Chapter 23 I lend you my wings so I can fly...

In the distance, Venti and Diluk also completed their tasks, and the seals of the light-guiding mechanism were broken one by one.

The towering walls were dilapidated and ancient, like a giant dragon lying crouching after having its chains torn apart.

On top of the third seal of the tower, the five-member team that rescued Tevarin reunited. Perhaps because of the special structure formed by the remaining walls, the wind here is stronger than that at the Star-Picking Cliff.

Wendy spoke first. He looked at everyone with a faint smile and said, "It's finally the final moment."

Qin: "It's really not easy for everyone along the way."

Paimon put his hands behind his back and said, "It was indeed a tough time."

Sora joked, "So... now is the time for pre-war mobilization?"

Venti looked at Sora: "That's a good idea! Then... let Master Diluk say a few words to us?"

Diluk: “…”

His expression did not change at all: "Get ready, and let's go."

"Huh?"

…

In front of the sealed entrance, Wendy looked at Yi Bai and asked:

"Xiaobai, are you scared?"

Yi Bai was a little confused. He glanced at Wendy's unsteady blue eyes and replied:

"No... Don't worry. I told you that Tevarin is your friend and will always be your Wind God."

"Well, as long as it is still willing, at least I want to give it the right to choose for itself, instead of being controlled by others and losing the freedom to fly."

Yi Bai nodded.

Wendy closed her eyes and looked more serious and determined.

"Traveler, this time, just like last time, let me use the thousand-year wind to help you. I'll leave it to you to purify the blood clots of Tevarin."

Sora nodded seriously.

Logically speaking, the space entrance at this stage will send people directly to high altitudes. Diluk, Qin, Ibai and Paimon should stay where they are and wait for the Wind Dragon to land back on the ground.

But the next moment after Kong and Wendy stepped into the entrance of the space, Yi Bai also leaned over and stepped straight in.

"??!"

"Yibai!!"

Jyn and Paimon took a step forward at the same time. Jyn stretched out her hand, while Paimon flew around the entrance anxiously, but hesitated and did not dare to get any closer.

Diluk's fingers gripped the greatsword a little tighter.

He said, "With Wendy here, nothing should happen."

Qin breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little nervous. After all, it was something that had not been discussed before.

"I hope that Ms. Wendy can also lend Yi Bai a hand."

Paimon seemed to suddenly remember something:

"Oh right! I remember that Xiao Yibai seemed to be able to fly."

“…Can you fly?”

Jyn and Diluk asked at the same time.

Paimon: "Well... that's right, he has a pair of very beautiful wings that he can use to fly. I saw them before when I was taking the pilot's license exam and when I got the light guiding triangle."

...Does a water slime also have wings? Diluc wondered.

...Why do humans have wings? Captain Qin fell into deep thought.

And high in the sky, Tevarin was flapping his dragon wings in the distance, shuttling through the clouds with all his might, feeling the pain from being corroded by poisonous blood.

Kong followed behind the Wind Dragon, barely holding up his wings of wind, and suspended in the air with the wind summoned by Venti, concentrating on gathering the elements in his body and attacking the poisonous blood.

Perhaps the process of purifying the dirty blood was not easy. Tevarin roared and rushed forward faster. The wind blew against his face. The elemental force attack could hardly touch the Wind Dragon. Kong was a little anxious, but at this moment he had no other choice but to rely on himself.

Suddenly, the space not far from the dragon began to fluctuate, and the sealed entrance mixed with the water mirror was opened again. Yi Bai's foot was suspended in the air, and he stepped in from the other end of the space and fell down unexpectedly.

It was just like the scene on the edge of the cliff during the pilot's license test, but this time, before Sora could come to his senses, he only had time to see a streak of white hair as bright as snow.

The pair of huge wings had already completely enveloped him, then flipped, flapped, and floated up with Yi Bai's body.

He was like a beautiful little bird, soaring quickly into the sky.

In the wind, Yi Bai raised the volume of his clear and soft voice: "Do you need wings, Honor Knight Brother?"

Kongxia nodded. If he could shorten the distance with Tevarin, that would be exactly what he needed. Wendy, transformed into a wind elf, also blended into the wind, brushing against the wings, as if expressing intimacy and gratitude to Yibai.

