Chapter Summaries

Su Wen’s group completed Krosan’s antibody research and prepared to rescue people in the Eternal Night Kingdom. Shelly led the assault on a church and identified herself to the frightened survivors as the heir to the late Border Count.

• Su Wen checked on Klosan, offered to obtain Progenitor Virus data, and let her sleep while he kept watch.
• Krosan reported that the SDYUK-2 antibody had stabilized and could likely treat lightly infected people, though not those deeply transformed by the Black Tide.
• Su Wen and his companions decided to act before the remaining time ran out.
• Su Wen rang the church bells thirteen times, causing the cultist guards to fall asleep.
• Shelly and the Steam Guard survivors stormed the church, defeated the cultists, and urged the captives to disguise themselves and board a steam train.
• Shelly removed her helmet and told the child she was the acting captain of Team 74 and the sole heir of Josephdak Meredith.

Su Wen and Shelly infiltrated the royal city disguised as Dormant Sect cultists while survivors prepared to escape by steam train. They discovered the cultists were preparing a citywide ritual, and Su Wen coordinated the next move as it began to unfold.

• Su Wen told Klosan to oversee treatment for the infected and evacuate the elderly and children while he took Shelly to the Astrology Room.
• Su Wen gave Shelly a Disguise Insignia and cultist robes, then explained how they would pass as followers of Eternal Slumber Chorazin.
• Terry Vicon warned Klimdam that a dragon had frozen the infected on the Signo Great Plain and urged him to begin the Great Dormant Sacrifice.
• Klimdam ordered the ritual to proceed, unaware that Su Wen, Shelly, and other infiltrators had taken positions among the cultists.
• Klosan reported that the survivors had blended into the steam train, and Su Wen told Lundell to act when the ritual began.

Su Wen used the Mist Card “Black Tide Between Doors” to distort the Slumber ritual in the observatory, unleashing a vast growth of deep-blue thorns across much of the royal city. After escaping, he discovered that Shelly had been selected by Slumber and that her life-tier limit had been broken.

• Su Wen and Shelly posed as Dormant Sect believers during the observatory’s Slumber ritual, while Su Wen waited for the right moment to intervene.
• Su Wen activated the Mist Card “Black Tide Between Doors,” which transformed the ritual’s Slumber energy into a spreading thorn-based trait.
• Deep-blue thorns overwhelmed the observatory, caused the priest to collapse, and covered nearly a quarter of the royal city.
• Su Wen left the observatory and noted that the cultists had lost their connection to the Lord of Slumber and that much of the stored energy had been consumed.
• Su Wen identified Shelly as selected by Slumber and discovered that the Thorn Crown had broken the life-tier limit of her “Never Revived” trait.

Su Wen protected Shelly as she began her Abyssal Sublimation, while the group disrupted the Dormant Church’s plans and unleashed a mechanical riot across the royal city. With the first phase of the Web Weaving Plan nearly complete, Su Wen prepared to begin the second phase of the Salvation Plan.

• Su Wen protected Shelly from Black Tide pollution as her Sublimation Lineage activated, and he told Lundell that she might help rewrite the Eternal Night Kingdom’s history.
• Klimdam discovered that another god had interfered with the Great Dormant Sacrifice, while Terry Vicon warned him about an infiltrating force and sent a shadow to investigate.
• Jiang Menghan watched the Thorn Throne spread, and Misha and Nosis opened the mechanical gates to send awakened reclamation machines rampaging through the royal city.
• The machines destroyed buildings and attacked cultists, disrupting their plans and killing some who had lost their spiritual energy.
• Su Wen announced that the first phase of the Web Weaving Plan was nearly complete and told Klosan to prepare for the second phase of the Salvation Plan.

Lundell, Jiang Menghan, and Su Wen’s team advanced their plan to disrupt the cultists’ Sacrifice Ritual and save the infected. As the train neared the Sacrificial Ground, the Thorn Throne and Mechanical Riot weakened the cultists’ defenses.

• Lundell told Su Wen that destroying the Abyss Spiritual Energy Source had turned the odds in their favor and invited him to join the Great Library.
• Jiang Menghan concealed herself in a tower and aimed her TAC-50 at Klimdam, waiting for the right moment to shoot.
• Krosan reported that the infiltrators had blended into the infected aboard the train and were ready to inject them with antibodies.
• Su Wen said Shelly had gone with Misha and Nosis’s support to assassinate cultists reinforcing the royal city’s outer defenses.
• Su Wen and Krosan discussed saving the infected before stopping the ritual, while the train approached the former royal Factory District and the cultists suffered losses amid the Mechanical Riot.

