Teyvat Survival Guide

Barta was shouting excitedly:

"Praise to Saint Samuel! Praise to Lord Barbatos!"

Samuel flapped his wings under Leah's admiring and ignorant gaze, flew into the sky again, and continued to fly towards the Sunset Forest east of Virado Village.

This father and daughter were not the only people he rescued. On his way to the east, he found many people who were also attacked by the Beast Realm hounds.

Among them are adventurers, farmers, merchants, hunters, and...

There were also the Knights of Favonius who were supporting the battle but were surrounded.

Samuel provided these people with the little help he could through the power bestowed by Lord Barbatos and the crown with healing effects.

In addition to the inherent kindness and resentment towards the Beast Realm Hounds, there is another reason:

When he saw people in distress, he thought of the little wolf in the cave.

…He didn’t want to see any more lives lost because of his indecision.

While helping, he discovered that the strength of this group of Beast Mirror Hounds was actually not that strong. A well-trained knight could easily deal with a Beast Mirror Hound.

It’s just that there are too many of them, and they are ferocious and not afraid of death. After killing one group, another group will come to bite you soon after.

No matter how brave the knight is, his physical strength will be exhausted in their continuous fighting.

As for those ordinary people who don't have divine eyes or self-defense skills...

…It was a monster that was completely impossible to deal with.

This also made Samuel realize a cruel reality, which was also a sentence that impressed him deeply in a novel he had read in his previous life:

"People like us are like straw in the field. When the wind blows, we will fall down..."

With a sigh, he flapped his wings and slowly landed in a forest that was completely different from what he remembered.

Looking around, he knew why this forest was called "Sunset Forest".

Most of the trees here are sunset fruit trees, and at this time the treetops are full of sunset fruits.

In the past, Samuel would have complained in his mind, "Why is the woods in the east called 'Sunset Forest' instead of 'Sunrise Forest'?"

But now he just quietly looked at the plump sunset fruits, then looked at the bloodstains and debris under the tree, as well as the corpses of humans, animals, and beast hounds that could be seen from time to time in this forest. He was in a low mood and had no energy to complain or make jokes.

He took a deep breath, smelled the blood, frowned slightly, and walked into the woods, following his memory to the cave where he first hid.

The weeds beside the cave grew more lush than he had ever remembered, and the plant with the hooked fruit was now full of fruits.

The little wolf had disappeared, and only some things that looked like bones were seen lying in a mess at the place where the little wolf died.

Samuel blinked and turned his head.

He determined the direction, activated the wind element to vibrate his wings, and flew over quickly and at a low altitude.

After flying for a distance, he suddenly felt that some of the wind elemental power in his body seemed to be drained away by something.

His azure eyes immediately lit up with dark white vertical pupils, and he saw that the wind elemental forces around him were purified, and then turned into torrents that rushed towards a certain point in one direction of the forest.

Samuel took a deep breath, swallowed, and flew in that direction.

As he got closer and closer to that point, he felt the wind elemental force around him becoming stronger and stronger, and a hurricane suddenly blew up on the road without warning, as if trying to stop him from getting closer.

After "sensing" the elemental power in Samuel, the winds gradually calmed down, as if they knew him.

Until he came to the place where he first met Wendy.

——The tree stump full of blooming flowers.

The familiar wind god was sitting there with his head lowered and his wings drooping.

His gentle face did not have the usual smile, but instead his eyes were drooping, his expression was filled with self-blame, guilt... and pain.

After noticing Samuel's arrival, He raised His head and gave him a smile.

He said in a gentle voice:

“…There you are, my little slime.

"I'm so glad to see you before I fall asleep..."

Samuel nodded and responded with concern:

"Lord Barbatos..."

He then looked at the thick wind elemental force that filled the surroundings and observed Wendy's surroundings.

However, he discovered that only a small amount of pure elemental power was absorbed by the other party.

As if she had noticed his thoughts, Wendy smiled and explained:

“…I told you, my little slime.

“The higher the realm, the purer the elemental power required.

