Ch9

" let's go get breakfast together I'm not busy right now"

" Please don't worry Taylor I'm not hungry right now," Eula replied.

" Maybe not but I am," Taylor handed 10,000 mora to Eula. " go to the good Hunter and get two fisherman's toasts and two delicious grilled tiger fish… feel free to buy whatever you want with the rest of the money."

" Alright Taylor, thank you kindly."

With Diluc's example of spending other players couldn't resist the temptation and rush to recharge varying amounts for Primogems.

In the hall, occasional shout of excitement could be heard, Some people got their desire characters and were so thrilled they danced around, all pulled five star weapons immediately leveling them up and went to test their damage on monsters.

Some didn't get any 5-stars but got new 4-star characters in their 10 pull, eagerly testing their abilities and damage.

For while the atmosphere in the game Café was very lively and harmonious.

Taylor stood behind the bar area watching the scene with a smile on his face. In front of him the system interface display that the accumulated recharge amount had reached 15 million Mora.

Taylor could withdraw it as usable Mora, or use it directly to purchase other items from the system or participate in more lotteries, he gained the power of the Herrscher of Thunder and was currently adapting and improving, so he didn't feel the need to participate any more lotteries right now.

Taylor intended to use this money to purchase more content for the game, including the new character, Venti and more storyline's, making GenshinImpact into the real version 1.0, currently The person progressing the fastest in the storyline was Lisa, who was about to enter the second act of the prologue.

The content of the current version stopped there however, the resources Taylor purchased for the new version can't just be directly added into the existing game they need to Undergo a full round of testing in the "beta test server" to make sure they wouldn't be significant bugs to worry about primarily just fine tuning details and making some changes to the story.

Taylor, wanted it to align with the mainstream perspective of this world so the testing process was necessity.

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[purchased resources to complete version 1.0 for 1 million Mora, do you wish to continue] the system prompted.

'Confirm.'

Though it was a freshly acquired 1 million mora Taylor had no hesitation and spending. It was a very lucrative investment after all, and when the game became one spread all over Tayvat he wouldn't be surprised if he spent over 100 million mora without hesitation.

Moreover, his goal wasn't going to be just Mondstadt when the story progress to Liyue, he would open up a shop there, capitalising on the data resources he acquired.

With The data resources in hand, Taylor took out his exclusive phone and began testing.

In the store, no one knew that Taylor was already experiencing the contents of the brand-new soon to be updated version.

…

Meanwhile, on a cliff a bit away from Mondstadt.

The best man bowed respectfully to the figure before him.

" my prince, there have been an unexpected obstacle in converting the the dragon Dvalin into a war weapon."

"What obstacle…?" The man turned his head with indifference. Perhaps due to some unspeakable experiences, appeared incredibly aged, despite his youthful appearance.

" It's the knight of Favonius." The abyss mage replied. " For some reason, they seem to have gained advanced information of our plans in the four winds temples and have successfully destroyed the nodes."

" furthermore than anemo Archon, Barbatos has returned during this period and has already attempted to awaken Dvalin's self will."

" Barbatos huh.." the man said, " unless he's willing to take up the mental for the dragon once more, he won't be able to achieve anything now."

" as for the Knights of Favonius, they probably just stumbled upon it by coincidence, This shouldn't have any major impact in our plans.

The abyss mage bowed and then disappeared on the spot. The man just continued to stand on this cliff.

He closes eyes scenes, seemed to flash in the back of his mind, as though they happen just yesterday. In Celestia the unknown God declared the end of their journey, The two siblings were each sealed by the scarred, falling into a deep slumber, filled with nightmares. As the brother, he awakened in the "darkness" witnessing more of the "truth" of this world.

" Lumine, you should be embarking on your own journey soon…"

…

South of Mondstadt and north of Liyue, at the border between these two nations was mostly uninhabited wilderness, with towering mountains and beasts and monsters, roaming freely with the sole exception being the pass.

The every day people Could find themselves deeply lost with no idea how long it would take to get back to the road through the environment was treacherous It wasn't impossible for this young girl to survive as she had endured conditions 10 times harsher than this and even though she had lost all her powers now, she still possessed the underlying strength that wouldn't allow her to be easily beaten by monsters and animals.

