The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Just yesterday, Flamel asked Anther at the dinner table "Have you told Xier about the Zero Hour Maze?" Then Hitana realized that Flamel was going to take Anther to the mysterious Zero Hour Maze today.

The Hydra emblem that Flamel gave her on her birthday can not only withstand the full-force attack of a sixth-level God species for ten seconds, but also is the key to open the Zero Point Maze that can send Shitana from the fourth level to the fifth level.

Miss Wolf, who is completely different from her elder sister, can be said to be uneducated and has no idea what the Zero Point Maze is. Therefore, when Flamel promised to take her with him, Shitana seemed particularly excited.

"Arthur, Hill."

As the two were close together, a mature male voice came from behind. Shitana turned her head and saw the mature and handsome Hydra with one hand behind his back, supporting his cane with the other hand, looking at them with a smile.

"Are you ready? It's time for us to go."

Hitana wanted to cheer, but she subconsciously looked at Ansher who was in her arms.

"That's all right, father."

Anser nodded slightly, and the hideous black hand cannon turned into a solemn cane. Sitana, who vaguely felt that Anser seemed to be in a bad mood, silently got off him and stood aside obediently.

Young Hydra stood on the balcony, in the light, and stared into the eyes of his father, saying, "Go find what you need."

Flamel smiled and said, "It's just a short trip without any accidents. It can also help Xier gain more experience. Don't be so serious, Anser."

He tapped the ground with his cane, and the pattern of the teleportation array was drawn on the floor out of thin air:

"Then let's go, there's someone waiting for us."

After saying this, Flamel took the lead and stepped into the teleportation array, disappearing. Anser stopped for a moment and quickly followed, followed closely by Xitana who always felt that Anser seemed to be worried.

When the slight dizziness passed and she opened her eyes again, Shitana screamed in fright.

“Wow! This, this, this…where is this place?!”

The whistling wind that stung her skin, the clear blue sky, the vast land that stretched to the end of the horizon, and... the sight of everything on the land being so tiny that they had almost merged into the same color, made Xitana grab Anser beside her and trembled as she asked, "Anser, Anser, was there an error in the transmission?"

"This is the upper-middle section of the main peak of the Tiantu Mountains, Alling Peak, about 14,000 meters above sea level."

A cold voice came from the side next to him, on the other side of Anser: "Besides, Mr. Flamel can't make a mistake in such a matter."

Hitana, who was trembling just now for fear of free fall, widened her eyes instantly when she heard the sound, turned her head, and shouted in disbelief:

"Ming Fuluo!? Why are you here?!"

"…Please call me Helen, Miss Sitana."

Helen, who was next to Anser, frowned slightly: "I'm here, of course, because I want to enter the Zero Point Maze with my father."

"You...Anser told you about this but didn't tell me?!"

Xitana's angry shout even drowned out the sound of the howling wind: "You are lying!"

"Mr. Flamel told me," Helen replied calmly, "and this was my own willful choice."

After hearing this, Hitana calmed down a little. It turned out that Ansher didn't tell this guy... Humph, he came uninvited and has no sense of propriety at all!

While Xitana was relieved, Helen quietly glanced at Anser who was staring at the sky, and whispered in her heart:

My father didn't even tell Xitana about this... Not even Xitana?

Instead, it was Mr. Flamel who invited me, and most likely he also invited her?

Helen thought about this for a while, and then she heard a voice coming from above.

"Excuse me, I just went to chat with the owner of this place for a while."

Flamel's laughter pierced through the howling hurricane: "The greetings are over. Get ready, little ones. The gate is about to open."

The mature Hydra landed in the air in front of the three people, his clothes not even shaken by the strong wind that could blow down rocks. He stretched out his cane elegantly and calmly in front of him, and Hitana and Helen felt it at the same time... the ether of extremely terrifying mass and magnitude was condensing violently at the tip of the cane with an extinct momentum that seemed to destroy everything!

Helen was concentrating on the skill of manipulating the ether at the tip of Flamel's staff, which she could not even recognize, while Shitana suddenly felt a chill on her spine and turned her head abruptly to look at the higher place that was deep in the clouds and completely unreachable.

