Time, the distance traveled, the strength of the fire in the fireplace, and the colors of the paintings on the walls.
The time when I entered this ruin...
"Do you still need me to give you a hint?"
"With your own intelligence, you should be able to figure out the key to the problem easily, right?"
It was obviously something related to time.
"As for Ekhatol..."
"I've already told you. He's just a legendary figure."
"All I know is that he left behind a few harmless ruins and a world-shaking artifact."
"An artifact called the Ring of Stillness."
"I heard that whoever possesses it can stop time at will. Everyone else's time is frozen, but they can move freely."
That sounded a lot like his Ascension to Extreme Realm.
Except Ascension to Extreme Realm only let him move for a brief second.
He had no idea how many seconds that artifact let its owner move. If it only stopped time for around five seconds, it didn't seem all that powerful.
Hmm...
I think I'm getting a little full of myself.
How could I think an ability like Time Stop wasn't all that powerful...
As Ansu rambled on about the legends surrounding Ekhatol, Lu Cang examined all the decorations around him.
He had almost figured out the pattern behind the decorations lining both sides of the corridor.
They changed according to distance.
The way out should be simple: find the one thing that didn't fit the pattern.
Lu Cang's senses had already locked onto a clock in the distance.
The hundreds of clocks around it all followed the pattern he had worked out, pointing to their corresponding marks.
Only that one clock pointed to a mark that didn't fit.
He moved one step.
Tap—
In an instant, Lu Cang appeared in