Genshin Impact: A Red Teyvat Life Starting from Zero

The result was exactly as Iwasaki Masashi had predicted.

He came here to issue a challenge, but General Thunder took the initiative right away, and things inexplicably turned into a negotiation.

Since I was already there, I decided to have a chat, but as expected, we couldn't reach a consensus.

Next came his real task.

"Since the talks have broken down, I have something else to say."

"explain."

“I am here on behalf of Haigi Island to issue you a challenge, which you can also understand as us challenging you to a duel before the Emperor.”

Iwasaki deliberately added keywords to his words.

Upon hearing this, General Thunder showed a rare expression of surprise.

The last time she had such an expression was when that ronin samurai challenged her in the imperial tournament.

Another one here today who wants to challenge themselves?

Surprised as I was, Iwasaki's request was reasonable.

"Alright, I agree. If you win, I will grant you any of your requests."

If one's martial arts skills are no different from one's inner abilities, and one can still be defeated despite all that, then one can only let these people say whatever they want.

Upon hearing this, Iwasaki smiled; he, of course, understood this principle as well.

"Alright, it would be difficult to fight freely near Inazuma Castle, as we might accidentally injure the city's inhabitants. We have already set up a duel venue, and General, you are welcome to come at any time. We will be waiting for you. Of course, you can also specify the location, but it would be best if it were not closer than this place."

General Raiden took the challenge letter from Iwasaki, glanced at it briefly (it was just official jargon), and then pulled out the map inside.

It is located at sea in the direction of Inazuma and Liyue, about 200 kilometers away from Inazuma Castle.

General Thunder frowned involuntarily.

Is it really necessary to be this far away?

"In case."

General Raiden pondered for a moment and ruled out the possibility that they planned to take advantage of the gap to capture Inazuma Castle.

There's no need for that; even so, I can kill them one by one myself.

"There's no need to set up another location. Your little tricks won't work on me. I'll set off now."

With the Eye of Evil activated, connecting the two spaces, General Thunder vanished from the castle tower in the blink of an eye.

Seeing General Raiden's confidence, Iwasaki Masaya, who had been asked to leave the room by the Otsui Clan, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

He still doesn't know how the higher-ups made the preparations; he only believes that Coral Palace wouldn't do anything foolish without preparation.

This is probably part of the plan as well.

Chapter 217 Vanished into thin air... Not even ashes remained.

On the sea, the Eye of Evil Activated, and General Thunder emerged from the spatial passage.

I sensed that I was still a little off from the agreed location, but I could feel a faint fluctuation of lightning element in the distance.

It is estimated to be equipment belonging to the rebels.

I've come to the right place.

After walking a while further, we saw four aircraft arranged about a kilometer apart.

At the very center was a small aircraft, and what was projected from it...

General Thunder narrowed his eyes.

Without a doubt, it was the current shrine maiden of Haiji Island, along with several other people whose names I couldn't recall; they were likely the leaders of the rebels.

“You challenged me to a duel before the Emperor, yet now you are hesitant and afraid to come forward in your true form. If that’s the case, you might as well just admit defeat.”

Standing before the small drone projecting the image, General Thunder earnestly offered what he considered to be the best solution.

"We certainly didn't expect you to arrive at the scene so quickly, General, but don't worry, your opponent is already on their way."

On the other end of the communication, Jiang Ming, inside the command center on Haiqi Island, looked at the screen.

The missile has been launched.

Two hundred kilometers, at the speed of a hypersonic missile, would only take a few minutes.

Now, he needs to wait for a better opportunity.

For those who control elemental powers, the teleportation jamming device can be brute-forced in just a few seconds. In other words, they only have a window of opportunity of less than a few seconds to ensure the kill, rather than allowing the teleportation device to leave directly.

"That's fine. I want to see what tricks these cowards can pull."

General Thunder was utterly disdainful of this.

She never thought that a few mortals could do anything to her, and now seeing how they dared not show themselves, she was even more convinced.

With nothing else to do, General Raiden chatted with a few people about the recent events involving the Shogunate, Umijima Island, and the Fools, and even discussed the issue of legitimacy.

The inflexible puppet, General Thunder, was a source of frustration for all of them.

