Chapter Summaries

Theresa and her companions traveled from the ruins of Castrum Kremnos to its royal city after Queen Alysia summoned them. Alysia introduced herself and asked Theresa to become her consort, leaving the group stunned.

• Theresa and her companions toured ancient Castrum Kremnos, and Mydei resolved to restore the city and change the Xuanfeng people’s violent ways.
• The Great Warrior told the travelers that Queen Alysia had summoned them and warned them that she was Castrum Kremnos’s strongest Valkyrie.
• Theresa, Acheron, Stelle, Mimi, Mydei, and Phainon rode Earth Beasts to the royal city, where they saw the fierce Xuanfeng people and the giant sword floating above the city.
• Guards escorted the travelers through the palace and left them alone with the veiled Queen Alysia.
• Alysia revealed her name and asked the beautiful Theresa to become her consort.

Alysia challenged Acheron to a duel to the death in Castrum Kremnos’s arena, and Theresa supplied Acheron with a flash grenade disguised as a secret weapon. Acheron pulled its pin and unleashed a blinding flash as everyone watched.

• Acheron confronted Alysia after the queen made a provocative remark, and Theresa confirmed that Acheron was one of her beloved darlings.
• Alysia insisted that she would not compromise and challenged Acheron to a deathmatch, which Acheron accepted while promising to hold back.
• Alysia led the group to the blood-soaked arena, where the fighters and nobles gathered to watch the duel.
• Theresa handed Acheron a flash grenade and told her to present it as the secret weapon called Genshin Impact.
• Acheron pulled the grenade’s pin, shouted “Genshin Impact—start up,” and triggered a blinding white flash.

Acheron defeated Alysia in the deathmatch arena without drawing her blade, and the Xuanfeng people declared her the new King of Castrum Kremnos. Theresa healed the unconscious Alysia and transformed her into a catgirl.

• Theresa’s flashbang blinded Alysia, Acheron, Stelle, Mimi, Phainon, and Mydei before their vision soon returned.
• Alysia challenged Acheron to a duel, while Mydei recalled how a prophecy had led his father to try to sacrifice him as a newborn.
• Acheron blocked Alysia’s spear attacks with her sheathed blade and broke both her arms, refusing to draw her sword.
• Acheron kicked Alysia into a stone wall, and the Xuanfeng people celebrated Acheron as their new king.
• Theresa used the Power of Abundance to heal Alysia, then turned her into a catgirl.

Alysia woke as a cat girl after losing to Acheron, while Theresa transformed Castrum Kremnos’s challengers into animals and earned the title of Cat Girl Titan. Theresa then flew to Okhema, where she charmed the citizens and spotted a cat-eared girl stealing purses.

• Alysia discovered her body had become smaller and grown cat ears and a tail, while Castrum Kremnos’s citizens and nobles moved to challenge her for the throne.
• Theresa bound the challengers with golden chains and transformed the nobles and officials into animals, earning the people’s name Cat Girl Titan.
• Theresa left Acheron, Phainon, and Mydei to handle their mission concerning Nicadori’s immortality and flew toward Okhema.
• Theresa introduced herself to Okhema’s entranced citizens as the Cat Girl Titan and noticed a cloaked cat-eared girl trying to steal purses.

Theresa arrived in Okhema, recruited Cipher to establish the Sacred Fire Meow Meow Cult, and raised a temple before setting out to meet Aglaea. Krydrla and Hysilens discussed whether the Cat Girl Titan might be Zagres in disguise and decided to approach her cautiously.

• Theresa caught Cipher stealing a purse, made her return it, and named her the cult’s messenger.
• Theresa raised a temple and founded the Sacred Fire Meow Meow Cult, promising that sincere female believers could grow cat ears.
• Cipher agreed to take Theresa to Aglaea, while Okhema’s citizens began choosing priestesses and joining the cult.
• Krydrla and Hysilens discussed Theresa’s arrival and suspected she might be Zagres in disguise.
• Krydrla and Hysilens agreed to act cautiously around Theresa because she was a Titan.

Theresa visited Aglaea’s tailor shop with Cipher, introduced herself, and revealed that she had safely left Castrum Kremnos. She asked about Queen Krydrla, but Hysilens arrived with warriors to escort Theresa to the royal city.

