Chapter Summaries

Su Wen used Dawn Spiritual Energy and a carefully calculated field system to stabilize the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment and avert the laboratory disaster. After Angelia helped save her mentor Virginia Nara, Su Wen learned that the dangerous relic had been left to Angelia by her mother.

• With seven seconds before disaster, Su Wen used Laplace Future Law to design a three-layer field system around the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment.
• Su Wen activated Hold Fast Until Dawn and used the accumulated spiritual energy to bring the relic out of its unstable state.
• After the crisis passed, Angelia suffered backlash from spiritual energy depletion, while healing medicine began restoring her.
• Angelia gave Virginia Nara a healing potion, and Su Wen's appraisal glasses revealed that Angelia's necklace could teleport her to safety when she was gravely injured.
• Su Wen asked Angelia where she had obtained the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment, and she said it was a relic left by her mother.

Angelia told Su Wen how she received and accidentally activated the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment while researching her mother’s work. After the laboratory disaster, she contacted the Christopher family for help and explained that fear of the Clowns had pushed her to begin the experiment early.

• Angelia explained that her father sent her the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment from Winterfell, and that a gamma-ray activation experiment caused the energy storm.
• Angelia said the fragment came from the same ruin as the Heaven Mountain Fragment and that her mother’s research had been inspired by that place.
• Su Wen asked Angelia to contact the Christopher family for assistance, and she used her sunflower brooch to do so.
• Angelia told Su Wen that she had rushed into the research because the Clowns, also known as the Masquerade, were operating illegally in Moscow and might target the relic.
• Su Wen considered Angelia’s warning and recalled a scene he had just witnessed.

Angelia explained how Virginia had used the clowns to help contain the Legendary Relic’s runaway energy, and Su Wen realized their efforts had prevented a catastrophe at Moscow State University. After Angelia organized the rescue and recovery, she invited Su Wen to her residence to share the research logs.

• Angelia told Su Wen that Virginia had opened the barrier passage so the masked clowns would absorb some of the Legendary Relic’s energy turbulence, but two died and three escaped injured, setting the fire outside.
• Su Wen explained a theory about using powerful energy fields to open a wormhole to the Iris Nebula, and Angelia agreed that the proposed experiment would have been dangerously destructive.
• Regina and dozens of soldiers arrived, and Angelia embraced Regina before ordering Olcott to take the injured guards and Virginia for treatment and directing Regina to handle compensation and follow-up arrangements.
• Angelia asked Su Wen what he wanted for dinner, and he secured the contained Legendary Relic in a silver field-isolation case and said anything simple would do.
• After the students had been rescued and the fire extinguished, Angelia invited Su Wen to her Moscow residence to share the research logs and told him his accommodations were already arranged.

After the fire at Moscow State University, Angelia received the Old Principal’s assurance that the incident would not harm Christopher’s cooperation with the Clock Tower. On the drive away, Su Wen comforted Angelia with wine and made her a cocktail, leaving her filled with longing for Mr. Rhine.

• Angelia and Su Wen crossed the fire-damaged ceremonial hall and met the Old Principal, who said the Night Watch and Clock Tower should hold the Masquerade Ball responsible.
• Angelia asked whether the accident would affect Christopher’s cooperation with the Clock Tower, and the Old Principal assured her it would not.
• The Old Principal praised the young people, and Su Wen replied that hope belonged in the future of civilization.
• In the Lincoln, Angelia offered Su Wen Margaux wine, and he advised her to drink in moderation.
• Su Wen prepared Angelia a LAST WORD cocktail and told her its name meant “The Final Farewell,” deepening her feelings for him.

Angelia brought Su Wen to her estate to examine the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment and her mother’s research journal. Their analysis revealed clues to an ancient civilization’s Dyson Sphere technology, and Su Wen suspected that Dr. Pamela’s space station and death were connected to her real research.

• Angelia and Su Wen arrived at the Nordic Duke Garden during a blizzard, where Angelia had the maids prepare dinner, bathrobes, and a bath.
• Angelia took Su Wen to the archive room, which was connected to the Christopher Oak Mansion’s computing core.
• Su Wen placed the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment in a sealed monitoring device, and it inexplicably floated as Pamela-Lucia’s previously unseen journal entry uploaded.
• The journal described an ancient civilization that had mastered stellar energy and built a Dyson Sphere before stripping away its core as the civilization declined.
• Su Wen connected the journal’s account to the Prometheus myth and proposed that Dr. Pamela’s space station and death were tied to her research into the Dyson Sphere.

