Dox: "Judging by your tone, did you pause just now to prepare to take the pendant?"
Yet Dox's curiosity received no answer. After Angel finished his last sentence, he had already blocked the Mind Tether.
The reason was simple: he had left the building and returned to the plaza.
Bathed once more in the glow of fluorite, Angel felt as though he had returned after a lifetime. Looking back at the utterly ordinary-looking building, he felt that the experience from less than a quarter-hour ago carried a disjointed sensation of having crossed through time.
Who would have thought that this six-story building, so unremarkable on the outside, concealed such mysteries within? The sixth floor held a vast laboratory and countless prison cells; yet the sixth floor was not the end of the building, but its beginning.
Within that endlessly expandable space, who knew how many secrets still lay hidden in its depths...
"We will definitely meet again," Angel murmured softly.
Only, when they met again, time might flow backward. What he would see would no longer be laboratory ruins and empty prison cells, but everything in its pristine state.
Because the day they met again might not be in reality. What he would see would be Abyss City's projection in the Nightmare Realm at the height of its prosperity.
Without another glance, Angel turned back and closed his eyes. With each breath, his surging emotions gradually calmed. He cast all those tangled, chaotic scraps of information to the back of his mind. At this moment, there was only one goal in his eyes.
The fountain at the center of the plaza!
"He's gone silent again. This guy really is..." The curse had nearly reached Dox's throat, but considering that Angel might still be listening to their conversation, Dox forcibly