Genshin Chapter 74 (Patreon)

Ei hilariously out skilled me in the handling of her spear compared to my wielding my greatsword or even my saber when I swapped between the weapons to confused her between the length of the weapons.

She almost perfectly matched the strength of my blows with my greatsword and would sweep it aside with her naginata style spear. And even when I tried to get too close for her to maneuver her spear properly with my saber, she would treat her spear like a staff and hit me with the butt of it or even attempt to mix in some martial arts and getting kicked by a war goddess wearing high heels hurts.

Finally realizing melee was going to get me nowhere I broke out the bag of tricks as it were as I a large Glyph formed on both sides of her and from the glyph came the clenched fists and arms of a Ruin Grader in partial summon to save me some aura as I used the moment she did a split to avoid the ruin guards punch to send a pillar of Geo rock from the ground into the Raiden Shogun who blocked the pillar with her spear but with how she did the splits she wasn't able to get leverage to just smash aside the pillar of Geo stone and crystals.

"Hmm? I thought you had Electro energy?" Ei muttered conversationally as she swiped her naginata to the side and with a loud crashing noise she shattered the pillar that launched her across the room.

"As far as I am aware, I will be capable of wielding all the Archon's elements." I said as I pulled on my Anemo energy to speed me up along with Electro energy to sharpen my senses as I dashed forward at Ei with my saber held high.

"Three elements?" She whispered in confusion before her mind seemingly reconnected my words about possibly wielding other elements and then she smiled as a spark of Electro jolted off her spear and as my saber came down on her the haft of her spear I was jolted as her Electro overpowered the Anemo and my own Electro energies shocking me and making my hands go numb. "I will treat you with a bit more seriousness... Some gods were capable of wielding two elements to make up their own odd domains like the Stove and Dust god had Pyro and Anemo to go with their Geo elements... But I can't help but wonder if you could recreate their domains?" Ei pondered with some actual expectations, but I shook my head.

"Sorry, but I have had my powers for less than a couple months... No where near enough time to master a single element let alone combine then into something else." I grinned before my face paled as she nodded and then she glowed with a divine purple light.

"Very well." She announced looking down at me imperiously but whereas I would normally feel indignant of that expression, all I now felt was fear. As I felt her true killing intent locked onto me as the wide-open cleavage in her chest began to glow, she spoke with solemn promise in her voice. "I have seen your valor, your potential, and current martial skill... Now if you are to be my disciple you must accept the truth of Electro power and should you survive, I will teach you with all I have." She said coldly and then from her wide-open cleavage a ray of light was born along with a pocket dimension opening in her breasts. That her reached in to grab a powerful glowing sword that screamed danger... No, the glowing katana screamed with Electro energy that spelled my death.

"Survive Jake Barris." She whispered and then she swung down her Musou Hitotachi almost casually and I was reminded of a combination Ichigo's final Getsuga and Ulquirrora's overwhelming Cero's as my entire sight was engulfed in purple light.

I summoned a dozen Glyphs, I stabbed my Rainslasher into the ground and braced myself behind it... But nothing mattered. No resistance mattered under the Electro Archons power.

I was thrown so hard, that my form was like something shot out of a rail gun. I zipped across her palace and thrown through the several walls of said palace and I didn't even stop until I felt my body hit the gravel and ground outside her palace with aura flickering before a glass shattering noise rang out as I felt my soul retreat into itself as it took everything it had to keep me from splattering on one of the many walls in the way I was shot at.

I staggered to my feet, my bones creaking with the effort like when you do too many pushups and your arms are just telling you no... But that was my whole body telling me to lay down and recover, don't harm yourself anymore.

Not only was my body falling apart from the physical strain of surviving a blow that sundered and cut entire islands in half, but purple lightning arced around my body as I puked out some blood as my aura apparently didn't save my ribs from fracturing like chopsticks when I went through all those walls to say nothing of my limbs shaking as the leftover Electro energy played havoc on my nerves.

"You are still alive... No, you are even managing to stand with your weapon in hand." I heard Ei whisper as she somehow teleported next to me, but I couldn't move anymore let alone respond to her as my eyes dimmed and I felt both lightheaded and my body felt heavier.

Before I could do anything Lumine dashed out of the hole I left in my launching through her palace and wordlessly she sent a blade of wind at Ei to make her step back away from my form. "Thats enough. He lost and we will leave so no more please." Lumine almost begged as she hurriedly helped me to lie down as she noticed the blood I puked out and knew my ribs were fucked to say nothing of any other internal bleeding I was missing as my body was in shock.

But Ei just smiled shaking her head as she sheathed her sword back into her chest. "No... My word is my bond and for Eternity my word is my own." She said and Lumine gripped her sword as Paimon hid to the side obviously terrified. "I applaud you for desiring to assist your lover, but you must not have heard over our battle... He survived my test and the truth of Electro energy. He is now the disciple of Inazuma's god. Now move so he can receive the best healing Inazuma has to offer." Ei ordered and at that I lost consciousness as my form turned limp on the once beautiful gravel garden.