Mondstadt had experienced—and was still experiencing—a series of extremely troublesome events.
For example: Klee, who called herself the "Eighth Elemental God," continued to be grounded and had to start devoting herself to studying the Teleport spell; the attack on the bard Venti had soured relations between the Knights of Favonius and the Fatui delegation, escalating their conflict; the Fatui had retorted that Mondstadt was conducting dangerous explosive experiments with the intent to destroy the world and start an arms race; and nearby Liyue had been the first to send Mondstadt a diplomatic inquiry, seeking the truth behind the two explosions at Stormterror's Lair and Starfell Valley, among other things.
In short!
Now, in Mondstadt, the attack on the bard Venti and the theft of that "Gnosis"—especially after they learned that the culprit was "The Fair Lady," the Eighth of the Fatui Eleven Harbingers—had caused diplomatic relations between the Fatui and the Knights of Favonius to plummet to freezing point.
As a result, the Fatui delegation stationed at the Goth Grand Hotel in Mondstadt had been surrounded by a large group of knights led by the furious Acting Grand Master Jean, then driven out of Mondstadt. The expelled delegates had also been made to carry a stern diplomatic warning back to Snezhnaya, demanding the immediate return of the "Gnosis." Otherwise, Mondstadt reserved the right to use force to take it back.
For a time, both Mondstadt and Snezhnaya had begun to take action.
Especially at the border between Snezhnaya and Mondstadt, where the Knights of Favonius and the Fatui were locked in a high-intensity standoff, barely short of open warfare.
However, a certain troublesome little girl knew nothing about the turmoil in Mondstadt—and didn't care, either.
Because she had now arrived on a mountain in the outskirts of Liyue Harbor, and