"Ah? This..." Acting Grand Master Jean had originally only intended to greet him, but she didn't expect Jun Bai's first words to be an instruction for all knights to retreat into the city.
Jean suddenly recalled a rumor about this Marshal, and an idea surfaced in her mind. She asked:
"Might I ask, Marshal, is this command intended to help Mondstadt resolve its current predicament?"
Jun Bai nodded. "With a monster army of this scale, even with the Knights of Favonius' strength, you would suffer losses trying to withstand it."
"Now that I'm here as external aid, it's best to avoid those losses if possible."
Jean took a deep breath and asked, "What does the Marshal mean?"
"The monsters below—I alone am sufficient." Jun Bai said calmly.
Instantly, Jun Bai felt several gazes land on him.
Jean's eyes carried shock mixed with a faint sense of this is expected;
Kaeya's gaze held confusion with a trace of deep scrutiny;
Eula, peeking from the shadows, was filled with pure disbelief.
Indeed, one person facing an army large enough to besiege a city sounded utterly impossible.
Unfortunately for them, Jun Bai wasn't human—he was an Archon, someone who naturally stood at the pinnacle of Teyvat.
[Wake up, you don't have Archon-level combat strength yet.]
"If you don't speak, no one will think you don't exist." Jun Bai responded internally, then simply blocked the system.
...
Jean ultimately decided to trust Jun Bai. She believed that the Marshal of the Millelith, who had once fought alongside Grand Master Varka, must have his reasons for issuing this command.
The knights originally guarding the city gate, preparing to engage the monsters, returned to Mondstadt City in a state of bewilderment.
When everyone had retreated, the city gate slowly closed.
Jun Bai jumped down from the city wall, softening his fall with his fiery wings before landing steadily on the bridge. The aura of an Archon rose with the ignition of fierce flames.
He stood upright. His pupils sharpened into crosshairs, scanning across countless monsters, locking precisely onto the Hydro Abyss Mage controlling the army.
"Abyss..." Jun Bai stepped toward the monsters.
"The slumbering spirits within the ley lines are not puppets for you to toy with."
"What, exactly, do you take life for?"
A cold, murderous light glinted in his eyes as the White Tassel materialized in his hand. The blazing flames, fueled by the Archon's wrath, surged and condensed into a towering crimson phoenix. Pyro energy streamed toward him from all directions.
His fiery wings spread open completely. The five-meter wingspan grew increasingly blazing and radiant under the influx of Pyro.
The White Tassel became coated in Pyro energy, transforming into a two-meter-long, dark-red Fangtian Huaji.
"I, in the name of the Archon of Nirvana, the Phoenix, send you back to your eternal slumber."
"And for the Abyss Mage who has defiled life—your sentence is death, effective immediately!"
The phoenix's eyes had already locked onto the sinner. The wrath of an Archon would burn away all disrespect toward life.
At that moment, the long-prepared monster army, under the Hydro Abyss Mage's command, launched its full assault.
A wave of monsters surged toward the lone figure on the bridge. Mitachurls—rare in peacetime—were merely the most common foot soldiers. Hilichurls, the terror of adventurers, were nothing more than disposable pawns.
Stonehide Lawachurls roared, their unleashed strength shaking the earth. Frostarm Lawachurls erupted with extreme cold, frost surging toward Mondstadt City.
"Even as an Archon—without your strength recovered, it's impossible for you to withstand such an onslaught!"
The Hydro Abyss Mage watched the lone figure blocking Mondstadt's entrance, as if already seeing Jun Bai reduced to ashes by elemental attacks.
But the trembling earth failed to shake the Archon. The frost spreading across the ground melted instantly beneath the phoenix's crimson radiance.
"There are indeed mortals who can withstand the Archon's fiery wrath."
Jun Bai locked eyes with the Hydro Abyss Mage across the tide of monsters, a mocking smirk curling his lips.
"But that will never be you."
The Fangtian Huaji swung in a crescent arc. The White Tassel shattered piece by piece. A fiery blade shot forward, tearing toward the monster horde.
Screech—
The crimson phoenix cried out, launching its attack alongside the blade.
The fiery blade paved the path;
the crimson phoenix harvested everything in its way.
Countless monsters turned to ashes, their souls returning to the ley lines to continue their slumber.
Even the monstrous overlords—the Stonehide and Frostarm Lawachurls—lasted only a few seconds under this one strike before they, too, became dust.
In the end, only the Hydro Abyss Mage remained among the once-vast army, forced to face the Archon's wrath alone.
Its Hydro shield evaporated rapidly under the Pyro assault. The fiery blade shattered the shield, and the phoenix crashed down. For the first time, the Hydro Abyss Mage experienced Pyro energy up close.
"No—"
Impossible… you cannot still possess such power…
The words the Abyss Mage would never speak vanished with it.
Its body turned to ash.
Its soul followed the monsters into eternal slumber.
The fiery wings folded away.
The Fangtian Huaji dissolved.
Fragments of the White Tassel drifted from Jun Bai's hand, carried by the wind.
Jun Bai turned calmly and walked into Mondstadt City under the varied gazes of the knights atop the wall.
Thus, the crisis of Mondstadt's monster siege came to an end after Jun Bai's overwhelming intervention.
— Reality
"Tiny Stormterror dares to show off before the master? Take it down."
Silver Wolf controlled Diluc to finish off Stormterror's last bit of health, successfully entering the cutscene.
[This Stormterror feels weaker than in the closed beta.]
[Maybe it's because we're lower level than during the beta? World Level is only 1, so Stormterror scales down.]
[Yeah, that's probably it. In the beta, the main story had level requirements, so everyone did the three starter character quests first. By the time we fought Stormterror, everyone was AR 20+.]
[Ahhh, that's why it felt off. So the three starter quests are gone.]
"They were probably moved to after the main story. After this, the main story is basically finished." Silver Wolf said, then teleported back to Mondstadt City.
Upon arriving, she saw Amber cleaning up the battlefield.
Lumine approached, and Paimon initiated the conversation:
"Amber, what are you doing?"
Amber turned around, recognized Lumine and Paimon, visibly relaxed, and smiled.
"It's you two. Not long ago, a large number of monsters appeared around Mondstadt City. The Knights set up many defenses to protect the city."
"Now that the matter is resolved, Acting Grand Master Jean asked me to clean up the site and recover the undamaged defenses."
"Ah? A large number of monsters!" Paimon gasped. She had thought Jun Bai was being overly cautious—yet he was completely right.
"Were there any casualties? Was it serious?"
"Don't worry, Paimon. The Knights suffered no casualties, and Mondstadt is completely unharmed." Amber reassured them, then began recounting that battle to Lumine and Paimon.
The screen transitioned into a flashback perspective.
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