Chapter Summaries

Ansu discovered that Elvera had followed him to the Saint District disguised as a black cat, but she revealed no details about her secret business there. After shaking off any possible pursuers, he returned to Heaven and told Merlin that Liszt and Arthur had found him a demigod girlfriend.

• Ansu suspected that Elvera was following him, and Enya confirmed it by recognizing her scent.
• Ansu realized Elvera was disguised as the black cat in the carriage, and Elvera admitted she was catching a ride and staying in the Saint District for a secret purpose.
• Elvera hypnotized the coachman to keep driving, then left without paying her share of the fare despite Ansu's protest.
• Ansu wandered through the Saint District and confirmed with Enya that nobody was following before removing the Soul of Chaos Stairway and returning to his Ansu Morningstar identity.
• Ansu went to Heaven to avoid returning to his watched residence and told Merlin that Liszt and Arthur had introduced him to a demigod girlfriend.

Ansu persuaded Merlin that a female demigod was interested in him, then traded Chaos Magic scrolls for Contribution Points. Merlin gave Ansu a temporary demigod body and Heaven’s Steward authority so he could cover Merlin’s shift while Merlin went on a date, but Ansu planned to go home first and collect what the Esoteric Cultists were offering him.

• Ansu told Merlin that a female demigod who had protected him for a year was heartbroken and ready to meet him tomorrow, and Merlin eagerly agreed to the date.
• Ansu offered Merlin Chaos Magic scrolls as knowledge to criticize, and Merlin accepted them in exchange for five hundred Contribution Points.
• When Ansu asked to stay in Heaven, Merlin offered him temporary authority as Heaven’s Rotation Steward so he could cover Merlin’s shift for a day.
• Merlin created a holy-light body for Ansu, whose soul entered it and gained access to power near an ordinary demigod’s level.
• Ansu agreed to cover the shift but insisted on going home first to collect payment from the Esoteric Cultists and tell his dorm supervisor he would be away.

Ansu collected the Esoteric Cultists’ gifts before leaving to cover Merlin’s shift in Heaven, while the cultists plotted to abduct him. He arranged for Merlin and Bishop Rada to meet on the Wilderness Plain, then reported a false meeting time to Rada, leaving their plans poised to collide.

• Ansu found the gifts from the Esoteric Cultists in the warehouse, but Enya said she had thrown away the people sent as his third wish and warned that the cultists might raid the estate.
• Enya showed Ansu the Record of Divine Strange Actions, whose demigod-speaking advice had been written by the Azure Witch, and Ansu left to cover Merlin’s shift.
• Ansu realized his temporary authority as Heaven’s Rotation Warden might let him alter the Deacon Promotion Exam questions, while Esoteric Cult Geniuses waited outside the Magic Guild to ambush him.
• Merlin gave Ansu his demigod body and left for a meeting with Demigod Rada on the Wilderness Plain, believing it was set for three in the afternoon.
• Ansu told Bishop Rada that Merlin would arrive at eleven instead, then claimed he had discovered the itinerary on his own.

Ansu experimented with his temporary Demigod Body in Heaven, testing how its magic amplified his spells and frightening Miss Bone with his sudden power. After exhausting himself and sleeping, he began his duties as Heaven's Steward and received a visit from Arthur, who announced a surprise for Merlin.

• Ansu adapted to Merlin's hairless Demigod Body, learned to walk in it, and found that moving strained his soul while magic remained easier to use.
• Ansu summoned Miss Bone, whose attempt to intimidate him collapsed when she recognized his demigod power and realized they were in Heaven.
• Ansu used his enhanced magic to improve Miss Bone's appearance and test his spells, then summoned an incomplete Guardian Angel with Judgment Light before canceling its judgment.
• Ansu dismissed Miss Bone and slept after his soul grew exhausted, then began his work as Heaven's Steward the next morning.
• Arthur arrived and told Merlin that Ansu and Liszt had arranged for him to have a demigod girlfriend.

As Heaven’s temporary steward, Ansu used Merlin’s authority to trick Arthur and Liszt into claiming credit for arranging Merlin’s supposed romance with Bishop Rada, promising both a reward. He then summoned the Magic Guild’s examiners and wrote impossibly difficult entrance-exam papers, leaving the Saints horrified.

• Ansu staged an aloof, back-turned audience with Arthur, who mistook his pose for Merlin’s eccentric habit and claimed credit for introducing Rada; Ansu promised him a reward the next day.
• Liszt also visited, assumed Merlin was urinating against the wind, and claimed half the credit for the introduction; Ansu promised him a reward as well.
• After Arthur and Liszt left, Ansu enjoyed his stewardship and summoned the Magic Guild’s exam-question setters to prepare for the Promotion Exam.
• Ansu wrote papers for the Seven Great Holy Sees by adapting questions from his previous life’s college entrance exam, covering subjects such as chemistry, politics, biology, and physics.
• The Saints read Ansu’s baffling questions and despaired, unable to understand how anyone could answer them.

