I remember that when we were inspecting and adjusting the protective measures in Spiral Town, Maka had already entered the stone room where the core formation of the mercury statue was hidden, and even improved and strengthened the original magic shield formation here. Again.
So it is obvious that Maka, who is currently in the second period of time regression, is not unfamiliar with this stone chamber that is not only invisible, but also automatically absorbs all lighting light.
As soon as he arrived in the stone room, he soon discovered some places that were different from the last time he left through magic induction.
For example, because the magic shield had just been forcibly breached by the army of zombies, two of the several rune stone pillars erected in the stone chamber had already developed a large number of cracks.
That was part of the formation used to activate the shield, but it was obviously completely ineffective now, and even the symbols on it had long since extinguished their brilliance.
However, except for those two stone pillars, the other stone pillars are still functioning normally - the densely packed and radiant alchemical symbols on them are still vaguely discernible.
Although the light appears very weak due to the absorption of light-draining stone veins on the surrounding walls, they are indeed working well.
"Well… "
Maka felt the small secret room carefully again, and then returned her attention to the two cracked tops.
"Just change them!"
This stone chamber is almost filled with various symbols and lines, and most of the operating formations are the core of the mercury statue. The only ones that can move seem to be these two destroyed stone pillars.
While he was thinking, he walked to the stone pillar in the dark, and then stretched out his hand to touch it. Originally, he just wanted to repair it first, but it was just like this, and the touch from his hand made him startled.
"this is-"
It seemed that the damage to these two stone pillars was not the only thing that had changed from the last time he left.
While noticing something abnormal, Maka thought for a moment and then gently shook her finger. The next moment, a ball of light suddenly lit up from his fingertips, and after a slight adjustment, the light was maintained.
Although lighting up the lights here is a bit of a waste of magic power, now, Maka wants to see with her own eyes what changes have taken place on the formations on the two stone pillars in front of her.
Under the light of the light at his fingertips, the old or new, familiar or unfamiliar symbols on the stone pillars immediately came into view.
It can be seen that the old symbols above are basically alchemical symbols that Maka is not familiar with, while a small part of the newer ones are ancient magic texts that he used to strengthen the magic shield when he came here last time.
However, in addition to this, there are actually some newer magic writing marks on it. At first glance, Maka was really surprised.
But soon, he stared at those very familiar magic texts and fell into deep thought.
"I see… "
Not long after, Maka suddenly said to herself in her heart:
"Could it be that... it still failed?"
The profound meaning contained in this sentence is only understood by him, and others will never understand it. But if I had to explain it, it wouldn't be too troublesome to explain.
Maka touched the several incised marks on it, seeming to be a little grateful, but also seemed to find it difficult to accept. This is because those latest carvings were actually made by his own hands.
It's just that it's not him in the past, nor the person he is now in the second time retrospective, but him in a certain "future".
"So... Luna still failed this time..."
Still couldn't escape Haierbo's vicious hand, or in fact, it can be said that it was fate.
Yes, when Maka realized that the extended evacuation time of the refugees might cause Luna to have no time to escape, the "backup plan" he considered had already doomed his third time-travel trip.
"That is to say, the next time I go back in time, I have already come here according to the backup plan and completed this magic text array."
And its function is obviously not complicated. It is to send Luna away at a specific time and replace her in the statue with...
Thinking of this, Maka took out the living corpse he had prepared and placed it between the two damaged stone pillars.
After doing this, he couldn't help but sigh softly.
To be honest, when you conceive a plan one day and find out soon after that someone has already made preparations for the plan you just thought of, you will feel the same as Maka.
This is a plan that uses two times to look back in time.
"Wait a minute, if that's the case, then there should be..."
Suddenly, Maka seemed to have thought of something again, and raised her eyebrows slightly. But when he was about to control the light ball at his fingertips, turn around in the dark stone room, and check it with his eyes again, he paused for an instant.
"No, forget it."
Before she finished speaking, Maka shook her head, and then decisively extinguished the light ball in her hand as if she didn't want to continue delving into it.
Therefore, he did not see that there was actually another "person" in the corner of the stone room, who looked exactly like Luna in appearance - he did not see it, but he knew that there must be such a figure there.
"It's done, it's time to go up."
In order to prevent herself from accidentally discovering more things, Maka even simply put away her perception ability completely, and then walked straight towards the stairs at the exit of the stone chamber.
But when he walked up to the stone steps, he seemed to feel that it was still not enough. After muttering "Get out of here" a few times, he stretched out his fingers and dug at his temples, and then slowly pulled out a slender white silk wadding.
There was no doubt that it was a memory, one that he felt he needed to forget for a while.
"Leave here?" He looked at the memory silk in his hand, then put it into a small test tube and stored it temporarily, "Well... just leave here, don't worry about anything else... go to the secret passage Just wait for Luna.”
After muttering something like this again, Maka finally left the secret room without looking back and returned to the ground. Seeing the entrance to the secret room slowly closing after he came out, he hesitated and scratched his head - the feeling of missing a memory was obviously not good.
"Miss Lovegood, I'll go first... After everyone gets down, you should also get down quickly!"
After waving at the mercury statue, Maka ran straight towards the few remaining refugees, blended into the crowd and left.