In the Name of Empress

Chapter 671 379: Your Time Is Extremely Precious (3)

After a bout of busyness, he took away all the most valuable knowledge from these ruins, intending to go back and decipher them slowly.

Apart from the knowledge, he only took one souvenir, a tawny brooch he saw when he first entered the ruins. Its style was simple, and its design unremarkable, so Roland dismissed the idea of giving it to Lisa and casually pinned it to his chest.

After all, he'd made a trip to the ruins; it would be unlucky to leave empty-handed. He simply decided to take this seemingly ordinary, yet ancient brown jade brooch as a trophy.

As he walked out of the Earth Court, he happened to see the Rock Elder lying on the ground, bored and catching worms to pass the time.

He hadn't expected the old fellow to actually wait, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Rock Elder, I'm really sorry. I was busy inside for almost a week, making you wait so long."

Roland greeted the Rock Elder with a smile.

The Rock Elder stared blankly at Roland and finally couldn't help but make a remark, "Northern traveler, you might not have much of a concept of time down there. According to human timekeeping, you only stayed below for about ten hours."

Ten or so hours?

Roland instinctively thought the Rock Elder had misspoken. After all, the Centaur tribe didn't have clocks and might not have a concept of time.

But he quickly thought of another possibility, which was the true mystery of the Earth Court.

Altering the flow of time.

He smiled and brushed off the topic, reaching for his pocket watch.

Just as the pocket watch was about to be taken out, a flash of memory struck Roland's mind.

No, this gold watch was given by Sif, and Sister Lisa had given a silver watch!

(See Chapter 120 for details)

Roland, almost causing a blunder, with a flick of his wrist, pulled out the silver watch from another pocket.

This watch not only had the hour and minute hands, but also a date counter that reset every month.

The date displayed when entering the ruins was 2, and now it was 8.

Clearly, it was indeed a week.

A week is 144 hours, whereas the Rock Elder thought the time spent was about 14 hours.

Simply put, every hour outside equates to ten hours inside.

The flow of time altered.

This is a perfect place for time-consuming research.

The Rock Sage didn't dwell on this issue. He saw the brooch on Roland's chest but didn't inquire.

Just a small item, it's fine as a keepsake.

He really wished someone could pick up the three Holy Artifacts, but sadly, no one did.

He led the way in front, with Roland and Lisa following behind.

Earlier, while Roland was busy, Lisa was beside him, eyes closed deep in thought, silently practicing magic manipulation, without disturbing him.

Thinking about his sister accompanying him for a week, Roland couldn't help but hold her hand gently and say, "Spending a whole week with me in this gloomy setting, it must have been hard for you, sister."

"Not hard at all."

Lisa snuggled up to Roland, smiling pleasantly, her voice as soft as a whisper.

"Roland, when I'm meditating I don't have much sense of time, but it doesn't seem more than a day. But that doesn't matter. I never thought you kept that pocket watch all along."

Uh, is that where her attention is at a time like this? Roland was a bit speechless.

She's not concerned about the tenfold time flow, but about whether the pocket watch taken out was a silver one?

Indeed, women's points of interest are quite different.

Roland shrugged, just about to brush off the doubts, when he suddenly thought of something.

Perhaps only his flow of time was different.

Looking down at the tawny brooch, he vaguely felt that this unassuming little thing might actually be the true Holy Artifact.