Chapter Summaries

Alice discussed Fate’s influence with Klein, returned the Abraham Family’s Beyonder Characteristics, and began planning a church with Ouroboros, who had chosen to become her pope. She named its combat members Seers and its ordinary members Light Chasers, then asked Ouroboros to design her holy emblem and prayer gesture.

• Klein explained that people might interpret Alice’s actions as revelations from Fate and left to visit the Transmigrators above the Castle of Origin.
• Alice returned the Beyonder Characteristics to the Abraham Family after learning Fors had little interest in advancing.
• Ouroboros prayed at Grischa Adam’s church, then appeared before Alice and asked to become her pope.
• Alice questioned Ouroboros about his loyalty to his former Lord and discussed how to organize her church.
• Alice named her church’s combat members Seers and its ordinary members Light Chasers.
• Alice gave Ouroboros her holy scripture and asked him to create her holy emblem and a prayer gesture of drawing a ring.

Alice helped Ouroboros design the Goddess of Light’s holy emblem and directed Roy King to support the new faith. Later, she discussed the City of Calamity and Medici with Grischa Adam, who remained uncertain whether Medici could trust him as he pursued a stable Calamity of Destruction.

• Alice suggested the Wheel of Fortune card as inspiration for the holy emblem, and Ouroboros proposed scales as a prayer gesture before designing a serpent-wrapped wheel.
• Alice contacted Roy King, redirected his praise from the Goddess of Fate to the Goddess of Light, and told him to seek Ouroboros.
• Ouroboros asked Roy King to gather the School of Life’s Fate Pathway resources and entrusted him with the holy scripture, emblem, and task of spreading the Goddess’s faith.
• Grischa Adam told Alice he suspected the Witch Pathway held contingencies for Primordial’s revival and planned to nurture a stable Calamity of Destruction.
• Alice suggested Medici as a candidate, but Grischa Adam explained that Medici might view him as a betrayer and distrust any offer to make him a Calamity of Destruction.

In Year 1368, Alice Moretti, the Goddess of Light, eluded Ouroboros while telling children a scandalous tale about the Master of the Castle of Origin. The chapter also revealed Amon’s service under Alice and the danger Klein and Grischa Adam uncovered in the Primordial Witch’s plan to create a Mirror Original Creator.

• Alice Moretti told the monastery children that the Master of the Castle of Origin had shared the joy of life with the Lord of the Astral World, then escaped over the wall when Ouroboros came looking for her.
• Amon helped Alice evade Ouroboros and recalled how he had joined her as the Redemption Angel after she offered him a portion of Sequence 1 in the future.
• Amon’s attempt to become Pope of the Church of The Fool ended when Klein removed him from the holy canon and replaced him with Pallez Zoroaster.
• Grischa Adam and Klein investigated the Mirror World and discovered that Chick and Blood Emperor Tudor were trying to unite the Original Creator’s Yin and Yang aspects to create a rational, lucid Original Creator.
• Alice dismissed the discovery of Chick’s Mirror Original Creator plan as no longer fun, leaving Klein without useful advice.

Alice revisited the plans behind the Calamity of Destruction, then visited Roselle, Alger, Derrick, and Frank while avoiding Ouroboros. The chapter ended with the revelation that the Fallen Mother God had used the Chaos Progenitor to break the barrier, only to fall into a long-prepared trap.

• Grischa Adam and Alice chose the Castle of Origin’s corruption for the Witch Pathway’s Deification Ritual, and Medici became the candidate for the Calamity of Destruction after Amon helped reconcile him with Grischa Adam.
• Alice visited Roselle and told him that Frank Lee’s singing mushrooms contained Witch flesh and blood, then revealed that an earlier batch had been tested with Sharpe; Roselle destroyed the soup in disgust.
• Ouroboros asked Roselle where Alice had gone, and Roselle said she had entered the River of Fate; Alice then appeared before Alger and Derrick and asked them to let her hide for a while.
• Alice ate Alger’s unusual ice cream, visited Frank Lee, and reflected on the sleeping Lilith and the recent births of the Calamity of Destruction, Eternal Darkness, and Key of Light.
• The Fallen Mother God used the Chaos Progenitor to break open the barrier and weaken herself, but the act triggered a trap that had been prepared for her.

Alice pursued a chance to find Ouroboros while Audrey served as Pope of the Aurora Order and worked on reforms for commoners. Audrey recalled that Alice had once asked Klein to grant her a long-held wish at a gods’ celebratory banquet, with the Goddess of the Styx beside her.