Ansu used Merlin’s identity to make the Promotion Exam far harder, then spent his remaining time in Heaven training before meeting Cersei Milton. Cersei recognized Ansu despite his disguise and confronted him about why Merlin had entrusted him with Heaven.

• The Saints tried to persuade Ansu to make the exam passable, but he replaced the questions with harder ones and threatened to blame them if they interfered.
• Ansu revised the exam papers, and the Saints sent them to be printed while he gained strength from training in his Demigod Body.
• Cersei Milton arrived for a meeting Merlin had arranged and asked Ansu about Ansu Morningstar.
• Ansu praised himself while speaking as Merlin, but Cersei inferred that he was Ansu and asked why Merlin had left Heaven in his care.

Cersei identified Ansu beneath his disguise and tried to use his exam tampering to get the correct answers. Ansu silenced her, then traded her the answers for ancient magic scrolls before removing her from Heaven, while Cersei looked forward to facing him again in the official assessment.

• Cersei revealed that she knew Ansu was impersonating Heaven's Steward and threatened to expose his exam tampering unless he followed her advice.
• Ansu threatened to kill Cersei in the Naraku World and silenced her with his temporary steward authority when she prepared to fight back.
• Cersei surrendered and asked Ansu for the correct exam answers, explaining that she wanted full marks and considered culling Church members efficient.
• Ansu accepted damaged ancient magic scrolls from Cersei in exchange for the answers, and they signed a contract under Heaven's witness.
• Cersei broke free of Ansu's silencing spell early and told him she wanted to face him again during the official assessment.
• Ansu used his authority to remove Cersei from Heaven before Merlin's date began.

Ansu coached Merlin for a date with the demigod Rada, while Liszt and Arthur advised Rada on how to win Merlin over. The two arrived dressed according to their advisers’ suggestions, leaving Merlin and Ansu shocked by the mismatched romantic preparations.

• Ansu encouraged Merlin to prepare protection items and wear strong armor for his date, then persuaded him to replace his wig with a legendary holy knight helmet.
• Merlin sensed Rada’s arrival and met the bald demigod in the lavender field, where Rada introduced herself as Mijue.
• Merlin noticed Rada’s unusual outfit, and Ansu warned him that Rada had an expert adviser too.
• Earlier, Liszt and Arthur told Rada that Merlin truly liked him and advised him to wear only a diaper-like Holy Relic rather than his usual armor and weapons.
• Rada was shocked to hear that Merlin’s distance from him supposedly came from hidden affection.

Liszt and Arthur persuaded Bishop Rada that Merlin secretly loved him and coached Rada to court Merlin in a bizarre outfit. As Merlin’s date with Mijue spiraled into destruction, Ansu urged Merlin to reveal her true form with his Pure White Eyes, leaving Merlin confronted by a sight he would remember for a century.

• Liszt and Arthur convinced Bishop Rada that Merlin loved him and advised him to pose as a woman wearing only a diaper for their date.
• Ansu told Merlin to compliment Mijue’s outfit, and Merlin awkwardly praised her diaper’s breathability.
• Following Arthur’s advice, Mijue uprooted a hill and smashed it into the lavender field to display her strength to Merlin.
• Merlin considered accepting Mijue’s advances, but Ansu urged him to turn on his headlights and use his Pure White Eyes.
• Merlin illuminated Mijue and saw her true form, a sight he would remember as a personal hell for the rest of his life.

Merlin mistook Bishop Rada’s advances for a threat and unleashed a newly mastered branch of Judgment Light. Rada survived physically but lost part of his soul and his Root of Troubles, while Merlin’s forbidden magic was revealed as a way to keep its caster single.

• Lady Extinction’s transformed appearance horrified Merlin, and Liszt and Arthur mistook his murderous glare for desire.
• Liszt and Arthur credited themselves with arranging Merlin and Bishop Rada’s encounter, while Ansu denied responsibility and claimed credit for finding Rada’s hiding place.
• Ansu warned Merlin that Rada intended to capture him as Star Fury, and Rada began reaching for his diaper as his crimson hair started to return.
• Merlin broke through his magical bottleneck and cast the second effect of Judgment Light without a chant.
• The Holy Spear pierced Rada’s defenses and permanently severed his Root of Troubles, leaving his soul incomplete.

Ansu used Merlin and Rada’s battle as cover to conduct a forbidden sacrifice in heaven, using his temporary demigod body and taboo ritual materials to attract the Mother Goddess. After absorbing the radiance three times, Ansu became the sacrifice’s most fragrant offering as his body’s remaining time ran out.

