Genshin Impact React (Book 1)

The Sorcerer's apprentice (Part 3)

[On the next day, Chongyun continues his magical lesson with Aether. Knowing that today's lesson requires some safety gears, he wears a Catcher set comprised of a helmet and chest protector.]

Kaveh: You don't need this much protection do you

Chongyun: Always be ready,you'll never know when it'll happen

Aether: [holds a crackling, condensed sphere of hyper-charged matter on his hand]Your ingenuity and your heart will give you an advantage over Morganians. They rely only on the power of their magic. [Chongyun braces himself as the Merlinean walks towards him] But if you're up against the wall, there's only one weapon of choice: The plasma bolt. [hurls the sphere towards a nearby pile of papers, scorching them]

[We then presented to Dave's plasma bolt training montage. As impressive at it seemed, Aether turned out had made it look a lot easier than it was.]

Heizou: You make it look so easy!!

Diona: I think all electric catalyst are taking notes for this spell

Chongyun: [struggles to conjure electrons around his palms to no avail that he stomps his feet a few times in the attempt before eventually giving up] Nothing. There's nothing. [manages to form a weak sphere a few attempts later] I got it! I got one! I got one! [the sphere falls and disappears] That's underwhelming. [the weak sphere flies out of control in the next attempt] God! [the weak sphere comically backfires, bouncing off his helmet before flying away]

Aether: Again.

Chongyun: [the formed sphere rapidly hits off his helmet in humiliating manner] Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! [hurls the weak bolt in the next attempt only for it to disperse in mid-flight]

Aether: [calmly reads a passage in the Encantus as Chongyun knocked backwards by the recoil of his own plasma bolts which then fly and bounce around the lab uncontrollably]... and invite my soul... [one of the bolts fly past him] And again.

Chongyun: [another bolt backfires, bouncing off his protected groin] See? That's what padding is for. ([lifts the bottom of his chest protector to prove his point only for the bolt unexpectedly hits his now exposed groin before flying away, effectively knocked him to his knees] Oh!Childe Stone

All:(Oooohh that hurts)

Childe: Did he just say my name

Kenny: Yeah,but you'll find out later on

[Horvath arrives at the address the fry cook had given him; a penthouse located on top of American Radiator Building. Entering the penthouse, he finds the Morganian's residence a lavish one, yet decorated in ostentatious and egotistical manner; huge, tacky paintings depicting the man he's looking for can be seen around the hall along with trophies for his achievements as a stage magician. In fact, other decorations such as an antique katana and a set of samurai armor in the hall looked pale in comparison. This all dismayed the former Merlinean even further, as his potential ally proved to be even worse than he expected to be. As he takes his time looking around the penthouse hall with contempt, Horvath can hear a British voice speaking in the other room.]

Diluc: Oh he's Horvath's new little helper

Kenny: Yup

Childe: Oohhh this sounds fun

Childe: [offscreen] So, out of a bath full of jewels, I'm going to emerge, right? And everyone's going to think I'm me. I reach into the big top hat and I pull myself out, but I'm a woman. A ball of fire, right, a baby sitting in a nappy, but I would like a tiger. If I could get, like, a tiger jumping out of a leopard. But not out of its mouth, that's been done, I'm sure, somewhere.
[We then presented to the sight of the owner of the penthouse; Childe Stone. A flamboyant, slender young sorcerer with white hair and goatee. He wears two rings; the magical one which skull-like with tribal aesthetics and mundane one shaped after medieval knight's knee pad. The young man is having two female make-up artists painting his nails black while being accompanied by his two female agents and a bald bodyguard named Bob when Horvath entered his room]