A drop of water fell onto the lake, sending ripples across its surface.
And the Sentinel's power of stasis was much the same.
The power known as stasis activated silently.
With each spreading ripple, everything in sight was sealed into a deathly still painting.
The ripples of stasis spread rapidly, freezing everything in place.
From Ling An, who was closest, to the snowflakes and birds in the air, they spread all the way down.
Halfway up the mountain, as Stasis Power swept toward her,
Jinhsi's eyes widened in anguish.
She understood the Sentinel.
And she knew all too well what the Sentinel's actions meant.
Seal off all of Jinzhou and leave this problem to future generations.
But the problem was that even Mt. Firmament's Temporal Turbulence was already something people avoided at all costs.
What, then, of Jinzhou trapped in Eternal Stasis?
For Jinzhou, this path offered less than a one-in-ten-thousand chance of hope.
But she had no time to dwell on it, for Stasis Power had already arrived.
Jinhsi roared. Dragon scales grew across her skin as she summoned everything she had, driving her Resonance Ability to its peak.
This was not the outcome she wanted.
Yet even so, she could barely protect a tiny patch of space around herself.
The pain of overclocking assailed her every moment.
But she merely kept her pale face taut and called to those beside her, "Rover, Master, stay close to me."
Even this tiny refuge she had raised with her Resonance Ability would not last much longer.
The Sentinel's power exceeded hers millions of times over. Had she not been a Resonator, she would already have fallen into stasis like everything else on this mountain.
In this moment of mortal peril, Changli instead looked resigned.
Her Resonance Ability could offer little help