The gemstone earring man studied Xu Huo's expression carefully, his face darkening as he asked, "Are you joking?"
"What do you think?" Xu Huo countered.
The gemstone earring man had lost his earlier composure, but after thinking for a moment, he said, "The spatial state inside the Castle probably can't be maintained for long. Even if it can, there are other players here, aren't there? As long as they move around inside the Castle, there's a chance they'll set the space in motion. Maybe that'll make the door appear again."
In fact, the room formed by the spatial entity had been changing the whole time, growing and shrinking unpredictably. That had made them worry that it might suddenly contract and squeeze out the space they had to move around in.
"There's no better option right now." Xu Huo simply sat down on the floor, one hand braced against the rippling spatial entity as he studied its structure.
The fluctuations in Space Power looked chaotic, but they actually followed their own order. That was what allowed the spatial entity to exist within a certain area.
The defensive barrier around him flickered, shimmering with colorful light as though it were reflecting the spatial entity in the room. And because he kept touching the entity, the entire room remained unstable.
With nothing better to do, the painted woman played a game beside him. She wasn't very good, though, and kept getting killed. The same sound played over and over, making the gemstone earring man, who had been waiting nearby, increasingly annoyed. "Could you stop playing?"
The painted woman glanced up, then turned up the volume.
The gemstone earring man looked at Xu Huo, feeling rather helpless, but Xu Huo wasn't doing anything useful either. He kept probing the spatial entity—and had even gone