As everyone spoke, they walked toward the depths.
Carlotta introduced:
"Long before the vault was established, even when the Montelli family was still just a third-rate family renowned for its adventurous spirit and thus mocked for it, my ancestors were already collecting these Echoes."
"They obtained the most rudimentary terminals through adventurous sea trade, continuously collecting Echoes and iterating technology."
"Ultimately... it formed everything you see here."
Lucian thoughtfully glanced around at the displayed Echoes: "So, there is information about the Vitreum Dancers here?"
Carlotta nodded slightly, then teased with a smile: "Oh my, walking all this way, I've discovered that Mr. Lucian is truly perceptive."
"In that case, having Mr. Lucian as a son-in-law would really be underutilizing his talents."
Rover: "?"
Her expression was indifferent: "Why are you still thinking about the son-in-law thing?"
"Today, I'll tell you with one hundred percent certainty."
"My fiancé Lucian is impossible to become the Montelli family's son-in-law!"
Carlotta chuckled lightly: "Rover, I know you're very excited, but don't get excited first."
"Didn't I say that being a son-in-law would be underutilizing his talents?"
"So I'm thinking if I should make Lucian a bit more legitimate..."
Rover interrupted: "Hehe, but I actually thought of a way to make Lucian more legitimate."
Carlotta said curiously: "Oh? Helping me think of a way? Would you be so kind, Rover?"
Rover nodded slightly: "Of course."
"This method is very simple."
"As long as in the dead of night, you switch to a comfortable, warm, soft pillow, then fall asleep peacefully, after all, dreams have everything."
"But it's best to think out the plot before falling asleep, otherwise you might dream of some other things."
"After all, dreams are wildly fantastical and bizarre."
Carlotta: "..."
How could she not hear that Rover was saying she was dreaming?
She covered her mouth and smiled: "That's a good idea, but if it's only experienced in dreams, the randomness is still too great."
"I prefer... to hold fate in my own hands."
Lucian chuckled: "Actually, I also really like having my lifeline pinched by a woman!"
Rover: "?"
Carlotta: "?"
Is the lifeline you're talking about really a lifeline?
Seeing Rover about to erupt, Carlotta waved her hand: "Alright, just kidding."
"Back to the Vitreum Dancers. Actually, the Vitreum Dancer that found you at the Carnevale rehearsal is one of the earliest Echoes of the Montelli family."
"The oldest Vitreum Dancer, and also the master copy for frequency tuning of all Vitreum Dancers."
"Incomparably precious, and incomparably special."
"It was not on the list for releasing Echoes."
"It should have been preserved here forever as an exhibit, but due to a twist of fate, it appeared at the Carnevale, just to... meet you."
Rover shook her head slightly: "To be precise, it met me."
Lucian sighed: "You know, Imperator is quite shy."
"So it could only use this method to express admiration toward me."
Rover was quite speechless: "I feel like your name can be classified as a realm of narcissism."
Lucian snorted coldly: "You still don't believe it?"
"Do you remember when I stared at the Sentinel statue at the Order before?"
Rover recalled upon hearing this and found that there was indeed such a thing; at the time, it was about challenging the rule of not staring at the Sentinel for thirty seconds.
"So your meaning is... the Sentinel also saw you through the statue?"
Lucian was unreasonable but confident: "No!"
Rover: "?"
Carlotta was stunned: "Then what did you discover after staring?"
Lucian grinned: "I discovered that after thirty seconds, the eyes of that Sentinel statue lit up and emitted golden light!"
Rover reached out and touched Lucian's forehead: "No fever here?"
"Could it be that you've been acting crazy too much lately and started having hallucinations?"
Carlotta was thoughtful: "Emitting golden light?"
"Actually, people have tried staring at the Sentinel statue before."
"After all, such an unspoken rule is there, and there will always be people who want to challenge it."
Rover raised her delicate eyebrows: "Did those who stared at the Sentinel also see golden light?"
Carlotta shook her head: "No, they were treated as fools by the Order of the Deep and sent on pilgrimage."
Rover: "???"
"Carlotta, are you telling a hell joke? Or are you two teaming up to prank me?"
Carlotta smiled at the corners of her mouth: "I'm just saying, if Lucian's discovery isn't a hallucination."
"Maybe it really is the Sentinel casting its gaze upon him."
Lucian chuckled: "As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers; the God of Universal Love arriving in Rinascita must have put enormous pressure on Imperator."
Rover slapped the back of Lucian's head: "...That's enough!"
Carlotta chuckled lightly: "It's an unexpected discovery, quite interesting."
"As for that Vitreum Dancer finding you, I don't think it's a coincidence."
"I think this is precisely the arrangement of the Sentinel Imperator."
"It also brought us here, to the place where we can see the archives about the Vitreum Dancers..."
Carlotta pointed to a glowing stone pedestal; Lucian and Rover stepped forward and looked at the archive fragment on the pedestal:
[The Vitreum Dancers are very common in the family but easily overlooked; most members only know that the Dancers are mainly used for indoor guard work.]
[But it has a feature that is easily ignored, which is that no two Vitreum Dancers are completely identical.]
[As is well known, the frequency of the prototype Tacet Discord for the Vitreum Dancers comes from the surviving stained glass paintings in the ruins near Ragunna.]
[Stained glass paintings generally take religious themes from the Order as subjects, varied and diverse.]
[But until now, the family's explorers have never found two identical stained glass paintings, even for the same story, the same theme.]
[This also makes the frequencies of the Vitreum Echoes, like their prototypes, record completely different information.]
[According to legends, its origin is related to the Sentinel.]
[The ancestors of the Montelli family once obtained the Laureate in the Carnevale; Imperator descended an oracle upon him, requiring him to go to a high tower abandoned by the Order.]
[After the ancestor followed the oracle and returned from the high tower, he remained silent and forbade family members from approaching the high tower again.]
[But undoubtedly, he brought back the original Vitreum Dancer.]
[And on his deathbed, he left a last word: The Sentinel's oracle does not affect the family's present, but determines what future the family will step toward.]
[Following the ancestor's will, that high tower was also regarded as a forbidden place by the Montelli family.]
[And as the family found more Vitreum Dancers, the legends about their origins were gradually forgotten by people...]