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BOOM. Cracks appeared inside the maze as it began to collapse.

The moment, the frozen black, white and grey appeared in the Original Fire's eyes, he roared and accelerated the burning, making the three legendary items hum and shiver.

After the maze collapsed, Lucien did not see the Original Fire; he only saw a cluster of pure white fire and the expanding staff, ring and robe.

Dangerous!

Lucien blocked Natasha behind his back and extended the Shield of Truth in his left hand. The illusionary colors surfaced, as if the two of them were in a different world.

”Elemental Protection!”

Hathaway's clear voice echoed, and countless elemental spots of light gathered.

In the next, the legendary robe, staff and ring exploded abruptly. Red, purple and yellow, three clusters of fire swept out and razed everything to the ground. Destruction, death, curse, poison, corruption and immolation destroyed all the things on the way.

Despite the Shield of Truth, Lucien could only keep Natasha safe under such a terrible storm and could not press forward. He was unable to slash the Original Fire who was at the center of explosions.

The white fire that was vaguely in the shape of a human howled painfully and angrily:

”I won't let go of you!”

”I'll stuff the quizzes into your mouth!”

Then, an illusionary sound that seemed to be from a different world echoed: ”Advanced Time Stop.”

Black, red, purple, green and all the colors were gone. Lucien saw nothing but a frozen world. Only Natasha and him who were behind the Shield of Truth could move slowly, but they could not interact with the outside world.

After the consolidation was gone, a brilliant shooting star hit the center of the explosions brutally.

”NO!”

The Original Fire cried miserably. Then, his voice came to an abrupt halt with the boom.

The sweeping explosion attacked with the air that could tear apart time and space, but Lucien held the Shield of Truth steadily, preventing himself and Natasha from being hurt. There were only minor cracks on the shield, which could be repaired easily.

It was indeed the best space-time defense!

”Mr. President, has the Original Fire died?” After the explosion, Lucien asked Douglas and Fernando who had blinked to him.

He did not expect the Original Fire to be so decisive. The guy almost escaped.

Douglas nodded his head, but he was still somewhat confused. ”His soul should've been completely destroyed after it was hit by my 'Fateful Meteor', but he seemed to be connected to the World of Souls in a certain way. I'm afraid that he may have other backup plans. However, there's no way that he can resume his strength as a legend any time soon.”

”The World of Souls has intervened, too… We need to accelerate the exploration in this place in case the scheme worked out.” Fernando feared that part of the members of the Church would collude with the World of Souls.

Hathaway flew over from the other side. She wasn't really hurt. Looking at Lucien in confusion, she asked, ”The questions in the maze?”

The Original Fire recited the questions at the end. It seemed that he had been traumatized.

His lips twitching, Lucien spoke of the few unproven speculations.

Douglas frowned. ”Those questions…” He couldn't think of an answer, either.

”Do you have answers? How can you construct the maze if you don't have answers?” Asked Fernando in a loud voice.

Lucien smiled. ”The answers to part of the questions are that they can't be proven for now. That the questions can be changed was meant to be misleading.”

If the questions were too complicated or ambiguous, he could've got the answers from asking the mysterious existence with magic.

Natasha chuckled. ”If he heard the answer, the Original Fire would be infuriated back to life again.”

At this moment, she was holding Kritonia's storage bag and skimming through the journal inside.

Hathaway, Douglas and Fernando did not say anything, but they were apparently thinking the same thing.

Suddenly, Natasha smiled as she read the journal. ”The Original Fire was studying arcana and looking for a way to reshape his cognitive world.”

Lucien was briefly stunned. ”Huh? He was studying arcana? I should've put the experiment of electron diffraction inside the maze. In that case, his legendary items would be mine, and he would have no chance of resurrection…” Any other disruptive experiments could've worked. He felt extremely pitiful that he obtained none of the three legendary items!

”Haha. Evans' Head-Blowing Maze?” Natasha was greatly amused by the creative idea.

Hathaway looked at Lucien, her eyes flashing. They were obviously saying:

”How insane!”