Chapter 023 [Inverted V] 23
When Solomon stepped into the cave in the pot, his first reaction was that the spirit of the pot who led the way had remembered the wrong cave where the seven gods held the banquet.
The Demon God War ended many years ago. The continent of Teyvat was clearly divided into seven parts under the arrangement of heaven, and was handed over to the seven gods who were the victors of the war to govern respectively.
So the God of Wind blew away the ice and snow that never melted and flattened the mountains. He then set his people free. Just like when they were first born, they merged into the Thousand Winds and went to every corner of Teyvat. In the Liyue region, there were still occasional demons who failed to ascend to the throne and cause trouble. The God of Rock took his family and friends to suppress them everywhere, and then he had to diligently guide the people towards a better life.
The territories of the God of Thunder and the God of Water are both on the sea. Although I have never heard of them, I think they are not worse than the God of Fire, Nata. The God of Ice, Zhidong, is in the northernmost part of the entire continent. Although it cannot be said that it is a suitable area for human survival, she always smiles like a savior, running around and leading her people to survive in the ice and snow.
Finally, Solomon returned to the rainforest. The King of a Thousand Trees had ascended to the throne of God in the sky, so scholars, Lanaro, and other creatures in the rainforest celebrated and greatly accelerated the construction of the Temple of the Lord and the Palace of the God of the Trees. After the completion of the Temple of the Lord, the wisdom of the King of a Thousand Trees attracted many scholars from all over the world.
Hundreds of years later, the God of Wind carried a bottle of dandelion wine and rode the wind from Mondstadt straight to Liyue to deliver the wine to the God of Geo. The God of Geo thought that the God of Wind had encountered some problems at first, but the moment he saw the bottle of wine, he grabbed the God of Wind who was about to run away and wrote invitations to the banquet to several other colleagues in the God of Geo's temple one by one.
It was after Solomon received this invitation signed by two gods that he left Sumi and came to Liyue.
"...Have I come to the wrong place?" Solomon looked at the scene in front of him, and silently sighed in his heart that even the cafeteria where all the heroes of Chaldea gathered in the past was not so chaotic.
Even if people who have been in high positions for a long time do not deliberately use their aura to coerce others, they can still scare some smaller guys into trembling with fear when they ask questions.
"No, no, no - I'm very sorry, but this is exactly where it says on the invitation!" The red sparrow-like pot spirit that was responsible for leading Solomon answered Solomon's question with a shrill voice like a mascot, while quickly searching for a certain rock god who should have stayed in the cave, "Emperor -!!!"
"What's wrong?" The God of Rock carried the bruised and swollen Fire God towards Solomon. "Ah, it's the Grass God of Sumi who's here. How about introducing yourself? After all, this is our first meeting outside of Sky Island. I'm Morax from Liyue, and this guy is Etna from Nata."
"Hello! Can you fight me?" Etna, who was held in Morax's hand, waved happily at Solomon to challenge him to a fight, not caring about the fact that he had just been beaten up by Morax. "My goal here is to fight with everyone - after all, everyone went to Sky Island because they won the Demon God War!!!"
"Don't worry about it. The name is just a title. It's okay not to introduce the demon god's name." Morax added, and signaled that the pot spirit could leave. "Also - Etna is like this, don't pay attention to him."
"Sume, Solomon. If I'm not mistaken, Etna came directly to you right away, right?" Solomon watched the pot spirit slip away as if greased, nodded to Morax, and then cast his eyes on Etna, "Also, forest fire prevention is everyone's responsibility - so please forgive me for rejecting your request."
The fairy cave in Liyue is really suitable for gatherings - the scenery carefully prepared by the pot spirits in advance perfectly fits the style of the Seven Kingdoms, but for the Seven Gods, leaving their homeland does not mean seeing their own scenery in other areas. Instead, they are all appreciating the styles of other countries.
-By the way, the one who provided the scenery ideas for the pot spirit was the wind god who quietly strolled around every country.
"Maple, Egolia." The water god looks like a young girl, but she looks much harder and sharper than the soft jellyfish whose water content is as high as 95%. "The scenery of the cave is updated with the arrival of new guests. When I saw the scenery of Sumi here, I guessed that you were here."
Maple Leaf, the most concerned area in the whole Chaldea besides Sumi - the source of all waters. For the Chaldeans who once galloped with the sea fairies on the blank earth, the abundant water sources and the vast ocean can bring them a sense of security.
It's a pity that although this world is full of mystery, the lack of consciousness of the World Tree has led to a significant decrease in stability and a significant increase in fragility - otherwise, the Chaldeans, who have not encountered a special summer spot where they can play to their heart's content for hundreds of years, should have secretly followed their spirit transfer into Teyvat and gone to Maple Stage.
