My Contract Marriage Got Interrupted (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 74

An item that changes its appearance in response to magic or similar forces, and whose usage varies depending on specific conditions.

Walter knew what such items were commonly called.

‘An artifact.’

Sometimes, depending on their inherent power or nature, they might also be referred to as relics—but regardless.

Even without understanding the precise mechanics, he could tell that Odette’s pendant had activated this artifact.

And since an artifact like this certainly wouldn’t corrode merely from the passage of time, its initial worn-out appearance must have been a disguised state.

In that disguised state, no matter what one did with it, it would have performed no better or worse than a merely old, dull dagger.

It was Odette’s pendant that had transformed this seemingly worthless item—fit only to be sold cheaply at an ironmonger’s—into the form of an artifact.

‘What exactly was this pendant meant for?’

And just who was Odette, that she carried a magical artifact capable of activating something like this?

In other circumstances, he might have assumed she had anticipated the situation and prepared accordingly—but this was different.

How could anyone have predicted that Walter, failing to descend the snowy mountain, would happen to stumble into a cave and coincidentally pick up an artifact?

‘It was probably crafted for another purpose entirely.’

By pure chance, it had simply served to activate this artifact.

The pendant now seemed to have exhausted its stored magical energy and had ceased vibrating.

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