Since Chris seemed reluctant to let too many people know about this, Fang Li followed her into his room to talk.
Then Chris told Fang Li the whole story.
After hearing Chris out, Fang Li was somewhat taken aback.
"You want me to sneak into a noble's estate and steal an artifact?"
That was what Chris wanted to ask Fang Li to do.
According to her, an artifact she had been searching for lately appeared to have been collected by a noble.
No, it was not just this one artifact.
Artifacts were extraordinarily powerful and mysterious weapons, cheats bestowed by the Gods upon hero candidates from modern times.
Naturally, such powerful weapons and items could not be acquired easily.
Take Alice's holy sword, for example. It was a treasure passed down through the royal family for generations.
Even the Crimson Demon Clan, the world's strongest group of mages, had only found one such artifact across their entire clan, and it was not even particularly remarkable in effect. Unless there were special circumstances, artifacts would certainly be controlled by nobles or even royalty at the very pinnacle of their nations.
"If those nobles merely wanted to use the power of artifacts to benefit the people, that would be another matter. But some corrupt nobles spend huge sums through all sorts of channels to buy artifacts solely for their own profit or their obsession with collecting."
Chris spoke with an extremely serious expression.
"We can't let artifacts be used that way. Even artifacts that aren't particularly dangerous to use, if they possess considerable power, should be wielded by heroes capable of fighting the Demon Lord's Army. That is their true purpose."
But how could reasoning with those corrupt nobles about such lofty principles possibly make them obediently hand over their artifacts?
"Fortunately,