"The goddess of justice and law always blinds herself and takes up the scales and sword." Solomon thought of the spirit base recorded in the spirit base atlas that was closer to integrating all the characteristics of the goddess of justice, and asked Egolia with a smile, "I wonder what Maple Dan's court looks like?"
"Justice cannot be tarnished, just like pure water cannot have impurities." Egolia looked at the waterfall falling in the distance, "As long as I violate the laws of Maple Dan, I will be sent to the court and wait for them to use the law to make a fair and selfless judgment - I heard that Sumi is a country of wisdom..."
"Suppose the world of Teyvat is a complete cycle." Solomon followed Egolia to the waterfall and saw various ornamental fish in the water. He gave Egolia the answer she needed before she asked, "Then water brings life, and naturally it also takes life away - not in the sense of drowning and death, but in the sense of merging into one, but still having consciousness."
"Just like a fire will go out, but its embers can be reignited."
"I heard from Barbatos that you rejected Etna's invitation to fight. Do you have any black tea? Please add some honey to it, thank you." Egolia asked the spirit of the pot floating at the junction of various regions for a drink, and it was soon satisfied. "The embers are rekindled... I think Etna will like this statement very much."
——That's great. Although he already knew that except for the two from Liyue and Mondstadt, everyone else had a common name to walk in the world, but for Solomon, looking at this group of beings in front of him who shared the same name as his familiars but were completely different, he just wanted to be thankful that he listened to the arrangement of the world consciousness and threw the familiars to the students who stayed in Chaldea in advance.
“How did this news spread so quickly?” Solomon’s face showed the same surprise as Roman’s. “I thought you knew because you were closest to it?”
"After all, that guy is the god of wind - he is said to be everywhere where the wind blows." Egolia took a sip of black tea elegantly and pointed to another area. "If you want to find him, just go that way - Barbatos just stole some wine from Morax's wine cellar, and he should be hiding and drinking now."
"It seems that if I hold a banquet like this again in the future, I should bring him a bottle of Sumi's specialty..." Solomon smiled slightly, "But I think you all can't accept the taste, so I'll just bring him a bottle as a token of my appreciation."
Solomon followed the direction pointed by Egolia and walked through a cherry blossom forest. He saw Barbatos, who was telling a story to the god of thunder who had come from afar, while drinking wine. It seemed that the god of wind had drunk a lot. The empty wine jars beside him were probably piled up higher than him. However, his eyes were still clear, and he would pluck the strings of his harp when he was excited...
Then he saw Solomon walking through the cherry blossom forest.
"Solomon!" Barbatos, who looked smaller than Etna, waved happily at Solomon. "We are exchanging stories. Do you want to join us?"
"If we want to exchange stories, wouldn't it be better to wait until there are more people? Besides, in this world, is there any place that the wind cannot reach?" Solomon came to sit opposite Barbatos and Thor, nodded to Thor, "I am Solomon of Sumi. Besides, I haven't met the God of Ice yet, it's not good to forget about that child."
“Inazuma, Raiden Shin.” Raiden Shin ate a piece of Liyue snack brought by the pot spirit with a smile, “That child has been living in a place with ice and snow, but Jinmei seems to be different from her fellow citizens. I saw her earlier at the place where the pot spirits put the small animals. If I’m not mistaken by the expression on her face, she will probably stay there until the banquet starts.”
"I see." Solomon nodded, and took out a beautifully crafted snack from a box placed on the cotton cloth on the ground, "The shape of cherry blossoms..."
"Ah, those are Inazuma snacks made by Huling." Raidenzhen smiled and introduced the whole box of Inazuma snacks to Solomon. "The snack you picked up has sweet bean paste inside. The snacks in this box are usually eaten with Inazuma tea. There are special utensils for eating with them."
Solomon: "Inazuma's tea and snacks..."
Hearing this, Solomon recalled the anomaly investigation many years ago when two Chaldeans collided—the Tea Ceremony Battle of Yamatai…
Although he did not participate in the exploration of the singularity as Solomon that time, nor did he wait for Ritsuka Fujimaru's return in the control room as Roman, after the singularity ended, he saw Ritsuka Fujimaru coming to the infirmary with shaking hands - and the God of Medicine was so calm that he cruelly gave a judgment of overactivity, and then Roman learned about the situation of this singularity from Ritsuka Fujimaru.
The two Chaldean overlords, despite having only two people and many Heroic Spirits in this Yamatai Kingdom anomaly, still fought against Matcha almost to the point of vomiting under Sen no Rikyu's hands in order to collect the materials needed by the Heroic Spirits.
"Ah, I know a little bit about tea ceremony myself." Raiden Zhen had already asked Hu Ling for the tools to make tea, and sat upright, ready to make matcha for the two colleagues in front of him. "If you don't mind, can you appreciate my tea ceremony? And drinking too much alcohol is not good either - Mr. Barbatos."