Chapter Summaries

Feng Chen and the Strategy Group crippled the Bone Reaper’s speed by luring it into a pit and destroying many of its bone legs. With its agility no longer a threat, the players launched an all-out attack, risking their lives before it could reveal another dangerous move.

• Feng Chen used Time Slash to exploit the Bone Reaper’s focus on their clash, while the players struggled to find a way to counter its speed and strength.
• Feng Chen led his damage-dealing squad forward, and Agil smashed a pit into the floor as the Bone Reaper charged after Feng Chen and plunged into it.
• Feng Chen stunned the Bone Reaper with [Inch Punch: Mountain Collapse], allowing Bella to destroy more of its bone legs and greatly reduce its speed.
• When the Bone Reaper hurled its severed legs at Bella, Feng Chen used The World and Wind Barrier to protect her and deflect the attack.
• Feng Chen ordered the players to attack before the Bone Reaper could reveal another attack pattern, and they surged forward together.

Feng Chen and the Strategy Group fought the Bone Reaper while Silica struggled to heal the injured players. Feng Chen revealed Bella and helped Kirito deliver the final attacks, clearing Floor 75 of Sword Art Online.

• The Bone Reaper attacked wildly as Feng Chen and Heathcliff urged the players to stay calm and keep their rhythm.
• Silica grew discouraged when Pina could not heal the many injured players returning from the front lines.
• Feng Chen brought Bella to Silica and said he would appear once more as the White Dragon User.
• Bella transformed into a dragon and pinned the Bone Reaper, giving Kirito an opening to unleash Starburst Stream.
• Feng Chen used The World and Flying Sword to strike the Bone Reaper’s eyes and shattered spine, killing it and clearing Floor 75.

Feng Chen and the raid team defeated the Floor 75 BOSS without losing anyone, and Heathcliff praised Feng Chen’s strength. Kratier exposed his role in the Floor 74 BOSS room incident and was expelled from the Blood Oath Knights by Heathcliff.

• The players confirmed that they had defeated the Floor 75 BOSS, with Heathcliff’s defensive squad achieving Zero Loss despite many injuries.
• Kirito questioned Feng Chen’s choice to split the damage dealers, while Heathcliff credited Feng Chen and Kirito for the victory.
• Kratier tried to provoke a conflict between Feng Chen and Heathcliff, but Feng Chen accused him of hiding during the raid and helping trap them on Floor 74.
• Kratier accidentally revealed that he knew the Floor 74 doors had been closed, then falsely claimed Asuna had told him.
• Asuna denied telling Kratier, and Heathcliff declared that Kratier had disgraced the Blood Oath Knights and expelled him from the guild.

After Kratier was expelled from the Blood Oath Knights, he paralyzed the players in the BOSS room and attacked Feng Chen. Heathcliff saved Feng Chen, and Feng Chen then accused Heathcliff of being the game’s developer, Kayaba Akihiko.

• Heathcliff expelled Kratier from the Blood Oath Knights, and Kratier left the BOSS room.
• Kratier revealed that he had used powerful paralysis powder to immobilize the players, then attacked Feng Chen with his greatsword.
• Heathcliff blocked Kratier’s killing blow, disarmed him, and killed him with his sword.
• Heathcliff waited until the paralysis wore off and refused to explain how he had recovered so quickly.
• Feng Chen said Heathcliff had wanted to make him the hero who would defeat the Demon King, then identified him as game developer Kayaba Akihiko.

The players learned that Heathcliff was Kayaba Akihiko and fought him in the Crimson Palace, where Feng Chen, Kirito, Asuna, and Bella pushed his HP into the yellow. As Kayaba’s strength came under question, a man from outside the game appeared and declared that Kayaba could no longer fight.

• Feng Chen revealed that Heathcliff was Kayaba Akihiko, shocking the players and leaving Asuna unable to act.
• Heathcliff paralyzed most of the players, fought Kirito’s [Eclipse], and recovered after outside interference disrupted the battle.
• Heathcliff moved the players to the Crimson Palace, killed a Blood Oath Knights member, and commanded the system to make Asuna the guild leader.
• Feng Chen and Kirito coordinated with Asuna and Bella, whose attacks forced Heathcliff’s HP into the yellow before most players were paralyzed again.
• Feng Chen revealed Bella was his familiar in the game and his maid in reality, then challenged whether Heathcliff could still fight.
• A man in a white lab coat appeared in the Crimson Palace and announced that Heathcliff could no longer fight.

