Genshin Impact: I'm The Envoy of Snezhnaya
Chapter 418: The Ausbilder Is Causing Trouble Again
Humus is darkness.
It symbolizes decay, beginnings, or, in a certain sense, death.
Just as lead must be burned to ashes before it can become gold, it represents a process of subjugation and purification.
After purification, the ashes and blackness are stripped of their excess elements.
Thus, Chalk is formed.
Even though Silver was a failed creation, he still belonged to the level of Chalk, a rank above Durin.
Not only that, but by relying on Durin's life force, he had survived until the present day.
The poisonous blood of Durin had no side effects on him at all, which was perfectly normal.
But Sharif was different.
He was an ordinary human of this world, pure and uncomplicated.
Even though the malignant spirit within that weapon had once granted him power, he still could not withstand the potency of Durin's poisonous blood.
As a result, the potion that would originally have turned him into a cat was further enhanced, transforming him into a tiger instead.
Rather than disappointing Silver, this discovery excited him.
Because it meant that the remnants of Durin's power lingering on this snowy mountain might be even more valuable than he had imagined.
However, unlike the excited Silver, Bai Luo was feeling somewhat uneasy.
Damn it. If I'd known this would happen, I wouldn't have taken the convenient route and dealt with the problem right outside the entrance!
Who would've thought my power was so strong that it could even affect Silver's potion?
Destroy the evidence! I absolutely have to destroy the evidence!
But just as he was about to dispose of the melted snowwater Silver had collected, Silver came rushing into the cave, visibly excited.
"Dragon blood... Whopperflower... experiment..."
After his conversations with Sharif, Silver's speech had improved considerably.
Yet whenever he became extremely excited, he still reverted to that clumsy manner of speaking.
In truth, this kind of thing happens to everyone.
For example, when you're arguing with someone and get so worked up that your face turns red and your neck stiffens, yet you still can't win the argument and end up stumbling over your words.
Then afterward, when you think back on it, you're filled with regret.
Why didn't I do this? Why didn't I say that?
Silver was experiencing something similar.
"Calm down. Take it slow."
Because there were so few useful words in Silver's fragmented speech, Bai Luo couldn't infer his meaning as easily as before.
"I... Whopperflower... experiment!"
After gesturing wildly for a while, Silver simply grabbed Bai Luo and dragged him out of the cave, heading straight toward the depths of the Entombed Valley.
The Fatui guards stationed there were about to stop them, but the moment they saw Bai Luo, they immediately stood at attention and saluted, watching the two enter the valley's interior.
"So you're saying you want to collect its blood and use it for experiments?"
Once Silver had pulled him near Durin's heart, Bai Luo finally understood what he was trying to say.
Silver nodded eagerly, taking out a container he carried with him and beginning to draw blood from the surrounding veins.
Perhaps it was just his imagination, but as Silver collected the blood, Bai Luo felt as though Durin's heartbeat had quickened slightly.
After obtaining the sample, Silver hurried back toward the cave.
This time, however, he didn't drag Bai Luo along.
The only reason he had brought Bai Luo earlier was because Bai Luo effectively functioned as an identification card.
Without him, Silver would never have been allowed into the valley.
Now that everyone had already seen them enter together, there was no need to bring him back out as proof.
"Carry on with whatever you're doing. Nothing important."
Looking at the Fatui soldiers exchanging confused glances, Bai Luo casually waved them off before extending his perception, intending to use his teleportation ability to follow Silver directly.
But as soon as his senses spread out, his expression gradually became strange.
"Rosaria?"
After detecting another person on the mountain, Bai Luo finally remembered that he had previously captured a certain nun.
Yet instead of being imprisoned, the nun had appeared at the site where he had fought Sharif and the others.
And accompanying her was one of Bai Luo's old acquaintances—
Kaeya.
. . .
The snowstorm could conceal many things: footprints, scents, bloodstains, and… corpses.
Rosaria had grown up among a band of thieves, so she was no stranger to this sort of thing.
Just from the traces left in the snow, she sensed that something was wrong with this area.
After brushing aside the snow, several corpses, long frozen stiff, were revealed before them.
"This is..."
As someone who had spent years stationed near Dragonspine, Riese had often seen fellow members of the Knights of Favonius carrying bodies down from the mountain.
But these corpses were undoubtedly the most gruesome he had ever seen.
Especially the wounds on their lower backs.
Just looking at them made his own lower back ache in sympathy.
Compared to him, Kaeya, who had come along, remained much calmer.
While Rosaria was examining the other bodies, he had already crouched down and reached out to touch the strange wounds on one of the corpses.
"One person is missing. The leader isn't here."
A cigarette dangling from her lips, Rosaria spoke after finishing her inspection.
Although the shoulder wound inflicted by the Fatui had not yet healed, she still insisted on staying on the front lines of the investigation.
She might hate working overtime, but when it came to serious business, she was more reliable than Barbatos himself.
"He was probably captured."
Withdrawing his hand, Kaeya stood up and turned his single eye toward the headless corpse.
Thanks to the freezing temperatures, the body was still remarkably well-preserved.
The wound at the neck had also remained intact.
A blade?
No. The cut looked clean at first glance, but on closer inspection, it didn't seem like the result of a sharp weapon at all.
Instead, it looked more like… wire.
The strange wounds on the lower backs, combined with the fatal injury caused by steel wire, allowed Kaeya to conclude with near certainty that the person responsible for killing these Sumeru men was none other than the Ausbilder, who had been missing for quite some time.
It seemed he had been hiding in Dragonspine all along and had never left.
"You ran into the Ausbilder on the mountain, didn't you?"
After escaping from the Fatui camp, Rosaria had quickly reunited with Kaeya.
Naturally, she had also told him about everything that had happened.
"Yeah. He's a terrifying opponent."
In the howling snowstorm, the tip of Rosaria's cigarette glowed briefly.
Even now, whenever she recalled the sensation of having a dagger pressed against her throat, a chill still ran down her spine.
Sometimes she even felt as though that man was still watching her from the shadows.
"He captured you, and he also captured a group of Sumeru mercenaries. Just what exactly is this Harbinger doing up on Dragonspine?"
If Bai Luo had spared Rosaria's life, one could argue that he was concerned about diplomatic relations between Snezhnaya and Mondstadt, or perhaps hoped to gain some leverage over Mondstadt through her.
But these Sumeru people?
The Eremites were nothing more than mercenaries without any backing.
Even if they died, Sumeru's authorities wouldn't bother investigating.
Unless—
"What am I doing? Why don't you come with me and see for yourselves?"
Kaeya: !!!
Rosaria: ...
Riese: ???
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