Within the Divine Armor, Pulle came to his senses and shouted.
"Captain!"
His shout reminded Byrne of their mission. Gritting his teeth, he traced a cross over his chest. "Kuller."
A sacred radiance condensed into a pillar and descended upon Byrne. A holy aura surged, and a figure appeared within the brilliance.
It was an angel with outspread wings. Behind him floated a mottled, ancient clock.
The clock was divided into twelve sections. Its hour, minute, and second hands were all made of gold.
Angel of Time, Kuller!
After summoning the Holy Projection, Byrne immediately activated the "Divine Grace" he had obtained from the earlier sacrifice.
A golden pocket watch with an endlessly spinning hour hand appeared in his hand. Byrne threw it at Yao Yuan.
While the pocket watch was still in midair, it began to disintegrate on its own.
First, its outer surface peeled away. Then the hands and all the other components inside the clock broke apart layer by layer.
Its form then expanded and grew huge, becoming illusory. Finally, the components floated around Yao Yuan, forming a special temporal zone.
Within this zone, time would continue looping until the loop was broken or Byrne dispelled it himself.
Thus, within the temporal zone, light and shadow shifted.
The nascent primordial spirit that had already been on the verge of emerging suddenly reversed, shrank, and vanished.
A blurry scene appeared within the temporal zone. It was barely possible to make out the scene outside the main hall.
Yao Yuan returned to a few minutes earlier, to the moment when he had been fighting Teng Snake.
Byrne looked toward Pulle inside the Divine Armor. "Do whatever you want now. The 'Time Loop' won't be able to trap him for long."
The pressure from the primordial spirit moments ago was