Chapter 5: Four Winds Temples

/Xenoblade Chronicles 2 interactions:

Blade #1: Wolfric

Weapon: Mega Lance(aka poler-arm)

Element: Earth

Status: deceased. Was stabbed through the core crystal by Jin during the battle at the heart of Genbu, core crystal was damaged beyond repair and can no longer be re-awakened.

Location: broken core crystal is stored in the elementalist's hammer space to remind him of good memories and of past failures.

Blade #2: Corvin

Weapon: Uchigatana(special sword)

Element: Light

Status: Alive.

Location: Alrest. Waits for Elementalist to find a home before he can join him.

Extra info: is like a brother to the Elementalist, refer to each other as brothers. Prefers to dual wield his swords.

Other note: I'll be skipping a majority of the Lisa interactions. I don't hate the character, I just find her uncomfortable.

Last note: All POVs except for our hero's POV is in third person. Our hero's POV is first person.\


/Pov: Venti.\

Venti watched as the mysterious brown-haired stranger walked away from the blacksmith and headed towards the entrance to the city. 'That guy, just who is he? He could have killed Dvalin if I didn't try to convince him to not kill him. And his control of the wind seems to be far greater than mine.' Venti thought as the mysterious traveler met up with Monstadt's one and only Outrider. The two left the city in a hurry. 'I'll try to meet him later, it seems he's too busy. Especially since I just herd of a brown-haired traveler being given the title of Honorary Knight by the acting grand master. That traveler must be him.'


/POV: Colton.\

Amber and I started to hurry out of Mondstadt and traveled over to a structure not too far outside the city. It was interesting to see, the food leading inside was glowing green. "This is one of the four winds temples." Amber tells me, I nod, not sure what to say.

/quick author's note: I can't remember which temple is which, so I'm not specifying their names.\

"Let's head in." Paimon says to both of us, we nod and Amber touches the door. The door opens outwards, which confused me 'must be some law of this world of something.' We head inside.

The inside was unnaturally huge, it was bigger inside than outside. "How is it bigger inside rather than outside?" I ask, "This is one of many domains, places that are almost like other worlds, they are alway way bigger on the inside than on the outside." Amber responds to my question, after some exploring, we come across a room with a bunch of monsters, with some strange looking ones commanding the others. "Drat! There are abyss mages here!" Amber quietly exclaims. "What's an abyss mage?" I ask, Amber responds, "They, and all other monsters in Teyvat, are part of a non-human organization that cause chaos everywhere they go, and have basically declared all of humanity as their enemies." "Sounds like we have a confrontation on our hands here." I say with a little bit of humor in my voice, Amber cracks a smile, "Let's get 'em" she responds.

We then rush forward making our presence known to the monsters, immediately the abyss mages are surrounded by barriers. I sense that the barriers are made up of pure elemental energy, so I immediately have the barriers disappear. This shocked the mages, "What!" One of then exclamated, "I can't put up my shield!" Another shouts, that was because I was willing their uses of the elements to not work. Amber starts attacking the churl enemies who were one one side of the room, and I attacked the mages on the other side. I pulled out my new poler-arm and start spinning it with earth energy infused, then I send the energy out in the form of spikes moving on the ground. The spikes skewer two of the mages, then memories start flooding in.

A spear, earth energy, fun moments, unbreakable bonds, a self-sacrifice saving me at the cost of his life. 'Wolfric, I'm sorry'

I carry on with my attacks switching to using light energy to move fast and strike the mages with power blows. Then I shoot a light energy attack at another killing it instantly, I turn to the last one only to see if disappear, I sensed around and couldn't find anything except for the power source located further in. I look and see Amber finishing off her last enemy. "That's the last of them, shall we get going?" I say to her, "yeah, let's not waste time." She responds back.

