Teyvat Survival Guide

Chapter 137 Ritual Hymn

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Victoria was inexplicably comforted by His Majesty and was flattered. She dared not talk about the confessional anymore and began to turn to the "laws and regulations" in the book.

As she walked with Samuel and Giuliana in the hall of the Temple of Saint Catherine, she told Samuel various descriptions of "sin" recorded in the Secret Codex of West Wind.

The sound of her explanation echoed in the vast courtyard. Samuel had studied the Secret Codex of West Wind on his own before, so he became interested and listened patiently, asking questions from time to time.

The sun was setting slowly, and the slanting light shone through the church's gorgeous colored glass, revealing a glittering fairyland on the white marble floor.

The afternoon passed unnoticed in this conversation.

Calculating the time, Victoria just stopped in front of the palace gate, turned around and said to the white-haired boy wearing a crown beside her:

"Your Majesty, today's class is almost over. I hope what I have said can be helpful to you."

Samuel nodded slightly, thinking about what she explained and said goodbye to her, then followed Giuliana out of Santa Karina.

On his way back to the European courtyard, he habitually listened to the news brought back by the wind.

Then I heard passers-by around me discussing what happened in the newspaper about Schubert Lawrence last night.

I didn't expect the news to spread so quickly...

But if you think about it carefully, it is related to the Lawrence family and the Abyss Cult, the two hottest topics that Mond people are most concerned about, and it is indeed reasonable that they can be so popular.

Listening to the various implicit sarcasm and insults against the Lawrence family from the passers-by, Samuel slowly shook his head.

Gilliana beside him noticed the change in his expression and said to the man who was accusing the Lawrence family:

"The Wind Flower Festival is three days away. In addition to Mondstadt locals, there will also be many foreign tourists who come here to visit.

"You should be careful with your words recently, so as not to give the foreign tourists who come to visit Jiaocheng the impression that the followers of the wind god are too vulgar."

The man whose speech was interrupted seemed to have a grudge against the Lawrence family and was very angry.

As soon as he heard that someone dared to educate him, he turned around and prepared to refute.

Then the gentle white-haired boy next to Giuliana tilted his head slightly and looked over here.

The silver crown sparkled in the sunset.

The man calmed down instantly.

“…May you be well, Saint Samuel.” He said respectfully, a little embarrassed. “I hope my vulgar language did not offend you.”

After saying that, he quickly bowed to Samuel, then pulled his companion beside him and left quickly.

"You don't even pay attention to the occasion when speaking... This is the church district." Giuliana whispered as she looked in the direction the man left.

Samuel beside her was still thinking about what Giuliana had just said, "foreign tourists who come here because of its reputation."

He was quite curious.

I wonder if he will meet some characters he knows?

Samuel thought so, raised his head slightly to look at the breeze flowing in the sky, and then followed Giuliana towards the European-style courtyard.

……

——Mondstadt’s resident area, the Knights’ headquarters.

Eula, who was dragged by Amber to find Lisa and confirmed again and again that there was no remaining power of the abyss, walked out of the Knights' library.

“…I told you everything is fine. Are you relieved now?” Eula held her forehead and said helplessly to Amber beside her.

"I'm relieved." Amber regained her usual energy and smiled at Eula, "I'm glad you're okay."

Eula felt a little uncomfortable with her energetic smile and turned her head away.

After a moment, she reacted, hugged her chest and snorted:

"According to Captain Qin, you were the first one to volunteer to come and see me.

“You actually dared to make decisions for me without my permission, causing me to owe you a lot of favors.

"I will remember this grudge."

"Okay, I'll wait for the day when you take revenge on me." Amber said cheerfully, pulling Eula's hand. "Let's go, it's getting late, let's go to the Deer Hunter for dinner together? It's my treat!"

"After dinner, let's take a walk around the central square. The decorations for the Windblume Festival there have been set up and they look really beautiful! And I heard that many foreign tourists came to Mondstadt today. Maybe we'll meet new friends!" She looked expectant, her eyes sharp.

It is better to act than to think. As Amber said this, he took Eula's hand and rushed to the gate of the Knights' headquarters.

Eula let her pull her and run, feeling the breeze blowing on her face. Looking at Amber in front of her, the corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously.

Wind Flower Festival.

It's really exciting.

Her anticipation did not last long. As soon as she walked out of the gate of the Knights' Order, she found that she seemed to have become the focus of the crowd.

