Genshin Impact: Legend of the Emperor

"fluorescent!!!"

Paimon looked at the ice slime's body leaping high, as if he saw Ying, who was frozen into an ice sculpture, being smashed into ice chips.

So Paimon rushed forward regardless of everything, wanting to block the attack for Ying.

Just when the two were in despair, a ray of fire struck the ice slime that was about to fall.

"Fire flames!"

Diluk, wearing the Fire Dragon Armor, made a grand appearance. The fire element attached to the flaming sword in his hand dealt critical hits with every strike, and he dealt with several ice slimes with ease.

Then he used the Hellfire in his hand to help Ying recover from the frozen state.

Paimeng excitedly threw himself into Paimeng's arms, and checked Ying's injuries with tears in his eyes, but it turned out that Ying had no injuries at all, not even a break in the skin.

Ying looked at Paimon in her arms with emotion.

(My best friend, I will definitely protect you.)

What Paimon didn't know was that with Ying's physical fitness, she wouldn't be hurt even if the big ice slime hit her. In the original plot, Ying was naked in Liyue and managed to resist the full-strength attack of Ba Che, the wife of the whirlpool demon Orse, but she was only unconscious for a few minutes.

In the plot, Ying's body has not yet been able to break through defense.

Ying and Paimon looked at the strange man in red armor in front of them, their hearts filled with gratitude.

"Thank you for saving us. I'm Ying and she's my best friend Paimon."

Diluk nodded slightly to show that he received their thanks.

"I am... You call me... Flame Dragon."

Paimon's eyes brightened, giving Diluk a bad feeling.

"Flame Dragon! You are the legendary Mondstadt hero - Flame! Dragon! Knight!"

"Are all the stories in the book 'Flame Dragon Knight' true?"

Seeing Ying's confused look, Paimon explained, "'Flame Dragon Warrior' is a storybook published by Steambird News. The book tells the story of a hero in Mondstadt named Flame Dragon Warrior who wears handsome armor and will enforce justice when Mondstad is in danger."

"My favorite part is the story where the villain, the Doctor, turns his love into hatred because the Flame Dragon Man rejects his love and wants to destroy Mondstadt, which the Flame Dragon Man protects. In the end, he is severely punished by the Flame Dragon Man."

"I was deeply impressed by a line from the Doctor in the book. After being rejected by the Flame Dragon Man, the Doctor was furious and said: Flame Dragon Man, whose love do you think you are rejecting?"

Paimon had stars in his eyes, and asked like a fan: "Dragon Man, are the stories about you and the doctor true?"

Diluk's expression suddenly turned grim under the mask of the Fire Dragon Armor.

Seeing that the atmosphere had become extremely cold, Ying quickly stopped Paimeng from continuing.

Ying felt that if Paimon continued talking, they would both become very "warm".

Physical warmth.

Diluk tried to change the subject. He knew the book "Dragon Knight". When he saw that his enemy, the Doctor, was described as a woman who was obsessed with love and was bullied by her colleagues all day long, Diluk was very happy.

This kind of villain will definitely be severely punished by the protagonist of the book, the Flame Dragon Man.

But who knows what kind of madness the author of this book had, he actually made the doctor in the book fall in love with the Flame Dragon Man. He felt sick just thinking about it.

Who knew that this plot was so popular among the Mondstadt people that someone even secretly wrote a pornographic book about the Flame Dragon and the Doctor (Diluk seriously suspected that it was written by Kaeya, and secretly put a sack on Kaeya and beat him in the middle of the night, only to find out that the author was someone else.)

By the time Diluk realized what was happening and wanted to stop it, it was too late.

In fact, Diluk was hiding aside and observing when Ying started to deal with the ice slime.

He was originally tracking down the Wind Dragon, and accidentally encountered a person who did not have the Eye of God but could use elemental power, so he naturally wanted to observe him carefully. However, he found that this person seemed to lack common sense in Teyvat.

"You were frozen by the ice slime just now. Is there any deep meaning behind not breaking free?"

Ying asked in confusion: "Ah? How to break free?"

Diluk was speechless: "Can't you control the elemental force? As long as you let the elemental force flow through your body, you can recover from the frozen state. During the battle, you can also control the elemental force to form a protective layer on the surface of your body to reduce the risk of being frozen."

Ying suddenly realized: "I see, I thought I could only use brute force to break free if I was frozen."

Diluk: "If that's the case, wouldn't the Ice God and the Water God be invincible together?"

"From your looks, you seem to know the reactions between elements, and are even familiar with the slime's attack patterns. How could you not know such common sense?"

Ying and Paimon looked at each other.

Looks like it's time to reminisce again.

……

Diluk touched his chin out of habit, but only touched the mask of the armor.

"I see. Is it because you are a stranger that you don't know these common sense?"

Diluk looked at Paimon who was flying in the air next to Ying and asked:

"Then why don't you, as a guide for travelers and a native creature of Teyvat, know this knowledge?"

Paimon was embarrassed, Paimon was silent, Paimon blushed.

"That...this..."

"Um……"

Ying held her forehead helplessly and said comfortingly: "It's okay, Paimon is cute, that's enough."

Then, while Paimon was showing a touched expression, he said with a smirk:

"It's just emergency food anyway, only a fool can trick it into the pot."

Paimon stamped his foot angrily.

"Ying! I'm not emergency food!"

While Ying and Paimon were playing and quarreling, Diluk quietly left. He disappeared like a gust of wind, but always appeared when you needed him.

Paimon pointed to where Diluk had been standing.

"Ying, the Flame Dragon Warrior has left."

Ying tidied up her messy hair, picked up the slime liquid scattered on the ground, and picked up the ice mist flowers by the water.

"Paimon, let's go. We should go back to Mond to hand in the commission."

"Paimon, do you like the Flame Dragon Man?"

"Flame Dragon Warrior was my favorite hero before, but Ying, who saved me from the water and never looked down on me, is my favorite hero now!"

Ying looked at Paimon who was sitting obediently in the bicycle basket, and felt the water element in her eyes filling up.

"fluorescent."

"what happened?"

"Can you ride slower later?"

"Of course... no!"

Ying's cheerful laughter and Paimon's screams echoed on the way back to Mondstadt.

The trees in the distance.

Prince Kong of the Abyss emerged.

With a relieved expression on his face: "Ying, you have found a very good partner."

"Flame Dragon Knight, since you saved my sister's life this time, I will have my men spare your life next time we meet."

……

"Ding ding dong, ding ding dong."

Paimon had a smile on his face: "Catherine, we are back."

A faint smile appeared on Catherine's expressionless face again.

"Two brave adventurers, welcome back."

The reporter from Steambird News saw it. Maybe the headline on the front page tomorrow will be "Shocking! Catherine, the always cold Queen of the Adventurer's Guild, actually smiled. It was because of her!!!"

"This is your reward. Thank you for your hard work."

After saying goodbye to Catherine again, Ying returned the bicycle and walked towards the Deer Hunter Restaurant. She and Amber had a date tonight.

Catherine looked at the small gift Paimon gave her, a windmill chrysanthemum that moved with the wind. Catherine treasured it and put it away, feeling the warmth in her central nervous system.