章 6: ch6
The green figure wasn't running again, but stood under the anemo Archon statue, beginning to play a tune on his lyre in front of a crowd on the screen, along with the narration of his poetry the screen showed illustrated images began appearing.
" What is to be sung, transpired in days of yore, when the divine Archons still walked the Earth, A dragon cast is curious gaze on the world below, as he parted from the heavens that gave his birth."
" the dragon sought truth amongst the common folk, but mortal trifles only fogged his mind, The windborne bard strummed his strings dolce, and the holy lyre answered his questions kind, The dragon was but a child full of wonder, and sort the heavens free from care, The bar songs invited him to sing along, for he earned to let all perceive him fair."
"Enchanting legends the bard and dragon were, but the tides of despair soon engulfed the land, The line find parish and the falcon flag slept, as a vile dragon approached Mondstadt in lone stand, over the cathedral loomed death and his friends, of the peoples agony the bard soon sang, the soaring dragon heated his grave calls, and amidst the windstorms a brutal war sprang."
"Blood of venom sent the sky dragon into slumber, only to awake to be expelled in abhor, " why do people in this age loth me so?", but the holy lyre replied no more, wrath and woe, vigour and venom, poured from the dragons bitter eyes, The dragons curse sprawled in silence, but the lyre could no longer soothe his cries."
The story wasn't long, but revealed many important details well, most people might simply enjoy it as ordinary poetry for Lisa, it was extraordinary. After all she was the most knowledgeable librarian in all of Mondstadt, and had studied the "book of dragons", she had a unique understanding of history, compared to most people therefore, Lisa Keenly noticed that this wasn't a spontaneously composed poem by a bard, but a real narrative poem!
…
Perhaps this narrative poem directly unveiled the truth behind the betrayal of one of Mondstadt's s four winds the sky dragon named Dvalin, it was because in a showdown ok 100 years ago, it had been harmed by the venomous blood and after it rewakening, the people no longer worshipped it, causing it to feel forgotten by the world, If Lisa were in such a position she might also want revenge on such ignorant subjects.
Although the reason for the sky dragons actions had now been found new questions arose, Who was the green bard? Why did he know such buried facts? There were historical details that weren't even recorded in the knight of Favonius library.
The visual imagery during the recitation of the narrative poem there was a scene of Barbatos heating the call of the aneno Archon, The appearance of the anemo Archon pour some striking resemblance to the current green bard, could it be… that this bard was the envoy of the anemo Anchon.
(TN: so close, yet so far.)
Lisa's eyes brighten slightly, She felt that this hypothesis had a good chance of being correct in order to verify that they would have to see how the plot would developed next.
After the crying dispersed, the Traveler approach the barred for a conversation.
" Wait you guys are…"
"Oh, that's right! You're the ones that scared Dvalin away."
"Dvalin? Who's that?" Paimon questioned
" oh right, most people seem to call him "stormterror","
" Why do you call him that… are you two ment to be close or something?" Paimon said doubtingly.
"Oh, so close…"
After the traveller introduced herself, the green bard also mentioned his name, " I'm venti the bard"
" three times winner of the " most popular bard of Mondstadt," to be precise."
Obviously, that wasn't true, as Lisa had never even heard of such a bard, and Mondstadt never held any " most popular bard" voting events, and certainly not under current circumstances, it was likely that this guy had self proclaim that title.
"So, what do you need from me?"
"Given you recognise us, Paimon doesn't believe we need to explain any further."
" OF COURSE ITS ABOUT STORMTERROR."
"Storm…?"
"Hey! Cut it with the amnesia act!"
"Alright, show it to him"
The Traveler took out the dark red crystal, intending to show it to Venti.
However, the originally dark red crystal had now been purified into a clean aqua blue colour, Venti as well as Paimon and the Traveler were surprised by this none of them were aware when the purification process had occurred.
"Dvalin, he… the anguish he feels… has brought him to tears…"
Venti then brought out a dark red tear shape crystal of his own.
" he was once such a gentle child, now so full of rage and suffering… I also came across a teardrop crystal, Can you purify it?"
The crystal was placed into the Traveler's hand and slowly started to rise into the air while spinning, The dark red quickly transformed into an aqua blue.
