The battle inside Elynas's body had ended.
But it was hard to say that the result of this battle counted as the hero's victory.
Because until the battle ended, Rene, the evil dragon, never appeared.
All relevant personnel of the Narzissenkreuz Ordo had been purged.
Gestalt had been searched and seized.
It was said to have been sealed, but the person in charge of the sealing was Alain.
He simply came to Gestalt, quietly closed the door, and left.
After that, Alain completely immersed himself in the world of machinery. He became even more reclusive.
He had never been close to others to begin with.
After breaking with Rene and Jakob, only Mary-Ann was left.
Now Mary-Ann had also become pure water and hidden herself in the slumbering place.
She hated everything that had happened before and was unwilling to face reality.
So she wanted to create her own story.
In this story, a pure water spirit named [An] would be born.
[Finally got the story straightened out]
[Feels good! As long as I'm not the one looking for clues myself, it feels great]
[Such a complicated storyline, it must have been tough on little wolf]
In that great battle, one more person had escaped.
That was Jakob.
He had not died, but had gone into hiding in Fontaine.
He was reversing the effects of the Covenant of the Ancient Sea's imprint in various places.
Preparing for Rene's revival.
As for Carter, now known as Caterpillar.
His choice was to go to the Fortress of Meropide to atone for his sins.
In the hundreds of years that followed, the affairs of the Narzissenkreuz Ordo gradually faded into obscurity.
It was not until the end times approached and Jakob's actions accelerated that Mu Yang, who happened to be passing by, encountered it.
The subsequent developments are the content of the main storyline.
From the player's perspective, they first encountered Mamere and Seymour, learning about the Narzissenkreuz Ordo from them.
Then, while searching for the Ordo's location, they coincidentally met An.
Lumine met Lanoire in the prison and got to know Caterpillar while helping her return home.
An wanted to save Princess Lyris.
Seymour wanted to know where his master Mary-Ann was.
Caterpillar, who was gradually regaining consciousness and memories, wanted to find the secret of his birth and existence.
Mu Yang wanted to stop Jakob's "certain conspiracy."
And Lumine?
Lumine is Teyvat's number one busybody. Wherever there is a need, she will lend a hand.
Thus, everyone carried their own doubts.
And for the sake of reaching the ending, they embarked on an adventure together.
Although they were almost schemed against by Jakob in the middle.
Fortunately, Mu Yang had seen through the secret of the Holy Sword and turned the tables on Jakob.
Jakob fell.
He had already done everything he could.
For Rene, he had exhausted all his efforts.
He had reversed the Covenant of the Ancient Sea's imprint and shaped the Holy Sword of Reason.
He had verified the correctness of the world formula.
When he was dying, he was calm.
He believed that in the new world, Rene would find his consciousness and usher in a new life.
Unfortunately, the evil dragon ultimately lost to the hero.
No matter how much Rene calculated, he never calculated that the existence of Lumine, this variable, was a "Descender."
Her power was enough to rival the entire world.
With Rene's half-finished power, it was already very difficult to contend against her.
Moreover, the Holy Sword of Reason chose to stand on Lumine's side.
Rene lost. He lost to Lumine.
However, when he learned that someone had completed the heavy task of saving the world before him.
He simply said, "Thank you."
He calmly accepted his failure. Since the world had already been saved, he woke up from the dream of saving the world.
This change in thinking only took Rene a few sentences to figure out.
Because his goal had always been so simple.
At the end of the story.
Everyone returned to the slumbering place and awakened "Mary-Ann" from her dream as well.
Everyone decided to continue moving forward toward the future.
Only Rene — Narzissenkreuz — remained forever asleep in the slumbering place.
Finally, there is Caterpillar's ending.
Only his ending is relatively open-ended and quite complicated.
His title is the Chrysalis.
Jakob said that there is still no sign of him hatching at all.
What kind of ending awaits a caterpillar that cannot break out of its chrysalis?
It will probably slowly retreat into nothingness, just as Jakob said.
It might lose its sanity, or it might lose its memories.
Caterpillar is, after all, a Hilichurl carrying Carter's consciousness.
This consciousness is even blank.
He should be an individual independent of Carter.
But in the subsequent branch storyline — the Book of Revelation — he seeks his self.
The Book of Revelation is merely an illusion created by Jakob and Rene to deceive the believers.
The dog inside is the obsession of these two in saving Carter.
Even if Caterpillar finds himself in that place.
What he finds can only be considered Jakob and Rene's memories of the person named Carter.
It is a lie built from others' narratives.
It is not the life that Caterpillar actually experienced.
Moreover, both Rene and Jakob are now dead.
The dog, which is their obsession, has also disappeared.
So even though the plot did not explicitly state it, Caterpillar's ending is very likely to be disappearance...
[Nooo, why can't he reunite with Lanoire]
[If they reunite, then it wouldn't be mhy anymore]
Thank you to everyone who watched the video up to this point.
Actually, it's just me speaking up for Rene.
The blogger does not think he is a clown.
You cannot, just because Plan A succeeded and caused Plan B to be wasted, label the person who made Plan B a clown.
If Focalors or Furina had made a mistake.
Or if Lumine had not had enough power, the direction of the story would really be hard to say.
At least with Rene, the people of Fontaine did not go extinct.
Instead, they were given continuation.
When he was repeatedly calculating and verifying, he had no idea that the traveler variable would be this outrageous.
Strong enough to change the entire structure of Teyvat.
As a mortal, Rene had already reached his limit.
He had even achieved transcendence.
Others may not understand him, or even know how to evaluate him.
But the blogger himself greatly appreciates him.
He is an unquestionable genius.
There are also some private messages about Alain's ending.
Is he really a puppet?
[The phrase "seeking a path through the precision of mechanisms and a body of steel" — does this describe Alain choosing mechanical ascension?]
We won't talk about these today. Let's put it off until next time.
[Putting it off until next time, huh]
[Already owe one episode about Alain]
[I think so. Childe's voice line says puppets really hate him, right? Childe is related to the big whale]
[Hiss— you know what, you might actually be onto something!]
What I want to say is that this story, with its extremely long time span, grand scale, and brilliant plot, is unprecedented in Genshin Impact.
I only need to tell the story in order, without any need to deliberately build atmosphere.
It is already dramatic and full of ups and downs.
That is all for this combing of the Narzissenkreuz story. I hope you liked it.
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After watching it, Mu Yang bought another wave of promotion for the video.
For this genius master who had elevated mortal dignity to the fullest.
Mu Yang wanted more people to understand his story.
Even if, in the eyes of the secular world, he was an evil dragon.