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

A purplish-black flame, identical in aura to the Black Flame Serpent, erupted from Kolei's body in an instant. Influenced by this demonic power, the once clear sky was instantly covered with dark clouds, and thunder rumbled.

The moment these demonic powers, powerful enough to influence celestial phenomena, escaped from Kolai's body, they panicked and tried to flee.

But it was bound by the magic circle.

They had no chance of escape and could only be sucked into the cube with faint roars of anger.

Everything seems to be going well.

However, this is the process of stripping away the power of the demon god.

The suffering that Cole endured had reached an unimaginable level.

Just as Sino had warned before.

The pain of sealing the remains of the demon god is worse than death.

At this moment, Cole was holding his head in his hands, sometimes banging his head on the ground, sometimes rolling around on the ground in pain, and sometimes kneeling on the ground and howling to the sky, which was unbearable to watch.

Fortunately.

This sealing ritual, which tormented Kolai and those around her, did not last long.

Just a few minutes later.

The demonic power extracted from Cole's body was sealed within that square block, eventually transforming into a unique snake-shaped tattoo on the back of her neck.

"The seal has ended."

As Seno's voice faded, Cole, finally emerging from her pain, collapsed to the ground, turned her head and forced a weak smile at Rhodes and Desia, before collapsing completely and losing consciousness.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 64 Feedback Post

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Chapter 65 Dixia's Gift (Please read on Tuesday)

Cole remained unconscious from morning until afternoon.

During this period.

Sino waited patiently there.

Said it before.

When not on official business, Seno is quite approachable. He was also very interested in Rhodes, and the two chatted for a while and even got along quite well.

If he hadn't told so many lame jokes, the atmosphere in the room would have been much more cheerful.

He also brought a message to Rhodes.

That was the attack on the instructor at Kawan Station earlier; the group of thirty has already apprehended the perpetrator.

This news left Rhodes and Desia looking at each other in bewilderment.

The real culprit is sitting right here.

What kind of murderer did this group of thirty people catch?

Kill innocent people and claim credit for them.

These four words spontaneously came to mind.

There is only one explanation.

Sino's later words conveyed roughly the same meaning.

The group of thirty people captured a group of desert people on the grounds that they had a grudge against the Tanit tribe. Their motive was to seek revenge and frame the Tanit tribe, trying to pin the blame on them.

“There are people in the Botanite tribe.”

This is another piece of information provided by Sino.

All the 30 suspects apprehended during their trial were injured, several of them seriously.

According to the group of thirty, the desert people resisted fiercely when the murderer was being apprehended, which is why the person was injured so badly.

Sino naturally did not accept this result.

In his opinion.

These 'murderers' were clearly forced to confess under torture, and the matter of the Tanit tribe smuggling knowledge was also dismissed with a flimsy 'framing' charge.

"Even the head of the discipline inspection commission can't handle this kind of thing?"

Rhodes was somewhat curious.

The Grand Discipline Officer was a high-ranking official in Sumeru, so how could he just stand by and watch the mercenary group of thirty kill innocent people and claim credit for their crimes?

"Unfortunately."

“I really can’t control these things.”

"It's not from a functional department."

"If I have any objections, they can only be against the smuggling of knowledge; murder cases are not within my jurisdiction."

Sino shook his head: "Moreover, the Church of Christ also accepted this result, and there was not much physical evidence at the scene, so their testimonies alone meet the standards for conviction."

"So that means the case is closed?"

Rhodes was not very satisfied with the result either.

If that were the case.

Doesn't that mean that the Tanit smuggling knowledge I risked exposing has no impact on the Tanit tribe at all?

"The case has indeed been closed."

Sino continued, "The main reason was that the Tanit tribe was very cooperative. When the disciplinary officer went to investigate, their elders immediately handed over dozens of accomplices involved in the smuggling and shifted all the blame onto the deceased named Adelfi. The responsibility was divided very quickly. In addition, not many contraband items were found from them, so the matter was eventually dropped."

"Not many contraband items were found?"

Rhodes didn't like hearing that.

What kind of tribe is the Tanit tribe?

They're capable of anything: robbery, theft, murder, smuggling, and treasure raiding.

They even used their experience of robbing scholars from the Church of England as something to brag about.

How could a tribe like that not have a lot of contraband?

"It is what it is."

Seno gave Rhodes a strange look, then imagined it and said, "It seems you also know about the reputation of the Tanit tribe. Ha, if you know it, do you think we disciplinary officers don't know it? But the fact is we didn't find many contraband items. Whether we really didn't find any or not, we always convict based on the actual evidence found. Since we didn't get enough evidence, we naturally can't convict them."

"alright."

No matter how dissatisfied he was with the investigation results, things had come to this point, and Rhodes could no longer go and kill a few more smugglers from the Tanit tribe to continue to pin the blame on them.

have to say.

The Tanit tribe is indeed quite capable.

To be able to make even the disciplinary officials return empty-handed is something that ordinary desert tribes cannot do.

But then I thought about it.

They were investigated by the disciplinary officials.

The Tanit tribe will not dare to engage in smuggling under the radar for at least the time being. And the reason why no contraband was found may be because they destroyed the contraband themselves.

If you think so.

Rod felt much better than before.

For any desert tribe, smuggling is a very important means of acquiring resources.

Although the attack on the instructor did not cause them greater losses, the fact that they could not operate their smuggling business for a short period of time and had to destroy a lot of resources was a painful loss even for a large tribe like Tanit.

Just as Rhodes and Seno were discussing the Tanit tribe, Cole, who had been in a deep sleep, finally woke up.

Having just woken up, she was clearly still recovering from the previous pain. Even though she was awake, she sat on the bed in a daze.

a long time.

She finally came to her senses, her body trembling slightly as she looked at her hands.

All the bandages that had been wrapped around his body were removed.

Those unsightly, jagged scars have vanished, and even the distinctive gray-black scales of Devil Scales have disappeared.

Judging solely from appearances...

Cole was almost indistinguishable from a normal child.

"The damage to your body from the remnants of the demon god was indeed severe, but your demon scale disease was also fully suppressed by the power of the remnants of the demon god."

Seno, who was standing nearby, offered a timely explanation.

Yes, that's exactly right.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Dotore's team lured people to their lab under the guise of treating Demonscale Disease; he did indeed find a way to suppress Demonscale Disease.

Therefore, although Cole suffered greatly from the poison of the demon god's remnants, he has now turned misfortune into blessing, greatly prolonging the onset of the demon scale disease.

Furthermore, even though the remnants of the demon god were sealed, it did not affect its effectiveness in the slightest.

It's even better than when it was more active before.

Even Cole's own symptoms of scaly disease have dissipated considerably as a result.

After a brief moment of surprise and excitement.