What witch? The Deadly Pharmacist!

The headhunting rabbits charged at Karon in droves. To prevent himself from being cut by these rabbits and risking bleeding, Karon began to fight these suicidal monsters with all his might.

"Run!" Leon rushed over, grabbed Lena's hand, pulled her up, and ran away.

"How can you be so calm?" Lena was surprised by Leon's quick thinking, then shouted, "This is leading deeper into the maze—"

"Trust me!" Leon led Lena to hide deep within the maze.

Soon after, Caron's laughter and calls for surrender rang out: "You can't escape, there's no way out here. Leon Seth, come out now, and I might spare your life."

"You won't come out? If I find you, I'll break your arms and legs, making you wish you were dead..."

"You have one last chance..."

Lena leaned against Leon, barely daring to breathe, but to her surprise, Leon didn't react much. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest, but Leon's heart rate remained steady, and he was methodically reloading the gun.

A short while later, Caron's voice changed.

Damn it!

"You son of a bitch, what did you use on me?"

"You dare to betray me?! I'll tear your guts apart with my sword, I'll gouge out your eyes!! I'll kill you!"

"Fuck!"

As Caron's voice grew increasingly agitated, Leon picked up the loaded gun, looked at the still frightened Lena beside him, smiled, reached out and patted her head, smoothing her side hair.

No matter how many times he was given the choice, even if it was an illusion, he probably wouldn't choose to give up Lena.

"Huh?" Lena was stunned.

Putting aside the fact that she didn't understand why Leon could still laugh at a time like this, at this point in time, she and Leon hadn't yet confirmed this intimate relationship.

"Thank you, Lena, thank you for giving me the opportunity to choose this life!" Leon said to the Lena of the past.

After saying that, Leon ignored Lena's surprise, got up and walked out, striding over to Caron Esso, who had already fallen to the ground.

“Enough! I lost! I surrender! Let’s make a deal again, give me the antidote! Give it to me now—” Kalon shouted at him.

Before he could finish speaking, Leon suddenly aimed at the immobilized man and fired a shot into his right eye.

With a bang, blood mist exploded from Caron's right eye, and the bullet to his head made him stiffen for a moment.

Leon now knows that even a Tier 1 Steel Body has weaknesses; the eyes can still be injured, though they are generally difficult to aim at.

Even so, the shot to the eye was not fatal to Caron. He was still staring at Leon Seth with disbelief, looking at the creature he had previously regarded as an insect.

The contempt Leon showed him now was even greater than when he had looked at him in the past.

In that instant, Kalon finally realized that he had been looked down upon by the other party all along, even though he possessed the powerful strength to withstand even a hail of bullets, while the other party was clearly just an ordinary person without blessings, yet he was the one being despised by the other party!

"Who do you think you're talking to?" Leon said coldly, not wasting any time on his hands.

He picked up the longsword that Caron had dropped and pierced Caron's other eye with it.

The moment Caron died, Leon's vision suddenly changed, and he returned to reality. In the surrounding darkness, ruins were vaguely visible on both sides of the road.

He was no longer in that endless tunnel, but standing in the ruins of the city of Elland.

He passed another level, and after that, his location became closer and closer to the center of the maze.

So that's what it feels like to replay a past dungeon.

Leon felt he had grasped the basics and continued along the path.

Chapter 694: Just replaying the dungeon.

Through his own experience, Leon gradually began to understand the principles behind Saint Astartes' power.

If he were to make the same choices he made at those crucial junctures in the past, events would unfold as they did in the original timeline.

His abilities would correspond to that point in time, but his memories would not.

The future he has experienced will still leave traces in his consciousness in some form, giving him a sense of déjà vu about the events he has experienced. At the same time, it will also leave him with the way of thinking that he has cultivated in the future. Moreover, the closer to the present time, the clearer the memories will become.

This is a double-edged sword. It allows him to face past experiences more calmly. He can accept the guidance of déjà vu, like replaying a dungeon he remembers playing, and making himself do better than last time.

At the same time, this mindset will also change his view of the past. In the past, he was somewhat afraid of Caron, who was much stronger than him. But from the current perspective, Caron Esso is an insignificant little man in Fenrir, who has begun to influence the country.

This idea was actually a bit dangerous for him at that point in time.

In addition, when experiencing the past, he seems to have other options, such as passively avoiding battle in order to protect himself, which theoretically would give him a higher survival rate.

But he was unsure what the consequences would be if he chose a path drastically different from the past timeline. If a death that had never occurred in the past might be repeated in his life, and if he made other choices and lost something other than life, would this blessing also project the state of "him" who had walked on another timeline onto him in this moment?

