Skirk stood on the shaking iron pauldrons, her figure as steady as a rock!
She didn’t even look at the giant palm coming down at her.
Her gaze was locked on the fire arrow in Amber’s hand below, ready to be unleashed!
She was waiting!
Taking advantage of the Ruin Guard’s attention being on Skirk, Amber shot a precise charged arrow at the Ruin Guard’s eye core!
Now’s the time!
Just as the Ruin Guard’s giant palm was about to strike Skirk, and the strong wind had already ruffled her silver hair!
A sharp light burst from Amber’s eyes, and the fire arrow Burning with red flames left the string, shooting straight towards the Ruin Guard’s giant single eye like a meteor chasing the moon!
Skirk moved!
She didn’t dodge the descending giant palm; instead, she channeled all her strength into her legs and suddenly dropped her weight!
At the same time, she gripped the wolf fang sword with both hands, pointing the tip downward, as the surging Abyssal Power within her poured into the blade like an unblocked flood!
“Roar—!”
The Ruin Guard’s giant palm slammed down with immense force!
Buzz—!
The expected bloody mess did not occur!
An instant before the giant palm connected, a rapidly spinning, deep blue Hydro vortex suddenly erupted from Skirk’s body and the pauldron area beneath her feet!
The giant palm struck the vortex as if falling into thick mud, its speed suddenly slowing!
The massive kinetic energy was stripped away layer by layer by the rotating water!
[Six six six, Host, you’re definitely cheating!!]
And in that precious, less than half a second of time gained!
Amber’s fire arrow, concentrated with all her focus, had already crossed the final distance!
Sizzle—!
Precise!
Deadly!
Like a red-hot iron piercing through butter!
Not that kind of butter.
The fire arrow slammed hard into the core area at the center of the Ruin Guard’s giant eye, where the most blinding red light flickered!
The scorching, violent pyro power instantly detonated inside!
“Boom—!!!”
A dull and massive explosion echoed from inside the Ruin Guard’s head!
Its giant eye was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and the blinding red light flickered wildly and erratically!
The entire head structure let out an overburdened groan!
The giant palm striking at Skirk also completely lost its power, drooping down limply!
“Yare yare~”
Skirk let out an invincible hum.
“It’s quite fragile, isn’t it!”
A cold light flashed in her eyes!
Using the slight recoil generated as the water vortex dissipated, she leaped high from the Ruin Guard’s shoulder like an arrow leaving a string!
She held the wolf fang sword high above her head, as deep blue Hydro light gathered, compressed, and condensed wildly on the blade!
The space around the sword seemed to distort slightly due to the extreme Hydro power!
Sunlight pierced through the broken pillars of the ruins, happening to spill onto her leaping figure.
With silver hair flying and clothes fluttering, the long sword in her hand condensed a destructive deep blue light, like a God of Judgment descending!
“Flaw…”
The cool, mature female voice carried a determination that could cut through anything!
“Frozen Chicken Wings!”
—From that disciple of mine I’ve never met.
The wolf fang sword in her hand, carrying a deep blue light blade of extremely condensed Hydro pressure, slashed down fiercely like a waterfall of judgment falling from the heavens towards the Ruin Guard’s cracked, flickering, and now completely exposed eye core!
There was no world-shaking roar, only a crisp sound that made the heart skip a beat—
“Ding—Crack!”
Like the finest glaze being precisely shattered!
The tip of the wolf fang sword landed without a hair’s breadth of error on the deepest crack in the eye core, the one blasted open by Amber’s fire arrow!
The Hydro power compressed to the extreme, like a flood finding its outlet, instantly poured into the crack, expanding and exploding!
The Ruin Guard’s massive body suddenly stiffened!
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
Then—
Bang!!!!
That giant eye core, a symbol of destruction, completely exploded from the inside out like an internally detonated water pressure bomb!
It turned into countless tiny metal and energy fragments shimmering with deep blue light, blooming like the most brilliant blue fireworks in the morning light of the Thousand Winds Temple!
Having lost its core, the Ruin Guard’s massive body, as if all its strength had been drained, let out one final, weak, metallic groan and crashed to its knees!
The giant metal head slumped heavily, hitting the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust!
The sound of gears turning stopped completely, and the ominous red light went out entirely, turning it into a pile of true, lifeless scrap metal!
The dust slowly cleared.
Skirk knelt on one knee, landing steadily in front of the Ruin Guard’s giant head, her wolf fang sword pointing diagonally at the ground, with deep blue coolant still dripping from the tip.
She was breathing slightly, her silver hair damp with sweat and sticking to her smooth forehead.
