I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

The maze is its home turf. Anyone with a sound mind wouldn't be so foolish as to go into the maze and confront it head-on.

To avoid a direct confrontation with the minotaurs, Li Lin took a deep breath, slowly climbed down from the wall, and tried to return to the starting point and land safely.

Unfortunately, just before Li Lin landed, his foot slipped on the doorknob, causing him to tumble down.

Fortunately, Melusin caught him very reliably.

Li Lin probably felt a little embarrassed, but said in a defiant manner, "It's not that I'm afraid of minotaurs, it's that minotaurs are disgusting."

As if providing evidence, Li Lin spread out his palms and said confidently, "It's like you fighting a wild boar in the mud. No matter who wins or loses, the boar is always the one who's happy. It's like you fighting with maggots for food by the latrine. No matter who gets the food, the maggots are always the ones who are happy. It's like your junior calling herself the Knight of Sheffield. No matter whether she becomes the Lioness or not, the Master is always the one who feels a bit cuckolded."

Alice painstakingly pieced together the cause and effect of the matter: to put it bluntly, Li Lin felt that fighting with minotaurs was beneath him.

“Our initial goal wasn’t to fight the minotaurs, but to get around them,” Alice reiterated their objective. “Success would be simply escaping London.”

"Great!" Li Lin exclaimed, "but I refuse."

"The God of Pure Love must kill the Minotaur; the strong must humiliate the weak."

"If you continue like this—"

Li Lin's expression turned serious: "Okay, no problem, I understand. Let's start this exciting, fun, and interesting maze adventure now, hahaha! Guess how many words are in this paragraph?"

"Can you eat minotaurs?" Melusin suddenly asked from the side.

"Shut up, don't ruin my plans." Li Lin scolded him, feigning anger, while scratching his armpit. "It should be edible, right?"

Meilushin's eyes lit up.

Seeing that Li Lin was about to start his rambling lecture on fallacies again, Princess Alice, as if she had lost her soul, pushed Li Lin into the maze gate, and the three of them entered the maze together without any distinction between them.

The curtain of night fell upon them, blending perfectly with the mist.

"Which path should we choose?" Princess Alice's voice reached Li Lin's ears like the wind rustling through leaves, the fog before him as thick as the sea. "Should we just keep walking aimlessly like this?"

"Otherwise what?" Li Lin looked at him with disdain. "You haven't actually entered the maze."

Princess Alice frowned slightly, then was startled.

The fairy king before her was absolutely right; she had indeed not truly entered the labyrinth. Otherwise, what appeared before her would not be such a dense fog, but rather a city that had been rearranged after being turned upside down.

She inexplicably recalled the words that had echoed in her mind earlier: either know nothing, or know everything. If they chose the path of omniscience, they should illuminate the darkness, revealing every detail of the labyrinth.

However, it is clear that they have blended into the night, which means they have abandoned rational thinking and the analysis of the maze through knowledge, and instead relied on instinct to blend into the fog and find their way out.

—It's just like a moth flying outside a house in the night.

"How could I have such a strange thought?" Princess Alice chuckled self-deprecatingly. "How could a fairy be a moth?"

She subconsciously turned her head to look at Li Lin, only to find that Li Lin was secretly putting his hand under his cloak and doing something, while also casting his gaze in her direction.

"What are you doing? Ouch!" Li Lin was shocked, never expecting that this woman was a peeping tom.

Princess Alice, who had been falsely accused, trembled slightly and turned her head away without saying a word.

Once she restores the Council of Sages, she must include "keeping a distance from fairies" in the inheritance record, otherwise she'll easily suffer a heart attack.

The next ten minutes of travel felt like ten hours to Alice, mainly because they lacked a point of reference.

If a disciple of the Lantern Master were here to examine the entire map, they would find that Li Lin and his companions completely ignored most of the walls, walking almost in a straight line, only turning in a few instances—they relied entirely on their irrational intuition to enter the very center of the maze at an extremely fast speed.

Of course, Princess Alice was unaware of this, so when the giant minotaur appeared in the mist, she instinctively cast a questioning glance at Li Lin.

"Melushin, go and slap it twice." Li Lin pointed directly at the minotaur.

The sound of winged creatures flapping their wings suddenly rang out, striking Princess Alice's heart like a clapper. In an instant, her spirit seemed to disintegrate, and everything before her eyes became blurry, like a photograph that had lost its original form.

Through her blurred vision, she saw Meiluxin, who had been squatting beside Li Lin, obedient but with a big appetite, suddenly covered in azure armor.

The mask, engraved with mysterious patterns, fell with a clang, and the refined ether was ejected from behind the fairy's petite body, propelling her speed to more than a hundred times the speed of sound within three-thousandths of a second.

In an instant, the armored dragon appeared before Minos.

As the speed of motion slowed to a standstill, even Minos's vision became nauseatingly blurry. However, Melusin was completely unaffected by inertia, maintaining her stillness and pressing her arms onto the minotaur's chest at an even faster speed than before.

Propelled by incredible high speed, it fires at point-blank range!

Between the azure gauntlets, a matching azure light burst forth, and the blazing blade spread out calmly, like a lake rippling in the air.

—Imitation of Armed Forces, Immaculate Lake Light!

Meiluxin sheathed her sword and retreated, returning to Li Lin's side once more.

Now, time has moved on to the next second.

The massive minotaur melted silently into the azure lake, like a block of butter falling into a hot pan. Only then did the deafening roar of Melusin breaking the sound barrier arrive, only to be blocked out by the [Veil of Night].

Then, the fog that had enveloped London quickly dissipated, and the inverted and chaotic scenes rose and disappeared like stars. The various parts of the maze that were constantly in operation also came to a standstill at the same time—the maze surrounding the city of London was thus destroyed at its core with a single, simple blow.

