Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye watched men summon wine from a golden Wine Pot by dancing, then disguised himself as Old Six to enter the ancient city. Inside, he recognized the bronze emblems on the houses as symbols of the Uruk Kingdom.

• Lin Qiye followed a group of men into the desert and watched them summon Lord Dionysus's golden Wine Pot with a dance.
• The excited Wine Pot poured wine into a pool, and the men filled their barrels before heading back to the city.
• Lin Qiye knocked out Old Six, transformed into him, and rejoined the group without being noticed.
• Lin Qiye entered the ancient city with the men and recognized the bronze emblems on its houses as the emblem of the Uruk Kingdom.

Lin Qiye received a divine artifact from Wucheng’s City Lord and explored the city, learning that powerful artifacts were woven into daily life. As he considered how to find the star coins, No. 03 and No. 04 located the King Turtle and threatened their agents into bringing out the King's Treasury.

• The City Lord gave Lin Qiye a dark blue Crystal Ball that had belonged to his parents, as Wucheng’s coming-of-age custom required each household to maintain a divine artifact.
• Lin Qiye explored Wucheng and discovered that its small population possessed many divine artifacts, while dangerous or sentient ones remained beyond the city walls.
• Lin Qiye learned that the city held no known clue to the star coins and decided he would need cunning rather than force to find them.
• A thunderclap shook Wucheng, and Lin Qiye looked skyward, pleased that newcomers were about to get into trouble.
• No. 03 and No. 04 found the King Turtle and ordered more than twenty God's Agents to produce the King's Treasury within three days or die from the poison trigger No. 03 had planted in them.
• No. 03 and No. 04 unleashed their divine pressure upon the agents.

Hermes and Hephaestus restrained the King Turtle so the agents could enter the King's Treasury, where they found Wucheng and attacked its residents. The City Lord then used the Golden Scepter to strip the agents in the central square of their Mental Power.

• Hermes and Hephaestus attacked the King Turtle but could not break its shell, so they held it in place while the agents entered.
• More than twenty agents emerged through a rift above Wucheng, and Lin Qiye monitored their arrival from a tavern.
• The agents mistook Wucheng’s residents for ordinary people and attacked them, but divine artifacts killed or trapped several agents.
• Some high-level agents seized residents and tried to escape as violence spread through the city.
• The City Lord raised the Golden Scepter and struck the ground, causing the agents in the central square to lose their Mental Power.

Lin Qiye watched the City Lord use the King's Scepter to drain the agents' Mental Power and pursued No. 38, then infiltrated the City Lord's residence to search for information about the King's Treasury. He discovered that the Supreme-grade treasury could contain divine artifacts and force them to submit, but its location was not recorded.

• The City Lord used the King's Scepter to drain the agents' Mental Power, raise his realm to Klein, and knock them unconscious, while No. 38 escaped.
• The City Lord ordered the agents bound and taken to prison for execution, then chased No. 38 into the desert.
• Lin Qiye slipped away from the plaza and entered the City Lord's residence while its attendants were occupied.
• Lin Qiye found clay tablets describing divine artifacts and identified one as information about the King's Treasury.
• Lin Qiye learned that the King's Treasury was a Supreme-grade divine artifact that could contain other artifacts and force them to submit, but its location was listed as unknown.

Lin Qiye learned that the King's Treasury had been built from stolen divine artifacts and discovered the Never-Stopping Star Coin's cryptic summoning conditions. He began planning to use the dungeon prisoners' negative emotions, while the captured agents discussed why the treasury's attendants were protected by its artifacts.

• Lin Qiye read the clay tablets and learned that the King's Treasury could claim stolen divine artifacts, then found the Star Coin's record describing its appetite for negative emotions.
• Lin Qiye memorized the Star Coin's location and fled before the City Lord returned; afterward, he watched the City Lord's borrowed power expire and return to Wucheng's dungeon.
• Lin Qiye realized the dungeon prisoners could provide the despair, fury, malice, or betrayal needed to summon the Star Coin, and began considering a plan.
• In Wucheng's dungeon, No. 05 cursed the silver chains while No. 22 explained that they were a divine artifact and that the attendants were descendants of the family assigned to maintain the King's Treasury.

