Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo incubated an Armed Puppet Pet Egg while Kiana remained unconscious, then accepted Durandal’s commission to revive Cecilia. Siegfried also asked Chen Luo to revive Cecilia and offered him permission to pursue Durandal, which became a separate commission.

• Chen Luo found that the Armed Puppet Pet Egg incubated faster when he held it and kept it close to himself.
• Chen Luo explained that Kiana was unconscious from severe mental exhaustion, and Durandal carried her back to her room.
• Durandal asked Chen Luo to revive her mother, Cecilia, and he accepted the commission while warning that he could not guarantee success.
• Siegfried offered Heavenly Fire Judgment and then permission to pursue Durandal in exchange for reviving Cecilia, but Chen Luo refused the weapon and accepted Siegfried’s commission.

Chen Luo sent Durandal and Rita to Schicksal Headquarters, where Rita recognized the armory involved in the theft, then confronted Theresa about Wendy and the Gem of Desire experiment. Theresa learned that Otto had been cruel to Wendy, leaving her furious.

• Chen Luo received a commission to revive Cecilia, while Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma left to report for their new teaching jobs at St. Freya Academy.
• Durandal asked Chen Luo to send her and Rita to Schicksal Headquarters so she could stab Otto, and Chen Luo opened a door into the armory.
• Rita recognized the armory as a site of the earlier theft and realized Chen Luo had been involved, while Durandal prepared to confront Otto.
• Chen Luo appeared in Theresa's office and questioned her about recommending Wendy for an experiment involving the Gem of Desire.
• Chen Luo told Theresa about the Herrscher of Wind and revealed Otto's cruelty toward Wendy, making Theresa angrily slap the desk.

Chen Luo agreed to rescue Wendy and arranged for Theresa to have her sent back to St. Freya Academy, while secretly steering Theresa toward commissioning Cecilia’s resurrection. He then received Theresa’s four-star commission and left the story preparing to handle his other tasks.

• Theresa worried about Wendy’s dangerous Herrscher Core experiments, and Chen Luo agreed to save her if Theresa asked Otto to send her to St. Freya Academy.
• Chen Luo gave Theresa a Commission Card and an envelope, telling her to wait ten minutes before opening it, then entered the Bar Door.
• Chen Luo had written that Theresa could make a wish to resurrect Cecilia, hoping to earn another commission from her.
• In Elysian Realm, Chen Luo asked Su to guess why his expression had changed, and Su inferred that someone had made a wish.
• Theresa opened the envelope after eight minutes and commissioned Chen Luo to resurrect Cecilia, earning him 1300 Primogems and an Advanced Random Reward.

Chen Luo discussed his resurrection wish with Su, who suggested using Grey Serpent to save people from the past and seeking Aponia for any messages from his future self. Elysia brought Chen Luo to The Deepest Place, warning him that his future self had once been afraid to see Aponia.

• Chen Luo told Su that he had received a wish to resurrect Cecilia and several other people, and Su suggested Grey Serpent could help through a loophole in time.
• Su reasoned that Aponia was the most reliable Flame-Chaser to hold information from Chen Luo’s future self.
• Elysia returned, said she had found Aponia, and pulled Chen Luo toward The Deepest Place after teasing him about their conversation.
• Chen Luo showed Elysia an Armed Puppet Pet Egg, but Elysia refused to reveal what it would hatch into.
• Elysia warned Chen Luo that his future self had once been afraid to see Aponia, then led him into the dark depths.

Chen Luo met Aponia in her prison and discovered that her Commandment triggered his talent panel to spend crystals whenever she tried to influence him. He added Aponia to his friend list after paying to unlock more slots, then struggled to explain why he feared her as she repeatedly used Commandment on him.

• Aili brought Chen Luo to meet Aponia, whose request to approach triggered Chen Luo's talent panel to spend a crystal and made him realize her Commandment could cost him crystals.
• Aili pushed Chen Luo toward Aponia, and their handshake prompted the panel to report that his friend slots were full.
• Chen Luo spent Primogems to unlock twenty friend slots and successfully added Aponia, whose profile listed Commandment and Threads of Fate as her S-rank talents.
• Aponia recognized Chen Luo as someone beyond the reach of fate and asked why he feared her, while her requests caused the panel to spend more crystals.
• Chen Luo told Aponia to stop saying please and admitted that he was afraid of Commandment, leaving Aponia puzzled.

