The All-Seeing Eye discovered that something was wrong in a magic laboratory.
There were more than a dozen laboratories like this one in the upper levels of the Floating City. They were arranged around the control room, each with a different purpose, and only Kolsted had permission to use them.
At first glance, this laboratory seemed no different from the others.
It covered several hundred square meters and was filled with various magical devices and experimental equipment. Doors lined the surrounding walls, leading to different storage rooms filled with large quantities of Alchemical Materials, most of them limbs and organs of undead creatures. It was horrifying.
Some of the storage rooms behind those doors also contained valuable magical items and gemstones.
Rayne immediately saw that all of this was a disguise.
There were hardly any signs that the laboratory had been used. The disorderly arrangement of the equipment on the tables was deliberate, and several ongoing long-term observation experiments were also part of the disguise.
The true secret was a Magic Door.
It was located between the doors to two storage rooms and hidden by a spell, making it difficult for ordinary people to discover.
The space behind the Magic Door was very small, a recess carved out of the wall, just large enough to hold a shrine. An ordinary person could not enter at all. Yet beneath this cramped space was a hidden Rune Array connected to it, used to transmit energy.
At this moment, the energy of Iola's Core had been cut off, causing the Rune Array to become unstable. Even the Magic Door concealing it gave off faint fluctuations.
It was precisely because of this slight fluctuation that Rayne detected it.
His gaze focused.
The cramped space behind the Magic Door was completely visible. Inside was an