Ryan closed his eyes and opened the lid of the treasure chest, his palm touching it.
Immediately, a refreshing breeze swept over him, enveloping his body, and forming three sigils in his palm.
Ryan opened his eyes in surprise, looking at the green, round sigils in his hand, each with a white Wind Elemental symbol on its surface.
"wind sigils?!"
"Barbatos?"
Ryan picked up one of the wind sigils to examine it, squeezed it hard, and it dissipated into wind, then reformed into a sigil.
"You scared me!" He patted his chest, startled, "Good thing it can recover, otherwise I would have lost one directly!"
"In the game, it says that wind sigils are marks granted during an Adventurer's journey, recognized by the Thousand Winds of the Mondstadt land."
"Commonly known as the recognition of the lazy, Wind God."
"I didn't expect these things to be condensations of elements, appearing automatically before my eyes."
Ryan was a little excited; he wondered if he had been noticed by a God!
When will he get a Vision!
He felt he was quite suited for wind.
He put the wind sigils into his pocket; he could use them to buy things at special shops in Mondstadt later, so he couldn't lose them.
He lowered his head and began to examine the treasure chest.
First, what caught his eye was a protagonist's Divine Artifact, capable of fighting Gods above and mining/chopping trees below…
The wu feng sword!!!
"Sigh~ I Transmigrated, and I'm still unlucky." Ryan was a little disappointed; it was actually a one-star weapon.
Looking closely, there was a layer of faint light on it.
In the eyes of Mondstadters, the wu feng sword represented the dreams of young people, the excitement of embarking on a journey.
Possessing these two precious qualities, even if the weapon was not sharp enough, it could be compensated with courage.
He picked up his first Divine Sword and swished it a few times, testing its sharpness on a nearby wooden box.
Inside the outpost cabin, he practiced the only sword technique he knew.
Influenced by the old men in the park and the square dancing grandmas, he learned Tai Chi Sword!
It was light, gentle, comfortable, beautiful, and quite graceful.
If a Hilichurl saw it, they would surely cheer!
"How many masters can your sword cut down?"
"Ten li of rapeseed flowers, no heads left!" Ryan's eyes sharpened, he sliced open the fabric in the room with one stroke, and stood with his sword sheathed.
This real sword was heavy, and it felt a bit unaccustomed the first time he wielded it.
He put the sword, which had no scabbard and was easy to cut himself with, aside.
Ryan looked at the other items in the treasure chest.
"One, two, three, four… five, six… eight artifacts!"
He picked them all out directly: two silver crowns, one feather, one pocket watch, one hourglass, one gold cup, one headband, one green flower…
He categorized them based on his game experience.
They were: Adventurer set headband, feather, gold cup, pocket watch; Lucky Guy set silver crown, hourglass, green flower.
Faint light!
They were all one-star.
What was comforting was that they could form sets.
When Ryan touched these artifacts, he felt an electric shock throughout his body, coming into contact with different wills, and he understood the attributes and set effects of the artifacts.
Mysterious Teyvat.
People's combat power, besides their own Martial Skill, Alchemy, Adepti Arts, etc., was composed of weapons and artifacts.
Those favored by the Gods, called allogenes, also had a Vision and the incomparably mysterious Fate.
artifacts were not real objects, but the Crystalize of will.
Like the feather in the Adventurer set, it belonged to a strange bird from a foreign land, extremely rare.
It was simply impossible for them to be rampant in Teyvat, seen everywhere.
artifacts, in Ryan's view.
Were the imaginings of Adventurers, before their deaths, of a great Adventurer existing in the same ideal.
Mimicking the legendary stories of great Adventurers, the items on their bodies, the dream Crystalize that condensed, were the manifestation of their strength and will during their lives.
The Lucky Guy set later was the same principle.
It was an imagining of a legendary lucky person, the existence they wanted to become.
It sounded unscientific and very mysterious, but in this Teyvat world where even memories could be revived by the Ley Lines, it was a normal Law.
Ryan picked out five artifacts he thought were the best and most suitable for himself, forming a 2+2+1 set.
