A few more months passed in the Big World.
Inside Lucien, far more time accumulated.
As the divine energy flowing into Lucien increased, the burden of maintaining the isolated temporal zones gradually became easier to bear.
That improvement gave him room to expand.
New training grounds appeared across his inner universe, each separated carefully enough that one temporal region could not interfere with another.
Lucien's growing control over Time had become noticeably more refined.
If he devoted himself entirely to one isolated region, he could now push its temporal flow close to twenty times that of the Big World without threatening its stability.
The discovery tempted him more than he wanted to admit.
Twenty years inside for every year outside was absurd even by Lootwell's standards.
But Lucien eventually chose not to concentrate that advantage on a single group.
