Chapter 420: Inazuma's Stalemate
Leaving Liyue, the stragglers return to Inazuma after a long absence.
Although the thunderstorm that isolated the Inazuma Sea had hindered the navigation of countless ships, it was not impassable for the steel ships made by the Fatui.
The skirmisher stood on the eaves of the ship, watching the familiar outline of the island get closer and closer, his eyes cold and indifferent.
He is not responsible for obtaining the heart of God in a specific country, but as a mobile standby, he will go wherever he is needed.
Although Inazuma is still locked in the country, with the power of the Fatui, it is not difficult to land without knowing it.
It's been a while since the lady arrived in Inazuma, and aside from the civil war that fueled Inazuma, progress in gaining the heart of the gods has been slow.
Although Thor is not as famous as the Rock King Emperor, he is also good at martial arts and has strong strength.
Once a knife carved out of the Thoughtless Blade Gorge, one of the six islands of Inazuma Island, the abundant thunder element in it has not dispersed to this day, becoming a Jedi.
With such a powerful god, it is simply unrealistic to obtain the heart of the god by force.
And Thor believes in [eternity], eternity does not seek change, that is, constancy.
No matter how hot the battle between the shogunate and Watatsumi Island is, the god who stands high above him will always be high in the clouds, and he will not take a step out of the castle tower unless necessary.
In this way, Inazuma's progress has reached an impasse.
As Thor's former creation, he also returned to this most familiar place to seize the heart of God that was the meaning of his birth.
The steamer avoided the patrol boat of the opening mansion and quietly stopped at the island of Bayu.
The Balladeers are no strangers to the island, but the last time they arrived was hundreds of years ago.
It's just that the island, which used to have a relatively normal climate, is now pouring rain and thunderstorms.
Huge raindrops fell in the sky, it was obviously daytime, but the thick clouds in the sky made it feel like night, from time to time thunderstorms exploded in the air, thick lightning struck the ground, and a depressing breath spread in the air, making people breathless.
The balladeer stood in the midst of the rain and lifted the hat on his head, the curtain on which was already wet with the rain in an instant, and the rain struck him with the wind, but he seemed to be unaware of it.
He frowned at the abnormal thunderstorm in the sky.
"What's going on here?"
The soldier behind him answered his doubts.
"In order to take revenge on the shogunate army, the people of Watatsumi Island destroyed the shrines on the island and released the gods that were originally suppressed."
The god is not really a god, but the remnants of the demon god Orobas, who was slain by Raiden Shogun with a single sword, when he died.
These remnants of the demon gods have endured for a long time, not only affecting the weather of Bayu Island, but also having a great impact on people, and long-term contact will make them delirious and look like crazy demons.
And those shrines are used to suppress the gods.
Now that the town has been destroyed, and those gods who have been suppressed for a long time have broken out, this island has become what it is today.
Hearing this, the Balladeer looked in the direction where Narukami Island was located, as if he had seen the Raiden Shogun who had closed himself off and blindfolded himself in pursuit of eternity through the layers of rain.
He sneered, and the figure disappeared into the wind and rain.
Wen Bing felt like he was going to die.
It's been more than a year since he came to Inazuma.
As a fledgling adventurer, what he loves most is to see landscapes that he has never seen before.
After reading Once Upon a Time in Snowpiercer, he developed an unparalleled passion for exploration.
He learned the operation of the Katis in the book, and set up a business to collect corpses in the afterlife, so he came to Inazuma with great interest, who often listened to other people's stories, but never visited.
He didn't think he was going to die, he just thought the business was interesting, so he wanted to follow the trend.
A year ago, he crossed the ocean and came to this country on the other side of the sea, thinking about traveling well, taking a look at the customs here, and by the way, seeing if he could develop an unforgettable love.
But I don't want to, but I can't go back.
In the beginning, Inazuma was not yet locked down, and he lived a normal life on Narukami Island for a short time, visiting the Narukami Shrine and the huge sacred cherry tree.
After that, he traveled by boat to island after island, Narukami Island, to Kannatsuka, Yatsumi Island, Watatsumi Island, and even Tianyun Pass, except for the Tsurukan, which was too far away, he had been to all these islands.
But then he was not satisfied with this way and began to go deep into the islands.
At that time, he was exploring alone in the wilderness, unaware of the promulgation of Inazuma's lockdown decree.
Not only that, but the shogunate also began to confiscate the Vision of the God.
He is not the owner of the Vision, and it stands to reason that this kind of misfortune should not be implicated in him.
However, since the lockdown order, Inazuma has been in turmoil, and the rebels of Watatsumi Island have taken advantage of the chaos to rise up and break out numerous wars with the shogunate.
War has always been brutal and unscrupulous to achieve its ends, and with the Fatui fishing in troubled waters, the situation in Inazuma is particularly chaotic.
It's fanciful to think that you can escape war in the wilderness, and there is something more terrifying than monsters in the wilderness, and that is the many wandering samurai who have fallen into the grass.
These sea rebels are comparable to the Treasure Thieves, these people have focused on martial arts since they were children, not to mention their strength, and most of them are ruthless and vicious people who can become samurai.
In order to escape the war, he fell into the hands of these sea rebels twice in a row, and all the money on his body was wiped out, which saved his life.
After that, the heart of the Mikage furnace exploded, and the terrifying energy of the gods spread, and he wanted to return to Narukami Island, but there was no Mora on his body, and Inazuma had extremely strict control over outsiders, so he couldn't go to Narukami Island at all.
Narukami Island couldn't go, so he had to follow the coastline to the other side, trying to get to Yatsumi Island, and then from Yatsumi Island to Watatsumi Island, the headquarters of the rebels, where there was a coral palace, and it would be safer after all.
The road to Yatsuki Island was quite smooth, because the production of the Mikage furnace was discontinued, so that Scarlet Village received a large number of workers who were wandering due to the suspension of production, and he mixed in with it, but also lived in Scarlet Village temporarily.
As an island sandwiched between the two sides, he knew very well that the island was not safe.
But the good times didn't last long, and before he could figure out how to get on the rebels' car to Watatsumi Island, Yatsumi Island underwent a huge change.
The first is the abnormal weather, which turned into non-stop thunderstorms.
In addition to thunderstorms, there is also a heart-wrenching energy spreading across the island.
Many people in the village began to go insane, and not only that, but with the non-stop rains, the epidemic began to spread.
Without sunlight, crops began to die, and food became scarce.
He had heard that the reason for this was that the town that suppressed the gods had been destroyed.
But as for which side sabotage, there is no way to know.
Neither the shogunate nor the rebels wanted to live or die.
(End of chapter)