Genshin Impact: Demon God of Shura

"Alright, since no one has any objections, I'll get started."

After nodding to everyone, Lan Tian raised his hand to put on his camouflage ghillie suit and sped off towards the rainforest.

Three minutes later.

Phew—bang!

A vibrant green arrow was shot into the air by Lantian, bursting into a crisp pop as it flew through the air. At the same time, Lantian's slightly playful voice reached the ears of everyone outside the rainforest.

"Now—it's time for Windwalker to stealth!"

Upon hearing this, the numerous Water Knights and Water Sprites exchanged smiles and glances, then rushed excitedly toward the rainforest summoned by the blue sky.

"Quickly! Go find our Knight Commander!"

"Oh——!(′▽｀)ノ?"

“┗|｀O′|┛ Ouch~~”

"Dude, you don't need to shout like that! -_-||"

"Ahem... Sorry, I got too excited and couldn't control myself... (?w?)"

……

"Kids, slow down! (づ ●─● )づ"

With a wry smile, Egolia called out symbolically to the rampaging Pure Water Knights and Pure Water Elves ahead, while Fukaros, Lotia, and Buyer covered their mouths and chuckled as they followed Egolia slowly toward the rainforest.

Five minutes later, in the rainforest...

At this moment, Lan Tian hung a small patch of grass on his ghillie suit behind him and lay motionless beside a bush on the ground, looking warily at the small clearing in front of him.

However, at this moment, Lan Tian's expression betrayed a hint of amusement, simply because ahead...

boom!

"Ouch! The tree trunks on the ground are so slippery! My armor is covered in plant sap!"

A Pure Water Knight, who had just tripped over a tree trunk and fallen to the ground, was cursing as his comrades beside him reached out and helped him up, both amused and exasperated.

"Then could you please not jump on those moss-covered tree trunks? Even someone of Lord Shura's size couldn't possibly hide in such a small section of a tree trunk."

A water sprite following nearby couldn't help but add with a smile:

"Hehehe... The Knight Commander wouldn't hide so obviously, that would be too easy. Why don't I fly up to the treetops and look for him?"

"Okay then, it has to be us Pure Water Knights... Ugh! What is this?!"

"Hahaha! Bro, I was just about to warn you about the puddle ahead..."

……

Watching the obviously unlucky Pure Water Knight being pulled out of the pit by his comrades, Lan Tian couldn't help but laugh, saying he almost suffered internal injuries from holding it in.

Although he really wanted to laugh, Lan Tian held back and didn't make a sound.

After a while, the pure water sprite slowly descended from the tree to the ground not far from the blue sky and spoke to the two pure water knights who were still looking around:

"I looked around the treetops several times, but I didn't see the Knight Commander up there or nearby, and I couldn't see anything in the distance because it was all blocked by dense vines and grass."

"Strange, from the outside it looks like Lord Shura was sending signals around here, so why haven't we noticed anything?"

Another Pure Water Knight, who had just arrived beside the Pure Water Sprite upon hearing the sound, spoke with a puzzled expression.

"Perhaps the Knight Commander is hiding too well, or perhaps the Knight Commander has already moved away."

It was the Pure Water Knight, who often made a fool of himself, who spoke up.

"Hey~ I thought we could find the Knight Commander quickly, but we didn't find anything."

The water sprite lowered its head and sighed in disappointment, completely unaware that the knight commander it had mentioned was lying right next to it.

Seeing this, Lan Tian's eyes suddenly lit up. He silently raised his crossbow, aimed it at the three of them, and said with a wicked grin:

Is it possible for me to hide among you and quietly watch you?

Upon hearing this, the pure water sprite, as if possessed, continued Lan Tian's words.

"Eh~ Commander Knight, how is this possible... Eh? What was that just now... Ah!"

"I go!"

Before the three could react, Lan Tian swiftly fired his specially made arrows at them.

Three green lights flashed, and a large bunch of vines tightly bound the three people to the spot, but the three were not injured as a result.

Lan Tian himself, amidst the astonished gazes of the three, stood up from the bushes beside them and greeted them.

"Hey~ Did you miss me~"

"Knight Commander!?"

The three of them said in unison.

