Chapter 8, Shrine
"I'm sorry, but the shrine area in front is not open to foreigners." An expressionless shrine maiden stops Traveler Ying who wants to go to the shrine.
For more than 300 years, the shrine has been only visited by Inazuma locals.
If you want to enter the country, you need to have a letter of introduction from a well-known local person... That is, the guarantee.
"This is my letter of recommendation." Traveler Ying had anticipated this and took out a letter of recommendation.
After seeing it, the witch nodded and said to Ying, "You can go in." ”
Then he said to Paimon, "This suspicious unknown creature can't do it. ”
Paimon said angrily, "I'm emergency food!" It's not a suspicious unknown creature. ”
Shrine maiden, Ying: "···"
Mikoto: "In that case, you can follow in, but you need to be careful not to get eaten by the shrine's mascots." ”
"Mascot! Eat! Paimon was angry, how much he looked down on Paimon.
Paimon also followed the traveler from south to north, and her combat power was equal to about 0.5 wild boars, which was more than any child under the age of twelve in Teyvat except Inazuma.
How can you not even beat the mascot of the shrine.
It wasn't until Paimon saw the mascot of the shrine that his face turned green.
"How could anyone use Slim as a mascot, it's still such a big and strong Slim." Paimon cautiously ducked behind the Traveler.
In front of the two of them was a rock shlime about two and a half meters high, this rock shlime had a thick rock armor on his body, and a sign hung on it, which should be something similar to an identity certificate.
【Slim Rock 03】
[Life level: lv70]
[Position: Mascot, Blade Shrine Road Hardening Worker]
[Note: The shrine mascot Slim has high intelligence, please do not attack at will, do not feed at will]
However, Iwaslam did not attack the two, and after walking to the two of them, Mu ~ snorted.
"Uh~ He seems to be telling us to get out of the way."
The two of them ran out of the road suspiciously, ready to see what the rock slime was going to do.
I saw that this very powerful slime gathered the power of the rock element, and then the surrounding road lit up with golden light.
"It's really hardening the road." Paimon complained.
Iwaslam snorted at the two guys~, and then continued to squirm forward slowly.
"It seems to be saying that we can move on." Paimon said.
"Paimon is so good, he even understands the language of Slime." Traveler Ying couldn't help but feel that she really had picked up a good guide.
"Hehe, I don't know why, but I can sense the emotions of the Slimes and what they want to say." Paimon was a little embarrassed to be complimented.
The scientific name of the shrine maiden that the two met before was Shoushan Shrine, which was similar to the high-ranking shrine maiden Kuki Yuki of the Narukami Shrine.
It is in charge of guarding the outermost part of the shrine.
However, compared to a full-time mountain maiden like Kuki Yuki, there is a rotation system on the side of the Blade Shrine, and there is no special mountain maiden, and it is generally a high-level shrine maiden who leads a few lower-level shrine maidens to maintain the barrier while guarding the mountain.
If the barrier detects that a stranger has entered, an alarm will be sounded, and the high-ranking shrine maiden will be dispatched and driven away.
If the other party is stubborn, then the high-level shrine maiden will also kill the other party herself, and in recent years, there have been occasional agents trying to steal the technology of the Blade Shrine, there are organizations in various gray areas, and there are also Fatui who don't know which ghost place to run out, in fact, this situation is actually quite good.
At its peak, it was around the time of the Scourge of Darkness, when several waves of agents of the remnants of Kanria had to be fought off every day.
Of course, with a letter of recommendation like a traveler, there is nothing wrong with entering the general area of the shrine.
The very existence of a letter of recommendation is a guarantee.
Traveler Ying and Paimon have encountered several waves of Slimes since entering the shrine area, namely Road Hardener - Iwashiram, Land and Building Maintenance Worker - Grass Slim, Water Purifier/Pure Water Salesman - Water Slim, and Thermostat/Shaved Ice Seller - Ice Slim.
To be honest, I don't know how these guys are trained, these slimes really don't have any idea of attacking other people, and it's really a very happy thing to touch the ice slimes in this late summer.
It's really cool, and you can buy 200 Mora portions of fruity shaved ice from the Ice Slime with other Inazuma people.
To be honest, it's really worth it, because the fruity juice is also of high quality, so this shaved ice is completely sold at a loss at the shrine.
Thinking of this, Paimon and Ying ate the shaved ice even more quickly.
"Paimon, did you notice anything?"
“?”
"Here's how high they are, the bigger their bodies are."
"Maybe it's because they're in order of size." Paimon said as he swallowed the watermelon-flavored shaved ice.
"From what I've observed, it shouldn't be."
"Look at that Rayshlime, obviously his body size is very average, but he is very high-ranked." Ying is talking about a thunder-attribute slime.
Reshram's role at the Blade Shrine is generally to assist shrine maidens in their cultivation and to assist in the maintenance of enchantments.
Ying and Paimon gathered together to watch the excitement in front of this Slime.
【Slime・High Pressure Elemental Concentration・Thunder 02】
[Life level: lv77]
[Position: Mascot, Thunder Elemental Slime Commander]
[Note: The shrine mascot Slim has high intelligence, please do not attack at will, do not feed at will]
[Special note: This slim is a high-element monster, and ordinary people are forbidden to approach]
"Hey~ you two, stay away from Xiao Lei, it's dangerous to get close to him," a witch shouted at the two of them in shock when she saw the two of them come to this slim.
However, before the two of them could take a few steps back, they saw Slim smile happily, and then burped...
Traveler Ying and her emergency food pendant felt a burst of lightning sweep by, and they immediately fell to the ground numb.
"It feels like the body is being hollowed out." Ying said.
"This is the thunder of the unique ability of the commander-level thunder element monster, if ordinary Genshin Gods and ordinary people are eroded by such a thunder element, they will feel powerless, and it may even be life-threatening." The shrine maiden on the side said after dragging the two to a safe distance.
"Isn't the Thunder of Energy from that secret realm over there in Liyue Mingyun Town?" Ying complained, "And does Rayshlime know this trick?" ”
If she could, Ying decided to walk around these Rayslims in the future.
"There should be a few more, all of them have been raised in the shrine for hundreds of years, but I haven't seen such a slime in the wild." The shrine maiden thought for a moment and said.