Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the God-Slaying Longsword was contaminating the Spirit Realm Bell Tower and the entire Corpus Space. The sword’s reaction had stabilized temporarily, but the ancient ruins were awakening and the balance would break in thirty minutes.

• Hao Ren had everyone put on life-support collars to shield them from the sacrificial hall’s dangerous energy field.
• The Data Terminal identified Vivian as the catalyst for the God-Slaying Longsword, and Vivian fled the hall to stop triggering it.
• The Data Terminal revealed that the black energy came from the Spirit Realm Bell Tower and had been contaminated by the sword, spreading through Corpus Space.
• Izax reported that destroyed energy nodes were activating again, and Hao Ren realized the ruins were awakening because of the sword.
• Bai Huo asked where the Saints were.

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that eleven Saints had been reduced to ash before the Demon Hunter Civil War, raising the possibility that something else had issued orders in their names. As the energy vortex threatened to contaminate Corpus Space, Hao Ren devised a dangerous plan to carry it into his personal space and have Nolan take him far into uninhabited space.

• Bai Huo and Hao Ren found eleven patches of ash and fragments of clothing in the ritual hall, confirming that the Saints had died shortly after the ritual began.
• Claude revealed that orders had continued to come from the hall during the civil war, leaving the group to wonder who had commanded it.
• The Data Terminal detected no intelligent activity in the hall, while Izax tried to weaken the rune formation and Hao Ren prepared explosives and suppressors.
• Nolan brought Giant Turtle Rock Platform into the battlefield, but Hao Ren rejected firing on the tower because it would destroy the Godslayer Sword and much of the hall.
• The Data Terminal identified the energy vortex above the sword as the key to the reaction, and Hao Ren decided to move it into his personal space and take it to uninhabited space with Nolan.

Hao Ren captured the dark power in his personal space and released it near a dying star, where it contaminated and destroyed the star. After reporting the explosion, he turned his attention back to recovering the god-slaying sword and resolving Korpheus's chaos.

• Hao Ren sucked the dark power and the objects around it into his personal space, and Nolan teleported him and Giant Turtle Rock Platform away from the ruins hall.
• Nolan carried Hao Ren to a remote ancient star, where he released the dark power and returned to the ship.
• The dark power contaminated the star and caused it to erupt, and Nolan moved Giant Turtle Rock Platform to safety.
• Hao Ren told the Data Terminal that he had destroyed a star, and the Data Terminal recorded the incident and urged him to recover the god-slaying sword.

After Hao Ren contained the Godslaying Sword and the Corpus crisis appeared to be over, Vivian raised the question of the missing First Saint. Claude revealed that the First Saint had disappeared thousands of years ago and did not exist anymore, leaving the Demon Hunters’ founding secret exposed.

• Lily scolded Hao Ren for carrying the dangerous dark energy, then Vivian arrived and scolded him for the same recklessness.
• Hao Ren learned the Godslaying Sword had gone quiet, and Autonomous Mechanical Units safely placed it in a containment case.
• Hao Ren asked whether the Corpus incident was over, but Vivian insisted they address the missing First Saint.
• Vivian and the others questioned Claude about the First Saint, whose whereabouts had remained unknown throughout the crisis.
• Claude revealed that no attendant had ever seen the First Saint and that he had disappeared thousands of years earlier, near the Demon Hunter organization’s founding.

Claude revealed that the First Saint had died before the War of the Gods and that the Demon Hunters had concealed her death by claiming she lived in seclusion. Vivian realized Claude was speaking from ancient firsthand memories, and he offered to take her and the others somewhere.

• Bai Huo and Tutanin demanded that Claude swear the First Saint had truly fallen, and he said she died six thousand years ago before the hunts began.
• Vivian explained how the Demon Hunters spent millennia adapting to Earth before their campaigns against the other supernatural races led to Ragnarok.
• Claude said the First Saint had been gravely wounded and died, so the twelve other leaders hid her death by withdrawing from public life and pretending she was still alive.
• Claude explained that the lie persisted because the Demon Hunters relied on belief in their leader during their vulnerable early years, while forbidden knowledge genuinely corroded the Saints.
• Vivian recognized that Claude recalled the First Saint’s death from personal experience, and Claude admitted that an ancient was speaking through the young Demon Hunter.
• Claude invited Vivian, addressed as Lady Ansesta, and her friends to follow him somewhere.

Claude led Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily, Bai Huo, and Tutanin to a hidden chamber, where they met Mimir, a Guardian Giant whose severed head had advised the Demon Hunters for millennia. Mimir revealed that he had waited for Vivian to arrive and help resolve the trouble connected to the Demon Hunters’ curse.

