Just as the Divine Artisan's voice rang out, the President's panicked voice rang out as well:
"No! Inside him, there's..."
The next instant, the President's voice abruptly stopped.
But his voice was not the only thing that stopped.
The explosions of skills, the waves, the wind-every sound abruptly vanished.
Lin Yuan was startled, only then realizing that not only had the sound vanished, but everything before his eyes had frozen as well.
The phantoms of skills, the flying dust... all of it was fixed in place.
It was as though someone had pressed pause on the world around him.
Lin Yuan also felt an invisible force bind him firmly, inside and out, leaving him unable to move at all.
He was like an insect trapped in amber.
This sensation was nothing new to Lin Yuan.
"This is... a Time Barrier!"
He recognized the move instantly.
Back in Paradise, he had witnessed this move three times.
Once when a high-ranking Nether River King had acted, once when Senior Moge had summoned Moge, and once when the Oathbreaker had trapped him.
He could hardly have been more familiar with it.
Yet after leaving Paradise, he had never encountered an ability of this caliber again.
Of course, Lin Yuan's perspective had long since changed beyond recognition, and his understanding of the Time Barrier had deepened as well.
He knew that a Time Barrier was no ordinary move.
Time was an existence "beyond categorization," above even top-level authority, something not even the strongest Authority Holders could control.
However, although the strongest Authority Holders could not control time, they could briefly touch upon authority of this kind, allowing them to use a Time Barrier as their ultimate move.
Figures who reached this level were exceedingly rare even among Authority Holders.
Thus, despite his rapidly advancing