The lightning vanished, the gale subsided, the flames died down, and the frost melted.
It was as if everything that had just happened had never occurred.
Lumine and Paimon discovered that since the white energy barrier enveloped this space,
the entire space seemed to tremble.
It was like a film in a projector with special effects added on purpose.
The ornaments they wore emitted a faint green glow.
The invisible energy barrier protected them.
“This... what exactly happened? Why do I feel a sense of unease? This space, it feels so wrong,”
Paimon looked around nervously, the space created by Eixuan gave her a strong sense of crisis.
“Don't worry, you wore the amulets I gave you before, you won't be harmed in this space.
As Eixuan reassured Paimon,
the Electro Archon across from them began to gather elemental power.
But he discovered, to his horror, that the surrounding elemental power refused to follow his commands.
Those elements trembled as if they were afraid.
There was no doubt that it was that fellow Eixuan's doing.
“Damn you, you scum, what have you done?”
Sensing something amiss, the Scaraamouche yelled at Eixuan in front of him.
Apart from rage, there was a hint of fear in his voice.
He couldn't gather elemental power, and even with immense energy, he couldn't use it.
For the divine power accumulated in the God's Heart
was manifested through elemental power.
“What have I done? I just made some good, obedient children a bit mischievous.
Gods, though they are gods, cannot fully control the elements they represent.
Their authority is incomplete.
You are not on your throne now, and you haven't received the favor of the elements.
You have a god-level energy but cannot utilize it.
Do you feel like the world is no longer what you recognize it to be?
Sorry, in this domain, elemental power is useless.”
Eixuan softly snapped his fingers.
With a "snap," the entire Electro Archon began to tremble.
As the core, Scaraamouche was horrified to discover that
his hard shell was on the verge of collapse.
Eixuan drew a Hakyōin from his God's Eye.
A milky white light enveloped the blade.
He leaped high
and struck two blows at the Electro Archon's arms.
The light, airy movements were like those of a child just learning to sword fight, swinging casually during practice.
But those two blows, upon touching the body of the Electro Archon,
sliced off its arms as if it were cutting through tofu.
Without its arms, the Electro Archon, floating in the air, seemed to lose its balance
and fell to its knees.
“Damn it... damn it, what have you done?”
Eixuan paid no attention to Scaraamouche's rage, casually releasing two sword qi.
The Electro element symbol on its chest shattered, and the God's Heart radiating Electro power was inside.
Seeing that Eixuan was aiming for the God's Heart, Scaraamouche panicked.
He completely forgot his talent for trash-talking,
like a child who had his toy snatched away, he flung his face open, his body constantly charging forward.
“No, I can't lose the God's Heart.”
The tube behind him was ripped off, and Scaraamouche fell from the Electro Archon to the ground.
Eixuan, meanwhile, already had the Electro Archon's God's Heart in his hand.
Eixuan slowly walked towards Scaraamouche, holding the God's Heart, and squatted down slowly.
He stared quietly at Scaraamouche's face, filled with despair and fear.
“You've been alive for five hundred years, it's time to wean yourself off it. I'm taking it.”
Watching Eixuan's fading figure, Scaraamouche closed his eyes helplessly and fainted.
Eixuan walked to the side of the disc, picked it up, and pressed the power button.
The pure white domain instantly disappeared.
Feeling a burning sensation from the disc in his palm, Eixuan grimaced.
Looks like he'd have to have the scientists at the Akademiya fix the overheating issue later.
The God's Heart was recovered, Scaraamouche was dealt with, the mission could be considered a complete success.
“How about that? As promised, the person has been dealt with.
Paimon was still trying to process what had just happened.
“What the hell just happened? Why can't we use elemental power anymore?”
Throwing something that completely seals elemental power, if this got out,
it would probably cause a stir in Teyvat, wouldn't it?
Even Nahida looked at the disc in Eixuan's hand with curiosity.
“You're talking about this, right? It's simple.
Scholars at the Fontaine Akademiya, through their research on elements,
have discovered that elemental power itself is also composed of very tiny particles.
These particles have their own structures, and this device can, within a fixed area, cause the surrounding space to become a high-frequency vibration state.
Elemental particles in a vibrating state cannot aggregate, so elemental power naturally cannot be used.”
The group, lacking a scientific background, was confused.
This device actually disrupts the structure of the particles themselves through vibration.
It causes the particles to be unstable, making it impossible for those with weak control to control the elements in a high-frequency vibration state.
Since they can't control it, it's essentially as if elemental power is ineffective.
Of course, with Fontaine's current technology, they can't actually do this.
The energy released by using vibration to break down the structure of particles is immense.
The reason why Eixuan's device could achieve this is because the energy source of this device is Luminescent Energy.
Like Abyssal Energy, Luminescent Energy has the power to rewrite the world.
By pre-inputting rewriting content, and then releasing it,
this can, despite inadequate energy, completely destroy particle structures.
It prevents elemental power from aggregating.
After today's test, this device might not be enough to deal with the Seven Gods who have partial control over elemental dragons.
It can, at best, reduce their elemental power usage efficiency by 70%.
Someone like Wriothesley after the Fontaine storyline, it could only reduce his efficiency by about 10%.
Wriothesley, with the full ancient dragon power, cannot be called the strongest.
But his control over Hydro power is the best on the entire continent of Teyvat.
However, this is just a prototype, and there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Nahida sighed.
“To actually research energy to this level, no wonder the Tsaritsa called you a power thief.
Compared to the Electro Archon, which was created using power that originally belonged to the gods, what you've researched is truly the crystallization of human intelligence.”