• Claude invited everyone to meet the master of his inherited memories, and Hao Ren agreed to follow him.
• Claude led the group through a secret passage to a sealed chamber behind the ritual hall.
• Hao Ren and the others found a giant head on an altar, which introduced itself as Mimir, the Wisdom Giant.
• Mimir explained that the Norse myths had distorted his history and that other giants were not like him.
• Vivian could not remember Mimir, and he explained that he had chosen to stay with the Demon Hunters to delay their curse until she arrived.

Mimir explained the forgotten origins of the Demon Hunters and revealed that Vivian had once given them Corpus and been honored as their fourteenth leader. The chapter ended with Claude entering and paying his respects to Vivian as a Saint.

• Mimir confirmed that Claude was the collective bearer of inherited memories from generations of First Attendant Officials and had served as his Spokesperson.
• Mimir said the coming Cataclysm of Madness had been set in motion when the First Saint touched the Sword of Sin.
• Mimir recounted how the Demon Hunters arrived on Earth as a weak, scattered people and built their society under thirteen leaders.
• Mimir explained that a friendly Vampire befriended the Demon Hunters and gave them Corpus, a safe realm filled with relics of a super-civilization.
• The Demon Hunters honored Vivian as their fourteenth leader, and Claude entered to pay his respects to her as a Saint.

Mimir revealed how Vivian had been the Demon Hunters’ Fourteenth Saint and how the First Cataclysm of Madness began after the Thirteen Saints used the Sword of Darkness. The chapter ended with Vivian realizing the sword had erased her name and memories from the Demon Hunters, and was designed to target the Creation Goddess.

• Mimir explained that Vivian had discovered Colperth and given the Demon Hunters a safe home, becoming their Fourteenth Saint.
• The Thirteen Saints rejected Vivian’s warning and performed a ritual with the Sword of Darkness, triggering the First Cataclysm of Madness.
• Vivian returned to Colperth, interrupted the ritual, and fought the corrupted Demon Hunters for days, while the First Saint was mortally wounded by the Red Moon.
• Mimir explained that the Cataclysm magnified the Demon Hunters’ hostility toward other races and drove them to hunt those they deemed heretics.
• Mimir revealed that a curse erased Vivian from the Demon Hunters’ memories and made it dangerous for them to speak her name.
• Vivian concluded that the Sword of Darkness had killed her name after failing to kill her, and that it had been made to target the Creation Goddess.

Mimir explained how the Sword of Darkness corrupted the Demon Hunters and revealed the truth behind the first Cataclysm of Madness. Vivian and her friends learned how she had once stopped the disaster and prepared for its return, and Mimir directed them to records about the Fourteenth Saint.

• Mimir said the Sword of Darkness had turned the Demon Hunters’ hostility into a deliberate, unquestioned mission and that the Cataclysm’s end had lifted the restriction preventing him from speaking.
• Vivian and Mimir explained that the saints had quietly shielded Vivian and arranged for her to receive a blood crystal so she could return and deal with the sword.
• Mimir revealed that the Twelve Saints had been corrupted by the sword’s whispers and had released it themselves, despite Betoris’s warning that it would eventually overwhelm them.
• Mimir said Betoris sent out the blood crystal, the other saints tried to contain the corrupted Elder Council, and he cultivated Claude to act as a messenger and spokesperson.
• Hao Ren and Vivian discussed whether Mimir’s account was true, and Vivian admitted she could have faced disaster if she had come to Colperth alone.
• Mimir told Vivian that records about the Fourteenth Saint and early excavations of Colperth were kept in the room behind him.

Hao Ren and the others entered the First Saint’s sealed chamber and examined relics preserved from the Demon Hunters’ earliest days on Corpus. Lily then recognized the chamber as a place she had designed, suggesting she had a forgotten connection to the First Saint’s life.

• Mimir explained that the First Saint had sealed records about Vivian and the Fourteenth Saint in the chamber, which could only be opened after the shadow in the sacred land was eliminated.
• Mimir told Hao Ren that the Demon Hunters eventually trusted him because he, too, had fallen under the Sword of Darkness’s whispers.
• Claude led the group into the chamber, where Vivian identified records about the colonization of Corpus and Hao Ren began scanning the relics.
• Tutanin admitted he still doubted the stories, and Vivian agreed that Mimir might not know the whole truth.
• Lily saw a woman appear briefly, then found a hidden compartment in the stone bed and claimed she had designed it before behaving as if she knew the chamber.