Then, she heard a traveler with a Fontaine accent whispering to his companion beside him:

"Hey, look, isn't that the 'Surf Knight Eula Lawrence' mentioned in the local newspaper in Mond?"

"…It seems to be her, the niece of Schubert Lawrence…I heard that the person Schubert arrested at the beginning was her."

"Do you want to recruit her into the group? Did she agree?"

"It seems not... I heard that because of his fierce resistance, he was also bewitched and controlled by Schubert."

Hearing this, a passerby from Mondstadt interrupted:

“…Heh, she has good judgment. There is no way that being associated with the Abyss Cult will end well. It seems that the people in the Lawrence family are not all stupid.”

"She is a person with a very strong will. I heard that she has achieved many merits after joining the Knights Templar. She must be a good person." The man dressed in Fontaine fashion praised.

"'Good man'? You outsiders don't understand, so don't talk nonsense. He is a descendant of the Lawrence family."

"So what if you are a descendant of the Lawrence family?"

"'What'? Just because her last name is Lawrence, I don't think she is a 'good person'."

"…You Monds are very discriminatory and like to generalize. You should judge whether a person is good or bad based on the individual, not the last name."

"We generalize? We generalize?! You Fontaine people are too naive!"

"Don't you listen to what you are saying? Are we Fontaine people naive? Ridiculous!"

Seeing the tension between the two people overflowing, the dark blue-haired boy suddenly rushed out from the crowd and dissuaded them:

"Hey, my two friends, please don't hurt each other's feelings.

“There are always different opinions on everything. If we blame each other or fight over it, it will only hurt others and ourselves.

"In my opinion, both of you have some truth in what you say."

Then, he analyzed the reasons from the perspectives of two people respectively.

The two of them became fascinated as they listened, nodding frequently when the young man expressed his views, and their anger gradually subsided.

Seeing that they were all gradually calming down, the boy also exhaled and concluded with a smile:

"…Look, now that you've put it this way, both of you actually have a point, you just hold different viewpoints."

"Hmph, it's you Liyue kids who know how to talk." The Mondstadt local resident said, crossing his chest.

"I agree with this." The Fontaine traveler also nodded.

Then the two of them looked at each other. Although they didn't give each other a good look, it seemed that they had no intention of taking action again.

Amber, who witnessed all this, sighed to Eula beside him:

"Wow...Eula, that Liyue person helped us resolve a fight involving diplomacy."

Eula, who had long been accustomed to being treated as an "outsider" by the Mondstadt people, ignored the Mondstadt passerby's remarks, but nodded and commented:

“That young man is really good at speaking… His arguments for expressing his views are also very interesting.

"Well... maybe we can thank him. After all, mediating disputes among the people should be our job—"

Before she could finish her words, she realized that Amber had let go of her hand and quickly ran to the navy blue-haired boy, greeting him energetically.

"Hello! I am Amber, the scout knight of the Knights of Favonius! Thank you for resolving a dispute for us just now. This is what we should do..."

Looking at Amber's fiery enthusiasm, Eula smiled and shook her head helplessly.

She was always like this. On the first day she joined the Knights, Amber enthusiastically helped her clean the dormitory, showed her around, and later took the initiative to help her solve any troubles.

In the eyes of others, she is like an older sister who is taken care of by her younger sister... How can this be right!

Thinking of this, Eula looked at the red knight wearing a rabbit-ear headband, who had already gotten to know each other and had started communicating, with a smile in her eyes.

She will remember these grudges for the rest of her life.

……

——The next morning, accompanied by the melodious chirping of birds outside the window, Samuel opened the door after washing and dressing.

"I hope you are well, Your Majesty." Sister Giuliana, who was waiting outside the door as usual, greeted him. "Breakfast is ready in the restaurant downstairs."

"Today is Thursday, and the class of 'Sacrificial Carols' is taught by Miss Barbara Page, the Reverend of the Rite of Prayer." She added respectfully, "The teaching location is set at the Basilica of St. Augustine."

Samuel nodded.

For the past six months, Giuliana would wait at the door long in advance every morning and arrange his daily routine.

If she suddenly quit her job one day, Samuel might not be able to get used to it for a while.

Thinking of this, he followed Giuliana downstairs to the restaurant, and while he began to enjoy the pastries specially prepared for his taste and filled with the element of wind, he picked up today's newspaper and read it.

