All gifts of fate are secretly marked with a price.
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Galaxy Great World, Previous Civilization Research Institute.
In the shape resembling a silkworm cocoon, the Mayfly scholar was conducting experimental operations using energy in place of limbs.
In front of him, on an experimental platform, lay a very ancient remnant from the previous civilization.
This relic was a box, looking like it might belong to the Furnace Men.
The Galaxy Mayflies are unlike Wizards. The relics they excavate often contain incomplete knowledge; many times, it's just the relics themselves.
To uncover the knowledge within, one must conduct their own research.
The scholar emitted threads of energy from his orifice, which traced over the relic, and the energy reactions from within the relic traveled along these threads into the scholar's perception.
Everything was proceeding smoothly.
Until the relic suddenly deformed.