• Alice and Klein’s allies planned to exploit the Fallen Mother God’s weakened state when she opened Earth’s barrier, while Stiarno agreed he could eventually surrender the Hermit Pathway’s Uniqueness and Characteristics.
• Alice asked Stiarno whether he had heard Fate’s guidance, then left; Ouroboros followed her, and Bernadette told him Alice had already gone.
• Alice visited Audrey, who had become Pope of the Aurora Order and was leading reforms inspired by its focus on commoners, and Alice petted Susie before leaving.
• Audrey explained to Susie that Alice had helped name the Goddess of the Styx and still longed to pet her wolf fur.
• Ouroboros asked whether Alice had left, corrected Audrey about Alice’s preferred title, and refused to interrupt their game by seeking divine help.
• Audrey told Susie that after the war Alice had asked Klein at a celebratory banquet to grant a long-held wish, while the Goddess of the Styx sat beside her.

Alice reflected on her influence over Fors’s novels, the Church of Light, and its clergy before visiting Archbishop Roy King. She caught him reading one of Fors’s cultivation romances and accused him of stealing his pay, leaving him speechless.

• Alice recalled persuading Fors to write cultivation novels and telling children stories at the Church of Light’s monastery.
• Alice reflected on how the Western Continent’s Dao Integrators formed Buddhism and how she tried to teach them to enjoy life as they joined the Church of Light.
• Alice considered the Church of Light’s unusual arrangements, including sending Calamity Priests to recruit outside its territory and sharing Sealed Artifacts with the Church of The Fool and the Aurora Order.
• Alice entered the church overseen by Roy King, went to his office, and found him reading a book.
• Alice took the book, recognized it as one of Fors’s cultivation romances, and accused Roy King of reading during work hours and stealing his pay.

Alice questioned Roy King about whether Hela Bergen’s repeated changes of allegiance counted as steadfastness, then approved Roy’s preparations for advancing to Sequence 3. She reflected on the Angel she wanted for her church and on Will Smith, whom she had spared but cursed to live in perpetual poverty.

• Roy King claimed devotion to Alice, and Alice explained that Ouroboros still prayed to the Creator and carried the Creator’s Cross Pendant.
• Alice asked whether Hela Bergen could be called steadfast despite repeatedly changing sides, and Roy King argued that Hela had always remained true to his goal of surviving.
• Alice told Roy King to prepare for his Sequence 3 advancement ritual, but said her first Angel would be a true Lightseeker raised by her church.
• Alice recalled how she had avoided killing Will Smith, Dunn and Daily’s child, and had eventually allowed him to live out his natural lifespan under her watch.
• Alice placed a lasting Doom on Will Smith that left him destitute, and he worked at an ice cream shop but could never manage to eat a bite.

Alice reunited with Melissa Moretti and helped her understand Klein’s connection to the three deities before advising her about advancing to Sequence 4. Alice left with Ouroboros, who told her that her mother wanted her to experience mortal life by attending university, leaving Alice wondering whether Amon would go with her.

• Roy King greeted Ouroboros after Alice left, and Ouroboros asked whether she had gone.
• Alice recalled how she had first met Melissa and revealed that, through fate, she and Klein were mother and daughter—or father and daughter.
• Alice explained that Klein was the Fool described in the Church of Light’s scripture and assured Melissa that he was her brother.
• Melissa asked whether Sequence 4 advancement rituals were evil, and Alice suggested using Bestowment of Titles or advancing on a lifeless planet.
• Alice found Ouroboros waiting nearby and learned that her mother wanted her to attend university before she came of age.
• Alice asked whether Amon might agree to attend university with her, and Ouroboros said he did not know.

The author reflected on finishing the novel and described how reader support and Alice kept her writing through setbacks. She announced that her next book would be a Lord of Mysteries fanfic featuring an Original Pathway, planned to begin after the Dragon Boat Festival, and asked readers to keep voting through the end of the month.

• The author said the ending felt abrupt to some readers but suited her original approach to the story.
• The author recalled nearly abandoning the book before readers, publication prospects, and Tohno’s support motivated her to continue.
• The author explained that Alice became a vivid presence to her and that she wanted to give her story an ending.
• The author said she had abandoned attempts at an original story and chosen to write a Lord of Mysteries fanfic with an Original Pathway.
• The author planned to start the next book after the Dragon Boat Festival and urged readers to keep voting through the end of the month.