Venti and the return of a Bard Friend

Honkai

Paimon surprised "Wow, I didn't know these Herscherr were so powerful. Even less so with one that is the destruction of the world."

Zhongli crossed his arms as he thought "Hmm ... A Herrscherr is similar to Archon right?" Aether denied "It's more than that. The Herrscherr also evolves no matter if we progress, the Honkai do the same."

Albedo stopped writing as she nodded "Don't worry, this data will be a secret, I won't let anyone else know." Timaeus nodded "This knowledge is still too much for people to know, if this data will get into the hands of the Fatui ... I don't want to imagine it."

Venti thought "I doubt that Tsaritsa can win a fight against a Herrscher, as I would like one to join our cause." Albedo nodded "I think it is late, we should rest and tomorrow we will search for Lord Neill."

The rest nodded as they entered the camp.

(Midnight)

Aether woke up seeing Xiao and Zhongli having tea standing at the entrance to the camp as he carefully got up as quietly as possible, standing next to Xiao.

The Adeptus spoke without looking away from the moon. "You didn't tell them about Neill's Herrscher." The golden haired boy denied "No ... Venti wouldn't take it well."

Aether looked at both of them seriously "Zhongli, Xiao ... I have a favor to ask of you."

The two of them looked at him seriously as he spoke "If I were to come close to giving in to the Will of Honkai ..."

The two looked serious waiting for what he was going to say.

"... I want ... I want you to kill me ..."

The two looked on in shock as Zhongli seriously denied "I can't allow that Aether. Would that mean we have to kill Neill as well?"

The golden eye denied "I will absorb his powers before the Will of Honkai yields, at that moment you will have to kill me, that is the best in the situation. And as a last resort ... I don't want ... I don't want Teyvat to suffer the same fate than Ancient Civilization. "

The two looked at each other as they nodded despite doubting what Aether had said. While with Neill. The boy was unconscious while in his subconscious ...

Neill was standing in a strange white dimension, where he stretched up to the eye as he looked from side to side "Where ... Where am I?"

He noticed a copy of himself standing in front of him but his eyes were orange like his dreams. Neill looked on guard "You ... who are you really ?!"

The other raised an eyebrow "Me? I am you ... Being latent inside you but thanks to the gem it has become less latent." The aquamarine eyed realized what he meant "You are ... The Herrscher of the Void?"

The orange-eyed boy smirked "More like a newborn Herscherr inside you. Your Gnosis is a nuisance though."

"What do you want of me?" Neill asked as his clone smiled "What do I want? Isn't it obvious?" At that moment he appeared behind him while whispering in his ear "The end of humanity itself ...".

Neil immediately backed away while denying "You underestimate humans."

"Hah ... Hahaha ... HAHAHAHAHAHAH!" The Herrscherr laughed out loud as he looked psychopathically "How naive, humans are dangerous ... Deceptive ... Greedy and uncontrollable to their thirst for power, or should I remind you about those insects known as Fatui."

Neill denied "Not all humans are cruel."

"Really? Tell me ... what will happen when they progress and advance. When humans evolve and no longer need Archons." The boy in normal bardic attire was silent while the other continued "Humanity only wants absolute power and control of the world. It is our duty to end this and restore the world reset. That itself exists the will of Honkai. Come ... Yield to her and rebuild the world as you please ... With your powers ... You can purify Teyvat."

Neill denied "You're wrong, I won't give in ... And also ... I'll be the one to control your powers like Herrscher."

The aforementioned gritted his teeth "You disgusting human .... TSK ... You are naive."

Neill at that moment woke up lying in the snow as he noticed that he was in the middle of the snowy path that led to the top of the Spinedragon mountain. He sat up looking at the top "I have to find the others. They must be very worried, not letting Honkai's Will control me. Because ... Because I have my unbreakable will!"

He touched his chest where the gem entered "Rest assured." He began to follow his path but what he did not know is that several days had passed since he entered that dimension.

Elsewhere, in the cave where Durin's heart was. "I told you that this weapon is very dangerous!" Venti spoke furiously to Albedo as he denied "I am aware however this weapon has its poison, I had no choice but to take it from the shelves of Monstadt, it was necessary to investigate this weapon and see the progress of this."

"Are you not listening to me or are you stupid ?! A cut can poison you with Durin's poison!" The bard and the alchemist argued endlessly while Aether shouted fed up with their cries "Enough!"

The two fell silent as the golden haired man spoke furiously "It doesn't matter if it's out of curiosity or power but this is already too much! You entrusted me with this sword Albedo, I will make sure not to use it as much as possible outside of the Spine Dragon Mountain. Also, it can may this sword help against very dangerous enemies. "

Venti fell silent as he nodded dissatisfied "If it's Aether I'll let it pass but ..." He looked sternly at the blond alchemist "If you do something like that again, I assure you it will cost you a lot. We have suffered a lot in our fight against Durin , I will not allow him to revive that hideous dragon again. "

Albedo nodded while Zhongli and Xiao didn't say a single word as this was Archon Anemo's problem. "I am aware Lord Barbatos however, as an alchemist I must expand my knowledge beyond my current knowledge."

Aether upon hearing that looked sternly at the blond alchemist "It's okay to expand your knowledge as an alchemist but you have no idea what I have learned traveling and exploring a lot of worlds on my journey. Your knowledge is like a simple fragment and yes I have learned something is that there is knowledge that should not be learned. "

Albedo was silent upon hearing that, Aether had knowledge beyond what the alchemist can imagine. "I understand."

Venti sighed as he crossed his arms looking at the heart "However we must keep an eye on Durin's remains, not to mention the presence of the Fatui on the Spinadragon hill. Zhongli crossed his arms "Are they trying to find something that can kill an Archon?"

Albedo looked serious "Possibly they are going after the sword that I have entrusted to Aether." The green-robed bard clenched his fists. "I won't let those disgusting Fatui get away with it again. Not after what they did to Monstadt."

Xiao crossed his arms as he closed his eyes "What is Tsaritsa thinking? Gathering all the Gnosis is abnormal, it's like trying to assassinate all the Archons." Paimon looked down as she floated beside Aether "But by now the Archons will already be aware of what Tsaritsa is doing, so now she won't even be able to easily steal the Fatui from the remaining four."

"If it's about stealing." Zhongli crossed his arms as he looked at Durin's heart that glowed pure red. "The most difficult will be Archon Pyro ... She would give cannon fodder to protect her Gnosis and even burn all the Fatui after all. It is. The Lady of the Fire. Typical of Murata. " Aether upon hearing that name remembered a certain friend of his mother "Murata ... For some reason the name is familiar to me."

They all looked at Aether as Venti asked curiously "Do you ... do you already know that warmonger?"

He denied as he closed his eyes "I'm talking about another person, she was my mother's teacher, and she was a Valkyrie. Girls with Honkai stigmata inserted into their body for fighting against the Honkai. One of them was as I said before my mother's teacher and she was one of the strongest. Well it's a story for another time though. Now we must find Neill. "

They all nodded in agreement.

(If you see an error orthography or some similar kind. Apologize I am Spanish writer and this is my first time translating my fanfic.)