And this is the 15th chapter. To be honest, I think I'll end it next chapter. The next chapter will cover a lot of action, not sexual.

I held that power in my hands, a Gnosis. It was a swirled one, with a white and green coloring lit inside a glass container. It looked relatively innocuous for the massive power I felt coursing through my veins with it just in my hands.

'Is this… Venti's Gnosis?'

I looked at the bard in the distance, under the tree at Windrise, him strumming his Lyre peacefully. I ran up to him, passing by the monsters and bushes while he continued to play, almost ignorant of the world around him.

"Hey, Venti."

The bard opened his eyes toward me, and I saw a moment of confusion before his mind finally clicked with me being there.

"Hello there, Aether!" He greeted me cheerfully, and I could smell the sign of booze on his breath. He then looked at the Gnosis I carried in my hand and looked to have immediately sobered up.

"So… it seems like us Archons aren't the only ones able to attain such power. The mastery of Anemo." He played on his Lyre a much more somber tune. It was a tone I didn't recognize, certainly not from Venti.

"What? This isn't yours?" I looked between him and the Gnosis still in my hands. I was still wondering if I was supposed to present this to him.

He chuckled sadly. "If it were mine, it wouldn't be in your hands, and you wouldn't have to have carried it to me." He strung his lyre as he spoke to me.

"This… is your mastery. You've obtained a weapon of the Archons." He looked over at me, in all seriousness.

"I… have full control of Anemo?"

He sighed. "Why don't you find out?" He played a calm tune on his Lyre and looked past me.

"Merge the Gnosis with your body. You'll feel your control over Anemo even stronger than what you had in previous days. You know how to insert it inside yourself."

I looked at the Gnosis and squeezed it. 'This… is the real thing. What Signora stole from Venti all those years ago.'

I tightened my grip on it till I pushed the gnosis into my chest, and it merged into my body. I felt a stinging sensation, having such power entering me, and my veins temporarily with the power of the Archons. However, that pain subsided, and as I looked past the tree and toward some monsters in the distance, a goal sprang to mind.

"Now, you should be much stronger now. I guess sleeping with so many Mondstadt women paid off." He muttered under his breath of the music he was playing. I still heard what he was saying, though.

"What?" I looked back at him, and he looked up smugly.

"Just because I don't do anything about her sleeping with you, doesn't mean I don't know you were sleeping with so many women. Even Barbara… she was praying to me to forget her feelings, but you just made her disobey me. The pain of having a follower of the church give in to their desires!" He posed sarcastically, which made me just narrow my eyes at him.

"Would you say anyone else knows about it?"

He stopped playing his lyre to shrug. "Not really." He went back to playing. "They do know someone's slept with Noelle, however. And that's even beyond her larger-than-average stomach peering from her uniform."

I groaned. 'Of course, they would notice that.'

"However, you're not their first guess as to the person who's the father of her child." He looked over at me as he played.

"Thanks for telling me that."

He snickered. "Why don't you show me your power, new archon of Anemo?" He looked smug at the end, but I could sense a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"Alright. Let me think."

I remembered his bow, him sending a large blast of Anemo towards his enemies ahead, and imagined that motion. I closed my eyes to remember. The spin of the bow, as I sent it around my fingertips from my back. I felt an arrow of anemo being knocked back by me, pulling on an Anemo-made bowstring.

I took a breath before my eyes opened, and there it was: A bow and arrow made of anemo, me materializing it in my very fingertips.

"Huh?!" I looked confused.

"Send the arrow!" He "yelled" at me.

I released another breath, as I looked toward the monsters in the distance, and sent the arrow toward them. It turned into a vortex, and sucked all of them up into the air, slashing into them till they were nothing but pieces. Eventually, the vortex stopped, but not before taking out all of the slimes and Hillichurls that I was aiming at.

"... what?" I looked dumbfounded, to which Venti just laughed.

"That's the power you had before Signora took your powers away?" I looked at him, still laughing.

"Yeah, yeah." His laughter died down as he looked at me.

