The air was thick with acrid smoke, tinged with the smell of blood.
Xia Lun stood atop a slippery mound of mangled flesh and bent to pick up the merit coin that had blown "Philos Arne" to pieces.
As he retrieved the coin, he considered what he had gained.
Xia Lun had known since meeting the old man on Wengyu Road that this Scenario contained a Ritual capable of taking people to other worlds. A few weeks earlier, he had made obtaining it one of his goals.
But after discovering traces of other Secret Art Scholars, he had lowered its priority.
Honestly, he had thought he had missed his chance to obtain the Transmigration Ritual. Yet through a twist of fate, Golden Sand Midnight had handed him another opportunity to acquire it!
Once he mastered the Transmigration Ritual, he would no longer have to rely on the Investigator game to travel between worlds!
And if he could find a way to choose his destination, he might even be able to return to the Pilgrimage World and find Renee!
If a crisis as absurd as King Guewen's exploding sphere arose in the Real World, he could also use the Ritual to take the people close to him to another world.
In short, the Ritual—Other-Dimensional Transmigration had strategic value comparable to a point of Knowledge. As he thought it over, Xia Lun's frustration at having his Knowledge stolen eased a little, but a faint doubt rose alongside it. Judging by his experience clearing so many Scenarios, and by the Anchor Time Flow exchange option that had appeared after the Pilgrimage Scenario, time could flow at wildly different rates between worlds. If he traveled blindly, he would have no control over when or where he arrived. He could easily land in serious danger.