Guqin and What a Sharp Being

Early morning in Liyue harbor, Clow and the team was eating their breakfast.

Having finish his portion he told to everyone. Let's have a last tour around this place and we should go to the next area where I will train everyone on their endurance. He already had every information he needs about that timeline, creating a secret plan that only him and Nameless knows. He had dream on it there is a secret teleportation anchor point hidden on a certain lair that almost touching the core of this planet.

So, boss no more waiting just go straight through or you're making a way, like I said just use concealment or invisibility and I really don't know why you still doing the same thing like getting permission to enter a place.

Clow respond to the BASS that busy munching crispy foods. Courtesy, it's better to do that right?

Ok that's acceptable, neh the three of you why are you looking at me like that?

Pika, Genga, Munch "Can we bid farewell to a friend?"

Oh, that old man running a funeral parlor well its ok, the direction or our path of getting out of this city is also passes to that place. I had no problem with that and same with the boss. her boss didn't respond, Clow just nodded while doing a light exercise after having a meal.

After everyone finish eating, they check and cleaning up the place making sure they will not leave any trace that they stay of this location. Then group started their last leisure walk around Liyue.

...…

Just a normal day on Liyue for an old woman staying around near a certain pavilion. She must be an adeptus, people called them immortal but they cannot escape the wear and tear concept, time and age. She was busy organizing her thoughts and having a small tea time when she heard a growl on her front, she blinks her eyes then three beings slowly appeared, she didn't recognize them even she had the knowledge about the monsters around each region. The elemental force is warried of these beings but the smell of hydro elements was clinging to them, the answer is this three was born from Fountain.

Ho ho what we got over here? Three little friends should be the rumor cute little ones roaming around our city lately? She heard news about this three, a yellow mouse wearing a round hat doing adventurer task, a tael fat guy that can be seen on some woods practicing his stick and the white guy who sell artifacts.

Pika "So we don't need to introduce our selves"

Munch "why are we here again?"

Pika "Grand pick something from his other selves, it is for music so he wanted to hear a piece using it before we go"

Genga "Ma'am can you play a music for us?" because he forgot to use his device, he felt embarrassed and he saw the face of the old woman that she didn't understand what he had said.

The old woman was bewildered, she knows the three was talking to each other and the white one asks something to her that made her confuse then this guy sudden pulled a Guqin from his mouth.

Chopin eyes almost pop up.

Pika "why not put all your items that you receive on those timelines on a dimensional pocket, WT* why use your mouth and now the item was filled of your saliva" She jumps and bonk the head of his bro while giving him a sermon.

Munch "The two of you should stop, don't cause more commotion or else our concealment will be disable" Lex had no choice to pull away Chopin to Grand that pulled his coms on his inventory.

Grand pin his coms on his scarf and with a snap the Guqin was clean complete.

Genga "Can we hear a beautiful music from you, please?" he coughs and ask the old woman with a polite manner properly while putting the Guqin slowly on the table next to the teapot.

The old woman didn't know if she will accept the request of this white guy with golden red eyes but another voice entered her ears.

She didn't even feel the newcomer same with the three cute monsters, she had gone to war back then and her perception was almost par on other participants except to those archons but at least she can perceive those archons a little. The boy was so normal that didn't even flatulate any kind of power, just a normal human being with simple face and closed eyes that can be forgotten in a blink without knowing its name.

The three of you should wait for me, you know I had a hobby checking some interesting thing that catches my eyes.

Munch "Sorry master trainer? where is sensei" Lex apologize normally to him.

Pika "Grand want to see how this instrument work" Chopin pointing the Guqin on the table while Grand was scratching the back of his head.

Lim was playing now, a Guqin I can play it a little but you three already found a best candidate to use it.

Madam my guardian pets here wanted to hear a music, it either simple or profound as long as it was pleasing to our hear, we will be happy to appreciate it.

Old woman felt she cannot decline the boy; she chuckles and gave the four an ok. On the moment she started playing Clow isolate the area but he let the sound of music scattered on the wind.