"You… didn't use it? Why?"

"As I said to you, I'm an Archon of freedom. Barbatos. I give my people the freedom to choose their path." He played his lyre.

"Besides, something tells me you will use that power better than I did. That's your next question, isn't it? Why I didn't take your gnosis?"

I nodded.

"Well, I guess you know the answer now. You'll be able to save more than I will." He went back to playing his Lyre, and I walked away from him, more confused than anything else.

'I need to get the rings and Mona's stuff.'

Not trusting the teleportation, and me wanting to test my skills, I decided to make a run for it, to the City of Mondstadt. I used the air to push me faster, so despite the distance, it took me less than a few minutes to get to the city.

I reached the gates and greeted Swan, who looked… confused.

"Hello, Swan. Has anything happened since yesterday?"

"In fact, it has. Many more ruin guards came in the night, but both Lisa, Jean, and Noelle have taken a handle of it, so it was nothing to worry about."

"Wait, what?"

"While we would have ordinarily seen this as a concern… all three took down the ruin guards without much effort. All 100 of them, on both doors." Even I sweatdropped.

"Oh." I didn't know what else to say.

"Also, Lisa looked much younger for some reason." He whispered in my ear, looking around him in hopes no one would notice.

"She did?" I looked at him strangely, as if I didn't know why he would say that.

"No, I mean, she looked like she had lost 10 years off her life like she was your age. I was confused that she was even Lisa." He looked terrified, which I couldn't blame for.

"Who knows, she might be trying something different in her life." I shrugged.

"Well…" Swan didn't look convinced, him being deep in thought.

"Anyways, thanks for the report, and I'd like you to keep monitoring the situation."

"Yes, honorary knight!" He saluted, as a knight would, and I walked away as I tried to hide my embarrassment.

'I guess what's done is done. If I undo it, it'll be even more suspicious.' I saw Wagner making materials, and approached him.

"Hey, Wagner."

"What?" He didn't even look at me, still hammering away at the weapon he was hammering at.

"Can I commission you for a wedding ring?" That made him pause, and he genuinely looked up at me with a smile.

"Who's the special someone?" He dropped his hammer.

"... I need to tell you privately. It's a secret."

He seemed accommodating enough, with him leaving his work behind.

"Schulz, you get to be using the hammer today!"

"Thanks, Wagner!" Schulz took the hammer. Wagner got me to the corner of the store, where no one was.

"So, who?" He spoke quietly.

"Well… Jean-"

He nodded, expecting me to just finish with her.

"Mona, Barbara, Amber, Eula, Lisa, and Noelle."

Then his jaw nearly dropped, and he backed into the wall.

"I can see why you wanted to keep it hidden." He facepalmed. "Well, you'll have to cough up 8 rings worth of money, then, one for yourself."

"I will. I've got the materials too." I handed him the gemstones for each of them, and he looked over at them.

"Let's see, one geo, one anemo, one cryo, two hydro, one pyro, and one electro gemstone. You'll need the Starsilver too. At least 5 for each."

"Yeah, I've got that." Barely, I didn't mention it.

I handed over 40 Starsilver pieces and a large amount of money.

"Here's 100,000k Mora, for you to finish this within 2 weeks."

"Of course. I would have done that even without the pay. Keep it for your wives. It'll be 50k Mora." Despite how weirded out he seemed to be by me asking him for 8 rings, he genuinely seemed happy with me getting the rings.

"Your wives should be treated right." He was about to walk back before I stopped him.

"Oh, also, before you go, I want you to deliver this to their houses, minus the one for mona. That, I'll pick up on my own."

"Hmm… I'll have Schulz do the delivery."

'If only I could have gotten this with the previous weapons instead of just having to come to check back here to make sure my order was done.'

"Thank you."

He walked back with all the materials I had handed him, and he had a smile on his face for the first time in a while.

"I should run off to get Mona's stuff. She'll need it." I ran over to her house, to which I saw Miles.

"Hey, what happened with Mona?"

