"Don't worry! You'll be fine. I'll protect you."
Yae Sakura saw the resistance army's concerns and reassured Sangonomiya Kokomi. She still needed the Sangonomiya Shrine's faith, so she certainly would not let anything happen to her.
Besides, Yae Sakura could tell as well...
The Raiden Shogun did not take the resistance army seriously at all. If not for the Herrscher of Thunder, she would never have come here.
"Thank you very much!"
With Yae Sakura's words, Sangonomiya Kokomi indeed felt much more at ease. At the very least, if the Raiden Shogun attacked them, that Thunder Archon... would help them for Yae Sakura's sake, right?
Probably...
But no matter what, that feeling of helplessness was gone. Before gods, humans truly seemed insignificant.
Take the Vortex god who emerged in Liyue. Even without Rex Lapis, they had managed to drive it back. But that depended on the circumstances.
When the Vortex god awakened, its strength had already fallen to less than a tenth of its original power. Yet even then... so many adepti, the Liyue Qixing, and the Traveler had been unable to do anything about it.
In the end, even Miss Ningguang's painstaking work had been destroyed.
# My Jade Chamber!
A god reduced to less than a tenth of its strength was already so terrifying. If it had been at its peak, could Liyue have stopped it without the Geo Archon stepping in?
The adepti were the same. They simply were not on the same level as gods. Xiao's combat strength was considered exceptionally high among the adepti, yet against that weakened Vortex god, he could only stand there and take hits.
And now, they were facing Thor, one of the Seven! Among gods, the Vortex god could only be considered mid-to-low tier. How terrifying, then, were the Seven