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"No, this is too fast. We haven't even done anything yet and you're already like this?" Wendy looked incredulous.
He now had mixed feelings, including excitement about Tevarin's recovery, but also a sense of inexplicable frustration.
He had been sleeping for hundreds of years, and he woke up at the right time to heal Tevarin and show his prowess! Unexpectedly, he was overshadowed by the ember?
What should he do then? Is he really going to compete with Six-Fingered Joseph to see who can sing better?
"Senior, you just said 'almost healed', what did you mean?" Ying frowned slightly. Could it be that Tevarin's poisonous blood was so troublesome that even the embers couldn't completely remove it?
"Nothing, just some residue," Ember replied nonchalantly. That bit of poisonous blood would at best only cause Tevarin's back to ache for a while.
Even if Tevarin didn't fight Lance Shanks, this bit of poisonous blood would gradually disappear over time.
"Then Ying and I will have to take action, right?" Wendy plucked the strings of the Sky Harp and said with a raised eyebrow.
"No, Lance Shanks is needed." Ember said lightly.
Chapter 177 This is the power of love
2023-09-17
"Lance Shanks? Who is that?" Wendy frowned. Is there such a person in Mond?
Although Wendy seems to be out of touch, he actually knows every aspect of Mond during his daily strolls.
But no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't find a person named "Lance Shanks".
Could it be that I have made some mistakes? It seems that I need to go shopping more. Wendy naturally decided on the plan for the next day.
"Lance Shanks..." Qin touched her chin. Wendy's confusion didn't mean Qin didn't understand. She thought for a while and said:
"Is this Mr. Ember's new friend?"
"Yes, I didn't expect you actually knew her?" Yu Jin nodded, a little surprised.
It seems that he didn't take Lance Shanks to the Knights? How did Jean know?
Qin smiled and nodded. "Ms. Lance Shanks's appearance is a little... special. Don't you know? She is a subject of much discussion in Mond."
After saying that, Qin looked at Yu Jin with a strange look. Didn't Yu Jin know that it was very noticeable that a beautiful woman came out of his house every day?
Of course Yu Jin didn't know. It would be better to say that he had never lived in Mondstadt properly for a single day. He wandered around the world every day, so he didn't have time to think about so many things.
As for those strange sights? Sorry, Yu Jin has never experienced what normal sights are like. To him, those sights are just daily.
"Really? I don't feel anything." Yu Jin scratched his head, indicating that he had no idea about this.
As the high priest of the dragon clan, Lance Shanks was a complete social terrorist. He was used to everyone's discussions and naturally would not tell Yu Jin about these things.
And Yu Jin himself is not someone who cares about these things, so naturally he doesn't know about the situation of Lance Shanks.
Yu Jin thought of the cat-eared girl in the Cat's Tail Tavern in Mondstadt, and the animal ears on Sugar's head, and asked in confusion: "I remember there are many special people in Mondstadt, right? Is Lance Shanks so easy to attract attention?"
"That's different. The Mond people's attribution to their ancestors are all rabbits, cats, puppies and the like, but Miss Lance Shanks is different from them."
"The huge horns on Miss Lance Shanks's head are so eye-catching!"
Jean had seen Lance Shanks from a distance once before, and the huge, sharp horns were really eye-catching and left a deep impression on her.
"Lance Shanks is a dragon." Paimon saw Jean's confused and surprised look, and immediately ran over and shook his finger, showing off to Jean.
"Dragon... Dragon?!!" Jean widened her eyes, quite shocked that Lance Shanks' true form was a dragon.
There are very few dragons in Teyvat. In Jean's memory, the only dragons that exist in reality are Tevarin and the evil dragon Ursa.
The former had already transformed into a wind dragon when Jean saw him, and the latter was killed by the Doctor in one blow and used as a bargaining chip at the negotiating table.
It can be said that Jean has never really gotten along with dragons from the beginning to the end. Now Paimon tells her that Lance Shanks is actually a dragon? And a dragon that can transform into a human form!
"A dragon... can also transform into a human form?" Qin rubbed her temple and asked in shock.
She really didn't expect that the situation in the novel where a giant dragon transformed into a human form could actually happen in reality.
Not to mention Jean, even Diluk looked shocked. He had been out gathering intelligence these days, and it had only been a short time since he left, and there was already a dragon in Mondstadt?
"A dragon... or a dragon that can transform into a human form?" Although Wendy knew more than the others, he only knew the basics of dragons.
It seems that dragons are elemental creatures that are born when the accumulation of elemental creatures reaches its peak. Judging from the current circulation of elements in the seven countries, it would be the maximum for a country to have one elemental dragon.
Where did the dragon Ember come from?
"You went to other countries?" Wendy came over and asked seriously.
Dragons are powerful beings in any country, and most of them have important responsibilities. If Yu Jin really kidnapped them, it would be troublesome.
"No." Ember shook his head, then whispered, "Let me tell you, Lance Shanks is a good dragon, you have to let Tevarin catch him!"
"What?" Wendy didn't understand for a moment, and couldn't help but look at Yu Jin with a question mark on her face.
"Tsk, no wonder he's still single for so long!" Ember sighed. Then he said, "Look, Tevarin is a dragon, Lance Shanks is a dragon, if the two of them get to know each other, maybe they can get married right away!"
"Then you can lay eggs!" As he said that, Yu Jin patted Wendy's shoulder, stunning him.