"Hehe~ Hold on a minute. You're temporarily restrained. You can't make a sound for three minutes~"

After speaking, Lan Tian winked at the three of them, then waved to them, turned around, summoned his Torrent Armor, and walked away in another direction, leaving the three bound men with a cool back view.

"I never expected that the Knight Commander had been by our side all along..."

Watching Lantian's figure disappear into the jungle, the pure water sprite couldn't help but sigh, and the two pure water knights beside him nodded in agreement.

……

One minute later.

Lan Tian plucked some branches and leaves from the tree canopy and stuck them into his ghillie suit. He crouched down in a dense canopy, a faint smile on his face, watching the few pure water sprites below who were following the trail he had deliberately left behind.

Below the tree canopy.

"I didn't expect someone to be restrained by the Knight Commander so quickly. When I heard the noise, I thought the Knight Commander had been found."

"Heh, Commander Knight won't be found so easily. Didn't those three say that Commander Knight has been hiding in the bushes near them without being discovered?"

"Then we should carefully check the nearby bushes?"

As she said this, the water sprite used her wings to part the grass around her and take a look.

"Don't even think about it. The Knight Commander would never use the same method to hide. But even without divine power, the Knight Commander's movements were too fast; he disappeared in an instant."

The other water sprite tilted its head and listened carefully for a while, then shook its head regretfully.

"I see the traces disappear here. The Knight Commander should be hiding nearby. Let's search this area carefully."

The other water sprites nodded upon hearing this, each turning around to choose a direction to get up and search for Lantian's figure. But just as they all turned around at the same time...

"Are you looking for me?"

With a vine tied around its waist, Lan Tian silently descended upside down from the treetop above, mimicking Spider-Man's handstand in mid-air. Suddenly, it grinned wickedly from behind the Pure Water Sprites and spoke.

The scene fell silent for a moment. The water sprites froze in place, mechanically turning their heads slowly to look behind them, and then...

"what!!!"

"what!"

"Rider...Rider...Knight Commander!?"

……

"Girls, take a three-minute break here~ Remember, you can't reveal anything during this time~"

Lan Tian smiled and used his divine power to lift up the pure water spirits that were bound by vines, and gently placed them on the stool he had just woven from vines.

After waving to the water sprites with a smile, Lan Tian used only the strength of his hands to climb back up the tree along the vines still tied around his waist.

Blue Sky, who had just returned to the treetops, stood up and waved his hand to summon the Torrent Armor again. He then began to fire the grappling hooks on his arms at the surrounding tree trunks to enable rapid movement in the complex terrain of the rainforest.

Therefore, Lantian's figure disappeared from the sight of the pure water sprites in the blink of an eye.

In the next half hour.

"what's the situation?"

"Lord Shura!?"

The newly bound Pure Water Knights stared in disbelief as Blue Sky, his body painted in the color of tree trunks, jumped down from the tree trunk above and to the side, exclaiming in unison.

"Rest well for three minutes."

Lan Tian smiled at the Pure Water Knights, then summoned his Torrent Armor and ran off in the next direction.

……

Wow!

"what!"

"Take good rest, Lotia~"

Lan Tian, ​​who had just jumped out of a pond, spat out the hollow bamboo skewer in his mouth, took off his ghillie suit, shook off the water, put it back on, smiled at Lotia who was still bound beside him, and then headed to the next place.

……

"Hey~ we meet again, did you miss me?"

"Holy crap! The Asura... Ouch!"

As soon as Lantian poked his head out from an open space to greet someone, the previously unlucky Pure Water Knight was so startled by Lantian that he jumped up on the spot and fell right into the pit that Lantian had secretly dug. The pit also contained Lantian's grass element arrows.

"Haha, take a three-minute rest, goodbye."

Lan Tian couldn't help but chuckle, quickly did a backflip to his feet, and left in the opposite direction without looking back, leaving the Pure Water Knight, who was trapped in the pit, bewildered...

……

Deep in the rainforest.

Ergolia and Buyer strolled leisurely along the jungle path, chatting and laughing as they walked.

However, the two of them did not notice that a few small clumps of green branches were slowly moving along with them not far to their right.

"Buyer, I can sense that the children have been bound by the blue sky, some even twice, haha. But is this the same environment you usually live in, Buyer?"

Ergolia covered her mouth and chuckled a few times, then asked with a hint of curiosity about Buyer, who was strolling leisurely beside her.

