Chapter 114

Furina: "It's rare for me to be this relaxed; what's wrong with being a hopeless romantic for once? Hehe."

Venti: "Then what kind of monumental feat must old Su accomplish to clear his name and turn things around?"

Tianquan Ningguang: "I don't know, but I always feel that Mr. Su Bai in Sumeru seems particularly disrespectful toward life, as if those who were harmed were meant to die in the first place."

Cloud Retainer: "Sigh, let's slowly wait and see what he intends to do. All that remains are the Gnoses of the Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, and Dendro Archons."

Nahida: "He doesn't seem to be in any rush for my Gnosis. Perhaps it's because he is currently in control of me, so he has long since found a way to obtain it."

Nahida: "Sigh... It's rare to come to Sumeru, yet he isn't gentle... It's painful just thinking about it..."

Collei: "That's right, I even wanted to experience the head-patting from Grand Sage Su Bai."

Lumine: "Ahem, there's nothing worth experiencing about that; children shouldn't be experiencing such things."

Collei: "Why, Lumine? Are you jealous of me?"

[Having obtained the Gnosis, Su Bai immediately chooses to take a boat via the waterway to Sumeru.]

[The deep-night ocean is quiet to the point of being terrifying.]

[Su Bai leans against the deck.]

[Standing beside him is another figure that is difficult to see clearly.]

["Rosalyne..."]

["No, is La Signora dead?"]

["Mm, I killed her," Su Bai responds calmly. "After all, she did something very excessive in Inazuma. Yae Miko, as the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine..."]

["...and a close friend of Beelzebul, won't let me obtain Beelzebul's Gnosis easily unless I intimidate her."]

[The phantom falls silent.]

[The two tacitly allow the silence on the sea to remain unbroken.]

[After a long while.]

[The phantom slowly speaks: "The Hydro Archon of the nation of water, Fontaine, is named Focalors."]

["But the Furina currently on the throne is like a different person from the previous Focalors in terms of personality and various other aspects."]

["I advise you to still..."]

[The words reach the tip of their tongue.]

[The phantom chuckles: "I think I don't need to say it; you should have already deduced it."]

["Very well, Focalors' Gnosis is left to you."]

["You don't need to worry about Natlan. Just as you said, the Pyro Archon possesses the ability to be reborn from the ashes."]

["Before that fellow is reborn, I will go and retrieve her Gnosis for you."]

["You go to Fontaine."]

[....]

Consultant Zhongli: "This voice is..."

Venti: "Is it really her?"

Lumine: "Who? The Tsaritsa?"

Pierro: "It is indeed the Tsaritsa's voice. Her Majesty the Cryo Archon is indeed in league with Grand Sage Su Bai; it seems everyone else can be discarded."

Hu Tao: "Hey, a god is actually allied with Su Bai, and it's not really Su Bai collecting Gnoses for her, but the Cryo Archon collecting them for Su Bai."

Tartaglia: "Impossible, what on earth is going on here?"

Dottore: "Hehehe, could it be that Su Bai deduced the failure of the Tsaritsa's plan and then shifted the strategy, which is why Her Majesty the Cryo Archon supports Su Bai?"

Nahida: "Ahhhhh, how could my Grand Sage be so intimate with the Tsaritsa? It's so annoying; I feel like I have no presence."

Enjou: "Things seem to be getting clearer. Now that it's known the Tsaritsa unconditionally supports Lord Su, it proves that what Lord Su wants to do is definitely not something mortals can understand."

Osial: "Sounds terrifying."

Enjou: "Lord Su doesn't play low-tier games."

Su Bai: "Don't, I still really want to play low-tier games. This makes the status gap between us too large; I still want to interact with you all as an ordinary person."

Diluc: "This... feels a bit difficult..."

Focalors: "Is this coming to our Fontaine to find me?"

Furina: "Although the current me unconditionally trusts Su Bai, if the me of the past saw him, I'm afraid I would be trembling with fear."

Navia: "Since Lady Focalors is in the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale, Mr. Su Bai should head straight there; I imagine he won't trouble Lady Furina."

Furina: "You don't need to call me 'Lady' every other word; it sounds quite awkward."

Lumine: "Navia, when are you coming over?"

Navia: "Oh, I'm going now..."

Yae Miko: "Hehehe, going to do what? To be hacked to death by that stinky man?"

Clorinde: "Sigh, has the Guuji of Inazuma lost her nerve?"

Paimon: "No, that's envy."

[Back in Sumeru.]

[Su Bai immediately summons Azar.]

["You should have received the experimental data brought by the Delusions."]

[Long before obtaining the Gnosis, Su Bai had dispatched others to send all copies of the Delusion report materials back to Sumeru.]

[According to the timeline, they should have reached Azar's hands a few days before him.]

["Received, received."]

["I received them a few days ago."]

["The Fatui's Dottore has already finished analyzing the data and intends to start experimenting on Scaramouche."]

[Hearing this, Su Bai nods.]

["Scaramouche is the test subject for the god we are manufacturing this time."]

["As a puppet created by the Electro Archon, he possesses a very powerful adaptability to Electro elemental energy."]

["Combined with this Gnosis, plus our Sumeru's technology and canned knowledge, he has a very high probability of becoming the first god created by our Sumeru."]

["You may also call him the Electro Archon."]

["Plus the canned knowledge, he will be the omniscient and omnipotent Electro Archon!" Azar interrupts Su Bai excitedly.]

[Su Bai doesn't mind.]

[He slowly takes out the Electro Archon's Gnosis.]

["I'll leave this thing with you. I have other matters to attend to recently."]

["You will have full authority to cooperate with Dottore and be responsible for the God-Creation Project."]

["Me?"] [Azar is suddenly stunned.]

[Not until he sees Su Bai extending the Gnosis toward him.]

[Does he realize that Su Bai is not joking with him.]

[Azar tremblingly extends his hands and receives Beelzebul's Gnosis from Su Bai's hand.]

[The Grand Sage is actually appointing me to be fully responsible for the creation of a god?]

[Azar is trembling all over with excitement.]

[For him, this is simply supreme glory.]

["Grand Sage, I..."]

[Azar has not yet emerged from the sudden happiness.]

[Surprise mixed with bewilderment.]

[Su Bai pats him on the shoulder and says calmly: "Continue to strengthen the collection and integration of canned knowledge."]

["The progress reports for every aspect of the god-creation process must be sent to my office on time every day."]

["When everything goes smoothly, I will personally verify the strength of the god we have created."]

["No problem, I guarantee the task will be completed!" Azar is as happy as a child, thanking Su Bai incessantly: "Thank you, Grand Sage, for giving me such a rare opportunity. This is the great cause of creating a god, and I can actually be an important participant in it."]

["For me, this is simply incredible."]

[....]

[After Azar leaves, Su Bai subconsciously looks up at the clock in the office.]

[It is still perfectly accurate.]

["Next..."]