Chapter Summaries

Ansu completed the Druid room with a perfect score and earned an SS+ World Impact rating, drawing attention from the spectators and concern from Cersei’s supporters. He entered the Radiant Holy See room, where Merlin had secretly raised the difficulty to Saint-tier, and learned he had to defend the Saintess at Dawn Church until her prayer ritual was complete.

• Ansu scored ten points in the Druid room, bringing his total to twenty and rising to second place behind Cersei.
• Ansu and Luo Xiaohei looted the examination room’s unused potion materials while Count Carlo watched in embarrassment.
• Merlin revealed that he had set a harder question for Ansu and Cersei, after accepting Count Carlo’s payment to raise the difficulty.
• Ansu entered the Radiant room and survived an assassin’s sudden attack, then countered with holy-water-infused blood mist and a powerful kick.
• The Astral announced that Ansu’s room was Saint-tier difficulty, and he identified his attacker as a Fourth-tier Stitched Life.
• Ansu learned that he was a Radiant Paladin at Dawn Church and had to protect the Radiant Saintess until her prayer ritual was complete.

Ansu fought off the first Stitched Life attack and killed the Human Centipede using Luo Xiaohei as an improvised sword. When he reached Dawn Church to meet his teammate, he found Maria dead and Saint Number Nineteen, Cersei Milton, standing over her.

• Ansu used martial arts to hold back the Human Centipede, then turned Luo Xiaohei into an improvised weapon and killed it.
• Merlin learned that a new candidate had entered the room and requested that magical surveillance be blocked.
• Ansu decided the room was a tower-defense challenge and headed to Dawn Church to plan with his teammate.
• Ansu broke open the church doors and found Maria dead in a pool of blood.
• Cersei Milton greeted Ansu, and the Astral Envoy announced that she had killed Maria.

Cersei killed the Saintess of Dawn as soon as she entered Dawn Church, then proposed taking her place to complete the ritual. Ansu agreed to become Cersei’s personal knight and defend her while she performed it.

• Cersei entered Dawn Church, recognized the mission to protect the Saintess of Dawn, and stabbed Saintess Maria through the heart.
• Cersei declared that she would become the Saintess of Dawn and asked Ansu to serve as her Guardian Knight.
• Cersei explained that her version of the Dawn Ritual would take three hours instead of six, letting them avoid the later, more difficult stages of the mission.
• Ansu realized Cersei could use the completed ritual to kill Stitched Monsters and gain the mission’s points without fighting them himself.
• Ansu agreed to guard Cersei while she performed the ritual, becoming her personal knight.

Ansu and Cersei concealed Maria’s death by turning her holy blood into an Epic sword before the second attack began. Ansu headed to the tower with Luo Xiaohei, whose catlike body he used as a sword, and faced a swarm of third-tier Banshee Crows as the battle appeared on the plaza’s Magic Screen.

• Cersei asked Ansu to clean up the blood after killing Maria, and Ansu forged the Dawn Redemption Long Blade from the Saintess’s holy blood.
• Cersei and Ansu shared a genuine moment of amusement before Ansu left the church carrying Maria’s corpse and the new sword.
• Ansu told Luo Xiaohei he did not trust Cersei but had left her a hidden gift, and Luo Xiaohei agreed to cooperate with him.
• Ansu turned Luo Xiaohei into the Sword Cat, then walked toward the tower as the second attack arrived.
• The crowd watched Ansu fight a vast swarm of third-tier Banshee Crows with the Dawn Redemption Long Blade, mistaking its cries for a holy sword’s sacred spirit.

Ansu fought Merlin’s successive monster attacks with the Redemption Holy Sword, then used City of Free Radiance and Holy Light Eulogy to turn the battle into a self-sustaining war against the Stitched Life creatures. As the Chaos Frontier’s forces overwhelmed the battlefield, the Wood Elves of the Fairy Legislative Council appeared and called the Banshee Crows “Uncool Men.”

