Miracle Fire licked over those precious materials, and the phantom images of their traits gradually solidified within the flames, seemingly being kept in reserve.
Vita watched the traits tumble in the fire, her eyes growing brighter and brighter.
"The Ark Vill-V built for Gretel... the Spear of Eternity provided by Gilgamesh... Goetia's gauntlets, the wreckage of the Human Order Incineration Celestial Sphere, even the Key of Constraint, Oath of Judah, is in there..."
"Could it be that I, Vita, am finally going to rise this time? This lineup obviously isn't for a One-star Artifact. Could it be a Two-star Artifact? Or even... a Three-star Artifact?" Vita clasped her hands before her chest, unprecedented anticipation gleaming in her eyes. Her joy and excitement were practically spilling over.
"Though I don't really want to burst your bubble, this clearly doesn't look like the materials for forging a single artifact." Great Herta glanced at Vita from the side, arms crossed as she spoke evenly.
"Huh? Could it be that darling is planning to forge two artifacts at once?" Vita blinked, her voice carrying a trace of hopeful reluctance to give up.
"Chen Li's process for making artifacts usually involves burning items in Miracle Fire first to extract their traits, then using those traits to forge an artifact. Since Chen Li has already begun forging this artifact, those traits currently being extracted are obviously being kept in reserve." Great Herta lifted her chin, gesturing for Vita to look toward the forge.
"Isn't there a possibility... that the traits being burned are byproducts of Chen Li forging an artifact... prepared for those 'Genius Little Trash' artifacts?" Vita asked on, unwilling to accept it.
"You know they're called 'Genius Little Trash.' Artifacts like that are generally generated at random from leftover trait scraps after Chen Li