Yi Bai didn't hesitate any longer and flew directly behind Kong. He stretched out his right hand and placed his fingertips on Kong's back.

As the light blue spot flashed, Yi Bai's entire body gradually disappeared, or in other words, it turned into a small slime with huge wings.

The slime stuck to Sora's back and slowly turned into an inconspicuous transparent gel, as if it had merged into Sora's flesh and blood.

The colloid had an extremely strong gravitational force, pulling the air to flap its wings and fly towards the wind dragon in front.

"!!!"

He needed a pair of wings, but he didn't expect that he would actually have wings installed on his body!

Especially since these wings are not actually controlled by itself, they have their own consciousness... or rather, they are Xiao Yibai's consciousness.

After the slime lent him wings, it controlled his body and flew forward at high speed. The sudden acceleration almost made Kong's heart skip a beat, but he quickly recovered.

Tevarin seemed to realize something and began to attack the human behind him. Countless wind-attribute magic bullets flew past him from front to back.

It seemed that Yi Bai had a vision ahead even after merging into Sora's back. His wings began to fold, dodging the magic bullets that brushed against his feathers, and then opened again, carrying Sora towards the rain of bullets.

For a moment, Kong felt an indescribable panic, but out of trust in his partner, he regained his rational thinking and even felt a slight madness from Ibai's radical strategy.

He chose to focus on the wind arrows that would condense and break the poisonous blood clots, and no longer thought about the magic bullets in the sky.

None of the incoming attacks could cause any damage to Sora. Even though they were so close that the force of the impact temporarily deafened Sora's eardrums, they did not scratch a single spot of his skin or cut a single strand of his blond hair.

Very sharp observation and reaction, fantasy.

The blue and white wings and the blond boy's looks are still top-notch, and with this smooth CG, the barrage is almost exploding again.

"I'm choking, I'm feeling really bad, help me"

"What a cool route forward, Aa ...

"An empty reaction. It seems that Yibai is controlling the wings."

"Hurry up and say thank you Yibai, Sora looks really good with this set of wings."

"Ishiro and Sora work very well together. One is responsible for dodging and advancing, while the other is responsible for trusting and attacking."

"They really have a good understanding. It can be seen that Grandpa likes Xiao Yibai very much."

"Who wouldn't like such a pretty and well-behaved little bird? She even came all the way to help."

"I want these wings. Can I take Ibai with me when I travel? This way I can fly anytime."

"Jue Yibai with these wings is a fragile angel that is pure and cannot be tainted. Sora with these wings is like God, a gentle young archangel."

"If you really want wings... or Sora can just steal a feather."

"Do you remember we are doing real work?"

…

After the tacit cooperation of the two, the dirty blood clots at the bottom have been purified, and the first stage of the battle with the Wind Dragon has ended. It roared and flew into the air to the high platform in the center of the storm.

After being swept by the air current and hit the ground, and then being pulled steadily by the wings to land, Wendy also changed from a wind elf back to a wind god and landed on the ground.

Qin, Diluk and Paimon were already waiting here.

"Kong! Are you okay?" Paimon flew over hurriedly.

"It's okay." Sora shook his head.

Although Sora's beautiful wind wings were eye-catching, Qin still asked anxiously, "Where's Yibai?"

Sora turned his head and looked at his back, and Wendy also took a curious look.

Diluk suddenly understood something from the white and blue.

The sky's wings gradually folded, turning into a point of light that slowly dissipated.

I didn't hear the heart-wrenching pleas from the players in the other world.

Yi Bai changed himself from colloid back to a small water slime. After the water slime jumped off Sora's back, he turned into a normal-sized slime again, and finally transformed into a white-haired little knight.

Captain Jean, who witnessed Ibai's entire evolution process, was a little speechless, as if she had experienced a baptism of worldview. But there were indeed many strange creatures in Teyvat after all, and she quickly forced herself to adjust.

But the tone still carried some incredible and uncertain speculation:

"So... the slime that Klee brought back was you, Mr. Bai."

Yi Bai nodded and corrected himself a little quickly:

"Just call me Xiaobai, Captain Qin."

…

Wendy said, "Tevalin is coming to attack. Be careful."

There is one final battle. Wendy has already gathered the wind arrows on the side, waiting for Tevarin to approach.