• Ansu and Luo Xiaohei killed twenty Banshee Crows, but Luo Xiaohei became dizzy and stopped helping as Merlin unleashed Corpse Worms and Stitched Faces alongside the remaining crows.
• Ansu cast City of Free Radiance, transforming the battlefield into Hellfire Street and summoning Chaos Frontier citizens who mistook the Stitched Life creatures for Ansu.
• Ansu ordered the Chaos citizens to attack, and they battled the Banshee Crows, Corpse Worms, and Stitched Faces while his kill count rose.
• Ansu cast Holy Light Eulogy, restoring his Magic Power whenever an Esoteric Cultist died and allowing him to sustain his domain and its forces.
• The Wood Elves of the Fairy Legislative Council emerged beneath the ground, saw the Banshee Crows, and shouted that the sky was full of “Uncool Men.”

Ansu used the Chaos Legislative Council and his City of Free Radiance to annihilate the first wave of Stitched Lives, then concealed the domain’s sacrificial potential. With the next attack approaching from multiple locations, he and Luo Xiaohei prepared to use materials from the Druid and Forest Room to reveal the true power of dawn.

• Ansu summoned the Chaos Legislative Council, whose Silence Domain disabled weaker chant-based magic and whose Chaos Unequal edict empowered its members to slaughter the Stitched Lives.
• Ansu sustained City of Free Radiance with magic recovered through the deaths of enemies, but chose not to sacrifice the Stitched Lives or expose that hidden use of the spell.
• The Artificial Astral announced that Ansu had defeated the first-stage attackers and that the next wave would arrive in twenty minutes.
• The Chaos Legislative Council mistook Luo Xiaohei for an Ansu and nearly attacked her before deciding she was only a cat; the Wood Elves then grabbed her and overwhelmed her with affection until Ansu dispelled the domain.
• Ansu told Luo Xiaohei that the second attack would target multiple locations, and he planned to use the high-tier druid materials they had moved from the Druid and Forest Room to reveal the true use of dawn.

Ansu prepared to defend Dawn Church against the Life Cultists’ second-stage attack from two opposite locations by turning Holy Light and Saintess’s Blood into rapidly multiplying alchemical demon seeds. As the attack approached, he transformed into a Radiant Giant and scattered the seeds toward the tower and chapel, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Luo Xiaohei reluctantly joined Ansu in basking in Holy Light while he recovered before the next stage.
• Cersei told Ansu that attackers had shattered the barrier at the northern chapel, leaving the church threatened from opposite directions.
• Ansu gathered alchemical demon seeds and used Saintess’s Blood and corrupted Holy Light to make them sprout and multiply.
• Ansu transformed into a Radiant Giant and scattered the multiplying seeds toward the tower and chapel as the second-stage attack neared.

Ansu used his Dawn Giant form to mutate Druid seeds into defenses against Merlin’s second-stage Stitched Life attack. The Toe Worms chewed through the Saintess Fruit barrier, but Ansu prepared another batch of magic seeds and threw them around the breach.

• Ansu transformed into the Dawn Giant and scattered radiance that warped magic seeds planted around the tower and chapel.
• Merlin unleashed fast, powerful Toe Worms, which crushed Ansu’s first wave of plants as they charged toward the church.
• Ansu grew Gluttony Fruit into Saintess Fruit, whose holy juice weakened the Toe Worms when they ate it.
• Ansu planted thorn seeds that became Saintess’s Foot Massage Mats, piercing the Toe Worms as they ate through the fruit barrier.
• The audience cheered the suffering Toe Worms as they gnawed a hole through the Saintess Fruit, and Ansu threw a third batch of seeds around the opening.

Ansu defeated Merlin’s Toe Monsters with spiked Saintess Pumpkin Heads, but Merlin unleashed the plague-carrying Mother of Toes and their Athlete’s Foot Wind, which began destroying Dawn Church’s defenses. Ansu countered by using Holy Light magic to summon resentful souls into the collected monster corpses, creating a virtual undead army.