• Merlin’s Divine-tier magic devastated Rada’s soul, leaving the demigod unable to keep fighting as Merlin prepared to finish the battle.
• Ansu stopped watching the fight and revealed that he had used his trip home to retrieve taboo materials for a sacrifice in heaven.
• Ansu and Miss Bone lit saint oil, arranged blasphemous bones and other ritual materials, and began preparing the altar.
• As his temporary demigod body started to dissipate, Ansu used the Radiance Irradiation Technique with Miss Bone’s Chant Magic to flood himself with twisted Holy Light.
• Ansu absorbed the radiance three times and became the most fragrant offering for the Mother Goddess.

Ansu transformed into a demigod Radiant Warrior and bluffed Ocean Bishop Bram into retreating from Heaven. He then unleashed forbidden knowledge on the invading Life Cultists and called down Judgment Light to attack them.

• Ansu merged with Twisted Holy Light and Merlin's radiance, gaining a Demigod Body as Miss Bone stayed beside him.
• Bram led Saints of Life and Esoteric Cult Geniuses through Heaven's Gate, expecting to seize Heaven while Merlin was away.
• Ansu posed as Xian Zong, claimed that he and Rada had taken over Merlin, and convinced Bram to order a retreat.
• Ansu projected bizarre forbidden knowledge into the invading cultists, disorienting the Esoteric Cult Geniuses and mutating the Deep Sea Fish.
• Ansu invoked Heaven's Authority and unleashed Judgment Light on the remaining Saints of Life.

Ansu used Judgment Light and Knowledge Radiation to strip the Life Cultists of their hair and resistance, turning many into willing sacrifices as a Saint Sacrificial Array ignited across Heaven’s Ladder. Bishop Bram realized Ansu intended to sacrifice them and tried to escape, but the chapter ended with the cultists kneeling beneath Ansu’s radiance as the ritual advanced.

• Ansu transformed into his demigod form and cast Judgment Light, summoning an angel whose blades shaved the cultists’ heads and severed their resistance.
• Ansu’s Knowledge Radiation overwhelmed many cultists during the third Sanity Check, while a hidden Saint Sacrificial Array lit beneath their feet.
• Bishop Bram recognized the array and realized Ansu had prepared to sacrifice the cultists, but the angel’s second blade and Ansu’s new knowledge weakened their will to flee.
• Ansu persuaded more cultists that being sacrificed was their purpose, and many mutated into fishlike beings and willingly prepared for the ritual.
• Bishop Bram attempted to escape as the sacrifice began, while Ansu completed his final chant and the cultists knelt beneath the angel’s radiance.

Ansu used Heaven’s sacrificial ritual to defeat the Life Church forces, drawing down the Mother Goddess of Life and sacrificing the cultists before offering himself as well. He returned to reality after the world mission ended, while the Church of Life’s Ocean faction was expelled and Heaven’s final mission remained incomplete.

• Ansu prepared the Life Cultists as ingredients and began a ritual that attracted the Mother Goddess of Life.
• Bram escaped his mutated Saint’s body and tried to persuade the wavering cultists that Ansu’s promises were false.
• Ansu offered himself to the Mother Goddess, causing the red moon to descend and convincing the cultists that his sacrifice was genuine.
• The red moonlight consumed the Esoteric Cultists, including three Saints of Life, while Bram escaped with the surviving Saints.
• Ansu reached Heaven’s summit, erased the traces of the sacrifice, and was swallowed by the red moonlight.
• Ansu returned to Narak as the Church of Life’s Ocean faction was expelled and the Heaven mission ended with its final mission incomplete.

After sacrificing himself in Heaven, Ansu Morningstar received his settlement and used the rewards to greatly increase his physical, spiritual, and magical strength. He earned a Divine Blessing that would let him serve as Heaven's Temporary Steward for another day after the revival period ended.

• Ansu saw a vision of his body being eaten at a cosmic feast, then met the Astral Envoy, who told him he could not return to Heaven for thirty days.
• Ansu received his evaluation and settlement, including an A rank for being delicious to the Mother Goddess of Life and an overall evaluation of B.
• Ansu spent his rewards on Baptism, raising his Warrior rank to Third-tier and his Soul Strength to Saint Mid-tier.
• The Radiant Holy Light raised Ansu's magic rank to Fourth-tier mid-level, making him a fifteen-year-old Fourth-tier Sorcerer.
• Ansu received a Divine Blessing: a Temporary Steward of Heaven Twenty-Four-Hour Experience Card, with the note, “One more time.”

Ansu returned from the Astral World with another one-day Temporary Steward of Heaven experience card, while the Astral Envoy refused his offer to take over the envoy position. As the Holy See Grand Examination registration began, Arthur claimed credit for Merlin’s chaotic night and went to collect a Divine-grade Second Circuit reward, unaware that Merlin intended it as punishment.