For example, if he had abandoned Lena at that time and hadn't killed Caron in order to protect himself, he wouldn't have had the chance to receive Moirai's blessing.

Even if he survives this reenactment and returns to this point in time, will the blessing on him be sealed away by the effect of this reenactment?

He neither dared nor wanted to take such a risk; in comparison, risking his life to replay these dangerous dungeons was more suitable for him.

Continuing forward, this time he found himself in a luxurious office, where he saw Mr. Griffin, Henry Porter, dead with his throat slit.

At this moment, he sensed his own blessing power, although this power was only that of a first-order witch.

He immediately acted on his déjà vu, sensing the invisible assassin attacking him, and then managed to dodge the attack.

"Who are you?" the assassin asked him.

The assassin was met with the sound of a window shattering; Leon didn't hesitate to smash through the window and rush out.

After landing, he ran out and then saw Aaron rushing over. The assassin landed behind him and then froze when he saw Aaron locking onto him.

Leon didn't stop and ran past Aaron without looking back.

"Judge Seth?" Aaron was somewhat surprised in this time and space, and looked back at him with a puzzled expression.

Leon felt the scene shift again, and he was back in the ruins.

"It seems I'll come back as soon as the possibility of death disappears," Leon thought to himself, and then continued deeper into the territory without hesitation.

More of the past began to repeat itself on him, those moments that put his life on the line: being chased by earth dragons while exploring the labyrinth, turning into a werewolf and fleeing with Weiss from the church's siege in the Grand Parish, capturing the count's daughter on the fortress while the count's army was at the gates, and then the Battle of Alexia at sea.

This time, Leon deliberately rushed into the lower deck to lure Alexie, who had transformed into an insect, to attack him. Then, he preemptively set a fire with gunpowder, setting Alexie and himself ablaze.

The moment Alexie appeared with a scream, Leon killed her with Cursed Blood.

The next instant, Leon was back in the ruins, the excruciating pain throughout his body causing him to collapse to the ground.

"As expected, the pain will come with it!" Leon endured the pain and got up to examine his burned body.

The closer he got to the present, the more complete his power became, and the clearer his memories became.

When fighting Alexios, he had basically recalled his experience of defeating Alexios and used fire to create an opening in Alexios in advance.

This time, his injuries were much less severe than before. He was not paralyzed from the waist down by Alexia, but his entire body was burned.

And the moment he returned, this state was still projected onto him at this point in time.

In this light, the troublesome aspect of Saint Astartes' blessing power lies not only in its lethality, but also in its ability to project past traumas onto the person affected.

This also confirms Leon's earlier guess that the blessing can only be reenacted by using those points of divergence as anchors, rather than directly reenacting the result. Otherwise, the blessing should have been able to directly reenact the result of his battle with Alexia, leaving him in a pyrrhic victory where he was half-paralyzed and at the mercy of others.

Even so, he had already prepared corresponding contingency plans.

The pain quickly began to fade from his body. Leon adjusted his breathing and re-examined his body. The burns began to heal at a visible speed, with new skin and werewolf fur growing back.

He completed his self-healing in just a few minutes, which is certainly not something that a werewolf's physique can achieve.

Before descending, he had Lamia bestow upon him the Blood of Rebirth. As long as he was near Lamia, the Blood of Rebirth would continuously heal him whenever he was injured, until the blessing power was exhausted.

Even if he were to become a cripple like he did in his last battle with Alexia, Lamia could still heal him.

However, given the current situation, he cannot replenish his newborn blood from Lamia, and he must rely on it to overcome the remaining obstacles.

Creatures began to appear in the ruins, including bioluminescent plants common in the maze, and he was getting closer and closer to the center of the maze.

Through the dim light, Leon saw a towering building at the end of the road, its outline suggesting it was a massive temple.

That should be his final destination.

He continued forward without hesitation, and then more of the past began to replay in his mind. He once again experienced the race against the red mercury flames that Norman had set off, and faced attacks from Reginald and Aaron simultaneously on the warship.

Leon became increasingly calm and also increasingly enjoyed the process. Replaying these dungeons gave him a strange sense of fulfillment, as if affirming the path he had walked.

Soon, he found himself standing at the entrance of the temple.

"Is this it?" He looked up and examined the abandoned temple, suddenly beginning to have doubts.

Is it really that simple?

Chapter 695 The BOSS revealed his health bar

Leon began to sense that something was wrong.

After experiencing it firsthand, he discovered that the seal of Astartes was not as troublesome as he had imagined.

Reliving a near-death experience carries considerable risk, but for those accustomed to overcoming death, it is at least easier than tackling an unknown challenge.

