(How many POVs do you want?
Author - Yes)
(Y/N) POV -
"ANEMO ARCHON BARBATOS GREETS THE SUSTAINER!" Venti shouted while bowing.
"What the fuck"
I looked at Aether and he looked confused as well so I decided to act menacingly.
I threw the holy lyre in front of him and looked at him like Suzi Q at Joseph after she caught him cheating.
He quickly picked it up and asked me in a shaking voice.
"I-if you don't mind mam, could y-you please tell me w-why I have the honor of meeting you?"
Mam? Did this idiot not notice that I'm a guy? This is too funny, guess I'll mess with him more.
I started concentrating pyro around myself and released some electro behind me for increased dramatic effect.
Venti started trembling.
"I-I understand that being unable to help another deity who allowed me to become the anemo archon is disgraceful but I promise that we can save D-Divalin. P-please don't destroy Mondstadt" he begged.
"This is getting too hilarious. Alexa, play Despacito."
"Playing Despacito" replied Alexa's voice in my head and the song started playing.
"WHAT THE FUCK"
Before I could do any more experiments with 'Alexa', Aether karate-chopped me.
Venti started panicking and we had to calm him down.
I took out my notebook and quickly told him everything.
"Y-You bastard!" he shouted, half relieved, half angry.
"Hey! In my defense, I wasn't planning on acting like that. You were the one who started bowing to me!" I wrote.
"It doesn't change the fact that you kept acting like that!" he said as he attempted to punch me. I say attempted because I instinctively activated an overload reaction in front to me for defense which sent him flying.
"I knew that he is supposed to be the weakest archon but this is too much!"
Venti came back from the little crater I made and cheerfully stood in front of me.
"Hey, if you're this strong we can easily free Divalin :D Let's go to the old Mond and free him tomorrow" he said cheerfully and hopped out of the tavern.
A solid minute passed before everyone shouted 'what the fuck' at once.
Jean POV -
Our attempt to save Divalin was pathetic. An abyss mage interrupted Venti and almost broke the holy lyre before Asmoday killed it. Divalin attacked him and ran away. Fortunately he wasn't hurt a lot and told us that he would meet us at Angle's share. I contacted all high ranking knights who were free and we decided to meet at the tavern. Master Diluc was generous enough to close the tavern so we could get some privacy.
As we were discussing what to do next I saw Venti trying to steal a wine bottle. I was going to stop him but saw that Asmoday had picked up a chair and was sitting behind Venti. He was wearing his old clothes and his mask was missing.
Venti turned around and threw the bottle away as soon as he saw Asmoday, which caught every knight's attention. He then proceeded to change into a form that looked exactly like Barbatos' statue. Oh no, Venti was the Anemo Archon!?
What he did next was a greater shock than anyone could have expected after finding out that the bard who they had been talking to just now was their god. Yes, he bowed to Asmoday while shouting "ANEMO ARCHON BARBATOS GREETS THE SUSTAINER!"
I could hear shocked gasps coming from other knights.
"Jean, have I gone mad or is our god bowing to Asmoday" Lisa asked me, her voice full of shock.
"At this point, even I don't know" I responded.
Asmoday threw the holy lyre in front of Venti and he started trembling.
"I-if you don't mind mam, could y-you please tell me w-why I have the honor of meeting you?" he asked Asmoday, which seemed to irritate him and he started releasing pryo and electro around him.
Venti started trembling more.
"I-I understand that being unable to help another deity who allowed me to become the anemo archon is disgraceful but I promise that we can save D-Divalin. P-please don't destroy Mondstadt" he begged.
Just how strong was Asmoday supposed to be if he was making our Archon beg to him not to destroy Mond.
I could see Kaeya practically faint and master Diluc slightly trembling. Both of them must be glad that he didn't kill them when they tried to hurt him.
Suddenly Aether karate-chopped Asmoday which caused Venti to panic. They managed to calm him down and explained the whole situation to him.
