Chapter 350

Many years after the St. Elmo's Fire lit up in the heavenly world, another pair of golden-haired twins finally crossed the sea of ​​stars and arrived in this world. As time passed, this world no longer restricted humans from exploring the outside world, but the story of the "stars" that tore through the sky and guided humans forward is still sung by bards.

"May the fire of St. Elmo tear apart all the gloom."

People from different countries made their wishes under the memorial statue, and then set out on their own journeys one after another. So the newly arrived twins walked to the green-capped troubadour sitting on the edge of the flowerbed surrounding the statue, blending in with the crowd to listen to the poet plucking the strings of his harp and telling stories that happened in an even more distant time.

"A long, long time ago, a pair of lovers crossed the sea of ​​stars and arrived in Teyvat."

"The elder brother holds a disc made of starlight, and the younger sister holds a sword made of light.

They were dressed in white clothes similar to the fairies of ancient times, and they descended from the sky into the godless kingdom underground.

From that moment on, the twins' brilliance was split into two halves.

The sister fell into a deep sleep, and the brother was pushed on a journey by a sudden curse.

The branch picker of a fallen country traveled through the seven kingdoms with his brother who was given the title of "Prince"——

In Sumi, they saw the people of their homeland transformed into monsters under the curse;

He also saw in Fengdan that the man who tried to save the world was drawn into the dark abyss instead;

…………

Finally, they broke up where the wind rose.

My brother fell into the dark abyss.

But in the end, he gave the twig gatherers the blessing of St. Elmo's Fire.

"That's all for today - I'll tell you about my sister tomorrow!" The young bard smiled as he jumped down from the flowerbed and winked at the audience. "If you need an encore, Mora or a bottle of dandelion wine from Mondstadt's Dawnbrewery would be a good reward."

The bard disappeared in front of everyone like a gust of wind, leaving the audience looking up at the huge statue.

Different from the statues of the Seven Gods that were created by the power of the earth in the past, and also different from the statue of the God of Wind that has remained intact in Mondstadt to this day - the twins, as travelers, found a stone tablet near the statue that recorded the history of the statue's construction, which explained the colorful reasons why this statue had such a colorful origin.

The person who erected the monument seemed to be one of the people involved, and he recorded the conversations that took place when the statue was erected in a way that later recorders would never use.

——This monument is dedicated to those of us who survived the Sky Island War.

"The pair who cleared the way for us eventually turned into light and disappeared. No one could find their trace - but watching Dainsleb, the last of the Kanreyan, turn into dust in front of our eyes was also quite shocking, so we discussed and decided to build a memorial site for the three people.

——Of course, it is mainly to commemorate Dioscuri.

Dainsleb never wanted ordinary people to notice him, but the scholars from the Sumi Order argued the necessity of preserving records - so we encrypted his name with elemental power, and ordinary people can only see "Gatherer" as a reference to him.

In short, for various reasons, we decided to erect a statue of Dioscuri where the Skye fell.

The work of carving was given to Kavi, a great architect from the Myo-ron School of the Ordinary Court. The seven gods who had lost their thrones did not participate in our discussion. Some died in the war, and some fled to an unknown place.

Therefore, even though the Seven Gods are no longer gods, when they are not around, even though we have fought side by side, the people of the Seven Kingdoms are still prone to quarrels - the progress of the statue is slow, and that is also the reason why we have to quarrel every day in meetings. Xumi's chief secretary, Elhaisen, has already canceled several days of meetings.

Finally, after Kavi selected the right stone from Liyue, Nata's warriors overwhelmed everyone else and decided to build a statue with bright colors.

The Nata people love graffiti and have lively personalities. I once heard the Fools’ executive officer of Solstice complain that they wanted to turn every place they visited into colorful graffiti. However, the dragon hunter who returned to the human world because of the resurrection poem quickly responded coldly, “If you need it, as long as you pay enough, even the frozen fields of Solstice can be covered with graffiti for you.”

——Honestly speaking, as a recorder, I really want to see the scene where Winter Solstice is covered with graffiti.

However, in the end, it was Kavi himself who rejected the idea of ​​painting the sculpture after it was completed.

The great architect himself said:

"Of course we can make colored sculptures, but if we use paint to color them, they won't last long in an outdoor environment. I'll go see if there are any stones that are large enough and meet our color requirements..."

If it weren't for Ningguang of Liyue's Tianquanxing and Master Diluk of Mondstadt who stepped in quickly, our talented architect would probably have to go into debt again to do the project. Mr. Tadalia, the CEO of the Fatui, wanted to tell Kavi that he could use the money of the Northland Bank, but he was glared at by his colleague who actually controlled the Northland Bank and shut up.

