Chapter 1, Part 5.5 - Mondstadt - P rank
Immediately after the explosion, the wave of which passed throughout Mondstatt and beyond its borders, the remaining survivors in the person of Eola, Diluc, Mona, Fischl, Bennett, Mika and Albedo were distracted from their affairs and immediately headed towards the city.
And until the moment of its destruction, the characters were busy with this: Diluc and Eola spent time culturally in the distillery having small talk, tasting wine from the owner's cellars, while simultaneously discussing Favonis's future plans. Mika was with them, since he was attached to the former aristocrat as an assistant on expeditions. Plus, he would receive new combat experience and skills from his honorary mentor. At that time, he was busy updating the maps of the area and more clearly highlighting their contours. While Bennett and Fischl argued, they climbed at speed through the ruins in the Lair of Storm Terror, where the goal was the spire of the main tower. If it weren't for the second's pride and cold cuts if the guy lost, she would not have agreed, but even Ozen is powerless against the desire to eat deliciously. Well, Mona, being on the path leading to Li-Yue from the distillery, was looking for the dropped wallet with her honestly earned thousand mora thanks to the services of an astrologer.
And Albedo, while on the Spire of the Heavenly Cold, I spent many hours sketching a landscape where Mondstadt was captured on the right half of the canvas. And thanks to his location at a height, he was the only one among all who was able to see the flying Dwalin and the gathering storm clouds with his own eyes, distracted from the painting. And when he decided to plan towards the city, he captured an arrow that broke the sound barrier, a flash from the parry and an explosion that combined both the Teyvat and Ultrakiel release of energy, which is why it was polygonal in places. The shock wave that followed hit him a little in the face and pushed him back with a stream of air. And then the architect saw the destroyed city, which seconds ago had already stood like many generations of people.
- K...KLEE, SUCROSE! - The only thing to shout out to Albedo is after which he began to accelerate in order to arrive as quickly as possible to his little sister and dear assistant, praying to meet them in the shelter under the archon's cathedral. But unlike him, we know how people's shelter from danger ended.
While Albedo's pupils constricted at the sight of the explosion and sudden flight of parts of the temple, because of which he realized that the girls were already dead, the other heroes were able to determine his presence only with the help of their hearing and the shudder of space. The glass of the distillery shattered into splinters from the shock wave, almost hitting Mika. Bennett and Fischl, who had been sitting on the roof for a long time, facing towards Fontaine, They instantly turned towards the sound stimulus, and after feeling a blow with a strong one-time flow of air, they were shocked by the power and immediately rushed to the city. And when bricks with pieces of walls from the archon's temple flew over their heads, almost killing the heroes, Ouzen decided to intervene to move faster. And Mona, hearing the roar, I hesitated a little, thinking about staying in search or running in the form of water to Mondstadt. Turning her neck either towards the explosion or towards the search site, she sighed with sadness and determination and chose the second option. Well, her lost savings, meanwhile, were on a completely different section of the road.
And so, having met in the gorge leading to Springvale, Lupus also joined them, responding to an extremely strange elemental, unnatural reaction for this world, never encountered before. And although he doesn't get involved in people's affairs, this case became an exception for him. And all the characters were shocked by the cruel sight.
Albedo, the first among the entire company to overtake V1 on the trail, fiercely entered into battle with him, realizing that the girl dear to him was no longer alive. Using the powers of his Eye of God, he tried to pierce the robot with many spikes from the ground, launch the enemy with many stone bullets, close it in a box and flatten the machine, supplementing his actions with ordinary attacks. But he suffered only failures, seeing the dodges and destruction of stone formations aimed at the death of the creature made of steel. After the next aggressive attack of spikes was carried out, representing their appearance around the enemy, and aimed at the center to break through the steel armor, V1 successfully dodges by launching a rocket at his feet. And then, with the help of a hook that pierced the collarbone of the architect who was not expecting it, he pulls Albedo towards him, and at the moment the cable almost completely returns to its original state, the machine switches to the Typhoon Strike and hits the guy's chest, deciding to use three accumulated percent of the arm's power. And so, the blast wave that follows the impact slams Albedo onto stone stakes that have accumulated at one point, piercing the hero a quarter of its entire length. Just as the swordman felt the pain and was about to scream heart-rendingly, the caliber of the alternate revolver from the landing V1 freed his skull from its contents. And so the life of the centenarian ended.
