Genshin Impact: My roommate and I became funny Hilichurls

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Ian Shane reacted swiftly, stepping in front of Mavica to block her path. Her fists clenched, her eyes sharp as an eagle's, she shouted loudly at the Wolf King.

"Step back, Ianshan."

Mavica's voice remained calm as she gently pressed Ianshan's shoulder, signaling her to calm down.

As the Goddess of Fire, she could sense the immense energy contained within the steel structure before her, but there was no obvious malice in that energy.

Her gaze calmly met the Wolf King's enormous optical glasses as she spoke, "I am the current Vulcan of Nata, Mavica. If I'm not mistaken, you must be traveling with those legendary 'Knights of Honor'... Your Excellency the Wolf King?"

Because of their long-standing battle with the Abyss, the people of Nata are mostly focused on homeland defense and internal affairs, and have relatively limited understanding of the outside world.

However, as the new Goddess of Fire, Mavika bears the responsibility of leading the entire kingdom. Through various channels, she still learned about some of the recent changes in the Teyvat continent:

The lifting of the Inazuma Seclusion Edict, the new order in which Sumeru is jointly governed by the Supreme Flying Squirrel, the Lesser Auspicious Grass King Nasita, and the Great Compassion Tree King, and...

That "Knights of Honor" who travels to various countries and is always accompanied by a mysterious and powerful wolf-shaped machine.

The Wolf King's processed, flat metallic voice echoed in the arena, concise and resolute.

Mavica nodded slightly and continued to ask, "Then, with Your Excellency the Wolf King appearing now, can I interpret this as you and the Knights of Honor being willing to lend a helping hand to Nata, who is currently under threat from the Abyss?"

The wolf king's answer remained concise and to the point.

Upon hearing this definite answer, a sincere and gratified smile appeared on Mavica's face, a smile as warm as the Nata sun, dispelling a trace of the shadow of war.

"Thank you so much for your generous help!"

She said solemnly.

"Nata will remember this kindness. As the God of Fire, I will treat all of you who have traveled from afar with the utmost respect!"

The wolf king nodded, accepting the gratitude and invitation.

Then, his massive body activated its optical camouflage again, and with a slight energy fluctuation, it vanished from its spot as if it had never existed, as if it had merged into the air.

It wasn't until the wolf king had been gone for quite a while that Ianshan slowly lowered her fist, but the shock in her eyes hadn't diminished at all.

Xinoning adjusted her goggles and said in a solemn tone, "Her entire body is composed of intricate mechanical structures... Her energy reactions are unfathomable... This 'Wolf King' is extremely powerful. Its technological level far exceeds my comprehension."

"The Knights of Honor... Lord Vulcan, you seem to trust them quite a bit?"

Ianshan turned to Mavica and asked in confusion.

"Yes, I trust the possibilities they bring."

Mavica nodded firmly, her gaze fixed on the direction where the wolf king had disappeared, her tone tinged with a hint of wistfulness and...envy?

"Based on limited but reliable intelligence, they possess unimaginable power. Perhaps the Abyss Legion, which requires the entire nation's strength and enormous sacrifices to deal with, is truly like... ants in their eyes."

After saying that, Mavica suddenly turned her gaze to Xinoning beside her, and a smile that made Xinoning's tail stiffen and its fur stand on end, full of expectation and "malice".

Xinoning's alarm bells rang loudly! She knew that smile all too well! It was the smile that appeared whenever Lord Vulcan tried to give her some impossible research task!

It's over! Barbie Q is gone!

Sure enough, Mavica said in her seductive (to Xinoning it sounded like a devil's whisper) voice, "Xinoning, my dear, Nata's smartest and greatest engineer... Look, that Wolf King... isn't it amazing? Could you... build one for me too? It doesn't have to be exactly the same, seven or eight tenths... no, fifty or sixty tenths of its majesty will do!"

"No! No way! I need to rest! Goodbye!"

Without a second thought, Xinoning issued a series of resolute rejections, and then, as if his backside was on fire, he took off running at top speed towards the edge of the arena!