"Ehhhh!?" Said paimon
" you… really do have some wonderful abilities… someone like you was going to end up getting written into a bard's poem."
" oh, a hero so bright, should she stand in the light, though stand in the shade and you'll be met by a blade…"
" Alas… i've really not got the time to compose a melody for you at this moment."
"Anyway, even if dvalin is not taken down his life, will still weather away in the breeze… he'll burn himself out in the flames of anger."
[I also feel sorry for Dvalin.]
"Thank you for that and for purifying the teardrop crystal."
" But I have my own plans for what is to follow."
"Oh? And what plan would that be?"
" Seeing this tear has brought my mind a friend, so dear."
"Friend?"
"Heh-heh, one must be going."
"Hey! where are you running off to!?"
" to the "symbol of Mondstadt's hero." Bye-bye"
And in Lisa's view the protagonist — the Traveler— was undoubtably a fabricated character by Taylor and did not exist in reality, That's why they were so exceptional, possessing so many unique powers. Could drive elemental energy without a vision, and even purify the impurities of the crystal, of course, perhaps there was some truth behind it not entirely baseless. Maybe the appearance of this Traveler was a representation of Taylor himself.
After arriving at the big tree in windrise, Venti rejected one of Lisa's previous assumptions.
"Is that so quite the scholar I must say that Lisa, she's not completely wrong. The conflict has reached this point, only because both sides have resorted to using force, his hate, however, did not arise from the people, not making tribute to the four winds, nor was it born from his own nature but instead came by as a product of his degradation."
"Degra…dation?"
" The black blood flowing through his heart, has been torturing him for years, that's what has allowed him to be let astray by the lies of the abyss mage."
The abyss mages… lies
Lisa's expression became solemn. Finally, in this mobile game they had found the reason behind Dvalin's betrayal of Mondstadt. It didn't act on its own, but on lie by the abyss order! The value that this information was for today's Mondstadt was immeasurable, moreover, if everything went as expected, Kaeya's investigation, should yield results that match the game storyline this information would then serve as evidence.
Lisa put down the phone, although she really want to continue playing. She knew that she needs to convey this new information to Jean first, Mondstadt's situation had not yet become as dire as it was in game, so there were still time before everything could unfolded.
Meanwhile, away from Taylor's mobile game cafe, which was becoming increasingly popular, and secluded and secret place far on the outskirts of Mondstadt something was stirring inside gigantic flower bud. The figure of a young man was encased, as if sealed in Amber motionless.
Suddenly green energy began to appear all around him, one after another converging towards the centre of the flower bud.
(Sound of a gust)
Accompanied by a pure gust of anemo energy, the young man's awoke, The first thing he did was stretch his body, then gently leaked out from within the open flower bud.
"Ha… it's been awhile since I slept so soundly"
The young man's body was intertwined with the green lights forming his bard attire, his pupils and the two braids hanging from his sides, admitted a brilliant emerald radiance, giving him an almost divine appearance.
The young man was none other than Barbatos who had been asleep fo about a 100 years. He can also be called by his mortal name Venti.
" It's been about 500 years since I last had such a good sleep."
The winds around him constantly, whispered to about the changes of the times. However, it wasn't the Winds of This world that had awakened Barbados. It was one of his followers, the present day Dvalin, who is currently facing a great crisis.
"Don't worry Dvalin, The last time you answered my call you saved Mondstadt, this time, it's my turn to save you."
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Inside the knights of Favonius headquarters, Kaeya was reporting the results of the mission to Jean.
"It's truly shocking acting grandmaster Jean How did you know that the temples held the source of stormterror's power?"
Kaeya asked in confusion in the past they would collect information then report it to Jean she would only then make her decisions, however this time Jean directly, provided them with information and her decisions, this sheer efficiency allowed Kaeya to quickly eliminate the source of stormterror's power. This would make stormterror a bit more manageable.
" I received the information from the game Cafe in Mondstadt," Jean replied
"A game Cafe?"
Kaeya was puzzled. It was a term he had never heard before.
"It's a long story, but I'll need you to clear the remaining sources of power in the other two temples first," Jean said
"Hey, hey acting grandmaster Jean, I just returned to Mondstadt and haven't had a chance to rest yet."