She had a walk-in, not too long ago, but felt like she had missed out on a lot of things. Her brother was no longer by her side either which saddened her greatly, so she had to wonder this wilderness alone, familiarising herself with this strange World.

For the past few days she had been eating cooked lean meat but today she wanted to try something different, Lumine arrived at a riverbank with a DIY fishing rod to catch some fish.

In no time, the fishing rod was pulled on as if she had caught a big fish, Lumine lifted the fishing rod but was surprised.

What was the soft white thing?

"Phew, that was close! Paimon almost drowned thank you for saving paimon!" The little white creature wiped the water out of it's eyes while expressing relief.

Lumine rubbed her chin, feeling somewhat puzzled she picked up the little white creature and examined it closely as if apraising an known treasure.

" Can you eat this thing…?"

…

"Taylor, I've brought all the meals you requested" Eula placed the bank full of food on the table still emitting it's warmth and fragrance.

" wonderful, you've worked hard" Taylor said with a faint smile.

In these short few days, Eula had been working diligently, and she felt genuinely happy when Taylor praised her. She didn't even know what to come over her as she was starting to find immense satisfaction in this new work of hers.

" Hey Taylor, are you playing the mobile game today?"

"Yea can you operate it for awhile? I'm gonna have my breakfast now."

Eula Took Taylor's phone and with some slightly awkward movements begin to move around with the characters however, she very quickly noticed something odd.

" Taylor, I've never seen this character named Venti before?"

" it's a character I plan release in the New version update."

" New version update?" Eula was shocked. " Taylor are you saying there's gonna be continuous updates to this mobile game in the future?"

" Naturally, Mondstadt It's just the beginning, there's still Liyue, inazuma, Sumeru just to name some."

Taylor's grand vision left Eula in awe.

"Oh and by the way, don't let anyone ever see the contents of my test server!"

Taylor whispered this reminder to Eula.

Eula nodded with absolute seriousness, she took a sip of her orange juice and focused on the mobile game, However, an unusual emotion started surging with her.

' Taylor actually asked me to do something like this, logically speaking, this content hasn't been publicly released yet and should remain confidential and only highly trusted individuals would be trusted with such task, right?

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On a small hill, just outside the city, fan stood there happily, gazing at it.

"Ah… it's just as beautiful as I remember it."

The windmills slowly turned on the outline of the cathedral, stood tall at the highest point in the city.

Over the past few days, he tried to talk to his friend Dvalin but the abyss order was keeping a close watch over him and since his divine power had been constantly dwindling since his reawakening, it would not be wise to directly confront them at the moment So Venti thought about the heroes of this era.

In Mondstadt there must be brave Warriors for hearts, full of passion, who could aid him in defeating the abyss mages and cleanse Dvalin of the cursed blood.

500 years for a god it wasn't a particularly long time however, for mortals, it was the passage of generations in order to understand the current era's situation, the most convenient and quickest way was to use his identity as a bard.

Venti had done the several times before the last time monster was still surrounded with the decay of the old nobility, and a warrior hero named Vanessa emerged, opening up a new future in that era.

This time, who would become the new protagonist of his songs and ballads.

"Mondstadt, prepare yourself for the worlds greatest bard to arrive."

…

"Think you can get away!"

On the mobile screen, Venti condensed, a powerful Anemo elemental Arrow in his bow The moment he released it a massive Wind sphere formed and the monsters nearby we're all pulled in helplessly.

Because there were also torches nearby, the sphere took on the attributes of Pyro.

A few seconds later, after the wind sphere went away, there was only monster drops left in the area.

" so powerful?!" Eula knew that her understanding of the game was not as deep as leases, but even from her intuitive experience of playing with the character, she could tell this venti an anemo vision bearer was without question an incredibly strong, five star character.

After Lisa's explanation more and more players began to pay attention to their character stats through, became roughly 3 category of players, those focus on the story, those focused on strength, and those focused on aesthetics.

Story focus players did everything to advance the plot. They knew that everything in this mobile game had a close relation to the real world Mondstadt of course to efficiently advance the main storyline, they would also strengthen their characters to start an extent Lisa was a shining example of this group.

