142 - Exhibition match
Wendy dares to say it, and Sora dares to believe it.
The two of them are at the top of the star-picking cliff, waiting for the end of the story.
Dvalin arrived as promised.
As in the past, even though His temper is explosively bad now, as long as Wendy calls Him, He will always come.
"Barbatos!"
The wind dragon only has gods in his sight.
"Long time no see, Dvalin." Wendy waved hello with a warm smile on her face.
Rubbing his chin with one empty hand.
He had been busy in Mondstadt for some time, and of course knew that Mondstadt had suffered a lot because of the troubles caused by Dvalin.
It's fine to say it's a conspiracy of the Order, but the actual perpetrator is Dvalin.
But so far, the Order's choice has been to save.
The Knights chose to suffer this loss, not because of Dvalin's identity as the Dragon of the East Wind, but because Wendy said that Dvalin was just on the wrong path.
God said that the dragon had gone the wrong way, and that he had been misled.
He's just going down the wrong path, don't go any further, and pursue it.
It can only be that they are on the wrong path, and it will definitely not be Dvalin who will pay the price if they continue, but only the Knights.
Wendy doesn't have to be responsible.
He was a God, not a judge, and in some ways he was biased before Dvalin and the people of Mondstadt.
After all, it was only a few Mondstadt people who were injured or even killed as a result.
As long as the overall damage of the Mondstadt people is not great, in the heart of the Wind God, it will be biased towards the Wind Dragon.
"Vanessa······· They are mortal after all. ”
Sora muttered in a low voice.
Paimon touched her head, and some question marks floated around, but she didn't ask, as Wendy's communication with Dvalin had entered a somewhat argumentative phase.
She remembered interrupting Wendy's plan when she showed up earlier, and then the other party glared at them viciously, and even used this to make them work for the people of Mondstadt.
Paimon didn't want to suffer a second loss.
Empty has no words.
He flipped through the records of the Mondstadt Library, not curious about Barbatos, of course, but tracking down the so-called Kanria.
But the writing of the people of Mondstadt is such that anything can be turned to the god of wind.
In the long millennia between millennia, Wendy was not without human friends.
Unfortunately, humans are only human beings after all, their lifespan is limited, and you may only have an occasional sound sleep when you make friends with them, and wake up to find that it is the next era.
They have long since entered another world permanently.
So God can't love a specific person, they can only love the human community.
The sense of sacrifice of the group is very strong, and the number of sacrifices within a certain range can almost be equivalent to nothing happening.
That was the case in Dvalin.
Wendy doesn't love people, and she doesn't really think Dvalin is completely innocent, but he's not an emotionless machine.
Within some acceptable losses, Dvalin is more important than the Mondstadts.
Sora has no expression.
It wasn't the first time he'd realized it.
When they travel the world, they also meet a lot of interesting friends.
But often after you say goodbye to the other person, you probably won't see each other again.
Being friends with someone means that you will enjoy the pleasure of traveling together, as well as the distress of being implicated because of the other person, and the painful fact that you will inevitably be separated in the end.
Generally speaking, happy memories are far less abundant than painful places.
So Sora usually avoids unnecessary communication with too many people.
Including Paimon, the only trouble is that Paimon looks lonelier than he is.
Sora occasionally wonders if Paimon really won't be able to survive without him.
It's not that he can't see that Paimon has a problem, but this path is too lonely after all, and it just so happens that she is also alone.
Even if there is any trouble involved, it is within the scope of responsibility.
Two people who are alone will have a lot less trouble when doing things.
Because they don't care about anything.
The only bottom line for the empty is Ying, but now he doesn't even know Ying's life and death fight, saying that he was taken away by the gods, but in fact, he also pushed it back from himself.
After all, he is still alive, so his sister, who is equal to his value, was humanely disposed of by that god for no reason.
If someone jumps out at this time and tells Sora that your sister's life is in my hands, and if you want to save her life, you have to do what you have to do, and Sora will be happy if you don't do it.
This at least proves that Ying is still alive, not now, and there is no useful information at all.
For Wendy, it should only get worse.
At least Sora never felt like he needed to sleep to relieve his troubles.
"In the history of Mondstadt, Barbatos has always been asleep from time to time, only appearing when trouble comes."
"It's not Wendy's nature."
Paimon was interested.
She was actually more interested in gossip than in the dialogue between the dragon and the poet.
"How so? Tell me about it! ”
She floated in front of the void.
"If he is so fond of drinking and poetry, if he only intends to give freedom to the people of Mondstadt, he can change his identity and continue to walk the land of Mondstadt."
"Look at Amber's enthusiastic idiot, she really doesn't doubt it at all when you say you're a traveler." ”
There is no such thing as an identity census in Mondstadt.
Even if you're not from Mondstadt, you say you're a traveler, and you're treated as normal by the Order.
