The Traveler's reaction wasn't as strong as Xinyan's. Before she was sealed, she could exchange blows with the Heavenly Principles. What had just happened was shocking to ordinary people, but to her, the feeling wasn't as intense.
However...
"Hehe, mine, all mine!"
The Traveler happily searched for Chaos Core, Chaos Circuit, and other materials in the ruins. These were all good things!
Whether for alchemy or selling for money, they could play a very significant role.
"Sigh..."
Paimon helplessly covered her forehead. As expected, her Traveler had, as predicted, suffered a sudden attack of her peculiar illness.
"It's fine, let her pick them up if she wants to. Let's go to the depths of the ruins first." Shiki shook her head and said.
"Alright."
Tap tap tap... Ding-a-ling
The clear sound of bells mixed with the clatter of geta echoed in the ruins. After only a few steps, a red barrier appeared in front of them.
"A barrier? Then it seems there should be a mechanism nearby, right?"
Xinyan said, touching the barrier in front of her with her hand, then began to look for the mechanism around.
However, Shiki pointed her fingers like a sword, and a tiny light sword formed from violent Lightning element at her fingertips.
"No need to look."
As her voice fell, Shiki reached out and cut the death line on the barrier. The entire barrier immediately flickered a few times like a bad signal, then disappeared.
"Eh?"
Xinyan blinked, somewhat confused. What just happened?
This wasn't right, was it? Was this still the ruin exploration she remembered?
Shouldn't it be carefully avoiding waking up monsters, and then using one's brain to solve mechanisms?
How did it turn into a brute-force push here? Was she out of touch with the times, or were all you Inazumans like this?
"This is my personal special ability."
Shiki looked at Xinyan, who was standing still, and knew it must be because of her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, so she simply explained.
"I can see the death of everything in the world. With just a light touch, no matter what it is, it will disappear before my eyes."
"...Ridiculous."
Listening to Shiki's words, Xinyan became even more bewildered. Sure enough, it wasn't that she couldn't keep up with the times, but that the other party was too outrageous.
Under Shiki's violent sweep, they quickly explored the ruins, finding some Mora and three-star weapons.
Overall, they were quite poor; there wasn't much Mora, and she didn't care for the three-star weapons, so Shiki gave them all to Xinyan.
Besides, she had said before that she didn't want any of the things found in the ruins; if she needed anything, she would buy it with Mora.
However, surprises always come unexpectedly. Just as Shiki thought the most valuable thing in this ruin was the Automaton, Xinyan's voice came from not far away.
"Hey! Look what I found!?"
"What is it?"
Shiki turned to look, and then her pupils contracted.
It was a book carved from marble, with a faint golden-yellow hue. The originally intricate and beautiful patterns were somewhat blurred by the erosion of time, but this did not affect its inherent charm.
Because one day, it would, in the hands of a skilled craftsman, re-Bloom with its own brilliance.
"A northlander billet... Name your price, Xinyan."
"This item is very important to me, and you don't use a Catalyst, so it's not very useful to you. Why not sell it to me?"
Shiki really didn't expect to find a northlander billet here. Sure enough, games are unreliable; what else is there in this area in the game besides a few broken boxes?
"Ah, this... Of course, selling it to you is no problem, but I don't know what price to ask!"
Xinyan, at a loss, handed the Catalyst billet to Shiki. She had only heard that this thing was very expensive, but she had never seen one!
It was like a person from a poverty-stricken mountain area seeing the latest model of a mobile phone; he simply had no concept of the price.
Shiki had been looking for this northlander billet for more than half a year, and the Reward had been increased again and again. Yet, even when she raised the Reward to three million Mora, no one could find it.
But a turning point came, and she found the billet on Seirai Island.
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