Chapter Summaries

Lin Nai wondered whether Herrscher Cores could evolve and decided to test the idea using Schicksal’s remaining Gems. He flew from the moon to Schicksal at light speed, where his landing wrecked the landing pad and sent him crashing into Otto’s office door.

• Lin Nai watched Kiana endure Durandal’s jeep training and learned that Bronya and the others had returned early.
• Lin Nai asked Kevin whether Herrscher Cores could evolve, then recalled how the Herrscher of Ice and Herrscher of Stars had fused into the Herrscher of Rimestar.
• Lin Nai decided to return to Schicksal and ask Otto for the Gem of Plague and Gem of Serenity for an experiment.
• Kevin told Mei that Lin Nai had transformed into a ball of light and flown away, and Mei agreed that Herrscher evolution was worth discussing with Mobius.
• Lin Nai flew to Schicksal at light speed, smashed into the landing pad, and then crashed into Otto’s office door.

Lin Nai retrieved the Gem of Plague and the Gem of Serenity from Nagamitsu's laboratory and brought them to the moon to investigate whether they could resonate with the current Herrschers. Mei suggested waiting for Mobius to arrive before beginning the experiments.

• Lin Nai told Otto he would need a few weeks to two months to finish his mission and collected the two gems from Nagamitsu's laboratory.
• Lin Nai returned to the moon and asked Kevin to serve as a target for his resonance experiments, tempting him with instant noodles.
• Kevin negotiated over the instant noodles and considered recruiting Su to serve as another target.
• Lin Nai took the Gem of Plague and the Gem of Serenity to Mei's laboratory so she could test their compatibility with Herrscher cores.
• Mei suggested waiting for Dr. Mobius to arrive, and Lin Nai was surprised that Mobius was coming too.

Lin Nai arranged for Mei to handle his experiment documents, then Mei and the others tested Kiana’s Herrscher abilities by having her attack Kevin. The test revealed that Kiana relied on her weapons and barely knew how to use the Authority of the Void Archon, so Lin Nai began demonstrating Herrscher powers.

• Mei teased Lin Nai about Mobius and Vill-V before he left her a huge pile of experiment documents and went to find Seele.
• Mei built a machine from Lin Nai’s documents to measure Herrscher energy fluctuations, and Kiana prepared to attack Kevin at full strength.
• Kiana struck Kevin with the Flame Lance in its Limit Break state, pushing him back more than ten meters and making his hand sore.
• Kevin explained that the test was meant to measure Herrscher power rather than Kiana’s full combat strength, and said the Previous Civilization had little data on the Herrscher of the Void.
• Kiana admitted that she mostly used the Void Archon’s Authority to make portals, so Lin Nai demonstrated constructing and dismissing weapons while Kiana explained her limited control.

Kiana brought Sirin to the moon to learn the Herrscher of the Void’s abilities while Kevin tested the current era’s Herrschers. After surviving their overwhelming attacks, Kevin faced Mei’s lightning strike as Seele considered combining thunder and flame.

• Kiana and Lin Nai realized they could not remember the Herrscher of the Void’s abilities, so Kiana summoned Sirin to ask her.
• Sirin initially refused to teach Kiana, but Kiana persuaded her by threatening to tell Cecilia about Sirin’s swearing.
• Kevin tested Bronya and was battered by her constructed Divine Keys, including a Star of Eden attack that Lin Nai interrupted.
• Mei struck Kevin with a pillar of crimson lightning, and Kiana applauded while Sirin tried to keep her focused on the lesson.
• Seele considered combining the Herrscher of Thunder’s authority with the Herrscher of Flame’s authority to create a mixed attack.

After Mei's tests showed no resonance, Lin Nai anticipated Dr. Mobius's arrival and was dragged away by Kiana and Bronya. Seele hesitated to join them, so Black Seele went to Lin Nai's room alone and knocked on the door.

• Mei finished testing the Herrschers and found no resonance, then told Lin Nai that Dr. Mobius and the others would probably arrive the next day.
• Kiana and Bronya dragged Lin Nai away, while Mei blushed and delayed joining them and Thunder Queen decided to wait for her chance.
• Seele and Black Seele planned to enter Lin Nai's room, but Seele grew hesitant about forcing her way in.
• Black Seele sent Seele away, then went alone to Lin Nai's room and knocked.
• Lin Nai opened the door.

