"Do you... know it?" Adolf Heinrich asked tentatively. Why was this man suddenly crying his eyes out? Had something triggered him?
"What happened?" Roland jumped anxiously below. He could hear and see that something was wrong above, but the height difference made it impossible for him to understand the specifics.
"This is the Time-Space Freeze of the Baikal Family of the Northern Hand!" Maple Forest Youlan wiped the tears from his face, his voice choked with emotion.
"The Baikal Family's? The Hand of the North? How could you recognize it?" Adolf Heinrich asked in shock.
"Because the last member of the Baikal Family to wield Time-Space Freeze was my wife! Lilith Baikal!" Maple Forest Youlan's eyes were filled with sorrow.
"..." Adolf Heinrich pressed his lips together. The Baikal Family was a family whose extermination had been clearly recorded. Before the Empire fell, the entire Baikal Family had already been wiped out on the northern wilderness.
"When I entered the river of time, I had actually come to the Northern Territory to find her..." A few tears clung to Maple Forest Youlan's eyes. The main reason he had fought those Chimera wyverns and all those miscellaneous Sky Knights alone was to search for his wife, who had vanished in the Northern Territory. When the Baikal Family was destroyed beyond the Northern Territory, his wife had urgently left the MacDougall Family to head north and provide aid, only to disappear afterward. That was why Maple Forest Youlan had arrived at the outer line of the Northern Territory and fought to the death without retreating. In truth, he had not needed to trade his life against those low-level Sky Knights!
"I'm not particularly skilled with the Power of Space! Perhaps you should have Yun Feng take a look!" Adolf Heinrich had originally