The music was beautiful like a life that started from joyful, sorrowful lament, an end then a rebirth, a story with a fleeting life on the way. She was so focus like she was one with the instrument she was using because of that she didn't feel that her four audience had already departed.

The isolation nor the concealment on that area was for her not to be discovered or notice by others, it will be disable automatically upon she finishes playing the Guqin.

Clow led the group out of the city with same road that they had taken back then. Every time they move, memories, rumor, written documents about them even a silhouette on it was started to disappeared.

He stops on the edge of a small bridge then he faces the side where he can see the sea while waiting for the three Pokémon's to bid their farewell to the old man that owned a funeral parlor shop that can see on opposite side of the bridge.

...…

The old woman finishes her performance, she opens eyes and look around. As result only the Guqin that not belongs to her was present on her table.

Looks like I've meet someone that exceed anyone that I've known on my life. Touching the instrument then inspecting it she discovered a symbol, an animal paw like mark. She didn't recognize it then three lettering started to appear next to it, upon touching she saw a scene of a white fat entity fighting an army of monsters on different size from small to bigger than a mountain using that Guqin, every time that the being snaps it string an unknown attack was release killing those on range and when the being snaps two string it release an invisible slash that can obliterate multiple mountains, can split sea and the boundless sky on half.

The white fat entity sudden look on her direction that made her goes back to reality.

What was that? How can an instrument do that and she wanted to remove it on her thought then ask her archon friend about this item for clarification but when she check where the symbol's location, it was now gone like it didn't exist. She understands it all that the thing she experience will become one of her secrets.

She didn't know that the Guqin was from one of Grand incarnation on certain parallel world or timeline, a tier 9 – an Overlord Tier. A real cultivator expert on music and sword intent.

...

In front of his shop the old man set up a resting place and was busy preparing a tea of a friend that busy organizing his thoughts.

It's very rare for you to go to this place Mr. Zhon_li, the old man only receives a smile. While putting the last ingredients to make the tea more delicious he heard a call, he stops and look around then his eyes stop on the small bridge. It was the three special friends waving at him, he nodded on that direction and he knows that the three is bidding their farewell to him. He didn't see their master silhouette nor anyone around them but with his special eyes he saw that the three had achieve a breakthrough to another level. They are already strong back then when he had first met them, stronger than the friend sitting opposite of him.

The archon decided to look at the direction where his old friend was looking, he only sees the back of the tael round being blending with crowd. On that moment his eagle eye view was change like it was dropping to the ground.

The old man called the archon. Mr. Zhon_li what's the matter?

The archon touches his neck and on his thought was. What a sharp being, he looks at his friend and said to him. Those friends a while ago, can you tell me everything you know about them.

The old man replied. Even I told you everything I know you will forget it after they leave this city or this region.

Try me? But the old man just smiles at him.

...…

Lim just got out of her boss consciousness, shaking her head that thing happen to that archon was just simple as is it.

The first layer of Lex Aura Nen-Qi that like a thin sheath of paper turned to a small kind of needles that can only be seen by those who knows how use aura on their eyes, this is a passive that protect his wellbeing to those who will peek on him.

That kind of aura was acquired on doing the craziest practice of stabbing on unknown number of years, until acquiring a special enlightenment.

On the management back then, some people where train by the boss and only few was able to achieve it. Her students really are quite unique, Chopin started to trained exotic weapons lately, Grand was improving his soul and shadow technique while Lex was still the same, all techniques that her boss giving to them was become like a daily part of their life. A reflex and some become more ordinary but dangerous.

She sat on her boss shoulder. Neh boss you said you gonna pick them while training so why we're going on that underground place?

Like I said I had my own plans. The group walk out of the city and everything about them was normally erase, every single trace.

The old man busy drinking and telling the archon about the Pokémon's, he slightly pauses when he saw the archon that had a confuse face. He stops telling the story when the archon asks him what book he was narrating to him then he responds to the archon. It was just a normal story that had been lost long time ago.

