In Teyvat, it all begins with rescuing the grass god.

I don't know if it's really the Red King who's angry.

In short.

To the naked eye, the scale of this sandstorm was indeed large enough to sweep across the entire desert.

The sky, which had just been as vibrant as blood, was plunged into boundless darkness after the sandstorm fully arrived.

Rhodes' body glowed with a grassy green light, keeping out the oncoming yellow sand and the gale-force winds that were sharper than knives. He then searched the road, tent by tent.

He now lives in the middle-level area, which, according to the classification, is divided into two categories: those who must be killed and those who can be killed, except for children.

Rhodes acted swiftly, using the sandstorm as cover. Only the child he couldn't kill and his parents were spared; he showed no mercy to the others.

As for Naxida's suggestion that they could spare their lives...

This concept doesn't exist in Rhodes's work.

If saplings aren't pruned, they'll grow crooked. These trees that are already growing crooked, just cut them down.

If it weren't for the consideration that killing the children's parents in front of them might not be a good thing, Rhodes would not have left a single survivor along the way.

It wasn't that no one resisted during this period.

However, under the overwhelming power of his reasoned persuasion, no one could stand against him.

In the howling wind.

All the sounds of resistance, cries for help, pleas for mercy, or wails were drowned out. Even if someone heard them, they would be met with a blow to the head before they could even go out to check the situation.

that's it.

With only a club, Rod pushed his way down under the cover of the sandstorm.

It looks like things are going well.

But Rhodes knew that these people were just low-ranking soldiers in the Tanit tribe, usually ordinary warriors in hunting teams, or people who worked in workshops or farms.

As for the true Tanit elites, they are currently clustered in the upper district, guarding those cowardly elders.

Those are the people who are the most difficult to deal with.

The Tanit tribe was not like those scattered, unorganized treasure-hunting groups; their elite troops were equipped with a special weapon.

Evil Spirit Weapons.

This contains a broken evil spirit.

Some can summon ferocious beasts transformed from evil spirits into elemental monsters during battle, which will fight alongside their masters.

Some can attach the released evil spirit to their master, putting them into a demonic state. Although the demonic state will result in a period of weakness, the user's combat power will increase several times over.

In a one-on-one situation, even if one person fights a dozen or twenty people, it wouldn't pose a problem for Rhodes.

Tanit had no fewer than one hundred people who possessed this weapon.

Rhodes is confident in his current strength, but that doesn't mean he's willing to face over a hundred experts who can use elemental powers alone.

These Eelin weapons are the source of the Tanit tribe's confidence in guarding the pass between the Thousand Ravines Sandy Land and the Great Red Sandy Land, and the foundation upon which they became the number one tribe in the desert.

However, using the Evil Spirit weapon will cause irreversible damage to the user, and over time, it will inevitably lead to physical damage and premature aging.

But for the Tanit tribe, this weakness is hardly a weakness.

Because what they have no shortage of is people.

The saying goes, "The man is dead, but the sword remains."

Whether it's a falcon or a warrior trained by the tribe itself, as long as they are equipped with this weapon and master its elemental power, they can quickly train a warrior with extraordinary strength and martial arts skills.

And that's what Rhodes has been doing these days.

Besides eliminating the highly skilled and charismatic fighters in the Tanit tribe, they also took the opportunity to destroy some of the Evil Spirit weapons.

However, after he had destroyed only fifty weapons, Babel and the others realized something was wrong. They immediately gathered all the remaining people who possessed the Eelin weapons together in the upper part of the tribe to protect them and, at the same time, to protect these rare weapons from further destruction.

"It's still a bit troublesome."

These grunts were indeed powerless against Rhodes, but their numbers were overwhelming. After Rhodes cleared out the entire middle area, his arms were slightly sore from waving his arms around the enemy so many times.

After resting for a while and getting myself in the right state,

He then went to the upper level and began the final cleanup.

Different from the past.

Under a great sandstorm, all things are equal.

The once prestigious elders' quarters in the Tanit tribe are now deserted; not only is there no one outside, but there is also no one inside the tents.

Fortunately.

Rhodes had already found out everything.

This abandoned ruin contains a well-preserved main hall, which was used as a sanctuary by the Tanit tribe.

Of course.

Shelter is not a place anyone can enter.

Elders, matriarchs, important heirs, and so on, as well as guards responsible for their safety.

All the wealth of the Tanit tribe was hidden in this great hall.

With the sandstorm now upon us and everyone else taking refuge in this shelter, its protective capabilities have reached unprecedented levels.

"Fortunately, we killed most of the troublemakers beforehand."

Standing before the entrance to the main hall, Rhodes pursed his lips, his left hand flashing with ice elemental power, and his right hand radiating fire elemental power, both of which he pressed against the tightly closed door.

There was no movement.

This massive gate, an ancient relic that had stood here for over a thousand years, withstood the extreme cold and intense heat for only half a minute before crumbling into dust as if weathered by time, and flying away into the distance with the gale.

The door is open.

After passing through a wide passage, the interior of the hall was laid out before Rhodes.

