Jiang Chen wasn’t worried about Mona leaking information.
Aside from herself, she had no friends.
As for the Knights of Favonius, she had nothing to do with them—though she could always use them to offload troublesome matters.
The three of them sat together and finished their meal.
Lumine was about to wash the dishes herself, but Mona took over.
Jiang Chen didn’t seem surprised.
“After you wash them, pack up the leftovers and take them with you.”
“Oh,” Mona replied.
Lumine wanted to protest.
As a traveler, doing things herself was an important quality.
No trace of indulgence or laziness should ever cling to a traveler.
If she could wash her own dishes, she didn’t need anyone else’s help.
But in the blink of an eye, she saw a surge of Hydro element clean every dish and utensil.
Lumine froze.
“What are you trying to compete with a Hydro Vision holder for?” Jiang Chen said calmly.
“Fine,” Lumine relented.
Jiang Chen crossed his arms, watching Mona pack up the leftovers, and continued, “For the next month, Mona will come here every night at seven.
I’ll have Sara prepare this soup for you to take home.”
“Ah, Jiang Chen, there’s no need!” Mona looked uneasy.
“It’s part of the treatment,” Jiang Chen said in a tone that brooked no argument.
“Huh?
Do I have some kind of illness?” Mona was a little frightened.
Lumine thought for a moment and asked, “Is this what they call food therapy?”
“Something like that,” Jiang Chen said.
“We’ll see if it works after a month.
Consider the Mora spent as an experiment.”
“It’s not a terminal illness, is it?” Mona flickered into a splash of water and appeared beside him, grabbing his arm nervously.
“Not that serious.” Jiang Chen gave her a reassuring look.
“But if you don’t do as I say, it really won’t end well.”
Even Lumine looked more developed than her.
It was honestly embarrassing—she had such a naturally impressive figure.
“I understand,” Mona said. The source of this chapter is g.com.
“I’ll listen to you.”
She left with a troubled heart.
“Isn’t she staying here?” Lumine asked curiously.
“She has her own rented place.
Why would she stay?” Jiang Chen looked at her strangely.
Lumine lowered her head slightly, a faint blush coloring her cheeks.
She realized she had misunderstood their relationship earlier.
“Rinse your mouth and go to sleep.
Travelers don’t have the habit of sleeping in,” Jiang Chen said.
Lumine shook her head, insisting she had never been one to oversleep.
After a moment’s thought, she said, “Jiang Chen, I want to show you something.”
“Oh?” Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow with interest.
Lumine reached into Paimon’s backpack space and pulled out a crimson crystal.
The evil aura radiating from it instantly filled the attic.
“This thing…” Jiang Chen snapped his fingers, manipulating Anemo to close the windows, lest any hidden eyes in the darkness spy on them.
“Do you know something about it?
Paimon and I found it outside the city today.
There was also Stormterror and some green-clad figure.”
“I thought it might be useful to you,” Lumine said nervously.
She had originally planned to show it to the Knights of Favonius, but after learning that Jiang Chen wasn’t entirely aligned with them, she decided to show it to him first.
“This is Dvalin’s tear.
The reason it looks like this is because it’s filled with a powerful curse,” Jiang Chen explained.
“Dvalin?” Lumine had heard that name before.
Wasn’t it what Barbatos, the Anemo Archon, had called him?
Jiang Chen suddenly asked, “Lumine, do you remember the Four Winds of Mondstadt?”
“The Wolf of the North, the Falcon of the West, the Lion of the South, and the Dragon of the East,” she answered.
“Right.
The Wolf of the North refers to the Grand Master.
The Falcon of the West represents the Knights of Favonius.
The Lion of the South is the Dandelion Knight—this generation’s Jean. Get faster updates on novelping.com.
And the Dragon of the East is Dvalin, an ancient wind dragon that has lived for ages.”
“Stormterror!?” Lumine tensed.
“That’s why we only needed to cleanse three of the Four Wind Temples,” Jiang Chen explained.
“Dvalin can only borrow power from the other three.
The fourth temple is his own.”
“But if he’s one of Mondstadt’s Four Winds, why would he attack the city?” Lumine asked, confused.
“This is the reason.” Jiang Chen pointed at the crimson crystal floating between them.
“The composition of a creature’s waste reflects the problems inside its body.
If even a single tear is overflowing with this much curse energy, imagine what’s inside him.”
Lumine felt a little discouraged.
“So aside from understanding that, it’s not really useful for anything else, is it?”
Jiang Chen smiled faintly.
“It still has its uses.”
He reached out and touched the crystal.
[System Prompt]: Detected curse energy within the crystal.
Purify the crystal?
Yes.
A clear light flashed in Jiang Chen’s palm.
The crimson glow, thick with evil, was rapidly suppressed until it completely dissipated.
The large, blood-red crystal transformed into a fist-sized, translucent gem.
“This crystal contains dense Anemo energy.
A single drop would be enough to overload a Vision.
It’ll come in handy sooner or later,” Jiang Chen said.
“Jiang Chen…
did you purify it?” Lumine asked in surprise.
“You could do it too, actually,” Jiang Chen said.
“This kind of curse energy has no effect on travelers from another world like us.”
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