• The Astral Envoy saw that Ansu had received another Temporary Steward of Heaven experience card, and Ansu offered to cover his shift before the Envoy sent him back to reality.
• Ansu arrived at the Magic Guild on the first day of Holy See Grand Examination registration and watched candidates and reporters gather.
• Arthur boasted to reporters that he would place in the top five and claimed Merlin’s approval, while spreading a false story about Merlin fighting without pants.
• Merlin questioned Arthur about his role in introducing Rada and arranging the advice and costume ideas, and Arthur proudly admitted to everything.
• Merlin offered Arthur a one-day Second Circuit experience, then increased the reward to a week when Arthur asked for more.
• Arthur gave the reporters Ansu Morningstar’s name and offered to share some of his reward with Ansu, who declined and congratulated him as he headed upstairs to meet Merlin.

Ansu celebrated Arthur and Liszt winning longer punishments from Merlin, then discovered Esoteric Cult Geniuses were waiting to ambush him. He entered a deserted alley to face them and test his newly strengthened abilities.

• Ansu listened as Liszt told reporters that Merlin recommended urinating to improve a mage’s casting speed.
• After Ansu revealed Arthur had won a week-long reward, Liszt contacted Merlin and argued his own punishment up to one month by offering to introduce him to handsome strong men.
• Ansu encouraged Liszt and Arthur to attend Rada’s Transformation Magic exam that night, then watched Liszt head upstairs to Heaven.
• On his way home, Ansu sensed Esoteric Cult Geniuses hiding nearby and overheard them planning to possess him before the exam.
• Ansu entered a quiet alley without alerting the ambushers, intending to test his strength without Miss Maid’s help.

Ansu ambushed six Esoteric Cultists in a deserted alley, using pregnancy magic, a law that prevented abortion, and mutated Void creatures to overwhelm them. As the survivors fled and Ansu defeated Task Master, Chaos Ladder called the Order Holy See and falsely accused Ansu of public indecency and attempted murder.

• Six Esoteric Cultists followed Ansu into a secluded alley, but Chaos Ladder guessed that Ansu had entered to relieve himself and told them to wait for an opening.
• Ansu cast God's Blessing on the cultists, then used Starlight of Order to prevent Flower Blooms in Wealth from curing the pregnancy magic.
• Flower Blooms in Wealth summoned carnivorous flowers, but Ansu bribed them with more gold, causing them to retreat.
• Ansu accelerated the Void embryos and mutated them into fifth-tier Void Bat-Moths, which attacked the cultists and drove them to flee.
• Task Master tried to assassinate Ansu, but Ansu evaded him, struck him out of concealment, and left him unconscious under a Void Bat-Moth's attack.
• Chaos Ladder announced that he was calling the Order Holy See and shouted that Ansu had been peeing in public and was trying to kill the cultists who caught him.

Ansu defeated and captured seven Esoteric Cultists, while Chaos Ladder’s attempt to summon Order Knights failed because public urination had been excused after Merlin’s announcement. Ansu dragged the captives toward the Magic Guild to claim Devotion Points, planning to use them to obtain stronger offensive magic.

• Chaos Ladder loudly reported Ansu for public urination, but Order Priest Percy told his knights to ignore the report because Merlin did it too.
• The Void Bats overwhelmed the Esoteric Cultists, and Flower Blooms in Wealth explained that Ansu had supplied the newspaper with the story Chaos Ladder thought was part of a trap.
• Ansu disabled the defeated cultists, tied them up, and decided to turn them in to the Magic Guild for Devotion Points.
• Ansu reviewed his fourth-tier spell combinations and realized he needed stronger active offensive magic to prepare for fighting the Imperial Princess.
• Ansu dragged the seven captives through crowded streets toward the Magic Guild, drawing attention from citizens and dismaying Holy Knights who had caught fewer and weaker cultists.

Ansu humiliated the Regional Saints by bringing seven fourth-tier Esoteric Cultists to the Magic Guild and turned their capture into a bounty and a scheme involving Chaos Stairway. The chapter ended with Xialeng falling for Arthur and Liszt, while Ansu offered their contact information for Devotion Points.

• Ansu entered the Magic Guild dragging seven fourth-tier Esoteric Cultists, stunning the Regional Saints who had been boasting about their own hunts.
• Ansu made Priest Percy document his capture, and the Order Holy See identified the cultists as spies worth seven hundred Devotion Points.
• Ansu praised Chaos Stairway to provoke Chaos Ladder, prompting Priest Percy to place a four-hundred-point bounty on Chaos Stairway.
• Ansu arranged to take the cultists to his residence for interrogation, while Xialeng confidently approached him and asked after Liszt and Arthur.
• Arthur and Liszt descended from upstairs looking like beautiful women, and Xialeng fell for them as Ansu offered their contact information for one hundred Devotion Points each.