Research Begins

"Ah, I see..."

People said you should know when to leave well enough alone.

Although Lan Qingyou knew full well that this had happened because she hadn't held back when she attacked.

But even if she'd gone all out in that situation, wouldn't she still have fallen for it?

If Tentacle Forest hadn't inexplicably been destroyed,

she might already have become nourishment for those tentacles.

It was a bit of a shame, but there was nothing to be done.

Who could have known that a few rocks would happen to hit part of the Core District?

No, wait...

Given how this kind of magic array worked, it made perfect sense to seal the monster in the Core District.

Although that thing had been brought in from outside Storm Island by Esmeralda and the World Will working together,

they had to admit it had been placed in an important location.

And since the Cursed Corridor was a place where time passed quickly, they had even thoughtfully placed a skeleton there to prevent anyone from aging on the spot.

They had accounted for everything they could think of.

Lan Qingyou had no grounds to criticize them.

But since the array had already been damaged, sighing about it now wouldn't help.

"Then we'll have to work backward."

After looking over some of the pictures on Ursula's desk, Lan Qingyou picked up a photograph.

It had been taken from the air.

Judging by the people below and Lan Qingyou's experience, it had been taken from a height of roughly two hundred meters.

The photo showed a large pattern, half of it destroyed.

Looking down at it from this angle, and drawing on the surrounding patterns and her own experience,

Lan Qingyou figured it was probably a large triangular magic-array symbol.

At least thirty different