As soon as Sha Chuan had been sent away, Nie Xuan had applied to the military for a newly acquired A-class instrument designed specifically to detect Time Power. As for why he hadn't asked for an instrument or item capable of interfering with Time Power, the answer was simple: they couldn't find one. And even if they could, no one would sell it to them.
Time Power was one of the very foundations of the game. Apart from game companies that openly sold this kind of instrument or item, almost none of the District Governments or other forces they could contact had anything similar. Of course, it was possible they were simply very good at keeping such things secret.
Compared with Spatial Evolution instruments and items, which were easier to obtain information about, items and instruments related to time were extremely rare. Moreover, many things classified as time-related had no direct ability to interfere with Time Power. Most were ordinary items with certain effects, crafted from Sub-class Stones or Origin Stones with temporal or spatial properties. Likewise, very few people in the game could truly begin Super Evolution along the time path. The several Super Players active at E-class wormhole points were not time-path Evolvers. There was said to be a Super Player in District 011 who had begun Super Evolution along the time path, but he was extremely mysterious. He rarely appeared, was hard to track down, and no one could tell whether the rumors were true.
In other words, anything that could truly affect time—whether a Player, an item, or an instrument—was absolutely rare. If the instrument Nie Xuan held hadn't been so underwhelming in what it could do, the military Players could never have gotten their hands on it.
Even so, the military Players had spent a