The Lost People of Teyvat

Chapter 322 Neighboring Countries and Prophecy
Khawaja's eyes widened immediately. He was about to say something, but stopped in a hurry. He didn't even care about the elegance and calmness of a sage. He closed the door as quickly as possible and set up a soundproof barrier. Then he stared at Azar in disbelief: "Who are you talking about?! Little King of Auspicious Grass?!"

Every wise man in the Ministry of Education knew that the little King of Auspicious Grass had been imprisoned in the Jingshan Palace, never going out, and the power of Mount Sumeru had fallen into the hands of the wise men. This situation had lasted for more than five hundred years.

And now... the little auspicious grass king actually attacked the great sage of the contemporary era?
Kavaja took a deep breath, feeling somewhat uneasy: "Little Jixiang Grass King, has He...left the Jingshan Palace?"

“Not sure, but I don’t think so yet.”

Azar shook his head and said, "That attack was swift, but it was far from the level of a god - even a newly born god. So, it is more likely that the little Jixiang Grass King was sealed in the Jingshan Palace and attacked me from a distance."

Khawaja frowned and asked, "Didn't you go to Jingshan Palace to confirm?"

"Why would I want to walk into a trap?"

Azar looked at him, as if puzzled by his sudden stupidity: "I almost didn't catch the divine punishment that Lord Little Jixiang Grass King sent down in Jingshan Palace. If I go to Jingshan Palace to confirm... the Great Sage Xumi will have to be replaced."

"……Too."

Khawaja looked a little embarrassed and agreed with Hazard's statement.

If the attacker is really Lord Little Jixiang Grass King, then Azar going to Jingshan Palace at this moment is really no different from asking for death.

He subconsciously took a sip of coffee to ease his nervousness, then he let out a breath: "Azar, what do you think, Little Auspicious Grass King...why did He do this?"

"I do not know."

"You are a great sage, how could you not know?"

"Imprisonment, usurpation of power, creation of gods... Each of these things we have done is enough to cause the gods to punish us. How would I know which one it would be?"

Hazard looked calm, as if he was not the one who had just received divine punishment.

"..."

Kawaja choked and had to admit that Azar was right. Apart from other things, the fact that the Order had imprisoned the gods for five hundred years was enough for the Little King of Auspicious Grass to launch a massive purge of the six major schools of the Order.

"Okay, then why do you think Little Jixiang Grass King did this?"

"I do not know."

Hazard shook his head again, then glanced at Khawaja who seemed anxious again, and said calmly: "But I have some guesses, maybe they are correct."

"…Then tell me your guess."

Kawaja took another sip of coffee and secretly adjusted his breathing so as not to be too impatient and be laughed at by the old man in front of him who had been mentally prepared for a long time.

"The continent of Teyvat will face a storm, a storm that no one can escape. The change in the little Lucky Grass King at this time is probably caused by the approaching storm."

"Storm... I remember you said this when you were running for the Great Sage."

"No, you remembered it wrongly. What I said at that time was that Xumi must develop his own strength to deal with the crises that may come in the future."

"Is it different?"

"It's different. At that time, I thought that Xumi's danger came from Liyue or Fontaine, a powerful and dangerous neighboring country."

Azar lowered his eyes and said, "Kawaja, you know the real situation inside Xumi. In this land of wisdom, we actually have no means to fight against the demon gods. Once our neighboring country sets its sights on this land and invades brazenly, what will the House of the Order use to protect the country and resist the invasion?"

Although under the system of seven rulers, it is almost impossible for the seven countries in the mortal world to attack each other, if they cannot do so openly, is it not possible to act in secret?
As long as Xumi is still the kingdom of the Grass God in name, what difference does it make whether its real ruler is the Court of Ordinances, the Fontaine, or the Seven Stars of Liyue?

Would the cunning and greedy Liyue people and the self-proclaimed righteous Fontaine people care about who the nominal owner of a piece of land that they actually control is?
Obviously not! And once the Liyue Qianyan Army or the Fengdan Autonomous Agency Army attacks, can Xumi, which only relies on a group of 30 people to maintain national security, really stop them?

What's more, in the wars between countries, the final outcome can only be decided by god-level beings.

Their will is the justice of this world, and a country without gods is destined to have no dignity.

"But Liyue..." Kavaja hesitated for a few seconds, "Their gods are gone too."

"They still have immortals and the Thousand Rock Army that is capable of fighting the demons head-on, but Xumi has nothing."

Azar paused and said, "Besides, is that Rock God really dead?"

The Church Order has done research on gods over the years, otherwise it would not have been possible to carry out the god-creation plan. Therefore, they know clearly that the death of every demon god - even the weakest one - will bring about huge changes related to his authority to the surrounding environment.

And when the Rock God "died", what appeared was a gust of wind that enveloped the entire country.

People who don’t know would think that the God of Wind died in Liyue.

"However, although the people of Liyue are greedy and cunning, and use business to seize the wealth of the countries on the continent, they are not very aggressive and have a strong desire to possess the land of other countries. Compared with Liyue, what worries me more is Fontaine."

"Fontaine? You mean, their prophecy?"

Khawaja recalled, "[Fontaine will be submerged and all people will dissolve in the sea. Only then will the sins of the people of Fontaine be completely washed away]. To be honest, when I first heard this prophecy, I thought it was an unreliable legend among the people of Fontaine to scare children."

Not to mention anything else, just take the geographical location of Fontainebleau, the Kingdom of Water. If it were flooded, no other country would be able to escape - unless the water was not ordinary water, and it wrapped Fontainebleau in a spherical shape.

"Almost every Fontaine person firmly believes in this prophecy, so it doesn't matter whether it is true or not. What matters is that as the prophecy approaches, will the Fontaine people, who are facing the crisis of national extinction, choose to migrate and use force to seize a place to settle in a neighboring country?"

Hazard said self-deprecatingly: "Looking at the neighboring countries of Fontaine, is there anyone more suitable and easier to bully than Xumi?"

Kawaja fell silent. Although in the eyes of the Fontaine people, Xumi, the country of wisdom, was not so weak, Xumi could not gamble that they could not see it, nor could it expect those desperate Fontaine people to have any rationality.

After all, in his view, the people of Fontaine, the country of justice, are all hypocritical lunatics who claim to be righteous.

Including their gods, no one is normal.

——Whose god is like a celebrity in his own country and arrogantly shouts about judging the gods?

"What do you want to do?"

Khawaja shook his head, collected his thoughts, and looked at Hazard: "You came here not just to chat, tell me, what do you need my cooperation with?"

“What I want to do is simple.”

Azar closed his eyes, then opened them again, and said in a deep voice: "I want to try to see if Lord Little Jixiang Grass King has really changed, or is he still the same...kind as before."

If Lord Little Auspicious Grass King really changes, and changes his kind-to-weak temper over the past five hundred years, and really becomes a true god, then Xumi will be able to protect itself in the storm without creating new gods.

But what if... Azar's eyes twitched, recalling the attack an hour ago.

My Lord Little Auspicious Grass King, you did not hold back because you were soft-hearted, did you?

If we still hold back out of weakness... How can such a weak god protect the country in the storm!

(End of this chapter)