Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 220 Twelve is a magical number
The Pure Magic Crystal passed between Celia and Elena, who each examined it and confirmed that it was genuine.

After confirming it without a doubt, the two were even more puzzled.

Finally, Celia carefully put away the Pure Magic Crystal: "What's meant to be will be. I'll keep it for now. This ruin is a bit strange. It certainly won't let us get such a valuable thing so easily. Anyway, I'll take it for now. It's something I picked up for free. I can just throw it away if necessary."

Elena also strongly agreed.

But she offered a constructive suggestion: "Why not try using an emergency teleportation scroll to return to camp?"

Celia was taken aback, then her eyes lit up. "Great idea! We'll know if it's useful once we take it out of the ruins."

As she spoke, she took out a teleportation scroll, opened it, and poured magic into it.

A glimmer of magic was channeled into the scroll, and the scroll began to glow.
But the next moment, the pure magic crystal in her hand suddenly emitted a ball of light, and then a semi-transparent barrier appeared around her, firmly locking her in place, and the faint light on the scroll instantly dimmed.

"The scroll... has malfunctioned?"

Celia was stunned.

Then I felt relieved.

"I knew it. This magic crystal wouldn't be so easy for us to take out."

Ross laughed and said, "This Pure Magic Crystal is exclusive to this ancient ruin. It is only pure magic crystal inside this place. Once you take it out, who knows what it will become? Maybe it will be something else, or maybe it will be a real Pure Magic Crystal. But it won't let you take it out. When the teleportation spell is applied to the Pure Magic Crystal, it will react to prevent the practice of using subspace teleportation to bring it back to reality."

"Exclusively for ruins... Does that mean there might be a place where this magic crystal is needed?" Celia asked.

"You'll have to continue exploring to find out."

Celia briefly told Elena what Ross had said, and Elena was very disappointed: "I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

Returning from the dead end, the two continued forward on the left. Not long after, another fork in the road appeared. This time, the left path was also a dead end, but there was a treasure chest inside, and inside the chest was a pure magic crystal.

Pick up the Pure Magic Crystal and continue forward.

Then came the third, the fourth...

The increasing number of pure magic crystals made the two of them numb to this color scheme.

If these magic crystals weren't something they couldn't take out, they would probably be experiencing the same excitement as someone who's playing a hacked version of a game and can still connect to someone else's regular version.

It's a pity I can't take it out.

Cracked games might be exciting at first, but they get boring after a while.

Upon seeing the high-grade magic crystal, both of them remained calm, having become immune to its radiance.

Now they are more eager to find a way to leave.

"We've been here for several hours now. There aren't any dangerous traps, just branching paths, magic crystals, branching paths, magic crystals. We haven't found any clues about the entrance or exit." Celia looked at Elena and asked, "When you encountered ruins like this before, don't tell me you just relied on time to find them?"

Elena nodded. "We can only rely on time to find it. There's no other way. Why don't you try flying there, Celia?"

Celia shook her head. "I can't fly. If I fly up, it will feel like I'm being crushed by a mountain."

"Then we can only try it slowly."

As they were talking, they came to another intersection. Just as Elena was about to turn left, Celia called out, "Wait!"

"What... what's going on?"

Elena saw Celia walk over, squat down, and pick up a copper coin from the ground.

"Is this the first copper coin you tossed?"

Elena shook her head. "I don't know which one it was, but I definitely threw it."

At first, they threw copper coins, but as more and more paths branched off and they didn't see any cyclical trend, they stopped throwing them.

In the end, they returned to where they started.

Celia looked at the copper coin, then looked up and asked, "To the left again?"

"We've been walking for so long, we can't just turn right now, can we?"

Elena spoke as she walked toward the left-hand intersection.

"I want to see for myself what the treasure chest inside looks like."

In fact, not every intersection along their route was a dead end. Sometimes turning left led straight ahead, while other times both turning left and going straight were dead ends.

Theoretically, if they continued walking like this, they would definitely reach the exit. But now, they've returned to the starting point.

This is a circle.

At the end of the road, an open treasure chest faced them, as if the owner of the ruins was mocking them.

"We've gone in a huge circle and ended up back where we started," Elena said, seemingly annoyed. "If only we had gone to the right from the beginning."

Celia comforted her, "It's not too late to change now. See what the fork in the road is on the right. If going to the right also brings you back to the starting point, then we should consider whether this method is correct."

Elena checked the time. "It took us about four hours to go around in one circle..."

"Four hours is a waste!"

So the two returned to the fork in the road, re-marked the path, and walked to the right without hesitation.

The first right turn is also a dead end, and there is a treasure chest inside. However, there is no pure magic crystal in the treasure chest, but only something that looks like a bowl. It is white all over and covered with strange patterns. There is a number "9" marked inside.

"what is this?"

The two of them examined the bowl carefully, but couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly, Celia had a flash of inspiration, took out a pure magic crystal they had obtained, and put it in the bowl.

Just the right size.

After the pure magic crystal was placed inside, the patterns inside and outside the bowl emitted a faint glow, as if they had been activated by the pure magic crystal.

The two looked at each other, their eyes gradually brightening.

"So, to get out of this maze, you need to find these bowls and the Pure Magic Crystal, and put the Pure Magic Crystal into the bowls?"

Celia frowned. "I'm afraid it's not that simple. We need to remember this. This is bowl number nine. Maybe it will be useful to keep this in mind."

Elena nodded. "Don't worry, I'll remember it."

Having seemingly found a solution, the two moved forward quickly.

Four hours later.

They returned to the fork in the road at the beginning and took out their spoils: eleven bowls and eleven pure magic crystals.

The two arranged the bowls according to their numbers, and Celia stopped Elena from putting the magic crystal on them.

“We’re missing one bowl,” she said.

Elena was taken aback: "Why?"

"I have a feeling that the number of bowls and magic crystals is very likely twelve."

"However, we have exhausted the roads on both the left and right sides, and there is no more road to go."

"There must be more." Twelve is a magical number, and Celia felt that she must have missed something.

Elena said, "Then why don't we put these bowls on the magic crystal first and see if anything happens before we consider it?"

"Right."

Eleven magic crystals were placed in, and when the last one was placed, all the bowls emitted a white light. The road ahead twisted together like a pretzel, forming a broad avenue leading into the depths of the ruins.

"It's not twelve...?"

Celia felt that something was wrong.

Is this maze really without any problems other than being a waste of time?
Her passive spell, Danger Sense, sent a faint sense of impending danger.

Suddenly, she realized something.

"Elena, we forgot a path."

"Which one?"

Celia looked back.

"The one after this one."

　I'm stuck, but there's still one chapter left. Keep going!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)