Chapter Summaries

Fang Zheng recognized the Great Ones as Abyss creatures and killed the Orphan of Kos with his flaming greatsword. He then burned the black figure beside Kos’s corpse, causing the nightmare to begin disappearing.

• Fang Zheng concluded that the Great Ones were Abyss creatures and believed Yharnam was the future of the Dark Souls World he had visited.
• Fang Zheng fought the Orphan of Kos, while Big Chin was struck by its lightning and Maria stopped it from attacking him.
• Fang Zheng pierced the Orphan of Kos with his flaming greatsword, burning it to ash.
• Fang Zheng identified a black human-shaped figure beside Kos’s corpse as the essence of the Abyss and burned it.
• The world began to tremble as the nightmare started to disappear.

The Fire Keeper showed Fang Zheng and Maria how the Age of Fire ended, how the Abyss and an ice age reshaped the world, and how the Sumerians’ pursuit of the Great Ones’ blood led to Yharnam’s destruction. Fang Zheng told Maria that humanity was free to choose its future, then offered to help her leave.

• Maria asked Fang Zheng who he was, and he identified himself as an Abyss Watcher of Farron's Undead Legion.
• The Fire Keeper appeared and showed Fang Zheng and Maria the battlefield where he had extinguished the First Flame, ushering in the Age of the Deep Sea.
• The Fire Keeper showed how Abyssal creatures enslaved humanity before an ice age froze or drove them into hiding, while humans eventually emerged into the sunlight.
• The Fire Keeper showed how the Sumerians’ attempt to take the Great Ones’ blood corrupted them with the Abyss and destroyed their civilization, setting the stage for Yharnam and Byrgenwerth College.
• Fang Zheng told Maria that the gods and most Abyssal monsters were gone and that humanity was free, then offered his hand to lead her out.

Fang Zheng returned to the lake with Maria as the Blood Moon rose and a baby cried, revealing the force behind the nightmare. He returned to the church and said he knew how to escape, then entered the dream alone while Maria and the others stayed behind.

• Fang Zheng and Maria reappeared at the lake, where Irene told them Master Willem had burst into flames and turned to ashes.
• A giant spider wept, caught fire, and vanished as the Blood Moon descended and a baby cried; Fang Zheng sensed the spider’s power being consumed by another presence.
• Fang Zheng, Maria, and Irene returned to the church, where Fang Zheng reunited with the little girl and Doctor Yusefka greeted Maria.
• Fang Zheng told the group he had found a way out of the nightmare and warned them to stay at the church while he faced the abyss alone.
• Maria agreed to guard the church, and Fang Zheng entered the dream again.

After restoring his Power of Existence, Fang Zheng learned that his Soul Fire could be spent and that its former strength had depended on power from the Main World. The Fire Keeper suggested he could gain enduring Soul Fire by using a world as fuel.

• Fang Zheng joined the Fire Keeper in rekindling the altar flame, purifying the shrine and restoring his Power of Existence.
• The Fire Keeper warned Fang Zheng that improving weapons and exhausting his power consumed Soul Fire, and that losing all of it would kill him.
• The Fire Keeper explained that the Main World had once sustained Fang Zheng's Soul Fire, but its power had been cut off, leaving him weakened.
• Fang Zheng concluded that his resurrection and unstable system might be connected to James and the Secret Treasure, and resolved to investigate them after returning to the Main World.
• Fang Zheng asked how he could obtain a lasting energy source, and the Fire Keeper advised him to choose a world as fuel.

Fang Zheng had the Fire Keeper infuse his weapons with Soul Fire, transforming them into a phantasmal Chain Sword and a revolver-like short sword. After testing their abilities, he asked the Fire Keeper to take him to the dream beneath the red moon.

• Fang Zheng considered the Fire Keeper's suggestion to burn an evil world for kindling but decided to keep gathering it by defeating powerful bosses for now.
• The Fire Keeper infused Fang Zheng's two swords with Soul Fire and instructed him to imagine their desired forms.
• Fang Zheng's Black Greatsword gained a Chain Sword transformation and the ability to create illusory afterimages.
• Fang Zheng's Silver-white Short Sword became a concealed firearm that fired blasts powered by his Power of Existence.
• Fang Zheng rejected relying on the Reiji Maigo to sustain his Soul Fire because becoming a Denizen of the Crimson Realm would erase his ties and memories in this world.
• Fang Zheng asked the Fire Keeper to take him to the dream with the red moon, then touched the bonfire and entered it.

