Wealthy in a Very Peculiar Way ### Yong An, the Player, had indeed been seeking shelter, but he still didn't dare let down his guard completely. He'd layered several Defense Artifacts on himself before leaning back in his seat, tending to his injuries while recovering his strength.
The other Players in the carriage left one another alone, mostly closing their eyes to rest.
Xu Huo checked the belongings of the three Players.
They did have quite a few Artifacts. They had thirty-five A-class items alone, half of them Defense Artifacts. These included large-area Defense Artifacts that could control the size of their defensive barriers, as well as passive Defense Artifacts that clung close to the body. One of them, called Free Movement, had a barrier that expanded or contracted with its holder's movements. In other words, it was like an elastic bubble wrapped around a person. The barrier changed as the holder moved, so it didn't interfere with fighting others. If the barrier was sturdy enough and the Attack Artifacts weren't of particularly high quality, the holder could even fight through it.
Another was the multi-layered Defense Artifact World Apart, which could activate one or more layers as needed. The largest layer could cover half a small city, while the smallest extended only ten meters around its holder. Each barrier formed a separate layer, and they couldn't connect with one another.
As for A-class Attack Artifacts, the set of throwing knives Xu Huo had taken earlier was called During Work Hours. There were twenty knives in all, made of an extensible metal. They could be used as individual knives or combined into a hand-held weapon or a massive cone. The name During Work Hours came from the fact that each form had a fixed attack pattern. Once thrown, the knives