Genshin Impact { Rise of Khaenri'ah }

Chapter 46 { New Power }

Release: Feb 5, 2023

"Did you hear the news?!"

"Yeah, I can't believe they are serious about it"

"Does the Shogun approve of it?"

"She is the one who proposed it!"

Gossip here and gossip there.

Paimon sigh. "News travel so fast...I wonder what Traveler doing right now" She thought waiting for him for more than a year.

Ever since he started training. Paimon's been the one taking care of the teapot as well as some of the commissions where she accompanies adventures as a guide to fight off the monsters.

"Little Fairy!, are you okay?" Hutao Childishly yelled.

"Yeah, just a bit of a headache. There's too much happening right now, especially in Inazuma,"

"Not like I didn't know this would happen, ehe," Paimon thought.

Hutao smacks her hard on the back. "HA HaHa! don't worry about that kind of thing. Just eat Hahaha!"

"Hey! Are you not curious?" She asked.

Hutao think for a second as she seated. "I'm quite curious, but y'know thinking of it is a pain in the ass Hahaha I better just think of making some money Lol,"

Paimon sighed and smiled. "She doesn't change,"

As the two were eating their fill. They feel something but they don't know what it is.

"Do you feel that?" Hutao asked as she look around her and notice that the people of Liyue were also talking about it.

"Yeah, it's like I'm suffocating, I thought I'm going to die," Paimon replied.

"Get out of the way!" One of the Millelith captains shouted, behind him were his men.

"The Qixing work too fast," A man behind them spoke up surprising the two.

"Ah! Zhongli! It's just you! I thought it was a ghost!" Paimon shouted while Hutao laugh.

"Hehe, You don't need a fear of ghosts, they are my friend," Hutao said while some ghost flew through Paimon which she shivered and the little girl playfully laugh.

"Master Hu, Stop that, your scaring her,"

"Oh, Zhongli, it's fine, it's just a Joke," she responds while smacking his shoulder.

Zhongli sigh.

"Anyway, what do you mean by the Qixing work so fast? Do they have something to do with what's happening right now?" Paimon asked seeing the people panicked by how many soldiers patrolling the city.

Zhongli's stoic face remains unchanged, but the two can feel his menacing aura.

"hehe let's eat!" Hutao tried to cheer the mood up.

"Yeah, Cheers!!" Paimon shouted with a bottle of wine.

As the two goof around, Zhongli was serious even though he doesn't show it. They just wondered, why.

Somewhere in Liyue

A blonde boy was watching the whole of Liyue and admiring its beauty up in the sky.

"I swear... I won't destroy the beauty that this land possessed," Aether speaks as he flew down the ground.

He put his palm in front of his face for him to see. He flattens it to face the sky. With his usual expressionless face, three orbs appeared.

Anemo, Geo, as well as Electro. The three-element that he gathered on his journey. He finally mastered them. After several years of training inside that unknown realm.

Aether spends a total of 20 years inside the Adeptus realm.

Since he couldn't train himself to acquire the same power as the Adeptus. He uses his time to gather them instead as well as to convert them slowly.

This time he didn't suffer any recoil as he convert those adeptal arts to his own powers. It's because he didn't force it. This time he waited several years.

While waiting, he also trained himself in several ways. Mastering every kind of weapon as well as his elemental powers.

In his training, Aether successfully destroyed the fourth seal through conversion to overpower the limit forcing its destruction.

It hurts like hell as he can feel that he is going to die. His body almost breaks apart but thanks to the Adeptus nearby that he is still alive.

Aether rechecks everything that he has. The offerings he needed for his plan to work. He opens the teapot.

"It seems Paimon has been taking care of things here," He smiled as he leave the teapot.

He suddenly notices that someone watching him the whole time. He turned around and notice a hooded person. Aether smiled and left without any word.

"So you're still stalking me...my stupid sister, "

Mondstadt

"La La la La La!" Venti sings while playing with his Lyre. Suddenly he notices the wind.

He stop singing and his expression turned from playful to serious one.
"This sinister aura...

Liyue

Paimon was now heading to her room when suddenly she heard a familiar voice. "Been a while my dear emergency food," he smiled.

"I told you to don't call me that! And...welcome back Aether," Paimon tearfully said.

"Stop crying stupid, it doesn't suit you," he said and Paimon yelled again.

Aether told her everything that happen inside the realm. The Two exchanged pieces of information for hours until they notice it was already midnight.

"Time to sleep!" Paimon said but before she could take a step forward, the Traveler spoke.

"Tomorrow morning we will leave Liyue," He said surprising Paimon.

"Are we going back to Inazuma?"

He shook his head. "Mondstadt, The nation of freedom. The last piece of the offering was in there, it's time for us to head in there."

"Wait Aether, You still didn't tell me where will you use those things you called offerings, also a human body? I remember you saying that. Please explain, Paimon doesn't understand anything!" She yelled.

Aether sigh. "Too early my friend, At the right time...so until then, please wait," his voice was so soothing that even Paimon nodded and didn't ask any more questions as she headed back to sleep.

Aether stayed asking himself.

"Is this the right choice?"

To be continue