In the sky, a boy was flying at a speed far exceeding the speed of sound, with a white and purple figure trailing far behind him.
Like a mermaid, Skirk skimmed low over the sea surface. As he watched the figure in the distance, his shock only grew.
He could tell that, up to this point, the flight-like behavior Orion was displaying was actually achieved forcibly through physical strength.
To withstand supersonic speeds with his physical body, he first had to be able to use raw strength to instantly accelerate to supersonic speeds.
Furthermore, judging by Orion's movements, he could adjust his flight angle in the air with minute adjustments, meaning this person actually had experience with flying. But why wasn't he flying directly now? It felt as if he had switched bodies and wasn't yet accustomed to it.
Ahead, Orion was "flying" while looking down to search: "It should be in this direction, right? Why can't I find it? Ah! Found it! I didn't expect it to be so much farther than in the game!"
He then adjusted his posture and landed on the sea surface in front of an island.
He didn't dare to land directly on the island, fearing that he might accidentally smash it to pieces.
With a "boom," Orion slammed into the shallows beside the island. The impact alone displaced all the nearby seawater, exposing the wet sand.
Taking advantage of the gap before the displaced seawater crashed back down, Orion took a few quick steps onto the island, just before the water smoothed over the beach again.
After a while, Skirk also arrived on the island. He followed Orion's aura to the center of the island, only to find Orion staring blankly at a stone staircase.
"What are you looking at?" Skirk asked as he walked to his side.
Orion pointed at the stone staircase: "Do you see anything here?"
Skirk looked over, seeing only the stone ground and the sea surface behind it.
He shook his head: "The stone platform is empty. What's wrong?"
"Nothing..." Orion had made up his mind: "This place is called Musk Reef. Let's fight here. It's far from the continent and far from Inazuma, so we don't have to worry about being discovered by others if we fight here."
That's right, this island was the peak of Pilos Peak that some littering Anemo Archon had tossed into the sea. Its current name was Musk Reef.
There was another reason why Orion had specifically come here: to confirm whether the Spiral Abyss was there.
The conclusion was that it was there. However, through Skirk, he learned that only he could see this thing through the system, and it had now been logged into the system. An "Event" icon had appeared at the top of the menu list, and clicking it revealed Musk Reef.
It seemed he could come here periodically to farm Primogems. A cycle was half a month, meaning he could come to farm Primogems on the first and sixteenth of every month.
And this time used the time of the Teyvat continent!
In other words, during his leisurely travels on the road, his supply of Primogems would have some guarantee!
Satisfied, Orion brought Skirk to the edge of the island and increased the distance between them.
He turned to face Skirk and said: "Miss Skirk, I must state in advance that there may be some misunderstandings between us regarding certain matters. But it doesn't matter; after this'spar,' I will explain it to you in detail."
"Spar?" Skirk noticed this word. Could it be that the other party wasn't sent by his master, The Wicked Knight, to execute him?
But never mind. Since both sides had decided on their pre-battle preparations, let the battle begin!
Fighting in a place like the ocean, full of water elements, was like a fish taking to water for Skirk, who used Abyssal Power to mimic ice elements.
As the blade swung and a fish tail appeared, countless black, jagged, cone-like shapes resembling spatial rifts appeared around Skirk.
Then, he saw.
Around that man, a sense of oppression, as if an entire planet were descending, suddenly appeared!
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"Ouch, what happened on the sea last night? Why was it shaking back and forth the whole time? I feel like my brain has been shaken into a smoothie..."
"Yeah, Paimon... Is the geology of Teyvat this unstable? It's my first time feeling seasick while on land..."
Early in the morning, Paimon and Lumine woke up huddled together, got dressed, unzipped the vinyl tent, and walked out.
Then they shivered from the cold.
Feeling the cold air, the two were a bit puzzled, then looked toward the direction of the sea.
The surface of the sea was frozen over.
It wasn't just the sea surface; part of the surrounding mountains and the sandy shallows were also covered in frost.
In the distance, in the sky that had just turned pale white, a emerald green female figure was flying this way, holding something.
Lumine hadn't seen him before, so he didn't know that it was Skirk, who was using the Seven Transformations of the Serpent to mimic the Anemo Element.
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"So, this Miss Skirk is the person you are looking for."
"Yes."
"After you two met, a misunderstanding occurred. He thought you were sent by his master to kill him, while you were actually here to ask him to teach you how to control a magical power."
"Correct."
"And then you two didn't resolve the misunderstanding with words, but instead ran eighty nautical miles away to have a fight."
"That's correct."
"Then explain to us why the sea surface here is frozen over?"
Facing Lumine's questioning, Orion scratched his head: "It's not... I didn't hold back, right? We couldn't possibly just fight in one place, could we? We must have been fighting while moving. Then, then I finally managed to learn a little bit about how to use the Seven Transformations of the Serpent to mimic ice element power, and then... then I just didn't hold back..."
"How could you not hold back and freeze such a large area of the sea??"
This, how could Orion explain this... The stats of ORT were just like that.
It seemed that in the future, not only did he need to learn to use Abyssal Power, but he also had to learn to control the scale of his output.
Afterward, Lumine and Paimon got acquainted with Skirk.
Then they heard Skirk say: "I will travel with you from now on."
"Eh?" "Ah?"
Lumine and Paimon made sounds of confusion, but Skirk continued to explain: "My master will destroy everything I cherish on some unknown day in the future. I need to become strong enough before that happens, and he... is very strong. I can grow faster while sparring with him."
""Oh, I see.""
After responding in unison, Paimon nudged Lumine: "Traveler, are you people from outer space all this strong? Can you also freeze the sea in one go?"
Lumine curled his lips speechlessly: "Wrong! It's not that all visitors from outer space are strong, but that civilizations that are too weak wouldn't even have the capability to traverse the sea of stars in the first place! And my combat strength definitely can't compare to those two. I've told you before, when Aether and I hadn't lost our powers, we couldn't even withstand a single round against that unknown god even when we combined our strength, let alone now that I've lost all my power!"
After speaking, Lumine made a "tiny bit" gesture in front of the three: "I might only be a little bit stronger than an ordinary person now. I have almost no power left."
Orion's mouth twitched.
Perhaps customs on different planets were different. The ordinary people Orion knew generally didn't possess the physical strength to be hit by a high-pressure water cannon from Osial's wife against a cliff face formed by the Geo Archon's stone spear, shattering the rock while remaining completely unharmed.
However, Orion still raised his hand and asked: "I say, Lumine, if I said I knew a way to help you recover some power, would you be willing to give it a try, or would you rather continue hacking people with the Dull Blade?"
"Ah?" Lumine widened his eyes and looked over, then pressed: "How to recover? And... what is the Dull Blade?"
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