"First, extract the physical information."
Wu Yi brought the pinch of ashes in his hand up to his eyes. His spiritual eye opened a crack, the vertical line on his forehead parting slightly before closing again.
The information remaining in the ashes was fragmentary. Electro had burned away most of the cellular structure, but the Power of Abundance had never needed intact cells to read the information of a living being. He only needed the faintest trace, an outline-even a slight causal connection was enough.
Wu Yi put the ashes back on the ground, then bent down, holding one hand over the pile and pointing the other at an empty space nearby.
He then began to draw upon the vast Power of Abundance. Green light seeped from his palm, rapidly reading everything in the ashes that could be called Rosalyne's life information. At the same time, a great amount of the Power of Abundance flowed from his other hand, beginning to construct a new body from scratch.
Bones, blood vessels, organs, muscles, skin, hair... Rosalyne's body parts grew out of thin air under the nourishment of the Power of Abundance, looking both eerie and sacred in the rich, pale green glow.
After about a dozen seconds, Rosalyne's body had been reconstructed. It lay on the ground, its heart beating again and its chest rising and falling.
Even so, she was still nothing more than an empty shell.
Next, Wu Yi still needed to fish her soul back.
Wu Yi pointed one hand deep into the ground, and a great mouth full of fangs grew in his palm.
An invisible suction spread from his palm and rapidly reached deep beneath Teyvat. After a few breaths, Wu Yi forcibly sucked Rosalyne's soul up from underground once more.
Then he slammed the hand holding Rosalyne's soul onto the newly constructed body, forcibly stuffing her soul inside.
The body suddenly trembled. In the next instant, Rosalyne's eyes flew open, and she sprang to her feet with a shrill cry:
"No, you can't kill me! I'm an envoy from Snezhnaya! If you kill me, the Fatui will make your Inazuma-"
"To be honest, those last words of yours really made you sound like a small fry. If I go to Snezhnaya someday and someone asks me what your last words were, I really won't know how to answer."
Hearing the sudden sound of the man's voice, tinged with amusement, Rosalyne froze.
Only then did she finally come to her senses and realize that the figure before her was not the deep-blue figure wielding a long blade that had terrified her, but another handsome young man, smiling as he watched her.
"...Wu Yi? Why are you here? Where's the Raiden Shogun?"
Rosalyne had finally recovered from her intense fear, though her chest was still heaving. She widened her eyes and asked in some confusion.
"The Shogun went down below to pursue the Traveler." Wu Yi glanced at her still-heaving chest and smiled. "As for why I'm here... naturally, I came to fish you back."
"Fish me back...?"
Rosalyne stared blankly for a moment. After hesitating for a few seconds, she suddenly understood.
"Wait, you mean what I just saw wasn't a hallucination? The Raiden Shogun really killed me?"
"That's right." Wu Yi nodded. "Just like that, you were thoroughly dead. You were even reduced to ashes."
"So you mean you can bring even the dead back to life?!"
Rosalyne suddenly grew excited. She hurried over to Wu Yi and gripped his shoulders tightly with both hands, bringing her face almost against his.
"What about someone from five hundred years ago? Can you bring someone from five hundred years ago back to life?!"
"In theory, I suppose so," Wu Yi said after some thought. "But there are two requirements. One is to find whatever remains of that person's body in the world, even if it's only ashes. The other is to find his soul."
"As for the body, although the Electro Archon reduced you to ashes with one slash, I could still reconstruct your body from them. But I was able to fish your soul back because it hadn't been completely absorbed by the Ley Lines yet. That's how I was able to revive you."
"But as for someone from five hundred years ago... even if you could find his ashes, where would you find his soul?"
Rosalyne froze at his words.
She staggered back two steps and murmured in a daze:
"That's right... it's been five hundred years... where could I find any trace of him now?"
Seeing her looking so lost, Wu Yi thought for a moment, then suddenly reminded her:
"Um, before you think about all that, how about finding yourself something to wear first?"
At his words, Rosalyne went completely still.
Only then did she suddenly realize something she should have noticed long ago.
No wonder she had felt, ever since a little while ago, that the Tenshukaku seemed a little colder than before.
"Let me make one thing clear first," Wu Yi added. "The one who burned you and everything on you to ashes was the Raiden Shogun. If you don't believe me, look at that pile of ashes by your feet. That broken Delusion and iron crown are the last things left of what you had on you... And although I used your genes to regenerate a body for you, clothes can't grow along with it. That's easy enough to understand, right?"
Rosalyne had no time to reply. She immediately wrapped one arm across her chest and reached down with the other hand, covering everything that needed covering at once. Then she made her way behind a pillar in the Tenshukaku with an extremely awkward gait.
"Oh, come on, why bother? You could have just said something, and I would have turned around."
Only then did Wu Yi smile and leisurely turn around.
"Wu Yi! You bastard! Why didn't you tell me right away?!"
Rosalyne's voice came through gritted teeth from behind the pillar.
"Hey, I forcibly dragged you back from death," Wu Yi said, his back to Rosalyne and his voice full of innocence. "I never charge for treatment, but surely you don't have to insult the person who saved your life?"
"Besides, you can rest easy. I've performed an astronomical number of surgeries, and I've seen I don't know how many naked bodies more perfect than yours. I really don't care."
"I care! Bastard!"
Whether from cold or anger, Rosalyne's teeth were chattering.
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?! I'll kill you, you lecher!"
"Okay, okay, I know you're upset, but calm down first."
Wu Yi shook his head and said mildly:
"There should be someone even more upset than you right now."
"Listen, here she comes."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire Tenshukaku suddenly darkened.
Then a huge rift appeared in the air. Within it, an enormous crimson eye slowly opened, surrounded by a ring of much smaller crimson eyes.
A faint sigh came from the rift:
"Is it fun to cause me trouble?"