Chapter Summaries

Gwen introduced the revived Cang Xuan and Danzhu to Otto, who agreed to provide Soul Steel for larger bodies but realized Gwen could not yet revive Kallen. After Yorktown’s refit deepened her bond with Gwen, he decided to offer a bounty to find the Pink Girl, whose soul had been silent for six months.

• Gwen and Fu Hua introduced Cang Xuan and Danzhu to Otto, and Gwen explained how he had restored them using Soul Steel bodies.
• Gwen asked Otto for Soul Steel to restore the sisters to their normal sizes, and Otto agreed to provide it.
• Otto privately reflected that Gwen’s revival ability could not bring back Kallen, whose consciousness had not survived.
• Yorktown completed her second ship-body refit, felt safe depending on Gwen, and confessed her love as they grew closer.
• After six months without a response from the Pink Girl’s soul, Gwen decided to place a bounty to find her.

Wendy struggled with discouragement and feared that Gwen was disappointed in her after she failed to gain the Herrscher of Wind’s Authority. Gwen comforted her and resolved to ask Bronya for help, while Kiana and Raiden Mei finished training and teased each other about Kiana’s surprise attack.

• Kiana sparred with Raiden Mei, using a feint and a Soul Steel greatsword to counter Mei’s lightning and electromagnetic field.
• Wendy watched the training and felt envious of her seniors’ strength, while Gwen realized she was deeply worried about disappointing him.
• Gwen explained that Wendy would need to genuinely desire Herrscher power to access the Gem’s Authority, then reassured her and suggested she talk to Sister Bronya.
• Gwen pushed Wendy’s wheelchair toward Kiana and Mei after their training ended, and Kiana greeted him happily.
• Gwen noticed that Kiana had secretly completed her training in Shift and Shadow, while Raiden Mei suspected Kiana had wanted to surprise her.

Gwen explained that he needed to travel alone to a dangerous Previous Civilization ruin to recover something he had lost, and reassured the girls that he would return. He left for the address Gray Serpent had provided and arrived at Raven’s bar, where Raven nervously served him juice.

• Gwen advised Kiana to develop Shifting Shadows with her Authority and encouraged her to keep training with Fu Hua, while Wendy wondered how to strengthen her foundation.
• Gwen told Raiden Mei and the others that he was leaving alone to search a Previous Civilization ruin, which was too dangerous for them to visit yet.
• Yorktown, Raiden Mei, Kiana, Anna, and Choukai each kissed Gwen or asked him to return soon; Gwen asked Bronya to look after Wendy while he was away.
• Gwen left for the address Gray Serpent had given him and arrived at Raven’s sparsely populated bar.
• Raven, who had been ordered by Gray Serpent to cooperate with Gwen, hid her unease and asked what he wanted; Gwen ordered a glass of juice.

Raven met Gwen at her bar and learned that he needed a guide to the Elysian Realm, while Feather Rabbit arrived to escort him. After Feather Rabbit asked about Bronya, Gwen questioned what she was and whether she had been born from a change in Cecilia Saniate after the Second Honkai Eruption.

• Raven served Gwen fresh orange juice and confirmed he was the mission target Gray Serpent had mentioned.
• Raven tried to send a lone patron home, then realized the woman was Feather Rabbit, a World Serpent executive sent by Gray Serpent to meet Gwen.
• Feather Rabbit confirmed that she would guide Gwen to the Elysian Realm, and Raven left them alone in the bar.
• Feather Rabbit asked whether Bronya was doing well, and Gwen assured her that Bronya was safe and might be reunited with Seele.
• Gwen noted Feather Rabbit's immense Honkai Energy and resemblance to Cecilia, then asked whether she was a special life-form born from Cecilia after the Second Honkai Eruption; Feather Rabbit nodded.

Gwen accepted Mysterious’s offer to merge with him, absorbing her Honkai Energy and making her a stigmata within his body. After leaving Raven’s bar, he set out with Mysterious to meet Gray Serpent and asked Raven why birds fly.