On his mind he was happy for the Pokémon's. So, the three of you had started again a journey with your master, it makes him happy because he never ever forget about them. Ah Mr. Zhon_li let have a special celebration today, I felt relieved and happy lately. Everything is my treat, let's have a feast.

...…

The group are almost near the Chasm, Neh boss that place still guarded properly?

Just follow me, he changes on direction going on a certain spot that almost near the Sumeru region. He made a clap then touch the ground, an alchemist way calculating the thing hidden on the ground and that thing slowly arise. What appeared on their front was a large mechanical being like a totem onix but this one had a gear as its head.

Pika "I can repair that master trainer" The thing was lack on electricity and a little of sentience for it to function.

Genga "Can I test it fighting power after we use it as construction machine? it looks interesting"

Munch "A tin can, you're not going to sweat so why not try using a foundation establishment cultivation base on playing with it"

Lim heard them? oh come on guys we need this thing to help us dig and this is the simple plan you called boss?

Pika "I can dig faster than that"

Munch "you're gonna mess up calculating your power that will be resulted making a hole on both side of this world"

Genga "It will attract someone attention, if that happens then I will handle it" Grand showing his shadow boxing to them.

After giving a thumbs up to Lim and shake his head to the Pokémon's trying to ignore them, he made a snap and the thing was repair instantly. It started to move and when it felt them, it detected them as enemies but something entered its coding program that made it stop.

Good job Chopin, Lim praise her then gave her another instruction to made the thing start to dig. She was still conflicted because the thing that her boss dug up was the field boss of the Chasm underground mines.

The thing started to dig; in a couple of minutes a huge hole was created. The group jumps down on the rabbit hole.

After they land, they saw the thing, its waiting for a new query command that Chopin will insert on its panel.

Pika "What should I do next" her eyes was focus on the blue panel screen in her front, she was making a new code for it.

Genga "Can you enhance its overall attack or add some boost skill on it?"

Munch "We should wait for sensei instruction first" Lex look at Lim that busy chatting with their master trainer.

Quite dim inside and the next plan boss?

He pulled some special pickaxes on his inventory; he called the three Pokémon's then gave it to them and he never forget to give one to the noisy BASS with the same size as her.

Oh, come on boss you want me to join on your own special training, she knows what will come next. Chopin put that thing aside, she gave Chopin the whole map of the underground mine.

Pika "Yes ma'am" While putting the pickaxe on her inventory she drags the thing by grabbing its tail to place where the traveler or MC will fight this thing.

Munch, Genga "We gonna dig with a low tier body cultivation base?"

Lim just nodded to the two, she put an armband that had a slogan healthy body, healthy mind.

Come on guys just follow me, let's have a fun training then don't forget to activate high tier concealment to make sure not to attract miners and other beings ok, we gonna dig deeper until we reach the inner core of this world. Clow waving a huge pickaxe while calling and saying this to them.

...…

Several months had only already goes by and almost a year already, a lot of thing happens. Dr. Lindsay saw a letter send by a bird made of paper that now waiting for her respond. She really didn't care how this Shikigami work, it can transform to large bird and carry big things if you ask it.

The only communication that she receives from her grandson, that boy really not wasting his time doing training again and again, he didn't even return home on his 7'th birthday but send me a lot of gifts. She closes the letter then look at the door of her house.

Are you going in or you're waiting for me to go out to made an ambush my student? The door open and a man walk in the house. Lindsay had use elemental sight to scan the man and also felt other individuals that waiting outside wearing mask covering their faces.

Keen as ever my teacher and you know what I came for. The man is quite handsome well that how this game character is what can I do "Author's Note".

My blueprints and researches on making some machines, right? I still remember how I receive my injure because of you, who never thought that one of my best students was a back stabber and look at your outfit, you should have a high-ranking position now on the Fatui.

Quite observant, enough talking for a dying old woman.

Ha ha ha, she shakes her head and pulled a certain glass like item then throws it to the man.

The man catches it and ask. What's this?

