The Werna Family member gently raised his hand and waved it in the air, causing five old-fashioned keys of different colors to appear before him.

"These five keys are placed in different locations within the manor; obtaining a key allows you to acquire the corresponding colored box."

As he spoke, he raised his hand again, and five boxes appeared in the air.

"Everyone attending the banquet has a chance to acquire a key, so please feel free to move around."

As soon as the words were spoken, transparent diamond-shaped beams appeared in the banquet hall space, spreading outward like space itself, sweeping past furniture and decorations, crossing through the standing crowd, layering over the manor. These spaces overlapped yet spread out, seemingly untouched surfaces, but in reality, they divided the manor into different spaces. With some attention, one could feel the subtle spatial differences within.

The Werna Family and the elders of other nobles consciously abstained from participating in this activity, leaving the opportunity to the younger generation of the family, who, regardless of whether they genuinely wanted to obtain a box or simply to show support, had to actively strive to find the keys.

"Might we walk into a place where we shouldn’t?" a noblewoman asked quietly, and her companion beside her told her, "If it’s somewhere you shouldn’t go, you naturally won’t be able to get in."

The space division just now was not only to increase the manor’s area but also to block off places not suitable for outsiders to enter.

"Did we have this kind of program before?" Xu Huo asked Roy after entering the residential area of the main building through the corridors on either side of the hall.

"Sometimes we do. Such activities are not fixed; it depends on the year’s gains of the Werna Family," Roy stated. "Naturally, joyful events are shared with everyone."

Before coming here, Xu Huo suspected that the Super Player was out to settle scores later, but judging by the entire banquet, the Werna Family is rather broad-minded, and the nobles selected represent the backbone of now and future. The event’s purpose is to build connections; he just happened to be on that list.

It’s unlikely that Zone 011 has only one Time-Directed Super Evolution player, but the number absolutely wouldn’t be many, and the Super Player of this zone is one adept at using Time Force, so this might not be merely about building alliances with nobles; it could also be about selecting talented players.

If that’s the case, then the Werna Family harbors no ill intent toward him temporarily; the noble members of Zone 011 could be outsiders, as long as interests and bloodline ties are continued properly, anyone can be part of Zone 011.

The five keys, made from black, white, blue, red, and purple gemstones, evidently have an aura of Time Force. However, the manor is also filled with Time Force everywhere, so relying on such to find the keys isn’t necessarily easy.

Whether anyone realizes that he wandered into the Courtyard of Time, he is safe for the moment, so regardless of whether he obtains a key, his situation won’t change, even if this is a test.

The Noble Offspring searching for keys maintained their decorum, looking room by room, neither competing nor failing to be courteous; even members of the Werna Family greeted Xu Huo, a fringe noble, proactively.

Just reaching the second floor, Roy was pulled away by a young woman; he apologized and smiled at Xu Huo, indicating he should go ahead.

Xu Huo strolled to the next room, like everyone else, reached out to twist the doorknob.

Due to the obstruction from the Spatial Barrier, he didn’t know what’s behind the door, so when he saw three women seated inside, he bowed slightly and prepared to leave.

But the woman nearest the door quickly stepped up and grabbed him, "Everyone’s busy finding keys, and I’ve been walking so much my feet are sore. Why not sit down and have some tea first?"

Xu Huo was pulled in, and soon tea was placed in front of him. After introducing themselves, the three women asked for his name, among them, Xiya from the Werna Family smiled gently, "Knight of the Rose?"

Xu Huo also smiled, "A knight’s title somewhat at odds with my image."

"Not at all, you look very gentlemanly," Xiya took a sip of tea. "The key-finding game won’t end so soon; after resting we can still make it... would it delay you?"

"It’s a matter of luck, perhaps arriving a bit late might just bring me the chance encounter," Xu Huo said relaxedly.

Xiya observed his demeanor, seeing it was genuine, she began conversing with him.

In conversations among noblewomen, men are a digression, and in conversations among men, women are a digression too, so Xiya Werner made a compromise by picking topics about the customs and insights of other zones to avoid awkward silence.

Once they finished a cup of tea, they prepared to continue looking for keys.

The other two ladies left within a few minutes and went to the bathroom together, and Xiya led Xu Huo onward, playfully telling him she knew some little mechanisms in the manor where, perhaps, keys were hidden.

Xu Huo followed behind, occasionally lending a hand, responsible for rifling through cupboards.

Sure enough, this actually led them to encounter a key.

The key wasn’t in the rooms they searched; it was merely when they happened to emerge from that side that some people searching for keys just left without closing the door. In the blink of an eye, as they passed by, a special Time Force that wasn’t there a second ago flickered unintentionally.

With so many guests today and not a key found for so long, plainly these keys were not only concealed with special force but also mobile.

In a scene where one can’t act as though they didn’t see, Xu Huo raised his hand and clasped the air lightly, causing the surrounding Time Ray to tremble simultaneously, and the key hidden in Time Force flickered under the intersecting jumping time fragments. Coordinated with the Spatial Ray, it gently drew forth, and a Black Sapphire Key landed in his palm.

"You found it!" Xiya exclaimed with excitement, "We can go get the box now!"

Xu Huo returned to the hall, being the second to find a key, the first was a member of the Werna Family who acquired the Blue Sapphire Key. Seeing the Black Sapphire Key in Xu Huo’s hand, the other’s expression subtly changed but quickly returned to normal, smiling to congratulate him.

Over the next half hour, Ashis Verna and Kage Herta successively came out with the purple and red keys; however, the white key remained undiscovered, but at this point, the Werna Family announced the "key-finding" activity concluded, and those with keys can take their corresponding boxes.

As the sole fringe noble and Outer Zone player recipient, Xu Huo garnered attention, particularly standing alongside Ashis, the hope of Zone 011.

Clearly, the Black Key signified something different from the other colors, even Ashis’s gaze lingered long on Xu Huo’s hand, voluntarily inviting him to retrieve his box first.

After some back-and-forth, Xu Huo still went ahead to take the black box first, and the host Werna elder cordially announced the banquet’s conclusion and asked Xiya to escort him out.

The aircraft departed from the villa side, and standing at the entrance, Xiya Werner said disappointedly to the Butler, "He doesn’t like me; I have no chance."