The king put on his shoes and walked back and forth in front of the wall where the puzzle was written. He continued to read the journal while walking: “‘Before starting my final journey, I must take good care of my wizard tower. This is a place in the Underdark where few people go. Without my control, the aboleths in the lake will probably fight to become a great king.’

Xiaobai: “I admit that your speculation makes sense, but it has nothing to do with the puzzle in front of us, right?”

“But then he said, ‘I have prepared some entertainment for you in the secret room where the treasure is. You need to defeat my automaton to get the final reward.’

“That’s why embracing eternity is so difficult.”

Elizabeth: “Like the fake door downstairs?”

Wang: “I thought so at first. But it’s not right! Have you forgotten that living things cannot enter the dimensional bag? But we entered this wizard tower safely! This is completely different from the principle of the dimensional bag!

“This Mage Tower has always been in the timeline of the Gralia plane. In order to stop the flow of time inside it, the person who built the Mage Tower must be fully aware of the nature of time!”

“‘Yes, it’s the time-stopping ring I made!'”

Wang silently flipped through the log, turned a few pages and suddenly laughed again: “This old elf, he is about to die and has begun to have leisure time. Look at what he said here, ‘I have prepared several entertainments for you in the secret room where the treasure is placed. You need to defeat my automatic doll to get the final reward.’

Xiaobai jumped up from the ground in shock: “What happened?”

Wang: “In this Mage Tower, time is stopped!”

Xiao Bai yawned and said, “So, just press these four symbols to open the door?”

Elzam is an enemy. No matter how many times we encounter him in the future, there is only one thing to do, which is to destroy him.

Wang snapped his fingers. “That’s right. So in the first level, it doesn’t matter what you answer. It’s just like the iron door downstairs. It’s the same way.”

Xiaobai was lying on the ground, snoring, with his belly rising and falling rhythmically.

Nini: “Are you asking about the nature of time?”

The king was originally teasing his old friend, but then he remembered that Elzam had slaughtered the entire city of Shallow Water until only two thousand people were left.

Wang began to explain his current thinking: “The old man only talked about the final game, not the rules, and gave no hints. I guess the hint is in the book. Also, considering that the old man probably didn’t have much time to carefully design puzzles in his later years, I guess this puzzle mainly relies on brain teasers.”

Elizabeth asked blankly, “What do you mean?”

“It’s possible that hundreds of years have passed since the first log was written until the old wizard passed away. Even a pig should be able to figure it out after a hundred years of research. Besides, wizards are generally smart.”

Marika frowned, “Does the doll still have magical powers?”

Wang: “Almost.”

Marika suddenly said, “Why doesn’t this elven wizard become a lich? The spell to transform into a lich should be much simpler than embracing eternity, right? After all, Elzam has completed it.”

Xiao Bai: “Put yourself in his shoes. If it were me, I would be determined to give the guest a reward in this situation, no matter what he said. If he was right, it answered my question. If he was wrong, I heard another idea, which might inspire my thinking.”

Before the king could answer, the golden statue on the other side of the stone wall spoke: “Stranger, I am the answer, but what is the question?”

Wang: “Have you forgotten? The space in this wizard tower will stop once the observer leaves…Oh shit!”

Wang: “No, I don’t know. If I knew, I wouldn’t be limited to casting fourth-level spells. But I boldly guess that the old elf doesn’t know either. Although he has mastered the real time-stopping magic, seeking knowledge is like blowing a balloon. The bigger the balloon is, the more things it touches on the surface.

Wang: “Are you stressed?”

Even the big-hearted Wang knew that he shouldn’t use such a teasing tone towards an old friend.

He was about to continue speaking when he suddenly stopped and looked at Xiaobai.

Wang: “No, you see he said here: ‘I think no one will visit my wizard tower for many years. Maybe when it finally welcomes guests, all the mechanisms will lose their magic.’

“what?”

As he spoke, Wang pressed the brick that Marika had pressed at the beginning. It was only when this brick was pressed that the other bricks turned over.

Elizabeth kicked the king’s heel and said, “Go and solve your riddle!”

“‘I think it’s been years since anyone has visited my tower, and by the time it finally receives a visitor, all the mechanisms may have lost their magic. So I’m going to play a trick on the visitor with the mechanism at the main entrance.'”

Wang laughed out loud: “If Elzam hears this, he will definitely cry… Damn, I don’t care if he cries or not.”

Wang shook his head: “No, figuring this out is only the first step to embracing eternity. He may still be too late, but that is none of our business. We have to solve this puzzle now and get the ring that can stop time – or the ultimate acceleration technique.”

Elizabeth: “I really envy her a little bit. She can sleep whenever she wants. People who can do this are 100% stress-free.”

Everyone looked at each other.

Xiaobai was shocked: “I guess this is the next level.”

Wang couldn’t help but take off his shoes and gently put his feet on her belly.

“Look, isn’t this a contradiction? The old elf knew that the puppets in the tower would not lose power, and he knew that the moment he left, the time in the tower would stop. At the end of his life, he realized the true stop of time. Maybe the stranger who visited by chance gave him a hint!

“Look at the front of the log, he said he was trying to understand blackbody radiation! I just thought that this log was written in a very short time, but there is actually no date in the log.

Nini: “So, that wizard embraced eternity?”

The next moment, the bricks of the entire wall moved and curled up to the side.

