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With the key in his hands, all Cedric needed to do was to grant himself the permissions to bypass the maze, and his business here was done, but he wasn't in a hurry.
Cedric released a sigh as he now looked at the empty chair. The remains of the architect dissipated like a dust cloud as soon as he retrieved the key from it.
It's like it only lasted to fulfill this last obsession, to pass down the key to Cedric—the human he had foreseen coming. How he even knew that it would be him remains a mystery to Cedric himself, but he's not in the mood to wonder about that right now.
With his disappearance, it's safe to say that the last of the Divine Bloods were no more. Actually, they've been extinct for a long time, but it felt more real now that the remains of Architect Columbus were gone.
Cedric allowed himself to mourn, not the Divine Bloods as a whole, but for the architect who had earned his respect and had done something that's considered heresy and traitorous to his own kin.