coobybook Chapter 159 The Temple of the North Wind Wolf
Chapter 159 The Temple of the North Wind Wolf
Upon hearing Xu Ning's question, Acting Regiment Commander Qin blushed slightly and remained silent for a long while.
"Oh dear, the little drunkard's question is really sharp."
Lisa's smile broke the somewhat awkward silence in the office.
"However, we don't have much time. Before the wind dragon attacks again, we must cut off the source of its power in those three abandoned temples. So if there's anything that needs to be discussed or corrected, let's talk about it when we get back."
Xu Ning realized that what he had just said was somewhat inappropriate, and that it was indeed a bit wrong for a Liyue native to criticize the Mondstadt lifestyle.
Xu Ning nodded to Qin, signaling her to continue arranging the work below, and then took two steps back to indicate that she would not interrupt again.
However, as he retreated, he heard Kong and Paimon whispering to each other behind him.
"Why did you only target three out of four temples?"
"This is probably just a local custom... But hey, Miss Lisa calls Xu Ning 'Little Drunkard'..."
"Hehe, you little drunkard..."
Qin began assigning tasks, "Let's not delay, let's split into groups and head towards the three abandoned temples together."
"Lisa and I went to the temple of the Lion of the South Wind."
Kaiya said, "Then I will go with Xu Ning to the Temple of the North Wind Wolves."
"As for the recent Temple of the West Wind Eagle, I'll leave it to our scout knight, little cutie, and little Paimon to help out."
Lisa covered her mouth and chuckled softly.
Sora: "I'm so cute!!!"
After performing a chivalrous salute, Qin said, "Let's meet back here after the mission is over! Let's go!"
"My dear friend, you've been unusually quiet the whole way. Are you sulking because you couldn't team up with Sister Lisa or the cute little bunny?"
Xu Ning snorted coldly when he heard Kaiya's teasing.
"Close friends? Are we that close? But you're right about the next sentence, I do want to be on their team, at least then I won't be lonely."
Kaiya was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter.
“I like your honesty. But it seems that the news from Liyue indicates that you prefer lolis, but I didn’t expect you to care so much about Miss Lisa as well.”
Xu Ning took a sip of his drink and glanced at Kaeya. "Oh, so you even went to Liyue to retrieve my information?"
Kaeya didn't shy away from Xu Ning, laughing, "If someone with such a peculiar divine eye arrives in Mondstadt and we do absolutely nothing, wouldn't that make us, the Knights of Favonius, seem utterly incompetent?"
"Moreover, you possess such immense power that if you were to cast 'The Secret of the Wind' again, Mondstadt, currently battered and bruised, would be unable to withstand it!"
"The Secret Pact Under the Wind"?
Xu Ning frowned. This name...?
I remember now. During Lawrence's reign, in order to turn the Mondstadt soldiers under the rule of the nobles against each other, Anemo forged a contract in which the nobles sold Mondstadt to Liyue. It even had Anemo's forged signature of the Geo Archon.
Unable to bear being enslaved by Liyue, the soldiers joined Vanessa in a rebellion and overthrew the nobles.
This led to the legend of "After this job, Mondstadt returns to Liyue".
"It's all that guy's fault! Let's get down to business, Barbatos!"
Xu Ning muttered a curse at some guy who was busking on the street to earn money for drinks, and took a big gulp of wine.
Seeing that Xu Ning didn't seem angry, Kaiya smiled and spoke again, "At least your background can be traced, but the void you brought seems to have fallen from the sky. Do you have any information you can share with me?"
Xu Ning did not answer Kaiya's question directly, but pondered in his heart whether Kaiya knew something from the phrase "fell from the sky" or was deliberately testing how much he knew.
"Oh, I don't know anything about his background either. I met him by chance at Starfall Lake. He said he was coming to Mondstadt to find his relatives, so I brought him along. You can ask him yourself when you have the chance."
Xu Ning casually remarked, which served as an answer to Kaiya's question.
Kaiya sensed the perfunctory tone in Xu Ning's words and did not pursue the matter further.
The two remained silent for the rest of the journey until they reached the abandoned temple of the North Wind Wolf.
Kaeya stepped forward and pushed open the dusty, old stone door, wrinkled his nose and chuckled, "Hmm, this smell of dust and burnt debris, the magical connections left by slimes, hilichurls and wind dragons, it must be quite lively inside."
Xu Ning sneered, "They're just a rabble. Let's quickly deal with them and go back."
Kaiya took the lead and entered the temple. Looking at the mess inside, he sighed, "What a pity. The former temple of the North Wind Wolf has been disturbed like this."
As Xu Ning walked in, he saw a downward staircase. The open space below was leaking badly, perhaps due to a poor seal.
Below the platform that was once used for sacrificial rites, the water is now almost ankle-deep.
Several thugs, seemingly guarding the entrance, stood in the water.
Xu Ning and Kaeya took action and dealt with the Hilichurls almost effortlessly.
Upon opening the inner door, two flamethrowing devices were found installed at the two corners of the corridor.
Kaiya frowned and said, "I don't recall having anything like that in the temple."
As he spoke, he casually froze the two mechanisms into large blocks of ice.
Xu Ning looked at the pool that appeared further ahead, with countless scarlet spikes buried at the bottom, and said, "It seems that sending you here was just right. Otherwise, I'm afraid it would be very difficult for anyone else to handle things here!"
Kaiya laughed and said, "That's not necessarily true. If Amber were here, she would probably have already flown over these mechanisms by stepping on the walls. As for our librarian, I haven't seen anything that can stump her."
After passing through these mechanisms, the last door at the end of the corridor was opened.
A cyan orb of light, swirling with dense wind elements, rested quietly in the center of the room.
Xu Ning looked at the crystal on the ground and said, "It seems that Dvalin draws power from this crystal to summon the storm. The wind dragon that once soared freely through the sky now has to draw power from external objects to create storms. I'm afraid its life is coming to an end soon!"
Kaeya took two steps forward and shattered the wind dragon crystal on the ground with a few swings of his sword.
"Alright, that's all for now. We've managed to get something out of this. Now it's time for our Knights to clean up the mess. As a guest of the Knights, you don't need to get involved in these chores."
"Perhaps you could leave first and see if the little rabbit and the stranger have any difficulties that require help."
Xu Ning took a sip of wine slowly and chuckled.
"You mean, you don't need me to help you clear out the guys who have been lying in ambush around here for so long?"