"Y-You bastard!" he shouted, half relieved, half angry.
"Hey! In my defense, I wasn't planning on acting like that. You were the one who started bowing to me!"Asmoday wrote.
"It doesn't change the fact that you kept acting like that!" Venti said as he attempted to punch Asmoday.
"NOOOO! He's going to die if he gets hit" I mentally shouted.
Asmoday triggered an overload and Venti was sent flying.
"HOLY SHIT! HE'S ACUTALLY STRONGER THAN BARBATOS!"
Venti came back from the little crater Asmoday made and cheerfully stood in front of him.
"Hey, if you're this strong we can easily free Divalin :D Let's go to the old Mond and free him tomorrow" he said cheerfully and hopped out of the tavern.
A solid minute passed before everyone shouted 'what the fuck' at once.
Kaeya POV -
*Fucking dies*
Diluc POV -
*Getting ready to kill Kaeya after all this is over*
Lisa and Amber POV -
*Confused screaming*
*Time skip*
(Y/N) POV -
Venti told us about old Mond which Divalin had made his nest. It was a two day journey on foot. We decided to take Diluc and Jean with us.
Venti picked up Diluc and I picked up Jean. We concluded that flying would be faster and reached Stormterror's lair, as people called it now.
I was about to fly back to get Aether when I noticed a teleporter waypoint. I used it to get back to Mond and teleported back with Aether. Turns out we can teleport with one person. Aether activated the waypoint and got Paimon.
We had to do some stupid puzzle to activate the platform required to climb up. I said fuck it and flew everyone to the top. We managed to ignore the hilichurls by flying the whole way and Venti summoned Divalin using the holy lyre.
Divalin somehow got hold of another god's dead body and created a seemingly endless sky with multiple platforms. I flew towards him and removed one of the blood clots by pulling it out whole.
Divalin fired his strongest attack at the group and I had to shield them with my wings. This ripped my wings out of my body and I wasn't able to help in destroying the second one.
When it was removed the platforms started crumbling but Divalin got them. Yes, them and not us. I was too far and wasn't able to move because of the pain of my wings getting ripped out.
As I slowly fell to my death I could hear Aether and Paimon screaming. I saw the blood clot and kept it under me in hopes of reducing some damage.
Yeah... that wasn't a great choice.
I remember falling and a part of the platform that fell earlier stabbed me, with the corrupted blood breaking into pieces and getting absorbed by my body. Then, everything turned black.
Aether POV -
Asmoday took us to Stormterror's lair and Venti quickly summoned Divalin. He created an endless sky and Venti informed us that it was the body of a god he killed when he became an archon. Asmoday removed one blood clot which caused Divalin to shoot his strongest attack at us. I thought we were about to die but Asmoday covered all of us with his wings. This saved us but they got ripped out of his body. I could see him silently screaming in pain and quickly carried him to the edge of a platform so he wouldn't get caught up in the fight.
We somehow managed to destroy the second blood clot but that made all the platforms collapse. Divalin managed to catch us, but Asmoday was too far. I saw him fall to his death because of me. Divalin took us to the ground as fast as he could but it was too late. One of the platforms had stabbed him and he was unconscious, shards of Divalin's blood all around him. As I was crying, his body started twitching and his blood started turning into cubes similar to the ones the unknown god used. Divalin managed to get us far away when I saw hundreds of cubes destroy every living thing in their path. The end of Divalin's tail got caught up and he screamed in pain. The cubes drained some of his blood when everything suddenly stopped. We returned to see everything completely dried out. All plants, animals, even hilichurls. All missing. I saw that Asmoday's major wounds had completely healed but his wings were still damaged. We took him to Mond for emergency healing.
Divalin landing in front of the cathedral scared everyone and some even tried attacking us before Jean stopped them and explained the situation to everyone. The deaconess, Barbara healed him and told us that he would be fine, but due to his heightened sense of pain it will be hell for him when he woke up.
