Chapter Summaries

Li Aoz planned to build a Life Commune of his own to research Sequence Aura and stop Hidden Citizens from recruiting in the Star Abyss. After offering Nefes a job and reassuring her about her difficulty expressing emotions, he found himself tightly embraced as she thanked him.

• Li Aoz decided that he needed to establish a Life Commune and began listing former members he could recruit as scholars.
• Li Aoz asked Nefes what she planned to do after escaping the company, and she said she wanted to keep living and find a reason to exist.
• Li Aoz offered Nefes a job in the White Candle Autonomous State, explaining the pay and benefits.
• Nefes told Li Aoz that he had given her freedom and the right to choose, but she did not know how to express her feelings.
• Li Aoz told Nefes he would hug and kiss someone who rescued him from enslavement, so she embraced him and kissed his ear while thanking him.

Andrew Verrazzi reviewed the failed Star Hunt operation and concluded that Nalia’s emotional collapse had caused its disastrous outcome. He placed a bounty on Nefthys Cleopatra, hoping to recover Gabros and force Lioz into a conflict with Valkyrie Fortress.

• Andrew’s public relations team contained the Star Hunt fallout while he absorbed Nalia’s former personnel and monitored Lioz through her Crystal Tower husband.
• Andrew reviewed the operation’s losses and concluded that Nalia’s emotional collapse had caused her to fail despite extensive preparations.
• Andrew recognized that Gabros had betrayed Verrazzi Company and decided he needed to be captured so they could learn why.
• Andrew ordered a bounty for Nefthys Cleopatra, offering forty million Ammonium Gold and an eighty percent bonus for her live, intact capture.
• Andrew explained that the bounty would pressure Lioz and potentially weaken Valkyrie Fortress, whose growing independence concerned the conglomerate.

Andrew concluded that Society citizens had infiltrated the Narrative Civilizations and realized Verrazzi would be blamed for investigating the Deep Abyss Squad’s Silent Uncontact incidents. Meanwhile, Li Aoz used the rewards from his recent trip to strengthen his forces and prepared to descend into the Star Abyss before the decisive battle against the Entropy Lord.

• Andrew received a Headquarters Executive Council order assigning Verrazzi to investigate the Deep Abyss Squad’s Silent Uncontact incidents, which had claimed 327 candidates.
• Andrew reasoned that the lower narratives had not deliberately broken contact and concluded that Society citizens had infiltrated the Narrative Civilizations.
• Li Aoz sent Nefes Cleopatra back to White Candle Star, where she and Dia Lan would help guard his home base.
• Li Aoz invested Nalia’s 940 million Ammonium Gold payment into the Expedition Fleet’s second phase as the X Fleet neared control of the Red Eye System.
• Li Aoz planned to descend into the Star Abyss and return within three years before joining the decisive battle against the Entropy Lord as a bishop.

Li Aoz learned why the Company had targeted him and headed to Planet B for the Hunter's Gathering. As Xue Ling and Xue Yi arrived to meet Mr. Disville, they encountered Hunters including the Bronze Hunter Azrael Kindley and discussed their struggles and importance.

• Li Aoz questioned Nalia's corpse and learned that Andrew Verrazzi had prayed to Red King for a divine revelation about him.
• Li Aoz traveled to Kailan Star, discovered his visa covered only Planet A, and used a spatial rift and Pegasus Wings to reach the nearby starfield.
• Xue Yi photographed Li Aoz as he emerged from the spatial rift, while Xue Ling urged him to hurry to their meeting with Mr. Disville.
• Xue Ling identified a newly arrived group as Hunters and introduced their leader, Azrael Kindley, as the Bronze Hunter known as the Iron Angel.
• Xue Ling rebuked Xue Yi for dismissing Hunters and explained that their father’s return as a Kappa-rank would improve Snow World Civilization’s standing.

Xue Yi met Lievice in a restroom mirror and agreed to make a contract with her, promising to preserve his love for ten years. After Lievice vanished, Xue Yi reunited with Xue Ling, who took him to meet Disville, while Li Aoz arrived and loudly demanded that Disville open the door.

• Xue Yi hid in a restroom to scare Xue Ling, but a woman named Lievice appeared in the mirror and told him not to hurt someone who loved him.
• Xue Yi praised Lievice's beauty, and she told him how others had mocked and slandered her because of it.
• Lievice embraced Xue Yi through the mirror, revealed that she came from a deeper layer of the Star Abyss, and offered him a contract requiring ten years of unchanged love; Xue Yi agreed.
• After Lievice disappeared, Xue Ling found Xue Yi, and he apologized for not being considerate of her hard work.
• Xue Ling took Xue Yi to meet Disville and warned him to be polite, while Li Aoz knocked and called for Disville to open the door.

