"Ohhhhh~~~"

The roosters crowed at the dawn and the sky gradually turned white.

Rosen lay on the simple wooden bed in the hotel and let out a long sigh.

"The Orb of Time is indeed a true artifact!"

"Insight Spikes can indeed be called a divine spell."

“Unfortunately, my soul strength is still too low. Even though I have optimized my time talent to its current extreme, I still cannot break through the boundary between gods and mortals.”

The blood drinker Tzrokavid said that if the scale of basic elemental particles was used as the baseline, then with his 13th-ring soul strength and time talent, he could only go down five orders of magnitude at most.

He is not wrong.

This great being from another world also said that the situation in the sub-elemental realm is extremely complex and sophisticated, and it is difficult for mortals to explore it, and the exploration speed cannot be fast.

This is not wrong, but it does not apply to Rosen.

It took him about five hours to gather more than 1,300 insight spikes from the big root for a coordinated investigation.

This is equivalent to 1,300 mortal mages with top-level time talents working for 5 hours with near-perfect tacit understanding.

Then, with this great ability, and with the help of the real artifact "Time Orb" at hand, he developed the "Iterative Focusing Technique".

Based on this achievement, Rosen iterated his time talent over and over again until it reached the ultimate for mortals.

The result was that he could directly perceive the microscopic space-time structure of 22.999 orders of magnitude without the assistance of insight spikes, which was nearly 8 orders of magnitude higher than that of a level 23 Eternal Powerhouse.

Of course he wanted to go deeper, but 23 orders of magnitude was already the limit of mortal cognition.

Because he discovered that the sub-element structure of space-time and the structure of the Dharma Ring are closely related.

In other words, the Dharma Ring structure is essentially the macroscopic inversion of the microscopic space-time structure.

It's complicated to describe, but the expression is simple and crude, just one sentence.

As long as a mortal is at the 23rd ring or below, no matter what means he uses, no matter how powerful the real artifact in his hand is, he cannot directly observe the microscopic world below the 23rd order of magnitude.

As I was thinking, Adela's inner voice sounded in my mind.

"Your Majesty, the situation has changed. The target has gone to the eastern suburbs ahead of time, riding in a dark blue carriage with a dark blue hexagonal gem flag hanging on it, and brought 20 guards."

Rosen was slightly startled: "Hexagonal gem. This seems to be the family emblem of the Duke of Blue Stone City, right?"

Adela smiled softly: "Yes, it's someone from the Bluestone Duke family. To be more precise, it's one of my daughters."

"Oh, then I know your identity. You are the Duchess of Bluestone City!"

Who would have thought that the wanted devil's apostle, the Daughter of Life, Adela, would be a famous, prominent, and highly regarded duchess? Sure enough, the most dangerous place is also the safest place.

Rosen was curious: "So, that's really your daughter. I mean, is she really your daughter?"

"Of course not. I adopted him secretly."

"By the way, her name is Aurora, and she has a somewhat willful personality. If she has offended Your Majesty, please do not take it personally."

Rosen laughed: "I have seen many willful girls, and this one is no different. Then I will set off now."

He quickly got up, hurriedly filled his stomach, then rode his skinny horse towards the eastern suburbs of Lanshi City.

The eastern suburbs is a vast plain, and the venue for the upcoming knights' tournament is located in the eastern suburbs, so it is very lively.

After arriving at the eastern suburbs, I saw many temporary buildings (facilities) along the way.

There are stands, running tracks, competition fields, tents, and more.

There were many others who came to join in the fun.

Individuals include bards, traveling merchants, adventurers, wandering knights, etc.

The organizations include mercenary groups, dance troupes, circuses, and so on.

These are all here to look for opportunities or to make money.

In addition, there are many spectators who come simply to watch the fun.

Among them were many dignitaries who came in carriages with guards.

When he arrived here, Rosen suddenly became inconspicuous, because everywhere were wandering knights like him who came here looking for opportunities to advance.

The roads in the eastern suburbs were wide, but there were also many people. In order to avoid bumping into people, Rosen slowed down his horse and walked slowly.

"Adela, I've reached the eastern suburbs and have seen the dark blue carriage, which is about a mile away from me. There are a circle of wandering knights nearby, and everyone is looking for an opportunity."

Adela quickly responded: "Your Majesty, do you have a bow and arrow?"

"Yes."

He temporarily created one using Transfiguration, which was powerful enough to deal with ordinary beasts.

"Aurora said she wanted to go to the circus to watch a performance. Later, the giant bear performing in the circus will go crazy. This is your Majesty's chance."

In this case, Rosen was about 200 meters away, far behind the convoy.

After following for a while, a man dressed as a wandering knight approached and said hello: "Hey~ buddy~ are you looking for an opportunity too?"

Rosen glanced at the other person, who was probably in his early thirties, and looked thin and shabby.

But he was much better than himself, which gave the other person a vague sense of superiority on his face.