Lily reacted strangely in the secret chamber, and the group discovered that she was the reincarnation of the First Saint. Mimir began probing her mind to uncover the buried memories of her past.

• Lily spoke and cried without understanding why, and Hao Ren supported her as she became disoriented in the secret chamber.
• A phantom appeared, and Claude identified it as an Echo of the First Saint before it merged with Lily.
• The Data Terminal confirmed that the phantom had returned to Lily rather than possessed her, and the group examined evidence about her identity.
• Mimir offered to investigate Lily's soul and memories, and Hao Ren agreed after instructing the Data Terminal to monitor the mental connection.
• Lily relaxed her mind before Mimir, who guided her toward memories of the snow-covered wilderness and village where her life in this world began.

Mimir guided Lily through her memories and revealed how the First Saint’s fragmented soul eventually entered a newborn husky. The group learned that Lily was the First Saint reborn, though she had no memories of her former life.

• Lily recalled her childhood with her adoptive parents and sled dogs, and how she discovered her ability to transform.
• Mimir redirected Lily’s backward journey through time, where she remembered Vivian warning others about a cursed sword and directing them to Colperth.
• Lily reached her oldest memory of Vivian offering a safe place for people fleeing the frost giants.
• Mimir explained that Vivian’s red moon had split the First Saint’s soul, and one fragment eventually entered a newborn husky.
• Hao Ren suggested the First Saint’s memories had been lost when her soul merged with the husky, and Lily lunged at him as Vivian warned him.

Hao Ren and the others learned that Lily’s memories belonged to the First Saint, whose soul had been worn down after being reborn in a dog’s body, but Lily remained unaffected by the recovered fragments. As the Spirit Realm Bell Tower began to recover, Hao Ren and Vivian stayed behind to speak with Mimir, who was surprised to learn Hao Ren had led the operation; Hao Ren ended by asking Mimir where he came from.

• Lily insisted she was more upset by Hao Ren’s teasing than by learning about her past life, and said her recovered memories felt like someone else’s experiences.
• Mimir confirmed that Lily’s returning Soul Fragments had restored only scattered memories and had not changed her.
• Izax received Lanina’s message that the tower’s distortions were subsiding and Hassu had awakened, so the group prepared to meet the others.
• Hao Ren worried about how to reveal Lily’s identity to the Demon Hunters after their losses and the collapse of their administration.
• Vivian thanked Mimir for his help, then explained that Hao Ren had turned the tide and was her very good friend.
• Hao Ren asked Mimir whether he knew where he had come from.

Hao Ren and Vivian learned that Mimir knew only part of the truth behind the supernatural races’ origins and promised to tell him about his homeland and fellow kind. As Corpus recovered from the civil war, Hao Ren and the Demon Lord’s Army helped restore order while the army remained encamped in the alien space.

• Hao Ren asked Mimir about the supernatural races’ origins, and Mimir confirmed that scholars suspected they were not native to Earth.
• Hao Ren and Vivian told Mimir they knew where the supernatural races came from and had news about his homeland, and Mimir agreed to wait for them to explain.
• The Godslaying Sword’s influence faded, allowing survivors and trapped Demon Hunters to recover as the Spirit Realm Bell Tower returned to normal.
• The surviving Demon Hunter leaders assembled a governing team and began rebuilding order in Corpus with help from Hao Ren and his companions.
• Hao Ren kept the Demon Lord’s Army in Corpus after their spatial passage was destroyed, and the soldiers established a temporary camp while helping with recovery efforts.
• Lanina told Hao Ren that the Demon Lord’s Army had fought for him as their king and lord, and Hao Ren thanked her for their help.

Hao Ren gathered the Demon Hunters’ new leaders to reveal the truth about their history and the Saint Group. He presented ancient records and artifacts, leaving the elders poised to learn what their order had concealed.

• Hao Ren met Hassu, who was recovering from soul detachment syndrome, and told him to gather trusted elders for an important announcement.
• Hassu agreed to summon the New Elder Council, including Bai Huo and Tutanin, after Hao Ren confirmed the meeting concerned the First Saint.
• Lanina gathered Hao Ren’s companions, and Hassu assembled the Demon Hunter leaders in the Great Temple, where Lily promptly fell asleep on the table.
• Hao Ren addressed the elders and had guards bring in ancient Demon Hunter scrolls, documents, and holy artifacts.
• Elder Grigori recognized the objects as records from the order’s founding, and Hao Ren told the elders that the documents held the answers to their questions about the Saint Group and the Sword of Darkness.

Hao Ren presented evidence that Vivian had led the Demon Hunters during their lost century, and Elder Grigoriwen confirmed the records through recovered childhood memories. He declared Vivian the surviving Fourteenth Saint and Supreme Leader, then revealed that Lily had an even more shocking connection to her.

