Genshin Chapter 56 Commission by Josh (Patreon)

To Paimon's question as to whether I could summon the Anemo Hypostasis I reached into my aura and instinctively pulled at it and like with the Ruin Grader I felt my aura take a big dip as the diamond shaped core of the Anemo Elemental formed.

"Wooowww you got it Jake!" Paimon said excitedly doing a little jig in the air and I mentally ordered the Anemo hypostasis to make a solid flat platform of wind atop itself and like the hand or drill like constructs it could make at will, the guarding Anemo blocks around it stretched out and formed a nice large platform we could sit on. "Yay no more sitting on weird round, stone covered balls!" Paimon cheered as even she didn't like sitting on the Anemo elementals that were our previous method of transportation.

"Yeah, plus this should be far faster than the elementals we rode previously." I agreed as I used a bit of anemo wind to launch myself into the air with Lumine and Eula in my arms and land atop the platforms the Anemo Hypostasis created.

It seems the Anemo Hypostasis read my subconscious desire for this platform to be something for us to ride as the top section sunk down like a gel foot pad was the best comparison I could make when we stood upon the platform.

"Alright let's see how fast this thing so go." Lumine said as she gracefully sat down on the platform, I made with Eula looking towards the land of Mondstadt as the Anemo Hypostasis ascended into the air and I realized the platform needed some changes.

"Jake you are making the platform all weird!" Paimon called out as the large five-meter-wide platform I had the Anemo Hypostasis created broke apart at the edges and creased inwards and formed a sort of arrowhead with the Anemo Hypostasis flying behind the arrowhead and the widest part was where us four were sitting together.

"We can still see through the construct, but I rather not waste aura and our elemental power to block off the wind as these things have legends about breaking the sound barrier and such." I said with Eula and Paimon not understanding at all what I meant. But Lumine did. And seeing as she probably could break such a barrier with her old version of flight and had more modern knowledge from her worldly explorations it made sense.

"Well Jake make it fly! We are off to Liyue to mooch, Paimon mean's we are going to try to meet Morax and help the Liyue Qixing!" Paimon ordered as she pointed in the direction of Liyue beyond the Dragonspine Mountains.

"Paimon your true colors are showing hmph!" Eula chided Paimon who only awkwardly laughed but the joking ended as we all jolted backwards a bit as the Anemo Hypostasis shot forward and showed no signs of its acceleration slowing down, so I just held Eula and Lumine to me as Paimon was pushed into my chest at the G force pushing her backwards until we all acclimated.

"Ugh... Is this why Venti doesn't fly everywhere super-fast? It kind of hurt Paimon's tummy." Paimon gripped rubbing said stomach before she descended downwards and began stomping on the gel platform and looked to me. "Jake next time give us a warning!"

"Alright Paimon... But this is certainly more convenient then the Anemo Elementals we previously rode." I said as I saw that in the course of not even five minutes, we had gone from the northern tip of Monsdtadt where the Anemo Hypostasis was all the way past the actual city of Mondstadt with Eula watching it pass by and were only a couple more minutes from passing by Diluc's winery.

"You alright?" I whispered to Eula as she had her eyes almost glued to the passing surrounding's.

Eula sighed and nodded with a weak smile before she spoke with everyone able to hear. "Yes. I will be fine, I was just wondering when I would travel these lands again, let alone see them again."

Lumine then spoke some of her own wisdom. "Embrace the memories of where your feet have trod but just as you have engraved your footprint onto a path, just keep walking as the path of exploration never ends... Anyway Eula, didn't you say you also had some contacts in Liyue, Jake's contacts all but fled Monstadt after the Fatui attack and we didn't get to speak to them." Lumine asked and Eula hummed in thought.

"Well, the premiere lawyer of Liyue who is pretty influential in the port city capital of Liyue does owe me a large favor... But other that, nothing other than occasionally running into the Liyue Qixing's version of the exploration regiment is the extent of my interactions with Liyue." Eula said wryly and I shrugged.

"It's fine. We have plenty of money to get a good hotel room for however long we will be in Liyue and with the Rite of Descension only a couple of weeks away where Morax will make an appearance we be able to make a name for ourselves doing some commissions in the Adventurer Guild." I said with Paimon pouting.

"How come Paimon feels like every time we go to a nation, we are going to need to ingrate ourselves into the nation itself by doing a bunch of chores, and Paimon will need to fly everywhere while you guys fight every Treasure Hoarder and Hilichurl in the nation just to meet the nations god who is also a weirdo!" Well after meeting Venti it's likely she thinks Morax is a weirdo as well.

"Paimon, shouldn't you love Morax with how he is basically the god of money?" Lumine asked giggling as Paimon stuttered over her rebuttal.

"Psh, Thats beside the point Lumine! Just because he has all the money to buy all the yummy food and drinks that he wants, doesn't mean he isn't going to be some super weird god like Barbatos was!" Yeah, all the knights with Visons who came with us to fight Dvalin knew Venti's true identity and I could see their faith die a little with each weird thing Venti did on the trip.

For a bit Paimon and Lumine bickered while me and Eula just watching the Dragon Spine mountains pass us and the frozen mountains finally evened out with more green filled valleys as we hit the land of Liyue.

"Should we just follow the coastline and fly directly to the port? Or should we go to Wangshu Inn again?" I asked as I could still see the ocean to our left-hand side as we flew southwards into Liyue.

"Let's actually get to the port so we can check in with the local Adventure Guild before we end up trapezing around Liyue." Lumine said and I shuddered at the thought of us delving under every tree and every ruin for the loot goblin that was Lumine trying to empty every abandoned chest in the nation of Liyue.

"To Liyue Port, Jake!" Paimon said pointing at the ocean in the distance and I nodded with the Anemo Hypostasis drifting over so we could fly along the coastline towards the richest city in the world.