A dull boom rang out, as though an underground water pipe somewhere nearby had burst. Amid the broken walls and rubble, surging water broke through its barriers and erupted from the ground, scattering through the air before falling back down under gravity.
One spot after another—before long, a small circle of "rain" had formed around Xi Wang.
He could feel Gabriel's genes stirring within his body, while the delicate fragrance of lilies lingered at the tip of his nose.
Following the scent, he shifted his gaze and saw a bouquet of lilies placed atop a broken wall not far away.
He stepped forward and picked them up, but the instant he did, the lilies quietly dissipated into droplets of watery blue.
It seemed as though joyful fanfares sounded by his ears, and yet also like a woman's murmurs.
The Gabriel genes within his body began to stir restlessly. The moisture in the surroundings grew ever more abundant, and the "rain" that had initially remained only around Xi Wang unknowingly expanded farther outward.
The gold in his pupils spread a little wider, while the three remaining "marks" on his body surged rapidly like rushing currents.
Accordingly, the aura around Xi Wang grew increasingly dangerous, increasingly closer to that Honkai Beast—Gabriel.
But none of that mattered now.
"This way... yes, that's right."
After confirming the direction, the water around him began gathering along Xi Wang's line of sight. Tiny transparent droplets rapidly converged, ultimately forming a blue "river" in midair that wound continuously forward.
He stepped forward into that azure "river," and his body was swept along by the rapidly flowing "water," vanishing from the spot in an instant.
The scattered water around him paused briefly, then seemed to finally react as it chased after Xi Wang.
Like schools of fish swimming