Lin Qiye rescued the Agents imprisoned in King's Treasury and proposed that they work together to secretly take divine artifacts while helping the two Greek gods subdue the treasury. The Agents listened as he offered them a chance to gain power for themselves.

• No. 22 argued that the Greek gods had planned to capture the Agents regardless of whether he had sold them information about King's Treasury.
• Jack Cloud urged the imprisoned Agents to find a way out before they were sacrificed, but the dungeon lights suddenly went out and the attendants were knocked unconscious.
• Lin Qiye appeared in the dungeon, introduced himself as Brown Miles, and explained that he had entered King's Treasury ahead of the Agents to rescue them.
• Lin Qiye denied lying to the Agents and said the Greek gods had already targeted them, so his intervention had given the Agents a chance to survive.
• Lin Qiye proposed that the Agents secretly take divine artifacts while helping the Greek gods subdue King's Treasury, and the Agents showed interest in his plan.

Lin Qiye freed the agents from the dungeon and led them to Old Six’s home, where they discussed how to claim the King’s Treasury. No. 22 revealed that only Gilgamesh, wielder of the Law of Kings, could supposedly activate it, leaving the group with less than two days to find a way forward.

• Lin Qiye unlocked the agents’ Silver Locks, and an agent used gray ripples to make the group invisible as they escaped the dungeon.
• No. 22 created flesh bodies resembling the agents to mislead anyone tracking them, then threatened an agent who called him the Lust God’s agent.
• Lin Qiye stopped the agents from fighting and led them out, leaving the vacant Bodies of Desire behind to kill the unconscious attendant.
• Lin Qiye brought the agents to Old Six’s empty home, where they discussed the deadline and how to subdue the King’s Treasury.
• No. 22 said his research offered no solution and that, according to the records, only Gilgamesh could activate the treasury using the Law of Kings.

No. 22 explained the powers of Gilgamesh’s four Supreme artifacts, and Lin Qiye proposed using them to kill Hermes and Hephaestus rather than subdue the King’s Treasury. Pressured by the agents, Lin Qiye pretended to prophesy and declared their odds of success were seventy percent.

• No. 22 described the King's Scepter, King's Treasure Sword, Holy Grail, and King's Star Coin, explaining their powers and limitations.
• The agents considered using the Holy Grail to subdue the treasury but concluded they lacked enough lives for the wish.
• Lin Qiye suggested gathering all four artifacts and using them to kill Hermes and Hephaestus.
• Prakash, Claude, and the other agents urged Lin Qiye to prophesy about the plan's chances of success.
• Lin Qiye staged a prophecy with his Crystal Ball and announced that their odds of success were seventy percent.

Lin Qiye told the agents he had sensed the Holy Grail’s location and planned to divine the remaining artifacts after resting. Meanwhile, Wucheng’s City Lord ordered the captured intruders sacrificed, but the beings beneath Ancient Well discovered that the corpses were soulless artificial bodies and realized outsiders had entered King's Treasury.

• Lin Qiye said the Holy Grail was hidden in a dried-up desert oasis and asked the agents to wait while he recovered his Mental Power.
• The City Lord ordered the captured intruders and the dead servant sacrificed at dawn, and put Wucheng on alert for further invasions.
• Wucheng’s residents watched as the agents were executed and their bodies were thrown into Ancient Well.
• Three stone figures beneath Ancient Well awakened, and the central figure used the sacrifices to fill a dark-golden Holy Grail with blood.
• The stone figures discovered the corpses had no souls and concluded that outsiders had entered King's Treasury with their true bodies hidden somewhere inside.

Lin Qiye led most of the agents out of Wucheng to seek another divine artifact while No. 22 and Claude stayed behind to pursue the King's Scepter. No. 22 learned that the Body of Desire's corpse had been eaten by the Holy Grail.

