Li looked at the closed door and suddenly cried out, "I know!"
Timaria looked at Li as if he were an idiot. "I know it's a trap too. Azshara, who exactly sent you here to get rid of Li and me? Still, they really were willing to spend a fortune, sending such a beautiful elf to be buried with the two of us."
Azshara timidly shook her head. "I... I... I don't know anything."
After nearly half a day of getting acquainted, Azshara, who had not spoken for a long time, had finally been able to converse normally with the two of them. But Timaria's sudden roar made her start stammering again.
Li lightly waved a hand. "I've figured it out. This is actually an elevator..."
Timaria froze. "An elevator? Is that the name of some kind of trap? But where's the ladder?"
Li gently shook his head, then walked straight toward the Refined Gold wall. Beside it was a round stone. Li lightly pressed it, and the Refined Gold wall opened once more.
He had figured it out by then. The dial outside did not represent the months at all; it merely represented numbers. Each symbol stood for a floor. Turn it to a certain floor and walk in, and this stone chamber would carry the person to that floor. Then, once it was done, the door could be opened from the inside...
It was actually that simple.
"Au... August, I'm not seeing things, am I?" Timaria had not really understood what Li had meant, but when the door opened, what appeared before them was no longer the corridor from before.
Before them now stood an incomparably vast and brightly lit hall.
The ceiling of the hall had a vaulted structure, at least twenty meters above the ground. As