The morning light outlined her cold and exquisite profile, and in those deep purple eyes, there remained the sharpness and indifference from her judgment just now.
The entire Thousand Winds Temple was in dead silence.
There was only the whimpering of the wind through the ruins and the cries of seagulls startled into flight.
Amber stood in place, her Favonius Warbow still in its post-shot stance, her Amber eyes wide open, her small mouth slightly agape, her face filled with extreme shock and disbelief!
Sister, did you secretly turn on cheats?
To this, pro-player Skirk only wanted to say:
If I didn’t turn them off, it means they’re on?
[Ding!
‘Proof of Protection’ quest complete!
Evaluation: Perfect (No Damage)!
Rewards distributed:]
Limited Monthly Card Weapon · Wolf Fang (Hydro Adapted) permanently bound!
Abyssal Storage Space (10 cubic meters) access granted!
Abyssal Affinity slightly increased!
Obtained Title: ‘Ruin Guard Destroyer’ (DMG to Ruin Guards +5%)
The system’s cheerful notification sound acted like a switch, snapping Skirk out of her silent ‘pro-player’ act.
That’s right, the reason she suddenly had an epiphany and wanted to outplay the Ruin Guard wasn’t just because of her game knowledge, but also because of this quest!
[Ding!
Emergency Quest issued: Proof of Protection!]
[Quest Objective: Kill the Ruin Guard without taking damage (0/1), and protect Amber from any harm!]
[Quest Rewards: Limited Monthly Card Weapon · Wolf Fang (Hydro Adapted) permanent usage rights!
Basic Sword Technique!
Abyssal Storage Space (10 cubic meters) access granted!
Abyssal Affinity slightly increased!]
[Failure Penalty: For the next week, the Host will automatically add a ‘Meow~’ suffix to everything they say.]
[Temporary Item Distribution: Monthly Card Weapon · Wolf Fang (Trial Version), Basic Sword Technique (Trial Version) — Duration: Until the end of this battle!]
…
She didn’t expect the movement bonus from this so-called “Basic Sword Technique” to be so impressive!
[Ding!
Host, don’t look down on this ‘Basic’ level.
I’ll put it this way: this ‘Basic’ is calculated relative to the entire Teyvat power system!
I won’t say more about its value.]
⊙∀⊙!
“That powerful?”
You have to realize that the scope of all Teyvat includes the power of the Gods and Archons!
System, you’re the best!
“Yay!”
Amber was wondering why Skirk had suddenly gone silent, only to see her suddenly start laughing foolishly with her hands on her hips.
The cool, pro-player style from before had vanished without a trace.
Amber: “…”
She remembered when she first started writing English continuations, she loved using: “jump up and down in excitement.”
(Jumping up and down in excitement)
She had been scolded for it being too stupid and exaggerated.
But that’s exactly what she was doing now.
The Outrider looked at the silver-haired girl who was like a God of War one second, shattering the core in one hit, and the next second had a dorky face, shouting foolishly, and felt her brain completely stall.
She opened her mouth to say something, but found all words felt hollow at this moment.
A cool breeze blew past, kicking up dust from the ground.
Skirk maintained her pose after jumping and landing with her arms raised, her smile gradually stiffening.
She looked at her hands making ‘peace’ signs, then at Amber’s indescribably complex expression, and a familiar, massive sense of shame surged up belatedly.
Her cheeks quickly flushed with a crimson hue like a ripe Sunsettia, visible to the naked eye.
How did I…
become so…
[Ding!
Detected that the Host’s soul mode switch is complete!
‘Cool Pro-Player’ module offline, ‘Dorky Steam Girl’ module back online!
(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧]
Skirk: “…”
She closed her eyes.
She lowered her hands.
As everyone knows, after experiencing certain extreme events, people always want to dilute the intensity through thinking.
So, she began to think.
When did I become so strange?
Aren’t I a guy?
Skirk, or rather Silky, sat down on the spot, beginning a self-examination while steadying her breath.
What is making you fall?
She closed her eyes, raised her hand, and touched herself.
Is it because of the body’s compatibility?
Is it because of the soul’s fusion?
Or is it…
[Host…
stop using sage mode.
It’s actually just a normal phenomenon from having just transmigrated into another body.]
Wait, I remember there was an original owner in this body, right?
Could it be!?
[The reason why the Host is conducting top-tier intellectual combat after showing off her great power is heartwarming.]
“System, shut up!”
[Fine, actually it’s because I added some soul fragments into this body so you’d know you transmigrated as Skirk.
Because of that, a certain amount of rejection is inevitable.
It manifests as the Host’s originally subtle inner thoughts being exaggerated!
੭ ᐕ)੭]