"What the heck?! So it's fine just like that? How much do people hate the Fatui?"
Axue couldn't help but laugh.
"And that Second Harbinger, the Doctor—what did he do to piss off the Supre Bishop so much? Not only does the Supre Bishop kill him on sight, but he also teaches his subordinates to kill him whenever they're in a bad mood. Is he really that hateful?"
"I don't think it's hate."
"Yeah, it doesn't seem like hate. Hate wouldn't manifest like this."
"True. If it were hate, the Supre Bishop would probably hunt him down across the world."
"The way it is now, it's less about hating the Doctor and more about... disgust?"
"Exactly! It's not hate, but the Doctor definitely disgusts him. Killing him once just feels refreshing."
Axue thought the viewers made a good point.
When the Supre Bishop t the Doctor, there was no sign of hatred. In fact, it was more like he completely ignored him.
Yet, despite the indifference, he casually killed him, while completely ignoring La Signora, who was right there.
It felt like kicking aside a pebble on the road because it was in the way—that kind of vibe.
This made Axue even more curious. What on earth did the Doctor do to disgust the Supre Bishop to this extent?
As she pondered this, Themis finally arrived at their destination.
After being brought down from the sky by Themis, the animated cutscene ended, and the ga transitioned into dialogue.
Paimon: "This is Mondstadt, right?"
Themis: "This is one of the Doctor's bases, discovered by the Fontaine Water Dragon Division. One of the Doctor's segnts has been conducting experints here."
Lumine: "Segnts?"
Themis: "The Second Harbinger, the Doctor, is an extrely mad individual."
Themis: "Even within the sa person, different ages can have different perspectives."
Themis: "Based on this theory, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the world, the Doctor spent decades researching the Sixth Harbinger, Scaramouche, and finally achieved a breakthrough."
Themis: "He preserved 'segnts' of himself from different ages, turning them into independent entities, retaining all his perspectives on the world."
Themis: "All segnts are Dottore. There's no distinction between the original and the copies—they're just Dottore at different ages."
"Wait, so that's what 'segnts' are?!"
As Themis spoke, Axue's eyes widened.
"This... this is just... insane?"
It was indeed insane. Just hearing about it made the Doctor seem terrifying.
After all, if this were true, it wasn't a matter of clones or originals. Every segnt was both a clone and the original—they were all just different versions of Dottore.
Even the original Dottore, who created all the segnts, had beco just one of the segnts—albeit the one at his peak.
Whether he was strong or not was another matter, but he was definitely hard to kill.
Without a true original, there was no concept of killing the main body and having all the clones disappear.
Even if the peak segnt died, another segnt would quickly grow to a new peak and create more segnts.
In other words, unless you killed every single segnt, you couldn't truly kill Dottore.
And more importantly, the Doctor was practically a one-man army!
Among his segnts, it was unclear how many had god-level strength, but just based on the earlier story, even a single segnt was confident enough to take on Fansetty—just thinking about it sent chills down one's spine.
Even if only two or three segnts had god-level strength, that was still an utterly terrifying prospect.
No wonder Snezhnaya was widely regarded as the strongest nation. Just the Doctor alone was enough to make people tremble in fear.
"There's no need to worry too much."
Sensing Lumine's shock, Themis spoke calmly:
"Creating a segnt requires a massive amount of resources, ti, and effort. After hundreds of years, Dottore only has a few dozen segnts. On average, it takes ten years to create one. Kill one, and there's one less. If you beco his enemy, as long as you kill them faster than he can make them, you'll eventually run out of segnts to kill."
"...But aren't you the one who's about to beco his enemy?"
"You're right." Themis nodded without arguing. "So let's go in."
The dialogue ended, and a glowing point appeared at the base of the mountain. Axue controlled Astrea to approach and interact with it.
As expected, the Story Quest's customary dungeon battle began.
Axue was excited.
"Here we go! We get to try out Themis! Limited 5-star character trials should be in Story Quests—it's more imrsive that way."
Sure enough, after Axue entered the domain with her team of Astrea, Barbara, Ganyu, and Qiqi, Themis officially joined the party.
Axue wasn't in a hurry to proceed. She imdiately checked Themis' profile.
[Profile]
Themis
CV: Jingliu
Birthday: May 5th
Affiliation: Holy Knights
Original Sin: Anemo
Constellation: Gemini
Second Knight of the Holy Knights, "Knight of the Sky," "Herald of Original Sin." A powerful knight deeply trusted by the Supre Bishop, with the highest mission completion rate in the Holy Knights.
Character Details
Within the Holy Knights, the Knight of the Sky is the most mysterious mber. She never appears before her comrades, who only know of her existence but have never seen her in person.
There's even a rumor within the Holy Knights that the Knight of the Sky is the executioner of the order. If anyone dares to betray the Hydro Archon or the Supre Bishop, the Knight of the Sky will appear and utterly destroy them.
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