Su Wen used Appraisal Perspective and World Influence to uncover the truth about the Prometheus Heavenly Fire fragment and Dr. Pamela-Lucia. He learned that she was still alive, but the space station would self-destruct in three years, leaving him to decide whether to try to save her.

• Angelia asked Su Wen whether her mother's research had caused her illness and leaned on his shoulder as she grieved.
• Su Wen used Appraisal Perspective and spent vast amounts of World Influence to analyze the Legendary Relic fragment.
• The analysis revealed that the fragment came from a Dyson Sphere built by the extinct civilization UIAOS-718U around Lacaille 9352.
• Su Wen learned that Dr. Pamela-Lucia's life signal still existed and that she had become a secondary administrator, though her consciousness and memories were unstable.
• The fragment's protocol warned that the space station would self-destruct in three years, and Su Wen received an S-rank mission to cross the distant starry firmament and save her.

Su Wen told Angelia that Dr. Pamela Lucia was still alive and asked her to help rewrite fate by rescuing her and saving civilization. After revealing a hidden research log that supported his claim, he explained that Pamela’s perception had been mapped elsewhere in the universe and asked Angelia whether she would join the difficult rescue.

• Angelia apologized to Su Wen for breaking down, and he told her another version of the Prometheus myth in which Heracles eventually rescued him.
• Su Wen revealed that Dr. Pamela Lucia was still alive and asked Angelia whether she wanted to rewrite fate.
• Su Wen identified himself as Rhine, the legendary Night Watcher who rewrote the future, and urged Angelia to join him in rescuing Pamela and saving civilization.
• Su Wen used the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment to show Angelia a hidden research log in which Pamela recorded seeing herself after the fragment emitted a powerful energy surge.
• Su Wen explained that a Level Four civilization’s multidimensional perception system had created an incomplete mapping, meaning Pamela was alive somewhere in the universe, and asked Angelia if she had confidence in the rescue.

Su Wen shared a tender moment with Angelia before joining her for dinner, where he received two new Travel Cards. Their powers offered ways to cleanse Abyssal Contamination, protect consciousness, and supply energy for extraordinary abilities or machinery.

• Angelia refused to let go of Su Wen's hand, and Su Wen comforted her until Regina announced that dinner was ready.
• Angelia released Su Wen and offered to help him change after noticing her tears had dampened his clothes.
• Su Wen tried on an expensive suit from Angelia's wardrobe, then joked with her as they headed to the dining hall.
• Su Wen received the Travel Cards Prometheus Cognitive Consciousness Protection System and Veil of the Sky Enshrouding the Stars.
• Su Wen began considering his next course of action after acquiring the two cards.

Su Wen shared an extravagant banquet with Angelia and explained the Eternal Night Kingdom, the Border Gate, and the importance of the Cleveland Consortium’s Faro Metal extraction site. He promised to investigate how the clowns knew about her Prometheus fragment, and Angelia agreed to search Moscow for traces of the masquerade ball.

• Angelia arranged a lavish banquet for Su Wen, who thanked her and told her that he valued her for who she was, not her title.
• Angelia said she was pressing ahead with the Cleveland Consortium acquisition and asked Su Wen what he meant by the Eternal Night Kingdom.
• Su Wen explained that the Eternal Night Kingdom was a civilization of drifters with Fourth Epoch ruins and coordinates into the Lost Sea, and that studying the Border Gate was necessary to save Dr. Pamela.
• Su Wen told Angelia that the Cleveland Consortium controlled the First Route’s Faro Metal extraction site, which supplied material for star towers, Space Elevators, and spacecraft.
• Su Wen said he would investigate how the clowns learned she had obtained a Prometheus fragment, and Angelia decided to search Moscow for traces of the masquerade ball.

Angelia and Su Wen traced the Masquerade Ball’s involvement in Count David Ivanovich’s illegal research operation and identified Vanessa Ingrid Reynolds as a potential connection to the count’s family. They decided to confront the Ivanovich family directly, while Su Wen suspected their research institute held a ruin tied to Dr. Pamela’s discovery.

• Angelia used her intelligence network to learn that the Masquerade Ball had helped Count David Ivanovich take test subjects from an illegal research institute in Finland.
• Su Wen proposed finding a rival of the Ivanovich family to act as a white glove, and Angelia assigned Regina to investigate figures connected to them.
• Angelia recognized Vanessa Ingrid Reynolds in the intelligence report and learned that Bruce Ivanovich had harassed her, left her brother hospitalized, and threatened her family’s livelihood.
• Angelia changed plans and suggested prying information directly from the Ivanovich family, while Su Wen identified them and their research institute as targets.
• Su Wen suspected the institute possessed an undisclosed ruin connected to Dr. Pamela’s past discovery.

