"I can win!"
Lin Yuan shouted inwardly, raising his right hand high. Light Blade returned to its greatsword form and slashed straight down!
The Moge Golem's blue shield had already been shattered by the previous blows. As long as this strike landed, the Moge Golem would be cleaved in two!
These golems had no ability to repair themselves. Once he cut it apart, Lin Yuan would win this battle!
Just then, the entire arena suddenly darkened.
Although this was an open space between the maze rooms, enclosed by countless mechanical structures, quite a few electric lights had been installed around it.
Together with the light spilling through the window of the central furnace, they kept the place brightly lit.
But now, although neither the lights nor the furnace's glow had vanished, the area around Lin Yuan inexplicably grew dark.
A pitch-black vortex had appeared beside the Moge Golem at some point, sucking in all the surrounding light.
"What's...?"
As Lin Yuan looked at the pitch-black vortex, a sense of foreboding lingered in his heart.
He tried to exert himself and quickly bring down Light Blade, but he could not move at all.
It was as though an infinite force had bound him.
Not just him-the Moge Golem opposite him, Lilia in the distance, and even the dust swept up from the ground by the aftershocks of battle were all frozen in place, unable to move.
"This isn't restraint. Time has stopped!"
Realization dawned on Lin Yuan.
He simply did not know why he could still think normally when time had clearly stopped.
Just then, a sharp spear tip emerged from the pitch-black vortex.
In an instant, that sense of frozen confinement grew even heavier.
It was as though a sovereign above all else had appeared, and everything but it had