December 18, 2015, Friday, one week before Christmas.
The Sorcerer Supreme lifted the magic shrouding the entire dungeon and woke Salomon from stasis. This was the awakening time Salomon had set five hundred years ago. Even if the Sorcerer Supreme had failed to wake him in time, the spell's duration would have ended punctually. He had deliberately set aside a week for preparations, giving himself more time to think. At the same time, to avoid running into himself at this point in time, Salomon did not intend to leave the dungeon. He planned to rely on Power Armor's life-support system for seven days, until the time of the final battle arrived. Besides his daily copying of scrolls and reading, Salomon also discussed how to handle the Eyes of the World with The Venerable One.
The Venerable One believed that the Eyes of the World needed to remain.
Although the Eyes of the World were not as powerful as the Time Stone, they could still serve as a means of interfering with time apart from the Time Stone, with an accessibility the Silver Key could never possess. Especially during the future catastrophe concerning the Infinity Gems, if all of Salomon's preparations failed and something went wrong with the Time Stone, preserving the Eyes of the World would mean preserving a means of retaliation. Since the Sea of Souls had been thrown into turmoil after losing its balance because of the Eyes of the World, the best solution was to find the other Eyes of the World—the Right Eye of Light belonging to the Sage Clan. Based on what Salomon had seen and heard five hundred years ago, namely the timeline in which Bayonetta had not been sealed away, The Venerable One and Salomon made an extraordinarily bold decision, one that violated