Genshin Impact, the new God of Grass, makes Xumi great again

Chapter 9 Demonic Scale Disease

On the first day of the journey, Nashida discovered a golden ball of light in her own consciousness space.

He is located at the bottom of the consciousness space. Although he looks a bit scary visually, Nashida has a sense of closeness to him from the bottom of her heart.

'It's like a lotus flower meeting a lotus leaf, or a transplanted tree returning to the soil.'

This is how Nashida explains this feeling of closeness.

Despite this unique feeling, Nashida still tried to analyze it.

After all, there is such a thing in one's own consciousness space, how can one not care about it?

At least, whether it was the former Nashida or the people from another world, such a thing had never appeared in their memories.

But the analysis is meaningless, even the God of Wisdom cannot give any reasonable explanation for it.

However, in the process of analysis, there was an unexpected gain. It seemed that his soul had a mysterious connection with it.

……

"Lord Grass God, please help Ke Lai."

Tinari suddenly came in from the door, interrupting Nashida's thoughts. Looking up, she saw Tinari holding a girl and running towards her.

She has beautiful short green hair and wears a slightly modified ranger uniform with a small doll hanging around her waist. The overall outfit gives people a very cute feeling.

However, the girl's condition was very bad at the moment. Her beautiful eyebrows were wrinkled and her cute little face showed a look of pain.

I saw a kind of gray-brown scales rapidly expanding on the girl's body, some of which had even expanded to areas not covered by clothes. The girl's body was trembling slightly, and it was obvious that she was experiencing inhuman torture.

"Lord Grass God, Kelai..."

Although he was very anxious, Tinari still briefly introduced the current situation to Nashida.

As a natural disaster unique to Xumi, the hazards of the Death Zone are well known to everyone in Xumi.

The gray sky, the large number of monsters and the characteristics of corroding all living things are all synonymous with the dead zone.

Unfortunately, even though the Dead Zone has existed for quite some time, humans still have only a limited understanding of the reasons for its formation.

With the current level of technology, it is impossible to accurately predict the time and place of its occurrence, the direction of its expansion, and the strength of the monsters inside.

Therefore, in the land of Xumi, if you are unlucky, you may enter the newly created death zone while walking.

During this patrol, unfortunately, Cole and his companions encountered a suddenly expanding dead zone.

This time, the expansion of the dead zone came without warning as usual, and was accompanied by a large number of monsters.

As the only holder of the Eye of God in the team, Cole naturally had to step forward in this situation to cover the retreat of others, but this also made her stay in the Dead Zone for too long.

As soon as he returned to Huacheng City, Cole fell to the ground in front of everyone's eyes. The rangers were helpless and immediately sent Cole to Tinari.

Tinari immediately checked on Cole's condition and found that her magic scale disease was rapidly worsening. If no action was taken, she would most likely lose her life.

He took action immediately, but this time, perhaps because the condition was too serious, neither decoctions nor other methods could reverse the progression of Cole's condition as usual.

In anxiety, Tinari thought of Nashida who was still in her room, so he immediately hugged Cole and came to seek Nashida's help.

Under the current circumstances, perhaps only Lord Grass God can take action to save Cole's life.

"I have a general understanding of the situation. Let's put her on the bed first."

Before Tinari could finish his words, Nashida had already injected a stream of grass elemental power into Cole's body, but the expansion of the scales only slowed down slightly and did not stop completely.

"Lord Grass God, please save this child. She is a positive and motivated child. She should not have met this kind of ending."

Ever since Seno brought Cole to Huacheng Castle half a year ago, Tinari has felt extremely sympathetic towards the child's plight.

It may be for this reason that Tinari decided to agree to accept Seno as his apprentice.

Although the process of teaching Cole to read was very difficult, he was deeply moved by the good character of this girl.

Now as a master, he can only watch his apprentice suffer so much pain, but he is powerless to do anything about it. He is heartbroken and blames himself.

"This child is also one of my people. I will not sit idly by and watch a situation like this."

While increasing the output of her divine power, Nashida turned to look at Tinari.

"Her body is very weak. I hope you can help me find some herbs."

A note then appeared in Tinari's hand.

"Then help me prepare a bowl of medicine. I will stay here to continue the treatment."

Hearing this, Tinari first bowed solemnly to Nashida, and then rushed out to find the herbs that Nashida needed.

He understood that if he continued to stay here he would not be able to provide any help, and would instead hinder the Lord Grass God's ability to perform his duties. It would be better to give all the space to Nashida.

"Then I'll leave this child in your care, Lord Grass God."

After Tinari left, Nashida turned her attention back to Cole. With the continuous input of grass elemental power, the scales on Cole's body had gradually stopped expanding.

However, Nashida's frown did not relax at all, because she understood that the demonic scale disease was only temporarily suppressed by the divine power. Once the input of divine power was slightly reduced, the scales would begin to expand again.

"Something is wrong. Demonic Scale Disease should not be so active."

Nashida keenly sensed the inconvenience. If every patient with the magic scale disease was like this, there would be many patients with the magic scale disease in Xumi, and they would not be able to hold on for so long.

"There must be other reasons for this situation. Cole's body must be thoroughly explored."

Then, high-intensity grass elemental power covered Cole's body, and Nashida also put her consciousness into it.

