The next morning, Daneel woke up to a knock on the door.
Opening it, he saw that the Sect Leader himself was standing outside the door.
With a smile on his face, he greeted Daneel, saying, "Good Morning, Master. Once again, I apologize for what happened yesterday. Today, we shall go to the heart of the formation. Even though the auspicious time is not yet here, I thought that you would like to study its structure. What do you say?"
"All right. Just remember our agreement. One item belongs to me. And apologies aren't enough for the incident yesterday."
"Of course, of course. How about this. I will have our head instructor give you a crash course on the most effective assassination techniques. Would that be enough?"
Hearing this, Daneel couldn't help but pause.
It was this easy?
Before sleeping, he had already decided that he would try to obtain the techniques of the Hidden Kill Sect one way or another.
The best method was, of course, to bring up the incident yesterday.
However, as these techniques were the lifeblood of the Sect, he had assumed that it would be very difficult.
So, he had settled on asking for the secondary request of going through their library.
After all, information was power, and it wouldn't hurt to assimilate more knowledge in the system.
Daneel was about to feel happy that the best case scenario had played out, but he stopped when he saw the expression on the Sect Leader's face.
Although he was reptilian, except for the angular nature of his face, the scales and the slits in place of the nose, Daneel could still prehend his emotion to some degree.
The smile was cold, and the Sect Leader almost appeared to be…gloating.
Daneel didn't understand, but he had a feeling that he would find out soon.
Yawning in reply, he said, "I guess that's fine."
"Great! Please meet me at the Central Tower when you are ready."
Leaving these words, the Sect Leader walked away.
Closing the door, Daneel started to freshen up.
Only, he couldn't get the image of the Sect Leader out of his mind.
The most obvious interpretation was that they would not be teaching their core techniques.
However, this didn't make sense as he was an 'expert', who would throw a fit if he was shown mediocre or weak techniques.
So, anyone with mon sense would definitely bust out the good stuff if they promised the crash course in the first place.
After reaching the tower, Daneel saw that the Sect Leader was looking out at the surroundings while standing at the edge of the cliff.
Walking up to him, Daneel couldn't help but raise his eyebrows on seeing the breathtaking view.
Although there were only clouds for the most part, he could see some patches of Angaria.
Very few birds flew at this altitude. After all, they were 8000 meters in the air.
Only, one thing didn't make sense.
There were a few other mountains around him which popped up through the cloud cover, but all of them were snow-tipped.
It was an obvious fact that the higher one went, the colder it would be.
But since Daneel had stepped through that teleportation door, he had only experienced a pleasant temperature.
The Sect Leader answered his unspoken question.
"Our core formation monitors the temperature of the upper part of the mountain, and it is one of the few grand formations remaining."
Well, it made sense.
After all, whoever decided to build their base here wouldn't do so if it meant that everyone would be freezing at all times.
Turning around, the Sect Leader led the way to the tower without a word.
There was no reason for small talk; Daneel was here for a business transaction, and that was the way he acted.
However, he quickly started to realize that this attitude was hardly conducive to his goal of finding a way to subdue this sect.
Yet, when he was just about to speak, they reached their destination.
On entering the tower, the Sect Leader pricked his finger and drew a symbol on the floor in the center of the winding staircase.
With a rumbling sound, a passage opened which lead downwards.
Without a word, the Sect Leader started to descend, and Daneel followed.
[Ultra high-grade Energy Source detected nearby.]
Hearing this notification from the system, Daneel was slightly shocked.
The last time he heard this, he had been at the location of the core of the formation in the Palace of Lanthanor.
Now, they were also going to the core of this formation.
Could the two be related somehow?
"Do you have any idea who set up this formation?
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