"Uh..."
At the dining table, Zhongli froze just as he was about to pay.
The game had recorded these words:
[All the money that circulates throughout the continent is my flesh and blood.]
[In this way, I serve as a guarantor for all of humanity's hard work, wisdom, and future.]
[This is my trust in all living beings. To betray it is to taint my blood.]
Without question, those words had come from the Geo Archon, Morax.
The currency circulating throughout the continent was named after the [Mora] in the Geo Archon's name, Morax.
Just as the Anemo Archon, Barbatos, called himself [Venti] when he took on a mortal form.
The Geo Archon, Morax, also had a name for his mortal incarnation: [Zhongli].
In theory, as the Geo Archon, Zhongli could casually conjure vast amounts of Mora with his divine power. He was the god of wealth, so money should never have troubled him.
But things were a little different now.
Recently, for certain reasons, he had begun considering stepping down from his divine position.
Yet once he stepped down, some of the powers belonging to the Geo Archon would disappear. For example... he would no longer be able to conjure Mora at will.
Although he had not stepped down yet, as the god of contracts and wealth, he possessed a temperament as steady as stone.
So, even before stepping down, he wanted to rehearse a little for the life that would follow.
Thus, he assumed human form, gave himself the name [Zhongli], and lived in Liyue Harbor as a mortal.
At the same time, he set himself two rules.
First: he could not use his divine powers.
Second: he could not conjure Mora with his divine powers.
However, over the past several thousand years, his ability to conjure Mora