Chapter 2076: Time Gemstone, Haste Haste

"It is my honor to be able to participate in Master's seed unveiling ceremony."

However, Xia Duo did not act immediately; instead, he first cast a spell to fetch several fresh eggs from near Seventon, then hand-crafted a small chicken coop on the open ground next to the center of the ritual site.

While setting the appropriate temperature for incubating the eggs inside the coop, Xia Duo explained to Master Eriwen and all the onlookers:

"In order to demonstrate the effects of the passage of time more intuitively, I have prepared some auxiliary props."

After speaking, Xia Duo reached one hand into the collar of his Mage Robe and pulled out a pendant shaped like a Holy Emblem, though its form was closer to a horizontal golden eye, with a Gemstone emitting an eerie green light at the pupil position.

If any of Xia Duo's friends from Earth saw this scene, they would likely have no trouble recognizing the design of the "Agamotto Eye," a supreme time treasure from a certain fantasy movie.

But in this other world, the eyes of everyone who saw Xia Duo's actions were filled with almost nothing but curiosity and confusion.

However, Xia Duo did not make this pendant entirely out of a perverse interest in reminiscing about Earth; the pendant did indeed possess functions similar to the "Agamotto Eye"—

Time Acceleration, Time Deceleration.

It only had these two functions and lacked the time-reversal effect of the Agamotto Eye.

Among them, Time Deceleration was obtained by Xia Duo from the high mage Yisitemusi in the 【Projection Plane: Evereska Independent】, mainly used to increase the observation window during the process of studying Arcane Rabbit.

Later, through his own research and exchanges with Yisitemusi, Xia Duo created the Time Acceleration Spell.

However, the target of this spell's influence was not a specific object, but a certain area of space and everything contained within it; in other words, this spell could not be used as an aging spell.

When accelerating a target area, the speed of all activities within the target relative to the outside world would increase; although this included the rate of life passing, it also included the most critical factor: Spellcasting speed.

If used on an enemy, it would simply be handing them a victory.

The true usage was to apply Time Acceleration to oneself and Time Deceleration to the enemy; the two superimposed could produce an effect nearly equivalent to time stasis.

Of course, because this spell itself did not change the perceived time of the target area, as long as the enemy's Perception was sharp enough, they could still escape the deceleration range in time, so generally, one only needed to accelerate oneself.

If used for Protection, one could create a Time Deceleration zone around oneself; all non-instantaneous spell effects would be slowed down when passing through, giving oneself time to react.

As for instantaneous spells, most were targeted spells that could be countered by Spell Reversal; however, if a Time Deceleration zone existed around oneself, it would also affect one's own spell effects, so it was still more biased toward Protection.

Today, what Xia Duo intended to cast was the Time Acceleration Spell, and the target was not himself, but the land of extreme cold at the center of the ritual site, as well as the chicken coop used as a reference for comparison on the side.

When everything was prepared, Xia Duo pretentiously chanted a few obscure incantations, then held the Time Artifact with both hands and cast 【Time Acceleration】!

At first, Xia Duo set the degree of Time Acceleration relatively low, with one second outside corresponding to only about one hour in the acceleration zone, but at this rate, let alone demonstrating seed growth, one would probably have to wait a long time just for the chicks to hatch.

Thus, he continued to accelerate, and the time difference between the inside and outside soon reached nearly 1000:1; this degree of Time Acceleration had already made the boundary between the acceleration zone and the normal outside area very obvious.

It was as if an invisible membrane separated the inside from the outside, and it seemed that light became distorted over there as well.

Everything outside remained as usual, while the inside became increasingly dim; if not for the built-in lighting in the chicken coop Xia Duo had hand-crafted, which also happened to illuminate other areas, the interior of the acceleration zone would likely have been pitch black at that moment.

But even so, on the other side of the extreme cold land far from the chicken coop, the level of brightness was far less than near the coop, looking more like nighttime from the outside.

Unlike the dimness inside, the boundary between the inside and outside displayed an extremely obvious, or rather, extremely bright outline, which gave people a very contradictory feeling.

It was like the inside of a self-luminous glass cover, which was actually darker.

Of course, no matter how much the Time Acceleration Zone looked like an independent space, it actually remained connected to the outside world.

As Xia Duo continued to accelerate, the few fresh eggs in the chicken coop were suddenly pushed open to reveal a gap; the next instant, the shells of those eggs had already split in two, and although they only twitched a few times, countless afterimages of chicks appeared in the coop, and the grain Xia Duo had left as feed began to decrease rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the water level in the trough also began to drop rapidly.

This situation was, of course, not because there were truly countless chicks eating inside, but the effect was indeed about the same; there were only four chicks, but the flow of time in the coop was nearly one hundred thousand times that of the outside world!

It was equivalent to one day inside for every second outside!

Having planned for this, Xia Duo soon began to replenish feed and water for the chicks, while also slightly slowing down the Time Acceleration effect to prevent the chicks from all dying if he failed to feed them in time, and also to prevent the Time Acceleration from "running out of power" halfway through.

"Master Bernumesis, the current time flow in that area is about ten thousand times that of our normal environment; that is to say, for every minute that passes here, about seven days will pass in that area."

After Xia Duo finished speaking, he stepped aside a bit, but seemed to feel it was still not enough, so he cast a spell to project the real-time images from within the Time Acceleration Zone into the air above the ritual site.

This way, even in the very corner of the plaza, one could clearly see what was happening in the middle.

And for Master Eriwen, as well as the Netherese Mage and foreign guests watching the ceremony, a time ratio of one minute to seven days was not difficult for them to accept.

As time ticked away, the four chicks in the coop grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye under the gaze of countless people; of course, except for a few Spellcasters who had mastered spells like Dynamic Vision, most people saw countless chicks turning into large chickens.

However, when the time in the Time Acceleration Zone reached two months later, two of the chicks accidentally entered the extreme cold area, and their lives and bodies stopped forever at that moment.

To the eyes of the crowd, this manifested as the afterimages of the chicks near the coop suddenly decreasing by half, and because there was less interference, even ordinary people could see the movement trajectories of the remaining two chicks relatively clearly.

Thus, another month passed in the Time Acceleration Zone, which was less than five minutes in the outside world, and another chick stepped into the extreme cold area, instantly freezing to death and falling to the ground.