The cataclysm of Khaenri'ah was a hurdle that almost no major event could escape.
When the abyss disaster broke out, Egeria was ordered to go to Khaenri'ah to suppress the abyss.
However, what no one expected was that this former Hydro Archon unfortunately perished in the upheaval, her body transforming into the pure Sea of Amrita.
The disaster soon spread across the entire continent of Teyvat.
The main threat Fontaine faced was the giant beast Elynas — the cosmic creature summoned by the "Gold" Rhinedottir.
This point was recorded in detail in Basil's diary.
Because later she would take over the position of Commander and hunt down the giant beast.
[It's Rhinedottir again]
[You really have committed many evils!]
[Isn't she Albedo's mother?]
Perhaps because of the Hydro Archon's death,
Fontaine's sea level rose rapidly.
The Narzissenkreuz Institute was about to be submerged.
The children living there had to be evacuated.
At this time, the vice director had many things to worry about.
First, Lyris, as a dependent of the Hydro Archon, had gone directly to the front lines as a first-tier combat force to fight the abyss.
Second, Basil herself was the former Navy Commander. Now that a giant beast was invading Fontaine, she had to return to the military to report for duty.
She wrote in her diary: […I hope that while I'm away, they haven't treated my dear Sponsian roughly, nor let it rust in the harbor… I hope my own wrists haven't rusted either.]
Logically speaking, under such a critical situation, there should not be so much time for sentimentality.
But [how can people have no personal feelings?]
She could not bear to see the children she had lived with day and night being so heartlessly evacuated.
With no other choice, Basil contacted her old friends.
Karl Ingold and Emmanuel Guillotin, hoping they could help think of some solutions regarding the evacuation.
These two — one was the reporter from the Siege of Poisson, and the other was the Marechaussee Hunter who had withdrawn from the Marechaussee Tribunal afterward.
[I hope everything is safe. I still want to see the sight of dough slowly rising amid the playful sounds outside the window. I still want to watch them grow up.]
[Thank you for the reminder, otherwise I would have almost forgotten. The names are really hard to remember]
[I can't stand this kind of small knife hidden in warm daily life]
The reason these people were old friends was very simple.
They had all once lived at the Narzissenkreuz Institute and had played the game of brave and evil dragon…
[So they're the first generation, huh]
[The Narzissenkreuz Institute doesn't raise idle people]
[Fontaine's designated Dragon Field, enlightenment achieved!]
In truth, Basil contacted them with selfish motives. She hoped the two could become the children's foster fathers.
After all, only by handing them over to these two could she feel at ease.
Her friends understood her hint.
Thus, Emmanuel Guillotin adopted Alain and Mary-Ann.
Rene and Jakob followed Karl Ingold and became the children of an adventurer.
Before departing, Vice Director Basil removed the bird feather from her hat.
"Jakob, you've always wanted this, right? I'll give it to you."
"But I'm only letting you hold onto it temporarily. If you dirty it, I'll get angry."
(From artifact: Wicked Sorcerer's Feather Staff)
[Red hair and Luffy, right]
Basil naturally hoped to return victorious.
But the moment she boarded the ship, she was no longer just the vice director.
She was also the captain, the commander…
In one of Fontaine's side stories, a Melusine was searching for a ship.
That was Basil's ship.
In the side story, one could still hear noisy commands.
[…Boys, girls, this is your vice dir… your captain…!]
[…Finish the last bottle of wine… Forget those annoying rules! Full speed ahead for the final charge!]
[…The impact will occur in… minutes… Estimated hull structural damage… Survival rate… 0.0000…]
[…Tell this verbose machine to shut up! I only want…! Perhaps I can cover for the boys and girls to escape as quickly as possible…]
In the final moment, Basil ordered a charge straight into Elynas to cover the escape of the other ships.
She thus slumbered in the water together with her Sponsian.
Speaking of Elynas, his original intention was not to invade Fontaine.
Just as he had told Mu Yang in the storyline.
He had simply discovered a new world and wanted to play with his new friends.
Unfortunately, every movement of his enormous body was a disaster for Fontaine.
Fortunately, Elynas did not wish to be revived, so Fontaine did not need to worry about encountering this giant beast again.
After this tragic battle, Fontaine emerged from the disaster.
The battlefield in Khaenri'ah on the front lines had also ended.
Lyris returned to the Narzissenkreuz Institute, only to find it empty.
The director, who could not understand cause and effect, did not know why her beloved children had suddenly left her.
She could not figure it out and could only wander through the ruins, filled with self-blame and anticipation…
[Ah, the director and vice director]
[I cried. She feels so wronged]
[Anyone from the Narzissenkreuz Institute could have their own brave-level story…]
[Connecting these clues together gives at least three versions. As expected of the original scholars, I bow down]
[Fontaine's storyline is amazing]
[Amazing, but fragmented. It needs someone to string it together and explain it to me, because I'm a lazy dog]
With the historical groundwork complete, next came the story of Rene and Alain, who had been adopted into different families.
Alain and Mary-Ann stayed in Fontaine.
Rene and Jakob, because Karl Ingold had become an adventurer, went together to the Sumeru Desert.
They came here to investigate the Khaenri'ah ruins underground in Sumeru.
Little Rene had already shown his genius side at this time.
He recorded in his notes:
[The properties of the Amrita Sea of Flowers are thought-provoking. The so-called Holy Lotus composition has some overlap with the bodily tissues of me and Jakob, while Uncle Karl does not have the same properties.]
Because the Amrita Sea of Flowers was transformed from Egeria, and the people of Fontaine were created by Egeria through the power of the Primordial Sea.
Their bodies contained the Primordial Sea.
And Egeria herself was born from the Primordial Sea — she was a teardrop that fell into the ocean.
[Is it really this ridiculous? So this is the beet?]
[So Karl is not a Fontaine native?]
[As expected of the Master. He had already seen through everything long ago!]
Although Rene had already noticed some differences at this time,
because the Sumeru Academy people did not allow him to collect Holy Lotuses, the matter was temporarily shelved.
As the investigation deepened, Rene also discovered that the nature of Ley Lines was the same as that of the abyss.
He thought that perhaps he could combine the records of the Khaenri'ah people to reverse-engineer the world formula…
[Wait, what happened? Did I miss a few episodes of the plot?]
[It has the humorous absurdity of a math class where the pen falls on the floor]
[I've already started to fall behind the genius's train of thought]
[Have to say, the writers' imagination is really big]