Upon hearing of the so-called outlying lands, Ryougi's first thought was of the three places not marked on the map.
As for the clues Eboshi mentioned, Ryougi directly skipped them.
With all that rambling, she didn't understand Enkanomiya, so how would she know where these three clues were?
The outlying lands were very far from Mikoshi, so those three clues should refer to the methods of getting there.
It was precisely for this reason that Ryougi had the confidence to disregard these so-called clues.
However, she had quite a lot to do now: three trial locations, the reins of resurrection fragment from Evernight Temple, and the bloodbranch coral.
She was like a player who had just opened a new map in a game, with a whole bunch of side quests in her task log.
After a brief moment of thought, Ryougi decided to first complete the bloodbranch coral as originally planned, and then come back to complete the trial Eboshi gave her.
After bidding farewell to Eboshi, Ryougi flew to Evernight Temple.
But...
"It's not in the maze…"
Upon arriving at Evernight Temple, Ryougi first noticed the maze located to the northeast.
The maze was composed of many movable walls, but it had no roof. Just as Ryougi was wondering if the person who designed the maze had forgotten something, she was blocked by a blue barrier.
But the barrier's effect lasted less than a second. After all, it was merely energy generated by the Evernight phenomenon. Even without Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Ryougi could directly pass through it with elemental power.
After violently breaking the iron grate beneath her feet, Ryougi entered the lower part of the maze.
She expected to find a fragment but instead found only a spirit and a room locked by an iron grate.
After some communication, Ryougi learned that there was no fragment here at all; it was purely something made by someone who had nothing better to do.
The box didn't contain any treasure either, just a book and things he couldn't take with him when he moved out of Enkanomiya in the past.
And that book was called 'Hydrological and Geographical Studies of Byakuyakoku'.
Ryougi remembered that this was one of the five books Etsu was looking for, and this book also sounded like a popular science book. Out of curiosity, she tore open the iron grate and took the book from the box.
This was the entire process. Date expressed strong condemnation of Ryougi's violent breaking of the iron grate, but it was useless.
Moreover, the current problem was where the fragment was, not the act of violently breaking the maze.
Date naturally couldn't know; he was obsessed with the maze every day, so why would he care about the trial?
Unable to do anything, Ryougi could only search piece by piece. The fragment was in Evernight Temple, not anywhere else. If she searched everywhere, she would eventually find it.
Furthermore, she wasn't searching aimlessly. Since it was used to store a fragment, it would definitely require solving a mechanism like the previous two locations.
So, what she needed to find first were those mechanisms with sun-moon wheels nearby.
And as it turned out, she was right.
In the central part of Evernight Temple, there was a huge void. No, it shouldn't be a void, but a cliff.
Evernight Temple was divided into three parts from here, and on the southern part of the island, she found a mechanism.
Blue fluorescent light emanated from the mechanism, indicating it could only be used during Evernight. However, ever since she adjusted the sun-moon wheel to the Evernight state in Mikoshi, Ryougi had not touched it again.
Just as Ryougi was about to press the mechanism, spatial distortions occurred, and then three purplish-gray specks appeared in mid-air.
Immediately after, three strange-looking dog-like creatures with only claws appeared before Ryougi.
Their bodies were purplish-gray, with only skeletons and no flesh, and their art style looked different from the monsters on the Teyvat continent.
However, this was quite normal, after all, these things came from outside the world!
Ryougi, of course, recognized the three dogs in front of her. They were Rifthounds, and besides that, they had another name well-known to the vast number of Travelers.
That was… Rifthounds!
Khaenri'ah obtained the power to deny the world from outside the world, and these monsters were one of the works of the alchemist, "The Gold."
By applying Alchemy to creatures from outside the world, these magical beasts capable of corroding space were created.
This was Ryougi's first time seeing Rifthounds in the real world. Even in the game, these things only appeared in the Abyss and on Tsurumi Island.
(I know Wolvendom also has them, but the protagonist didn't encounter them when she transmigrated.)
Facing these unfamiliar monsters, Ryougi decided to…
A platinum, purple, and black katana handle emerged from Akasha. For the first time in Enkanomiya, Ryougi took out Kuji Narukami.
"Roar!"
The three Rifthounds let out eerie roars. They sensed the threat from this katana and launched an attack proactively.
With a flash of purplish-gray light, the three Rifthounds disappeared from sight. Ryougi, seeing this, performed a Z-shaped flash and left her original spot.
And after she left, the three Rifthounds appeared at her previous location, their sharp claws carving dark cracks in space.
Ryougi, of course, would not judge what the Rifthounds were going to do based on their attack patterns in the game. She flashed because her sixth sense felt a threat.
When the Rifthounds disappeared, an alarm blared in Ryougi's mind, and her brain sent her danger signals, which is why she performed the evasion maneuver.
The Rifthounds' power was not strong, and their bodies were very fragile, but their innate Talents allowed them to tear through space.
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