The Homeless Man of Teyvat

"Nashida, wake up..."

"Nashida, wake up..."

Who is talking?

Nashida, the little grass god, opened her eyes and looked blankly at the "bird cage" specially built for her by the great sage of Xumi with the power of Xumi. She has been in the bird cage of Jingshan Palace for five hundred years.

The Great Compassion Tree King left, and the new grass god [Little Auspicious Grass King] Nashida ascended to the position of Xumi God. She was welcomed into Jingshan Palace by the great sage of Xumi and enjoyed the worship and faith of the people of Xumi... This is something many people know.

However, what most ordinary people don't know is that Nashida, the little grass god, did not hold the power of Xumi. Instead, she was imprisoned by the great sage five hundred years ago, and the heart of the god was taken away to supply the operation of Xumi Void.

Void is a tool left by the Great Compassion Tree King. Xumi people can connect to the Void Network through the Void Terminal to obtain knowledge and exchange information.

For five hundred years, all the great sages of Xumi have chosen this approach.

In a country that advocates wisdom, the wise men who should assist the gods, for various reasons, imprisoned the god of wisdom with their own hands.

Nashida looked through the gap in the birdcage and looked around for the source of the sound, but found nothing.

No one, this is normal, who would come to Jingshan Palace to visit her, a god who is about to be forgotten and unqualified?

Maybe it's an auditory hallucination... Nashida sighed, closed her eyes, and was about to dive her consciousness back into the void network to watch the lives of the people of Xumi, when the voice sounded again in her ears.

This time the voice was very clear and familiar, as if she had a very close relationship with the owner of the voice.

"Nashida, wake up..."

Wake up? But I'm already awake... Nashida was full of doubts, and when she didn't know why, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and dived her consciousness into another place-the World Tree.

There is an inseparable and close connection between the Sumeru Grass God and the Teyvat World Tree. Both she and the former Grass God, the Great Compassion Tree King, have the ability to connect to the World Tree directly with their consciousness.

Nashida "opened her eyes" and finally saw the owner of the voice - a blurry light and shadow. From the outline, it is easy to distinguish that it is a woman, emitting warm and soft fluorescent light all over her body.

"You are..."

Nashida hesitated. For some reason, when she saw this light and shadow, her heart was inexplicably throbbing, just like a child who had been lonely for many years finally saw her loved ones who loved her. Before she finished speaking, she had a nasal sound and began to sob: "... You are... you..."

She wanted to say the name that she thought about day and night and always on her lips, but she couldn't say it. Tears kept falling. The sadness and pain of five hundred years broke out at this moment and drowned her in an instant.

"Thank you for your hard work, Nashida."

The Great Kind Tree King floated in front of Nashida, raised his hand to rub her hair, and took the crying little girl into his arms: "Thank you for your hard work, Nashida."

"Wow... Great Kind Tree King... Great Kind Tree King..."

"It's me, it's me. Be good, don't cry, I'm by your side."

"Wow..."

"..."

After a long time, the crying echoing in the World Tree gradually stopped.

Nashida rubbed her eyes, still choking with sobs, but no longer showed weakness as defenselessly as before.

"You are still alive. I knew you wouldn't die so easily."

Nashida took a deep breath and held the hand of the Great Compassion Tree King tightly: "Great Compassion Tree King, are you coming back? What can I do? I want to help you..."

"No, I am indeed dead, Nashida. What is standing in front of you now is just a residual consciousness that is living in the World Tree without any entity. It can't come back alive."

The Great Compassion Tree King gently interrupted her words, looking at her stunned expression that soon became anxious, took a breath, and said: "Listen to me, Nashida, there are more urgent things that you need to deal with than my condition."

"More urgent things?"

"Yes, more urgent things."

The Great Compassion Tree King nodded, his expression blurred by light and shadow seemed to become serious, even with a hint of fear: "An extremely terrifying monster appeared in Teyvat. He played with time, tampered with fate, devoured the earth veins... and did evil things that frightened countless creatures! And now, he has set his sights on the World Tree and Sumeru!"

"I can feel that he has extremely pure malice towards the World Tree. No, even if he has no malice, the World Tree cannot afford the cost of contacting him. Nashida, for Sumeru and Teyvat, we must stop him."

