Genshin Impact, it's you who rejected me, why are you all in such a hurry if I just give up?

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The important thing is.

She messed up the job Lin Jiu'an gave her!

What will Lin Jiu'an think of her?

Is she incompetent?

Or does she have ulterior motives and deliberately condone such things happening in Mondstadt?

Let's not even talk about the fatal second point.

The fact that Lin Jiu'an considered her "incompetent and unfit for great responsibilities" was unacceptable to Frederica. Why was she fawning over Lin Jiu'an like a dog, disregarding what others said and even her daughters' gazes?

There was an element of being conquered by Lin Jiu'an's domineering and madness involved.

But at the end of the day.

Isn't it all about pleasing the man who can give her and the Gunnhild family a chance to rise to a higher level, avoiding a crisis while gaining greater power?

Why has the Gunnhildr family persisted in promoting this bullshit "freedom" for so many years in Mondstadt?

It is precisely because of "freedom" that the Gunnhildr family became the first family in Mondstadt and has continued to this day. If they had not declared "freedom," the Gunnhildr family might have ended up like the Lawrence family, with Barbatos suddenly returning one day and joining forces with others to drive them out of Mondstadt!

Aside from that foolish daughter Jean, who in the Gunnhild family throughout history truly believed in "freedom"?

Are you kidding me?

Lin Jiu'an can bring more benefits to the Gunnhildr family, allowing them to become the highest 'dictator' in Mondstadt under Lin Jiu'an. This is the main reason for her fanaticism towards Lin Jiu'an.

If Lin Jiu'an really thinks she's incompetent.

Then she'll probably only be his 'dog' from now on.

But if it is the latter.

Frederica's hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and Lin Jiu'an's 'smile' reappeared in her mind.

She will die, or become his "dog" completely, a dog without any other meaning.

The Gunnhild family will cease to exist.

Frederica couldn't accept any of these points, so when she angrily looked at the high-ranking officials who had been summoned to her office, and when she saw that more than half of the police and knights' leaders were gone, Frederica was utterly desperate.

"What about the rest of them?!"

"They've probably gone to suppress the protests?" a knight captain whispered.

Frederica clenched her fists tightly, then slumped helplessly into her chair with a bitter smile.

Now that things have developed to this point, how could she not understand?

How could those people possibly be so conscious as to suppress a protest without her orders?

It's clear they've already betrayed her and are too lazy to see her anymore, or perhaps those people in the demonstration were partly responsible.

She was completely at her wit's end.

The city of Mondstadt was already severely lacking in security forces due to Lin Jiu'an's massacre.

Now that most of them have turned against her, even if she sends out the rest, she will be powerless to suppress such a large-scale demonstration and rebellion.

But she still didn't understand.

How dare these people?

Have they forgotten the terror Lin Jiu'an instilled in them?

unless...

Frederica suddenly hoped that her wish would come true. If there really were Fatui or something similar causing trouble behind the scenes, it would at least show that she wasn't so useless.

Someone asked, "Acting Chief, what should we do next?"

"Do what we can."

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In front of the West Wind Council.

On the high platform.

Qin was frantically trying to stop the crowd trying to storm into the council with her knights.

"Please calm down!"

"Please calm down, everyone!"

Barbara, along with the nuns, tried to calm the crowd and prevent a potential riot, but even though she had shouted herself hoarse, no one was willing to listen to her.

Just as she was at a loss, an opened bottle of liquor suddenly hit her on the head.

'Splash!'

A crisp sound of shattering glass rang out as the wine bottle broke above her head.

The wine spilled all over her.

The delicate Barbara was caught off guard and sat down on the ground. Blood mixed with alcohol flowed down from the wound on her forehead, leaving Barbara stunned.

"Bah! You tyrant's lackey! You are not worthy of being an idol of Mondstadt!"

"You tyrant's lackeys, get out of Mondstadt!"

"Get out of Mondstadt! Get out of Mondstadt!"

Barbara stared in disbelief at the people who were looking at her with a maddened and hateful gaze.

She couldn't believe it; this was the same kind and gentle family she knew.

Seeing his younger sister get hurt.

Qin couldn't hold back any longer.

But looking at the agitated crowd, she didn't know what to do. Chivalry prevented her from drawing her weapon on these unarmed people, so she could only stand in front of Barbara and shout to the agitated crowd with her last effort.

"Please calm down, everyone!"

"There must be some misunderstanding. Everything can be discussed sitting down! I believe..."

"calm?"

