Chapter Summaries

The Sky Screen began revealing Dottore’s past for Teyvat’s TOP 7, prompting Sandrone and Columbina to plan how they would ensure he stayed dead. The footage showed Zandik’s early cruelty in Sumeru, including his role in Soheil’s mysterious death.

• Mu En recognized the destruction in Star Dou Forest as Tang San’s work, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong sought refuge at Nuoding’s Spirit Hall.
• The Sky Screen announced Teyvat’s TOP 7 and identified its subject as a genius who needed no whitewashing.
• Sandrone and Columbina discussed trapping and killing Dottore if he returned, and doubted the message in which he asked others not to resurrect him.
• Ronava recalled Dottore’s failed attempts to probe forbidden knowledge, while Pantalone worried that his old friend might come back.
• The Sky Screen showed Zandik’s early studies in Sumeru, where he awakened a Ruin Guard, lost credit for his research, and became associated with Soheil before she died mysteriously.

The Sky Screen revealed that Zandik, later known as Dottore, had tortured Eleazar patients with Archon Residue experiments and committed further crimes after joining the Fatui. The Doctor declared his intention to break the world’s constraints and create a new world, leaving his challenge hanging over the three worlds.

• The Akademiya named Zandik the prime suspect in Soheil’s death and expelled him.
• Zandik injected Eleazar patients with Archon Residue, killing or horribly mutating many while recording the results as research.
• The Wanderer, Nahida, Cyno, Tighnari, Kaveh, and Alhaitham reacted to the Sky Screen’s revelation of Zandik’s cruelty.
• The Sky Screen showed Dottore’s crimes as a Fatui Harbinger, including experimenting on orphans, transforming Scaramouche, and killing Sandrone.
• The Doctor proclaimed that he would cast off the world’s constraints and asked whether people would tolerate the rotten, antiquated world.