"Let's talk once we're inside the relic." Rhein looked toward the relic's wide-open doors. "Come to think of it, I haven't visited this relic in a long time either."
Angel was currently considered the relic's temporary owner, so he walked at the front as their guide.
Once inside the relic, they entered a deep corridor blanketed in darkness.
Angel gestured for everyone to follow him forward.
During this time, Sanders noticed that although there were clearly candleholders on the walls, Angel had not lit them.
Why hadn't he lit them? Though everyone present possessed night vision, from the standpoint of etiquette, Angel should still have lit the candleholders. After all, the current ruler of Savage Cave and one of the three great ancestral spirits were both here.
As Sanders silently pondered this, the Tree Spirit suddenly said, "Come to think of it, I don't understand why this relic's builder designed it this way. Candleholders were clearly installed here, yet they can't be lit. Otherwise, you'll trigger an infinite-loop mechanism. They might as well not have designed any candleholders at all. It's completely superfluous."
"Since it's a mechanism, naturally it's meant to lure intruders into triggering it," Angel said. "With candleholders set up, wouldn't intruders instinctively try to light them? And wouldn't that trigger the mechanism?"
The Tree Spirit shook his head. "You live here, so you should have noticed it too. Not only can the candleholders in this corridor not be lit—even the slightest light is forbidden, or else you'll enter a loop. In that case, not installing candleholders would make it easier to confuse intruders. Installing them might even have the opposite effect."
Angel thought about it and felt that the Tree Spirit had a point. What he meant was that the very act of setting up candleholders might