Alice certainly qualified as the witch Raiden Ei and Zhongli feared most. Although both possessed the strength to defeat her in terms of sheer power, as gods who loved humanity, their people were their greatest weakness. And Alice's destructive urges happened to be precisely what the Seven Archons dreaded most.
Although Alice lacked the strength to rival a god, she could leave a nation with nothing but its god.
Fortunately, the one Yucheng had brought this time was Alice's daughter, Klee. She was still young and had learned only one ten-thousandth of Alice's knack for causing trouble. Even so, Raiden Ei and Zhongli earnestly lectured Yucheng for an hour, walking him through Alice's mad ideas once again.
Only then did Yucheng realize that the exploits in the Teyvat Travel Guide fell far short of encompassing Miss Alice's feats. Ideas such as whether setting off an explosion at the very bottom of The Chasm would cause the ground beneath Liyue to collapse, or uprooting the Sacred Sakura, had all crossed Alice's mind. Had the two of them not kept such a close eye on her, she might well have put them into practice.
By the time Yucheng emerged from Tenshukaku again, the sky had gone completely dark. Only when he stood at Tenshukaku and looked down over all of Inazuma City did he realize how much it had changed under his influence. The greatest change was that the lower city had actually begun to develop a nightlife.
In the past, Inazuma's commoners had truly worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. Where would they have found so much lamp oil and so many candles to squander? Besides, they had no spare money to spend on services. Thus, the most economical way to live was to go to sleep once it grew