Chapter 347

The St. Elmo's fire that shone in the night sky went out - the brother left his sister again, just as he had lost his immortality after his fall from God to man.

The sister fell into a deep sleep, and the brother who lost the power of the stars returned to the human world and began his own journey.

Starting from the desert, Castor followed the traces of the dark disaster pouring into this world. The connection with the control room had long been cut off by the law of nature. Castor could only rely on that vague feeling and memory to confirm that Pollux did exist in this world, in order to suppress his impulse as a revenger to let this world be destroyed.

"...Based on Castor's route, Kanreya's location is roughly in Xumi - it should be underground in the desert area." Kirshtalia watched Roman drag the progress bar of the video back to the starting point again, and stretched out his hand to smooth the map of Teyvat on the table. "So, Castor's first stop is the rain forest or the sea of ​​flowers?"

"I tend to go to the rain forest first. The first and second stops must be Maple Leaf and the rain forest, but the specific order is uncertain." Lansemello touched his chin and turned to look at Kirshtalia. "You should still remember the historical research we did in Maple Leaf before, right?"

"Ah... what kind of records did Lord see on those murals and ruins?" Kirshtalia felt a little strange when he recalled the research report of three papers he made directly in front of Marisbury after he came back. "We haven't explored the more specific history of other countries-"

"To put it simply, a long time ago, in order to deal with the prophecy of destruction, an organization similar to Chaldea appeared in Maple Stage - of course, all members of this organization were later arrested and put on trial." Lansemello briefly introduced the background and went straight to the point, "I saw the figure of the Princess of the Abyss in their records."

"But there's only one problem - the record is so vague that all we know is that she wasn't personally involved in the incident like she was in Sumi."

"Then I think the rainforest is the first stop of his journey, and also the starting point for him to fall into the abyss. The abyss leaders in my world are men." Roman spread his hands to the two of them, sorting out the current situation. "The traces of the dark disaster are all over the world, but the only ones who clearly have his presence in the records are Fengdan and Xumi..."

"Castor went to the rain forest—" Kirshtalia looked at the projection of Sheba, which had finally returned to normal since Castor appeared in the desert, "He met Lanaro."

"However, even if this is fixed, the Great Compassionate Tree King will fall." Lansemero watched Castor help Lanaro quickly repair the mechanism that controls the weather at a different speed from Chaldea. "The Lanaros are destined to lose their original homeland at this time and move into a dream."

Lanaro fell into a dream, and Castor continued to move forward along the flow of the water vein.

Perhaps there is some special evil taste in the laws of this world - when Castor passed by a statue of the Seven Heavens God, He appeared again and spoke like the narration of a play.

"You noticed a field full of strange red mushrooms. What do you decide?"

Castor looked around as Tenri said, and saw the field filled with a strange atmosphere - but with the Servant's detection ability, he finally locked his sights on a small house built on the edge of the field.

"Although we cannot contact Castor and Pollux due to the requirements of the commission, do you want to hear the results of the detection of the environment near Castor?" Roman opened a report that had just been sent and called Lansemero and Kirshtalia. "There is a female corpse buried under the field, and there are demonic reactions in the hut that Castor paid special attention to."

"Demonic reaction..." Kirshtalia fell into deep thought.

"All the monsters on Teyvat can detect demonic reactions, right?" Lansermello glanced at Roman. "Is there no more specific classification?"

"It will take some time to get a more detailed classification. The question now is why there is a monster in the house." Roman closed the report interface and turned to look at Lansemello. "Do you have any guesses about this situation?"

"I think... if I'm not mistaken, Castor's fire of revenge will burn away the rationality that he barely maintained because Pollux was not around." Lansemero turned his gaze back to the screen, "Wait a minute! Technical team! Make a detailed processing of the forest in the lower left corner of the picture just now - there are people there."

"Hmm..." Castor on the screen had already seen the owner of the field, and Kirshtalia frowned at the man's clothes. "He's from Kanria. The Lord's premonition may be correct - there is a high probability that Castor will lose his reason because of this."

"The image refinement results are out." Roman asked Lansermello, "What do you want to see?"

"A little boring curiosity about the details of the mission - after all, the reason why God accelerated the process was because the twins did not appear at the correct time, and when Dioscuri passed away, Canrea was almost destroyed that day." Lansemero added, "God said that when the time is right, He will use the World Tree to modify the memories of the Canrea people and make Castor's appearance time the correct time."

