Genshin Impact: Become a heartthrob from Mondstadt

"Everyone has fallen into a deep sleep..." Audrin sat high up in the building and had a clear view of the situation below.

The bright green light came out from every household, and even there was light appearing in the direction of Jingshan Palace.

Audrin opened the system panel and looked at it with a smile on her face.

"Limited-time mission: The existence of the Great Compassion Tree King. Let the world completely forget me? Wishful thinking! Let all the people of Xumi know that they once had a great god of wisdom. Countdown to mission expiration: 4 hours and 6 minutes..."

Phew, luckily I finally caught up.

Audrin swiped the panel and saw the props she was currently using.

"Item: Illusionary Mist is in effect..."

She obtained this item after passing the Karma copy in Liyue. At first, she didn't know what it was used for, but combined with Lanaro's ability, it could just complete the task.

Now, everyone in Xumi City should have seen the video clip she edited in advance.

Audrin was in a good mood, swinging her legs slightly and humming the tune of Big Dream.

......

Nashida keenly sensed something was wrong as soon as she entered the dream.

What is going on? Why are the dreams and consciousness of everyone in the entire Xumi City gathered here?

She was afraid of some danger and hurried to wake up the people of Xumi.

But suddenly, the light dimmed, the background turned pitch black, and she heard her own voice.

"From the moment I was born, I wanted to become a qualified god. To do this, I kept learning, kept listening to the people's voices, and kept looking for ways to save the world tree. I longed to catch up with that figure, the figure of the Great Kind Tree King."

Nashida was stunned for a moment. Who is the Great Kindness Tree King?

Why should I follow in her footsteps?

Nashida began to think out of habit, but before she could come up with any ideas, she heard Ying's voice.

"Nacita!"

Nashida turned her head and saw that the blond traveler was surrounded by her friends and Paimon.

Tinari, Cole, Senor, Nilu, Kavi, Alhaisen, Dishia and Dina Zede...

Why are you here?

Nashida frowned and warned: "Ying, something is wrong here, let's find a way to leave this dream quickly..."

"Nashida!" Ying interrupted Nashida's words, contrary to her usual behavior. She stared at her seriously and said, "Nashida, please take a closer look."

What's the meaning?

When Nashida looked back, the scene had already changed to the Sumeru of five hundred years ago.

Chaotic sky and white dead trees, sick Sumeru and expanding shadows.

A woman's voice echoed in the air.

[Forbidden knowledge is knowledge that does not belong to this world, and is a truth that cannot be understood. It comes from the bottom of the abyss, and even I cannot understand it.]

[The world is constantly rejecting it, but this has also caused the world to have various bad symptoms. If the forbidden knowledge is allowed to continue to pollute the world tree, I am afraid that the entire Teyvat will fall apart. ]

Nilu was shocked when she heard the information contained in the voice: "How can the forbidden knowledge be so serious? Are those people... the Xumi people from 500 years ago? They look so pitiful."

Tinari thought more: "According to her, forbidden knowledge is difficult to eliminate, but 500 years ago, forbidden knowledge was already destroyed by Little Auspicious Grass King..."

Before Tinari could finish his words, the scene they were in changed again.

The huge and dreamy tree occupied all his attention. Even though Tinari's consciousness had never seen the World Tree, he still reacted immediately and realized that this was the World Tree.

A loli who looked exactly like Nashida stood quietly opposite them.

Nashida was astonished. She looked exactly like herself. Could she be the Great Kindness Tree King? But...what on earth was going on?

El Haisen said calmly: "Is she the Great Kindness Tree King?"

Kavi also guessed the same thing, but he couldn't understand why she looked exactly like the little lucky grass king.

The Great Compassion Tree King smiled as if he didn't see them and said, "Yes, that's me. Are you surprised by this appearance? This is a reproduction of the appearance of the World Tree and the earth back then, but it is also a consciousness space after all. Since you and I have the same essence, we also show exactly the same appearance. 】

Seno noticed something: "Is she... talking to Lord Little Jixiang Grass King?"

The Great Compassionate Tree King continued to speak to himself: [Because you are me, I am you, and you are my reincarnation. ]

[As the Great Compassion Tree King, I am the incarnation of the World Tree, and you are the purest branch broken off from the World Tree. It's like... even if the tree dies, the branch will one day take root and grow up, continuing life in another form. The me in front of you is just a trace of consciousness left over from my Great Compassion Tree King. The real me must have died a long time ago, right?]

