Plans and Speculation

The embassy's Protection Ritual extended underground as well. Abner roamed the area for a long time in the form of a giant bear, using Underground Stealth, before he found the one abandoned cell the ritual did not cover.

It was abandoned because its exit had been completely sealed off, cutting it off from the embassy. Strictly speaking, it was no longer part of the embassy at all.

"I heard this house belonged to an earl before it was sold to Intis for use as an embassy. This cell must have been where he privately held his 'prisoners'...

"He probably didn't want anyone finding out about his private prison, either. Most likely, he had it sealed before handing over the property...

"Maybe the Intis people never found it. Maybe they did and didn't care... Either way, it's been left abandoned ever since...

"That works out for me, though... I was going to use earth magic to dig myself a chamber..."

Back in human form, Abner took clothes from his Backpack and dressed. As he considered the cell's origins, he laid out Spirituality materials and built an altar covered in symbolic signs, magical markings, intricate patterns, and distorted Numerology.

After a night of continuous Analysis, Abner had established that the Protection Ritual enveloping the embassy had three altars, each with a Grade 2 Sealed Artifact or a Mystical Item of equivalent power at its core.

The ritual therefore had three basic abilities:

First, it detected unshielded people and things associated with evil, chaos, or madness. This was its basic function, operating without activation to give timely warnings. Once activated, the ritual also prohibited abilities associated with evil, chaos, and madness.

Second, as Abner had suspected, it could specifically check for Psychological Invisibility. The moment it found a psychological inconsistency, it would alert