• Ansu transformed the remaining Saintess Fruit into spiked Saintess Pumpkin Heads, and the Toe Monsters died trying to eat through them.
• Merlin unleashed two Mother of Toes, whose Athlete’s Foot Wind infected the battlefield, withered Ansu’s plants, and threatened to overrun Dawn Church.
• Luo Xiaohei retrieved the fallen monsters’ corpses while Ansu explained that dead bodies would resist the living-targeting plague.
• Ansu cast Resurrection of the Dead, drawing souls from the River of Life into the monster corpses.
• Ansu named the animated corpses his army of Suit Actors.

Ansu turned Merlin’s athlete’s-foot calamity back on the Cult of Life by raising undead inside Saintess Face wind machines and blowing the yellow fog toward the enemy. As the calamity advanced on Corpse Fortress, Robus’s army was forced to defend its headquarters with only an hour and a half until dawn.

• Robus ordered the Mothers of Toes to attack Dawn Church with their poisonous yellow wind after the first Stitched Life vanished inside the church.
• Ansu used holy-light necromancy to raise Soldier Captain Sharp and the Pain Squad in Stitched Face bodies fitted with Saintess-brand fans.
• Ansu’s six Saintess Faces blew the athlete’s-foot fog back toward the Life Cultists, killing thirty front-line soldiers and forcing Robus to order a retreat.
• Ansu hurled the Saintess Faces toward Corpse Fortress, making the undead carry the advancing calamity toward the Life Cultists’ headquarters.
• Robus realized Corpse Fortress could not protect his forces from the athlete’s-foot calamity as Ansu prepared to drive it farther toward the fortress.

Ansu’s calamitous yellow wind devastated Corpse Fortress, but Merlin’s nonexistent sanctuary interior kept it from reaching the Life workshop. After Cersei blocked Ansu from entering the Dawn Church, he welcomed the open confrontation and prepared to use his own hidden advantage.

• Ansu sent the Saintess-brand fans’ yellow wind through Corpse Fortress, poisoning and killing more than half the Life Cultists while Merlin’s Air Wall kept the sanctuary and Life workshop safe.
• Merlin revealed that the sanctuary could not be entered because he had never built its interior, preventing Ansu from destroying the workshop or stopping Stitched Life production.
• Ansu checked his mission score, then redirected the wind across Corpse Fortress and raised his score to six points before the second-stage attack ended.
• With dawn fifty minutes away, Ansu dismissed the Dawn Giant and returned to the Dawn Church to recover his Magic Power and Holy Light.
• Cersei’s Saint Rank barrier stopped Ansu at the church doors, and her message asked him not to interrupt her prayer ritual.
• Ansu recognized Cersei’s move as an attempt to weaken and isolate him, then smiled because he had secretly prepared a gift of his own.

Ansu sealed Cersei’s Holy Light Wall instead of breaking it, convincing the observers that he meant to protect the church. He revealed that he had trapped a Flower Fairy mosquito inside with Cersei, leaving her unable to interrupt her ritual or escape the sealed room.

• Ansu swore he would guard the church and reinforced the Holy Light Wall, eliminating its weak point and sealing the doors more tightly.
• Luo Xiaohei questioned Ansu’s motives, while the nobles and spectators began to believe he had genuinely chosen to defend humanity.
• Ansu explained that Cersei could not move or lose focus during the ritual’s final stage, so he had sealed the escape route she had left.
• Ansu revealed that he had secretly left a Flower Fairy mosquito inside the church with Cersei as his promised gift.
• Luo Xiaohei realized that Ansu’s oath meant he would refuse to open the doors even if Cersei begged, and she worried he might target her next.

As Cersei neared the end of her Dawn Ritual, Ansu’s enhanced mosquito disrupted her concentration, while Merlin accelerated the final calamity. The Life Sanctuary unleashed waves of living Stitched Life forms, and the Azure Witch awoke as the assault began.