Black Seele and Seele each disguised themselves as the other to visit Lin Nai, but their plans collided when Seele arrived while Black Seele was hiding in the wardrobe. Mei then knocked at the door, prompting Seele to hide beside Black Seele.

• Lin Nai recognized Black Seele beneath her disguise and invited her inside after explaining that Kiana had left with Sirin and Bronya was helping Tesla remotely.
• Black Seele pinned Lin Nai to the sofa, but Seele knocked at the door before she could kiss him.
• Seele arrived dressed as Black Seele, admitted she hoped to take things further with Lin Nai, and hid in the wardrobe when Black Seele was discovered inside.
• Mei called to Lin Nai from outside, and Seele hurried back into the wardrobe.

Mei visited Lin Nai and made her move, while Seele and Black Seele watched from hiding and debated joining them. Meanwhile, Vill-V, Mobius, Elysia, Sakura, and Ling traveled through space toward the moon, and Little Shix noticed a hawthorn-flower scent on Lin Nai.

• Mei arrived at Lin Nai's room and, encouraged by Kiana and Bronya, decided to form a Current Civilization Alliance with them.
• Seele found Black Seele hiding in her clothes, and the two argued over who had made the first move.
• Seele told Black Seele that Bronya had returned to her room to handle documents, then they watched Lin Nai and Mei together and considered joining them.
• Vill-V worked on an Anti-Lin Nai Armament while Elysia questioned her plans.
• Vill-V, Mobius, Elysia, Sakura, and Ling traveled through space, with Sakura bringing Ling's homework along.
• Little Shix found Lin Nai in the dining room and asked why he smelled like hawthorn flowers.

Lin Nai and Little Shix discussed the others’ whereabouts while Mei woke up after spending the night with Seele and Black Seele. Mei realized she had forgotten to call Thunder Queen, whose reaction suggested she would not take the omission lightly.

• Little Shix sensed that Seele and Mei had been together, then asked Lin Nai when her own turn would come.
• Lin Nai and Little Shix discussed Kiana’s Herrscher training, Bronya’s paperwork, and Mobius and the others arriving that day.
• Mei woke up with her hands tied and remembered that her game with Lin Nai had turned into a party with Seele and Black Seele.
• Mei learned that Seele and Black Seele had dressed in each other’s clothes as part of their plan to get ahead of each other.
• Mei realized she had forgotten to call Thunder Queen and tried to reassure herself that they were like sisters.

Mei and Thunder Queen agreed to work together to pursue Lin Nai, but the arrival of the Previous Civilization’s group delayed their plans. On the lunar spacecraft, Vill-V captured Lin Nai, only for Elysia and Sakura to confront her and Ling to fail in an attempt to rescue him.

• Thunder Queen confronted Mei about making a move on Lin Nai, and Mei persuaded her to team up instead.
• Mei pointed out that the Previous Civilization’s spacecraft had arrived, postponing their plans to pursue Lin Nai.
• Vill-V used a gadget based on the Herrscher of the Void’s core to teleport Lin Nai to a secluded corner of the spacecraft and tie him up.
• Elysia and Sakura entered armed and demanded that Vill-V hand Lin Nai over.
• Ling tried to carry Lin Nai away, but Sakura told her to put him down, and Ling fled.

At the Moon Base, Mei assigned the group tasks to prepare for the Cocoon of Finality, while Elysia and Sakura eyed Lin Nai after being told they could do as they pleased. Meanwhile, Kiana and the others began plotting to take Lin Nai back from the Previous Civilization.

• Smoke from Mobius’s escape device appeared beneath Lin Nai’s chair, and Mobius took him away during the chaos.
• After Mobius had her fill, Mei explained that they needed to strengthen Kiana and the others and convert Lin Nai and Bronya’s Honkai energy because they could not yet find the examination hall.
• Mei assigned Vill-V to build a device that could spread and convert Honkai energy, and asked Mobius to research how Herrschers could evolve.
• Mei told Elysia and Sakura they were free to do as they pleased, and they turned their attention toward Lin Nai.
• Kiana, Bronya, Wendy, and Black Seele plotted to get Lin Nai back, while Theresa questioned whether a rescue was necessary.