"What do you have to offer us to calm down?!"

Suddenly, a person jumped to a high place, raised his arms, and shouted loudly.

"Everyone, tell me, what is it that has allowed Mondstadt to exist for thousands of years?"

"Freedom!" shouted the people below.

Yes, "freedom!"

"If Liyue represents 'business,' Sumeru represents 'wisdom,' then Fontaine represents 'justice!'"

"Our Mondstadt is the city of 'freedom'!"

"Between the mountains and the vast plains, the free wind, carrying the scent of dandelions, blows across Cider Lake, bringing the blessings and favors of the wind god Barbatos to Mondstadt, which sits on an island in the middle of the lake!"

"Freedom is the meaning of our existence!"

"But where in Mondstadt do we find freedom now?"

Two thousand six hundred years ago.

“Our ancestors lived under the brutal rule of Dekalapian, the Lone King of the Tower.”

"The great wind god Barbatos strummed his lyre, drove away the tyrannical Lord Tower King, and with his divine winds dispersed the ice and snow, split the mountains, and brought us a new Mondstadt before departing."

"From that day forward, Mondstadt became a free and harmonious kingdom without a king!"

"From that day forward, 'freedom' became synonymous with Mondstadt!"

"A thousand years ago!"

"Mondstadt's 'freedom' has fallen into an unprecedented and terrifying abyss!"

"Our great wind god Barbatos departed because he refused to become a tyrant. He never imagined that the people who received their freedom would create a tyrant who was 'human' themselves!"

"The nobles, led by the Lawrence family, brutally ruled Mondstadt, bringing slavery to this land and completely ignoring the cries of the oppressed people!"

"And then, our great god of 'freedom,' Barbatos, the wind god, returned once more to this former 'city of freedom,' and together with the slave girl Vanessa, launched a revolution to overthrow the aristocracy."

"After the tyrannical rule of the Lawrence family and others was overthrown, Vanessa led the people of Mondstadt to rebuild the city and established the virtuous Knights of Favonius. From then on, the nobles of Mondstadt lost their ruling position, slavery disappeared, and there was no longer a distinction between slaves and slave owners!"

"And now."

"The tyrant has descended upon Mondstadt once again. With the help of these lackeys of the Gunnhildr family, Lin Jiu'an, like the Lone King in the Tower and the Lawrence family, uses death and various rules and regulations to oppress us, making us no longer free."

"He wants to use the 'law' as a rope to keep us like pigs on his farm! And he tells us it's for our own good!"

"People of Mondstadt, are you willing to accept this ridiculous 'good'?!"

"I don't want to!"

"People of Mondstadt, are you willing to lose your freedom?!"

"I don't want to!"

"People of Mondstadt, are you willing to give up our natural freedom just to survive?!"

"I don't want to!"

The roar was deafening, and the people raised their arms in high spirits.

The young man raised his arms high and roared, "Yes, I don't want to!"

"Our Mondstadt is the city of freedom!"

"Our god of Mondstadt is the god of liberty!"

"We, the people of Mondstadt, are citizens of freedom!"

"The free winds of the great wind god Barbatos will once again blow across the Windrise, across the Valley of Fallen Stars, across the Temple of a Thousand Winds, across the Whispering Forest, across the Windrise Mountains, and fall upon Cider Lake, upon the Isle in the Lake, upon our Mondstadt, upon this city of freedom!"

"And now, my fellow citizens, the people of Mondstadt, the inhabitants of the City of 'Freedom'! Now, the most crucial time has arrived, the time for 'change'!"

"The Wind God will eventually descend!"

"But before that, the time for the free people of Mondstadt to rebel had already come!"

Finally, the man raised his arms and roared, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

The people below raised their arms high and cheered, shouting.

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

"Not free!..."

And just as they were halfway through their third repetition...

Just as Frederica arrived at the council gate with her remaining subordinates.

Just as Jean was helplessly watching all this while holding Barbara.

A blade of wind suddenly flew over their heads and passed straight through the body of the young man who was standing on the platform with his arm raised and had just finished giving a speech.

'Puff!'

The young man's smile froze.

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Most people's arms were still clenched into fists and raised in the air.

However, their smiles froze, just like the young man's; their mouths were still open, but they hesitated to utter the second half of the sentence, "Rather die!"

The vast crowd fell into a deathly silence.

And the young man giving the speech.

A visible blood clot appeared on his abdomen.

Then a gentle breeze of freedom blew in.

Then I heard a 'whoosh' sound.

Blood splattered.