Li Aoz visited Disweier on Kailan Star and reported evidence of the Hidden Society, a group unknown to the Hunter Association. The discovery left Disweier alarmed that the society had escaped notice across the entire Sixth Layer Star Abyss.

• Disweier welcomed Li Aoz and offered him the Hunter Mentor position, but Li Aoz declined because he was president of a nation.
• Disweier praised Li Aoz's record fighting societies and predicted he could become the first Kappa-rank Overlord Class Deified Person in two hundred years.
• Li Aoz gave Disweier evidence about Gaia, Earth, and the Hidden Society, including reports of its history and an invasion of White Candle Star.
• Disweier said neither he nor the Hunter Association had ever heard of the Hidden Society, and he grew alarmed as he examined Li Aoz's evidence.

Li Aoz explained to Disville that the Hidden Society erased memories of its dead and left its victims forgetting invasions, and that its members spoke English. Disville connected English letters to Star Abyss’s rank symbols and traced their shared alphabet to Narrative No. 5, Eternal Corridor, where “Hellenic” meant “qiqiao.”

• Li Aoz realized Disville genuinely knew nothing about the Hidden Society, since a Hunter mentor’s oath prevented him from lying.
• Li Aoz explained that the world forgot Hidden Citizens after they died and used White Candle Star’s forgotten invasions as evidence of Secrecy’s memory-altering power.
• Li Aoz showed Disville evidence that corrupted members of the Hidden Society spoke English and warned that English speakers might need to be exterminated to protect Star Abyss.
• Disville recognized similarities between English letters and the Greek letters used for Star Abyss’s ranks.
• Disville traced the Hellenic alphabet to Narrative No. 5, Eternal Corridor, and revealed that “Hellenic” meant “qiqiao.”

Li Aoz and Disville discussed why the Star Abyss and Earth civilizations might resemble each other, and how societies depended on cultural elements to survive. After noticing his eyes had changed, Li Aoz realized his body was converging with Lioz's despite the Truth Drug, and wondered what Lioz thought of the increasingly complicated situation.

• Li Aoz and Disville considered whether similarities between English and the Intricate Language arose from convergent evolution or a shared origin.
• Disville explained that societies needed cultural cohesion and essential elements to remain healthy, and gave Li Aoz a book on social anatomy.
• Li Aoz questioned why Gaia would invade the Star Abyss rather than devour Earth, but Disville admitted he did not know.
• Disville called Li Aoz exceptionally efficient at communication, prompting Li Aoz to check his reflection and notice his eyes had turned dark blue.
• Li Aoz recalled Lioz's claim that they shared one identity and realized that, despite taking the Truth Drug, his body and nature were becoming like Lioz's.

Disweier told Li Aoz how Society destroyed his civilization, killed his family, and turned his daughter Lulisa against him. He asked Li Aoz to find and kill her, and Li Aoz accepted the resulting side quest.

• Disweier shared valuable materials with Li Aoz and described his former life as a father and software engineer.
• Disweier recounted how Society corrupted his civilization and how Purple Moon destroyed it despite the intervention of Narrative's Omega (24) and four gods.
• Disweier described later finding his daughter Lulisa among Purple Moon's followers and killing her after she stabbed him.
• Disweier asked Li Aoz to find Lulisa and end her existence, and Li Aoz accepted the side quest to find her.

Li Aoz entered the Hunters’ universe to trade at the gathering and encountered powerful Hunters and the Treant Harlowe. He began inspecting Harlowe’s wares with the Eye of Truth, apparently preparing to get even for being swindled in a previous life.

• Li Aoz accepted Disville’s mission to end Lulisha’s suffering and received a silver goat-skull badge for the Hunters’ universe.
• Li Aoz crossed a dimensional rift and arrived in the Hunters’ universe, where a patrol inspected his Silver Hunter badge and warned him about the gathering’s rules.
• Li Aoz observed powerful Hunters, including the Sigma-rank mountain god and the Demon Refining Emperor, and thought about becoming a Path Sovereign.
• Li Aoz spotted the Treant Harlowe and approached his stall, intending to retaliate for Harlowe’s past swindle.
• Harlowe praised his wares, and Li Aoz examined a lantern while activating the Eye of Truth.

Li Aoz recognized Harlowe as a profiteering Treant and used his abilities to take two defective institutions while pretending they had vanished. He left Harlowe panicked and accusing him of scamming customers.

