Beat Them at Their Own Game

We were extra careful watching our backs for the next few days, and none of the new artifacts we found suffered the same fate again. Based on Xie Lun and Wen Shiyin's past experiences, the number and quality of prizes we had claimed were much better than average, which suggested that our search strategy worked out quite well.

"I'm taking this brush when we're done," Peng Yao said as Xie Lun stowed our eighth trophy into his storage—the group had decided to leave all prizes with him for now and redistribute them together at the end. "I've been begging my master long enough for a better paintbrush, but he kept saying the good ones are too hard to come by. I'll fight one of you if that's what it takes to get this."