After coming out of Snape's home, Maka paced gently in the dim spider tail alley, walking leisurely all the way. The snow in the sky is gradually getting bigger again, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the blizzard is about to come again.
In the midst of the flying snow, he patiently thought as he walked, arranging and connecting the information and clues he had just received from Snape one by one. There were thousands of thoughts in his mind.
But while he was concentrating on thinking, he still didn't forget to maintain the magic. As soon as the dense snowflakes reached the top of the head, they suddenly slid to both sides and silently merged into the snow on the ground.
Not long after, he suddenly stopped and found that he had reached a small river without knowing it.
The ticking sound in the ear is still ringing continuously. If you don't pay attention to it, you will inadvertently ignore it over time. But if you care too much, it will make people feel irritable.
Maka thought for a while, took out the time turner from her arms, and looked at it over and over.
This thing was invented by modern wizards, but its core component, the small hourglass embedded in the middle of the golden ring, was not made by modern wizards. To be precise, it is the golden gravel inside the hourglass.
He could sense from those gravels that some kind of strange magic power was constantly flowing, which seemed very mysterious.
If you want to ask, why did Maka suddenly take out the time turner to look at it at this time, but it is because he is really hesitant now.
As for that mysterious ancient magic mirror, he is still at a loss what to do, but the key to the problem lies on that weird and terrifying mirror.
From the information revealed by Snape, it can be seen that Greenwald's methods are indeed powerful. But now, the solution can be said to be clearly laid out in front of Tamaka.
But no matter how he solved it, the mirror always stood on his path, and there was no way around it.
Therefore, there is only one thing he has to do now - find a way to deal with that mirror first. If he is always controlled by that mirror, no matter what he wants to do, he will eventually be unable to make progress.
"...Five hours and twenty-three minutes." Maka looked at the time turner in her hand and muttered softly.
A person as smart as Greenwald would definitely not miss the factor of the time turner, but why is he completely unprepared for it? Obviously, he may know more about the time turner than Maka.
Not to mention that more than five hours will not affect his plan at all, but the time limit will cause those who use it to run into obstacles at every turn, and even one careless move may put their lives in danger.
After using it several times, Maka has deeply felt the difficulty of walking.
Now, we must not only avoid the restrictions and risks of time rules, but also try to deal with the key to the ancient magic mirror. What he faced was the terrible situation of not having enough time.
After a lot of hesitation, Maka's brows gradually relaxed from a frown, as if she had made a decision in her heart.
He put away the time turner again, cheered up again, and then left this dark and gloomy town amid a burst of space distortion.
What to do next? Isn't this obvious? He wants to use these repeated five hours and twenty-three minutes to create a real journey through time and space!
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Maka has always been dedicated to the study of magical knowledge. But in the recent period, continuous emergencies have occupied almost every day of his life, making it impossible for him to calm down and do what he wants to do.
Originally, he had not thought of using a time turner in exchange for more time for research. But the risks and hidden dangers involved prevented him from ever implementing this idea.
Because no one knows whether repeatedly looking back in time will also bring some unpredictable burden to the body.
But now, Greenwald's behavior forced him to do this.
So, during these five unknown hours, a strange and inexplicable scene occurred on the secret island in the Mediterranean:
Every few seconds, a figure will suddenly appear in front of the gate of the magic tower, and without hesitation rush to a specific location in the jungle of the secret island, putting down a small tent, Then eagerly dive into it.
They each occupy a corner of the island, with a certain distance between them, as if they don't know what is happening around them at all, and they are doing seemingly similar but completely different things to themselves.
Without the cover of the jungle, they could even turn their heads and catch a glimpse of each other's existence. However, these figures seemed to be unaware of the wonders happening on the island, or they didn't want to pay attention at all.
And until the end of these five hours, the tents on the island disappeared one after another, as if everything that happened in these five hours was a mysterious dream.
In the end, only one tent was left on this uninhabited island, and the people who had gone in before quietly appeared again. I saw him put away the tent silently, and then looked around.
"This place is not big enough..."
There was a strange look on his face. Although he looked energetic, his eyes were full of exhaustion. He also didn't stay too long... Soon, he took out a shiny golden gadget from his arms, and when he reached out to flip it, it disappeared.
But it was the words he said to himself at the end that made several uninhabited places in the world and this secret island stage this surprisingly horrifying scene at the same time.
…
Maka felt very tired, really tired, and even magic potion could not completely eliminate this fatigue.
It's not that he never rested, but even if he fell asleep, he could only sleep for five hours each time. The remaining physical fatigue and mental fatigue continued to accumulate during the recollections, washing away his increasingly tense nerves.
How many times is this? Thinking of this, Maka lowered her head and looked at the notebook placed on the table... Oh, it was already in the thousands, and converted into days, it was already more than 200 days.
After glancing at the hourglass timer on the table, he leaned his whole body on the back of the chair and let out a long breath.
Time can make many things change, and it can also make people change. During these two hundred days, he kept immersed in research, using his own recollections as research materials, and devoted himself wholeheartedly.
He couldn't give himself too much time to think, otherwise, he wouldn't be sure whether he would change his mind.
But now, he suddenly discovered that even though the incident was still deeply imprinted in his mind, every detail was not omitted, but...
"…Luna."
Maka suddenly opened the drawer next to her and took out a small photo frame. Behind the glass of the picture frame, a slightly confused girl was looking here curiously, looking at him outside the picture frame.
The magic photos were all in black and white, but he seemed to see that faint golden glow, a dazzling color that only belonged to this girl.
However, this golden touch spread in his memory, almost drowning everything. No, what Luna has is not just this golden touch... There are more things about her that fascinate him, and there are more...
"More... what?"
Since when did his memories become blurry
Maka opened her eyes wide and looked hard at the girl in the photo frame. There was an inexplicable wavering in his eyes.
Suddenly, he closed his eyes suddenly and took a deep breath.
After placing the photo frame casually on the corner of the desk, he turned his attention to the paper in front of him again. The ones above are densely packed, but they are not as neat and orderly as before, but more and more scrawled.
Obviously, the non-stop homework has caused some changes in him. In the past, it would have been impossible for him, who was always rigorous, to write the research materials like this.
Maka picked up a large pile of manuscript paper next to her, flipped through it hurriedly, and then gently threw it aside.
In terms of research results, these two hundred plus days were not in vain. He had already drawn many speculations and conclusions about time regression. For example, even though he has gone through thousands of flashbacks, his appearance has not changed at all, and his hair has not grown even an inch.
For another example, looking back for too long can indeed cause damage to the body. After a few attempts that were enough, he felt some kind of indescribable discomfort. Although on the surface, it seemed to just make people feel sick, he knew that it must be more than that.
There are still some research behaviors similar to this kind of using oneself as an experimental subject, but in fact there are not many. After all, he didn't dare to make fun of his own life. He was not the kind of lunatic who would even risk his life for research.
But the most critical thing is that he has never made much progress on the main research object-time rule runes. Even with the rune table behind the "Book of Sin" as a reference, this level of rules is still too mysterious for him.
Maka rubbed her forehead, suppressed the indelible fatigue in her heart, and stood up while supporting the table. The hourglass timer on the table is about to turn over automatically, and the break time is over again.
And now, he has to turn on the time converter again and go back to five hours ago to start the next step of research again.
"... When this incident is over, I have to take a good rest." He muttered with some sadness, waiting for the last grain of sand in the hourglass to quietly settle, and then waved his hand to put away the tent.
At the same time, his tired body also disappeared on the spot.