[Hmm... Judging from your current appearance, I have been dead for about 500 years... You are finally here, my reincarnation.]

This news is so explosive that even if Paimon had a wild imagination, he could never have imagined that the Little Auspicious Grass King was the reincarnation of the Great Compassionate Tree King, or in other words... she was the continuation.

"How is this possible?" Dixia didn't understand at all: "From the beginning to the end, there has only been one god like Little Auspicious Grass King in Xumi. Even a mercenary like me who has not received much education knows such a simple truth."

"Where on earth did this man who calls himself the Great Compassionate Tree King come from?" Dina Zedai, who was standing beside her, felt that her head was about to be overwhelmed by countless questions.

What Elhaisen discovered: "The Great Kindness Tree King claimed that he died 500 years ago, and it was related to the forbidden knowledge. If the forbidden knowledge was cleared by her, then what role did the Little Auspicious Grass King play in this?"

"If Little Auspicious Grass King is really the reincarnation of Great Kindness Tree King, she should not have been born before Great Kindness Tree King died."

But Elhaisen's common sense told him that there was only one god of wisdom named Nashida in Xumi, and this fact had never changed from ancient times to the present.

But everything that was happening before his eyes was telling him that his brain had deceived him. Was his common sense really true and correct?

"If, if the forbidden knowledge from 500 years ago was really cleared by the Great Compassionate Tree King, then why don't we know about such a god? It's impossible that such a big event has no record at all." Nilu felt dizzy.

Yeah, why?

The questions raised by Nilu are also the questions raised by others.

Everyone was silent and looked at the Great Compassion Tree King opposite them.

The Great Kind Tree King smiled: [Although you and I have the same essence, our fates will definitely be different. Everything has its own fate. Just like when a branch grows into a new tree, it can no longer be exactly the same as the original one.]

Nashida whispered: "Destiny... King of the Great Kind Tree, you said that our destiny is different, so what is your destiny? Is it really you who solved the forbidden knowledge? Why have I never known you?"

The Great Kind Tree King: [But you may become a greater god than me, haha. I have seen in you the will that I did not have back then. The future it leads to is your destiny. And that is also the gift brought by everything you have experienced in the past. Don't worry, the growth of wisdom is actually just like the growth of plants. You just need to wait quietly for the flowers to bloom.]

[At that time, I knew that I could not expel the forbidden knowledge by my own strength. So I created a device that integrated human wisdom and named it the Void.]

"The void... was created by the Great Compassionate Tree King?!" Kavi was stunned. If this was true, the Great Compassionate Tree King was indeed a very powerful god.

Different from what Kawi was concerned about, Tinari was thinking: "The void, its original purpose was not to better acquire knowledge in academics, but to expel forbidden knowledge?"

This is completely different from the current mainstream perception.

Great Compassion Tree King: [For a long time, I have believed that dreams are the crystallization of human wisdom. Although it is a bit selfish, I still use the void to borrow people's dreams. I integrate people's wisdom and then contribute all my strength...]

【Thanks to the wisdom of the people of Xumi, almost all the forbidden knowledge has been cleared from the World Tree. But... things didn't go as smoothly as I expected. A headache gave me a bad premonition... I remembered that my consciousness is connected to the World Tree. The World Tree brought me knowledge and wisdom, but pollution also found me. From the beginning, my existence has been polluted by forbidden knowledge.】

"Ah, the Great Compassion Tree King was contaminated by forbidden knowledge!" Paimon was extremely surprised: "Did she commit suicide? No wonder we didn't know about her."

"No, it shouldn't be that simple." Senor took over the conversation: "The suicide of a god is also an extremely sensational news, it is impossible that there is no record. This still cannot explain why we don't know her."

Secretly observing Nashida's expression, Seno silently added in his heart: It seemed that everyone, including the little Lucky Grass King, knew of her existence for the first time.

"Oh, what you said makes sense." Paimon said.

The Great Compassionate Tree King said: [Even if I die, my existence and everything related to me will still be preserved as memories and knowledge in the World Tree, so the forbidden knowledge can never be eradicated. And I... can never eliminate myself, which is a paradox.]

