Chapter Summaries

Roy confronted Chaldea before the Fantasy Tree, revealed that the tree was a computational device, and used Christian divine words to strip Ishtar of her divinity. Ishtar fell from Maanna and challenged Roy, while Chaldea remained poised to pursue its mission.

• Roy met Chaldea before the Fantasy Tree with Yang Guifei and Yin Lihua, and Waver inferred that Roy was the Hegemon-King of Western Chu.
• Roy told Chaldea that the Fantasy Tree calculated possible outcomes of Human History and urged them to consider what that meant.
• Ishtar confronted Roy, who recited divine words that made her fall from Heaven and turned her into a fairy.
• Ishtar crashed from Maanna, lost her sacred radiance, and accused Roy of attacking her.
• Roy cited Ishtar's past deeds and claimed the right to punish her, while Ishtar tried and failed to draw Maanna as a bow.

Roy defeated Karna and subdued Ishtar, then sent Waver and Chaldea toward the Fantasy Tree while explaining that the Christian God transcended good and evil. He crossed time with his Divine Right and seized Tamamo no Mae, leaving her fate unknown.

• Peperoncino sent Karna to attack Roy, but Roy caught Karna’s spear, shattered it, and hurled him back to Peperoncino.
• Roy confronted Ishtar, kissed her forehead, and promised they would meet again before directing Waver to cut down the Fantasy Tree.
• Waver explained to Ritsuka that Roy’s contradictory actions reflected the Christian God’s many aspects rather than a division between good and evil.
• Roy used his Divine Right to freeze time and reach Tamamo no Mae across history as she fought the First Emperor, Emperor Gaozu, Imperial Concubine, and Emperor Guangwu.
• Roy invoked the Fifth Trumpet and seized Tamamo no Mae, who merged into his golden hand before time resumed.

Roy defeated the First Emperor and brought Tamamo no Mae to his Golden Supreme Heaven, where he declared her his Angel and Beast. Meanwhile, Chaldea reached the Fantasy Tree, and Waver began piecing together Roy’s plan to bring forth every Beast.

• Roy erased the First Emperor, while Emperor Gaozu told Liu Xiu to let Chaldea cut down the Fantasy Tree because the Lostbelt was only information made real through spiritrons.
• Tamamo no Mae awoke in Roy’s Golden Supreme Heaven and discovered that her Beast nature and divine powers were subject to the One God’s authority.
• Roy told Tamamo no Mae that she would become his Angel of Revelation and that he intended to transcend Human Evil through her.
• Chaldea arrived unopposed at the Fantasy Tree, where Kirschtaria explained that the Lostbelt had developed through a thousand years of history rather than appearing from nothing.
• Waver recalled Marisbury’s pursuit of the Void God and concluded that Roy intended to bring forth all the Beasts; Chaldea had confirmed Beast V’s birth, with six Beasts still remaining.

Chaldea destroyed the Great Han Lostbelt’s Fantasy Tree and returned to Chaldea, while Waver’s deductions prompted Roy to change his plan and pursue the Final Beast first. The chapter ended with Chaldea’s Masters recovering from Spiritual Transfer as Illya mocked an injured Tohsaka Rin.

• Waver ordered the Masters to use their Command Seals, and Chaldea’s Heroic Spirits cut down the Fantasy Tree while Roy decided to reveal the truths about Chaldea, the Alien God, and the Lostbelts ahead of schedule.
• Waver and Kirschtaria studied the Fantasy Tree’s remains, while Kirschtaria formed a theory about Marisbury’s wish and made a firm decision.
• Olga Marie activated Spiritual Transfer, and Chaldea’s Masters returned as the Great Han Lostbelt collapsed; Liu Ji, Liu Xiu, and the Imperial Concubine remained in a world within Emperor Gaozu’s love, where Liu Xiu reunited with Yin Lihua.
• Roy identified Massachusetts in 1692 as the likely place and time for the Unification of All Things’ descent and decided to complete the Final Beast before Waver and Kirschtaria could interfere.
• Olga Marie explained that Chaldea’s Heroic Spirits were stored as data and required Mashu’s shield and a ley-line energy source to be summoned again.
• Illya mocked the injured Tohsaka Rin for surviving her father’s attack, provoking Rin while Sakura worried over her.

After the Great Han Lostbelt was erased, Chaldea found that the region it had occupied had become blank, and Ritsuka encouraged Mash to keep growing during their break. The Supreme Pontiff Roy Crowley appeared in Chaldea and announced the start of a new era, leaving Olga Marie to declare that she trusted him despite the consequences.

