Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 855 Tyndall's Courtyard
The cracks in the floor tiles beneath their feet became finer, visually resembling ice-cracked porcelain. Silence descended, and Xia Shou and the cloaked man, without any prior communication, tread lightly.

Xia Shou checked the cooldown time of [Seeking Death], and it was still not fully cooled down. Only three hours had passed in the real world since they left the present world and arrived in this era by ship.

Xia Shou felt a little regretful, regretting that he hadn't waited for the [Self-Destructive Path] skill to cool down in the real world before coming here.

But thinking about it carefully, if he could do it all over again, he wouldn't wait for the cooldown of [Self-Destruction] to finish, because one day in the real world is equivalent to countless years here. Waiting for a skill to cool down might result in some major change happening in the Scar Era.

However, there is still a chance. If we use "Reaching the Pinnacle in a Deserted Place" to force "Seeking Death" to cool down, then "Seeking Death" can be used immediately.

The description of reaching the pinnacle has changed. The textual description is essentially an explanation of the skill's effect to facilitate the reader's understanding, while the skill's effect itself is objective.

Once activated, the "Peak of Perfection" skill will last for 43.45 hours!

In other words, 43.45 hours in the Scar Era is equivalent to one minute in the present world.

So from another perspective, the margin for error is still very high. Once you use the "Peak of Perfection" skill, the "Death Trail" skill can be refreshed. Within 43.45 hours, you can get the map view of the "Death Trail" skill and have one chance to rewind.

This is strong.

But the cost will certainly be very high.

Who knows what price he will pay for such a long period of intense combat in the Root Sea? He can't sink now, but he believes he will pay the price... in some way he can't even imagine.

Xia Shou briefly read through the descriptions of the other skills again. The cooldown times of the other skills had not changed, which meant that each skill's time description had a corresponding time reference system.

The time units used to refer to "seeking one's own death" and "reaching the pinnacle" are very objective and applicable everywhere.

The reference unit for other skills seems to be calculated using the time flow rate of the current era.

He hasn't fully figured out the specific calculation method yet, but there should indeed be two time reference systems.

In short, because of this change, the mindset for using all skills must also be adjusted accordingly.

The effect of 【Reaching the Pinnacle Where No One Is】 is to lock onto any number of hostile targets, ignoring their abnormal resistances.

In other words, it simply ignores the target's abnormal resistance, rather than raising one's own abnormal level to a level higher than the target's.

Xia Shou's abnormality level is level one when he does not use Scorpion Spine. If he uses Peak of Perfection to lock onto a level seven superhuman, then his superhuman ability can penetrate the resistance of that level seven superhuman and force the superhuman ability to take effect on the opponent.

However, if there is another untargeted Level 5 superhuman present at this time, then his superpower will not be effective against that Level 5 superhuman.

Therefore, in this scarred era, the most cost-effective way to use the ultimate technique is to lock down all the troublesome opponents while they are all present, and then eliminate them all within the next 43 hours.

The 43 hours provided ample time for the battle, but the risks involved were not to be underestimated. What would have been considered an undisclosed secret within a minute would now be considered an undisclosed secret within 43 hours.

During this period, he can do so many things, and it is also easier for more people to know about them, thus the risk of leakage will be infinitely increased.

The possibility of death due to a secret leak has far exceeded the probability of death in combat.

This is also the pain point that Xia Shou has been unable to come up with a solution for so far.

Of course, Xia Shou speculated that the secret of reaching the pinnacle would only be considered a leak if it were known to people in the present world, because the cycle of history is not true reality; it is a special period of time, and the inhabitants of the cycle of history are not truly living people. The written explanation couldn't provide a more detailed analysis of this point, so Xia Shou wasn't entirely certain.

In short, the use of the ultimate technique must be approached with extreme caution.

As they walked, the cloaked man suddenly raised his hand and blocked Xia Shou's chest.

Xia Shou stopped and looked at the courtyard outside the passage in the distance. The courtyard was full of plants, and the Tyndall effect of the light created an alternative division in the visual sense, using beams of light to divide the landscape in the eyes of the viewer.

It was very beautiful, but Natsume could sense the meaning that the garden designer had hidden in it. Even the Tyndall effect of the light was not a coincidence, but part of the carefully designed landscape—an optical split.

The courtyard is divided, but the overall beauty of the courtyard is not destroyed. It perfectly meets the principle of dividing without dividing itself. The designer of this courtyard has a very high level of aesthetic concept.

This shows that the courtyard was a very important area of ​​the palace, and perhaps the storeroom was located in this courtyard.

"Did you feel it too?" Xia Shou asked in a voice only the two of them could hear.

The cloaked man nodded slightly, and the two walked to the end of the passage, standing at the entrance of the courtyard, stopping for the second time.

Xia Shou frowned, bent down, picked up a handful of leaves from the ground, and threw them at the beam of light shining obliquely in front of him.

As the leaves passed through the beam of light carrying fine dust, they all split open, their veins completely separated from the leaf tissue.

"It's not that simple after all," Xia Shou thought to himself.

This courtyard is a giant trap. If anyone walks through these lights as if they were ordinary lights, their body will be separated precisely, just like those leaves.

Xia Shou glanced sideways at the twisted tree trunks standing not far away. They were the key factors that turned sunlight into these pillars of light. They were not shattered by the sunlight, but rather the pillars of light formed by their obstruction became the mechanism that split things apart.

So... by simply adjusting their positions and the orientation of the tree canopy and leaves, these beams of light that can split objects can be moved.

You either have to move the trees, or use your incredibly agile movements to circle around the light; choose one of the two methods.

Hmm, it feels like a puzzle game.

The former is too time-consuming; they have no time to waste, and no one knows when the guards who were lured away will return.

Furthermore, adjusting the courtyard's landscape might trigger hidden traps; the best approach is to simply use movement skills to bypass them, or...

“Wait for me here,” Xia Shou said.

Then, a cloak made of mirror material appeared out of nowhere on him.

[Future Prefabrication]

Then comes [The Mirror Demon Master's Information Scissors].

Mirror magic!

(End of this chapter)