The Inspector looked at the hand Angel extended toward him, and the monocle gleaming with a metallic sheen in his palm, then suddenly fell silent.
As a legendary wizard, he could clearly tell that Angel's words carried sincerity.
Moreover, the monocle's design closely resembled the one Nis had used before falling asleep.
Those details showed that Angel had not deceived him.
Using this seemingly unremarkable monocle, it was indeed possible to glimpse the truth behind the so-called "Dream Wilderness, Mother Tree Network."
Yet he still hesitated over whether to accept it.
As an Inspector, when he arrived in the Southern Region, he had sworn to the will of the Southern Region according to the Order Guild's rules: unless a disorderly upheaval arose, he would never interfere in any affairs of the Southern Region.
This also meant that, within the bounds of that oath, even establishing contact with wizards of the Southern Region was against the rules.
Of course, the oath rules drafted by the Order Guild could not truly be so harsh. After all, Inspectors traveled to different worlds to complete missions; they were not exiled prisoners assigned there.
As an Inspector, he still had some room to maneuver. Otherwise, he would not even be able to go shopping in Sky Mechanical City.
Generally speaking, to make use of the maneuvering room deliberately left within the oath, one could follow two principles.
First, find an outwardly legitimate reason. Through one's own inner conviction, one could interfere in the Southern Region's tangled affairs to a certain degree. The Inspector's previous meetings with Feiluo, and his meeting Angel in the laboratory, had both made use of this condition.
Second, a doubled restitution exchange.
Whether in the Southern Region or the Source World, most wizards tacitly accepted the principle of "equivalent exchange." However