The Altar God did not tell Cypher which way to go next.
Fortunately, after it crumbled to dust, the space returned to the hidden chamber it had been at the beginning.
The mechanism that showed the way forward also appeared.
No wonder he had not seen it at first glance—it had been hidden behind the stone statue.
It was a stone stele with a huge wheel as tall as a person mounted on it.
Only when Cypher stepped closer did he see that the wheel was a dial made up of nested rings of varying sizes, like onion rings.
Each ring was engraved with tiny Dragon Runes. Fortunately, Dragon Runes did not need to be learned. Any intelligent creature related to dragons would naturally understand their meaning upon seeing them.
After briefly scanning the dial, Cypher found that the Dragon Runes did not form a coherent sentence.
So he turned his attention to the stone stele, where there was another cluster of Dragon Runes.
"Arrange the words in the direction of the pointer to form the phrase 'open the gate,' and the gate will open."
This was not difficult at all. Apparently, the mechanism had not been designed to test challengers in the first place.
Cypher easily turned the dial and assembled the password that would open the door to the next stage.
He had forgotten that dragons and intelligent creatures with dragon blood could indeed open this door with ease.
But wizards of other races, or those without dragon blood, would have to learn the complicated Dragon Runes in order to receive the blessing of dragon blood.
Dragon Runes were difficult to memorize. If one did not understand them well enough or possess sufficiently profound magical attainments, any Dragon Runes one had just seen would immediately vanish from one's