Now is a moment of racing against time, and speed must be fast, because this intensity of divine power output cannot be maintained for long with Nashida's current strength.

As we all know, the root cause of Demon Scale Disease is the forbidden knowledge that pollutes the World Tree, so it is very dangerous to directly use the consciousness body to detect patients with Demon Scale Disease.

However, this time, a strong intuition told Nashida that this might be another way to solve the forbidden knowledge.

With the entry of the consciousness body, Nashida finally discovered the reason for the rapid deterioration of the magic scale disease, the source of which can be traced back to Cole's childhood.

Cole has suffered from demonic scale disease since she was a child. In order to cure her disease, Cole's parents entrusted her to the Fatui because the other party claimed that they had a way to cure demonic scale disease.

But the Fatui didn't actually have any way to cure Cole; their sole purpose was to obtain materials for human experiments.

In the experiment conducted by the Fatui, Cole was implanted with the residue of the demon, and the residue of the demon rejected the forbidden knowledge in Cole's body.

On the surface, the symptoms of demonic scale disease seemed to have eased.

But in reality, this is using the subject's body as a battlefield for forbidden knowledge and the remnants of the demon, and the result of the confrontation between the two is even worse than simple demon scale disease.

Fortunately, Cole escaped from the laboratory and sealed the remnants of the demon in her body, so she is still alive today.

But what Nashida saw now was a different scene.

At this moment, the seal in Cole's body has been broken, and the remnants of the demon are fighting fiercely against the forbidden knowledge.

What caused the seal to be broken?

We can learn that in order to protect others, Cole stayed in the dead zone too long this time.

During this period of time, the power of the Dead Zone is likely to have damaged the seal, eventually rendering the seal of the Demon Remnant ineffective.

"The activity of the demon remnants is a bit too high."

Perhaps because the seal has just been broken, the remnants of the demon god seem to want to show themselves off.

The activeness of the demon remnants has stimulated the forbidden knowledge, and the intensity of the confrontation between the two is even greater than before.

So unlike when Cole was a child, this time the demonic scale disease worsened rapidly.

"So the best way to solve this problem is..."

Nashida frowned, already having an idea in mind.

Chapter 10: The essence beneath the appearance?

What is the nature of forbidden knowledge?

From the performance point of view, this is a highly destructive and corrosive substance.

The kingdom of the Red Earth King was eventually destroyed because of it, and even the Great Kind Tree King, who was known to be omniscient and omnipotent, was helpless against it.

The lesson of the past was right in front of her, and at least before today, Nashida was very wary of it.

As for why we need to add before today?

"Why don't you two stop fighting? Keep going."

Looking at the two little balls trembling in her palms, Nashida felt speechless, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

Just three minutes ago, the two little balls were still fighting for three hundred rounds in Cole's body, but in the blink of an eye, they have become as obedient as little babies and are even held in Nashida's hands.

That’s right, these two small black and red balls are the forbidden knowledge and demon residues in Cole’s body.

Why did things develop to this point?

Recalling what had just happened, Nashida felt like she was dreaming, full of unreality.

Obviously they just wanted to test it out, but the two of them acted as if they had encountered some ferocious beast. They stopped fighting and just huddled together.

"One of you is forbidden knowledge, and the other is a remnant of the demon god. You are not ostriches burying their heads in the sand."

After hearing this, the two small balls trembled slightly at the same time, as if they were speaking in unison.

'Ostriches are so great, we want to be ostriches.'

Nashida narrowed her eyes slightly, tilted her head slightly to one side, put on a smile, and then used the power of dreams to conjure up a mirror.

"She's so cute, but I really don't know how to appreciate her."

Feeling the faint aura from the higher-dimensional world emanating from Nashida's consciousness, the two small balls shook even more violently.

Putting away the mirror and looking at the two small balls in her hands, Nashida fell silent.

Things were resolved so smoothly, so what should we do next?

"Ah woo~"

Nashida made a surprising move. She actually ate the ball of forbidden knowledge in her left hand!

As she swallowed the food, Nashida showed a satisfied expression, as if what she was eating was not forbidden knowledge but some delicious delicacy.

"I have been holding back for a long time. Since you are so ignorant of appreciating beauty, why don't I just follow my instincts?"

Nashida's eyes were fixed on the remnants of the demon in the palm of her right hand.

o((⊙﹏⊙))o.

The remaining ball suddenly began to shake violently.

Ever since the consciousness entered Cole's body, Nashida's heart has been lingering with a strange impulse, if one word could be used to describe this impulse.

'Hungry' is the most vivid description of this impulse.

That’s right, this was Nashida’s first feeling towards the forbidden knowledge and the remnants of the demon. It was neither curiosity about the unknown nor fear of evil, but the desire to eat them both directly.

As time went on, this impulse became stronger and stronger. Although reason had been trying to suppress this terrible idea, the instinct from the depths of the soul eventually prevailed.

“This tastes good too.”

She casually put the demon residue in her right hand into her mouth, just like eating candy beans, and Nashida's consciousness devoured the forbidden knowledge and demon residue entrenched in Cole's body.

After regaining her sanity and feeling her consciousness which seemed to have become slightly stronger, Nashida began to think about her life.

"So what exactly is my essence? Why do I feel about these two substances like a mandarin tiger seeing a mushroom pig?" As she spoke, Nashida suddenly paused for a moment.