Time flew by, and before long, it was mid-December.
During this time, Aaron had not been idling around. Instead, he had devoted most of his energy to researching Time Magic.
Yet even as the God of Magic, supported by an enormous reserve of magical power, his development of Time Magic progressed very slowly.
After several months, he had only mastered basic Time Magic based on his original foundation—stasis, rewind, reversal, acceleration, deceleration, distortion, and the like.
As for more advanced Time Magic, such as time-space travel and time tunnels, he had only just glimpsed the doorway.
Still, that was enough at the God of Magic stage. He had an infinitely long lifespan; perhaps one day, he could become the master of time.
Today was the quarterly meeting of his followers, but before that, he had something more important to do.
@Panku Treasure Box (1,000 Magic Points, forged by eight Immortal Deities; filled inside and out with righteous magic. It was once used by the Eight Immortals to seal the Eight Great Demons. It can also be used to open the Gate of Hell connecting to Demon Hell—in other words, it is the key to the Gate of Hell. Note: Gather the demonic energies of the Eight Great Demons and the Panku Treasure Box to control Demon Hell.)
As it happened, he had accumulated exactly one thousand Magic Points by now, so he naturally exchanged them for this key capable of opening Demon Hell.
The Panku Treasure Box was actually a 2×2×4 Rubik's Cube. Its shape was a geometric solid formed by joining together the lower bases of two square frustums, with four trigram symbols on each of its upper bases.
Aaron toyed with the dark-blue cube as a wisp of each of the eight types of demonic energy