Thunder God's Rampage

Raiden Ei's cold yet seething will suppressed the Raiden Shogun's desire to continue eternity within her heart, leaving not the slightest ripple behind.

After her fury subsided, Raiden Ei's expression was terrifyingly cold. Aside from her still bloodshot eyes, her will was calmer and more ruthless than Snezhnaya's frigid cold.

Raiden Ei turned into a streak of lightning and returned to Tenshukaku.

"Miko, come to Tenshukaku immediately."

Upon suddenly hearing that familiar voice in the Shrine, Yae Miko's eyes widened.

The gloom in her heart dissipated considerably at once.

"Ei, you've finally come out! Have you finally remembered this familiar of yours?"

A delighted expression appeared on Yae Miko's face, and even her steps became much lighter.

However...

That ease vanished the moment she finally faced the long-absent Thunder God, Beelzebul!

The moment she faced the blood-red eyes that seemed ready to bleed.

That unprecedented, boiling killing intent made even Yae Miko's fur stand on end...

In the end, Yae Miko had miscalculated.

She was the Thunder God's familiar, Inazuma's great yokai, a fox immortal!

But she had ultimately failed to fully understand the deeply rooted love a god held for their people!

She had never imagined that the Thunder God would use the authority of an Archon to pore through every detail of Inazuma's past five hundred years, bit by bit!

She had never imagined that what the Thunder God saw through those blood-red eyes were the death throes of the people she regarded as treasures—millions, even tens of millions of them...

They had died helplessly while praying to her, the Thunder God, for aid!

These memories had nearly driven the Thunder God mad!

If Beelzebul had not held the status of an Archon...

If Beelzebul had not possessed the undying will tempered through a thousand years of honing her blade...

If Beelzebul had not wielded the Authority of Eternity...

All these reasons allowed Beelzebul to forcibly restrain her rampaging emotions and enter a state of absolute coldness...

Otherwise, Beelzebul, Inazuma's Thunder God, would already have raised her butcher's blade and unleashed a monstrous slaughter from top to bottom!

"Miko, you're here."

Raiden Ei's tone seemed as calm and unchanging as usual.

Yet as the Thunder God's familiar, Yae Miko felt as though she had been plunged into an ocean of blood.

The words she had intended to say—the grievances she wanted to voice, the desire to make her presence known—could no longer leave her mouth.

"Ei, did something happen?"

Yae Miko cautiously asked.

"What happened..."

Raiden Ei closed her eyes slightly, trying to calmly explain everything to her only familiar, but...

"Hehehe... Hahahaha..."

As the words reached her lips, Raiden Ei's mind finally sank completely into the resentment of countless Inazuman people in their final moments. With a crazed expression, she said, "Five hundred years! A full five hundred years!"

"Inazuma's people, Inazuma's children—over ten million of them—were praying to me in agony before they died!"

"But in the Sanctum of Euthymia, I heard nothing!"

"I answered nothing. I betrayed their trust!"

Blood-colored tears finally streamed from the corners of Raiden Ei's eyes. "...I deserve to die ten thousand times over!!"

Yae Miko was pinned in place by Raiden Ei's sudden rampage, the crushing pressure like the sky itself collapsing nearly grinding her to pieces!

At that moment, looking at the bloody tears at the corners of the Thunder God's eyes, Yae Miko finally understood that this was truly disastrous!

The Thunder God...

Had gone berserk!

When she was young, the previous Thunder God and many of her elders had suddenly died. This left Yae Miko without much guidance and caused her to miss out on many secret inheritances.

And among them, the most important was—

Gods love their people!

The sudden thunderstorm sweeping across the skies of all Teyvat shocked countless people.

The strength of the Thunder God, Beelzebul, was beyond doubt.

She was a true victor who had fought her way out of the Archon War!

Her strength was simply beyond what second-generation Archons such as the Hydro Archon and the Pyro Archon could imagine.

In the past, she had needed to devote a large portion of her strength to resisting the Law of Erosion.

But now, how could the maddened Beelzebul still care about such minor erosion?

"Pfft!"

Barbatos, who had been lost in thought, jolted and hurriedly turned into a gust of wind, flying into the sky.

Sensing the frenzied will within the thunder, he sprayed out the fine wine that had been about to enter his throat.

"Why did Beelzebul suddenly go mad?!"

"Lord Barbatos, did you say the Thunder God has gone mad?"

Diluc rushed out of the tavern. He had been staring in horror at the thunder that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth, but upon hearing the God of Wind's shocked words, he immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.

Never before had he felt, from such close range, the terrifying oppressive force of an Archon!

With just a single bolt of lightning, the Thunder God could strike him dead directly from the distant land of Inazuma!

And that required only one bolt of lightning!

However.

What existed in the sky now was far more than merely a single bolt of lightning.

Diluc could sense that if the Thunder God so wished, the boundless sea of thunder could erase all of Mondstadt in an instant!

And now, the Thunder God who could wipe out Mondstadt with a wave of her hand had gone mad!

In Liyue, Morax, who was holding a meeting with the Immortals, the Qixing and Eight Gates, raised his head and gazed silently at the thunder in the sky.

Unlike Barbatos, who had only just awakened from his slumber.

Morax's injuries had not been severe, and he remained awake for most of the time.

Though he had not paid particular attention to Inazuma, he still knew quite a bit about what was happening there.

Therefore.

Morax actually had some guesses as to why the Thunder God was so enraged.

I only hope this old friend can rein in her emotions, lest she delay the major event that is about to arrive...

Morax felt somewhat concerned.

Unlike the God of Wind and the Geo Archon, who were merely surprised by the reason for the Thunder God's fury.

The Cryo Archon, Hydro Archon, and Pyro Archon felt their hearts pound wildly before this power that seemed capable of toppling the heavens.

Though they were all Archons, the power wielded by the Thunder God was worlds apart from theirs!

Even the Cryo Archon, whose power was somewhat greater and who had inherited most of the previous Cryo Archon's strength, wore an incomparably solemn expression.

As for the Hydro Archon Furina and the Pyro Archon Marivik, their hearts pounded even more fiercely.

"If I had such power too, why would I need to devise any suicide plan?"

Feeling the thunderstorm that seemed capable of drowning everything, Furina's eyelids twitched violently. "What Fontaine prophecy? I'd just cut it down with a single strike!"

Marivik, the Pyro Archon of Natasha, also fell silent.

Before becoming an Archon, Furina had at least been one of Egeria's strongest Oceanid retainers, with strength at least on the level of an Immortal.

Before taking office as the Pyro Archon, however, Marivik had merely been an ordinary Genshin Vision holder who had passed through a ritual.

Now that she compared them, she felt that the two of them did not seem to exist on the same level at all...