It happened shortly after Hiroshi left.
A huge and coercive dragon shadow rushed straight from the direction of Stormterror's Lair.
In the city of Mondstadt, there was a flurry of panic. People were running everywhere, fleeing towards shelter.
"The Dragon!!"
"Run quickly...!"
The confused and tormented Dvalin blew up a destructive tornado in Mondstadt City.
The Traveler, Lumine, hurriedly stuffed the Pokémon Egg Incubator and the Egg into the Spatial Backpack she had just bought.
Just like the plot of the original game, she was blown up into the sky by a huge tornado and met Dvalin face-to-face high in the air, engaging in aerial combat with the help of the Anemo Archon's blessings.
After the dragon attacked the city and flew away, the riot gradually subsided.
Amber took the Traveler to meet Kaeya, the Cavalry Captain of the Knights, and then they went to the headquarters of the Knights together.
Acting Grand Master's Office.
"...That's what happened." Amber and Kaeya looked at each other and reported.
Jean, the Acting Grand Master, nodded, looking exhausted but resolute. "Mondstadt welcomes you, Travelers who come with the wind."
The Librarian, Lisa, was also there, leaning against a bookshelf.
Everyone roughly discussed the battle plan to solve the dragon disaster, targeting the remaining three temples of the Four Winds. Then everyone rushed to the four directions to purify them.
Meanwhile...
Hiroshi, who had just checked into the Goth Grand Hotel in the city, opened the window and looked at the road leading outside the city, murmuring to himself.
"Dvalin woke up later than in the plot?"
"Although I don't know the reason, it doesn't matter. The main plot has unfolded according to the planned trajectory!"
Hiroshi looked at his System interface with a strange expression.
Just now, the Store Manager's task log was suddenly updated.
After the "Small Goal of 100 Million Sales" task, the next business task was for him to officially open a branch in Mondstadt.
[Task: Mondstadt Branch Opening]
[Objective: Sell 10 Starter Pokémon in Mondstadt within two days.]
[Mission Reward: Store Manager's Ten-Pull Gacha x1]
"Limited time mission?"
Holy crap!
This is a bit interesting.
Hiroshi glanced down at the deepest part of the commercial district, where a store had quietly appeared overnight. The sign "Pokémon Home" was already hanging on it.
The corners of his mouth twitched subtly.
The efficiency of the System is really fast...
But in this way, the moment the task pops up, does it mean that the timer begins to count down?
Then...
There was no need to stay in the hotel at all. Hiroshi summoned Cresselia, teleported directly to the Mondstadt Branch arranged by the System, and slept on the soft big bed in the staff quarters upstairs.
Night.
A new person, or rather a pair of partners, had been added to the Pokédex group chat channel.
System: 'Traveler Lumine' has joined the group chat.
System: 'Paimon' has joined the group chat.
Hu Tao, Xiangling: @Lumine @Paimon, scattering flowers to welcome newcomers!
Lumine: Hey, are you all still here so late?
Keqing: Of course. After getting the Pokémon, everyone was very excited and racked their brains every day on how to cultivate them properly.
In the Knight's quarters...
It was only during the day that Lumine and Paimon attacked and purified the three temples, calming down the tornadoes and hurricanes. They were exhausted but fascinated by the device Hiroshi had given them.
They both opened their eyes wide and clicked on the photo albums and video files in the group chat.
All the Pokémon in the group, with pictures and videos, suddenly revealed a vast and mysterious world of creatures to Lumine and Paimon.
"This shark-like baby costs 50 Million Mora?!" Paimon screeched.
"Wow!"
"This strange magnetic rock Pokémon lives in the Jade Chamber and cost One Billion Mora?!"
Paimon was so dizzy by the huge numbers that she fell from the air and hit the pillow face-first.
The videos were even more vivid than the pictures.
During the day, Xiangling had uploaded a short video of her special training with the Larvesta and Hu Tao's Gible in the wild.
This time, in addition to fighting Slimes, they also unexpectedly encountered a group of Treasure Hoarders. From the video, it could be seen that the Gible was extremely lethal to humans. When it used Tackle, the members of the Treasure Hoarders fell on their backs, groaning in pain.
Tartaglia had transformed the group chat into a research forum for elemental reactions.
The pictures and video materials he uploaded and shared were all researching how to deepen the elemental connection with his Alolan Vulpix.
This was an eye-opener for Lumine and Paimon.
"Pokémon..."
"You can actually react with elements with yourself!!"
Paimon quickly took out the Egg Incubator from the Spatial Backpack.
Surrounding this simple device with a warm light, she looked at the Pokémon Egg inside. Paimon's little face was full of hope.
Even her cute face naturally showed a greedy "aunty smile."
"Egg, Egg..."
"You must hatch it..."
"Um? Just pick up any Pseudo-Legendary, it's worth fifty million Mora!"
Late at night, Paimon's murmurs in her dreams were all about "Fifty Million Mora" and "One Billion Mora."
Lumine tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. Listening to this "emergency food" talking in her sleep, her big golden eyes flashed, and a thought suddenly came to her head:
Manager Hiroshi is so powerful and mysterious.
Maybe he knows my brother's whereabouts better than Barbatos, the Anemo Archon.
The Next Morning.
Knights of Favonius Headquarters.
Jean's office, the lights had been on all night.
"You've been up all night again, Jean."
Librarian Lisa came in with a cup of hot coffee, put the cup on the desk, and looked helplessly at Acting Grand Master Jean, who was immersed in reviewing documents carefully.
Jean smelled the coffee but didn't raise her head.
"Thanks."
"I am reviewing documents for the repair and reconstruction of damaged buildings in Mondstadt."
"Well, you also need to calculate the expenditure in detail, calculate the budget of each plan, and then choose the most reasonable plan for the citizens."
Lisa held her forehead.
"Reconstruction cannot be completed in a day or two."
"Moreover, Dvalin, the source of the Dragon Disaster, has not yet been solved. Is it too early to consider reconstruction now?"
Bang!
At this time, the office door opened again, and Amber and Kaeya came in quickly.
"Acting Grand Master, have you forgotten another thing Amber reported yesterday?"
Kaeya opened his hands as a reminder after entering the door.
"Are you referring to this?"
Jean solemnly took out a record document from the drawer.
"I made a record."
[Report: The Mysterious Merchant Hiroshi and the Unknown Egg]
"How? You came here with Amber so early in the morning. Is there anything you missed or didn't report?"
Kaeya waved his hands with a strange expression on his face.
Amber also looked like she had seen a ghost.
"Just now, we were having breakfast at Good Hunter..."
"I bumped into Boss Hiroshi!"
"And entered his shop... right here in Mondstadt!"