Arknights' Lock of Heaven

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As she spoke, Skadi glanced at the thin Chlor.

It's obvious that "ordinary person" refers to her.

After all, this is property left to future generations by knights and nobles; they can't just take the lives of their descendants, can they?

If a physically strong Kuranta were here, this amount of blood wouldn't be unacceptable.

After all, in the eyes of ancient knights, even if their descendants were so destitute that they needed treasure, they wouldn't be so poor that they couldn't afford to eat.

Clearly, they had misjudged the situation.

People in Dishui Village are indeed struggling to afford food.

“So, the amount of blood this thing can absorb is limited, right?” Grani said thoughtfully. “If that’s the case…”

She looked at her own strong body, then at the slender figure of Chlor.

"Let me open the box."

"No!" Upon hearing this, Krol immediately reached out to snatch the key. "How can I let Grani make such a sacrifice for the village in my place?"

But how could Chlor possibly snatch anything from the battle-hardened Grani?

Grani turned around to avoid Chlor, and then explained, "Don't let my short stature fool you, I'm very strong. This little bit of blood is nothing; I'll recover in a few days."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Xia Yu and Skadi, "If I faint due to excessive blood loss, I will have to trouble you to take care of Korol."

Upon hearing this, Xia Yu gave a wink to the void.

After Grani finished speaking, he immediately slid the key into his hand, giving no time for anyone to discuss it.

"No, Grani!"

Upon seeing this, Corolet charged straight at her.

But before she could reach Grani, a hand reached out from the void and snatched the key from her hand with lightning speed.

"Who goes there?" Grani saw this and quickly raised his spear to try and take back the key.

Krol stopped in her tracks, feeling helpless.

Skadi narrowed her eyes and gripped the greatsword in her hand tightly.

Then Xia Yu patted him on the shoulder, indicating that he didn't need to be so nervous.

A purple figure appeared from the void, obediently walked to Xia Yu's side, and handed him the key in her hand.

Xia Yu nodded in satisfaction as he took the key. The tacit understanding between him and Lion Scorpion was off the charts; the latter could understand what he meant with just a glance.

Why was Xia Yu able to talk to Skadi calmly outside the cave without any concern for Grani inside?

Why did Xia Yu remain calm and not offer any help when the Reunion Movement was besieging Grani?

Of course, it's the lion scorpion that's there!

Long before Grani abandoned defending the cave entrance and went into the cave to search for Koror, the Manticore had been following her.

With Lion Scorpion around, and Grani herself being quite strong, a few Reunion soldiers couldn't do anything to them.

After clearly seeing the Rhodes Island symbol on the Manticore, he slowed down.

“Senior Xia Yu,” she explained earnestly, “believe me, this little bit of blood is nothing to me. I’ll be fine after a few days of rest!”

“No,” it was Chlor who stood up to object at this moment. “How can I let Grani take such a big risk for my ideals?”

“But we have no other choice,” Grani looked at Chlor. “Chlor, you also need to open the treasure, right? You also need the treasure to save your village, right?”

“No means no,” Krol said stubbornly. “Grani is shorter than me, how could she possibly bear it…”

"It's not about being short or not, and I don't..."

The two began to argue, leaving Xia Yu, who held the key, aside.

“I’m telling you,” Xia Yu said without a second thought, tossing the key back to Grani, “after all that agonizing, why didn’t you ask me?”

151. The key is more precious than the treasure.

Why don't you ask me?

Faced with Xia Yu's question, Grani and Chlor looked at each other in bewilderment.

Why don't I ask you?

you still need to ask?

“Senior, you’re not Kuranta either,” Grani quickly explained. “Only Kuranta’s blood can work.”

Skadi, standing beside her, nodded in agreement.

She knew that this key was not simple, or rather, any key that Kal'tsit could see was not simple.

The ability to immediately identify whether the injected blood is Kuranta is no simple feat, not to mention the secrets hidden behind it.

The functions contained in this palm-sized key are beyond the imagination of the current Terrans.

It's not impossible to cheat the key, but once that method is used, the key will be useless.

This does not align with Skadi's original intentions.

“It’s impossible to fool the key,” Skadi added, “We don’t have enough equipment on hand.”

“Who said I was going to cheat the key?” Xia Yu said, tossing the key back to Grani before walking over to the treasure chest.

He examined the large box.

The treasure chest, made entirely of metal, was engraved with traditional Kazimierz patterns, depicting the life of a knight, but Xia Yu wasn't interested in any of that.

He was more interested in how Lore managed to drag that huge box, which weighed over a hundred pounds, out by herself.

Xia Yu looked back at Ke Luo'er's thin body and couldn't help but sigh, "You can't judge a book by its cover."

In the past, for an ordinary person, a malnourished girl who had been hung under the sun for most of the day and then ran twenty or thirty miles of mountain road could have dragged such a heavy box out by herself...

Kuranta truly lives up to his reputation for endurance.

"If it can be unlocked with such a strange key, then this box must not be sealed by a simple mechanical structure, right?"

As she examined the box, Xia Yu asked, "Originium Arts? Sorcery? Or some kind of unknown technology?"

“I don’t know either,” Skadi shook her head upon hearing this, as she didn’t know much about these things.

He had previously devoted all his energy to figuring out how to kill Hai Si.

There isn't much research on these things, and as a deep-sea hunter, there's no need to research them.

"Well, anyway, since we can't mess with the key, let's look for flaws in the box."

"If it fails, the contents inside will self-destruct."

Skadi reminded her.

"It's nothing," Xia Yu waved her hand dismissively. "It's just a box of gold coins."

Having money in your hands makes you generous. It's just a box of gold coins, right? If you mess it up, I'll compensate you.

With the entire Leitania Tower family's century-old collection in his hands, losing this little bit of stuff is simply insignificant.

As he said this, a strangely shaped dagger appeared in his hand.

RuleBreaker

Medea's Noble Phantasm.

It has no function as a weapon, but it can "break" all magic of the object stabbed by the blade.

The objects that can be broken are objects enhanced by magic, contracts based on magic, or life forms born using magic.

It can reset them to the state before the magic was used; in other words, contracts based on magic will become worthless, and life forms born from magic will be destroyed on the spot.

Of course, there is no source of magic power in this world other than oneself, but Xia Yu thought that since she had changed her household registration and files to Terra and her previous magic and treasures had not been unsuitable, this thing that only targets magic power might also work.

If all else fails and the treasure is damaged, then we'll just have to pay for it.

What a big deal.

Xia Yu raised her hand and thrust it towards the treasure chest.

Ding.

After a crisp clang, the treasure chest remained completely still.

Seeing this, Grani and Chlor looked at each other in bewilderment.

It doesn't seem to be having any effect.

But Skadi, with her exceptional eyesight, saw something different.

It was just a slight change; a box sealed with sorcery or advanced Originium Arts should have been perfectly sealed.

But the lid of the treasure chest twitched slightly in Xia Yu's seemingly powerless thrust.

The magnitude was almost imperceptible.

Seeing this, Skadi strode forward, lifted the lid, and flipped it open.