The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"It's a one-time use only."

Mameh nodded, then asked Jacob with concern, "Mr. Jacob, are you alright? Would you like to rest for a while? I didn't know that humans would feel uncomfortable taking shortcuts."

"It's okay, I'm just not used to it yet, I'm much better now." Jacob took a deep breath, there was still a faint metallic taste in his mouth.

He recalled the rumors about Melousin in Fontainebleau, and asked curiously:

"Mameh, can you tell me what it feels like inside the bubble?"

“My feelings…” Mameh thought for a moment, then replied, “Very warm, very reassuring!”

"Warmth and peace of mind? I think there's a place that would be perfect for you to live in Melucin."

Upon hearing this, Ember immediately gave Mameh a thumbs up. It turned out that Melosin, like Gollum, loved living in the blood-soaked swamp!

“I’m sorry, I don’t think anyone will leave Haimo Village.” Mameh shook his head without even thinking.

Except for those who live outside for work, almost all of the Meilushin people are in Haimo Village.

Not only is it undisturbed here, but more importantly, in Haimo Village, the Meilushin people always have a kind of inexplicable warmth lingering in their hearts.

"Just kidding, it's your turn to get busy!" Ember didn't care. He patted Jacob on the shoulder and led him to the books on the music table.

“Wait… this magic circle…” Jacob saw the dim magic circle below the altar and immediately bent down to examine it carefully.

"Hehe, I told you, he would definitely understand it!" Yu Jin patted his chest. Sure enough, the Baptist of Deep Sin was good at this kind of thing.

"I hope so." Shanotira nodded, half excited and half worried.

Clearly, her worries were unnecessary. After fiddling around on the ground for a while, Jacob quickly got up and went to the books.

His eyes scanned the pages rapidly; the obscure runes were as simple as a nursery rhyme to him.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

Jacob began turning the pages, and quite quickly at that. This dispelled any lingering worry Chanotira had.

This stranger seems to be able to understand what's written in the book.

The rustling sound of pages turning continued for a long time before finally stopping. When everyone looked up, they saw that only the last page remained in the book on the music table.

Ember remembered that the book had many missing parts, but to Jacob, it didn't seem to be a problem at all.

“Mr. Jacob, do you know what this book is about?” Shanotila’s eyes shone, and the two seaweed-like horns on her head swayed slightly with excitement.

“This book… is the Book of Revelation.” Jacob said, his voice filled with emotion, as if he had just remembered something.

"The Book of Revelation? It doesn't sound like a good thing to me." Yu Jin walked over with his arms crossed and flipped through the pages a couple of times. Nothing changed; he still couldn't understand it.

"For ordinary people who are unaware of the situation, this is certainly not a good thing. What this book tells us is a future that is already predetermined."

Jacob nodded in agreement, then glanced at the curious Mameh and Shanotira behind him and asked:

"I've never seen the world of prophecy with my own eyes. I'm going in anyway, shall we go together?"

"Of course!"

"It's a dare!"

Mameh and Shanotila almost jumped up in excitement.

"What about you?"

“I think I’ve been there before, but it’s no problem to go again.”

Jacob's brow twitched; clearly, he hadn't expected that the Embers had actually visited the world prophesied in the Book of Revelation.

"Okay, take a deep breath. Also... don't get scared and cry!"

The last sentence was addressed to Mameh and Shanotira. Considering Melusin's pure and innocent nature, Jacob felt that they might not be able to bear seeing the collapsing world.

Even so, we must still go and see. He is striving to escape the prophecy, and others should do the same.

Let the Merusians see the worst of the future, so that they may be prepared for the prophecy's arrival.

"Inside!"

Jacob roared, and the magic circle beneath everyone's feet burst forth with an unprecedentedly powerful radiance.

Familiar scenes appeared before Ember's eyes: the rock walls, the books, the deep pool... all gone. In their place was a world without sky or earth, filled with countless broken walls and ruins.

The desolate world is not without life. Just as the embers and the voice said, even mint and sweet flowers cannot grow here, but there are countless beast-mirror hounds.

Beasts from other worlds invade through the ubiquitous spatial rifts, but it's unclear what they're doing here. There's nothing here; are they here to eat rocks?

“Be careful, in the future world, only these things will be able to survive.” Jacob had already transformed back into the four-armed form of the Baptist of Deep Sin, and he stretched out his arms to protect the people behind him.

Unfortunately, he was too tall and couldn't stop the excited Mameh and Shanotilla.

"Wow! What a cute puppy!"

