“The Trailblaze power, how is this related to that guy Akivili again?” Hearing Screwllum’s answer, the corner of this Masked Fool’s mouth twitched, and he couldn’t help but recall the time that old rascal Aha pretended to be Akivili.
“Because of the specificity of the spatial displacement and the blurred state of your coordinates, conventional warp methods cannot cross the galaxy to reach the Teyvat world.
However, Trailblaze is different.
Thanks to the mighty power of the Aeon of Trailblaze, the light rails traveled by the Astral Express are not affected by this situation.
Therefore, the warp of the Astral Express has become the only way.”
Screwllum’s voice was unhurried, as if he were merely stating a fact.
“Heh, it’s just that I don’t know if those people on the Astral Express will help you.
After all, if you count on your fingers, you seem to have offended every single one of them.” Before Ayin could reply, Herta’s mocking voice came through the communicator first.
Through the communicator, he could already imagine the look on her face.
“Tch, don’t you worry about that.
I’m as close as siblings with those people on the Astral Express Crew.
I even dug through trash cans with Stelle back then.
I’m sure they will agree to this small favor!” Ayin scoffed disdainfully, though there was clearly not much conviction in his words…
“Let’s hope so.
Rather than worrying about that, you’d better think about how to break through that layer of Abyss corruption, after all…
some…
important…”
“Hey…
hey, signal…
lagging…
interrupted…”
“I…”
“…”
Herta wanted to say something more, but as the interference intensified, the blurred coordinate positioning was clearly insufficient to support long-distance communication.
Even the communication indicator on the watch quietly went out at some point.
“Damn, why is the signal interrupted?
I’ve really become a loner…” Watching the light on his watch slowly fade away, Ayin couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh.
Although Herta could be sharp-tongued at times, he wasn’t used to not hearing her voice all of a sudden.
Buzz, buzz, buzz~
Just as he was silently sighing, that familiar dizziness struck again.
Then, he saw a red and blue ball of light flying from afar at extreme speed, smashing into him.
As the light merged, Ayin, who had been appearing as the Grand Sage, slowly disappeared.
A few seconds later, a handsome, blond-haired youth appeared in the same spot.
“Ah, the feeling of returning to my physical body is great.
I can feel my strength gradually coming back…
Not much, but enough~” Feeling his strength return, he subconsciously clenched his fists, then imitated Zhongli’s weathered voice and sighed in a flamboyant manner.
With the return of his physical body and the unification of all his clearance, the light cone production technique that he couldn’t use before could be called upon again, and the light cones he had originally equipped were also successfully inherited.
The only fly in the ointment was that his hair, which had been turned gold by Sparkle, hadn’t reverted.
He didn’t know what kind of hair dye that girl used, but it was so effective that if he sold it to the Interstellar Peace Corporation, he could probably make a fortune.
Ten minutes later…
Having familiarized himself with his restored body, Ayin began to rethink what he needed to do.
As everyone knows, to break through that layer of Abyss power, one must first tear a hole in the False Sky of Teyvat.
With his body returned, he had intended to just use brute force to fly up and tear open the False Sky, but he felt an inexplicable conceptual repulsion that prevented his power from concentrating.
The only explanation was that moon outside Teyvat!
So now, if he wanted to break through the False Sky and the interference of that layer of Abyss power from the inside, there were only two options.
The first option: Follow the plot exactly.
When the Romantic Doctor becomes the God of the Three Moons and tears open the False Sky, seize the opportunity to elbow him away, which would allow him to use that opening to re-establish contact with Herta.
The second option: Don’t wait that long.
Collect the lunar marrow himself to become the God of the Three Moons, carry these three pieces of lunar marrow to charge at the False Sky, elbow a hole in it, and then use his own power to deal with that Abyss barrier to achieve his goal!
If one wanted to be steady, following the plot was best.
But Lumine and the emergency food were still cruising around Fontaine, and it would be God knows when they would reach Nordkalle, so he naturally couldn’t wait around.
So the answer was obvious.
Naturally, it was “my fate is determined by me, not heaven.” He would find the three pieces of lunar marrow himself and become the God of the Three Moons.
Although this deviated from the plot and might cause some uncertain things to happen, he was a Masked Fool, after all.
Isn’t uncertainty where the fun lies?
Moreover, the plan to collect all three pieces of lunar marrow was very clear.
Eternal lunar marrow — It was likely still with the Children of the Frost Moon, preserved as a holy relic;
Rainbow lunar marrow — After the moon shattered, it sank into the Abyss, creating some kind of Red Moon Space with the power there.
He had to go find Arlecchino;
Frost lunar marrow — The only non-shattered remains of the Moon God, which gave birth to a Little Dove.
He had to go to Snezhnaya.
As for whether the Astral Express could reach Teyvat after breaking through the False Sky and the Abyss interference…
that would depend on Herta arranging it; he couldn’t contact them from Teyvat.
“Yosh, goal: God of the Three Moons!” Having made his decision, Ayin shouted dramatically, then got up and flew towards Liyue Harbor.
After all, he still had to spend some time vacationing in Teyvat, so he still needed to solve the most basic survival problem.
For example…
Mora.
Honkai: Star Rail World
Herta Space Station, inside Herta’s office.
“Lost contact completely, Screwllum.” Looking at the machine in front of her that had completely broken down, Herta couldn’t help but cover her face, speaking with slight helplessness.
“Yes.
However, we had signs of communication loss half a system-hour ago.
Being able to hold on until now is already the limit.” Screwllum nodded upon hearing this, but his eyes remained fixed on the Wings of Wind inside the machine.
Because just as the connection broke, a trace of extremely faint black-purple energy fluctuation suddenly appeared on the Wings of Wind.
“This is the power of the Abyss, right?” Ruan Mei, standing beside him, looked in the direction of Screwllum’s gaze and asked with some excitement in her tone.
“Logic: These Wings of Wind likely originated from the Teyvat world, so even though we forcibly disconnected the space, there was still some power that flowed onto it following the’scent’, but fortunately, the power did not overflow.” Screwllum nodded and analyzed slowly.
“That’s good.
It seems the initial experimental materials have been collected.” Ruan Mei smiled upon hearing this, then took out a strange-looking container and placed the Wings of Wind directly into it.
“You don’t mind if I borrow your Curio, do you?”
“I don’t mind.
Compared to these wings, I am more interested in that Teyvat world over there…
But you are still as impatient as ever.” Herta teased Ruan Mei with a huff.
“I never suppress my emotions regarding things I’m interested in.
Besides, maybe I can make something interesting by analyzing this energy…” Ruan Mei didn’t seem surprised, instead revealing a charming smile with a hidden meaning.