Eldrin then willed the dark carpet to dissipate and said to the wide-eyed Piero.
"In a few days from now, I will gather my allies in an attempt to defeat the heavenly principles,even if we fail the heavenly principles will be on their last leg, allowing even the Archons to finish them off."
Eldrin then looked at Piero in the eyes and warned.
"No matter what you do,do not touch the Gnosis. Abandon your plans, and let us handle the heavenly principles."
Piero, knowing this wasn't a suggestion simply closed his eyes and nodded, only to open them and see himself standing in the same place that he was standing before being teleported.
Somewhere in Liyue were three figures having tea in a restaurant: it was The Ancient one, Erskine, and Morax himself disguised as Zhongli.
Suddenly, a tall figure with black wings Appeared right beside them, proceeding to sit at an empty seat on the same table.
"Is it time Eldrin?" asked Erskine with a serious tone.
Eldrin looked at Erskine and answered.
"Erskine, out of all of us, humanity needs you the most. I'm warning you defeat is still possible, I myself might not survive this."
"I have been informed of certain actions of these so-called gods, and I cannot in good conscience be a coward and allow them to rule for any longer" said Erskine, slightly angry when remembering what he was told.
Eldrin sigh and said.
"Fine,but you must prepare yourself, your current power is insufficient."
Erskine smirked and said mysteriously.
"There is an interesting project that I have started since learning about the heavenly principles. You may find it quite interesting."
Eldrin's interest was piqued, however, the ancient one had an amused smile as if already knowing what it was.
Somewhere in Teyvat, in an underground base stood four figures observing something,one of them was Morax, who looked both interested and worried due to a certain energy that the object contained,the other was Erskine, who could barely hide his diabolical smile, then the ancient one who looked in pity at Eldrin who was having PTSD episodes from a certain bomb in the past.
"Brother why?, Of all the things you could have made, why this?, and it's even tesseract powered too"asked Eldrin in dread, but then sighed.
"At least it's not powered by the Power Stone, that's a relief" but after Eldrin said those words, he felt dread like no other and looked at Erskine who had an even more diabolical smile.
"Eldrin you should have known better, how could I possibly forget the power stone,oh, and don't forget the abyssal power too. I've done my research. "
Eldrin could not bear it, he thought he was the insane one, but this guy had truly gone senile,400 hundred years of life could not possibly give him enough composure for this.
"It's not even gonna be a fight, is it? It appears I've severely underestimated humanity's potential for destruction" said Eldrin in a shaky voice to the point he even felt pity for the heavenly principles, something that should be impossible.
For the first time in decades or even a 100 years, Eldrin has finally lost his composure.
"The real question is, can this kill the heavenly principles?"asked Morax, suspecting its power due to Eldrin's unusual reaction, thought honestly if it was him, he wouldn't kill the heavenly principles but seal them.
But Eldrin answered confidently.
"In a hypothetical scenario that she is unaware of its power and ignores it yes,however the reality is the moment she sees it, she would be on guard,they are not fools after all. This thing contains so much energy that you could even see it with the naked eye"
"Which means that it can only be used as a surprise attack,when they least expect it" said the Ancient one.
"Exactly, and even then, do not get your hopes up, after all hiding such a thing from them is almost impossible. "
"What happens if they are in a space that they cannot escape then, and then flood that whole space with those bombs,they won't be able to destroy them all,will they?"asked the ancient one with a slightly devious smile.
Eldrin couldn't help but swear.
"The mirror dimension, Fucking diabolical I must say"
"I'm flattered"answered the ancient one while smirking proudly"
"We are going to hell for this Erskine. We couldn't be more dishonourable than this" said Eldrin with an uncharacteristic smirk.
"Who gives a fuck about honour when they have shown to have none,we are doing this for the freedom of this world. These people have been bearing tyranny for too long,i believe they deserve freedom and a better future."answered Erskine seriously.
Originally, he had created this bomb as a contingency,but now that Eldrin confirmed it could work, he was determined to build thousands of them; they had the resources after all.
Eldrin couldn't help but massage his temples and then said.
"I will distribute a few evolution serums to the remaining Archons, just in case the heavenly principles resort to destroying the world, though I highly doubt they would even get the chance."
Somewhere in Monstadt was a young boy heavily drunk,he had a short mix of black and dark blue hair, he was clad in green clothes with a green hat, making him look like a bard.
"Mr.Barbatos" said a man's voice, but Venti was still asleep.
Seeing that, the man put a bottle of wine near his nose which apparently did the trick.
Barbatos, as if by instinct took the bottle of wine and downed it in one go.
The man held a strange vial in his hands and said.
"Mr Barbatos, I'm Sebastian, my liege has sent me to give you this, it's an ev-" However, Sebastian could not finish his sentence due to Barbatos taking it and downing the vial like it was wine.
Sebastian was speechless, he was about to explain what it was, yet he did not expect the boy in front of him to down it like wine, without even listening to his explanation.
"Truly hopeless, just like my liege said."muttered Sebastian in pity at the too carefree Archon in front of him.