Chapter Summaries

Iyadase and Orucia nearly cornered Monchi, but Sanders and Kant arrived and trapped Iyadase in a field of night. Angel then appeared beside Fafnir, leaving the wizards to wonder whether she would support the human camp and what had happened to Komodo.

• Iyadase imprisoned the Frost Giant Spirit and joined Orucia against Monchi, while Nitotip's umbrella weakened the wizards who might have helped.
• A Blackfire Nightmare charged at Iyadase, then vanished as an old man turned into night and trapped him.
• Sanders entered the darkness to face Iyadase, while Kant worked with him to keep Iyadase contained.
• With Iyadase occupied, Monchi faced Orucia alone as the battle resumed.
• The wizards spotted Angel alive beside Fafnir and worried about their earlier attack on him.
• The wizards wondered where Komodo had gone and whether Fafnir would help the human camp.

Angel remained beside Fafnir as Monchi and Orucia fought, but an intense beam struck the Void Giant Tower’s summit and changed the battle. Orucia retreated into a defensive inscription barrier, and Komodo appeared, repeatedly attacking it in a frenzy.

• Fafnir explained that Angel could not safely observe the battle between Monchi and Orucia and said Orucia’s victory remained uncertain while it retained its true spirit and true name.
• An orange-red beam pierced the rain clouds and struck the Void Giant Tower’s summit, flooding the battlefield with blinding light and forcing Kant to reveal his true form.
• After the light faded, Orucia had returned to the tower’s summit in humanoid form and was enclosed in glowing inscriptions formed from its armor.
• Angel recognized the inscriptions as a defensive barrier that kept Monchi from reaching Orucia.
• Komodo charged up the tower and crashed into the barrier, but it rebounded; it continued to attack the inscriptions while fixated on claiming what was at the summit.

Komodo and the assembled fighters attacked the inscriptions around the Void Giant Tower as a vast will of flames and the Abyss descended over Lasudelan. The chapter ended with Liwita reading a note that the master of Prey Hall, Night, would soon ascend the throne.

• Komodo discovered that the inscriptions recovered from attacks below their breaking threshold and unleashed Flame Meteor to batter them with a sustained barrage.
• Nitotip reunited with Iyadase, dispelled her rain clouds, and warned the humans that Lasudelan’s changes would draw outsiders through the gate to the Abyss; she and Iyadase then withdrew to Black Cloud.
• Nitotip told Iyadase that Lord Galar was coming, while Sanders sensed a terrifying will that made the sky’s heavenly flames surge and fall.
• Monchi ordered Sinafa, Essek, Samantha, and the others to help Komodo destroy the inscriptions before the approaching presence arrived.
• Luchi used a breeze to turn Liwita’s notebook to a record stating that Night, master of Prey Hall, would soon ascend the throne.

Komodo and the wizards shattered the patterns around the Void Giant Tower, revealing a vortex in the painting “Night” that unleashed devastating flames. The Night Innkeeper began reshaping himself as he emerged from the vortex, bringing a tiny white flame that drew everyone’s attention.

• Monchi struck the tower’s nearly broken patterns with his Frost Moon Silver Crown sword and shattered them, revealing the vortex in the painting “Night.”
• Flames poured from the vortex, vaporizing the ice floe; Monchi saved most of the wizards by placing them in Everwinter Garden, while Fafnir protected Angel with her Wind Domain.
• The flames subsided, but the painting lit up again, and a gigantic crimson hand emerged from the vortex as Komodo and Orucia watched.
• Fafnir explained to Angel that the hand belonged to the Night Innkeeper, who was reshaping himself after entering the world of the Source Fire Incubation Pool.
• The Night Innkeeper’s forearm emerged with a tiny white flame flickering at his elbow, and its ripples drew everyone’s attention.

The demons and wizards fought over the white Origin Fire, which ultimately ended up with Orucia, while a second purple Origin Fire appeared on the Night Innkeeper. The Night Innkeeper emerged further from the vortex and fixed its gaze on Orucia, leaving the factions braced for what would happen next.

• Grewu recognized the flame on the Night Innkeeper's arm as Origin Fire, and demons and wizards eyed it covetously.
• A fire-wielding lesser demon tried to seize the flame, but the Night Innkeeper grabbed it while Komodo and Orucia rushed for the Origin Fire.
• Komodo struck Orucia and knocked the white Origin Fire into the air, where it landed in Grewu's hands before Grewu passed it to Orucia.
• Orucia blasted Komodo away and secured the white Origin Fire as the Night Innkeeper expanded the vortex and revealed purple Origin Fire amid the flames on its head.
• The Night Innkeeper emerged in flame-patterned armor, prompting Monchi's human faction to retreat, then paused its gaze on Angel before focusing on Orucia.