• Harlowe tried to sell Li Aoz the damaged Obscure Extinction lantern and claimed he had scavenged it from a councilor.
• Harlowe described a pink snowball as the powerful institution Snow of Sweet Dreams, and Li Aoz secretly recognized the sales pitch as a lie.
• Li Aoz used Crescent Moon to make the snowball disappear, then threatened to call the enforcement squad until Harlowe backed down.
• Li Aoz picked up a blue shortsword, used Crescent Moon again, and accused Harlowe of hiding the vanished institution.
• Harlowe tried to explain himself, but Li Aoz grabbed him by the neck and continued accusing him of scamming people.

Li Aoz publicly accused Harlowe of selling faulty devices and used Frostplate Boxing’s aggressive tactics to turn the crowd against him. Harlowe challenged Li Aoz to explain why his other customers’ devices did not disappear, and Li Aoz prepared to muddy the waters.

• Li Aoz berated Harlowe for allegedly deceiving battlefield-bound comrades, while Harlowe insisted his devices were genuine and accused Li Aoz of taking them.
• Li Aoz drew a crowd, and bystanders spread rumors about Harlowe’s history and mocked his character.
• Harlowe demanded his devices back, but Li Aoz showed the crowd he carried no visible storage gear and claimed his bio-augmentation proved he was not a mage.
• Harlowe considered challenging Li Aoz to a duel but backed down after recognizing his Silver Hunter status and reputation.
• Harlowe pointed out that his other customers’ goods remained intact, and Li Aoz decided to muddy the waters using a principle of Frostplate Boxing.

Li Aoz challenged Harlowe to prove that goods at his stall could vanish, staging a public, livestreamed test. After several devices stayed intact, Li Aoz found a strange landscape painting that disappeared in his hands and accused Harlowe of cheating.

• Li Aoz proposed reenacting the scene before witnesses and promised to apologize if he was wrong, while Harlowe demanded that Li Aoz reveal his identity and record everything.
• Li Aoz falsely identified himself as Du Zexin, and his ability made Harlowe believe the lie; he then arranged for hunters to film and project the test.
• Harlowe inspected the cameras and argued that Li Aoz was slandering a hardworking merchant, while Li Aoz insisted he was upholding justice.
• Li Aoz examined several devices without making them disappear, and Harlowe mocked him as the crowd watched.
• Li Aoz picked up a landscape painting that vanished, then pointed at Harlowe and accused him of being a crooked merchant.

Li Aoz drove Harlowe away from the gathering, then reviewed the unfulfilled White Frost Gold Bones mission and considered intervening in Frostplate if Dai Weilin could not resolve its problems. A synthetic human delivered an invitation from Proletaria, leaving Li Aoz poised to meet the gathering’s new guest.

• Li Aoz exposed Harlowe as a swindler, and Harlowe packed up his stall and left as the crowd dispersed.
• Li Aoz changed into his face-concealing Future Primitive outfit and reviewed the rewards he had lost when the coup invalidated the White Frost Gold Bones mission.
• Li Aoz decided to monitor Dai Weilin’s efforts in Frostplate and considered sending Invincible General Zhen if the problems remained unsolved.
• Li Aoz sensed someone hiding nearby, and a synthetic human emerged from a subspace tunnel to welcome him to the gathering.
• The synthetic human gave Li Aoz a business card and invited him on behalf of Proletaria.

Li Aoz met Proletaria, a Sigma-rank hunter leader, and reported the Hidden Society’s infiltration threat. Proletaria granted his three requests, including protection for Azure Planet, a route for a group descent into the Star Abyss, and the location of the Qualia-Direction Enrique; the location was near a Void Overlord’s projection.

• Li Aoz entered the subspace passage and met Proletaria, whose consciousness inhabited a vast mechanical planet.
• Proletaria confirmed reports of the Hidden Society’s poisonous-blood citizens and warned that infiltrators might still be dormant within civilizations.
• Li Aoz asked for political protection for Azure Planet, and Proletaria agreed to send a hunter to negotiate and mediate if needed.
• Proletaria arranged for Li Aoz and his companions to join a Deep Abyss Squad descent departing in nineteen months.
• Li Aoz requested the location of Enrique, the Qualia-Direction, and Proletaria identified Dragon Satellite in the Hengxia System.
• Proletaria revealed that a Void Overlord had projected itself into the Dragon Satellite system.

Li Aoz returned from the portal and entrusted Disville with selling a cache of rare artifacts before hurrying toward Dragon Satellite. He warned Disville about trouble in the Layered Abyss and ordered X Fleet to prepare for a possible battle with a Void Overlord.