Ordinary people without elemental power could only choose physical attribute items: attack, defense, HP, and a bit of elemental resistance were the best.
However, the weapons and artifacts in Ryan's hand gave him no room for choice at all.
These low-Rank sets, even when they resonate, only added a bit of defense and HP.
Lucky Guy: green flower, silver crown.
Adventurer: feather, gold cup, pocket watch.
He put them on one by one.
With a thought, the green flower turned into a faint light and disappeared into his body.
As the Crystalize of will, the wearing of artifacts was naturally not by ordinary methods, but by Fusion into flesh and blood, worn on the Soul.
When desired, they could be expelled at any time for replacement.
The set resonance brought him power.
Ryan was enveloped in a hazy light, and after picking up his weapon, the light extended along his will to the blade.
His body's energy became more abundant, his defense greatly increased, and ordinary punches could break a tree trunk as thick as a wrist without injury or pain.
The sword became even sharper.
A flash of light, and it carved out a smooth cross-section of wood.
"It feels like playing a game! It's even more realistic than a virtual reality death game like Sword Art Online."
Ryan was filled with emotion; he had gained the ability to protect himself after Transmigration, but his first set of equipment didn't give him much sense of security.
He could use artifacts, and ordinary people in this world could also use artifacts, even better ones.
But they still died at the hands of Hilichurls.
What was there to be proud of with his meager strength?
Looking at the remaining three artifacts, Ryan picked up the extra silver crown, wanting to see if he could wear six items.
He found he couldn't! It wouldn't Fusion into his body.
Even holding it in his hand, he could feel a repulsive force.
In his heart, he understood!
His body or Soul had positions, limits; it could only carry five artifacts of different parts.
"Then…" Ryan pondered for a moment.
In Teyvat, weapons could be made sharper and more powerful through Materials. artifacts could also be fused with each other to enhance a specific item.
He directly fused the three extra ones.
Three faint lights, with Mora as the medium, entered the Lucky Guy green flower, making the will contained within the green flower stronger and the light it emitted more dazzling.
"The higher the artifact Rank, the brighter the light. Depending on the quality, it emits different power fluctuations."
"It presents different spectrums on the retina!"
Ryan, combining his game understanding and the characteristics of real-world items, made this conjecture.
"I really am a Genius, suitable for research in Sumeru or Snezhnaya!"
He tried to feel the overall improvement brought by the enhanced vitality.
He shook his head, a little regretful.
"If only there were two-star or three-star ones!"
He indulged in some unfulfilled fantasies.
Based on the performance of commoners in Teyvat, ordinary households generally only had one- or two-star weapons and artifacts. Three-star items were heirlooms passed down through generations.
It was quite difficult to gather a complete set of three-star quality artifacts.
Continue opening the box!
He poured out the last items in the box.
Golden light sparkled!
Ryan counted, besides the large portion consumed by fusing artifacts earlier, there were still over eight hundred Mora.
Adding the twenty or thirty Mora he had previously gotten from the Mitachurl and the Hilichurls in the camp.
Ryan's current wealth was a "huge sum" of over nine hundred Mora!
According to Teyvat's prices, it was roughly…
Enough to buy four and a half Teyvat Fried Eggs!!?
"Damn it…" Ryan cursed, "It's all Zhongli's fault for printing too much money, it caused inflation!"
"I remember, buying a two-star weapon was cheaper than eating a meal."
Before even reaching Mondstadt, he was already worried about his poverty.
Besides shopping, Mora were also Materials for Alchemy; they really weren't enough to spend!
He hoped the real-world prices wouldn't be too outrageous, otherwise, selling bird eggs would be more profitable.
With a last bit of hope, he threw the masks, horns, arrowheads… these spoils of war into the treasure chest, and carried the whole thing away.
Walking out of the outpost cabin, he looked at the Hilichurl corpses.
After staring for a few seconds, he sighed.
He wondered what thoughts the Hilichurls harbored when they collected these useless items.
Was it a continuation of their past habits, gathering supplies for war to resist the Heavenly Principles?