This was Yucheng's first time telling them these secrets about the gods, so the two beautiful young women listened intently, their eyes shining with admiration. All they lacked were notebooks to take notes in, and Yucheng thoroughly enjoyed the process.
And so, without realizing it, Yucheng told them more about the historical accounts and records of Teyvat's Archon War.
There was Havria, the God of Salt, who was meek by nature and constantly ceded territory to protect her people, only to be betrayed by those very people in the end.
There was Decarabian, the God of Storms, who possessed great strength but misunderstood his people's behavior and imposed tyrannical rule.
There were Andrius, the Wolf of the North, and Marchosius, the God of the Stove, who sacrificed all their power to protect the land.
And then there was Sumeru's most controversial figure, King Deshret Al-Ahmar, who possessed both tremendous strength and an ample supply of faith. That such a powerful god, one who could be called [Sumeru's Morax], had failed to emerge victorious from the Archon War was truly lamentable.
Kokomi and Ayaka also took the opportunity to raise a question of their own: which mattered more, one's own strength or the combat power granted by faith? They launched into a heated discussion, drawing on the examples of gods Yucheng had described.
They never suspected that anything Yucheng said might be false, either. After all, his status, position, and strength spoke for themselves, and the historical records and secrets he had access to were worlds apart from theirs.
If Ayaka and Kokomi wanted to research something, they could only piece together the truth bit by bit through written records or the ruins themselves. However, recorded history could itself be wrong, and continuing to reason from flawed historical records could only