Even for those who have never experienced such a life-or-death situation, simply reenacting their past would probably not be very challenging.

If Dorothy and Lamia's theory is correct, then the method to break the seal of Astartes is actually to throw a large amount of extremely pure magic into the center of the labyrinth, which doesn't actually require anything from the person carrying it out.

In other words, as long as a suitable person is selected and allowed to bring magic essence into this sealed land, there is a chance to break the seal of Saint Astartes.

Although the labyrinth is heavily guarded by the church, making it impossible for ordinary people to get close, if we disregard that and consider only the seal left by Saint Astartes himself, isn't the loophole a bit too big?

Astartes was a saint with the blessing of omniscience and the ability to control the past and future to a certain extent. How could the seal he created at the cost of his life have such a big flaw?

Thinking of this, Leon became alert, activated his precognitive state, and headed towards the interior of the temple.

This appears to be the Earth Mother Temple built in the city of Elland. Its style is very similar to the temples that Leon saw in the labyrinths of Arend Island and Lamia, but its structure and shape seem to be more design-oriented. The upper structure looks somewhat chaotic and even violates the laws of mechanics.

Leon sensed something was wrong again. He put down the red mercury incendiary bomb he was carrying, drew his longsword, and flames surged from the blade, making it shine like a torch.

With the help of this light, he could see the top of the temple and was momentarily stunned.

He couldn't see clearly in the darkness, but now he realized that the temple had already collapsed, the pillars were broken, and the dome was shattered. However, the process of the collapse seemed to be frozen, with the broken pillars and shattered tiles suspended in a certain position at a certain moment.

It's as if time here has been paused.

Given that the magic of this labyrinth is still active, could it be that Saint Astartes' seal did not block or destroy the source of the labyrinth, but rather trapped it in a spacetime of his choice?

Leon thought for a moment, then activated time acceleration and precognition. In his mind, his clone accelerated into the temple and disappeared only when the precognition ended.

It appears that the effect of this time-interference only applies to this temple and does not have the same effect on those who enter the temple.

Then we'll have to go in and find out.

Leon, keeping a watchful eye on the changes in the temple, strode up the steps and entered the desolate temple.

Upon entering the temple, he found it already in complete disarray; the spacious hall was filled with fragments of statues and pillars, and parts of the walls had collapsed.

Leon brandished his longsword to make the flames shine brighter, and then he saw the towering Moirai statue he had seen before on Arende Island, draped in a carved veil. In this temple where no intact parts could be found, the statue remained intact and even well-preserved, as if someone had been tending to it every day.

He did indeed see an additional figure standing in front of the temple. The person was wearing a long robe and stood there motionless, like a devout pilgrim. However, the person did not kneel or pray, but simply stood there with his back to Leon, looking up at the statue of Moirai.

Leon didn't sense any living presence from the man. After observing him for a while, he noticed that the man's hands had a rough, grayish-white texture under the firelight, like some kind of mineral.

Leon suddenly realized that the grayish-white texture was exactly the same as that of people who had died from petrification due to saltification disease or the effects of cursed blood!

Upon closer inspection, although the robe on this person has no other distinctive features, its style is very similar to that of a bishop in the church.

In the deepest part of this labyrinth, perhaps only one person died because of Moirai's curse.

These are the remains of Saint Astartes!

He had accomplished at least one of the purposes of this trip. If the three high-ranking members of the Prophet Church also obtained the power to enhance blessings by entering this place and extracting it from the remains, then he could do the same.

As for the blessing of the third-order supreme god, that is not a problem. If he can really get what he wants from the Great Labyrinth of Elland City—that power that can influence the world situation—then the impact on the future process should be so great that it should be enough to make his blessing break through.

Leon remembered that according to the information Lamia provided, the Fountain of Youth should be located directly below this temple. The Fountain of Youth is surrounded by a small labyrinth. The ancient Elanders built the Temple of the Earth Mother on it in order to control this labyrinth and make full use of the resources of the Fountain of Youth. Presumably, there should be an entrance leading down near that statue.

Leon naturally took a step toward the back of the remains, preparing to go forward and investigate.

But at this very moment, he suddenly felt as if his consciousness was being pulled, and a strong sense of déjà vu struck him. This feeling was very similar to when Cardinal Stuart used his omniscient power on him, as if someone else was trying to read his consciousness.

Unlike the time he deliberately let Stuart slip through, this time Leon instinctively became alert and tried to resist.

However, this feeling was fleeting, and then the scene before him suddenly changed. He found himself in a grotto, where damp moisture condensed into water droplets on the stone pillars and kept falling.