"Ghost Captain, to be honest, I didn’t expect to encounter you first... In the order of my anticipated preys, you should have been the last..."
The World Walker stood from afar, casting a glance each at Mu You and Lin Xue opposite him.
"Well, it’s not a bad thing, two crystals in one go does save me effort."
"Coincidentally, I’m also quite interested in your crystal." Mu You sneered.
The World Walker paused, laughed and said, "Haha, it’s only because you don’t know my abilities yet - otherwise, you wouldn’t be confident to say those words."
"Ever since I entered the game, I’ve battled with other players and natives of the Star Spirit World in thousands of matches, and I’ve never lost. Moreover, no enemy still breathes! This is why I could remain anonymous previously..." The World Walker looked at Mu You: "I know you are powerful, but unfortunately, my abilities are invincible!"
Won every single one of a thousand odd battles? So he never experienced defeat, no wonder he’s so arrogant...
Mu You looked at his opponent speechlessly. The last one who claimed to be invincible has stopped thinking now.
There’s no such thing as absolutely invincible power in this world, otherwise, the Earth and the Star Spirit World would’ve been dominated by a single individual.
Time stop is definitely a powerful ability, but Mu You also firmly believed that this ability must have restrictions—a pretty substantial one, otherwise, Lin Xue wouldn’t have survived earlier.
Lin Xue’s survival indicated that the opponent’s time stop duration was limited.
At the same time, Mu You was not killed during the time stop but was hit by the cannon after it was lifted.
That is to say, it’s likely that they couldn’t be directly hurt during time stop. He could only prepare for the attack, then lift the time stop, allowing the attack to take effect and kill them.
There was a minute time difference between the time stop being lifted and the time the attack actually hit him and Lin Xue.
This time difference was his opponent’s weakness!
Mu You figured it all out in a blink of an eye. The Mana Floating Dragon emanated around him.
Mu You fed a card to the Mana Floating Dragon - it swallowed it and immediately breathed out a strong cold air towards Lin Xue.
The cold air formed crystal walls around Lin Xue, reaching to the high sky and forming a triangle that shielded Lin Xue within.
This sudden move puzzled both Lin Xue and the World Walker.
"Ice Wall Technique, creates impassable walls, in combination with the space turbulence in high altitude, they form an absolutely safe zone. Even your time-stop ability can’t breach the ice wall and hurt her." Mu You said to the World Walker.
When the Ice Wall Technique is casted by an individual, it requires constant spellcasting, and can only create one ice wall at a time.
But the Mana Floating Dragon doesn’t have these restrictions. The secret technique it consumes will be automatically analyzed. The analyzed spell can control will power and make various extensions.
His time stop ability can make everything static, but the already existing ice wall will not disappear. The fact that the ice wall cannot be passed ensures that the World Walker cannot touch people inside the ice wall, even within the time-stop space.
"Oh?" The World Walker looked at Mu You with interest, without any haste to start a fight: "You’re putting so much effort into protecting her, but what about yourself? You know you’re the one who can’t resurrect."
Lin Xue looked at Mu You from within the ice wall with worry.
Mu You shook his head at her: "Don’t worry about the outside, just recover as soon as possible, and don’t forget, your battlefield is not here..."
Their aim was to complete the task and claim the Grim Reaper’s inheritance - her real battlefield is the Skull Mountain far away.
"You think she still has a chance to leave?" The World Walker laughed as if he heard something amusing.
Now, in an attempt to protect her life, she was locked in an ice cage - the moment she stepped out, he would finish her instantly, and yet they were talking about ’battlefield not here’. Did he really think he would simply stand by and let her go?
"Why the rush? I will naturally create an opportunity for her to leave." Mu You said.
"Okay, I’d love to see how you make that happen!" The World Walker sneered, lost interest in continuing the conversation, and pressed down with his right thumb.
Mu You suddenly felt a change in light and shadow before his eyes, and heard the World Walker’s voice in his ear again: "...You think she still has a chance to leave?"
It was evident that time had been rewound.
Mu You looked at Vivian: "Has he started attacking?"
"Yes, you’re going to die the moment time stop ends, so listen closely to what I say..."
Vivian now pressed the button of the pocket watch incessantly, causing time to automatically rewind the instant the watch cools down - as long as she didn’t let go, they would always stay within this five-second loop.
Doing this obviously allowed for sufficient time to explain the situation to him.
"His time stop ability has defects, the most obvious one is that after time stops, he can’t directly touch or hurt people in time stop - otherwise, their time stop status would be removed. However, people whose time stop status is removed because of touching him wouldn’t lose the magical status existing on them at the moment."
"Like when he saved the woman in red in mid-air - she automatically lifted the time stop status but was still unable to move because she was still under Little Snow’s Holding Spell. In the world where time stops, all magical effects can’t be added or removed, especially action-limiting spells. They can’t even solidify in the time-stop world due to the rule constraints—restriction type spells will automatically dissipate upon casting."