β-550, Stone of Freedom.
It could transform any living being into a stone product, including cement, various rocks, and ores.
The longer the holder touched the target, the more complex the resulting stone product could become according to the holder's imagination, including, but not limited to, exquisitely crafted stone sculptures.
If the transformed creature possessed sufficient intelligence, it could move freely, becoming a stone as free as a living creature. With the holder's permission, it could also return to its living state.
However, such movement, switching between states, transforming other living beings, and similar actions would all reduce the amount of 'time spent as a living creature.'
When that time reached zero, the creature would be forcibly transformed into a stone product and would never be able to return.
The earliest holder could no longer be determined. It was known to have first been discovered in Ancient Greece.
It was said that the master sculptor who designed the reconstruction of Athens and was renowned throughout the Greek city-states had once possessed it.
Phidias had personally created three statues of Athena for the Acropolis of Athens. They were lifelike and incomparably beautiful.
His most incredible work was the statue of Zeus. Standing over twenty meters tall, it was grand and majestic, as though the god himself had descended. It had once been considered one of the wonders of the world, but after being destroyed by war, it survived only in written records.
Starting with him, the Contained Object passed through several owners. Until the Roman era, it was used to create works of art, helping produce countless magnificent wonders.
Until the fifth century AD, when the Germanic invasions brought about the fall of the Western Roman Empire. With the complete disappearance of the classical age, the Stone of Freedom was taken