Genshin Impact: A Red Teyvat Life Starting from Zero

The men who had come with him silently moved to key positions, picked up crossbows and other weapons left behind by the mercenaries, and began to defend.

Meanwhile, Mishal, the leader of the Legion of the God-King who had been berating the subordinate regiments for their lack of ambition and incompetence in the hall, suddenly noticed that a considerable number of the subordinate regiments below were putting on a strangely shaped hat.

Mishal immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Immediately afterwards, these people pulled out weapons and began attacking everyone who wasn't wearing the hat.

The scene immediately descended into chaos.

"Eliminate them all! Leave no one alive!"

While giving orders to the mercenaries around him, Mishal hurriedly fled backward.

Behind Mishal, doors gradually closed, with a certain number of mercenaries from the headquarters standing between each door.

Mishal himself went to the control hall of the ruins.

It was here that he saw mercenaries from affiliated groups who had revolted throughout the headquarters.

Because the attack was sudden, they were able to take advantage of the surprise attack. The members of the affiliated group who were willing to pledge allegiance to the God King's Legacy and the mercenaries of the main force suffered heavy losses, and the two sides are currently still at a stalemate.

Mishal was torn about whether or not to activate the defensive structures in the first half of the ruins.

He forcibly activated that thing, but it doesn't distinguish between friend and foe. Once activated, the affiliated group system that he had painstakingly rebuilt over the years would suffer another blow, and even a large number of mercenaries from his God King's Legacy headquarters would be gone.

Such indiscriminate attacks could potentially cause him to lose control of the God-King's Legacy.

Damn it, these affiliated groups are everywhere, fighting amongst themselves with the mercenaries from headquarters. There's no way to eliminate them.

Mishal never imagined things would turn out this way.

Those defensive measures would have been very effective against external enemies, provided that the mercenaries in the headquarters were able to defend and retreat in an orderly manner. But now, everyone is all mixed up together.

Just as Mishal was struggling with his decision, the security door opened.

The visitor brought him very bad news.

The seemingly indestructible, heavy gate at the outermost edge of the ruins has been opened from the inside, and the Black Gold City's guards have stormed in.

Chapter 238 Completely destroyed

The Black Gold City guards had a very clear objective. They ignored the fighting along the way and were currently advancing rapidly toward Mishal's location. It was expected that they would begin preparing to breach the gate in less than ten minutes.

Upon hearing this news, Mishal broke out in a cold sweat.

Facing the controller, Mishal, in a state of high tension and inner turmoil, was completely unaware that the mercenary who had come to deliver the message was quietly making a few hand gestures to the surroundings.

The mercenaries around Mishal nodded almost imperceptibly.

Little by little, without attracting anyone's attention, they quietly moved their position.

There aren't many people in the control hall right now, just the few who are usually in charge.

As elite mercenaries of the God-King's Legacy, they remained silent, and the control hall was eerily quiet. Through several security doors, the faint sounds of gunfire from the battle outside could still be heard.

Not long after, a loud bang was heard, causing the ground where the group was standing to tremble slightly.

The guards have arrived at the hall where the meeting was previously held and, with their advanced equipment, quickly ended the battle, having already blown open a door.

It was only at this point that Mishal finally made up his mind to activate the defense facilities.

However, just as he stepped forward and before his hands even touched the control device, several guards suddenly sprang up and kicked him away.

Then, the two men pressed him down tightly, preventing him from making any further movements, and no matter how much he struggled on the ground, he could not break free.

There were still mercenaries around who were still loyal to Mishal, drawing their weapons in preparation for battle. However, the mercenary who came to deliver the order put his knife directly to Mishal's neck.

"Gentlemen, there's no need for that. Can you hold off the Black Gold City guards? An hour would be enough for them to clear this place out. Lay down your weapons and surrender now; it might even be considered a mutiny on the battlefield."

Seeing the conflicted expressions on their faces, the person who had come in earlier to deliver the message added insult to injury.

“If it weren’t for those ruins and facilities, and if it weren’t for waiting for the right opportunity, they would have attacked long ago. Now, the only person who can activate those facilities, Mishal, has been captured. We can take him down at any time. What’s the point of you continuing to struggle?”

"Besides, even if it's activated, so what? Which of those ancient machines can withstand a rocket launcher? It'll just result in more casualties and more time, but it won't stop the destruction of the God-King's Relics."

As they were talking, the ground shook again.

Clearly, yet another obstacle has been forcibly removed.

The men slowly put down their scimitars.

"Altik, I've treated you well, why did you betray me?! What did they give you in return?"

Mishal, pinned to the ground, struggled with all his might like a fish on a chopping board, but he still couldn't break free and could only rage helplessly on the ground.

The man known as Artic ignored Mishal's questioning and instead got up to open the remaining security doors.

