"Mhm, right! Since I have time now, Hu Tao, teach me your spear techniques quickly! (✪▽✪)"
"Oh? I didn't expect you to remember that. Alright~"
"Mhm, as payment, I'll teach you how to cook later too. (^～^)"
"Hehe~ You don't need to be so polite with this Hall Master, it makes us seem distant."
"Hahaha, let's just call it mutual help~" (Besides, Hu Tao getting better at cooking will benefit me too... at least I won't have to worry about my life anymore...)
"Mhm, then come with me~" Hu Tao jumped off the bed with a flip, put on her shoes, and then pulled Ying towards the training area...
The scene shifts to Ying...
"Why hasn't the Rite of Descension started yet... And why isn't Ying here yet... (ー△ー)"
"Uh... I heard there's still almost half an hour before it starts... How about you observe your surroundings first, Ying?"
"No, I can't be bothered to look. I just want to wait for Ying to come so I can give her a big hug~"
"Sigh... Ying, you're acting like a boyfriend who hasn't seen his girlfriend in days. Ying will surely be scared when she sees you like this..."
"She'll feel sorry for me instead, making me wait so long... (*￣з￣)"
"You... Fine, fine. I'll go take a look myself, I'll find you later~" Paimon shook her head and flew off to the side.
"Go on... Sigh~ When will Ying come... Hmm?" Ying suddenly felt something and quickly opened the Teyvat map that had mysteriously appeared earlier...
"This... This marker lit up?! Only Ying and I have this thing... What's going on? Could it be... Ying used teleportation?! If that's the case, I can feel it when she teleports... This, this... this is great! (✪▽✪)"
Ying was so happy she could have jumped.
"Hehe~ With this, I'll know Ying's general location from now on. Although I've already arrived... I really want to go find her now and walk over together. But Paimon happened to go shopping by herself, and there are so many people here, it'll definitely be hard to find her in a short time... Sigh~ This is difficult..."
Ying waited another painful half hour...
"Huh? Isn't Ying here yet? Could something have happened to her?! Σ(っ°Д°;)っ" Paimon finally found Ying in the crowd and asked in surprise when she didn't see Ying by her side.
"She's here, she's probably lost... Sigh~ It's been half an hour and she still hasn't found her way here, what a little dummy... (ー△ー)" Ying helplessly held her forehead.
"Huh? How do you know Ying is here?"
"Hmm... Explaining in detail is a bit troublesome... It's due to some special abilities~"
"Is that so... Then she really is a little dummy." Paimon nodded in agreement.
"Sigh~ Let's observe the arrival of the Geo Archon first." (And see if I can get any information about my brother...)
"Mhm, look! Lady Ningguang is starting the ritual!"
Ningguang cast a simple spell, and a beam of golden light shot out from the censer, piercing the sky and instantly illuminating the entire sky as bright as day.
Wow~ How spectacular... The Geo Archon will surely descend majestically from the sky next, right? (✪▽✪)"
Paimon's mind conjured an image of the Geo Archon clad in armor, wielding a spear, stepping on a contract stone of his representative color, and slowly descending from the heavens.
"Bang!!!"
A giant dragon suddenly fell from the sky, smashing heavily onto the censer. Everyone on Jade Chamber Terrace clearly felt the ground shake. The onlookers looked at the fallen immortal body with murmurs.
"Majestically descending... Huh? Huh?! Huh?!" Paimon's mouth hung open in shock.
"What's going on... Is that dragon their God of Geo?" Ying frowned in confusion at the strange scene, feeling that something bad was about to happen...
Ningguang quickly stepped forward to investigate. After a while, she stood up and said sternly, "The Archon has been murdered! Seal the area!" As soon as she spoke, a large number of Millelith soldiers rushed in from all the entrances.
"The Archon has been murdered... Could it be that the God of Geo... is dead... dead?!" Paimon looked at the scene unfolding before her in shock.
"Mhm... Judging by the tone of that person, it should be correct..."
"Look, the Millelith are interrogating suspicious individuals who got too close to the scene... The killer is among us... It's too terrifying... Huh? Where are you going?" Paimon quickly followed Ying's steps.
"The god might be an enemy from my past, so I can't stay here any longer... For now, let's escape."
"Right... But what about Ying? If we leave, she won't be able to find us."
"In this situation, Ying probably can't get in. Let's see if we can meet her on the way out."
(And if my guess is correct, when I use teleportation, Ying should be able to sense it too... I can just wait where I am for a while... Even if she encounters trouble and can't come, I can track her directly by her teleportation...)
"That makes sense. Let's go quickly!"
Ying and Paimon quickly reached the stairs of fate...
"The stairs are ahead, but there are Millelith everywhere... Ying, be careful, don't step on the broken bricks on the ground."
"Mhm."
Ying nodded and stepped over the broken pieces that she would have stepped on. But...
"Crack!"
A strong wind suddenly blew, and a branch happened to be blown right to Ying's feet...
"Huh?!" Ying looked at the broken branch under her feet in surprise, feeling speechless.
She felt as if she had, for a moment, understood Ying's daily encounters...
"They're here!" The Millelith soldiers nearby heard the sound and immediately looked over. Upon spotting Ying, they shouted.
"Run!" Ying immediately ran down the stairs. Just as she was about to escape further, she found that the bottom was also surrounded by Millelith, blocking her path.
"Don't move!"
"You can't escape!"
"I have to fight back... Huh?" Ying tried to summon her sword but was surprised to find she couldn't.
"What's going on? Ah..." (I forgot that the sword Ying gave me was destroyed by that despicable Scaramouche a few days ago! ≥﹏≤")
"Never mind... Just barehanded then..." Ying clenched her fists and stared sternly at the menacing Millelith soldiers. If they made any move to attack, she would immediately discover it and subdue them in advance.
"Miss, be careful and don't move~" The Eleventh Harbinger, Childe, suddenly appeared behind Ying. With a few quick shots, he precisely knocked the weapons out of the hands of the soldiers who were about to attack, and then, just like in the previous storyline, he quickly knocked them unconscious...
"Follow me."
"Who are you?" Before Paimon could finish speaking, Childe had already run down the stairs.
"Let's follow him for now. Reinforcements from above will catch up soon," Ying said as she followed Childe's footsteps.
"Oh, oh, wait for me!"
The scene shifts to Ying...