The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

However, only those familiar with Kanoin Heizo knew that this young man's body contained extremely powerful energy.

"Sigh... I'm someone who can catch Kujo Taisho's flying arrow with my bare hands, so why do people always look down on me?"

With a soft sigh, Shiroin Heizo looked at the Fools who were gradually surrounding him, and then charged straight in with a roar.

Chapter 428 Whack-a-Mole

2024-01-18

"boom!"

Slender flashes of light streaked through the restless crowd as bullets imbued with fire elemental power whistled past, faster and more powerful than ordinary crossbows.

"when!"

The bullet struck Yu Jin's breastplate, creating only a few sparks before falling silent. It was as if the bullet had struck not the armor plates, but the thick steel wall of the firing range.

"Huh?" After snatching the Thunder Hammer weapon and slamming it into the sand, Ember touched his chest. Had something just stung him?

Then he saw the gunner loading ammunition.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this gun leaks elemental energy so badly? Don't you Fatui know how to improve your weapons?"

Ember suddenly appeared behind the musketeer, causing the latter to freeze in his loading motion.

The musketeer stopped moving, but Ember did not. He swung his lightning hammer down hard, striking the musketeer squarely on the top of the head.

"Boom!"

A crisp sound rang out, and another dizzy "groundhog" appeared on the beach.

I heard you!

The lady in the distance, who was hiding behind a mirror, twitched her ears slightly. In her dark vision, a figure appeared. This was not something she saw, but something she heard.

The woman in the mirror turned to face the embers and stretched out her hands.

One after another, sharp-edged azure water mirrors appeared around the embers, and his figure was reflected in the rippling water.

Yu Jin didn't flinch; instead, he looked in the mirror with great interest. He hadn't paid attention to his appearance in a long time, and he wondered if he had become more handsome.

Unfortunately, the reflection of Ember in the mirror remained unchanged; he neither became more handsome nor uglier.

The water mirror not only reflected the image of the embers, but also the surrounding light. The light distorted around the water mirror, forming strange frequencies.

In the flickering light, the faint whispers of the ladies could be heard.

"Let me see... ah—"

"You're really something, daring to use illusion magic on me. You want to replace your eyes with Fire Keeper's eyes, huh?"

Yu Jin realized that the woman in the hidden mirror had tried to use illusion magic on him.

Without time to think, Yu Jin reached out and grasped, freezing everything about the Hidden Mirror Lady in place. At this moment, she was like a beautiful statue behind a barrier, as if everything in this world had nothing to do with her.

Of course, everything about her has nothing to do with this world.

"Give me a handy."

With another "bang," the "groundhogs" on the beach turned into three.

Shouldering the lightning hammer, Ember wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead. That was close; thankfully he reacted quickly, otherwise something indescribable would have appeared on Sea Spirit Island.

After wiping his sweat, Ember began to stare at the Fools. Whichever Fool his gaze met, that Fool involuntarily took a few steps back.

Just kidding. The Hidden Mirror Lady is considered one of the strongest in their camp, and she was easily dealt with by this strange guy. If it were them, it would have been even faster.

Not to mention the bizarre state of the Lady Hidden in the Mirror at the end.

"Are you coming or not?" Ember asked impatiently, waving the massive lightning hammer in one hand.

The Fools around them looked at each other, nodded in unison, and then turned around and rushed towards Hirazo Kanoin.

"..."

"Ember, are you dead? If you're not, say something! Why are there so many people here?!"

Soon, Heizo Kanoin's furious roar echoed from the crowd. He probably hadn't expected the number of people surrounding him to increase so dramatically in an instant!

"You're not dead! Just wait!"

Yu Jin responded from afar, then completely transformed into a blur, raising a cloud of dust on the beach.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The loud banging echoed through the dust and smoke, like a symphony that was sure to give listeners goosebumps.

As the only listener here, Kanoin Heizo felt the same way. With each "bang," he felt a tingling sensation in the top of his head.

Once the dust settled, heads appeared on the once pristine white sand.

Now even if you don't listen, you'll get goosebumps.

"Does it sound good? If it sounds good, then it's a good start." Ember appeared, planted the huge hammerhead in the ground, and clapped his hands as he spoke.

Upon hearing this, Kanoin Heizo shrank back, offering no comment.

What can he possibly say? That the Fools have hard heads?

"Alright, everyone's cleaned up!" Yu Jin looked around. Apart from him and Kanoin Heizo who were still standing, everyone else was half-buried in the ground.

Even the enemies defeated by Kanoin Heizo were no exception. Since they were colleagues, they should share both good times and bad!

So Ember decisively hammered the corpses lying on the ground into the ground as well.

