In the distant City of Hope, a wonderful feeling lingered around Lin Qingliu.
The mythical energy from another world began to fill his body.
【【Blessing】 has been upgraded
Believers have advanced
Current energy level: 2
Current path (only): [Time]
Manifest Abilities: [Evanescent], [Slow Time]
[Trigger the [Blessing] feedback effect, you gain new abilities:
Channel: [Time]
Manifest Abilities: [Evanescent], [Slow Time], [Stagnation]
[Time - Stagnation: Used on a single object or a small area of space to freeze the flow of time. It can be maintained for a long time by inputting mental power.]
“Interesting, interesting.”
Lin Qingliu, lying in the basement, opened his eyes and felt the power coming from his hands and body.
Around him, the entire basement and the surrounding space had essentially fallen into a state of stagnation.
In this area, the only person who can move freely at this time is Lin Qingliu himself.
This is the result of using the ability [Stagnation] for the first time after awakening, expanding the range to the maximum.
Lin Qingliu turned over and got out of bed, but the wrinkles on the sheets did not change at all.
Every speck of dust in the air seemed to be controlled by an invisible force and stayed in its original position. At this moment, any object lost the power to move freely and was frozen in place as the name of the ability suggested.
Different from the [instantaneous] ability of subjective acceleration of oneself and the [slow time] that delays the surrounding space, the [stagnation] ability belonging to the third energy level of this path looks more like a refrigerator at the superpower level.
With this ability, Lin Qingliu only needs to expend a negligible amount of mental energy to maintain the vitality of the arm that Luke left here, and no longer needs the help of nutrient solution.
The one-armed swordsman next door would cry with envy when he found out.
In terms of preservation, Lin Qingliu, who possesses this ability, has now become an expert and no longer has to worry about not being able to eat fresh vegetables and meat.
But now is obviously not the time to think about these things, otherwise Wang Xiao and his teammates might become the first users of this ability.
After getting familiar with the new power, Lin Qingliu began to gradually gather the power that had spread to the maximum range, shrinking the stagnant space little by little.
Finally, as he lay back on the bed in the basement and connected to Fran Communications, he once again adjusted his ability and synchronized his own time flow with Shi Jin.
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North of Hope City, woods.
Shi Jin opened her eyes while standing on the tree canopy. Her pupils seemed a little out of focus, and the clock, like a phantom, was reflected in her blank gaze.
Her two abilities are activated at the same time, and the manipulation of the flow of time brought about is not addition, but multiplication.
The fireball that she had wanted to observe more was expanding much slower than before. In her eyes, it was like the slow motion of a child playing.
But even so, Shi Jin still couldn't save his teammates from the fire and water, because the explosion caused by the impact of the energy battery still did not completely break the cage formed by the branches.
Shi Jin had to wait for an opportunity, until the gap was big enough for her to get through, until she could rescue all her teammates.
Such waiting is slow. As a newly acquired ability, Shi Jin dare not rashly stop any of [Fleeting] and [Slow Time]. He can only observe the development little by little and look for opportunities little by little.
However, as a shield for his teammates and as an energy battery surrounding the branch cage, Wang Xiao seemed unable to wait for this moment.
The blazing flames and shock waves were approaching him.
Wang Xiao's face began to burn little by little in slow motion, and various parts of his body began to deform horribly.
The high temperature was burning him and the shock wave was shattering his body.
In a very short period of time, before Wang Xiao even showed an expression of pain, his entire face had rapidly carbonized and no longer looked human.
This scene made Shi Jin, who was waiting outside, extremely anxious. At the same time, she also keenly sensed the opportunity that belonged to her.
The shock wave crushed Wang Xiao and broke through the last layer of branches. The mycelium on the ground had completely disappeared under the high temperature and impact, and not even any ashes were left.
Shi Jin quickly stepped forward and used the slow effect of his ability to continuously destroy and enlarge the crack in the cage. It took him a minute in his subjective state to finally make the crack useful for rescue.
Shi Jin went in and the first thing he grabbed was not Wang Xiao or Fresnel, but Beacon, whose ankle was still exposed.
This team member was stuffed upside down into the life support capsule by Wang Xiao. She had no idea what was happening outside, but her instinctive premonition of danger still made an expression of fear appear on her face.
Shi Jin grabbed the observation window of the dilapidated life-support capsule and began to evacuate by pulling the person-high object.
She didn't dare to rescue her teammates and then transfer them. Such an operation would not only waste time, but also might cause the opponent to be hurt during the high-speed movement.
After placing the damaged life-support capsule on the ground more than ten meters away, Shi Jin quickly returned and dismantled the life-support capsule containing the puppeteer Su Xiaogu and took it out.
Lin Qingliu, who had achieved synchronization with Shi Jin, observed the other party's performance throughout and gave him a high score in his heart.
At this time, Fresnel was in the best defensive state, while Wang Xiao was already facing the explosion. In addition, the difference in size made Shi Jin prioritize the two teammates with better mobility as rescue targets.
This time it was finally Wang Xiao's turn. Shi Jin pulled the other person out of the flames and impact of the explosion, but found that the strong man was much lighter than he had imagined.
Shi Jin didn't look back, she could roughly guess what had happened.
After bringing his disabled and almost unconscious teammate out of the cage where the impact was still spreading, Shi Jin suddenly felt dizzy.
Her ability was out of control for a very brief moment, causing the range of the explosion to quickly expand to nearly one meter.
Fortunately, she managed to stabilize her mental state in time, and also regained her abilities so that the spread rate remained the same as before.
However, Shi Jin, who was gradually feeling exhausted, already had a bad premonition.
She and Wang Xiao had not yet escaped the impact range. Although Fresnel was protected by armor, he was still near the center of the explosion.
But it was too late.
“Bang!”
Time resumed its flow, and the huge explosion sounded as if it had been suppressed for too long, pouring out its power to the surroundings.
The broken branch cage was completely shattered, and the fully armed Fresnel was lifted up by the shock wave and flew backwards towards the two life-support capsules.
Before he left the danger zone, Shi Jin felt his body hit hard. It seemed that Wang Xiao, who had regained consciousness, blocked the impact for him.
Flames shot up into the sky and smoke filled the air.
Team Fresnel seemed to have escaped death.
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