As for Maka's third trip back in time, if anyone could watch from the sidelines, they would definitely be confused by his inexplicable itinerary.
Because from the beginning to the end, apart from going to the square to modify the alchemy formation under the mercury statue, the rest of the process was almost just waiting, waiting, and waiting.
Then, Luna appeared.
In fact, this is exactly the case - the only "serious thing" he did was to add an extra teleportation array under the mercury statue, and then used the transformation technique to create a teleportation array that was, at best, just okay. There is just a "fake Luna" inside who speaks a few fixed words and acts according to a fixed pattern.
However, despite the simplicity of his actions, they even seemed rather clumsy in some places.
Just like the "fake Luna", it was much simpler than the one hidden in the mercury statue last time and used to withstand Haierbo's punch on Luna's behalf.
After all, at least that "Luna" who was disguised as a living corpse not only used deformation to disguise her appearance, but the adjustment of the magic power fluctuations in her body also took a lot of effort from Maka, so much so that Haierbo was slightly deceived. .
However, with such crude and crude actions, coupled with several hours of waiting, he was able to "steal" Luna out of the intricate battle.
Yes, I have actually mentioned it before. What Maka did in these three flashbacks was to save people. Now that Delphi has been rescued, his only target is Luna.
Since he failed to save Luna in a more conventional way twice in a row, causing Luna to die at the hands of Haierpo every time, Maka naturally had no choice but to think of a more thorough way to save people - then It's better to pick Luna out of the flowers.
As long as she doesn't have to actually appear in Haierbo's sight, wouldn't she die in the other's hands
But in fact, even Maka himself did not expect that this method, which was originally just a "backup plan", would actually succeed!
"Luna, come and sit down! I think that at least for a short time, there will be no safer place than here... and I also need to take a little rest."
Beside the bonfire on the beach, Maka said this as she gently sat down on a beach chair next to her, and then sighed slowly.
His trip seemed effortless, but in fact it was anything but easy. And this matter may have to start from a certain point in time when he last looked back in time.
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"Miss Lovegood, open the secret passage! Everyone is here."
"Lupin, did you say something just now? I'm a little busy at the moment..."
Just when all the refugees gathered in the center and prepared to evacuate Spiral Town from the secret passage according to Maka's arrangement, Luna was slightly delayed because she needed to support two layers of magic shields.
And soon, when the first layer of shield was shattered by Haierbo's punch from the outside...
"Okay! Luna, what did you just say? Can you say it again?"
"I mean, open the secret passage!"
"Of course, that's no problem, but I think you have to step back a little bit—"
Since Luna needs to maintain the magic shield until the second layer is breached before she can leave, before that, she can only stay in the mercury statue. After the second layer of shield was also broken, the series of battles between Maka, Harry and Haierbo in the sky above the town actually did not consume much time.
So it has to be said that when Maka saw that the evacuation was a bit hasty and insufficiently prepared, causing the refugees to enter the secret passage with some delay, he had already realized that Luna might not be able to make it in time.
Maka is undoubtedly a cautious person. He is often accustomed to considering failure first when doing things, leaving one or two backup options in advance to arrange a retreat for himself.
However, among the refugees waiting to evacuate into the secret underground passage, Maka discovered another bigger problem when she thought about it more!
That is... if his action to save Luna this time also fails, then the difficulty for him to come up with a third rescue plan will rise sharply.
In other words, every time he fails in this mess, things will become more complicated, and it will become more difficult for him to "manipulate" in it.
After all, his actions again and again are actually equivalent to adding one more "fact" that cannot be changed during this period of time. In other words, he is tying himself up.
This is undoubtedly a very bad thing for Maka, who is trying to correct the past and save Luna and Delphi through a short period of backtracking.
Therefore, while fearing that she might not be able to save Luna, Maka, who was in the middle of the second time regression at the time, just came up with a remedy plan that might be used as a backup and turned failure into part of the plan. .
"Crack-bang!"
Just as Maka came up with a new plan, the second layer of magic shield was finally breached by a large group of living corpses. Countless living corpses poured in from all sides of the town, and Maka and Haierpo also rushed in from outside.
After a fight of wisdom and strength, Maka and Harry actually injured Helbo's seemingly indestructible demonic body, which made Maka, who planned all this, look extremely dazzling at that time.
But at the same time, another Maka, who was waiting for the last few refugees to enter the secret passage on the other side of the square, blended in with the crowd and looked inconspicuous.
As he walked, he occasionally looked back, turning over and over in his head the steps of the plan he had just thought of.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally felt that there should be nothing wrong, and then hurried to the side of the mercury statue.
"Who? Oh... don't, don't come in... Ah! Who is pulling out my hair?"
Not everyone can enter the Mercury Statue, but this obviously cannot prevent Maka from doing something.
"Miss Lovegood, Mr. Myrlane asked me to come here. He wanted me to go to the control room to see if it can be repaired after all the shields are broken."
Because there were still evacuees, Maka didn't speak loudly, so as not to slow down the retreat.
"Huh?" Luna muttered in the statue, seemingly puzzled, "Are you going in there again?"
Although she was obviously a little confused, now that both layers of shields had been broken, there was no need to stop people from entering.
Soon, I heard Luna say:
"Okay, just let me go! I'll open it for you..."