The blue flames exploded into spider web-like cracks on the surface of the shield. Li Wen staggered back under the impact and hit the display cabinet. The broken glass fragments were suspended beside her like frozen ice edges. Haelie tapped her fingertips on the dial of the pocket watch. The stagnant fragments suddenly rolled back and turned into a rain of sharp knives, pinning her to the wall.
The blood drops slowly slid down the edges of the glass, but flowed back instantly before touching the floor. Li Wen could only watch his blood seep back into his body, and the wounds healed on their own. The damaged Emerald Star Cloak was also knitted and reorganized back to new, but the fragments that had penetrated the body were forever embedded in the flesh, and continued to deepen with the gap between Li Wen's breathing and heartbeat.
Haelie stepped on the gear debris on the ground and slowly approached. The rotten and dilapidated right face was already overflowing with amber mucus, and every drop of mucus condensed into amber-like crystals when it fell to the ground.
"This is not fun." The girl tilted her head, her split pupils reflected Li Wen's tense face, "You should scream and run away like them."
Li Wen didn't know what "they" referred to, so he didn't answer. His right hand quietly touched Fairy Pocket at his waist. Haelie suddenly chuckled and tapped his pocket watch...
Time suddenly stopped.
Li Wen's movements were frozen at the moment when she took out the items. She could clearly feel her heartbeat being elongated into a dull drum beat, and the blood slowly squirming in her blood vessels. What was even more frightening was that her thoughts stagnated with time, and every thought was like being stuck in a quagmire, crawling forward with difficulty.
Haelie smiled slightly and tapped his pocket watch again.
The pain became meaningless at this moment. Li Wen felt that the heart in her chest was beating in the opposite direction. The pain and suffocation caused by the backward flow of blood made her eyes darken, and this feeling was stretched endlessly.
During this infinite pain, hoarse gasps were squeezed out of Li Wen's throat. She tried to activate Prayer Incantation, but found that the spell was broken down into scattered syllables, floating slowly between her lips and teeth. Haelie observed those glowing syllables with interest, and suddenly reached out to pinch one of them.
"Sun?" She raised the syllables in front of her split pupils, "What an interesting power, but too weak to be of any use to me."
The pinched syllable suddenly expanded and exploded, and the shadow of a miniature shield appeared in the strong light. Haelie blew a breath, and the shield burst like a soap bubble, and the splashing light turned into small spots of light, which evaporated before landing.
"Let me see what else you have..." Haelie was like a child who discovered a new toy. She became more playful. She pinched the palm of Li Wen holding the dagger and found the dim mark under her wrist, and then reached out to touch it.
The moment Haelie's fingers were about to touch the sun mark on Li Wen's wrist, the silent mark suddenly burst out with dazzling golden light. The girl's fingertips suddenly retracted as if they had touched a red-hot iron, and a huge force directly knocked her away. The girl's split pupils shrank violently, her rotten right face cracked instantly, amber mucus surged like boiling water, dripping onto the ground with a corroding sound of "chichi".
"This is..." Haelie's voice fluctuated for the first time, with an incredible tremor, "Crimson Crown's..."
Li Wen didn't give her a chance to think. Taking advantage of the other person's distracted moment, she endured the pain of blood flowing backward in her chest, made a prayer gesture with her hands with difficulty, and launched Divine Art, which she had been preparing for a long time.
Craving Light!
A bright fire suddenly burst out, and a flaming moth flew out of the light and fire. It flew straight towards Haelie.
The girl who reacted subconsciously raised the brass pocket watch and tapped the dial with her fingertips, trying to rewind time to before the moth struck. However, the flaming moth seemed to ignore the shackles of time, drawing an unnatural arc in the stagnant time and space, and easily got into Haelie's clear pupils.
"Ah——"
Haelie screamed subconsciously, but then she realized that this strange spell did not have much impact on her.
"You're kidding me!" Haelie stared at Li Wen angrily, "As I said, this low-level Divine Art is of no use to me!"
She no longer planned to continue playing around, so she simply turned the pointer of her pocket watch, preparing to stop Li Wen at a point in time forever.
However, as soon as Haelie touched Temporal Path's power, a violent, violent, and twisted golden flame spurted out of her body, and Haelie's scream suddenly twisted into an inhuman roar. The golden flame spurted out from her eye sockets and swallowed up half of her face in an instant. The rotten bark-like skin curled and peeled off in the fire, revealing the squirming blood-colored tissue underneath. She staggered back, and the pocket watch fell to the ground from her hand. The dial glass shattered in the impact, and the three hands trembled crazily like dying insects.
"How dare you..." Haelie's voice was distorted and out of tune. The left half of her child's face was hideous with pain, and her right hand was scratching her eye socket crazily, trying to extinguish the flames that could not be extinguished at all.
As the pocket watch escaped the control of Haelie, Li Wen also escaped from the shackles of time. She looked at the girl's miserable appearance and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It was a good bet for her.
Temporal Path's ability is extremely powerful, but it also has great limitations. Judging from the decayed half of Haelie's face, Li Wen speculates that every time she manipulates time, she will pay the same amount of time as the price. In other words, as long as Haelie continues to play with time, her body will gradually grow old and decay.
If it were an ordinary person, the ability to use timing so frequently would have long been reduced to dust under the order of time. But Haelie is different. Her father is Elders who founded Amber City, so she may also have that eternal bloodline. At most, time can only leave a deep mark on her but cannot completely kill her.
But what a coincidence, Li Wen happens to be in possession of a type of Divine Art that needs time to be truly effective - Craving Light. When Craving Light hits the target and lasts for ten minutes, the target will be ignited by the light until it dies.
So Haelie used his pocket watch and paid for his time, which directly caused Craving Light's effect to be triggered.
Li Wen first used Divine Prayer to restore her condition, and then she held the dagger and prepared to step forward to kill this crazy guy, but at this moment, a voice came from behind her.
"Haelie just likes to fight with others. He is not malicious. Please show mercy."
It was a voice that was difficult to distinguish, but seemed to be extremely recognizable. It sounded like a boy's voice, but also like a girl's, like a child's voice, but also like an old man's voice, either very close or very far away.
Li Wen turned around and saw a brass mask.