The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"Wait, isn't there also Felicis?"

"Oh, give me a bottle, I'll see if I can fit her in."

In a short while, the number of bottles floating around them increased to three.

Chapter 754 The Young Master's Journey to Sumeru

2024-07-02

"Sumeru... doesn't seem to have changed much."

Walking along the streets of Sumeru, the young master shook his head and looked around at his surroundings. He had to admit, this place perfectly matched all his preconceived notions about Sumeru.

The humid heat, the hordes of mercenaries, and the lingering fragrance in the streets...

It doesn't seem to be at the point where an executive officer needs to go and investigate.

"I heard even the Doctor fled in a sorry state. How interesting." The young master stroked his chin in a pretentious manner, but he didn't actually see anything wrong with it.

Given how exhausted he was, he could have rested for a while. However, the sudden stirring in his heart not long ago kept him from resting.

The whale he had once seen in the dark cracks has now reappeared in his mind, and is countless times clearer than before.

Without a moment's delay, the young master immediately set off, following the guidance in his heart, and his first destination was Sumeru.

But to the young master's utter surprise, that stirring in his heart would shift to a different place.

He could vaguely sense that the throbbing was pointing towards Sumeru, but when he arrived, it actually pointed towards Fengdan, making the young master run half a continent for nothing.

Even more critically, seeing that he was in Xumi, Zhidong gave him a new task, ordering him to explore Xumi.

[What's the point of investigating this? It's just trees, nothing but trees!] The young master muttered to himself, deciding to just give it a perfunctory answer and then go about his business.

The whale of destiny, the fierce battle, even the whereabouts of his master... the young master vaguely felt that these things were being realized under the guidance of his heart.

"Goo~"

But before that, it's more important to fill our stomachs.

The young master left in a hurry, rushing along the road, without taking anything with him. But he wasn't worried about anything; as an executive officer, he was a super customer of the Northern Bank, with countless zeros in his account!

Wandering around the streets of Sumeru, the young master easily found the location of the Northern Bank—wherever it was most magnificent, that was the branch of the Northern Bank!

As the largest bank in the continent, the Northern Bank has never found a rival in terms of spending money—perhaps only Ningguang, the leader of the Liyue Seven Stars, can occasionally outdo it.

They found the Northern Bank, but the young master didn't rush in. The seal on the bank's doors was so glaring that it immediately deterred him from withdrawing money.

"Hey! What are you doing? This is important, don't disturb this area, stay away from here!" The two guards at the door saw the young master standing there in a daze and waved to him.

"I...I was just passing by and taking a look." The young master paused for a moment, then smiled, scratched his head, and left.

"Strange fellow..." The guard muttered a few words as he watched the young master run away in a hurry.

However, he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, they had met quite a few strange people in the past few days.

In their quest to obtain the treasures within the Northern Bank, various factions have launched their own attacks, leaving the group of thirty utterly bewildered.

……

"Has the Northern Bank been brought down again?"

"Huh? Why did I say again?"

The young master muttered to himself in confusion, but he quickly shook his head to shake off all these strange thoughts from his mind.

It seems that Mount Sumeru is not as simple as it appears; a great change has indeed occurred here.

"Phew... what a hassle!" After cursing under his breath, the young master decided to get a little more serious.

After all, he had a mission to complete, and no matter how indifferent he was, he should at least provide a reasonable explanation.

He wandered through Sumeru City, twisting and turning as if he were a tourist who had just arrived.

Unbeknownst to him, the young master had already reached a corner of Sumeru City. The crowds here were sparse, and the city was far less bustling than before.

Leaning casually against the wall beside him, he tapped the wall with his finger.

"Da da da!"

A series of rapid, brief knocking sounds rang out. The sound was not loud, and even if someone heard it in this secluded corner, they would probably just think it was some kind of fox or weasel climbing the wall.

"Thump—, thump!"

Some time after the knocking stopped, a long and a short response came from the other side of the wall.

Upon hearing this, a smile involuntarily appeared on the young master's face. Completely eradicating the Fools wouldn't be so easy.

Filled with disdain for Sumeru and delight at having someone available, he pushed open the door without a second thought.

Then, what greeted the young master was an iron chain as thick as a thumb.

