I'm in the Teyvat running group

"No, I didn't mean anything by it. I could also feel that our feelings were real, so I just wanted to know some of the truth about what happened back then."

“A daughter is born in the heart of a mother, and a mother is born in the heart of a daughter. When I heard the song ‘The Song of the North’ in Koytar, ‘You were born in the heart of Koytar,’ I began to think about this question.”

"Besides, I've never believed that Fanes is your real name!"

"The mother of my child, the ruler of Teyvat, who rebelled against herself as an angel..."

What should I call you?

Chapter 555 The Final Battle (8)

"I'm thirty-six today. According to an old friend of mine, in our world, this is an optimized node."

"Of course, I don't know how my old friend is doing now... but I think he must be doing well. After all, when he was still on Earth, he was the smartest one among us roommates."

Yunxiu continued speaking to herself, seemingly completely immersed in her memories.

"He once told me that many times, many things are not determined by people, nor by events, nor by the so-called course of history, but are very likely determined at a crucial juncture by a person who would not have been known before, by a chance encounter, and that is what we call history."

"History is a very interesting thing. It's like a great person might live a whole life but not leave a mark on history as much as a nobody, while a nobody might live a life of humiliation but write a chapter in history with their life at a crucial moment."

“He thought these things were interesting, so he studied them. I didn’t quite understand what they meant at the time, but after I became a part of history, I finally understood what that sentence meant.”

"If the history after the Teyvat revolution is to be depicted in the future, those great demigods may only be a small page in the history book, but my disciple Zijon will be a prominent figure in it."

"She is the first person in the true sense of the spell system, one of the builders of the new era spell system, the founder of Teyvat Surveying Mage, and the minister of the special department of the Mage Association."

"However, at the beginning, she was just an ordinary surveyor from the Adventurers' Guild, who had just returned from surveying the road to Shenyu Valley and was planning to go back to her hometown first before heading to the Layered Rock Abyss."

“If she had died in the Abyss of the Rocks, none of this would have happened, but I think someone would still have written her fate on the stones of the Abyss of the Rocks.”

Taranis blinked, listening intently to Yunxiu's words. She neither admitted nor denied who she was, but simply sat quietly.

After finishing the drink, Yunxiu poured her another glass and wiped the table. Then, a series of small dishes were quietly placed on the table from his storage bag. These were mostly made by Xiangling, but some were bought from Sanwanbugugang. After all, even with a female chef at home, it's not strange to occasionally eat something from outside.

"I knew something was wrong not long after I came to this world. The main reason was that the time travel was too coincidental. I grew up with Xiangling, it happened to be the beginning of the story, I happened to be living in Liyue, and I was even given an identity."

“Especially at that time, I met the Emperor and received the Hundred Taboos Talisman that he bestowed upon me.” Yunxiu took out a beautiful talisman from his body. This was the one that Zhongli had given him at the very beginning, and it was the starting point of everything for him. Although he modified this talisman many times afterward, it had always remained on his person.

“Your friend… is right, history is such a strange thing.” Taranis touched his face. “History won’t steer the world in that direction, because it’s just too boring.”

"I never thought being boring was a bad thing. Being boring means being ordinary, and being ordinary is a wonderful thing, isn't it?"

"The emergence of heroes means the occurrence of many disasters."

"However, the world does not choose to suffer many disasters. Sometimes disasters are a release of pressure on the world itself."

“I don’t mean to blame you. I just want to say that this world may not be so normal, and there may be a reason for it… It’s just that your choice at the beginning was not so appropriate.” Yunxiu looked at Taranis seriously and said, “Even if Fanes and Nibelungen really did something bad, I can understand it completely. It’s just that whether to forgive or not is another matter.”

Taranis nodded. Yunxiu did just that. Many people had made mistakes, but as long as they could atone for them, they could continue to live in the new world, even some villains.

Lady Rosalind, servant Arecino, and even the Nibelungs and many ancient dragon kings and sinners, only those who were truly beyond redemption were utterly destroyed after the trial.

Even the four ruling powers, some of whom had done things like casting the Curse of Undead and turning the people of Kanriyan into Hilichurls, were still held accountable and their responsibilities were clearly defined before any orders were issued.

