Something was about to awaken in the immense plaza of the Walker Assembly.
Uesugi Tetsu's scalp prickled. Even though he had neither seen nor heard anything, his intuition—or rather, his instincts as a living being—was warning him.
Was it because the fluctuation caused by the Spiritual Power he had just injected into the Assembly Token had spread?
Or was it because his arrival had disrupted some of the rules already in place within the Walker Assembly?
Forget it. None of that mattered for now.
What mattered was finding the shrine and lighting it as quickly as possible.
Uesugi Tetsu breathed with some difficulty. As time passed second by second, he could clearly feel his neck growing tighter.
This is only a sign of its awakening, and it's already making it hard for me to breathe. What will happen once it fully awakens?
Uesugi Tetsu's pupils rapidly swept over every inch of wall and floor within his vision, but all he could see were one dim, dilapidated shrine after another.
Even when he touched them with his fingers, nothing happened at all.
"So this is the so-called [Good Fortune] from the Omikuji cylinder?"
As if some shackle had been broken, a suffocating aura surged from the center of the plaza. Uesugi Tetsu's entire body trembled violently, and the terrifying pressure forced him to kneel on the ground.
Boom!
Uesugi Tetsu's knees slammed down, crushing and splitting the stone tiles beneath him.
Then, through the dust, he saw the dark shrine, a small corner of it poking out from the cracks in the shattered stone.
Uesugi Tetsu's face twitched. The Corona Qi within his body roared, and he touched the nearby corner of the shrine with his finger at top speed.
``` [You have lit the shrine of the Lost Walker Assembly.]