• Olga Marie reported that the Great Han Lostbelt's disappearance had left a bleached blank space on Earth, and Chaldea's exhausted staff took time to rest.
• Ritsuka read the Bible in preparation for facing its God, then reassured Mash that they could train together in the Singularities.
• Ritsuka spotted Roy Crowley in the corridor and hurried with Mash and Fou to the control room, alerting the other Masters.
• Roy stood before Chaldeas's burning model of Earth as the gathered Chaldea staff struggled with their personal ties to him.
• Roy praised Chaldeas, declared that a new era would begin, and asked Olga Marie whether she trusted him.
• Olga Marie told Roy that she trusted him like a real father, despite knowing that her answer could cost her the position of director.

Roy sacrificed Olga Marie in Chaldeas as part of his ritual, leaving Chaldea horrified and unsure whether to continue saving Humanity's Order. He vanished after telling them that Olga Marie’s birth had destined her to be a sacrifice, while a survivor on the bleached Earth investigated Area 51.

• Olga Marie flew into Chaldeas, where it swallowed her body and soul as Roman and Ritsuka failed to save her.
• Roman and the others confronted Roy over Olga Marie’s death, while Waver recognized the act as part of a Mayan sun-sacrifice ritual rather than a Christian one.
• On the bleached Earth, a North American survivor reached Area 51 to investigate the extraterrestrial presence and its possible connection to humanity’s destruction.
• Roy told Chaldea that Olga Marie had been destined for the ritual since birth, then reassured Illya that she, too, had been born for a purpose.
• Roy urged Chaldea to continue trying to save Humanity’s Order or choose another way forward, then faded from view.

Chaldea questioned whether its history was truly Pan-Human History after Zelretch and Shion explained that humanity appeared doomed in every world because alien physical laws prevented expansion beyond Earth and the Moon. When Roy appeared in a Singularity in Salem in 1692, Da Vinci proposed dividing Chaldea’s Masters among the many remaining Singularities, and the chapter ended with the team preparing to continue their mission despite Roman’s fear and grief.

• Zelretch challenged Chaldea’s assumptions about Pan-Human History, and Da Vinci and Shion considered whether Humanity Annihilation was the world’s way of pruning a doomed history.
• Shion explained that humanity would eventually exhaust Earth’s resources, while the Solar System’s alien physical laws prevented people from settling other planets; Zelretch confirmed that no parallel world offered humanity salvation.
• Roman reported that Chaldeas had detected Roy in a Singularity in Salem, Boston, in 1692, and Waver and Da Vinci concluded that Roy had deliberately revealed his location.
• Da Vinci proposed assigning Masters to Singularities according to their danger so Chaldea could resolve them before time ran out.
• Roman declared that Olga Marie’s death had convinced him to save Humanity’s Order, then admitted he was afraid to die; Da Vinci privately suspected he would sacrifice himself if necessary.

Roy adopted the orphaned Abigail Williams in Salem, where he became the town’s pastor and earned the townspeople’s trust. Over a year later, Abigail returned home to Roy’s house, where Tituba warned her that he might be displeased she was late.

• Kirschtaria argued that he should explore the Greek Lostbelt because his magecraft and Greek Divine Spirit bonds would be especially useful there.
• After Abigail’s parents died, Salem’s townspeople worried that no one could afford to care for her.
• Roy arrived in Salem as its new pastor and adopted Abigail after learning she was orphaned.
• Roy’s kindness and generosity made him popular in Salem, and Abigail grew healthier while living with him.
• Abigail returned home late one evening, and Tituba warned her that Roy might be unhappy.

Lavinia Whitley sought Abigail’s help to escape Salem’s eerie ritual by teaching her occult incantations, while Roy’s book revealed Lavinia and Yog-Sothoth’s names. After sneaking out to meet Lavinia, Abigail returned home near midnight and prayed as she crept through the dark mansion.

• Roy noticed the names Lavinia Whitley and Yog-Sothoth in The Dunwich Horror as Abigail told him about her new friend.
• Lavinia, a fictional character displaced from her book, feared Salem’s barrier and believed Abigail could attract a god capable of breaking the ritual site.
• Lavinia took the Whitley family’s Ivory Book and secretly met Abigail in the forest, teaching her incantations and strange figures.
• Abigail stayed out with Lavinia until near midnight, then sneaked home after agreeing to meet her again.
• Abigail crept through the dark corridor, grew frightened, and began praying to the Lord.

Roy examined seven children in Salem who had begun dancing uncontrollably and declared that demons had possessed them, blaming witches or sorcerers. As fear spread through the church, Abigail worried about who would be accused next.

