"Oh Viatrix, how brilliant and radiant you shine, a holy light in the dark so sublime. But what can I do, when the shadows want to consume you, oh goddess so divine?"
With the arrival of summer, newly weds, Xiao and Lumine finally take the journey t...
A/N: After healing Tighnari, Xiao and Dehya meet up with everyone in the city that night; Xiao sees a dangerous foreshadowing whisper of Alhaitham's future fate. I'll be using a lot of Hunger Games Trilogy music for this half of the arc hehehehehe~! For the sake of things I'm naming the sage that put baby Nahida in a "Bird cage" as Jafar cause well, why not? lmao.
Also I just realized I never showed you guys what Sumeru looks like during Sumeru Saga, did I? Pic is down below and all credit to the badass 3D artist that designed the skin fanart. <3
It had caused a lot of panic and worry about Tighnari for Xiao and Paimon. Xiao in particular was very worried for his fox lycan friend. Finding the fennec fox lycan forest ranger in quite the state as his body was covered in burns and rippled with electro currents. Tighnari had been struck by the Balladeer's lightning from the electro Gnosis. However his affinity with dendro and being a race of familiars that served the Goddess of Wisdom, he survived the blast. Dehya and Xiao escorted the young archer inside the greenhouse and with some help from Dehya and Tighnari's instructions his injuries had been mended and bound. Sadly they had to leave Tighnari and Haypasia, but they were sure no more danger would target these two scholars.
So, Dehya, Xiao, and Paimon took advantage of his teleportation and arrived within Sumeru City's walls. Along the way Xiao filled them all in on what had happened on their end as did Alhaitham and Cyno. Seems the Ermites had made it into the city safely and were now like a pride of lions just waiting, biding their time in the shadows. Claws being sharpened and fangs bared at the throats of the Akademiya. Nilou had noticed the commotion and joined them, not taking long to convince her into helping when they were brought up they were going to rescue and bust out Lesser Lord Kusanali from the sages' cage. Their small group goes over the plan once more for tomorrow one last time before retiring for the night.
Xiao stayed awake sitting in one of the massive tree's branches lost in his thoughts. "Lumine said she had to go back to sleep for a while. Is it because she or the cubs are still linking themselves to this second tree Lady Istaroth mentions?"he thought calmly. His hand went around to the clutch where his changed Vision was on his gauntlet. The anemo symbol remained but the color shifted to this nebula blue hue. His blood felt like it was on fire and it scorched. Not the same way as his karmic debt or the void poisoning or when his mask broke. No, this felt different.
"Humility? But what is it I need to accept and humble myself toward?"he hissed wincing as his vision heated up again, steaming. Damn Kairos never told him the Second Chorus would be so painful and so difficult. He had seen and recalled what pride did to a deity. Heck, he'd seen humanity's pride more than he cared to admit. The sages' hubris being one such example of pride. "But what is it that I need to humble myself to admit to?"he thought bitterly. What was there he was still not understanding? Then there was the few times his attacks had been acting strange, a new energy mixing in that was like a glowing nebula. What was happening?
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