Chapter Summaries

Li Aoz searched the ruined city for Lucite and Hobbes after his gravity and Echo Power devastated the area. He learned that Mordot had led them toward the Graduate School while secretly seeking the Forbidden Knowledge, and he turned back to stop him.

• Li Aoz used gravity and Echo Power to destroy much of the city and crush the Implant Equipment Vanguards.
• Li Aoz followed Lucite and the others’ trail to a shopping center, then searched the flooded air-raid shelter and revived an Enforcement Team member as a corpse.
• Kute Ricksen told Li Aoz that Lucite and Hobbes had likely escaped the cave collapse and that Mordot’s group was headed to the Graduate School to meet Koreina.
• Kute Ricksen revealed that Mordot had entered the Forbidden Library to find Lyle Swindler's Destiny Card, prompting Li Aoz to realize Mordot was after the Eye of Discernment fragment.
• Li Aoz abruptly changed direction, realizing Lucite and Hobbes were in danger.

Crippled Moon revealed himself as the Zeta-rank Cosmic Pirate and said he had led the students through their ordeal for fun, describing mortals as NPCs and Deified Persons as players. After capturing James II and Maria on cards and forcing Lucite to kneel, he reached for Lucite’s forehead, but Hobbes lunged to stop him.

• Crippled Moon revealed his identity, and his overwhelming charm affected Maria while Lucite shielded Hobbes and resisted his presence.
• Lucite confronted Crippled Moon about his actions, and Crippled Moon said he had done it for fun and compared mortals to ants and NPCs.
• Crippled Moon argued that Deified Persons were players who could treat mortals as they pleased, then captured James II and Maria on cards.
• Crippled Moon’s pressure forced Lucite to kneel, and Lucite’s armor and body rapidly dissolved as he gave up resisting.
• Crippled Moon reached toward Lucite’s forehead with Azure Radiance, and Hobbes sprang up and lunged at him.

Li Aoz confronted Thug Crescent Moon to force him to leave the witnesses behind, then fought him after Thug Crescent Moon refused. Li Aoz exploited a momentary malfunction to land a punch and used gravity to try to force Thug Crescent Moon to kneel.

• Thug Crescent Moon revealed himself as Senior Mordot from the Enforcement Team and showed Li Aoz the four cards he had taken.
• Thug Crescent Moon tried to leave with the witnesses, but Li Aoz destroyed the Implant Equipment Vanguards and demanded that he leave them behind.
• Li Aoz sent Dia Lan through a space-time rift and activated Dictator Form before attacking Thug Crescent Moon.
• Thug Crescent Moon evaded Li Aoz's punches by shifting between dimensions and urged him to stop fighting.
• Li Aoz cursed Thug Crescent Moon with Sequence 77: Bane, causing his body to malfunction briefly.
• Li Aoz struck Thug Crescent Moon in the face and used Gravitational Oppression to command him to kneel.

Li Aoz used Gravity Aura to freeze time and space and attack Crescent Moon across dimensions, but Crescent Moon escaped into a Demiplane and counterattacked with dimensional slashes. The chapter ended as his attacks rained down on Li Aoz.

• Crescent Moon evaded Li Aoz's gravity by shifting into the dimension of a card illustration.
• Li Aoz froze time and space across his Gravity Aura and used Gravity Waves to strike Crescent Moon through dimensions.
• Admiral Bablushka watched the battle from a Night Butterfly Battleship and discussed Crescent Moon's role in his plans with his aide.
• Crescent Moon escaped into the Demiplane of Atmospheric Element and assessed Li Aoz's strengths and limitations.
• Crescent Moon gathered nearby storm giants and unleashed Infinite Dimensional Slash at Li Aoz.

Li Aoz studied Crescent Moon’s status and concluded that the pirate’s dimensional abilities made him a dangerous opponent. Crescent Moon ambushed Li Aoz with Dimensional Slash, but Time Stop and Calamity kept the attack from harming him as the two were forced into a contest of endurance.

• Li Aoz searched for Crescent Moon and examined his status, discovering his talents, Aoneng, and dimensional abilities.
• Li Aoz decided he needed Crescent Moon’s Objective Resonance talent and reasoned that Crescent Moon would avoid close combat and attack from another dimension.
• Crescent Moon used Dimensional Slash to fragment Li Aoz’s body before Li Aoz could retaliate.
• Li Aoz revealed that Time Stop was still active and Calamity remained attached to Crescent Moon, then challenged him to outlast his mana and the coming disaster.

Yawen questioned whether she should keep reshaping herself for Li Aoz, then learned from Vierria that Machine World Society planned to summon its mother body and consume White Candle Star. She agreed to join Vierria’s Boundaryless Ones, but first chose to say goodbye.