Sugou Nobuyuki killed Heathcliff and tried to take Asuna, but Feng Chen used the authority he had inherited to fight him. Feng Chen overcame Sugou’s countermeasures and killed him, then prepared to notify the players.

• Sugou Nobuyuki revealed that he had entered SAO to take Asuna and killed Heathcliff with the sword [Heartless].
• Feng Chen refused Sugou’s demand for the [Heathcliff] data and used its authority to multiply his stats, beginning a fight with less than thirty seconds remaining before the players logged out.
• Sugou learned how Feng Chen’s [Time Fracture] worked and overpowered him, but Bella and Silica intervened, giving Feng Chen time to alter SAO’s weather and time.
• Feng Chen used [Star Platinum The World] to outpace Sugou and strike him tens of thousands of times, killing him.
• Feng Chen began preparing to issue a notification to the players.

After SAO was cleared, Feng Chen exposed Sugou Nobuyuki’s human experiments, gave Asuna the evidence and GM privileges, and transferred the game’s data before Aincrad was destroyed. He met Kayaba Akihiko and later visited Kirito in the hospital, leaving him with a farewell.

• Feng Chen revealed Sugou Nobuyuki’s experiments and the list of players targeted, then gave Asuna the records and GM privileges.
• Feng Chen and Bella disappeared as Aincrad began collapsing, while Kirito used a Transfer Crystal to go see Asuna again.
• Feng Chen spoke with Kayaba Akihiko outside Aincrad, and Kayaba disappeared into the horizon.
• Feng Chen gave Yui immense computing power and had her transfer all of SAO’s data before the world was destroyed.
• Feng Chen entered the Stigmata Space, then appeared in Kirito’s hospital room and left after saying, “see you again if fate allows.”

Kiana attempted to board the mysterious Moonlight Throne but grew drowsy and missed her chance, forcing Mei to rescue her as she fell. Strange, familiar voices interrupted Kiana, while Theresa and Himeko also reflected on Feng Chen’s unexplained absence.

• Kiana destroyed her replacement plane while fighting Honkai Beasts, and Theresa and Himeko reprimanded her over the communication line.
• Theresa told Kiana that Mei was already aboard the Moonlight Throne, while she and Himeko discussed how Feng Chen had been out of contact for two years.
• As Kiana approached the boarding window, she became overwhelmingly sleepy and heard a familiar, unidentified voice.
• Kiana saw Mei and leaped toward her, missing the Moonlight Throne and falling away from the plane.
• Mei caught Kiana and pulled her aboard, then warned her not to do it again.

Feng Chen returned to the Honkai world after two years instead of the three months he expected, surfacing from the seafloor with Bella’s help. He contacted Theresa to find out where the others were, but she angrily confronted him about his long absence.

• Feng Chen refused a marine Honkai Beast’s offer to help and used the imitation Judas' Embrace of Blood to reach the surface with Bella’s help.
• Feng Chen entered Guangzhou and discovered that two years had passed in the Honkai world during his absence.
• Feng Chen reasoned that traveling back through the same passage had connected time between worlds and decided to avoid using the normal method again.
• Feng Chen contacted Theresa and asked whether she was on a mission.
• Theresa recognized Feng Chen and scolded him for being gone for two years instead of three months.

Feng Chen headed to the Moonlight Throne after Theresa warned him that it might be an Anti-Entropy trap. As Kiana, Yae, and Bronya fought a Lava Emperor, Feng Chen arrived and defeated it, leaving Bronya reunited with him.