We continue exploring until we come across the room holding the power source, we go in and start attacking the monsters there, just like last time the abyss mages stood no chance, especially since their attacks couldn't even phase me, and just like last time one gets away. I walk up to the power source after finishing off the rest of the monsters with Amber, "So do I just destroy it?" "Probably." Paimon responds. I walk closer to it, it's has pure wind energy in it, I sense the energy is indeed connected to one of the tornadoes. I have the golden gauntlets, that I've read from Hyrule's history books, created on my arms, but under the sleeves so only the glove part shows, then I punch the power source shattering it in one blow. I then undo the gauntlets and shake my arms. "Geez, those strengths increasing gauntlets do really come in handy, I should use them more." I say to myself, I then focus on the elemental energy around me and find that I can only sense no tornadoes over the city. "Looks like that worked, and it appears that the other groups took care of the rest." I say to Amber, "That's great!" She exclaims "Let's head back, it's been a long day." "That I can agree on." I respond before turning to Paimon, "Hey, I saw a restaurant in the city, why don't we go spend our new savings on some food." "Yes let's do that!" Paimon says excited, I turn to Amber, "You wanna join us?" "Sure, I could use some food, but let's check in with Master Jean first." "Alright then it's settled, let's head back to Mondstadt!" Paimon says enthusiastically, we then exit the domain through a strange looking portal.


/POV: Lumine.\

Lumine was sitting underneath a tree, thinking of what to do after Dvalin is fully under her control, when an abyss mage appears nearby. "Your highness." It says, "Speak" she commands it, "We have had some trouble inside the temples. The three power sources for those tornadoes we put over the city were destroyed." "Really?" Lumine asks, "That fast?" "Yes, two of them were taken out by some of the Knights of Favonius' vision holders, but the situation with the last one is the main concern." 'What could be so special about the last one's destruction?' "Was it the Anemo Archon finally stepping out from the shadows?" Lumine asks curiously. "No, it was something or rather someone completely different. A curly brown-haired male was able to tear through our forces with ease." The mage explains, "the two survivors explained that none of them could activate their elemental shields, and none of their attacks would work. In fact only those with physical use weapons stood a chance, but sadly they too where taken down with ease." "Thank you for the information, you are dismissed." With that the abyss mage left, Lumine stood up. 'A male with curly brown hair, huh? And he seems untouchable by the elements that my forces can use. That fits the description of the one I've kept seeing in my dreams up until yesterday.'

Lumine thought back to the dream she's been having on repeat since the week prior. In her dream, surrounded by white everywhere, then a male with curly brown hair wearing a grey tunic and tan leggings appeared, this male radiated power, and a lot of it at that. The male collapses onto the 'ground' clearly distraught. "I can't bring it back, I can't bring any of it back!" He wept, "I can't even remember there faces! I can't remember their voices!" He cried, Lumine felt pity for the male in front of her, he stemmed to have lost something important and can't remember what it is. "I can't even use the Numeron Code to change reality here, after all there is no reality to change if it doesn't exist anymore." 'Doesn't exist anymore, what does he mean?' Lumine asks in her head. "I swear I'll find a way to make sure you'll never cause any trouble again! I'll get back at you for destroying my Universe! I'VE LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF YOU! NEOSPHERE!" The male shouts at nothing. 'He's lost his entire world!? How?' Lumine questions to herself. Then that is when the dream ends.

'So this mysterious outlander is finally here, he could prove a problem later, I'll just order my troops to try to kill him as soon as they spot him.'


/thank you for reading this chapter.

I know Neosphere is the name of a YuGiOh card, but I'm making it so the character NightShroud basically sealed Neosphere's physical form into the Darkness Neosphere card in order to gain his power. Neosphere or as he is also called: Darkness was still able to have a semi-physical form where he can still influence things around him, like for example destroy a universe. When Jaden Yuki defeated NightShroud with the help of our hero using the 3 sacred beasts to overcome the darkness cards before Jaden finished NightShroud off with Divine Neos, Neosphere was released from his prison and United with his wandering mind and is now back at full power.

Neosphere is a true immortal, he cannot die ever, and it is literally impossible for him to not exist as he is darkness itself it will always exist no matter what, even reality changing powers do not work on him. He can be beaten in a fight, and weakened, but in order to truly defeat him is to seal his mind and body in something, like for example a second Master Emerald created out of thin air.\