I decided to stay with him as Paimon was hugging him, scared that he would fall again while Squishy was trying to figure out what happened to our friend.
Jean and Diluc left to do their work and Venti asked me to help him return the holy lyre.
I reluctantly agreed and we gave it to Barbara. She was glad that the lyre wasn't damaged and we went out to get some fresh air as Venti comforted me.
(You know what happens here so I'll be skipping the meeting with Signora)
(You know what? Since Venti is Tsaritsa's boyfriend in this one, instead of the 'smirk insult' imagine that he said "So, she wants my Gnosis now? She couldn't handle my D**k earlier, what makes her think she could take the Gnosis" when Signora gets angry)
Diluc POV -
After Asmoday saved our life and almost died we managed to return to Mond. When Jean told everyone what happened, they wanted to 'party in honor of the honorary knights'.
I decided that we would release the improved beer today and the sales went phenomenal. I decided to give Asmoday 10% of today's profit and a lifetime supply of any drink he wants at angle's share as a thank.
"Master Diluc! Our 7th barrel of Beer has finished. Should I open the premium wine?" Charles asked, excited about the sales.
"Sure. Let's get some great sales today" I said.
Jean POV -
Asmoday's health concerned me, but I couldn't leave the massive amount of paperwork. The only reason I didn't rush there was because I had complete trust in Barbara. If she couldn't heal him, then I'm pretty sure Aether would destroy Mond. After we found out that Asmoday can heal his major injuries be absorbing organic matter, Mond was like a whole buffet for him in case he got too injured.
My thoughts started getting too distorted so I called Lisa to help me out a bit as we discussed a gift for our savior.
*Time skip*(3 days)
(Y/N) POV -
I somehow managed to survive but everything hurts like crazy. Aether was next to me and quickly hugged me. This time his hug couldn't ease most of the pain and it was hurting quite a lot. Barbara gave me some painkillers and told me to rest. She said that she couldn't do anything about my old wounds but was able to heal my wings. She also said that she found small traces of crystals inside my body but they couldn't be removed. Must be the blood clot that my body absorbed. Surely that won't cause anymore problems... FUCK! ANOTHER FLAG!
So I just sat there as Aether told me everything that happened, while I experimented with 'Alexa'.
Turned out that I don't have a super strong AI like Rimuru and that my memory is so good that I was able to perfectly recreate the songs in my head. The Alexa part was made up by my brain to help in making it feel a lot more normal.
Aether asked me what I was thinking but I couldn't write because of the pain, as I passed out.
Amber POV -
I was helping Lisa with some paperwork when Stormterror suddenly landed in front of the cathedral. I was about to attack it when Jean came down and informed us about everything that happened. I could see Aether carrying an unconscious Asmoday to Barbara.
When Jean made an official statement about what happened the whole city went crazy. People started partying 'for the honorary knights' as they called it.
A few days later I was told that Asmoday had regained consciousness and went to meet him. Other were there too and I saw Aether coming towards me. Suddenly it felt like everything had gone silent and I couldn't hear anyone else talk. Aether asked me to help him do some shopping and I jokingly said "So, like a date?"
I didn't even register what I'd said when he responded with "If you would like to ;)"
I took his hand and quickly ran away without noticing what I was doing.
(Y/N) POV -
I regained consciousness and it doesn't hurt much now. Everyone came to meet me when I saw Aether going towards Amber so I motioned everyone to stay quite while I at pointed at them.
Aether asked Amber something and she responded with "So, like a date?"
Everyone was shocked
Aether responded with a "If you would like to ;)" and Amber dragged him outside.
"I've given him the right training" I thought as I wiped a fake tear off my face like a proud older brother.
"Ara, ara~ When did our Amber grow up so much?" the horny MILF asked no one.
We all had a good laugh while Paimon went to 'spy' on them.