"Yes, as the King of a Thousand Trees, I can make the land grow into a lush forest with just a little divine power. I have a natural affinity for forests full of life, because I can feel the heartbeat of the earth in the forest."

As she spoke, Buyer clasped her hands together on her chest, and a gentle, loving smile bloomed on her beautiful face.

“Ahem… If I remember correctly, you should also have another title, Buyer, which is the Master of Plants and Trees. This title not only indicates that you are the guardian of plants and trees, but also points to the master responsible for nourishing and protecting them—the God of Grass, Buyer.”

A respectful voice from the blue sky echoed in their minds. Upon hearing this, Ergolia and Buyer's eyes lit up, and they looked around with some surprise.

"Blue Sky? Have you been hiding among us all this time?"

Buyer's tone was clearly one of shock, because even he, the God of Grass, couldn't figure out Lantian's current location without using his divine power to sense it.

Ergolia, who was beside her, was also clearly shocked, because she had been paying attention to her surroundings and hadn't noticed Lantian's approach.

"Hmm... more or less. I've been following you for about 45 minutes now. I've climbed up to the treetops several times to observe you. Should we look for where I am now?"

Blue Sky's voice was still transmitted to Egolia and Buyer's minds using divine power, but this time Blue Sky's tone had a touch of playfulness.

Upon hearing this, Ergolia and Buyer exchanged a glance and then began searching for Lantian's figure in the surroundings. However, Lantian was not the type to sit still and wait for his fate.

So after reminding the two that he would also be moving, Blue Sky began a silent game of strategy with Ergolia and Buyer deep in the rainforest.

Half an hour passed quickly.

During this time, Agoria and Buyer still couldn't find Blue Sky. They could only find some traces left behind when Blue Sky moved. The best they found was the Oath of Dawn, which Blue Sky had accidentally left behind on a tree canopy above their heads. This was also the closest Agoria and Buyer ever got to Blue Sky.

Left with no other choice, Buyer enveloped the Oath of Dawn in the blue sky with divine power, raised the Oath of Dawn, waved it forward, and called out the name of the blue sky.

"Blue Sky, Aurelia and I concede defeat. Now, can you tell us your current location?"

After Buyer finished speaking, he and Ergolia looked around, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent. However, Blue Sky's voice soon rang out from all around:

"Oh, I see... cough cough, look up, look up."

When Ergolia and Buyer heard this, they looked up and immediately saw Lantian perched on a tree trunk. Lantian was waving to the two of them with a smile on his face before getting up and jumping down from the tree trunk.

"Actually, I've been hiding nearby all this time, but you haven't really noticed me~"

Blue Sky, now back in his Rapids armor, smiled and said to the two of them.

"I must say, without using divine power to detect and sense things, it would be very difficult for us to find your trail, Blue Sky."

Ergolia looked at Lantian with some admiration and said.

"Yes, if I could use my divine power to communicate with this rainforest, I reckon the blue sky would be as visible to me as it is right in front of me now~"

Buyer covered his mouth slightly as he spoke, his eyes filled with admiration for the blue sky.

"To receive the praise of the God of Grass, I, the God of Asura, am truly flattered!"

Lan Tian crossed her arms over her chest and made a funny face, saying playfully.

"Cuckoo~"

Ergolia and Buyer were immediately amused by Blue Sky's funny antics.

……

"By the way, Agoria, do you know where Fou is right now?"

Before Egolia could answer, Buyer, who had been keeping his eyes closed, slowly opened them and blurted out:

"Fukaros? I just established communication with this rainforest through divine power, and the plants and trees tell me she's searching for you on that path not far away~"

As he spoke, Buyer pointed in one direction.

Lan Tian looked in the direction Buyer pointed, then turned his head and smiled, nodding to Buyer in gratitude.

"Thank you, Buyer. Please wait for me outside the rainforest with Agoria. This Windwalker's Maze will be over in a quarter of an hour."

"You're welcome, Blue Sky. Then Ergolia and I will go out and wait for your good news."

"Then I'll call all the children out to wait for you."

Seeing that Buyer said this, Egolia smiled and agreed, and then she and Buyer slowly walked in the direction indicated by the blue sky.

After watching Egolia and Buyer leave, Blue Sky set off for the location of Fucaros.

"Wait for me, Fou."