• A frightened townsman told Roy that the mayor’s granddaughter and other children were dancing strangely, and suggested a witch was responsible.
• Roy brought Abigail to the church, where seven children had been tied to chairs after their bizarre dancing.
• Roy examined the children, learned the doctor could find no illness, and privately recognized the symptoms as ergot poisoning.
• Roy told the townspeople that demons possessed the children and that they must find the witch or sorcerer who had summoned them.
• The crowd erupted into fearful accusations, and Abigail clutched Yog as the witch hunt began.

Abby relived Salem’s witch panic after Tituba was executed and the town descended into madness, then woke seven days earlier with Tituba alive. Believing the horrors were a dream, Abby returned to her routine with Roy until someone arrived reporting another demonic possession.

• The townspeople accused Tituba of witchcraft, and a judge sentenced her to death after a wooden idol was found in Roy’s stable.
• Tituba was hanged despite insisting she had never meant to harm Roy, and Abby watched Salem’s panic continue as accusations and executions spread through the town.
• Over seven days, dozens of Salem’s residents, including the judge, were hanged as the town’s order collapsed into mass persecution.
• Abby woke to find Tituba alive beside her bed and discovered that time had returned to seven days earlier.
• Abby prayed and dismissed the previous events as a nightmare, then joined Roy and Tituba for breakfast.
• A visitor knocked and announced that someone had been possessed by a demon, leaving Abby terrified by the familiar news.

Chaldea discovered that Kirschtaria had disappeared in the Greek Otherworld and sent Group A to search for him. Illya resisted joining the mission, while the Salem cycle continued to damage Abigail’s sanity.

• Abigail hid the wooden statue, but Tituba was still accused and hanged, and Salem’s Witch hunt spiraled into widespread executions and deaths.
• Seven days later, Abigail woke to another cycle, with her spirit increasingly fractured by the townspeople’s fear and hatred.
• Roman, Da Vinci, and Shion managed Chaldea as its Masters cleared Singularities, but Chaldeas lost track of Kirschtaria and could no longer observe the North American Singularity, where a black doorway appeared.
• After the Masters returned, Da Vinci announced that Kirschtaria was alive but missing in the Greek Otherworld and ordered Group A, Sakura, and Illya to search for him.
• Sakura accepted the assignment, but Illya refused and asked why she should save Kirschtaria.

On the seventh cycle, Abby struggled to endure the repeating events while Roy comforted her, and Ritsuka’s team arrived in the Salem Singularity with their powers weakened. They met Abby, learned that the town was tied to the Salem witch trials, and stayed at her home as she warned them they would die.

• Abby told Roy she was scared, and he embraced her and promised to protect her.
• Ritsuka, Mashu, Waver, Mishaya Reienkan, and Cú Chulainn arrived near Boston and discovered a bounded field that weakened Heroic Spirits and magecraft.
• Abby emerged from the woods near Salem and urgently warned the newcomers to leave before they died.
• Mashu befriended Abby, and Waver identified the Singularity as connected to the Salem witch trials.
• Abby let the Chaldea group stay at her home but refused to explain her warning further.

Chaldea investigated Salem while staying with Roy and Abby, but the town’s eerie normality gave way to witch hunts and mass violence. As the seventh day began, Chaldea remained trapped and uncertain about Roy’s role, and an uninvited guest arrived at the mansion.

• Roy allowed Chaldea to stay at his mansion and treated them as strangers, while Abby pleaded on their behalf.
• Waver and the others investigated Salem, learned about Abby’s life with Roy, and found the town unnervingly peaceful.
• Children began suffering from dancing mania, and the townspeople condemned Tituba as a witch despite Waver’s explanation of the illness.
• Lixiang tried to save Tituba, but Waver stopped her; Abby panicked at the execution and fled in a dazed state.
• Salem descended into mass accusations and slaughter, Cú Chulainn was imprisoned, and Chaldea observed Roy trying to help the townspeople.
• On the seventh day, an uninvited guest arrived at Roy’s mansion.

Abigail broke down after witnessing Roy’s apparent death and blamed herself for Salem’s madness, allowing the town’s insanity to consume her. As she summoned Iak-Sathath, a keyhole appeared on her forehead and Lavinia realized Abigail had opened the Gate.

• The crippled young man pierced Roy with a spear, and Roy’s blood healed him and restored the sanity of those it touched.
• Waver warned Chaldea not to look at Roy, but Abigail collapsed and accused the townspeople of killing her uncle.
• Abigail confessed that she had performed a demon-summoning ritual and blamed herself for the deaths and suffering in Salem.
• Lavinia tried to reassure Abigail, while Waver realized she was the center and vessel of Salem’s madness.
• Voices condemned Abigail with the seven deadly sins, and she summoned Iak-Sathath as tentacles emerged and a keyhole appeared on her forehead.

