"An extra door had appeared in the Uriel Instance?" Angel froze. "A door that could be opened?"
"It could." Laplace nodded, a hint of intrigue lifting her brows. "Want to guess what lies behind it?"
Angel hesitated for a moment before guessing, "Could it be a new area?"
Laplace shook her head, her tone carrying a subtle nuance. "Judging from the Wonderland prompt, it is a new area—but not entirely."
The moment Luigi saw the "door," he froze.
He clearly remembered that there had been nothing here before he went to find the Sun and Moon Wizards... Why had a door suddenly appeared now?
Could it be that the new area brought by this "Clouds and Mist" had not manifested directly within the instance space like Mullen Street, but had instead taken shape through this door?
Luigi did not continue speculating and instead prepared to go take a look.
As he approached, he discovered that the door had not yet fully formed. For now, it was merely a translucent outline. A great deal of unknown energy was filling the door's framework, gradually turning it from diffuse translucence into something solid.
That confirmed it—the door had indeed only just appeared!
By Luigi's estimate, it would likely take a few more minutes for the door to fully take shape.
He silently stood beside the door and waited for it to form... As he waited, Luigi also examined the door.
Its design was exceedingly plain, even crude.
It was simply a patchwork wooden board covered in all kinds of repairs, fastened together with iron sheets to form the shape of a door.
The strangest thing about it was... that it was embedded in the trunk of a withered old tree, as though it had fused with the tree itself.
It could wholly