Orucia received the purple Origin Fire from the Night Innkeeper, which declared that their agreement was fulfilled and it would no longer intervene in Orucia’s fate. With danger still close, Orucia joined the purple and white Origin Fires to activate the Kindled Fire Relic, seeking a path to the lost city of Asgard.

• A Gravity Forest wizard accused Angel of withholding information, but Liwita, Kant, and Sanders defended him, and Monchi told everyone to wait and see.
• The Night Innkeeper exchanged a silent understanding with Orucia and handed over its purple Origin Fire, angering Komodo and worrying Monchi.
• Orucia thanked the Night Innkeeper, which declared that Orucia’s gains and losses would no longer concern it.
• Orucia told Tandin it would activate the Kindled Fire Relic now, despite becoming vulnerable, because waiting for Lord Galar could make matters worse.
• Orucia brought the white and purple Origin Fires together, awakened a strange mark at its brow, and closed its eyes as it floated in the air.

The Night Innkeeper emerged from the vortex and began receiving the Flame Throne as the flames peeled away to reveal watchers beyond the Birdcage. While the transfer continued, Komodo and Monchi moved to seize the vulnerable Orucia, and Tandin and Sinafa clashed as Orucia's true spirit emerged to defend him.

• The Night Innkeeper emerged fully, awakened the fire elements, and drew the flames into a throne as the Lord of Fire's authority began transferring to him.
• Luchi warned that the Birdcage would be uncovered when the transfer ended, so Monchi urged the others to complete their hunt before it opened.
• Komodo attacked the sleeping Orucia for the Origin Fire, but Tandin intercepted him and fought him while Monchi approached Orucia.
• Sinafa blocked Tandin and stopped Komodo's flame arrow with an ice-and-fire blast, revealing that she had secretly helped protect Tandin.
• Komodo rushed toward Orucia again, whose true spirit emerged to defend him, while Tandin turned to face Sinafa.

In Heart Kingdom, a cloaked painter confronted the escaped Princess Taisia and killed her to prevent the catastrophe he foresaw in his painting. He took the mysterious Kuroyd's Lament and sent a pale-yellow flame toward Night before leaving, while sheriffs later found no suspect beyond the signature Feng.

• Sheriff No. 31 received an emergency order to find the missing Princess Taisia, classified as Calamity-class, and spotted a cloaked painter by a lake.
• Taisia approached the painter, and his canvas revealed a vision of a Demon God destroying Heart Kingdom's royal capital.
• The painter told Taisia that she had caused the earthquake ten years earlier and that her emotions controlled the dangerous power within her.
• The painter beheaded Taisia, removed a golden jawbone from her mouth, and identified it as Kuroyd's Lament, which made emotion-laden negative words come true.
• A painting showed a pale-yellow flame emerging in darkness, and the painter sent it away, remarking that Night had taken a new step and invoking the Book of Kel.
• The painter left through a gate in the void, and sheriffs investigating Taisia's death found only the signature Feng on the bloodstained painting.

Sanders learned that Orucia’s true name and True Spirit drew wizards into a lethal nest, and Monchi revealed that Nereus could counter the true name with the Nameless Scroll. After Monchi promised Angel rewards and Sanders agreed not to interfere, Nereus activated the scroll against Orucia.

• Sanders escaped the Treasure Temptation illusion and learned from Monchi that Orucia’s True Spirit drew intruders into a deadly nest.
• Monchi explained that Nereus could use the Nameless Scroll to restrain Orucia’s true name and break its defenses.
• Sanders challenged Monchi over Nereus’s earlier attack on Angel, and Monchi promised Angel access to both Frost Blossom and the Moon Chapter.
• Monchi also offered to overlook Sanders’s previous actions, and Sanders agreed to help with the plan rather than sabotage it.
• Nereus opened the Nameless Scroll at the edge of Orucia’s True Spirit range, sending its mysterious aura into Orucia’s safe zone.

Nereus sealed Orucia’s true name, allowing the wizards to destroy paths into the True Spirit Nest, but the effort collapsed into renewed conflict when Orucia’s protection vanished. Nitotip revealed that Lord Galar was coming, Komodo fell back into madness, and a hidden creature watched from inside the Void Giant Tower.

• Nereus sealed Orucia’s true name in the Nameless Scroll, and he said it would remain dormant until every path to the True Spirit Nest was sealed.
• Monchi said he had made a deal with Komodo for the Origin Fire in exchange for Orucia’s bloodline, while Angel worried about Bobota and the demons’ unexplained actions.
• Angel awoke to find Orucia’s protective phantom disappearing, and Monchi and Komodo rushed toward the defenseless Orucia.
• Nitotip and Iyadase blocked Monchi and Komodo, and Nitotip warned that Lord Galar was coming.
• Komodo’s Blood Cocoon backlash drove it into madness again, and the humans attacked Nitotip as a grotesque creature watched from inside the tower.