"We must give the dirty blood a chance to be purified."

Diluk raised his greatsword, ready to charge at Tevarin with his firebird burning at any moment.

The wind dragon rushed towards the ground with its claws and fangs stretched out, almost crushing the rocks on the platform.

Wind arrows fired out at the right moment, dropping feathers of wind elemental power.

Green feathers floated across Tevarin's dragon eyes, causing him to be dazed for a moment, but the pollution soon re-tainted his mind, driving him to stir up a storm towards the tiny humans and wind gods on the ground.

Diluk had already taken advantage of Tevarin's momentary distraction to launch his Firebird, and Ibai had also used his water element to form an incredible barrier to block the incoming storm.

Using the surface of the water to block the wind... Kong and Qin truly felt how Yi Bai's control over the water element was beyond common sense. Without hesitation, the two immediately seized the opportunity, swung their swords, and slashed at the claws on both sides of Tevarin.

There was no way Tevarin would not fight back. One of his claws flew towards the air at a speed that almost tore through space, but the air reflexively blocked it with his sword.

But the dragon's claws were sharper than steel. Just as the claws were about to break through the defense, cut through the sword, and pierce Sora's body,

A sudden chill ran down Sora's back, engulfing him and his sword in a cage of bubbles.

Almost at the same time, the bubble disappeared with the void, and fell from the water mirror to Yi Bai's side not far away.

Cold sweat almost soaked the hair on Yi Bai's forehead. His face was pale, and his blue pupils were a mixture of calm rationality and hidden fear.

In his hands, he was still constantly gathering extremely resilient water elements to block the storm.

Kong's physical resistance has always been very high, and that claw might not completely cause him serious injury or fatal danger, but Yi Bai dared not gamble. His power came from Kong, and the player followed Kong's perspective. In addition, Kong was the protagonist, so he might be the key to breaking through his fate in the future and helping himself find his hometown.

Yi Bai didn't dare to gamble.

Even though he wasn't using his full strength, and even though the fragility and brokenness on his face were just a disguise to fit his character, he had to admit that the panic at that moment was real.

Kong gritted his teeth. The elemental power he collected from just one country was indeed not strong enough. He was a little angry with himself, and swung his sword to find the angle to inflict damage again.

Perhaps because his attack had no effect, Tevarin went crazy. The flame of the wind element flashed past the corner of his eyes. He condensed the element and clapped his claws to drop dense wind blades to the ground.

"Haha, this is Tevarin's ultimate move, the closing song of the end of the world."

Yibai was responsible for blocking the small-scale wind blades, while Wendy used the wind field to take everyone away from the burning ground.

He was even in the mood for a small joke.

Paimon hid behind Sora: "That's not the name you were thinking of, Wendy!"

"Hey."

"Hello!!!"

Wendy was still doing his job properly. His feathered wind arrows that could transform into three arrows actually had quite a lot of killing power. Combined with the attacks of his companions, the effect was considerable. The Wind Dragon was finally knocked down on the platform by their combined efforts.

Ibai spread his wings again, transformed into a small slime, and dragged Sora onto the dragon, who responded quickly.

In just a short while, he used the wind elemental power that Wendy helped to condense to successfully purify the last of Tevarin's dirty blood clots.

"Is it over..."

Sora breathed a sigh of relief.

Yibai turned back into a slime and jumped on the spot.

Qin placed the sword on the ground to calm her tense nerves.

Diluk also put away his greatsword, crossed his arms and breathed slightly.

After being bombarded by elemental forces, Tevarin lay powerlessly on the tower. Wendy slowly approached and gently stroked his forehead.

"It's all right... Tevarin, from now on, you will still be the freest sky dragon in Mondstadt."

The power of the wind god's followers flowed out of Wendy's body and returned to Tevarin's body.

On the side, Yi Bai, who had transformed back into a human body, was still thinking:

The terrain of the battlefield did not collapse this time. Was it because I was able to resist the storm and wind blades, and the battle became much more stable...

In the midst of such a peaceful and warm scene, Wendy suddenly took a step back, as if her heart was beating violently in her chest and her uncertain premonition was growing stronger.

He felt a power that was so familiar that it was engraved into his bones.

abyss.

An abyss more terrifying than the monsters of Teyvat.