• Yawen reflected on Li Aoz’s mixed nature and realized that Hidden had made her feel inferior so she would live for someone else.
• Vierria told Yawen that Machine World Society had gathered enough councilors to summon Mash Gergang and devour White Candle Star.
• Yawen challenged Vierria’s claims, and Vierria explained Hidden Society’s factions and the Boundaryless Ones’ opposition to societies.
• Vierria revealed her history as a former Hidden Citizen and explained that she had become a mortal through a doctor’s experiment.
• Yawen firmly accepted Vierria’s invitation to leave with the Boundaryless Ones, but said she needed to say goodbye first.

Li Aoz endured Crescent Moon’s devastating dimensional assault while keeping spacetime frozen, hoping to force his hidden enemy to appear and strike a finishing blow. He refused Jannia’s plea to flee and prepared to gamble his life against Crescent Moon’s paranoia.

• Crescent Moon’s dimensional slashes destroyed Trivella and repeatedly shredded Li Aoz, who survived only because spacetime remained frozen.
• Jannia begged Li Aoz to end the freeze, escape, and draw her so she could help him flee, but he reassured her that he would survive.
• Jannia revealed that her divine power had foreseen Li Aoz’s death and lamented that she did not want to lose another partner.
• Li Aoz refused to run because his friends, classmates, refugees, and the people he had brought to the planet depended on him.
• Li Aoz decided to use himself as bait, betting that Crescent Moon would eventually appear to finish him off rather than let him escape into a colonized body.

Can Yue waited in the Atmospheric Elemental Demiplane, believing Lioz might already be dead, while Li Aoz’s Scourge quietly accumulated disasters to disrupt events on White Candle Star. It nearly lured Barkomon into looking outside, but an interruption stopped him, and the Scourge turned its attention toward Nastisha and Ye Wangnan.

• Can Yue stopped his cross-dimensional attacks and decided to wait five more minutes before returning to the High Tower.
• Li Aoz’s Scourge spread disaster through the Real World, stirring unrest and interfering with fate after failing to affect Can Yue directly.
• Barkomon concluded a day-long training session and reflected on the Night Butterfly People’s infiltration and Lioz’s sudden recovery of his Credits.
• The Scourge nudged Barkomon to look through the auditorium’s panoramic skylight, but his secretary interrupted him with urgent documents.
• Nastisha invited Ye Wangnan to take a walk in the corridor, and the Scourge’s tentacles stirred again.

Nastisha and Ye Wangnan discovered that Trivella had been cut off from communications and attacked by Crescent Moon’s forces. After breaking the dimensional barrier, Nastisha saw the devastation and the university’s students fighting for survival, then vowed to confront Crescent Moon.

• Nastisha and Ye Wangnan discussed their weariness with war while walking through the stellar corridor, and Nastisha said she would never return to a battlefield after losing her family.
• Nastisha noticed magical activity over Trivella, and Ye Wangnan found that everyone she called there was unreachable and local news had stopped updating.
• Nastisha sent Ye Wangnan to alert the principal and Barkomon, then flew to Trivella and discovered that a dimensional barrier concealed a distorted city.
• Nastisha shattered the barrier with her Thunder Domain and saw the city’s casualties and the students of White Candle Star Interstellar University under attack.
• Nastisha found Crescent Moon’s trace, remembered her promise to protect those who came after her, and prepared to settle accounts with the attacker.

Nastisha tracked Crescent Moon to the Storm Demiplane and attacked, while the Night Butterfly operation unraveled after White Candle Star restored communications. Barkomon found Bablushka’s fleet and launched a devastating attack, ending by hurling a gas giant at its Mechanical Legion.

• Nastisha located Crescent Moon in the Storm Demiplane and used Elemental Suicide Bombing against him and the plane.
• Bablushka ordered squads to retrieve the Forbidden Knowledge, but learned Crescent Moon was unreachable and the virtual base station had been destroyed.
• Barkomon unleashed Divine Might Shock across the star system, destroying the fleet’s counter-reconnaissance equipment and killing observers.
• Barkomon confronted Bablushka, ambushed him, and used cursed psychic magic to disable much of the Mechanical Legion.
• Barkomon amplified and repeatedly cast Super Wish Spell, then plucked a gas giant from the system and hurled it at Bablushka’s fleet.

Caramel Snail wandered through Trustworthy Village, savoring its ordinary life and deciding Star Abyss had become a second home he wanted to protect. When Bard Mais sang a ballad about the Tailor and a Saintess, Caramel Snail felt a grief and anger that seemed to belong to Jiao Ziniu, though he knew nothing of the events.

