Chapter 474: Shrine
"Sorry, the area ahead is the shrine and is not open to foreigners." An expressionless shrine maiden stopped the traveler Ying who wanted to go to the shrine.
Since more than 300 years ago, the Hashiren Shrine has only been open to worshippers from the local people of Inazuma.
If a foreigner wants to enter, he needs a letter of introduction from a local reputable person...which is also a guarantee.
"Here is my letter of recommendation." Traveler Ying had anticipated this and took out the letter of recommendation.
After looking at it, the witch nodded and said to Ying: "You can go in."
Then he said to Paimon: "This suspicious unknown creature is not okay."
Paimon said angrily, "I am emergency food! I am not some suspicious unknown creature."
Miko, Ying: "..."
Miko: "In that case, you can follow me in, but you need to be careful not to let the emergency food be eaten by the mascots of the shrine."
"Mascot! Eat it!" Paimon was very angry. How much does this guy look down on Paimon?
After all, Paimon had traveled all over the world with travelers, and her fighting power was about equal to 0.5 wild boars, which was more than that of children under the age of twelve in other countries in Teyvat except Inazuma.
How is it possible that he can't even beat the mascot of the shrine?
It wasn't until Paimon saw the shrine's mascot that his face turned green.
"How could someone use a slime as a mascot, especially one that's so big and strong?" Paimon carefully hid behind the Traveler.
In front of the two people was a rock slime about two and a half meters tall. This rock slime had thick rock armor on its body and a sign hanging on it, which should be something similar to an identity card.
【Slime Rock 03】
[Life Level: LV70]
[ Position : Mascot, Road Hardening Worker at the Hinare Shrine]
[Note: The mascot of this shrine, the slime, has high intelligence. Please do not attack or feed it at will.]
However, the rock slime did not attack the two people. After walking up to them, it made a "mu" sound.
"Uh~ He seems to be asking us to move aside."
The two men ran to the outside of the road in doubt, ready to see what this rock slime was going to do.
I saw this extremely powerful slime gathered the power of rock element, and then the surrounding roads glowed with a faint golden light.
"They are really hardening the road." Paimeng complained.
The rock slime made a "hmm" sound at the two guys, then continued to slowly crawl forward.
"It seems to be saying that we can move on." Paimon said.
"Paimon is really amazing. He even understands the language of slimes." The traveler Ying couldn't help but sigh that he had really 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 by the praise.
The scientific name of the shrine maiden the two had met before was Moriyama Miko, and she was similar to the senior shrine maiden Hisayuki Yuki of Narugami Taisha Shrine.
Responsible for guarding the outermost part of the shrine.
However, compared to a full-time mountain-guarding shrine maiden like Hisagi Yuki, the Bladeline Shrine has a rotation system and there are no dedicated mountain-guarding shrine maidens. Generally, a senior shrine maiden leads several lower-level shrine maidens to maintain the barrier while guarding the mountain.
If the barrier detects a stranger entering, it will sound an alarm, and then the senior priestess will come out and drive the stranger away.
If the opponent is stubborn, the senior priestess will kill him personally. In recent years, there have been occasional agents trying to steal the technology of the Blade Shrine, organizations from various gray areas, and the Fatui who came out of nowhere. In fact, this situation is already pretty good.
The peak period was around the time of the Dark Disaster, when we had to fight off several waves of spy organizations composed of the survivors of Kanria every day.
Of course, for someone like a traveler with a letter of recommendation, it is not a problem to enter the general area of the shrine.
The very existence of a recommendation letter is a guarantee.
Since entering the sanctuary, travelers Ying and Paimon have encountered several waves of slimes, including road hardening workers - rock slimes, land and building maintenance workers - grass slimes, water purifiers/purified water sellers - water slimes, and temperature regulators/shaved ice sellers - ice slimes.
To be honest, I don't know how these guys are trained. These slimes really have no intention of attacking other people. It is really a very happy thing to touch the ice slime in this late summer.
It’s really cool. You can also buy fruity shaved ice for 200 Mora from Ice Slime with other Inazuma people.
To be honest, it's really worth it because the fruit juice is also of high quality. In this sense, the shrine is selling this shaved ice at a loss.
Thinking of this, Paimon and Ying ate their shaved ice even faster.
"Paimon, have you discovered something?"
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"The higher up the rankings here are, the bigger their bodies are."
"Maybe it's because they're ranked according to size." Paimon said after swallowing the watermelon-flavored shaved ice.
"From what I've observed, it shouldn't be."
"Look at that thunder slime. It's obviously of average size, but it's ranked very high." Ying was talking about a slime with thunder attributes.
The role of Thunder Slime in the Blade Shrine is generally to assist the priestesses in their practice and to help maintain the barrier.
Ying and Paimon came up to the slime to watch the fun.
[Slime·High Pressure Element Concentration·Thunder 02]
[Life Energy Level: LV77]
[Position: Mascot, Leader of the Lightning Elemental Slime]
[Note: The mascot of this shrine, the slime, has high intelligence. Please do not attack or feed it at will.]
[Special note: This slime is a high-element monster, ordinary people are prohibited from approaching it]
"Hey, you two, stay away from Xiao Lei. It's dangerous to get close to him." A witch shouted at them in horror when she saw the two men getting close to the slime.
However, before the two could take a few steps back, they saw the slime showing a happy smile and then burping...
Traveler Ying and her emergency food pendant felt a wave of electricity sweeping over them, and they suddenly fell to the ground with numbness all over.
"I feel like my body is hollowed out." Ying said.
"This is the energy-hungry thunder, a unique ability of the commander-level thunder elemental monster. If ordinary primordial gods and ordinary people are corroded by such thunder elements, they will feel powerless all over, and their lives may even be in danger." The witch at the side said after dragging the two to a safe distance.
"Isn't the Energy Devouring Thunder in the secret realm in Mingyun Town, Liyue?" Ying complained, " Does the Thunder Slime know this move?"
If so, Ying decided to walk around these mine slimes in the future.
"There should be a few more. They have been raised in the shrine for hundreds of years. I have never seen such slimes in the wild." The witch thought for a while and said.