That speed was even three times faster than when she was tuning the motorcycle engine!

What a ridiculous joke!

Just designing and manufacturing that special motorcycle that fits the Vulcan's identity, capable of both fighting and racing, according to Mavica's requirements, had already consumed countless efforts of hers, causing her to lose countless strands of hair (although she had a lot of hair), and she almost had to go see the former Vulcan!

Now they actually want her to handcraft a 20-meter-tall transforming steel behemoth?!

Kill her! This is no task a carbon-based life form could accomplish! She wants to live a few more years and sleep a little longer!

"Hey! Xinoning! Don't run away! Let's talk about it again! We have enough materials! Funding is not a problem!"

Seeing this, Mavica disregarded the dignity of the Vulcan and hurriedly chased after him while shouting.

For a moment, a farcical scene unfolded in the solemn arena as the god of fire chased after a top engineer.

Only Ian Shan remained standing there, watching her Vulcan and "Cat" chase and flee into the distance, helplessly covering her face: "..."

It seems that the arrival of the Knights of Honor not only brought hope in the fight against the Abyss, but also injected some... unusual "vitality" into the lives of the higher-ups in Nata.

Meanwhile, at the gates of the Echoing Children's tribe, the honorary knights, trying to explain to the world-shattering Pagal that "we really are just tourists," were completely unaware that their Wolf King had reached a preliminary agreement with the Fire God, indirectly causing Nata's hand-crafting goddess to begin her extreme escape...

Chapter 142 The Qiuqiu Mischief-Making Quartet Returns!

"Fuck——!!!"

Kazina, who was leading the Knights of Honor on a tour of Nata's local customs and culture as a guide, was startled by a huge, earth-shattering roar that suddenly came from the direction of the Echoing Sons tribe. She nearly dropped the booklet introducing the local plants in her hand.

Not only her, but the entire procession stopped and looked in the direction of the tribe with suspicion.

Meanwhile, the Echoing Sons tribe was in complete uproar!

A group of people, including their leader Pagar, were staring in disbelief at a young girl, or more precisely, at the old-looking book with a gaudy cover in her hands.

The book's cover features the title "Teyvat Chronicles: Honorable Hilichurls and Their Outrageous Adventures" in exaggerated artistic font, alongside illustrations of chibi versions of Anemo being hit on the head with a wine bottle, Geo being furiously puffing out its beard and glaring, Thunder being beaten up with bumps all over its head, Grass God being lifted high by Hilichurls (?), and Water God cowering in a corner trembling.

"So! They...they are characters from this book?!"

Pagar's voice trembled as he pointed to the book and asked the girl who had accidentally discovered this "strange book" in a corner of the tribal warehouse.

He felt that the worldview he had built up over the decades was crumbling piece by piece.

"Well...they're not entirely characters from the book, are they..."

The girl swallowed and pointed to a line of small print on the title page of the book.

"It also says here, 'This story is based on true events. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is not a coincidence'... So, maybe, probably, perhaps... it's all true?"

"Outrageous! Utterly outrageous!"

One of the warriors who had previously been "kicked in the groin" by Er Kang clutched his still throbbing groin and cried out in despair, "I remember now! About a week ago, I heard a merchant from Fontaine mention that there were five honorary knights, accompanied by a white elf and a giant robot, traveling all over Teyvat and doing some amazing things! At the time, I thought he was just drunk and bragging! Who the hell would have thought it was actually true!"

"I've heard that, too!"

Another warrior, who had been used as a "human shield" and thrown away earlier, excitedly interjected, his face still showing lingering fear: "And the rumors are even more outrageous than what's written in this book! They say they can summon an undead army capable of destroying a country with a wave of their hand! They also know the steel giants that can descend from the sky (referring to Guilliman and Astartes), and the supreme ruler who rules the entire undead kingdom (referring to Ainz Ooal Gown)!"

"Holy crap! We actually fought with something like that... and we're still alive?!"

All the Nata warriors who participated in the previous border conflict felt a shiver from the depths of their souls and... immense relief!