Kiana and the other Current Civilization Herrschers planned to take Lin Nai back from the Flame-Chasers, unaware that Theresa had already seized her own chance with him. Mei interrupted Kiana’s rebellion speech to announce that their plan was moving to its next stage.

• Wendy and Thunder Queen lamented that nearly everyone else had already been with Lin Nai, while Durandal remained in the training room.
• Kiana and the others failed to reach Lin Nai because Vill-V repeatedly used mechanisms and smoke bombs to spirit him away.
• Kiana proposed storming the Flame-Chasers’ quarters to take Lin Nai back, and Bronya corrected her rebellion slogan.
• Theresa concealed that she had taken Lin Nai from Mobius’s laboratory the previous night and tied him up with her authority.
• Mei arrived in the cafeteria and told Kiana that their plan needed to proceed to its next stage.

Mei sent the Herrschers into a trial meant to evolve their Herrscher Cores, while Kiana was transported to an illusion of the Sea of Quanta. There, she witnessed Kevin send an earlier version of Lin Nai flying into a World Bubble and left convinced she had discovered the reason Lin Nai teased Kevin.

• Mei excluded Theresa from the trial because Theresa's Authority of Restraint would let her win too easily.
• Mei's smoke transported Kiana and the others to another location, and Kiana found herself in a strange space she recognized as the Sea of Quanta.
• Kiana encountered illusory versions of Kevin and a younger Lin Nai, then watched Kevin use Heavenly Fire Judgment against Lin Nai.
• Kevin sent Lin Nai flying into a World Bubble, and Kiana decided to have Lin Nai modify her Flame Lance so she could hold a Flame Lance conference.

Kiana and Bronya fought Honkai Shadows in a strange part of the Sea of Quantum where they could not use their Herrscher authorities. After spotting the creatures rushing in one direction, they headed after them in hopes of finding Mei and the others.

• Kiana found that she could not open a spatial gateway and fought the endless Honkai Beasts with her Mebius Aura and weapons.
• Bronya arrived and helped Kiana defeat the creatures, explaining that they were Honkai Shadows in the Sea of Quantum.
• Bronya speculated that a World Bubble had broken through the boundary and turned part of the Sea of Quantum into its own satellite space.
• Bronya tried to use Kiana's intuition to choose a direction, but a Honkai Beast swallowed the coin before it landed.
• Bronya noticed the Quantum Shadows hurrying in one direction, and Kiana carried her and leaped after them across the creatures' heads.

Kiana and Bronya discovered Wendy fighting Honkai Beasts in the World Bubble, where Wendy’s training had brought out a surprisingly fierce side. When a Honkai Emperor appeared, Wendy fled and called for Lin Nai, and Kiana rescued her before she reunited with Kiana.

• Kiana and Bronya spotted Honkai Beasts attacking what seemed to be space.
• Wendy fell into the group of Honkai Beasts and tore through them with her bare hands.
• Bronya guessed Wendy had snapped after days of training and being told about the trial.
• Wendy began boasting about her strength, then ran from a Honkai Emperor and shouted for Lin Nai to save her.
• Kiana killed the Honkai Emperor with the Mebius Aura, and Wendy hugged her leg, saying she had missed her.

Wendy joined Kiana and Bronya after following a swarm of Honkai Beasts, and the three broke through a spatial gate into another part of the Sea of Quantum. They reunited with the Thunder Queen and Mei, but still had no clue what was causing the attacks or where to go next.

• Wendy explained that she had followed the Honkai Beasts after they ignored her, then helped Kiana and Bronya inspect the space they had surrounded.
• Kiana used the Mebius Aura to shatter the spatial gate, and the three entered before Mei and the others could join them.
• Kiana and Bronya landed safely in the Sea of Quantum, while Wendy tripped after landing.
• The Thunder Queen told Kiana, Bronya, and Wendy that Mei had gone to investigate nearby, and Mei soon returned.
• Bronya wondered whether Mei and the Thunder Queen's killing spree had caused the Quantum Shadows' attacks, but the group had no clear leads on what to do next.