"If this is what the future holds, I suddenly wish I could sleep until this time!"

The two Meloshens cheered excitedly on the broken rock, having successfully burned Jacob's brain.

"What?"

Chapter 769 The World Seen by Meloshen

2024-07-09

"Jacob first..."

After rubbing the dog's head vigorously for a while, Mameh and Shanotila, their excitement fading, finally remembered Jacob's changes.

The refined art connoisseur of the past has now transformed into a hideous four-armed monster, and has even fallen into a state of self-isolation.

"Hey! Someone's calling you!" Ember kicked Jacob, snapping him out of his deep self-doubt.

"call……"

“Mameh and Shanotila, I’m sorry for lying to you before. This is my true form.”

After taking a deep breath, Jacob nodded apologetically to the two Meloshens.

"It's alright. In fact, we should thank Mr. Jacob, otherwise we wouldn't have come to such a beautiful place!"

Mameh jumped up excitedly on the spot. This place was so beautiful; she was determined to draw it carefully when she got back!

“Beautiful…?” Jacob managed to utter the two words. All around him was crumbling space, above him a dark, high sky, and below him a bottomless abyss… Could this place really be called beautiful?

“Yes, it’s like a big garden!” Mameh carefully observed the surroundings and then added:

"Golden clouds, lush trees, and adorable puppies! It turns out the world will become a garden in the future!"

Mameh now feels that those fairy tales are too conservative, but at the same time she is full of confidence in the future.

She was determined to see such a wonderful future with her own eyes!

"So our perspectives are so different?" Yu Jin blinked. He had seen differences between races before, but this was the first time he had seen such a large difference as that of Melusin.

“Perspective… I understand. Everyone says that what we Melusin see is very different from what humans see. What is the world like through Jacob's and Ember's eyes? Can you tell me?”

Shanotila released the "puppy" she had been rubbing until it whimpered, and asked curiously.

"Um... in general, it's like this..."

Ember and Jacob recounted what they had seen to Mameh and Shanotira, one after the other.

As they spoke, the two little ones stopped wagging their tails and jumping, and when they said "they couldn't even see the sweet flowers and mint," Mameh and Shanotila's little faces even turned pale.

"How could the future have turned out like this?!"

For the first time, Yu Jin saw that the "antlers" on Mameh's head had withered, like ferns without water, drooping limply on her forehead.

“It seems the future belongs to you Melusin.” Jacob joked when he saw the two Melusin looking scared.

"Shouldn't the world belong to no one? Did you even consider the world's feelings when you were asking for ownership?"

Ember chimed in with a sarcastic remark.

"That's why I want to stop this from happening."

"That's right, this kind of future must never happen! We'll still be lonely if we only have puppies!"

Upon hearing Jacob's boastful words, Mameh immediately echoed them by waving his arm.

Although the future world seemed beautiful to her, the thought of it being just Melusin and "the puppy" made Mameh feel like it was a nightmare.

A nightmare that looks beautiful on the outside!

"Clap clap clap!" Yu Jin clapped his hands, then shrugged and said:

"Very impressive! So, have you decided what to eat tonight?"

"Let's have a seafood feast!"

"Eat...eat your head!"

Jacob nearly got dragged into a ditch by Ember. Enraged, he swung his arms rapidly, but couldn't land a single blow on Ember's head—Ember deflected all his attacks.

"It's just an illusion, not reality, relax!" Ember jumped back to create distance between himself and Jacob, waving his hand dismissively at him.

Seeing this, Jacob stopped fooling around. He looked up at the sky and then shook his head dejectedly.

"An illusion? I hope that's what I dream about tonight."

"Phew... This result was derived using the world-based method, and it was personally verified by that person, so it can't be wrong."

After taking a deep breath, Jacob extinguished the unrealistic fantasies in his mind.

But at the same time, an indescribable sense of frustration also rose in his heart. The world's outcome remained unchanged. Was Rene's plan really feasible?

He didn't know if he should have these thoughts; the sword of Damocles was about to fall over his head, but the things that needed to be done were not decreasing at all.

"Boom!"

Just as Jacob was lost in thought, the vast illusion began to crumble. Starting from the distant horizon, everything turned into nothingness.

“It seems we’ve been here too long. Let’s go!” Jacob finally snapped out of his depression.

This also made Ember pull back the huge club in his hand—he was just about to hit Jacob.

"I always feel a chill down my spine."

After muttering something, Jacob stopped dawdling. He spread out his four arms, and the circular magic circle behind him disintegrated, eventually becoming exactly the same as the magic circle under the book outside.