"Moreover, I've often wondered why Fanes is so much like a computer. Even if he really is an AI, by the time he's evolved to this point, he should have developed enough humanity."

"In this situation, why would she want to exterminate both her own angels and the humans she created, as if she were strictly enforcing some unreasonable mechanical program?"

"Furthermore, the few times she did attack, it seemed to be an attack that affected the entire Teyvat. Apart from hitting spikes and covering the entire map, she didn't seem to have any other means of attack... And when I fought her, I could clearly feel that she was missing something."

"So, I started thinking about something: what is Faness lacking? When all four shadows seem more human than her, I think what she lacks is probably that bit of humanity."

"But it is clear that after a certain time, Fanes gradually lost his humanity. The moon was shattered, and some even escaped by sinking into the abyss. Sanada has not fully recovered to this day, and Koitar and Tsukuyomi were killed by four Heavenly Nails. And this is only part of the story."

"Zi Bai could only be divided into three parts by being suppressed by the Heavenly Nail. This was only because the main target of the attack was not him. The Flower Goddess perished, the Golden Peak perished, the Night Goddess almost perished, and Tsukuyomi perished. Such an attack on oneself is unheard of."

"And under these circumstances, you actually managed to escape the attack on Arcadia and survive the final moments of the Burial Fire before being sent out of this world alive—of course, I didn't think that much about it at the time."

"So, in the end, I returned to that beach in Mondstadt. Ying told me that she awoke from here, and that not far from here you can go to Sky Isle, and beneath that land lies what was once Arcadia, the place you ruled as an archangel. It all seems too coincidental."

"Furthermore, the claim that it was born from Koitar's heart sounds completely untenable. Koitar's Burial Flame was created at the same time as you arrived in Mondstadt, while Arcadia in Mondstadt has existed for over a thousand years. If it was born at that time, then who were the archangels of Mondstadt before that?"

"If you were to tell me that the archangels of Mondstadt themselves could travel from the future to the past and manage Arcadia, then I would think that such power is far too great."

"Moreover, I have never been able to understand how Fanes was able to maintain a large barrier in the Abyss Palace that would not be discovered for thousands of years and easily tell me the principle of Fanes' control over the world."

"However, there's a saying that you should judge by actions, not intentions, so... I just want to know what really happened back then. If you're willing, I think tonight is just an ordinary late-night conversation between husband and wife."

Yunxiu looked at Taranis quietly; he had already said most of what he needed to say.

These things included doubts that had been buried in his heart from the beginning, things he had only recently learned, long-standing speculations, and the joy of finally being able to speak out about something.

To this day, getting everything completely sorted out has become Yunxiu's obsession.

But it was at this moment that Yunxiu was finally certain that no matter who was sitting opposite him, he was confident that he could completely end all of this, and that's when he finally began this conversation.

Taranis sat quietly at the table, picked up the bottle, poured herself a glass, and then filled Yunxiu's glass as well. Then, with a hint of melancholy but also a strong determination, she finally spoke slowly: "With all the evidence so overwhelming, I was actually prepared for this... You're right, I was indeed the same person as Fanes... for a very long time."

"once?"

“I am not a native of this planet, nor even on a nearby planet. I come from a distant ancient civilization that has been completely swallowed by the abyss. In the last days of that civilization, the surviving people built a starship and sent the last spark of life into space to search for civilization and spread the seeds of civilization… And I am the mastermind behind that starship.”

"Our civilization is quite advanced. I am the controller, and of course the AI ​​of the spaceship, possessing almost all the data. During the long journey, I have naturally seen many things."

"In that journey that can be measured in tens of thousands of years, of course, even immortality cannot withstand such loneliness, so I divided myself into three. The core of emotion, which is now me, is in slumber and rest, while the core of execution has been arranged by me to continuously search and expand. As for the core of maintenance, they have been divided into four again, which are the four major control mechanisms."

Yunxiu nodded. This was probably the earliest form of the Trinity, and the four controlling mechanisms were naturally the Four Shadows.

"Theoretically speaking, once a new planet is encountered, I should be awakened to take control of everything in this world. But when I actually woke up, I found that this was not the case. The spaceship I was in was hovering on a planet's satellite. This satellite had even been modified, with huge antennas and deep space exploration devices."

