The painting lit up.
A soft sheen spread over the entire canvas. Its title began to flicker again, and three new words appeared at the end: Awakening in Progress.
Rita and Y128 immediately used Romantic Tourist again, blinking toward the distant edge of the map.
A skill she could only use twelve times a day. Since the start of this match, she had used it five times.
Roughly equal to the number of hunters she had run into. Aside from that encounter with Ash Cinders, every time they met a hunter, she and Y128 used the skill without hesitation. No gambling on miracles, no testing their luck.
With the maps merging, the rate of running into hunters had clearly gone up. In such a short time, they had already brushed past Ash Cinders, Loriden, and the Archmage.
They cautiously located another charging pillar and started refilling Y128's energy.
As Rita scanned their surroundings, she grumbled, "Why set this up so annoyingly? Shared body controls, charging, all this…"
