Extreme Time Stop: Building a Sky Shelter

One second before the monster bit into her neck, Jiang Yuan stopped time.

Blood droplets hung in midair. The fangs froze. The beast tide halted mid-charge. On the entire battlefield, she was the only one who could move.

Ten seconds gave her time for two more swings. Twenty seconds let her cut through elite monsters. Thirty seconds was enough to restructure a city.

The Lord Era descended: one hundred thousand people were dragged into another world, each given a plot of land. Build towers by day, defend your city by night, and face weekly rankings: the bottom 10% are erased. Jiang Yuan, a 20-year-old civil engineering student, was assigned the worst outpost, No. 7714: a rickety wooden shack and twelve chunks of stone.

Her time-stopping cheat didn’t come free. The System kept throwing impossible challenges at her: surviving a night watch with no contact, defeating enemies far above her level, and enduring elimination alone after her allies cut off support.

The System said the surface’s resources would run dry, and ascension was the only way to survive.

What the System didn’t say was that the ascension puzzle was the last testament of an extinct civilization, and the entire continent was fighting over it.

She could never understand: one hundred thousand people were dragged here, so why was she the only one who could stop the world?