Genshin Impact: Rise of the Desert

When Ivan paused time, time was paused again.

"Ho-hoo-ho-hoo-hoo-"

Yuan Zhong gasped for breath during the pause, as if he had been holding his breath for a long time.

"No, my body has been corrupted by the abyss, and I no longer need to breathe. Why is that!" Yuan Zhong stared at his palm and muttered to himself. "Moreover, to stop time on top of stopping time itself, is this my power? So, I am this powerful!"

At this time, a voice came.

"You think this is your time? No, this is mine!"

Suddenly, Yuanzhong remembered something and looked up.

The lawns, balconies, and rooftops were packed with people. There were hundreds...no, thousands!

No, they are not human, each and every one of them is a demigod!

They stood quietly, men and women, their chests rising and falling slightly.

Each of them is a god of time, and each of them is [Ishtar]!

Istaru is the ruler of time, the embodiment of time. At the time of her death, she asked Barbatos to scatter the power of time throughout the world.

However, most of these divine faces are of Mondstadt origin.

The wind brings seeds of hope, and time allows them to sprout.

As the Anemo Archon rules Mondstadt, He would naturally do His best to help the people of Mondstadt, which is why most of the gods of time come from Mondstadt.

Every God of Time can be called [Ishtar].

Among these gods, a familiar figure was seen in the abyss.

“Barbatos!” Yuan Zhong’s eyes were bloodshot as he saw the figure.

God of Wind!

Barbatos was dressed very lightly, wearing a tight white hooded sweatshirt that covered his chest. The sweatshirt had a golden ring on the chest, with a powerful wind element in the center of the ring.

Her lower body consisted of only white shorts that reached her upper thighs; any shorter and one would reveal whether the demon god had a gender or not.

Two white wings spread out from behind her, and white ice sleeves covered her arms, from her wrists to her biceps.

Her thighs and abdomen were completely naked, making her the most scantily clad of all the gods present.

Barbatos Demon Form!

"You guys, didn't you follow that elf to the ends of the world? How did you end up here?" Yuan Zhong chuckled. "And you, Barbatos, why aren't you staying in Mondstadt? What are you doing in Fontaineble?"

Barbatos' expression was unusually serious. He stretched out his arm, his palm pointing directly into the deep.

The other gods of time followed Barbatos, stretching out their palms toward the abyss.

“Yuanzhong, originally named Aachen Polnat, was a Kanrea.

“You have turned the souls of our companions into weapons; your crime deserves death.”

"In the name of time, from this moment until the end of your life, you will not be able to touch real time."

Yuan Zhong found himself unable to move, but he didn't care and just sighed.

"Your Highness, I have wandered in the abyss for five hundred years, yet I have still not been able to return to your side..."

Death and torture were two outcomes that Yuan Zhong had anticipated when he decided to join the Abyss Cult and become the first follower of the Abyss Princess.

Ivan absorbed the Time Godhead; he is about to become a new god, which is something the gods can tolerate.

In the abyss, the souls of gods are forged into weapons; this is not something that gods can accept.

"I don't regret it, it's just a pity that I only killed three gods, and they were demigods..." Yuan Zhong said with some regret.

The next moment, each of the Time Gods emitted a pure white light from their hands, which transformed into a gentle breeze and blew into the abyss.

This is a killing move belonging to Istaru that requires at least a thousand Time Gods to join forces to unleash.

Time flies like a thousand winds!

Strands of wind through the abyss passed through its chest, and after an unknown amount of time, the winds gradually subsided.

“I have never regretted it!” Yuan Zhong stared at Barbatos, his eyes devoid of sorrow, joy, anger, or grief.

Barbatos waved his hand, and a door appeared behind Yuan Zhong. This door tore through time and space out of thin air, and its interior was filled with stars.

This is the Abyss Network.

Subsequently, Yuan Zhong was sucked into the abyss by an irresistible force.

After leaving the abyss, Barbatos turned around and said to all the gods of time, "Celebrate! Three companions who have been dead for many years have been exchanged for a new companion!"

The gods of time bowed their heads in prayer, then vanished in a flash of white light.

After everyone left, Barbatos breathed a sigh of relief: "Phew, that was a tough job. There's someone in the Abyss too; we almost didn't find him!"

Barbatos strolled over to Ivan, looked at the furious Ivan, and laughed, "Hey, if I'm going to the desert, you'll have to buy me a drink."

Then, Barbatos looked at Navigette, and then at the Opiclie Opera House, his eyes seeming to travel through time, revealing many stories.

Then, Barbatos also vanished in a flash of white light.

....................

The Abyss Network is unstable; it can take its host anywhere, but it is also easy to get lost in the void of the Abyss if one is not careful.

It was carried by the wind in the abyss and floated in the void.

He didn't know how much time had passed; he could only recall it during that long period.

However, after sleeping for hundreds of years, the memories of being human have been almost completely forgotten.

"What did I look like as a human being, what did my mother and father look like... again...?"

He didn't know how much time had passed when he fell from the void and saw people.

This is a family from Fontainebleau. The mother is carrying food, preparing to serve it to the father and son.

The family immediately discovered Yuanzhong, and Yuanzhong, realizing he could move again, swung his knife and killed him.

When the family of three was brutally murdered by Yuan Zhong's blade, the Abyss Network reappeared out of nowhere and took Yuan Zhong away.

A long time—a day? A month? A year?

Perhaps, Yuanzhong himself didn't know that he had killed many people.

Each time he emerges from the Abyss Network into the real world, he is free to move around, and he subconsciously vents his hatred for the gods on the gods' followers.

He discovered that the places he descended upon were sometimes the past and sometimes the future.

Traveling through time caused the Abyss Apostles to age rapidly, and rust appeared on their bodies.

His body was covered in rust.

Finally, when they emerged from the Abyss Network once again, they arrived at a huge tent.

A burly man nearly two meters tall was holding a curved knife and talking to three children.

He could no longer hear anything, but he realized that one of the three children was Ivan, and the other was the man he had slashed off the cliff.

The burly man also spotted Yuanzhong, and he gripped his curved knife and slashed at Yuanzhong.

Yuan Zhong caught the curved sword with the blade on his left arm, raised the blade on his right arm high, and slashed down at the burly man in front of him.

The strong man was cut in two.

Yuan Zhong looked at Ivan and suddenly wondered, if he killed Ivan, would time change?

But the next moment, he was sucked back into the abyss by the abyss network.

He was released soon after.

This time, back to square one, he saw Ivan, who was filled with rage.

"Haha..." Yuan Zhong chuckled lightly, as if he had expected this. "A god who despises mortals, even if he uses torture on me, will still take countless mortal lives..."

Time began to flow, but not completely.

Only Ivan's timeline changed.

Unsurprisingly, Yuanzhong was reduced to dust.

It seems everything has changed.

Yet it seems nothing has changed.