Enjou had run off, and Shiki was truly furious. Where was she going to find a translator now?
But just then, Shiki seemed to hear a familiar voice from the depths of her mind...
'I'll do it...'
In a moment of slight daze, a large amount of text flooded into Shiki's mind. In an instant, she learned the Enkanomiya script from thousands of years ago.
The previously indecipherable 'before sun and moon' could now be understood.
'You helped me again...'
"Thank you..."
Shiki thanked the empty Mikoshi, then sat on the steps and began reading 'before sun and moon.'
She wasn't in a hurry about the bloodbranch coral for now. The book 'before sun and moon' was very thin, so it wouldn't take long to finish reading.
And the first paragraph started with a bang.
[Year of the Dove's Branch]
The eternal First Throne came from above, and the unknown world was renewed. The Primordial One began to wage war against the masters of the Old World, the seven terrifying Great Kings, who were Dragons.
The Primordial One created its own shining shadows. There were four shadows in total.
[Phanes]
The one from afar, perhaps named Phanes.
It had wings on its back, wore a crown on its head, and was born from an egg, its gender difficult to discern.
If the world was to be created, the eggshell must be broken. But the one from afar used the eggshell to separate the universe from the microcosm of the world.
[Forty Years After the Branch]
Forty winters buried the fire, forty summers boiled the sea. The seven Dragon Kings were all defeated, and the seven kingdoms began to bow down to the heavens.
The Primordial Great King began the creation of heaven and earth, for [us]—its most pitiable people who would appear on this land.
This first paragraph already confirmed Enjou's conjecture.
'Celestia is indeed an alien object, but these seven Dragon Kings... is elemental power Teyvat's inherent power system?'
'No wonder the power of the Archons so severely contaminates the Ley Lines, because it is essentially an external product, just like the Abyss.'
'No wonder humans need a Vision to use elemental power, because humans are not native creatures of the Teyvat continent, but were created by Phanes.'
As for why the Traveler doesn't need a Vision to control elemental power, it's because she wasn't created by Phanes.
Moreover, at first, the power the Traveler used was not elemental power, but a type of energy more similar to "light."
Shiki continued to read, and time leaped forward four hundred years. Mountains and rivers were shaped, and the sea received the Dragon Sovereigns.
Originally, the land was the territory of the Dragon Sovereigns, but because Phanes and her four shadows defeated the seven Dragon Kings, they could only flee into the deep sea.
And in the long deep sea, their Vision gradually degenerated, eventually disappearing completely.
Dragons, living in darkness, without sight... Does all of this sound familiar?
That's right, it's Azhdaha.
First, Azhdaha was born from the Ley Lines, indicating that he is a native product of the Teyvat continent, not an outsider like a Archon.
Second, because Azhdaha lives underground and has no eyes, he cannot see anything.
Third, Azhdaha's main element is Geo, and by absorbing Ley Line energy, he can use four additional elements: Pyro, Electro, Cryo, and Hydro.
In summary, Azhdaha is very likely the new generation of the Geo Dragon King.
Continuing to read, a new era began. People lived in peace and prosperity with the help of the eternal First Throne, until an unknown number of years later...
The arrival of the Second Throne from above!
When Shiki read this, she almost threw 'before sun and moon' away.
What's going on? Two Celestias?
Then, because of the great war between the two Thrones, Enkanomiya fell from the surface into the deep sea, and this place was filled with the descendants of the seven Dragon Kings, namely the Bathysmal Vishaps.
People were unable to resist the powerful Bathysmal Vishaps and were constantly on the run until three years later.
The Archon of Time—Istaroth—descended into Enkanomiya and guided a man named Abrax to build Mikoshi.
The name Istaroth was written backward in the book. This was one of the four shining shadows from back then. In their suffering, only he helped the people of Enkanomiya.
The following year, Mikoshi was completed, and its light repelled the Bathysmal Vishaps.
In the same year, the great war between the two Thrones ended. The book stated that the First Throne won, but Shiki did not think so.
If the First Throne truly won, then why would he seal off the path between Enkanomiya and Teyvat?
One must know that these were his own people. Why would he prevent his children from returning home?
Shiki believed there must be something fishy going on, at the very least, it definitely wasn't as simple as the book stated, that the First Throne won.
Also, the analogy of the tree clearly described Istaroth, the Archon of Time.
A spiritual tree normally takes five hundred years to grow, but it grew into a towering tree the moment it was planted.
And the reason was that one could bring the current moment of the seed to the past and future.
This is the power of time. Istaroth can, at the instant the seed is planted, graft the result of the seed growing into a towering tree in the future onto the present.
He can also transfer the act of planting the seed to Five hundred years ago, allowing the seed to truly take Five hundred years to grow, and by the time it returns to the present, it would have grown into a towering tree.
No matter which method, Istaroth exists outside of time, so from his perspective, this seed grew instantly.
"Phew..."
Shiki put down 'before sun and moon.' Although the book didn't have much content, every part was a bombshell, giving her a super-duper-plus-plus-plus surprise.
Now she had another thought: You say, this Abyss... could it be related to the other Throne?
After all, both are external products.
And looking at it this way, the Archon War's act of determining the Seven Archons seems very suspicious.
Assuming the Archons came to Teyvat with the First Throne, why would the First Throne make them kill each other after his victory?
But if the Second Throne won, then it makes sense, because He would want to reduce the First Throne's influence!
What if it was following the Second Throne? Then the Second Throne's victory would be inexplicable, as it wouldn't make sense to explain the sealing of Enkanomiya and the path to Teyvat under the premise of the First Throne's victory.
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