Dvalin, whose blood clot had been broken through, felt a sharp pain and let out a cry of agony before falling into the storm beneath the platform.
After Dvalin fell, the circular platform seemed to have lost some kind of support and immediately began to collapse.
The collapse of the platform made Neo unable to keep his footing, and the Rejuvenating Monsoon was interrupted as well.
But he already had plenty of experience dealing with crises from his time with the Fatui, so he immediately mobilized his Cryo elemental power and condensed it into the crude shape of a glider.
After the platform completely collapsed, everyone fell into the storm together, while Neo hurriedly gripped the glider with both hands.
“Wait… where are your Wind Gliders?”
Seeing Lumine, Diluc, and the others falling beside him, Neo asked in surprise.
“?”
Just as Lumine seemed to realize something, Dvalin, who had fallen into the storm, flew back up and rushed toward everyone.
After steadily catching everyone who was about to fall into the storm, Dvalin broke out of the storm and flew toward Mondstadt.
“Barbatos… just now, why…”
“Didn’t you want me to protect them like before?”
Carrying everyone on his back, Dvalin had regained his former calm and could not help asking Venti about it.
“I don’t want you to obey the Abyss, but that doesn’t mean you have to obey me either, Dvalin.”
“Freedom commanded by a god is also a kind of unfreedom, isn’t it?”
Venti sat on Dvalin’s back with the other companions who had survived the ordeal and quietly answered Dvalin’s question.
“…”
“Barbatos… do you really have another dragon outside?”
Dvalin was silent for a moment before asking another question.
Clearly, it still remembered what Neo had shouted earlier.
“Of course not. Just like you, I only just woke up after sleeping for five hundred years.”
Venti glanced at Neo ahead and helplessly shrugged.
Although Neo’s earlier shouting had indeed drawn Dvalin’s aggro.
“Alright.”
“But why does he… keep touching me?”
Dvalin did not think too much about it and instead voiced another point of confusion.
At this moment, although Neo was also on Dvalin’s body, he was lying on Dvalin’s neck, excitedly reaching out with both hands to touch its head. This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
“A dragon! It’s a dragon! Hahaha, I touched a dragon!”
“Quick, do you have a Camera? Hurry and take a picture of me! I want to send it back for my friends to see!”
After touching Dvalin’s head for a while, Neo excitedly turned around and asked Venti and the others.
Jean and Diluc knew what a Camera was, but could only shake their heads.
They had come to save Dvalin, after all.
Who would bring a Camera onto the battlefield for no reason?
With no way to take a commemorative photo, Neo could only touch Dvalin even more enthusiastically, running his hands over its body from its head to its wings and tail.
“Ahem, ahem, you should sit down quickly. If you keep this up, Dvalin is going to throw us all off…”
Seeing Neo walking around and touching Dvalin all over its back, Venti could not help grabbing his clothes and reminding him.
“I like his wind. Its scent is just like yours, but it is indeed a little itchy.”
Dvalin agreed with Venti, although no one could understand what it was saying.
After all, it did not currently possess the power of a wind god’s retainer.
If it borrowed the power of a wind god’s retainer, it would be able to communicate with humans.
After Neo sat down with a look of regret, Venti also thought of this and raised his hand, once again bestowing the power of a wind god’s retainer upon Dvalin.
“By the way, Mr. Neo, that wind you summoned earlier was very warm, but I remember that the elemental power you used was Cryo, wasn’t it?”
After Dvalin sent everyone back to the vicinity of Mondstadt, Jean asked Neo out of curiosity as they walked back to Mondstadt.
That warm monsoon that brought all things back to life was hard not to notice in this nation of wind, and it could even dispel Dvalin’s Final Dirge.
“Oh, it’s nothing. The Cryo elemental power I use was merely granted by this thing.”
Neo directly took the Cryo Vision from inside his clothes.
Without using the Vision, Neo’s skills were equivalent to being able to use elemental power without even having a Vision.
Although there was an exception like the Traveler, he did not really want people to know about this, so he took out the Vision.
It was not as if they could ask him to take out his Vision and let them have a look after seeing the Vision, right?
Although people who possessed Visions would generally put them somewhere conspicuous, there were also people who liked to hide them.
“A Vision?”
Diluc, who was beside them, frowned and was the first to recognize that this was a Vision.
No wonder he had always felt that Neo’s aura was somewhat strange before…
“You recognize it? That’s right. This thing works similarly to a Vision. If a person possesses both a Vision and a Vision at the same time, then naturally they can use two kinds of elemental power.”
“However, this thing isn’t anything good. Using it too much will shorten your lifespan. You can see that some of my hair has turned white. This thing is to blame.” This story is hosted at novelping dot com.
Neo gave a simple explanation, then raised his hand and pointed at his hair.
His hair had originally been black, but there were already signs of it turning white.
Although the Rules of Survival in the Snow could offset the side effects of the Vision, signs of his hair changing color still occasionally appeared.
As long as his body was fine, he did not care that much.
Before obtaining the system, he had already been granted a Vision.
He had quite a bit of white hair even back then.
As a transmigrator, he naturally knew about the dangers of Visions, but while in the Fatui, if he wanted to climb the ranks faster, Neo at the time still needed to work a little harder.
“…Try to use it as little as possible in the future.”
Diluc pursed his lips.
He remembered that the Fatui also distributed Visions to other people, so he did not directly assume that Neo was a member of the Fatui and instead gave him a reminder.
However, he planned to investigate a little afterward.
“Of course.”
Neo nodded.
Soon, everyone arrived outside Mondstadt on foot.
The city-state of song and freedom from the game was also appearing before Neo’s eyes for the first time.
The point in time when he had transmigrated was during the Genshin Impact Song of the Moon version, so aside from Nod-Krai, he had never seen any other scenery or towns in Snezhnaya in the game.
Therefore, when he was in Snezhnaya, he had never experienced the feeling Mondstadt now gave him, as if a dream had become reality, nor the shock of seeing a virtual world become a real one with his own eyes.
After entering Mondstadt, Jean had to return to the Knights of Favonius to handle the aftermath, while Diluc also had to return to the Angel’s Share Tavern.
After they said goodbye and left, only Neo, Lumine, Paimon, and Venti remained together.
“Phew, we finally dealt with Dvalin’s problem. Let’s go to the Good Hunter and have a big meal!”
“Oh right, the tone-deaf bard is paying. After all, we really helped you out this time~”
Paimon happily raised both hands as she made the suggestion, then immediately raised a finger and pointed at Venti.
“Eh… but I’m just a poor bard. I don’t have that many Mora to treat everyone…”
Venti, who had been happily about to agree, immediately pulled a long face.
Neo subconsciously touched his pocket, but after remembering that his Mora had sunk into the sea along with the ship, he could only remain silent.
There was no doubt about it.
He was even poorer than Venti now.