The elderly matriarch sat in the center of the chair, flanked by the six surviving elders, with Thea and Babel on either side, each accompanied by their supporters.

By the way.

The reason there are six elders is that Rhodes killed another elder recently. It was after that incident that the elders, who were originally at odds with each other, temporarily put aside their conflicts and banded together in an attempt to avoid assassination.

The falconry and hunting teams, originally led by Marcela and Gowafa, were now scattered in various corners.

Theoretically, this site is very safe, but they were all armed and on high alert.

The hall is very large; even with hundreds of people inside, it doesn't feel crowded at all.

Upon hearing the sudden footsteps, Babel and Thea, who had been arguing, turned around to look, and the soldiers on guard duty also alertly raised their weapons and aimed them at the stranger, Rhodes, who had suddenly appeared there.

"It's you!"

Upon seeing Rhodes covered in blood and carrying a steel rod, the astute Babel quickly realized who the wolf hiding in the tribe was and exclaimed in surprise.

Thea, who had always been suspicious of Rhodes, screamed, "Babel! I knew that pretty boy you were keeping was weird!!"

A sharp cry of "Enemy attack!" rang out.

The falcons wielding the Evil Spirit weapons were the fastest to act; they all picked up their weapons without hesitation, ready to awaken the Evil Spirits that were slumbering within them.

"Tadla, what are you waiting for?"

Rhodes roared, and the elemental power he had been accumulating for a long time suddenly erupted.

A smooth, mirror-like ice surface suddenly spread out from beneath his feet, enveloped in a chilling aura. Using the ice as a springboard, Rhodes, his "Persuasion" weapon covered in raging flames, glided swiftly towards the hunting party wielding Evil Spirit weapons, ignoring the most threatening falcon. With a single strike, he unleashed a massive ball of flame, spitting fire.

at the same time.

With a loud shout from Rhodes, a girl wearing an eye patch suddenly plunged a knife she had prepared beforehand into the heart of the falcon in front of her.

Other eaglets moved in unison with her.

The adult falcons that were attacked had a look of disbelief in their eyes. No one could have imagined that these young eagles, who had been trained by Marcela for so long, would suddenly turn against them at this time.

Tadella.

She was the first child under Rhodes's tutelage to yearn for the light of the outside world, and also the one with the most resolute will to resist the Tanit tribe.

Her well-trained nature made her extremely ruthless, each strike aimed straight for the vitals. After killing the falcon in front of her, she immediately picked up the Spirit Wind Longbow that had fallen to the ground and summoned the Demonic Kite Evil Spirit within it.

at the same time.

The other young eagles who also chose to resist began to wield their evil spirit weapons, summoning spirit snakes, demonic lizards, and poisonous scorpions to fight against the adult falcons they had trained.

the other side.

After Tadella and the others summoned the Ereshkigal, Rhodes also summoned his ice and fire creations.

The Tanit tribe originally had nearly sixty Evil Spirit weapons left.

After the young eagles of Tadla betrayed them, they seized ten weapons in a very short time and used them to stop the remaining falcons carrying Ellion weapons.

Although the young eagles were no match for the adult falcons in a one-on-one fight, their numbers and the fact that they possessed the Evil Spirit Weapon, which could greatly enhance their combat power, allowed them to rely on their numerical advantage to hold off the adult falcons.

This immediately relieved a lot of pressure on Rhodes' shoulders.

The elemental creations were in front, and Rhodes was behind. The three elemental forces of ice, fire, and grass sometimes transformed into shields, sometimes into weapons, sometimes bursting out of the ground, and sometimes falling straight down from above.

Although he was facing more than twenty elemental evil spirits alone, Rhodes was not at a disadvantage at all. He dodged and weaved, letting the evil spirits attack from the sky and the ground, but they could not touch him at all. His "Persuasion with Reason" weapon was used to kill one person with one blow. Under his terrifying strength, anyone who faced him, except for those evil spirit weapon users in their demonized state, would have their bones broken and tendons ruptured if they were grazed, or die if they were touched.

The battle reached its climax.

Rhode leaped high into the air, standing in mid-air. He grabbed a demonic kite in one hand, and his fire elemental power erupted fiercely, crushing the demonic spirit formed from wind elemental power. Using the wind elemental power that the demonic spirit had unleashed, he waved his hand, and the wind whipped up the flames. A fire snake that was originally only half a meter long instantly expanded to several meters in length. With a flick of its long tail, it knocked down all the arrows shot at Rhode. Then, it suddenly pounced down and crashed into the group of ordinary warriors who did not have demonic weapons.

After systematically studying elemental science.

He can now skillfully use the available conditions around him to amplify the power of the elemental force he releases.

While the people being sent down were resisting the fire serpent, Rhode summoned another enormous ball of ice elemental power with his right hand.

This time.

The ice elemental force transformed into sharp blades, raining down like a storm.

Fire came first, then ice.

Such extreme temperature changes were too much for even the ancient stone gates of the ruins to withstand, let alone the mortal soldiers of the Tanit tribe.