Seeing that Keqing wanted to join them, Lumine and Paimon did not refuse. After all, she was their employer, and if anything happened, Keqing was quite capable. An extra fighter was always good.
Thus, guided by clues from Elemental Sight, Lumine began pursuing the trail westward. Keqing followed behind her, occasionally surveying their surroundings.
Meanwhile, Ningguang, standing near the giant vishap, watched the three leave with a smile. No one knew what she was thinking, nor did she send anyone after them.
Instead, she turned her attention to the giant vishap beside her.
"This giant vishap was at least a thousand years old. We never found it before, so it must have lived somewhere underground. Unfortunately, it is completely dead now. Still, perhaps that is for the best. If it had stayed alive and one day reached Liyue Harbor to wreak havoc, the losses would have been enormous."
"Such an ancient vishap, and clearly a mutated one at that—the materials on its body are quite valuable. Since it is already dead... let it serve its final purpose!"
With traces of a thousand years of history and a mutated vishap of such immense size, Ningguang saw nothing less than a glittering mountain of Mora.
It was practically a fortune picked up for free...
"Someone!"
"Lady Ningguang!" The surrounding Millelith hurriedly answered.
"Transport this vishap back to Liyue Harbor."
Whether it was put on display or dismantled to collect valuable materials, this vishap was undoubtedly worth a great deal.
Even its unappetizing meat could, with Ningguang's promotional planning, be sold to wealthy merchants visiting Liyue for an astronomical sum of Mora.
Meat from a thousand-year-old creature—if Ningguang claimed it contained substances that prolonged life, it would not exactly be a lie, would it?
"...Yes."
They could not refuse Ningguang's order, but as