"Bang!" Yu Jin kicked out, and the sturdy, heavy Northland Bank door, as if it were a mere furnishing, was instantly sent flying.
Then the Blackblades closed the door. After all, it was a door built by Northland Bank with a huge investment, and both its strength and soundproofing were top-notch.
So, once the door was closed, no one knew what Yu Jin was doing inside.
"Who's there!" The guards, both overt and hidden, inside Northland Bank reacted instantly. They stared intently at Yu Jin in front of the door, wanting to see who was so blind as to dare cause trouble at Northland Bank.
"The Lady doesn't like you, and she's entrusted me to teach you a lesson. If you're smart, lie down yourselves; don't make me do it!" Yu Jin once again used a powerful name to intimidate them.
Originally, he had wanted to use the Adventurers' Guild's name, but considering the power disparity between the Adventurers' Guild and the Fatui, Yu Jin wisely chose to implicate the Lady.
"???" The Northland Bank personnel were confused.
Although Northland Bank was entirely managed by the Regrator Pantalone, it was still a part of the Fatui.
How could the Lady possibly come to cause trouble for Northland Bank! She couldn't even come up with a good excuse!
"Attack!" With an angry roar, the Northland Bank, which hadn't seemed to have many people, suddenly became crowded.
Is it really an important stronghold of the Fatui? Yu Jin looked at the somewhat familiar Fatui soldiers in front of him, raised his arms, and made a camera-like gesture with his hands.
Click! With a sound, a photograph appeared in the space between Yu Jin's palms.
Reporting to Yujing Terrace, there are Fatui in Northland Bank!
As for how this photo came to be? One could only say that having the status of a god, even with much of his power gone, he could still do many things.
Anyway, Yujing Terrace wouldn't be able to tell the difference!
Putting away the photo, Yu Jin directly charged into the crowd. Wielding a staff in both hands, with a single swing, two people fell to the ground, unconscious.
Yu Jin moved as if in an uninhabited land, his wooden staff swinging rapidly. Under his precise strikes, everyone at Northland Bank not only received a baby-like sleep but also a lump the size of a chicken egg.
After the whirlwind passed, numerous people lay scattered across the Northland Bank.
Most were Fatui soldiers hidden in the shadows, a small portion were unfortunate workers, and some were customers who had come to conduct business late at night.
For the latter group, Yu Jin could only say sorry; getting caught up in the struggle between the Lady and the Regrator (?) was bound to result in some collateral damage.
Yu Jin didn't linger to admire his masterpiece, because he knew that this level of loss was merely a drop in the ocean for Northland Bank and would not serve as a warning.
So, Yu Jin climbed over the Northland Bank counter and arrived in front of its vault door.
It must be said that Northland Bank was very confident in protecting its funds. Because Yu Jin found that the vault was located right behind the counter.
He looked up and couldn't help but click his tongue. No wonder he thought Northland Bank was a bit small; most of the space was used to build the vault!
However, it was a pity that so much Mora would soon disappear without a trace.
Although the vault in front of Yu Jin appeared wooden on the outside, it was actually made of extremely strong steel.
And judging from the faint glow hidden on it, this steel had likely been tempered by elemental power, and its hardness could probably be compared to the armor of a Ruin Guard.
But these were minor issues for Yu Jin. He picked up a magic staff with both hands and pressed one end of the staff against the vault door.
"Sizzle—" A harsh grinding sound echoed as magic surged from Yu Jin's staff, forming a rapidly spinning vortex of blue-green magic on the staff.
Shatter Earth — one of the glintstone sorceries from the Raya Lucarian Academy of Magic. It infuses the end of a staff with magic, stabs it into the ground, and causes a large magical shockwave in the surroundings.
When cast continuously, the staff is not stabbed into the ground, allowing movement, and the magic-infused staff end can be stabbed at enemies. It is a high-level stone-digging magic used by the glintstone miners in the Crystalize Tunnel.
