"It's Dvalin." Naturally, no one present would mistake Dvalin for anything else.
"His color looks kind of wrong," Paimon could not help saying.
"He must have been completely corroded by the Abyss." Venti's usual carefree expression turned serious now.
"This must be the outcome Mondstadt would have faced if Lumine and Paimon hadn't come here. I witnessed this ending at the Witch's Coven. Thankfully, this is fictional, so it didn't lead to the worst possible result."
If Lumine had not come to Mondstadt, then what Mondstadt faced probably would not have been as simple as Dvalin being corroded by the Abyss. The Wolf King of Nodrekai might have gotten involved as well. Why had Faruzan still led people on an expedition after learning Mondstadt's situation from the Witch's Coven? It was because he feared they would converge.
"Room."
Shen Fei immediately snapped his fingers, and the group was instantly transferred from Mondstadt's plaza to the city wall by Mondstadt's main gate. There were no monsters nearby, making it just right for resting.
"Can you hear me? The contact function malfunctioned earlier. I just fixed it, and Alice has returned now too. Can you hear me?"
The next moment, a small blue Magic Hat appeared beside the group, and Nicole's voice came from it.
"Nicole, Alice, we can hear you. What exactly is going on?" Paimon answered.
"Alice and I discussed it, and the root of the problem should be that I deleted the part where the Traveler purified the Abyssal Power, and also, uh, filled in and repaired the riddles." Nicole's voice sounded rather guilty.
"Previously, Alice and I believed that all the gameplay content consisted of independent scenes and theoretically wouldn't interfere with one another. But because the foundation of the magic is the same bubble, it seems to