[Aizen Sōsuke: "Transforming one's body into a new life form—an interesting technique, a genius idea."]
Aizen Sōsuke was very curious about Raiden Ei's technique.
The newly created puppet's strength was only slightly lower than that of the Electro Archon.
Not only that, Aizen also heard from Beryl that the Electro Archon had, from nothing, created another puppet with an independent personality, though it was not as strong as the current Raiden Shogun.
Isn't this far more interesting than Urahara Kisuke's techniques?
[Lumine: "@Aizen Sōsuke, please don't be curious. I don't possess this technique, nor do I wish to easily antagonize the Archons."]
The incident in Liyue was due to Osial, which was related to a plan to shake Celesetia.
Inazuma? If not for Aether's many problematic actions, she wouldn't even bother with it.
[Aizen Sōsuke: "Is that so? What a pity!"]
Since Lumine had said so, Aizen had no choice. Unless he could cross over to Teyvat, he could only look on with envy.
Besides, trying to pry open a god's mouth to obtain their techniques was an exponentially difficult task.
During the livestream,
The Raiden Shogun slowly extended her palm, aiming at Thoma.
In her palm, blue-purple electric arcs appeared.
The next second, Thoma's Pyro Vision, wrapped around his waist, fell into the Raiden Shogun's hand.
Without any twists or turns, and without being intercepted, it was that simple, that easy.
The Raiden Shogun had collected her 100th Vision.
"Take him away and lock him up."
After saying this to the Inazuma soldiers next to Thoma, the Raiden Shogun prepared to embed the Vision into the statue.
Her slowly raised hand suddenly paused.
Then, she casually tossed the Vision to a nearby guard.
"You all can handle the embedding."
Following that, the Raiden Shogun's purple eyes gleamed with coldness:
"Exceptions are the enemy of Eternity."
Immediately, her body transformed into a purple bolt of lightning, flying towards the center of Inazuma.
At this moment, Aether, who was preparing to go to Tenshukaku, was blocked by Enjou, who had disguised himself as an Inazuma merchant.
"You said you have information about my sister?"
Aether felt that there was something off about this person.
"Ah, yes, that's right. If you want to know where Her... Lumine is, then come with me."
"You're lying. You do have Lumine's scent on you, but what are you hiding?" Aether pondered for a moment. He needed to rescue Thoma now.
He had seen Lumine's weapon earlier and deduced that she had basically recovered her strength, or even become stronger.
Her matters didn't require his worry. If Lumine wanted to find him, she could just come and meet him directly.
"She has her own difficulties, you..."
Suddenly, Enjou's expression changed.
"The Raiden Shogun's aura!"
Enjou immediately grabbed Aether's shoulder, attempting to pull him out of Inazuma City.
Although Aether had lost most of his strength, his body's instinctive reactions were still present.
He immediately drew his Dull Blade, blocking Enjou's outstretched hand.
"What are you trying to do?"
"Quickly leave Inazuma, or it will be too late."
"What?!"
Before Aether could react, Enjou's merchant body began to change, and his physique became more robust.
A faint sense of oppression emanated from him.
"Abyss! The Abyss!"
Aether and Paimon's pupils constricted.
"Make sure to protect yourselves."
Black mist rose in front of Enjou.
Almost in the next instant, purple lightning descended from the sky.
The intense electric light traversed from Inazuma City, extending beyond its borders.
Lightning raged, and the ground appeared as if scorched.
Boom!
The purple lightning and the black Abyss mist collided violently.
The surrounding trees rapidly withered.
Enjou braced his hands on the ground, breathing heavily.
Behind him were Aether and the emergency food Paimon, whom he had protected.
The Raiden Shogun stood not far in front of Enjou, her exclusive weapon crackling with electricity.
Her tone was indifferent and filled with killing intent:
"Abyss, if you step into Inazuma, you shall die!"
"Hehe, hahahahaha!"
Enjou laughed, his body trembling, "As expected of the Great Narukami, one of the Seven Archons of the mortal realm. If this weren't Inazuma City, I probably wouldn't have been able to withstand your attack."
The opponent, being mindful of fighting in Inazuma and the potential destruction of Inazuma if the Abyss power erupted, had to forcefully push him outside the city.