Chen Luo retrieved a time-sealed treasure chest that his future self had left with Aponia and discovered it was Pardo’s buried treasure, along with a letter containing limited advice and two Soul Tear Drops. The letter warned him about Aponia’s crystal-draining Discipline, and Chen Luo glanced at her after reading it.

• Aponia repeatedly used Discipline while speaking with Chen Luo, consuming crystals that he hoped to earn back from her.
• Aponia brought Chen Luo a treasure chest his future self had entrusted to her, and Chen Luo used time power from its lock to open it.
• Aili recognized the chest’s contents as Pardo’s buried treasure, and the three agreed to keep its recovery from Pardo for now.
• Chen Luo found a letter addressed to himself and used time power to reveal its hidden writing.
• Chen Luo learned that the chest held two Soul Tear Drops and that his future self had dug up Pardo’s treasure, while the letter urged him to use random items and warned him to stay away from Aponia.

Chen Luo exchanged with Aili for two Soul Tear Drops and brought Aponia out of The Deepest Place into the Elysian Realm lobby. He then considered buying Aponia’s abilities and asked the talent panel whether they would be modified for him.

• Chen Luo negated Aponia’s Discipline and told her that his future self had warned her not to use it so often.
• Chen Luo accepted Aili’s exchange wish, received two Soul Tear Drops, and handed her the unreadable letter.
• Chen Luo examined the Soul Tear Drops and recognized them as items that could help a soul merge perfectly with a puppet.
• Aili complained that the letter was blank, and Chen Luo apologized before inviting Aponia to leave The Deepest Place with them.
• Chen Luo returned to the lobby with Aili and Aponia, then weighed whether to buy Aponia’s combined Discipline ability or Threads of Fate separately.
• The talent panel explained that Aponia’s Discipline and Destiny abilities were intertwined and that complex talents underwent conceptual modifications.

Chen Luo bought the discounted Precognitive Ability, and his puppeteer talent transformed it into Fate Threads that could manipulate destiny as well as observe it. He then examined his own fate and found two red threads, which he connected to the sleeping Herrscher of Knowledge.

• Chen Luo rejected the risky Discipline ability and decided to spend 4,500 crystals on the discounted Precognitive Ability.
• Aponia called the bar’s drink Holy Blood, which gave Chen Luo a new commission worth 200 Primogems.
• Chen Luo bought the ability and studied two Soul Tear Drops, marveling at their master-crafted quality while admitting he could not yet understand how to make one.
• The talent panel completed the modification, turning Precognition into the S-rank Fate Threads talent, which let Chen Luo observe destinies and manipulate their threads.
• Chen Luo examined his own Fate Threads and saw two red threads extending from his body, realizing the second was likely connected to the sleeping Herrscher of Knowledge.

Chen Luo explored his new Destiny Ability, which let him perceive and manipulate Fate Threads, and discovered that his foresight remained limited while he was still developing the power. After checking the threads in his home world and confirming his parents were connected to him, he tested the ability by flicking the little fox’s thread and making her fall off the sofa.

• Chen Luo compared his Fate Thread with the Herrscher of Knowledge’s and considered how his Destiny Ability connected his fate to the bar and other worlds.
• Chen Luo noticed he could not see his parents’ threads in the bar, so he left to check his home world and found threads belonging to both of them.
• Chen Luo spotted several severed Fate Threads and guessed they might belong to dead people before dismissing them.
• Chen Luo flicked the little fox’s Fate Thread, causing her to roll off the sofa, then returned to the bar.

Chen Luo tried to study the Friendship-Destroying Revolver’s guaranteed-hit ability, then answered a commission that brought him to Estelle and the witch Irena. As Estelle and Irena discussed work and their magical credentials, Irena learned Estelle was nineteen and claimed her own witch training had been faster.

• Chen Luo asked Aili to help test the revolver, but she recognized it as the weapon he had used to trick her and jabbed him in the kidney before storming off.
• A Commission Card summoned Chen Luo from the bar, and he found Estelle speaking with Irena, a white-haired witch he recognized from archived video materials.
• Estelle explained that she had invited Chen Luo to join their discussion because his spatial-transfer magic could help with their operation, while Irena agreed she wanted money but preferred not to work.
• Estelle asked Irena about her age and training, and Irena said she was eighteen and had become a witch at fourteen.
• Irena learned Estelle had become an apprentice witch at ten and a witch at nineteen, then boasted that she had become a witch two years faster.