Fang Zheng fought Gherman in a moonlit land tainted by the Abyss, using the old hunter to test his modified weapons and sharpen his Gun Parry. After Gherman adapted to the gun, Fang Zheng used a different technique to break his guard and decapitate him.

• Fang Zheng confronted Gherman beneath a withered tree and refused the old hunter’s offer to help end the conflict.
• Fang Zheng attacked with his transforming Black Greatsword and firearm, trading blows with Gherman and discovering that the hunter could regenerate.
• Fang Zheng used Gherman as a sparring partner, gradually improving his Gun Parry until he repeatedly stopped the old hunter’s attacks.
• Gherman learned to evade Fang Zheng’s shot and rushed in with a transformed axe, believing he had caught Fang Zheng off guard.
• Fang Zheng parried Gherman’s axe with his firearm using a different technique, knocked him to his knees, and cut off his head.

Fang Zheng recognized the Moon God as Aldrich, his old enemy from the Dark Souls World, and accused him of manipulating events in Yharnam to devour the power of gods and their kin. Aldrich revealed that Fang Zheng’s extinguishing of the flames had left him trapped in a broken skeleton, and Fang Zheng prepared to fight him.

• Fang Zheng killed the old hunter, who thanked him before turning to ash as a Blood Moon appeared.
• The Moon God descended and invited Fang Zheng into its dream, but Fang Zheng recognized it as Aldrich.
• Fang Zheng suspected Aldrich had manipulated the Healing Church and its hunters to harvest power from ancient gods and their offspring.
• Aldrich recognized Fang Zheng as the Ashen One and blamed him for extinguishing the flames and bringing the age of the deep sea.
• Fang Zheng raised his flaming greatsword and declared that he would link the fire with Aldrich.

Fang Zheng fought the Moon Presence, revealed as Aldrich, and burned it with the First Flame. As Aldrich recognized the Dark Ring and realized he could not escape his fate, Fang Zheng stabbed through its head.

• The Moon Presence attacked Fang Zheng, who dodged its strikes and taunted it about its appearance and past.
• Fang Zheng severed one of the Moon Presence’s tentacles, then dodged its blood projectiles.
• Fang Zheng transformed his greatsword into a flaming whip and knocked the Moon Presence down, setting its body ablaze with the First Flame.
• Aldrich recalled how he had plotted to use the Great Ones and hunters in Yharnam to regain power and escape being burned as firewood.
• The fire spread across the graveyard and toward the blood-red moon, whose edge ignited and center darkened into the Dark Ring.
• Aldrich pleaded to keep eating and avoid burning, but Fang Zheng pierced its head with his flaming greatsword.

After the nightmare ended, Fang Zheng prepared to leave Yharnam and gave Maria keepsakes for a child before burning the Dream World to repair his system. Aldrich’s curse infected Fang Zheng with Abyss Power, and he resolved to try to wield darkness and flame together.

• Maria told Fang Zheng that the nightmare had ended and that she would stay to rebuild the hunters' corps and destroy the Old Gods' ruins.
• Fang Zheng gave Maria a music box and ruby brooch to pass to a child, then Maria vanished from the chapel.
• Fang Zheng set the Dream World ablaze, and his System Repair progress rose from 5% to 30%.
• Aldrich's curse drew black smoke into Fang Zheng, infecting him with Abyss Power that began merging with his soul.
• Fang Zheng asked the Fire Keeper whether he could control the Abyss while wielding flame, then declared that he would try to make light and darkness coexist.

Fang Zheng’s rampaging Abyss Power drove him to slaughter the inhabitants of the modern town before he finally regained control. As he surveyed the wreckage and prepared to leave, he discovered that one of the figures skewered on his greatsword was not human.

