"Wow! It's Dainsleif! How did you end up in Liyue too?"
Going back to earlier today, Paimon and Lumine were bustling about the streets when they were suddenly drawn to someone walking towards them. Paimon recognized the person and immediately went up to greet him familiarly.
Dainsleif heard someone call his name and looked over in confusion: "Hmm? So it's the Traveler and Paimon. You've come to Liyue as well."
"We've been here for a while now," Lumine said, walking over.
Dainsleif looked at Lumine, who was carrying several bags: "You seem to be busy?"
"We're helping to prepare for the Rite of Descension."
"Rite of... Descension." Dainsleif looked up at the dimly visible golden-domed building in the distance, then snorted coldly: "Hmph, even a bedrock, after a thousand years of erosion, will only be left with a riddled body. Is the god of this ancient nation truly still worthy of people's worship?"
He looked down again at the bags in Lumine's hands, filled with various items: "It's a waste of manpower and resources. Under the rule of the Geo Archon, how far can Liyue truly go? And how long can the Geo Archon rule this nation?"
"You can say that to us, but don't just grab someone on the street and say it casually."
"Lumine's right, we're afraid you'll get beaten to death by Liyue citizens."
Facing Lumine and Paimon's complaints, Dainsleif merely closed his eyes, crossed his arms, and said nothing.
Paimon then asked, "We've answered your questions, so what about you? What are you doing in Liyue?"
Dainsleif looked up, staring directly in the direction of the Northland Bank: "Looking for someone."
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Back to the present, Orion rubbed his forehead helplessly.
This Abyss crazy guy wouldn't really come looking for Childe, would he?
Speaking of which, there's a segment of Dainsleif's storyline after the Liyue plot, which seems to start with the Treasure Hoarders setting up some kind of "Nanchangjie, Northern Strange Bird" to steal things from the Abyss Order, but the start time of that quest should still be far off.
So Childe won't be blocked at his door by Dainsleif for over a month, will he?
If it's that dark, what's the point of playing?
A moment later, Lumine, having rested enough, rolled over and raised her arms towards Orion: "Carry me."
"Carry you for what?"
"I don't want to walk, carry me into the room."
"You're so lazy you might as well die, you don't even want to walk these two steps?"
"My shoes are full of sweat, I don't want to wear them."
Is that so? That's quite something then.
"I'll make you a few pairs of slippers," Orion said, still picking Lumine up. He nodded to Jean and the others, indicating he'd be back soon, then carried Lumine into Lumine and Paimon's bedroom.
As soon as they entered the room, they saw Paimon sleeping sprawled out on the bed. Orion had just put Lumine down on the bed when Lumine immediately pushed Orion's face away with a kick: "No more kissing, no more kissing. If we kiss, you definitely won't be able to control yourself. Go quickly and accompany Jean, don't wake Paimon up later."
After saying that, she rolled over, hugged Paimon, and closed her eyes, ready to sleep.
"Take a bath before you sleep."
"Oh, I'll just nap for a bit, I'll get up and shower in half an hour."
"You'll be filthy."
"I don't smell bad, don't you like fragrant sweat?"
"Then, shall I come?"
"No, no, no! Please, Master, I'll help you drink porridge tomorrow morning, let me rest today! I ran a round trip from Liyue Harbor to Qingce Village!"
Finally, after helping Lumine take off her clothes and using a marvelous ability to clean her entire body on the bed, Orion returned to the living room once Lumine was sound asleep.
Skirk and Noelle had already gone to sleep, only Jean remained.
Orion picked Jean up horizontally without a word. Jean gasped but quickly calmed down.
She was a strong woman, and even after so many times, she still wasn't used to being carried, so she changed the subject: "You and Skirk, still nothing?"
"What kind of question is that? Do I look like a lustful fiend?"
"Yes, exactly. That's how I described you in the letter I wrote to Miss Ningguang."
Orion's eyes widened as he looked at Jean. No, sister, my first impression in Tianquan's heart was ruined by you!
However, he suppressed his thoughts and asked another question: "You came to find me because you have something to say, right? If it were a private girl talk, you wouldn't have appeared so eagerly. Did something happen in Mondstadt?"
"Yes, and it concerns you."
"What is it? Tell me."
Jean didn't speak, but instead wrapped her jade arms around Orion's neck: "When I tell you depends on your performance."
Orion opened Jean's door without a word: "Then you'll only tell me when you're begging for mercy."
Half an hour. Just half an hour later, Orion got the information he wanted.
It's hilarious, they say the White Tiger governs slaughter, but I haven't seen you defeat my Giant Spider, have I?
And that information indeed concerned Orion. Because the Fatui Harbinger, the 'Lady', had been missing for a long time, the Fatui dispatched a new Harbinger to Mondstadt, targeting Venti's Gnosis.
Orion looked at Jean, who was flustered, and felt confused.
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Didn't Venti's Gnosis already go to Rosalyne? Why didn't she take it back to the Snezhnaya Empress?
Ah! A patch!
Orion quickly looked inward, checked the single rooms where the goddesses were, then closed his eyes tightly.
He forgot to release The Lady.
That night, a few meteors still streaked across the night sky. As more and more people fell into a deep sleep, the official bodies of Liyue and Mondstadt had long since begun rescue operations.
Falling from the sky was someone's Constellation.
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The next morning, Orion, who woke up early, returned to Mondstadt City with Jean. The melodious Liyue BGM around Orion had also, for the first time in a while, switched back to the Mondstadt version.
Listening to the change in Orion's BGM, Jean rarely showed a thoughtful expression.
"Last night, this 'background music' thing around you suddenly changed to a song I hadn't heard before."
"You haven't heard it? Hum a few lines for me to hear."
"It was like... 'You pluck the pipa and play the zither strings, I sit before the actor's stage.' Something like that."
That should be the skill [Mount] EX taking effect.
Orion stroked Jean's head: "It's nothing, don't mind it. Your ability has awakened. Now, for everything in Teyvat that can be ridden, as long as you ride it, you'll 100% know how to control it. Find a horse and try it sometime."
After bidding farewell to Jean, Orion, for the first time in a while, went to the Mondstadt Cathedral to lift a curse. Before leaving, he learned a shocking piece of news from Rosaria.
The recent meteor shower that streaked across the sky had truly landed on the soil of Mondstadt, and everyone who touched the meteorites had fallen into a coma.
Orion knew this was the plot content of version 1.1's quest, The Approaching Star. It roughly tells the story of an ancient Mondstadt Adventurer who failed to conquer Cape Oath, but to allow future generations to conquer more of nature, he invented the wind glider.
The meteorites falling from the sky were fragments of this person's Constellation, and once someone touched a meteorite, they would fall into a deep sleep, constantly climbing Cape Oath in their dreams.
And to solve this incident, the destination was also very clear.
Early Mondstadt's environment was very harsh, with towering snow mountains everywhere. Later, after Venti was crowned and ascended to godhood, he rectified the natural environment several times. He used wind blades to cut off all the higher altitude mountains at their waists, then a gust of wind blew them to the center of the sea, forming the Golden Apple Archipelago.
This is also why modern Mondstadt only has some hills and no high mountains.
And this so-called Cape Oath was also cut by him, casually thrown eighty nautical miles away to become the current Musk Reef, and the core meteorite of this Adventurer's Constellation is in Musk Reef!
No, it's not Cape Oath, it's the "Pointy Hat Peak"!
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