• Feng Chen learned from Theresa that Kiana and the others were aboard the Moonlight Throne and decided to reach it, while Theresa warned him that the battleship might be an Anti-Entropy trap.
• Bronya continued hacking the battleship's systems as Kiana and Yae fought off Honkai Beasts on the deck.
• Kiana used her NekoCharm burst to attack the enemies while Bronya finished cracking the system, but a Lava Emperor's attack knocked Kiana and Yae down.
• Bronya refused Himeko's order to retreat and fired Heavy-duty Rabbit at the Lava Emperor, but her attacks failed to stop it.
• Feng Chen arrived, sliced the Lava Emperor in half, and was recognized by Bronya.

Feng Chen deciphered the Moonlight Throne and learned that unlocking its highest-level permissions required four Herrscher Cores. After delivering the exhausted Kiana and Yae toward St. Freya, he faced the prospect of making up his missed exams alongside Kiana.

• Feng Chen found Anti-Entropy Titan Mechs aboard the Moonlight Throne and used Kiana's birthday to unlock its middle-level permissions.
• Theresa confirmed that Kiana's birthday was December seventh, and Feng Chen successfully used it as the battleship's password.
• Kiana told Feng Chen that a voice had instructed her to find the Gems of Desire, Conquest, Agility, and Stillness to unlock the Moonlight Throne's highest permissions.
• Feng Chen suspected the four gems were Herrscher Cores intended to help the being inside Kiana restore its strength, and he told Kiana to pass her exams first.
• Feng Chen learned that he also had to make up all his missed exams, so he returned to studying while considering taking Bella out to play instead.

Theresa altered Feng Chen’s mission report to conceal his abilities, but the Overseer noticed the male student and dispatched a maid on an important mission. Back at St. Freya, Feng Chen struggled through his exams and again failed to get Theresa to change his dormitory arrangement.

• Theresa revised Feng Chen’s mission report with false details before sending it to Schicksal Headquarters.
• The Overseer noticed Feng Chen’s gender and unusual Honkai Energy adaptability, then gave documents to a maid for a mission.
• The maid decided to visit Lady Bianca first and make sure dinner was ready before leaving.
• Feng Chen worked through his theory exams while Theresa checked a command, and she sent the papers to Fu Hua for marking.
• Feng Chen asked Theresa again to change his dormitory arrangement, but she repeated the same answer she had given him two years earlier.

Feng Chen investigated the source of an early-morning fragrance and met Rita Rossweisse, a Schicksal S-rank Valkyrie posing as a maid. Rita revealed that Theresa’s mission report did not match the truth, leaving Theresa exposed as an eavesdropper.

• Feng Chen found someone cleaning and cooking in the dormitory kitchen, then told Bella the folk tale of the Snail Girl when she grew jealous.
• Rita Rossweisse introduced herself as a maid and noticed the stigmata Feng Chen had disguised.
• Rita identified herself as a Schicksal S-rank Valkyrie and vice-captain of the Blade of Immortality squad.
• Rita said the mission report’s contents did not match the truth and suggested the discrepancy involved Theresa.
• Theresa dropped a manga while eavesdropping and hurried away, prompting Rita to tease her.

Feng Chen made breakfast for Rita and learned more about her devotion to being a maid, while she recognized Bella as a Judgment-class Honkai Beast and identified Feng Chen as a Herrscher. Their tense conversation ended with Rita urging Feng Chen to take better care of himself and describing him as naturally gifted.

• Feng Chen made dumplings for Rita after learning she had prepared breakfast for everyone but herself.
• Rita recognized Bella as Benarès and deduced that Feng Chen was a Herrscher, warning that she could report him to the bishop.
• Feng Chen told Rita he wanted the Tranquility, Conquest, and Desire gems and offered to help fulfill the bishop’s wish.
• Rita chose not to expose Feng Chen, saying she considered him gentle and asking him to stop neglecting his health.
• Rita said she and Feng Chen were both naturally gifted and obsessed in their own ways.

Feng Chen spoke with Yae and Rita about Bella, his limited control over Honkai Energy, and his warning that closeness to him could bring danger. Rita admired the bond between Feng Chen and Bella, while Feng Chen remained unaware of how reassuring Rita was to him.

