Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

"Sister Ye Lan!" Kailin came over and called softly, bringing her back to reality from her deep thoughts. "What happened just now? Why did you suddenly pass in front of that guy and come so far away?"

Ye Lan looked back and looked around: "Someone rescued them."

Kailin's eyes widened in surprise, "Who is so bold as to snatch someone from Siji?"

Ye Lan folded her arms and said, "I don't know, but I'm sure the person who saved them has the ability to manipulate space, and his strength is definitely not inferior to yours or mine."

At this time, Dongfang Lei, Keqing, and Minghuang stepped forward and asked, "What should we do now? Should we send someone after them?"

Ye Lan lowered her hands and shook her head. "That's not necessary. Everyone should know what it means for Ling Yan to easily use his spatial ability. My lady might have already gone looking for that guy."

"Sir? Could it be Thunder Lord?" Kailin asked.

Ye Lan nodded: "That's right, I believe Lord Tianlang has told you before that Lord Lei Zun's elemental power is like a spider web, spreading all around. If there is any abnormal movement in the space, it will not escape her perception."

……

At the same time, on the cliff outside the city.

A torn space appeared in the air, and Nayuka and all the remaining barbarian warriors fell from the air in a panic. He struggled to get up and found that there were less than ten barbarian warriors around him. They must have been wiped out along with the monsters in the melee.

"Damn it! How am I going to explain this to the leader?" He pounded the ground hard, then wiped the blood off his face. "By the way, where is this place?"

He looked around and saw a figure standing on the cliff in front of him.

"How are you? Are you all right?"

In the moonlight, the man in black robe turned around with a smile, and he was wearing a black eagle-face mask that covered the upper half of his face.

"It was you who saved us? Are you also a member of the Fallen Angel Troupe?" Nayuka stood up and asked.

The man smiled slightly: "Yes and no, you can call me Nighthawk, but now I advise you to leave here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked up at the sky. At this time, dark clouds gathered in the sky, accompanied by thunder. As a red lightning fell, a woman with long white hair, holding a red spear and wearing a war robe, appeared in front of everyone.

"Thunder...Thunder Lord?" Nayuka was frightened by the pressure and retreated repeatedly.

The woman's eyes were like lightning as she stared coldly at the man in black robe. She seemed to be unconcerned about the presence of Nayuka and others.

"Huh, you came really quickly." Nighthawk smiled slightly, then turned his head slightly to look at Nayuka, as if to persuade him to leave as soon as possible.

"Thank you. Take care of yourself!" Nayuka understood instantly. Suppressing the trembling brought by the thunder, he shouted to the surviving barbarian warriors, "Retreat!"

The group stumbled back toward the back of the cliff. Lei Zun's gaze remained fixed on Nighthawk, the crimson spear in his hand occasionally flashing with crimson lightning.

This aura doesn't resemble a Fallen Angel element, but more like... a contract.

Li Xueyan's eyes flashed, and she pointed her gun at Nighthawk: "Who are you? I've never heard of a ninth guardian."

Nighthawk smiled softly: "Do you think I will explain it to you here?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a red lightning came towards her. In a flash, Li Xueyan's surprise attack missed. When she turned around again, the other party had come behind her through space refraction.

"You're really impatient." He smiled. "Why? Could it be that those guys escaped from you earlier and you got angry out of shame?"

Li Xueyan frowned, lightning flashed from the tip of the gun, and then stabbed out again.

Seeing this, Nighthawk chuckled and said, "In that case, then... I'll play with you."

He stretched out his hands, condensing the elemental force into two moon-shaped discs, which he then threw out, colliding with the incoming crimson thunder. The violent energy shockwave shattered the surrounding rocks, sending smoke and dust billowing into the air.

However, Li Xueyan didn't stop attacking. Her body moved like lightning, her spear shot out like a dragon, and each strike carried the power to tear apart the world. Nighthawk, however, remained at ease, his figure constantly flashing through space. The moon and the crimson thunder intertwined in a dazzling and dangerous light and shadow under the night sky.

boom!

After another fierce collision, the two separated temporarily. Li Xueyan's long hair fluttered in the lightning, and her brow was furrowed...

Boom!

Red lightning fell from the sky, creating a huge pit under Nighthawk's feet. However, when she pulled out the spear stuck in the ground, the other party disappeared.

Li Xueyan glanced around, her pupils suddenly contracted, she quickly turned around, and two moon wheels suddenly flew towards her, everything happened without any warning.

boom!

Another explosion sounded, and the moon disc and the crimson thunder collided once again, erupting in a blinding burst of light. Li Xueyan swept her spear across, and the lightning flashed like a dragon, shattering the incoming moon disc.

Without waiting to catch her breath, she turned around and swung her gun again. However, Nighthawk, who was already behind her, had anticipated this and dodged the gun by moving sideways, while his right hand moved forward like a tiger's claw to attack her chest.

She instinctively retreated, but it was too late. The other person's hand was less than half a centimeter away from her heart. At this moment, her breathing and the air seemed to stand still.

At this moment, lightning flashed in Li Xueyan's eyes, and a red lightning ring suddenly burst out around her body. As a red lightning fell, Nighthawk's fingertips suddenly stopped half a millimeter away from her heart, and he was forced back several steps under the violent power of the thunder.

At this moment, Li Xueyan stood still, no longer acting rashly, and frowned: "Who are you?"

However, Nighthawk still didn't respond to her question. He just stood there nonchalantly, flicking the scorch marks between his fingers. At the same time, the corners of his mouth under the mask rose slightly: "Oh my, it's obviously a puppet, but it's unexpectedly difficult to deal with."

These words were like a sharp blade, instantly piercing Li Xueyan's composure. Her brow furrowed, and crimson lightning surged wildly around her.

But Nighthawk didn't take it seriously. When the black smoke from his fingertips dissipated, he smiled again and said, "But it doesn't matter. My goal this time wasn't to take your 'heart'. Now that my goal has been achieved, let's stop here."

Upon hearing this, Li Xueyan said nothing, but swung her spear out in a flash, but as expected, due to the refraction of space, the shot missed again.

Li Xueyan gritted her teeth, and at this moment Nighthawk's figure flashed to the edge of the cliff again.

"Goodbye. I hope that next time we meet, you can still stand in front of me as energetic as before." After saying that, he smiled slightly, opened his arms, and fell backwards off the cliff.

"stop!"

Li Xueyan moved with lightning speed, attempting to prevent the other party from escaping. However, the moment she rushed to the edge of the cliff, Nighthawk's falling figure suddenly twisted and deformed in mid-air, shattering into countless fragments like a shattered mirror, and finally dissipated in the night wind.

"Tsk, running away again?" She gritted her teeth, then closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

After calming down, she extended her left hand. Faint flashes of lightning flickered through the clouds. Through the "network cable," she carefully sensed the ripples of the contract in the city, but after a long time, she still found nothing.

At this time, she withdrew her hand and slowly opened her eyes.

"There's been no response from the city. Did he escape outside?"

Then, she turned around again and looked at the "battlefield" between herself and Nighthawk, with her clenched hands hanging down at her sides.

"Nighthawk... no matter who you are, next time, I will never let you..."

(Contract Mission, Wrath of Thunder, Act 1, End)