• The elders examined ancient records documenting the Demon Hunters’ rise, and Grigoriwen confirmed they were authentic.
• Grigoriwen recalled Vivian leading the Demon Hunters and early excavations in Colperth, matching the records.
• Hao Ren explained to the elders how Vivian helped the Demon Hunters rise and how the Sword of Darkness caused the Cataclysm of Madness.
• Hao Ren identified Vivian as the Fourteenth Saint and the Demon Hunters’ Supreme Leader, leaving the elders and Vivian stunned.
• Hao Ren woke Lily and told her to call Vivian “Ancestor.”

Hao Ren revealed to the Demon Hunter elders that Lily was the reincarnation of the First Saint, and Lily shared memories that supported her claim while urging the elders to focus on the consequences of the Demon Hunter War. After she insisted she was still Lily and left the decision to them, the elders discussed what to do with the revelation for two hours.

• Hao Ren told the Demon Hunter elders that Lily was the reincarnation of the First Saint, and Elder Grigori asked for evidence.
• Lily recalled giving Grigoriwen a shoulder scar because he had peed in a barn, prompting him to begin believing her story.
• Lily described her memories of the ancient Demon Hunters and argued that the elders should consider the future after the war had wiped out generations.
• Lily said she did not care about being called the First Saint and declared herself their ancestor, then returned to eating snacks.
• Hao Ren asked whether Lily or the First Saint had spoken, and Lily said she was Lily and had simply gone into serious mode.
• The elders discussed what to do with the revelation for two hours, after which Hao Ren left the temple.

Hao Ren and the Demon Hunter elders agreed to keep Vivian and Lily’s identities secret for now while preparing to reveal the truth gradually. As Hao Ren and his companions left Corporeus for Athens, the Demon Hunters faced rebuilding their order and the consequences of losing their defenses.

• Hao Ren and the elders agreed that Vivian was the Fourteenth Saint and Lily was the reincarnation of the First Saint, but decided to disclose their identities gradually.
• Hao Ren, Hassu, Elder Andal, and Grigoriwen discussed the Demon Hunters’ history, the Hunt War, and the danger posed by the Supernatural Races outside Corporeus.
• Hao Ren said he and Vivian would travel to Athens to meet representatives of the Supernatural Races and contain unrest among their families.
• Hao Ren and his companions prepared to leave Corporeus, taking Mimir’s Head with them aboard Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Mimir said farewell to the Demon Hunters, and Giant Turtle Rock Platform departed through a rift above the Tower of Stars.

Hao Ren told Mimir the history of the Dream Plane and its destroyed guardian races, then learned that Mimir remembered arriving on Earth in a spaceship that landed safely. Hao Ren realized Mimir may have come deliberately and urgently asked where the ship was, hoping its records could explain how the alien races reached Earth.

• At Kuiper Station, Mimir described feeling familiar with the stars, and Hao Ren explained that Mimir had once traveled through space as a guardian from another world.
• Hao Ren told Mimir about the Creation Goddess, the Dream Plane, the guardian races, and the catastrophe that destroyed their home.
• Mimir said the news was no worse than the disaster he had long feared, and Hao Ren promised to find a way for him to meet other surviving guardians.
• Mimir recalled that he had arrived on Earth alone aboard a vehicle that landed smoothly on an open plain, unlike the other alien races.
• Hao Ren concluded that Mimir may have brought the ship to Earth deliberately and asked where it was, hoping its records had survived.

Hao Ren learned that Mimir’s lost spaceship might be among the scattered fragments of Yggdrasil’s Nine Kingdoms, then brought his household to Athens as supernatural factions grew restless after the Demon Hunters’ upheaval. He told Hesperis that the hunting would end, and her shocked reaction left the consequences of that news unresolved.

• Mimir explained that Yggdrasil’s destruction had scattered the Nine Kingdoms and that finding his spaceship might require locating Svartalfheim or Jotunheim.
• Hao Ren invited Mimir to Athens, and Mimir agreed to leave the Spirit Realm Bell Tower and see the outside world.
• Hao Ren and his household traveled to Athens Sanctuary as supernatural families faced growing tensions after the Demon Hunters’ disappearance.
• Hao Ren and Vivian visited Hesperis’s antique shop, where Hesperis said she had sealed the sanctuary’s entrance to keep hotheaded youngsters from causing trouble.
• Hao Ren told Hesperis that he had visited the Demon Hunters’ headquarters and that the hunting would end, prompting her to break a chunk off the counter.