Wollent had fought his way here feeling utterly stifled.
Strictly speaking, all the Bellringer Knights inside the Experiment Field were merely variables they had created. In the eyes of these "gods," they could be erased with a flick of the hand.
But because of the special nature of this experiment, aside from being able to leap beyond the experiment's constraints and survey the entire situation, the Grand Scholars could not exert much influence over the experimental variables.
Moreover, they bore the oracle bestowed by the Lord of Grace. Before receiving further instructions from the Lord of Grace, they did not dare interfere too much with certain variables in the experiment. Otherwise, they could simply have controlled all the players and waited until the experiment succeeded.
Thus, the six of them had fought their way through half a city packed with Bellringer Knights and reached Pelaya's secret laboratory, only to encounter the Drifters who had come to reinforce the place after receiving the news.
Square and Round, Meng Youfang, and Hu Xuan, who was heavily pregnant, joined forces to block the entrance to the Experiment Field, stopping the Grand Scholars in their tracks.
Chen Yi, meanwhile, had been called into the Experiment Field by Cheng Shi to "send off" Pelaya and complete the exchange for the Truth Limit.
At first, Chen Yi had strongly resisted being ordered around by a Follower of Deception, but Cheng Shi had told him that opposing Truth would make Memory think more highly of him. So he had agreed.
Cheng Shi found the whole thing rather speechless.
Was this man not clever? No. Someone who was not clever could never have scored enough to become God's Chosen.
But was he clever? Whenever the word "Memory" appeared in a lie, this Assassin acted as if he had