He responded casually: "These days, everyone is looking for opportunities to get rich."

The young knight shrugged. "Indeed, everyone wants to be successful, but those who can finally be successful must have sufficient abilities."

Rosen listened to these bland nonsense with an indifferent look on his face, his eyes casually wandering over the pedestrians on the roadside.

Just as he casually responded to the outgoing wandering knight beside him, his heart suddenly moved slightly, and he felt an extremely obscure and subtle fluctuation of time.

'Completely unfamiliar fluctuations, somewhat similar to those of the demon hunters of the Church of the Eternal Flame, but far more powerful and sophisticated.'

In the past, he couldn't do this because the fluctuations were too subtle and far beyond the limits of his ability. However, after strengthening his time talent to the limits of mortals, the difficulty of this matter dropped sharply.

Three minutes later, Rosen's eyes fixed on a bard on the side of the road.

The poet was very young, about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with a handsome appearance. He was sitting on a huge rock by the roadside and singing a ballad.

He sang very well and played the piano well, and there was already a large circle of listeners around him.

Rosen glanced at the bard, then turned to look at the princess' carriage more than a hundred meters away.

It can be felt that the princess is very playful, so the carriage moves very slowly.

At this speed, it would take at least 20 minutes to reach the circus, so he had a lot of free time.

He turned his horse around, got rid of the self-conscious wandering knight, and walked towards the bard on the side of the road.

But he did not come closer, just stood on the outskirts of the crowd, looking like an ordinary listener.

Of course, this is just appearance.

In fact, Rosen had secretly cast the spell "Undercurrent" on himself to avoid alerting the other party.

Then, he carefully sensed the power of time on the bard.

After a few minutes, his eyes fixed on the minstrel's hat:

"It is a real artifact that is carefully disguised. I don't know if it is the Crown of Dawn, but it is definitely a good thing."

Adela once said that the 'traitorous nobles' were hanging around Bluestone City.

Rosen had reason to believe that the bard in front of him was the so-called 'traitorous noble'.

He indeed hid it very well. If Rosen did not possess the ultimate talent for time that could reach the limit for mortals, he would not have been able to detect this man's abnormality at all.

Now that we have discovered it, what should we do?

After thinking for a few seconds, Rosen came up with an idea.

After concentrating for a few seconds, he quietly condensed a bead of time and space.

This space-time condensed bead itself is not a powerful thing. Its biggest advantage is that it is small.

It was extremely small! Unless the other party had a time talent of similar strength to Rosen, it would be impossible for him to detect it.

There are also some fine structures inside the condensed beads, which serve as time and space anchors and collect soul information.

Of course, because Rosen’s current soul strength is limited, his ability to collect information is not strong.

But it's better than nothing.

Soon, the time and space condensed bead reached the bard and penetrated into his soul silently.

After doing this, Rosen rode away and continued to follow the carriage of the Princess of Blue Stone City.

After following for a while, Princess Aurora of Blue Stone City finally arrived at the circus.

She ordered the carriage to stop outside the circus, opened the window, and watched the animal performances in the circus with relish.

Rosen also came to the other side of the circus and watched the circus with great interest.

At the same time, he asked Lai Fu to pay attention to the movements of the circus and set up a response strategy, but he himself began to concentrate on sensing the previous time and space condensed beads.

Soon, he sensed the target, and then observed the bard's soul through the condensation bead.

In order to avoid being noticed, just observe and do not interfere.

The ability of the space-time condensed beads is limited, so they can only see some fragmentary pieces of information.

After looking at it for a while, Rosen got a lot of information fragments.

After carefully piecing together the results, I came to three very valuable conclusions.

"Tsk tsk~ The Dawnbreak Crown is indeed a trap."

"But Dawnbreak Crown is also real. Using a child to trap a wolf is cruel!"

"However, the Dawn Crown is sealed with a very sophisticated and powerful seal. If the seal is not removed, it will not only be useless, but will also become a time bomb."

Rosen was confident that as long as he was given enough time, he would be able to unlock the seal of the crown and completely possess it.

The problem is that the Dawn Emperor probably won't give him that time.

"What shall we do?"

After a little consideration, he came up with an idea: "Go to Bluestone City and ask Tiralilin."

Now that the 'traitorous nobles' had been discovered and Emperor Safinos' plan was understood, there was no need to carry out Adela's plan.

Because the former is far more important and urgent than the latter.

Thinking of this, he immediately planned to contact Adela and cancel the reservation.

"Your Majesty, why?"

"Because there are more important things."

Before he finished speaking, Rosen's eyes flashed and he found another very strange target.

It was a young woman, also watching the circus.

The reason why it is strange is that Rosen discovered that the person also has the time and space characteristics of a real artifact.

He immediately said, "Adela, this tournament is very exciting. I have to investigate it carefully."

"Don't worry about the giant bear. I'll handle it quietly."

(End of this chapter)