Judging from the current situation, although Mondstadt does not have as large a population as Liyue, the core of the falling fate star is eighty nautical miles away at Musk Reef. Liyue was only affected by the radiation at most, and the disaster situation is not severe.
Orion therefore reported to the Knights of Favonius and the Church, indicating that he would handle the matter. He then first went to the Adventurers Guild, where, coincidentally, he ran into Fischl and Mona, who were turning in a quest.
The two were currently walking together, looking like they had become friends recently.
As the two were chatting, they looked up and happened to see Orion walking towards them, and expressions of excitement appeared on both their faces.
"My Knight!"
"son-in-law who rides a dragon!"
""Huh?""
As soon as the two shouted, they looked at each other again, and the hand Orion had just raised silently retracted.
The atmosphere seemed a bit off.
But it didn't matter! Orion had already rehearsed this kind of situation; he knew exactly what to do.
Oz saw that the atmosphere between his young lady and the Court Grand Astrologer Mona seemed a bit off and was about to speak up and mediate, when he saw Orion in the distance close his eyes. When he opened them again, he wore an incomparably solemn expression.
Oz: What kind of face-changing speed is that?
Next, Orion rushed quickly in front of the two girls, and before they could speak, he urgently said, "Prinzessin! Mona! You came at the perfect time. I am investigating the meteorites falling from the sky. You must have taken related quests these past few days, right? Hurry and tell me everything you know!"
Orion naturally had a reason for saying this, as this event was solved by these two and the Traveler in the original 1.1 storyline.
Seeing how anxious Orion looked, Mona and Fischl quickly told Orion about their experiences over the past few days.
Upon hearing this, Orion was extremely excited. He grabbed the shoulders of the two girls firmly and said earnestly, "Very good, but you two must not participate in this matter from now on. There will be some danger later on. Stay in the city and don't go anywhere."
He then immediately walked out of the city.
The two girls were greatly alarmed by the words and didn't bother asking about the relationship between the other person and Orion. They just shouted worriedly at Orion's determined back, "But what about you?"
"It doesn't matter!" Orion merely left a reliable figure behind, waving his hand casually, "I will take action."
Under the shining gaze of the two girls, Orion successfully walked out of Mondstadt City.
Wiping his forehead, he realized sweat had broken out.
"Fortunately, Mona calculated something for herself previously, and now her attitude towards me is a complete reversal, reaching the level of a love-struck fool. Otherwise, it would have been hard to fool them."
However, the gains from this conversation were significant. First was the issue of plot progression. The original core fate star should have only dropped during the final concluding stage of the event, but according to Mona and Fischl, they witnessed the fate star's descent yesterday.
This means the plot has already reached its final stage.
Speaking of this event's storyline, two things must be mentioned: the first is the initial revelation of the intelligence that "Teyvat's Sky is a False Sky," and the second is the debut of a certain Beng Beng Little Round Hat.
Now, Orion also had a guess. He hadn't expected the plots to connect in this way.
Because he forgot to return the Lady, who had obtained the Gnosis, to the Fatui, the Fatui naturally viewed the girl as missing. Therefore, it was only right that the Fatui would dispatch someone to replace the girl's position, and perhaps even task this person with finding the girl's whereabouts.
And the falling meteorites perfectly link up with Hat Bro's storyline, making it obvious who this Harbinger replacing the girl is.
Orion arrived in the forest and, with a wave of his hand, summoned the Lady.
Oh no, he summoned the girl along with her two piles of clothes.
Orion:...Wait, why did she revert after not being summoned for so long?
"Master, Rosalyne is here to serve you~ Hmph."
"Wait, Rosalyne, what I need right now isn't a wooden stump, but the rational [Lady]."
"Understood, Master, please wait, cough cough... open it yourself!"
"That's not the kind of recovery I meant!!"
I can't handle it, truly I can't handle it.
After Rosalyne had satisfied herself, Orion explained the subsequent matters to her. Essentially, he told her to take the Gnosis and return to the Fatui, and report to her superiors that she had encountered a very strange entity—a mass that could take human form and imitate others' abilities. In short, guide the narrative toward the direction of strange horror stories.
People cannot imagine things they have never encountered, so the Fatui would probably interpret this description as a phenomenon of Abyss invasion, as the Abyss does similar things.
After Rosalyne reluctantly left, looking back every few steps, Orion quickly teleported to Musk Reef.
Haha! Little Round Hat, your strict stepfather has arrived! Once I conquer the Electro Archon, I will definitely assign you lots of homework with your mother for you to do.
But the result was unexpected. Scaramouche, Hat Bro, was nowhere to be seen at Musk Reef; only that fate star was suspended above the small island.
Orion circled twice and even activated his detection ability, yet found no trace of anyone approaching or having been there.
"It's over, something went wrong. The plot went wrong again. Is it because Lumine didn't act with Fischl and Mona, causing none of the three to encounter Scaramouche, thus shifting Scaramouche's storyline?
But that's not right. That shouldn't prevent the descent of the fate star from being seen, should it? Such a huge fate star—logically, the entire Mondstadt should have been able to see it, right?"
Unable to figure it out, Orion first dealt with the fate star issue. He swallowed the fate star in one gulp. At the same time, the smaller fate stars in Mondstadt and Liyue also deactivated, and the sleeping people woke up.
Orion used Ideal Fluid to minimize air resistance and quickly flew across all regions of Mondstadt and Liyue, but still did not see any sign of Scaramouche.
"Where could he be?" Finally, Orion had no choice but to use his Perception Ability to search, which gave him the feeling of cheating in a game. That feeling wasn't because he disliked cheating, but because it felt like he had been rendered helpless, had given up, and was forced to cheat.
As a result, he quickly found the opponent's location. Scaramouche was with a group of Fatui in a place he hadn't expected.
It was the place where he last did a ten-pull, the time he drew Greater Lord Rukkhadevata—Mondstadt's Cape Oath.
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"Are you sure it's here?"
In the forest of Cape Oath, Scaramouche asked the Fatui soldiers under him.
The Fatui soldiers all knelt down: "Yes, Sire! There were multiple reports circulating in Mondstadt City at the time, stating that ten shiny meteors had simultaneously fallen in this area, and this meteor fall event happened immediately afterward!
Five of those ten meteors were the same blue color as the current meteor, two were bright purple, and three... were golden!"
Ten meteors, split into three colors, and three of them were even golden!
Doesn't that sound like the real culprit?
"Oh?" Scaramouche smiled, "That certainly sounds more like the core of the fate star than the giant meteor we saw yesterday.
Search! Dig three feet deep if you have to, but find those ten meteors!"
"""Yes!!!"""
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