Everyone Sets Sail on Haunted Seas, but the System Insists I'm a Ship!
Chapter 218

A costly victory

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According to what Research Institute 3154 had said earlier, the power of time was the highest order of power upon this sea.

Ordinary players were helpless against it.

Lin Yuan now felt the weight of those words.

Though his stats were higher than those of ordinary players, he was no different from them in the face of time's power.

At that moment, he was like an insect frozen in amber. No matter how hard he struggled, he could not escape his predicament.

No, he was worse off than an insect in amber.

Amber was at least an external force. If the insect itself were strong enough, it could still put up a struggle.

But Lin Yuan was not being held motionless by an overwhelming external force.

Rather, his thoughts remained, but none of the commands issued by his consciousness could reach his body.

That made sense. Human movement, from the commands issued by the mind to the muscles' response, depended entirely on the flow of time.

Now that time had frozen, his consciousness could not reach his body at all.

Lin Yuan was like a completely paralyzed patient, able only to watch everything unfold before him without any ability to act.

This was not a question of strength. The power of time had prevented any possibility of resistance from Lin Yuan on a higher level.

This was the supreme power upon this supernatural sea!

Yet there was something strange about it.

Normally, thought and consciousness also depended on the flow of time. When time stopped, all activity in the human brain would be paused as well.

Lin Yuan should not have been conscious at all. His next moment of awareness should have taken him straight to the end of the Time Barrier.

Yet he was conscious.

Senior Moge had mentioned

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