When the Traveler and the others arrived at the Stadium of the Sacred Flame, they saw a large crowd of people lining up in front of a certain facility.
"What is that?" Paimon, floating in the air, took a glance and, seeing it wasn't a facility she recognized, directed her curious gaze toward Kachina.
"Um... I don't know either." Kachina shook her head after seeing the facility's appearance. "The last time I came to the Stadium of the Sacred Flame, this thing wasn't here."
"Then let's go over and ask." Paimon stomped her little feet in the air, saying particularly expectantly, "With so many people lining up, maybe they're selling something delicious."
"I think... no one would sell food outside the Stadium of the Sacred Flame, right?" Kachina said.
"All you think about from morning till night is eating." Lumine smiled and teased Paimon.
The group arrived beside the facility and asked the people around them, only to learn it was a tool for testing damage.
The people of Natlan were also encountering this kind of tool for the first time, so all the warriors who came to the stadium wanted to test their own abilities.
Even ordinary people who weren't warriors had the urge to give it a try.
"It sounds pretty interesting." Paimon looked toward the girl beside her. "Traveler, do you want to try it?"
"That would mean lining up in a really long queue." Lumine pointed to the line that stretched as far as the eye could see.
"So what's the problem?" Little Paimon puzzledly tilted her head; she remembered the Traveler had pretty good patience, so how could she think the line was long?
"Lining up in such a long queue, wouldn't you get hungry?" Lumine half-narrowed her eyes, her mouth curving up slightly, looking over with a very smug smile.
"Oh yeah!" Paimon came to a sudden realization. "Then let's go eat first, and after we've eaten our fill, come back to line up."
And so, after arriving at the Stadium of the Sacred Flame, the Traveler and the others' first goal was the place to eat, and the second was the damage tester.
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[I'm dying of laughter; Paimon only thinks about eating from morning till night.]
[Map designer: I made the map so good; the players will definitely love it, right? ...What do you mean the first stop is the cafeteria?]
[It looks like we're going to experience this damage tester next; is this something only the main storyline goes through, or is it permanent now? I really don't want to practice on Masanori anymore.]
[Yeah, Masanori is way too disgusting; not only is the damage high, but he can even dodge.]
[And he can block too; so many attacks hit him and don't deduct any health.]
[Natlan is the third nation after Inazuma; it's about time to swap out a new dummy for players to test damage.]
[It's noon; time for me to go eat too.]
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Genshin world.
After Lumine and the others finished eating, they lined up in a long queue before it was finally their turn to test.
"Roar!"
Lumine used the Pyro she had just obtained not long ago to attack the damage tester.
After suffering the attack, the numbers on the screen above the damage tester jumped rapidly, finally freezing on a string of digits.
"600,000 damage?"
"That little girl's damage is actually this high?"
Hearing the surprised voices around them, Lumine and little Paimon both placed hands on their hips, their eyes curving into crescents, enjoying the crowd's admiration.
However, some voices caught their attention.
"This damage is just a bit short of catching up to Mavuika."
"I never thought outsiders would have such powerhouses; it's truly eye-opening."
Those people were just exchanging normally, but upon hearing it, the Traveler felt quite surprised.
"Natlan actually has someone whose damage is higher than yours." Little Paimon said in surprise. "I thought besides Gods and the Fatui Harbingers, no one was your match."
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[Don't spread misinformation; Jiangxue is way stronger than us; I still can't beat that Ruin Hunter.]
[Jiangxue's one is probably an illusion. The monster appears out of nowhere, Jiangxue knows in advance when the monster appears, and when dealing with the Ruin Hunter, she even tells us to close our eyes; maybe it's fake, just tricking us.]
[I feel like that quest assumes the Traveler only has two elements; they never updated it later. Now the Traveler has six elements; if miHoYo remade the quest, Jiangxue definitely wouldn't be our match.]
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"Mavuika..." Lumine lowered her head in thought. "We heard that name back in the Children of Echoes."
"Now that you mention it, I remember too." Paimon said with a start. "I recall the people from the Children of Echoes saying that if Mavuika were in any other era, she definitely could have become the Pyro Archon."
"Thinking about it that way, you only lost to the Pyro Archon; that's totally normal."
Paimon comforted.
"Mm..."
Lumine nodded, not minding that her damage wasn't as high as Mavuika's.
After all, Teyvat was full of hidden talents; having people stronger than her wasn't particularly surprising.
"That said, you just used Pyro earlier and didn't use other elements." Paimon said. "How about trying with other elements? Maybe you'll get even higher damage."
The previous challengers had also used various attacks once before stepping down. If Lumine tried a few more times here, no one would say anything.
Player world.
When playing to this segment, a popup appeared in the game, introducing matters related to the damage tester.
"As expected from miHoYo; a machine specially for testing damage."
Mu Yang's eyes lit up upon seeing it: "Finally, no more suffering under Masanori."
Testing damage on Masanori was truly exhausting; once the opponent entered block mode, it was indestructible, even better than Zhongli's shield—the Preservation Aeon from Honkai: Star Rail would have to call him the Preservation Aeon.
Moreover, during the Fontaine version, Masanori's health bar wasn't enough; the main DPS hadn't even finished buffing, and Masanori was about to be killed by the supports—talk about awkward.
But Natlan's damage tester had no such issues; first off, this machine was a stationary inanimate object, so character attacks could register normally and generate particles when they hit, and it could even be infused with elements.
This meant players could not only test damage here but also test team rotations.
Furthermore, the damage tester's health bar was infinitely large.
No matter how much damage the players output with their characters earlier, this health bar didn't budge at all; obviously, it wasn't something Masanori, who could be killed in a few hits, could compare to.
"Wait, challenging the damage tester also gives Primogems?"
After closing the popup explaining the damage tester mechanics, another popup jumped out.
This time, it introduced rewards based on the player's highest damage output.
Single damage reaching 100: reward 100 Primogems.
Single damage reaching 1,000: reward 100 Primogems.
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Single damage reaching 100,000: reward 100 Primogems.
Many players became excited inside upon seeing the listed rewards.
Another little event for entering the main storyline to get Primogems!