Ch4

"So {weapons} have the most immediate impact on a characters damage increase…" Lisa clicked on her character weapon tab, indeed, it wasn't even a good Catalyst, but a one star {apprentice's note}. She clicked to replace it. There wasn't many catalysts she could choose from so after looking at all her options she end up selecting the three star catalyst {magic guide} oh, it's data perfectly worked with her attack style. " I will replace it with a stronger catalyst later~" Lisa was in a good mood; She had decided to focus on herself as the most powerful character.

The remain restraints in reality, but in game, there was next to none, moreover, in the future, the enemies were definitely gonna get stronger, and if she didn't strengthen her character, she may not be able to progress the later stages of the story.

After closing up the interface, the screen, then return to the end of the Domain, there was a precious chest just ahead, and just as she opened it the story restarted, and then the game her character began to explain the current situation.

" Dragon of the east, lion of the south, wolf of the north, falcon of the West…they are the four winds of Mondstadt, affiliated with Barbatos The God of anemo."

" The dragon of the east stormterror and its real name is Dvalin."

" The most in Mondstadt seem to have forgotten that's in all this "stormterror" business."

" And so now you know why Dvalin is only able to channel 3 of the four wind's power."

" because it had been consuming itself from the very start."

Then the traveller was given a book to learn about the events that happened 100 years ago. Lisa naturally knew this history and did not need to consult the game, but for other, they did not know these things the game undoubtably served as a light "education".

And that was just a tip of the iceberg, and in this entire games content. There should be a wealth of information that can be uncovered, and Lisa had a very strong hunch about that.

Glancing towards the clock Lisa realise that another hour had passed almost silently, if it were at work, she would find that even Half an hour of continuous work boring enough to yawn. Yeah, whenever she was playing this game, she felt no such fatigue. In fact, Lisa felt she could play for another two or three hours straight.

Setting the phone down, she's stretched her slightly sore wrist and neck, The power of the three temples had already been cleared in game, so the dark clouds surrounding Mondstadt should have dissipated by now, but in reality though, none of these things have even happened yet.

However, if this game is plot, truly parallel to reality, then at this point in time, storm Terrace should be gathering the power of the three temples somewhere, and when gathered enough It would then launch an attack on Mondstadt.

And in order to verify the authenticity of this information all she would need to do would be go to the nearest {falcon of the West} temple, enter it stamps, and then check for any traces left behind by stormterror. Lisa then got up ready to share this critical information with Jean.

" It's been a pleasure sir, by the way what's your name?"

"Taylor"

' oh that's right Jean had mentioned that can't believe I forgot' Lisa thought feeling quite embarrassed.

" I guess there's no need for me to introduce myself you'll re-created me so amazingly in the game seems like you know the knights of Favonius quite intimately." With a slight blush, having never felt such close intimacy with a stranger.

"I supposed to recreations are alright"

Taylor said a faint smile meanwhile, Lisa started walking closer, almost standing at Taylor side. Under the wide brim of her hat, a pair of emerald green eyes holding a profound gaze.

" don't you know the showing such intimate knowledge can be quite dangerous…"

Lisa said softly, while at the same time, gently, beckoning with her back turned hand, A purple lightning, current silently appearing behind Taylor, like a venomous snake, stalking its prey ready to strike.

I'm with the flash of lights this lightning current directly struck towards Taylor's back.

Taylor appearing completely unaware.

But the next instant that lightning current hadn't caused any harm to Taylor at all, immediately bypassed him, and struck right back towards Lisa.

Lisa was baffled. This was the very first time she had ever find herself in such a situation. Even if Taylor had just blocked the lightning current with his hand, that would've still been with Lisa's expectations, but he did make a single movement. He just ignored her attacks existence!!!

Due to her momentary shock, Lisa didn't even have time to evade, and the lightning current struck her bellybutton and Then shocked her womb causing jolt of pleasure, all throughout her body.

Normally her body would never be so defenceless when she was using her lightning, but she was completely unprepared for the strike to hit her back especially in such a place.

As Lisa failed to her face with her face, as red as a tomato, Taylor walked over to her, and helped her back up with a look of concern.

" I do hope you're alright and don't worry, I do know how to both control my own strength and protect myself."

Taylor smiled at her with a look of care.

Hi Heather, in fact, just now He hadn't even realised what has happened at all. He No expectation that Lisa would actually attack him from behind, Fortunately, the shop Had the systems beginner protection to Taylor was completely vulnerable here and didn't need to have any defences, therefore leases attack in harmony and capacity and ended up getting redirected towards Lisa herself.

