The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

The illusion dissolved even faster, but this time there was no trace of danger. And after it dissolved, new life emerged.

The familiar cave, the familiar pool, and the familiar books—the group had returned.

"Ember, what did you just pull out? A big chicken leg?" Mameh leaned close to Ember and asked curiously.

He wasn't sure if he was seeing things, but he thought he saw Ember pull out a super, super big chicken leg to offer to Jacob, but he didn't know why he took it back in the end.

“That’s right, I’ll give you a small chicken leg.” Yu Jin said, handing Mameh a small stick that looked exactly like a chicken leg.

"Th...thank you!" Mameh waved the "chicken leg" in his hand, as if it could be used for self-defense?

After returning from the world prophesied in the book, the others were not in a good mood, especially Jacob.

As he said, he had only calculated the impending destruction of the world using the World Calculation method. However, after witnessing the collapse of the world with his own eyes, his sense of urgency intensified.

Jacob squatted on the ground and used his strength to carve out a complex pattern. The pattern resembled both an intricate equation and a towering tree.

By filling in various data, "fruits" made of numbers quickly filled the tree canopy... or you could say they were the fruit after the equals sign.

Jacob was very skilled at this routine, as if he had done it countless times, and of course, the result was exactly the same as before.

"Nothing has changed... the result is still the same."

Jacob muttered to himself, his impatience clearly visible on his face.

"What is this?" Yu Jin and the others gathered around and asked curiously.

"Remember the world-state I told you about before? This is it. By substituting various data, you can calculate the future of the world."

After speaking, Yu Jin took a few steps back as if he were looking at an idiot. Even Mameh and Shanotira, who hadn't moved, looked completely incredulous.

Can the future of the world be calculated with a single equation? That's just too outrageous!

"I knew you wouldn't believe me, but you'll understand in time."

"We've used this formula to calculate a lot of things. Smaller calculations might go wrong, but larger calculations will never deviate from its result."

Jacob, seeing that the three did not believe him, simply shook his head and sighed a few times. Their reaction was exactly what he had expected, and indeed, it was hard for them to believe.

"So your current miserable state is the result of this so-called 'world-style' thing?"

Ember pointed to the symbols on the ground and asked Jacob.

“No, it is this world that has made me this way.” Jacob pinned the blame on the world.

"I think I can hear the world crying."

Ember shrugged. The poor world can't speak, so it can only silently take the blame.

Chapter 770 A Heart That Beats Again

2024-07-11

The group spent a long time in Shanotila's secret base reminiscing about the world revealed in the Book of Revelation. Seeing that there was no further movement, Jacob wiped away the World Book and got up from the ground.

"Since there's nothing more for me to do, let's part ways for now."

As he spoke, he prepared to leave. But before departing, he inexplicably left behind a single sentence:

"Oh, right, remember to leave Erinas later."

After he said those words, a deep abyss passage appeared in front of him.

As Jacob's figure disappeared into the void, only Ember, Mameh, and Shanotira remained.

"What did Mr. Jacob mean by what he just said?"

"Who knows?"

Ember shrugged at the two puzzled people. It's normal for the thought process of a Baptist of Deep Sin to be sometimes incomprehensible to ordinary people, so there's no need to worry about it.

The glow of the ground magic circle dimmed, and Shanotira, feeling there was nothing to do, went to the rocks and began to meditate.

In the past, she could enter a meditative state very quickly, but this time, for some reason, she couldn't.

Chanotira frowned, a sense of emptiness settling over her.

"Did I forget something?"

She opened her eyes and asked Ember and Mameh in front of her.

"Um... it seems Jacob didn't tell us the specific contents of this book?"

Yu Jin glanced at the Book of Revelation lying quietly on the scoreboard not far away. After all that had happened, he still couldn't understand a single word on it.

“Oh right! Mr. Jacob didn’t mention this at all!” Mameh also realized.

What did Jacob do when he came over? It seems he brought Melusin into the illusion within the Book of Revelation.