A key and it will lead you to a domain I made, all my research is in there and even you kill me now, you will not find anything inside this house. Oh, let me guessed your code name your that doctor that I'm hearing off right. She gave a wonderful mocking smile on the man.

The man put the item on his suit and replied to Lindsay, we will check it and if you're lying, I will kill you on a hard way teacher. He walks out and close the door with a bang.

Dr. Lindsay didn't leave her vigilance making sure that those guys was really gone and after a minute she take a deep breath cancelling her elemental sight then walks through to a certain cabinet, opening it to grab some medicine that her grandson made for her, near those medicine is a broken eye of God. Damn it using elemental force really made me had a relapse, saying it while sitting on her favorite chair. Some guys doing something big but I wish they will not touch my place nor try to piss off someone that they cannot handle nor this world can touch. Her eyes were focus on a picture of her, Clow and the Pokémon's.

...…

Deep inside the Chasm Lim was busy watering a small lonely mushroom, this mushroom was drag out of the void, it was stack on that place until it slowly gaining sentient.

Tsk grow big and look I even watered you some nice liquid that only found on a certain world in the middle realm plane. It was a lie of course whose gonna use some treasure to a lowly plant but she had used some Grandmaster tier spirit water.

Ok I'm done for today; she pats the mushroom and blink where her boss is.

On some part of the underground mines the three Pokémon's are playing around, their master trainer told them that they had finish the whole special routine that he had plan for them.

Lex head was covered with a broken pot, no eye sight to see only six sense to feel everything around him. He was playing with some monster that look like knights, they had a human soul but turned to monster on passing years because of certain curse. No sanity left on them, Lex was just using a thin stick to disable them and dodging by rolling on minute subtitle without using any tier just a normal little munchlax way.

After disabling them he just picks them up and erase on their log by hacking this world system about their encounter of him then putting them on their rightful place. The first time he encountered these guys he had played them with barehand melee combat. When he had destroyed some of them, he had received a sermon to his sensei so if he accidentally again destroyed some, he will rush to Chopin to ask her to fix them.

Chopin was busy on the field boss area of this place, she was holding a blunt weapon, a baseball bat and a urea bag next to her covered with blood. She was humming a tone while encoding a query command to the field boss, she closes the blue panel in front of her then she flickered to double check the spikes she had patch on the thing.

Genga "its looks ok to me" Grand suddenly arise on the ground and comment.

Pika "Just a little improvement and bro looks like you've enjoyed vandalizing all over this place"

Grand smile at her, he found some paper with odd symbols, letterings and some ancient animal or monster bones. For his own enjoyment he engraves some place with those, as for the fossil bones he had collected and construct he had scattered them to 5 places.

Genga "A message from master trainer" a transmission entered their mind it means their master trainer finish his training routine.

Pika "Let's go" with the last look at the thing and activating it as a proper field boss to guard its territory, they vanish in instant without any sound. On the moment they left, Grand leave a small petite black flame to burned the items that Chopin abandoned on the ground.

...

Boss are going out of this place now? Both of them can ignore the heat even the items that they put on the ground didn't even melt nor both them was sweating because of the hot temperature coming from this world core.

Nah, let's wait for others.

The three Pokémon's appeared in front of them. they saw him eating multiple of open lunch boxes, some are empty and the other was almost finish.

Upon eating the last onigiri he stands up. Let's see according on the memory of the other me on that timeline the direction should on that way. He pointed a direction then they started to walk, the three Pokémon's pick some of lunch boxes that still not finish, it will be their snack while walking.

The group stop on a certain small mound. This is it; I think and by waving his hand like he was erasing something the mound slowly disappeared and a huge broken double door made of unknown minerals with a special engravement appeared in front of them.

A teleportation device that can ignore any kind of tracing skills or techniques, boss this? She saw her boss nodded and made a snap the broken part of the double door and the almost erase engravement slowly being rebuild.

Let's go in, no need for vigilance. The group entered the door.

