New Relics prices are...insane?
The new relics are priced at 250 Shadowstone Fragments + 200 Research Notes each... This new map material is pretty slow to farm compared to both previous mats (you get 2 per event, 10 by finishing the meta, and that's it. They don't drop from obscured or mirror chests).
By comparison, previous relics costed 250 Aether-Rich saps or Antiquated ducats. Yes, it's the same number, but it's the currencies! Not the map material. And 1 map material from the first two maps = 5 map currencies. In other words, the new relics cost 5 times more map materials compared to the old ones, and the map material is significantly slower to farm.
Starlit Weald relics. Notice how it's 250 of the currency (= 50 of the map materials only).
It almost looks like an oversight, where they kept the same number but didn't notice it was the currency on previous map, instead of the materials.