Naily drew out her black dagger and probed the rooms, sensing only emptiness. These rooms clearly had a tangible structure, but she could feel nothing beyond the air.
Kalsas curved the corners of his eyes: “Exactly. If we open the wrong door, real monsters will appear.” He sneered, spreading his fingers, and a golden raven staff materialized.
Naily recalled the injury Kalsas had suffered that night.
If opening the wrong door could cause such damage… Naily pushed the negative thought away and asked, “So only one room contains something?”
Kalsas briefly added: “This vault indeed has no treasure. Only one room contains something. And I intend to destroy it.”
Gerard’s eyes narrowed, his fingers slightly curling into a defensive posture.
But the black-cloaked youth simply walked past Naily and Gerard, striding toward the blue door. Naily stepped forward and grabbed his arm. He looked down at her, slightly furrowing his brow, saying nothing.
“Apparently, all rooms have shifted clockwise by one position.”
If what you’re looking for was previously in the black room, it would now be in the adjacent blue room on the left, but… don’t you think this seems too simple?” Naily was somewhat skeptical.
Kalsas remained unwavering: “Outsiders who come here twice within a day are extremely rare. The Duchess visits daily, controlling the movement’s direction, so those with ulterior motives can only obtain invalid information. The Duchess didn’t set up this mechanism to confound intruders, but to trap those with outdated intelligence, delaying to catch them and extract information from internal spies.”
After speaking, he approached the blue door and struck it with his staff.
With a thunderous boom, the stone door was blasted open. The magic seal lit up but was immediately pierced by the staff’s tip. The black-haired, red-eyed youth turned back amid the rising dust, his face calm and composed.
Gerard exhaled and joked, “No need for you to do it. Someone has already blown open the door that Gerard couldn’t open.”
Naily chuckled and stepped forward quickly. Behind the toppled stone door was an empty white room, with a black stone pillar holding a black stone basin, identical to the one from earlier. She walked up and saw the basin was empty, turning to look at Kalsas.