• Fang Zheng fell into an unfamiliar town while struggling to control the Abyss Power inside him.
• The townspeople ignored Fang Zheng’s warnings and approached him, prompting him to attack and kill them.
• Fang Zheng rampaged through the town, killing everyone and everything he encountered while the Abyss Power overwhelmed him.
• Fang Zheng eventually guided the Abyss Power into place and realized he had massacred the town.
• Fang Zheng went to retrieve his greatsword and discovered that the skewered figure was not human.

Fang Zheng arrived in a modern village overrun by Vampires and confronted a blood-drinking man in red after finding a forest battlefield full of dead civilians and police. The Vampire survived Fang Zheng’s killing blow by transforming into bats, and Fang Zheng prepared to burn him to ashes.

• Fang Zheng discovered that the man impaled on his greatsword was a Vampire and beheaded him when he attacked again.
• Fang Zheng followed distant gunfire through a village strewn with civilian and police corpses, then found the fighting had ended in a forest.
• Fang Zheng confronted a red-coated Vampire who was drinking from a policewoman’s corpse, and the Vampire claimed he had killed the people there.
• Fang Zheng fought the Vampire, cut him in half, and pierced his head with the Pitch Black Greatsword.
• The Vampire reassembled from black bats and challenged Fang Zheng, who ignited his greatsword and vowed to burn him to ashes.

At the command camp, a woman learned that a Vampire specialist was fighting the village’s trump card and set out for Jettaz Village. In the forest, Fang Zheng disarmed the regenerating Vampire and impaled him, setting him ablaze with the First Flame.

• The woman explained that Ghouls had overrun the village and learned that her specialist was fighting the command’s trump card.
• Fang Zheng severed the Vampire’s arm and deflected an explosive silver bullet with his short sword.
• Fang Zheng transformed his greatsword into Chain Sword phantoms, wrapped the Vampire’s gun, and crushed it.
• The Vampire regenerated his arm and attacked Fang Zheng, but Fang Zheng stopped him with his short sword and drove his greatsword into his chest.
• Fang Zheng unleashed the First Flame through the wound and engulfed the Vampire in fire.

Fang Zheng fought Alucard until Integra interrupted them and ordered Alucard to withdraw. Integra tried to detain Fang Zheng, but Walter stepped in to explain HELL SING’s role, and Fang Zheng agreed to listen.

• Fang Zheng burned Alucard with the First Flame and absorbed his power, but Alucard reformed and urged him to continue fighting.
• Integra arrived, stopped the battle, and ordered Alucard to leave Fang Zheng alone.
• Integra introduced herself as the director of HELL SING and questioned Fang Zheng, who said he had fought Alucard because he was a Vampire drinking human blood.
• Integra demanded that Fang Zheng put down his weapon and accompany them, but he challenged her and warned that he could fight Alucard again.
• Walter offered to explain HELL SING’s duties, and Fang Zheng put away his greatsword and agreed to listen.

Fang Zheng accepted HELLSING’s invitation after learning that another Vampire had turned the villagers into Ghouls, though he struggled to control the Abyss Power’s influence on his temper. After Alucard admitted Fang Zheng had outmatched him, Integra decided to offer Fang Zheng work with the organization.

• Fang Zheng reflected on Alucard’s strength and restrained his impulse to attack him for the kindling within his body.
• Walter told Integra that HELLSING had found almost no information about Fang Zheng or his origins.
• Alucard told Integra and Walter that Fang Zheng had been far stronger than him and might have killed him if she had not intervened.
• Integra weighed the risks of letting Fang Zheng leave Britain, including the possibility that the Vatican might recruit him.
• Walter suggested cooperating with Fang Zheng because HELLSING needed more combatants, and Integra decided to make him an offer herself.

Fang Zheng agreed to work with Integra and the HELLSING organization after explaining that he was an Abyss Watcher from Farron Keep. He was sent to investigate a manor where two Vampires had infiltrated, and prepared to begin the hunt.

• Fang Zheng deduced that Integra wanted to cooperate with him and negotiated a contract offering him pay and a legal identity.
• Fang Zheng told Integra he was an Abyss Watcher from Farron Keep and said he had arrived in this world by accident.
• Integra accepted Fang Zheng's terms and shook hands with him to establish their cooperation.
• Walter drove Fang Zheng and Alucard to a manor where two Vampires had posed as a couple and the estate had lost contact with the outside world.
• Fang Zheng stepped out of the car, summoned Black and White, and prepared to hunt the Vampires.