Estelle recruited Irena and Chen Luo to help her travel ten years into the past and save Serena, Estelle’s former friend who became a serial killer. Irena agreed, Chen Luo explained his otherworldly abilities, and Estelle gave him basic magic books as an advance payment before preparing to cast the spell.

• Estelle offered Irena a bag of gold coins to accompany her ten years into the past, and Irena agreed after hearing the reward.
• Estelle explained how Serena’s abuse led her to become a serial killer and revealed that she had captured and executed Serena three years earlier.
• Estelle showed Irena the rings that would let them share magical power and explained that she had spent years sacrificing her blood to prepare for time reversal.
• Irena agreed to help Estelle, and Chen Luo revealed that he was a traveler from another world with unusually fast magical-power cultivation.
• Estelle warned that they would have only one hour in the past and gave Chen Luo basic magic books as an advance payment.

Estelle, Irena, and Chen Luo traveled ten years into the past so Estelle could prevent Serena’s parents from being killed. Their attempt began with Estelle embracing young Serena, while Chen Luo sensed something troubling about the girl.

• Estelle used the magic-gathering device to send herself, Irena, and Chen Luo ten years into the past, and Chen Luo learned more about using the time element.
• The three confirmed they had arrived in the past and learned they had only until the five o’clock bell to act.
• Estelle explained that they planned to evacuate Serena’s parents and stop the cloaked robber before he killed them.
• Chen Luo saw that Estelle faced severe physical and mental harm in the coming hour, while Irena would suffer emotionally but remain safe.
• Estelle abruptly left the planned route, rushed to young Serena, and tearfully embraced her.
• Chen Luo sensed something troubling while using his mind-reading ability on Serena.

Chen Luo realized that Serena was destined to become a serial killer, making Estelle’s commission to save her a moral dilemma rather than a simple rescue. He chose to watch events unfold as Estelle lured Serena’s parents away and the group prepared to confront the supposed bandit.

• Estelle hugged Serena, then left her unsettled; Chen Luo sensed the malice hidden beneath the girl’s innocent appearance.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge woke and concluded Serena could not be saved, while Chen Luo discovered that intervening could change her fate but might require erasing her personality or letting her die.
• Chen Luo considered the consequences of completing or abandoning the commission and decided to observe the events before acting.
• Sixteen minutes later, Estelle used her resemblance to her younger self to lure Serena’s parents away, while Chen Luo and Irena waited in an alley.
• Irena reviewed the plan to ambush the black-cloaked bandit and admitted she was nervous about facing a real killer.

Chen Luo and Irena discussed travel while watching for Estelle and the bandits, and Irena offered him advice from her mother. After learning that Serena had killed her parents and that Estelle was heading toward another tragedy, Chen Luo teleported himself and Irena to intervene.

• Chen Luo told Irena he had killed one person, while she admitted she had never killed anyone.
• Chen Luo explained his pet egg and summoned his bar, impressing and frustrating Irena with how easily his abilities solved travel problems.
• Irena gave Chen Luo her mother's advice: run from danger, remember he was no more special than others, and return home after traveling; she also urged him to protect those he cherished.
• Chen Luo revealed he had discovered Serena was her parents' killer and that Estelle had never been Serena's true friend, despite her devotion.
• When Irena's ring glowed to signal that Estelle was using magic, Chen Luo grabbed Irena and teleported them toward the impending tragedy.

Chen Luo trapped Estelle, Irena, and Serena in a realistic illusion that revealed Serena had killed her parents and would attack them, then explained that the illusion showed what would have happened without him. Estelle’s fury led her to commission Chen Luo to kill Serena, leaving him to consider the unusually generous reward.

• Chen Luo’s illusion showed Serena killing her parents, stabbing Estelle, and attacking Irena after revealing her abuse and her desire to kill.
• Irena awoke from the illusion, and Chen Luo explained that he had recreated a possible outcome without controlling anyone’s actions.
• Estelle learned that Serena had never considered her a friend and demanded that Irena lend her a wand so she could kill Serena.
• Irena hesitated, unwilling to let Estelle kill the girl she had traveled back in time to save.
• Estelle commissioned Chen Luo to kill Serena in exchange for 400 Primogems, an Advanced Random Reward, and Estelle’s magic knowledge.

