We arrive at liyue, meeting ganyu at the adventurer's guild there.
Lan was complaining, "Yes yes they have the audacity to go after anything! The seven, dragons, gods... No ancient artifact that relates can escape their greedy ambitions."
"Still... this time is different. Who do they think they are, going after the abyss order's treasures."
Paimon questioned ganyu, "Huh? Ganyu, what are you doing here with Lan? Do you have a commission you need to post?"
Ganyu greeted us, "Hello traveler and friends. We were just discussing the treasure hoarders."
Lan continued, "Yes, we were saying how even the audacious treasure hoarder should know better than to mess with the abyss."
Ganyu added, "But we recently received intel from the ministry of civil affairs that two big time treasure hoarders in Liyue and Mondstadt are planning some big joint operation."
They send us to head off the treasure hoarders. We head to the ruins, 'call of the abyss'
We follow the signs of treasure hoarder activity in, we dodge the traps in the ruins, and we fall down a hole into the dark depth of the ruins.
We find the thief that the treasure hoarders sent to retrieve the treasure but he's already dead.
Paimon gets scared, "let's get out of here fast! We should report this to Ganyu and Lan."
The defiled statue lights up and we choose to flee the ruins, Dodging the same traps on our way out.
On the way out we are stopped by an abyss herald, "You cannot spy on the secrets of the abyss." It growled at us obviously angry.
"You have come here, you have seen our secrets. For this, you must pay the price!"
We fight the abyss herald, Traveler lets out a wind blade, I make a star construct and unleash my meteor shower.
Emily hides in the corner as we defeat the abyss herald. Paimon sighs as we chased off the abyss herald, "We're near the exit now. Lets get out of this scary place before something even more dangerous shows up!"
We swiftly leave the ruins and meet dainsleif outside, "So we meet again" He greets us, "Judging by your expression it seems you just experienced something quite strange."
"could it be that you encoutered an abyss herald in those ruins?"
Paimon is shocked, "Huh how did you know that?"
Dain answers, "I've been on the abyss herald's trail I didn't expect to find you here as well."
Emily, scared out of her wits reponds, "Actually the abyss herald isn't all we encoutered" and then she tells dain about the defiled statue and the dead thief.
Dain is suprised, "An inverted statue of the seven holding abyssal power in its hands? No i've never seen such a thing during my time fighting the abyss."
"tell me the rest of what happed in there, so you escaped the ruin depths filled with abyssal power and then?"
Paim happily explains, "And then as we got close to the exit and abyss heral suddenly appeared and blocked out way! It ran away, but it couldn't have gone too far"
Dain declared, "Yes this is a rare opportunity indeed, come lets catch up to it."
On the way dain tells about the abyss order's plans to create a loom of fate, and how he must get to the eye of the first field tiller first before the abyss gets it and uses it to fulfull their plan.
We decide to go to the mondstadt cathedral first to go and ask about the eye.
We head to the mondstadt cathedral to talk to barbara, she greets us, "Honarary knight! Hey how have you been? do you need anything today?"
Paimon asks, "Barbara have you heard of the, 'first field tiller?'"
Barbara doesn't seem to know anything about it, "Hmm whats that? 'Field tiller' what does it do?"
Paimon is disappointed, "oh of course you wouldn't know anything about that... Ok next question; has the church ever lost a statue of the seven?"
Barbara is confused, "Huh? You're here to ask about that old story? That was such a long time ago Barely anyone mentions it nowadays."
"A long time ago, there was indeed one statue of the seven that disappeared one night without a trace. Nearly every member of the church joined the search for it but it was never found."
Paimon thanks Barbara, "it's okay thanks anyway." then Rosaria approaches us, "there's that pointless word 'thank you' again. I can never get used to hearing it."
Barbara turns to her, "Oh rosaria its you."
Rosaria remarks, "If you're looking for the knights their out fighting monsters, the abyss order is gathering in wolvendom."
We leave the church, and explain the situation to dainsleif.
He replies, "I see... has the abyss order already launched a new operation? This could very well have something to do with the defiled statue. We should go to wolvendom as well."
