Venti says, "Huh? What's this... After the abyss mage was defeated a certain energy dispersed from its body. It seems that energy was being used to cut off the connection between me and dvalin. huh... Livvy, traveler... do you know of stormterror's lair?"
I answer, "yeah I think I've heard people talking about it in mondstadt."
"Of course, I believe the people of mondstadt all know of it" Venti replied, "after dvalin woke up, he took the ancient ruins as his lair. The entrance to the ruins is sealed by a special barrier."
Diluc spoke up, "which means we're going to confront Dvalin?"
Venti replied, "fortunately we have yet to need to go that far, the holy lyre is not our trump card, our real trump card? Traveler of course."
Aether speaks, "Is it because I purified the teardrop crystal?" "correct!" venti answered.
Venti continued, "the impurities in the tears, and the curse that binds dvalin belong to the same maleficent power. Which means the traveler can purify him!"
"Hey" diluc said, "nice plan worth a shot." "I'm with you honarary knight" Jean added.
Paimon was unconvinced, "Ho~! so we just need to fight monsters from the abyss... and a dragon! No pressure or anything."
Venti continued, "And so epic actions of brave heroes finally leads to this eleventh hour."
Once we arrived at stormterror's lair paimon immediately pointed out, "it's a storm barrier! It looks so dangerous..."
"Leave it to me~" venti sang, "altough this wooden lyre is all I have I don't need the lyre to break through this type of storm barrier!"
"without further ado..." venti began "I suppose I can play faster if my only audience is the wind."
Venti plays a tune on his lyre and the storm barrier disperses whoosing out into our faces.
Paimon was suprised, "It actually opened! You're not entirely useless tone-deaf bard!"
Jean was obviously excited, "this is it we are now entering stormterror's lair. Watch yourselves let's move"
And with that we head into the ruins.
After riding some windcurrent we were high up in stormterror's lair, we were blocked by some ancient seals.
Venti responds to this predicament, "Oh we can't advance any further. The ruins seems to be guarded by ancient seals."
"Is this the work of Dvalin?" Paimon said.
Venti replies to her, "No, these ruins were once part of an ancient city. Dvalin just happens to be nesting in these ruins for now. These ruins even predate the existance of the four winds."
Venti continues, "Mondstadt is a city without a ruler. But before this it was ruled over by a tyrant. Anyway, I'll sing you that story when we have the chance in the future."
Diluc started, "The markings on this seal," he said, "If my archeological knowledge is not mistaken this appears to me a light actuator. If we retrieve and reintegrate the parts, we should be able to get it working."
Jean continues for him, "We should be close to completing the ceremony for this actuator. Let's put the last part back and see."
So, we run around and grab the peices of the puzzle for the actuator and insert them into place. Causing the rings that sealed the tower to dissapear.
We head up into the domain of dvalin's lair.
We fly into the air and with our wind bullets aimed at the two shiny spots of poisonous blood clots on dvalin's back.
I took aim and my shot hit! Dvalin roared.
We dropped onto the top of the tower, Venti took aim at the poisonous blood clot on dvalin's back and shot.
Very soon the battle is won.
Paimon screamed, "this place is going to collasp!" as the tower shook and collasped.
Jean, Diluc, Venti, Traveler, Paimon and I fell into the gaping void.
But just then we were caught by dvalin, Venti sighed as we woke up, "Its been a while since we flew together like this. Huh dvalin" he said to dvalin.
Dvalin replied to him, "Just now... Why... Why did you not ask me to protect you like last time?"
Venti said, "Me not wanting you to listen to the abyss order, doesn't mean you have to listen to me. Freedom, if demanded of you by an archon, is really no freedom at all."
And so Venti blessed dvalin causing him to speak in wonder, "Is this the power of the anemo archon? But I am no longer part of the four winds."
Venti replies, "even if thats so you still protected us regardless, now spread your wings of freedom and go with my blessing."
One trilling dragon ride later we landed inside mondstadt city walls.
In the acting gradmaster's office jean wrote in a letter, 'And so, the stormterror threat was quelled, I clarified the misunderstanding to the citizens of mondstadt and let them now that they are safe. Stormterror attacked mondstadt out of nowhere, and then vanished just as quickly. they must be finding the whole ordeal very confusing."
After that we went around town talking to some of our friends finally ending up at the church to return the holy lyre de himmel.
Jean explains to us, "this is barbara the deaconess of the church. She is here to retreive the holy lyre de himmel.
Barbara says softly, "may the anemo archon protect you. So do you have the lyre on you"
We show the broken lyre to barbara, and she gasps, "arghh! the holy lyre!" she screamed, "oh barbatos even if I atoned for these sins for the rest of my life, it would still not be enough!"
Venti sighs, "Oh give it here." Anemo energy swirls around venti and he repairs the lyre.
"the holy lyre but how." Barbara hugs the lyre, and she ran off.
Venti giggled, "we really should get going, that trick I used to 'repair' the holy lyre isn't going to hold forever you know."
"You tone deaf bard!" Paimon screamed. We ran and followed him outside.
As we ran ouside, fatui agents suddenly appeared flanking venti, they got ready to strike venti, but traveler blew then away we a quick gust of wind.
Then a tall intimidating lady is a elegent dress walked up behind us, she clicked her fingers, intense cold gales overwhelmed us, freezing venti's legs.
Both me and Traveler gets swooped by the fatui agents
The woman laughed, "at last, mondstadt's rodent ruler in the flesh." we knew immediately that she was signora, no 8th of the fatui harbringers.
"mondstadt calls this a god?" she taunted. "resident rodent beats invasive vermin..." Venti bit back, but got slapped as a result.
"Don't you dare talk back to me insolent bard" signora replied, "
Venti starts blowing away the ice, Signora walks toward him unbothered, "The absentee archon of mondstadt how impotent you have become."
Venti replies with a taunt, "that smirk you wear looks out of place, did you steal it from your master's face?"
Signora blasted him away, "should've held your tongue" she said and grabbed at something inside of venti, "so this is a gnosis, wouldnt be caught dead wearing this ugly thing in public"
Venti coughed, "Beauty is a waste when the beholder has no taste" he was responded with a kick from signora.
"venti!" Aether cried. Signora said, "well we have what we came for. come before our dear favonian friends arrive." The fatui agents hit us and we blacked out.
We are met we barbara as we woke up, she explained venti had gone to the symbol of mondstadt's hero.
So, we head to windrise, meeting venti there
He explains about the tsaritsa the cryo archon, and tells us to go to the rite of descension at liyue.