He could understand Stormterror's rage and anger.
But why was there a trace of panic and unease mixed under Stormterror's anger?
"Could it be that shot from before?"
Suddenly, Venti thought of something and glanced at Kael without leaving a trace.
Could it be that Kael shooting the Abyss Mage at Starsnatch Cliff scared Stormterror?
The bullets fired from that gun had a mysterious power he couldn't see through.
Is Stormterror afraid of that power?
"ROAR!"
While Venti was thinking this.
Stormterror Dvalin's roar echoed throughout the Sky Domain.
The roar was deafening. The gale swept through like a blade, shaking the floating rocks, as if they would be torn to pieces in the next second.
He launched a second pursuit brazenly.
With a high-pitched and angry roar, Stormterror flapped his wings suddenly, the gale sweeping the world.
In the next second, he opened his huge dragon mouth. A blazing Anemo light condensed in his throat. The violent airflow rotated and compressed extremely fast in his mouth, gradually forming a terrifying wind bomb!
This wind bomb was several meters in diameter, like the core of a storm that could swallow everything.
Carrying terrifying destructive power, mixed with wind blades filling the sky, it smashed toward the platform where Paimon and the others were!
"Careful!!!"
Venti's face changed, his palm raised instantly.
Anemo power exploded instantly.
Venti directly controlled the surrounding airflow, forming a stable wind field under everyone's feet, allowing everyone to walk on air as if on flat ground.
So as not to be swept into the endless storm abyss below due to losing their footing.
At the same time, Stormterror's attack was completely pacified in front of Venti.
"How do we fight this!?"
Even so, Paimon widened her eyes, looking at the floating stone platforms around, and Stormterror's irresistible storm power, spinning around anxiously.
"We can't fight here at all! One slip and we'll fall!!"
"Don't worry."
Venti smiled gently, looking at Stormterror who continued to attack in the distance, and said in a deep voice, "Look everyone—there are two glowing spots on Dvalin's body!"
Everyone looked in the direction Venti pointed.
Sure enough, on Dvalin's huge body, two purple lights flickered faintly between the scales.
They were like accumulated toxins, flowing slowly at Dvalin's wounds, permeating with an unsettling corrosive aura.
"Those are not ordinary wounds, but cursed blood applied by the Abyss Order!"
Venti's gaze sank, his voice low and slow. "That is poison blood solidified on the wounds..."
"The Abyss Order concentrated the curse on the wounds to corrode Dvalin's spirit..."
Hearing this, Jean understood immediately. "In other words, if we want to save Dvalin, we must clear those purple blood clots first?"
"That's right."
Venti nodded. "Otherwise he can never break free from the Abyss's curse control."
"Next, I will let the wind assist the Traveler. The Traveler will fly close and use her power to purify that poison blood."
Hearing Venti's words, Lumine immediately understood her mission.
Immediately gripping her weapon, with the Anemo element lifting her feet, she leaped into the air quickly, heading straight for Dvalin's wound!
But Dvalin would not give her this chance!
When Dvalin saw someone rushing over, that familiar power made him even more restless.
"ROAR—!!"
The angry dragon roared again. Huge dragon wings flapped suddenly, an extremely violent storm energy gathering around him!
The surrounding airflow instantly became extremely unstable. The platform began to shake violently, and the gale brought up countless broken stones flying around.
And the endless sea of clouds below began to churn. The entire Domain seemed to be responding to Dvalin's anger.
"It's Dvalin's Caelestinum Finale Termini!"
"Everyone be careful!"
Venti sensed the Anemo anomaly in an instant, his face changing slightly. "He is summoning a storm to destroy everything!"
As soon as the voice fell, in the next second—
BOOM!!!
Dvalin spread his dragon wings, gathering Anemo energy crazily. The entire Domain was instantly swallowed by a dark storm!
Floating stone platforms began to crack.
The gale tore the space. Countless Anemo vortexes generated out of thin air in all directions, continuously erupting with powerful Anemo energy, causing continuous terrifying wind pressure on everyone on the field!
If Venti hadn't stood at the forefront, instantly erasing most of the destructive power and generating a strong wind shelter to help everyone resist the storm's invasion...
Everyone would definitely have been blown down.
"Damn it..."
Diluc cursed in a low voice, quickly leaping onto another relatively stable floating stone. Pyro light erupted from his body, trying to use high temperature to resist the storm's erosion.
Jean stabilized her figure in the air, the light of her Anemo Vision flickering.
She condensed a wind field to prevent others from being blown off the platform by the storm as much as possible.
