Todd Riordan's Academic Research Honkai Star Rail: How to Start and Complete the Chain

In Honkai: Star Rail Todd Riordan's Academic Research is quest chain in Lofu Xianzhou, in which you will need to help a scientist from the Erudite Guild find a recipe book, get ingredients and collect prints of his mentor. In this guide, you will learn how to start and complete all the missions of the line.

How to start the Todd Riordan's Academic Research quest chain

Before you can take on this line of tasks, you have to meet a couple of conditions, namely:

• Reach at least 34 Mastering level.
• Complete the story quest chain called "Hyperion Tower".

Once you've dealt with these requirements, travel to the Dimensional Anchor "Earth Square" located in the Central Harbor of the Star-Sail Skiff Retreat and go north by going down the stairs. On the bench you will find the scientist you need, with whom you will need to talk and ask what he is doing here.

Todd Riordan's Study: A Glimpse of Medicine Teachings

The first quest of the chain, where you will need to find a special Atlas of Medicines in the territory of the Alchemy Commission. You have to find both chapters of the book, and then get a terrible branch by fighting the followers of Sanctus Medicus. A detailed walkthrough of the task is presented in our separate guide.

Todd Riordan Research: Three Faces of the Dragon

Access to this mission will open to you only on the next calendar day after the server is reset. You will first take photographs of several objects in the Scaled Gorge, and then find and collect prints in different areas. To solve these puzzles, you need to connect parts of the drawings using a special application on a gaming smartphone. The passage of this task is presented in our separate guide.

Todd Riordan's Study: The Continuation

The next real day after the server is reset, Todd will contact you again and offer to meet at the same place, however, instead of the old man, you will find a young boy. The scientist was able to rejuvenate himself with Xianzhou's secret formula. You can keep it a secret or report it to the Balance Committee. A detailed walkthrough of the quest will be presented in our separate guide.