• Cipher brought Theresa to Aglaea’s tailor shop, where Aglaea was stunned by Theresa’s beauty and nervously welcomed her.
• Theresa praised Aglaea’s garments and explained that she had come to Okhema to sightsee and had befriended Cipher.
• Cipher and Aglaea were shocked when Theresa said she had visited Castrum Kremnos and was strong enough to protect herself there.
• Theresa asked about Queen Krydrla, and Hysilens arrived with Okhema warriors to take Theresa to the royal city.
• Theresa and Cipher reacted hungrily to Hysilens, who introduced herself as a Siren and asked them to stop staring at her.

Hysilens escorted Theresa and her companions to the royal city so Queen Krydrla could meet the Cat Girl Titan. After Theresa captivated everyone along the way, the group entered the palace and faced Krydrla on her enormous throne.

• Hysilens invited Theresa to the royal city, and Theresa agreed to go meet Queen Krydrla.
• Cipher clung to Hysilens and teased her until Aglaea told Cipher to behave.
• Theresa held Hysilens's hand as they traveled through Okhema, leaving crowds and soldiers spellbound by her beauty.
• Hysilens reported to Krydrla, then warned everyone to mind their manners before leading them into the palace.
• Theresa and the others entered the throne room and saw the petite Krydrla seated on an enormous throne.

Theresa met Krydrla in Okhema, revealed that she and her companions came from a thousand years in the future, and described Amphoreus’s coming Black Tide and the Chrysos Heirs’ fate. She proposed making Cryo Pods for Krydrla and Hysilens, then grabbed Krydrla and lifted her into the air.

• Krydrla questioned Theresa about her origins and why she had come to Okhema, while Cipher and Aglaea reacted skeptically to Theresa’s claims.
• Theresa explained that she came from a world a thousand years in the future and had come to subjugate Titanica Dolli and see ancient Amphoreus.
• Theresa described the Black Tide’s destruction, the survival of Holy City Ochema, and the Chrysos Heirs’ plan to replace the Titans and fight for Amphoreus.
• Theresa told them that Aglaea would live for a thousand years and later contend against the Senate, whose technology let its members seize bodies and revive themselves.
• Theresa offered to build Cryo Pods so Krydrla and Hysilens could help the future Chrysos Heirs, then pulled Krydrla from her throne and lifted her into the air.

Theresa subdued Krydrla, Hysilens, and Aglaea, then persuaded them to talk in the backyard. Meanwhile, Stelle and her companions encountered the Nameless Warrior in Castrum Kremnos and decided to enter Nicadori’s deadly festival to pursue their mission.

• Theresa held Krydrla and Hysilens, defeated Aglaea’s Tailors, and convinced Krydrla and Hysilens that she meant them no harm.
• Krydrla agreed to speak with Theresa in the backyard, and Hysilens led the group there.
• Stelle, Acheron, Phainon, Mydei, and Mimi arrived at Castrum Kremnos’s Gladiator Arena and met the Nameless Warrior.
• The Nameless Warrior explained that Nicadori’s festival required at least three participants and was a fight to the death.
• Phainon chose to enter the festival, and Stelle and Acheron agreed to join him and Mydei despite the danger.

Gnaeus and his companions entered the Xuanfeng Festival trial in the Gladiator Arena, accepting the danger of facing Nicadori's Heaven's Punishment Legion. The chapter ended as the group passed through the gates, determined to survive and win.

• Gnaeus asked to join the festival, but the chief examiner rebuked him for having no weapon and too few companions.
• Stelle, Mydei, Acheron, and Phainon declared they would enter with Gnaeus, and Stelle gave him a shield, greatsword, and spear.
• The chief examiner warned the five contestants that their larger team would face increased difficulty and that death was almost certain.
• Gnaeus, Stelle, Mimi, Phainon, Mydei, and Acheron stated their names and reaffirmed their resolve to proceed.
• Gnaeus opened the arena gates, and the group followed him inside to begin the trial.

Stelle, Mimi, Acheron, and Phainon solved the trials’ elaborate puzzles while Gnaeus and Mydei waited for a real battle. After answering the summons of an ancient lion statue, the group entered a lava-filled arena and finally faced a massive wave of Heaven's Punishment Legion soldiers.

