, the Skies Poetry Room only allows descendants of Noah’s bloodline to enter. Why were all of you able to get in?"
This question touches on Augustine a bit, so Angel definitely wouldn’t mention Augustine. However, Olao actually had some decision-making power, so Angel focused his answer on Olao.
However, Angel’s response also triggered another suspicion in the Wise Sovereign. This suspicion had been on the Wise Sovereign’s mind for a long time: "Why does Olao care about you all... or rather, about you?"
Angel’s answer remained on the surface. He briefly recounted the story of meeting Olao at the arena and emphasized that at that time, he didn’t know Olao’s identity.
This indicated that Olao had already valued him back then.
But as to why Olao valued him, Angel glossed over it.
The Wise Sovereign also anticipated this; Angel’s response would certainly be somewhat concealed, and what he needed to do was infer the hidden truths from the known answers.
And in terms of deducing, Angel was quite cooperative. Of course, the premise was as long as it didn’t involve Angel himself.
Therefore, the Wise Sovereign started to slowly deduce some things from Angel’s answers.
The change that affected the Skies Poetry Room was due to Angel, but it wasn’t only because of Angel. There was also a key person involved.
This key individual wasn’t present. Instead, someone appeared in the Skies Poetry Room—a "mysterious person."
And as for who the "mysterious person" was, the Wise Sovereign continued probing and questioning, trying to guess their identity...
...
The whole question-and-answer session lasted about twenty minutes.
Among them, the time for inquiry and answers was perhaps less than five minutes, with most of the time spent on the Wise Sovereign’s contemplation.
At the beginning of the session, when the Wise Sovereign asked questions, Angel would mostly answer, even if much of what he said was irrelevant, at least he responded.
But as the Wise Sovereign discovered the existence of the "mysterious person" and the questioning became more in-depth, focusing on details and personal perceptions, Angel began to frequently evade and changed the subject.