While this may help people understand what the book is trying to say, it is only a highly generalized summary.

Jacob didn't utter a single word about the specifics.

"So that's why he ran so fast! He didn't want to work, huh? Come on, go find him again!"

After saying that, Yu Jin plunged into the pool.

"Wait for us!"

Behind him were Mameh and Shanotila, who followed closely behind.

……

Because Haimo Village is located inside the Erinas Mountains, the difference between day and night is not very obvious.

Having wandered around for so long, Ember had no idea how many days had passed. But one thing remained constant—the Melusens were always doing what they loved.

"Perhaps Mr. Jacob should leave now. He said he would come to see my paintings again later, and I'll ask him to talk about the book then."

In front of a graffiti-covered hut, Mameh made this suggestion. The group had been searching for Jacob for some time, but he seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace.

Therefore, Mameh thought that Jacob might have left Haimo Village.

“Jacob… a familiar name detected…”

Just as everyone was talking, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded beside them.

Turning his head, Yu Jin discovered that the source of the sound was a mechanical dog.

"You made this?" Yu Jin looked at the mechanical dog, then at Mameh, and was immediately shocked.

A double blossoming of science and art! Who would have thought that Mameh, so small in stature, possessed such great talent!

"No, Ember, you've misunderstood. Its name is Seymour, and I found it." Mameh immediately waved her hand. Hand-made mechanical dog? She wasn't that skilled.

"I think it just mentioned Jacob?" Ember looked at Seymour, then asked Mameh.

"Jacob..., the memory chip-marked object... cannot be deleted, cannot be forgotten!"

"Could this guy have been created by Jacob?"

Ember had another guess. Judging from Seymour's tone, Jacob seemed to be very important to it.

"No... Jacob... must be arrested!"

"Pfft!"

Seymour's mechanical voice was instantly tinged with a barely perceptible anger, but no one had time to pay attention to it at the moment.

"Plop! Plop! Plop!"

It was as if a giant drum had been erected over Erinasne, its deafening sound echoing through the air, creating an invisible pressure.

"What happened?"

"very noisy!"

"Wow! Look, the water has turned into honey!"

……

The focused Merusians put down their work and ran around the village in surprise and uncertainty.

What were those loud noises just now?

“This is…” Ember lowered his head and looked around. After the drumbeats, something changed within Erinas.

The unchanging rocks began to tremble slightly, the clear stream gradually became stained with blood, and something inexplicably appeared...

"Wow!"

"boom!"

With a single punch, he smashed the Beast Mirror Hound's head open, then held the monster's corpse aloft, and the embers instantly reduced it to ashes.

Fine, grayish-white dust piled up into small peaks on the ground, and then a terrifying aura that only the monster-like Mirror Hounds could sense emanated from the ashes.

Haimo Village seemed to have transformed into an invisible maw, capable of devouring any monsters that invaded it.

Seeing that the nearby monsters dared not approach in fear, Ember nodded in satisfaction. Then, he spoke to Melusin behind him:

"Stay in the village and don't go out, that way those monsters won't come looking for you."

"Also, let's tell the other Melusians about this message."

After doing all this, Ember strode out of Haimo Village, preparing to head to the place where the drumbeat had just come from.

All these changes happened after those few drumbeats; once we got there, things would probably be resolved.

……

"Bah!"

"Phew... there are quite a lot of monsters."

He pulled his weapon from the Beast Mirror Hound's body, and its corrosive blood instantly splattered all over the ground.

Strangely, the monster's blood, which was usually as potent as poison, did not cause any harm to anything.

Needless to say, the blood of the mere Beast Mirror Hound couldn't even harm his fur. As for the poisonous blood spilled on the ground... it seemed to have been absorbed by the land of Erinas.

"Embers! Embers!"

Just as Ember was preparing to head to the next location to clear out some monsters, a familiar voice sounded behind him.

"Mameh? And the mechanical dog? What are you doing here?"