• Caramel Snail considered joining a professional team as he settled into his life in Trustworthy Village.
• Caramel Snail enjoyed the village’s scenery, food, and music, then realized he wanted to upload his consciousness to Star Abyss after death.
• Bard Mais offered Caramel Snail a side quest to listen to a new song, and Caramel Snail accepted.
• Bard Mais sang about a Tailor who brought disaster to the world and a Saintess who defeated her.
• Caramel Snail felt grief and anger whenever the song mentioned the Tailor, as if Jiao Ziniu had suffered in the catastrophe.

Jio Zeiou’s encounter with a bard was interrupted when Lai Anding’s protocol forced Caramel Snail to log out and reconnect, erasing his memory of their meeting. After reconnecting, Caramel Snail found Li Aoz’s urgent S-rank rescue quest and sought help before the deadline.

• Jio Zeiou praised the bard’s song and told him to seek Nodia for poetry lessons, using Jio Zeiou’s name if she refused.
• Lai Anding’s Cognitive Filter failed to suppress Jio Zeiou, so her protocol forcibly disconnected and reset Caramel Snail.
• Caramel Snail reconnected with no memory of Jio Zeiou and discovered Li Aoz’s quest to rescue him and aid Trivella.
• Caramel Snail found his friends list mostly offline and asked Cumin Powder to help recruit players.
• Cumin Powder contacted professional players and guilds, saying she could gather twenty-five players even if she could not assemble the original village members.

Players gathered supplies and prepared to retrieve Li Aoz’s weapon, while Waning Moon’s uneasy instincts led him to discover that the Demiplane was collapsing toward the Real World. After Waning Moon escaped into Trivella City, Li Aoz trapped him and stole his Objective Resonance talent.

• Cumin Powder, Ye Zhangjian, Yu Tianxiao, Caramel Snail, and the others organized supplies and planned a dangerous route through Falicia Heroes to retrieve Li Aoz’s weapon, while Caramel Snail offered a possible lead on Condition B.
• Waning Moon reviewed his plan with Governor Bablushka and realized that a brief malfunction in his biomechanical arm might have been the overlooked failure.
• Elemental Giants went berserk and exploded around Waning Moon, who recognized that gravity was pulling the Demiplane toward the Real World.
• Waning Moon escaped into Trivella City, where Li Aoz used a Dimensional Anchor to stop his Jump and restrained him with neural tentacles.
• Li Aoz activated Plunder Heaven’s Gift and chose Waning Moon’s Objective Resonance talent.

Barkomon and Bablushka escalated their fight by unleashing cursed Kappa-rank power, with Barkomon striking back against Bablushka’s transformed mechanical god. Meanwhile, Li Aoz extracted Waning Moon’s genetic information and raised his Charisma enough to prepare a counterattack.

• Barkomon battered Bablushka’s Mechanical Legion while ignoring the danger of the Twisted Curse.
• Barkomon unsealed his magic weapon and challenged Bablushka to stop holding back.
• Bablushka summoned his Holy Mecha Legion and transformed into a colossal mechanical god.
• Bablushka unleashed a blessed barrage, and Barkomon swept at it with a powerful magical strike.
• Li Aoz seized Waning Moon and extracted 27 million Gene Fragments, gaining Charisma as his body was completed.
• Li Aoz’s Charisma reached 570 points and converted into Strength, allowing him to counterattack Waning Moon without relying on technique.

Li Aoz battered Crescent Moon until Nastisha intervened, but Crescent Moon escaped capture when Bravo Squad rescued him under cover of the Dark Domain. After learning that the final fragment was still with the enemy, Bravo Squad prepared for a potentially fatal recovery mission.

• Li Aoz pounded Crescent Moon into the ground, but Crescent Moon numbed him with Bio-current, escaped, and used Dimensional Rend to split Li Aoz's head apart.
• Li Aoz continued approaching despite losing his head, while Nastisha arrived and prepared to strike Crescent Moon with lightning.
• Crescent Moon retreated toward the Teleportation Tower as Bravo Squad activated the Dark Domain, blocked Nastisha's attack, and rescued him.
• Bravo Squad learned Crescent Moon did not have the fragment, while Alpha and Charlie reported that they had secured theirs.
• Dark Wolf ordered Bravo Squad to recover the final fragment, and Bravo One led the squad in pledging to fight to the death as Crescent Moon mocked their resolve.

Waning Moon attacked Li Aoz under cover of Dark Domain, but Li Aoz used Eye of Truth and Dimensional Shadow Edge to sever his arm. As Nastisha fought the Bravo Squad and Mo Zilan was taken hostage, Waning Moon surrendered a set of cards before escaping through a dimensional rift when Li Aoz discovered the cards did not include Hobbes or Lucite.

