Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

Although the Great Tree King can directly contact the World Tree from anywhere in Teyvat, even it would prefer a more convenient place to minimize the consumption of its power.

So he created this 'meditation room'.

As a great sage, Azar naturally knew this as well. The reason he let Narcida go when facing Elhesen and the others was mainly to make good use of this most advanced device in the mortal world that connects to the World Tree.

As he prepared, the Void System finally collected the memories and consciousness of the other sages—the sages had completed their suicides and extracted their own consciousness and thoughts, uploading their final legacy to the Void System. The final operation was naturally to be carried out by Hazard, the only one still alive.

"Ha...so...is it finally all over?"

Hazard let out a long sigh when he received the last things his colleagues had left him.

The relationship between the sages is not very good. Although they are all at the highest level of the Academy, the research funding for Sumeru is limited to a certain amount each year, and the sages, as the leaders of their respective academies, obviously fight tooth and nail over this every year.

Moreover, mutual disdain between disciplines is inevitable, and everyone here is the elite of their respective colleges. Who isn't a genius to have reached this point?

Even the greatest sages cannot necessarily subdue everyone; in the end, arguments and rebukes are the norm.

Even so, when Hazard proposed this plan, when he needed to take the lives of the sages, they so decisively chose to agree.

Even the other two sages who refuted the God of Righteousness, after being imprisoned, told Hazar that if necessary, it would not be unacceptable to use their lives to atone for the mistakes made by Hazard and the others.

So no matter how many conflicts and contradictions there have been in the past, at this moment everyone has given everything to save the World Tree and Sumeru. Such people deserve at least a little respect, right?

Unfortunately, they probably won't get that respect.

Regardless of whether their plan succeeds in the end, they will never be able to leave even the slightest bit of a good reputation in history books for committing unforgivable sins.

Fortunately, the sages no longer care about these things.

Hazard mourned his colleague briefly, but soon he threw himself into the final steps. Without hesitation, he restarted the modified 'meditation room'. With the power and technology of the Great Tree King, a branch of a vast being extended into this small 'meditation room'.

Mysterious, powerful, omniscient...

The World Tree descended, and at the same time, due to the huge difference in their status, Hazard, whose entire being was beginning to dissolve rapidly, also completed his final struggle according to the plan he had made long ago.

His consciousness began to connect with the World Tree, and the canned knowledge created by him and many other sages at the cost of their lives was instantly synchronized into the void.

This canned knowledge, mixed with worship and assimilation of the World Tree, began to be packaged according to the program that Azar had prepared in advance, and was directly synchronized and copied into the consciousness of the God of the Machine through a pre-arranged link.

Following Hazard's final guidance, the World Tree instantly appeared beside the God of the Machine.

"what!!!"

"Mortals! What have you done?!"

In his final moments, Hazard heard that furious roar, but all he could do was give a final smile.

Whether he succeeds or not, he has done everything he could.

The rest is up to you.

Little Lucky Grass King...My lord!

Subsequently, many rebellious sages, including the great sage Azhar, vanished completely from the mortal world.

And all of this is probably just the arrogance of mortals, isn't it?

Chapter Forty-Six: The Doll, Losing Everything

The sages' methods were brutal and inhumane—both to themselves and to the God of Righteousness.

They will dissipate in their connection and fusion with the World Tree, which is the most terrifying and decisive form of dissipation.

Their souls would be instantly torn apart and devoured by the endless flow of information contained within the World Tree, completely eliminating any possibility of them merging with the earth's veins and returning to the Source Sea.

To put it more bluntly—their souls were scattered!

This event was also the most painful torment for the God of the Righteous Machine... or rather, for the Scattered Soldiers who were the core of the God of the Righteous Machine.

Because the sages, being mortals, once again denied the value of the stragglers' existence—they valued only the stragglers' bodies, while disregarding the will contained within those bodies.

Having experienced three betrayals, the skirmisher, who had come to the conclusion that only strength was the key and eternal, was betrayed a fourth time. This time, the betrayal completely negated and destroyed his last remaining will.

He was once incredibly fragile, his will denied; now he is powerful and terrifying, yet his will is still denied.

More importantly, the plans devised by the sages of the Church of Christ were progressing smoothly.

