Strale #5
Credit x 5000, Strale x 10, Recipe: Ruby Potion x 1
📍 The Xianzhou Luofu Palace of Astrum
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Yanming
Hello, {F#miss}{M#mister}, I'm standing right here! How dare you?
Yanming
This is the Palace of Astrum, the private hub for the Sky-Faring Commission where important affairs are handled. You can't just muck about here like that — Hang on. What are you doing back here? Didn't I warn you last time not to mess around with official documents?
Options
But that's where the chest is!
This is part of the Way of Trailblaze!
Yanming
That's also where your pathway to prison is. Just because you said something justifiable to you doesn't change the fact that you're about to become a criminal.
Yanming
The Way of Trailblaze... That makes sense. I heard the Express is running around in the cosmos again.
Yanming
So you're one of those Nameless, then. I know exactly what people like you are up to!
Yanming
Wherever you go, you just can't refrain from wandering about, kicking down doors to snoop around regardless of whether the host has invited you to or not.
Yanming
Your greatest enemy is a locked chest, and if you can't open it, you'll lose sleep wondering about what's inside. Not even a trashcan is safe from your prying eyes!
Yanming
With any living thing you meet, you'll try to strike up a conversation about anything. And if they're not reciprocal to your communication attempts, you'll check if a targeting crosshair has appeared on them.
Yanming
If you ask me what the most terrifying threat in the entire universe is, it's gotta be your insatiable curiosity. As for the most fearsome creature, I'm afraid the Antimatter Legion and Abominations of Abundance both have to make way for you...
Options
Penetrating insight...
Hey, go easy on me!
Yanming
...
System
The man suddenly falls silent as he buries his memories deep within the shadow of his furrowed brows.
Yanming
Because I, I was once just like you... I was once a Nameless. Akivili may have faded away, but THEIR legend still lives on.
System
The man suddenly falls silent as he buries his memories deep within the shadow of his furrowed brows.
Yanming
I was bristling with the excitement of adventure, just like you, opening up any old chest with reckless abandon.
Yanming
Until one day, I trod on some twigs sprouting from the sacred Vonwacq forest. The laws of the forest dictate that any broken twig must be repaid in kind — with two broken ribs.
Yanming
Although my physical injury soon mended itself... psychological scars have cut deeply for the rest of my life! You're still young, and don't understand the terrors of following the wrong calling.
Yanming
I'll keep an eye on you to help prevent you from going down the same cursed path I took.
Yanming
So long as you're anywhere around the Palace of Astrum, I'll be watching you, capiche? A-n-y-w-h-e-r-e.
You're as busy as a bee...
Xikui
Yeah, I was so busy, I almost kicked myself in the face. All in a day's work at the Sky-Faring Commission! Time for the guilds' list to be updated once again...
Xikui
So, if you're here to invite me out for tea or theater, forget it.
Options
Does it ever feel like someone here is slacking off?
Shouldn't you hand over the guilds' list work to the guild to do themselves?
Xikui
Yeah. I mean, I only see you sauntering around as you do... Hang on, what's Yanming doing right now? He's staring daggers at us over here. Is he mad about something?
Xikui
*sigh* It's common practice for our secretary to process all of this paperwork. The Amicassadors of all the guilds are tied down just from handling all of this year's materials...
Xikui
Hang on, what's Yanming doing right now? He's staring daggers at us over here. Is he mad about something?
Xikui
Tsk, we're both working for the same Sky-Faring Commission, how is he able to slack off so openly?
Xikui
Excuse me. I need to have a word with him.
System
You watch as the two of them start bickering, each ducking the other's questions — bringing up each other's backers, whispering about other colleagues' incompetence, shouting about an already oversaturated workload.
System
Yanming finally breaks for pause, just as Xikui takes the chance to shove a pile of documents into Yanming's hands — as if piercing him straight through the heart with a rapier.
System
At last, victory. Yanming is stunned, before he slinks away, dejected. The curtain falls on another trivial scene from the Palace of Astrum's millennia-old office drama.
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