Ansher stroked his snake-headed staff, something so strange that even Xitana could notice it. He stared at Flamel's back in silence.

Soon, the tip of Flamel's cane began to vibrate in circles. The waves grew from small to large, and the amplitude and frequency became more and more exaggerated as the amount of ether increased. The strong winds covering the mountain were crushed by the vortex of ether, and then -

Bah!

Xitana didn't know how to describe the sound she just heard. It was a bit like... the sound of breaking glass.

But what was displayed at the tip of Flamel's cane was not shattered glass.

But... a shattered world.

"Don't look." Ansher said softly, and at the same time covered the eyes of Xitana and Helen with his hands.

"It's too early for you to understand the essence. Father has blocked all the erosion, but for you now, just looking at it will make you fall into the abyss."

He himself was looking at the scene before him, his expression not changing at all.

There is neither any weird colorfulness nor is it composed of abstract and distorted blocks of color. Instead, it is very simple.

It's just black.

Embrace everything, accommodate everything...When the world shatters, the essence of all things will naturally flow out.

It would be most normal if there weren't so many messy colors.

After all, when all the colors are blended together, the final color produced is, and only is, black.

"Take care of them, Arthur."

Flamel laughed heartily and said, "Taking the girls to the Zero Point Maze, this is an anecdote that you will definitely tell people around you in the future."

He took the lead and stepped into the infinite darkness. After letting the two girls close their eyes, Anser held their hands, pulled them without saying a word, and also stepped into the darkness that seemed to reduce everything to nothingness.

"An...Anser."

Xitana said in a very nervous voice: "Can I open my eyes?"

"That's enough." Anser replied in a gentle voice, "Take a good look. The scenery here... is indeed beautiful."

Having relaxed a little, Hitana's eyelids trembled and she slowly opened them. Then, her dark red eyes reflected a scene that she would never forget.

First, there was darkness, endless and boundless, a darkness that was even more endless and boundless than the sky and the earth. But within this darkness... there were countless points of light flickering.

They were floating forward in the endless darkness with flickering spots of light.

"This...what is this?"

With eyes full of light, Xitana murmured: "It's really beautiful..."

"Helen, talk to Xier." Ansel touched Helen's head.

"Yes, father."

The petite scholar narrowed her eyes slightly due to Anser's touch and responded:

"We should not be in a certain zero-point maze now, but in the passage forward."

"……aisle?"

"Yes, Ms. Sitana, these light spots you see may seem to be near or far away, but in fact, no matter which light spot it is, the distance between us is truly... infinite."

"The so-called Zero Point Maze is essentially another world that is completely independent of our world. But there may be no living things, no vegetation, no land or sea, only nothingness, and even the ether may not exist... Some are as small as a building, and some may be so huge that they are larger than the entire continent."

Helen gazed at the endless vastness of the stars. The vastness that contained infinite possibilities made her heart, which was almost free of any extra thoughts, feel such a fierce surge.

This is... the possibility, infinite possibilities, infinite future.

She held Anser's hand tightly and continued, "Zero means the beginning, and it means the possibility of development from any angle."

"Ah? Then, are there other people in the Zero Point Maze?"

"No, anything can be born in the Zero Point World. It's not surprising that living things appear, but there won't be 'humans' or anything similar to 'humans' that has intelligence."

Anser answered the question.

“…Huh? Eh?”

Xitana was extremely puzzled and asked, "Aren't there countless possibilities? Why can't people appear?"

"You'll find out later."

This slightly perfunctory answer made Xitana curl her lips, but when she thought that Anser might be in a bad mood, she rubbed her face again and put on a bright smile:

"Then here... No, there are so many zero-point mazes. Isn't that a very good place? Any possibility exists... Does that mean there are still places suitable for human survival? If there is no one else there, can't we send people in to live?"

"…Why do you think the word '迷' should be added to the Zero Point Mystery Realm?"