Having absorbed the blood from the explosion of the head and restored the three percent spent, before he had time to turn the camera to the right on the new arrivals, Lupus immediately launched an instant ramming attack, from which he was barely dodged to the side. But as soon as the leader of the pack stopped, V1 caught on him with a hook, having previously fired a drill, providing him with temporary "immortality". However, during the approach, Bennett-reinforced shots from Fischl's bow and Mick's crossbow were fired, successfully piercing the robot's skin, and the cartographer's bolt pierced right through the body of the vehicle. True, the instantly absorbed blood quickly restored the damage and pushed the projectile out, even despite the hard damage that went away a few seconds after the damage was received, even despite the reaction of the Superconductor, which imposed a debuff for several seconds. The Electro element was obtained thanks to the crystal that was on the village side.
Realizing that the wolf god will bring the most problems,it was decided to finish him off as quickly as possible. Therefore, having again equipped the modified red hand, and thanks to the absorbed blood, he released seven percent of the power. Having prepared a swing, with quick jerks he reached the muzzle of the stopped animal and delivered a direct blow to the nose, touching the bone. The intense shock wave that followed shook the lord's brain and cracked his skull, and its scattered remnants knocked down the children, when Eola and Dilyuk, having stuck their swords into the ground, were able to stay on their feet, and Mona was able to wave from the attack at the moment she became water. When the beast tried to regain control of the body, mentally shouting to himself "WAKE UP! GOD CAN'T FALL SO FAST! CAN'T!", but he fell off his feet, and V1 took advantage of this wonderful moment. Without much effort, he opened his mouth, and, having equipped the rocket launcher, frizzed the projectile before it was fired, and placed the barrel of the weapon in the oral cavity. The next action is to take the alt sharpshooter, he immediately began to spin, and then jumped over the body of the wolf towards the people, and in flight directed the shot at the prepared trap. The penetrating projectile calmly pierced the upper jaw, which was already reduced in strength, and upon contact with the missile, it produced a polygonal explosion familiar in power and appearance, tearing the god's head in different directions. Now the flock was left without a leader and god.
Seeing the quick death of such a strong ally, Diluc pulled out the blade from the ground and without taking his eyes off the enemy, shouted the following:
- Children, run away from here! Hide somewhere! NOW!
Having received a laconic instruction, the trio immediately began to carry it out. Without looking back, they rushed in horror into the forest, where their chances of survival were much greater. On the plus side, Ouzen was in the company as the wiser member of their small company and knew what to do in future situations. And now, on the side of Teyvat stand the last warriors in the person of Mona, Eola and Dilyuk, when there is an ideal machine of destruction against them, which has an unconditional incentive to bring death to their places of residence. The battle began when the children fled.
Before the machine had time to flip a coin after the explosion, Diluc jumped into an elemental smash, leaving a cross-cut on the chest plate and a Pyro element on the Absorber. But before he had time to land with a roar for the subsequent instant calculation of actions, the sorceress, who attacked with a short spell, enveloped V1 Aqua, as a result of which he felt the charm of Steam, due to which the hot condensation that had settled from inside his body began to cover the metal with rust due to the high water temperature, and increased hard damage by one and a half times, until it cools down and the effect subsides. But first you need to accelerate for the cooling effect, which will be difficult to do now, since Diluc was already performing a condescending spinning attack on the robot, which barely had time to parry the spinning lethal blow. Because of this action of the enemy, which stopped the energy of the blade, but not him, he immediately let go of the handle so as not to put his spine on the blade, and spinning in the air he soon met the ground, where, braking with his body, he was able to stop seventeen meters from the battlefield, his sword fell next to the machine. The Night Knight God's Eye shimmered with elemental energy.
