Soon, the ability was released. Everyone was slightly surprised, feeling as though their thoughts had stopped for a moment. If they could notice what had happened, then it definitely had not been genuine Time Stop.
"Just now... where's Gaspar?" Rias froze when she saw that Gaspar had vanished from before her.
Chen Fan pointed at the cardboard box in the corner. "That little guy used the power of his Sacred Gear to stop time, then ran into that cardboard box."
Hearing Chen Fan sell him out without hesitation, the box Gaspar was hiding in shook. Everyone knew Gaspar was hidden inside it.
Rias looked at Chen Fan in surprise. "Chen Fan, how do you know so clearly? Aren't you affected by Gaspar's Evil Eye, which stops the world with his Sacred Gear?"
Chen Fan shook his head. "That is ultimately just time-stopping magic, only at the level of magic. It can't affect me at all. To truly stop time, it has to reach the level of rules. If it reached that level, even I would get caught."
"Rules? What are those?" Genoa asked curiously.
"That belongs to the domain of True Gods. That pale white barrier of mine is more or less the embryonic form of rules," Chen Fan explained. He was judging by Academy City's ranking system. The God-like Michael he had encountered in Academy City, the Archangel with six golden wings, was a little stronger than Chen Fan was now. So although Chen Fan had seen many gods, he felt they were merely false gods.
"Is that the level of a god?" Genoa and Aisha asked as they looked at Chen Fan.
Chen Fan waved a hand, looking utterly calm. "No. If your god had that kind of strength, he wouldn't have died." Chen Fan's bluntness left Genoa