All of Teyvat Offers a Bounty for the Knight of Boreas!

Damn it, who was behind this?

Istaroth?

Rhinedottir?

Could the Heavenly Principles be screwing me over?

Mo Fan's mind was in utter turmoil.

Looking back, he had been just as bewildered and lost when he first transmigrated to Teyvat.

He had originally been an ordinary college student, slacking off and watching videos every day while tutoring little brats.

Then one day, while riding his electric scooter home, a big truck had come charging straight at him. By the time he came to his senses, he was in the world of Teyvat, and he had even acquired the damned A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation System.

Because of the system, Mo Fan had been forced to reincarnate in Teyvat again and again, facing completely different circumstances and situations each time.

As for the world of Genshin Impact, Mo Fan couldn't claim to know much about it. If anything, he knew next to nothing.

He had been busy enough with classes and part-time work, after all. He could only log in each day to play a few events and collect rewards. There was no way he could have been like those Genshin lore experts, who knew the timeline of the entire world inside out and left no scrap of text unexplored.

As a result, his early transmigrations had been agonizing. Several times, he had died before even reaching adulthood.

Only later did he finally learn the rules of survival and figure out how to gain strength. At last, he gradually became capable of protecting himself, and even of changing the world.

From the lands of the War of Funerary Flame, to the ruins of the Archon War, and then to the age of The Seven Archons...

He had traveled all the way from those ancient days to the modern era, doing far too many things and changing far too many chains of cause and effect along the way.

But none of that had anything to do with him anymore.

To him, the stories of those hundred reincarnations were nothing more than one vivid dream after another.

In the end, everything had to return to reality.

Now he was just an ordinary tenant in Mondstadt, with a spoiled girlfriend who was both lazy and ill-tempered, and he had to worry about making a living.

Compared with all that messy business in the past, he needed to get back and make dinner first.

But just as Mo Fan was about to leave, a troublesome figure appeared before him.

Dark-skinned, dressed in flamboyant clothes, with an eyepatch over his right eye and an expression that was impossible to read.

The cavalry captain of the Knights of Favonius, Kaeya.

"Oh, if it isn't Master Mo Fan. Has work been going well lately?"

"Not bad."

Despite Kaeya's outwardly friendly greeting, Mo Fan didn't dare let his guard down in the slightest.

After all, he knew exactly how dangerous the man was.

If he wasn't careful, Kaeya might even dig up the color of his underwear.

In fact, ever since he had arrived in Mondstadt, the cavalry captain had come to probe him repeatedly. Clearly, he didn't regard him as an ordinary foreign immigrant.

"Hehe, glad to hear it's going all right." Sure enough, Kaeya's appearance this time was no coincidence either. "Speaking of which, did you see that new video on the Teyvat video site? The story about the first Knight of Boreas."

"I just started it, but I didn't finish."

"That's a shame. A video that wonderful deserves to be watched carefully from beginning to end. Better yet, you should watch it four or five times."

"Then have the Knights of Favonius watch it."

"I'm already arranging a group viewing for the Knights of Favonius."

"You can't be serious..."

Mo Fan nearly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

That was his embarrassing past, after all.

Who could understand the feeling of having the dirt from his old days of "lofty ambition" put up on a big screen for everyone to enjoy?

He might as well smash his head against a block of tofu and die!

As Mo Fan grew more and more miserable, to the point that he desperately wanted to die, Kaeya watched him and ventured, "Come to think of it, ever since your first day in Mondstadt, Master Mo Fan, I've had the feeling there was something unusual about your identity... Is it possible that you're the Knight of Boreas from the video?"

"Then I'd go be the Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius right now. Why would I need to come out and buy groceries myself?"

"Fair point."

Kaeya nodded.

Most people really wouldn't expect someone with such tremendous strength and a powerful background to end up as an utterly ordinary, low-ranking adventurer at the Adventurers' Guild, working busily every day just to earn a pittance.

But Mo Fan really was exactly that sort of person.

After all, over the course of his hundred reincarnations, he had reached the very peak countless times and fallen to rock bottom just as often.

Worldly status and power had long since lost all appeal to him. He would rather add some extra cumin to his cooking that evening.

