Ch 221: Empty Prepares To Journey To Sumeru
10 PM.
After cleaning up with the employees, Kong held a meeting.
“I’ll be away for a while. During this time, everyone should continue operations normally, and follow A Da’s instructions. Is that clear?”
A Da was Kong’s first employee at the shop, diligent and honest.
“Don’t worry, Boss, I’ll watch over the shop.” A Da said, patting his chest.
Kong nodded reassuringly.
“Mm, everyone’s worked hard. I’ll bring you all gifts when I get back.”
Afterward, Kong locked the shop door, handed the key to A Da, and headed towards the internet cafe.
Kong arrived at the internet cafe and went straight to the third floor.
The staff member at the doorway of the third floor stopped Kong.
“Good evening, sir, please show your identification.”
Kong said,
“I’m here to see someone. Can you connect me to Asmodeus?”
The staff member, of course, knew Asmodeus, their Guest.
“Okay, please wait a moment, I’ll go inform her.”
A few minutes later, the staff member and Nahida came out.
Nahida smiled and greeted Kong.
“Good evening, Kong.”
Kong smiled and nodded.
“Good evening, Nahida. Is Asmodeus inside?”
Nahida nodded.
“Yes, come on, I’ll take you in.”
Kong followed Nahida into Asmodeus’s room.
As soon as Kong entered, a keyboard cap flew over and hit him in the face.
The next second, Asmodeus quickly flew over, retrieved the keyboard cap, and continued playing.
Kong was speechless.
Those who play Audition are all keyboard destroyers.
During this period, many keyboards were broken in Hu Tao’s internet cafe, and unsurprisingly, they were all broken by customers playing Audition.
Every time they finished a round of button presses, they would press down hard on the space bar.
The intensity, as if they wanted to smash the keyboard.
Asmodeus finished a round of the game and turned her chair to face Kong.
“Speak, what do you want?”
Kong said,
“I plan to leave for Sumeru tomorrow.”
Asmodeus, after thinking for a moment, took out an extinguished Gnosis and threw it to Kong.
“The online rumors are true, being exonerated weakens you by a third. With your strength, I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle it. Take this, if it gets critical, shatter it, and I’ll come.”
Kong, hearing Asmodeus’s mockery, wanted to retort, but then thought, Asmodeus was actually right, being exonerated does weaken you by a third.
Kong could only silently accept the Gnosis Asmodeus handed him.
Afterward, Kong and Nahida agreed on a time to leave for Sumeru at noon tomorrow.
Inazuma City, Tenshukaku.
Lumine, Aether, Paimon, and the Electro Archon were eating hot pot.
Lumine asked,
“Aether, how many Primogems have you collected? I heard you made a Primogem hunting order.”
Aether looked at the Electro Archon.
The Electro Archon said,
“Progress is good. We’ve already collected over 20,000 Primogems.”
Lumine, upon hearing this, said,
“It’s still you guys in power, effortlessly getting a huge pile of Primogems. As for me, I can only work hard to earn Star Coins, sigh~”
The Electro Archon chuckled.
“I envy you. You can do what you like without worries.”
Lumine thought about it and realized she was indeed very free.
The Electro Archon asked again,
“Do you have anything planned for tomorrow?”
Lumine looked at the Electro Archon suspiciously and asked,
“What’s wrong?”
The Electro Archon said,
“Tomorrow, I want you to accompany me to Watatsumi Island to see Kokomi.”
Lumine shook her head.
“No time, I’m going to Luofu tomorrow to participate in the Martial Arts Ceremony.”
The Electro Archon became interested.
“Martial Arts Ceremony? What’s that?”
Lumine explained,
“Luofu is a faction from Ye Yun’s side. They’re holding a martial competition. The winner gets rich rewards. I and Xing signed up earlier, just to have some fun.”
Saying so, Lumine looked at the Electro Archon.
“I think you guys could also send a few people to check it out. Luofu is very powerful; both their individual strength and technology are very advanced.”
The Electro Archon looked at Aether.
“Aether, what do you think?”
Aether didn’t care.
“Whatever, as long as it doesn’t affect Primogem collection.”
The Electro Archon smiled.
“It won’t.”
Afterward, the four continued eating.
After dinner, the Electro Archon came to the streets of Inazuma City.
She was looking for a certain Oni thug.
Soon, she found Itto playing rock-paper-scissors with a child in an open space.
The Electro Archon watched Itto and the child play.
Soon, Itto lost all his snacks.
“Ah! I actually lost! You little brats, dare you come again tomorrow? I’ll win back tomorrow!”
The children readily agreed.
“Bring it on! We’re not afraid of you!”
After the children left, the Electro Archon called out to Itto.
“Arataki Itto.”
Itto, hearing someone call him, turned around.
“It’s you! Scum Fox!”
The Electro Archon didn’t want to speak after hearing Itto’s address.
Itto asked,
“What are you doing here?” The Electro Archon smiled.
“Help me with something, how about it?”
Itto readily agreed.
“Okay, tell me, what is it? I’ll do my best to help you.”
The Electro Archon said,
“Tomorrow, you come with me to a place and participate in a competition. For each match you win, I’ll give you 100 jin of grain. How’s that?”
Itto, unconcerned, waved his hand dismissively.
“Fine, even without a reward, I value loyalty the most. Where do I find you tomorrow?”
The Electro Archon smiled.
“Find me at the Grand Narukami Shrine.”
Tomorrow, the Electro Archon planned to bring Linghua and Itto to the competition; those two should be enough.
Lumine, meanwhile, returned to the RV with Paimon.
As they approached, they saw a girl with a bandage sneaking around their RV.
Lumine walked over.
“Who are you? What are you doing sneaking around my vehicle?” The girl turned around.
“Is this big thing yours? Hi, my name is Yoimiya.”
Lumine, upon hearing this, introduced herself.
“Hi, I’m Lumine. Yoimiya, are you a local?”
Yoimiya nodded.
“Yes, my family sells fireworks in Inazuma City. I just saw this big thing and was curious, so I came to take a look.”
Lumine understood.
“Ah, okay, come on, I’ll show you inside.”
Yoimiya was surprised.
“Really?”
Lumine said,
“Of course, move aside, I’m opening the door.”
Yoimiya, realizing she was blocking the doorway after Lumine’s reminder, quickly moved aside.
Lumine took out the key, opened the door, and invited Yoimiya inside.
Yoimiya entered the RV, and like Amber before her, she looked at everything with the wonder of a country bumpkin seeing the big city.
Lumine poured Yoimiya a glass of orange juice.
Yoimiya thanked her and took a sip.
“Lumine, are you from outside Inazuma?”
Lumine replied,
“Yes, I’m kind of regretting coming here. The weather in Inazuma is terrible.”
Paimon said resentfully from the side.
“Yeah, not to mention, it cost us so many supplies.”
How could Paimon not be resentful? Those supplies Lumine donated were all their food!
Lumine glared at Paimon.
“Why are you so resentful? I’m not even resentful, those supplies were all mine anyway.”
Yoimiya was confused.
“Supplies? Did you donate supplies?”
Paimon said,
“We distributed a lot of grain in a village.”
Yoimiya looked at Lumine and then at Paimon in disbelief.
“You are those great benefactors! The great benefactors who distributed grain in Komore Teahouse Village?”