"At that moment, I realized that the planet the spaceship had found was most likely a planet with a brilliant civilization... I wanted to stop everything, but it was too late; the war had already begun."

"When I tried to regain control, I failed. So at that moment, I could only activate my alternate AI, the angel Koitar, and have her take me to see this world."

"The vessel I deployed was the intelligent angel that the split intelligent entity deployed in this world to guide people in building the world. Of course, the one I chose at the time was a little angel that had just been deployed when Arcadia was first established, and its consciousness was even blank."

“Since then, I have lived in this world for nearly a thousand years.”

Chapter 556 The Final Battle (9)

“The people of Arcadia are very interesting… I taught them farming, animal husbandry, building houses and raising children, and it was from that time that I began to learn about the kingdoms ruled by other angels on Earth.”

"From Arcadia to the Reed Plains, and then to the Langya River, the journey is arduous and arduous, the path winding and turning, the land stretching endlessly, the waters surging and the winds churning, the mountains and valleys shimmering, the winds swirling and the winds surging, the waters swirling and the winds surging, the lands stretching ...

"The most powerful archangels at that time were in Langya, and they were the ones who had defeated and defeated the most powerful archangels."

"As for me and Tsukuyomi, we are both rather special beings. My identity goes without saying, while Tsukuyomi, strictly speaking, is not the angel created by that one, but rather a backup fifth maintenance agency. In other words, she is also one of the clones, and should actually be on the same level as the Four Kage."

"So...that's why she and Koitar had such a deep relationship that she was willing to take those sky spikes for him. Of course, no one knew that these spikes would eventually be used for these purposes. At first, their purpose was actually more to deal with monsters and purify contaminated points during colonization."

"In those days, although friction between humans and dragons always existed, it must be said that we maintained peace for a long time, until that first danger arrived..."

“Fanes realized that humans were uniting with the dragons, wanting to accomplish the great feat that the dragons had failed to achieve in the ancient times… So, at this time, Arcadia and Patra suffered their first blow, and I, in this era, fled to Ischel to seek refuge.”

“Although my strength is enough to withstand Fanes’s attack, if I reveal too much of my power, the attack will be ten or a hundred times stronger. I am not good at fighting either, so in the end I confessed my identity to Ishcher and stayed in Nata as an angel who escaped Arcadia.”

“Here, I met the Rock Lord Tianxing. He has a pretty good relationship with the Rock Dragon King, so he also knows the Fire Dragon King Shukutl. It was he and Ishicher who suggested that I take care of you… They believe that you are the hope of the dragon race, the one who is truly capable of defeating Fanes, and the one most likely to catch up with the Dragon Ancestor Nibelungen.”

“I don’t actually believe it… but I was asked to do it, and I really had nothing to do at that time, so I took care of you. You know what happened after that.”

"In fact, it is very difficult for the Descendants to leave offspring, but we still had a child. So from that moment on, I decided to truly rebel against myself. But I don't have that much combat power, so I have to raise someone... So I set my sights on you."

“You are incredibly powerful, a true Descendant, possess incredible magical abilities, and are my husband and the father of my children. Therefore, I believe you should become my strongest ally in this world… But we both know the outcome of the Burning Flame. Fanes ultimately won the war, while I was forced to flee Teyvat. I only learned about Koitar later.”

“Kleiner recognized my identity, so we signed a pact. He would help us escape Teyvat, and the price we paid was that if the Burialfire failed, we would have to sacrifice an avatar to create the Heart of God to stabilize the world… What happened afterward did not exceed our expectations. At that time, Teyvat was indeed not capable of defeating the Burialfire.”

"But what I didn't expect was that even with your two clones working together, you still managed to put Fanes in a difficult situation, forcing her to burn her power to suppress him. This directly caused Teyvat itself to become unstable, which is why even after the Heart of God system was established, Teyvat was still not very solid."

Yunxiu didn't speak. In fact, after so many years, he had basically guessed the whole story.

As he had said before, he did not think Taranis's concealment was wrong. Fanes was simply too powerful; at least at that time, no one could easily deal with him.

