Cross through Teyvat, and you'll become stronger by taking the hits!

"—!"

Dvalin, whose blood clotting had been broken, felt a sharp pain, let out a cry of agony, and fell into the storm below the platform.

After Tvarin fell, the circular platform seemed to lose some support and immediately began to collapse and disintegrate.

The platform's collapse prevented Lu Li from maintaining his footing, and the revival monsoon was also interrupted.

However, he already had ample experience in dealing with crises when he was with the Fools, and he immediately mobilized his ice elemental power to condense a rudimentary glider shape.

After the platform completely collapsed, everyone fell into the storm together, while Lu Li quickly gripped the hang glider tightly with both hands.

"Wait... where are your Windwings?"

Seeing Ying and Diluc fall from the side, Lu Li asked in surprise.

"?"

Just as Ying seemed to realize what was happening, Dvalin, who had fallen into the storm, flew back up and rushed to the group's side.

……

After successfully catching everyone who was about to fall into the storm, Dvalin burst out of the storm and flew towards Mondstadt.

"Barbatos... just now, why...?"

"Unlike before, you don't need me to protect you anymore?"

Dvalin, carrying everyone, regained his composure and couldn't help but ask Wendy, who was on his back, a question.

"I don't want you to obey the abyss, but that doesn't mean you have to obey me, Dvalin."

"Freedom commanded by the gods can also be considered a form of unfreedom."

Wendy and her other surviving companions sat on Dvalin's back, answering his questions softly.

"..."

"Barbatos...do you really have other dragons outside?"

Dvalin paused for a moment, then asked another question.

It's obvious that it remembered what Lu Li said earlier!

"Of course not. I'm the same as you, but I slept for five hundred years and just woke up."

Wendy glanced at Lu Li ahead and shrugged helplessly.

Although Lu Li's earlier shouts did indeed draw Tvalin's hatred.

"All right."

"But why... did he keep touching me?"

Tvalin didn't think too much about it, but instead voiced another source of confusion.

At this moment, Lu Li was also on Tvalin's body, but he was lying on Tvalin's neck, excitedly reaching out his hands to stroke its head.

"Dragon! It's a dragon! Hahaha, I touched a dragon!"

"Quick, do you have a photo booth? Take a picture of me! I want to send it back to my friends!"

After patting Dvalin's head for a while, Lu Li excitedly turned around and asked Wendy and the others.

Jean and Diluc knew what a phonograph was, but they could only shake their heads. They were here to save Dvalin; who would bring a phonograph to the battlefield for no reason?

Unable to take any photos, Lu Li could only stroke Dvalin's body even more vigorously, touching its back from head to wings and tail.

"Cough, cough, you'd better sit down, or Dvalin will leave us behind..."

Wendy saw Lu Li walking around and touching Dvalin's back, and couldn't help but tug at his clothes to remind him.

"I like his breeze, it smells just like you, but it's definitely a little itchy."

Dvalin agreed with Wendy's statement, even though no one could understand what it was saying, since it didn't currently possess the power of the Wind God's familiar.

If it borrows the power of the Wind God's retinue, it can communicate with humans.

After Lu Li sat down with a regretful expression, Wendy also thought of this and raised his hand to give the power of the Wind God's Familiar to Dvalin once again.

……

"Speaking of which, Mr. Lu Li, the breeze you summoned earlier was quite warm, but I remember you used ice elemental power, didn't you?"

After Dvalin escorted everyone back to the vicinity of Mondstadt, on their way back to Mondstadt, Jean, out of curiosity, asked Lu Li a question.

That warm monsoon that brings life back to everything is hard to ignore in this land of winds, and it can even dispel the final chorus of Tvalin's music.

"Oh, it's nothing. The ice elemental power I use is just given to me by this thing."

Lu Li pulled the Ice Element Evil Eye directly from his clothes.

Without using the Evil Eye, Lu Li's skills are equivalent to using elemental power without the Eye of God. Although there are exceptions like the Traveler, he doesn't really want people to know this, so he took out the Evil Eye.

We can't exactly ask him to take out the Eye of God to take a look after he's seen the Evil Eye, can we?

While people with the Eye of God usually display it prominently, there are also those who prefer to hide it.

"Evil eye?"

Diluc, standing nearby, frowned and was the first to recognize it as an Evil Eye.

No wonder I always felt there was something strange about Lu Li's aura...

"You actually recognize it? That's right. This thing works similarly to the Eye of God. If someone possesses both the Evil Eye and the Eye of God, they can naturally use both elemental powers."

"But this stuff isn't good. Using it too much will shorten your lifespan. You can see some white hair on my head; it's this stuff causing the problem."

Lu Li gave a brief explanation, then raised his finger and pointed to his hair.

He originally had black hair, but there were signs of graying.

Although the Snowfield Survival Rules can counteract the side effects of the Evil Eye, signs of hair discoloration still occasionally occur, but he doesn't care as long as his body is unharmed.

He was granted the Evil Eye before he even received the system, and by then he already had quite a bit of gray hair.

As a transmigrator, he was certainly aware of the dangers of the Evil Eye, but in the Fools' Clan, Lu Li needed to work harder to climb the ranks quickly.

"...Use it as little as possible in the future."

Diluc pursed his lips. He remembered that the Fatui also used Evil Eyes on others, so he didn't immediately assume that Lu Li was a member of the Fatui, but instead gave him a word of caution.

However, he plans to investigate the matter further afterward.

"Of course."

Lu Li nodded.

Soon, the group arrived on foot outside Mondstadt.

The pastoral scenes and free cities of the game were presented to Lu Li for the first time.

He traveled to the timeline of Genshin Impact during the Song of the Empty Moon version, so he had not seen any other winter landscapes or towns in the game besides Nordkalley.

Therefore, at the onset of winter, he did not have the same feeling as the dream that was now unfolding before him in Mondstadt, nor the shock of witnessing the virtual world become the real world.

After entering Mondstadt, Jean had to return to the Knights of Favonius to handle some follow-up matters, and Diluc also had to return to the Angel's Gift Tavern. After they said their goodbyes and left, only Luli, Ying, Paimon, and Venti remained in the group.

"Phew, we finally got rid of the Dvalin thing. Let's go to the Deer Hunter's Restaurant for a big meal!"

"Oh, by the way, it's on me who busked; after all, I really helped you out this time~"

Paimon raised his hands happily as he made the suggestion, and then immediately pointed at Wendy.

"Ah... but I'm just a poor bard, I don't have that much Mora to treat you to..."

Wendy, who had been happily wanting to agree, suddenly made a face.

Lu Li subconsciously touched his pocket, but after remembering that his Mora had sunk to the bottom of the sea with the ship, he could only remain silent.

There's no doubt he's poorer than Wendy now.

……