Su Wen infiltrated the Thorn Throne’s Factory District and began rescuing the infected before the cultists could complete their Sacrifice Ritual. He ambushed the ritual gathering and warned the cultists that ending the ritual would trigger backlash.

• Su Wen and Klosan killed the inspectors at the factory gate, and Su Wen burned their bodies to erase the evidence.
• Su Wen ordered the survivors to inject the infected with vaccines and cut open the cages holding more captives.
• Whitney and a priest argued over Krom Bishop’s decision to rush the ritual, then the cultists began the incomplete Sacrifice Ritual.
• Su Wen appeared beside the executive bishop, knocked out Whitney, and cut the priest in half with an azure longsword.
• Su Wen told the cultists that the backlash from terminating the Sacrifice Ritual was one of their weaknesses.

Su Wen confronted the Abyssal Aggregate created by the Dormant Sect’s failed sacrifice and destroyed it with his swordsmanship. Klosan restrained the last fragment and suggested using it to disguise the fanatics’ Abyssal frequency for the final Purification Program.

• Su Wen burned the priest and ordered the disguised assassins to withdraw as Klosan warned that the dying cultists’ sacrifice would target themselves.
• A Prototype Experimental Abyssal Aggregate, Aful VII, emerged from the altar, weakened by Su Wen’s flames.
• Su Wen used Return of Truth and two Cross and Storm sword techniques to tear apart and destroy Aful VII.
• Klosan pinned the monster’s surviving flesh fragment with her scalpel and proposed using it to disguise the fanatics’ Abyssal frequency.
• Klosan said the final Purification Program might require terms of exchange for Eternal Slumber Chorazin’s departure.

Su Wen rescued nearly five thousand lightly infected people, defeated the threat in the Factory District, and changed the Eternal Night Kingdom’s fate at the legendary time node called The Last Glimmer. As he left the grateful survivors behind, Lundell advanced on the Great Library to confront the remaining traitors.

• Su Wen promised Klosan he would reach the fourth tier and learned she planned to punish her brother Nelson for what she assumed he had said about her.
• Su Wen told Shelly that he had rescued nearly five thousand people and asked her to promise that the Eternal Night Kingdom would help him someday; she agreed, and they promised to meet again.
• Su Wen and Klosan saw the fused cultist monster reduced to ashes, ending the threat in the Factory District.
• The rescued people knelt before Su Wen, and the system announced that he had changed the legendary time node The Last Glimmer as Eternal Night Kingdom’s World Influence rose.
• Lundell approached the Great Library with a flaming greatsword, and the surviving cultists feared she was a fourth-tier sentinel before she said she was close.

Lundell confronted Betrayer leader Terry Vicon in the Great Library and fought through his attacks and Abyss corruption. She used Rhine Mr.'s plan and a Return Port Lighthouse Fragment to suppress Terry Vicon, leaving his fate uncertain as its radiance began erasing him.

• Lundell entered the Great Library, eliminated its cultists, and found Terry Vicon with the Black Oracle.
• Terry Vicon vanished in the darkness and ambushed Lundell, but she caught his dagger and struck him with a flaming greatsword.
• Lundell fought off the cultists and wounded Terry Vicon's Chimera—Sunken Armor with her Furnace flames.
• Terry Vicon crushed a Deep Sea Headless Statue and unleashed a Black Tide that weakened Lundell and threatened to overwhelm her.
• Lundell detonated her Furnace energy to destabilize Terry Vicon's pollution field, then drove a Return Port Lighthouse Fragment into his mutated heart.
• The fragment's white radiance suppressed Terry Vicon's corruption and began erasing his form.

After Lundell defeated Terry Vicon, she reached the threshold of flawless Tier Four while reflecting on the history and purpose of the Great Library. Su Wen learned that the Dormant Sect might have exposed their whereabouts and led the team toward a hidden chamber in the royal city’s Great Library.

• Lundell reflected on the history preserved by the Great Library and rekindled her Sublimation Lineage after Terry Vicon’s defeat.
• Su Wen learned from Klosan that the Eternal Night Kingdom’s drifters had studied part of the Fourth Epoch Civilization’s legacy and that Terry Vicon had gained related knowledge.
• Su Wen concluded that the Dormant Sect might have discovered the team’s whereabouts in the tunnels beneath the abandoned Old Town.
• Su Wen identified a hidden chamber beneath the Great Library in B93 Area and assigned Miss Snowen to monitor Bishop Klimdam.
• Lundell told Su Wen she could not move, and he continued toward the Great Library while she waited.

Su Wen, Misha, and Klosan entered the ruins beneath the Eternal Night Kingdom to reach the Fourth Epoch legacy, passing the first protective barrier and learning how the relics had shaped the Steam Civilization. They reached the second safeguard, where Su Wen identified a device that appeared to rely on the Daniel Bernoulli principle.