"We've got him! Everyone, be on your best! Anyone who can respond to this kind of code is definitely a big fish!"

Upon hearing this, the young master suddenly realized that he had been ambushed, even if he was not very oblivious.

Realizing what was happening, he gripped the iron chain around his neck tightly with both hands. This thing seemed to be specially made, possessing the effect of suppressing elemental power.

However, the ambushers clearly did not expect that they would trap such a big fish as the executive officer.

"Drink!"

"boom!"

Even without using elemental power, the young master managed to break the thumb-thick iron chain after engaging the ambushing mercenaries for a while.

"call!"

The guards in the hut only saw a blur before their eyes, and the trapped figure had already escaped from the spot.

"They got away?" One of them shook the shattered iron chain in his hand, seemingly in disbelief.

“No… he can’t escape.” Another mercenary shook his head, a faint green light emanating from the Void Terminal beside his ear.

……

"Phew...phew...I didn't expect they'd even cracked the code?"

The young master ran a long way, panting heavily as he patted his chest in lingering fear.

Luckily, he was quick-witted, otherwise he would have been caught.

"What...what did the Doctor do to incur such resentment?" Recalling the thrilling scene just now, the young master couldn't help but wonder.

He had no idea that he had tricked the Fatui of Liyue in the same way.

"Outside guests?"

"You... are you?"

A curious greeting came from beside him, almost startling the young master so much that he jumped up.

"Oh, I'm just a member of the Order of the Commandments on duty today. I noticed you didn't have a Void Terminal, so I came to ask."

The scholar, twirling his academic robes, placed a leaf-shaped device in the young master's hand and then explained:

"This is the Void Terminal that the Grass God has newly modified. It contains all the knowledge of Sumeru. Feel free to ask it any questions you may have."

"This is amazing." The young master put the Void Terminal to his ear with some skepticism. He silently asked himself, "Why are we hunting down the Fools?" and a large amount of information appeared before his eyes.

The scholar has left, leaving only the young master who is having a great time playing with the Void Terminal.

"Give me an investigation report... on the changes in Sumeru over the past month!" The young master played with the void terminal for a long time before finally revealing his true intentions.

He'd wanted to use it like this ever since he got the Void Terminal. With something like this, wouldn't he be able to completely stop doing paperwork and such?

Unfortunately, the Void Terminal's response dealt the young master a heavy blow.

[This involves academic questions, which I cannot answer directly. However, I can provide you with relevant research materials.]

The expectation on the young master's face instantly turned into disappointment, but he didn't even have the chance to be sad.

Because in his eyes, a dense swarm of guards had already surrounded them.

"Damn it! How could they react so quickly!" the young master exclaimed in shock. He had practically traversed the entire city of Sumeru, and how much time had passed before the guards of Sumeru had found him?

And judging from their appearance, it seems they had already decided on their position!

"The wind is so tight!"

The young master shouted loudly, and then disappeared without a trace.

Chapter 755 The Deepest Tricks of Sumeru

2024-07-02

"They shouldn't be able to find it here, right?"

On a large tree in Sumeru City, the young master hid in the dense canopy, watching the crowds passing by below and muttering to himself.

But not long after he said that, he noticed that the crowd below had suddenly dispersed.

"No...no way?" An ominous premonition rippled through the young master's heart, and then this ominous feeling turned into reality.

"It's on that tree! Cut it down!" The guard's shout was so powerful that it startled the young master, who jumped out of the tree canopy.

He was just about to teach these ungrateful guards a lesson when he saw that the place was already surrounded.

"goodbye!"

Recalling his past experience of being besieged in Inazuma, and considering that he still had Fontaine to go to, the young master decisively abandoned the idea of ​​fighting and quickly ran away from there.

He was so fast he was almost a blur, and the guards chasing him below probably couldn't even get a foothold in the sand he kicked up.

Without someone of equal strength, stopping an executor from escaping is extremely difficult. Leaping back and forth between the buildings of Sumeru City, the young master quickly shook off his pursuers.

Standing on the rooftop, he felt that going to provoke Sumeru's bad luck now was not a wise move.

Looking left and right, the young master quickly found a good place to hide.

……

"anyone there?"

"Someone!"