Alex glared over.
Such insolence from mere Timmie.
Hmph, if he remembered correctly, Timmie also liked the one-eyed Ruin Guard and had a virtual one as a friend.
Once he got a Ruin Guard toy, he would tear off its head and dismember it right in front of Timmie!
Let's see if he still dared to be so arrogant next time.
"Hmph! I'll let you off this time! If you're impolite like this again, I'll have a pretty big sister make you a green hat!" Alex said, speaking harshly, as for the one-eyed Ruin Guard, he hadn't even seen such a toy yet.
Timmie scratched his head, wondering if the big brother in front of him was warning him or being kind by giving him something.
Timmie touched his head, a little embarrassed: "My mom said not to accept things from strangers casually."
Alex didn't want to talk to him anymore: "Alright, see you next time."
Before leaving, Alex remembered Genius Invokation TCG.
Brilliant, he had a way to bully him!
"Come on! I don't want to leave anymore, hurry and play a game of Genius Invokation TCG with me!"
Watch me annoy him to death with a three-healer lineup!
"Hm? Genius Invokation TCG?" Timmie, who was nearby, was full of questions.
Seeing Timmie's confusion and his unawareness of Genius Invokation TCG, Alex was instantly disappointed: "What? You don't know? Well, it's too early now, it might have only just started to become popular."
Then this Timmie would be hard to bully; if you bullied him, he'd tell his mom, and then you'd have to treat him to a meal the next day, which would be a big loss!
"You haven't been to Cat's Tail Tavern, have you? Although you can't drink alcohol, you can at least go and watch Genius Invokation TCG... If you really can't go, you can ask other kids." Alex initially had some bad intentions, wanting Timmie to go to the tavern, but fortunately, he realized it was inappropriate in the end.
"Okay." Timmie responded somewhat confusedly. He did remember the name Genius Invokation TCG.
Finally, Alex left directly.
In reality, it took him less than half an hour to complete four commissions.
Then Alex followed the road and arrived at Thousand Winds Temple.
Here, although many buildings were damaged, it was truly magnificent!
After wandering around and sightseeing for a while, Alex's gaze fell upon a giant Ruin Guard sitting in the center of an open space.
Because it was a rather powerful Khaenri'ah excavation tool, Alex briefly scanned it with his phone.
He found that its level wasn't too high, just a bit higher than ordinary open-world monsters.
For Alex, who had been constantly grinding bosses and instances, he was already used to it.
Fortunately, in Teyvat, fighting across levels was still possible, it was just a bit slower.
Alex directly unleashed his Combat Skill, changing it, and it became a large and a small Furina.
He quite liked using this skin; it was good-looking and fun, and he would switch it when he met specific people.
Then, for the first time, Alex picked up the skyward harp, this bow.
The design of this skyward harp was actually very strange; the bowstring had four strings. Calling it a bow, it actually looked more like a harp!
Alex tried plucking it and found that it really made a sound, and the four strings produced four different timbres.
Alex could also clearly feel that as he plucked it, wind element energy flowed around it.
"Hm?" Someone who was slightly drunk and slumped on a tavern table suddenly sat up and looked in one direction.
Then he also took out a skyward harp.
"Ehe~" The next moment, this person smiled and put away the skyward harp.
He hadn't expected a second skyward harp to appear in this world.
It was clearly a greatbow symbolizing the Anemo Archon's familiar, Dvalin, and should have been unique in the world.
Not only that, the skyward harp held by that person also contained the power of the azure sky and long winds.
Interesting~, truly strange.
Alex tried drawing it again, and to his surprise, when he made the motion of drawing, a pure cyan energy bowstring appeared.
Draw the bow, aim! Pointing above the Ruin Guard.
"Pull!" Alex said briefly, then had his two little ones trigger the Ruin Guard to stand up.
As for the five summons, Alex hadn't summoned them yet.
Don't let them interfere yet, I want to shoot the Ruin Guard's eye to paralyze it.
The Ruin Guard stood up, took a step, triggered its alert system, and prepared to attack.
"Heishoo~" The next instant, a blue, pure energy shot towards it.
But it missed and made a "ding~" sound, creating a collision sound.
The force was too small; this arrow seemed to need to be aimed higher.
After all, Alex was quite far away, and the energy arrow shot out, surprisingly, made a downward parabolic arc when it was about to hit.
The next moment, Alex used his maximum strength to pull the harp strings, even constantly thinking in his right hand, gathering elemental power.
"Bang!"
This time it hit!
He saw damaged energy currents flowing in its eye, and then it seemed to lose support, making a "clang!" sound as it sat on the ground, paralyzed.
It was also at this moment that Alex summoned his five little companions to help with the DMG output.
Then Alex had already planned to use a Charged Attack on the Ruin Guard to test the waters.
He could also apply a DMG-boosting buff, Scarlet Seal, to the Ruin Guard.
Speaking of buffs, Alex remembered he had a combat song.
He was annoyed; he had forgotten about it while farming weapon materials!
Because Alex was already used to using Baron Bunny to create chaos, and although their levels were higher and they were all Hydro element, he had five summons, plus two Combat Skills, and the heavy armor bunny puppet.
Now he had so many babies. Alex could fight with his eyes closed, even sleeping on Baron Bunny.
Summoners are too strong... What, you have many monsters? I have many too! Very fair, the god of duels.
Because it was impossible to shoot the splendor of tranquil waters, Furina would cry if he did.
So for the other weapon, Alex had already equipped the harbinger of dawn before the battle.
The wind began to pick up in place, or so Alex thought.
He struck a very standard pose, left hand extending as far as possible holding the skyward harp, right hand pulling the harbinger of dawn back as far as possible, drawing the bowstring. At this moment, the tension of the bowstring felt like it had reached its limit.
He instantly released his hand, and the harbinger of dawn, imbued with blue Hydro element, shot towards the Ruin Guard like a blue meteor.
Seeing that it hit, Alex finally uttered that line: "This strike! Pierces the stars!"
To be honest, he also wanted to experience pulling a bow with his feet like Nezha and Durandal.
But his current bows were too small! He could only hope that if a large bow came out in the future, he could try it.
Then Alex saw a blood-red mark of a spider lily appear on the Ruin Guard's body.
And his harbinger of dawn was now stuck in a gap in the Ruin Guard's body, immobile.
"Come back!" Alex waved, but as expected, there was no response.
After all, there was no 'Loyalty' enchantment now, otherwise, he would just have to prepare a ton of swords to keep shooting.
In that case, by the end of the battle, it would turn into an Unlimited Blade Works.
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