• Li Aoz gave Disville rare goods to sell on consignment, explaining that circulating them among Hunters would be safer and more beneficial than selling them openly.
• Li Aoz warned Disville that the Layered Abyss's three Narrative-level Civilizations had internal problems and told him to watch for Xue Yi.
• Li Aoz left Disville's villa, put on Lioz's Armor, and flew along Pro Letalia's planned route toward Dragon Satellite.
• Li Aoz contacted Commander-in-Chief Darian and ordered two Descender brigades to the Hengxia System with every God Abomination Switch.
• Li Aoz told Darian that the mission might require fighting a Void Overlord and that the worst case could involve a Kappa-rank (10) enemy.

Fermi Institute records chronicled escalating containment failures, personnel corruption, and the Institute’s dealings with the High God’s cult. The final entry reported that a pale-haired knight seized a newly fallen humanoid Sealed Object, V-780, who called himself Lioz, while the author added a revision notice.

• A stranger and Enville Su warned the Fermi Institute about its research and demanded progress for the High God.
• A Level 3 worker’s exposure to V-101 triggered a mutiny in Area C, which the Mobile Team suppressed.
• A containment failure in Area A led to Sealed Objects escaping and Researcher Mosdel’s death; Chen Wenjing later fell into the Void and was replaced.
• The High Tower rose as the Void Fallen Zone expanded, and the Institute continued extracting Elij from Sealed Objects for Enville Su’s cult.
• A pale-purple-haired knight from the Kingdom Council raided the Institute’s transport convoy in Enshibur Prefecture and seized the humanoid Sealed Object V-780, who called himself Lioz.
• The author announced revisions to Volume One, including Qiu Ran’s death, and said revisions to Volume Two’s Sky Ring arc would come next.

Knight Miread Fenny’s convoy seized Li Aoz from the Fermi Institute while Dragon Satellite’s factions struggled with the Void’s expansion and a deadly Qualia Rain. After Miread turned against her convoy and offered Li Aoz freedom, he triggered the secret main quest “Flower of Void.”

• Miread Fenny discussed the Kingdom Council’s motives with Captain Wonska as their convoy transported Li Aoz, a Sealed Object taken from the Fermi Institute.
• Qualia Rain fell on refugees by the roadside, dissolving them as the convoy continued toward a transfer station.
• Li Aoz assessed Dragon Satellite’s factions, its powerful population, and the possibility that the Void was trying to incorporate the planet into the Fixed Time Domain.
• Li Aoz reasoned that the Void would eventually be defeated and hoped to escape and find the planet’s protagonist.
• The convoy stopped, and Miread Fenny appeared with blood running from her eyes after a battle with the others.
• Miread Fenny offered Li Aoz freedom and asked him to follow her, triggering the secret main quest “Flower of Void.”

Li Aoz encountered Miread Fenny after she slaughtered the Kingdom Council squad and freed him, then accepted her offer of shelter from the deadly Qualia Rain. Their meeting began the Main Quest “Flower of Void,” which left Li Aoz following Miread while he tried to learn her motives.

• The Main Quest “Flower of Void” triggered, presenting Li Aoz with three possible outcomes tied to nihilism, realism, and romanticism.
• Miread Fenny shattered Li Aoz’s restraints, revealed she had killed the Kingdom Council squad, and briefly kissed him.
• Miread warned Li Aoz that Qualia Rain would kill him within eight seconds without her umbrella, while he identified the rain as the work of Qualia-Direction.
• Li Aoz accepted Miread’s hand and introduced himself as Lioz Dominate, and Miread recognized him as someone from the Star Abyss.

Li Aoz traveled through the Qualia Rain with Mirrid while evading the Kingdom Council's knights, then read her book about Dragon Kind and the environmental forces shaping its civilization. The account ended as dragons discovered how to melt metal with Dragon Flame and began making weapons and currency.

• Mirrid led Li Aoz along a forest stream through the Qualia Rain as they avoided pursuit by the Kingdom Council's knights.
• Mirrid built a fire in a valley cave while Li Aoz read her book, "Magic, Dragons and Mithril."
• Li Aoz read how environmental conditions and biological evolution shaped dragons' bodies, fire-breathing, intelligence, language, and social cooperation.
• The book described Dragon Kind's migrations, clan formation, population growth, and early division of labor under a matriarchal society.
• Male dragons learned to shape stone tools and weapons, then used Dragon Flame to melt metal and make useful objects, including currency.