[So, I broke off the purest branch of the World Tree as my reincarnation, and left a clue... just so that you can come here and completely erase the polluted me from the World Tree...]

[As you can imagine, the World Tree contains all the knowledge and memories of this world... If I am erased from the World Tree... it is equivalent to me never existing in this world. But... this is the only way to truly save the World Tree. ]

"The logic makes sense." Elhaisen suddenly realized.

This perfectly explains why no one knows the Great Compassionate Tree King.

Because she has never been recorded by the World Tree.

"But...but..." Nilu was the most emotional, and now she was choking up: "She has given so much for us, but we don't even have the chance to remember her."

From the moment the Great Compassion Tree King was contaminated by the forbidden knowledge, she had been assimilated by the forbidden knowledge and became an indescribable, unexpressible, inexplicable, and untouchable taboo.

"So, Lord Little Auspicious Grass King came to the World Tree and killed the last trace of consciousness of Lord Great Compassion Tree King?" Dina Zedai asked.

Dishia was shocked by the information she had just learned. She shook her head and said, "I don't know."

【Let the world completely forget me. 】

The Great Compassionate Tree King smiled and walked forward, gently embracing Nashida in the space as he had done before.

The moment she touched Nashida's body, her body and her consciousness all turned into bright green light spots, surrounding Nashida.

Although the Great Compassionate Tree King can no longer be seen in the space, people can still hear her voice.

[We all live under the tree of wisdom, trying to read the world, reading from the soil, reading from the rain, and then transforming into white doves, climbing up the branches, and finally holding the crucial leaf.]

[I am the only person in the world who can dream. In my dream, everyone falls asleep at night, and strange ideas float in people's minds, some of which float to the sky, connecting all things into a dazzling network.]

[Among the three thousand worlds, there are small worlds, and all destinies are boiling here. ]

[I gradually understand that these indescribable and ever-changing things are the most profound things in the world. Only they can completely drive away those madness, and only dreams can awaken consciousness from the deepest darkness.]

The green light gradually turned into dazzling white, rising to the sky and merging into the World Tree. The World Tree received this white light and became even more dreamy and beautiful.

The tender leaves on the World Tree fluttered down, swaying in the breeze, and fell into every corner of Xumi, comforting the people in Xumi who were troubled by nightmares, healing the pain of patients with magic scale disease, and guarding the sweet dreams of all Xumi people.

[I am the one who proposes the question, and I am also the one who seeks the answer. Saving the world with the dreams of the world was once my answer, and now, you have also found your own answer. I will return all the dreams to the world.]

[Goodbye, people of Xumi. May you have sweet dreams tonight. ]

Even though she had seen such a scene once before, Ying was still shocked to the point of her scalp tingling when she saw it again. Unspeakable emotions surged up and gathered in her eye sockets, causing them to become hot.

Snap, snap...

Crystal clear tears flowed, and this time they were not just Nashida's tears.

Nilu and Dina Zedai, the two most emotional women, hugged each other and cried, unable to stop their tears. Even Kavi couldn't help wiping his eyes.

"Woo woo woo, Lord Great Kind Tree King..."

"Why, why did it end like this? No one killed her. She took the initiative to erase her own existence. Wuwuwu..." Paimon cried miserably, hugging Ying's face, and his tears covered half of Ying's face: "The Great Compassion Tree King is so good, why did he have such an ending."

"Rewrite it, I don't want to dream about this, wuwuwu!"

Senor, Dishia, Elhaisen and other reserved people lowered their eyes and observed a moment of silence to commemorate the first generation of the God of Wisdom.

Scanning the people present with different expressions and attitudes, Ying wanted to put on a smile in such a situation.

She looked towards the glowing World Tree in the distance.

Is this how you honor the Great Kind Tree King, Audrin?

You made everyone cry miserably...

"Congratulations on completing the limited-time mission: The existence of the Great Kind Tree King. The reward has been sent."

"Nacida's favorability is +10, Nacida's favorability is 20, and a total of 3378 favorability points have been collected."

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"Laila's favorability +10, Laila's favorability 10, total favorability collected 3498"

Seeing the favorability display, Audrin, who was high up in the building, raised a smile and said, "It's done!"

She looked toward the sky and saw a ray of white light in the distance.

Its daybreak.