Roy's actions are puzzling, Jude can't reason at all, and the mystery of Mehya's origins becomes more complicated.

At the same time, the boy remembered the anomalous time standstill he had encountered earlier at the tavern door.

Pulling out the silver pocket watch in his chest pocket, Jude couldn't help but think back to the message that Teacher Stanxiu had left in the past.

"Time is precious and cannot be undone. The teacher's words echoed in his ears, and in the past, the teenager always disdained this kind of preaching, but now he has experienced a lot of emotion after experiencing many things.

What is established cannot be changed, and the dead cannot be restored. Jude shook his head and sighed. It was man-made, and Nosa had repeatedly warned himself, but the boy still failed to understand it in time.

Perhaps, you can only experience it after actually experiencing it.

Recovering from his reverie, Jude opened the case, and the current time was 12:24 p.m., and all the hands were turning as usual, without any abnormalities.

In the mouth of the mysterious tavernkeeper, it was called the Eternal Traveler's Pocket Watch. A name that sounds very powerful, Jude commented, and the gift given to him by Mr. Stanxiu is indeed a priceless treasure.

However, how this pocket watch was charged and effective, and who created such an incredible thing, the boy still could not imagine, and at the same time thought that only a teacher or a mage as good as Ruida would know.

So who made the time still, and is the time still made by that person related to the pocket watch?

Driven by curiosity, Jude tried to press the button above his pocket watch.

"Knock-" The illusory and distant bell rang from nowhere, and in an instant, the world around him changed dramatically.

After the sound of the mirror shattering, the boy looked at the silent gray space around him, and it seemed that his pocket watch was not affected by the abnormal time stillness in the slightest.

"It's not a good habit to pause time, Jude, I told you before, right?" Ryda looked helpless, chatting with the customer at the counter.

"Last time it wasn't me, this time I, I didn't mean to. Jude hurriedly argued, "I just wanted to test it." ”

Hearing this, the tavern owner who was originally propped up on the counter straightened up and looked at the young man with interest: "You want to know who was the person who made time stand still last time, am I right?"

"That's right. Jude nodded in acknowledgement, "Do you know who that man is?"

"The first thing you have to know is that the world is so big that every day there can be all sorts of people who pause time in some form. Ruida tried to explain in the most popular language, "In the eyes of ordinary people, just for a moment, naturally they will not be aware." But have you ever thought about the fact that beings like you and me, who are immune to time standstill, why is daily life not always interrupted?"

"If someone pauses time, it should be like in the morning? Indeed, I've never had that before. Jude couldn't understand for a moment.

This is because we enter this stagnant space-time only if the time-static maker is close enough to us in space, and if he is far away from us, then we will be unaware of it like ordinary people. ”

"For example, if an archmage casts time still on Isiris, we won't notice it, but if he then casts teleportation to Blackthorn Rose, we'll enter such a static plane, keeping the same speed of time as him. Now you understand?"

"So......" Jude pondered for a moment following his boss's explanation, "the maker of that time stand still in the morning is near us?"

"You're quick to understand, Jude. Worthy of being a student of Stantikom. Reda smiled and complimented the boy, "Exactly, in terms of range, this person should be in Ochedant, or somewhere in the nearby fields or mountains." ”

"Well, the area is much narrower, is there a chance we can find this person?" Jude looked hopefully at the tavernkeeper.

"With thousands of permanent and temporary residents and a transportation hub with a daily bustle, it is not easy to find this person. Ruida shook her head helplessly, "Besides, at the moment, we lack clues, and there is no way to find out." ”

Admittedly, this behavior is like looking for a needle in a haystack. After hearing the tavernkeeper's negative reply, the boy lowered his head in disappointment.

Seeing this scene, Ruida thought for a moment, and then persuaded: "No matter who that person is or what he wants to do, it has nothing to do with us. I'll continue to run my tavern, and what you're supposed to do will continue as usual, right. I know you may be curious about this, and I believe that if you are lucky, you will meet him one day, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"You're right. Jude nodded in agreement, still curious about the time-standing maker.

"It's almost time to get back on with the interrupted routine. The tavern keeper tidied up his clothes a bit, and then propped himself up on the counter as usual, resuming his usual posture of chatting with the guests.

Apparently Reda was familiar with the time stillness of pocket watches, and it was probably not his first time in contact with them, and the boy thought, maybe the tavernkeeper also had a pocket watch from the Timeless Traveler's pocket watch?

After all, he was a friend of Master Stanxiu, an equally unfathomable mage, and Jude nodded secretly, believing that his speculation was not unreasonable.

"Knock-" Another illusory bell rang from nowhere, and the world instantly returned to its original state.

The silent tavern hall was alive again, the bards by the fireplace continued to play the lute, and the chatter and laughter of the guests were heard again.

Frankly, he didn't like the noise, at least not anytime soon. After lunch, Jude stands up and decides to go out for a walk to relax, and stop by to ask the townspeople about Roy and Mechia.

The boy came to the door and was about to leave the tavern, when a violent explosion suddenly came from outside.

Walking quickly out of the Black Thorn Rose, Jude saw a distant firelight to the south, and at the same time, a jumble of shouts came from that direction.

What is the matter? The boy was wondering when the same noise came from the north and west in succession, and when he looked around, there were already fires burning in many parts of the town, and all kinds of noises came and went.

Suddenly, the picture in front of him coincided with Roy's memory in the dream, and Jude suddenly had a very bad premonition in connection with the wanted warrant he had seen earlier.

Damn it. The boy turned and walked into the tavern, where the hall was in chaos, and the tavern owner was doing his best to calm the guests and maintain order.

Running briskly up the second floor, Jude returned to his room, skilfully tying the Black Sword Cyrence behind him. Rushing downstairs out of the tavern door, the boy ran at full speed in the direction of Mehya's house to the southeast.