They waited for quite a while, yet there was still no response.
Angel spoke again. "Are you really not coming out?"
Angel began coaxing with words, saying things like, "If you don't come out, I'm leaving," "I'm starting the countdown," and "Three, two, one... I'll count down again. Last time."
But no matter what he said, he repeated the "countdown" several times over, yet the surroundings remained utterly silent.
Angel sighed and muttered under his breath, "What a pity. Couldn't bluff it out."
Then he turned back to the others. "Let's go. We'll continue."
With that, Angel turned around without hesitation and continued onward.
Watching Angel's back, everyone exchanged puzzled looks.
"Did my lord actually find the Wood Spirit?" Wai asked doubtfully.
"Didn't he say himself that he couldn't bluff it out? So it definitely..." When Dox reached the word "definitely," Angel's various deeds in Princess Town surfaced in his mind. For someone with such quietly rotten intentions, it seemed entirely possible for him to pass off the truth as a lie.
Besides, Angel rarely did anything meaningless along the way. If that whole display just now had been an act, wasn't it a little too elaborate?
At that thought, Dox withdrew his certainty and changed his phrasing. "It should be fake. Probably."
After thinking for a moment, Wai turned his gaze toward Kael.
They appeared to be within the Stairway of the Hanging Prison, but in truth, they were merely inside an illusion constructed by Angel. Even if the Wood Spirit really appeared, they would not be able to see it unless Angel changed the illusion. Naturally, the Wood Spirit would not be able to see them either.
The only person present who had entered the Stairway of the Hanging Prison alongside Angel was Kael. Therefore, apart from Angel