When Angel saw the circular stone slab up close, he could sense the Authority Information lingering around it more clearly.
Yet even at this distance, the information remained difficult to decipher.
It was too fragmented, like scraps of torn paper scattered in disarray.
To understand it, he had to touch every fragment himself, then use the Authority Tree to connect and interpret them.
It was like assembling a puzzle. Only when every piece was in place could he see the whole picture and grasp its meaning.
The Authority Tree would do the actual assembling; Angel did not need to piece it together by hand.
Authority Information gradually dissipated over time, and the information on the slab was no exception. Unless something had prevented it, much of it had probably been lost for good.
Even after the Authority Tree assembled what remained, the result would likely have gaps.
As long as no crucial pieces were missing, he should be able to infer the full meaning from the surrounding information.
Not wanting to lose any more, Angel immediately entered his authority vision and drew every fragment around the slab into the Authority Tree.
The Authority Tree became a "server" and began reconstructing the damaged information.
While he waited for the puzzle to come together, Angel studied the inscriptions on the slab.
Together, they formed a peculiar image—
A skeleton resembling a matchstick figure was densely surrounded by inscribed symbols. Three lines of different colors extended from those symbols.
A white line rose to the sky, a gray line coiled around the skull, and a black line descended into a river.
The "sky" and "river" were also made of inscribed symbols. Angel recognized them because the symbols formed the shapes of clouds and water.
To Angel, the image looked as though three things