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

The poisonous blood on Dvalin's body also belongs to the power of the abyss.

If you look at it this way.

I could indeed try to absorb this power.

If he wanted to devour this abyssal poison, he would inevitably have to fight Dvalin, but now Venti is saying that he doesn't need to fight.

"you mean."

"Let others fight, and I'll just focus on purifying the poisonous blood?"

Rhodes narrowed his eyes and asked again.

"Ah."

"With the help of the Sky Harp, I can temporarily suppress Dvalin's violent ferocity and bring back its kind nature. Then you can take this opportunity to cleanse its poisonous blood."

"Clean up as much as you can, because you'll reap the benefits later."

Before she knew it, Wendy's face returned to its previous expression, and she cheerfully offered what could only be described as an enormous temptation.

Such are the benefits.

This also plunged Rhodes into deep thought once again.

a long time.

He turned to look at the void terminal, imbued with the power of the Grass God, that Nasita had specially made for him, and nodded solemnly: "It's worth a try."

(End of this chapter)

166. After reading the preview, I have no motivation to write.

After reading the preview, I lost the will to write.

The second installment of the Cynos series is great; it's made my keyboard spin like crazy. I can already foresee the miserable scene of being relentlessly backstabbed after the 4.6 update.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 167. The Borrowing of the Harp Incident and the Knights of Favonius' Best 'Helper' (8000-word long chapter)

Chapter 160 The Borrowing of the Qin Incident and the Knights of Favonius' Best 'Helper' (8000-word long chapter)

The Sky Harp that Wendy was talking about.

It was the harp he once played, which remained in the Church of Favonius after the overthrow of the old nobility a thousand years ago, and has since become a treasure of Mondstadt, only usable during the Mondstadt Badminton Festival.

If someone wants to borrow the Sky Harp outside of the Badminton Festival, the Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius, the Archbishop, and a representative of the people of Mondstadt must all agree and sign the relevant documents before they can borrow it successfully.

However, Rod felt that if he were to borrow it himself, Jean would probably agree.

Even with the archbishop absent, and the people's representatives unlikely to agree, Qin alone might not be able to borrow the violin through proper channels.

With the idea of ​​giving it a try.

After deciding that Wendy would appease Dvalin and Rhodes would purify the poisonous blood while ensuring his own safety, the two went to the Knights of Favonius together.

But after they explained their purpose, the Knight of Favonius guarding the gate told them that harp hadn't come to work that day.

"Commander Qin led men to arrest the criminals last night."

"I heard that they were interrogating the prisoners all night, and they haven't come to the Knights yet."

The Knight of Favonius guarding the gate shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't give you a specific time. Why don't you rest here for a while?"

It has the badge given to it by Lisa.

Even though the goalkeeper had changed today, they were still very polite and didn't insist that Rod had to queue up for anything like they did yesterday. Instead, they said that if Qin returned, they would notify Rod immediately.

"Let's go to my senior sister's place."

Rod has nowhere to go now.

There is no Sky Harp.

Even if we find Dvalin now, it won't solve the problem. We're just waiting anyway, so we might as well wait at Lisa's place. At least we can look at the Knights of Favonius's collection of books when we have nothing to do.

The knights guarding the gate did not stop them, and even assigned one of them to lead the way, guiding Rhodes and Wendy all the way to the library.

As soon as I entered.

Then I heard Lisa's languid voice.

"Heh—yawn~~~"

Please register before borrowing books. Books in the restricted area cannot be borrowed at this time.

"what?"

"It's you, Junior Brother."

"You've made new friends so quickly! That's wonderful!"

It's clearly during working hours.

Lisa, however, looked like she hadn't woken up yet. When Rod entered, she was even dozing off in her chair.

It really is true.

In Mondstadt.

Besides playing the piano, she is also very serious about her work.

"Hi, big sister, hello there. I'm Wendy, a bard."

Wendy showed no signs of shyness, calling out "sister" as soon as she entered, which made Lisa smile involuntarily.

I can tell.

She really liked the feeling of Wendy calling her "big sister".

"Oh~~~"

"So you're the bard that Junior Brother was looking for? What a lovable little brother you are."

Lisa greeted Wendy, then looked at Rhodes and asked, "Junior Brother, are you here to see me, or to see Qin?"

"I have a small matter to ask for your help, Commander Qin."

"But she's not here right now. I heard she's interrogating a prisoner, so she's waiting here with you, Senior Sister."

Rhodes recounted everything in detail.

"Oh dear~~"

"Tomorrow is only the first time I'll be meeting Qin, and she won't be coming to visit me, her older sister. It's really heartbreaking."

Lisa showed no sign of sadness; instead, she was all smiles, teasing Rhodes.

Fortunately.

After yesterday's three-hour dinner.

Rhodes was now immune to Lisa's jokes and said seriously, "I have something important to discuss with Captain Jean, about the Stormterror."

"Oh, that's how it is."

"That's perfect. Junior brother, you stay here and watch over things for me for a while. I'm going to get some breakfast."

Despite the fact that it was important, Lisa didn't take it seriously at all. Instead, she dumped all her work on Rhodes and waved goodbye, leaving the library with a flourish. Rhodes was dumbfounded by her "take what you can get" attitude.

then.

In the blink of an eye, only Rod and Wendy remained in the huge library, staring at each other blankly.

"Uh"

"Just wait."

Rhodes had nothing more to say, so he simply picked out a book and found a place to sit down.

Wendy also found a fairy tale book, plopped down next to him, and began reading with great interest, occasionally bursting into laughter at the plot.

There was no one in the library at this time.

Rod didn't say anything and continued reading the book in his hands.

The book he randomly pulled out was a copy of "The Wind in the Forest".

These are poems left by many anonymous bards, compiled and recorded by scholars of Mondstadt, and together with the narrative poetry collection entitled "The Wind in the Lake," they form two volumes.

It contains many poems.

Rather than being a poem, it is more like a history recorded in poetic form.

At least Rhodes read a lot about Wendy and Dwarin's story in this book, "The Wind in the Woods".

It is said that bards' songs, in order to gain listeners and Mora, often exaggerate or even distort history, and most of their content has extremely low credibility.

Kelude stared at it for a long time.

But then I suddenly realized...

If you remove the many imaginative passages and deliberately ornate rhetoric from the stories recorded in "Wind in the Woods," it is clearly a true history book.

This contains records of the history of Mondstadt.

It's even more detailed and complete than the history books that Mondstadt uses as teaching materials now. It covers everything from the story of the Storm Demons ruling Mondstadt during the Demon Wars, to the history of Mondstadt overthrowing the old nobility a thousand years ago with the help of the Wind God, and to the bloody battle between Dvalin and Dullin five hundred years ago.

As I flipped through the pages...

Rhodes noticed something.

That is, the poems in "The Wind in the Forest" have a large gap in time span.

For example, the oldest timeline in this book can be traced back more than two thousand years, but then it jumps directly to one thousand years ago. The timeline of more than one thousand years in between consists entirely of poems about the scenery and changes in Mondstadt, with a serious lack of historical records like those about the Storm Demon and the Anemo Archon. After the history of the Four Winds, it jumps directly to five hundred years ago, until the East Wind Dragon was severely injured and summoned back by the Anemo Archon, and then fell into a deep sleep. The historical records then come to an abrupt end, and what follows are just some uninformative modern poems.

This strange recording style made Rod think of a possibility.

"Most of the poems here were written by you, right?"

Rod snapped the book of poems shut and turned to look at Wendy.

He is now 80% confident.