The lights suddenly came on in the dim, empty room.
Under their glow, Angel could be seen sitting in the middle of the room, his eyes closed as though deep in thought.
After an unknown length of time, Angel opened his eyes.
A strange glint shone within them.
"So it was a... target."
Time rewound to half an hour earlier.
After parting with Laplace for the moment, he had come alone to Illusion Cottage and begun "conducting research."
He had told Laplace that he was researching how to bring the sleeping souls within the Sacred Corpse Crystals into dreams in bulk, but in truth... he had not immediately begun studying that.
Researching the Sacred Corpse Crystals was indeed real, but before that, Angel had another urgent matter to deal with.
Earlier, in the hidden underground palace, Angel had been drawn to an anomaly in a mural. It had caused the Outer Eye to heat up and, through that, sent him on a brief journey into higher dimensions.
During that journey, he had stepped through a glowing gate.
The boundless curtain of light beyond it had slowly contracted beneath his gaze, finally becoming a white point of light that drilled into his mind space.
In the end, it had entered the spell model of the Void Illusion Gate and merged with it.
At the time, because Gleipnir had been beside him, Angel had not been able to study it at once. He had instead had the "server" in his mind space analyze the changes in the Void Illusion Gate first.
Only now did Angel finally have the leisure to investigate it.
"According to the calculations and analysis of the mind server, the Void Illusion Gate model in the spell slot has not undergone any structural changes." Angel silently pondered. "Since