After the fog dissipated, what remained was a distorted building that looked as if it had been brutally stitched together, a structure that only appears in nightmares.

But it has lost its life and is no longer alive.

When Princess Alice regained consciousness amidst the turbulent spirits, this was the scene she witnessed.

399 Futigeng?

"What happened?"

Princess Alice instinctively asked a question, then seemed to realize something and her voice gradually lowered, while a look of horror involuntarily appeared in her eyes.

He easily ignored inertia and killed the Minotaur, the god of the bull, with a single, incredibly fast attack—the Black Prince was also a god-slayer known for his speed, but his attack was far inferior to that of the previous one.

No, that's not all.

Princess Alice, reflecting on the Black Prince's past, finally came to such a pessimistic conclusion: the Black Prince needed a second to activate his lightning transformation, and that short second was enough for Melosin to swing her sword hundreds of times.

The former is a creature that lives at super speed by nature, while the Black Prince is merely an imitator who entered the realm of super speed later in life. Even if the Black Prince's powers are fully unleashed and he can reach a level above the fourth cosmic velocity, that one second of activation time will always be his most fatal weakness.

"And this fairy's name... Melusin?" Princess Alice didn't believe the name; it was undoubtedly a false name.

Melusin is a two-tailed mermaid. Some say she was also a fairy in Celtic mythology. It is said that she once imprisoned her father, the king, and was therefore convicted and sentenced to transform into a winged snake every Saturday.

More importantly, Melusin has already appeared as a disobedient god. Her fate was to be killed by the Black Prince and become his "intelligent assistant," thus becoming one of the Black Prince's powers.

No mythological text has ever recorded that Meloshen possessed such terrifying speed.

Without a doubt, this must be a pseudonym.

"As the Fairy King, it's perfectly reasonable for me to have a few guards around me, isn't it?" Li Lin muttered to himself.

“…You’re right.” Princess Alice’s confidence immediately increased. She was a wise person and would never delve too deeply into such matters.

The more you know about something, the more dangerous it becomes. Now that the Fairy King is on the same side as her, that's something to be encouraged. As for where Melusin came from and why she has such amazing speed... those are not things she should care about.

A few minutes later they emerged from the maze and came to a vast, deserted wilderness.

"And then what should we do?" Li Lin asked, feigning profundity. "Shouldn't we dig up King Arthur's grave now?"

“No, that’s not it.” Princess Alice’s expression was a little serious. She gestured for Li Lin and Meloshen to step back a little, then squatted down and placed one hand on the ground.

A few seconds later she stood up, her face turning extremely pale.

"The ley lines... are dying."

"Damn."

Princess Alice had grown so accustomed to Oberon's ramblings that she felt no anger. Or rather, the situation was so dire that she couldn't even muster the emotion of anger.

“The situation is very serious, so serious that it cannot be ignored,” Princess Alice said anxiously. “Originally, the ley lines used by our Greenwich Sages Council passed through London, but the Great Labyrinth built by the Black Prince blocked the passage of the ley lines, so that the ley lines bypassed the outside of London and circled the city.”

"But now this circle is being drawn away by something—I'm sorry, my description isn't quite accurate—it's more like violent plunder."

"What has been lost is not just the earth's veins, but also the earth's vitality, which includes all life on the ground."

If it weren't her spirit standing here, but her true self, she would probably be drenched in cold sweat right now.

Princess Alice paced around on the ground a few times in frustration before raising her eyes to look at Li Lin: "Do you want to summon the disobedient god Vortigern? You can do it now."

"Hmm?" Li Lin scratched his head in surprise. "The topic jumped a bit too fast."

Princess Alice gave a bitter smile: "This is the only solution—the Holy Grail is draining all life. When there is not enough quality, sufficient quantity can fill it. Guinevere's intentions are obvious. She wants to summon her last king, Arthur."

"The process of the Holy Grail is one-way; it can only stop when the summoning goal is achieved, and summoning Vortigern consumes far less energy than summoning Arthur."

In short, it's about cutting your losses. Summoning Vortigern now might only have a partial impact; by the time Guinevere summons Arthur tomorrow, London will have become a ghost town.

......

Five minutes later, Li Lin saw Alice standing in the center of the circular spirit summoning array.

Princess Alice was deathly pale and dressed in a white dress, as if she had been left to dry for three days and three nights after Sadako crawled out of the well.

"When are you going to start?" Li Lin rubbed his hands together, signaling to Meilushin to prepare to make his move.

“I’m done.” Princess Alice shook her head and walked out of the spirit-summoning array. Looking at the puzzled Li Lin, she explained, “What I did was essentially like a farmer who secretly dug a riverbed to irrigate his own fields. So there was no need to make a big fuss about it. Although the Black Prince changed the course of the ley lines, as a special advisor and former chairman of the Council of Sages, I still have some special authority.”

The Black Prince left a back door in the Great Labyrinth, and Alice had access to the ley lines; they both have bright futures.

“A séance usually requires a large number of witches—called shrine maidens in the Far East—to work together and even sacrifice their lives to complete it. Fortunately, the Holy Grail has completed 99% of the work for us. All I have to do is spend the magic power flowing into the Holy Grail. Destruction is always faster than construction.”

A smug smile appeared on Princess Alice's pale, lifeless face as she pointed to the gradually darkening sky.

“Look, this island has answered my call, and Vortigern is coming soon.”

She staggered back a few steps, then placed her hand on Li Lin's shoulder: "I left a coordinate on your cloak for location tracking. My spirit is almost exhausted... We'll meet again later."