• The statues planned to make the outsiders kill one another so the Holy Grail could fulfill their wish and help them control the treasury.
• Lin Qiye found a divine artifact's location, and No. 22 persuaded Claude and six other agents to remain in Wucheng to seek the King's Scepter.
• Lin Qiye led the other agents out of Wucheng and learned that No. 22 was supposedly Philotes's favored male concubine and agent.
• The agents watched the Body of Desire's corpse get taken to an Ancient Well, which Lin Qiye could not inspect with his Mental Power.
• No. 22 confirmed the group had not been exposed, then sensed that the Body of Desire's corpse had been eaten and realized the Holy Grail was involved.

No. 22 questioned whether Miles had misled the agents about the Holy Grail, then disguised himself and left to pursue the King's Scepter while Claude searched for the King's Holy Grail. In the desert, Lin Qiye warned the agents not to fly, and two who ignored him were killed by divine artifacts that hunted them through the sky.

• No. 22 realized the dark golden goblet he had sensed was the King's Holy Grail and wondered why it differed from the one Miles had described.
• Claude and the agents debated whether Miles had lied, then agreed to search for the King's Scepter and the King's Holy Grail.
• No. 22 disguised himself as a local attendant and left, while Claude prepared to search for the Holy Grail.
• Lin Qiye warned the agents that flying across the desert was dangerous, but two agents flew ahead anyway.
• A blood-red spear, a silver Flying Bird, and winged boots pursued and killed the two flying agents.
• The surviving agents recognized that Lin Qiye's warning had saved them and continued following him.

As the agents crossed the desert toward the Holy Grail, Lin Qiye used his prophet persona to claim he had foreseen them killing one another to win freedom from their divine marks. His warning left the group mistrustful of one another, though they pretended to agree to abandon the plan.

• The agents praised Lin Qiye's prophetic abilities and proposed joining forces to capture the Dual God Agent and extract secrets from him.
• Lin Qiye stopped the group and staged a solemn prophecy with his Crystal Ball.
• Lin Qiye told the agents he had foreseen them slaughtering one another at the oasis before the Holy Grail appeared.
• He claimed the survivors would sacrifice the dead to the Holy Grail and wish for their divine marks to be erased.
• Prakash pointed out that the agents might already have considered killing one another, and the group gave uneasy assurances that they would watch each other and abandon the idea.

No. 22 used the City Lord’s daughter to obtain an infant-like mass, then killed her. Meanwhile, Claude and the agents descended into the Ancient Well and found the Holy Grail.

• No. 22 overheard tavern patrons discussing the City Lord’s unmarried daughter and her younger brother, then searched the city for her.
• The City Lord’s daughter was rejected by Third Brother, who kicked her down and slammed the door in her face.
• No. 22 approached the daughter, used his strange influence to sleep with her, and produced an infant-like mass before killing her.
• Claude and the agents gathered at the Ancient Well, and Claude led the way down with a ball of lightning.
• After a long fall, Claude reached the bottom and announced that he had found the Holy Grail.

Lin Qiye deceived the Agents into dancing around a dried oasis to lure out the Wine God's Pot and provoke them into fighting over it. When one Agent reached for the golden object, the others attacked, leaving nearly twenty divine realms erupting at once.

• Lin Qiye told the Agents that a passionate, shirtless dance would awaken the Holy Grail, and they followed his instructions at the dried oasis.
• Lin Qiye secretly summoned a pug in a tailcoat and lit a small flame, which caused the Wine God's Pot to rise from a cavern.
• Lin Qiye called the golden object the Holy Grail as the Agents watched it rise and grew consumed by greed and suspicion.
• The pug trapped a Limitless Agent in a dream, and the Agent's Mental Power made him reach for the golden object.
• The other Agents took the first move as a bid to seize the Holy Grail and erupted into battle with their divine realms.

Claude found the Holy Grail beneath Wucheng and survived an ambush by two agents who wanted to use it to erase their divine marks. He used the Grail’s wish to petrify the old City Lord, stopping him before he could reach Claude with the King’s Scepter.

• Claude and six agents found the Holy Grail in the Ancient Well, but two agents betrayed the group and killed four of them.
• Claude refused to save a dying agent and confronted the two traitors, who tried to seize the Holy Grail.
• Claude used his lightning power to defeat the traitors and emerged from the ruined well holding the Grail.
• The old City Lord rushed toward Claude with the King’s Scepter, while Claude declared that he would not let the City Lord use it.
• Claude wished for human petrification, and the Holy Grail turned the old City Lord into a stone statue.