They appeared on a fruit tree orchard. Lim check their position; they had a appeared on a paradox world that almost hidden to anyone that also include the Lin's that managing their territory now. This place had no record on their files, the location was on the middle? But look boss even the traces that anyone use it or who come in and go was not even listed. On that moment she decided to scan this world, she felt 13 souls that so weak. She pauses and look again at her boss but before she asks, she heard the sound of crunchy eating. She looks back and saw the three Pokémon's busy tasting the fruits that they had harvest.

Clow laugh while looking at them, you know on my memory this place was dilapidated. No life nor anything that can be sustain by it was in here, the only finding by the other me was them.

But boss I think we are too early for that; you will meet their mom. She already felt on those 13 souls, one was just a half or just a piece of a soul and not just a half it was a whole outer soul of an original being with a cultivation base.

Boss can I check or I mean use a special sight for me to traces or see the being that own this place. Clow nodded to her and added, you know on my deduction half of the Lin's cosmoses on this lower realm territory they had was made by the entity who own this world.

In a blink of hacking a projection slowly generating that almost made the Pokémon's stop eating. The trace appeared or virtual images slowly constructed, they were like sent on the past and blended firmly on it. They saw a tall beautiful mature woman radiating an aurora like aura, she was a beauty with silver hair, golden draconic eyes and her body was proportional busy planting tree saplings on these orchards, Lim gave her a score of 97 after she saw it.

Boss why do I felt she was so familiar? Quite thick, mountains that a little bigger than the 2nd young boss and look at how perky those __tt cheeks. She heard a cough then look at her boss.

Pervert BASS and I don't know maybe our question will be answer after we meet her, rubbing his forehead but he cannot deny it. This is the first time that his BASS gave a high score on a woman that not came from the upper origin realm.

Clow started his walk on the direction where the being was staying, they didn't use any instant move just a walk because they also wanted to check everything they pass by because everything here was treasure from the soil, trees and the air that was reach of spiritual energy.

The first thing they saw was a pantheon.

Pika "Her home?"

Munch "it's a no, this was a façade to trick those who entered forcedly on this world"

Genga "we gonna be left behind if the two of you will enter that"

Going deeper on the woods, the next thing they saw was a cabin in front of a small lake.

Lim claps her hands and a virtual image appeared again; the beauty was sitting on a rocking chair knitting a scarf but this time she was pregnant.

Do you want to check or inspect everything inside of this house. Maybe you will find a clue about her, Clow can feel something on Lim like she was making a guess and he saw her nodded then he said to her we will go ahead.

He led the Pokémons to the right location this time. Lim entered the house, it was a simple western cabin, the items inside are quite normal not even one was a treasure. She checks the rooms one by one until she saw a cute tag hanging on the last large room, the master's bedroom huh. She entered and slowly search everything until the last small cabinet next to the bed, there was the finish scarf and a down photo that had written on it, my family. Lim flips it and she saw it, it was her boss before he decided to reincarnate, a small white dragon on his arm and she was sitting on his shoulder. She didn't cry this time, the taste of bitterness on her mouth and muttering "Shin why is it like this, if you're that lonely why not just call our names back then and we will be there for you". She put aside the photo on her inventory and pick up the scarf rushes out of the house to follow her boss. she was scared that this incident will made her boss lose his last sanity as a human being. She didn't know why Shin left or accept missions that made her leave the scope of her boss outer soul. It was impossible for her boss or her to detect Shin on that chaos of years because all her boss mission was only on the upper origin realm. His outer soul was restricted not touch the middle and lower realm.

...…

On a certain location of this world, a large dead creature was lying on a flower field. The flowers were so aligned properly but each of them didn't even bloom.

The piece of soul inside the body had already detected the being entered her world, she didn't check them because she was afraid that if she sudden leaves her body if will started to decayed, she had a small range that she can maintain her body on best condition so she had waited because those who entered her world was going to her direction.

On the entrance of the follower field she saw a young man that had a normal appearance and three creatures following him. Pokémon's? Huh she saw the young man age on her appraisal "of course what she saw on her appraisal was the tampered one", it was 7 years old but how come that he was like on his 13 or 14. She didn't appear because she was able to check the tier of the Pokémon's that also made her flabbergasted, the three was an admin and the last realization was the boy that they following was stronger, much much more stronger than her.

