Chapter 38: Chapter 35
I happily just wrapped my arms around Lumine as Paimon popped her head out of the top of my front portion of my jacket as she wanted to stay warm. And then just to be cheeky I took out a couple handfuls of beef jerky and passed it around to the other girls.
"Let's just enjoy our entertainment in any case." I chuckled as we gently flew over the wrecked remains of the fortress as the fatui agents and Signora went into battle with the Ruin Grader.
Seeing the Ruin Grader hold its own against Signora when she wasn't using her Pyro abilities along with literally splattering any melee-focused Fatui agents that attempted to hamstring it or generally just smash an electro hammer or actually punch it with weird Anemo boxing gloves, definitely cemented my desire to have one of these badass robots to play with.
Best of all, the massive energy crystals on the feet of the Ruin Guards were clearly being used to regenerate the damage to the mechanical behemoth as it was able to seemingly regrow chunks of shattered or destroyed parts of its armor without much issue.
Not to mention it had a constant energy shield around its vulnerable eye so even the odd lucky blows upon it would only make the energy field flicker in response.
But it was only when another powerful beam was sent out of the Ruin Grader's eye that rendered a couple of the Cicin mages to charcoal that Signora stopped holding back and with a yell of anger her entire lower body and parts of her upper body were encased in ice lifted her several meters into the air, so she reached the waist of the Ruin Grader.
But even with her transformation and sending large swathes of ice into the Ruin Grader she still needed the help of the Fatui agents to finally break off its arms as should she stop her deluge of Cryo elemental attacks consisting of sending massive pillars of ice crashing into it and attempting to tragically pierce its week points with a machine gun fire's deluge of exploding icicles, the Ruin Grader would just continue to burn through its energy crystals to regenerate its body.
But just as Signora triumphantly laughed as the Ruin Grader's eye dimmed as it was dying, she was violently smashed into the remains of the fortress as the dimming eye surged to life and sent a far greater laser than before into her practically ignoring her ice armor as she was sent ass over tea kettle in the final death struggle of the Ruin Grader.
As the Fatui agents screamed for their harbinger and most looked away from the slouching Ruin Grader I swiftly dropped off my Anemo elemental after I quickly pushed Paimon into Lumines arms and with my own triumphant laughter my Anemo-coated saber pierced into the Ruin Graders large eye and by detonating the powerful Anemo winds into the sensitive machinery I fell a couple inches into the Ruin Grader as its mechanical muscles locked up and then slumped fully to the ground.
"Hey! Who are you!" A fatui agent screamed out pointing at me and Signora who just staggered back out of the now thoroughly destroyed fortress frowned seeing me and Lumine who was still riding my Anemo elemental
I very briefly over to Lumine and grinned evilly before with a flourish I pulled out my secret weapon.
"Mwahha! I am a proud ronin of Inazuma! I have already accomplished my greatest mission!" The fatui agents and even Signora looked at each other in confusion at how stupid I was acting but it was only as I pulled out my secret weapon that the muttering froze in place as the only sounds was the flickering flames from the battle and the howling winds of the Dragonspine mountain.
Within my arms raised high above my head as though showing it to the divine land of Celestia above us all was the flapping black panties of Signora that were being pulled to flap around in the harsh wintery cold winds.
"Now that I have stolen the clothes of a Harbinger, Inazuma will now form an alliance with Liyue to blockade the nation of Snezhnaya! No longer will the tyrannical nation of frost-bitten cunts stir up trouble in all the nations of the world!" I yelled as I jumped on my Anemo elemental and as we flew off dodging various elemental attacks, I threw several pairs of her underwear as we circled her from above before we flew off in the direction of Liyue.
A couple minutes later as I broke out into hysterical giggles at how the Fatui must be freaking the fuck out Lumine finally broke out into her hysterical burst of laughter as she seemingly found her own laughs in the situation.
"What were you laughing at?" I asked after I managed to calm myself down.
"Oh, I was just imagining that woman's face when she finds out she worked so hard to kill something that you stole said kill and when we inevitably fight, she will certainly be surprised by having a Ruin Grader thrown at her... Do you think you could drop a Ruin Grader from up high like that Ruin Guard you dropped on that Lawachurl?" Lumine said as she leaned against my chest before lurching forward as she crushed Paimon between us.
"Lumine! Are you trying to kill me? I was just feeling warm too!" Paimon cried out as she flew out of my jacket but she didn't try to go back in seeing as we were finally in Liyue's land and out of the Dragonspine Mountains field of frigid temperature.
"Sorry Paimon." Lumine apologized patting her friend on the head before briefly hugging her as we flew into what I believed to be Mingyun Village just south of the salt plains.
"Lumine see that village over there," I said pointing at the faint lights of the streetlights of Mingyun Village burning in the twilight setting sun. "From there we will go south to one of the Lord of Geo's Statue of the Seven."
"Wow, Jake you really know the surroundings of Teyvat well despite not being from this world!" Paimon complimented me and I faintly smiled as I could only curse and bless my decent memory that remembered that damn interactive map, I constantly used to hunt down all the elemental occuli for each land, along with finding materials to ascend characters.
"As I said previously, I am a bit of a scholar... Comes with trying to find a way out of this world in any case." I said and I felt Lumine thread her fingers between mine that were currently around her waist as she showed her solidarity in our circumstances.