Otherwise, with his current abilities, it would have been impossible to so easily withstand the Great Narukami's strike.
And it would have been even more impossible to protect Aether and the emergency food behind him unharmed.
However, as a combat-inept clerk, being able to block a strike from the Raiden Shogun without injury was enough for him to boast to his colleagues.
"Exceptions are the enemy of Eternity, and the Abyss is even more so the enemy of Inazuma," the Raiden Shogun said again, but her voice lacked the previous mechanical tone.
"Your eternity is meaningless, Raiden Shogun, no, Beelzebul!"
Golden light descended from the sky, and a sudden oppressive feeling in the air greatly astonished Raiden Ei.
"Which god is that?"
Raiden Ei focused on where the golden light fell, and she actually felt her controlled Electro element being isolated within a certain range, unable to spread towards the Traveler's direction.
On the other side, hearing the familiar voice, Aether's expression became one of disbelief.
"Lumine..."
Gazing at the suddenly appearing, petite blonde figure from behind, Aether's body instinctively trembled.
Lumine did not answer Aether's question, nor did she even speak to him.
"Who are you?" Purple lightning crackled around Raiden Ei.
The pressure emanating from the girl before her was even comparable to that of Morax.
"Indeed, only the Anemo Archon and the Geo Archon are special," Lumine murmured.
As a traveler who had journeyed through the Seven Nations, Lumine had also met Raiden Ei before.
Never mind, whether the memories of the Seven Archons were modified by the Irminsul or not, it did not matter to her now.
...
Hanachirusato took Thoma, using an Abyss Portal, to meet the two leaders of Kamisato Clan.
Kamisato Ayaka and Kamisato Ayato.
"Kamisato Clan, you've gone a bit too far."
She casually tossed Thoma and his Vision aside.
Hanachirusato wore a mask, but the aura she emitted brought immense pressure to the two leaders of Kamisato Clan.
Hanachirusato, who had absorbed centuries of defilement from the Sacred Sakura Tree, released an ominous energy that was by no means something the two Vision wielders could withstand.
"You... who are you?" Kamisato Ayaka said with difficulty, not even having time to pay attention to Thoma, who was knocked out and lying on the ground.
"Using the Traveler to test Narukami, Kamisato Clan, you've played quite a grand game!"
Regardless of the outcome, they could extricate themselves and avoid angering the Raiden Shogun.
Moreover, Thoma was an Inazuma citizen, and the Raiden Shogun was unlikely to kill him. After being stripped of his Vision, it was still possible to redeem him, but the Traveler... that was unknown.
Perhaps, a single strike would have already ended him.
"I don't understand what you're saying. We only just learned that Thoma was captured," Kamisato Ayato desperately tried to remain calm.
"Perhaps. Or perhaps you went with the flow after learning about it. But what does that have to do with me?"
Hanachirusato's voice was calm. Having absorbed the calamity of the Abyss, even her calm words carried a hint of coldness.
"But..." After fully absorbing the calamity, Hanachirusato possessed most of Kitsune Saiguu's memories, and she was quite familiar with the common tactics of the family. It was precisely because of this that she felt angry.
Hanachirusato's voice grew slightly colder as she said, "Do you know that if anything were to happen to the Traveler in Inazuma, the entire Inazuma would be buried with him?"
With Lumine's help, Hanachirusato was able to safely absorb the calamity of the Abyss.
But because of this, Hanachirusato, through the Sacred Sakura Tree's special properties, glimpsed some of Lumine's memories.
Abyss Princess Lumine, and a Group Leader who could handle Morax with ease.
Neither of them was someone Inazuma could afford to provoke, especially the latter. Hanachirusato didn't even have the courage to glimpse her appearance.
Boom!
A loud bang came from the distant sky.
Lightning and another dark energy split the entire sky in two.
"Oh no!"
Hanachirusato's expression suddenly changed.
Did Ei and Her Highness start fighting?
She knew she had to stop them and immediately reached out to open an Abyss Portal.
"Kamisato Clan, you're on your own."
Before the Kamisato siblings could react, Hanachirusato had already disappeared from the portal.