Seeing Lisa is very flushed face as though She had developed some very strong feelings, Taylor kept in his sigh, indeed he appeared to be very physically attractive in his new life now. After all, Lisa and him had only just met for the very first time and he was already able to spur such romantic feelings in Lisa towards him, isn't this likely to happen every time in the future?

however, Taylor still kept a subtle aloofness in his demeanour. After all he can, unless Lisa assumes she had him tied around her little finger, after what man couldn't control his outward appearance.

What Taylor failed to understand, was that in leases eyes all of this was interpreted in a fundamentally different way. His casual and semi indifferent attitude seem to say to her, " your attack is just too weak, so weak that it doesn't even register as something that exists"

Even Taylor gays of care was interpreted by Lisa as a warning, The next time, if she dared to attack him so recklessly, he would show a bit of his true power. Lisa felt a tightness in her chest, but her heart also beat very fast, she felt both fear and attraction to this enigmatic man, She already started to assume that this person called. Taylor was definitely someone who has had a very significant past and immense strength. After so many years, Lisa felt pressure for the very first time in a long time and the first time in our life so fallen in love. After having her eyes closed for a few moments, she opens them back up and accepts Taylor support in getting back up, she then slowly walks out of the shop.

Once she was onto the street, Lisa took a deep breath this time. In addition to reporting about the information she got through the mobile game to Jean she would also need to inform her of his power. Even though lisa may have fallen in love with this man, she also felt this person was unfathomable and in all of Mondstadt there are probably next to none who could match Taylor in power. She could not allow herself to act so recklessly again, Lisa thought about her sneak attack attempt earlier and broke out and a cold sweat at the very thought of it, fortunately, had a very kindhearted attitude otherwise she might not have been able to leave this shop by herself.

===

In the Knights of Favonius headquarters office, Lisa was sipping a cup of warm tea while waiting for grandmaster Jean's return, it wasn't until about lunchtime that Jane Hurley returned in from the outside.

" so Lisa, how did it go?"

As soon as she saw, Lisa Jean asked immediately.

After having some time to calm self down while waiting for Jean, she was able to report with a calm tone.

" The harvest has been quite substantial starting with the information I obtained in the mobile game…"

Lisa briefly recounted the storyline that she had experienced in the game today in fact, the plot she gone through was quite simple. She had determined the source of Stromterror's power — the four wind's temples— and proceeded to battle through them one by one. Moussa time Lisa had been focusing on sunning, the games mechanics and the effects of its numerical values.

" if that's the case, then we must send a team to clear the Four winds temples immediately!"

Jane declared with staunch determination. If they connects before storm, Terror gathers, it's strength they may be able to prevent the attack on Mondstadt altogether.

" we definitely should clear out the temples, but I suggest sending only a small team to the nearest temple, the temple of the falcon first."

Lisa spoke with no hesitation obviously, during her waiting time, she had also already thought about how to handle the situation.

" one reason is that our nights are currently severely understand, and the only reason is in case this incident is just fabricated by Taylor, we would have left behind a significant security risk if we deplete the cities forces for no apparent reason."

" Don't forget that the Fatui's diplomats are also watching closely"

Jean nodded in agreement, Lisa as expected, always remaining Calm in times like these with her by her side, she was truly able to feel at ease.

" Then let's have Kaeya go investigate the temple of the falcon first."

After making this decision, Jean turned to Lisa and asked " you mentioned, there was another piece of information. What is it?"

" It's about the owner of the mobile game café…"

At this moment, at the entrance to the grandmaster's Office.

One of the nights had just finished patrolling the other areas of the headquarters and arrived at the office entrance to continue his garrd duty. His name is Duke, the son of a decently wealthy merchant in the city and helped solidify his current position in the knights with a bit of financial support here and there. However, Duke was not content with just being a guard he aspired to achieve something truly significant and bring glory to his family name.

As Jane had returned to the office in a bit of a hurry and only half closed the door, and Duke managed to overhear part of the conversation between Jean and Lisa.

" how was that possible you couldn't even gauge the depth of his power." Jean was quite surprised by this.

" in the end, it's because of too many restrictions. If I were to truly take action, holding nothing back, I might be able to gain some insight into his power, but that's clearly impossible. Our knights have no reason to offend the owner of the game cafe." Lisa replied.

" let's wait for Kaeya's Report, If it turns out to be the same as the game, then the nature of this matter has changed."

