Late at night.
A small room in the Alchemy Workshop was still filled with dim yellow light.
Seated at the desk, Cypher continuously drew a terrain map in the air, the landscape of the third trial scaled down before his eyes.
After adding the final stroke to the map, Cypher curled his finger, and four points of light and a mass of black mist appeared within it.
They then began moving at a set speed.
No... we'd get caught and lose a strip of cloth.
Still no good. We'd be safe, but the Mechanical Dragon wouldn't fall into the trap...
On the first day of the trial, Cypher clearly couldn't clear it perfectly in one go.
During the day, they had been too rushed to evade it properly and lost a strip of cloth.
Cypher then understood the purpose of the Mechanical Dragon.
It was an obstacle blocking the path.
They had to pass through the maze behind it while escaping its pursuit to reach a safe location.
That afternoon, the four of them had sacrificed all their strips of cloth in exchange for quite a bit of information.
The Mechanical Dragon had a weakness: it was not very sensitive to what was directly beneath it. In other words, they could hide under its feet for a short time.
Its attention could briefly be drawn by a buzzing sound.
That meant that when one person was about to be caught, the others could make a buzzing sound, causing the dragon to hesitate while the sound echoed.
Then, as long as the person being chased hid beneath it and the others sent out another buzzing sound...
The dragon would switch targets.
With the coordination between the four of them, passing this trial tomorrow would be very easy.
However, at the final