"Just a little while ago."
Keqing's pale purple twin tails hung along the curves of her back, their ends brushing her waist as the wind stirred them.
"Childe might have secretly sent someone to follow us and learned where Rex Lapis's divine remains were being kept. He may have gone to steal the Gnosis."
Li Qiuzhi voiced his guess.
"What!"
Although Keqing had heard at the Jade Chamber that the Fatui might try to seize the Gnosis and had made preparations, she had not expected the location of the Geo Archon's divine remains to have been exposed already.
"Although the Golden House is heavily guarded,
"it's still difficult for them to handle someone with the fighting strength of a Fatui Harbinger.
"In my capacity as the Yuheng, I now ask you to accompany me to the Golden House and stop that Harbinger. Would you be willing?"
Keqing solemnly extended the invitation to Li Qiuzhi and the others.
Li Qiuzhi and Lumine exchanged a glance, nodded, and said, "Yes," indicating that they had no objection.
Earlier, he had used the Golden Eye of Conviction to check Childe's level, which was seventy-five. He might be a little stronger after using his Delusion.
Before leveling up, he certainly would not have dared to pick a fight with him.
But Li Qiuzhi was already level sixty-five.
Although there was a ten-level gap, his fighting strength was not necessarily inferior. With the help of Keqing, who was level seventy-three, he was confident he could defeat Childe.
As for Lumine, although she was only level forty-three,
she commanded two types of Elemental Power and had once been able to exchange a few blows with the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.
Presumably, with the three of them there, she could provide support from the sidelines if they clashed