• Stelle, Mimi, Acheron, and Phainon solved the first hall’s puzzles, opening the sealed doors and uncovering rewards.
• Stelle split the group so Gnaeus and Mydei could fight the guards while the others solved puzzles throughout the multilayered area.
• The group met a giant lion statue, and each warrior shared what they fought for before the statue sent them onward.
• The group entered a ceremonial site above lava, where nearly a thousand Heaven's Punishment Legion soldiers charged at them.
• Mydei, Gnaeus, Stelle, Phainon, and Acheron attacked the soldiers.

Acheron, Phainon, Mydei, Stelle, Mimi, and Gnaeus uncovered that the Xuanfeng Festival was a staged slaughter meant to pacify the mad Titan Nicadori. After Stelle and Mimi proved they came from a thousand years in the future, Gnaeus joined their effort to end the scheme, and the group reached a gladiator arena where a terrifying roar awaited them.

• Gnaeus revealed that the festival’s participants were being sacrificed to pacify the mad Nicadori, while Mydei condemned the slaughter as a desecration.
• Acheron told Gnaeus that she and her companions had traveled from a thousand years in the future to uncover Nicadori’s immortality and defeat him.
• Stelle and Mimi used Orionis's Prayer to accelerate time around a palace, convincing Gnaeus that their story was true.
• Gnaeus agreed that their goals aligned, and Mydei led the group onward to an arena suspended above lava.
• A crazed roar and a powerful bloody aura rose from the arena as the group approached.

Gnaeus revealed that he was Nicadori’s final Fragment of Reason and resolved to rejoin Nicadori, even though doing so would erase his sense of self. Theresa arrived and offered to preserve his consciousness in a vessel, leaving Gnaeus stunned by her power and strange choices.

• Gnaeus explained that Nicadori could not die because its soul was incomplete, and that merging with Nicadori would restore it but erase his own identity.
• Mydei praised Gnaeus’s resolve, while Stelle and Acheron tried to contact Theresa for a way to preserve his sense of self.
• Theresa answered Acheron’s call, and her mention of a Little Chicken Ascending the Mountain Painting embarrassed Phainon and made Stelle laugh.
• Theresa crossed through space to join the group, shocking Gnaeus, and Acheron explained his situation to her.
• Theresa bought a consciousness preservation device and offered Gnaeus a choice of vessels for his consciousness.

Theresa and the others began restoring Nicadori’s statues to reunite his soul fragments, while Gnaeus prepared to complete his mission. The restored statues revealed Nicadori’s courage, glory, tenacity, and sacrifice, and their power gathered around the central statue awaiting Gnaeus’s fragment of reason.

• Theresa promised to preserve Gnaeus’s consciousness in a new body after he completed his mission and agreed to hand over his soul.
• Gnaeus explained that the five statues held Nicadori’s soul fragments and that restoring them and returning their greatswords would let the Titan reclaim his divine core.
• Phainon, Mydei, and Gnaeus went to clear out the remaining Kin of Strife while Theresa, Stelle, Mimu, and Acheron began repairing the statues.
• Theresa, Stelle, and Mimu restored the statues of courage and glory, whose cries praised Nicadori’s conduct in battle.
• The group restored the statue of tenacity, and its growing cry revealed that Nicadori had resisted the black tide’s corruption.
• Theresa restored the shattered statue of sacrifice, whose cry revealed Nicadori’s vow to shield the world; golden-red light then gathered at the central statue of reason.

Gnaeus explained that Nicadori had split his soul into five fragments after the Black Tide corrupted him, and Theresa reunited the fragments and restored Nicadori. Phainon, Mydei, and Stelle fought Nicadori while Theresa rebuilt Gnaeus’s body, and the chapter ended with Nicadori beating Phainon after Phainon kicked him in the groin.

• Gnaeus told Phainon and Mydei that Nicadori had fought the Black Tide, lost his sanity, and divided his uncorrupted soul into five fragments.
• Theresa copied Gnaeus’s consciousness into a storage device, used his blood and the Power of Abundance to make him a new body, and reunited the five soul fragments within Nicadori.
• Nicadori regained clarity and leaped into the arena, where Phainon, Mydei, and Stelle began fighting him while Theresa told Acheron to wait unless they needed help.
• Theresa’s buffs and Mimi’s time-slowing helped Phainon and Mydei withstand Nicadori as Stelle kept their shields refreshed.
• Phainon kicked Nicadori in the groin, and Nicadori responded by hanging him up and pummeling him.

Phainon, Stelle, and their allies fought Nicadori, with Stelle and Mimi’s transformations helping devastate him. Mydei defeated Nicadori and claimed the Strife Titan’s Core Flame.