• Waning Moon gave Mo Zilan a card and told him to escape to Valkyrie Fortress if anything happened, while secretly entrusting him with a fragment of Eye of Discernment.
• Waning Moon activated Dictator Form and ambushed Li Aoz, but Li Aoz used Eye of Truth to anticipate the attack and cut off Waning Moon's right arm with Dimensional Shadow Edge.
• Nastisha attacked the Bravo Squad with Thunderstorm—Unrestricted, leaving Li Aoz to pressure Waning Moon in close combat.
• Mo Zilan shot Li Aoz's blade to protect his father, so Li Aoz held a light-forged blade to Mo Zilan's throat and demanded the captured students.
• Waning Moon surrendered four cards and followed Li Aoz's instructions, but Li Aoz found that Hobbes and Lucite were missing.
• Waning Moon tore open a dimensional rift to separate himself from Li Aoz and ran toward Mo Zilan.

Li Aoz revealed himself as the one who had sabotaged Crescent Moon’s plans, and Crescent Moon’s grief over Mo Zilan’s death sent his Aoneng out of control. Li Aoz summoned the Vivid Demon Iron Monarch and entered battle against Crescent Moon as he transformed into a dimensional beast.

• Crescent Moon rushed toward Mo Zilan, but the crushing gravity killed his son and drenched him in blood.
• Li Aoz revealed that he had been responsible for the campus infiltration, Elemental Riot, and the theft of Mo Zilan’s Aoneng and life.
• Crescent Moon questioned Li Aoz about their grudge and insisted that he had only taken a child, while Nastisha warned Li Aoz to flee as Crescent Moon’s power began to run wild.
• Li Aoz drew the Fate Awakening Sword and activated Jannia’s True Name, summoning the Vivid Demon Iron Monarch.
• Crescent Moon lost control, consumed nearby Implant Equipment Vanguards, and transformed into a grotesque dimensional beast as Li Aoz strode into the battlefield.

Li Aoz pursued the Crescent Moon mutant through the planet’s core and into another dimensional world, where Calamity’s accumulated effects caused the mutant’s defeat. He discovered that Calamity had overloaded and gone on a five-year cooldown.

• Nastisha fought Bravo Squad in Trivella City while holding back her large-scale spells to avoid harming civilian survivors.
• Li Aoz used gravity and spacetime powers to drive the Crescent Moon mutant into White Candle Star’s magma, but it escaped and attacked him.
• Li Aoz chased Crescent Moon across dimensions and followed it into a strange world where its aura vanished.
• The system announced Crescent Moon’s defeat after Calamity’s effects led it into the Laurel Leaf Diagram World Fragment and Li Aoz destroyed its dimensional boundary anchor.
• Li Aoz read the battle log and learned that Calamity had overloaded and entered a five-year cooldown.

After defeating Remnant Moon, Li Aoz discovered that Lucite and Hobbes had been scattered across other dimensions, then returned to Trivella and faced questions from Dean Nastisha. Nastisha concealed his Overlord Class identity from the authorities but pressured him to join White Candle Star’s Reserve Force, and Li Aoz agreed to serve.

• Li Aoz reached Echoer level 110, chose the Berserker template, and vowed to search for Lucite and Hobbes across other dimensions.
• Li Aoz returned to Trivella and found that Nastisha had eliminated Remnant Moon’s forces and captured the surviving subordinates.
• Nastisha restrained Li Aoz and questioned him about his identity, his divine sword, and his activities at the school.
• Nastisha told the authorities that Li Aoz had defeated Remnant Moon while concealing that he followed the Overlord Class path.
• Nastisha revealed that she was White Candle Star’s Reserve Force commander and offered Li Aoz the choice between prison and military service.
• Li Aoz agreed to join the Reserve Force and said he would report to the recruitment office in a few days.

Li Aoz met Yawen after Vierria brought her to the school, and Yawen explained that she was leaving with the Boundaryless to seek a cure for her Blood of Ether. As Yawen confessed her fears about being forgotten and not knowing what she meant to Li Aoz, he stepped back and punched her.

• Nastisha gave Li Aoz Lucite's backpack and agreed to handle the student cards recovered from Broken Moon while authorities investigated him.
• Vierria brought Yawen to Li Aoz, explaining that she had tracked his Gravity Wave, then left them alone to talk.
• Yawen brought Li Aoz a meal and said Vierria would take her to the Boundaryless to resolve her Blood of Ether.
• Li Aoz accepted Yawen's departure and reassured her that she would return, while teasing her about her jealousy and insecurity.
• Yawen confessed that she feared Li Aoz would forget her and admitted she did not know what to do; Li Aoz told her to stand still and punched her.