After deciding to head to Stormterror’s Lair, Neo immediately set off from Starsnatch Cliff.
Although this was still his first time setting foot on Mondstadt’s land, based on his experience playing the game before transmigrating, he could roughly determine the locations of the major areas in Mondstadt.
However, Neo soon ran into a problem.
A game was ultimately still a game.
Even though Neo knew the directions, by the time he simply walked down from Starsnatch Cliff, the sky had already gone dark.
“If only I could use teleport waypoints…”
“If that won’t work, at least give me a horse… Ah, I almost forgot Mondstadt doesn’t have horses…”
“Oh no, Anemo Archon, don’t be angry. I wasn’t cursing Mondstadt…”
As it grew late, Neo, who had walked down from Starsnatch Cliff, could see the large tree in Windrise from a distance, but he was so exhausted that he could only mutter to himself.
It wasn’t that walking this distance was tiring.
The main problem was that he had nearly been drained dry just trying to climb Starsnatch Cliff earlier.
Although his stamina had been restored by the Snowland Survival Law, the exhaustion before and after still left Neo mentally tired.
Not to mention, he couldn’t recover his elemental power.
Fortunately, he hadn’t encountered any monsters along the way, so Neo was able to rest a little longer.
Before long, he successfully reached the crossroads from Windrise toward Mondstadt City.
Aside from the road he had come from, this crossroads led to Mondstadt City, Starfell Lake, and Springvale respectively.
Neo recalled things for a moment.
He remembered that if he wanted to reach Stormterror’s Lair, besides crossing the mountains, there was actually an existing road.
It was beside Dawn Winery, at the fork in the road leading toward the Stone Gate on the way to Liyue.
Thinking of this, Neo gave up on the idea of going to Mondstadt City to rest for the night and directly took the road toward Springvale.
Neo didn’t know what the Traveler was doing right now, but he knew that the Traveler would definitely go to Stormterror’s Lair to find Dvalin next.
So after arriving near Dawn Winery, Neo identified the general direction and then headed toward Stormterror’s Lair.
Ancient architectural ruins could be seen everywhere along the roads here, so there was no need to worry about taking the wrong path.
There were just quite a few more monsters around here.
Besides Hilichurls, there were also wandering Ruin Guards.
Neo was mentally exhausted at the moment, and he didn’t have much elemental power left, so he didn’t disturb them and instead went around them.
It wasn’t until he arrived near Stormterror’s Lair and saw the wall of wind that Neo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although this wall of wind was a remnant of Stormterror’s Lair’s past as Old Mondstadt, it wasn’t always active.
The storm barrier was still there, which meant that the Traveler and the others hadn’t entered yet.
Neo only needed to wait here at the entrance.
“Phew~ Today was really exhausting. I’ll sit down and rest for a while… Whoa… Holy crap, a dragon!”
Just as Neo was about to find a place near the storm barrier to sit down and rest, he looked up and suddenly saw Dvalin flying across the night sky, immediately letting out a cry of surprise.
The storm barrier sealed off Stormterror’s Lair, but it had a certain height limit.
So when Dvalin flew overhead, it wasn’t hindered at all and easily entered Stormterror’s Lair, descending toward the direction of the tower.
However, it was flying a little too high, so Neo still couldn’t make out with his eyes whether there was an Abyss Mage following on its back.
“Wow, I really want to touch Dvalin up close. Such a good-looking dragon…”
Unable to resist, Neo moved closer to the storm barrier and pressed his entire body against it.
His expression was just like that of a starving vagrant lying against the glass outside a restaurant, watching the customers inside eat while constantly swallowing saliva.
Creatures like dragons naturally carried a strong sense of fantasy and mythology.
Although Teyvat wasn’t a traditional fantasy otherworld, as a transmigrator, Neo naturally longed to interact with a creature like a dragon.
It was like how, as long as their safety was guaranteed, some people would want to touch tigers and lions too.
The Anemo elemental power flowing across the storm barrier could repel things stuck against it, but at this moment, it couldn’t stop Neo from pressing his entire face against it.
The Anemo elemental power slapped against his face without producing any reaction at all.
“The Traveler won’t come until tomorrow…”
“Hmm, thinking about it carefully, waiting outside the whole time and then following them in after they arrive doesn’t seem too good either. What if I get discovered?”
“How about I climb over the wall and go in first!”
Looking toward the tower, although he could no longer see Dvalin, Neo’s enthusiasm for touching a dragon hadn’t faded.
He soon made this decision for that very reason.
After making up his mind, Neo looked up at the top of the storm barrier.
He couldn’t fly, so he could only continue using this clumsy method.
His elemental power had recovered quite a bit along the way.
Most importantly, unlike when he had been climbing Starsnatch Cliff, he wasn’t in a hurry now.
He could slowly wait for the cooldown of “Everlasting Wall,” so he could definitely build it especially high, all the way until he climbed over the storm barrier.
There was another reason as well.
All of Neo’s luggage had sunk along with the ship, and he didn’t have a tent either.
Since he didn’t want to sleep directly outdoors, he might as well use his sleeping time to climb over the wall. The source of this chapter is g.com.
Thinking of this, Neo immediately got to work and began creating an ice wall beneath his feet.
And just as Neo was building walls to give himself footholds, on top of the tower inside Stormterror’s Lair.
“Your Highness, it seems someone has come. Should we…”
The Abyss Mage sensed something and respectfully asked the figure standing in the darkness.
“No need to pay attention to it. After completing the seal, don’t leave any traces.”, The figure in the darkness replied calmly.
As the sky gradually brightened, Neo finally piled the ice wall up to the same height as the storm barrier.
“Hey, aside from the wind being stronger up here, it’s much warmer than Snezhnaya.”
Standing at the highest point, Neo put his hands on his hips while observing the situation inside the storm barrier and searching for a place to land.
However, after searching for a while, he still couldn’t find a suitable place to land.
At this height, if he jumped straight down, he would definitely be injured.
Although he had the Snowland Survival Law, which allowed him to recover as long as he wasn’t dead, he couldn’t play around like that.
Unable to find a suitable place to land, Neo could only lower his head and look at his hands, then began using his Delusion to condense Cryo elemental power.
Because he had been continuously driving Cryo elemental power through the blood vessels in his body for a long time, Neo’s ability to control Cryo elemental power had long since become second nature.
It was very easy for him to condense ice into any shape he wanted.
Under these circumstances, Neo directly condensed a simple glider, intending to use it as a Wind Glider.
As for an actual Wind Glider, perhaps because Mondstadt and Snezhnaya’s relationship was too tense, those things were very expensive after being imported into Snezhnaya.
Neo had never bought one anyway.
Grabbing the glider, Neo leaped up and flew toward the other side of the storm barrier.
“This… This speed is a little too fast, isn’t it!”
However, as soon as he began gliding, Neo realized that something was wrong.
Clearly, the glider made of ice was too heavy, causing him to descend too quickly.
This rate of descent was much slower than simply jumping down from the storm barrier.
An ordinary person might still not escape disaster, but Neo quickly calmed down, worked hard to adjust his balance, and when he was about to land, he quickly ran forward with both legs, using the momentum to keep running before finally rolling several times and landing safely.
“Safe landing. Hurry up and find Dvalin.”
After breathing a sigh of relief, Neo finally looked toward the tower.
However, at this moment, Neo discovered that he was already surrounded by Hilichurls.