[Genshin Impact] I Became Sumeru's Great Sage Through Gacha

Thanks to the wonderful Pineapple Cake for the cover. Baozi added the lettering later. So happy!

As an ordinary passerby who somehow transmigrated to Teyvat, Amir had his memories suppressed by the world's rules and forgot his own name. Luckily, he still had the learning ability of a research slave. He stood out at the Akademiya and graduated happily.

Just when he thought he could finally escape those godawful papers, disaster struck all of Teyvat, and he had the bad luck to fall straight into a Withering Zone.

Amir: ...Maybe just send me back to writing papers!

After fighting his way through the Withering Zone and taking out the little black dogs that had ganged up on him without playing fair, a System burst out from one of the dogs' paws.

Gacha System: Hello, Mr. Amir. The Gacha System is reporting for duty! Complete and submit a valuable paper to earn Primogems for wishes, and lift the suppression imposed by the world's rules as soon as possible! Sorry I'm late, but the dogs in the game are really scary, sob sob!

Amir: Game? Isn't this a magic world with elemental powers?

Amir: Whatever, that's not important.

Amir: Beginner's ten-pull, one-shot jackpot, let's go!

When he got a golden weapon and nine flowers, Amir didn't realize anything was wrong. His signature weapon immediately lifted most of the suppression from the world's rules, and he even obtained a Dendro Vision on the spot. It was basically the luckiest double-gold ten-pull ever.

To save up enough Primogems, Amir decided to put all his effort into writing papers. But Sumeru was short-staffed everywhere, and nobody had time to review his work, so the Primogems were taking forever to arrive.

Amir: .

He smiled and raised his weapon, his expression warm and welcoming. No time, huh? Short-staffed, huh? Leave it to me!

The memories suppressed by the world's rules are just ahead! For the sake of getting home, charge!

The Abyssal front in the Chasm was on the verge of collapse. Amir raised his weapon and swept through the enemy ranks. Then, just as the fashionable four-armed bro was about to lose control, Amir used a healing skill and brought him back to his senses.

Electro Yaksha: I owe you my life! ...But, Sumeru friend, are you really a member of Sumeru's support staff?

Amir: Of course. I'm merely an ordinary scholar of the Amurta Darshan, but that doesn't matter! Bro, tell me more about Liyue's adepti, will you? I can use it for a paper!

The Electro Yaksha stared at Amir, who could knock down a whole crowd with one jab of his polearm, and was instantly at a loss for words.

The disaster was temporarily quelled, the Grand Sage was confirmed dead, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata was missing, and the Akademiya was in uproar. Amir still couldn't submit his paper.

Amir: Can't find the Archon? Leave it to me!

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata had indeed vanished, but those little radish spirits that ordinary people couldn't see must know something! Following the clues the radish spirits gave him, he charged into the deepest part of the Withering Zone. This time, he didn't find Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, but he did find a miniature Archon.

He took the flowers he'd gotten from his previous wishes, wove them into a crown, and gave it to the newly awakened Lesser Lord Kusanali. Then he brought the newborn Archon back with him, while also thwarting Sages One, Two, and Three's attempts to manipulate the little Dendro Archon.

So what if she's a child Archon? They want to lock her up? Dream on! If the Archon gets locked away, Sumeru will fall into chaos, and then my paper will have even less chance of getting submitted!

After finally getting Sumeru's education system back on its feet, Amir at last managed to submit his paper. He confidently made a ten-pull, and then... got a purple five-star defensive artifact and nine flowers.

Amir: ...

It was a fluke. What's one ten-pull? Next time will definitely be better!

Teyvat was rebuilding after the great disaster, and Amir was hailed as a scholarly role model after writing seven papers in a row. He represented Sumeru on diplomatic visits to other nations.

After seven ten-pulls from his papers and nothing to show for them, the dejected Amir: ...

Well, then, let's go see for ourselves! It must be because I was wishing in the wrong region!

So he gave a dragon cupping therapy in Mondstadt, captured one of his country's wanted criminals in Inazuma, went to Liyue for tea with an old friend, and made friends with Melusines in Fontaine... His experiences along the way turned into papers that flew back to Sumeru one after another.

Five hundred years later, when a white flying object arrived with a golden-braided boy to interview Amir about how he became Grand Sage, a look of weariness appeared on Amir's forever-24-year-old face.

Amir: ...Maybe it's because I'm pretty unlucky.

Ever since his first ten-pull, he'd never been lucky again. The papers he'd written with all his might had piled up into a mountain, driving the other Sages out of the competition.

Damn papers, ruining my luck! Damn gacha, breaking my heart!

Premise: Never stop learning, no matter how old you are.