• Mysterious explained her origin and asked to observe Gwen because Gray Serpent said he could alter the Stigmata Project, but Gwen refused unless she offered herself.
• Mysterious warned that merging with her could kill Gwen or make her his enemy, but he accepted the risk and merged with her.
• Raven fled when Mysterious’s bracelet broke and Honkai Energy surged, then returned to find Gwen alone and mistakenly thought Mysterious had been defeated.
• Gwen absorbed Mysterious’s Honkai Energy, and she explained that she had become a stigmata who could travel freely between reality and the stigmata space.
• Gwen left Raven’s bar to go to Gray Serpent’s destination, told Raven Mysterious was safe, and asked her why birds fly before departing.

Gwen entered the World Serpent’s hidden passage and reached the Elysian Realm after lowering his mental defenses. Aponia redirected him to the place he needed to be, where he reunited with Eden, who offered him wine.

• Gwen arrived at the World Serpent’s ancient grounds, and Gray Serpent guided him to the entrance of a dark passage.
• Gwen walked through the passage and realized he had to lower his mental defenses to enter the Elysian Realm.
• Gwen met Aponia in a sunlit plaza, and she told him she could not answer his question directly yet.
• Aponia sent Gwen through a distortion to the place he needed to be.
• Gwen opened his eyes in a magnificent hall, recognized Eden, and accepted her offer of wine.

Gwen shared wine with Eden and told her he had met her original body fifty thousand years ago, when she sang civilization’s final hymn. Eden learned that her original body was still alive inside a World Bubble within Gwen, though the two Edens could not yet meet.

• Eden and Gwen toasted their reunion and discussed how Gwen had known her original body in the Previous Civilization.
• Gwen explained that an accident during an experiment in the Sea of Quantum had sent him fifty thousand years into the past, where he met Eden singing in an abandoned city.
• Eden asked whether her original body had gone through with her choice to die, and Gwen clarified that she was alive inside a World Bubble within him.
• Gwen told Eden that her original body was studying the history of the civilization inside the World Bubble but could not leave or meet her.
• Eden thanked Gwen for saving her original body, and Gwen joked that he benefited from hearing Eden play music as he fell asleep.

Gwen told Eden that Alicia's soul was inside him but that he had lost her, and explained how she disappeared after they escaped to a World Bubble. Eden offered to seek Alicia's help and guided Gwen into the Elysian Realm, where he defeated the first group of Honkai Beasts and received a Signet.

• Eden asked Gwen about his Stigmata, and he told her Alicia's soul was inside him but he had lost her.
• Gwen recounted the battle with the Herrscher of Finality and said Alicia had not appeared since they reached the World Bubble.
• Eden agreed to tell Alicia about Gwen's search and brought him to the Elysian Realm for its trials.
• In a golden forest, Eden played piano as Gwen used a sunlight bow to defeat a group of Knight-class and Temple-class Honkai Beasts.
• Gwen showed Eden the necklace she had given Alicia, and Eden awarded him a Signet before pointing him toward the next trials.

Gwen gained Kevin’s Signet after defeating Parvati, then entered Su’s trial and saved people during a Honkai attack on the city. After receiving Su’s Signet, he chose Kalpas’s trial and faced a massive swarm of Honkai Beasts and zombies.

• Gwen defeated Parvati with a Spear of Sunlight, and Kevin appeared to test him before granting him the Signet of Deliverance.
• Gwen absorbed the useful essence of Kevin’s Signet while rejecting changes that would make him imitate Kevin.
• Gwen entered Su’s trial, rescued a mother and daughter from a collapsing building, and fought Honkai Beasts across the devastated city.
• Su granted Gwen the Signet of Heavenly Wisdom, but Gwen could not make sense of its complex insights.
• Gwen entered Kalpas’s trial, was struck into a building, and found himself surrounded by a vast swarm launching ranged attacks at him.

Gwen endured Kalpas’s trial in a Honkai-ravaged city, rescuing survivors before clearing the enemies and meeting Kalpas, then entered Pardofelis’s trial and met her after defeating its Honkai Emperor. He ended by asking whether Pardo’s luck really was as good as Alicia had said.

• Gwen destroyed Ganesha and many surrounding enemies, but the Honkai tide soon returned and more attacks targeted him.
• Gwen rescued survivors, including Yan Changxin, who demanded that Gwen protect gold bars in a basement; Yan Changxin turned into a dead soldier, and Gwen restrained him while continuing the rescue.
• After a councilor criticized Gwen for failing to protect the city’s buildings, Gwen met Kalpas on a rooftop and discussed his softheartedness before Kalpas’s red glow merged into him.
• Gwen entered Pardofelis’s trial, tried and failed to use stealth, then defeated the Honkai Emperor with a Spear of Sunlight.
• Pardofelis appeared and praised Gwen; he complimented her and asked whether her luck was truly good.

