It was obvious by now: the nuclear explosion little Klee had set off at Guyun Stone Forest must have somehow alerted the Knights of Favonius, all the way over in Mondstadt.
As for how, perhaps Ningguang really had written to Acting Grand Master Jean. Or maybe the shock waves from the explosion had reached the Knights' observation post on Dragonspine. More likely, some patrol in Windwail Highland had seen the blast?
After all, the terrifying storm formed when the ancient seal on the Overlord of the Vortex was broken had been blown away in an instant after the explosion. And the mushroom cloud that rose into the sky eventually reached tens of kilometers high, with a diameter almost as large as its height. From somewhere as elevated and mountainous as Windwail Highland, a cloud that huge would have been easy to see.
And the people of Mondstadt were hardly unfamiliar with mushroom clouds like that!
After seeing three such enormous "mushrooms" rise in the direction of Stormterror's Lair, the people of Mondstadt knew better than anyone what it meant when a gigantic mushroom cloud suddenly appeared in the direction of Liyue.
And so, today, Acting Grand Master Jean and Lisa had brought a company of knights to Liyue Harbor. With the Millelith there to welcome them, they entered Yuehai Pavilion, the seat of the Liyue Qixing, and began a secret meeting with the Qixing that lasted the entire afternoon.
No one knew what the leaders of Liyue and Mondstadt had discussed, or what agreements and cooperation they had reached. In any case, when they all emerged from the meeting room, everyone looked quite relaxed.
Naturally, after the meeting ended and they reached some sort of agreement, nightfall brought a grand welcome banquet to Yuehai Pavilion, beside the pond Klee had