She was an early primordial tier on that time she decided to make a home here then she decided to use a special dragon technique that uses powers around you nor all around the realm to conceive a child because her loneliness defeated her and the whole lower realm felt her abnormal gathering of powers, it made prank to her. She wanted one but it had become 12 so she had no choice but to use her cultivation base that cause her tier to slowly decline to sustain them even her own body life force was drained by them.

Still focus on the newcomers, wait and see approach to check if they had any hostility to her. There were a lot of traps that will trigger that can kill a peak middle primordial if they do a sudden entry to approach her. The boy that pauses a minute sudden opens his close eyes, it was his unique pupils that had a lot of symbols and runes then the next thing happens was the boy walk in, the traps she had place didn't even activated not even one of it.

Every flower that she had taken care until now that had never ever opens started to bloom, the scene was a spectacle because the radiance they release upon opening up and when the boy aura fluctuates making an air current that blows the petals of each flower to dance on the air, the boy didn't stop his advance and his outfit started to changes to an attired she was familiar like it was engrave on her memories, a monocle and a staff no a sword staff. This sword staff was made by her, she gave it to the most important person in her life, the boy shows some mannerism and movement that made her realize that the boy is someone she knows and longing or yearning to see again. On shock, she forgot to appeared and greet him, she still cannot believe it because one thing is she didn't want him to see her like this.

...…

Clow stops in front of this dead dragon, he touches its head and spoke.

You always love to play hide and seek but why you didn't leave any sign that you wanted to be found when you sudden decided to leave.

A calm smile with a serious tone while saying I found you and I never thought that you were their mother. Not even a single idea nor information inside of that memory, he felt Lim appeared next to him and she just ask her.

Lim with sadness painted on her face didn't even know what to say to her boss but she heard his question.

I did work hard, right?

Yes boss, you did work so hard that no one can. You did the jobs that impossible to be done by any tier 15 in their life.

Then why the realms didn't even reward me once?

Because boss your so powerful, it was easy for you to have everything if you wanted too but you didn't do it. You remain as a humble as a normal human being as is it.

Even we jump to the past we will never meet her because as an original being we can only exist on a single present timeline and I cannot even resurrect her cause of the contract that made by those old beings, also her other half is already reincarnated. He said it to Lim while caressing the head of the dead dragon.

Lim already knows about it, seeing her boss was so calm was making her nervous because this is the 2nd time she had saw this kind of countenance. The first time was on the fight of the sibling were her boss almost snaps her goshujin-sama's neck.

The Pokémon's already arrived and waiting like a soldier on their back, they don't want to ruin the mood and they were scared on what will happen next.

He shrugged because he knows that She was observing every move that they do. He sat and Lim felt his emotions was now stabled but still changing constantly every millisecond.

Lim float next to her boss ear and ask him. You're waiting for her to appeared and he just nodded to her.

Its better to wait than nothing, I cannot just dig them out of her body without of her consent.

Are you really my boss?

HuH

Don't huh me because the last time I saw you on that mood was your emotion is playing on irritated, annoyance, anger that almost stick on rage. I'm scared if you suddenly rampage like that time, you badly hurt Goshujin.

You know I just did my job back then and those unbirth spirit ask me to do it right but Alice didn't let me explain and suddenly attack fiercely. Another thing is I only rampage when it is needed, got my own control this time.

Ok ok then let's wait, she looks at the three Pokémon's telling them not to destroy nor scramble the flower field. The three sat and pulled food on their inventory to eat, they were more relax after hearing their sensei words.

Ah I almost forgot boss; this scarf is for you. She made it but failed to send it to you. I think someone on Lin's is hiding her location to us?

Nah that's impossible it's not the Lin's. it was she all along, she just didn't want for us to know her circumstances and she was on an awkward position to see us. He made a smile in front of the dead dragon like he had hit the mark.