Chapter 469: The Trial
Upon hearing that, Rael straightened his back.
âAlright. What do you want me to do?â
âYou canât do anything, so just relax for a moment and listen closely.â Chronos smiled. âI can give you two choices. One is more special than the other.â
He raised a single finger. âThe first is simple. I will trap your mind in time, but not your perception of time. That means your mind, without your interference, will have to figure out a way to break out of frozen time.â
âWho would ever pick thatâŠ?â Rael muttered, confused.
Chronos wagged his finger. âBelieve it or not, that way you are guaranteed to escape. You wonât know when, since it will happen in less time than you can blink. However, youâll also miss out on a lot of direct and necessary time comprehension.â
âAnd if youâre so worried, I wonât kill you if you choose this path. You could go on to face the other Supreme Monsters without a care in the world.â
Sure⊠Like Iâd ever do that, Rael thought with a sigh. This guy seems a little petty, or maybe Iâm just imagining it? If I do stoop so low as to choose the way out, heâs probably going to give me the âhumphâ tsundere treatment.
Chronos raised his second finger. âThe second choice, as I said earlier, is for your entire body and consciousness to be frozen in time. If you overcome it, you will come out with extreme knowledge. If you donât, then you will be trapped for all eternity, waiting for your mind to break apart.â
Chronos stepped closer. âThis path is my gift to you, so Iâd appreciate it if you went through with it.â
The moment Rael heard that, he shook his head and clicked his tongue. âYouâre acting like you really gave me a choice in the first place. I choose choice number two, so just⊠Hm?â
Rael couldnât finish his words as, all of a sudden, everything around him froze. Chronos was frozen, the Supreme Monsters were frozen, and the continent, as well as the world, was sure as shit frozen in time. It was eerily silent, and there was no smell.
Confused, Rael walked up to Chronos and tried to touch his body, but to his surprise, his hand went through Chronosâs chest as it seemed like he was nothing more than a projection.
But when he pulled his hand out, Chronosâs body didnât reconstruct, and now he had a gaping hole in his chest.
Did I kill himâŠ? No, right? Burger? Rael asked, and didnât get a response in return.
For a moment, he thought Burger was purposefully ignoring him, but the more he focused on his mind, the more he could tell that there was no Burger, almost as if the moment time was stopped, Burger was left behind elsewhere.
âThis is a little spooky,â Rael muttered. âNot even a minute in, and Iâm already uncomfortable.â
At least, aside from people, everything seemed the same. But he was sure that these people were nothing but mental projections, or some kind of remnants that were left behind after time was frozen.
âWelp, I guess I gotta find a way out of this now.â Rael glanced around once again.
Right away, he decided to try casting the Temporal Stasis skill inside his heart, then navigate it to his brain. Chronos mentioned that the brain is connected to some kind of domain, so he figured something would work.
However, when he cast the skill outwardly as he had done earlier, not only did his mana not get drained in the slightest, but he also didnât manage to do anything. The world remained the same, except for one minor detail.
The hole he had made through Chronos vanished, and his body had once again filled up.
Rael hummed in unease. So I can still somewhat interact with this place. At least thatâs something.
But since he knew there wasnât much point to being around these people at the moment, Rael summoned a pair of mosquito wings and flew up. He was always curious what the crimson moon looked like.
But just a few seconds after flapping his wings, he hit an invisible wall. At first, he thought it was a coincidence, so he tried going around it, but only after a couple of minutes of back-and-forth flying did he realize that he was actually trapped in some sort of sphere.
It had a radius of 10 kilometers, and no matter how hard he tried, he just couldnât break out of its damn range.
He tried using all of his skills at once to break through. That didnât work. A Premium Shop short-range teleportation scroll? He couldnât use the Premium Shop.
Turns out when time is frozen, transactions donât really work. Who wouldâve thought, eh? Rael grumbled.
âSeems like Iâm really stuck in this sphere, huh?â Rael sighed. I really wish at least Burger would be here with me. But now Iâm just completely isolated until I figure out a way to leave this strange place.
Brute force could work, but how long would he need to keep it up for? A year? Two years?
Maybe a fucking century? Shit⊠I really didnât think this through.
But since he had already accepted the fact that he would be in here for a while, Rael decided not to panic and instead hovered back down to the ground and sat down.
After taking a deep breath, he began to gather his mana. In this frozen world, where he had infinite mana and HP, he didnât hesitate to fill his entire dragon heart with Time Mana. After sending it to his eyes, he extended it outward.
To his surprise, he saw a glowing golden line stretching exactly 250 meters from where he stood, and if he had to guess, that was his current range limit.
He proceeded to repeat the process, but this time, he sent the Time Mana up to his brain.
In an instant, a golden circle pulsed out of him, extending exactly 100 meters in every direction.
Itâs just like Chronos said earlier, Rael thought. He mentioned my limit being 100 meters, andâŠ
He glanced around at the invisible sphere surrounding him.
And that has a radius of 10 kilometers, soâŠ
His expression darkened.
âNo way, right?â
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