There were no tools to keep time, but at a certain moment, the Cubes on every player's Handcuffs began to turn.
As the Cubes turned, the rooms began to tilt and shift as well. Qihua and Zhuri, who had just been in front of Yu Xunge, rotated counterclockwise to the left, while Yu Xunge and Mountains Xunge above her rotated clockwise to the right.
With the rotation, the nearly transparent barriers between the rooms changed too, becoming black metal, with a lamp lighting up in each of the four corners.
This seemed to be the rooms' true appearance. They were looking more and more like a prison.
Ding~
With a pleasant chime like a clock hand reaching the hour, all noise outside the room vanished, and a mechanical notification sounded in Yu Xunge's ears.
[Detected Prisoner 8017-Zai Jiu-purple-gold talent-alchemy] [Prisoner 8017-Zai Jiu-triggered four-star creation game]
A scroll dropped into the very center with a swish.
Yu Xunge withdrew her gaze from the lamp shaped like a flowering branch and looked at the scroll.
[Creation game] ★★★★: The flow of time in this Cube room will now be altered. One hour outside will equal one year in the prison. Before the next Cube rotation, the prisoner must use the materials in the room to invent a new alchemy product or improve an existing alchemy formula. Failure will result in erasure.
As soon as Yu Xunge finished reading, the scroll rolled itself up and dissipated.
The little room, whose entirety had been visible at a glance, instantly expanded outward and upward. One materials cabinet after another, each dozens of meters tall, appeared out of thin air.
Herbs, minerals, gems-everything was available, along with a full selection of crucibles and engraving knives.
Not only that, but as Yu Xunge