The mobile game cafe owner? Duke was taken aback. He felt like he had seen those words somewhere before then It clicked. It was the name of a shop at the end of the street that he had once passed by. He remembered feeling a little curious about the shops name at the time. From the way, grandmaster Jean and Lisa had talked it seems like this mobile game cafe owner was hiding some secrets. If he couldn't cover all this, wouldn't he have gained a great merits will grandmaster Jean and Lisa had reservations (TN:and for good bloody reasons) duke had no such reservations, (TN:like an arrogant idiotic, young master don't you think), after shift, he would call a few of his friends, and It wouldn't be surprising if they could get something out of this owner.

With a very self-assured smile, Duke began to eagerly anticipate his performance tonight.

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In the Angels Shares Tavern, A woman was short. Icy blue hair sat in the corner, drinking 1 pint of alcohol one after another soon a light flush appeared on her cheeks, but there was no sign of happiness or excitement. Instead, her brows were furrowed and worry.

After placing her payments on the table, the woman suede steadily out towards the door.

" Isn't that Eula from the Lawrence clan… drinking like this, and still a member of the knights…"

" Why haven't the knights of Favonius kicked her out yet…"

In the span of walking, just seven or 8 metres Eula had heard no less than three comments about herself, unfortunately, she was already long, accustomed to this kind of pointing and gossiping, and after leaving the tavern, she leisurely, made her way back home.

The reason she was in such a foul mood today, to the point of seeking her solace in alcohol, was not because of the peoples cold taunting, but because of what she discovered during a recent patrols outside the city she had found traces of a large number of monsters and even some extremely dangerous abyss mages near the temple of the South wind. She decide to report this information to the Knights of Favonius. headquarters, in hopes of sending reinforcements.

However, before she could enter the headquarters, she got stopped by guard named Duke he said "that grandmaster Jean was currently busy with work and unable to see her" to try stop her giving a report he then taunted her with comments like " up to no good" and " working as a spy within the Knights of Favonius" in the end, she didn't go in, purely due to the fact that it was likely true that Jean was busy after all, Duke couldn't stop her from entering if she forced the matter.

So, instead of frustration, you had gone into the Tavern, and she ended up drinking more than originally intended, but it's still capital limits. She would not allow herself to get completely drunk, and as she stumbled out of the tavern, she noticed what appeared to be a new tavern nearby.

" What's this? a new Tavern?"

Yola had no rose of exquisite seating inside the store. Only a tavern was likely to have such a decor moreover there was currently no one inside, which conveniently spurred her from the annoyance of being pointed and gossiped at by others.

She walked in slowly

" Sir, a glass of…um… fruit juice, please." She dared not to drink any more alcohol Eula needed a drink to help sober her up.

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Taylor was deep in thought at the bar deciding whether he should do some promotions since Lisa left this morning, it has been a whole afternoon without a single person coming into his cafe occasionally someone with a curious mind would look see the price at the entrance and then walk away.

Well, he was, in such deep thought a woman in her own unique attire of the Knights of Favonius walked in and ordered a fruit juice. Taylor immediately recognise her. It was Eula!

I'm better yet, she was wearing her night uniform than highlighted her already very impressive figure. With her sculpted face and a figure born for sin, her short icy blue hair complemented her slightly flesh cheeks. She could be described as pure yet captivating.

Taylor walked over and assisted Eula in sitting down and set her sword down at her side and then prepared a simple glass of tropical juice using the Omniversal beverage maker. Eula took the glass, tipped her head back and drowned it in one go, She then handed the empty glass back to Taylor.

"Sir, another one please"

Do the citizens of Mondstadt all have such a strong drinking capacity? Trailer was preparing to pour another glass when he saw you over, lying down on the bar top, seemingly asleep.

He grabbed a blanket and covered jewel with it. Taylor, then sat at the bar, admiring her beautiful face thinking that, even if there was be no more customers, it was quite a pleasant time just to watch her sleep.

However, it didn't take long for someone to go causing trouble by barging in.

" are you the owner of this place?" For adult men entered with the leader, glaring at Taylor as though he had a blood debt with him.

" The one and only"

10,000 mora Per hour, one just go rob people in the street." Said Duke as he glancing at the priceless, raising an eyebrow.

"I have everything clearly marked here so if you can't afford it, then just go elsewhere."

Taylor could tell immediately that these people had clearly come here just to intentionally cause some trouble so he didn't bother to entertain them.

As soon as Duke does, his face immediately soured, he he then slammed his hand down on the table hard.