Fang Zheng entered a remote manor where vampires had slaughtered its residents and turned them into Ghouls. He burned through the attackers, killed one vampire, and watched the other die while trying to escape.

• Fang Zheng entered the manor and found dead bodyguards and bloodied corpses throughout the house.
• A chef Ghoul attacked Fang Zheng, and more Ghouls emerged to block the corridor.
• Fang Zheng unleashed crimson flames that burned the Ghouls and revealed a vampire fleeing upstairs.
• The fleeing vampire tried to extinguish the flames with water, but Fang Zheng cut off his hand and burned him to ash.
• The second vampire jumped through a window to escape, but a gunshot struck and killed her.

Fang Zheng grew frustrated with hunting weak, artificially created Vampires and was forced to fight alongside Seras. After Seras returned carrying Alucard’s severed head, a powerful priest appeared, and Fang Zheng stepped forward to face him.

• Fang Zheng killed a Ghoul and complained that the weak Vampires he had been fighting barely helped repair the system.
• Fang Zheng explained that HELL SING had paired him with Seras while Alucard trained her, and that their investigation suggested someone was artificially creating Vampires.
• Fang Zheng heard Seras scream and rushed upstairs, where he found her wounded and carrying Alucard’s head.
• Seras told Fang Zheng that a powerful priest had killed Alucard, and the priest appeared to pursue her.
• Fang Zheng confronted the priest and challenged him to prove the power of the god he worshipped.

Fang Zheng fought a blade-wielding priest who recovered from devastating injuries and attacked again. Fang Zheng impaled the priest’s hands with his greatsword and set one ablaze, while Seras learned that Alucard was still alive.

• The priest threw blades at Fang Zheng, but Fang Zheng shattered them and struck him with a shoulder charge that crushed his chest and sent him flying.
• Fang Zheng told Seras that Alucard was still alive, and Alucard’s head transformed into a blood-red snake and flowed away.
• The priest emerged from the shadows with his chest healed, and Fang Zheng recognized that he was not human.
• Fang Zheng charged the priest through a volley of blades and thrust his greatsword toward him.
• The priest caught the greatsword in his hands to stop it reaching his heart, and Fang Zheng engulfed the priest’s right hand in flames.

Fang Zheng and Alucard drove off Alexander Anderson, a Vatican paladin, and Integra assigned Walter to handle the resulting dispute while HELLSING pursued the organization creating vampires. In his dream, Fang Zheng visited the Firelink Shrine, where he learned the Abyss Flame remained stable, and considered making a bold move if the mysterious organization stayed hidden.

• Fang Zheng fought Alexander Anderson, whose burning hand and golden pages helped him escape by teleportation.
• Fang Zheng confronted Alucard for watching the fight, then returned with him to report to Integra.
• Integra identified Anderson as a member of Section 13 and ordered Walter to negotiate with the Vatican while HELLSING continued investigating the vampire-making organization.
• Fang Zheng asked about the investigation, then returned to his room and entered a dream of the Firelink Shrine.
• The Fire Keeper confirmed the Abyss Flame was stable and drew a small amount of power from Fang Zheng to strengthen the Soul Fire.
• Fang Zheng worried about his lost connections to the Main World and said he might make a big move if the mysterious organization did not appear.

Fang Zheng woke to find Esther, the spirit of his Demon Slaying Holy Sword, sleeping naked beside him. He learned that his other Contracted Elf could not yet manifest and was left wondering how to explain Esther's sudden appearance to Walter and Integra.

• Fang Zheng planned to ask Walter for leave so he could find Chinese food in London.
• Fang Zheng discovered a silver-haired girl in his bed and asked who she was.
• The girl identified herself as Esther, Fang Zheng's Contracted Elf and the spirit of the Demon Slaying Holy Sword.
• Esther explained that the spirit of Fang Zheng's other sword could not manifest until he gained more power.
• Fang Zheng questioned Esther about her over-the-knee socks, then decided he needed to find her clothes.