"Something's wrong."
The figure slowly took a step back, his gaze piercing, the black rod engraved with an eyeball clenched in his hand.
And just as he finished speaking-
A faint breeze blew out from within.
At that same instant, Lynn's spiritual senses suddenly registered an overwhelming sense of danger, and the figure abruptly leaped backward.
But he stopped.
His figure froze abruptly in place amid that faint breeze, as though someone had pressed pause on a movie.
Time Stop!
Lynn's pupils contracted sharply.
Because at almost the same instant, the firstborn power within him had nearly been triggered.
But how was that possible?!
Had they already mastered time as well?
More terrifying still, the power of that Time Stop seemed vaguely to surpass his firstborn power, threatening to envelop him in this frozen space-time as well. Nothing like this had ever happened before.
But just then, he felt a cool sensation in his chest, and his thoughts instantly broke free of the Time Stop's influence.
"Don't move."
The voice of that silver sun rang out in his mind.
"This isn't the Nightmares' ability. Something that doesn't belong to this timeline has leaked out."
Amid that cool, clear echo-
Wisps of temporal power crept over him and Truth. Light slowly returned to the golden figure's eyes, and his body drifted gently to the ground.
He had returned to normal.
The figure immediately grasped what had happened and said calmly:
"Time..."
Lynn, in his Raven form, turned to look at him. A faint trace of gravity and bewilderment appeared on the figure's profile. Clearly, this was his first encounter with such a situation too.
"This isn't normal. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Something here must have changed."
Then he gave Lynn a meaningful look.
He had clearly sensed the