"The elemental forces around here that can be absorbed by me are very few."

Noticing that Samuel's lips were trembling as if he wanted to say something, He raised his index finger to his lips and made a "hush" sound.

He spoke slowly:

"…Well, I don't have much time left, and I'm feeling very sleepy now—very sleepy…

"Just listen to me patiently. There are some things I think you must know."

After saying this, He bowed His head toward Samuel, seemingly in thought.

Then, under Samuel's puzzled and worried gaze, the God of Wind raised his head and spoke in a low voice:

“…Samuel, that’s what I’m going to say.

“It’s you who left your family and came to this alien world in your eyes.

Samuel was stunned.

He thought Lord Barbatos would talk about the Beast Realm Hounds.

But before he could react, he heard the other party continue to say:

“…I don’t know why you left your original world, nor do I know what force pulled you here.

“…I only know that day, I sensed the disturbance in Mondstadt’s earth veins, so I followed my usual practice and casually raised a wisp of wind to enter the earth veins of the Wind Rising Land to regulate it.

"At that time, a small number of Beast Realm hounds roamed in Mondstadt, attempting to use their hidden claws to dissolve space and create cracks for passage in places where the earth veins were blocked.

“And in those silted veins, I sensed a strange spiritual fluctuation, and I pulled it out.

"Perhaps it was contaminated by some of my wind elemental power. After it settled, it turned into a very small wind slime."

Under Samuel's sudden gaze, He smiled gently and tiredly, and confirmed:

"…Yes, that's you, Samuel."

His emerald eyes looked at Samuel, as if he could see the tiny wind slime through him.

He said with a nostalgic tone:

"At that time, I didn't notice any difference between you and I just thought you were an ordinary wind slime, at most a little smaller than an ordinary slime.

"It was not until later, when I heard you praying to my idol, that I realized you had a mind of your own.

"At first, I just thought that you just had your own thoughts and a lively personality, and you didn't mean anything, so I just took care of you.

"It was not until later, right here, in this place, when I saw you with my own eyes, that I realized you did not belong to this world.

"You are imbued with the aura of the World Tree, but you don't belong here.

"You come from a higher place."

The God of Wind sat on the tree stump, looking at the wind elemental power pouring in from all around him, and sighed tiredly:

“…At first I was just curious, curious about how you view the world, and also wanted to know where you came from.

"So I listen to your heart from time to time, hoping to find the answers I want from your heart.

"Until the first time, remember? In the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain.

"I hear 'forbidden knowledge' within you."

Samuel was stunned.

Forbidden knowledge...could it mean...?

"Forbidden knowledge is knowledge from outside the world that is rejected by the continent of Teyvat..." Wendy explained sleepily, "I couldn't hear the content of that knowledge clearly. Later I recalled that it seemed to be blocked by the World Tree."

"Later, I listened less frequently to your heart.

“I don’t want to be tainted by ‘taboo’.

“But there are too many mysteries about you, and maybe because you are the sedimentation of my power, I feel close to you, so I have been trying to find ways to keep you.

"So, I gave you some tiny benefits."

Samuel paused when he heard this.

negligible?

Nothing Lord Barbatos did for him could be called insignificant, okay!

If Wendy heard this, she would refute Samuel because she really felt that she had not given Samuel much.

In a sense, Samuel could be considered His creation.

Not only did He not feel that He had given anything, He often felt that He owed something and was unable to give Samuel more and better.

Sometimes, after sensing Samuel’s longing for his homeland, He would even think:

Was it because I had stripped away that spiritual wave without authorization that I forced Samuel to leave his mother and his hometown?

Out of this guilt, Wendy wanted to make amends, so she gave the wind slime more kindness and help.

But Wendy didn't have the energy to listen to his heartbeats at this moment.

Holding back sleepiness, resisting the loss of elemental power in the body, and explaining patiently were already His current limits.

Next, the atmosphere around seemed to become heavy, and the God of Wind lowered his eyes.

Samuel realized that the reminiscing session was over.

Next, Lord Barbatos will talk about His "heinous" crimes.