Chapter 264

Even before this, Columbina did not believe that Signora and Tartaglia could truly trick Mu Yang into coming to Snezhnaya.

After all, the Fatui did not seem to have much to offer that would actually pique Mu Yang's interest.

Thinking of this, Columbina cast a slightly suspicious glance at Signora. Could this woman, Rosalyne, have sacrificed herself for the sake of the mission to pull Mu Yang into the Fatui?

But that didn't seem right, either.

Who within the Fatui didn't know that while you could ask Rosalyne to kill, asking her to seduce someone was absolutely impossible?

Even before today, Columbina had held this belief, but now, why was Mu Yang willing to follow Rosalyne and Tartaglia to Snezhnaya?

Wait! Suddenly, Columbina's heart tightened. Could Mu Yang have taken a liking to her?

"Columbina, we must face the Tsaritsa, please step aside." Hearing Columbina's naive words, Rosalyne felt speechless, but she still spoke to her.

"Eh? You want to see the Tsaritsa?

But the Jester told me before that the Tsaritsa has fallen into a deep slumber and that no one should disturb her..." Columbina said, looking somewhat troubled.

"Then, do you think the Tsaritsa's affairs are more important, or the Jester's?" Mu Yang's mind stirred, and he asked Columbina.

At this moment, he could be certain that this woman, Columbina, was perhaps truly a "three-no" type, or perhaps just a bit dim-witted.

It seemed she had no grasp of the gravity of the situation at all.

As for the Jester, he had also exploited Columbina's naive nature. If Tartaglia and Rosalyne hadn't brought him here this time, Columbina would have attacked him the moment they met.

By then, the Jester and the others would also have known about the situation here.

Of course, it was also possible that Columbina would have been sealed by Mu Yang in an instant. With Mu Yang's current strength, sealing Columbina without anyone noticing was not a difficult task for him.

"Of course the Tsaritsa's affairs are more important." This time, Columbina answered without a second thought.

This caused Rosalyne and Tartaglia to feel a surge of joy.

They had already gathered a rough idea from Columbina's words: the Jester was actually imprisoning the Tsaritsa and had arranged for Columbina to supervise her, only Columbina herself didn't really understand what she was doing.

She perhaps only thought she was protecting the Tsaritsa.

"Columbina, we need to see the Tsaritsa; we have matters to discuss with her.

This is the Tsaritsa's command!" Signora emphasized the word "command" heavily: "And it is a mission that cannot be known by others!"

Columbina tilted her head to look at Rosalyne, then at Tartaglia, and finally at Mu Yang beside them, before nodding slightly and saying: "Alright!

However, if the Tsaritsa does not intend to wake up, please leave first and do not disturb her."

"!!!" Was she really this easy to talk to?

Even Tartaglia and Rosalyne were shocked by Columbina's compliance at this moment.

They had originally expected that they might have to fight Columbina.

Fortunately, Columbina's attitude was good, and they would not need to fight her.

As Columbina stepped aside, she opened the coffin, and the sight inside shocked her as well: "The Tsaritsa's condition?"

Rosalyne and Tartaglia rushed forward to check on the Tsaritsa inside the coffin.

Could it be that they had arrived too late? Had the Tsaritsa met with misfortune?

Mu Yang curiously examined the Tsaritsa. As the rumors said, the Tsaritsa really was a "Big Duck"!

Truly nice!

Her figure is truly nice, cute!

Want to smash!

"The power of the Abyss!" Looking at the aura on the Tsaritsa, Mu Yang spoke slowly: "If we hadn't come, within a month, the Cryo Archon would have been corrupted by the Abyss!"

"How can this be!?" Rosalyne was furious upon hearing this.

One didn't even need to think to know this had to do with the Jester. It couldn't be that the Tsaritsa herself felt there was no hope in opposing the Heavenly Principles and wanted to fall into the Abyss, could it?

Heh, if you told that to a fool, even a fool wouldn't believe it. If you don't believe me, try asking Tartaglia.

Presumably, Tartaglia wouldn't believe it either.

Rosalyne loathed the Abyss, and now the Jester and his cohorts were actually trying to lure the Tsaritsa into falling into the Abyss—this was something Rosalyne could not accept under any circumstances.

Damn the Jester!

"Mu Yang, do you have a way?" Tartaglia took a deep breath and asked Mu Yang beside him.

