Raiden Ei's cold yet seething will suppressed the Raiden Shogun's desire to perpetuate Eternity, no longer stirring a single ripple.
After her outburst, Raiden Ei's face was terrifyingly cold; only her eyes remained crimson, and her entire will was calmer and more ruthless than the bitter cold of Snezhnaya.
Raiden Ei transformed into a bolt of lightning and returned to Tenshukaku.
"Yae Miko, come to Tenshukaku immediately."
In the shrine, Yae Miko's eyes widened considerably when she suddenly heard this familiar voice.
The gloom in her heart also dissipated quite a bit.
"Ei, you've finally come out! Have you finally remembered me, your familiar?"
Yae Miko's face showed a happy expression, and her steps seemed much lighter.
However.
This ease lasted only until she finally faced the long-unseen Raiden Shogun Baal Zebub!
Until she faced the Raiden Shogun's blood-red eyes, which seemed on the verge of weeping blood.
That unprecedented, seething killing intent made even Yae Miko's fur stand on end… Yae Miko had, after all, miscalculated.
Although she was the Raiden Shogun's familiar, Inazuma's great yokai, a fox spirit!
She ultimately failed to fully comprehend the deep-seated love for her people in the Archon's heart!
She also couldn't have imagined that the Raiden Shogun would use her authority as a Seven Archons to review every single detail of Inazuma's past five hundred years!
She also couldn't have imagined that what the Raiden Shogun saw in her blood-red eyes at this moment were the dying wails of millions, even tens of millions, of her people—her cherished subjects… They had died helplessly while praying and seeking help from her, their Raiden Shogun!
These memories nearly drove the Raiden Shogun insane!
If it weren't for Beelzebul's position as a Seven Archons… if it weren't for Beelzebul's unyielding will, honed like a sharpened blade for a thousand years… if it weren't for Beelzebul wielding the authority of Eternity… these combined reasons allowed Beelzebul to forcibly control her rampaging emotions and enter a state of absolute ruthlessness… This Raiden Shogun of Inazuma, Beelzebul, would have already wielded her blade of slaughter, unleashing a monstrous massacre from top to bottom!
"Yae Miko, you've arrived."
Raiden Ei's tone seemed as calm and unfluctuating as usual.
However, as the Raiden Shogun's familiar, Yae Miko felt as if she were immersed in a sea of blood.
The words she had intended to speak, to voice her grievances and assert her presence, immediately became unspeakable.
"Ei, has something happened?"
Yae Miko asked cautiously.
"What happened…"
Raiden Ei slightly closed her eyes, trying to calmly explain the situation to her only familiar, but… "Hehehe, hahahaha…"
As the words reached her lips, Raiden Ei's mind finally completely succumbed to the grievances of millions of Inazuma's people before their deaths, and she said maniacally, "Five hundred years! A full five hundred years!"
"The people of Inazuma, the children of Inazuma, tens of millions of them, all prayed to me in agony before their deaths!"
"But I, in the Plane of Euthymia, heard nothing!"
"I responded to nothing; I betrayed their trust!"
Blood-colored tears finally streamed from Raiden Ei's eyes: "…I am guilty of a myriad of deaths!!"
Yae Miko was suppressed in place by Raiden Ei's sudden outburst; the crushing pressure, like the sky falling, nearly pulverized her!
At this moment, Yae Miko looked at the blood tears in the Raiden Shogun's eyes and finally understood that things had gone completely awry!
The Raiden Shogun… had gone berserk!
In her youth, the sudden passing of the previous Raiden Shogun and many teachers left Yae Miko lacking much guidance and missing many secret inheritances.
Among these, the most important one was—
An Archon's love for her people!
…A sudden thunderstorm, sweeping across the entire sky of Teyvat, shocked countless people.
The power of the Raiden Shogun Baal Zebub was unquestionable.
She was a true victor who had emerged from the Archon War!
Her strength was far beyond what the Hydro Archon, the Pyro Archon, and other second-generation Archons could imagine.
In the past, she still needed to allocate a large portion of her power to resist the law of erosion.
But now, a berserk Beelzebul, how could she still care about that bit of erosion?
"Pfft!"
Barbatos, deep in thought, shuddered and quickly transformed into a gust of wind, flying into the sky.
Feeling the mad will within the thunder, he immediately spat out the fine wine that was about to reach his lips.
"Why did Beelzebul suddenly go crazy?!"
"Lord Barbatos, did you say the Raiden Shogun went crazy?"
Diluc, who had quickly walked out of the tavern, was initially horrified by the world-ending thunder; hearing the Anemo Archon's shocked words, he immediately gasped.
He had never felt so close to the terrifying deterrent power of a Seven Archons!
With just a single bolt of lightning, the Raiden Shogun could directly strike him dead in the distant nation of Inazuma!
And it would only require one bolt of lightning!
However.
What existed in the sky now was far more than just a single bolt of lightning?
Diluc could feel that if the Raiden Shogun willed it, in an instant, the entirety of Mondstadt could be directly erased by this boundless sea of thunder!
And now, this Raiden Shogun, who could casually erase Mondstadt, had gone mad!
…In Liyue, Morax, who was in a meeting with the Adepti, the Qixing, and the Eight Gates, looked up at the thunder in the sky and remained silent.
Unlike Barbatos, who had just awakened from slumber.
He, who was not severely injured, was awake most of the time.
Although he hadn't paid special attention to Inazuma, he understood quite a bit.
Therefore.
Morax actually had some conjectures about the reason for the Raiden Shogun's rage.
"I only hope this old friend can control her emotions, so as not to delay the important matters that are about to come…"
Morax felt some worry in his heart… Unlike the Anemo Archon and the Geo Archon, who were merely surprised by the reason for the Raiden Shogun's wrath.
The Cryo Archon, the Hydro Archon, and the Pyro Archon, facing this power like the sky falling, felt their hearts pound wildly.
As fellow Seven Archons, the power wielded by the Raiden Shogun was almost as different as heaven and earth from theirs!
Even if the Cryo Archon's power was slightly stronger, having almost inherited most of the previous Cryo Archon's power, she also looked extremely solemn at this moment.
And the Hydro Archon Focalors and the Pyro Archon Mavika, their hearts pounded even more wildly.
"If I also had this kind of power, why would I need to devise some suicide plan?"
Focalors felt this all-encompassing thunderstorm, and her eyes twitched wildly: "What Fontaine prophecy? Just cut it down with a single strike!"
The Pyro Archon Mavika of Natlan also fell silent.
Before Focalors became an Archon, she was at least one of Egeria's strongest pure water spirit familiars, and her strength was at least Adeptus-level.
As for Mavika, before becoming the Pyro Archon, she was just an ordinary wielder of the vision who had passed a ritual.
Now, comparing them, she felt that the two of them seemed to be on completely different levels of existence…
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