The strength focus players were mostly interested in their characters statistics, and we're very passionate about disgusting and researching which character was the strongest. Currently The widely acknowledged meta is that the five star character Diluc is the strongest main DPS in the game, the saying " pyro claymore user OP!" Had become a saying that started circulating among the group of players. Some were trying to develop the four star characters, but since they only just recently started playing the game and resources were very scarce, progress in this area was slow and the value of some four star characters had not yet been unearthed.

And the aesthetic focused players only cared about their own personal preference of characters for example, many people had a strong admiration for Jane, not hesitating to spend every mora they had to get her.

If she had to classify herself into one of these categories, you felt she belong to the strength focused group, weather in the real world or in the game, one had to be strong enough to face any difficulty or challenge.

After trying Venti skills, Euler recognise that this character, who could grip monsters together would undoubtably become a must have character for the strength focused players on release, however, for the aesthetic and story, focus players, he might be more of an optional choice, because so far, it seemed that this bar named Venti could not be found in the real world.

With these thoughts in mind, you will open the counter panel under Venti character introduction. There is a sentence to cut her attention, " one of the many bard of Mondstadt who freely wonders the city streets and alleys."

Then she opened to Venti elemental skill, The elemental skill was named, "skyward sonnet" and had both a tap and hold difference, which Eula already tried.

[in the days, when the gods and men walked the Earth together, the heavens were filled with countless songs. This melody has long since been forgotten.]

It appeared. This part had quite the background as it mentioned a "melody that has long sense been forgotten" which is something people of this era wouldn't know.

The name of his elemental burst was quite impressive too called [winds grand ode]

[Fires of an arrow made of Countless coalesced winds Creating a huge storm that sucks in opponents and deals, continuous anemo damage]

[many hymns written in praise of the anemo archon Have been lost to time, this one sings of his mastery over the wind.]

All this lure seems to highlight the extraordinary nature of the barn, combined with his knowledge of stormterror in the main storyline, Eula became even more certain of her thoughts.

At this moment, Taylor had finished eating his breakfast and returned to the front desk.

Due to the Ascension of his life level, the amount of food he no need to consume, also increased this unfortunately enough with gradually diminished as a gained greater control over his Herrscher core.

" so how is It's Playing with the new character?"

" he has a strong ability to crowd control enemies greatly improving combat efficiency."

Eula pulled her hair back behind her ear and asked, " Taylor wants the identity of this character. It seems like in his skill descriptions. It indicates a deep understanding of the anemo Archon."

Oh, Taylor smiled faintly, turned to look at the players in the hall, and then said to Eula " go out and purchase this bunch of ingredients for me according to what is written on this list and when you come back I'll tell you."

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After her explanation about the "constellations" Lisa had been hailed as the number one expert in the gaming community. Many people had questions about the game and wanted to consult Lisa, but seeing her sitting there, focused on playing the game they didn't dare disturb her for now, so they could only hope that Lisa would be able to provide them more insights when she took a break.

For Lisa herself she did not mind sharing her understandings of the game. After all she had a great interest in this mobile game as well, but right now, she had a "mission" to accomplish, so she need to accelerate the progression of the plot.

Earlier she had received confirmation from Kaeya only events in this game, corresponded to real world situations after the " Eagle of the west" temple was cleared the Knights of Favonius I take advantage of this momentum to clear out the other two temples as well. Dvalin had significantly reduced his activity outside the city, as it had lost Some sources of power.

All of this was because she had experienced the corresponding storyline in the game in advance, allowing Jean to make a more informed decision, in reality thr problem of Dvalin had been alleviated, and in the game, the beginning the rescue plan for Dvalin.

The wandering bar, Vante, whom Lisa suspected, was an envoy of the anemo Archon seemed to feel her suspicion was confirmed in the storyline. First Venti came up with a plan and traveled to the Mondstadt Cathedral with the traveller, to obtain the " Holy lyre der Himmel" however, sister Gotelinde was very resolute.

" It's a vicious dragon, indeed, but once the acting grandmaster makes up her mind, nothing can stand in the Knight's way."

