As you progress through the game, you can mostly ignore the ruins you find until you accept the Traces of the Ancients quest in Illystana. This quest will task you with finding all eight ruins before you can report back to the quest giver. Note that this quest is not retroactive. Ruins you passed by before will need to be revisited, and you won't be able to tell which specific ruins you have or haven't visited.
Visions of Mana fortunately doesn't have any missable content, so you can wait until you're good and ready to hit these optional areas. Of course, this presents more questions than answers.
Instead, you'll want to return to these places once you've leveled up and can defeat the monsters inside. There are eight ruins located across the open field areas of Visions of Mana, and you don't want to take these on the minute you see them.
What is the purpose of these ruins? Why are so many strong monsters guarding them? Will my editor forgive me for not thinking of a third question?
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