Gwen met Pardofelis and received her Signet, then completed Fu Hua’s trial before entering one of three Mobius trials. He thwarted Mobius’s attempt to experiment on him, and they ended their first encounter on more familiar terms.

• Pardofelis introduced herself and her shop to Gwen, then slipped away and left him her Signet.
• Gwen absorbed Pardofelis’s Signet and completed Fu Hua’s trial, receiving Fu Hua’s advice and Signet.
• Gwen found three identical Mobius doors and entered the middle one, waking restrained on an operating table in Mobius’s laboratory.
• Mobius appeared as a green-haired little girl and tried to cut Gwen, but her scalpel broke against him.
• Gwen freed himself, knocked Mobius unconscious, and told her he preferred speaking with her in her original form.
• Mobius admitted defeat, and Gwen joked that they were even after each had fooled the other.

Gwen negotiated limits on Mobius’s research into his dangerous power, gave her his Signet, and then allowed her to test his nearly impenetrable body and draw blood. Mobius began preparing further examinations and teased Gwen about how often he had been studied.

• Gwen told Mobius that research into the power inside him had to wait until he could fully control it, and Mobius agreed to that restriction.
• Gwen collected Mobius’s Signet and absorbed its dark green serpent shadow, finding that it offered little improvement to his combat ability.
• Mobius tested Gwen’s skin, but her specialized equipment could not pierce it until Gwen lowered his toughness himself.
• Mobius drew numerous tubes of Gwen’s blood and then told him to lie on the examination table for more tests.
• Mobius teased Gwen about being practiced at examinations, and he replied that he had been studied often before.

Gwen underwent Mobius's examination in the Elysian Realm, then asked her to brighten her bleak laboratory surroundings. After leaving, he encountered Kalpas and spotted Sakura entering the hall, hoping to learn more about Alicia's absence.

• Mobius examined Gwen while Prometheus explained that the tests were safe and intended to help develop his abilities.
• Gwen refused to explain how Prometheus had entered the Elysian Realm, saying Mobius would need to earn his trust first.
• After finishing the examination, Mobius dismissed Gwen and agreed to change the scenery outside her laboratory window.
• Gwen returned to the hall and teased Kalpas about waiting for him, but Kalpas denied it and left.
• Gwen noticed Sakura arrive as he considered asking Hua for information about Alicia.

Gwen learned from Sakura and Eden that Alicia had disappeared from the Elysian Realm months earlier, around the time Gwen awakened his stigmata. He could not determine whether the timing was connected, and the chapter ended with him about to speak further with Eden.

• Gwen met Sakura, who told him she had not seen Alicia for months before hearing about Gwen.
• Sakura recognized Gwen as the person who awakened Alicia's stigmata and left after answering his questions.
• Eden told Gwen that she had searched repeatedly for Alicia but had been unable to find her.
• Cosmos and Griseo saw Gwen and Eden together, and Cosmos hurried Griseo away before she could ask questions.
• Gwen continued considering Alicia's disappearance and finally called Eden's name.

Gwen questioned Eden about whether Alicia had changed after the last memory synchronization, then entered the Elysian Realm trials to seek answers from the Flame-Chasers. His conversation with Kalpas turned into a brutal fight, which ended with Kalpas reattaching his severed arm and declaring Gwen worth killing.

• Gwen asked Eden whether Alicia had shown unusual changes after the last synchronization, but Eden recalled nothing and suggested asking Aponia.
• Gwen and Eden parted ways, with Eden heading to The Deepest Place and Gwen returning to the Elysian Realm trials.
• After Hua could offer no answers, Gwen confronted Kalpas, who agreed to talk only if Gwen beat him.
• Gwen and Kalpas exchanged punishing attacks, and Kalpas grabbed Gwen and battered him against the ground.
• Gwen pierced Kalpas's arm with a Spear of Sunlight and tore it free, but Kalpas calmly reattached it and powered up in flames.

