Genshin Impact: I'm The Envoy of Snezhnaya
Chapter 459: A Brand-New Silver
After finishing the notebook in his hands, Bai Luo stretched his neck and walked out from the area where the books were stored.
Compared to last time, the beginner's guide that Silver had compiled was now comprehensive enough for Bai Luo to understand many things.
Perhaps most of the experience came from Albedo, but it was progress nonetheless.
"Hm?"
The moment he stepped outside, Bai Luo's gaze settled on Silver.
Hiss...
Something felt off.
He was certain something had changed, but if he had to point out exactly what it was, he couldn't.
"Were you out just now?"
Silver's hair looked the same as always, but his clothes were completely soaked, as though he'd been caught in the rain.
There was no rain on Dragonspine—only snow.
Bai Luo assumed he'd gone to the Fatui camp to retrieve something.
"No."
As usual, Silver spoke very little.
She kept her head down, busy tinkering with something in her hands, not even bothering to explain why she was drenched.
Bai Luo didn't think much of it. Walking over, he slipped his hand in through the back of his collar.
The uniform, thoroughly soaked with sweat, had turned icy cold over time.
The undershirt beneath had even stuck to Silver's back.
When Bai Luo's warm hand suddenly slipped inside, Silver's expression changed ever so slightly.
It was a sensation she had never experienced back when she had been a genderless artificial human.
"Your clothes are soaked through. Go take a shower and change into something dry, or you'll catch a cold."
Bai Luo didn't know whether artificial humans could catch colds. Ever since he'd picked Silver up, he'd always been as healthy as if his body were made of iron.
Even running naked through the snow had never been a problem for him.
Still, Bai Luo had never treated him as anything less than human.
"Okay."
This time, instead of stubbornly staying behind like before, Silver simply nodded and headed toward the small bathroom she had built herself.
As for Bai Luo...
After Silver left, he turned his attention to the subject of his research.
"Isn't this still just a plant?"
The flower bud before him, not yet fully bloomed, looked almost no different from the Sunsettia sapling Silver had shown him before.
If there was any difference...
It was that this thing radiated an unmistakable vitality.
Yes—unlike the artificially accelerated sapling, the life force contained within this flower bud was so abundant that even Bai Luo could sense it.
So what exactly made it different?
He lightly tapped the bud.
Unexpectedly, it was as though he had triggered some condition. The bud began to tremble violently.
After shaking for a while, it blossomed open, and a butterfly unfolded its wings from within the flower, stretching them clumsily as if it had just emerged from a chrysalis.
Yes—a butterfly.
Not a Crystalfly.
"...Holy..."
Having gained a decent foundation in alchemy, Bai Luo immediately realized what he was looking at.
To bloom was to be born.
Silver had actually created life through her so-called research project.
If it had only been a Crystalfly, one could argue she had merely taken a shortcut to create an elemental life-form.
But this butterfly was genuine life in its purest form, free of any impurities.
Perhaps it still couldn't compare to Albedo's Art of Khemia, where a butterfly could be transformed into a pigeon.
But how long had Albedo studied alchemy?
And how long had Silver been learning?
Looking at it that way...
Perhaps Silver was the more remarkable one after all.
Once again sitting in the cramped and shabby bathroom, Silver found that the experience felt completely different from before.
And those differences manifested themselves in more ways than one.
Bai Luo still hadn't removed the hair tie he had put on her.
Cold meltwater poured down over her head, running across the chest that was now noticeably fuller than before, and over the rest of her body, which had also undergone subtle changes.
Every part of it brought an entirely new sensation.
"Hormones?"
Silver had come across that term in the books Albedo had left behind.
Don't get the wrong idea—it wasn't anything inappropriate for children.
After all, Klee often visited him, and he worried that his little sunshine might stumble across his notes.
So everything he wrote was proper academic knowledge.
Splash
The curtain serving as the bathroom door was pulled aside, causing Silver to instinctively cover her body.
"Here, these are your clothes."
Bai Luo clearly noticed his reaction, but he didn't think much of it.
At most, he felt like teasing him a little.
After all, when Silver had first awakened, he'd already seen his entire body.
He'd even touched him while examining him.
Back then, as a genderless artificial human, his body had simply lacked the physical traits associated with either sex.
All he could do now was sigh to himself.
The kid's grown up. He's developed a sense of modesty.
"From now on, don't bathe with freezing snowmelt. Try to use hot water whenever you can. It'll be better for your health."
After setting down his clothes, Bai Luo didn't linger. He simply left after offering that piece of advice.
Silver remained behind, staring blankly at the hands still covering her body.
The fact that she'd acted entirely on instinct left her feeling puzzled.
She had never reacted this way in front of Bai Luo before.
So... this is what it means to be alive?
No wonder the very first assignment Rhinedottir had given her had been this choice.
It was a strange and wonderful experience unlike anything she had ever felt before.
Picking up a towel, Silver dried the water from her body before looking at the clothes Bai Luo had brought her.
There was nothing special about them.
They were simply the standard Fatui uniform.
Unlike before, however, as she put them on this time, she found herself unconsciously judging their design and appearance.
In fact, aesthetics now ranked above comfort in her mind—a notion that would have been unimaginable to her former self.
Before, she had cared only about efficiency and practicality.
Perhaps this, too, was one of the changes she had undergone.
Once dressed, Silver's gaze settled on the gemstone she had casually placed beside her—
A Vision.
The gemstone that had fallen from the table after her transformation was precisely this Vision.
Originally, she hadn't cared much about such things.
But when she realized it could perfectly conceal the "imperfection" on her neck, she changed her mind.
Under the influence of Dendro energy, blades of grass rapidly grew and wove themselves into a green choker.
After attaching the Vision to it, Silver fastened it around her neck.
The grass-woven choker fit perfectly against her skin without causing the slightest discomfort.
She stood and walked over to the large barrel filled with snowmelt.
The gently rippling water reflected Silver's usually expressionless face.
It also reflected the Vision, which completely concealed the diamond-shaped mark on her neck.
A new Silver had been born.
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