Genshin Impact: I'm The Envoy of Snezhnaya
Chapter 458: Silver's Transformation
"Not going to take a look?"
Setting a stack of books in front of Bai Luo, Silver spoke.
By "take a look," he meant checking on the commotion outside.
To the two of them, the "conversation" between Diluc and Sharaf was nothing more than an endless string of irritating meows.
"It's nothing serious."
Compared to those trivial matters, Bai Luo was far more concerned about Silver's situation.
His experience with his erhu teacher had taught him an important lesson:
Having a good teacher makes all the difference.
Although the old master hadn't taught Bai Luo much in terms of music theory, it was thanks to him laying a proper foundation and teaching Bai Luo the correct way to hold and play the erhu that Bai Luo had been able to discover his own talent.
"So these are all the things you've already mastered?"
Looking at the thick pile of books before him, Bai Luo couldn't help but marvel.
As expected of one of Gold's creations. His ability to learn is astonishing.
"There are more."
After bundling up the books in front of him, Silver returned to the bookshelf and took down another batch—the ones he felt he no longer needed to consult.
"So why did Rhinedottir judge you to be a failed creation in the first place?"
Judging from Silver's intelligence and abilities alone, he already surpassed many of the so-called geniuses across the Seven Nations.
If someone like that was still considered unqualified in Gold's eyes... just what kind of standards did she have?
"My assignment."
"Your assignment?"
Bai Luo had assumed Silver wouldn't talk about something like this, yet those two words came out without hesitation.
"Yes."
Just as Silver had said before, Rhinedottir—known by the title Gold—was an extraordinarily strict alchemist.
If you can't do it, you're discarded.
What sounded like nothing more than a threat was, in reality, something she meant with complete seriousness every single time.
Silver had failed to complete the assignment Gold had given him.
That was why he had been abandoned.
Although he now knew how to produce the perfect answer...
It was already too late.
Several hundred years too late.
Perhaps, just as the Astrologer Cicin Mage had spoken of "destined fate," everything had simply unfolded according to destiny.
But none of that mattered anymore.
Gold had given him life.
Yet the one who had truly allowed him to live now was Bai Luo.
Having been given the name Silver, he no longer cared about Gold.
Still...
As for that unfinished assignment, he intended to present his answer to his new teacher.
"All right, enough about that. Did you finish organizing the materials I asked you to?"
"Yes."
Silver nodded and handed over a notebook.
It was an alchemy notebook he had compiled by carefully organizing everything he had learned from the books he had read, arranging it into a form that Bai Luo could best understand at his current level.
Perhaps it wasn't as well written as Albedo's notes, but it was the most suitable one for Bai Luo.
Because Silver understood Bai Luo's current level of knowledge, and he knew what would help him—and what wouldn't.
"Thanks for your hard work. Go get some rest."
Taking the notebook, Bai Luo nodded in satisfaction.
Silver, however, made no move to rest.
Instead, he returned to the laboratory and carried back the two cats that had still been arguing, placing them beside Bai Luo.
"You need the laboratory?"
Looking at the well-behaved Sharaf and the snarling, claw-waving Diluc, Bai Luo immediately understood what Silver intended to do.
"My assignment."
Silver offered no further explanation, repeating only those two words.
"All right."
It seemed Silver wasn't as indifferent as he appeared.
That assignment—the one whose answer he had never been able to submit—still weighed heavily on his mind.
After taking the two cats, Bai Luo smiled gently.
Under that "gentle" smile, both Diluc and Sharaf finally quieted down.
However, unlike Diluc, whose eyes constantly scanned the surroundings in vigilance, Sharaf's attention was fixed on the treasure that hadn't been brought along.
He couldn't help it.
This family had a history of stealing his prized possessions.
Leaving his precious belongings alone with his owner made him deeply uneasy.
In Silver's memories, Rhinedottir's appearance had already grown indistinct.
But he still clearly remembered the feeling she had left him with.
Cold.
Strict.
She had treated the newborn Silver the same way.
There was no affection.
No concern.
Not even a single unnecessary word.
From the moment he first became aware of the world, he had already been faced with his very first assignment.
Was his first assignment to uncover the mysteries of alchemy?
Of course not.
That was something he was expected to understand before he had even learned how to walk.
His very first assignment was to choose.
To choose his own life.
To choose his own future.
To choose the path he would walk.
But at the time, the answer he gave Rhinedottir left her deeply disappointed.
"What choice would you like me to make?"
Perhaps, to Silver, it had been nothing more than an innocent question.
But to Rhinedottir, it was the greatest flaw in his existence.
By surrendering the right to choose to her, he had ultimately been deemed a failed creation and was reduced to food for Durin.
Yet fate has a habit of playing cruel jokes.
Having lost his first chance to choose, Silver had never imagined he would ever be granted a second.
He pulled down the high collar of his Fatui uniform, exposing the mark on his neck.
A diamond-shaped emblem resembling a star.
It was proof that he was an artificial human.
The beginning of everything.
And also the flaw that marked him as one.
The power of natural life flows from within outward.
A flower unfurls from a bud into full bloom; leaves spread open from their curled state.
People call this blossoming.
Artificial life, however, is created by forcing power inward from the outside.
Like inflating a balloon.
As the alchemical solution spread outward in every direction, it had carefully formed this mark.
Now, that lingering emblem still served one final purpose.
Transformation.
It was the function that would allow him to truly be called human.
The diamond-shaped mark began to glow with a faint light.
A function that had lain dormant for centuries awakened once more.
Crack... creak...
Every bone in Silver's body groaned under an unbearable strain.
Even the exposed skin across his body began to undergo subtle changes.
"...Mm..."
A pained expression—one that had previously appeared only when listening to Bai Luo's erhu or eating Bai Luo's strange fruit—gradually spread across his face.
Silver, who would not utter a single sound even when cut open by a razor-sharp surgical scalpel, now let out a muffled groan through clenched teeth.
Because every part of him was being remade.
His body, which had originally possessed no distinct sexual characteristics, slowly began to change.
The balance tipped toward one side.
When the transformation finally came to an end, his entire body was drenched, as though he had just been pulled from a pond.
Even the heavy Fatui uniform he wore had been soaked completely through with sweat.
Clink
Curled up on the floor in agony, Silver accidentally bumped against the nearby table.
A gemstone radiating a soft green light slid off its surface.
The cool jewel landed against the back of the neck, clearing her mind slightly...
At the same time, it concealed the flaw that had marked her as an artificial human.
Silver, who should have been called it, yet whom Bai Luo had always called him... Became her.
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