The miners once used this magic to dig a crisscrossing network of mines in The Lands Between. Now, Yu Jin was using it to break open the Northland Bank's door.
Sparks flew as Yu Jin drilled a huge gap into the multi-reinforced vault of Northland Bank.
Then Yu Jin was shocked.
"Holy crap, they're this rich?" As far as the eye could see, everything was golden. Northland Bank's vault had individual compartments, each arranged separately according to the amount of medium contained in the Mora.
Yu Jin walked through the vault as if swimming in a Desert made of gold. The golden light was almost blinding his eyes.
This reminded him of an unpleasant memory, because the Golden Tree shone just as brightly.
"rot, come out! There's something here to make you Bloom!" Yu Jin looked at the golden expanse before him, reached into his body, and pulled out a mass of scarlet flesh.
Stagnation brings sedimentation, and sedimentation invites corruption.
Under the Golden eternity's unchanging order, the rot eventually appeared, parasitizing Malenia.
Wherever the rot spread, everything would be dissolved and distorted. Wherever scarlet permeated, life would turn into a mass of flesh, eventually dissolving into a pool of blood, lingering on the earth.
The powerful might be able to retain their form under the scarlet rot, but the price was to become insane.
The rot loved to Bloom, and its flower was named Scarlet Aeonia. This flower had Bloomed twice in total.
The first time was when Malenia fought Radahn, and she released it to defeat Radahn.
This Bloom of Aeonia stained the entire continent of Caelid scarlet. When Yu Jin arrived there, the entire continent was left with only blood and poison.
Only a very few Redmane Knight soldiers were still fighting the mutated greatdogs and giant crows purely by instinct.
Life had turned into blood, forming an ocean in the low-lying areas of Caelid; this was a true sea of blood.
Its water was blood from corrupted life, and its bottom was the bones of life and un-decomposed flesh.
The second time it was released was when Yu Jin was giving Malenia an 'attitude adjustment punch,' but this time, she had barely flown up before Yu Jin yanked her down for a good beating.
It is said that when the Scarlet Aeonia Bloomed three times, the Goddess of rot would truly descend upon the world.
However, she only released it twice before Yu Jin dragged her out, earning her a life sentence, a private room in the Initial Fire Pit.
Actually, logically speaking, the rot was the weakest of the Four Gods, who made her the only deity to have been sealed?
But now it made no difference; all four of them had been sealed by Yu Jin.
"Bloom! Bloom!" The rot immediately became excited, and then she looked at Yu Jin, "How do I Bloom, boss?"
Yu Jin glanced at the Mora that was almost blinding him, waved his hand, and said, "Turn all these golden things into flowers for me, and fill the entire Northland Bank with them!"
"Understood!" The scarlet next to the rot clearly pulsed.
Then Yu Jin saw scarlet emerge from the gold. He saw red and white fungi, the color of fatty flesh, begin to grow on the Mora, which was originally forged from precious metals.
These Mora truly turned into flesh. Red-gold masses of flesh merged with each other, tapping against the compartment glass.
They flowed out of the compartments, writhing and spreading to every part of Northland Bank. The red-gold flesh, like the roots of a great tree, covered the walls.
At the same time, the same thing was happening on the exterior of Northland Bank. Red-gold fleshy tendrils wrapped the entire Northland Bank tightly from the inside out.
Then this flesh began to solidify, truly transforming into branches, branches on which a certain type of fresh flower Bloomed.
One by one, fleshy, pink, tender flower buds grew, matured, and Bloomed from the branches. They were clearly flowers, yet they looked like flesh.
Beautiful and eerie.
Then an even stranger scene occurred: the petals of the flesh-flowers began to open and close continuously, and a huge sound emanated from the flower buds.
"Northland Bank! Northland Bank! No money left!"
"That bastard Regrator ran away with the Lady!"
Rhythmic voices accompanied by a strange melody echoed in the night sky of Liyue for a long time, ceaselessly.
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