The Lustful Villain: Every Milfs and Gilfs are Mine!-Chapter 185. A God’s Test Doesn’t Close Before You Find What You Came For.

Chapter 185: 185. A God’s Test Doesn’t Close Before You Find What You Came For.

The stone felt warm in a way that is typical when heat originates from within, rather than from external sources. Rex put his hand flat against the seal and felt the heat move through his palm in slow, steady pulses, like breathing but with a longer time between each cycle.

"Rex... how many times should I tell you?" Aisella looked worried when he just touched the seal without any second thoughts.

"Don’t worry. If something happens, I’ll gladly take any responsibility." Rex held the seal even longer. "For now, I’m really curious about this dungeon because I really want to see that Patronless Apostle..."

"It’s okay, Aisella. Rex probably has a task related to those apostles because of Miss Valentine since the Apostle Gathering, remember?" Talyra giggled.

"I know, but—"

Thereafter, the seal moved.

It didn’t break or fall apart. It moved like a door does when the mechanism inside it gets the right signal.

There was a smooth, planned shift outward that started at the center and spread to the edges. The stone that had looked solid enough to be part of the wall forever separated from itself along lines that had always been there but were not visible until now.

It took about four seconds for the door to open all the way. What came through the opening was not light, sound, or air in the usual way.

It was pressure, the kind that comes from something that had been held in for a long time and then let out into a space that had less of whatever it was than the space behind the door.

Rex felt the pressure wash over him, compelling him to consciously brace himself to remain steady. It wasn’t a violent force, but rather one that was immense, much like the tides—slow, vast, and beyond the comprehension of humans.

As he took a deep breath, Rex could sense the energy swirling around him, wrapping him in its embrace. It was both exhilarating and overwhelming, urging him to explore the unknown depths of this new atmosphere.

Aisella said something that wasn’t quite a word and stepped back two steps without meaning to. Rex caught a glimpse of her wide eyes, reflecting both awe and a hint of fear, and he realized they were on the brink of a revelation.

The air crackled with potential, and he felt an unspoken invitation to dive deeper into this mysterious world together.

Talyra, who was next to Rex, did not move back. Instead, she stepped forward, and the look on her face was the same as when something had surprised her so much that the difference between what she thought would happen and what actually happened became exciting in its own right.

"Whoa~! What was THAT?!" she shouted, and the sound came back from the walls of the room.

"Aura," Rex said, which was technically accurate. "Probably some kind of an ancient aura."

"The eight hundred years of compressed presence are being released through the first opening available."

"Is that dangerous?" Aisella had gotten over the two steps back and was standing with her hands in the diagnostic position, checking the air coming through the door. "This is... the first time I’ve seen something that’s beyond capable of my understanding."

Rex replied, "Not on its own."

He peered through the hole, noting the darkness inside; there were no windows, and the place had been closed for a long time.

His Foresight began to map out the layout: a passage, a descent, and chambers below that were larger than the ones they occupied. Warmth flowed steadily through the opening in slow waves.

Talyra leaned forward and looked through the door with the same focused interest she had for the things that were important to her.

"The aura isn’t hostile," she said, which was an assessment that came from someone with enough sensitivity to the difference between those categories to say it with confidence. "It feels like old authority..."

"The kind that doesn’t need to threaten anything to be felt."

Rex gave her a look. She had just explained something that most experienced practitioners found hard to put into words, and she had done it in the time it took her to lean forward and look.

He included it in the section of his Talyra report that was expanding much more quickly than he had anticipated.

"We’re going in," Talyra said, and the way she said it made clear this was not a question, though she was looking at Rex and Aisella to confirm they had landed on the same conclusion.

"Right...? I know one of you wanted it, but also... one of you looked conflicted with this kind of situation." Talyra said while holding a laugh, and she could notice Aisella’s expression shifted.

"Well... this is part of the assessment," Aisella said from behind them, her voice sounding like it did when she made a decision. "The dungeon survey is a listed criterion, whether we want it or not... we were always going to go in."

"We? More like you, hahaha."

"Shut up, Talyra!" Aisella pouted.

"Anyway... the fact that the seal was here and opened is research data in itself." She said, "The committee is going to want to see everything we can prove."

"Then we’ve made up our minds," Rex said. "Let’s go, but make sure we need to be on high alert."

He went in first because the Foresight was already mapping out the way ahead, and going first was the most logical choice for them. Talyra came in second without being told to, and Aisella came in third.

Then the door made a noise behind them.

It was a low sound that they could feel more than hear, and it lasted for about two seconds.

Rex turned back.

And the door was completely shut, with no gaps or openings.

It had sealed itself back to the state it had been in before his hand touched it, and the lines along which it had opened were invisible again, and the wall was simply a wall.

"Oh no!!!" Talyra panicked and rushed towards the door. "We’re trapped here...!"

Talyra was already pressing her hands against the stone, looking for the mechanism, and Aisella was running a diagnostic on the wall surface with the focused efficiency of someone who needed information before they could react usefully.

For a moment, Rex watched both of them.

"What are we supposed to do, Aisella?!" She said in a panic.

Aisella looked at her with a blank expression. "That’s what you get for trying to make fun of me, probably."

Talyra starts messing up her own hair. "That’s not helping at all...!"

"Don’t worry, we’ll find another way out." Rex said this in an attempt to improve the situation.

"The passage goes down." He said, "There are chambers below..."

Rex then starts to think that it’s actually the time to reveal everything about him to them so that they can at least trust him more.

"The system notification says that what we came here for is at the bottom."

"Really...?" Talyra stopped pushing on the wall and turned to look at him. "You’re not worried at all."

"There’s a way in." Rex said, "And that means... there’s a way out."

"Things don’t stay closed for eight hundred years and then open for no reason." He looked at her steadily. "We came in, and the door closed."

"That’s not a trap, and it’s probably a test to prove our worth here." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Aisella had stopped her diagnosis and was looking at him with the same look she used when she was trying to figure out if someone’s reasoning was correct.

"That’s right in terms of structure." She said, "A trap closes before you find what you came for, but a test closes after you enter and leaves the path ahead open..."

She looked at the passage that was going down in front of them. "The way ahead is clear."

"Then let’s use it," Rex said.