Chapter 276: Ruby
Time slipped by as Ruby remained unresponsive. No matter how hard Li Lang pressed the Origin-grade artifact against his forehead, the excruciating silence remained.
“Ruby? Are you there? Answer me!” Li Lang bellowed.
He then took off his hat and swiftly ripped Ruby out of it. The brightly glowing gem appeared unblemished, no matter how carefully Li Lang examined it. Calling out didn’t work, so he tried entering the artifact space, to no avail as well.
“Blue, Green, Orange, get over here now!”
Thankfully, his cries were answered this time. The three artifact spirits of the Crucible materialized without a moment of delay. They transformed into their human forms, donned in robes befitting their names.
“Master!” the three said with a bow.
“Do you know what’s happening to Ruby? They’re not responding, and I can’t enter their artifact space!”
“Umm, I have no idea,” Orange fearfully answered. “But it shouldn’t be dangerous. Her presence is as strong as ever, and in fact, growing stronger.”
“Yeah, Orange is right,” Green concurred.
“That doesn’t assure me of anything! Are you saying this is something you’ve never witnessed after living for so many years? Surely, one of the talented geniuses had artifacts that reacted similarly before.”
Orange and Green exchanged glances, hesitant about how to respond. Their gaze quickly turned to Blue, betraying how much they normally relied on her.
“Master,” Blue called out firmly. “You should know better than any of us that Ruby is incomparable to any artifacts that had stepped foot into our territory before. Ruby is—much more powerful and complete.”