"’Time’, ’Layers’, ’Mind’, ’Transcendent’... The emergence of many crises is unpredictable, and all we can do is to try not to make mistakes or, if we must, to make only minor errors within the margin of error tolerance..."
"’Minor... errors’? Controlled mistakes?" Lin Yi puzzled.
"Repeater kid, have you learned nothing from your ’Dream Boundary Studies’?"
"Ah?" Lin Yi panicked, "I... uh... I never studied ’Dream Boundary Studies’..."
"You must have, you just don’t remember it...
"Memories can deceive you, but your instincts will not."
"Otherwise, what were you doing just now on the lower floor, both touching the Secret Mark and testing out the Super Nocturnal Species? What was your purpose?"
"Uh..." Lin Yi didn’t dare to say that he was just trying to expand his Perception, which had nothing to do with ’Dream Boundary Studies’, but he still silently retracted his consciousness back within the range of the Bell Tower...
"That... ’02’, where do you suppose that thing you’re looking for might appear?" Lin Yi asked.
The Night Watchman said, "It could turn up anywhere in the Art Building."
"No, I mean, since I don’t know where it is, it could potentially be anywhere."
"Then you can’t give even a slight description of it?"
"’Description’ is meaningless, as everyone’s cognition under Transcendence differs... But when you approach it, you will know on your own – that’s what I’m looking for."
"That sounds so strange?"
"It is that peculiar, and moreover, the ’Angels’ are looking for it too. I must secure it before the ’Angels’ find it."
Lin Yi’s heart shuddered, subconsciously glancing at the world outside the Bell Tower.
In this twisted, collapsing dark world, the body of the ’Angels’ lurking in the endless black tides exudes an overwhelming sense of pressure...
In front of it, Lin Yi’s first feeling was how insignificant he was.
Any known technology on the side of the known world is just toys before it, with Secret Mark totems materializing around it, contorting the forces and physical rules; any chemical reaction seems far less complex than the transformation equations of the Supernatural Power seeping out of one of its Scales...
It was this thing that launched the Grey Mist Invasion!
"The ’Angels’ are also looking for it... Could it be the key item to stop them?"
"It’s not ’Amon’s Music Box,’ is it?" Lin Yi asked, knowing that if it were, it would be in the Gallery.
"It’s not ’Amon’s Music Box,’ but in any case, it is a very special thing, somewhat similar to the ’Angels’ at the Root... You will understand once you perceive it, its uniqueness is absolutely not like anything else in the entire Art Building."
"Hmm... alright, I understand."
"But speaking of which..." Lin Yi couldn’t help but feel infinite respect, "It’s hard to imagine... that you are actually fighting against it..."
"Fighting? You overestimate us... Without ’Amon’s Extraordinary Creation’, just based on our Position, we don’t even have the right to stand before it, let alone confront it..."
"Mo Kid doesn’t fully understand, do you believe him or me?"
"Er... I’m just, struggling to comprehend how this ’war’ has managed to sustain itself under such a disparity in power..."
"Because... the seeds of civilization must always be passed on. Once ignited, the flame must not be easily extinguished."
"Besides, there are still many things your little brain doesn’t understand! Better look less at it, it’s no good for you." The Night Watchman said, "It will show you what’s deep within your soul’s desires..."
"Uh... you mean, silky stockings and beautiful legs?" The Night Watchman’s words suddenly made Lin Yi’s fear of the ’Angels’ diminish quite a bit.
"..." The Night Watchman was briefly at a loss for words, "Are your pursuits really that superficial?"
"Faith, pursuit, ideals, or... truth, knowledge, the future, it will show you the things you’ve been desperately seeking and yet unable to obtain in your life, luring you to follow its trail step by step..."
"Don’t say that, it does have some appeal." Lin Yi smacked his lips.
"Of course, any intelligent being can’t resist those, because ’knowledge’... is the path to Transcendence!"
"The ’Original Apostles’ got lost in this process..."
"Wait a second, are you saying... that the ’knowledge’ shown by the ’Angels’ is real?"
"Of course, it’s real," Holy J "documented a omnipotent God, ’omnipotence’ does not mean God can do anything, but rather that whatever you want to achieve, desire to gain, is attainable from it, and this... is the Root of all things..."
"You mean, the God in mythology is actually ’the Root’?"
"No, ’the Root’ has never shown even a hint of itself to the world, ’the Original Apostles’ upon realizing the catastrophic nature of ’the Root’, joined forces to drag it into the Abyss..."
"This place was once the ’Black Moon Outpost’, and the Outpost is a ’sentry post’! Otherwise, what do you think the ’Angel Envoys’ sentry post is for?"
"Thereafter, Lord Amon personally designed and in union with other Angel Envoys, created many Extraordinary Creations, and entrusted the ’Time Compass’, ’Holy Hall’, ’Netherworld Light’ to ’01’, myself, ’03’, to stabilize this world, ensuring that the power of the Grey Mist does not permeate into the real world from here..."