• Su Wen, Misha, and Klosan approached the Great Library while the Thorn Throne and Mechanical Riot distracted the city’s forces.
• Misha and Klosan discussed the legacy’s safeguards, and Su Wen identified the first barrier as a modified Fourth Epoch protective system.
• Misha used a psychic mimic key to unlock the barrier, and the group entered a tunnel filled with damaged guardian machines.
• Misha explained that the ruins’ mining instruments had helped establish the Steam Civilization, while Su Wen reviewed the site’s records.
• Misha led Su Wen and Klosan to the second safeguard, and Su Wen recognized a component resembling a water turbine and proposed the Daniel Bernoulli principle.

Su Wen deduced that the Eternal Night Kingdom’s ancient machine used the Spiritual Energy Tide, then activated it and reached a Fourth Era energy facility. After learning that ancient civilizations and possible cosmic resets remained poorly understood, he approached the abyss-contaminated control valve and proved immune to its effects.

• Su Wen deduced that the machine’s pressure drive relied on the Spiritual Energy Tide and used the valve and turbine core to activate it.
• The hydraulic press stirred the underground waters and lit the Fourth Era inscriptions, transporting Su Wen and the others to a chamber containing a Kaervondaschi G6 Energy-Gathering Core.
• Misha explained that the device was meant to reverse the Spiritual Energy Tide and revive civilization, but Terry Vicon had used it to aid the abyss.
• Su Wen decided to preserve the device for research and asked Lundell to arrange a deal with the Great Library.
• Lundell warned Su Wen that the Fourth Era might have included multiple civilizations and that contact with the outside world could let unknown beings trace them.
• Su Wen touched the energy control valve, and his system confirmed complete immunity to the abyssal contamination and mental influence.

Su Wen used the Journey Card to end the Black Tide surge and reveal Terry Vicon's hidden door. Misha explained the value of Hohenheim's alchemy legacy, and Su Wen received a mission to find its Thirteenth Original Chapter.

• Su Wen uncovered a Journey Card that controlled an energy source's flow, resisted the Black Tide, and used the lighthouse fire to end the disaster.
• Klosan and Misha teased Su Wen about his reputation as a playboy while the Black Tide receded.
• The energy-gathering vessel's lowered water level revealed Terry Vicon's hidden door, which Su Wen identified as a modified steam-driven barrier with traces of Fourth Epoch technology.
• Misha said Terry Vicon had likely obtained Hohenheim's alchemy notes after Lathemore died, and described Paracelsus's achievements as a Great Library scholar and alchemist.
• Su Wen received the C+ Rank mission to obtain the Alchemy Thirteenth Original Chapter, with a reward of information about the Hermetica alchemy school.

Su Wen and Lundell discussed whether Shelly could bear the responsibility of becoming the Eternal Night Kingdom’s heir and the pressures of choosing its future. Shelly accepted the role, and the opened door revealed a cosmic panorama and the truth behind the kingdom’s inheritance.

• Klosan, the Mature Woman, and Lundell considered how alchemy, bloodline verification, and the Eternal Night Kingdom’s inheritance were connected.
• Su Wen warned that Shelly would face the burden of restoring a civilization and choosing whether it remained hidden or joined Earth Civilization.
• Shelly arrived and declared she was willing to face any future and never hesitate if she was the kingdom’s only hope.
• Klosan drew Shelly’s blood, and Su Wen opened the heavy door after the bloodline verification took effect.
• The door revealed a vast cosmic panorama, and Su Wen reassured Shelly that he would correct whatever difficult future awaited her.

Su Wen and Jiang Menghan investigated the ancient observatory and identified the nebula projection as the Eye of God, whose stellar remnants explained the planet’s heat and Clear Points. Su Wen concluded that the Fourth Epoch Civilization had transformed the Eternal Night Kingdom into an Eden planet and concealed it behind a planetary-scale warped-space barrier.

• Su Wen examined the observatory’s instruments and explained that the planet relied on a special cosmic background structure rather than steam-geothermal power.
• Su Wen connected the nebula projection to the Eden Plan and identified it as NGC 7293, the Eye of God.
• Jiang Menghan reasoned that the nebula’s stellar remnant produced the high-temperature dust, scattered comets, and Clear Points, while an Eden planet concealed its radiance.
• Su Wen proposed that the Fourth Epoch Civilization had created a planetary-scale barrier and turned the Eternal Night Kingdom into an observation station.
• Su Wen adjusted the projection and discerned that the barrier was a warped-space field formed using anti-dust clouds.