"But He did not say how to reunite Castor, who was acting alone, with the Abyss Leader's former companions."

"So this figure is the traveling companion - just like Mashu is to Ritsuka?" Kirshtalia asked, her attention drawn to this side.

"That's about right." Lansermello had no intention of continuing to study this in detail, and changed the subject to another direction. "The only thing we know is that they parted ways in the end... According to the results of my reading of the World Tree during the time when I held the Heart of the Grass God, the most obvious reason for the split was that his sister chose the Abyss in the end, while he chose to fight against the Abyss."

"To be honest, I'm more worried about whether Castor can develop a normal relationship with others that can be called a companion." Kirshtalia looked at the screen showing Castor's actions with concern. "Without Pollux, can he really get along with others normally?"

"I don't know, but Castor has to complete this journey with that guy whether he likes it or not." Lansemero crossed his arms and commented on the current situation sarcastically, "Who knows, maybe in the future, when the two of them talk about each other, they will say, 'We are not traveling companions,' 'We are not companions,' 'We are just strangers who happened to walk the same route.'"

“Pollux would have said to Castor, ‘Since they are the same people as the people on that ship, we are companions.’” Roman shrugged helplessly, thinking of the intricate web of relationships in Heroes, like a spider web maze. “However, at most, Pollux would have acknowledged that the two of them were companions in the past, but he wouldn’t have believed that they could still be companions who could live in peace with each other now…”

"I think the term 'peaceful coexistence' has nothing to do with the entire Argonaut crew," Lancer-Mero complained.

"I support the Lord's statement." Kirshtalia immediately stated.

"Should we move the timeline to the future to see what happens, or just follow Castor's perspective?" Roman sighed and asked the two of them.

"Wait a minute... When did Castor get here?!" Kirshtalia looked at the screen and was surprised to see Castor standing under a device that exuded a strong abyss aura. "What just happened?!"

"I'm watching the replay." Roman rewound the progress bar of the mission video bit by bit, and finally sorted out the development of the situation. "While we are talking, Castor has already faced the cognitive shock of non-pure-blooded Kanriya people turning into Hillcholl people, and followed the Kanriya people to explore the secret realm he is in now... This is his second time entering, and the Kanriya people have chosen to give themselves to the abyss."

"It is exactly as the Lord said, 'a very bad development for Castor.'" Kirshtalia sighed and commented pertinently.

"But the situation is better than I expected." Lancer Mello was looking at the Servant status monitoring icon on the computer screen. "I originally thought that Dioscuri's spiritual base would be split because of this incident - that is, Castor would completely lose his rationality and become an Avenger. But now they still have the same spiritual base and are still Saber's rank, so it shouldn't be a big deal..."

At this moment, the "companion who will accompany the leader of the abyss across the continent of Teyvat" that Tianli mentioned officially appeared in front of Castor, who had not yet recovered and whose rationality was still unstable. Castor, who had temporarily lost most of his rationality, took the disc made of sacred steel and fought with the blond adult man who suddenly appeared.

"'It shouldn't be a big deal.'" Roman calmly repeated Lansemello's words, but his hand holding the mug was shaking slightly. "However, generally speaking, even if Castor only had instincts... he wouldn't fight with humans for such a long time, right?"

“His divinity and divine core have been sealed by Heaven. Now he only has the ability to sense Pollux. His physical quality is that of an ordinary person who has been trained for a long time.” Lansermello glanced at the battle situation and replied to Roman. “After all, unlike her brother who is the Adventer, the Princess of the Abyss was judged to be a Teyvatian by the World Tree.”

"In a sense, it's a replica of the past of 'the fall from God to man'." Kirshtalia sighed, turning her attention back to Castor. "But, in a sense, is this a strange tradition of the Argo? Except for the captain doctor and the witch lady, the other crew members have fought each other several times."

"...In short, after such a battle, Castor and this man named Dainsleb, who used to be the captain of the Kanria Palace Guard, set out on a journey to Maple Stage together--" Goldruf looked at the three people waiting for him to take over with great distrust, "Is this record really correct!?!"

"No problem, as long as Castor doesn't turn into Avenger and kill everyone."

Roman, Lancermello, and Kirshtalia exchanged glances, then smiled and answered Goldruf, who was to take over the next shift.