After the Dragon Disaster ended, peace returned to Mondstadt.
Ellin's life also settled back into its peaceful routine.
Because of the Dragon Disaster, many aspects of life in Mondstadt had been affected.
During the Dragon Disaster, Dvalin had wreaked havoc on Mondstadt's Ley Lines out in the wilderness, frightening many Hilichurls into fleeing onto the main roads.
These Hilichurls robbed travelers and attacked transport caravans, leaving most trade routes impassable.
As a result, many necessities that Mondstadt City needed-meat from Springvale, ore and cloth from Liyue, wine from Dawn Winery, and more-could no longer arrive on time or circulate quickly.
Meanwhile, the transport workers and merchants traveling these routes found their safety threatened, and their complaints were endless.
Fortunately, the Adventurers' Guild and the Knights of Favonius worked together to organize teams to clear out these wandering monsters. Before long, Mondstadt City would surely return to normal.
Of course, trade was not the only thing affected.
This year's Knights of Favonius selection exams should have begun a week earlier.
But the appearance of the Dragon Disaster had left everyone in the Knights of Favonius overwhelmed, so the selection exams had naturally been postponed.
Now that the Dragon Disaster had subsided and everything was returning to normal in an orderly fashion, the knight selection exams were finally about to begin.
At that moment, Ellin and Noelle were in the library, diligently reviewing etiquette and regulations for the knight selection exams that would begin in three days.
At this time in previous years, the old Ellin would also have been holed up in the library with Noelle.
But this year was different. Rather than both of them working hard together, Noelle was really the only one putting in the effort this time.
Noelle's longing to join the Knights of Favonius had become