Brilliant runes fluttered through the Great Hall of Hogwarts, bringing wisps of blue light. Magic filled the air, stirring, rippling with mysterious energy ripples that could not be seen with the naked eye.

On the floor of the auditorium that had been emptied in advance, a huge array was flickering and disappearing, and Willy, who was sitting on a chair with a back in the center of the array, frowned slightly with every light of the array.

Yes, as Maca said before, this process of eradicating "cursed substances" is obviously not comfortable.

"Willy, is it still acceptable? Why don't I slow it down a little more? ”

Maca stood on the periphery of the formation, always paying attention to Willy's expression, and seeing her frowning again and again, she couldn't help but ask softly.

However, Willy only shook her head slightly.

"It's fine."

After the words fell a little, the auditorium fell silent again.

As time passed, it could be seen that the frequency of the flickering and extinguishing on the ground was gradually decreasing, but each time it lit up with a faint blue light, it vaguely lasted longer than the previous one.

And this means that each time, Willy has to endure more pain than the last time.

In the auditorium, the drumming of magic became more and more intense.

"It's almost there." Maca looked at Willy, feeling the formation running, and then suddenly spoke again, "Willy, hold on a little longer, and you'll be almost at the limit." ”

“…… Well. ”

Willy replied softly, but her voice sounded a little shaky—if Mr. Blois were here, she would have been distressed.

However, it was clear that Maca did not let him enter the Great Hall, but only asked him to stand guard outside the door.

Not long after, about another ten minutes, the magic power within the formation range was already extremely strong.

Obviously, Maca's array has the effect of absorbing the magic power of the surroundings. It was like a huge, invisible sponge, expanding and contracting again and again, absorbing the magic of the area around Hogwarts, and now it was almost saturated.

That's right, it's "saturation".

At this moment, Maca proved with facts that within a certain space range, magic power does not exist unlimitedly. And this "magic space", which is gradually becoming saturated, further proves that in fact, magic itself can also take on a "material form"!

A few seconds later, just as the concentration of mana reached a limit, Willy's silver hair that was scattered behind her back actually floated and rippled with the flow of mana.

Seeing such a scene, Maca paused slightly, and then decisively stepped forward and placed herself in this array space full of magic with Willy.

"Maca?"

Although Willy, who was in the middle of it, felt a dull pain all over her body, but at the same time, her perception ability instantly became much sharper. As soon as Maca entered, she immediately noticed this, still with her eyes closed, and slowly opened her eyes and looked at Maca.

"Don't worry, that's one of the steps." Maca smiled at her, then felt the feeling of bathing in a sea of magic, and casually said, "Hmm...... To be honest, I wonder if anything will come out if I try to continue to compress the saturated mana. ”

Unfortunately, this is not a magical experiment. The purpose of his design of this formation was just to eradicate the troubles in Willy's body.

"Willy, be careful, bear with me."

The next moment, Maca suddenly reminded her of this, and then she saw that the formation under the two of them suddenly lit up completely, and suddenly released a more intense light than just now.

"Hmm!"

At that moment, Willy's whole body trembled, and her silver hair danced wildly with the explosive turbulence of magical power.

Immediately afterward, I saw that tiny blood-red substances suddenly floated out of Willy's body, gradually scattering in this saturated flow of magic power.

The saturated magic power already has the ability to contain the "cursed substance", so the remaining substances in Willy's body naturally no longer have to remain in her bloodline, but float out by themselves.

This was the most feasible solution that Maca could come up with to solve the hidden danger for Willy. And now it seems that the effect is clearly excellent.

It's just that compared to Maca's state at the moment, the changes in Willy seem to be a little insignificant.

At the same moment when the vision on Willy's side was highlighted, Maca, who was standing not far from her, had a much thicker blood-colored substance on her body.

This is a matter of course, after all, on the island of Rowena before, Maca had absorbed all the "cursed substances" that had been extracted from Willy's bloodline into her body.

Just, why? Why did he take such a risk to inject it into his body to obtain a second rule rune, and now he gave it up again?

This is exactly what Willy is puzzled about at the moment.

Of course, this is clearly not the time to mention this.

At that moment, Maca was obviously enduring great pain—although his expression had not changed at all, his forehead was already bulging, and his teeth were immediately clenched.

However, even with the pain, Maca could only bear it silently. No, since he is still the presiding officer of the formation, he not only has to endure it, but even continues to control the formation to open the next step.

Soon, I saw Maka suddenly raise her right hand, and then squeeze it fiercely out of thin air.

"Hum—"

In a roar that was almost like tinnitus, Willy saw that the blood-colored cursed substance that had originally permeated the space condensed into a ball with Maca's movements, floating up and down slightly, and gradually floated in front of Maca.

Then, Maka dug into her bag around her waist, took out a palm-sized potion vial, and filled it with the substance as she had done at the beginning.

"Crunch—"

As the oak stopper twisted and tightened, Maca followed and waved her hand again, and then several streamers flashed across the entire bottle and on the cork.

"Alright."

Smiling lightly at Willy, Maca lifted her toes and tapped the ground, and the entire formation immediately extinguished its brilliance. After a few seconds, the runes in the Great Hall dissipated one after another, and everything was calm again.

However, Willy didn't care about any of that, she just looked back and forth between Maca and the potions bottle filled with blood-colored substance in Maca's hand, with a slight doubt and uneasiness in her eyes.

"Maca, why?"

A soul rule rune obtained from that cursed substance was so powerful that Willy had experienced it before.

But now, Maca has given it up.

"Because it shouldn't belong to me." Maca shrugged her shoulders and said.

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