The journey to Teyvat from the Abyss Mage

Is this world just a lie?

Everything I care about will eventually be gone? Can't be brought back no matter what?

Hearing Kong's heart-piercing questions, Luo Mu didn't know what to say for a moment.

This young man from another world, whose origin and purpose are unknown, seems to possess the dual characteristics of a god and a devil at the same time, and his actions are also contradictory. He is the one who helped Luo Mu, and he is also the one who ordered the killing. He is the one who subverted the Seven Gods, and he seems to be the one who secretly pushed the Seven Gods to arrange... He has been trying to make the Seven Gods' Hearts gather in the hands of the Ice Queen, but he is very persistent in making sure that every God's Heart must pass through his hands...

Now, this young man suddenly appears, and then demonstrates a terrifying authority that is enough to make the gods bow their heads. However, with such terrifying power in his hands, he declares miserably and panic-stricken that the world must die?

What's the point?

After a long silence, Luo Mu reluctantly spoke suspiciously: "Kong, forgive me for being blunt, maybe you saw something that forced you to make such a negative judgment, but for me, it's not the end of the road, so, I don't understand..."

"You don't understand why I'm suddenly telling you all this?" Kong said first. He waved his hand and swept away a table of guests who were originally sitting at a tea stall drinking tea. He sat on the empty chair himself. He pointed to the seat opposite and motioned the stunned Luo Mu to sit down as well.

The corner of Luo Mu's mouth twitched slightly. He sat cautiously opposite Kong. All around him were people who were stilled by an invisible force, like a group of specimens.

For a moment, neither of them spoke. Kong picked up the teapot and poured himself a drink, while Luo Mu fiddled with the dagger hanging from the waist of a big man behind him.

"Originally, I didn't intend to tell you all this." After a while, Kong put down the teacup. He seemed to have made up his mind. He closed his eyes tightly and said, "Because you back then... even you now, you are too weak in character. Knowing all this will not be good for you or for us."

Luo Mu didn't say anything, but just smiled and stared into Kong's eyes, until the God of the Abyss looked away because of his guilty conscience.

Sora coughed twice and continued, "Everything can be traced back to when you first came into this world - through an inexplicable way."

"I remember there was a saying that you were a wizard from another world, and that you came to this world because of a spellcasting error... To be honest, the Seven Gods and I have never believed this. Although we don't know the real reason, the peculiarity of your soul, that strange mark, shows us one thing."

"Luo Mu." Kong said hoarsely, "Your coming here is not an accident. Your soul was chosen and was bound to come to this world."

"What..." Luo Mu's eyes suddenly widened. He was so shocked and panicked that he couldn't even speak normally.

The soul is chosen, which means that someone in this world... has been waiting for his own death? Just like a fisherman waiting for the fish to bite?

This process may be long, maybe ten years, maybe a hundred years, but Luo Mu will die in the end.

The fish will eventually take the bait.

Kong ignored Luo Mu's panic and continued, "Taking this as a fact, I began to investigate and unfold my own plan. Yuan Shang and I believed that you were the key to breaking the impasse, so I wanted to bring you into the game because according to our investigation, the peculiarity of your soul has nothing to do with the current Seven Gods or the Law of Heaven."

"Except for that mark, you were a complete outsider at that time, just like me and Ying when we first came to this world. Only outsiders can disregard the rules of the world and overturn the chessboard without scruples."

"But you are wrong about one thing..." Luo Mu said slowly.

"Yeah, I was wrong about one thing." Kong sighed helplessly. "I don't know why, but you quickly integrated into the rules of this world. The elements, monsters, humans, and even the degraded gods all accepted you as an outsider without any scruples. A heretic quickly melted into the ocean of believers. After the Wolf Territory, you are no different from the native creatures of this world. You have become... an ordinary Teyvat."

"And this makes me more certain that your coming was something that had been planned long ago."

"According to my original idea, the safest way at this time was to kill you immediately and destroy the arrangement of that secretive existence. But I have to admit that at that time, I had begun to like you. Maybe I admired your tenacity to fight to the death? Or maybe I just sympathized with your situation? In short, I gave up the idea of ​​killing you."

"But now that I think about it, I'm afraid my appreciation was just influenced by that person..." Kong suddenly changed the subject. He spoke of his guess weakly, picked up the teacup, and drank the cold tea in it.

"I won't explain too much to you about the superficial things." Kong deliberately ignored Luo Mu's increasingly dazed expression and said softly, "Some of the Seven Gods have long been against the laws of nature. With the Ice God taking the lead, they are naturally happy to see it happen. The various reasons and arrangements for handing over the Heart of God are just to make the handing over of the Heart of God seem more reasonable. When the laws of nature bring down divine punishment, they will at least have some excuses to let their people have a way to survive."

"And I played the role of the reason in this process."

"I forced the God of Wind to give me the Heart of God. I killed the God of Rock with my own hands. In the future, if the God of Thunder needs me, I will still make arrangements... The Fatui are not worthy of being an excuse for the loss of the Heart of God. Only the God of the Abyss, who is also a god, can naturally take over the remaining wrath of Heaven after destroying the Seven Gods."

"At the same time, only I can cover up the truth that all the God's Hearts are flowing to the Kingdom of Winter!"

"Cover up the truth?" Luo Mu finally forced himself to ask a question: "Why?"

"The essence of the Heart of God," Kong explained patiently, "or the part that Heaven values ​​most is never the chess piece itself, or the elemental authority inside, or the connection with Sky Island, but this." As he spoke, Kong stretched out his right hand and showed Luo Mu the light spot that was hovering in his palm, emitting great power: "It's this."

Luo Mu frowned.

This thing... is the reason why Kong must let the Heart of God stay in his hands for a while?

"As long as this thing doesn't change hands, God won't care where the Heart of God goes. My power can just extract, imprison, and even utilize some of its power. This is why I was able to do everything I just did."

"What exactly is this thing?" Luo Mu asked impulsively.

Sora smiled and shook his head.

"Sorry." He said with a little regret: "I really want to tell you, but unfortunately I can't explain it clearly. I only know that this thing is of a very high status. It's probably something that points directly to the principles of heaven and the essence of Sky Island."

"Let's talk about our arrangement." Kong returned to the topic: "You may be curious about where you are in all of this. You're right. We have been trying to get you involved in the most marginal way, but close enough to the core of the incident. My arrangement in the Wolf Territory was not perfect at the time, so I advised you to leave... We did this, to be precise, it was Yan Shen and I who had this plan, in order to put an end to it all."

"What's the result?" Luo Mu asked, his voice trembling a little. His intuition told him that what Kong and Yan Shen were aiming for was so big that it might not even be enough to overthrow the laws of nature.

really……

I only heard Kong speaking word by word:

"We want you to become Teyvat's new guardian of justice!"