"Kutri, who is that?"
A long-unseen look of confusion appeared in Osial's eyes. Kutri, a name he had never heard.
"Hmm..., he's just a very formidable big guy," Yu Jin said, carefully choosing his words.
"Is he as powerful as Morax?" Osial asked nonchalantly.
Yu Jin almost couldn't maintain his composure. Why did Osial always bring up Zhongli? Could he secretly be gay?
Thinking of this, Yu Jin couldn't help but quietly move a little further away.
"Hey! Don't you dare say that. If he wasn't injured, it would definitely be no problem for him to suppress Morax," Yu Jin said to Osial after getting into position.
Kutri's full-power strength was indeed terrifying; he was probably the second most powerful individual Yu Jin had seen in this world so far.
The first was that white-haired person who wouldn't give him a household registration.
"That strong?" Osial was a bit surprised. It wasn't that he had Stockholm Syndrome, but Morax during the Archon War was simply too terrifying.
If he had to describe him in one word, it would be "slaughter"! No God was a match for him in a single bout.
He heard there was also a God in Inazuma to the south known for her ruthlessness; he wondered who was stronger between her and Morax.
Osial now, like Yu Jin, had developed a good habit of divergent thinking.
"Strong, right? But I still pinned him under my feet."
Although Kutri was injured at the time and almost driven mad by the corrosion, it wasn't a huge difference. Even if Kutri had been in perfect condition, Yu Jin was confident he could pin him down.
After all, his own strength didn't just fall from the Sky.
"Hmm? You're that powerful? It seems you're one of the The Seven Archons who is at odds with the Geo Archon?" Osial looked down at Yu Jin.
Then he shook his head. If Yu Jin were one of the The Seven Archons, Osial couldn't imagine how many oddities would be in the nation he ruled.
The thought of Morax having to deal with someone like Yu Jin made Osial feel a surge of schadenfreude.
"No, I'm a lone wolf," Yu Jin said, waving his hand. The The Seven Archons? What was that? Could he eat it?
"Let's not talk about that. Let's discuss the details."
"What details?"
"The details of your escape."
Osial's interest was piqued. Because he saw a glimmer of hope for escape.
"How are you going to help me? Are you going to fight Morax? Then I'll definitely cheer you on!"
Osial was eager, he couldn't wait to see Morax get beaten up.
Releasing a sealed God was something no one who won the Archon War would ever want to do.
"Am I that belligerent?" Yu Jin looked at the excited Osial. He had always been very friendly, hadn't he? Why did Osial think he would fight Zhongli?
"Then how could Morax possibly release me? Did you feed him a love potion?" Osial couldn't understand.
To his surprise, Yu Jin patted his head and said with a sudden realization, "Hey, don't you dare say that, I actually have some!"
With that, Yu Jin pulled out a handful of vibrant red flowers.
Bewitching Branch — a branch that had undergone a Pure Gold Prayer. One of the items that could be crafted from it.
It could consume Focus to bewitch a struck enemy. A bewitched enemy would temporarily become an ally.
The divine Miquella was beloved by all things, and thus could compel others to feel affection for him.
The pink-hued red flowers, paired with the green leaves on their branches, immediately gave off the impression that this was no ordinary item.
The fragrance of the Bewitching Branch seemed to need no medium; even in the deepest parts of the ocean, it could still spread outwards.
The sweet floral scent wafted into Osial's nostrils. He looked at Yu Jin, who held a bouquet of Bewitching Branches, and felt that his armor had become much whiter.
But very quickly, Osial shook his head. He retreated backward in alarm, saying to Yu Jin:
"What in the world is this! Get it away from me!"
He hadn't expected that Yu Jin would actually pull out a "love potion" after he just casually mentioned it? Where did this guy get so many strange things?
"Your willpower isn't strong enough, Osial," Yu Jin saw Osial turn his head away from the Bewitching Branch and knew that he had been affected by it to some extent.
He put away the Bewitching Branch in his hand, no longer showing it off. Yu Jin only kept a few of these things because he found them amusing; he hadn't actually used them many times if he were to use them.
"Actually, Morax just wants to use you to test Liyue."
"Liyue?"
"Oh, that's his current nation."
Seeing Osial's confused look, Yu Jin explained Liyue's current situation to him.
When he heard Yu Jin say that Liyue was currently the most prosperous nation among The Seven Nations of Teyvat, Osial's body visibly stiffened.
"Hmph, since Liyue is already so good, what more needs to be tested? Don't tell me this 'most prosperous' is a sham."
Osial snorted, but there was a hint of sourness in his tone.
Because everything now was telling Osial that he had lost, in every aspect.
Osial himself had no confidence in leading the people of this land to the extent of being "most prosperous."
"That's because he doesn't want to be one of the The Seven Archons anymore, so he wants to test whether the people of Liyue have the ability to face future difficulties after he's gone."
"By the way, Morax's current human name is Zhongli."
Yu Jin briefly explained Zhongli's thoughts to Osial. Then he saw Osial get angry.
"Damn it! Morax is going too far! Without him, does he really think those humans can survive under me?"
"This is infuriating! Infuriating!"
Osial's body thrashed continuously, stirring up clouds of dust on the calm seabed.
Although Osial's power was almost completely lost now, in essence, he still believed himself to be the Vortex God who could stir up monstrous waves.
Therefore, Osial was very resentful about Morax pitting him against humans.
"I think they really can," Yu Jin said, looking at Osial's body. Although he was quite large, to the people of Teyvat, he was just a giant sea serpent.
At most, he just had more heads.
"What? You look down on me too!" Osial stopped thrashing and said with a look of disbelief.
Yu Jin didn't want to talk to Osial, and with one hand, he held a mirror in front of him.
Osial looked at his much smaller body in the mirror and fell silent.
"Alright, I admit that I can't beat the Liyue people now," Osial finally accepted reality and turned back into a giant salted serpent at the bottom of the sea.
"However, giving up the position of a God, he's quite bold," Osial then recalled the true 重點 of Yu Jin's words and complained a beat late.
"That's the key point to being able to release you!" Yu Jin nodded and continued:
"What you don't know is that Sky fought Khaenri'ah five hundred years ago, and then it almost died."
"That's why Zhongli dared to openly court death."
"What? Those underground people are that fierce?" Osial's ten large eyes widened, seemingly unable to believe the news he had heard.
"I think they're pretty fierce too," Yu Jin smacked his lips. Khaenri'ah, directly and indirectly, had killed a large number of the The Seven Archons.
He, Yu Jin, approved of that troublemaking ability!
"So, I told you not to underestimate humans," Yu Jin felt that as a member of humanity, he had to set the record straight for them.
Although whether he was human or not was still debatable.
But at least his words were true; the Liyue people might not be as formidable as Khaenri'ah, but their troublemaking ability was not bad either.
For example, the Jade Chamber in the Sky, how could such a "volatile" thing fly so peacefully in the Sky for so long without incident? It was all thanks to the scarcity of anti-air power throughout Teyvat.
In Yu Jin's opinion, the Jade Chamber was like a giant bomb. It was fine normally, but if it suffered a violent collision, it might very well turn into a huge firework.
At least it could blast the old Osial back into the sea without a problem.
"If it weren't for humans, you wouldn't know how many years you'd be in prison!"
Thinking of this, Yu Jin added a few more words to Osial.
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