As Mo Fan pondered what to make for dinner, he suddenly noticed Kaeya sigh.

"Ah, to tell you the truth, Mo Fan, I really wish you were the Knight of Boreas right now. Then we Knights of Favonius wouldn't have to keep worrying about this."

"Worrying? What's wrong with the Knights?"

"It's all because of that video..."

Kaeya was about to explain when a commotion broke out in Mondstadt's plaza.

Before he and Mo Fan could react, they saw a large number of the Knights of Favonius gathering. Even Acting Grand Master Jean had come in person.

In front of a camera that had already been set up, Acting Grand Master Jean personally addressed everyone:

"Regarding the video that began trending today, many people seem to be questioning whether its contents are genuine, suspecting that it might be some kind of fabrication. But I now speak on behalf of the Knights of Favonius and Mondstadt: the contents of that video are absolutely true."

"Although we do not know who made this video, Mondstadt wishes to thank you for exposing the truth of the past and restoring the history of this nation's founding. Moreover, on behalf of the Anemo Archon, I would like to issue a notice to find someone-"

"Mondstadt will search for the reincarnation of the Knight of Boreas. Even if there is only a one-in-a-thousand or one-in-ten-thousand chance, we will find that person at any cost! If anyone can provide a lead, the Knights of Favonius will offer a large sum of Mora as a reward. If anyone can find the Knight of Boreas himself, the Knights will offer a reward of ten million Mora!"

When Acting Grand Master Jean finished speaking, an uproar swept through the crowd.

No one had expected the contents of the video to be true, nor that Mondstadt would stop at nothing to find the Knight of Boreas's reincarnation.

Every bit of it was shocking.

Even to Mo Fan himself, the reincarnation of the Knight of Boreas.

"Ten million Mora? How many Sweet Madames could that buy?!"

A flood of ideas flashed through Mo Fan's mind.

They even included a plan to deliver himself, all wrapped up, to the Knights of Favonius and exchange his body for the bounty.

Yes, he sought neither fame nor power, but the fact was that he really was short on money right now.

With that much Mora, let alone one Ronova, he could easily support a hundred.

And naturally, Mo Fan was not the only one thinking along those lines.

For a time, people throughout Mondstadt and even in the nations across Teyvat were drawn by the astonishing bounty, eager to find the Knight of Boreas's reincarnation at once, claim the reward, and reach the pinnacle of life.

Atop a high platform in Stormterror's Lair, a young bard dressed in green silently played a tune on her lyre.

She gazed at the ruins of Old Mondstadt, unchanged for a thousand years, a clear trace of loneliness and regret flashing in her eyes.

"Another thousand years have passed... yet I'm still waiting for you to come back."

The girl, who had now protected this land as the Anemo Archon for more than two thousand years, had never forgotten the story of those days.

Yet no matter how firmly she remembered their promise, the knight who had made it with her had never returned to this land.

Did he lie to me?

Was his talk of reincarnation nothing more than words to comfort me?

Had his soul long since entered the Ley Lines, vanishing forever?

Though such thoughts crossed her mind from time to time, a trace of conviction remained in the girl's heart.

He hasn't vanished.

He will come back.

All I have to do is keep waiting, even if another thousand years pass, and another after that.

Someday, we'll be reunited...

As the girl thought this, she reached toward the tower before her, as though trying to catch a wisp of the breeze the knight had once left behind.

But at that very moment, a massive azure dragon suddenly rose from the ground and shot into the sky.

"Dvalin... has the seal become unstable?"

The Anemo Archon's eyes widened.

She realized that the deadly poison left behind five hundred years ago had completely consumed Dvalin's mind, driving him mad.

If this continued, he might even attack Mondstadt and bring tragedy upon the city!

I have to stop him!

The Anemo Archon was about to act, but suddenly, all strength seemed to leave her body.

During the cataclysm in Khaenri'ah five hundred years ago, the wind dragon Dvalin had been corrupted by the Abyss, but she too had paid a tremendous price.

Now she no longer had the strength to stop Dvalin at all. She could only watch helplessly as he flew toward Mondstadt, bringing yet another disaster!