Besides, Angel had not simply washed his hands of the work. One look at the mountain of half-finished Future Mirrors in the Artifact Embryo Factory's warehouse showed that he was hardly taking it easy.
"While you're still here, there are a few things I should tell you."
Laplace did not waste time on pleasantries. After a brief exchange, he got to the point.
Angel knew Laplace had come to see him for a reason. He listened quietly.
"Someone cleared a Trial Wonderland."
Laplace's tone was calm, but his opening words struck Angel like a thunderbolt.
"???" Angel said, "You mean you found another person with a special talent, and he cleared the first stage of his Trial Wonderland?"
Trial Wonderlands were Instances meant for people with special talents.
When people like Hound Butler, Little Red, and Luno entered the Dream Crystal Plain, they could trigger Trial Wonderlands of their own.
Clearing those Instances would unlock their special talents, allowing them to bring those talents from reality into the Dream Crystal Plain.
But...
Every Trial Wonderland discovered so far had been a chain of Instances. To regain a special talent, a person had to clear the entire chain.
Take Little Red's Flavor-Seeking Journey, for example.
No one had said how many stages it had, but its thirty-day countdown allowed one entry per day.
Angel figured it had at least ten stages, if not thirty.
Each stage presented a different trial. Little Red would have to complete all ten before she could regain her talent. At one attempt per day, that would take at least ten days.
So when Laplace said someone had "cleared" a Trial Wonderland, Angel assumed he meant its first stage.
But when Angel looked up, Laplace slowly shook his head.
Under Angel's disbelieving gaze, Laplace said softly, "He