The journey to Teyvat from the Abyss Mage

When the morning sun shone into the antique room, Luo Mu jumped up impatiently with big dark circles under his eyes. At the same time, there was a thump from the bed in the inner room, and the same reaction seemed to happen to Ying.

Last night, Luo Mu strongly requested to "meditate on the cushion outside" to separate himself from Ying. All night, he looked at his nose, mouth, and heart, just like an old Taoist priest in meditation. In the end, he froze on the cushion. He didn't look like he was in a trance, but closer to nirvana...

People are like this, the more they have a guilty conscience, the more at a loss they will be when the opportunity comes. If Luo Mu only treated Ying as an ordinary friend, he would not be so embarrassed, but it was precisely because he had some special extravagant hope in his heart to be in the same room with Ying that he was so nervous and at a loss when this day really came.

"Damn it, I'm going to die if I keep wasting time like this!" Looking at his haggard self in the mirror, Luo Mu rubbed his face hard in distress. After adjusting his facial expression, he turned around and saw Paimon flying out of the house, staggering with sleepy eyes.

Oh! That’s right! Can’t I also…

Paimon, who came out to drink water, was recalling the warmth in the bed and the embrace of the traveler, when suddenly, she heard a "pop" sound in her ears. She was startled and opened her eyes wide, only to see that the blue-haired boy had disappeared, and in his place was a cute girl about her size in a blue dress. She was happily pulling out a small magic wand from her big sleeves, and with a light wave, a circle of water film wrapped around her, making her fly.

After being a human for so long, I actually forgot that I was an Abyss Mage. Luo Mu slowly adapted to the body form that he hadn't used for a long time, happily experiencing the wonderful feeling of weightlessness when being wrapped in a water shield, as if he was at the bottom of a clear lake.

Then a small cup embedded itself into his water shield, startling him.

“Don’t come over here!” Paimeng held another cup and threatened Luo Mu tremblingly, but from her expression, she was about to faint in the next second: “Traveler! Come here quickly!”

When Ying heard the shouting and rushed out in a hurry, she was also stunned when she saw this scene.

"Uh...Xiao Luo?" she asked hesitantly.

It's no wonder that Paimeng and Ying were surprised. Luo Mu's current state couldn't bring out his full combat power, so Ying had only seen him once in the Wolf Territory when she and Wendy fought against the Black Wolf. As for Paimeng...she had already run away at that time.

"It's me...Puff!" Luo Mu looked at Ying with a smile, and then, for some reason, the water-blue shield wrapped around him suddenly fluctuated violently. Luo Mu turned around quickly, put his sleeves over his mouth and nose and coughed gently, while silently waving his staff to stabilize the fluctuation of the water shield.

"Xiao Luo, are you okay?" Ying asked hurriedly with concern.

"It's okay!" Luo Mu answered firmly, but his voice sounded a little muffled: "I just... am not used to this state. You guys go and rest for a while, I'll... practice."

"Okay then." Ying did not suspect anything. She took off Paimon, who was frightened by Luo Mu and could not move, and turned back to the inner room.

At this moment, Luo Mu was repeating the same sentence in his heart:

"This is my boss's sister. This is my boss's sister. This is my boss's sister..."

Mrs. Filin, is it necessary that the nightgown you chose for Ying be so... figure-revealing?

It’s not that Ying exposed too much skin, but the pure white knee-length skirt seemed particularly close-fitting after abandoning the practicality of adventure decoration. It hazily and poetically outlined the girl’s beautiful body curves, coupled with the exposed slender arms, clear and beautiful collarbone and slender neck...Luo Muben was a hot-blooded boy, and he had a special admiration for Ying. This image of Ying, which was completely different from the usual battle image, was like a heavy hammer, hitting his heart hard.

Now Luo Mu felt that the illustrators of the original gods' books in previous lives were simply unable to truly appreciate the beauty of these characters. This strange idea made him feel lucky, yet somewhat embarrassed and ashamed.

[See? This is the pain that a moral person brings upon himself. If it were me, I would just...] In his mind, the system was using Luomu as an example to teach Andumari, who had become its younger brother, a lesson. Andumari could only nod his head in agreement with a bitter look on his face.

After listening for a while, Luo Mu felt overwhelmed. He felt that if he was a character in a novel, and dared to leak even a little bit of the picture the system had just described, the novel would be blocked instantly.

This guy must have had some other side job before he became a system, a very serious one...

"Come on, stop messing around in my head, both of you. Be quiet." Luo Mu scolded angrily. One of them had ulterior motives, and the other was the remnant of the demon god. Luo Mu took it out on them without any psychological burden.

[You are so disloyal. I don't know who helped you organize your thoughts last night.] The system was indignant.

"Come on, what have you and I discussed? Do you have any constructive suggestions other than to wait and see what happens?" Luo Mu shouted fiercely.

Last night, he literally didn't sleep for a single second. One reason was that he was feeling uneasy. Another reason was that he had been reviewing the current situation with the system - now with the addition of Andumari - in an attempt to find a breakthrough.

Luo Mu had to admit that among all the parties involved in the current game, he was the least experienced one, so he simply worked with the system to enumerate all possible variables and make up for his shortcomings with early thinking and preparation.

And during the discussion last night, Andumari proposed an idea that silenced both Luomu and the system.

It says: What if everything that is happening now is not the result of a natural development of events, but is being manipulated by someone secretly?

The war god Morax fell inexplicably. How did he fall? I don't know. If he was killed, who killed him? I don't know how Inazuma, who is far away on the other side of the sea, noticed the changes in Liyue? I don't know if the Fatui and the Abyss Cult played a role in this matter? I don't know. In such chaos, Luomu and Ying arrived in Liyue at the same time. Coincidentally, the envoys sent by Inazuma also visited Liyue at almost the same time, and the envoys were unexpectedly important. On both sides, one side represents the power of Mondstadt and got in touch with the immortal as soon as it entered Liyue. On the other side, there are Inazuma's senior officials, whose whereabouts are still mysterious. Under Ningguang's planning, both sides stood on their own chess game. If the Mondstadt Rebellion was just a successful conspiracy of the Abyss Cult, then although no changes have occurred in Liyue now, the forces of Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, and Winter Solstice have gathered together, the Fatui and the Abyss Cult are ready to move, and most of the famous forces on the continent have gathered in Liyue. In this situation, if nothing happens, it will be fine. But if something happens, it will be a huge change that will shock the continent.

The initial cause of all this was the death of the God of Rock. Luo Mu even felt that this news needed to be verified. Under the powerful news blockade of the Seven Stars, this unfounded rumor should not have caused such a sensation, but in the end it formed such a strange situation.

Perhaps, there really is a possibility that people like us have never been chess players, but rather someone's chess pieces?