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To be honest, I had never considered what this divine artifact should look like. Its origins dated back to an era before even the Shilin Apostles had been born. That span of time could no longer be explained by the word "archaeology"—it was roughly like asking Qian Qian's dad to use a late-Qing snuff bottle to deduce what the Big Bang looked like. Before such a gulf, any speculation was pale and powerless. The Starfield we knew today must have looked entirely different so long ago.
But when I actually saw the divine artifact, I was still rather shocked... Why was it a ball? Couldn't it have taken some other shape?
"After all that trouble, all we got was a damn ball," Viska muttered as she tapped the golden sphere. "This antique's design style is really peculiar. This is the first time I've seen a spherical recording device... No luck. I can't find a reading path, and the runes on its surface use a format that was abandoned who knew how many years ago. Let's put this thing aside for now."
I looked up at the Blood Princess and Big Dumb, only to find their expressions especially interesting—their faces were as stiff and angular as plaster models. They had been completely petrified.
"You... don't tell me even you don't know what the divine artifact does?" The Blood Princess looked at me with an extremely strange expression