The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

“Yes, that’s it!” Ying nodded, agreeing with Paimon.

"You're an astrologer too?" Seeing the three of them fall so quickly to Ember, Mona couldn't help but feel curious, even though it was a joke.

“No, but I’m very interested in your astrology.” Yu Jin shook his head. Mona’s water divination just now had some interesting interpretations.

"You're not an astrologer, so how do you know so much?" Mona was extremely puzzled. Then she spread her hands and began to perform astrology.

Ember watched Mona's performance with interest without stopping her, since he was certain that Mona wouldn't be able to divine anything.

"Well, what did the divination reveal?" Seeing Mona's actions, Ying, Paimon, Fischl, and Oz all came over.

They were also very curious about what Mona could predict.

“Uh…” Mona kept undulating on the water divination plate. She found that her divination results did not point to anything, and even her attempt to reflect her destiny star ended in failure.

Mona wiped the sweat from her forehead; this was the first time she had ever experienced something so strange.

"I didn't expect to run into someone as formidable as Yu Jin so soon after I came out. Alright, I'm not looking anymore. You must have concealed your destiny star!"

After much thought, Mona could only come up with one possibility—Ember was also an astrologer, and even more skilled in divination than she was.

“Astrology? You’ve got it wrong. I don’t have any of those predictive skills.” Yu Jin scratched his head, then hesitated for a moment before saying in a low voice, “However, I can make astrology useless.”

Ember reached out and began to stir the water in the dish in Mona's place.

The mirror-like water rippled, reflecting Fischl's image.

The girl grew up, stopped dreaming, started her own family, and eventually grew old as time went by...

Then the scene suddenly shifts, and the girl transforms into a skilled archer, leaping and bounding through a monster-infested secret realm, resembling a Valkyrie...

Then the scene changes again; the girl in the mirror is a painter, a novelist, a Knight of Favonius, and many other people...

The scene changed faster and faster, with countless jumping scenes stretching endlessly, eventually turning into chaos and nothingness.

"See, nothing can be predicted in the face of infinite possibilities."

Chapter 336 Countless Fischl

2023-12-06

"Hey, hey, hey, this isn't a joke, is it!" Mona exclaimed excitedly upon seeing the shaking scene on the water tray.

She snatched the water dipstick and started turning it on and on. But no matter how Mona adjusted the parameters on the water dipstick, the image displayed was still a surging chaos.

Now she can't even see Fischl's future.

"This...how is this possible!" Mona looked utterly shocked. In the astrology her master had taught her, everyone's destiny was imprinted on the natal star in the sky.

A person's destiny is revealed by their natal star, and no matter how tortuous the journey, it will ultimately lead to the ending foretold by the natal star. This is also why water divination can predict the future.

If you can see the result, then that result will definitely happen! This is the root of astrology, and something Mona firmly believes in.

But now, the very source of this theory that she once firmly believed in is beginning to waver.

"Nothing is impossible. Besides, your astrology has flaws. If you introduce even a little variable, you can't see anything."

Yu Jin used a water basin as a mirror and a rag to wipe his helmet, and surprisingly, it cleaned it quite well.

"If you ask me, what's the point of prophecy? It's never actually come true. We might as well find a way to see the future directly," Ember said, handing the dirty water dish back to Mona.

Prophecies are things that, once spoken, are bound to backfire. In any case, Ember has never seen a prophecy actually come true.

Or perhaps, the act of making a prophecy itself influences the occurrence of the prophecy?

Yu Jin thought for a while but couldn't come up with a solution. He had always felt that divination was useless and that it was better to just look with his eyes.

"See...see the future? That's impossible!" Mona was so shocked she didn't know what to say.

Seeing the future is simply impossible. If divination is about manipulating fate, then seeing the future is like stripping fate bare.

Mona glanced at the blackened water-filled dish in her hand and silently tossed it away. Considering the mystery and power of the Ember, she decided not to pursue the matter.

Mona then summoned a new water compass and flicked it a few times.

"Phew..." Mona breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the result on the divination board. As expected, it was pretty much what she had guessed; as long as it wasn't related to the embers, the divination would still produce a result.

The water divination technique itself wasn't wrong! The problem was with Yu Jin!

Mona's mood improved immediately after learning that astrology was still useful. Now all she wanted to do was run back to the old woman and tell her about Ember, to see her look embarrassed.

But the thought of having secretly read the old woman's diary from her teenage years made Mona sigh again. She felt that she might be "humanely dealt with" by the old woman before she even had a chance to speak.

It's a really sad story to think about.

"Hey, what's wrong with her?" Ember asked, leaning over to Ying and Fischl, noticing Mona's dejected look.

"I don't know, maybe I was discouraged by you, senior." Ying shook her head. That's how it is when she's with Yu Jin.

In Mondstadt, Ying thought she was going to have a big fight with Dvalin, but nothing happened and Dvalin was fine.

In Liyue, she thought she had to fight a demon god no matter what she did, but in the end she just became a heartless clapping robot.

"So fragile?"