Su Wen explained how folded space protected the planet from the Eye of God and realized that Glimmer of Lamplight was a scientific miracle rather than an evil god. He used his new understanding to identify a hidden location in the royal city, but the girl watching the towers could detect no energy fluctuations there.

• The system congratulated Su Wen for discovering the Eye of God in the NGC 7293 Spiral Nebula and awarded him the Night's Shelter achievement.
• Su Wen explained that invisible Lobachevskian Spaces and a surrounding dust cloud formed protective barriers established by the Fourth Epoch Civilization.
• Lundell and Klosan discussed the beacon's possible role in survival plans, research, and future space travel.
• Su Wen concluded that Glimmer of Lamplight was a scientific miracle, not an evil god, and told Jiang Menghan he had found the answer he sought.
• Su Wen used a cosmic background projection to mark a hidden location in the royal city's highest tower, while the girl watching through her scope detected no energy fluctuations.

Su Wen explained how temperature changes might alter Roche Space’s geometry, then led Shelly out of the relic to witness the Eternal Night Kingdom’s stars. When Dormant Sect cultists attacked, Shelly fought them under his guidance, and Su Wen rescued her when she began to falter.

• Su Wen explained his plan to alter Roche Space’s geometry by changing microscopic particles’ states, and invited Shelly to see the stars return.
• Su Wen detected cultists outside the relic, while Jiang Menghan offered sniper support and Shelly asked to fight them herself.
• Su Wen told Shelly to combine her medical knowledge, swordsmanship, and instincts, then sent her to attack the cultists.
• Shelly killed thirteen cultists before exhaustion left her struggling, and a hidden attacker struck at her from behind.
• Su Wen’s barrier blocked the attack, and his Watcher’s Sword killed the remaining enemies; he awarded Shelly seventy-nine points and declared that she had passed.

Su Wen used the Fourth Era Star Rail Instrument and a Journey Card to collide Abyssal Contamination with the Spiritual Energy Tide, unleashing an annihilation reaction that revealed the Fourth Epoch Civilization’s folded space. The lighthouse projected the Eye of God’s nebula across the dark sky, leaving Shelly to understand the meaning of “When the Stars Return.”

• Su Wen took Shelly up an abandoned tower and explained that the present generation’s deeds would become the legacy left for the future.
• Su Wen asked Misha to gather the remaining Abyssal Contamination at his location as fuel, and a golden barrier shielded Shelly from its effects.
• Su Wen explained that he planned a macroscopic annihilation experiment by colliding the Black Tide with pure energy flows.
• Su Wen used the Journey Card to draw the Spiritual Energy Tide toward the tower’s clock and anchored the flow at Lighthouse Dawn.
• The annihilation reaction unfolded the Fourth Epoch Civilization’s folded space and projected the Eye of God’s nebula across the sky.
• Shelly recognized the display as the return of the stars, while Su Wen explained that the nebula would serve the Drifters as a beacon.

Su Wen and Shelly reached the Glimmer of Lamplight ruins, where Su Wen lit Branlit’s lantern and earned its recognition. The encounter granted him Tier Two advancement abilities and revealed the Dawn Knight path.

• Su Wen completed the Lost Sea First Route’s mission by opening the path to the Glimmer of Lamplight.
• Shelly feared the danger ahead, and Su Wen reassured her before opening the ancient door.
• Su Wen and Shelly entered the divine ruins, where Su Wen lit the dust-covered lantern with the Jupiter Lighthouse Dawn Fire.
• Branlit appeared as a vast hooded figure and gazed at Su Wen.
• The system recognized Su Wen’s discovery and granted him the abilities Afterglow and Echo of the Silver Sea, along with the Dawn Knight advancement path.

Su Wen obtained the legendary lantern and new Dawn Knight abilities, then prepared to confront the Dormant Sect without waiting for Lundell to finish her promotion. At the cathedral, Klimdam gathered the sect’s remaining believers as he realized the outsiders’ sudden actions might have disrupted his plans and Terry Vicon’s fate.

• Su Wen received a temporary Fourth Order Dawn Knight promotion and several new Extraordinary Characteristics.
• Su Wen took Branlit’s lantern, and the divine-era relic vanished; he told Shelly that their journey had become precious to him.
• Su Wen appraised the lantern, learned its effects and cooldown, and asked Lundell whether her promotion was complete.
• Jiang Menghan reported that the enemy’s abyssal energy was fluctuating and urged Su Wen to move quickly; Su Wen raced across the royal city toward the final battle.
• Klimdam summoned the Dormant Sect’s bishops and believers to the grand cathedral, silenced their questions, and suspected that Terry Vicon’s situation had gone wrong.