Genshin Impact: Learning makes me stronger

three days later.

The dome of the Palace of Wisdom reflected the starry sky. Nashida was suspended in the center of the data torrent, and billions of calculation formulas flashed in her dreamy emerald eyes.

"Father, we have locked onto the doctor's twenty-fourth and final slice. You are needed to take action next."

"understood."

Golden runes formed by the fusion of power flowed on Su Xun's fingertips.

Darkness, time, devouring, the power of dust... the four powers intertwined and condensed into bright stars in Su Xun's palm.

He closed his eyes and sensed the twenty-four vibrant data streams transmitted to him by Nashida. Each data core flashed with the doctor's unique cold aura.

"here we go."

The power of authority surged out along the spiritual bridge that Nashida built with the power of dreams.

The starry sky of Teyvat suddenly dimmed a little, as if it was due to the sudden resonance of the five powers that caused strange phenomena in the heaven and earth.

Spider-web-like cracks appeared on the glazed dome of the Palace of Wisdom, but were repaired by green vines at the wave of Nashida's hand.

Su Xun's pupils had turned into the color of molten gold, and the divine pattern on his forehead flickered like stars.

He tapped the void with his fingertips, and twenty-four golden rays of light penetrated the space barrier like arrows shot from a bow - the secret room of the Xumi Academy of Teachings, the core of the Fontainebleau Academy of Sciences, the underground laboratory of the Winter Palace... Every corner where the doctor's slices were hidden was lit up with the light of judgment.

"Impossible!" In the Fontaine Academy of Sciences, Dr. Slice, who was wearing a monocle, suddenly covered his chest with his hands.

The mechanical corps he painstakingly developed turned into molten iron in the golden light, and the experimental data dissipated like burning butterflies.

Through his gradually blurring vision, he saw a pair of golden eyes in the void staring at him.

At the same time, a deafening explosion was heard somewhere in the Kingdom of Winter.

The Slice who was debugging the Evil Eye pounded on the console frantically: "Cut off the neural connection! Cut it off quickly..."

Before he could finish his words, his body was grasped by an invisible giant hand, and the entire laboratory was compressed into a palm-sized black cube.

Nashida's skirt moved without wind, and countless light green data links extended from behind her to the sky: "Father, all the slices have been marked. Only the doctor's body..."

"He is in Xumi." Su Xun suddenly opened his eyes, and his gilded pupils reflected the dim light of the underground ruins of the Jiaolingyuan.

Su Xun's perception penetrated fifty meters of rock layer and saw that the doctor's real body was about to embed the Heart of Thundergod into the God of Righteousness.

Thor's Heart was only half an inch away from Sanbing's heart, but the Doctor's pale palm had already pierced his chest first.

The mechanical joints made a harsh friction sound, and the puppet's purple pupils contracted violently.

"Dotolei?!" The scattered soldier roared and grabbed the arm that pierced his chest. The lightning element burst out with dazzling lightning at the wound.

The doctor turned his wrist gracefully and cut off the puppet's core conduction device with surgical precision: "My dear Scaramucci, you didn't think I couldn't detect those little movements?"

The Heart of the Thunder God glowed with a strange purple light between his fingers. "From the moment you stepped into the laboratory, this body has been transmitting all the data to me."

The Doctor gracefully turned the Heart of Thunder and looked at the body of the Sniper that was nailed through the console. "Do you know why I chose you as the pilot?"

Dark purple blood flowed into the power reactor through the mechanical duct, and Sanbing's pupils contracted violently due to the severe pain.

The nerve ducts connecting the spine suddenly lit up blue light - the power bestowed upon the Doctor by the Ice God was decomposing his elemental body.

"Because the doll's pain nerves..."

The doctor placed the scalpel against the Skirmisher's throbbing core, "It's a perfect stabilizer."

The moment the tip of the knife pierced, the entire cockpit was suddenly shrouded in a thunderstorm.

The lightning element released by the burning core of the scattered soldier turned into the wailing of a thousand birds, and his right arm, which forcibly broke free from its restraints, pierced the doctor's chest.

The two men tangled and smashed the protective glass, falling from a height of fifty meters into the boiling elemental furnace.

"Then why do you think I accepted the transformation!" Sanbing clamped the doctor's neck tightly while falling, lightning flashing between his teeth, "From the day you tied me to the experimental table--"

The elemental wave stirred up by their fall into the furnace shook the entire underground laboratory violently.

Su Xun's spiritual consciousness covered the battlefield at this time.

He saw that the core of the Skirmisher was overclocking, and the broken body of the puppet was emitting a light brighter than the Heart of Thundergod.

That was transforming the pain of three betrayals, five hundred years of obsession, and the last of his humanity into the determination to destroy his own body.

"Father!" Nashida's exclamation exploded at the same time as the thunderstorm.

Su Xun's power turned into a golden chain and reached into the furnace, but he only caught the Heart of Thundergod that Sanbing threw out at the end.

The lightning in the furnace suddenly collapsed into a pure white singularity.

Sanbing turned around and gave Su Xun a relieved smile. That was the most human-like moment since the puppet was born.

A supernova-like explosion swept across the sky and earth, the outer armor of the God of Righteousness vaporized in the strong light, and blue blood burst out from every node of the body of the Scattered Soldiers Doll at the same time.

When the strong light dissipated, Su Xun's power protected the entire underground space.

All that remained of the original laboratory was a crystal pit with a diameter of one kilometer. There was no other trace left in the purple crystal cluster, and only ashes filled the void.

Nashida caught the falling lightning crystal, which contained the last fragment of the soldier's voice: "Buyer... the contract... is completed..."

The purple crystal cluster glowed faintly in the moonlight. Su Xun's fingertips brushed across the lightning element crystals. The last words of the scattered soldiers were particularly clear in the silence.

He suddenly crushed the crystal, and countless star rays gathered into an illusory projection.

An ice spike glowing blue - that was the mark of the contract between the Doctor and the Queen of Winter.

Thunder cracked the night sky, and two figures came stepping on the petals of thunder cherry blossoms.

Raiden Shin's light purple furisode swept across the crystalline ground, and Ying's naginata was still entangled with the lingering lightning.

"Mom..." Nashida was about to speak when Zhen gently pressed down on the top of her head.

Ying took the Heart of Thundergod in silence, his amethyst-like pupils reflecting the burning embers in the pit: "The puppet's "heart" is more blazing than I thought. You... are not a failure."

"Is it over? It feels a bit hasty." The pink-haired fox-eared beauty quietly poked her head out from the crack in the void. The Eightfold Son of God stepped gracefully onto the ground on the remaining petals of the thunder cherry, with half a bitten tri-color dumpling still in her fingertips.

"What else do you want?" Su Xun tapped the forehead of the Eightfold Goddess with a flick of his finger, and the petals of the lightning cherry blossoms fell into her hair. "Are you going to dig the doctor out of the earth veins and whip his corpse?"

"Hmm~ I didn't say that." Yae Shinko winked playfully, "It's just that this battle came and ended suddenly, and I didn't have time to appreciate its highlights."

She put the tri-color dumpling in her hand into her mouth, with a satisfied look on her face.

(I feel like this chapter was very sloppy myself, but I really don’t want to drag on the doctor’s plot any longer, so let’s just end it like this. I’m not very good at writing battle scenes╯﹏╰)