Angel considered it. What the Tree Spirit said did make sense. If there really was a hidden room within the ruins, and that room was particularly special, Tizhalo could not possibly have failed to mention it. Unless there was nothing inside the hidden room worth Tizhalo's attention.
Of course, there was another possibility.
Angel said, "Perhaps Tizhalo never discovered this hidden room either?"
According to the Tree Spirit, even Lord Rhein had searched the ruins without discovering this hidden room, which showed just how thoroughly concealed it was.
Was Tizhalo stronger than Rhein? That was impossible.
The reason he believed there was a hidden room in the ruins was purely because he had relied on logic to speculate about the behavioral habits of the ruins' builder.
He believed that an alchemist who possessed every other experimental tool could not possibly lack a placement analysis table. Thus, Tizhalo had surmised that the placement analysis table might be kept in some hidden room.
Tizhalo had merely reached his conclusion through habitual reasoning; he had not truly found the hidden room. So there was a considerable chance that, like Lord Rhein, he had later searched for it but ultimately failed to find it.
"That possibility exists, and it is not a small one." The Tree Spirit said, "Of course, that assumes such a hidden room truly exists."
Angel understood the reasoning as well. However, as a researcher, he personally advocated first "believing it exists" rather than "dispelling doubts by assuming it does not."
Only by first assuming such a hidden room truly existed would they have the motivation to consider ways to deal with and solve the problem. If they firmly believed from the very beginning that it did not exist, then there would be no need to continue this discussion.
The Tree