• Ansu sealed Dawn Church’s windows and doors, then used Life Incense to strengthen the Flower Fairy trapped inside with Cersei.
• Cersei focused on completing the Dawn Ritual, but the Flower Fairy’s buzzing and bites repeatedly distracted her.
• Merlin interfered with the Worldline and brought forward the calamity originally expected during the sixth stage.
• Robus and the other cultists in Corpse Fortress were fused into Life Slugs that surged toward Dawn Church.
• The Astral reported errors as Stitched Life forms poured through three regions, and the Azure Witch opened her eyes inside the nonexistent sanctuary.

The Azure Witch awakened early, recognized the Artificial Naraku World as false, and triggered an unstoppable collapse. With the broadcast cut off and a new mission requiring her elimination before dawn, Ansu greeted the crisis with an idea.

• The Azure Witch woke outside the cathedral, noticed the timeline discrepancy, and declared the world and herself fake, causing warnings and World Collapse.
• Old Man of the Forest demanded that Merlin end the exam, but Merlin defended his experiment and ordered it to continue, trusting Ansu to handle the disaster.
• The collapse spread through the exam world, cut off the broadcasts from Rooms Sixteen and Nineteen, and alarmed the gathered nobles.
• Elvera sensed the Azure Witch's awakening and learned that the Cult of Life's history was tied to her, then received a mission to eliminate the Azure Witch before dawn within thirty minutes.
• Ansu asked whether surveillance had been cut off, then smiled and announced that he had an idea.

Cersei abandoned the Dawn Ritual when the world’s surveillance vanished, and its backlash destroyed the church as she began slaughtering the invading Life Slugs and headed toward the Azure Witch. Ansu rejected Luo Xiaohei’s suggestion to repair the world’s error and instead found the buried body of Maria, the Saintess of Dawn, declaring that he would make the error reach its zenith.

• Cersei realized the Dawn Ritual could not destroy the living creatures made by the Azure Witch, then interrupted her prayers and was swallowed by the ritual’s backlash as the church became a sea of light.
• Luo Xiaohei watched Life Slugs breach the church’s defenses, while Cersei emerged from the blood mist and cut down the creatures before confronting the Azure Witch.
• Ansu told Luo Xiaohei that he would exploit the world’s errors instead of repairing them, then returned to the ruined church and searched among its remains.
• Ansu found Golden Trumpet Flowers and dug up Maria’s body, which Cersei had secretly buried beneath them.
• Ansu took a Golden Trumpet Flower from Maria’s grave and declared, “Let this world’s error reach its zenith!”

As the Azure Witch’s battle with Cersei damaged Artificial Naraku, Ansu exploited the failing system’s weakened restrictions and began a Life Magic ritual. Instead of summoning the Azure Witch, he called forth Miss Bone, leaving the watching Saintesses stunned.

• The Azure Witch overwhelmed the battlefield with Life Magic while Cersei fought her Stitched Life, and Ansu realized the Witch’s presence was causing Naraku’s laws to collapse.
• Ansu confirmed he could use Life Magic despite the examinees’ Holy Light restriction, then told Luo Xiaohei he intended to make dawn descend again.
• Ansu began a Life Magic ritual beside the Saintess of Dawn’s body, and the damaged Artificial Astral warned him to stop as the world’s error level rose.
• Ansu invoked the Azure Witch’s name and called for her to awaken, startling Luo Xiaohei and drawing the attention of Cersei, the Azure Witch, the Imperial Princess, and the Chaos Saintess.
• Miss Bone emerged from the altar, greeted Ansu as Boss, and announced that she was ready for duty.

Ansu summoned Miss Bone, revealing to the Azure Witch that her future self had become an eager technician devoted to him. The revelation and their mutual embarrassment briefly lowered the world’s collapse, but the Azure Witch’s anger drove it toward disaster again as she attacked Ansu and Cersei.

