However, they did not follow the usual clearance procedure.
Angel snapped his fingers lightly, and the air around them began to grow moist. Moments later, a concentrated rain cloud formed above the mouth of the glass bottle.
Drizzling raindrops, smooth as silken threads, sank into the bottom of the glass bottle.
The water level in the bottle rose visibly.
In only a few seconds, it precisely reached the top mark.
As the mark was met, the crystal curtain blocking their way vanished like burning paper, turning from bottom to top into countless specks of light.
"Let's go." Angel gestured for everyone to move on.
Not long after, they arrived at a long corridor whose walls were mottled and weathered.
At its end stood a tightly locked door. Without question, the third mechanism puzzle had appeared.
As for the riddle itself, they did not need to search for it.
The instant they touched the door, "rain" began to fall through the entire mottled corridor with a soft rustling sound.
Large amounts of wall plaster peeled away, followed by thousands upon thousands of wallpaper fragments.
The edges of those wallpaper fragments looked as though they had been cut, and broken-chain symbols were printed on them.
The moment everyone saw the fragments, they understood what the puzzle was.
—A jigsaw puzzle!
That was right. They simply had to piece together these fragments according to the clues on them.
Even the medium for assembling the puzzle had already been placed before them: the face of the door itself!
When they had touched it earlier, the door had felt slightly sticky. Clearly, that adhesive quality had been designed to hold the puzzle pieces in place.
Looking at the corridor floor stretching dozens of meters, covered in every sort of puzzle fragment, Gray Porcelain inexplicably felt