Genshin Impact: I'm The Envoy of Snezhnaya
Chapter 440: How Could Subordinates Not Know Where Their Boss Went?
"Luke, what's going on here?"
The one who ultimately came to Luke's rescue wasn't Bai Luo, but Anastasia, who had just returned from outside.
This time, however, she hadn't been sparring verbally with Jean.
She had just come back from reporting to La Signora.
She was already aware that Bai Luo had "killed" the Anemo Archon's familiar within the city.
And yet, the slumbering Anemo Archon still hadn't awakened.
That made her feel something was wrong, so she decided to change her approach.
Her plan to cooperate with the Lawrence Clan to overthrow the Knights of Favonius' rule was also temporarily put on hold.
The reason?
Someone in the Lawrence Clan had accidentally leaked information, prompting the Knights to conduct a large-scale search near Springvale.
Fortunately, the Fatui's hideouts had been well concealed, so they escaped detection.
In short, every plan aimed at drawing out the Anemo Archon had to be suspended for the time being.
Now, she had decided to take the initiative instead.
"Counselor, these two want to see Lord Harbinger. I told them Lord Harbinger isn't here, but they just won't believe me."
Seeing his superior arrive, Luke finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly explained the situation.
If they had been ordinary people, Anastasia could simply have driven them away.
But this outlander...
Lord Harbinger seemed to have taken a particular interest in her.
And if Lord Harbinger was interested in someone, it meant they had likely already become part of one of his plans.
In that case, she couldn't afford to be rude.
"My apologies, you two. Lord Harbinger truly isn't here. Please don't make things difficult for our employee."
As the saying goes, You don't slap a smiling face.
Anastasia's polite demeanor noticeably softened the attitudes of Lumine and Paimon, who had arrived looking rather confrontational.
"Then do you know where he went?" Paimon asked first.
As Lumine's guide, she usually handled conversations with the locals.
"I'm sorry, but I don't know either," Anastasia answered with an apologetic smile.
Her response immediately soured their moods again.
Planting her hands on her hips, Paimon protested,
"Hey! Paimon was just starting to think you seemed reliable. But now you're saying something ridiculous too! You're his subordinates, and you're telling us you don't know where your own boss went? There's no way that's true!"
Unexpectedly, Anastasia looked even more helpless after hearing that.
"You two... aren't very familiar with Lord Harbinger, are you?"
"W-What's that supposed to mean?"
This time, Paimon's confidence faltered considerably.
She had a point.
If they barely knew the man, acting so confidently did seem a little unreasonable.
"Anyone who knows Lord Harbinger understands that he spends thirty days out of every month completely out of contact. Where he goes, what he does... we, his subordinates, know absolutely nothing."
It's just as she said, Bai Luo's habit of disappearing had become so infamous that it had even started influencing some of the other Harbingers.
Fortunately, their own Harbinger excelled at planning ahead.
Even when he was absent, the arrangements he'd already put in place continued to make life much easier for those who served under him.
"Wow... if that's really true, then how did someone like him even become a Harbinger?"
By now, Paimon believed Anastasia at least a little.
The woman's helpless expression didn't seem fake.
Having a superior like that was certainly unfortunate.
"So... when will he be back?"
Lumine, who had spoken very little until now, finally asked.
The things Bai Luo had told her weighed too heavily on her mind.
Even though he'd said he would contact her when the time was right…
When it came to her brother, she didn't want to wait even a single minute.
"At the earliest, one or two days. At the latest... several months."
"We can't possibly guess what Lord Harbinger is thinking, so naturally we have no idea when he'll return. But whenever we truly need him... he always appears before us at exactly the right moment."
There was unmistakable pride in Anastasia's voice as she said those words.
If Bai Luo had heard her, however, he probably would have rolled his eyes.
If he had been in Lumine's shoes, he would've caused trouble right there at the Goth Grand Hotel.
Didn't you just say he'll always come back whenever you're in need?
Then I'll simply make sure you need him.
Realizing there was no way to learn anything about Bai Luo here, Lumine and Paimon had no choice but to leave.
As for Bai Luo...
He was in a place that absolutely no one would have expected.
In fact, even many of Mondstadt's own citizens didn't know that, three thousand years ago, during the war between the Lord of the Tower and the King of the North Wind, Mondstadt's capital was not located where it is today.
Decarabian, the Lord of the Tower, had once built a magnificent royal city.
Sheltered from the savage frozen wastelands by raging winds, this capital was a fortress that even the fangs and claws of the North Wind King could not breach.
The city itself was built in concentric rings.
Between the inner and outer rings, every resident seemed to have been assigned their place in advance.
At the very center stood an immense and majestic tower.
It was the palace of the Lord of the Tower, where he received the kneeling worship and devotion of all his followers each day.
He truly believed that his people loved him just as he loved them.
But he had forgotten that the fierce winds he commanded forced those fragile lives to hunch over, unable to stand upright.
In the end, under the witness of the Windblume, the people of Old Mondstadt rose in rebellion.
Afterward, the tyrant fell, while the great tower collapsed.
From that day on, Mondstadt had no throne.
Until, a hundred years ago, the catastrophe that swept across the entire continent arrived.
Durin and Dvalin fought a tremendous battle.
Durin perished upon the snowy mountain.
Dvalin crashed into the ruins of Old Mondstadt.
Their battle also gave rise to the names by which these two iconic locations would forever be known:
Dragonspine and Stormterror's Lair.
Although a few incidents afterward led to Stormterror's Lair being officially renamed from its previous designation, it wasn't particularly important.
At this moment, Bai Luo stood at the outer edge of Stormterror's Lair.
The barrier surrounding the entire ruin was saturated with Anemo energy, yet it also faintly radiated the aura of the Abyss.
This barrier blocked more than just physical objects.
It even interfered with perception itself.
Especially the perception of the Anemo Archon.
Breaking through such a barrier was no easy feat.
However, for Bai Luo, there had never been anything capable of stopping him.
As long as there was somewhere he wanted to go, nothing could keep him out.
Even the Raiden Shogun's private hot springs were places he could enter and leave whenever he pleased.
Activating his quantum state, Bai Luo completely ignored the all-sealing barrier and walked straight through it.
The people secretly observing from the shadows were left utterly dumbfounded.
These men had been stationed here by Diluc.
During their watch, they had made countless attempts to penetrate the barrier.
Every single one had ended in failure.
Not only people—even elemental energy itself couldn't pass through the barrier.
So how had this man simply strolled right through it as if nothing were there?
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