Chapter 404

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

"Here it comes, here it comes, is this the segment Istaroth loves watching the most?"

Rhinedottir picked up food with her chopsticks, eating in small bites, but her gaze was already firmly welded onto Xuan Ge and the Ice God and Lightning God beside him.

After the Divine Might fell, Istaroth once sighed, saying she would never see the Divine Might General's amusement again.

At that time, she was truly curious — what could possibly interest even the Time Archon Istaroth?

Then Naberius told her.

Mondstadt's songstress, Liyue's adeptus, Inazuma's shadow dancer — three women fighting over one man.

At first she found it boring; she simply couldn't understand what there was to watch.

But when Naberius said that Mondstadt's Rosalind, relying on her wits alone, had shut up both Shadow and Xianyun.

Shadow was forced to use superhuman power, while Xianyun played the high-level connections card.

But afterward Shadow knew she couldn't use force to bully people, so she could only go beg Raiden Makoto and the white-haired fox.

Xianyun likewise couldn't handle Rosalind, and started calling in her own friends.

And that wasn't the end — the real interesting part came later, because the gacha pool kept stacking higher.

According to Istaroth, Raiden Makoto fell for Xuan Ge while spending time with him.

But constrained by the fact that Shadow was the one who dueled originally, to avoid letting the Geo Archon notice, she could only send her younger sister in her place.

Help was help, but Raiden Makoto also collected interest — so she often passed herself off as Shadow, using Shadow's identity to accompany Xuan Ge.

Hearing this, she grew interested too.

No, it should be said her gossiping soul was burning blazingly.

Looking at the current scene, Xuan Ge sandwiched in the middle — even with powers reaching the heavens, he cannot cross that preference for large.

He really loves large too much; it's as if it matters more than his life.

Why else would the Divine Might General, when he started the Divine War back then, stare fixedly at Ruo Na Wa's chest for a long time.

Long enough that Ruo Na Wa began to feel uncomfortable.

Hearing the Ice God say Xuan Ge had overstepped with her, Shadow put down her chopsticks — she couldn't tolerate even a bit.

Then she reached a hand to her chest, preparing to draw the milk-scented blade, to cut down this Ice God.

When Raiden tore open a rift in Shadow's chest and a purple hilt slowly emerged — Xuan Ge's eyes also widened.

At this moment Xuan Ge absolutely would not miss a single frame of detail.

Drawing from there?

My Di Tian! This is too awesome!

The Ice God didn't care at all about Shadow drawing there; instead she reached out and pulled Xuan Ge's shoulder into her embrace, and with her other hand picked up food and brought it to his mouth.

"Eat your fill first, then you'll have the strength — afterward I have matters to discuss with you."

Pausing, the Ice Empress continued: "Only you and me."

Seeing Anna violate her man so brazenly, Shadow directly drew Dream's Unity.

Then she stood up, reached out and snatched Xuan Ge into her arms, giving him a thorough face-wash of milk.

Shadow held Xuan Ge tightly, looking at everyone: "Today I'm taking him away — let's see who dares stop me."

With this, the Three Shadows and the Dusty World Rulers all froze.

The Great Mercy Tree King, seeing the pink fierce light rising in Shadow's violet pupils, couldn't help but speak up: "Shadow... your eyes."

"Back then...."

Shadow had only uttered two words when Zhongli directly waved his hand, sealing off this space, causing everyone's gazes to undergo a refractive shift.

He couldn't let the people around hear it — otherwise there would be trouble.

Istaroth followed right after, rewinding the time here back to when they were just eating, making mortals think they were merely dining peacefully.

Raiden Shogun reached out and grabbed Shadow's sleeve, signaling her to calm down.

"Hah~" Shadow took a deep breath; though her emotions eased a little, she did not let go of Xuan Ge.

He is hers, can only be hers!

Shadow glanced at Istaroth, then looked at the Geo God and said: "Morax, back at the Khaenri'ah battlefield, did Xuan Ge appear?"

"Mm." Zhongli nodded, not concealing it: "He killed his way out of the Abyss Rift, went back and forth many times, eradicated the source, and also saved the one he wanted to protect."

