This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

Chapter 500: Chapter 500: For Serena's Sake

Kain stared at the strange devices he had collected, now laid out in front of him on the stone platform.

Each one was covered in intricate patterns of faintly glowing sigils, but what was likely once a brilliant purple light was now barely flickering.

The chamber itself remained bathed in the soft, golden glow of its mysterious healing energy, but Kain's mind was elsewhere. He had hoped that simply placing the devices on the platform would reactivate them, but it was clear now that whatever golden energy was powering this room was not compatible with them. What they needed was likely the violet energy derived from the planet's core, but had been almost completely drained from the ruins over time.

Prismarin, perched beside Serena, watched with an unusually serious expression. "These objects likely ran on energy drawn from the core of this world," Kain explained to it, upon seeing it glaring at his inaction.

Kain knew that using its clones it had explored far more of the relic than he had, but he wasn't sure if it yet knew that the main power source used by this civilization was a fragment of the planet's core. "But after countless centuries, that energy has been reduced to almost nothing. And based on the condition of the platform we found them on, which were likely meant to replenish them, it is unlikely we'd find a suitable source to recharge them in this relic."

The Prismarin hopped closer, its luminous eyes narrowing as it examined the device in Kain's hand. "So, if we can recharge them, they might still be useful. But where are we going to get that kind of energy? That core your talking about has likely been long depleted, and we don't have access to anything like it."