The Night Innkeeper became the new Demon Lord, and the Birdcage began to fade, leaving the humans facing an imminent demon invasion. Before Monchi could seize Orucia, Feng’s painting produced a second Origin Fire, drawing the attention of everyone present.

• Monchi and Komodo drove Iyadase back until its bone armor cracked, leaving Orucia exposed, but a powerful pressure descended as the Night Innkeeper gained the Flame Throne’s final authority and became a Demon Lord.
• The fading Birdcage warned Monchi that demons outside Lasudelan could soon invade, while Sanders signaled Angel to follow Fafnir to Ice Valley once the pressure lifted.
• As the pressure began to recede and Monchi prepared to take Orucia, Grewu spotted light emerging from Feng’s painting atop the tower.
• Night recalled Feng saying the painting helped him too, then watched a pale yellow flame emerge from it.
• The flame revealed itself as a second, unusually powerful Origin Fire, and the gathered humans and demons eyed it greedily while Night realized Feng had sent it.

The Origin Fire toyed with the gathered demons and humans before choosing Angel, despite his attempts to avoid it. It entered the Flame Mark on his earlobe, leaving Angel confused and making him the focus of everyone’s jealousy and suspicion.

• The Origin Fire drifted toward Grewu, then changed course toward Komodo as Komodo released flames, while Monchi urged Sinafa and the humans to summon their own flames and disrupt its path.
• The Origin Fire circled among the humans before flying toward Fafnir, then bypassed her and approached Angel.
• Angel tried to dodge the Origin Fire, but it burrowed into the Flame Mark on his earlobe as the onlookers realized it had chosen him all along.
• The gathered demons and humans looked at Angel with jealousy and suspicion, while Angel silently questioned the Night Innkeeper, who met his gaze and turned away.

As a new demon lord’s pressure immobilized everyone, Bobota emerged from the collapsing Void Giant Tower and opened a spatial passage. Bobota and the unconscious Orucia were pulled toward it while Monchi tried to rally the humans, leaving their fate unresolved.

• After the pressure briefly lifted, Komodo chose to pursue Orucia while Fafnir carried Angel into the void.
• A colder, stronger pressure descended, freezing everyone as a figure approached and Monchi suspected Lord Galar had arrived.
• The top of the Void Giant Tower collapsed, revealing Bobota and a spatial vortex he had activated in reverse.
• Iyadase explained that Bobota was the human who had destroyed Lasudelan’s Inscription Nexus and might have left a hidden route in the tower’s teleportation system.
• Bobota laughed about the Origin-Worshiping Flame as the vortex pulled him, several Young Fire Demons, and the unconscious Orucia toward the passage.
• Monchi ordered the sound-element wizards to use spirit speech to break the pressure’s restraint, but his plan failed.

Bobota used a silencing chain to seize Angel and escape with Orucia, but Angel’s Flame Mark repelled the chain’s attempt to take his Origin Fire. Night delayed Lord Galar, allowing Bobota to flee through a spatial passage, before a mysterious figure with deep green eyes appeared and invited Night to visit their world.

• The crimson chain created a soundless barrier, preventing Monchi from using Words of Power, then approached Angel to take his Origin Fire.
• Angel’s Flame Mark repelled the chain, and Bobota ordered it to bind Angel and bring him along with Orucia.
• Night refrained from stopping the chain and instead blocked Lord Galar as he descended.
• Galar reached the Void Giant Tower too late to stop Bobota’s escape through the shrinking spatial passage with Angel and Orucia.
• A mysterious figure standing on Galar’s shoulder calmed him and invited Night to visit their world.

The Lord of No Flame revealed himself, took Orucia and the Origin Fire, and left Ye under Galar’s watch with a hundred-year deadline to accept his offer. Meanwhile, Angel was carried through the void interstice, where Grewu saved Toby’s Freezing Curse but the Binaqiongsi Dragon Scale fell into the darkness.

• The Lord of No Flame appeared in Orucia’s likeness, dismissed Galar’s offer to accompany him, and entered a spatial passage to discipline Orucia himself.
• The Lord of No Flame reminded Ye to visit his world within a hundred years, while Ye resisted becoming his servant and Galar stayed behind to deal with the humans.
• Monchi and the other humans prepared to use Words of Law to escape Galar, while Sanders and Kant discussed Angel’s disappearance.
• Angel noticed Toby’s Freezing Curse fall from his shoulder as Bobota carried him through the void, but Grewu caught it with flaming hands.
• Angel discovered that the Binaqiongsi Dragon Scale had fallen from the Freezing Curse and vanished into the darkness below.

