"Then swear you never thought that." Chen Li replied expressionlessly.
"Well... there's no need for that, right?" Sparkle's gaze guiltily drifted aside, and her voice dropped several notches.
"I only tried it because I saw that the One-star Artifact, Wish Hourglass, could endanger the entire Sea of Quantum." Vita looked up at Chen Li, trying to find a reasonable comparison for her recklessness.
"How could those be the same? Wish Hourglass has a priority comparable to a Two-star Artifact. It's only because it has too many side effects that it can be forged at the cost of a One-star Artifact."
"Besides, at most, that artifact would cause the Sea of Quantum to slowly die. It wasn't like you, charging in headfirst." Chen Li explained.
Pixie had once evaluated the relationship between artifacts and worlds.
To a world, beginner artifacts were merely pebbles in its shoe.
Only One-star Artifacts could count as challengers.
Two-star Artifacts were enough to make a world take notice.
And the world they were currently in was the Tree-Sea Worldview, while the Sea of Quantum was one of the worldview's two poles.
It couldn't quite be called half of the entire world, but it was close enough.
Using a One-star Artifact to contend with it was still far too risky.
Of course, it was only risky—not impossible.
Vita's success just now was proof of that.
But Chen Li had always favored strategies of overwhelming superiority, which was why he had specifically forged [Guardian of Human Order], meant to restrain evildoers within the Sea of Quantum and even other worlds beyond it, into a Two-star Artifact.
"Alright, alright, don't be so harsh, partner. Didn't it all turn out well in the end? Everyone's happy." Cyrene walked over and lightly chuckled as she smoothed things over.
Chen Li nodded