But facing the gale from all directions, she only felt like a small boat on a surging sea.
Powerless to resist.
Only by facing Stormterror head-on did Jean know how terrifying Stormterror was.
This was simply not something Vision holders could contend with.
The terrifying power Stormterror erupted with was too strong.
Stormterror at this moment was like the storm itself, the incarnation of the most violent elemental power in the world!
"Roar!"
Stormterror's roar was deafening, as if even the firmament was resonating. Huge dragon wings flapped, and violent airflow swept across the entire sky.
Deep red dragon pupils burned with anger, seeming to roar to destroy everything.
Wind blades came one after another, piercing the night like divine punishment, whistling toward everyone, bringing bursts of sharp breaking sounds.
But in the next second, a strange light emerged from around Stormterror.
Like a transparent ripple, directly shrouding Stormterror.
Under everyone's astonished gaze, that sudden strange light energy swept across Stormterror's pair of dragon pupils burning with rage.
In just an instant, visible ripples erupted around Stormterror.
Accompanied by the anger, which also disappeared in an instant.
The violent atmosphere of the entire battlefield seemed to freeze at this moment.
Stormterror's huge body stagnated in mid-air. The violently flapping dragon wings froze.
The originally violent and raging storm instantly dissipated by more than half.
In those red dragon pupils, anger faded rapidly.
Replaced by a touch of doubt and confusion in the blue pupils.
"Th-This... what is happening?"
Seeing this sudden scene, Jean was astonished.
She was just enduring Stormterror's furious offensive.
But in the blink of an eye, the other party... calmed down??
"Eh...?"
Paimon was also stunned, her small mouth slightly open. "Wait... Dvalin... He... isn't angry anymore???"
Clearly he was attacking angrily just now.
Even if the attack was offset by Venti, he didn't give up.
But now... the anger disappeared?
She saw it clearly.
The anger in Stormterror's eyes disappeared.
Inexplicably.
"What exactly is going on?"
At this time, Diluc's pupils contracted sharply, the claymore in his hand pausing slightly.
Everyone was confused.
In the next second, everyone looked at Kael in unison.
Because just now Kael suddenly flicked his hand.
Could it be... Kael did it?
Thinking of some mysterious powers Kael displayed before.
Increasing speed, increasing destructive power.
Even making the sweeping monster tide stop in confusion.
It was all such behavior.
At this time, Kael himself felt a bit strange.
Looking at Stormterror who had fallen into a sluggish state in front of him, he fell silent abruptly.
Just now he used Bronya's Path Branch Skill — [Combat Redeployment].
Upon use, immediately remove one debuff from a designated target.
He originally thought he could remove the poison blood curse on Stormterror.
Resulting in... removing the Anger first?
Does this count as a debuff too?
"Stormterror's anger has been removed by me."
Facing everyone's gaze, Kael explained.
As he spoke, he threw another [Combat Redeployment] at it.
Instantly, that visible energy ripple emerged around Stormterror again.
Then shrouded Stormterror.
Like purifying Stormterror's body.
This time, everyone saw clearly.
A purple poison blood wound on Stormterror's back actually faded rapidly under the sweep of that energy ripple!
As if some deep power was erasing the traces of the curse one by one!
"W-Wait...!"
Lumine, who was sneaking close while Stormterror was confused, planning to use her weapon to smash the blood clots, widened her eyes abruptly, astonished. "Stormterror... one of the poison blood wounds on his body... is gone?!"
"Hey hey hey, real or fake?"
Paimon was completely dumbfounded.
Doesn't that mean Kael also possesses the same purification power as Lumine?
But why didn't Kael use it before?
Before purifying Stormterror's Tear Crystal, it was always Lumine doing it.
Venti, Diluc, and Jean stared dead at Stormterror's wound.
Even they saw it clearly—the poison blood on Stormterror's surface was indeed disappearing.
And what was more eerie was that Stormterror himself seemed to have noticed something.
He looked down at his body, revealing an extremely confused expression.
He didn't even continue to attack, but hovered in the air, as if completely stunned.
"Truly incredible purification... actually doesn't even need contact?"
At this time, Venti narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Kael with gradually complex eyes.
What kind of power is this?
You have to know, even if the Traveler Lumine purified, she needed to use power to cover and attack.
Before purifying Dvalin's Tear Crystal, she even needed to hold it in her hand, which took time.
And Kael?
Now he just flicked his hand, and something like a formation appeared on Stormterror's body.
That thing was like Liyue's Adepti Cleansing Formation.
