"Bang!"
Inside Patches' Shop, behind the counter, a fellow who looked quite conservative by the standards of The Lands Between today was hammering on the countertop.
His flaxen robe and the wooden yoke around his neck were once the exclusive attire of the Golden People.
Such an outfit was truly rare in The Lands Between nowadays.
"What the hell! What are you doing? You startled me!" Patches, who was fiddling with a mechanical watch, looked at the scattered parts on his table, and several prominent blue veins immediately bulged on his bald head.
"Nothing, just helping you attract customers." The Greater Will retracted his hand from hammering the table and said, looking at the empty shop.
Actually, The Greater Will really wanted to pry open that bald head and see why this fellow would want to open his shop in a secluded alley where few people ventured.
And, Patches' Shop, Patches' Shop, it really did sell those old-fashioned things.
The "old" in the shop's name didn't mean the shop itself was old, but that the items sold inside were very old!
And selling outdated things was one thing; antique dealing could also make money. But everything in this shop was handmade by Patches, purely modern craftsmanship.
This made The Greater Will a bit unable to hold back; it was only natural this fellow had no business every day.
Patches looked at the empty alley outside the shop door, then at the glance The Greater Will shot him. The blue veins on his head immediately subsided.
He wasn't backing down; this was just accumulating strength. Hadn't Yu Jin been kicked flying by him several times? It was all thanks to his patience.
So, endure! It would be perfect when he could finally kick The Greater Will.
The Greater Will looked at Patches' deflated expression and couldn't help but grin. This bald man was always like this, quite good at hiding things, no wonder he could get along with Yu Jin for so long.
But it seemed that Yu Jin wasn't idle either. Just a moment ago, he suddenly felt an extremely obscure fluctuation from within himself.
That was the sensation that only occurred when the Golden Tree took root. However, this fluctuation was not as clear as before; instead, it remained in a flickering state within The Greater Will's mind.
When The Greater Will tried to connect with this fluctuation, it was covered by an unexpected force.
That was Yu Jin's aura, which The Greater Will was very familiar with, and it greatly surprised him.
This feeling of surprise was rare; in The Greater Will's eyes, nothing was uncertain. He had seen countless worlds since the day of his birth.
Those were all the future possibilities of this universe; fate could be changed, but all these "possibilities" of change had been seen by The Greater Will.
No matter how this world changed, in The Greater Will's eyes, it was just picking one out of countless possibilities he had already grown tired of.
That's why he pursued eternal order. Since nothing ever truly changed, there was no need to weave lies to deceive those low-dimensional beings.
Just tell them directly with bloody reality that the future is destined, and everything about them is merely a preordained existence.
At least under the order he established, the world would not develop in those extremely bad directions he foresaw.
Although even those worst possibilities couldn't harm him in the slightest, he still did so.
After all, they were things he created, and The Greater Will didn't want too many of them to die.
However, all predestination ceased to exist after Yu Jin's arrival. Anything in this universe, if The Greater Will wanted to see it, he could.
But only when it came to Yu Jin, he could only see it with his own eyes, just like those low-dimensional little fellows.
For this, the formless Greater Will specifically created a pair of eyeballs for himself, and then, in order for the eyeballs to see things, he proceeded to create this body.
"Possibility… it's finally not too boring." The Greater Will stretched his hand backward, his slender palm twisting directly around the huge wooden yoke and pressing against the back of his head.
Patches, who was beside him, couldn't help but rub his eyes. The Greater Will's hand looked strange no matter how he saw it.
Its length and the extent of its curve were unheard of by Patches, which made him feel a little startled.
"You have little insight, mortal." The Greater Will explained, looking at Patches' surprised expression.
Actually, he wasn't as unfeeling as those low-dimensional little fellows imagined. If he truly were such a god, he wouldn't have bothered to create them.
To communicate with the life he created, The Greater Will even had the "Fingers" act as their information exchange hub, to prevent those little fellows from being unable to withstand his aura and turning into something strange.
Patches said nothing, and began to tinker with the mechanical watch in his hand again. He had realized that The Greater Will, like Yu Jin, was also a chatterbox.
And he was the kind of chatterbox who could talk someone to death without consequence. When dealing with them, it was best not to speak too much.
The Greater Will saw that Patches ignored him, but felt little anger, for from the moment Yu Jin disappeared from The Lands Between, he had seen this scene countless times.
And now, he was just experiencing it firsthand.
"Creak ~ creak ~" The Greater Will rocked in his chair and closed his eyes. When life was boring, he liked to sleep. When he woke up, there would be many things to see… "Ah—" Yu Jin stretched, letting the sunlight pour over him from all angles.
As for why the sunlight was pouring in from all angles, it was, of course, because his house had been drilled through by the Golden Tree!
Sleeping in ruins, for Yu Jin, was like staying in a luxurious hotel—he had rested in a "cesspit" before!
Actually, it wasn't a cesspit, but a swamp formed by the putrid liquid of decaying corpses mixed with swollen, rotten flesh.
Yu Jin just preferred to call such places cesspits.
After stretching, Yu Jin glanced at Lanssangx, who was building a house with rubble nearby. She had been building there all night, and Yu Jin had listened all night.
Childish! Yu Jin snorted coldly in his heart, then with a few big kicks, he knocked down the house Lanssangx had built.
"Clap!" Wisps of smoke drifted from Lanssangx's hands; those were the stones she had crushed into dust.
"My King, if it weren't for my deep respect for you, I would have fought you after those few kicks just now." Lanssangx said to Yu Jin with a forced smile, looking at the messy ground in front of her.
"Thank you, I helped you then precisely for now." Yu Jin showed no remorse, as if the mess was not his doing.
As soon as Yu Jin finished speaking, a shadow flashed across the Sky. Immediately, the earth began to shake, as if some giant object had fallen to the ground.
Yu Jin took a big leap, and through the dense houses, he saw Dvalin clinging to the city wall.
At this moment, he stood on two feet, a pair of dragon claws clinging to the city wall of Mondstadt, his massive dragon head constantly reaching inside, peering in.
"He's looking for you, Lanssangx." Yu Jin immediately lost interest. Speaking of which, Dvalin seemed to have gotten much bolder.
He used to avoid human settlements, but now he dared to directly cling to Mondstadt's city wall. Truly, a dragon seen after three days must be looked at with new eyes.
"Oh! Got it." Lanssangx clapped the dust from her hands and, with a "boom," leaped into the high Sky.
Subsequently, another huge shadow appeared above Mondstadt, carrying Dvalin from outside Mondstadt and flying into the distance.
"Oh my, how wonderful, I wish you lovers will eventually become siblings!" Yu Jin looked at the two giant dragons flying in the Sky, uttering a single man's curse.
Actually, no curse was needed; Lanssangx pretty much treated Dvalin as a little brother. As for Dvalin, he probably didn't even know what he himself was thinking.
"Now, I should go out too!" Yu Jin adjusted his mood and said, looking at the still relatively intact main door of the house.
Adventurer Yu Jin was about to embark on another Adventure!
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