With three minutes left until eight, Bazel shouted outside, "I'm closing the door in three minutes!"
Many pirates, members of secret organizations, and adventurers stopped hesitating and hurried over, causing a brief congestion at the entrance.
At exactly eight, there were still people watching from outside and seven or eight empty seats, but Bazel closed the door as Odys had instructed.
At that moment, Odys, wearing a mask and a hooded cloak, appeared before everyone through a "Teleportation Array."
Just as Odys had expected, the illusory wall and the suddenly appearing teleportation array shocked everyone greatly.
Many of those present made their living selling intelligence. They rarely encountered relatively high-end Beyonder incidents, so for a moment, they could not figure out how the gathering's organizer had arrived.
There were also members of various Beyonder organizations among them. The more knowledgeable they were, the more astonished they became, because they could tell that the organizer had not arrived here using the ability of "Travel."
Instead, he had appeared before everyone through a method unknown to them.
Bishop Dean, the protector of this gathering, watched the illusory passage in the wall gradually vanish, ultimately revealing a complex magic formation. Yet immediately afterward, the symbols and patterns of that formation concealed themselves as well.
He sighed inwardly, No wonder His Excellency the Cardinal told me I had to cooperate with Odys. This opening alone is enough to prove that Odys is no ordinary man.
Odys unhurriedly walked to his seat and stepped into the middle of several Occult Symbols. At once, a layer of mist-like slime suddenly appeared where the surrounding walls met the floor.
Amid everyone's uneasy murmurs, that layer of slime rapidly spread upward, soon reaching the height of the windows.
Odys deliberately did not explain right away, watching everyone's unease