"Defeating the creatures here won't allow us to leave."
An old man in a linen robe, with white hair, sighed softly.
The young woman beside him pursed her lips tightly, her face as pale as paper, her body exhausted from prolonged mental tension.
She was only Sequence Seven. Once her name was called, death would be the best outcome.
"Really, is there no way?" she couldn't help but ask the old man beside her. "Is there really no way?"
"You saw it too." The old man shook his head, his eyes revealing the aged weariness of approaching the end of his lifespan.
"That person just now was a demigod of the Secret Suppliant pathway. Even he couldn't leave this place, so for us, it will be even more difficult."
"But," the woman whispered, "someone has already left."
The first one, the man who said he needed to participate in a 'magic show.'
That person was a member of the Abraham family.
"Perhaps there are other ways out, but..." The old man said, then let out another helpless sigh.
The drama continued.
Tang propped his chin up with his hand, looking at the stage, the charcoal stick in his other hand still writing something.
"Next, we have the pleasure of inviting..."
After another Extraordinary person lost their life and then reappeared in the audience seats, the magician, once again appearing bright and cheerful, raised his top hat.
"Mr. Christian Ferreira."
Tang rolled up the parchment in his hand and stood up.
'Corresponding knowledge fragments deducted, remaining knowledge fragments: 8915.'
Exchanging the knowledge of the steam engine had cost a thousand knowledge fragments, and having the System conceal his name had cost a hundred knowledge fragments.
After all, he didn't want to confront the churches immediately after recovering the Extraordinary characteristics of the Miracle Invoker, so he could only spend some knowledge fragments to conceal his name from the perspective of the spirit world.
With the dual interference of the Faceless's ability and the System, even Extraordinary individuals skilled in divination would find it difficult to find his true identity after leaving this place.
Tang pretended to be controlled by the spirit threads hanging high above his head and strode forward.
He kept his eyes straight ahead, until he stood before the magician and said in a low voice, "I need to prepare a magic show."
This seemed like a switch. In fact, after Tang entered, many people had tried to use this method to delay time and争取 a chance for rescue, but all of them had died in a more miserable way.
So, his actions were not surprising to others.
Based on the experience of those present, this Extraordinary person who wanted to challenge a 'magic show' would probably die in a miserable way on stage within ten minutes.
Everyone was pessimistic about Tang, except for the magician, who looked at him with a beaming smile.
Then, the world shifted, the encouraging applause around him suddenly disappeared, and on the empty, silent magic stage, the magician bowed to him.
"You have thirty minutes to prepare."
Tang tilted his head. "Can I have some magic props?"
"Of course," the magician said, "but the construction cannot be too precise."
Tang gave a soft "yo-ho" in his heart.
'It's learned its lesson!'
The System exclaimed loudly.
"It's probably because Olson's 'miracle' scared it."
Although that industrial miracle also provided unusual help to the Miracle Invoker's power, the initial consumption was not small.
The entire theater was almost weakened because of it, and almost all the accumulated miracles were almost exhausted.
If he were that Sealed Artifact, he wouldn't repeat the same mistake.
"Of course... as long as the construction isn't too precise, it's fine, right?" Tang repeated.
The magician frowned, seemingly thinking of something. An inexplicable emotion appeared on his exaggerated mask, but he still nodded.
Tang smiled with relief.
He handed the things he had been writing and drawing to the magician. The magician reached out and took them, grinning when he saw what was on the parchment.
"No problem."
He snapped his fingers.
A sealed rectangular box appeared in front of Tang and the magician.
"Next, please add water to it."
Tang stood aside and said coolly, "I will show you what kind of miracle I create."
For Extraordinary individuals, there were many types of performances, and magic shows were one of them.
But for other Extraordinary individuals who were not of the Seer pathway, the techniques of 'deceiving others' senses' and 'challenging the impossible' that belonged to magic shows were something few of them could master in half an hour. Moreover, the target they needed to deceive in these magic shows was a Sequence Two Miracle Invoker.
Although the magician would provide magic props, they were limited to items without supernatural power. For Extraordinary individuals who had been immersed in the supernatural world for a long time, this was actually a problem.
People have cognitive blind spots. Those who have been walking on the edge of the supernatural world for many years rarely notice things without supernatural power. When they encounter problems, they mostly think about how to solve them with mysticism, ignoring other perspectives.
Therefore, for those who chose to challenge magic shows, failure was the result for the vast majority of them.
But Olson was different. A miracle like the steam engine, which was already beyond the era, directly satisfied the 'miracle' itself, and was not simply corresponding to a 'magic show'. Otherwise, even if Olson passed the magic show, he could only stay here.
To leave this place intact, one must satisfy the 'miracle' corresponding to the Miracle Invoker.
"Add water, yes, raise its temperature, and then add air inside... That's right, add a little more."
Tang didn't know when he had a hammer in his hand.
The hammer, with its dark golden luster and the length of a human forearm, had an unspeakable sense of solemnity. The magician slightly turned his body when he saw the hammer in Tang's hand, seeming somewhat surprised.
'Item Information: Golden Hammer, Silver Hammer.'
'A mystical item provided by the System. Its power depends on the strength of the 'Craftsman' module.'
'Extraordinary Power: The Golden Hammer can temporarily enhance a certain physical/mystical attribute of the hammered item, while the Silver Hammer can temporarily weaken a certain physical/mystical attribute of the hammered item.'
'Negative Effect: 100 knowledge fragments/hour.'
"Don't stop, add a little more air in."
Tang stood before the airtight iron box, the hammer in his hand ready to strike.
The magician kept creating air inside the box. Now, as the temperature rose and the pressure increased, the box had begun to bulge outwards, like a balloon.
"A box that won't deform and cannot be damaged is something of mystical significance. The magician couldn't provide that."
Tang watched as the iron box was about to burst, and struck it upwards with the hammer.
"Giving you a buff."
The iron box instantly contracted, returning to its original shape.
The Golden Hammer had applied mystical power to it, making it permanently 'undeformable and indestructible' for the duration of the Golden Hammer's power.
"I'm quite curious, can a Miracle Invoker hand-craft a nuclear bomb?"
Tang thought with amusement.
(End of this chapter)