"It really is a Sacred Artifact!"
Seeing this, Yuri Yegorov lowered his head to look at the Crystal Ball cradled in his hands, and no doubts remained.
Beside him, white light flashed in and out, and a pentagram appeared above Latin Girl's head, its interior etched with Runes of various forms.
The sorcerer turned to look and could not help sucking in a cold breath.
"I succeeded?"
The Runes at the center of the pentagram spoke in Vera's uncertain voice.
Her senses had undergone a complete transformation. She had never imagined that her five senses—sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—could become so perfectly unified. She could even distinguish things she had never noticed before, such as a wider range of colors—the spectrum—and finer details of vibrations. The experience was utterly unprecedented.
Although the Crystal Ball had vanished from her hands out of thin air, Vera could clearly feel that it had become one with her.
"Congratulations. That's it!"
Even Old Wu had not expected Latin Girl to succeed on her first attempt.
"It seems I can do it too!"
Yuri Yegorov's voice came from the glow of the Runes above his head.
Another newly inducted Saint had successfully completed the attempt.
The Saint infused their supernatural authority and will into the Sacred Artifact. The process was not complicated. Just as Old Wu had instructed, all they needed to do was concentrate. Everything else could be left to the Sacred Artifact.
After personally witnessing one newly inducted Saint after another successfully activate their Sacred Artifacts, Li Bai bared his teeth in a grin and said, "The Five Stars rise in the East, benefiting China!"
In May of 205 BC, the second year after Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, led his army into Xianyang, the five stars of metal, wood, water,