Helen pushed up her gray glasses and said, "In theory, anyone who voluntarily enters the Zero Point Maze will die. Even if one can withstand the pressure of crossing the world, no one can guarantee... that they can return the same way."

Xitana was shocked: "Is there any way I can go back?"

"Basically, you can't go back. The entrance to each Zero Point Maze is random, the opening time is random, and the closing time is random... It is almost impossible to 'return the original route'. If you want to return to the original world, you need an extremely expensive anchor point that even the 'infinity' between worlds cannot block to locate it. And this thing has always been a consumable, and most explorers can't afford it."

"But...but didn't Mr. Flamel open that gate himself?"

Helen didn't say anything, but just looked at Sitana as if she was a fool.

Miss Wolf was stunned at first, then she realized what was happening and her face turned red.

Of course Flamel could do it, because he was Hydra, one of the four most powerful gods in the world! Breaking through the barriers of the world and leading to the Zero Point Maze was certainly not a difficult task for him.

“But even fathers need to find the right position.”

Anser said: "All the Gods can do is open the gate in advance and ensure that there will be no mistakes when entering the Zero Point Maze."

Helen quickly discovered the problem with this sentence. She looked at Anser in confusion: "Is that all? Then, what about the return trip?"

"Return trip..."

The young Hydra lowered his eyes slightly. "If it is the most empty and chaotic area without a specific target, even the Old Gods may get lost."

"Uh...why do you want to go to such a dangerous place?"

"Because extreme chaos also means more vast possibilities. The zero-point maze is extremely dangerous, but it also contains..."

The gaze of those ocean-blue eyes penetrated the darkness and fell on the man leading the way for them.

Ansel had forgotten how many times he had stared at his father today. It had been a long, long time since he had stared at him like this.

It was impossible for Flamel not to feel his son's gaze, but he said nothing, perhaps avoiding the past, or perhaps...

Maybe it's just that I've gone too crazy and don't have the energy to feel so many things.

“…It contains a miracle that even the Old Deus need.”

After saying this, Helen, who felt more and more that there must be some serious problems behind this "trip", was about to ask something when she heard Flamel's voice coming from the front again:

"Get ready, it's coming."

Anser covered Helen and Xitana's eyes again, and when he withdrew his hands, the two girls' eyes showed a different look -

The sky, or should I say the "sky", was covered with dense iron-gray needles hanging upside down, and huge rocks were floating in the air. They were standing on a huge rock, and looking down...there was nothing below, only bottomless nothingness.

Shitana, who had never seen such a scene before, whimpered and grabbed Ansel's arm, looking both excited and scared. Helen closed her eyes and felt the flow of the ether around her, her brows slightly furrowed.

"The ether here is... too thin, and almost impossible to manipulate."

The petite female scholar looked around, raised her head to look at the endless needles, then looked down at the bottomless abyss, and murmured: "How did this kind of world... come into being?"

"Just down there?"

Anser asked suddenly.

"Hmm...about 1.5 million meters away."

Flamel replied easily, "Tyr and the others are already waiting down there, and the Peregrine Falcon is floating up... Oh, it's already here."

This dead and strange world was suddenly swept by a huge hurricane from the bottom up.

With a clear cry, the huge falcon rushed out from the dark abyss of nothingness. The green airflow flowing on its wings crushed the uncomfortable strange black substance, and finally landed steadily in front of Flamel.

"Master, I'm sorry, the Peregrine Falcon is late."

The Peregrine Falcon, with its gentle and pleasant voice, apologized in panic, and Flamel smiled and patted its head: "What are you talking about? Without you, I don't know how long it would take to find the final material... Thank you for your hard work during this period, Peregrine Falcon."

The majestic falcon replied with a joyful and proud tone: "This is the meaning of the peregrine falcon."

"What are Tiltorado and the others doing now?"

"We are waiting for you... As per your instructions, we did not attack the prey."

"They are quite honest. I thought they would not be able to resist and try it first."

"...In fact, Lawrence has already tried it, and he gave up completely after dying 267 times."

“That little thing…” Flamel laughed and shook his head. “Forget it, it’s harmless. Let’s dive again and remember to protect those two girls.”