"We were accidental, and if we weren't forced to fight Dvalin as soon as we entered Mondstadt, I suspect the Knights wouldn't have paid attention to me at all······ Not necessarily. ”
Sora glanced at Paimon and said thoughtfully, "If there was Paimon, there would probably be no way to keep a low profile." ”
The small float is still very special, only this one, and there is no semicolon.
"So in the future, all the means of stealth and camouflage will not be used."
With Paimon's external features, no one really thinks they're disguised by wearing a mask, right?
Wouldn't it, wouldn't it? You're changing your clothes!
Sora was very happy.
He has had great power for a long time, and even if he really infiltrated, he would end up in an assassination attempt by Mushuang.
It's a matter of pure habit.
Before he was stopped urgently, he was good at encountering enemies and troubles that needed to be dealt with in a low-key manner.
"How so!" Paimon pinched his waist with both hands.
Sora stretched out his hand to soothe the little mascot, but halfway through his hand, he looked at the other side.
"After listening to it for a long time, I still can't hold back?"
He held the bladeless sword in his backhand, and his expression was cold, "I knew that you would always have to make trouble." ”
Appearing several times in Wendy's description, the man behind the real Panther Dry Brother state.
Abyssal mage of the Abyss Order.
The other party has been doing things for so long, and it is impossible to really let Wendy complete the rescue like this.
Sora is also waiting for the Order's movements.
After chatting for a long time, I finally caught the other party's movements.
The etiquette of a warrior is to meet and open up, and Sora does not hesitate to incite the elemental power to converge into a tornado.
This is a natural means of activating elemental forces.
With Sora's experience, give him a little bit of any kind of extraordinary power, and he can play with flowers very quickly.
You can't really use a physical flat A, right? Obviously, he can freely control the wind elemental power.
Unlike Genshin Impact, Sora does not need external organs, and his body is indeed capable of carrying the flow of elemental power.
The explosion of Rosalyn's sacrifice five hundred years ago was like sprinkling water in the empty space, and it was completely unable to pose a threat to his body.
If it weren't for this kind of physical fitness, he really wouldn't have been able to withstand the challenges of Dragon Plague and Tartaglia in the early days.
It's quite resistant.
A familiar laugh almost made Sora hold back.
In his life experience, the average person who dares to laugh like this ends up very badly.
The Abyss Mage propped up his shield, and even had the mind to take a dozing position in the shield.
To be true is to know how to provoke a person.
The empty eyebrows are slightly raised, increasing the output of elemental power.
Each world has its own core rules, and unless you're strong enough, you'll have to succumb to the underlying logic of the world.
The reaction of the elements is the core rule of Teyvat, and Sora has long understood this truth in the battle with the monsters.
It's like this damn elemental shield.
In the normal world, of course, it is impossible for Ray Slime to resist Thor's unintentional knife, and the Sky Movement Vientiane should be stoned to death, and the Rock Slime can still be stoned to death.
However, the core logic of the Elemental Shield can only be offset by using the elements, and the same elements can be the same, but it is really not as fast as slashing with a great sword.
The effect of using the Wind Elemental Elemental Shield to break the ice······ It's probably the same as scraping it with a knife, maybe for an hour or two, and the shield will be scratched.
Sora pinched his nose and reached out and pulled out an alchemy bomb.
Fortunately, in addition to the well-blown blow, the dyeing mechanism of the wind element is also the underlying logic recognized by the Teyvat world.
The mage laughed for a long time and found that the man had dropped a bomb.
Mage: Is it funny? You are a one-handed sword, why do you still have bombs?
The abyssal mage's surprise attack was completely in anticipation, and he made all kinds of preparations, no matter what shield mage the other party came, it would have to die today.
The only problem is······ How is it just one?
Wendy and I played up our emotions for a long time, as if everyone was about to part with life and death, and you came to a mage?
Perform?
Eula, who was crouching near the Star Picking Cliff in advance, was also full of question marks.
What they expected was that before they could start calling the dragons over, the Order would be overwhelmed.
Abyss mages, hilichurls, and all kinds of monsters are charging wildly just to be able to smash Wendy's plan.
They don't even need to succeed, even if it's just splashing their own blood on Wendy's body, it's a very effective attack.
After all, Dvalin's state is very wrong, and it may only take a small spark to directly detonate all the problems.
However, the reality is that there is an abyss mage, and it has not yet moved before it can be defended by the air.
What about me?
Am I not going to need to come forward?
It seems that Mondstadt is truly saved, but if I don't come forward, how can I ask the Anemo God?
Thinking of this, Eula still didn't hold back.
In order to solve the shackles on Lawrence's head, Eula made many attempts, but the result was, of course, useless.
There are not only villains and decencies in a story, and people like Jean can't give Eula a fair treatment, and Eula's own attempts are even more insignificant.
She is not a villain, but a knight of justice, but what the people give her is not justice.
It's a pity that even Eula herself can only grit her teeth and admit it, and she can't generate more emotions.
If someone can reverse evil and justice, no, it doesn't need to be reversed, it just needs to end things completely, then that person can only be the god of wind.