But even having parried, V1 received minimal damage; after all, it was a blow from one of the enemies of the Order of the Abyss. However, taking the green shotgun in his hand, the mechanical messiah of death was about to catch up with the flying man in order to be restored with his blood, but with his Absorber he felt the active element of Cryo behind his back, and turning the camera with the body, then he saw Eola jumping on him with a geo-shield, obtained thanks to the last crystal left from Albedo in his hand before death, with a swing full of elemental energy, when Mona jumped out of the state of water to the right of V1 and again endowed her with the status of hydro. This, of course, cooled the robot and removed all the hard damage, but this did not compensate for the small margin of safety.
And here is the situation: the well-worn Mondstadt destroyer, being wet, is in the path of a successful attack by an experienced swordswoman under difficult-to-pierce protection. And even if he is able to somehow survive this attack, he will be immediately frozen, after which death is inevitable. The shock wave from the red hand will not have time to work before Eola's attack. It looks like this will be the place where the invader will die... Or not.
Having a recharged red rail, the machine could not find anything better than to take it and shoot the woman with a ray of Maurice, and then neutralize the damage from the explosion with a dash backwards. Having done this, he was not only able to push the danger away from himself, but also saw a new effect of the explosion - because of the Hydro in the Absorber, it reduced the radius in the zone, but increased the repulsion, which sent Eola four times the distance of Dilyukovsky into the air, breaking through the shield , making it easier for yourself to kill her in the future. And then he took out a revolver and immediately shot in the knee of Mona, who was shocked by the failure, who was about to return to the state of the water trail, but because of the pain, she grabbed the affected area and, having lost control to implement this action, knelt down.
Without wasting precious time, and such precious blood available to him at hand, V1 caught up with the sorceress in three jerks and began to pay back. Having made a sweeping and accelerated kick with his right foot, like Levi at Eren's trial, he crushes her jaw, and then an instant jump and repeats the fate of the dancing hillicurl, but with a slightly different outcome. The legs this time were folded together and aimed at the head. As a result, upon landing, the skull, face down, with a piece of bones pressed into the soil, and the machine, after a shotgun shot into the supporting back of the dead, completely recovered its wounds.
Getting ready to finish off Dilyuk, V1, standing with his back to him, turned his body in the direction of the red-haired one and the camera captured the following: nine small phoenixes rushing after the robot, which all together would be the size of the one usually used, and their owner running after his sword. Seeing how quickly the enemy reached the already deceased Mona with jerks, he realized that to defeat the mechanism, speed and continuity of attacks would be important, which would be impossible to achieve with a single fiery bird, which is why, for the first time in the entire period of operation of the Eye of God, he tried to use a non-standard form of elemental explosion. But V1 was deeply bloody at his successful attempt and running around, therefore, he quickly finished him off with a shot from an alternative sharpshooter, which pierced the entire side part from the chest to the head, bouncing off the walls opposite each other. Along with Dilyuk's death, the phoenixes disappeared into the air like tongues of flame. The distillery was left without an owner.
The time has come to start taking care of Eola. Soaring in the air on a glider, she, seeing from afar what happened to her comrades, began to flee by air, turning towards the top of the gorge, but the sliding V1 that appeared exactly under her took aim and fired a blue railtron, the beam of which divided her body into two longitudinal halves. As she fell, the two halves of her soul strove down with them, captured by the scarlet hellish energy, invisible to the living and so far V1 himself, escaping from the earth. The left one was wrapped in barbed wire, edging into the open cut, while the right one was engulfed by many multi-jointed and thick fingers, holding securely in the "spiritual flesh." And when Eola's physical body absorbed a little upon landing, having splashed a parallel part of the body and a nearby piece of land, Eola's soul ended up in Hell, like Mona, Diluca, Albedo, and everyone else killed by the hands of V1.
Everyone who could give at least some resistance in Mondstadt was killed. But all that remains is to find the helpless remnants.
