"Klee, where's your treasure? This forest is so big; if there's no specific spot, it'll be hard to find," Yu Jin asked Klee, who was skipping behind him under the shade of the trees, looking at the ground.
Whispering Woods, Whispering Woods. It truly lives up to its name; it looks like a place for ghosts. If you came here at night, you'd probably hear some mumbling.
"It's here! We're almost there!" Klee pulled out a scroll covered in scribbles from her backpack. A circle was drawn around the location of the Whispering Woods on it. That must be where the treasure is.
"Indeed, we're almost there," Yu Jin said, looking at the surrounding scenery and immediately knowing their current location.
Compared to the treasure's burial spot on the map, they weren't far.
However, why was Klee so happy even though her treasure was lost? Yu Jin looked at Klee, who was humming a tune and skipping along behind him. She showed no signs of the anxiety or disappointment one would expect from losing a treasure.
"Klee, why are you so happy? Didn't you lose your treasure?" Sure enough, Paimon also found it puzzling and asked Klee directly.
"Ah, that's because Razor and Albedo have been very busy lately, and Klee can't go see them..."
"But it's okay, because Klee has met new big brothers and sisters! Klee is very happy to make new friends!"
Klee said, skipping and smiling.
Yu Jin couldn't help but smile upon hearing this. Children are pretty much like that. No worries can stick to them. How enviable!
But Yu Jin quickly realized, what was he sighing about? His worries were probably even fewer than Klee's.
Then, the worry-free Yu Jin started to run wildly. Subsequently, a gust of wind swept through the dense Whispering Woods—it was the airflow stirred up by the dashing Yu Jin.
"Whoosh—" The strong wind carried fallen leaves, making Lumine and the others instinctively cover their eyes.
"Found it!" Yu Jin emerged from a cloud of gray dust. His armor was still covered with many broken twigs and fallen leaves.
"Wow! So fast!" Klee exclaimed in surprise when she saw Yu Jin find her treasure spot so quickly.
"Hmph hmph, this is nothing. I haven't even used my full strength yet!" Yu Jin said with a smile, removing the miscellaneous items clinging to his armor.
"Alright, follow me," Yu Jin said, dusting off his clothes, and then led everyone deeper into the Whispering Woods.
As Klee had said, her treasure spot wasn't too far. After passing through a dense patch of woods, the scene before them suddenly opened up.
However, what caught everyone's attention wasn't the distant Mondstadt city, but a rather distinctive small mound on the grassy clearing.
The sand mound appeared abruptly in a field of green, looking very conspicuous. Besides the mound, there were also many stones pressing down on it.
It was as if the creator of this mound was afraid that whatever was inside would escape.
A crude wooden sign was stuck upright in the mound, which was mixed with gravel. On the wooden sign were several large, scribbled words:
"My Treasure!"
"This is it! Look, my~~~big treasure was buried right here before." Klee skipped and made a circle with her hands, indicating that the treasure she buried here was very, very big!
"It's been dug up..." Paimon looked at the messy mound. It was clear that this treasure spot had been excavated.
Yu Jin looked at the empty mound and thought that Mondstadters were truly bored. This was clearly a place where a child buried something, and they had maliciously dug it up.
Their quality was truly concerning.
Wait! It seemed he had misjudged the Mondstadters. Yu Jin turned his head to look at a large tree not far away; someone was hiding behind it.
"Hmph! Taste my Hand-Emitted Vacuum Slash!" Yu Jin roared, then cupped his hand like a blade and swung it. A condensed white air blade instantly sliced the large tree in half at the waist.
The cut was so clean, it could be used as a surprise.
"I've... I've been discovered!" The Abyss Mage behind the large tree suddenly felt a chill on its head, and then a few strands of fiery red hair floated down from its scalp.
Yu Jin looked at the bald Fire Abyss Mage and blew on his palm. It seemed his control over his strength was still precise.
With a flick of his hand, he had added a member to the Abyss Order who was facing a mid-life crisis.
"Abyss Mage?! But why is it bald?" Paimon's attention was immediately drawn to the Abyss Mage with a bald spot in the middle of its head.
"So... so ugly! Pfft~ Hahaha!" Lumine saw the bald Abyss Mage. At first, she tried to maintain her seriousness.
But the more she looked, the more she found the bald Abyss Mage both ugly and funny. And remembering Yu Jin was beside her, Lumine burst into laughter.
"Damn it! Damn it! You cursed humans!" The Abyss Mage in the distance touched its head and immediately became furious.
"Hmph hmph, you cursed humans! Since you've angered me, let me show you the power of my new treasure!"
The Abyss Mage said, pulling out a spherical object from behind itself. It had two rabbit ears attached to it, clearly a child's item.
To even steal a child's belongings, it seemed the Abyss Order's quality was also questionable.
Yu Jin shook his head again. Having just condemned the Mondstadters, he now began to condemn the Abyss Order.
"The mark of fire, hmph hmph hmph! Taste the power of Mondstadt's strongest treasure!" The Abyss Mage saw a flickering fiery red on the sphere and immediately understood.
It infused it with Pyro element power, then forcefully threw it in the direction of Yu Jin and the others.
"Big Brother Yu Jin, be careful..."
"Boom!"
A deafening explosion sounded, and surging flames instantly enveloped Yu Jin and the others.
Klee had dropped to the ground the moment the Jumpy Dumpty flew over—this was an experience she had gained after being blown away by her own bombs several times.
However, the expected shockwave and flames did not come. All that was heard was the loud bang of the bomb exploding.
Klee stood up from the ground with some surprise, and then she saw a miraculous scene.
The flames and shockwave created by the Jumpy Dumpty seemed to be drawn by something, rushing eagerly into the crevices of Yu Jin's armor.
All the energy from the bomb was absorbed by Yu Jin alone. Only the continuous reverberating roar in the forest told everyone that this explosion had indeed occurred.
"Not bad, little Klee," Yu Jin said, feeling the power of this bomb. If he hadn't been there, the Whispering Woods would probably have gained a huge crater.
To be able to create such a large bomb at such a young age, her future is limitless. Yu Jin looked at Klee, who was not even as tall as his waist, and sighed in his heart.
"However, you need to learn how to make this power controllable! Like this!"
"Sizzle—Boom!"
Yu Jin raised his palm, his five fingers forming an eagle claw shape. Then, a fireball appeared in his hand.
Feel the Giant's Flame—one of the Prayers that directly manifests the power of the Fire Giant. It can hurl huge, Burning fireballs. Charging it can enhance its power and add an explosive effect.
Ordinary Prayer books do not record this Prayer; only a very small number of bishops know of its existence.
Thick, molten-lava-like flames dripped from Yu Jin's hand, then disappeared without a trace before even touching the ground, as if perfectly calculated.
The fireball in his hand churned continuously, its patterns like malevolent eyes, gazing at everything around it.
The Giant's Flame came from the fell god, and the fell god's only symbol in The Lands Between was that enormous, malevolent single eye.
If He wasn't so far from The Lands Between, Yu Jin would have insisted on inviting Him to reside within his body.
"So... so powerful!" Klee exclaimed in surprise, seeing Yu Jin holding such a large fireball without setting anything on fire.
"There's something even more powerful!" Yu Jin laughed loudly and instantly appeared behind the Abyss Mage.
"Fly towards the Sky!"
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