The loss of Binaqiongsi's Dragon Scale caused the Freezing Curse on Toby to fail, leaving Angel fearing the return of the calamity curse as Bobota carried them through the void. When an annihilating spatial collapse blocked their path, Angel used Bobota's memories of Sparrow Sparrow to rouse him, and Bobota opened a new passage just as the collapse reached them.

• Binaqiongsi's Dragon Scale fell away, and the ice around Toby began melting despite Grewu's efforts to stop it.
• Grewu changed into a dark-skinned boy and kept Toby with him after Angel agreed to let him experience Ocean Rhythm if they escaped.
• Angel sensed misfortune gathering around them as Bobota carried the chained group toward the destination left by the Lord of Profundity.
• A vast spatial collapse appeared ahead, and Angel urged Bobota to flee when he froze in confusion.
• Angel told Bobota about Sparrow Sparrow's painting and pendant, convincing him that he might know where his sister was.
• Bobota recovered his resolve, summoned the Lord of Profundity's true-name mark, and opened a new passage as the spatial collapse arrived.

Dodolo dreamed of Angel in danger beside an Abyssal demon god and urged Maya to help, so she planned to seek Lord Rhein’s aid at Savage Cave. Angel then woke with Grewu and Toby on a scorching, lava-scarred land, unsure where the escape from the void rift had taken them.

• Dodolo told Maya that his dream had shown Angel, a white-robed young man, and a terrifying black shadow he suspected was an Abyssal demon god.
• Dodolo said he wanted to save Angel, but Maya told him they would return to Savage Cave and ask Lord Rhein to decide what to do.
• Maya gave Dodolo a stellar-sign task, and he found the fallen starlight before returning exhausted to the wizard tower.
• Angel awoke on hot ground beneath a lifeless black sky, where he found Grewu and confirmed that Toby was safe.
• Angel noticed his chains were gone and saw lava-lit cracks and flames around them, but Grewu could not identify their location.

Angel and Grewu found Bobota preparing to sacrifice the unconscious Orucia to the Lord of Profundity. Angel showed Bobota his missing sister’s heart-shaped pendant, and Bobota became absorbed in memories of her, leaving the ritual temporarily delayed.

• Angel and Grewu surveyed the lava-filled land and agreed to search for Orucia after Grewu sensed traces of Origin Fire nearby.
• They found Bobota beside the unconscious Orucia at a mountain altar, where Bobota’s crimson chains turned toward them.
• Grewu rushed toward Orucia, but Bobota kicked him away and left him badly injured.
• Bobota told Angel that he planned to sacrifice Orucia to the Lord of Profundity for greater power.
• Bobota demanded that Angel explain how he had seen Bobota’s missing sister, and Angel presented her heart-shaped pendant.
• Bobota seized the pendant, recognized it as his sister’s, and became absorbed in memories while Grewu hoped Orucia would awaken.

Lord of No Flame’s pursuit of Angel was repeatedly diverted by dangers in the void, while Angel revealed to Bobota that his sister Sparrow Sparrow had died. Bobota explained how her prophetic gift shaped his knowledge and confessed his guilt over her disappearance.

• Lord of No Flame defeated the void Demonic Beast Jialuotarousi, then changed routes after encountering a void storm.
• Angel told Bobota that Sparrow Sparrow had given him the pendant and showed him an illusion of her as a child.
• Bobota realized from the illusion that Sparrow Sparrow was likely dead and broke down in grief.
• Bobota explained that Sparrow Sparrow inherited the Source-Worshippers’ gift of prophecy and that her predictions harmed her health.
• Bobota recounted how Sparrow Sparrow vanished while he was away answering the Fuxu Royal Knights’ recruitment, and how he later feared extraordinary beings had taken her.

Angel told Bobota that Sparrow Sparrow was safe in Black Castle, and Bobota admitted he had little time left and could not face her. As Bobota prepared to sacrifice Orucia and seek help from the Lord of Profundity, a beam of light appeared in the dark sky.

• Angel confirmed that Sparrow Sparrow was in Black Castle and explained that he did not know who had taken her there.
• Bobota recalled his sister’s flower sparrow and asked Angel to tell Sparrow Sparrow that he was doing well if he could not see her himself.
• Bobota questioned why Angel had not appeared in Sparrow Sparrow’s prophecy, then decided not to dwell on the mystery.
• Grewu silently pleaded with Angel to stop Bobota from sacrificing Orucia, and Angel decided to speak up despite his own doubts.
• Bobota went to begin the sacrificial ritual, but a beam of light suddenly appeared in the dark sky.