" that simply not acceptable wouldn't stormterror end up getting killed that way?"

" The foolish beast betrayed, the winds, not even the God of anemo themselves would forgive it!"

Venti: "huh…"

"please I beg of you!"

"I'm afraid not little bard."

Vistide showing helpless expression and then said " Then… I guess I'm left with no other choice, I cannot hide any more."

" my disciples rejoice! behold the god of anemo Barbatos has descended!"

Gotelinde: "…"

venti, wearing a triumphant expression, continued, " shocked, aren't you? don't you just wanna cry out and rejoice? How does it feel to finally meet the god you have been serving?"

"if there's nothing else, I'll be going back to handle the cathedrals paperwork now"

"Wait—"

Not to mention Gotelinde even Lisa felt the Venti was impersonating them, The difference between him and the legendary Archon's image was just too great, and he completely like the demeanour of a God who ruled Mondstadt.

So clearly borrowing was not an option, so they would have to find an opportunity to

"borrow without permission" under Venti planning during the night, the Traveler would infiltrate the cathedral to steal the "Holy lyre der Himmel" the storyline was quite audacious, but luckily, the mobile game cafe Nihill extraordinary significance, otherwise, anyone who designed even a similar plot, would be immediately hunted down by the Knights of Favonius.

After a series of sneaking around, they finally reached the deepest part of the Storage area The "Holy lyre der Himmel" was right in front of them, but at this moment, an unexpected occurrence happened, A mysterious woman appeared out of nowhere, and at the last moment before the traveller can get their hands on the "holy lyre Der Himmel" she took it and vanished. Instantly, the guards were alerted to this, and the Traveler became a scapegoat.

Well, avoiding being spotted by the guardians, they unknowingly arrived at The Angels' Share Tavern there weren't many people inside, but coincidentally Diluc was in the tavern after dealing with the Knights of Favonius Diluc inquired about the situation from everyone.

Vented and hide anything and played out Dvalin's story to Diluc explaining their true intentions after a conversation Diluc decided to trust fancy and expressed his intention to use his information network to trace the whereabouts of the "holy lyre Der Himmel"

The next day, after the Tavern closed the person you contacted turned out to be acting grandmaster Jean, however, Jean appeared not in her capacity as the acting grandmaster, but as an individual, due to diplomatic issues between nations that prevented her from openly involving herself in these matters. in any case, the current goal was to use the pure high power of the "holy lyre der Himmel" to restore Dvalin to normal, and finally resolve the "stormterror crisis" that had long troubled Mondstadt.

Diluc had determined based on his own intelligent network that the "holy lyre der Himmel" was hidden in a certain stronghold. The next step was to go to the stronghold and retrieve the "holy lyre der Himmel".

Throughout the story, Lisa noticed some noteworthy aspects according to the current progress the goal of the Fatui seemed to be acquiring Dvalin's power for the cryo archon, however, Lisa felt it wasn't that simple the endgame character Venti also seemed to share this sentiment.

"Jean just said that the Fatui are trying to take Devon's power for the cryo god… I fear this might fall short of their true intentions."

" I think they intend to use Barbatos' connection to the wind to draw him out, just like Lisa trace the source of the storm to the temples."

Hearing this, Diluc asked with a puzzled tone " the god of Anemo… hasn't been seen for more than 1000 years. What makes you think that's their intention?"

"Oh… ah…"

…

They arrived at the Disney location for the quest. After completing the four winds temples, a new domain had appeared. This was the Fatui stronghold containing Many tramps, persuadable enemies and formidable enemies.

Inside the domain, in addition to the four characters, there was a fifth playable trial character - Diluc compared to before, the difficulty of this domain had a significant increase if the domains of the four winds temples was designed to introduce players to combat mechanics This domain felt more like a test of skill.

Even Lisa, who had the best understanding of the games combat system filter, Bryce sweat a bit, especially in the final stage facing the Fatui agent Zamenhoff. Okay, not only they require pure science positioning, but it also plays the certain demand on the teams upper damage outputs if they could not defeat them quickly enough, the Fatui agent would unleash high damage execution move.