According to their logic, since I am the god of Inazuma and the shogunate is my representative, even if the shogunate has many faults, you cannot maliciously resist it, let alone rebel.

Once it occurs, regardless of the reason, it will be dealt with strictly.

This is absolute procedural justice; it follows only the proper procedures.

On the contrary, their logic is that resisting tyranny is a matter of course, and rebellion is not a crime.

The two sides are completely at odds, like comparing apples and oranges.

"You are a general, a demon god, so you don't understand mortals, who can't even get enough to eat, who live and die of starvation forever. What is the meaning of that?"

The most fundamental argument on the Kaigoshima side is the scene of the Inazuma people being displaced and suffering immensely under the rule of the shogunate.

Inside Inazuma Castle, the relief food prepared by Narukami Taisha Shrine and its magistrate was insufficient to distribute.

Outside Inazuma Castle, everywhere are outlaw samurai—also known as the Kairan Oni no Fushiju.

One can only imagine what it was like for ordinary people.

"A mortal life is but a fleeting moment, a hundred years or so; how can it comprehend eternity?"

General Thunder and Lightning ignored all these explanations.

As an eternal guardian created by Lei's films, she naturally firmly believes in her conviction to "stop everything from moving forward and to stop losing everything."

Even if Ray's movies change someday, she won't.

"So for whom is eternity? For eternity itself? Or for humanity? Eternity without humanity is meaningless."

"Just for a mortal in a moment... um?"

General Thunder stopped speaking and turned to look in the other direction.

Jiang Ming and the others also skipped this topic.

On the projection screen in the command center, a countdown to the missile's arrival was displayed.

There are exactly thirty seconds left.

In General Thunder's vision, three pointed cylindrical objects were flying toward her at high speed in a triangular formation, leaving trails behind them.

She could only sense that there was some lightning element energy stored inside, which was stronger than that of ordinary God's Eye holders, but not comparable to her at all. There was also an extremely weak fluctuation of lightning element, as if it was receiving and feeding back some kind of signal.

These are just three ordinary mechanical creations.

At most, it just flies faster and has a more refined structure.

That's it?

General Thunder glanced back at Jiang Ming and the others on the projection.

Even if all the lightning energy inside these things were used to attack, they wouldn't pose any threat to her.

It might not be as threatening as those few lumps of iron crashing into her at high speed—although none of them could pose any threat to her.

Moreover, based on the trajectory calculations, these three iron cylinders could not possibly hit her; the closest one would pass by her at a distance of tens of meters.

This made her feel slighted.

"Since that's the case, then I will show you what eternity truly is."

The light of the Nagi grass appeared in the hands of the Raiden General, whose eyes shone with purple light, and whose braids also began to glow and crackle with electricity.

Terrifying lightning elemental energy gathered on General Thunder's weapon, locking onto the incoming missiles.

This will be her all-out strike, enough to cleave mountains and seas! A deterrent to these rebels.

"No thought, severing..."

That was the last time.

Before the missiles could even arrive, the aircraft that had been deployed about a kilometer away from the dueling area suddenly exploded, emitting a burst of white light.

The light was so dazzling, so...scorching.

The lightning elemental shield surrounding General Thunder was undergoing an overload reaction, being consumed by the light.

Immediately afterwards, the energy released by the nuclear explosion, reaching temperatures of tens of millions of degrees Celsius—at least equivalent to the temperature of the sun's core—caused the surrounding air to rapidly form high-temperature, high-pressure plasma.

However, unlike a typical nuclear explosion, the fireball did not expand rapidly outward, then cool and extinguish, followed by a devastating shockwave that destroyed tens or even hundreds of kilometers of buildings or triggered a tsunami.

Under the barrier constructed by the rock element and guided by the wind element, the plasma from the four fireballs was rapidly gathered, forming a high-temperature, high-pressure plasma blade that was still expanding.

The four plasma blades then converge towards the center through the diffusion reaction of wind elements, at higher temperatures, greater pressures, and faster speeds.

The intersection is where General Thunder is located.

At this moment, General Thunder, who was in the very center, no longer had the same expression as before.

Even before the plasma blade made contact with her, she could already feel its scorching heat.