Now, the guards have no obstacles and will arrive here in less than two minutes.

Only then did Artic turn around and look at Mishal.

"They said they would destroy the evidence against me, and then they could make me a security captain at the mine, and several of them would work for me as my subordinates."

Artik pointed to the people around him who were controlling Mishal and tying up the men who had surrendered earlier.

"That's it???"

Mishal was on the verge of madness.

Could a security captain's position have been used to bribe his cronies?

At this moment, Artek slowly walked up to Mishal, squatted down, and looked at Mishal, who was struggling to raise his head.

"Commander, you may not understand, but I want to live a normal life. Find a girl I like, get married, have children, repeat the same boring work over and over again, live an ordinary life like this, and then grow old, get sick and die."

"..."

Mishal's struggles lessened considerably.

"Such an opportunity is extremely rare. Not long ago, it was presented to me, and of course I chose to seize it."

"I don't think you would understand this idea. You only think about using someone's weaknesses to control him and make him do all the dirty things in the world for you."

"There's no way to change someone like you; you can only die."

Listening to Artic's words, which sounded like a trial, Mishal's anger was replaced by fear.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. You will be handed over to Black Gold City. You will receive the trial you deserve."

As the words fell, the sound of metal colliding with rock grew clearer and clearer.

The Black Gold City guards appeared in the control hall.

The person in charge was Gerrard.

Two guards wearing powered exoskeletons stepped forward and took control of Mishal.

Mishal tried several times to break free from the mechanical force, but couldn't.

Gerald was unfazed by Mishal's gaze, which initially seemed to be spitting fire but then turned somewhat timid. He simply asked him a question.

"Do you regret it?"

"Regret what? Regret not getting serious sooner and crushing your little mercenary group?"

"No, even if it weren't us, someone else would have eliminated you. I mean, regret using such extreme methods to control others. If you had done it differently, perhaps things would have turned out differently today."

“Ha, if I didn’t use this method, I wouldn’t be standing here today, and I wouldn’t have the legacy of the God-King.”

It seems he has no regrets whatsoever.

Gerald didn't say much, he just waved his hand, signaling to take Mishal away.

With Mishal captured, the guard forces launched a swift attack, wiping out the remaining mercenaries of the God-King's Legacy.

In just one night, the once-powerful mercenary alliance, the Remnants of the God-King, vanished into thin air.

It died not only from external attacks, but also from internal backlash.

Faced with that incriminating evidence, Gerrard did the same thing as Cousela—burning them all to the ground.

"These materials are useless. They were all designed or forced. The truly useful ones, the crimes of the mercenaries of the God-King's Legacy headquarters, those truly heinous villains, are not here at all. There's no need to keep these."

What they need is to investigate each case from the beginning and find the real villains, not these elaborately designed schemes.

These things prove absolutely nothing.

The mercenaries who had joined the guard force, formerly known as Ahmar's Beard, felt a sense of relief as they looked at the raging fire burning inside the headquarters of the God-King's Legacy after leaving the headquarters.

Speaking of which, should we write a letter to Dixia as well, to explain the situation to her?

Since the remnants of the God-King no longer exist, they are relieved and no longer need to worry about implicating Dixia.

Coincidentally, in the old archives of the God-King's Relics, they also discovered the relics of the old commander, Kusera. Perhaps it's time to have a talk...

Chapter 239 Desert Independence

A mercenary alliance in the Sumeru Desert region was wiped out.

Although it is a bit large, deserts are all too common; it's always a matter of one eliminating the other or swallowing up the other.

This matter is unremarkable.

Even without Inazuma's recent actions, people wouldn't have paid attention; for the people of Teyvat, this should be a trivial matter not worth making it into the newspapers or being discussed.

Especially for newspapers like Fontainebleau, which is plagued by intense competition, it would be more appealing to report what cake the Water God ate at his afternoon tea today.

The news that the Order of the Fathers had launched multiple attacks but failed had attracted some attention and briefly made the headlines.

Some commentators believe that the new weapons used in the desert could change the way most battles are fought in the future, and reinforce the validity of the gun-gun system that Fontaine is currently developing.

But that time was also because of the existence of the Order of the Church.

However, this time, under the front page headline of Inazuma, a small section was still reserved to report on the changes in the desert.

Not only because it was a notorious and wicked mercenary alliance that was destroyed, but also because it was the last force in the Sumeru Desert region to remain independent—or at least relatively independent.

With the destruction of the God-King's Legacy, the former Gerard Legion, which had clashed with the Order of the Church several times and had effectively established an armed separatist regime, now Black Gold City, has unified the entire Sumeru Desert.

What they will do next has attracted the curiosity of many people, and some newspapers have reported on it as a topic of discussion.