Intermission part 1

While Kretos was regaining his memories and a few years have already passed in his memories, in the real world only an hour had passed. Alphonso was having a bit of difficulty adjusting the speed on the ancient relic he stole from a self-proclaimed God of time. He wanted to make the flow of time in Kretos's dream world faster so that he would wake up sooner. Yet no matter what he did he couldn't get the artifact to work as he wanted. 

"This is going to be tougher than I expected. I would've studied this thing properly if I knew that I would need to actually use it one day." Most of Alphonso's collections were things even he had no knowledge of how to use. All he really wanted them for was the joy of seeing his collection grow. He also liked the feeling of collecting such rare artifacts, from dangerous places and individuals. 

'I guess I have no choice but to slowly figure out how to make this thing work more efficiently.'

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