Lin Yue snapped his eyes open and looked around, but he found nothing.
Aside from being able to roll his eyes, he couldn’t move a single muscle.
He returned his gaze to the front and discovered a girl with blue hair and red eyes standing right where the area had been empty just a moment ago.
“First time meeting… should I say that?”
She looked young, around 14 or 15 years old, slightly smaller than Liya.
Lin Yue was a bit dazed.
Time stop — it was an ability perhaps even more broken than the laws of space.
In the original game, it had been banned outright for the sake of combat balance.
He hadn’t expected it to actually exist in this world.
The things Lin Yue was currently experiencing had already exceeded his knowledge of the plot, leaping into the so-called “unknown territory.”
To put it simply, games more or less have some unreasonable settings and plots.
To make itself self-consistent, this world would definitely choose to fix them or simply create something out of thin air.
And Lin Yue, the unlucky guy, seemed to have stumbled right into it.
‘I’m screwed…’
He had originally fantasized that this game would remain unchanged, exactly like his memories of clearing it, without any additional settings.
In the end, it happened anyway…
There was nothing he could do but accept it all.
This little girl with blue hair, red eyes, and a white dress practically had the words ‘I have a deep backstory and complex setting’ written all over her face.
In games, characters with high beauty, unique designs, and special abilities generally had side stories.
At the very least, they were important supporting characters.
However, he had never seen this person in the game before.
How could a little girl who could stop time just appear out of nowhere?
“Who are you?”
Lin Yue truly wanted to know.
She didn’t seem to want to say it directly.
In this current era, very few people knew her true identity.
“Is this the choice you have made?”
She glanced at Isabena beside Lin Yue, a hint of incomprehension flickering in her eyes.
Seeing the girl acting like a riddler, speaking in disjointed sentences, Lin Yue knew he wouldn’t get any information other than more puzzles.
He sighed and said, “Is this time stop your ability? Can you let me out?”
The blue-haired girl startled, seemingly not expecting Lin Yue to be in such a hurry.
“No…”
She shook her head, denying that the time stop was her doing.
She then walked up to him and said, “But I can release you.”
“And one more thing…”
She seemed to have one last matter to convey.
“Regarding that Agresta, the jade pendant will pour the * from my main body into her mind. If she can master it, she will obtain my power. If she cannot…” She trailed off.
“Then I won’t be able to control how things play out, either.”
‘What do you mean by… main body?’
The information load in those few sentences was too much.
Just as Lin Yue wanted to ask for clarification, he saw the girl lightly tap his forehead.
The flow of time instantly returned to normal.
She also vanished, leaving no trace behind.
‘Dammit…’
‘I should have asked everything before letting her go.’
Lin Yue really wanted to slap his self from 20 seconds ago twice.
This was the consequence of liking to click skip while playing games.
Lin Yue snapped his eyes open and came back to his senses.
Looking at Isabena, who was just a few centimeters away, he quirked an eyebrow.
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing!”
She straightened up at light speed and looked around as if nothing had just happened.
Lin Yue: “…”
‘Why do I always feel like she’s plotting something against me?’
Whatever, he needed to think about how to get Airella out…
The plot was over, though it had concluded in a very bizarre way.
Who could have guessed that the first and second acts would actually be jumbled together into a single, unified event?
It truly exceeded Lin Yue’s imagination.
While he was thinking, Liya, who had been fighting halfway up above, noticed the two inside the council chamber.
She turned toward the giant dragon, magic glowing in her eyes.
After using a massive amount of mana to leave behind a spatial binding, she opened a spatial rift.
While Lin Yue was lying there comfortably, he suddenly felt a familiar spatial ripple near his face.
It was Liya.
She sat down abruptly on Lin Yue’s stomach.
Lin Yue, who had lowered his guard, took a heavy impact.
After a bout of dry heaving, he slumped back onto Isabena’s thighs, losing all his strength and momentum.
“Long time no see…”
Liya straightened her magic hat and spoke to the two with a look of surprise.
She had just seen Isabella, so she easily recognized the Isabena in front of her.
This pair was certainly a rare combination.
Isabena, who had been immersed in their private world, was startled by Liya’s sudden appearance.
She tried to stand up in a panic, her face flushed.
“Professor Liya, ah… please get up!”
‘She’s sitting on me. How am I supposed to get up? You try getting up and show me…’
Although Liya was small and didn’t look heavy, the impact of her sitting down like that wasn’t something a normal person could withstand.
Seeing Lin Yue’s dazed, half-dead expression, Isabena was at a loss.
She couldn’t exactly push him away…
Liya braced her hands on Lin Yue’s chest and watched the extremely ambiguous interaction between the two, her eyes narrowing into slits.
Even Liya could see the change in their relationship.
The way Isabena was feigning resistance while clearly being too tender-hearted to push Lin Yue away made it obvious.
“Are you two perhaps…”
Liya formed her hands into fish mouths and bumped them together twice, hinting at their relationship.
Her intention was: ‘Did you two resolve your misunderstanding and start acting all lovey-dovey again?’
But they really had been kissing shamelessly, and more than once.
Liya’s strange little hint caused the usually cold and aloof Isabena to turn red as a beet, looking like she was about to boil over.
‘I hope Professor Liya didn’t watch the whole thing live, or my reputation will be ruined…’
“I… we… say something! You annoying guy…”
Isabena’s mind was filled with thoughts of her persona collapsing.
She kept pushing Lin Yue, hoping he would explain.
In fact, it wasn’t that Lin Yue didn’t want to move; he was truly exhausted.
If he didn’t lie down for a while, he might actually drop dead.
Explaining to Liya was pointless, so he simply closed his eyes and played dead.
Today, he had fought Charles, then Isabena, then that knight, and then he took a heavy blow to the stomach from Liya.
Not counting any battles that might happen shortly, he had already gone through three rounds.
He had given all the useful potions to Charles.
He hadn’t had enough of this gentle comfort yet, so how could he be willing to get up…
Lin Yue opened his eyes and found two beauties of different charms looking down at him.
He couldn’t help but feel that this posture was indeed quite strange.
Liya raised an eyebrow and looked around, noticing broken glass and blood everywhere, as well as the corpse of a knight.
It seemed things hadn’t been easy on Lin Yue’s end either.
She had wanted Lin Yue to stay back and not get involved, but remembering what had just happened within the Divine Realm, she had to admit he was indeed crucial.
If he hadn’t arranged for Isabella to help her, she would have been freed much later, and Avelina would have truly become a living hell.
“Did you do all this?”
Liya pointed at the mess in the council chamber and spoke to Lin Yue.
“It was me…”
Liya pressed her hands together and offered a small prayer for the broken glass.
“Lucifer is going to cry…”
All this glass consisted of pieces from Lucifer’s precious collection.
Now that Lin Yue had smashed them all, there was no telling how he would react.
ROAR!
After the three finished their brief exchange, the Forbidden Demonic Beast overhead seemed to have broken free, roaring as it searched for an opponent.
“Lin Yue, can you come?”
Liya didn’t want to force Lin Yue, but she truly had no way to deal with the Forbidden Demonic Beast.
She felt that perhaps Lin Yue could do something.
Lin Yue took a deep breath, knowing this was the final chore.
He grabbed Liya and hoisted her up.
“Let’s go…”