*Time skip*
(Y/N) POV -
After I had fully healed we got some gifts from our friends. Diluc gave me a free drink pass and 10% profit from the beer sale so I'm a few million mora richer now. The knights of Favonius gave me and Aether a luxurious house near the HQ as a thanks.
Venti allowed me to turn on of his statues into the black ball similar to the one I created from the power source and Lisa studied it telling me that it could be used to create a really powerful weapon. I finally remembered that the unknown god gave me some materials to make some weapons if I want, and I gathered everyone.
"Alright everyone, I've found out that I own enough materials to make two weapons, so I need your help to make me and Aether some. Anyone has any suggestions on what I should make and how?"I wrote on a small board and everyone started murmuring.
"I recommend the Skyward Blade for Aether" Kaeya said.
"I was thinking something similar to the Primordial Jade Cutter" Jean said.
"Hmm. Both the weapons would fit him well but do we even have the required materials? Skyward Blade requires something with high anemo affinity and the jade cutter needs at least a 200 year old jade" Diluc asked.
"Why are we only thinking of weapons from Mond? A Mistsplitter Reforged or a Summit shaper would be good too" Lisa said.
Hmm. Diluc makes sense. Let's check the materials first.
We went outside and I emptied my inventory. We had a fragment of Divalin's blood clot, 3 purified tear drop crystals, one weird black ball I made from the power source and one made from Venti's statue. Then came the materials that the unknown god gave me.
A 14000 year old crystal, a small bottle of her blood, bunch of her cubes, a small bottle of my blood, some mechanical parts she collected from Khaenri'ah, a small box with a note saying 'An abyssal core. Use only if making a catalyst', some materials from Celestia and outside Teyvat, a bunch of Adamantium which I'm pretty sure doesn't even exist in this world, and two balls of a weird metal that seemed to be absorbing ley-line energy.
Yeah. Everyone was shocked to say the least. The local blacksmith said that he couldn't work on the weapon alone and we had to call top craftsmen from different nations. We decided on 2 tear drop crystals, the black ball made from the power source, 90% of the crystal and 70% of the adamantium, some of my blood and one ball of the weird metal for Aether's sword which would follow the forging process of Summit shaper, while the design would be based on Skyward blade. Rest of the process was divided equally by taking some inspiration from all the craftsmen's nations.
When the Knights of Favonius sent an official notice for master craftsmen and alchemists to every nation I thought that we would get no response because of the stupidly rare materials. Surprisingly every nation sent it's top craftsmen and even a few officials to see the forging of the new legendary weapons.
The process for the sword lasted for 6 weeks and we started making my weapon in the meantime. I asked Venti for some ideas for a catalyst and he told be about a book he once saw in Celestia. The sustainer personally used it and it was able to store vast amount of knowledge, like some kind of never ending archives.
All the alchemists were excited about making a weapon exclusive to Celestia, here on Teyvat. We started the crafting process and all the remaining materials were used. It lasted for 2 months and most of the alchemists had to take shifts as the making of a catalyst can't be stopped once started. I, was in a tight spot. Catalysts made for use by a specific person require said person to continuously provide it with their knowledge and elemental energy. I was throwing in random memes and things I remembered from my previous world and some anime.
When the weapons were ready, everyone involved practically fainted when we tried using them.
Aether's sword was made to be able to channel multiple elements as we hypothesized that he could 'steal' the powers from other archons too. It looked like a Skyward blade but white and red because of the materials. The ley-line absorbing metal gave the blade a black glow then it was in area with concentrated energy. Aether tried swinging it at full force and ended up cutting a major portion of Mond's wall without using any elemental energy. Yeah, we weren't going to use it on random thugs.
My weapon on the other hand looked like a black and gold book which matched my wings :)
Because we tried to replicate the weapon Venti told us about, it was able to change its from to copy any attack I had preciously seen, but this drained me a lot. It also had some fixed forms based on the memes I was throwing at it and could change into the Necronomicon, but we couldn't check if I can summon undead. I tried using the attack Divalin used to rip my wings off and ended up firing it towards the sky. It looked the same but was made of electro and I could swap the elements when I wanted. Also using it left me unconscious.
