What Does It Mean for the Setting to Trump Everything?

The rusty iron door opened, revealing a smooth feel that contrasted sharply with its rough exterior; judging from this alone, the door must be opened frequently.

The room behind the door wasn't very big, with a few carts lying around in a rather ordinary way. However, what was noteworthy was a Dark Hole, seemingly downward-pointing staircase in the corner.

Feng Xue, who had already deduced from the location where the Gu Poison Body disappeared that the school had a basement, was not surprised, but looking at the staircase, he felt a vague unease.

It wasn't due to any intuitive warning or anything like that; it was simply because he sensed something that felt somewhat familiar.

"It can't be another Infinite City -like thing, can it? But according to the rules of the Tower of Babel, the Weird Tale of this world should be dead by now."

Thinking of this, Feng Xue couldn't help but begin to assess the risks. Given his current ability to survive, there were only two possibilities that could pose a threat to him.

It could be a power similar to that of a certain Saber King who could kill seven enemies with a single sword strike, piercing through his twenty-plus layers of resurrection armor in one blow.

Alternatively, they could trap him in a special illusion, slowly chipping away at his life without allowing him to use his powers or Phantom Object.

Other than that, most other possibilities can be overcome by the two abilities of "Iron-Blooded Tough Guy" and "tough guy".

Thinking of this, Feng Xue took out her pocket watch and glanced at it. It was already 10:50. According to the rules of the Anti-Addiction Omni-Press Drive that refreshes at midnight, this environmental protection can only last for a little over three hours.

With this 22nd Century toy, he can ignore the damage caused by the environment (again, the adaptive lamp allows Nobita to survive in the vacuum of space, but it can't stop Gian's punch), and should be able to block pollution-type abilities. The Grave of Resurrection can ensure that even if all the resurrection armor is destroyed by a single blow, he can still enter the fast resurrection program.

If it were an ability like illusion or erosion, he could use the three hours he gained by S-Clash Driver to contact the Descent Rule into the real world, and he would have finished reading the bar by now.

As for being instantly resurrected with a single strike, he could simply summon Orbital Weapon to wipe out the enemy.

Increasing the difficulty level is for growth, but if you end up killing yourself, then it's a joke.

Having figured all this out, Feng Xue checked her Bottoms again, placed all the emergency escape tools in easily accessible locations, and then stepped onto the stairs.

The staircase is short, at most ten meters or so, and its vertical distance from the ground is no more than five meters. After that, there is a straight passage.

There were no lights installed in the passage, but fortunately, the dim environment was nothing compared to the visual enhancement system built into the Kamen Rider Armor. Looking around, Feng Xue could even see small insects crawling through the dark tunnel.

"The presence of surviving insects means it's not some deadly place where no living thing can survive," Feng Xue thought to herself as she glanced at it, but the sense of familiarity grew stronger.

As she slowly moved forward, some words faintly appeared at the edge of Feng Xue's vision. Feng Xue immediately realized that her Golden Finger was working again.

She strode forward and stared at the door at the end of the corridor. For a moment, Feng Xue fell silent. While it was normal to have a door in front of a boss level or a treasure room, in 2001, when even computers were rare in a school, wasn't installing an automatic door a bit too rock and roll?

Name: Phantom Object - Secret Door

Elements: [Sturdy], [Durable], [Secret-Keeping], [Reliability], [Automatic]

Synopsis: As we all know, the greater the secret, the more it needs a sturdy and reliable door to protect it. The most reliable aspect of this door is that it can actively verify whether the person entering is qualified to know the secret behind it.

Note: Are you prepared to confront the secrets behind the door?

"Another one of these nonsensical Phantom Object..." Feng Xue looked at the Phantom Object in front of her with some disdain. Although she said that, this thing did have some value. After all, the ability to Secret-Keeping meant that as long as it was installed in a confidential room or archive, it could play a sufficient role. However, this thing could only keep secrets, it could not eliminate the idea of "wanting to explore secrets". Compared to the memorandum of the Eastern Kingdom - now the Yan Kingdom, it was far inferior.

However, looking at the "awareness to face the secret behind the door," Feng Xue pondered for a moment, then took out the Gynomorphic Filter and put it in her pocket before starting to rummage through her waist bag.

If it were an ordinary door, Feng Xue would have simply taken out the Unspeakable Rod-shaped Object and pried it open. But since it was Phantom Object with elements such as [sturdiness] and [durability], it naturally couldn't be broken by force.

Fortunately...

"Who told you to be an automatic door?" Feng Xue said, taking a Stone Pier from the Bundle Cloth, tossing it in her hand, and then rolling Stone Pier away like a bowling ball.

The extremely light Fake Stone Stool rolled towards the automatic secret door with a gurgling sound, and before any collision occurred, the door had already opened by itself.

Without giving the secret door a chance to close, Feng Xue's figure seemed to transform into a streak of light, following the Stone Pier and disappearing into the doorway.

As the secret door behind her closed, Feng Xue felt a blur before her eyes.

These weren't flowers that were teleported or something, but real flowers, because in that instant, all he could see were mosaics!

"Grass!"

Feng Xue felt her hair stand on end. Surrounded by a massive amount of mosaic, there was a black sphere composed of densely packed text and Garbled Code, which kept rolling, gathering, and dispersing, almost completely covering the entire room.

But just as Feng Xue's scalp tingled, that mosaic sphere...

It cracked!

"Grass!"

Although they sounded the same, the emotions they conveyed were completely different. Watching the Garbled Code obediently avoid the Stone Pier, Feng Xue used his Ascending Profound Settled View Steps to follow. Every time Stone Pier tried to stop, he would kick it from behind. This dribbling-like action caused the massive amount of mosaic in front of him to scatter, and Feng Xue finally saw what should have been the mosaic Main Body—

A beautiful woman...

"Pah!"

Feng Xue immediately put the Gynomorphic Filter back into her pocket. Everything in front of her changed again. To Feng Xue's surprise, what she saw was not some twisted and bizarre life form, nor was it a skeleton or zombie or other undead creation. Instead, it was a sand table.

To be precise, it's a sand table displaying a school model at a scale of 1:1000.

However, the base of this sand table was not fine sand or soil, but a pile of Paper Scraps.

"Wait a minute! Gynomorphic Filter should only be used to moe-ficate 'creatures,' but a sandbox doesn't seem to be a creature at all, does it?"

Although she should undoubtedly be thinking about the relationship between the Paper Scraps and the Exam Paper at this point, Feng Xue's thoughts uncontrollably veered towards the Gynomorphic Filter.

He kept kicking the Stone Pier under his feet with light force to keep it in motion, thereby observing this "creature" that resembled a sand table.

Then, he finally became convinced—

This thing is truly an Omen.

"To be honest, this is the first time I've ever seen such Omen of someone not moving."

Wow, the editor told me the review team wanted me to tone it down. Luckily, this part is almost over. Tsk, maybe the reviewers have gotten smarter? Did they figure out my hidden hints? Hmm, unlikely, right? Maybe it's simply because schools don't allow spooky games?