• Yae entered the kitchen, recognized Bella as Benarès, and felt the aura of Sirin that affected the Herrscher Core within her.
• Rita asked Feng Chen what had happened to him, and he explained that his power had been spent fighting Chiyou in Divine Land and Nine Nether.
• Feng Chen warned Rita not to get too close to him, revealing that he feared he might lose the chance to embrace the people he loved.
• Rita praised Feng Chen's closeness with Bella, while Feng Chen said he was accustomed to holding her and had many people who made him feel at ease.

Theresa introduced Rita Rossweisse as a Schicksal Headquarters inspector who would observe the Valkyrie examinations, and the two women bickered over their past closeness. Feng Chen secretly used projected knowledge to ace the written exams, but Rita later confronted him and said she knew he had cheated.

• Theresa introduced Rita Rossweisse to the St. Freya Academy students as an inspector from Schicksal Headquarters.
• Rita teased Theresa about their past, while Kiana listened in hopes of learning something she could use against Theresa.
• Feng Chen discussed Theresa’s Kaslana and Apocalypse family blood with Kiana and teased her about being a hereditary tsundere.
• Theresa began the Valkyrie examinations with a written theory test, and Feng Chen handed in his papers unusually quickly.
• Rita approached Feng Chen after the written exam and quietly told him that she knew he had cheated.

Feng Chen and Bronya teamed up for the practical combat exam and defeated the first group of Mortals. After spotting a Mortal: Divine Crossbow preparing to fire, they silently formed the same plan to attack it as it shot.

• Feng Chen was randomly assigned to Bronya, while Kiana was paired with Yae for the practical combat exam.
• Bronya used Heavy-duty Rabbit 19C and Fire Sword Sanada to help Feng Chen defeat the Mortal: Warrior Venerable and several civets.
• Feng Chen pulled Bronya out of danger when he spotted a Mortal: Divine Crossbow beyond their field of vision.
• Feng Chen and Bronya exchanged glances and formed the same plan to kill the Divine Crossbow as it fired its ten arrows.

Feng Chen and Bronya passed the first two practical exams, while Rita chose Feng Chen for a one-on-one evaluation in the third. Feng Chen doubted he could defeat the S-rank Valkyrie, but agreed to take the exam rather than risk a harder evaluation later.

• Feng Chen and Bronya passed the first exam by destroying the arrows, and Kiana and Yae made smooth progress against Summoner Demons.
• Rita praised the students, recognized Kiana Kaslana, and chose Feng Chen for a practical exchange; Theresa worried Rita would discover his true strength and take an interest in him.
• Feng Chen and Bronya easily completed the teamwork exam against three Honkai Beasts, with Bronya handling the melee enemies.
• Rita announced that she would evaluate one student, selected Feng Chen, and invited him to fight her as part of the third exam.
• Feng Chen considered giving up because Rita could counter his advantages, but agreed to the evaluation, leaving Rita even more interested in learning about him.

Feng Chen faced Rita Rossweisse in his practical exam and used the desert arena, throwing knives, and a time-stopping ability to try to take her scythe. Rita countered his moves and reclaimed the weapon, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Feng Chen asked Rita to make the first move, and she attacked him with her scythe using her assassination skills.
• Feng Chen used the arena’s sand and dust to conceal his position and attacked Rita with throwing knives.
• Rita spun her scythe to clear the dust, but Feng Chen seized it after she threw it behind her.
• Rita kicked the scythe out of Feng Chen’s hands and activated Time Fracture.
• Feng Chen used The World (Star Platinum · The World), but Rita grabbed his foot, pulled him down, and reclaimed the scythe.

Feng Chen used Rita’s scythe and limited Honkai Energy to defeat her during their combat exam, while converting SAO’s data to become an Advanced Herrscher. The battle ended with Rita realizing he had destroyed the space between them to close the distance.

• Rita gained the upper hand with the scythe, but Feng Chen used Sword Skills and dust to disrupt her senses and counterattack.
• During his attack on Rita, Feng Chen had Yui finish converting SAO’s data, advancing him to an Advanced Herrscher.
• Feng Chen discovered that his Eye of Balor had improved and began using Honkai Energy through his awakened Herrscher Core.
• Rita temporarily released her scythe and tried to kick away from Feng Chen, but he anticipated her move.
• Feng Chen struck Rita by destroying the space between them, and Rita recognized how he had closed the distance.