Waking Up as Zhongli

Interlude: Century's Ago

⚠️WARNING: CURSING OR BAD WORDS ARE IN THIS CHAPTER PLEASE DON'T SAY IT IN REAL LIFE! I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET IN TROUBLE JUST BY SAYING IT FROM STRANGERS TO FAMILY.

"Rex Lapis! Please help us!"

"Please, Dragon Lord help those mortals!"

'the whispers of the mortals plead... those weaker gods that beg for help... these are the memories before the archon war...' I thought to myself as more flashbacks came.

"MORAX!!"

"DIEEE!!! YOU FUCKING MONSTER!!"

"Please! Help Us Lord Rex Lapis!!"

As I watch gods who are in pride tried to kill me in battle, as humans beg to be save. The god's who destroy the village died by my wrath.

"Please... Save... my... Son..."

"No... Don't save me... Save him... His my friend..."

One human intrigues me the most. Once A comrade of mine on his dying breath ask me to save his son, only for his son to beg to save his friend Alatus who is dying as he bleeds.

So I did both. I heal the son and his friend Alatus, I have ask them to help me as of consequence both of them turn into an adepti. Alatus asks for a knew name so I gave him the name Xiao. His friend kept his name.

As I travel throughout Liyue, the land that i have overlord. I have learn many new things and gain new knowledges as well as listening through their interesting dramatic stories.

But then...

The Archon War Came....

And I've been given one of the seats within the archon...

It's a piece within my bare chest as it resonates my element thoroughly as it gleams in gold or amber runes throughout my arms.

That's where the Tragedy begins....

Innocent gods became corrupted unknowingly and became a weapon of mass chaos and destruction.

So many innocents died...

So many companions and allies have been slain through greed and lust for battle...

So many have fallen...

yet...

I will continue to walk forward for each step leaves a shards of myself and many of my associates life's.

Caring not for myself or my associates but for the future of Liyue. For i have overlord the land of Liyue, by contract. So i have not choice but to fight for it.

The god of nightmare is being troublesome, even without the vessel of her own, so i have no choice but to seal her and destroy the remains of the soul left behind, as she screams of agony telling me that am the monster.

Guizhong have been infected by the corruption, so i have no choice but to slain her even as my tears came to be, unknowing i too have been infected as she gave a small but painful smile on her face as she died on my arms with her blood on my hands.

Osial sanity was swallowed up in the pit of despair of the lost of his youngest yet precious sibling(God of Salt), so i have no choice but to seal him as he rage towards the people of Liyue, I've sent him to slumber for Centuries or more.

Azhdaha eroded over time, and became unrecognizable to the point their memories also eroded forgetting their contract and the good times we had, due to the main ley line being disrupted by the mortals, so i have no choice but to seal him within the mountain within the ruins of a devastated civilization.