The journey to Teyvat from the Abyss Mage

Luo Mu had a dream.

In his dream, he seemed to have returned to the day when he jumped to save someone. The cold lake water poured into his throat and lungs. He seemed to hear the popping sound of alveoli bursting in his body. He tried desperately to slide his hands to float out of the darkness, but suddenly remembered that his arms had been sold to buy chess by some unscrupulous system. So he could only smile bitterly and sink to the bottom of the lake.

This dream was absurd, but Luo Mu didn't want to wake up. The reality after waking up was not absurd, but it was chilling.

The people around him didn't know, and even the unconscious Luo Mu might have forgotten, that before this bizarre dream, he had a conversation with the unscrupulous system. During this conversation, Luo Mu was shocked to know what the so-called "shared life" was.

When Luo Mu chooses "yes", the system will no longer have an absolutely rational and neutral attitude, but will share consciousness with Luo Mu and exist as Luo Mu's second consciousness. The original function remains unchanged. According to the system, the new effect is obtained in exchange for Luo Mu's personal attitude and the magical skills that should have belonged to Luo Mu.

Barbatos lost the Heart of God, which can be regarded as the fall of a god in a broad sense. Logically speaking, Luomu should be able to obtain some of his abilities, but now...

So I gave up a magical skill and turned myself into a schizophrenic?

[Not really. It’s nice to chat with me when you’re bored.] The system said.

Luo Mu: ...Isn’t that schizophrenia?

Complaints aside, this new ability is quite useful. With the assistance of the system and discussion, Luo Mu was able to easily figure out the cause of the chaos in the Wolf Territory. He also gained a deeper understanding of the brutal massacre that had just occurred. During this period, Luo Mu also confirmed that the system did share consciousness with him, because although the two people's analysis was from different angles, they came to the same conclusion and took the same path.

This matter itself is very clear. From the beginning of the wolf disaster to the chaos in Mondstadt, it was all for Barbatos's Heart of God. Among them, there are only two points that are weird:

Heart of God, Barbatos surrendered too readily, and Sora killed too readily. This was definitely not the situation that should occur in a negotiation: one side quickly gave in, and the other side immediately broke off relations. It looked like... both sides had been acting with some kind of secret tacit understanding, and something went wrong at the last moment. One side had to kill in large numbers to completely eliminate the last unstable factor.

As for the Heart of God, maybe it's not even a bargaining chip, just a pretext? Luo Mu's level is still not high enough to make a conclusion. But there is one thing he has seen clearly: the Seven Gods and the Abyss Cult are not simply hostile to each other, and the water between them is deeper than he initially imagined.

This is not a conspiracy, this is politics.

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"Woo..." After struggling in the black lake water for a while, Luo Mu finally struggled out of the dream. Feeling the burning pain as if his whole body was torn apart, he could not help but groan and slowly opened his eyes.

What came into view was the drowsy, worried and haggard face of Jellos. Of course, from Luo Mu's perspective, the face was upside down.

【How ugly】the system commented.

Luo Mu smiled helplessly in his heart and did not refute the system's words. Now Jellos did not look very pleasing to the eye: big dark circles hung around his lifeless eyes, blue stubble emerged from the corners of his mouth, with a face full of blood and tattered clothes, he looked like a little beggar.

There was nothing I could do about it. I had to take care of myself for a night and then go through such a disaster...

Thinking of this, Luo Mu's heart sank.

"Brother." Luo Mu called softly, and at the same time he carefully struggled out of Jellos' arms and tried to stand up.

But as soon as he exerted force with his limbs, piercing pain spread throughout his body. Luo Mu could not help but scream out in pain and fell to the ground again.

"Don't move. You have hidden wounds all over your body." The first two people to react were ladies Lisa and Barbara. When they saw Luo Mu stand up, they hurried to his side and held him down to prevent him from moving.

"Little guy, you tried too hard last night." Lisa sighed. She lifted up Luo Mu's tattered robe and showed him her arm. "After you fainted, when Barbara treated you, your body was like... it was blown into powder and then forcefully glued together."

Luo Mu looked at his smooth arms with a wry smile. Although there were no apparent wounds, he knew his own situation. He could clearly feel that every inch of muscle and every bone in his body was wailing. At this moment, he couldn't even move, let alone fight.

The power granted by the system was strong, but the backlash of the side effects directly turned him into a temporary vegetable.

"Ah! Xiao Luo, you're awake!" Jeroos, who had been drowsy and toiled all night, finally came to his senses. He squeezed between Lisa and Barbara, carefully picked up the paralyzed Luo Mu, and made him lie more comfortably.

Luo Mu took the opportunity to look around and saw Kaeya, Bennett, Fischl, and Lei Ze cleaning up the mess in the trial field. Ying and Paimon were standing by the door of the trial field, seemingly on guard. The noise around Luo Mu also alarmed them, and they all smiled, waved, and nodded at Luo Mu, congratulating him on his return from the brink of death.

They didn't know that Luo Mu had a system, but they could sense that Luo Mu's vitality was rapidly declining in that battle. They just thought that Luo Mu had overdrawn his life and potential in order to protect others. Although the power he burst out was ridiculously strong and full of weirdness, so what? Their lives were saved by Luo Mu. Just remember this, that's enough.

Unfortunately, it was a little too late... Looking at the corpses carried by Bennett and Kaia, the light in Luo Mu's eyes dimmed.

"It's not your fault." Barbara seemed to understand Luo Mu's thoughts, and she comforted him softly. Luo Mu noticed that Barbara's big eyes were full of bloodshot, and there were a few tear marks on her fair face.

Death is scary, but for the living, it is also a torture.

"Captain Qin has sent people to take over the situation in the Wolf Territory," Jellos' voice trembled slightly, "We can go home soon."

Go home...Yes, now I am a family man.

Luo Mu silently rested his head on Jellos's lap, feeling a lot of emotions in his heart. He cast his eyes towards the clear sky, and on the blue canvas, white ink was splashed wantonly, and the bright candlelight shone softly in a corner of the canvas.

What a nice day.

Luo Mu closed his eyes and tried his best to remove the scarlet and darkness in front of his eyes.

Kong, no matter what you want to do, whether it's killing gods or overthrowing the laws of nature, I will not let what happened today happen again.

[You don’t know your own limitations] The system commented with a sneer.