"Unlike Osial who was just suppressed, Andrius died long ago. Today, it is just his spirit that stands guard over wolvendom."
We head towards Wolvendom, we see razor there, and the abyss herald holding a ceremony?!
Razor was speaking to the abyss herald, "You, not welcome here!" The abyss herald laughs in return, "so the wolf's spirit likes to raise wild pups now?"
"If you serve us, we can restore your divine power you once held in the past." Boreas was angry, "Lies... Lies..."
Paimon was shocked, "What the heck is this ceremony? He looks like he's in a lot of pain! Oh no is this the same thing they did to corrupt dvalin's mind?"
I nodd, "It's time to stop this!"
Everyone and Boreas work together to defeat the abyss herald, who was shocked, "How does an old spirit have such determined will?"
The abyss herald teleports away.
Boreas thanks us for our help and we learned what happened, Paimon gasped, "So you mean the abyss order had everything prepared to corrupt Boreas' mind, then lured him out under the false pretense of challenging him in a trial?"
We ask if they know where the eye of the first field tiller is and they don't know.
So we head back to dain, "Dain there you are." dain tells us he didn't gain any information.
We decide to head to stormterror's lair to find the eye of the first field tiller.
At stormterror's lair we find the first field tiller, which was just a ruin guard, paimon said, "this is it right? Ok then use your elemental sight to look for the eye."
we used our elemental sight but found nothing. Dain uses his power and finds the eye.
Dain explains, "all of the ruin guards today are just replicas of this machine. As the prototype its combat capability was unrestricted."
Dain continues, "as the abyss order has concluded, if this eye is placed in the hands of the defiled statue, and if the limbs of osial were to be attached to the statue you would have a mechanical god."
"and this newly born god would have the power to topple the divine thrones of celestia."
Aether frowns, "The abyss order must be stopped."
Dainslief agrees and decides to guard the eye of the first field tiller himself.
Dain tells us he intends to destroy the defiled statue, paimon is freaked out. dain just says, "If we are lucky we will also run into that abyss herald. I'll make sure it doesn't get away this time."
So we head toward the ruins where the defiled statue is.
We arrive at the ruins, head inside and dodge the traps finally coming across the defiled statue again, dain remarks, "An eerie, lifeless, chamber... I understand the evil aura you were decribing earlier. Huh the abyss herald. It's here"
The abyss herald laughs, "You sense correctly."
We fight the abyss herald, Traveler slashes with his sword and I cast spells continuously but the abyss herald senses a weak link and heads toward Emily.
"No!" I scream as the abyss herald brings down a slash towards Emily, but we are suddenly dazzled by a blinding green light.
Once the light clears we see Emily blocking the attack with her bow, dendro vision in hand. "Yes!" I am overjoyed.
With the help of Emily's dendro energy we quickly begin take down the abyss herald.
Aether was locked into combat with the abyss herald both of them slashing at each other with shocking speed. Aether lands a good hit on the abyss herald.
The abyss herald opens a portal to escape but dainsleif uses his magic and hangs him in the air by his throat. He struggles.
Suddenly a lean figure runs in and attacks dainsleif making him drop the abyss herald. I recognise her as lumine the abyss sibling, Dain is knocked back by the attack.
Aether's eyes widen as he sees her, "Lumine!" he shouts. she replies, "Aether..."
Aether said, "I've finally found you, lets get out of here its dangerous."
Paimon notices something is wrong, "Traveler, wait, she just blocked an attack against the abyss herald. Your sister and the abyss..."
Aether doesn't care, "Come with me Lumine! Lets go home."
She replies, "Home. Yes of course 'Home' Is wherever we are together."
"but I cannot go to you to the next world to find a new home... at least not yet. Until the abyss has engulfed the thrones, my war with destiny will see no end."
"I have already traveled through this world once. Once you reach the end of your journey as I did, you will see for yourself the true nature of this world.
The abyss herald opens a portal and they start to leave, Aether rushes towards the portal and so does dain but Aether just passes through the portal not able to enter.
After the fight we head outside and part ways with Aether, I congratulate Emily on getting a dendro vision.
I open discord, type, 'I'm ready to head back' and we head home