The safe stood roughly 1.5 meters tall.
Among all the safes Yu Yuan had encountered, it was already on the larger side.
Its lock was rare grade as well.
But against Yu Yuan's rare-grade [Lockpicking] skill, it offered no resistance.
As the safe opened, Yu Yuan saw what was stored inside.
The first things he noticed were items sealed in individual jars.
Some of these items resembled organs, such as a pitch-black claw and an eyeball with seven or eight tentacles growing around it.
Another was a bloodstained bandage, but upon closer inspection, he realized it was slowly writhing.
Every item was exceedingly strange.
There were six jars in total, each containing one item.
Yu Yuan's nostrils twitched slightly. He had caught a somewhat familiar scent.
"Sulfur?"
Yu Yuan frowned slightly.
He had only smelled sulfur before at the Feed Factory, when he fought the Ascetics sent by Humpback Whale.
But was that possible?
These were two completely different worlds.
His gaze swept across the six jars before finally settling on the pitch-black claw.
He picked up the jar containing the claw and examined it closely, activating [Eye of Insight].
Faint black-and-red patterns appeared on the claw.
These black-and-red patterns aligned with the cracks on its surface.
Realization dawned on Yu Yuan. The claw was not naturally black at all—it had been scorched by flames.
Wasn't that exactly like those Ascetics back then?
Was this a coincidence?
Yu Yuan's thoughts raced.
Soon, his gaze sharpened.
No...
This was no coincidence.
He remembered something.
Humpback Whale had Ascetics because the faction they belonged to, Eden, had the Orthodox Church backing it.
The Ascetics had been supplied to them by the Orthodox Church.
Shortly after leaving the beginner phase, Yu Yuan had obtained a book called the Holy Covenant from the bronze