Genshin Impact: Hello! Traveler

It has been two days since the Traveler and Paimon left the port of Ormos. As Inazuma is far away from the central continent of Teyvat, even a speedboat cannot change this daunting distance.

Fortunately, the voyage was calm and there were no sea beasts causing trouble, so we had a comfortable journey.

……

I don’t know how long they sat there, but when they saw the unique and dreamy colors of the Haizhi Island from afar, the travelers knew that their destination was not far away.

"Traveler, that's Umijima over there. Why don't you go and see Goro Shinkai and the others? Since the end of the war, the island has become more prosperous." Paimon stretched out his hand and watched the speedboat pass by the purple island in the distance with countless huge shells.

"We use local specialties such as pearls to sell well among the big merchants in Liyue, and the trade cooperation with Liyue Xumi is also booming."

“So it seems that everything is your fault. It was you who discussed and promulgated the trade policy with Haizhi Island with Nashida. Together with Ningguang and Beidou’s fleet, you monopolized the specialties of Haizhi Island in Liyue…”

"What monopoly? There are many sea beasts in this area. The only fleet in Liyue that can safely cross the sea is the Southern Cross Fleet."

The traveler was holding a fishing rod, fishing in the rapidly receding water. Hearing Paimon's words, he rolled his eyes at her.

"How come I have become your guide in these areas? Paimon, you haven't learned enough."

"Damn it, don't look at me like that old-fashioned adult in Liyue. I'm living a good life even if I don't learn those things. Traveling with you every day is much more interesting than them being bored in the Shutai private school!" Paimon retorted angrily.

"Everyone has their own choices and difficulties. The biggest difference between them and you is that they don't have someone like me who can take you out to explore the world. Therefore, living in a small corner and spending the rest of your life in peace is the dream of most ordinary Liyue people."

The traveler felt a little emotional. The people of Liyue were so similar to some people in an ordinary world he had visited before.

"By the way, traveler, the boat is going so fast, you are fishing with a fishing rod, are you crazy? How can you catch fish without bait?"

"Say it again and I might consider making you into bait to catch those sea beasts." The traveler's face was a little excited. This little guy had talked to others many times during his travels and often returned empty-handed. Even though he didn't want to scold this emergency food that had always been with him.

But the traveler can punish the little guy in his own way.

"This was originally given to Mika as 'How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence - Dialogue'. Given your current situation, it's very suitable for you." The traveler casually took out a book larger than Paimon from his backpack.

"There are different conversation occasions set up in it, such as making friends, love, officialdom, work, etc."

"No! Traveler, I was wrong--" Paimon immediately put his hands together and waved them, then bowed his head to apologize to the Traveler.

She is always a big fan of anything that can make her brain grow.

"Little guy, I can't deal with you." He turned his mind back to fishing, and suddenly, he felt a huge force in his hand.

"Something has taken the bait!" Guessing that the fish might be much bigger than the speedboat, the traveler quickly jumped onto the sea.

Using the water element that resonated in Fontaine not long ago, he could walk on the sea as if it were flat ground.

"It's still a big one, Paimon. Tell the receptionist to stay away from here. The waves created by the noise from the hook will capsize the boat!" The traveler held the fishing rod tightly with both hands. He had no so-called professional skills, only great strength.

This fishing rod is not simple. It was once the young master’s favorite. It has the ability to pull up a real giant sea beast.

However, after a duel with the traveler, he took it as a trophy.

As for what he said about taking it back one day...

Let’s talk about it when you keep going fishing and come up empty-handed.

By the way, how do you know I have a fish hooked now?

"Let me see what that thing is—" The traveler used the elemental force of rock to reinforce the fishing rod, then used the elemental force of thunder to conduct it and paralyze it, and then used the elemental force of water to guide the water around the behemoth, forcing it to rise.

Rather than being forced, it would be more accurate to say that the unknown creature approached on its own initiative.

Soon, followed by an eternal and mysterious sound.

The water surface on which the traveler stood quickly turned darker and expanded exponentially.

And that was only a part of the unknown sea beast.

Seeing this, the traveler took advantage of the situation and jumped up.

A blue hill suddenly rose up from the flat sea surface.

"boom--"

Accompanied by huge water mist stirred up by billions of tons of seawater pouring down.

The huge monster finally emerged into the world.

Like the graceful body of a mountain, countless colorful scales larger than humans emit a holy glow under the water and sunlight.

It has a body that resembles Liyue's traditional dragon, and the double horns on its head are as beautiful as the corals of the Sea Island.

The sea-blue pupils of the beast were full of majesty, and the eyes alone were larger than the traveler's body.

……

"Traveler, you caught a dragon?!" Paimon shouted from a distance, and the huge waves almost overturned the speedboat.

"That's--" The Inazuma receptionist's pupils shrank sharply when he saw the snake-like body that was as big as a mountain.

As an Inazuma person who is keen on studying the history and culture of Inazuma as an amateur, during countless searches of his memories, the scene in the oldest and most dilapidated murals that showed the confrontation between the forbidden existence in the deep sea and the sky suddenly emerged in his mind for some reason.

That towering body, that incomparable pressure, and that look of contempt for the world.

"He is the Dark Tide Demon God Agares, who was sent down with the Nail of Heaven's Punishment by the Supreme Being and fell into the endless abyss in the ancient murals that are older than the history of Inazuma."

(The name is taken from Agares, the second of Solomon's 72 demons. It is just a name, and its ability is made up by the author.)

"Legend has it that he is immortal. His followers firmly believe that their king has been absorbing the power of various deceased demons in the Endless Abyss in order to make a comeback."

"From his current appearance, it seems that he has absorbed most of the power of the deceased demon god Orobas from hundreds of years ago."

[Mortal, where does the power of your hook come from?] With a bit of murderous intent, the demon named Agares could feel the remaining power of the hook from that island.

If his strength had not been greatly reduced at that time and he had not been ambushed, how could he have survived in the endless abyss for thousands of years.

Now, a power somewhat similar to that of the nail directly alarmed the strongest sea demon in the past who had been dormant for thousands of years.

Perhaps the divine body was punished by the sky, and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

His information in the World Tree also sank to the bottom of the sea during that dark battle and could not be recorded.

Only earlier, in the murals of ancient tribes before the so-called Twin Demons descended on this continent, were there still traces of His past divine power.

His followers, people, and believers all perished in that game with the sky.

The ruins left behind let people know that there is such an unknown ancient civilization on this continent...

And now, the king of this ancient civilization——

Wake up.