When I woke up I was told that we would have to name our weapons since none like them have ever existed...
Jean POV -
Asmoday contacted me and requested all of us to meet at the meeting room. I contacted those he requested and we started the meeting.
"Alright everyone, I've found out that I own enough materials to make two weapons, so I need your help to make me and Aether some. Anyone has any suggestions on what I should make and how?" he wrote on a small board and everyone started murmuring.
"I recommend the Skyward Blade for Aether" Kaeya said.
"I was thinking something similar to the Primordial Jade Cutter" I said. While Kaeya's idea was nice, it would be easier to get the materials for Jade cutter.
"Hmm. Both the weapons would fit him well but do we even have the required materials? Skyward Blade requires something with high anemo affinity and the jade cutter needs at least a 200 year old jade" Diluc asked.
"Why are we only thinking of weapons from Mond? A Mistsplitter Reforged or a Summit shaper would be good too" Lisa said.
Hmm. Diluc makes sense. Let's check the materials first.
We went outside and Asmoday emptied his inventory. We had a fragment of Divalin's blood clot, 3 purified tear drop crystals, one weird black ball he made from the power source and one made from Venti's statue.
"So many rare materials! We could create some great weapons from these."
Then, he started pulling out more.
A 14000 year old crystal, two small bottles of blood, bunch of cubes, some mechanical parts , a small box with a note saying 'An abyssal core. Use only if making a catalyst', some materials from outside Teyvat, a bunch of blue-ish metal, and two balls of a weird metal that seemed to be absorbing ley-line energy.
Yeah. Everyone was shocked to say the least. The local blacksmith said that he couldn't work on the weapon alone and we had to call top craftsmen from different nations. We decided on 2 tear drop crystals, the black ball made from the power source, 90% of the crystal and 70% of the adamantium, some of my blood and one ball of the weird metal for Aether's sword which would follow the forging process of Summit shaper, while the design would be based on Skyward blade. Rest of the process was divided equally by taking some inspiration from all the craftsmen's nations.
I wrote an official notice to the leaders of all nations requesting support. We were worried that no craftsmen or alchemists would show up because of the ridiculous materials but surprisingly every nation send their top craftsmen and alchemists. Even some high ranking officials had arrived to see the making of the new weapons, and the work began.
The sword took 6 weeks and Asmoday's catalyst took almost 2 months.
When the weapons were ready, everyone involved practically fainted when they tried using them.
Aether's sword was made to be able to channel multiple elements as we hypothesized that he could 'steal' the powers from other archons too. It looked like a Skyward blade but white and red because of the materials. The ley-line absorbing metal gave the blade a black glow then it was in area with concentrated energy. Aether tried swinging it at full force and ended up cutting a major portion of Mond's wall without using any elemental energy.
Asmoday's weapon on the other hand looked like a black and gold book which matched his wings.
Because they tried to replicate the weapon Venti told them about, it was able to change its from to copy any attack he had preciously seen, but this drained him a lot. Asmoday tried using the attack Divalin used to rip his wings off and ended up firing it towards the sky. It looked the same but was made of electro and he could swap the elements when he wanted. Also using it left him unconscious.
"Hey Lisa? Are you sure we haven't made a mistake?" I asked her in a concerned voice.
"Hmm, why do you think so?" she asked.
"Well... they were able to defeat Divalin with pathetic weapons and now we've made them even stronger. I just hope they don't attack Mond." I said.
"Jean, sweetheart. If they wanted to attack Mond they would've done it long ago. You've been stressed a lot and your thoughts are getting weird" she said.
"Yeah, you're corr-" I couldn't finish as she quickly said -
"Want me to help you get rid of the stress( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
She want's to play this game? Guess I can do that too.
"Sure, let's to this ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" I responded, which took her by surprise.