"Yes! This isn't difficult!" Mu Yang nodded slightly. Waking the Tsaritsa was not a difficult task.

"Are you going to wake the Tsaritsa?" Columbina asked hurriedly upon seeing Mu Yang's actions.

"Shouldn't we wake the Tsaritsa in this state?" Rosalyne questioned: "If something happens to the Tsaritsa, you will be held responsible!"

"The Abyss is bad, but we have no way to deal with the power of the Abyss." Columbina shook her head slightly: "Moreover, once we do something, it is easy to alert the enemy."

"No, I can solve it!" Mu Yang reached out and placed his hand on the Tsaritsa's face.

Bastard, stop that, you are desecrating a god!

This is not your Does Does Liyue, nor is it your Inazuma, take your filthy hands off!

The Tsaritsa is no longer pure!

However, at this moment, they didn't dare to step up and stop Mu Yang, not to mention the question of whether they could beat him.

The problem of the Abyss was something they had to face. Since Mu Yang said he was solving the problem of the Abyss, they would just assume Mu Yang was helping the Tsaritsa resolve it!

The moment he touched the Tsaritsa, Mu Yang indeed felt a great deal of Abyssal filth within her, and it had been contaminated during this recent period.

What caught Mu Yang's attention most was the erosion on the Tsaritsa; he had never seen any god with erosion as severe as hers.

Neither Barbatos nor Morax had erosion as intense as the Tsaritsa's.

It could even be compared to the Azhdaha of the past.

This in itself was unscientific, considering the Tsaritsa could be considered a junior to Morax and the others.

According to information Mu Yang had collected recently, her age should be between 1, 00 and 2, 00 years old.

At such an age, she naturally couldn't compare to the oldest Archons.

Even Raiden Ei and Raiden Makoto, the two Archons born later, were over 2, 00, or even 2, 00 years old.

Of course, compared to the Archons born after the Khaenri'ah war, the Tsaritsa's age was not small.

However, 1, 00 to 2, 00 years old is indeed not considered old for an Archon.

It's roughly equivalent to about 30 years old for a human; logically, such severe erosion should be impossible.

Soon, Mu Yang understood. The Tsaritsa had distributed most of her authority; with her current strength, she might not even be a match for Venti before he joined the chat group.

She might only be slightly stronger than Nahida.

That made sense!

The more divine power used, the more one fights, the more erosion an Archon suffers.

This is the restriction of the Heavenly Principles on Archons; after all, the elemental energy used by Archons also comes from the world!

If elemental energy is used without restraint, the depletion of Teyvat is enormous. Therefore, the more elemental energy is used, the greater the consumption for the Archon.

And now, the Tsaritsa's erosion was understandable.

However, for Mu Yang, erosion was not a difficult matter; Raiden Ei and the others had already resolved most of their erosion by now.

He purified a portion of the Abyssal filth on the Tsaritsa and began to use his own power of life.

As for the other contamination on the Tsaritsa, let her purify it herself later; he believed she wouldn't refuse such a path to "leveling up."

Think of Venti, then think of the Tsaritsa here—how much the Abyss wants to corrupt the Seven Archons!

However, compared to Venti, who was corrupted by the Abyss Order through the Statue of the Seven, the Jester here was directly attempting to corrupt the Tsaritsa. Moreover, Mu Yang could feel the power of the Abyss continuously entering the Tsaritsa's body through this coffin.

Without a doubt, for the Tsaritsa, this was the best place to farm points. In just one month, the Tsaritsa would likely farm an unimaginable amount of points.

"It's not hard to solve!" Mu Yang said softly: "In the world I was in before, there is a story: a sleeping princess who needs a prince's kiss to wake up!

It seems we are quite fated!"

"Wait, can't I do it?" Rosalyne attempted a final struggle. Currently, the Tsaritsa was only being touched on the face by Mu Yang.

If a kiss was required next, then she should be the one to do it.

"You? You can't! Your Tsaritsa has too much Abyssal filth in her body; I must suck this Abyssal power out." Mu Yang looked at Rosalyne with disdain. Was this woman trying to cause trouble?

She had no sense of the situation at all!

Of course, Mu Yang was just joking; he wouldn't take advantage of someone in such a state. The truth was, the Tsaritsa had already awakened and was just pretending to sleep.

— Author's Notes —

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