I Became the Great Tree King and Adopted a Young Dottore

[Greater Lord Rukkhadevata x Dottore, mentor-disciple what-if; one-sided salvation, platonic bond]

Isis’s only knowledge of the game Genshin Impact was of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, who died saving her nation only to be forgotten by the entire world after her death, and Dottore, a villain guilty of every evil under the sun who stood against two gods through sheer strength and commanded two weekly bosses, making him an exceptionally imposing antagonist.

But when Isis arrives, the villain named Dottore has yet to be born, and her own death is still at least a century away.

So Isis rolls up her sleeves as she surveys her chaotic nation.

She establishes rule of law, builds infrastructure, mends Irminsul, heals the divided nation, and creates an intelligent country that is independent, self-reliant, open, and thriving.

But at the very first step, she comes across a child prodigy among prodigies. At first, she only values the child’s talents. She never expects that, in the future, he will remember her in the prime of her life and become her one-of-a-kind gravestone.

Zandik: a heretic, one gifted enough to surpass the world. When he was still a child, before the cold stares and revulsion of others could break him, someone came to his side, carrying the fresh scent of grass and trees.

She bestowed knowledge on him, guided him along his path, taught him patiently, and gently led him forward. Little by little, she widened the boundaries of his world and anchored what little humanity he possessed.

To Zandik, everything within sight was mediocre. But for the sake of her approval, he was willing to pretend to be a gentle, gracious gentleman. There was only one thing he could not tolerate: having that approval and warmth taken from him.

If the being in the heavens above had anchored her fate to death, then he would surpass that fate, no matter what it cost him.