It is an existence more terrifying than forbidden knowledge. If she can choose, she would rather the World Tree be eroded by forbidden knowledge than fall into the hands of the monster.

But even if she gave up the resistance to forbidden knowledge and wanted to stop the monster, the final result would only be that the forbidden knowledge and the World Tree fell into the clutches of the monster together.

"Monster?" Nashida was stunned: "What does he look like? Why does he do this?"

"I don't know his specific appearance, I only vaguely saw that his incarnation in the world is a zombie with only flesh and no soul, full of the essence of death, which makes the gods feel terrified."

The Great Compassion Tree King shook his head and said: "As for why he did this... maybe he was hungry, maybe he felt interesting, or maybe it was the desire for destruction brought by the essence of death - normal creatures cannot understand the thoughts of monsters."

"This is ridiculous."

Nashida clenched her free little hand into a fist, pursed her lips, and looked into the eyes of the Great Compassion Tree King: "How can I defeat him?"

"..."

The Great Ci Tree King's eyes were complicated, and he wanted to tell Nasida that at least in Teyvat, at least among the existences she knew, no one could defeat that terrifying monster. Even if they could, no one would be willing to use force to stop the monster before it completely showed its desire for destruction.

He is the death of all things and even the world, and anything that stands in front of Him will be swallowed up by gray death.

All they could do was to do their best to protect the World Tree and minimize the losses after He entered Sumeru.

"It's too early to say that."

The Great Ci Tree King gathered his thoughts and looked into Nasida's pure eyes: "Nasida, what you have to do now is to break the confinement, walk out of Jingshan Palace, get back the heart of God, and truly sit on the throne of the God of Grass - No Sumeru, where the gods sit, is too fragile for that monster."

"But...but I still don't know how to be a qualified god. Only the great sages of the past know the secret words to open the Jingshan Palace. I..."

Nasida was a little at a loss and lowered her head subconsciously: "The Great Sage will only let me out after I learn how to be a qualified god."

"There is no time, Nasida! You, me, Xumi, and even the whole of Teyvat, there is no time!"

The Great Ci Tree King looked serious, "Raise your head, Nasida! You are a god, and you cannot act like this at any time!"

Nasida's body trembled and she raised her head with a blank look in her eyes: "I...but..."

"No but, Nacida, you must stand up. This is your duty as a god."

King Daci Shu stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of Nasida's eyes, "Nasida, there is no time for you to learn and grow. You must get out of the Jingshan Palace. Even if you use the power of dreams on your own people, you must return to the throne of God."

She looked at Nasida, who still looked hesitant and confused, and thought of the coming monster. She said sorry to Nasida in her heart, then took a deep breath and whispered:

"Unless you are prepared to watch all the people of Sumeru die with your own eyes, and are prepared to let them lose their lives in vain because of your cowardice and evasion."

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"How long will it take for me to ascend to the throne of God?"

"Oh, why are you so anxious? Everything is going well with the plan and project. When the right opportunity comes, you will naturally get what you want."

"hope so."

The skirmisher glanced at Dotore and frowned. For some reason, he always felt flustered recently, as if he had unknowingly stepped into a trap of some terrifying existence.

This feeling was not the first time he had appeared. It had happened when he sneaked into Inazuma and tried to massacre the Five Thunderbolts, but was stopped by those damn gray tree roots.

Could it be that something happened to Dao's Wife... The skirmisher's eyes flickered, looking at the huge mecha that was about to be completed in front of him, with a touch of fiery and sinister look in his eyes.

No matter what the change is, as long as he ascends to the throne of God and becomes the devil, it will no longer be a problem!

At that time, he will let Dao's wife and Balzeb understand what the true wrath of the devil is!

Dotore also looked up at the giant mecha, pinched his chin, and glanced at the skirmishers who were immersed in the devil's dream without leaving any trace. A mocking smile appeared on the corners of his lips, but he quickly stopped.

It’s really a headache. How can I do it in a reasonable and unobtrusive way so that people can be interested in coming to Xumiru?

I don’t know if the gift I prepared can satisfy Him.