Slayers 2: How to Unlock Shrines for Fast Travel

Slayers 2 has a big map and a lot of running. Shrines are the fix. Each one is a red torii gate that becomes a fast-travel destination once you pay for it, which cuts out the long treks between Windy Peak, the bear area, and the questlines waiting further west.

Quick answer: Walk to a shrine’s torii gate and hold T to buy it, or open the map and click the shrine icon to unlock it remotely. The Bamboo Grove Shrine costs 10,000 Wen.

Shrine unlock cost and the two ways to pay

Shrines are bought with Wen, the same currency you spend on katanas and trainer requirements. There is no quest chain gating them and no trainer to talk to. If you have the money, the unlock is instant.

Method	Where you do it	Input
Torii gate	Standing at the shrine	Hold T, confirm
Map screen	Map menu, from anywhere	Click the shrine icon

Prices are attached to individual shrines, so read the confirmation prompt before you agree to it rather than assuming every gate charges the same as the Bamboo Grove.

Unlock a shrine at the torii gate

Open your map and find the shrine icon nearest to where you are standing. From the starting area at Windy Peak, the Bamboo Grove Shrine is the first one in range. Note which direction it sits in relative to your player marker before you close the menu.

Checking the map — The in-game map showing the nearest shrine relative to Windy Peak. Shown at 00:16 in VendoPlus’s video. Image: Ouw Productions

Travel there on foot. The route out of Windy Peak runs along the outer wall and connecting paths, and you will need a few jumps to clear the ledges on the way. Movement nodes like Double Jump and Wall Climb make this considerably less annoying.

Navigating to shrine — The path out of Windy Peak runs along the exterior wall and requires a few jumps. Shown at 00:25 in VendoPlus’s video. Image: Ouw Productions

Stand under the red torii gate until the shrine name appears, then hold T. A prompt reading “Unlock the Bamboo Grove Shrine for 10,000 Wen?” will appear. Accept it and the shrine is added to your fast-travel network.

Interacting with Bamboo Grove Shrine — Holding T at the torii gate brings up the 10,000 Wen unlock prompt for the Bamboo Grove Shrine. Shown at 00:46 in VendoPlus’s video. Image: Ouw Productions

Unlock a shrine from the map screen

You do not actually have to be standing at the gate. Shrines can be purchased remotely, which is the faster option when you have the Wen but not the patience for the trip.

Open the map menu. If the icons are cluttered, use the display filters to show or hide location types until the shrine markers are easy to pick out.

Click the shrine icon you want. The same purchase prompt appears, with the shrine’s name and its Wen price. Confirm it and the location unlocks without you moving a step.

How to confirm the shrine unlocked

The Wen is deducted immediately and the purchase prompt disappears. After that, selecting the shrine on the map no longer offers to sell it to you — it offers to travel there instead. That switch from a purchase prompt to a travel option is the confirmation that the unlock went through.

Which shrines to unlock first

Shrines are scattered across the world, and buying them in the order you reach them is usually better than saving up for a distant one you cannot use yet. The locations that pay for themselves early include:

Bamboo Grove — the first shrine in range of the starting area, and a frequent Spider Lily spawn zone.
Hidden Mist — connected to the Bamboo Grove by the Wano Gate.
Mistfall — your staging point for the harbor, the bridges, and the Flame trainer route.
Butterfly Estate — the approach to the long southern bridge toward Final Selection Plains.
The snow area — worth having before you start hunting anything in Icevail Valley.

Set your spawn crystal to match your grind

Fast travel is only half of the travel-time problem. The other half is where you land after you die. Look for the pink spawn crystal in a settlement and interact with it to set that point as your respawn location.

Move it whenever your grinding area changes. Setting your spawn to the nearest Bamboo Grove to wherever you are farming is one of the cheapest time savers in the game, and it costs nothing beyond walking over to the crystal once.