"I see... I see... That's why loina worked so hard to design a plan that spans thousands of years, but she was always vague. It's also the reason why the magical image she left behind even didn't hesitate to kill me to prevent me from opening it. Yes, I see... This huge mystery has finally been solved."

Just the second after the stone box was broken with a "click" sound and the magic attached to it, Maka couldn't help sighing.

However, the expression on his face was not full of joy and pleasure when solving the mystery, but full of dignity.

"Cough... Cough... Cough..."

Suddenly, the injury caused by Maka's patience with the rules of time was finally uncontrollable because of the excessive emotional fluctuation in his heart, and churned in his body again.

"Cough... Poof!"

After a violent cough, he felt his throat surging, a mouthful of blood choked out, and his hands covered his mouth.

However, as soon as the blood came out, he finally felt a little relaxed. After taking out a bottle of magic medicine and pouring it into the abdomen together with the residual blood in the mouth, Maka couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief with the immediate effect.

Unfortunately, the damage accumulated by the rules of time has nothing to do with the black box at his feet. Even if he feels better, it is obvious that there are more important things to do now.

Throw the empty medicine bottle into the darkness nearby. In a few jingles, Maka casually wiped the blood on her face and bent down to reach for the black box in front of her.

It was as if he had intended to do it, but in fact, the idea had just flashed through his mind.

"Wait."

At a moment halfway through, Maka suddenly realized that something was wrong, and suddenly stopped on the way. A few seconds later, he immediately took back his outstretched hand.

"It's so close... It's almost." Maka stood up straight, then subconsciously raised her hand, looked at her palm and murmured to herself, "something's wrong. It doesn't seem as simple as I thought."

In fact, starting from the destruction of the stone shell outside the black box, Maka can clearly feel that the black box is releasing some strange and strong influence. This invisible force seems to be urging him to open it, open it, open it

Yes, the influence of this power on him is indeed quite strong, and even exceeds the strength of the rules that confuse people and control people's soul.

Up to now, Maka's new edition of the book of sin has recorded five sources of disaster, including sword, giant monument, ancient mirror, dagger and the curse material extracted from Willie's body. But apart from the Gryffindor sword that Maka didn't personally experience, the influence of the other four items and four branches on people can be said to be far less than this mysterious black box.

Therefore, Maka can really believe that royna's concern is justified.

But... Just on the strong temptation released by this rule branch, Maka asked herself that she could resist it.

Yes, it's really hard, far from ordinary people can resist - even because of the sudden need to resist this power, his mind was unstable, his soul agitated and induced the attack.

But for Maka, who has deeply studied the soul rules and experienced five branches, it is not impossible to resist this power as long as she is prepared.

However, from the point of view of the situation that almost reached the Tao just now, the problem does not seem to lie solely in the powerful force itself.

"Is there something else... That I don't notice working?"

Maka stared at the black box at her feet with a serious face, and her two hands clenched each other with ten fingers, so as not to happen again when she was thinking.

However, preventive measures like him do not seem to have played a great role.

I don't know what's going on. Maka, who is concentrating and meditating, suddenly has a stagnant look in her eyes, and the two hands held together release themselves. Then, he leaned down again and put his hand out to the black box.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, relying on her strong spiritual will, Maka, who came back in time, frowned fiercely, shook the hand she was extending into a fist, and then hit it heavily on the ground.

Without any protection, his fist went down, and several joints that directly touched the ground were suddenly torn open. When he raised his hand again, the blood immediately slipped down his fingers.

But he didn't care about this little injury at all, and the slight tingling on his hand became a warning to constantly remind him not to do some superfluous actions.

"Tut," Ma Ka smacked his tongue, quite confused. "What's the problem?"

This time, while he murmured softly, he even had to step back two steps to keep himself away from the strange black box.

"There should be 'greed' and 'laziness' left in the branch rune, and this... Look at this situation, it should be the former?" he dared not easily look at the black box, but slightly staggered his eyes and looked at the array on the ground.

This formation was specially designed for today. In the past few days when he lived here with brova's father and daughter, he spent a lot of time on it, so that when there was an accident, he could immediately seal the things in the stone box.

But now he found that he had wasted his efforts, because the array he designed for the soul rules didn't work on this thing at all.

After all, he started it from the beginning.

But fortunately, Maka, who is always used to leaving herself a way back, did prepare another plan - with the cause of royna's death in front of him, he didn't dare to gamble with his life unprepared!

At this moment, after nearly landing several times in a row, Maka finally determined that it was difficult to solve this new big problem immediately. Therefore, it's better to seal it again first.

To this end, he also specially prepared something.

As like as two peas, he suddenly took out a stone box which was almost identical to the one he had destroyed before, and then he did not go over it, and threw the stone box directly in front.

He imitated it directly according to the stone casket of royna. Some principles are not clear, but at least it can be used.