"My King, Geo Lord, you're back!" Mountain Shaper sounded rather excited at the arrival of Xiu Yuan and Morax.
"Yes. How did things go on your end?" Morax asked.
"We were just about to tell you! We killed the Demon God that invaded Liyue!" Cloud Retainer announced as though showing off, though there seemed to be something else mixed into her boast.
"You killed it?!" Morax asked in astonishment.
He remembered that Xiu Yuan had only taught them some evasive techniques, nothing that actually involved fighting.
And they had still managed to kill a Demon God?!
How weak must that Demon God have been?
At the sight of Morax's shocked expression, the Adepti all broke into strange smiles.
They couldn't help it. That scene had been utterly ridiculous.
"Why don't you guess how we killed the Demon God, Geo Lord?" Skybracer asked, taking some pleasure in keeping him in suspense.
"How did you kill it? With mechanisms?"
"Nope."
"Not mechanisms? Then it must have been elemental power."
"Not that either."
Now Morax was truly baffled.
Other than elemental power, the Adepti had their Mechanism Arts. What else was there?
They didn't use weapons or anything, either. Surely it hadn't been crushed to death by a rock?
"Then I have no idea." Morax gave up guessing.
"Hehe, stumped, aren't you? It choked to death!" Cloud Retainer seemed quite excited as she revealed the secret.
"Choked to death?" Morax stared blankly and froze on the spot, seemingly unable to comprehend such a way to die.
Although they had expected this reaction from Morax, seeing it for themselves was still highly entertaining.
"Actually, it choked to death on little Ganyu. When we went to fight the Demon God..."
As the Adepti took turns recounting the story, Morax finally understood the whole sequence of