Gwen fought Kalpas as a sparring partner until their battle reached The Deepest Door, while Eden learned that Aponia could no longer see anyone’s fate. As Mobius, Eden, and Aponia approached the fight, a sudden light appeared in the darkness and left Aponia staring in shock.

• Gwen and Kalpas clashed, with Kalpas overpowering him as Gwen sought experience against a stronger opponent.
• Eden visited Aponia, who said everyone’s fate had vanished into a vast white expanse she could not look upon.
• Little Klein diverted a chaotic stream of information into the depths of the Elysian Realm, causing a disturbance that upset Mobius.
• Gwen reached the darkness outside The Deepest Place, then told Kalpas he would satisfy his desire for a full fight.
• Aponia and Eden sensed the battle and went to intervene, while Mobius arrived and recognized Kalpas’s involvement.
• A beam of light illuminated the darkness, and Aponia stopped to stare at it.

Gwen transformed into a giant of light, defeated and healed Kalpas, then accompanied Aponia and Eden to The Deepest Place. There, he awakened Alicia from the statue, reuniting her with Eden and Aponia while acting as though they had never met.

• Gwen illuminated the darkness around The Deepest Place and knocked Kalpas down with a single punch before healing him.
• Aponia asked Gwen to return with her, and he agreed; Mobius briefly taunted Kalpas as the others left.
• At the statue in The Deepest Place, Gwen sensed a sleeping soul and used his light to reveal Alicia inside it.
• Alicia embraced Eden and Aponia, then introduced herself to Gwen as though he were a stranger.
• Gwen calmly called Alicia beautiful while Eden, Aponia, and Alicia watched him.

Alicia reunited with Gwen, Eden, and Aponia in the Elysian Realm and explained that she had hidden there for fifty thousand years after nearly disappearing. After learning Gwen had used his light to help restore her, she asked what had happened during his search for her, and the group revealed that he had fought Kalpas.

• Alicia embraced Gwen, then explained to Eden and Aponia that she had remained in the Elysian Realm for fifty thousand years to avoid disappearing.
• Gwen hugged Alicia and apologized for his earlier frustration, while Alicia reassured him that she had spent most of the time asleep.
• Alicia explained that her original body had disappeared while she synchronized memories, and Gwen's light had helped her recover.
• Alicia asked about events in the Realm, and Eden hesitated to mention Kalpas.
• Gwen and Aponia revealed that Gwen had fought Kalpas from the trials to outside The Deepest Place, alarming Mobius in her laboratory.

Gwen returned to Elysian Realm after defeating Kalpas, reunited Alicia with Aponia, and settled into a guest room Eden had designed. He agreed to let Eden teach him music, then spoke with her through the bonfire about Alicia’s original consciousness and the strange connection between her and his soul, leaving Eden to consider what the link might mean.

• Gwen told Alicia that he had defeated Kalpas and healed him with Ray of Redemption, and Eden led Gwen to a guest room to rest.
• Aponia apologized to Alicia for failing to help in time, but Alicia comforted her and took her to see Griseo.
• Eden showed Gwen her guest room and offered to teach him music, and Gwen accepted, agreeing to meet her the next day.
• Gwen contacted Eden through the bonfire and told her that Alicia’s original consciousness had left Elysian Realm without returning to him.
• Gwen explained that part of his soul had once seemed missing and that it had an unseen connection to Alicia, prompting Eden to recall legends about souls.

Gwen and Eden discussed how Gwen’s soul had helped stabilize Aili’s consciousness and what might be needed to bring her back. After Eden comforted Gwen about learning music, he entered the Main God Space and found golden fragments that began reassembling themselves under his psychic power.

• Gwen and Eden considered whether the portion of Gwen’s soul he had given Aili had stabilized her consciousness and helped her soul grow.
• Eden told Gwen that Aili might be able to explain where her consciousness had gone and how she could be brought back.
• Gwen told Eden that her memory entity had invited him for a drink and asked to teach him music theory, and Eden reassured him about his musical ability.
• Gwen ended the conversation with Eden and entered the Main God Space to check for new goods.
• Gwen found golden fragments carrying feelings of unwillingness, humiliation, and regret, then used his psychic power to scan and reconstruct them.
• The fragments regained their luster and began moving back into their original positions as Gwen continued assembling them.