Su Wen accepted the quest to uncover the secret Count Ivanovich hid and planned to investigate a ruin connected to Dr. Pamela with Angelia. After settling in at her estate, he discovered Angelia’s bold affection had followed him into the bath.

• Su Wen received the Class C side quest The Secret Hidden by Count Ivanovich and promised Angelia he would help find the ruin linked to Dr. Pamela.
• Angelia teased Su Wen about her former friend Vanessa, then stayed close to him after dinner.
• Regina reported that Count Ivanovich would attend an event at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg the next day, and Su Wen decided to rest at Angelia’s estate.
• Su Wen entered the lavish bathroom and identified its statue of Athena as a Tier One Border Relic that could calm and heal the mind.
• Angelia crept into the bathroom, asked Su Wen not to turn around, wiped his back, and fled in embarrassment.

Su Wen comforted Angelia as she spoke about missing her mother, then used his Guide of Civilization trait to strengthen her extraordinary rank and Silver Sea resonance. He left her with a secret gift and learned that he could not guide her again for seven days.

• Su Wen found Angelia sitting beneath a pavilion in the snowfall and joined her in the courtyard.
• Angelia told Su Wen how much she missed her mother, Pamela, and shared memories of her parents.
• Su Wen asked Angelia whether she believed him and promised her a gift.
• Su Wen used Dawn Guidance on Angelia, raising her to the peak of the First Rank and increasing her Silver Sea resonance by 25%.
• Su Wen learned that Angelia's guidance ability was on cooldown for seven days.

Angelia advanced to Tier 2 and traveled with Su Wen to Saint Petersburg to begin an operation. There, Bruce Ivanovich learned his father had already weakened Baron Reynolds and ordered him to handle the remaining steps himself.

• Su Wen helped Angelia advance to Tier 2, and she realized her Winter lineage psychic energy had also been purified and strengthened.
• The next day, Su Wen shared research notes with Jiang Menghan before entering the game and setting out with Angelia for Saint Petersburg.
• Angelia asked whether the preparations were complete and ordered the operation to begin as they approached Saint Petersburg.
• Bruce Ivanovich confronted Count David Ivanovich about Baron Reynolds, and his father said Reynolds's heir was hospitalized and the orphanage would soon be demolished.
• Count David Ivanovich told Bruce that he still had use for the orphans and ordered him to finish the job without making too much noise.

Count David Ivanovich and Strat discussed their plans for the ruins, the Star Gate, and the Silver Clock City while using Bruce as a distraction. In Saint Petersburg’s Lower District, Vanessa Ingrid Reynolds faced mounting misfortune and an imminent abduction until the Heavy Load Leopards intervened, as Su Wen hinted that his Agent Plan could involve more than one agent.

• Strat told Count David Ivanovich that the ruins’ Star Gate mattered more than the ruins and urged caution while their plan advanced.
• An old baron learned his son had been left in a vegetative state, while his daughter Vanessa Ingrid Reynolds was fired from her teaching job and their Orphanage faced pressure from the Thirteenth Street Administration.
• Count Ivanovich’s Black Gang members waited in a black sedan to abduct Vanessa as she left her school.
• More than a dozen Heavy Load Leopards motorcycles surrounded the sedan, and their gang members dragged out the Black Gang thugs.
• Su Wen sipped his latte in a Lower District café and said Saint Petersburg did not necessarily have to have only one Agent.

Su Wen and Angelia met Vanessa in Saint Petersburg after gang members tried to abduct her, and Angelia ordered the attackers killed. As the group walked toward Vanessa’s Orphanage, Angelia revealed that Bruce-Ivanovich was behind the attempt.

• Su Wen explained that his group needed obedient operatives in Saint Petersburg while keeping their identities concealed from Christopher.
• Vanessa returned from her job with a battered box of notes and worried about her brother’s delayed treatment and the Orphanage’s expenses.
• Vanessa came upon Black Gang members surrounding a sedan and attacking a man, triggering her memories of the Arctic Ocean Border War.
• Su Wen and Angelia approached Vanessa, and Angelia said the men had planned to capture her for a powerful associate.
• Angelia ordered the attackers killed, then identified Bruce-Ivanovich as the man who wanted Vanessa captured.

Vanessa told Angelia that Bruce Ivanovich had pursued her after seeing her at a museum, and Angelia vowed to confront the Ivanovich family. At the Orphanage, the group learned that Little Borya had disappeared, but Su Wen revealed he had already made arrangements to handle the matter.

