Valor's Afterglow: The Faint Light Remembered

Valor's Afterglow: The Faint Light Remembered is the third quest in the Valor's Afterglow World Quest Series. The player can start the quest by talking to Jinwu after the next Daily Reset once the previous quest is completed.
==Steps==
# Talk to Muning about Zhiqiong's departure
==Gameplay Notes==
# After the quest, visit southwest corner of The Glowing Narrows to find Zhiqiong's camp, along with Zhiqiong's Letter and Frostglaze Crystal. Talk to Jinwu afterward.
#* Obtaining the letter will give the .
#* A new Viewpoint "The Court of Pillars" will become available.
#* If they don't appear, wait until the next daily reset.
Valor's Afterglow Zhiqiong's Letter Location.png|Zhiqiong's camp
Valor's Afterglow Zhiqiong's Letter Location Context.png|Additional context
==Dialogue==
;(Talk to Jinwu)
:Jinwu: ...
: Hey there, Jinwu!
: Are you doing fine?
:Jinwu: ...!?
:Paimon: Yikes! Y—You scared me!
:Jinwu: S—Sorry. Anyway, um, if you're looking for Zhiqiong... she left.
: Where'd she go?
::Jinwu: I don't know... I was distracted for just a few moments, and that was it — she was gone.
: How was she doing when she left?
::Jinwu: ...
::Jinwu: Khedive did a check-up, and he said that it didn't look too promising...
:Jinwu: I had a talk with her... but she insisted on leaving. I doubt I could have cajoled or browbeat her, or even beat her into staying.
:Jinwu: *sigh* I just hope she knows what she's doing.
:Jinwu: I really do hope so...
:Jinwu: Ugh, right, I have to tell Muning, and get him to organize a search party for that kid!
: We'll go to Muning.
: Relax a little.
:Paimon: Ugh, that Zhiqiong, she's gone again! Let's get back to the surface and look for Muning, quickly!
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;(Talk to Muning about Zhiqiong's departure)
:Muning: Hmm? Zhiqiong's not with you? Word's come down from the Ministry.
:Muning: On account of the invaluable help that her maps have brought to the Huishan Hall, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has decided to make an exception for her and... Let me see, invite her to be formally accepted as a consultant and guide.
:Muning: Congratulations to her are in order — it seems that all that running around wasn't for naught.
: She left.
:Muning: Left? What do you mean? Do you mean she left first? But the Millelith didn't tell me of anyone leaving The Chasm...
: Zhiqiong left the team.
:Muning: Eh? Uh...
:Muning: Wait! Wait!
:Muning: Hang on a moment, you mean she left the exploration team?
:Muning: As in, Zhiqiong left the team?
:Paimon: Yes! Which part of that didn't you get?
:Muning: ...I get it. I will put a search and rescue party together immediately. If she is still in The Chasm, we should be able to find her.
:Muning: She might just be doing something harebrained again, or perhaps she left for another reason... But regardless, we must find her.
:Muning: In her current condition, working away from the team is simply far too reckless...
: Need my help?
::Muning: No, I don't reckon so... I suppose it's about time I stepped in as well.
: About Zhiqiong...
::Muning: She's a restless one, but whatever the case, we are still friends. I might not be the friendliest person around, but I don't simply forget friendships just like that.
::Muning: She's always talking about some big adventurer's dream or something, and she's actually been injured quite seriously several times before. Nearly bit it on at least one occasion, too. And here I thought she'd settled down for a bit...
::Muning: I'd hoped that she'd have forgotten those unrealistic dreams of hers already. Roald... Stanley... It's not all wine and roses with them, you know!
::Muning: *sigh* But I never expected... To be honest, I was starting to wonder if asking you to come to The Chasm was the right decision... If we hadn't, she might not have had a fire lit under her again...
:: Her efforts did produce some results in the end.
:::Muning: Results...? I think that's a bit too utilitarian. We are very grateful for the maps that she drew of large swathes of The Chasm, yes...
:::Muning: But should intangible, illusory things like "dreams" and pursuing them really come before one's life?
:::Muning: I just can't understand it, nor can I imagine anyone really plunging into danger over things like that.
:: It is her choice, you know.
:::Muning: Choice, you say... Excuses! She's going there to die, don't you realize that!?
:::Muning: ...*cough* Sorry, I spoke a little harshly there. Still... couldn't she just exercise a little more patience in the face of things that we mortals cannot change!?
:::Muning: In twenty or thirty years... maybe even ten, we might have safer underground equipment! Then, she wouldn't have to worry about having to go on expeditions to make underground maps.
:::Muning: But she's not willing to wait for any of these things, not at all! No, she just has to finish an entire life's work while she's still so young!
:::Muning: It's folly, I say, and as a friend, I can't just leave her be.
::Muning: As such, please leave the search for her to me... Uh, more accurately, just leave it to the Millelith search party.
: I'll be there if you need me.
:Paimon: Paimon too! We can't just leave our junior adventurer behind!
:Paimon: We'll look out while on the road as well. Who knows, maybe we'll bump into her somehow!
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;(Find Zhiqiong's camp)
:Paimon: Looks like someone's set up camp here!
;(Read Zhiqiong's Letter)
:Paimon: Wow, that's a really long letter. Seems like Zhiqiong left it here!
: It's hers alright...
:Paimon: Ugh, where's she gone!? Let's go tell Jinwu what happened first.
:;(Obtain Zhiqiong's Letter and Frostglaze Crystal)
:Paimon: Zhiqiong said that she left by following the path that leads deeper in... But where is that exactly? Paimon doesn't see any path.
:Paimon: Will we ever see her again?
;(Return to the exploration camp and talk to Jinwu)
:Paimon: Jinwu, we found this!
:Jinwu: Alright, alright, relax. What did you find? Does it have anything to do with Zhiqiong's whereabouts?
: It's a letter she left behind. She says she's gone deeper into The Chasm.
:Jinwu: Thank you. Let me see what she's written real quick.
:
:Jinwu: This girl... I've never really considered issues this big, so I can't really criticize her life choices. But perhaps...
:Jinwu: Perhaps I didn't acknowledge her discoveries in time, or give her as much respect or understanding as I should've.
:Jinwu: It would've been immeasurably more difficult to complete our exploration without her maps... But I only showed concern for her health instead of focusing on her hard work and what she'd done so much to achieve...
:Jinwu: Agh, how did I not realize how her work was always different from that of us miners...
: She just doesn't want to be forgotten.
:Jinwu: Well, don't we all, as people who aren't favored by the gods...
:Jinwu: Don't we all... But has anyone been as obsessed as her?
:Jinwu: And yet, when I think about the moment when I gave up any thoughts of becoming great... when I realize that I've gotten to used to living day to ordinary day...
:Jinwu: I feel like I just don't have the right to judge Zhiqiong...
==Other Languages==
==Change History==
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