"First, if you planned to take the items and run, after taking them, toss the items into the divine lamp containing Time River Water, return the originals, then keep the silver ones and hand over the gold ones."
"Hand them over? You mean to the World Consciousness?" Even though Yakumo Yukari could not see the World Consciousness, she still raised her head and looked upward.
"That's right, to the World Consciousness."
"I don't really have any objection to that, but what does the World Consciousness want these things for?" Yakumo Yukari found it rather strange.
It was understandable enough that she valued these things, but the World Consciousness did too.
"The World Consciousness itself has no use for them, but its agents do. Not every World Consciousness has plenty of useful things stored away. Most of what is in a World Consciousness's warehouse consists of items preserved through reincarnations for various reasons." Chen Luo took a sip of tea before continuing.
"Things that survive reincarnation are naturally valuable, but they may not be suitable for novice agents. Besides, the World Consciousness trusts your eye, Yakumo Yukari. You definitely won't pick anything bad, so it came up with this rule."
The World Consciousness could indeed use the power of the world or World Source to create anything that had ever appeared during its reincarnations, but those things cost money to make. Now, however, they could get them for free.
No one could refuse a freebie.
In any case, what happened in story worlds would not affect the real world much, and Yakumo Yukari would return the originals, so there would barely be any impact.
"Doesn't this World Consciousness not have an agent? Otherwise, it wouldn't have had Shana enforcing the law across worlds, right?" Yakumo Yukari asked doubtfully.
"Oh, that's another