"Too short?"
Angel and Laplace looked at each other.
Angel asked, "Are you sure Mystic Dragon said that?"
Though Laplace also found it strange, according to the real-time view Gleipnir had sent over, Mystic Dragon had indeed said exactly that.
"Lend me a few illusion nodes. I'll show you a live broadcast of what's happening on Gleipnir's end," Laplace said.
Angel had already been thinking the same thing. He immediately released a large number of free illusion nodes, letting them coil around Laplace.
Laplace deftly manipulated the illusion nodes and began creating an illusion.
A moment later, a humanoid illusion appeared before Angel.
It was a man in a scholar's robe, refined and elegant, with a faint air of bookishness. A pair of vintage tortoiseshell glasses rested on his nose, their slender golden chain hanging naturally from the temples.
His shoulder-length black hair was casually tied with a golden cord. His eyes were deep and wise, and even as a mere illusion, he exuded a gentle temperament.
Without question, this was Mystic Dragon's humanoid form.
Eya had no idea he was already being "live-broadcast." He continued, "Yes, it's too short."
"However, the important thing isn't its length. It's that reciting this password aloud is far too redundant."
Angel pondered. "Not reciting it aloud? Then you mean..."
Eya said, "Mental intent! In other words, consciousness expression!"
Eya then explained his idea in detail.
According to Eya, after he and Pufan had technically dismantled the Nightmare Illusion Server, they discovered that the reason it could respond to a "password" was not the Firepower Mark incantation itself, but the consciousness fluctuations generated by reciting those words.
"When I realized this, we brought in Hua Geng."
Hua Geng was a scholar of the Head-Mirror Race, the honorary dean of Mirror Mountain Academy, and a