Chapter 350: Chapter 352: Is La Signora Going to Make a Move on Mondstadt?

Genshin Impact: I’m The Envoy of Snezhnaya

Chapter 352: Is La Signora Going to Make a Move on Mondstadt?

Just after returning to the Goth Grand Hotel, Bai Luo noticed a lunchbox hanging from the doorknob.

Without a doubt, it had been delivered by that Cicin Mage again.

He carefully opened it... and let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it contained only normal food this time, not that dark cuisine mixed with Mist Flower pollen.

Looks like she’s gotten addicted to delivering meals.

He casually brought the food inside and didn’t refuse the gesture.

Halfway through the meal, someone suddenly knocked on his door.

At first, he thought it might be that Cicin Mage again. But when he opened the door, he saw a male Fatui standing outside.

"Teacher!"

The Fatui man, who had a goat beard, immediately knelt on one knee and saluted excitedly.

Within the Fatui, people either called him Harbinger or Lord Ausbilder.

Those who addressed him so excitedly as "Teacher" belonged to only one group—Pyro Agents.

"You are... Sergei?"

There were many Pyro Agents, but only a few whose names Bai Luo remembered.

Usually, he recognized them by their appearance.

For example, the goat-bearded Fatui standing before him.

There weren’t many Pyro Agents with that feature.

"It’s me! I didn’t expect Teacher to still remember me!"

Sergei had rushed over specifically after hearing that the Ausbilder had returned.

Previously, he had been handling matters outside the city.

"Come in."

"Thank you, Teacher!"

With Bai Luo’s permission, Sergei stepped into the room.

But unlike how Bai Luo usually appeared in front of his subordinates, Sergei at that moment looked more like a student meeting a teacher at school—sitting stiffly on the chair, extremely nervous.

He didn’t even know where to place his hands.

"When did you arrive in Mondstadt?"

Since coming to Mondstadt, the only Fatui advance unit member Bai Luo had encountered was a Cicin Mage. This was the first Pyro Agent he had seen.

"I came with The Fair Lady, but I’ve been stationed outside the city at some ruins to carry out reorganization work. I only came here after hearing that you were in Mondstadt."

For Pyro Agents, aside from Her Majesty the Tsaritsa, the Ausbilder was the most important person.

So even though The Fair Lady had repeatedly warned them not to enter the city unless absolutely necessary, he still risked being reprimanded by her and came anyway.

"La Signora, huh..."

Recently Bai Luo had only been hearing her name but hadn’t seen her in person.

So she had been stirring up trouble outside the city?

That certainly fit her personality.

"Yes. Counselor Anastasia’s mild diplomatic approach hasn’t satisfied The Fair Lady. She wants to occupy Mondstadt through another, more forceful method."

Sergei didn’t think telling Bai Luo this counted as leaking secrets. After all, the Ausbilder was also a Fatui Harbinger.

Even if he wasn’t currently responsible for Mondstadt affairs, he still had the right to know.

"Occupy it?"

No wonder the Fatui presence inside the city was much thinner compared to when he first arrived.

It seemed the elites had been taken away by La Signora.

But could this so-called occupation really succeed?

"Hasn’t the Fair Lady considered the consequences? Even if she had some grudge against Mondstadt, doing this would basically mean completely tearing relations apart with the Six Nations."

The reason the Six Nations still tolerated the Fatui establishing themselves within their territories was largely because the Fatui had never formally declared war on them. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

In some nations, they even maintained friendly cooperative relations.

If La Signora were to rashly take action in Mondstadt, then the Fatui operatives stationed in the other nations would be the ones to suffer.

At that point, those nations might use the excuse that "we fear the Fatui may take action against us as well" to expel all Fatui diplomatic envoys within their borders. If that happened, wouldn’t Her Majesty the Tsaritsa’s entire plan fall apart?

"Teacher, rest assured. The Fair Lady is not such a reckless person. When the time comes, the ones occupying Mondstadt will not be us Fatui, but their old nobility, the Lawrence Clan."

"Lawrence..."

The moment Sergei said this, Bai Luo immediately realized what was going on.

In other words, La Signora intended to secretly support the Lawrence Clan, help them overthrow the Knights of Favonius, and then install them as the new rulers.

At that point, regardless of the true situation, at least on the surface it would appear that Mondstadt’s old aristocrats had taken control of the City of Freedom. The Fatui would seem unrelated.

If the Grand Master and the Knights’ elite forces were still present, La Signora’s plan would be nothing more than a fool’s dream.

But right now, among the Knights, there were only a handful who could truly be called elites.

And the few strongest fighters had already been firmly handled by Bai Luo.

If the Fatui truly wanted to completely occupy Mondstadt... the chances of success were actually quite high.

At least, that’s what most Fatui members believed.

But Bai Luo was different.

He clearly knew that Mondstadt’s god had already returned.

Although he had temporarily knocked him out, whether he could knock him out again was another matter entirely.

Even if Barbatos were knocked out again, once he woke up he would definitely end the Lawrence Clan’s brief rule over Mondstadt.

Come to think of it... even though La Signora knew that the Tsaritsa wasn’t particularly interested in conquering the other nations, she still insisted on doing this. Was she perhaps trying to force the hidden Barbatos to appear?

That made sense.

According to Mondstadt’s records, this good-for-nothing Anemo Archon only ever showed up to say "ehe" and solve the problem when Mondstadt was in danger.

If someone wanted to obtain his Gnosis, then this would indeed be the way to do it.

Should he tell La Signora about Barbatos?

...Hmm. Probably not.

In the story, Barbatos allowed things to happen largely because Mondstadt’s issues had already been resolved and he felt there was no need to keep the Gnosis anymore.

But now he had only just awakened, and Dvalin’s situation hadn’t been resolved yet.

He might still believe his Gnosis had an important use—for example, curing the poisonous blood in Dvalin’s body.

If La Signora tried to rip out his Gnosis right now, even if Barbatos didn’t seriously harm her, a fight would likely break out.

And as a Fatui Harbinger, Bai Luo would definitely have to step in and help.

Maybe Barbatos wouldn’t go too hard on La Signora, since she once had a complicated connection with Mondstadt. That was also why Bai Luo hadn’t dared to compete with her for Mondstadt at the beginning.

But if it were him...

Barbatos would feel absolutely no guilt beating him up.

Not to mention that he had just served him a specially prepared Anemo Archon’s Drunken Dream.

That would only push him even higher on the list in Barbatos’s mind.

And that list would definitely be the "people I most want to beat up" ranking.

So...

Forget it, forget it.

He’d better just keep slacking off honestly.

After all, things would succeed in the end anyway, why bother creating trouble for himself?

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