Zhongli didn't speak the name — he's afraid of this woman whose eyes suddenly turn pink now too.

Upon learning of Xuan Ge's death, Xianyun collapsed to the point of not shedding a single tear.

She held the Ya Jiao she brought back, just sitting there quietly, watching, until her eyes showed pink light.....

And the words she spoke were much like Shadow's — extremely protective of her food, as if touching Xuan Ge, or even saying a word or glancing at him, would make Xianyun instantly react.

Hearing this, Shadow's gaze turned to Ruo Na Wa, her eyes growing increasingly hostile: "My elder sister absolutely could have left Khaenri'ah — it was you who killed her."

Ruo Na Wa: "???"

This sentence completely baffled her; Ruo Na Wa even turned to glance at Rhinedottir and Istaroth beside her.

When she confirmed again that the person Shadow was looking at was indeed her, Ruo Na Wa felt a sky-high grievance.

"Raiden, I merely placed an Immortal Curse on Khaenri'ah — this matter has nothing to do with me."

Ruo Na Wa forcibly suppressed her anger, reached out and served Istaroth a bite of food — the meaning was self-evident.

Shadow has the wrong person.

Back then, Ying indeed saw her, but she was only there to work and did not interfere in any matters of the Dusty World Rulers.

Istaroth looked at Ying frankly and admitted, "It was me who did it, but that was a transaction with the previous Raiden. Besides, I left a seed; Zhen did not truly die."

There is nothing to hide about this matter; what should be said has been said.

Although Xuan Ge was currently held in Ying's arms, looking like he was about to suffocate, she knew this scoundrel was definitely eavesdropping.

"Why!?" Ying pressed.

She truly could not understand; back then Xuan Ge swept away the monsters, even killing his way to the spawn points to camp the resurrection points, so what else was there to trade?

"She did it for you, and also to stop Xuan Ge."

Istaroth revealed Raiden Makoto's real intent.

"Xuan Ge indeed swept away the monsters, but at the same time he conveniently swept away the Six Nations. With Raiden Makoto's wisdom, she could see that Xuan Ge intended to unify the world and overthrow divine authority."

Actually, she only spoke half of it; the other half will wait until after Xuan Ge saves Raiden Makoto to be said.

After all, if she said it herself, with Ying's military general's brain, she simply could not wrap her head around it.

The real situation is, when Zhen was impersonating Ying, Xuan Ge actually knew long ago.

He deliberately spoke those words like "divine authority is granted by people," while also laying the groundwork for his goal of unifying the world.

Raiden Makoto was not skilled in martial force and faced danger everywhere in Khaenri'ah; Xuan Ge also killed his way over many times to save Zhen.

But Raiden Makoto knew that the current Xuan Ge was sweeping across the world; she did not want Xuan Ge to die, so she chose to use sacrifice to wake him up.

But for this pair of Kuming Mandarin Ducks, one went mad and started a Divine War, while the other's plan fell through and only preserved a single Inazuma.

"It's fine, I'll bring Raiden Makoto back for you."

Xuan Ge finished his facial cleanser; he looked at Ying, this bit of trivial effort he could still exert.

He had said it before; he dislikes tragedies.

He really isn't doing it for the three Raiden sisters; he just likes the atmosphere of reunion, really not for anything else.

Really not.

"Really... really?" Ying switched from anger to a coquettish expression in one second.

Seeing Ying's face-changing speed, Ruo Na Wa took a deep breath.

And because of Ruo Na Wa's movement, that extremely obvious career line lightly zhen-ed once in Xuan Ge's peripheral vision.

Xuan Ge used one eye for two tasks, nodding seriously and saying, "Really, I'm a person who can't stand tragedies the most, I'm a person who likes wrapping dumplings the most."

"Puchi—" Venti heard Xuan Ge's shameless words; he truly couldn't hold back anymore.

"What are you laughing at?" Xuan Ge looked at Venti.

"No... nothing..."

Seeing Xuan Ge turn a serious face toward him, Venti immediately pinched his own thigh, desperately suppressing his laughter.

"I just thought of something happy."