(Smack!)

" There's never been anyone like you in Mondstadt tell me what is your attention for coming to Mondstadt" (TN: yeah, cause that's not immediately going against the Knights of Favonius handbook)

However, the sun commotion immediately worked the sleeping Eula. She opened up her eyes and saw very familiar figure in front of her.

"Duke…?!"

Use all because of this person that she did not enter the Knights of Favonius headquarters which then let her to be subjected to taunts and mockery, her head, which have been slightly heavy, cleared up in an instant.

"Duke one are you doing here?"

Eula remember that she had come to what appeared to be a newly open Tavern had a glass of fruit juice and then fell asleep. The thoughtful owner had even prepared a blanket for her, now seeing Duke shouting at the owner, Eula naturally wasn't going to standby.

" oh, so it's a person from the treacherous Lawrence Family!"

" if you're here, then the evidence is already conclusive."

" The owner must be conspiring with the old aristocrats of the Lawrence family to rebel against Mondstadt."

Eula's expression immediately turned ice cold, she put the blanket down and stared at Duke saying " don't spread rumours. I have no connection to the owner here. Don't try and defame good people!"

" People with connections usually don't admit it… otherwise how do you explain why you're here alone in this store so late at night."

"You…!"

Dukes near, and then signal to his three companions.

"Get him!"

Of course, they wouldn't dare try and land on Eula after all, she was not only a member of the Knights of Favonius but also a higher rank than them, but the owner was a very different story and this was Duke's true purpose.

However Believing that this situation had risen purely because of her Eula couldn't just standby, me the steps in front of Taylor and intercepted the four people.

"As expected, you are connected!"

" Arbitrarily, arresting people with absolutely no evidence. Are you even still members of the knights of Favonius?" Eula questioned.

"Your protection is the strongest evidence against him!" (TN: which goes to show you just how strong a bias is)

The argument had lost all logical meaning and the four people swarmed in intending to try and subdue Eula first so they can then capture Taylor.

Is the primary figure in this farce, Taylor showed no signs of anxiety, or worry on the contrary, there is a hint of a Eureka moment in his eyes. just a short while ago he had been thinking about how to do some advertising, and now, free publicity had come to him.

Perhaps because Eula had just woken up from a drunken slumber, but her attacks were patchy and slightly inaccurate, both sides refrained from using weapons. However, as a result, the four people felt like they were treated as sandbags getting pummelled by Eula.

Seeing where the situation was unfavourable Duke swiftly and shifted his sewer that was on his wrist, and he yelled as he swung at Eula.

Eula gaze immediately sharpened, as she immediately retrieved her greatsword that was but a step away from her, with her greatsword now in hand, she was easily blocking all of Duke attacks, and the other three also drew their weapons slashing towards Eula.

It felt someone like a dude, but at least It hadn't escalated to the level of bloodshed.

Duke and his group only intended to try and drive Eula away and had no true intention of harming her. After all this was Mondstadt and causing such a scene. Here will not be good for anyone.

Of course this couldn't really be called a fair fight because Faceing the pressure from four people regardless of how less skilled than her

Eula was struggling, The blade for Grace, George was now right in front of her chest, and if she didn't take a step back Eula could get hurt.

" If you don't take a step back, we will hurt you!" Duke threatened in this moment.

However, Eulas expression turned deadly cold, faint white highlights seem to shimmer around her Golden irises and the temperature in the surrounding area suddenly plummeted several degrees, her great sword in hand, was now, shrouded in a layer of ice.

(Humming sfx)

The cryo element exploded, and the four individuals were immediately blasted away, covered in a layer of frost, Eula, with only one hand, holding her great sword, looked at them Extremely coldly, The four shivered, picking up their weapons from the grind and seeing Eula in such an enraged state Felt an absolute sense of dread. Without a single word they ran away.

Outside the store, due to the commotion from inside, several people had already gathered around. They were all pointing and talking about you inside. You had already longer in a custom kind of situation, and could easily ignore it. However, because it just use her elemental power, she accidentally overturned one of the tables just nearby.

Taylor walked over, picking up the phone, the headphones to the grind. Sadly, the screen was shattered.

" I'm very sorry sir I'll be sure to compensate you." You said we're absolute sincerity when she noticed. She also helped Taylor upturn the table and clean off any of the dirt.

Seeing her service skills and very serious demeanour, Taylor had an idea. It seemed like the shop was currently lacking some wait-staff.

Only one question was left though, How to make people willingly come to a cafe that Eula would work at.