Not stopping the movement after the murder of an aristocrat, V1 saddled the rocket and flew towards the forest, because he saw Mika, Bennett and Fischl fleeing into it. Feeling that the Absorber had the Eye of God at their first meeting, the machine did not even look down, but simply flew over the tops of the trees, waiting for a response from the augmentation. And the answer followed. It was obtained in a part of the forest that was towards the Lair of Storm Terror. Mika and Bennett were on adrenaline, while Fischl moved thanks to Ousen. Thinking that they had gone far enough to be safe, they stopped to catch their breath. Guys, with crazy pounding hearts and tired muscles, they greedily swallowed oxygen in frequent and large portions when the dark princess was short of breath from stress and worry about the adults - will they be able to overcome this horror? But not even two minutes had passed when the trio, hearing the flight of the rocket, immediately fell silent and froze with the realization that the adults had failed. If they didn't have the Eye of God it would have saved them, but the elemental energy emanating from them revealed the location of the heroes. And the roar of the rocket was getting closer and closer.
Diving towards the children and avoiding trees, V1 jumped off the missile, which was aimed at Bennett. Upon contact with her, the boy was torn into pieces, turning into a bloody fountain that splashed his remains over nearby trees and onto his comrades. He was unlucky last time. The resulting shock wave from the projectile pushed Mick and Fischl away, behind whom Ouzen instantly appeared to soften the blow with his body. But the launched hook of the robot simply pierced the spine through the stomach, and when fully approaching V1, the girl was awaited by a charge of hot nails from a green nail gun, which riddled Fischl's entire body nearby. And after she was finished, the avenging Ouzen was blown up by Maurice's shot, and his Electro element only contributed to the unconditional lethal outcome. No one was going to stop Mick's flight, and after seconds of flight he rolled head over heels on the ground, tearing the strap of the bag and piercing his right eye on a branch protruding from a fallen tree, at the same time receiving abrasions, wide scratches, cuts and splinters. Well, he was stopped by a tree, against which he slammed his right shoulder at full speed, dislocating it from the joint and breaking his collarbone, cracking some ribs. Falling back to the bottom, he felt the full range of pain, since endorphins had not yet come into effect, but even so, he made attempts to roll over and somehow crawl away, hide somewhere. But as soon as he was on his stomach, turning over his left shoulder, he saw Fischl V1 almost completely covered in blood, walking steadily behind the latter, accidentally kicking a piece of Bennett's hand under his feet.
- N-nooooooo, NO, NO, NO, PLEASE, NO! PLEASE, PLEASE... - before he could finish the word, he was taken by the throat and lifted above the ground.
Being overflowing with blood, the machine decided to simply kill the child at will. Placing his hands on his neck, one closer to the chin and the other to the collarbone, he smoothly and with steadily increasing force began to tear off his head. Under the trembling legs, the hand that unsuccessfully tried to open its fingers to loosen its grip and the hoarse cry of a child, V1 still continued to increase its strength, until in the end the body was decapitated, becoming a parody of bloody fondue. Having thrown the periodically twitching corpse, and then what was in the opposite hand, after four seconds of silence, a table with familiar content appeared on the image.
"Mondstadt - P"
Time - 11:34:41:66
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Killed - 890, of which 691 were people, 19 with the Eyes of God
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Style - 2160361
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And then a familiar melody began to be heard behind. The emerging terminal was calling to itself, and it had a reason to do so. Having made contact with him, the following was displayed on the screen:
"CONGRATULATIONS, ALL THE PEOPLE OF THIS REGION WERE DESTROYED! BUT THERE WILL BE MORE SERIOUS ENEMIES NEXT, AND WE HAVE NEW WEAPONS FOR YOU. ENJOY ;"
After reading and going to the weapons tab, the arsenal was replenished with the missing variations of the main weapons and a new alternative - an air hammer. Having tested it on a flock of wild boars wandering nearby, V1 fell in love with the new product and became part of the equipment. And at the moment the uniform is as follows:
Blue/red alto revolver
Green regular revolver
Blue/green air hammer
Shotgun with chainsaw
Blue/green saw gun
Red nail gun
Blue/green/red railgun
Blue/green/red rocket launcher
Blue hand
Red Hand (mod. Typhoon Strike)
Green hand
The region is finished. It is empty, but not Hell. He enjoys the torment of new souls and thirsts for more. And V1 heads to Li-Yue to bring death further. However, they were already waiting for him there.
