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

Providing education is what's truly important. Continuing to block knowledge and create information cocoons as before will only lead the public to blindly trust empty rhetoric.

In Rhodes' view, a true genius is one whose vision is not limited by the void.

We want to make the land of wisdom prosperous again.

The best approach is to open up the void and select those who will not be blinded by it.

After careful consideration, Nasita...

Ultimately, Rhodes's suggestion was adopted, and the Void Terminals were distributed to the desert region. Any Sumeru person who had left their identity information in the Void could receive a Void Terminal.

After this series of operations...

Rhodes's void terminal, which used to have intermittent signal when he went to the desert, can now be used smoothly.

He was using the Void Terminal to tell Narcida that he had arrived with Mondstadt and Winterbreak's delegation.

"Let's go, Naxida is waiting for us at Jingshan Palace."

After contacting Narcida, Rhodes waved to the lady and Diluc.

A palace for the Grass God was also built within the branch of the Church of Hope City.

Although Nasita felt that this was a waste of resources and manpower, and since she usually spent most of her time in Sumeru City, she did not need to build such a luxurious palace for herself.

However, the scholars of the Academy disagreed.

They all unanimously stated that Lord Kusagami had suffered five hundred years of imprisonment, and even if it was the work of great sages throughout history, it was still a dereliction of duty on the part of the Order of the Monastic Council, and Lord Kusagami must be properly compensated.

Forced.

To prevent them from wasting their limited funds and building materials, Nasita used her divine power to build herself a palace of grass and wood around the source of the oasis and the nursery of the Great Tree King.

Just like when I was in the Order of the Church.

This Jingshan Palace was not opened without Naxi Da's permission, and outsiders are not allowed to enter at will.

"Little Lucky Grass King"

When Hazard heard Nasita's name, his eyes regained some clarity, but after his lips moved a few times, he returned to his previous unconscious state, only able to mutter "what have we done?"

"Humph--"

"blasphemer——!"

Despite her current madness, the woman is remarkably similar to Rhodes in her attitude towards Hazard, the blasphemer.

Rhodes didn't think much of this attitude, but Diluc and the others didn't look at her with friendly eyes.

Your own gods cannot be desecrated, but you can attack other people's gods at will, right?

The atmosphere on both sides became tense again because of these three simple words.

Fortunately, Wendy didn't come along and took Klee, who fully understood the adult world, with her; otherwise, the atmosphere might have been even more tense.

Talk about it.

Rhodes is quite strange.

He was very curious about what kind of mental journey the woman had gone through to become so distorted that she was completely different from the person she was five hundred years ago, from a gentle and quiet singer to the arrogant and rude madwoman she is now.

True.

Her tragic experience of being consumed by hatred and anger after losing everything is worthy of sympathy.

But Rhodes still couldn't quite understand.

After receiving the blessing of the Ice God and being reborn, why did Rosalind turn on Mondstadt so cruelly?

It's one thing to take drastic measures against other countries, but that's just the mission of the Fools.

They were particularly ruthless towards Mondstadt.

Why is that?

After burning herself out, had she gone so mad that she forgot why Rustan died in the first place?

She's still thinking about Rustan, isn't she?

On the way to Hope City, Rodcock saw her secretly stroking an old-fashioned timepiece more than once.

That was a token of love that Rustan gave her.

Five hundred years have passed, and she is still carefully preserving this thing.

This shows that she has never forgotten Rustan.

Why would that woman deliberately sabotage the reconciliation between the Knights of Favonius and Dvalin, forcibly prolong the Dragon Plague, and, knowing that her time was limited and she couldn't leave the Knights of Favonius any leverage for diplomatic repercussions when she seized the Heart of God, choose to punch and kick Venti and waste her breath verbally humiliating him?

'Cleanse the source of this world's distortion: the short-sighted and foolish gods, the filthy and dark abyss.'

Rhodes can only explain this by the ideal of the Ice God.

It is precisely because of this.

His wariness of women had increased significantly compared to before.

A person who only targets Mondstadt with deadly intent and a person who harbors indiscriminate hostility towards all six gods are not the same thing.

At least for now.

The lady is preparing and is interfering in the internal affairs of Sumeru, and her target is most likely Nasita.

So anyway.

Rhodes wouldn't let the lady succeed. At the very least, he had to make her stop daring to reach into Sumeru, and also make Sumeru's attitude clear to Zhidong.

They don't like outsiders interfering here.

If you want the Heart of God, we can give it to you. But if you do anything else, we'll have to chop off the hand you've stuck in there.

Compared to the outer city.

Construction inside Hope City is in full swing.

The roads were basically paved, with only the final step of road surface laying remaining. Houses of all sizes had been built in the residential area. The construction team, composed of instructors from the Order of the Church and tribal people, was busy with all the work. Even when unfamiliar strangers came by, they didn't even glance at them.

"Alchemy materials."

The so-called layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

Abedor, whose alchemy skills were almost at the very top of Teyvat, immediately recognized that many of the construction materials here were made using alchemy.

He was clearly more interested in the applications of these alchemical techniques than in meeting the herb god.

before coming.

He then received a notification from Qin.

His trip to Winter on behalf of the Knights of Favonius was solely for the purpose of exchanging alchemical knowledge between the two countries.

Seeing the traces of alchemy used everywhere in the construction of Hope City, I couldn't help but slow down and my attention was drawn to it more.

“Mr. Abedo, if you are interested, you can stay here for now and we will come back to you after we have finished meeting with Nasita.”

Rod spoke very politely to Aberdo.

I'm going to see Nasita now.

The main point is to promote technological and commercial cooperation between Mondstadt and Sumeru. According to the rules for diplomatic missions, only the chief and deputy envoys need to be present; it doesn't matter if others are not there.

Speaking of which.

Rod glanced at the woman.

"Oh?"

"Is Mr. Rhodes planning to kick me out too?"

The woman saw through Rhodes's thoughts, raised her chin, and said with a forced smile, "I think your Hope City still needs a lot of assistance. I must discuss this matter with the Grass God."

"Don't slander people here."

"I never said I was going to kick you out."

Rhodes returned the same smile, then patted Tinaly on the shoulder. Seeing that he looked better, he led them toward the center of Hope City, the location of the Church's branch campus.

Tina's physical condition is still not very good.

Even if Rhodes provided him with ice elemental power to cool him down the whole time.

He was still so hot that he was almost exhausted.

If Rhodes's ice elemental power hadn't been stronger than that of other Eye of God holders, he probably wouldn't have been able to make it to Hope City.

But this was already enough to satisfy Tinari.

After all, given his physical condition, it was truly remarkable that he was able to persevere this far.

not to mention.

After he meets the Grass God, he might be able to get rid of the regret of not being able to enter the desert.

Think of this.

Tinali quickened her pace, as if she couldn't wait to get to Nasita.

The closer the branch is to the Church of Christ.

The buildings along the way were built to be more and more perfect.

to the opposite.

The lady and Diluc, however, slowed their pace even further.

Even those who had never participated in city building could see the uniqueness of this new city built in the desert.

"Is this thing they're laying on the ground an energy transmission line?"

When she saw the workers laying out slabs of stone with special patterns as road surface material, the woman finally couldn't help but ask.

The road layout in Hope City is quite strange.

It has many layers and a strange layout, with a lot of random patterns, yet they are connected by some peculiar rules.

If Lisa were here, she would definitely be able to tell that these special road surfaces use mechanical runes.

pity.