"Ten lightning punishments unlocked a new identity?" Angel stroked his chin and muttered thoughtfully, "This felt a bit like triggering some hidden mechanism, didn't it?"
Some Fairyland Instances had hidden mechanisms, even hidden quests.
What Angel had not expected was that this Dream Chocolate Factory also had a similar mechanism.
Could this Dream Chocolate Factory be an "instance" of the Instrument World?
Come to think of it, the Water Clone had previously guessed that the chocolate factory was Secret Grounds... Coupled with Ms. Gosha's intelligence, Secret Grounds in the Instrument World did seem somewhat similar to instances in a sense.
The similarity was not in their mechanisms.
Rather, both Secret Grounds and instances seemed to possess a "manifestation logic of the world's will."
Normally, the world's will was an abstract aggregate concept of rules, spread throughout the world's underlying framework. Unless a world-level major event occurred, it rarely manifested.
But certain special regions were exceptions.
For example, the instances on the Dream Crystal Plain.
Here, "manifestation" did not mean becoming personified. Rather, it was the rule system's stress response to certain variables.
For instance, the Dark Corner Entrance should not have been part of the opening plan at this stage, but Angel had continually pushed the quest forward and touched a certain rule threshold.
Had it been anyone else, the world's will still would not have allowed the Dark Corner Entrance to appear. But after discovering that it had been triggered by Angel, a "higher-level authority holder"...
The world's will would calculate the triggering party's risk coefficient and the event's impact weight, ultimately completing the rules' self-consistency by "making the entrance appear."
Such "unexpected developments" arising within order were the result of the world's will manifesting.
It could also be understood this way: the world's will was like a factory's