But Wendy quickly came back to his senses. He shook his head and threw away all of Yu Jin's messy words, and asked as if to confirm:
"You really didn't go to other countries?"
"Of course not! Do I have to go to other countries to find dragons? I wave my hand and the dragons that come here, connected head to tail, can circle Mondstadt directly!"
Yu Jin said this while waving his hands in a pretentious manner. In fact, he didn't know whether Patch's space channel had a limit on the number of people. But if you want to brag, just brag as much as you can.
After hearing what Yu Jin said, Wendy finally felt relieved. In fact, he cared about Mondstadt's safety more than anyone else.
Then he reacted and asked in disbelief, "Isn't your plan to make Lance Shanks and Tevarin friends?"
"To be honest, it would be better if something else happened." Ember nodded seriously.
If it really came true, then he could rest assured that Vic and his wife could spend their honeymoon in peace, Lance Shanks would find a new partner, and Twalin would no longer be alone.
Four wins, it’s simply overwhelming!
Unfortunately, judging by Lance Shanks's performance, it was probably not going to work. It seemed that the psychological age difference was too big, and Lance Shanks looked at Tevarin just like he looked at those dragon cubs who could fly high and low.
The difference was that dragon cubs would bear the iron fist of her love, but Tevarin would not.
"that's it?"
"Just like that, you have to believe that the power of love is infinite!"
Wendy said she didn't understand, but was shocked. Can the erosion of the abyss be escaped by the mysterious "love"?
"Then why didn't it break free from the poisonous blood before?" Wendy asked back. He thought he had a good relationship with Tevarin, didn't he?
If love really has power, then why didn't Tevarin break free from the shackles of poisonous blood before?
"Hehe, are you a dragon?"
"No."
"Are you a woman?"
"No."
"Then what are you talking about the power of love!"
"I think your definition of 'love' is a bit narrow." Wendy looked at Ember and complained.
Unexpectedly, Yu Jin immediately retorted: "Who said that? It's just that love is the most touching."
"Why do you act like you know everything?" Wendy glanced at Yu Jin. He was obviously a single guy as well, so why did he talk in such a complicated way?
"I know it very well!" Yu Jin patted his chest confidently. It's the same for men and women!
"Then why are you still single?" Wendy thought about Yu Jin's experience in Mond. Except for the period of time he lived with Colegaruro at the beginning, he seemed to have always been alone.
"Hey! Why didn't I realize before that you, Wendy, like to sabotage things so much?" Yu Jin looked at Wendy and wondered why he had so many things to do today?
"Let me tell you this, those who pursue me, hand in hand, can go around Mondstadt again!" Yu Jin looked up at the sky, as if he was recalling his previous experiences.
Melina and the others are so powerful, they should be able to stretch it into a long strip and circle Mondstadt, right? Yu Jin gestured at the circumference of Mondstadt and compared it with Melina and the others' strength, and felt that it should be possible.
Now, he is more confident!
Chapter 178 The Witch and the Dragon
2023-09-18
"Wow! Yu Jin, you are so awesome!" Paimon has a great advantage, which is that she believes everything others say.
If she hadn't been following Ying, she would have been sold out by someone else long ago.
"You believe this?" Wendy slapped her forehead helplessly. Those words just now were obviously just bragging by Yu Jin.
Wendy shook her head and suddenly realized that the topic seemed to have gone off track. They were clearly discussing Tevarin's affairs, but how did they inexplicably slip into Ember's private affairs?
He glanced at Yu Jin who was talking eloquently. Sure enough, when he was with Yu Jin, things would always go in an inexplicable direction.
Wendy shuddered at the thought. She immediately went up to Ember and said, "Why did Lance Shanks come out? And what happened to Tevarin?"
"Hey! I told you that you didn't care enough about Tevarin! You only remembered Tevarin now. No wonder he turned into a wind dragon after being corroded by poisonous blood!"
"Hurry up and talk!" Wendy gritted his teeth, indicating that he didn't want to say anything more to Yu Jin, because he was afraid that the topic would slide into some strange corner again.
“Okay!” Yu Jin spread his hands and said, “Actually, it was Tevarin himself who overcame the resentment in the poisonous blood. Now the poisonous blood is just a bunch of troublesome abyssal energy. We just need to vent it out.”
"Of course, it's fine if you don't vent, but you'll have to wait a little longer."
The most troublesome thing about the abyss is the will and knowledge contained therein. As long as they are still there, the power of the abyss will continue to surge out.
However, if they could be wiped out, the power of the abyss would turn into rootless water and would dissipate sooner or later.
Of course, the influence of the abyss is not so easy to erase. With the power of the abyss, that knowledge and consciousness will continue to be integrated into the memory of living things, and eventually become indistinguishable from each other.
This is when one truly "becomes one with the abyss."
But Tevarin has not reached that point. Firstly, Tevarin's will is strong enough and he is constantly resisting the erosion; secondly, Durin's poisonous blood is a derivative of the abyss, and there is still some gap compared to the real abyss.
“Venting?” Wendy nodded as she thought of the pain Tevarin had endured over the past few hundred years and the huge poisonous blood clot on his back.
Indeed, Tevarin needed to vent.
"Vent..." Qin lowered her head and thought for a while. She looked at the embers who seemed to be referring to something, and then volunteered: "I can be Tevarin's opponent. If he wants to vent, come to me!"
“Count me in as well, Guardian of the Four Winds. It’s an honor for me to compete with such a powerful opponent.” Diluk looked at his calloused palms and felt a little excited.