"I see...... I see...... That's why Rowena has worked so hard to devise a plan that spans thousands of years, but she remains silent, and why the magical image she left behind would prevent me from opening it even if she wanted to kill me. Yes, I see...... This huge mystery has finally been solved. ”

The next second when the stone box was shattered with a soft "click" and the magic attached to it, Maca couldn't help but sigh.

However, the expression on his face was not full of joy and joy when the mystery was revealed, but was full of solemnity.

"Ahem, ahem...... Ahem...... cough cough cough cough ......"

Suddenly, the injuries caused by the rules of time that Maca had been enduring were finally unable to be suppressed because of the excessive mood fluctuations in his heart, and they churned in his body again.

"Ahem, ahem...... Burst! ”

After a violent cough, he felt his throat surge, and a mouthful of blood suddenly choked out, spitting out his palms that covered his mouth.

However, as soon as this mouthful of blood spit out, he finally felt a little relieved. After taking out a bottle of potion and pouring it into her stomach along with the remaining blood in her mouth, Maca couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as the effect of the medicine was immediately exerted.

It's a pity that the damage accumulated by the rules of time has nothing to do with the black box at his feet, even if he feels better, but there are obviously more important things to do at the moment.

Throwing the empty potion bottle into the darkness next to him, Maca smeared the blood from her face with a few jingling noises, and bent down to reach for the black box in front of her.

It was a smooth gesture that he had done, so to speak, as if he had intended to do it—but in reality, the thought had only just crossed his mind.

"Wait."

At a moment halfway through, Maca suddenly sensed that something was wrong, and then suddenly stopped her hand on the way. And after a few seconds, he immediately withdrew the outstretched hand.

"It's dangerous...... Just a little bit. Maca straightened up, then subconsciously raised her hand to look at her palm, muttering to herself, "No, things don't seem to be as simple as I thought." ”

In fact, from the moment the stone shell on the outside of this black box was destroyed, Maca could clearly feel that this black box was releasing some kind of strange and strong influence. This invisible force seemed to be constantly urging him to open it, open it, open it......

Yes, the influence of this power on him is indeed quite powerful, even more than the strength of the rules that confuse people's hearts and control people's souls in the Monument of Bewitchment.

Today, Maca's new edition of the Book of Sins contains five items of the source of calamity, a sword, a monument, an ancient mirror, a dagger, and the cursed substance extracted from Willy's body. But except for the Gryffindor Sword, which Maca didn't personally experience, the other four items and four branches can be said to have far less influence on people than this mysterious black box.

Thus, Maca was able to believe that Rowena's concerns were justified.

But...... With the powerful allure unleashed by this branch of the rules, Maca asked herself if she could still resist it.

Yes, it was indeed a struggle, far more than anyone could resist - even because of the sudden need to resist this force, he was mentally unstable and his soul stirred, which induced the attack of injury.

But for Maca, who has studied the rules of the soul in depth and experienced the five branches firsthand, it is not impossible to resist this power as long as she is prepared.

However, judging from the situation that almost came to an end, it seems that the problem is not only in the powerful force itself.

"Could there be something else...... A force I don't perceive is at work? ”

Maca stared at the black box at her feet with a serious face, and her two hands were intertwined with her fingers, so as not to repeat the unexpected situation just now while she was thinking.

It's just that precautions like his don't seem to have much effect.

I don't know what happened, but Maca, who was contemplating and contemplating, suddenly froze, and the two hands that were held together let go of themselves. Then, as if a ghost had sent him, he leaned over and reached out to the black box again.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, Maca, who had relied on her strong spiritual will to come back to her senses in time, frowned violently, clenched the hand that was originally reaching out into a fist, and then slammed it on the ground.

Because he didn't do any protection, his punch went down, and the skin and flesh suddenly opened at several joints that directly touched the ground. When he raised his hand again, blood immediately slid down his fingers.

But he didn't pay attention to this small injury at all, and the slight tingling sensation in his hand became a constant warning to remind him not to make some unnecessary movements.

"Tsk," Maca smacked, rather confused, "what's the problem?" ”

And this time, as he muttered softly, he even had to take two steps back to move himself a little further away from the eerie black box.

"Branching runes should still have 'greed' and 'laziness' left, and this ...... Looking at this situation, it should be the former, right? He didn't dare to look at the black box lightly, but staggered his gaze slightly, looking at the formation map on the ground.

This formation was designed by him specifically for today. In the past few days that he had lived here with the Blois father and daughter, he had put a lot of thought into it, so that in the event of an accident, he could immediately seal the contents of the stone box.

But now he realized that his efforts were in vain, because the formation he designed for the rules of the soul didn't work for this thing at all.

After all, he had already started it from the beginning.

But fortunately, Maca, who is always used to leaving himself an extra way back, has indeed prepared another plan - with the cause of Rowena's death in front of him, he didn't dare to gamble with his life unprepared!

At this moment, after almost falling on the road several times in a row, Maca finally determined that it would be difficult for her to solve this new big problem immediately. So, it's better to reseal it first.

And for this purpose, he also specially prepared something.

Thinking so, he suddenly took out a stone box from his waist that was almost identical to the one he had destroyed before, and then threw the stone box directly in front of him without going over himself.

This is a direct imitation of Rowena's stone box, and some of the principles are not clear, but at least it can be used.