But it removed Stormterror's anger emotion.
Then purified the curse on that poison blood wound.
He wasn't too shocked that Kael could purify Stormterror's wound; just surprised.
After all, Kael hadn't shown it before.
And not needing contact also surprised him.
But what surprised him more was that Stormterror's originally violent emotion disappeared instantly.
You have to know, even if the poison blood curse on the wound was purified, Stormterror's anger would take time to disappear.
At least several seconds.
But what Kael showed now was... removing Stormterror's anger emotion instantly.
This was simply incredible.
At this time, Kael also sighed in his heart.
Bronya's Path Branch Skill — [Combat Redeployment].
Truly fierce.
Even emotions can be removed?
If Anger could, then Loss, Sadness, etc. would definitely be judged as negative effects.
Thinking this.
Kael flicked his hand at Dvalin, throwing another [Combat Redeployment].
Instantly, an invisible fluctuation spread from Stormterror's body, like ripples on water, gently but undeniably penetrating into Stormterror's huge body.
At this moment, the entire Sky Domain seemed to stand still.
Stormterror's abyss-like dragon pupils trembled slightly. The purple poison blood originally entrenched in his body disappeared without a trace instantly!
The curse applied by the Abyss Order was a tumor corroding his mind, the culprit twisting him into a violent monster.
Now, under Kael's Path Skill, it evaporated like morning dew, disappearing completely!
Under everyone's gaze.
Stormterror's originally tight muscles gradually relaxed. His huge body trembled gently, and his eyes also held an extremely complex emotion.
Astonishment, confusion, shock, and... relief.
Stormterror lowered his head slowly, metallic dragon horns flashing in the shimmer.
The huge body was still full of pressure, but the eyes no longer roared, but carried thick doubt and shock.
He looked at Kael quietly, then turned slowly, looking at Venti standing not far away.
Or rather, his once closest Anemo Archon Barbatos.
And in this silence, Lumine beside him quietly touched Stormterror's side.
Originally planning to take the opportunity to smash those purple blood clots with her weapon.
Resulting in her raising her hand, only to see smooth and clean scales, without a trace of the curse.
"Uh... completely gone."
Lumine froze, scratched her head, and muttered somewhat blankly, "Did I... come for nothing?"
Paimon's mouth opened wide, unable to close for a long time. "J-Just... Just like that? It's over?? Weren't we supposed to fight a fierce battle??"
Jean loosened her grip on her weapon slightly, looking at the scene before her with complex eyes, seemingly unable to believe everything ended so smoothly.
And Diluc stared silently at Kael, pupils contracting slightly.
This time, he thoroughly realized.
The power Kael held far exceeded their cognition.
Compared to everyone's shock, although Venti was surprised, he wasn't too shocked.
Looking at Stormterror, Venti smiled gently, took a step forward, extended his right hand, his voice soft and familiar: "Dvalin, welcome back."
Stormterror's pupils contracted slightly. His huge body stiffened for several seconds, as if struggling, hesitating.
Finally, he slowly lowered his proud head.
"...Barbatos..."
Dvalin's voice was low and hoarse, mixed with an imperceptible emotional fluctuation, carrying a thousand years of memory and struggle.
Dvalin—Stormterror, finally chose to submit, actively prostrating in front of Venti.
The former guardian and his God, after a long time, finally met again.
Seeing this, the corner of Venti's mouth raised slightly, looking at him gently, patting Stormterror's huge forehead, whispering, "En. Let's go. We should go out."
As Venti's voice fell, the surrounding storm dissipated instantly.
Everyone's figures were rolled up by the gale, leaving this cursed domain lightly under the wrapping of Anemo elements.
Under the night curtain, the gale on the tower of Stormterror's Lair finally subsided.
The terrifying storm clouds were completely dispelled.
The sky became incredibly clear, stars dotting it, shimmer spilling on the broken ruins.
High in the sky, Stormterror spread his wings, the wide wingspan almost covering the entire night sky.
His body radiated brilliance again. No longer a cursed violent dragon, but the former guardian of Mondstadt—One of the Four Winds, Dvalin!
He carried Kael, Lumine, Jean, Diluc, Klee, and Venti, circling and dancing in the night sky belonging to Mondstadt.
Crossing the tower of Stormterror's Lair, crossing the ruins, gliding under the night, as if announcing his return to the whole world.
"...Dvalin."
Venti stood on Stormterror's back, looking deeply at the familiar sky, a trace of emotion on his lips, whispering, "We haven't flown together like this for a long time."