I stepped out of the portal back into my room, it was still the middle of the night and I was really tired from fighting Beisht so I decided to get in some sleep.
The next morning, I just realised today we were having a sport festival at school. So get on my sport clothes and brush my teeth and wash my face, pick up my bag and some toast and start walking to the train station.
I meet Emily at the train station, and we discuss the day's events, I was saying, "So and then Shenhe, Aether and I were slashing and shooting spells at Beisht like mad and defeated her."
Emily nods, "Aww you must bring me with you next time... Also since today's sport festival, what are you planning on doing. Hopefully, since now we have elemental power, we won't get last in every single event this time..."
We headed on the train still chatting, "Honestly I could totally ace long jump with my special sprint, I could just propel myself off the air."
Emily nods, "I've been practicing archery and my reflexes are much quicker since I got my vision. I could run quite fast now too."
Before long we had arrived at the sport festival venue, since we had opted to get there ourselves so we didn't have to switch modes of transport with the bus and all that unneccessary stuff.
I looked around and immediately spotted Hunter, who was looking at me smugly, he came over, "Hey genshin nerds don't think you two could amount to anything at this sport festival just because you beat me once."
Hunter was the school champion at sport, although me and Emily, now, with elemental power were more than a match I thought as he walked away.
The first event was the one-hundred meter sprint. I propelled myself with geo, leaving dents in the track as I raced past the finish line first. The teachers and time takers where gaping at me in shock as they annouced me as first place in my year group, no, the whole school.
The next event was shotput and I lifted the weight into the air with anemo and threw, the huge dumbell was lifted into the air, flown right past all the markers, in the end it was almost a hundred metres of distance.
The next few events went just as well for me leaving Hunter staring at shock with second place.
Even emily managed to grab third place with her new athletic training regimen, after all the gap between vision wielders, even the weaker ones, and normal people was significant.
After the sport festival, an angry Hunter corners me and Emily in near the bus, "How did you nerds get so good at sport? Last time I checked you guys were total wimps!"
I smirk, "Wouldn't you like to know?" Too bad, we can't tell you the secret..."
We leave him standing there speechless and head back home on the train, Emily was giggling and rambling about how cool I was back then the whole trip.
I message my mum telling her that I was going to Emily's house for a playdate so she wouldn't worry about me.
Emily's house was a lovely family home made of red brick and wood and cement, it had a big front yard and a back garden full of flowers, there was even a little birdbath in up at the front.
We head inside, greet Emily's mum and dad and head upstairs, where I promptly took out my phone and opened a portal to the genshin world. We stepped in for another adventure.
On the other side of the tunnel was nothing but darkness, Emily screamed as she stepped into a hole on the dark uneven ground, "What is this place?"
I look around and spot Aether and Paimon up ahead, "It looks like we're in the chasm." there seems to be an upsidedown underground city a little bit in the distance.
Just as we caught up to the traveler and paimon, and abyssal portal appeared and dainsleif stepped out of it.
Dainsleif said, "I didn't expect to see you here. I just came here following the trail of another abyss herald that all."
Paimon looks around, "Hmm there are signs of hilichurl activity here, could these be the hilichurls the requester was talking about?"
Dain looks at us, "Requester? In fact you still haven't told me what you were doing down here"
Paimon replies, "We took a commission from the adventurers guild to investigate the chasm, apparently a whole load of hilichurls have been gathering here, the requester want to know why.
Dain admits he know something about it, "The environment here weakens the curse."
We suddenly see an abyss person standing and watching us, dain orders us to stand down, "Theres something different about this one."
We head deeper into the chasm, and defeat a few black serpent knights who seemed to have been guarding hilichurls, "So what is going on with these hilichurls?"
Dain replies, "As I have said, for these hilichurls the end is nigh."
More black serpent knights closed in on us. We suddenly saw the same abyss person standing near us, and the black serpent knights backed off us.
Dain looks at the abyss person, "Halfdan?"
Dain explains to us why the black serpent knights where guarding the hilichurls, "As far the they are concerned they are simply doing their duty."
"The one who ordered them to retreat just now, I suddenly recognised him. I knew him as a young man, an elite in the royal guard of old, His name is Halfdan."
"To this day I still remember the order I, the twilight sword, gave to Halfdan on the day of the disaster of Khaenri'ah, before I made haste back to the palace."
"Inform all black serpent knights to protect the people of Khaenri'ah at all costs"
"These black serpent knights have lost their intellect. But perhaps in whatever remains of their minds, they are still protecting the people of Khaenri'ah"
We head deeper into the ruins, following Halfdan, he leads us to a humble hilichurl camp.
The hilichurls looked in really bad shape, some looked like they had already taken their final breath, the scene was so cruel, Emily gasps, "Is this what Halfdan wanted to show us?"
We examine the camp, finding a inteyvat flower, the flower in Lumine's hair.
We continue following Halfdan, suddenly we came across the Abyss herald from the abyss order that dainsleif was looking for earlier.
If was holding an amplification device in its hands, "Look the amplification device." Dain said.
The Abyss Herald turned on the device and the hilichurls around us writhed in pain.
Halfdan threw himself onto the device sacrificing himself to help the people of Khaenri'ah.
Taking advantage of this we defeat the Abyss Herald and dissassemble the device.
And with that we part ways with dain and I open the portal back home.