Unstoppable Maid

(This post has been edited into a text-only short story at the request of the artist of the picture I originally used in the caption, Minxei on Pixiv.)

Working title: Invulnerable Maid

Noelle is criminally underrated and underutilized in Genshin Impact. At the absolute least, she deserves a story quest! Unfortunately, as of this caption's posting (prior to the introduction of Hangout Events in version 1.4), "Noelle has not appeared in any quests or events." 😢 

So, since miHoYo won't do it hasn't begun work on it yet, I have no choice but to take matters into my own hands! ...with some liberties on my part, because that's what you're all here for. 

Regarding the working title, Noelle mains might recognize it as the name of her third constellation. While apt, it was suggested to me that swapping Invulnerable for Unstoppable also conveys her everywhere-ness too, hence the change.

Thanks to Akane and OmniScribbler for beta reading and additional contributions.

All persons depicted are fictitious, not owned by me (Genshin Impact and all characters depicted and mentioned are owned by miHoYo), and above the age of 18.

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Something... unusual is happening to me. I could always feel the weight of my custom-built claymore; anything less felt like a wooden toy to me. Wagner nearly went mad trying to make a weapon for me that wouldn't get worn out from less than a day of use!

But now, for some odd reason, it feels practically weightless.

...wait, how long have I been out? When did I last take a break?

Okay, it's 03:16. That makes sense; it's the middle of the night right now. But wait... that's not today's date! I set my timepiece before I left, like I always do! The only way that could be the date now... is if an entire month passed. But that's impossible! I couldn't have gone a month without any food or sleep, or even a break! If so, I should be utterly exhausted at best, or dead at worst!

And yet I feel... surprisingly good, actually. Better than good, I feel incredible! I'm so utterly calm and in total control, much more so than usual. Whatever it is, it's definitely not adrenaline deluding me.

And then there's all this new power! It's almost unbelievable--completely unlike anything I've felt before! Now that I'm aware of it, I think I've been severely underutilizing myself this last month! Surely I can become a Knight of Favonius now! Master Jean couldn't possibly look at me now and say I'm still not ready! Why, I could probably help out at the Adventurer's Guild too! I'm sure that would delight Bennett!

But wait... I was on patrol around Starfell Lake. So how am I in Springvale now? Actually, I... I don't think those are the right words. It's not that I was at Starfell Lake and am now in Springvale--I'm in both places simultaneously!

Oh, this is... a lot to take in. I'm in Wolvendom collecting wolfhooks, in the library dusting the bookshelves for Lisa, enjoying valberry tea with Barbara at Angel's Share, cooking a late dinner with Xiangling at Wanmin Restaurant, mining starsilver in Dragonspine, fighting off a dozen Ruin Guards at Thousand Winds Temple... I even just cut off a bit of the crystal in the Skyfrost Nail above Dragonspine for people in the Adventurer's Guild to study! It's said that the Nail fell from Celestia itself! Wouldn't that mean it'd be indestructible to anyone else?

After receiving my Vision, I intended to put it to use helping as many people as I could. I gained a reputation for being seemingly everywhere, but now... I don't know how it's even possible, but I'm literally everywhere now!