"Difficult." King Mask paused for a moment. "It's not completely impossible to control, but it's at least twenty times harder than it is outside, and the range I can affect is very limited."
"Then what was that 'door' you mentioned just now?"
"After the two of us accidentally entered that Time Maze, we got separated the very next moment... He took one step forward while I remained where I was, and then he simply vanished from my sight.
"He had only taken one step, but inside that Time Maze, it triggered a shift in time. He really did take a step forward, but that step sent him to where he had been a week earlier.
"At the time, we still didn't understand what the Time Maze was. When I saw him suddenly disappear, I immediately went looking for him, and then I was sent to another point in time...
"Later, after I figured out the concept behind the Time Maze, I tried every possible way to find him across different times. By the time I found him, he was already lying unconscious on the ground, covered in blood.
"In front of him stood a massive door..."
"What kind of door?"
"It seemed to be made of some kind of stone. Its surface was gray, and it looked incredibly ancient... There were many cracks on it, and a chunk was missing from its upper right corner. But whenever I looked directly at it, my head would swell with pain, like it was about to split apart."
Lin Qiye's pupils suddenly contracted.
"The Gate of Truth??"
When Lin Qiye had fought An Qingyu, he had seen the phantom of the Gate of Truth that An Qingyu summoned. It looked exactly like what King Mask had described.
If he remembered correctly, the mist