Chapter 619 Time Stands Still

Author: Half-wounded but not broken

Chapter 619 Time Stands Still

The person who pushed the door in looked like he was about thirty or forty years old, with a delicate mustache. Although his clothes were not luxurious, at least he was decent. He felt like a wealthy man in the village.

"Welcome everyone, my name is Graeben, and I am the owner of this house."

The attitude seemed very friendly, and the four of them exchanged hidden glances. They felt that they could wait and see what kind of medicine this guy was selling.

So the four of them briefly introduced themselves and said hello.

"You must also know that there are very few outsiders coming to our village. If possible, can you tell me about things outside?"

"Why do you care so much about the outside world? I think many people in the village are not interested in our arrival."

Graeben said a little embarrassedly:

"It's my little interest. I've never left this island and I'm more curious about what the outside world is like."

"Okay, I'll do it then, but can you let me ask some questions first?"

"Of course, please."

Pei Renli immediately asked:

"There is a boat parked at the dock. Where have all the people on the boat gone?"

After all, Pei Renli and the others are here to find the missing crew members, so this matter must be asked first.

"Oh, those people came a few days earlier than you. They tried sailing and came back several times. Maybe they were looking for a way out on the island."

The ship's inability to leave may be due to getting lost, or it may be because there are turbulent currents around the island, making it difficult to get in and out.

Pei Renli couldn't tell what exactly it was, but he immediately noticed something wrong in the other party's words.

"Searching on the island?"

Being unable to leave the island by boat, what does it have to do with the island?

"I don't know, they may think there is a secret mechanism hidden somewhere that can connect to the other side of the sea. I have told them that there is no such thing, but they don't believe it."

It can barely be explained, but there is a problem.

The sailors regard the ship as their fate. Every one of them ran to the island and no one was left to watch the ship?

There is nothing sailor-like about this operation.

However, Pei Renli did not expose it, but continued to ask:

"Then what about the people on the island..."

"Of course, we also arrived at this island by trekking. I have never experienced it. I heard my father and grandfather mention the foggy sea that we entered because we were fleeing."

"No, I don't want to ask how you got here, but you..."

"What did you see? Did someone's head fall off and then he put it back on again?"

Pei Renli really wanted to ask about this, but he was still making insinuations about the organization's language. Unexpectedly, the other party said it openly.

"It's a gift."

"God's?"

"No, it's a gift from God and a gift from fate."

Graeben said with some fanaticism:

"I don't know when, the people on our island will no longer age, do not need to eat or sleep, and will not die from trauma. Our time seems to have been stopped, and we have gained eternal life."

It sounds more like a curse.

There are many ways to extend life using magic, from longevity potions to some kind of sophisticated spells, or making clones to transfer your own consciousness.

In short, there are many methods.

But no matter how much life is extended, generally no one will obtain true immortality.

After all, the will cannot withstand the ravages of time. A long period of time will wear out a person. Even a lich with no emotions will turn into a demi-lich after a long time, leaving only one head, which belongs to the undead caster.

The final end.

However, the first reaction of most short-lived species when they get a long life is ecstasy, and Graeben's expression is this kind of ecstasy.

This was a beating that had not seen time, and Pei Renli was more concerned about a key word in that sentence than his attitude.

Time stands still.

From a magical perspective, is it possible to control time?

The answer is no.

Because if you want to control time, this spell must affect the entire universe. It is impossible for anyone to achieve such a huge magnitude, not even the ancient elves at their peak.

But since we cannot control the time of the entire world, can we control the time of a certain creature?

This is possible.

Spells from the school of transmutation can change the properties and state of matter, such as temperature and form.

Among the highest achievements of the School of Change, there is one called 'Time Stopping'.

It's just that this is not a true stop of time, but a super acceleration spell, so that in the subject's subjective consciousness, the world stops.

Stillness is another matter.

Assuming that the time stop of the school of change is fast forwarding, then stillness is naturally a pause.

A spell called eternal stagnation can put the subject into a state of time stasis. This person may remain in this state for hundreds or thousands of years and will not die due to physiological needs or aging. What does it look like when you are hit, and how to remove it.

What happens after the spell?

The stasis mentioned by Graeben is obviously different from the effect of this spell. They still have consciousness and can move freely, but eternal stasis will make people lose consciousness. It feels like hundreds of years have passed suddenly after sleeping.

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By the way, whether it is time stopping or eternal stasis, they are all eccentric ways of affecting time, not true manipulation of time, so time retrieval cannot be achieved, and the magic world still has no regrets.

Regarding the topic of how to stop time, Graeben always insisted that it was a gift from God.

But from the perspective of magic theory, it is impossible to do this without paying a price, so there is no gift from God.

This may be his biggest secret, and he must be very tight-lipped.

But this also brings about another problem.

Since you are all immortal, why did Pei Renli and the others still encounter ghosts when they came?

"Unfortunately, our eternal life is not perfect. At least we can't do anything about death caused by disease."

Madeleine, who always wanted to find her son, died of puerperal fever, so this immortality could not save her life.

But the little halfling girl Charlotte and the cooper Jacob did not die of illness.

One was drowned, and the other had a tombstone that said he had hanged himself.

Pei Renli did want to ask why there was such a difference, but then he thought about it.

Could it be that...their eternal life is limited to this island?

If that’s the case…

With these thoughts running through his mind, the door was opened again, and the servant who had brought Pei Renli and the others there pushed a tea cart.

Graeben immediately warmly entertained everyone:

"I heard that people outside like to drink tea, but there is no tea on our island. We only have this kind of juice. Please try it. Everyone on our island likes it very much."

The island itself is very weird, let alone the people living on it, which is even weirder.

It's best not to eat the things they give you if you can live without them.

But directly refuting someone's face doesn't look good. At least Graben has been very friendly so far. It's best not to quarrel with him when he still doesn't know what secrets there are on the island.

With this thought in mind, Kaya nodded to the others and reached out to pick up the cup filled with juice.

She is a warrior, and her physique is much better than that of Pei Renli and Eve, which means that her resistance to toxins is much higher.

Michelle is the only priest in the team who has the ability to interpret, so naturally she cannot be allowed to drink something that may be spiked, so Kaya plans to try it herself first, and then let her know if there is any problem.

"etc."

The cup was almost to Kaya's mouth when Perrenli suddenly stopped her.

"Mr. Graeben, you just mentioned that people outside like tea, but you also said that you have never left the island since you were born. Can I ask who you heard that from?"

Graham seemed to have predicted Pei Renli's vigilance, and he said naturally after hearing this:

"Of course they are the people who came to the island two days ago. I talked with them."

"Oh, you finally exposed your chicken feet. It seems that you really don't know that sailors don't drink tea. They smell of rum all over their bodies."

Graeben's face froze, maybe he wanted to say something to explain, but Perrenli had already picked up his staff.
To be continued...