The newspapers of Steambird Newspaper Company will be reviewed by the Knights before being published, and His Holiness the Pope, as a member of the management, can naturally get the first-hand newspapers easily.

And this was obviously left to Giuliana to do.

As soon as he took the first glance, Samuel saw a photo of a young man with navy blue hair hanging in the upper left corner of the newspaper.

The little cake that was brought to his mouth paused for a moment, and only took a bite after Samuel confirmed that he was not mistaken.

Yesterday I was wondering if I would see a foreign character I knew during the Wind Flower Festival, and this morning I saw the second lady of Feiyun Chamber of Commerce in the newspaper.

Ah no... Second Young Master. Samuel joked in his mind.

Speaking of which, when he first started playing Genshin Impact, he actually mistook Xingqiu for a girl.

In the game, with the lotus-edged cuffs, the short hair, the shorts and the slender white legs, he looked like a girl no matter how you looked at him.

So when he found out that Xingqiu was a male, he couldn't believe it and studied Xingqiu's modeling over and over again.

However, looking at the photo in the newspaper again, it is actually very easy to tell from the angles of the face and the eyes that the person is a teenager.

Hmm...it seems the level of game modeling needs to be improved.

After looking at Xingqiu's photo, Samuel finished the pastry in his hand and turned his attention to the report.

"'The young man from Liyue used his eloquence to successfully help the Knights of Favonius resolve a diplomatic issue. Are the opposing views between the Fontaine travelers and the local residents of Mondstadt worth promoting?'"

There are also Amber and Eula.

…Why is it the Lawrence family again?

Thanks to Schubert and Pafield, he now gets a headache whenever he sees the word "Lawrence".

This report mainly said that Xingqiu prevented a dispute between a Fontaine traveler and a Mondstadt local resident due to their different attitudes towards Eula Lawrence.

Obviously, the reporter who wrote this report also knew that "Lawrence" was a hot topic in Mond, and the whole article revolves around "how to treat the Lawrence family."

Samuel's head hurt after reading it, so he simply put the newspaper down and stopped reading.

After breakfast, he tidied his appearance and followed Giuliana out of the European-style courtyard and came to the other of the two temples in the cathedral city.

This is the "St. Augustine" Temple. I will not go into details about its specific origins. In short, it was named in memory of a certain hero.

Unlike Santa Karina, this place is much more lively than there, probably because its geographical location is closer to the central area.

After entering the main gate of St. Augustine's Basilica, you will see the prayer hall.

Countless nuns and visitors prayed to their gods here, and a bishop recited the doctrine solemnly on the stage.

The choir composed of nuns from the church sang in unison, and the gathered female voices echoed back and forth in the auditorium, sacred and ethereal.

Samuel suddenly felt himself surrounded by a strong atmosphere of faith.

The atmosphere is so strong...

Staying here, it seems that my body and mind have become peaceful...

Well… although not as gentle as the feeling brought by Lord Barbatos.

Thinking of this, His Holiness the Pope couldn't help but feel a little proud.

The god they believed in devoutly was someone they would hold in their arms wherever they went.

Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, and he looked at the wind flowing outside the window, looking forward to the return of his own god.

"Your Majesty, this way." Giuliana beside him reminded.

Samuel came to his senses and followed her to a passage on the left side of the prayer hall.

After entering a room on one side of the corridor, he looked around and saw a stage in the room that was probably used for performances.

Hmm... this seems to be a rehearsal room before a performance.

There were many flowers, scented candles and other items on the table nearby, which were probably used for sacrifices.

As he was thinking, Samuel suddenly caught a glimpse of a blonde pastor with a double spiral ponytail busying herself at the table.

The pastor was humming some melody in a good mood. When he heard the door open, he turned around and saw that it was Giuliana and Samuel, and suddenly became hurried.

"Barbara Page, hello, hello to His Majesty Saint Samuel!" She bowed quickly and said respectfully, "May... may you be well."

"And Sister Giuliana..." she added belatedly.

Giuliana looked at her and sighed imperceptibly.

She turned around and asked her Majesty:

"…Your Majesty, I would like to talk to Miss Barbara alone. Is that okay with you?"

Samuel glanced at her, then at the reserved Barbara, and nodded.

"it is good."

With permission, Giuliana took Barbara to the corner of the room and began to whisper.