“But teacher, in what you just read, wasn’t the owner of the Mage Tower puzzled?” Nini asked.

Elizabeth hesitated, “I… I always fail to get a ring, which makes me very stressed! Especially when I see you teaching Nini so hard, I worry that one day Nini will get a ring, and I will only have one more ring than her! Fortunately, I got three rings recently.”

King: “I think if the two of them work together to use the five-headed flail, they can smash this golem.”

Xiaobai frowned: “Are you sure this is the solution to this level?”

Wang: “Not sure. But a treasure as powerful as the Time Stop Ring won’t break even if it gets knocked around a bit.”

Chapter 312 Time Stop (Fake)

In the blink of an eye, the adamantium golem was shattered by the power of the five-headed flails.

The dwarf looked at the shattered golem and turned back to the king: “Are you sure it’s okay to do this?”

At this time, the remaining golem stammered, “You… cheated…”

Wang: “Time is precious. Destroy it completely and then find where the ring is.”

At this time, Marika, who was checking the sundries next to the golem, said, “There’s a robe among the sundries. Would you like to take a look?”

Wang: “You’re giving me a robe for free. You’re making a fortune. Bring it here so I can see it.”

Before he could finish his words, the dwarf – or rather, the barbarian helping the dwarf – smashed the golem’s head with a flail.

A ring fell directly out of the golem’s mouth. Nini quickly caught the ring and handed it to the king.

The king looked at the ring carefully and nodded, “Yes, that’s right. This should be the ring made by the old elf. The casting was done very roughly, but it has a strong magical power.”

All members of the rescue team frowned.

The king took out Elzam’s spoon and said, “Make us a big pot of hot soup to drink first.”

Wang took a deep breath: “Time stops!”

Flint took out a large piece of jerky from his dimensional bag and threw it to Xiaobai.

After doing this, he turned his head to look around and quickly touched his beard, which the dwarf never allowed anyone to touch.

Marika immediately handed over the robe.

“Nonsense! Rosalie is fine, how could she possess me? She’s not a ghost!”

Flint: “He wouldn’t have done that?”

Xiao Bai gnawed on the dried meat and complained: “Why do your dimensional bags have dried meat? Mine doesn’t have any!”

Flint fiddled with the fireplace in his study and said, “Every woman will eventually become a nagging, yellow-faced woman who likes to complain all day long. This is bound to happen.”

The next moment, everything around was still.

Wang: “When time stops, it won’t rebound, so there’s no point in shooting it.”

The king then turned to Marika and said, “Let me see the robe.”

“I didn’t!” Elizabeth covered her face.

“You’ll know after trying it.” Wang said as he wiped the ring, took off the Death Command Ring on his hand, and put the Time Stop Ring back in its original place.

Xiao Bai: “Is the time stop on this ring a real time stop, or the kind that stops when you move very fast?”

Wang: “Are you saying I’m a ten-second man?”

Wang: “I definitely did.”

The dwarf gave a thumbs up: “Leave it to me.”

Nini: “So is this time stop fake or real?”

“It’s fake.” Wang said firmly, “Real time stopping will affect the operation of some basic rules. I didn’t observe these phenomena just now. In other words, the flow of time is still going, but I was moving too fast, and it felt like time [had] stopped.”

The king took the robe and examined it carefully. Nini commented beside him: “The fabric looks very high-end, and the decorative patterns are also the work of an expert.”

The king continued to examine the robe.

But after the fall of the Cyclops Empire, the slaves also suffered a devastating disaster. The surviving humans quickly lost most of their technology, and some of those who escaped to remote areas began to use stone and bone weapons again.

This time it was Xiaobai’s turn to exclaim: “Do wood elves grow on trees? I met a wood elf when I was traveling, and he was quite nice.”

Elizabeth was about to retort when the wizard suddenly stuffed the robe into her hands.

After doing these two things, the time stop ended, after all, it was only ten seconds.

In the First Age, humans were slaves of the Cyclops Empire. Theoretically, humans should have been able to make iron weapons and even steel from the very beginning – all of which were taught by the Cyclops.

Wang: “I’m going to try this ring. Anyway, we’ll probably be staying in this tower today, so we won’t need to use the magic on the ring. It will be fully charged tomorrow.”

The Forest Kingdom was located in a dense forest. At that time, the forest covered a very vast area, and many slaves from the former Cyclops Empire should have escaped to its edge.

Flint: “I think he’ll keep watching for another hour. Come on, let’s light a fire and cook. I’m starving after a day of hard work. I was just eating some dry food downstairs.”

Elizabeth covered her mouth: “No… uh, what am I saying! Please pretend you didn’t hear it!”

Elizabeth: “You ate all the meat that was allocated to you in one go! How dare you say that! You can eat as much meat as you are given!”

If two overly powerful rings are worn on the same hand, their energies may distort each other, thus affecting the spellcasting of the person wearing the rings.

Wang: “Because this robe may be something that the ancient Elven Kingdom gave to the court wizard. Nini, is there any record of the great wizard leaving the Forest Kingdom?”

Therefore, mages will definitely wear particularly powerful rings on different hands, and they must also master the wearing order of not-so-powerful rings.

Wang stretched out his hand and ruffled Xiaobai’s hair hard.

The dwarf exclaimed: “Elves have mothers? Didn’t you grow on trees?”

Elizabeth suddenly said, “If that’s the case, then you used time stop when you were having sex with Rosalie, wouldn’t she…”