Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

Diablo vaguely remembered that when he was a demon, he lacked a skin, so he made do with the face of Lang Shijing Si and dressed up a little before traveling around.

During his travels, he learned a lot of knowledge about the continent, including the history from ancient times to the present after the advent of "Order".

But during one of his journeys, he met Zeta again.

No, to be precise. According to the time history, this was their first meeting and also their beginning.

"At that time, Zeta was very hostile to me because of the aspect I used."

The wilderness wind whipped up dust and sand, blowing at the inappropriate clothes that belonged to Lang Ishii-shi. As Diablo tried to determine his direction, a violent, painful aura swept over him from the flank like a storm.

He didn't even have time to turn around before a massive claw covered in rough, bristly hair and with nails as sharp as knives, fiercely clawed at his back with a shriek that tore through the air. The hatred contained in that attack was so intense that it almost solidified into substance.

Diablo, or rather, the man carrying Lang Ishii's four skins, slid sideways like a ghost, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow. The wind from his claws swept past, ripping the fabric of his shoulders.

He steadied himself and looked back, only to see a half-man, half-wolf monster standing before him.

"Despicable villain, give me your life!"

Zeta's voice was hoarse and distorted, almost unrecognizable as a human voice. It sounded more like the roar of a wounded beast.

He didn't give Diablo any chance to explain, and pounced again, his claws carrying a fishy whirlwind, aiming straight for his throat. His attack was haphazard, yet each one was brutal, a fight for his life.

Diablo in the timeline dodged the claw attack lightly, his figure like a weightless shadow, weaving through Zeta's violent attack.

"Calm down, friend. Is there some misunderstanding between us?" he asked tentatively.

……

Diablo from the real timeline looked at the scene in his memory and said again, "Back then, I spent a lot of effort to resolve the misunderstanding between us."

"Then you joined the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces together?" Mo Yan asked.

Diablo nodded. "Yes, since I need to appear before people, I can no longer use the animal skins I used to disguise my demonic identity."

"Indeed, after all, they are Sangyang people. If a situation like Zeta happens again, you will become the enemy of the Allied Forces." Kailin said with a smile.

Diablo smiled. "Who says not? So, at Zeta's suggestion, I reshaped my appearance again and eventually joined the Allied Forces in my current form. But to be honest, when I first joined the war, I was just kidding. After all, I'm a demon, and the joys and sorrows of humans are like grains to us. But..."

He paused, the smile on his face disappearing again. "It wasn't until I got to know them well later that I realized that as a demon, I had already been tainted with mortal emotions. Especially when Zeta died, the heart-wrenching pain made me truly understand what 'loss' meant for the first time."

Kailin opened her eyes and said, "Zeta...is he dead?"

Diablo didn't reply. He waved again, and in the blink of an eye, they were back on the mountain. Looking around, they were back at the seaside. This time, a giant machine was standing above the sea. Although most of the surrounding pipes were buried in the sea, the exposed parts were flashing with different colors of light.

At this moment, just as Kailin was about to speak, Diablo had already answered her question.

"That's a device used by the Sanyang people to extract elemental power, and there's more than one machine like this here."

"In order to prevent the ley lines from being damaged and to stop the Sanyang people from stealing the elemental energy within them, our allies undertook the dangerous mission of destroying all of the Sanyang people's extraction devices. What you see before you is the final extraction device."

As the words fell, the distant battlefield roared with the sound of bloodshed! Elemental light mingled with gunpowder smoke, burying the sea and sky in a chaotic haze. Waves surged violently, pounding the massive extraction device, a fortress at sea. Around the facility, Sang Yang's escort fleet engaged the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in fierce firefights, with explosions and energy shockwaves echoing one after another.

On the bridge leading to the device, a familiar figure was fighting hard under the siege of Sangyang soldiers.

It's Zeta!

He looked even more terrifying now than when he was in the laboratory. His half-wolf body was covered with old and new scars, some of which were so deep that the bone was visible. However, he continued to move forward as if he felt no pain.

Suddenly, a black shadow passed through the air, and in an instant, countless flames fell from the sky, sweeping away the surrounding Sangyang people like meteorites.

Looking up at the sky, a huge dragon covered with black scales and surrounded by hellfire was slowly descending.

It was the evil dragon Caesar, and Emilia was also standing on the dragon's head, looking down.

On the sea, countless artillery fire attacked Caesar in the air.

He let out a deafening roar, and flapped his dragon wings violently, stirring up a huge wind and waves, easily knocking the shells away or absorbing them with his hard dragon scales.

Emilia stood at the dragon's head, her skirt and silver hair dancing wildly in the wind. She raised her hands, and in an instant, the disaster beast called tsunami rolled up huge waves on the sea, instantly drowning Sang Yang's team.

"Hmph, so vulnerable." She snorted coldly.

Looking towards Zeta, after the previous sweep, another wave of Sang Yang's followers were forced to surround them. But as soon as the sound of the string was heard, those people's throats were cut in an instant.

"Zeta!" Dracula dropped from the air, holding a silver sword. "Don't get entangled with these guys. Focus on your business!"

"I want to, but these guys are endless. It's really hard to deal with!"

Zeta's voice was hoarse, filled with suppressed anger. He tore open the throat of a Sangyang soldier with one claw, blood splattering on his fur, but he didn't care, his eyes still fixed on the extraction device in front of him.

"As expected, the previous device was destroyed, and they deliberately strengthened the defense."

"Then leave it to us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ghost suddenly appeared, and the sickle in his hand instantly swept away Sang Yang's servants in front of him. At the same time, Diablo in this timeline also appeared on the battlefield with him.

"You're right. Stopping the machine is important. Let's leave this to Ghost and Dracula for now." He smiled, holding his glasses.

Zeta glanced at his companions fighting side by side behind him, then looked at the extraction device that was so close yet seemed to be separated by thousands of troops, and nodded heavily.

He ignored the Sangyang soldiers swarming around him and ran to the laboratory that controlled the extraction device with Diablo.

"Come on, monsters, your opponent is me!"

The ghost's scythe danced like the wind, leaving behind trails of afterimages; Dracula's sonic blade was like an invisible barrier, blocking or deflecting all long-range attacks directed at Zeta and Diablo.