King Ember's Journey to Tevat

Chapter 602 The disappearing stars

At the bottom of the rocky abyss, a Qiuqiu man was undergoing changes that seemed impossible to ordinary people - his skin was whitening, his mask was shattering, his figure was growing taller, and his fur was fading away.

A brand new person is transforming from the body of the Qiuqiu people.

But it’s not just the people of Qiuqiu who have changed...

There is endless darkness underground, as if there is no concept of time, but this is not the case on the surface. When Ember and the others were mixed into the giant abyss of rock, time on the ground was still flowing.

By the time they lifted the curse, it was already dark on the ground.

The weather is good in most places in Teyvat today, so the stars in the sky are shining with their shining starlight as usual.

But this brilliance is a little different from usual.

Fontaine, an ordinary place on a hillside, an ordinary small house. What is extraordinary is the large amount of astrological equipment included.

These equipments are flowing with starlight and water patterns, and they are worth a lot at a glance.

Among the messy equipment, an old witch wearing a huge witch hat was writing and drawing at the desk, and she didn't know what she was doing.

Her hat and robe are full of stars. I don't know if this can increase her magic power or because she simply likes stars.

The white yet bluish starlight poured in from the window, causing the old witch's writing pen to stop.

"I wonder if little Mona has got my..." The great astrologer Ashtomanthe Barbilos Trismegistus seemed to have thought of something unspeakable and did not continue.

She raised her head and stared at the stars in the sky with her cloudy eyes. Starlight seems to have infinite magic power for this old witch.

Her cloudy eyes became clear due to the starlight, and then she lowered her head sharply.

"What...what's going on?!"

Looking at her wrinkled hands, Barbie Ross immediately pushed away the chair and ran to the second floor of the house.

There is a large skylight on the second floor, and facing the skylight is a sophisticated astronomical telescope.

"The stars don't move according to the planned trajectory..." Muttering to himself, Barbieros put his eyes under the telescope and observed carefully.

Her vision passed through various starlights and diffuse interstellar dust, and was fixed on the star she just saw.

Bobbi Ross was right. The trajectory of this star was random and without any rules.

Others might think it's no big deal, but that's not the case for Barbie Ross, who has spent her life studying the stars.

She cares about the stars more than others, and understands the meaning behind the trajectory of the stars better than others.

Destiny is reflected in the starry sky. This is something no one dares to say.

But now there are stars that have broken their predetermined fate and begun to wander around at will. The meaning contained in this makes Barbie Ross feel numb just by thinking about it.

"Is it time to call out those old guys again? This kind of thing is difficult to handle." Barbieros lowered her eyes and pondered. She was sure that the changes in Teyvat today were greater than ever before.

Of course, this has to exclude the time when the laws of heaven determined the rules in ancient times. Except for that long period of time, even the catastrophe five hundred years ago did not bring more changes to Teyvat than this in Barbiros' opinion.

"Wait..., there are still changes?!"

Barbieros closed half of her eyelids and immediately stared, because she discovered that the star that was moving randomly in the sky had changed again.

In her field of vision, the star whose orbit was irregular was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye, and eventually completely disappeared from the field of vision.

It wasn't that the light dissipated and disappeared from sight, but that the entire star was directly obliterated.

There was an empty corner in the starry sky. There was only a dark background and nothing there.

"..." "Should I find a place to avoid disaster?" Barbieros took her eyes away from the telescope.

She stood blankly on the second floor, not knowing what to do? If the stars deviating from their trajectory are considered as someone escaping from the shackles of a certain fate, then what does it mean if the stars simply disappear?
died? That's impossible. The life star of the dead person will turn into scattered star dust and fall from the sky, but it will never disappear.

The stars disappeared, and Barbiros could only think of one possibility - that is, someone broke free from the shackles of the rules and the shackles of heaven.

No matter how that person did it, breaking out of the rules of the world undoubtedly touched the bottom line of Sky Island.

The anchoring of destiny is what the gods of Sky Island value most. Since someone breaks the rules, they must bear the retaliation from the rules - even though today's rules are in tatters.

"Well..., I, an old woman, have occupied the title of 'B' for too long, and it's time to give way to little Mona." After being stunned for a while, Barbieros hurried downstairs.

The huge witch's hat trembled, and Barbieros was in such a hurry that she didn't even sit on a chair, but lay directly on the table and started writing.

"That should be enough." Looking at the slightly scrawled note on the table, Barbieros snapped her fingers.

"Boom!" The bubbles popped out of the table, and the lifelike pigeon appeared in front of her. Of course, the premise is to ignore its transparent body.

"Go, give this to Mona, and tell her that my master is going to evacuate... ahem, to investigate, and I will leave it to her to deal with the Witches' Guild."

"Cuckoo!" The homing pigeon transformed from water tilted its head, then opened its mouth and swallowed the note.

With the flutter of its wings, the carrier pigeon flew further away from the window. And Barbiros was not idle for a moment. She looked around at the carefully crafted astrological instruments with a trace of reluctance in her eyes.

"Forget it, forget it, I can't take it with me, I can't take it with me!" After just a moment of hesitation, Barbieros decided.

Who in this world knows the most about fate and the starry sky? That must be the witch and the astrologer.

Now that the stars have disappeared, when Tianli reacts, I am afraid that these two professions will not be the first to be targeted.

By then, except for my sisters who have reached a deal with Sky Island, it is estimated that not many will survive.

But despite this, Barbie Ross still firmly believes that Mona can survive! Because she is his best apprentice - definitely not because Barbie Ross wants to put up a mockery for herself.

"Goodbye, my cabin!" After reluctantly taking a look at the cabin where she had lived for a long time, Barbieros ran away without looking back.

At that speed, I didn't see that she was reluctant to leave, and I didn't see that she was an old woman.

Walking as fast as flying, that's all.

……

Across the vast abyss of rock, the non-human parts of the Qiuqiu people gradually faded away, revealing their human nature.

The newborn Kanria curled up and breathed long and regularly, as if immersed in some sweet dream.

"Stab!"

Dain tore off a piece of the cloak behind him and covered his naked body curled up on the ground.

He tried his best to control his body and gently moved the man's eyelids. A dilated star-shaped pupil appears together with a constricted star-shaped pupil.

"Huh..., Huh..." Suppressing his inner excitement, Daiin gradually moved away gently.

Turning his head to look at the embers, his face that had just calmed down suddenly fluctuated violently again.

The shocked expression on his face was no less than that of the Kanreyan who had just witnessed the resurrection.

Rubbing his eyes, the two figures with their backs to Dine gradually became clearer, one black and one white.

What did Dain see? Dáin saw Paimon wrestling with Ember.

(End of this chapter)