Having a direct link to the World Tree is never a lucky thing.

With the World Tree now corrupted, even scholars from Sumeru are opening blind boxes when connecting to it. One wrong move and they could be driven mad or killed by the forbidden knowledge flowing from the World Tree.

Although mortals are indeed weak in comparison, this is enough to show just how dangerous the World Tree is now. Not to mention that what the skirmishers are facing now is not just a mere connection with the World Tree—the sages have recorded their own consciousness of actively merging with the World Tree and then packaged it up and stuffed it into the skirmishers.

Linking and merging are clearly not the same thing.

Even true demons appear extremely insignificant when faced with the vast flow of information within the World Tree. If one is not careful, even a god can be reduced to nothing by the information flow within the World Tree.

Moreover, even if a demon god wanted to merge with the World Tree, at most it would only be providing the World Tree with a decent amount of nourishment.

In turn, it erodes the World Tree and becomes its master?

Ha! Even the most arrogant person would probably not have such a foolish idea after actually seeing the World Tree.

Whether mortal or deity, they are all far too insignificant compared to the World Tree, which unifies all information.

By unifying the beliefs of many mortals and combining them with countless canned divine knowledge, he forcibly became a scattered soldier of the gods. Because of his instinctive trust in the Void System, when he accepted this 'poison,' before he could even react, his body had already instinctively begun to connect and merge with the World Tree.

Can he withstand the endless flow of information from the World Tree species?

Impossible. Although his extremely fragile self-awareness was forcibly strengthened, it did not reach the realm of gods in terms of quality. Therefore, when faced with an endless stream of information, he was naturally not much better than mortals.

He managed to hold on by sheer willpower, but he could also feel his self-awareness being rapidly eroded by the World Tree.

The World Tree continues to gradually take away everything from the God of the Righteous Machine, while the Scatterers can do nothing.

The stragglers could only watch helplessly as their consciousness vanished in the torrent of the World Tree, and as their self-awareness rapidly declined, the massive body of the God of the Righteous Machine gradually began to slip out of his control.

"No! This is impossible!"

"I have already ascended to godhood, I cannot fail!"

"I...am...the secret master of Seven Leaves of Silent Illumination...I...will not fail..."

Upon sensing that the power was receding from him, the skirmisher went completely mad. His gradually blurring consciousness instinctively wanted to squeeze more power from the Heart of God to fight against the assimilation of the World Tree, but now the skirmisher, who even had great difficulty controlling his own body, was clearly no longer able to do so.

Even as large parts of the body were transformed, and much of its functions were lost, the function of the Divine Heart continued to decline.

If this continues, it won't be long before the colossal God of Righteousness is completely reduced to a part of the World Tree.

But at that moment, a faint green light suddenly appeared in the skirmisher's blurred vision, and with the appearance of this light, his body, which had been rapidly assimilating with the World Tree, stabilized again.

But this does not mean that the stragglers can regain their bodies.

The assimilation of the World Tree is no joke. The vast majority of the God of the Righteous Machine's enormous body has fallen into a blurry state. Now, this god created by mortals even gives people the feeling of a mirage—which means that the vast majority of the God of the Righteous Machine has completed its assimilation with the World Tree.

If Nasita hadn't suddenly intervened and used her authority within the World Tree to prevent the final assimilation of the God of the Righteous Machine, the God of the Righteous Machine would probably have already completely transformed into a data stream and merged into the World Tree.

But Narcida's sudden intervention to stop the World Tree's assimilation was not simply to save the stragglers—she had somehow flown to the door of the God of the Righteous Machine and gently waved her hand to open the core of the God of the Righteous Machine. With her movement, the Heart of God, the energy core of the God of the Righteous Machine, appeared before her eyes.

This is the most important part of the entire God of the Righteous Machine, and it is also the part that Nasida must take away now.

"No...that...that's...my...thing!"

Perhaps sensing the unusual movement of the Heart of God, although he was already in a state of malfunction due to the excessive information flow, his obsession with power still made the skirmisher smash open the hatch in front of him and reach out his palm to Narcida, seemingly trying to stop her from taking the Heart of God.

