“Was it intentional or an accident?”
Lumine looked at Euxan with a more scrutinizing gaze.
He was imprisoned upon entering Fontaine, did that mean what he said before was true?
“It was an intentional accident… It’s not really my fault, your brother and Dainsleif were just unlucky.
When they entered Fontaine, Fontaine had just enacted the law ‘foreigners with yellow hair are not allowed to enter Fontaine’s Court’.
They were then arrested as examples.”
Lumine felt baffled, she felt that compared to Liyue,
Fontaine’s laws were enacted somewhat arbitrarily.
Was it just for the sake of judgment?
“How could there be such a ridiculous law?”
Euxan’s expression became somewhat awkward.
“Every seemingly ridiculous law has its deeper meaning.”
It was actually because a noble’s wife in Fontaine had a fling with a foreigner with yellow hair.
And she was caught in bed with him by the noble.
Later, the noble went to Euxan, weeping and wailing about his miserable experience.
Finally, Euxan was so annoyed that he couldn’t take it anymore,
so he enacted such a law.
At the time, Euxan thought that he would enact it for a month to let the noble feel somewhat balanced.
Then, he would simply abolish it.
As a result, Aether and Dainsleif were unlucky, they arrived on the last day of the law's implementation.
And were thrown into jail.
However, they were released the next day, not even subjected to any labor.
Euxan didn't tell Lumine the reason.
After all, this was just a 12+ game, he was following the plot.
Such negative plot points shouldn’t be mentioned.
“What happened afterwards?”
“Afterwards? He and Dainsleif started wandering around Fontaine, they also experienced many adventures.
After staying for about a few months, they went straight to Natlan.”
Lumine saw that Euxan’s gaze was somewhat evasive as he spoke,
It was obvious that he was concealing some information.
“Your brother’s personality changed drastically after he finished touring Teyvat.
I don’t know the specifics, at that time I was not a diplomat yet, Fontaine had a lot of things for me to handle.
But I can confirm that his personality shift happened in the last two countries.
Either Natlan or Snezhnaya, according to my intel, he met the founder of the Abyss Order in Sumeru.
Then he joined the order after touring Snezhnaya, as for what happened to him
I don’t know.”
Euxan told Lumine everything he knew about Aether.
He vaguely remembered that in Fontaine,
Aether was indeed still cheerful,
and he didn’t have the extreme attitude towards the Seven Nations and Celestia that he does now.
But after leaving Snezhnaya, this guy seemed to have a drastic change in personality.
At that time, Euxan was busy mediating between the civilians and nobles,
plus, he thought he wouldn’t live to see the start of the plot.
So, he basically didn’t pay much attention to Aether.
Later on, Aether and the Abyss Order, which had already taken shape, had gone into hiding.
Euxan couldn’t investigate.
So, what exactly caused Aether’s drastic change in attitude,
Euxan himself wasn’t entirely sure.
Suddenly receiving such news, Lumine took some time to digest what she heard.
She believed that her brother must have heard some information from the Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya.
So he became like this.
And Lumine had to get to the bottom of the truth in the end of this journey, which was Snezhnaya.
“I’m going to go check that thing, do you want to come?”
While Lumine was contemplating, Euxan invited her to take action together.
Lumine looked at something near the Statue of the Seven.
It was about half the height of the Statue of the Seven, the whole thing was emerald green.
It was shaped like a tree,
The lower part of the tree was a circular base,
three slanted supports like roots supported the bottom of the trunk.
The trunk was straight, with three layers of branches,
each layer had three branches, with nine branches in total.
All the branches gracefully drooped down.
In the middle of the branches, short branches extended, with small hollow circles and buds with floral patterns on the short branches,
each bud had a small bird with its head raised and tail curved;
There were pointed peach-shaped fruits wrapped in a long and a short hollow leaves at the tips of the branches.
In each layer of three branches, one branch split into two long branches.
On one side of the trunk, there were four horizontal short beams, fixing a dragon with its body hanging downwards to the trunk.
Lumine didn’t know what this thing was
but almost every Statue of the Seven in the countries she had travelled to
had one.
She had asked Paimon when she saw it.
But Paimon only knew that these things were built in the last five hundred years.
What they were for, what their function was, she had no idea.
So it was made by Euxan.
But why did she build this thing near the Statue of the Seven?
With curiosity in her heart, Lumine came to the tree that was neither jade nor bronze.
Euxan placed his hand on the main trunk, carefully feeling the flow of energy inside the trunk.
As Euxan touched it, the dim tree suddenly burst out with dazzling brilliance.
If it was just some jade features before,
now it was completely dazzling like a beautiful jade.
Lumine could even clearly feel the flow of energy inside the tree.
“What exactly is this thing?”
Lumine vaguely felt that the energy flowing inside the tree was very familiar.
But she couldn’t figure out where she had seen it.
“I named this thing the Bronze Divine Tree, if you must describe it, it should be the hope of Teyvat.”
Euxan withdrew his hand from the Bronze Divine Tree,
as his palm left, the brilliance of the Bronze Divine Tree dimmed.
It returned to its previous state of being neither jade nor bronze.
“Hope?”
Lumine repeated these two words, she really couldn’t understand
why this thing was related to these two words.
“Hope, but it might also be a joke. Well, the internal results and circuits aren’t damaged, at most, the outside was blasted a bit,
I was tricked by Diluc again.”
Euxan let out a sigh of relief, looking back, he saw Klee and Paimon carrying a few fish over.
“Dad, I blew up a lot of fish, let’s eat fish together tonight.”
Paimon looked at Euxan somewhat embarrassed.
“Sorry, we got carried away playing with Klee, it seems like the fish in Starfell Lake were blown up by us.
We’re not going to be confined by Jean’s Order, are we?”
Euxan smiled and took the fish from Klee’s arms.
“Don’t worry, Diluc will send people to Starfell Lake to release fish fry regularly.
Klee, don’t come here to blow up fish for a while, okay?
You have to wait until the fish grow bigger.”
Klee patted her small chest.
“Okay, Daddy, Klee won’t be coming here recently.”