The palace's Highest Level.
Before the silver metal doors engraved with the sun and moon.
As the Lord pressed his left and right hands, bearing the sun and moon, against either side of the doors, the gateway to the Art Gallery officially opened... Even standing at the entrance, they could not look directly into the "Art Gallery." All they saw was a mass of dim gray fluid.
Han Dong muttered at the sight before him,
"Is this... a Spatial Teleportation gate? No... is it some kind of 'inner-and-outer membrane'?"
Anything involving the spatial domain would inevitably trigger a response from Han Dong's "Void Laboratory"... As he stared at the dim gray fluid beyond the doors, the sensation of long-distance teleportation was weak. It felt more like a kind of "spatial membrane."
Like an "empty cardboard box."
The grand halls, VIP rooms, banquet halls, and other areas within the palace were like the exterior of that empty box.
What they were about to enter was the inner layer of the box.
Getting in would be easy, but leaving would become a problem.
However, Knight Charlie had already raised some theories concerning the empty box yesterday... They had prepared several countermeasures and strategies in advance.
Now Han Dong, as the team leader, needed to make the next decision.
Should he refuse the Lord's invitation with some excuse, delaying their entry into the Art Gallery as much as possible while finding a way to contact the Expeditionary Force at the foot of the mountain?
Or should they enter directly and confront the Lord's true scheme?
"Let's go..."
Han Dong stepped in first.
His teammates followed one after another, passing through the "gray membrane" and entering the Art Gallery.
Once everyone had entered and their auras had completely vanished from the palace,
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