Chen Luo refused Serena’s request to kill the witnesses and rejected a commission that would have required him to kill her. He left Serena’s fate to chance, and she died after tripping onto her own knife.

• Chen Luo restrained Serena and put Estelle to sleep, then asked Herrscher of Knowledge to change Estelle’s memories.
• Chen Luo refused to alter Estelle’s past by making her save Serena and declined Serena’s commission to kill the witnesses.
• Chen Luo saw that Serena’s fate was splitting between becoming a murderer and dying, and told Irena there was no time to take her to prison.
• Chen Luo removed his threads and started to leave with Irena, while Serena charged after him and tripped on her mother’s hand.
• Serena fell onto her upright knife, which pierced her heart and killed her.

After the commission ended, Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge cleaned Serena’s traces from Estelle’s room and preserved her memories. Chen Luo left Irena grieving but gave her a way to visit his bar before preparing to depart.

• Chen Luo explained that his use of Destiny Ability had severed the dying target’s Fate Threads, and the Clock Tower bells transported the group away.
• Irena rushed out of Estelle’s room, leaving Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge to clear away Serena’s photos and other reminders.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge removed Estelle’s memories of Serena and gave the memory fragment to Chen Luo to store for possible return.
• Chen Luo left Estelle’s Magic Sharing Ring in place, duplicated it with Void Archive, and asked the Herrscher of Knowledge to invent an explanation for Estelle.
• Chen Luo found Irena crying alone, retrieved her hat, and sent her a bar invitation card with his Wind Element before leaving.

Chen Luo mistook a newly arrived Irena for another version of her from a different timeline, then explained their recent encounter and asked her to comfort the other Irena. The new Irena agreed to help, though she admitted she did not know what to say.

• Chen Luo returned to the bar, sent the Herrscher of Knowledge to the Elysian Realm, and prepared to study a Soul Tear Drop.
• Irena entered the bar, but Chen Luo realized she was not the Irena he had just met and put away the hat he had brought out.
• Irena questioned Chen Luo about knowing her and possessing her hat, so he explained that he had met an Irena from another timeline.
• Chen Luo recited Irena's three pieces of travel advice, convincing her that he had truly met another version of her.
• Chen Luo told Irena the other version was heartbroken and might become withdrawn or irritable, then asked her to comfort her.
• Irena agreed to try to comfort the other Irena but said she did not know how to persuade her.

Chen Luo sent Irena tumbling from the Bar Door to make an unconventional entrance and help comfort another version of Irena. After Irena Number Two angrily confronted him, he offered compensation, and the two Irenas settled in at the bar.

• Chen Luo told Irena about the Incense Witch and carved a figurine designed to absorb negative emotions.
• Chen Luo stole Irena's wand and shoved her from the Bar Door, where a gust of wind caught her before she hit the ground beside Irena Number One.
• Irena's wand fell onto her head, and Chen Luo closed the Bar Door, satisfied with her unconventional entrance.
• Irena returned to the bar with Irena Number One and threw a tree and the figurine at Chen Luo, who was unharmed by the bar's protections.
• Chen Luo offered Irena compensation, including a free request and food at the bar, and she accepted after drinking black tea.

Chen Luo hosted two Irenas from different timelines, earned commissions from their orders, and helped them synchronize their worlds’ time. After they left, he wondered whether he and Herrscher of Knowledge should have taken money from Serena’s wealthy parents.

• Chen Luo returned Senior Irena’s hat and reminded her to keep Estelle from learning about Serena, since he had altered Estelle’s memories.
• Chen Luo compared the two Irenas’ affection discounts, adjusted their worlds’ time for 20 Primogems, and served them a meal that earned him commissions.
• Chen Luo showed the Book of Cang Xuan an Armed Puppet Pet Egg and insisted that Armed Puppets hatched from eggs, telling it to ask Fu Hua if it doubted him.
• The two Irenas packed croissants to take away, and Senior Irena borrowed gold coins from Irena after running out of money.
• Chen Luo asked Herrscher of Knowledge whether they should have taken money from Serena’s wealthy parents, and she told him he could go back and do it.