A sharp gleam flashed through his calm, indifferent eyes, then vanished.
The instant the physician turned around, time in the surroundings seemed to congeal. The people on the street walked slower and slower, until one foot hung suspended in the air while the other remained poised to rise. Their expressions froze in that instant. The stream of tea being poured in the teahouse hung in midair like a thread. A child puffed out his cheeks, and the sand-fruit seeds he spat remained caught in the act of leaving his mouth...
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, gurgle!
Bubbles rose from the physician's skin. Like an inflating balloon, his body continued to swell as he walked step by step toward Green, his presence growing ever more terrifying.
He seemed to be a creature born in some world governed by extreme humidity, his body covered in a layer of viscous fluid. Watching Green move terrifyingly slowly within Superconducting Time, the monster, long since stripped of human form, said chillingly, "In the Boiling Wasteland World, scorching magma turns all liquid into boiling vapor. Even rainwater exceeds seventy degrees; before it can reach the ground, it is evaporated again. Weak creatures have no right to survive there. Yet even so, we never thought of leaving the Mother Realm... until one day, an aggressive race called wizards challenged the laws of survival in the Wilds World Cluster!"
As he spoke, the dreadful Wilds creature had already arrived before Green. Compared to the other's body, more than four meters tall, Green's hunched and diminutive form, disguised as a native creature of this world, was utterly insignificant.
"You discovered my secret. No matter which world you came from or what your purpose is, for the peace of the Wilds World Cluster, I can only represent the Endless World's law of