Outer Hall.
When Rabbit Girl emerged from the white halo, she was still a little dazed. Even upon seeing Angel in the hall, she remained in a trance.
How had she cleared it just like that?
According to her earlier deduction, shouldn't there have been a hard fight left?
"Don't forget, you only took part in a test of knowledge." Angel seemed to have seen through Rabbit Girl's thoughts and teased her from the side.
Rabbit Girl blanked out for a moment, then gradually came back to herself.
Thinking it over carefully, Angel was right. The test she had taken was not a combat test after all. Since it was a test of knowledge, knowledge naturally came first.
Unless she had made the wrong choices in the three oil paintings. Only then would she have had to face the troll.
It was somewhat like the "map recognition" test Angel had faced earlier. Either your combat strength was peerless, or your wisdom was peerless.
If your strength was powerful enough, you did not need to enter any of the three oil paintings at all. You could simply take on the wizard-level troll head-on.
But if your strength fell short, then you could choose to win through wisdom. Take one gemstone from each painting, and as long as you perfectly found the three fire-element gemstones, you could instantly kill the troll.
Just like the twelve cage worlds Angel had faced. If he had failed to identify them, even getting just one wrong would have forced him onto the arena to fight.
But after identifying them all, the arena had become mere decoration. He had not needed to care about it at all.
By the same token, for Rabbit Girl, the troll could be a target, but it could also be... the backdrop