"Where am I supposed to be?" In my surroundings there was only a vast field of grass and in the distance I could see several trees. But these kinds of sights could be seen in various places on some of the worlds I had been to before.
Good thing I already had an irritating voice in my head ready to answer me.
[We are in singularity 437, also known as Teyvat.]
"And that gives me a lot of explanation as usual" I looked up at the sky, it was slightly overcast but from the appearance of the cloud I knew it wasn't going to rain anytime soon, at least I would have time to assess my situation "Reasons why I was removed from the last world?"
[The user was removed from the 805 singularity because he exhausted all of his potential customers].
I snorted but said nothing, it was something that had happened twice before but whenever it happened it was always spontaneous and without warning "Deploy world information."
[The user has been taken to the singularity known as Teyvat. He is currently on a plain that belongs to no one in a country that does not yet exist]
"Any kind of relevant political organization? Citadel? settlement? Something nearby?" There had to be something nearby at least to be able to know where their potential clients would be. The floating words had always been curt and succinct but by now he knew he would never be taken to a place that had no one interested in using his services.
'Serving the needs of the people' was the nature of the floating words he had decided to dub Axys.
[The closest civilization is an alliance between several settlements found forming over 15 years, 3 months and 17 days. Universal time]
I could work with that.
"Alright" I rubbed my hands together before smiling "Time to get to work."
[Displaying all available function information]
"No need to show me all of Axys! I just want information on where I should place the store and how many credits I currently have."
[The user must walk east for two hours and when you find a mountain landscape you have arrived. The user also has the amount of 0 credits].
"What!? Impossible!" Damn it, I had saved for 30 years, where did it all go? "I had over 200000 credits when I checked last week! You used them again without my consent for your 'upgrades'?
[The amount of credits I extracted from the user this time was only 15000].
"So you stole from me without my consent!!!"
[Axys is incapable of doing mundane things like stealing, what I took away was necessary for me to make my abilities even better for the user]
"Oh yeah? What was it this time?"
[Improving my Latte making abilities]
"..." I couldn't help but bring a hand to my face to slap myself.
[Also, Axys should remind the user that all the wasted system credits are due to, and I quote, 'The most legendary party the society of souls has ever seen' so Axys is not responsible for your bad decision making.]
Right, I had something important planned for .... in 5 days "Wait...Damn it system!!!! Did you really have to pull me out of the last singularity before I could carry out my master plan!? Are you aware of the amount of credits and energy I could have obtained?!"
[System upgrade imminent. Axys will stop responding for the next 10 hours of universal time]
"You ran out of all my credits, you have no upgrades to do!!!"
[....Imminent shutdown on-]
I closed my eyes and when I opened them again the floating words did not appear and Axys did not respond to me.
I will have my revenge.
-{-}-
Guizhong was tired of walking so much.
She was supposed to be a Goddess, of a lesser element yes, but a Goddess nonetheless. Wasn't she supposed to have someone more predisposed to help her? 'Even Morax did not want to accompany me...'
"Remind me again why we can't just use shapeshifting?" She asked with a sigh, they had been walking for over two months at this point and had only stopped for brief periods of a few hours.
"Because in addition to looking for some tougher material for the project, we need to be looking for people who are camping outdoors and we should invite them to Guili, we shall not look...intimidating" The one who answered him was a crane. A crane with light blue, blue and white feathers on its wings and most of its body and a golden feather pattern on its neck, its voice was feminine and serious.
"I don't look intimidating!" she complained "Besides you're not even wearing your Human appearance!" Guizhong on the other hand did look human, light skinned and slender with gray hair and light turquoise locks with two pigtails that reached her shoulders and a simple short white dress with flower details.
The crane, Cloud Retainer, said nothing but Guizhong was almost certain she was smiling mockingly at her.
She wasn't intimidating, a huge talking bird would be much more intimidating than her, a beautiful young woman!!!!
"I need to make you remember how the last meeting you had with humans ended?"
Guizhong blushed slightly "I don't know what you're talking about..."
"How was it...? Ah yes 'Aaaaah help! There's a giant cloud of-'"
"Quiet! It wasn't like that!"
Guizhong hurried to shut the chattering bird's beak with her reddest face, again the Cloud Retainer had no human expressions but if one could classify them as 'rolling her eyes and snorting in mockery'.
"Wow! I see you two are an interesting duo!"
"Hm?"
"Who?"
At the cheerful unfamiliar voice the crane looked in their direction with interest while Guizhong became alert with her face still a bit red.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, did I interrupt something?" Before them stood a strange young man, he had light blond hair and black eyes, fair complexion and his build was of a slim but somewhat athletic type. But the strangest thing was his clothing "Hum? Is something wrong?"
"...." He had a suit that neither Guizhong nor the Retainer had never seen before (A tuxedo) of a very bright green color and in the back they could see a kind of golden shirt also TOO bright.
"..." And a top hat of a too deep black but a golden ring that was on the tip and stretched in an oval shape (like a light bulb) made it look exaggeratedly long.
He was also wearing red leather boots and a yellow flower hanging from his suit pocket.
"..." Without needing to say words the man slowly realized that he left them speechless "Pssst, Axys" And began to whisper "Didn't you tell me this look was the one..?"
A long second passed.
"Because these don't look like clothes the locals wear!!!" I shouted in a low voice.
Another long second.
"Damn it Axys, what do you mean you got the wrong town...!?"
"Um... excuse me" Guizhong coughed into her hand to get his attention "We'd like to know-"
"One minute please, I'm in an important conversation" Although they didn't see anyone else besides him "As I was telling you, while it is true that this suit made great impressions in my first singularity I must remind you that in the second one I was attacked under the premise that I was a user of something called a 'stand'!?"
"Sir, please-" The Crane attempted to speak but was interrupted.
"Give me a minute! Tch, didn't they ever teach you not to interrupt people?" he growled under his breath "Can't a man have a conversation with his own mind in peace?"
The talk with no one continued for two minutes to the stunned looks of Guizhong and the Cloud Retainer, many words they did not understand but it was clear that the man was not happy.
"Ahem! I'm so sorry you had to see that. If you'll allow me a minute I'll go change into something more appropriate and I'll gladly attend to you!"
"Just a moment!"
"Yes? What's going on?" Guizhong didn't know what was going on but after witnessing an exchange of words that seemed to take away some of her intelligence she wouldn't let him leave like that.
"Who are you?" and the Cloud Retainer had the same thought "And what is this place supposed to be?"
While his extravagant choice of clothing had caught their attention what filled them with more questions was the strange wooden building that had appeared in the middle of nowhere.
"Oh right, where are my manners?" Taking off his strange hat the man bent down a bit and extended his left arm in an exaggerated manner "My name is Mihail and this" He knocked on the door of his building "It's my store: Axys Universal Wonders!"
Yeah, that didn't answer any of his questions either.