Claude killed the old City Lord and two agents after taking the Holy Grail, while three stone statues tried to lure in the Star Coin. The Star Coin sensed a more compelling spectacle and flew toward Lin Qiye’s oasis, where Prakash reached for the golden Wine Pot.

• Claude used the Holy Grail’s power to kill the old City Lord, then refused two agents’ offer to help him and fought them with lightning.
• Three stone statues watched the battle and waited for the Star Coin to approach so they could capture it.
• The Star Coin sensed something beyond the city-state and flew away toward a more compelling stage.
• At the dried-up oasis, Lin Qiye watched the agents’ distrust turn into a deadly fight as they competed for the golden artifact.
• Prakash broke through the fighting agents and reached for the golden Wine Pot, mistaking it for the Holy Grail.

Prakash defeated the agents who attacked him and seized the Holy Grail, while Lin Qiye watched a Star Coin draw near and then begin drifting toward Wucheng. Prakash used the lives of seventeen agents to make a wish to erase his divine mark, and the Holy Grail engulfed him in wine.

• Prakash transformed into a four-armed Buddha and killed the agents who had joined forces against him, but the strain left him gravely weakened.
• Lin Qiye spotted the Star Coin approaching through the clouds and waited for it to come closer.
• After the agents died, the Star Coin began drifting toward Wucheng, and Lin Qiye prepared to keep it from leaving.
• Prakash seized the Wine God's Pot and wished for it to erase the divine mark in his body, offering the lives of seventeen agents.
• Richly fragrant wine burst from the pot and completely submerged Prakash.

Lin Qiye revealed that the Holy Grail was a fake wine pot and exposed himself to Prakash as the Dual God Agent who had manipulated the agents. Prakash’s fury drew the Star Coin down, allowing Lin Qiye to seize the Supreme divine artifact.

• Prakash’s wish to remove his divine mark failed, and he grew desperate as dawn approached.
• Lin Qiye told Prakash that the Holy Grail, prophecy, and Miles identity were all fake, and that he had stalled until Prakash’s divine mark took effect.
• Lin Qiye revealed his true identity as captain of the Nightfall Squad and the Dual God Agent.
• Prakash erupted in rage and attacked Lin Qiye, whose intense negative emotions drew the Star Coin toward them.
• Lin Qiye trapped the Star Coin in a field of night and seized the King's Star Coin.

Lin Qiye defeated Prakash in the desert and secured the King's Star Coin, revealing himself as a Seven God Agent. In Wucheng, Claude collected the Holy Grail’s latest sacrifices and considered whether to massacre the city to erase his mark.

• Prakash recognized that Lin Qiye had orchestrated events to obtain the King's Star Coin, but Lin Qiye drew Zhanbai and attacked him.
• Lin Qiye revealed the divine might of seven gods, overwhelming Prakash and driving him back despite Prakash's warning about the Ten Imperial Predecessors.
• Lin Qiye used Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi to cut off Prakash's arms and behead him, then confirmed his death and headed toward Wucheng with the Star Coin.
• Claude emerged from the lightning pool holding the Holy Grail, with two more agents' remains joining the blood and flesh inside it.
• Claude saw the panicked, burning city-state and wondered whether he would have to massacre its residents to erase his mark.

No. 22 used the King's Scepter to drain Claude’s Mental Power, killed him, and took the Holy Grail before massacring Wucheng’s residents for sacrifices. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Gilgamesh raged over the slaughter of Uruk as Monkey King approached him.

• Claude began to wish for his realm to return, but No. 22 used the King's Scepter to drain his Mental Power.
• No. 22 kicked the Holy Grail away, killed Claude, and took the Grail for himself.
• No. 22 announced he still needed a sword capable of slaying gods to kill Philotes, then attacked Wucheng’s residents for sacrifices.
• No. 22 repelled the residents’ divine artifacts with the King's Scepter and slaughtered the crowd, feeding their lives into the Holy Grail.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Gilgamesh raged over the slaughter of Uruk, and Monkey King rose to approach him.