• Miss Bone appeared before Ansu and saluted him, while the Azure Witch and Cersei realized she was the Azure Witch’s future self.
• The Azure Witch’s embarrassment over Miss Bone’s behavior weakened her will, slightly reducing the Error Factor even as the paradox of two Azure Witches increased the collapse.
• Luo Xiaohei decided Miss Bone’s behavior made her the cult’s true evil Saintess, while Miss Bone recognized the Azure Witch as her younger self in an artificial world.
• The Azure Witch saw Ansu as the star connected to her future, but Miss Bone cringed at her younger self’s dramatic words and Ansu read aloud from his notebook.
• Miss Bone’s embarrassment reduced World Collapse to ninety percent, but the Azure Witch grew angry and unleashed Stitched Life forms at Ansu and Cersei.
• Ansu calmly shielded Miss Bone and Cersei as the broken world began to collapse around them.

Ansu used Holy Light to whip Miss Bone in an effort to make her feel intense emotions and qualify her for Resurrection of the Dead, while the Azure Witch fought Cersei and pushed the world toward collapse. The Azure Witch turned on Ansu, but Cersei stepped between them and claimed him as her future prey.

• Ansu explained that Bone could qualify for Resurrection of the Dead if he made her feel intense emotions, then summoned a Holy Light whip and began whipping her.
• The Azure Witch used her Living Spirit Technique to overwhelm Cersei, draining the resurrected dead and sacrificing them to replenish her magic.
• The Azure Witch defeated Cersei and turned her attention toward Ansu, hoping to devour him and escape the false historical fragment.
• Ansu's whipping of Bone caused the World Collapse level to fall from 98% to 96%, while the Azure Witch and Cersei reacted with shock.
• The Azure Witch threatened to kill Ansu, but Cersei blocked her and declared that Ansu was her future prey.

Ansu used Holy Light to summon Miss Bone, whipped her until her shame could anchor a resurrection, and dismissed her before attempting to bring her back through the River of Life. As the Error World neared collapse and Cersei held off the Azure Witch, Ansu called the Azure Witch’s name to awaken her through the Saintess of Dawn’s body, but the Saintess remained unresponsive as twilight fell.

• Outside the Error World, the church’s surveillance failed as the collapse level reached 95%, while the spectators feared for Ansu and Cersei.
• Ansu whipped Miss Bone until her shame created an emotional anchor, then dismissed her summoning spell so she would return to the River of Life.
• Cersei continued fighting the Azure Witch at the Dawn Church, and the collapse level rose to 96% as Ansu headed for the ruins with Luo Xiaohei.
• Ansu reached the Saintess of Dawn beneath the Radiant Goddess’s statue and used its Holy Light to replenish his power for a resurrection attempt.
• Ansu recited the Azure Witch’s secret incantation and called her name across the River of Life, but the Saintess of Dawn remained still as the Error World entered twilight.

Ansu performed a Revival Ritual by sacrificing his own body to awaken the Azure Witch through the River of Life. As the worldline repaired itself, Miss Bone awakened as the Saintess of Morningstar, with one azure eye and one deep-blue eye.

• The Azure Witch attacked Dawn Church, shattered the sky, and drove the World Error Degree toward total collapse.
• Ansu realized his weak Emotional Anchor Point could only let Miss Bone sense him, so he planned to use his own blood and flesh as the ritual’s sacrifice.
• Ansu cut open his body and performed the Revival Ritual while Cersei blocked the Azure Witch from interfering.
• Ansu entered the Azure Witch’s soul through the River of Life and invited her into the world, where she accepted his offered hand and devoured his flesh.
• Ansu and Azure commanded the dead to rise, repairing the worldline and reducing the World Error Degree.
• Miss Bone opened her eyes as the Saintess of Morningstar, with Azure’s color in her left eye and Morningstar’s deep blue in her right.