607 A Swarm of Spells (2/2)
The Original Fire's veins bulged. It was a humiliation. Was Lucien Evans so confident of his maze?
Having no time to read the long introduction, he began to solve the puzzles.
”The first question. A barber in a town once said that 'I shave those and only those who do not shave themselves'. So should he shave himself?”
The Original Fire was immediately stunned. He thought quickly but couldn't find an appropriate answer. His brain almost exploded because of the logical contradiction.
”Change the question.” He said gloomily, while he tried hard to break the maze.
”The second question. Please prove that every even number that is greater than 2 can be written as the summation of two prime numbers.”
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Not having the slightest clue, the Original Fire hurried to consult the mysterious existences with prophecy, only to be answered with nothing. It made him curse in a low voice. ”Change the question!”
”I'm sorry, but you can only change the question once.”
”…” The Original Fire burst into fury. His eyes bloodshot, he destroyed the maze with magic and spared some of his attention to the question.
As time went by, a miserable and angry roar suddenly exploded inside the maze:
”Ass*ole!”
His voice seemed to be containing certain doubts about his intellectual faculties.
...
On the rail between Rentato and Allyn, the magic steam train pressed forward as if nothing had happened. Grand Duke of Orvarit and Camil, who were transferred by Hathaway earlier, did not understand what had happened. They could only contact the Lord of Storm as per Lucien's instruction before the wedding.
After the line was connected, before Grand Duke of Orvarit said anything, the other side of the line spoke fast. ”I got it.”
On the thirty-third floor of the Allyn, Fernando, in his red magic robe, chanted the spell, with a storm surfacing in his eyes:
”Regather!”
Sensing the waves of the magic, Douglas also chanted on the thirty-fourth floor:
”Regather!”
'Regather', aside from being triggered passively, could also be cast voluntarily to regather around the target that was set earlier!
However, if the distance was too far, it might not be as fast as a direct space jump. It was only suitable for the scenario where the target's coordinates were unclear!
Fernando and Douglas were surrounded by swirls of air currents before they vanished.
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After 'Advanced Time Stop' was over, Hathaway recovered first, but the Primordial Mummy and the Lich King weren't any slower.
One of them was a melee undead creature that was immune to plenty of spells, and the other was a spectral sorcerer that had a myriad of weird spells. They were the dominators of the area outside of the Temple of Spirits.
The Lich King's spells, in particular, were different from the current arcana system but close to what the ancient sorcerers were capable of. It was a pity that he was faced with a grand arcanist who had profound magic knowledge. She had cracked all his spells easily.
Therefore, Hathaway had suppressed both of them, though she had only become top legendary two years ago.
Also, Hathaway did not seem interested in assisting Natasha, or maybe it was because she was too busy suppressing the two legendary specters. She stopped approaching Natasha.
Kritonia's longsword slashed Natasha after Time Stop, but it merely passed through her as if she were a shadow.
Countless cracks appeared on Natasha, before she broke apart like a mirror. She then appeared far away, with an additional small and delicate shield in her hands. There was also a weirdly-shaped crown that seemed to be made of starlight above her veil.
”A real illusion!”
It triggered the effect of the Thorny Crown!
Lucien felt that it was somewhat similar to the gravitational lens. The moment Natasha was consumed by the crack, she immediately activated the Thorny Crown according to the plan.
She was only a gold knight and could take two legendary items at most, so she did not bring out the Sword of Truth.
After the first attack failed, Kritonia noticed that the Original Fire had been trapped by Lucien's Maze and that Lucien had advanced into legendary. Greatly shocked, the very first idea he had was to flee immediately!
But his battle experience calmed him down. Although the Original Fire was trapped and Lucien had become legendary, the experts of the World of Souls had stalled Hathaway, too. Under such circumstances, should he, a level-three legendary knight, be scared of a newly-advanced legend and a gold knight, even though they both had powerful items?
”I'll leave if I cannot finish Lucien and Natasha in thirty seconds!”
He set a time limit for himself in case he was surrounded by reinforcements and Hathaway after she got rid of her enemies. Also, he was very confident about his power of time and believed that it could disrupt most of the life-preserving spells.
”Space Staff!” Lucien's low voice echoed again, as he took action to help Natasha.
The space around Kritonia was immediately frozen as if it were about to cage him inside.
You are dealing with me with the power of time of such a level? In a mocking smile, Kritonia, wearing a black tuxedo, seemed to be wandering in a different time and space and directly walked out of the frozen space, before he slashed at Lucien with his glistening longsword!