“It’s time to consider the follow-up plan…” Elysia started letting her mind wander.
Since she saw Clorinde today, Neuvillette would surely learn about her news tonight.
This element dragon king, who had served as the Chief justice in Fontaine for 500 years, wasn’t as easy to fool as her Furina.
However, she possessed the clearance of the God’s attendant, plus Furina had already been successfully turned over to her side, so handling this shouldn’t be too difficult.
The real difficulty was the God Focalors.
After all, against others, Elysia had the advantage of an information gap.
As Focalors who retained her own Remembrance and divine persona, she knew all too well whether or not she had an attendant like Elysia.
Toward Focalors, Elysia still held a very favorable impression.
Regardless of whether it was Focalors or Furina, they were truly the characters who completely conquered Elysia with their personal charm in the three years she played allogene in her past life.
She had never seen characters with such awareness and boldness in this game before, to the extent that their evaluation in Elysia’s heart completely surpassed the other four Gods.
Focalors accepted her mandate in times of crisis, scheming meticulously, entering the game with her own body, and winning half a move against the heavens.
With a mortal body, Furina wore the mask of a God, enduring five hundred years of loneliness, and relying on the purest kindness and sense of responsibility to cooperate with the God Focalors to complete this grand play of deceiving the Heavenly Principles and saving Fontaine.
Whichever one it was, it was a momentous feat of great weight.
Holders of the Hydro Vision were often idealists with absolute pure beliefs.
They were willing to pay everything for the ideals in their hearts, reaching the pinnacle.
And in Elysia’s view, the God Focalors and the human Furina were existences that brought this romance to the extreme.
Just like the description of Varunlaz Lazurite.
She raised her head high and said to the Heavenly Principles: “I want to correct you.
Here, humans do not bear sins against Gods.” She proved her will with her own practical actions and firmly upheld the justice she continued.
Saying, “Only the Heavenly Principles cannot be made an enemy of,” yet giving the Heavenly Principles the loudest slap in the face.
Before that falling sharp blade, countless people thought the God would be the most loyal lapdog of the Heavenly Principles, and some even said that the Fontaine God would assassinate the Traveler for the Heavenly Principles.
As the deity of Fontaine, she overcame seemingly irresistible fate with her love for humanity, extraordinary wisdom, and strong will.
Facing such a person, no amount of respect Elysia gave her would be too much.
Yet, such a perfect deity was still hated by quite a few people in her past life, who said she was the culprit behind harming Furina, that Focalors forced Furina to play the God and made him suffer through all hardships, and didn’t even leave a shred of power for Furina, only giving Furina a mortal body.
To those who published these remarks, Elysia could only say that anyone who had slightly watched the plot would never publish such remarks.
Elysia understood those players’ sympathy and affection for Furina, but such remarks were a desecration of Furina’s 500 years of persistence.
When Focalors in the mirror told Furina the prophecy, she gave Furina the opportunity to choose.
“When the two ends of the balance are the lives of the people of Fontaine on one side and one’s own pain on the other, without even thinking, you can guess which side the balance will tilt toward.” He was just an ordinary person, yet managed to remember every single one of his subjects like a God.
He was also unwilling to sit and wait for death, actively investigating the prophetic crisis in his own way.
His informants were spread all over the Teyvat continent.
Although he didn’t find a way to change the prophecy, it also made him confirm the truth of the prophecy.
“Me in the mirror, you must succeed…” Persisting through the long years—500 years, 6,000 months, 182,376 days.
This was Furina’s true greatness; it was the path he chose himself.
There might be pain and sorrow, but there would never be regret.
As for why Furina was an ordinary human, it was because before inheriting the God, Focalors herself was a human transformed from primordial seawater by the first God Egeria.
Focalors stripped away her own divine persona and divine power, and what remained naturally was the mortal Furina.
As for why she didn’t leave behind some power for him, besides Focalors wanting to completely erase the existence of the God, she might also have had a bit of her own selfish desire.
Focalors’ wish as the God was very small—she just wanted to live on as an ordinary human.
Furina could be said to be an extension of Focalors’ wish, letting him live on as a human in her place, and she also believed that he, as a human, could complete the mission.
Just as Focalors expected, Furina took on Focalors’ mission, just like Focalors, who had already become an ordinary person back then, accepted the mess left behind by Egeria.
They were two individuals of the same essence.
Furina did not disappoint Focalors’ trust and brilliantly completed the task, and Focalors likewise did not disappoint Furina’s dedication, exchanging her self-sacrifice for the lives of Fontaine’s subjects.
The two of them complemented and achieved each other.
Therefore, there was no need to step on one just to praise the other.
Furina, having completed the mission, received the reward he deserved, living happily as a human, whereas when Focalors decided to execute the plan, she was destined to have no future.
(This paragraph is written a bit long.
Fontaine is indeed the main storyline that touched me the most among the five nations.
Wiping away tears while typing, Focalors should be molded to benchmark Honkai Impact 3rd’s Elysia.
The two are very similar, both being so selfless and great.
I can only say Da Wei Ge is always like this, so I got really angry when seeing some remarks on Bilibili.) Although Focalors’ plan was not perfect—after all, her act of destroying the divine throne and returning supreme power to the enemy of the Heavenly Principles, the element dragon king, was challenging the Order under the Heavenly Principles, and the Heavenly Principles would inevitably take measures in the future—this was already the optimal solution Focalors could achieve within her capacity.
The revenge of the Heavenly Principles could only be left to future generations to solve.
Without the continuation of the present, where would the future be?
However, what Focalors did not expect was that Neuvillette helped her solve this problem.
Having become the complete dragon, Neuvillette not only understood humans and pardoned the sins of the people of Fontaine, but in Character Story 5, he chose to enter the fate system of the Heavenly Principles, making his Constellation appear in Teyvat’s sky.
This meant he incorporated himself into the system of the Heavenly Principles.
As an arrogant element dragon king, to be able to do such a thing for the people of Fontaine—to say the least, Focalors truly lived up to her name as a dragon-taming master.
For the Heavenly Principles, although the God’s throne was lost, gaining the allegiance of the complete dragon was not a loss by any calculation.
Therefore, there was no need for the Heavenly Principles to subsequently drop punishment on Fontaine.
After all, the setting that the Heavenly Principles love humanity, and the Teyvat Gods love humanity, might just come from the fragments of the Heavenly Principles.
But Focalors was not clear about this point.
One could negotiate with Focalors regarding this point, making Focalors acknowledge her identity and guarantee not to interfere with Focalors’ plan, while Elysia used the clearance of the Herrscher of Origin to help the people of Fontaine become true humans.
After all, it was simply unrealistic to make Focalors trust a stranger of unknown origin like herself and give up the only straw in her hand.
As for why Elysia didn’t go and transform the people of Fontaine right now, it was because she couldn’t do it at the moment.
Although she had obtained the heritage of Elysia, it didn’t mean she could immediately gain complete power.
There were conditions for this.
To gain the power of Elysia, she needed to win the affection and recognition of others.
The more people recognized and liked her, the more power she could obtain.
One could only say this was truly very Elysian.
(If it weren’t like this, how would I write it ╮(╯_╰)╭) Elysia estimated that if she didn’t count the power of the God’s attendant, she was currently probably only at the level of Tartaglia, and there were still 3 years until the arrival of the prophecy.
According to the blue phantom that sent her over, her descent was synchronized with the Traveler’s awakening.
(It shouldn’t be too much for the Traveler to tour four nations in 3 years, right?) In Order to obtain the power to change everything before the prophecy arrived, Elysia decided.
“I want to become an idol…”