"I've got a place where she's staying. She wasn't comfortable staying here… where she could be targeted again."

"Yeah… I can imagine." He sighed, his face grimacing.

"She's alright now, but I'm going to take her stuff to the place she's at."

"Yeah, yeah." He swallowed.

"Now, the man who raped Mona… he's been put to death. Jean personally oversaw his execution."

I nodded. "Thank you."

"It's my duty."

He saluted, and I thanked him.

I walked past him to Mona's former room and saw all the stuff she had. Her clothes, some of her hygiene products, and some I didn't recognize. I took them all, and I put them in my bag.

'I guess I should tell the house owner that she's not going to be paying rent here for a bit.'

After some time, I went to the teapot and walked into Mona's room. She was fast asleep, sleeping on her side, lightly snoring. She was still naked, but she was clean, at least now. Her stomach bulge had gone down to normal, and she looked peaceful in her sleep.

"Hey, Mona…" I whispered, to which she started groaning.

"What…" She looked over at me, fully clothed, and muttered, "Why don't you come inside here, and fill my womb again?"

She then fully opened her eyes after waking up and gasped at what she had just said.

"Wait, I just said that." She blushed heavily, and even I couldn't believe she had said that.

"Sorry…" She looked away.

I chuckled. "Don't worry, we'll do the sexy stuff later. I've got all your stuff from your room. Told the person you're renting from that you're staying here, so you don't have to worry about rent."

She leaped onto me, and I almost fell over. She snuggled against my chest.

"Thank you…"

"Let's get your stuff out. I'll have to leave after."

We ended up getting all her stuff out and putting it in the bathroom. We also finally got the mansion more organized. With her Hydro and my anemo, cleaning and fixing the mansion was made short work of. And we even had some fun with some non-sexy time, pillow fighting, and the like, after some sexy time.

'Never knew that Mona would be one to do pillow fights.' I chuckled, as we swung a pillow at each other.

Eventually, the entire house was cleaned, and the last room looked spotless, with the bed clear, and the bedsheets changed.

"Are you going to bring in the other girls here? Who have you been with?" Mona looked over at me curiously.

"... good question." I didn't think about it.

"Well, I'll make sure any girl you bring over will be treated well." She had her hands on her hips, as proud as she was.

"You're okay with that?" I looked at her genuinely.

"Well… I love you. You saved my life, and you've got a big heart. I just want you to be with me as well." She crossed her arms, similar to Paimon.

"Yeah, I will." I hugged her, and she hugged me back.

"Though… Do you want to keep your clothes on? Or do you want to have yourself naked all the time?" I looked at her ass, respectively, as I hugged her.

For some reason, it just clicked for Mona that she was naked, and I felt her heart rate increase has become self-aware.

"... I should probably keep some clothes on. In case when the rest of the girls come along."

"Maybe a good idea."

She ran to her room, and a few moments later, I saw her change into normal clothes, complete with the hat, she had cleaned.

"Now, do you want an astrological message? Before you have to leave?" She pulled up her hydro astrological reading chart, as I walked toward her.

"Yeah."

"Well… I can see that you're going to get with more women. As expected of my husband. But… soon, there's going to be a heavy battle you'll have to face. In both Sumeru and Liyue."

"Wait, Liyue?"

"Yes. In fact… it's warning me that you to go to Sumeru soon. Otherwise, bad consequences will befall Mondstadt."

"That's… ominous."

"Well, I'd say most likely, leave in a day, at max." She waived the astrological chart away. "It seems like the reading is serious with the consequences." She looked equally serious at me.

"Okay, thank you." I kissed her and went towards the door.

"Take care." She said, waving to me as I looked behind me.

I smiled. "I'll take care, Mona."

I opened the door and went back to Mondstadt.

Little did I know how Mona's reading would be.

Yeah, there's a cliffhanger. I'll be releasing the next chapter soonish. Don't worry, it is something I'm on top of. I've also figured out what to do with Liyue, so that'll be interesting. Anyways, thanks for reading.