• Vanessa recalled that Bruce Ivanovich had seen her at the museum and repeatedly approached her, though she had rejected him each time.
• Angelia praised Vanessa for her service in the Arctic Ocean Border War and said she had come for the entire Ivanovich family.
• Vanessa returned with the group to the Orphanage, where the children welcomed her and offered money for Sergei's recovery.
• A caretaker told Vanessa that Little Borya had gone missing, and Vanessa prepared to search for him, suspecting Bruce Ivanovich.
• Angelia questioned the caretaker, ordered Regina and Heavy Load Leopard to keep watch on her, and sent the others to investigate.
• Su Wen said the Aurora Organization had failed to catch Ivanovich and Leis Angton's illegal dealings, but he had already arranged to track their research materials.

Su Wen revealed that he had arranged agents to rescue Little Borya and infiltrate Ivanovich’s hidden factory, while Vanessa learned that Aunt Pat had helped kidnap the child. With less than two and a half days left in the game, Su Wen sought help from Vanessa’s father, and Angelia ordered Regina to investigate corrupt law enforcement officers tied to Ivanovich.

• Su Wen explained that he had anticipated an attack on Vanessa’s Orphanage and arranged agents to protect it and rescue Little Borya.
• Su Wen showed Angelia and Vanessa that the agents had infiltrated a remote factory, and Regina confirmed that Aunt Pat had disappeared.
• Vanessa realized Aunt Pat had participated in the kidnapping, and Su Wen urged her not to blame herself as he reflected on the upheaval of the Origin Era.
• Su Wen suspected the factory was only part of Ivanovich’s operation and asked when Vanessa’s father would return, learning he was at a hospital with her sick brother.
• Angelia ordered Regina to compile a list of law enforcement officers who had privately traded with Ivanovich, so their dealings with Leis Angton and the Masquerade Ball could be exposed.

Su Wen and Angelia monitored their plan against Ivanovich while visiting the Saint Petersburg Orphanage, where Angelia surprised the children with gifts. As the children and the Heavy Load Leopard gang shared a peaceful moment, Su Wen reflected on his hope for civilization, though he knew their calm would not last.

• Su Wen told Angelia’s agents to replace the people Ivanovich had assigned to watch Baron Reynolds and arrange a meeting with him in half an hour.
• Su Wen and Angelia discussed the item Ivanovich possessed and Angelia said she hoped her mother could return rather than focusing on the Dyson Sphere ruins.
• Angelia had several vans deliver gifts for Vanessa and the Orphanage children, explaining that she had bought everything in a mall’s food and children’s sections.
• Su Wen explained that he chose the Heavy Load Leopard because its members had avoided harming ordinary people and had grown up in orphanages.
• The Heavy Load Leopard gang helped the children enjoy and carry in the gifts, while Su Wen reflected that he still had hope for civilization and little time left.

Su Wen and Angelia visited Baron Reynolds with Vanessa and explained that his son Sergei’s injuries were part of Count Ivanovich’s conspiracy. Su Wen asked Reynolds to secure invitation letters for a plan involving Ivanovich’s appearance at the Mariinsky Theatre.

• Angelia praised Vanessa’s care for the orphaned children, and Su Wen reassured her that Earth Civilization would have a hopeful future.
• Su Wen received word that his agents had replaced Ivanovich’s surveillance operatives watching Baron Reynolds, and he and Angelia left with Vanessa for the hospital.
• At the hospital, Vanessa introduced Angelia and Kevin-Alfred to her father, Baron Reynolds, and explained that someone had deliberately injured Sergei.
• Reynolds learned that Count Ivanovich was involved in the conspiracy and asked Su Wen what he planned to do.
• Su Wen told Reynolds that Ivanovich would attend an event at the Mariinsky Theatre and requested invitation letters with Reynolds as the applicant and guarantor.

Su Wen and Angelia arranged for Baron Reynolds to help expose Ivanovich’s illegal dealings by promising medical treatment for his son if the conspiracy was destroyed. At the Mariinsky Theatre, Su Wen intimidated a group of noble playboys and explained that they were targets of the scheme unfolding that night.

• Angelia promised to arrange treatment for Baron Reynolds’s son if Ivanovich’s conspiracy was destroyed.
• Baron Reynolds arrived at the Mariinsky Theatre in his battered truck with Su Wen, Angelia, and Vanessa.
• Mark Gore mocked Reynolds and made lewd remarks about Vanessa, so Su Wen released a trace of Tear Storm’s killing intent and drove the playboys away.
• Angelia comforted Vanessa and said the playboys could be added to the list for later reckoning.
• Su Wen explained that Mark Gore and the other playboys were connected to Saint Petersburg’s energy and maritime trades and were the true protagonists of that night’s performance.