"It really is... hard to say, hard to say." Seeing the densely packed heads on the beach, Kanoin Heizo felt he needed to wash his eyes when he got back.

Such a bizarre scene is truly an eyesore.

Rubbing his eyes, Kanoin Heizo decided to get down to business.

He cleared his throat and said in a loud voice, "The Tenryo Envoy, Shironoin Heizo, suspects your organization of colluding with the resistance and needs to thoroughly investigate your camp. Does anyone have any objections?"

"..."

The Fools on the beach didn't respond, because they were all stunned by Ember's hammer blows. Their eyes were darting around, and naturally, no one objected.

"Alright, thank you for your cooperation." Shiroin Heizo chuckled softly when he saw that none of the Fools responded.

He then began rummaging through drawers and cabinets.

"Let me see... the ledger... where is the ledger?"

Inside the military tent, Kanoin Heizo was rummaging through something as if no one else was around. The solemn and intricate emblems of the Fools on the tent, which inspired awe at first glance, seemed to transform into invisible eyes, watching over all acts of disrespect towards the Fools.

Unfortunately, despite their long-term observation, they did not slow down Hirazo Kanoin's movements even slightly.

When he came out of the tent again, he had turned the entire camp upside down.

However, when Kanoin Heizo emerged, there was no joy on his face; instead, his expression was even more somber.

"Judging from your expression, you haven't found anything, have you?" Yu Jin saw that Shironoin Heizo's brows were furrowed, and knew that there was no valuable information inside.

"Phew... As expected of the Fools, their moves are truly clean." Upon hearing this, Shikanoin Heizo irritably rubbed his short hair.

This is much more difficult to deal with than ordinary petty thieves.

But after the initial frustration subsided, a strange sense of excitement arose within Kanoin Heizo.

Piercing through layers of fog to piece together the truth like fragmented collages—isn't that what a detective should do?

"You think you can stump me without the ledger? Don't underestimate a detective!"

With barely suppressed excitement, Kanoin Heizo drew three interconnected circles of different sizes on the ground.

"Alchemy runes? You want to make a truth serum?" Ember raised an eyebrow when he saw the symbols on the ground.

Isn't this the rune on the alchemy table? Is Kanoin Heizo trying to conjure up a bottle of Truth Elixir from scratch here?

"Veritable serum? Does that seem like a detective's method? Besides, there doesn't seem to be such a strange thing in alchemy!"

Upon hearing Yu Jin's words, Kanoin Heizo couldn't help but retort. And does something like a truth serum even really exist?

"Then what are you going to do?" Yu Jin squatted down with Shinoin Heizo. He looked at the simple alchemical runes on the ground, which were crooked and obviously drawn by an amateur.

Alchemical runes of this caliber, not to mention how much elemental energy they can withstand, are questionable even in terms of whether they can allow elemental energy to flow at all.

"I'm not going to do anything. Since I can't get any clues from people, I'll ask about the items."

As he spoke, Kanoin Heizo pulled out a damp piece of wood covered with iron. He had just pried it off a pillar of the Fools' army tent.

Chapter 429 A Detective Worthy of His Name

2024-01-18

"what is this?"

Yu Jin glanced at the wooden block in Kanoin Heizo's hand. It was just ordinary wood, not even as powerful as the kind of wood from Hishimura that could electrify people.

“The part of the main beam of the Fools’ tent that is underground.” Kanoin Heizo divided the wood in his hand into three pieces and placed them neatly in the three circles of the female alchemy rune.

Alchemy always uses the number three as its basis. Whether it is synthesizing more advanced materials or transforming existing forms, the proportion of raw materials must always be "three".

According to Abedo, this implies the alchemical concept of "understanding, decomposing, and reconstructing."

It also represents the three fundamental elements of the world as originally believed by alchemy: salt, sulfur, and mercury.

Of course, these ideas were too ancient and hasty and have been abandoned by modern alchemists.

However, the tradition of prioritizing the number three in everything has been well preserved.

"Are you trying to synthesize a Deception Flower?" Yu Jin asked, seeing Kanoin Heizo's actions.

What can you make from three pieces of wood? The only thing Ember could think of was a piece of wood that could move, which is the kind of thing that often tricks people in the wild.

"What the hell? I can't synthesize anything," Kanoin Heizo waved his hand, his knowledge of alchemy limited to the many books he had read.

In actual practice, he probably wouldn't be as skilled as an apprentice.

However, there are also simple things in alchemy, so simple that they can be made without learning them.

Seeing the materials neatly arranged, Kanoin Heizo sprinkled some transmutation dust on the wooden blocks. Then, with a flick of his finger, several glittering Mora flew into the alchemy array on the ground.

With raw materials, catalyst, and magic array all in place, the wooden blocks on the ground began to change.