[He turns around - the tone and cadence is impossibly familiar, but the actual voice - timbre, octane, didn't line up. Ruler pondered why the differences as he stares down the echo]

Even an obvious trap is a tool to conceal other things.

[The trap's removal was easy - even trivial to him now that he saw how it worked. However, he has plenty of mana - he'll feign the struggle until the trap-setter comes closer, so he can truly discern what is going on]