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

She knows nothing.

Even when she saw the divine throne appear and become involved with Rhodes, her expression was exactly the same as Rhodes's: astonishment.

"Don't give me that look~~~"

Faced with Rhodes's murderous gaze, Wendy shrank back and, just like Appepp, quickly turned and disappeared without a trace.

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After Wendy ran away, Rhodes could only turn his attention to the Great Tree King, who was looking at Narcida from left to right like a mischievous girl.

"Oh my, I never thought I'd actually meet you in real life."

As usual, the Great Tree King completely ignored Rhodes's gaze and focused all his attention on Narcida with a beaming smile.

"you"

"Things are different now than they were back then."

Nasita clearly hadn't gotten used to the cheerful and somewhat mischievous Great Tree King.

"Hmm, there is a little bit."

The Great Tree King rested his chin on his hand and pouted, saying, "Nabu's influence is still very strong. Alas, there's nothing I can do. It's really hard to fight against this kind of instinct that comes from the body."

"Instinct?"

Naxi Da said softly.

Compare.

Nasita and the Great Tree King could easily swap sizes now.

Although the Great Tree King had exhibited similar behavior when it regained consciousness before, this contrast still easily pulls the viewer out of the story.

Anyway.

This is completely different from the Great Tree King in the consciousness space, who had everything under control and disregarded life and death.

"Nabu, is this the kind of personality the Flower Goddess has?"

Nasita had never seen the Flower Goddess.

Historical records about the goddess of flowers are scarce, and Nasita did not have any particular impression of her in her memory.

The Great Tree King pretended to think for a moment, then laughed: "She's like this when she's happy, but she can be quite scary when she's unhappy."

"That's it."

Naxi Da hadn't finished speaking.

Rhodes, who had been left hanging for a long time, couldn't take it anymore and interrupted their conversation, saying, "Hey, don't you need to give me an explanation?"

He pointed to the sky and asked, "What exactly is that thing? Why is it connected to me?"

Rhodes finished speaking.

Nasita looked at the Great Tree King with the same expression.

Wendy and Appepp can both run, but the Great Tree King is not someone you can simply avoid talking about.

Realizing this, the Great Tree King sighed deeply and casually shrugged.

“Barbatos already told you.”

"You're not ready to know these things yet."

"You just need to know that we are all trying to help you."

Are they all helping themselves?

Rhodes asked himself.

After Apep tore off the silk threads on the throne, he did indeed feel a sense of lightness in his body.

He had never noticed this before.

Even if the Eye of God is shattered.

Aside from not being able to use the Eye of God, he didn't notice anything unusual.

Rhodes stretched out his hand, pondering as he looked at the clump of grass elemental power in his hand.

Despite still lacking the Eye of God, he regained the ability to use elemental power.

This is a characteristic of elemental organisms.

This is also a characteristic of the Adventists.

These signs all pretty much confirm that the possibility that Rhodes himself had guessed was indeed true.

Am I like you?

To confirm his conjecture, Rhodes asked the Great Tree King again.

"If you insist."

"really."

The Great Tree King nodded first, then said, "However, you are not quite the same as me."

"Not the same?"

"Yes, your spiritual light is a very special existence, similar to Seymour's."

"Seymourne? Which bird?"

The divine bird Seymour, daughter of the flower goddess Nabu Marikata, possesses the wisdom of flowers and the essence of the sky. She is a point in the heart of flowers, a drop of light among countless nectars.

Am I a special being, much like Seymour?

Rhodes continued, "Didn't the Flower Goddess only leave behind a wisp of light?"

"Huh? You know a lot."

The Great Tree King let out a soft "Eh," then answered directly, "Don't you know? Nabu herself was formed from spiritual light."

"Ha—ah!"

This answer startled Rod.

Is the Flower Goddess herself a ray of light?

Does the Great Tree King mean that its true form is actually the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess? No, it should be the remains of the Flower Goddess transformed into something else?

"The consciousness of the Descendant combined with the remains of the Flower Goddess, so Sky Island wants to imprison me to prevent me from becoming the Fifth Descendant?"

Rhodes stated his conjecture directly, posing the difficult question to the Great Tree King.

This was the only explanation he could think of.

The Eye of God is a shackle.

What are the characteristics of the Adventists?

Besides being able to rival the will of a world, it also possesses unparalleled compatibility with elemental forces. The Heart of God, representing the Seven Rulers of the Mortal Realm, was created using the remains of the Descendants.

That thread connecting it to the throne of God.

For Nasita and the Great Tree King, it was a symbol of their status as grass goddesses.

For Rhodes, however, it was the shackles that continued to pull at him even after his Eye of God shattered.

Let's sort out what happened before based on this conjecture.

This roughly outlines the timeline.

Before King Vichi opened the gates of the abyss, the Flower Goddess separated a ray of light and gave it to the Great Tree King. The Great Tree King then shaped a body for it, namely the divine bird Seymour, and one ray of light resided in the Great Tree King's consciousness.

Then the Flower Goddess opened the door, and was swallowed by the power of the abyss. The remnants turned into another ray of light, wandering in the desert until Rhodes' consciousness descended and merged with it.

Aura itself does not have the ability to create a physical body.

The Flower Goddess's consciousness had long been extinguished in the disaster brought about by the opening of the door.

Therefore, the unconscious inspiration found Rhodes' body in his memories and successfully constructed the body for him to use on the continent of Teyvat.

If it weren't for the pursuit by the Tanit tribe, Rhodes might have faded into obscurity among ordinary people, living a mundane life in Teyvat, instead of getting involved in all sorts of things like he does now.

But it's a pity.

No if.

Rhodes's intense will to live, which erupted when he was on the verge of death, triggered the God's Eye distribution system on Sky Island.

The first Eye of God, which was also the first shackle, thus descended from the sky.

While granting Rhodes the ability to manipulate ice elemental power, it also locked away his future as a descendant.

The same applies to the subsequent Fire Elemental Eye and Grass Elemental Eye.

Whenever Rhodes' will touches Sky Island, new shackles will descend, firmly locking him under Sky Island's control.

The acquisition of the Eye of the Wind element was probably a complete accident.

Because Rhodes actually succeeded in using the Heart of the Wind God at that time.

According to the conjecture of the theory of chains.

Rhodes' three Eyes of God locked him to three divine thrones, but not the throne of the Wind God.

Therefore, he was able to invoke the divine heart of the wind god through the will of the descendant.

Sky Island then urgently bound him with a fourth shackle, completely locking him away from using wind elemental power beyond his authority.

This is why Rhodes was unable to use the Heart of the Wind God no matter how he tried afterward.

This is probably why he couldn't control the heart of the grass god on his own.

Then the time jumps to when the consciousness of the Great Tree King was reborn.

Previously, Rhodes had never understood why the fragments of the Great Tree King's consciousness would reside in his Eye of God.

He now has a general outline.

That is, he himself was connected with the throne of the Grass God, and the concrete manifestation of this connection at that time was the eye of the Grass God.

The three gods of Sumeru once shared the power of the grass god.