"Didn't you say earlier that the hilichurls and slimes in the temple was just a warmup for you."
"Well, uh…"
Kyah looked helpless, it seems like he dug himself into a hole, who would have thought that stormterror had to borrowed power from not just one temple, but from the other temples as well.
At this moment, the office door was lightly knocked on three times.
" Lisa is that you? come on in!"
"Jean I find vital information — The truth behind Dvalin's betrayal of Mondstadt."
Lisa got straight to the point. Kaeya was stunned, since when did Lisa have her own intelligence network?
After hearing the vital information, Kaeya was intrigued " so the reason for Dvalin's rage it's because of the corrupted blood in his heart and the lies of an abyss mage."
" Abyss mage… those vile beings…" Jean'a expression turned grave as she sat at her desk with a quiet rage in her heart and started contemplating the next course of action.
Kaeya approached Lisa, and whispered " Lisa, where did you get this information from?"
" Of course it's from the mobile game Café" Lisa replied, then cast a glance at Kaeya before heading to the bookshelf, clearly not intending to be the one to explain any further.
" Mobile game Cafe…" Kaeya muttered those three words softly soon smile crapped upon his face, it seems that something interesting that happened in Mondstadt during his absence.
In the evening perhaps as the people of Mondstadt finish their days work. There were more people coming to play the game over 30 gaming areas in the hall were already occupied with the new players eagerly interacting with those who been playing for awhile. It was starting to feel more like an Internet Café.
Eula continuously flip through her notebook, occasionally looking at the clock on the wall to calculate when certain players sessions would end, so she could let them know, although it was busy, Eula efficiently and dutifully carried out these tasks.
These players were well-off and adventurous young people, and they didn't pay much attention to Eula's identity. Those who like to discriminate against others usually didn't have a good life themselves.
In a seat next to the window, a girl with a red headband in the shape of rabbit ears was fully engrossed in playing her in-game character, You approached her with a tray, smiled and pleased a glass of orange juice on her table.
"Amber, this is a gift from my current boss."
Amber set on her game and look curiously in the direction of the Front counter.
" Who is the boss of yours? In this game I can even play as myself!"
On Amber's game, she was controlling her character. It was currently doing some idle animations.
" And it's so realistic it's almost feels as if I am controlling the real Me.
Eula smiled helplessly " I don't know either. I only started working today, but it's not just you even acting grandmaster Jean is interested in him."
Amber shrugged expire, harassing her resignation. However, in this game, she did, experience an unprecedented, novelty.
Amber was a girl who is very curious in nature. She wasn't as obsessed with advancing the games plot others instead, she was exploring the various game features one by one.
She clicked on the different options that were in the upper right corner of the interface one by one. Soon she had entered the wish interface.
Under the sky background, there was images of Jean and Ted look one, holding a single-handed steward, and the other aggress stored and printed on the banner.
[Standerd wish: Wanderlust Invocation]
[every 10 wishes is guaranteed to include at least one four-star or higher item]
[ Jean: the Dandelion knight and Diluc: The dark side of Dawn]
After brief moment of shock and her brain processing the meaning behind what she was reading, Amber loudly gasped not out of fear, but out of immense surprise!
After completing the mission to clear the temples of the four winds The four person lineup had been formed. The consisted of the Traveler with Anemo, Amber with Pyro, Kaeya with the Cryo and Lisa with Electro, essentially, almost all players, believe that these would be the four playable main characters in the game however the text was now explaining that there were many more characters than just these four.
There were even more characters able to be played, including the five star characters Diluc and Jean, Amber felt the need to share this with the rest of her gaming buddies, first shock to those reminded her and sent all the players in the area were informed.
"Amber had discovered important information."
" This game is much more than just four playable characters."
" you can even obtain acting grandmaster, Jean and Diluc!"
The game Café was instantly lit blaze with excitement.
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" previously, in the story, we saw Diluc making an appearance, but I did not expect. We could actually obtain and play Diluc."
" And acting grandmaster Jean, too! These two are five star characters they're damaged must be off the charts!"
" Regardless of the damage I'd roll for acting grandmaster Jean, even she healed the enemies!"