Turns out they weren't bullying a lone, freakish Hilichurl, but challenging a walking Scourge army! Surviving is practically a miracle for the tribe!

Soon, the news that "the Knights of Honor are actually world-destroying bosses disguised as Hilichurls" spread like wildfire within the Echoing Sons tribe and then rapidly spread to other tribes in Nata.

It is foreseeable that in the near future, the entire Nata will look at these "tourists" with a complex mix of awe, fear, and "you better not cause trouble."

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Meanwhile, on the way to the Olympic Stadium.

"Bang!"

With a dull thud, another raptor, which had tried to greet the group of "suspicious individuals" with its claws, was struck in the chin by Zhang Chu's simple uppercut. The dragon's head snapped back and then, like a kite with a broken string, crashed into the ground beside it, leaving only its tail swaying weakly outside.

Zhang Chu shook his wrist, looked at the mess in front of him at the "Dragon Tomb," and sighed helplessly: "How many blind dragons have tried to attack us now? Are all the wild animals in Nata this hospitable?"

"Too many to count..."

Qingyu sat on a rock that was scorching hot, looking at the dozens of ridge dragons around him that had plunged into the ground in various ways, like upside-down onions or wild geese landing on the sand, with a look of utter despair on his face.

“I feel like we’re not here for tourism, but to give the Nata’s dragons a ‘head massage’ and ‘ground inlay’ service.”

These raptors seemed to have some kind of innate hostility (or curiosity?) towards the four Hilichurl-form group, coming one after another to provoke them, only to be "planted" into the ground by the group in various ways.

The scene was quite spectacular, resembling a newly cultivated "dragon radish" field.

"Kazina, how far do you think we are from the Holy Flame Arena?"

Paimon, standing beside Ying, watched the endless "dragon-insertion" activity and asked somewhat anxiously.

She didn't want to waste her time playing whack-a-mole (dragon).

"Hurry, hurry!"

Kachina wiped the sweat from her brow and pointed to the faintly visible, even more magnificent mountain range ahead.

"We should be able to see the outline of the arena in about ten more minutes!"

She was actually more anxious than Paimon. Watching these four big shots casually "plant" the ridge dragons as easily as eating and drinking, she was really afraid that one day they would run out of patience, think these dragons were too noisy, and directly carry out a genocide. Then the ecological balance of Nata would be finished!

We must get to the Olympic Arena as soon as possible and let the Vulcan "take over" this group of dangerous elements!

Just then, Er Kang finally couldn't take the snail's pace and the constant harassment any longer. He jumped up and shouted, "I can't take it anymore! Let's take a shortcut!"

He turned to look at Qingyu, his eyes gleaming with mischief: "Qingyu! Unleash your astonishing wisdom!"

"That's exactly what I've been waiting to hear!!"

Qingyu leaped up from the rock in an instant, a happy smile spreading across his face.

He pulled out a futuristic-looking belt that shimmered with a bluish-green light and a transformation device that looked like a USB flash drive from somewhere!

That was his transformation equipment, which he hadn't used in a long time!

"good idea!"

Er Kang's eyes lit up, as if he had found his people, and he immediately took out his light blue belt and shark fin-shaped transformation device!

Zhang Chu and Gu Qian exchanged a glance. Although their faces both said "Here we go again" and "How embarrassing!", their actions were not ambiguous. They silently took out their respective red (Thug) and purple (Thunder King) belts and transformation devices.

Under the dumbfounded gazes of Kazina, Ying, and Paimon (as well as the struggling winged dragons in the ground), the four of them moved in unison, fastening their belts around their waists!

The belts instantly extended and secured themselves, perfectly fitting their respective body shapes.

"Wind Chaser - Azure!"

Qingyu inserted the USB-shaped transformation device into the center of his belt.

"Water Element - Blue!"

Er Kang fastened the shark fin transformation device.

"Thugs—Red!"

Zhang Chu slammed the boxing glove-shaped transformation device onto the belt buckle.