"Who said I'm fragile? I'm all better now!"

Mona was only depressed for a short while before recovering. She had long known the saying that there are always people more capable than you, and that there's always something beyond your understanding.

The old woman alone could easily beat her in every way, not to mention her strange and wonderful "sisters".

The Ember before her was merely one of the new powerful beings. Having realized this, Mona accepted the fact that her astrology had failed.

"But those images you just touched were really strange." Mona recalled the scenes she had glimpsed, her heart filled with shock and doubt.

She had been traveling around with the old woman, so she naturally knew more secrets than others. In that fleeting glimpse, Mona saw many forbidden scenes.

This made her wonder if Fischl, this chuunibyou (delusional) girl, really had the possibility of reaching those futures.

“You’re right, I think I saw the princess becoming the commander of the knight order.” After Mona mentioned it, Oz also remembered the scene he had seen before.

With her ponytail and wearing the armor of the Knights of Favonius, the adult Fischl is both handsome and dashing!

"That's less likely; it's not as likely as Oz becoming the Grand Master of the Knights."

Ember nodded and added.

"Is...is that so?" Oz was speechless. He never imagined that his bird life could be so exciting.

“I saw Fischl wearing a white robe. What’s going on? Is there a possibility that Fischl could become a nun?” Ying also chimed in.

“No…” Ember hesitated for a moment, then said, “It was Fischl who slashed Barbatos and became the wind god himself.”

"Fischl is this amazing!" Ying was taken aback. She never expected that Fischl, who seemed like a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur), could be so powerful.

"The possibility of this is even smaller than Bennett becoming the God of Fire."

"How small is that?"

“The probability is even smaller than the destruction of Teyvat tomorrow!” Ember gestured. It’s true that there are countless possibilities in the future, but the probability of each one coming true is different.

The possibility of Fischl becoming a wind god is indeed smaller than Teyvat exploding on the spot tomorrow.

Just as everyone was about to discuss Fischl's infinite future possibilities, Fischl couldn't take it anymore.

With a flushed face, she rushed to the center of the crowd and cried out in embarrassment, "Stop talking! If you keep talking, I won't talk to you anymore!"

"Hehe, I didn't expect Fischl to have such a shy side?" Paimon saw that Fischl was so embarrassed that she couldn't even say anything silly, so he immediately gave up on teasing her.

She had originally wanted to ask why Fischl had turned into an angel, but now it was better not to ask.

It's probably a very low probability possibility.

Seeing that everyone had stopped talking about his outrageous future, Fischl finally felt much better.

She never even considered becoming a painter, a knight commander, or a wind god. Could she possibly become one of those people in the future?

Oh, no, some of them can't even become human.

Seeing the confusion in Fischl's eyes, Ember tapped her head. "Fischl, where your future leads depends on who you are now."

"So, stop thinking about all that nonsense. If you don't want to become Catherine 2.0 in the future, you'd better start working hard now!"

"What does 'Catherine II' mean?" Mona scratched her head and asked curiously.

"It's just about serving tea and water. If you guys let yourselves get away with it, the chances of this happening are pretty high." Yu Jin glanced at Mona, then teased:

"I think Mona is coming soon. You're almost out of Mora in your pocket, aren't you?"

Mona blushed upon hearing this, and retorted defiantly, "Who said that? The Adventurers' Guild is offering very generous rewards this time, enough for me to live lavishly for months!"

"I hope so." Yu Jin smacked his lips, his disbelief practically written all over his face.

Because in his spying, Mona bought a lot of astrology materials as soon as she received her payment.

Before she could even warm up the Mora she had just received, it flew away from her hands, making Ember worry that she might be malnourished from eating dirt for too long.

"What do you mean by this?!" Mona felt that Yu Jin was looking down on her.

Although she's a bit poor right now, she's made up her mind! She'll definitely control her spending and save money from now on!

By then, I'll definitely be one of the richest people in Mondstadt, and Ember will look down on me!

"It doesn't mean anything, it just means if you keep standing there, you'll be sleeping alone on Dihua Isle!"

"Hey! Wait for me! Why are you guys running so fast!"

As she spoke, Mona quickly ran towards the group of people in the distance; she didn't want to spend the night in the wilderness.

Chapter 337 Skirmisher No. 2

2023-12-06

If you keep walking along the road in Dihuazhou, you will see a tall tree in the distance.

The tree itself was nothing special; it was simply large. But what was surprising was that there were quite a few pavilions and towers on the winding trunk of that tree.

This is Wangshu Inn, the largest building complex in Dihua Marsh. It provides shelter for the people of Dihua Marsh and serves as a rest stop and supply point for merchants traveling between Mondstadt and Liyue.

However, the Wangshu Inn was no longer as prosperous as before. When Yu Jin and the others walked in, the food stalls below the inn were no longer furnished with tables and chairs, but instead with large sheds.

Inside the greenhouse are the people who fell into a deep sleep due to the meteorite impact.

"So many?" Everyone was somewhat surprised to see people fast asleep.