• Phainon drew Nicadori’s attacks while Mydei struck, and Stelle used the Bug Arrow to evolve into White Platinum Star with Mimi.
• Stelle stopped time for ten seconds as Mimi and Clock Boy attacked Nicadori, shattering his armor and badly injuring him.
• Nicadori transformed and continued fighting as Mydei, Phainon, Stelle, Mimi, Clock Grandpa, and Gnaeus joined the assault.
• Theresa restored Gnaeus’s body and taught him Magnetic Force Rotation, which he used to charge into battle with lightning.
• Mydei smashed through Nicadori’s chest, tore out his Core Flame, and watched Nicadori dissolve into golden motes.

After defeating Nicadori, Stelle became White Platinum Star and Theresa led the survivors through a Gate of Space-Time back to the world a thousand years later. They arrived in a ruined Castrum Kremnos, where Qianjie attacked Theresa before she sent him flying toward the Black Tide monsters.

• Mydei thanked Phainon and Stelle for helping him defeat Nicadori and claimed the Strife Spark.
• Stelle revealed her transformed White Platinum Star form, while Mimi became a girl who resembled Cyrene before shrinking back into a squirrel and falling asleep.
• A black-cloaked man watched Theresa and Stelle from afar, then vanished with a broken greatsword.
• Theresa opened a Gate of Space-Time, and Gnaeus agreed to leave with the others and begin a new life.
• The group arrived in Castrum Kremnos a thousand years later, where Qianjie blamed Theresa for Nicadori's disappearance and attacked her.
• Theresa sent Qianjie flying toward the Black Tide monsters, while Gnaeus looked around at the ruined city.

After Gnaeus joined the group in Castrum Kremnos, Theresa brought everyone back to Okhema, where Mydei gave up the Strife Spark so Phainon could inherit it. The next day, the Gate demigods began the ceremony to return the Core Flame.

• Mydei explained that he had led his people to Okhema to escape the Black Tide, and Phainon reassured him that the choice had saved his people.
• Theresa opened a portal to Okhema, where Aglaea and Yinyueyue learned that Nicadori’s rational consciousness had become Gnaeus.
• Gnaeus said Theresa had freed him from the Black Tide’s corruption and asked that his identity be kept from the Xuanfeng people.
• Mydei refused to become the demigod of strife and handed the Strife Spark to Phainon, who agreed to do his best.
• The group rested in Okhema, and Kalpas returned after driving back the Black Tide.
• The next day, Tribbie, Trianne, and Ning began the ceremony to return the Strife Spark.

Phainon returned the Strife Spark during the Core Flame restoration ceremony, awakening Nicadori’s Oracle Incarnation. The oracle sent him to face the Trial of Divinity, where he had to overcome the deepest fear in his heart.

• Mydei resolved to reject godhood and protect the dwindling Xuanfeng people from further sacrifices, despite risking their anger.
• Ning recited the restoration prayer, and Theresa summoned the Strife Spark for Phainon to return.
• Phainon placed the Core Flame in the basin, and the starry canopy confirmed that it had been successfully returned.
• Nicadori’s Oracle Incarnation appeared and declared that Phainon had to prove his will by defeating his deepest fear.
• Phainon accepted the trial and followed the oracle, while his friends wished him luck and Elysia threatened to keep Mimi if he failed.

While Phainon began the Trial of Strife, the others waited in Okhema and discussed how they had helped the city. At a banquet, Aglaea gifted Theresa a rare bottle of Divine Blood Honey Brew, and Theresa hinted she would soon surprise Aglaea in return.

• Phainon entered the basin with the oracle projection to begin the Trial of Strife, while Mydei, Castorice, and Aglaea wished him well and explained that his trial would take time.
• Kevin described how he had trained Okhema’s soldiers, and Elysia and Himeko shared how they had helped the city and dealt with the Sacred Fire Meow Meow Cult and Senate.
• Elysia revealed that she and Aglaea were preparing an internet livestream platform, with Kevin helping write its program code, and Qianjie stopped himself from explaining what Amphoreus was.
• Aglaea arranged a banquet and gifts for everyone, and Theresa received one of Okhema’s three bottles of Divine Blood Honey Brew.
• Theresa analyzed the honey brew’s brewing method and promised Aglaea a surprise in a few days.