Mondstadt City had descended into chaos.
Against the savage Rifthounds, the elderly, women, and children were utterly helpless.
Outside the Orphanage in Mondstadt City.
With determination in her eyes, Noelle held The Unforged and kept the Rifthounds outside the Orphanage gates.
Fischl and Oz were there beside her.
To protect the children in the Orphanage, Noelle and Fischl attacked the Rifthounds together.
The Adventurers' Guild.
Most Adventurers were wanderers who roamed the world. They had ventured abroad in their youth and devoted most of their lives to adventure.
Most of them had no children.
Once they grew old, they had no homes to return to, so the elderly Adventurers gathered at the Adventurers' Guild, supporting one another in their retirement and helping train newcomers along the way.
Now, all the young Adventurers at the Adventurers' Guild had gone out to fight.
Those who remained were mostly young women working as receptionists, along with some elderly Adventurers.
They, too, had become one of the Rifthounds' main targets.
At that moment, outside the Adventurers' Guild entrance.
A bandaged young man held his sword pointed at the monsters.
He kept every monster outside the Adventurers' Guild entrance.
That young man was Bennett.
Bennett was an Adventurer with the Adventurers' Guild.
He had come from lonely, tragic beginnings. An elderly Adventurer had found him as a baby in an extremely dangerous Domain.
Looking at the endlessly crying baby, the Adventurer had felt that the whole world had abandoned him.
So he had carried the baby back to the Adventurers' Guild.
From then on, the child named Bennett had grown up at the Adventurers' Guild, raised by the elderly Adventurers there.
Bennett called those elderly Adventurers his "dads."
Bennett was deeply devoted to his dads. Their adventures in their youth had left them with