Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

Chapter 588 Dragon Bone

After Rek'os left, Kailin came to Rednos's side and asked softly, "So... it was you who did it, right?"

Upon hearing this, Rednos smiled and shrugged, "Who knows? Let's go, there's no time to lose."

Having said that, he lowered his hands and followed Rek'os's steps.

Karin pursed her lips but didn't press the matter further. In any case, the trial had indeed been "unexpectedly" postponed.

The group followed Rek'os to the military post near the trial. At this time, the knights who had been sent to scout the border returned.

"grown ups……"

"No need for formalities, get straight to the point."

"Yes!" the knight hurriedly reported. "This morning, multiple avalanches occurred in the mountainous areas. Although there were barriers to prevent them, many people were unable to evacuate from the mountains into the barriers in time and perished as a result."

"Have you figured out the cause of the avalanche collapse?" Peruvieri asked.

The knight nodded: "After the avalanche, we immediately launched an investigation and found that the elemental energy in the mountains was flowing in an unnatural pattern, and there was hardly any left."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes widened.

"So, the reason the mountains collapsed was because someone was stealing elemental power?" Claire said.

“It must have been the Fallen Gods Guild!” Karin said, hands on her hips.

“But according to our observations over the past few days, that machine has never been turned on at all,” Claire said, spreading her hands.

At this moment, Mengna said warily, "Could it be that, like before, this is just to attract our attention?"

“Very likely.” Rednos nodded, then looked at Rekoos. “But the question is how they managed to get past you without noticing. You control the glacier, and you created the rules governing the flow of contracts here. If they wanted to tamper with it, it wouldn’t be so easy for them.”

Rek'os pondered, wanting to refute, but the statement was undeniable.

The reason why the glacier remains warm despite being covered in snow year after year is because he used his elemental power to protect the people. Now, the elemental power in the mountains has been stolen, but he has not noticed at all.

Unless… their method of theft is not directly extracted from the ley lines or the environment, but bypasses their own perception through some medium. Or, their target itself is not elemental force in the conventional sense.

"Could it be?"

Suddenly, a terrible thought arose in his mind.

"Why are you so startled?" Rednos asked.

"I think I know how they bypassed my senses and 'stole' elemental power."

“Oh? Please make this brief,” Rednos said.

"It is the key point of the array. When I was adjusting the glacier environment, I set up key points on the edge to monitor and maintain the safety of the glacier."

"So, they severed your connection with the array's core?" Rednos asked.

Funina spread her hands and said, "But this doesn't make sense. If the array's core was set up by Lord Hyotei, how could Lord Hyotei not have reacted at all when it was severed?"

"Because the elemental forces that constitute the array's core structure do not originate from me."

Upon hearing this, everyone was surprised.

"If your barrier doesn't rely on your own power, then who does it rely on?" Karin asked.

"The spine of the Ice Dragon that liberated the glaciers and established the covenant in Teyvat," Rek'aws explained.

Upon hearing this, Rednos chuckled softly: "Hmph, could it be the one with the same name as you?"

"Same name?" Karin was taken aback.

"Yes, you may not know this, but legend has it that ten thousand years ago, Teyvat was still frozen in time. At that time, the order of all things was ruled by a dragon emperor who was a world-destroying ice dragon. If it weren't for the legendary first king making a pact with him and bringing all things back to life, the world would probably still be frozen in time. And that dragon emperor's name was Rek'os."

Rednos spoke slowly, his tone playful, and looked at Rek'os with great interest.

“The Ice Dragon that destroys the world… When we first arrived here, Sirius seemed to have mentioned something similar.” Zhao Heng subconsciously looked at Sirius.

Seeing this, Sirius nodded: "Yes, I still remember the first time we met. At that time, you knew nothing about what was going on here, which troubled me, but fortunately it wasn't too difficult to explain."

"The so-called Contractors are the eight major factions that dominate the world today. Ten thousand years ago, the Ice Dragon that destroyed the world dedicated its power to the earth according to the 'contract,' granting everyone here the power to wield elements. This power, however, stirred up the ambitions of the people, thus triggering rebellion."

"I remember that's how I explained it back then, and I don't need to say anything more about what happened after that."

Everyone nodded silently.

"It can't be such a coincidence, can it?" Karin said, spreading her hands in disbelief.

“That’s right. Things in this world are just so coincidental. First, the name and the dragon bones, and then this glacier. If I remember correctly, the glacier was originally the territory of the Ice Dragon of Annihilation.” Rednos leaned on Rek'os’s shoulder and teased him deliberately.

Rek'os, with his eyes closed, felt a slight slump in his shoulders, and Rednos' elbow slipped, nearly causing him to fall to the ground.

"Perhaps it's just a coincidence," he said coldly.

Rednos straightened up and smiled slightly: "Alright, but even so, how did the Fallen God Guild so easily sever your connection with the array's core?"

He circled around Rek'os from left to right: "Although the array core is made of ice dragon remains, the concentrated power still 'mixed' with your contract power. If you say you didn't notice anything, you're probably lying."

Just then, there was a knock on the door, and then a police officer from the garrison entered the room with a sealed document.

"You're from the guard regiment? Shouldn't you be maintaining internal order at this time?" Rek'os frowned.

The officer nodded: "Yes, Lord Hyotei, but while the young lady was giving us instructions, our reconnaissance team had some new information."

“A reconnaissance team?” Rick Austen paused for a moment. “I don’t recall ever sending members of the garrison on a mission.”

"Oh, this was a decision made on the young lady's own initiative, with the aim of surveying the stability of the surrounding elemental forces. Just now, when the avalanche occurred, our technicians went to the site to investigate and found that the elemental forces on the snow mountain were not reduced due to absorption, but were reversed into other elements by some means. At the same time, the reversed elemental forces were used to offset and cover up the fluctuations generated in the process."

The officer handed over the documents.

"This is a detailed analysis chart of elemental fluctuations, as well as a report on the analysis of residual samples of the reversed elemental forces."

Rek'os took the document and quickly scanned it. The complex elemental diagrams on the drawings clearly showed that the glacier's originally stable elemental flow had been distorted and transformed at several key nodes.

The analysis report of the sample proves this point.