Kiana's group reached the next trial and found Little Shix waiting as their examiner with a suspicious lucky-draw box. The chapter ended with the group recognizing the box's claim of an immortal's endorsement as a likely reference to Fu Hua's famously poor luck.

• Bronya noted that the trial's restrictions had stopped her from constructing weapons, while Seele could still use Herrscher powers through a ring made by Lin Nai.
• Kiana's group followed a series of explosions and found Seele testing her powers; Bronya suggested Seele had avoided suppression because her fused Herrscher powers met the trial's rules for evolution.
• Kiana, Bronya, and the others passed through a portal into a sealed room, where Wendy stopped Kiana from trying to break their way out.
• Little Shix appeared with a Xuanyuan Sword and announced that she would examine them in the next trial, explaining that she had lost at rock-paper-scissors.
• Kiana laughed when she read the lucky-draw box's promise of guaranteed wins, and the others fell silent as they connected its immortal endorsement to Fu Hua's bad luck.

Little Shix introduced a weapons lottery for the trial, forcing the group to rely on whatever prizes they drew. Seele won a Xuanyuan Sword fragment, and Little Shix revealed that she would need nine more to obtain the legendary sword.

• Crimson Kite's Wing explained that the participants could attack only with their Authorities and the weapons they drew from the box.
• Kiana drew a brick, Mei a hammer, and Bronya a screwdriver, while Black Seele received a lottery ticket for Seele's inflatable body pillow.
• Seele drew a golden Xuanyuan Sword fragment, which Kiana recognized.
• Little Shix called the fragment a one-in-ten-thousand reward and said Seele needed nine more fragments to obtain the Xuanyuan Sword.

Little Shix awarded Seele the Xuanyuan Sword and promised her a chance to possess Lin Nai, then began a trial that barred the group from using most of their powers and equipment. She launched the first attack by sending Kiana crashing into a wall.

• Little Shix explained the Xuanyuan Sword’s powers and offered Seele a day possessing Lin Nai if she collected its fragments, while Kiana protested.
• Vill-V remarked on Little Shix’s practiced persuasion, and the group realized Elysia and Lin Nai were missing.
• Little Shix announced that the group would fight her without using lottery items or other abilities such as the Mebius Aura and Divine Keys.
• Little Shix knocked Seele and Black Seele’s transformation props away and urged Seele to grow stronger so she could protect Lin Nai.
• Little Shix struck Kiana with Inch Strike: Heaven Shatterer, sending her into a wall.

During Little Shix’s fight with Kiana and the others, Kiana used her repeated blows to awaken a new power linked to Lin Nai. She transformed into Herrscher of the Void Kiana and fired a powerful combination attack as Little Shix fled.

• Little Shix repeatedly struck Kiana, and Kiana realized the blows seemed to loosen something within her.
• Bronya suggested Kiana take another hit, and Kiana used rolled soft armor before returning to the fight.
• Kiana asked Little Shix to hit her harder, and Little Shix’s punch sent her crashing into a wall.
• Little Shix intercepted a surprise spear attack, and Kiana emerged from the dust transformed as Herrscher of the Void Kiana.
• Kiana combined two bracers’ energy into a beam, and Little Shix ran away to escape it.

Kiana won the fight against Little Shix after awakening a stronger fusion of her Herrscher powers, earning a week alone with Lin Nai. Kiana then flaunted her new power until Bronya recovered her Herrscher of Reason Authority and challenged her.

• Kiana's attack struck a barrier, and Little Shix conceded the match, granting Kiana a week with Lin Nai.
• Lin Nai explained that Little Shix's mental Authority had helped Kiana awaken and fuse the powers of the Herrscher of the Void, the Herrscher of Sentience, and the Mebius Aura.
• Kiana showed off her new power to Bronya, who became furious at her boasting.
• Little Shix restored Bronya's Herrscher of Reason Authority after Bronya agreed to back her up.
• Bronya challenged Kiana, who taunted her and sent Bronya's anger soaring.