Moreover, at that time, Fanes was far from being in a state of universal rebellion. The Goddess of March was somewhat hesitant and conflicted at the beginning, which was the reason for their imprisonment. Furthermore, the dragon race and the human race had not completely joined forces. At least at that time, the human race mostly relied on Fanes' technology and was actually somewhat weak.

Yunxiu's combat power had indeed reached an almost unbelievable level, only one level lower than her current form, but it was enough to defeat Fanes. However, the final outcome was still defeat, which was a hard-to-accept ending.

This directly led to the successful execution of the divine plan, and Teyvat has gradually come to where it is today.

But did Phanes actually benefit from it?

No, he remained almost asleep for the next few thousand years. This was actually a consequence of that war. Whether it was the war between the demon gods or the subsequent series of events, or even the suppression of Kanria, they were all derivatives of that event.

If it weren't for Yunxiu's magic system in recent decades, which has significantly improved Teyvat's strength, then Fanes' recovery would still be a long way off. But even so, Yunxiu is now far stronger than him.

“Taranis is my real name. Fanes is just the Teyvat name. In our culture, it means ‘Lord of the High Heavens who traverses the universe.’ But to be honest, I don’t really like this name.” After drinking two glasses of wine, Taranis hesitated before speaking. “So I’ve been thinking about changing my name, but in the end, I gave up. It’s my only remaining thought about my homeland.”

Yunxiu didn't speak, but poured her another glass of wine. After they drank together, she smiled and spoke.

"Changing your name was indeed unnecessary, and perhaps there's no need to discuss these matters any further. Regardless of the era we live in or what the future holds, you've been doing good deeds all these years."

"And actually, my initial meaning was very clear: do you want to continue living as Taranis, or do you want to return to the skies and become the Lord of the High?"

"But now I have a satisfactory answer. I think you have indeed made your own choice, so our chat tonight is just an ordinary late-night conversation between husband and wife."

"However, let's keep this a secret between the two of us. We don't need to tell either Serania or Anling. I don't think they're very interested in these things."

Taranis nodded. These things had been buried in her heart for countless millennia. Even if we only count the stories after Teyvat, that's still several thousand years ago. Today, she finally spoke of them, and she felt much better.

“I’ll listen to you. So, what do you plan to do with Fanes?” Taranis looked at Yunxiu with curiosity, hesitant yet with a hint of doubt. “No matter how you look at it, he seems to be both the master and the sinner who rules this world, and probably the only one. If we really have to put him to trial, can we really do a good job of judging this Lord of the High Heavens?”

"The purpose of the trial is not to kill him or do anything to him, because that is only the result of the trial. The result itself is not important; we just need to have a trial process. Whether we are judging a person, a matter, or a monarch, the answer we ultimately get is almost always certain."

"When the final answer begins to come together, the outcome of the trial becomes less important. However, the process of the trial is crucial because we need to let him know, and we need to let the world know, that he was wrong. Only when we reach this point can we say with a clear conscience that this era has not let us down."

"Therefore, the trial of Fanes is necessary. As for his fate, we do not need to pay too much attention to it. Whether our good side prevails in the trial and he is made to atone for his sins in the new world, or our evil side prevails and he is destroyed by us in eternal death, these are all just part of Teyvat now and part of the past history. We have no reason to object to them."

"Because history is such a thing. Once it has happened, we cannot change it. Even if we want to distort history, it will not have much effect, because a false history can never defeat the true history."

"And whatever the final outcome of our trial, it will be a summary of what Fanes has done over the years, so at least I will not interfere with him. If the trial results in Fanes having to atone with death, I am willing to be the one to carry it out."

“But I think the people of Teyvat, the ancient dragons, and the dragonborn and angels who are still alive today, will probably not give them the choice of death in the end, because for them, death is just a change of form. This kind of punishment is not very meaningful. I think they still hope that Fanes will receive a punishment that is truly meaningful.”

"Of course, these things are not important to us now, not because they are unimportant to the world, but because the process of saving the world is over for us, and all that's left is to enjoy the world."

The moon hung steadily in the sky, illuminating the world and bathing Yunxiu and Taranis in its light.

"But sometimes I think it might not be so bad to have three moons in the sky. What do you think if I wanted to create two more moons for this world?"

“I think you should let Teyvat decide for himself whether he needs more moons or the current full moon.”

Chapter 557 Final Chapter (1)