"You've been in debt to do a project. I thought you wouldn't do that again after what happened at Casa Zaragoza."

This is what Secretary Sumi, who rarely attended the meeting, said.

So we collected gold, sapphire, obsidian, pure white marble, marble the color of human skin—and finally blue crystal to carve into the statue's eyes.

The great architect's skill in carving was also great - Dioscuri's robes, carved from pure white marble, rippled softly as if blown by the wind; gold and gems were made into their discs and swords, reflecting a dazzling light in the sun; and finally, the clear blue crystals at the eyes were as bright as the twins' real eyes.

However, because everyone was working hard to restore Dioscuri's posture at the beginning, we ignored the issue of gravity to a certain extent.

Yes, it was not until we joined every part of the sculpture together that we realized that statues are different from people - people can stand well with clothes on because the clothes do not weigh much; but the clothes of the statue are also stone. Without enough support points underneath, our statue will simply fall down and break into pieces after standing up.

However, at this time, the Dragon Hunter who had ridiculed the Fatui Executive offered help for free - strictly speaking, there was also some technical support from the House of Lords and the Maple Stage Institute of Science - in short, Kinich used the grass elemental power to stand up the statue steadily, and the technology of the House of Lords and the Institute of Science ensured that the grass elemental power that kept the statue standing could continue to be stable.

——As for the maintenance of the agency?

"The statue will need regular maintenance anyway, so why not just combine the maintenance work of the agencies together?"

So says the Winter Fool's Executive Officer.

Most people have no objection to this arrangement, because there are indeed immortal species among our meeting members who can guarantee the stable maintenance rules for hundreds or thousands of years - even if most people, including me, will not be able to stand under this statue after a hundred years, Lord Villette and Inazuma's Thunder General can do it.

As for the one from the Sumi Order Institute... although I heard that he was a puppet similar to the Thunder General, he always gave people a dangerous feeling - in short, except for those people from the Order Institute who could face him without any scruples, we avoided him most of the time.

Then there is the question of decoration.

Flower beds, fountains, flags, street lights, fences - everyone had different proposals, so the great architect, who was not good at making decisions, just drew the renderings, and the decision-making work was left to the members who were good at making fair judgments.

After a long period of discussion, the maple-themed decoration effect won - but what kind of flowers should be planted in the flowerbed?

Some say that Intivat of Kanreya should be planted - but Intivat had already perished along with Kanreya.

Some people also say that one flower from each country should be selected as a representative and planted in the flowerbed - just like Mondstadt uses Cecilia, Liyue uses Glazed Lily, and Sumi uses Patisalan.

"What about Inazuma, Nata and Solitary Winter?"

This plan caused dissatisfaction among the Inazuma people, the Nata people and the Dongdong people - in addition to the fact that there were really no flowers in Dongdong in the Far North, the Inazuma cherry blossoms and the Nata flowers were not suitable for being planted in flower beds.

The final winning plan was proposed by perfumer Amelie - to directly blend the scent of Intivat with different flowers.

Unlike blending perfume, this plan requires her to make these flowers blend directly into the scent of Intivat when they bloom - and our impression of Intivat is only the two flowers worn on the head of his sister Pollux.

Fortunately, she succeeded.

"…Reporter Charlotte from the Maple Stage Steamer." The younger sister read out the last signature on the stone tablet and looked up at the huge statue that carried a heavy history. "Where is the first stop of our trip, brother?"

"I think, how about we follow the journey of the twins, Xiao?" her brother asked her.

Time goes back to the day when Dioscyri turned into light and disappeared from Teyvat. Chaldea immediately implemented the disengagement procedure after Dioscyri returned. Chaldeas and Sheba, which were used to observe other worlds, were shut down, and everyone gathered in the largest conference room - just like many, many years ago, before the beginning of the human freeze, when all the members of Chaldea gathered in the control room.

"...Okay, let me first talk about Mr. Asclepius's conclusion." Fujimaru Ritsuka took a deep breath, walked up to the podium, and spoke to a much larger crowd than before, "After returning from the Velvet Town anomaly, Senior Kirshtalia's data has reached a critical point that is enough for him to be upgraded to 'Sky' - in other words, our journey is about to come to an end."

"But our magic reserve is still a certain gap. According to Da Vinci's calculations, completing the two commissions originally selected as alternative tasks will meet the target. Therefore, considering the peculiarity of the world where one of the commissions is located, Mr. William and Mr. Sherlock submitted additional applications to complete their records and add companions."

"Next, please listen to the detailed report on this proposal."