Even though nearly twenty thousand years had passed since the last adventure ended, Kane's Golden Palace had never changed in the slightest. This grand, towering structure was still as gaudy and vulgar as ever.
Shimmering gold floors, shimmering gold ceilings, shimmering gold pillars, shimmering gold decorations... The omnipresent "shimmering gold" made even the air and light seem somewhat "shimmering gold." It was hard to imagine Mister Bisadas living in an environment filled with so much glittering gold for tens of thousands of years without growing sick of it.
All that could be said was that the Mad Knight truly loved golden yellow. Other than glittering gold, his residence contained more glittering gold. If he put on that set of golden armor and picked up his spear, then even the Mad Knight himself would become glittering gold...
However, Punk did not care about the glittering Golden Palace. What he truly cared about was what lay hidden behind all that eye-catching glitter, especially the golden gate he had seen last time... Punk knew that Kane and his beautiful maid troupe entered and exited the palace through nothing more than a crude master-level teleportation gate. That made the existence of this seemingly useless gate, which could interfere with perception, particularly strange and abrupt.
"Perhaps the Mad Knight used Legendary material capable of obstructing detection to make this gate? The glittering gold on the outside is probably just a layer of 'packaging.' But he could not possibly use a Legendary-tier shielding spell, so all I need to do now is make my perception penetrate this gate made of magical materials and see the secret hidden behind it."
With that calm thought in mind, the caster, having entered the Golden Palace using his projection, immediately turned around and began focusing his perception on the gate