Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 4 Grandma’s Relics

"Really!"

Yang Xu was surprised and happy. He quickly took out the three things and checked them one by one.

First is the card on top, which is the most conspicuous.

The card is hard and cold to the touch, with a faint red glow on the surface.

On the front of the card was a pattern of a person holding an hourglass, and on the back were two mysterious characters. Yang Xu did not recognize this kind of text, but as soon as he saw these two characters, he naturally understood their meaning in his mind - stopper.

And the moment Yang Xu got the card, a page of prompts appeared in front of him.

[Item Name: Stopper Card
Type: Root Ability

From: First Age
No.: 003
Completeness: 33%
Effect: After use, you can master the power of pausing time, but as the price of controlling the root power, you will also inherit a random curse that will accompany you for life.

The card descriptions are a bit simplistic, but the content is extremely astonishing.

A card that stops time!

real or fake?

Yang Xu usually reads a lot of novels, movies and TV series. No matter what type of work, time ability is basically one of the top abilities.

The thing his grandmother asked someone to leave for him turned out to be this...

What was the curse behind it? Yang Xu noticed the second half of the description. Using this card seemed to have some kind of price.

He was just about to study the description of the card's effect carefully when he suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.

I looked up subconsciously and saw that the white wall in front of me was wriggling like melted wax.

At a height of two meters, the wall was slit from left to right like a zipper, revealing a huge mouth. In the middle of the two rows of sharp teeth was a wide and long tongue, drooling and swinging left and right between the teeth.

Immediately afterwards, a square outline appeared on the wall surrounding the big mouth. It was about three meters high and two meters wide, and even hands and feet grew from the edges of the outline.

In just one second, a rectangular monster with hands and feet fell off the wall and landed on the ground.

This thing is grayish white all over and looks a bit like SpongeBob SquarePants, but it’s actually not that cute at all. It’s a real ghost!

The moment the monster appeared, an explanation automatically appeared on Yang Xu's panel.

[Encounter 1-star Mirror Ghost, Wall Painter (LV5): This ghost appears to be several meters tall and resembles a wall. It has the ability to disappear into walls and can also create a wall at a specific location, blocking pedestrians. It is often found near various types of walls and is one of the most common mirror ghosts in urban environments.]

Yang Xu didn't have time to read the instructions carefully. He knew that there might be a mirror ghost in the territory, but he didn't expect that this thing was hiding so close to him.

The location where this ghost appeared was very particular, blocking him right between the door and the building. Because the other party itself was a wall, it directly blocked the way out of the building as soon as it appeared.

Yang Xu subconsciously turned around and ran backwards, trying to go upstairs through the stairwell.

As soon as he moved, before he even got close to the stairs, a white wall automatically formed at the entrance of the stairwell.

The description just mentioned that this monster can build walls. Yang Xu didn't expect to see this ability so soon.

At this moment, he was blocked in front and pursued from behind, with corridors on both sides. The only exit was a small window on the top of the left wall, but that window was blocked by guardrails.

In other words, he was trapped in this small space with no way out.

At this time, SpongeBob SquarePants had already stretched out his two short legs and moved his broad body to chase after them. His ferocious mouth showed his fangs, and his round eyes and chiseled teeth were ready to bite anyone he wanted.

Yang Xu keenly noticed that the long tongue of the mirror ghost was dripping with saliva, like a hungry beast. However, its eyes were not focused on him, its prey, but on the card in his hand, its eyes flashing with intense greed. "Is it targeting this card?!"

Thinking of the golden shield when he opened the box before, Yang Xu instantly understood: this ghost did not appear suddenly, but was attracted here a long time ago by the scent of the treasure in the mailbox. However, because the mailbox was protected by the golden shield, it could not get the things, so it ambushed here. It would not appear until someone opened the mailbox and took out the things inside, and then it would immediately show up and steal the treasure.

Looking at the undisguised greed in the monster's eyes, Yang Xu felt that if he threw the card out of the window now, the monster would definitely abandon him and rush out of the building to grab the card as soon as possible, so that he would have a chance to escape.

However, there is another option at this time: use the card directly and borrow the power of the card to fight!
The answer is beyond doubt.

He was now the administrator, and killing the Mirror Ghost was his job. Besides, this card was something his grandmother had left him, so why should he let a monster take it away?

Yang Xu looked at the monster in front of him with undisguised greed in his eyes, and he began to get angry. He exerted force with his fingers, and the originally solid card suddenly broke into pieces like a fragile biscuit, turning into light dust and merging into his body.

[Fusion successful, you have gained the root ability 'Time Master'.]

[Time Master (currently LV1): You possess the ability to control time. When your emotions fluctuate strongly, time will automatically pause. After 5 seconds or if you move 5 meters away from your initial position, the time pause will automatically be released. The cooldown period is 30 seconds.]

[You have acquired the curse 'Time Chaser': Your lifespan has been greatly shortened. When the countdown reaches zero, you will die. Countdown: 30 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds.]

Opposite Yang Xu, SpongeBob saw the card being crushed and disappearing into the human's body. His greedy face suddenly turned into anger, and his gray-white shell turned bright red, like a cooked crab, and he rushed towards Yang Xu in anger.

"Roar!"

The monster looked bulky, but it did not move as clumsily as imagined. In the blink of an eye, it approached Yang Xu, its bloody mouth, which was 1.5 meters wide, was fully opened, and a fishy smell hit his face.

Just as Yang Xu was about to be swallowed by this big mouth, he suddenly found that the monster's movements stopped as if in slow motion.

The roar of the monster in my ears was like an infinitely stretched tape, getting lower and lower until it disappeared.

When Yang Xu looked again, Tu Bi was floating above his head, with the fangs sticking out of his mouth only a few centimeters away from his head, but he was motionless, like a wax figure, suspended in mid-air.

Also suspended in the air were the brick and stone debris splashed around by the monster, and the dust on the windowsill blown up by the air flow.

The surroundings fell into absolute silence, with only the sounds of Yang Xu's own breathing and rapid heartbeat.

Except for him, everything in the world was frozen in place like a photograph.

At this moment, Yang Xu suddenly had the illusion of being in control of everything.

Although he is still very weak now and the monster in front of him can easily crush him to death with just one slap, as long as he is in this still world, he is a god!

There was no time to think, as time only stopped for five seconds.

Yang Xu quickly picked up the axe, held it tightly with both hands, and used all his strength to chop at the monster on the wall in front of him.

"Oh!"

With a dull thud, the axe blade shattered from top to bottom, turning into ashes and disappearing.

"???"

Yang Xu stared blankly at the axe handle in his hand, which was only half a wooden stick left.

Although this axe is not a very good thing, it is still an iron weapon. How come the monster was fine after the axe was hit, but the weapon broke?
What's more, even if it broke, it should have been broken into pieces. How could the entire axe blade be shattered into ashes?

At this time, a line of prompts appeared on the retina again, answering his doubts.

[Using non-prop items to attack the Mirror Ghost will reduce its effectiveness by -99% and its durability will be greatly reduced.]

(End of this chapter)