Compared to the bustle of his arrival, Gu Mo felt somewhat lonely on the journey back, traveling by himself. Perhaps there was also a hint of bewilderment at being alone in a foreign land.
It was like the first time he had gone far from home to study elsewhere. Facing a completely unfamiliar environment alone always made one uneasy... Especially in this era, the wilderness truly was untamed land that had never been developed. Pristine natural scenery was everywhere, venomous insects and fierce beasts roamed about, and if it was not demons or ghosts, then it was bandits.
—No one knew what might be waiting ahead.
Most importantly, as he walked alone through the wilderness, it felt as though no matter how far he went, the scenery before him never changed. Endless mountain ranges rose and fell into the distance, and just as he passed through one impenetrable forest, another immediately lay ahead...
With no landmarks, he often had the illusion that he was simply going in circles. If the Divination Talisman had not steadfastly pointed in the same direction with such clarity, Gu Mo might truly have begun to doubt himself.
The Divination Talisman was a Skill he had crammed over the past two days, setting aside all progress on his other talismans to focus entirely on mastering this one Mystic Art...
This talisman Mystic Art was a support Skill. In the game, its effect had been to display every person or object on the map. Whether monsters hidden away or items he had not seen, it could sense and display them all on the map. After the game mechanics had been stripped away, its real-world function was naturally divination—foretelling fortune and misfortune.
It sounded like an extremely practical talisman Skill.
But in reality, its effectiveness varied completely depending