Speaking of Songlai, Eula started the charge.
Sora moved out of the way and gave up the chance to defend himself to Eula.
Eula's idea is simple, nothing more than to do something and try to get Wendy to give the oracle.
It doesn't have to forgive Lawrence, this kind of oracle Wendy won't give it, and he, a god who has completely given up his right to rule, won't give some kind of coercive order.
It's more likely, perhaps, to let the matter about Lawrence end there.
Perhaps a little more will be given up, and then the trial that began thousands of years ago will be declared completely over.
But is there anything else Lawrence can part with?
Sora glanced at Eula, but still didn't say anything.
Even Amber's tolerance limit is only for Eula to be fair, which shows what the preconceptions about Lawrence are like in Mondstadt.
This is no longer something that anyone can modify, even if the next wind god is a member of the Lawrence family, it will take at least ten years to clean up this matter.
It's not that hard to do, it's nothing more than a Spring and Autumn penmanship to revise history, pass the buck to Lawrence's faults, or simply not admit it.
Then let Lawrence be the core of the knights or the next ruler, and in the face of power, how much hatred will quickly dissipate.
But Lawrence couldn't have had that chance.
Even if Wendy chooses a cat from the side of the road as her heir, there is no way she will give up the seat of the god of wind to the Lawrence.
What's more, this is Mondstadt of freedom.
The people here are really loose, and freedom is really free.
Although, according to the perception of emptiness, all the pursuit of freedom can be stifled with blood and sword.
But herein lies the problem, a group of people who have the power to stifle the popular quest for freedom, whether it is the Knights or the gods, they are all supporters of free will.
"Run." Sora whispered, "This is the only way out for you and you. ”
But even if he leaves Mondstadt, who will need Lawrence?
Sora shook his head, not paying attention.
The only thing he could do was give Eula this opportunity to show his face in front of Wendy.
What's more, his relationship with Eula is less concerned about the other's plight.
Sora's situation wasn't much better, and he hadn't even found a useful part of the news from Ying, not even Kanria's news.
Self-parachute is already the best choice.
This is not Jean's idea, the opportunity to show her face in front of the god of wind was given to Eula, her conduct is excellent after being recognized by the Knights, except for the occasional "I have written down this hatred", Eula is a real knight.
Let such a person be embarrassed by the question of origin and surname, Qin can't bear it.
It's a pity that she can't solve it either.
Prejudice is a difficult problem to solve, and Jean can give Eula some justice, but everyone in Mondstadt hates Lawrence's last name so much, and she can't do anything about it.
It's up to the gods to decide.
She is always like this, she is too gentle with her own people, so she is easy to be caught by the Order.
Null continues to be vigilant.
When it comes to solving problems, he still believes that Wendy won't lie.
Since the bard dares to come here with a piano, as long as there are no variables, there should be a chance to solve the problem once and for all.
How likely it is, this is something that Wendy is responsible for.
And not letting the variables appear, that's what Null should be dealing with.
"Is there really no second mage?" Paimon lay on top of Sora's head, cautiously surveying his surroundings.
"There should be······· It shouldn't be. ”
I couldn't figure it out.
Evil Organizations··· Well, that's it?
It can't be.
He was also ruthless in order to corrupt Dvalin before, why did he send a mage to stabilize the situation at such a critical time now?
It's not very strong, I threw a few alchemy bombs and broke the shield and was hung up and beaten.
Eula is more experienced in this area than Sora.
She has an Ice Elemental Vision, her main output is still a physical attack, and she is even more powerless against the Elemental Shield system, which she has accumulated enough experience when she was out on a safari in Mondstadt.
Like all kinds of alchemy products, she is far more well-prepared than Sora.
By the time Sora looked over, Eula was about to cut off the other's head.
After losing the elemental shield, the abyss mage's manipulation of elemental power still bought it a lot of time, but at the moment, Eula only wanted to perform well in front of the wind god, and she was completely fighting for her life.
This is the most inappropriate way to fight Eula.
She studied the swordsmanship of the west wind, not a knight, but a clan swordsmanship practiced by the nobles of the family.
In addition, because of Lawrence's surname, Eula spent the year hunting in the wild.
It's certainly impossible to fight for your life when you're alone, and it's usually guerrilla, constantly weakening the enemy and then killing them with one blow to ensure that you're in as good shape as possible.
Just desperately, a few lives are not enough.
But now it's a different story.
Like the beast, the audience doesn't want to see your exquisite skills and fighting skills, they just want to see the blood flowing.
The flow of blood is the process, the priority of the performance is to be bloody and cruel enough, and the technique is the inferior thing.
On the other hand, Eula has already treated this fight as an exhibition match.
What she wants is not to kill the mage, but to show her fearlessness and strength as a knight in the process.
Strength is far less important than chivalry, you have chivalry to impress the piano, and maybe even the wind god.
These two people eat this set.
But you just have the strength······ What kind of strength can make the wind god look sideways?
He's a pendulum, but not incompetent.
(End of chapter)