Genshin Impact: Rise of the Desert

"How could you..." Ivan struggled to speak, reaching for his claws at the core of Yuan Zhong's chest, but he couldn't go any further.

“I hate God, but I cannot deny that they possess extremely powerful strength.” Yuan Zhong said as he slowly stood up from Ivan’s oppression.

As Ivan stood up, he tried his best to press down with his hands, but his body began to slowly retreat, and his armor creaked under the strain.

"Absorbing that power will gradually turn me into a god. I hate gods, so I choose to refine it and make it my weapon!"

With a flick of his blade, Ivan staggered back two or three steps.

This armor amplified Ivan's strength many times over; Yuan Zhong simply flicked his wrist and repelled Ivan!

"Now that I possess the power of time within my water element, I can control the water to rotate even faster!"

As Yuan Zhong spoke, he raised his right arm. The arm blade, constructed from water elements, flowed at an extremely fast speed.

"It can also stop the flow of objects near water elements!"

As he spoke, Yuanzhong stretched out his right arm to the side.

The arm blades cleaved the wall, creating rubble, but the rubble near the arm blades did not fall.

“That’s why I can’t touch your weapon, and I can’t move forward no matter how hard I try.” Ivan was smart; he saw through the trick immediately.

"Not only that, once you enter the water's domain, you can't retreat no matter how hard you try." Yuan Zhong began to laugh. "You want to stop me? With your laughable armor?"

Then, Yuanzhong became enraged and swung his arm blade forward. Ivan hurriedly raised his claws.

"Boom!"

The sound of water striking metal rang out, and the water elemental blades in the abyss flowed at an extremely fast speed. Speed ​​brought power, and the sound of the attack hitting the armored claws was deafening, forcing Ivan to retreat once more.

"With this ridiculous armor? You tried! Your ancestor tried! But he failed!!"

Yuan Zhong swung his arms, each swing seemingly expending all his strength, his attack speed was slow—but this slowness was relative to Yuan Zhong himself; in Ivan's eyes, Yuan Zhong's attack speed was extremely fast, one strike after another.

"Your ancestors once attempted to join forces with that traitor Dainesreb to stop the Abyss army in the desolate wasteland. They hoped to seal us within the Dark Gate, hoping to drive our tyrannical hearts to slaughter each other. But you failed, and instead, you united us even more!"

Immediately afterwards, a fierce slash from the abyss sent Ivan flying dozens of meters back. Ivan's leg muscles tensed, carving long furrows in the paving stones.

He leaped dozens of meters into the abyss and cleaved Ivan back with a single strike.

Ivan was cleaved to the ground, and no one knew what material his armor was made of, but after being slashed fifty or seventy times, there wasn't even a scratch.

"Your companions also tried to kill me, but you failed again!"

Yuan Zhong slowly rose from his slashing posture, and the water element on his arm gradually returned to its original flow rate.

Ivan stood up, exhaled a visible white breath, relaxed, and the entire armor suddenly paused.

"Click——"

Every part of the armor was moved slightly.

"呲-"

Water vapor kept gushing out of Ivan's body, like cold water being poured onto an iron plate, endlessly.

This is a sign of "gilding"; Ivan is beginning to use the power derived from his bloodline.

With the armor enhancing his appearance, his pupils turned golden. When he used [Gold Plating], his eyes emitted a golden light.

"I never imagined that the creation of [Gold] would turn into such an ugly form... Your ancestors couldn't defeat me, and neither can you!"

As Yuan Zhong spoke, he moved forward at an extremely fast speed and slashed at Ivan with his sword.

"Ding--"

The scene of Ivan being cleaved back was not repeated. Instead, Ivan grabbed Yuan Zhong's arm and the arm blade together.

Yuan Zhong's face was expressionless; it was more accurate to say that he didn't have a face at all.

He swung his free arm and chopped Ivan's jackal head with a single blow.

"you!"

Another blow struck Ivan's hand, slicing through the claws that were gripping him.

"It was destined!"

Another slash struck Ivan's other outstretched claw.

"fail!"

This time it was a straight thrust, the knife piercing Ivan's abdomen.

Ivan was stunned, looked down at the blade embedded in his arm.

"forever!"

With the help of the water flow, blood flowed into the arm blade in the abyss, staining the entire arm blade crimson.

"Never yield to the abyss!"

Yuan Zhong exerted force suddenly, his arm blade piercing to its lowest point, hitting the armor lying on Ivan's back.

"The abyss is forever resilient!"

With another push, Ivan was propelled forward.

Ivan's feet didn't move, but he was forcefully pushed backward by the abyss.

"All for the abyss..."

Before Ivan could finish saying those words, he suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly.

"what--"

Ivan's head became illusory, and one could see afterimages of his head shooting out in four directions: up, down, left, and right.

This is the [Golden Power] of the Rurik family, used by Ivan after his bloodline was purified through armor.

When it roars loudly, it emits extremely high Hertz, causing its head to appear illusory from the outside and emit afterimages in four directions.

In fact, there was nothing there; it was just an illusion caused by the loud volume of the sound.

Ivan moved.

His free hand grabbed the arm that was stuck in his abdomen and pulled it out.

Ivan's blood did not flow out; the wound was healed by the water element remaining in his body.

Even after becoming an abyss monster, he couldn't escape the sequence of carbon-based life forms, resulting in dizziness and the hallucinations caused by high hertz.

By the time he came to his senses, the blade embedded in Ivan's abdomen had been pulled out.

At this moment, Ivan was holding Yuan Zhong's arms tightly, and Ivan's face showed a rare expression of anger.

"The Abyss is full of trash."