"...So this is it? The Maze's [Source Chamber]."
In a strange realm, Madam Xinuo Nie stood before a very old hardwood door—the door and the passage were completely integrated.
A large number of uniformly sized square wooden tiles were embedded in the door.
This was a game Madam Xinuo Nie had often played with Leizang in the past: piecing together the scrambled wooden tiles... What Madam Xinuo Nie had not expected was that such an important [Source Chamber] would be protected by such a simple "lock."
"As expected, you knew long ago that I would come here, didn't you... Leiya."
Looking at Leizang, who was seated against the wall nearby and still wore a vacant expression, Madam Xinuo Nie could not help sighing softly.
Her sharp blade-fingers began sliding haphazardly across the wooden tiles on the door.
The complete pattern should be a formula—a formula for opening the [Source Chamber].
There were many possible arrangements, and each one could be used successfully, but only one was the correct formula. If someone else came here and assembled the wrong formula, the [Source Chamber] would probably be destroyed outright.
This place—the only place that could truly control the [Golden Nightmare Maze]—was the hidden core that [she] and Leizang had jointly constructed back then.
Just as many creators liked to leave a mark belonging solely to themselves in an unknown corner of their works... the creations of a Magic Creator were also a form of artistic creation.
When the maze had been designed, this had been the final safeguard established to prevent magical creations from rebelling against their creator because of their overwhelming strength.
"So it's this formula..."
After the final wooden tile was moved, Madam Xinuo Nie studied the complete formula, seemingly sinking into some memory.
Formulas could also be beautiful, because