" I really want to know what Diluc's elemental skill and elemental burst are like."
" Diluc's elemental vision is Pyro and he uses a great sword, His combust style must be powerful."
Everyone was discussing with great excitement, and the whole area felt like there was a festival being held.
After everyone's excitement settle down in a bit, they became very eager to try their luck and hope to obtain their desired character through wishes. However, most of the people were still stuck in the story of clearing the Temples of the four winds, and as they didn't have leases, natural gaming talents, they could only afford to make one or two wishes at most, and the fastest progress they made was about three wishes.
They Impatiently use their acquaint fates for wishes.
(Genshin wishing sfx)
A streaks of blue light flashed they obtained various three star weapons.
" 3 star weapons, it's reasonable…"
"3 star catalyst, thrilling tales of dragon slayers, just hearing its name sounds strong."
" Black tassel spear… this is a polearm right? I don't think there is a polearm character yet."
" The 3 star bow, slingshot, haha I can finally equip my Amber with a better weapon."
Amber, who was sitting nearby with speechless why it feels so awkward whenever she was hearing these comments, although everyone attain three star weapons, they were quite happy because they could equip their existing characters, which was considered a good deal.
In their eyes, three star weapons were overall considered pretty powerful. After all, you could only attain them from precious chests and relied on a bit of luck.
Amber is currently had two wishes and seeing all get powerful weapons, she felt a little envious so without further ado she started wishing.
The first wish resulted in unsurprisingly blue light.
" the 3 star bow, raven bow."
Amber checked it out and find out. I had a nice appearance and was a powerful bow equipment to sufficiently increase her combat abilities.
Amber began her second wish.
Her mouth opened in surprise.
"Purple light…!"
"This is… Razor, The wolf boy."
Amber's gaming buddies noticed her stunned expression and gathered, in order to witness the new character she just obtained, Razor a 4 star character, this news, cause of stir in the hall, and everyone wanted to see this new character in action.
Amber replaced Kaeya with Razor in her team configuration, because Kaeya's damage output was relatively low, a commonly acknowledged fact, most players used him for freezing or activating the corresponding elemental monuments now her phone displayed Razor on the main screen and a crowd had formed around Amber discussing this new character.
" The Young man is called, Razor right? I don't think I've ever seen him in Mondstadt before…"
" His weapon is a great sword. He might be the first playable character that uses a greatsword."
" Amber is so lucky!"
" Amber quickly go find a Hilichurl camp and try Razor's, elemental skill and elemental burst!"
Amber was surrounded like she was a Star, and she was also very eager to see what abilities the new character has.
Upon arriving at a Hilichurl camp Amber first tried razors, normal attacks. He wielded his great sword, and with each strike felt powerful, The damage was high, but the attack speed was slower.
Pressing on the elemental skill the hilichurl in front was instantly struck down by claw and thunder, when holding down on the elemental skill, razor accumulated electro energy, darkening the sky, and then struck the ground, creating a small scale thunderstorm.
"Awesome!"
" This elemental skill, feels a little similar to Lisa's"
" Quickly, no try the elemental burst"
Finally, when the elemental energy had been fully charged, Amber immediately clicked on the Icon of the wolf head.
"Howl!"
With an aura, a purple wolf, spirit had appeared behind razor, and his attack style changed each strike was coordinated with the Wolf spirit behind him, tearing through everything in front of him.
"Wow…"
" this is too strong!"
" it feels like you're doing double damage there's attack style is too cool."
" he truly deserves to be a character, obtainable three 'wishes' he's really powerful."
"Ah, I want a Razor too!"
After watching, Amber play him, everyone returned to their seats, Diligently completing endgame tasks, earning more primogems, and hoping for a chance to roll their favourite character in their next draw.
Shortly after Lisa had just finished her report returned, as soon as she entered, she heard by Amber's new character razor.
" Well that's interesting, so Razor is Also one of the playable characters in this game." Lisa exclaimed.
" Wait Lisa, do you know Razor?" Amber was surprised because she had thought that Razor was just a fictional character. After all. No one here had mentioned encountering this young man before.
"Well of course I know him he has one of my "disciples" after all." Lisa replied.
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