But the skirmisher, tethered by the connecting lines behind him, was powerless to break free. In fact, the fact that he hadn't fallen out of the driver's cab was because of these lines holding him back.

However, Nasita had no time to pay attention to this pitiful and hateful puppet. She glanced at the scattered soldiers with slight surprise, but still extracted the Heart of God from the core of the God of the Righteous Machine.

"No...the Heart of God...I..."

Even with only instinct remaining, the skirmisher still weakly reached out his hand towards the Heart of God, which was gradually moving away from him. He seemed to want to stop Narcida, but he could do nothing.

In the end, Nasita grasped the Heart of God from Inazuma. At the same time, the God of the Righteous Machines, having completely lost the Heart of God as its energy source, immediately fell into a deathly silence, and the Scattered Soldiers also lost their power to resist at this moment.

"Clap!"

The skirmisher, suspended in the cockpit by the last energy pipe, let his arms hang limply. At that moment, a crystal-clear drop of water slid down his face—unfortunately, no one knew.

Chapter 47 Heading to the World Tree

The Heart of Thor fell into Nasita's hands, and now, holding the Heart of God, Nasita's face showed a hint of hesitation.

With the two Hearts of God, deciphering the message left by the Great Tree King in the World Tree should be no problem. The only thing that makes her hesitate is whether the two Hearts of God alone can cure the World Tree's disease.

But Narcida quickly dismissed her hesitation—no matter what, the die was cast, and she had to find a way to save the World Tree, otherwise not only Sumeru, but the entire Teyvat would face unimaginable disaster.

As the god of Mount Sumeru, and as the embodiment of the World Tree, she has an inescapable responsibility!

Nasita's eyes were now filled with unwavering determination. This was a responsibility she had to bear, and she would never refuse to take it on, no matter the cost.

"Now that I possess two Hearts of God, this immense power is enough for me to decipher the message from the Great Tree King. I believe we should be able to find a way to save the World Tree from within it!"

Nasita looked at Ying, whose eyes seemed to hold a hint of doubt, and gave her explanation. Although the process of dealing with the God of the Righteous Machines was beyond Nasita's imagination—she hadn't expected the sages to be so determined to solve the problem of the World Tree—this did not prevent Nasita from taking on the sages' legacy.

Even though the sages had done far too many outrageous things, Narcida never seemed to care about their offenses. Perhaps in her eyes, their offenses were nothing more than childish tantrums.

Since they had never cared, they naturally wouldn't think the sages had committed any unforgivable sins.

However, the sages still knew too little about the World Tree. As mortals, they couldn't even comprehend what kind of existence the World Tree was. Therefore, it was a fallacy to assume that giving the World Tree a body would allow it to solve its own problems.

Because the World Tree does not possess its own consciousness.

If we compare the entire Teyvat to a giant computer, then the World Tree can be considered the storage and computing module of this computer. The existence of the World Tree maintains the operation of the entire Teyvat while recording everything on Teyvat. This has resulted in the accumulation of unimaginable data in the World Tree, and this data that records everything has become the basis of the World Tree's 'omniscience'.

But the World Tree is not 'omnipotent'.

In reality, the World Tree itself has no self-awareness. Even the Great Tree King, who is the incarnation of the World Tree, and Nasita are merely branches of the World Tree.

They possess extremely powerful authority within the World Tree, but they do not actually represent the World Tree itself. This giant tree, which bears and records the entirety of Teyvat, is like a real tree, merely passively fulfilling its duties.

Furthermore, given enough power and authority, anyone can manipulate the World Tree to achieve their desired goals.

Is it really useful to give a body to an entity that merely mechanically fulfills its responsibilities and commands?

Narcida didn't think it was of any use. In the end, the World Tree would at most regard the enormous body of the God of Justice as a usable resource.

Therefore, Narcida can only try to decipher the message of the Great Tree King using the two Hearts of God in her possession, and even try to find the remaining consciousness of the Great Tree King within the World Tree to see if there is any way to save the World Tree.

"Looks like you're all ready?"

Just then, Su Feng's voice finally reached everyone's ears. Now that everything for the mortals had been settled, it was naturally his turn to take the stage.

"Wow! You actually only showed up now? We've already resolved the crisis!"