Abby transformed into a vessel for Yog-Sothoth, whose arrival began draining life and magical energy across connected worlds. Roy revealed he had arranged the descent as part of a plan, while Scathach’s assault failed to stop the god.

• Abby became the Salem Witch, opened countless doors between universes, and absorbed the lives of Salem’s inhabitants.
• Ritsuka and Mashu tried to reach Abby, but her tentacles drove them back as Waver identified her as the god Yog-Sothoth.
• Roy appeared alive and claimed he was saving Abby, just as a crimson attack streaked toward Yog-Sothoth.
• Scathach attacked Abby with her spears, but Yog-Sothoth swallowed them through its doors and regenerated its tentacles.
• Roy explained that he had deliberately lured Yog-Sothoth into descending and used Salem as a welcoming gift, prompting Waver to demand his true purpose.

Roy revealed that he had arranged Abby’s transformation and summoned Yog-Sothoth through the Salem singularity, using Abby as the Key to open the door. Lavinia realized Roy had created the Whitley family and brought her into existence, while Yog-Sothoth sought the book in Roy’s hand.

• Scathach reunited with Roy, explained that she had come to eliminate the world-threatening Yog-Sothoth, and teased Roy about their past as master and disciple.
• Scathach greeted Mishaya Reienkan, who admired her, then left Roy to deal with Abby and Yog-Sothoth.
• Roy told Yog-Sothoth that Abby’s soul and body remained intact, and Yog-Sothoth explained that Abby was the Silver Key it regarded as its daughter.
• Yog-Sothoth said it had come for the book in Roy’s hand and recognized that Roy had used knowledge taken from Cthugha to create the ritual and summon it.
• Lavinia realized Roy had created the Whitley family and given The Ivory Book to her so she would pass it to Abby.

Lavinia realized Roy had created her and the Whitley Family, while Waver concluded Roy could make fictional characters into real people and control fate. Roy revealed that he had engineered Salem and trapped Yog-Sothoth by severing its Door, leaving Abby and the weakened god confronting him.

• Lavinia collapsed after recognizing Roy as the creator behind her family and Salem, and Waver explained that she was a living person created from a fictional character.
• Roy confirmed that his thoughts shaped fate, then revealed that Abby's key had become the Tree of Evil and had sealed Yog-Sothoth's Door.
• Roy explained that he had created Salem and Abby as part of a ritual designed to draw Yog-Sothoth down and trap it away from its body and soul.
• Roy said he had borne the madness and original sin himself, while Abby remained an immaculate girl, and declared victory over Yog-Sothoth.
• Abby accused Roy of using her, but Roy insisted that the hatred came from Yog-Sothoth rather than the kind Abby.

Roy fought Yog-Sothoth’s will, which had fused with Abigail, using Christian miracles and Kabbalistic powers while explaining that he had contained the god to save her. After Abigail opened the Gate and fled, Ritsuka and the others were left questioning whether the supposedly terrifying evil god had simply run away.

• Roy explained that he had imprisoned Yog-Sothoth inside Abigail to prevent the god from descending and harming her, and Waver confirmed Roy had saved the girl.
• Roy attacked Abigail with Christian miracles and Spirit Binding, disrupting Yog-Sothoth’s will and its vast knowledge.
• Abigail battered Roy with tentacles and tried to open the Gate in his body, but Roy’s Tree of Evil sealed it and he punched her back.
• Roy summoned three swords and used Kabbalistic fire and light to burn Abigail’s butterflies and pierce Yog-Sothoth’s spirit.
• Abigail formed countless doors, inserted her key, and escaped through them.
• Ritsuka and Waver reacted in disbelief, while Roy suggested Abigail’s human emotions or bluffing might explain its flight.

Roy explained that Yog-Sothoth had fled because he sealed the gates between worlds and weakened her mind, leaving Abby able to resist her; he expected to meet her again. After Salem collapsed and Chaldea returned safely, Roy and Scathach were transported to a private realm, where they began a playful battle. Ritsuka later returned to Chaldea and remarked on how little the group had done in the Singularity.

• Roy told Scathach that Yog-Sothoth had escaped to wait out his seal, but that Abby's bond with him would bring them together again.
• Chaldea restored communications, and Da Vinci activated Spiritual Transfer to return Waver and the others before Salem collapsed.
• Scathach challenged Cú Chulainn and admitted that she questioned whether her pursuit of physical perfection could take her further.
• Roy reassured Scathach, and the two exchanged challenges as Salem disappeared and Chaldea returned to Antarctica.
• Roy and Scathach appeared beside a river in Roy's realm, where Scathach removed her clothes and knocked him to the ground to begin their battle.
• Ritsuka returned to Chaldea, complained that the group had done almost nothing in Salem, and Da Vinci agreed that the Singularity had been unusually easy to clear.