Chapter Summaries

After learning that the Holy Radiance Church was advancing its Saint Plan, Anvis assessed his forces and considered ways to disrupt its research. A mysterious change in the Web of Fate caused the Fate Stone Tower to ring, but diviners found no useful explanation, and Anvis remained unconcerned.

• Anvis learned through Bishop Yanile that the Holy Radiance Church's Saint Plan could give the Holy Messiah Empire mass-producible Beyond Ninth Rank units, threatening the continental balance.
• Anvis reviewed his Circle of Truth, Black Ring Merchant Guild Alliance, Emperor Fidels's Secret Treasure, ancient Golems, and other resources, and concluded he had enough power to cause trouble for the church.
• Anvis considered exploiting Archbishop Gormore, who carried the Twisted Seed, to secretly hinder the Holy Radiance Church's research.
• An indescribable fluctuation arose in the core of the Continental Web of Fate and spread beyond the notice of the diviners.
• The Fate Stone Tower rang, and Archbishop Gormore sent word of the omen to the church's senior members and the continent's top factions.
• Anvis learned of the ringing a day later and dismissed it as irrelevant to him because he had foreseen nothing.

Anvis read news about his Avatar’s raid on the Holy Radiance Church’s secret Saint Plan facility and the Pope’s decree to hunt him down. He also reviewed the Black Ring Merchant Guild Alliance’s expansion before opening a letter from Claire Liddell.

• Anvis received the Empire Morning News and a letter from a Magic Messenger.
• Anvis read that the Circle of Truth had attacked a Holy Radiance Church base and that Saint Messiah III had issued a Holy Arbiter Decree.
• Anvis recalled how he used Yanile’s cooperation to divert an Archbishops and detonate a Third Generation Magic Nuclear Bomb inside the base’s Demiplane.
• Anvis noted that his Avatar had been destroyed, the Pope had ordered a hunt for him, and the Black Ring Merchant Guild Alliance was expanding into the empire.
• Anvis opened the letter addressed to him from Claire Liddell.

Anvis received Claire’s precautionary letter revealing that she was pursuing the legendary Origin Capital Yaina and might not return. Recognizing Yaina’s possible connection to an ancient temple that once held an Old God, he ordered his forces to investigate the ruins Claire had documented.

• Anvis unlocked Claire’s letter and learned that she had encountered danger while searching for Origin Capital Yaina.
• Claire’s letter described her route into the Sea of No Light and included coordinates and records of ruins, including the source of the pale blue fragment Anvis sought.
• Anvis connected Yaina, the Civilization of Stars, to the ancient temple that Claire had collapsed in his previous life, freeing an Old God.
• Anvis ordered his subordinate forces, including the Mysteries Society, to investigate the locations Claire had recorded.
• Other powers learned of Anvis’s order, and some arranged their own investigations to assess his intentions.

Anvis’s Circle of Truth kept the continent’s factions on edge after its devastating weapon was found to threaten Ninth Rank Professionals less than ordinary targets. Meanwhile, Anvis sent Outsiders into the Saint Messiah Empire under the Black Ring Merchant Guild Alliance, and his father warned him to avoid being captured by the Circle of Truth.

• Anvis used the Black Ring Merchant Guild Alliance to bring many Outsiders into the Saint Messiah Empire, where they explored for hidden quests and investigated local history.
• The continent’s High-Rank Factions concluded that the Circle of Truth’s weapon contained no Rule Power and posed little threat when a Ninth Rank Professional was present.
• Factions restrained their younger members, while the Circle of Truth’s unpredictable actions increased pressure on the Empire’s factions and discouraged the Royal Family from moving against the Four Great Families.
• After Anvis received information about Ancient Ruins, the Duke warned him to avoid visiting them and not let the Circle of Truth capture him.

Anvis considered the Empire’s suspicions and chose to strengthen himself by sending disguised Avatars to explore ruins while remaining at Pamir Academy. As the academy’s noble descendants continued their quiet rivalries, most people dismissed Anvis as an idle, unambitious dandy.

• Anvis understood the Duke’s concerns as the Circle of Truth’s involvement fueled suspicion and made the Empire’s great powers wary.
• Anvis planned ruin explorations, then sent Avatars to investigate while keeping his true body at Pamir Academy.
• Over the following weeks, Anvis’s forces expanded their operations, the Players caused trouble, and his research into Harvey’s Dream Ripple attraction remained stalled.
• Colin of the Aslaid Family and Hillen of the Enoch Family fought a secret duel, but both ended up lightly injured and neither gained the upper hand.
• Other nobles regarded Anvis as a good-for-nothing and increasingly left him out of their conversations about the Four Great Families’ descendants.

Prince Lanno secretly visited Anvis and invited him to join his faction for the upcoming opening of the Glory Secret Realm. Anvis questioned the timing after Lanno revealed the realm would open in five days.

• Lanno arrived at Anvis's residence and discussed how his brothers' forces monitored his movements.
• Lanno argued that he and Anvis were alike in hiding their ambitions amid noble struggles.
• Lanno placed a gray-black Stone Tablet Fragment on the table and invited Anvis to join his faction's exploration of the Glory Secret Realm.
• Anvis questioned Lanno's claim that the realm would open in five days, since it was not yet Icy Moon Month.

Anvis learned that the Glory Secret Realm would open in five days and asked Duke Carlot for permission to explore it. Duke Carlot granted him a slot, and Anvis was left with four days to choose three companions, while pursuing the secret realm's connection to the Civilization of Stars.

• Prince Lanno gave Anvis a Stone Tablet Fragment that would let them appear near each other in the Glory Secret Realm.
• Anvis contacted Duke Carlot and asked whether the family knew the secret realm would open in five days.
• Duke Carlot confirmed the news and granted Anvis one of the family's exploration slots.
• Duke Carlot gave Anvis four days to choose three companions from his subordinates.
• Anvis considered that the Civilization of Stars had created the Glory Secret Realm.

Anvis prepared for the upcoming opening of the Glory Secret Realm and invited Xia Ye Ying Huo to join his expedition without taking a share of her spoils. As the other families learned of the opening, they began rushing to recruit their own companions.

• Anvis found that the Stellar Disk had accumulated enough power of fate and decided to bring it to the Glory Secret Realm.
• Anvis chose Xia Ye Ying Huo, the Last Dragonborn, and Olbins as his planned companions for the expedition.
• Anvis invited Xia Ye Ying Huo to explore the Secret Realm with him, and she eagerly accepted.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo realized she had lost track of the cat she had been chasing, and Lona returned with it.
• Prince Lanno informed Anvis of the impending opening, and the other families hurried to invite talented companions once they learned the news.

Prince Lanno recruited allies while Anvis prepared to enter the Glory Secret Realm with the Last Dragonborn and Xia Ye Ying Huo. Anvis agreed to let the Last Dragonborn livestream the expedition, intending to use the broadcast to attract Players and test whether it could influence the Continental Web of Fate.

• Prince Lanno recruited several obscure academy talents as his royal brothers competed to draw promising students away from him.
• Anvis discovered that three members of Prince Lanno's group belonged to the emerging Magic Construct school.
• Prince Lanno questioned Anvis's decision to give two Outsiders precious exploration slots, but stopped trying to guess Anvis's motives.
• The academy transported the qualified students and their companions to the Glory Secret Realm aboard a Floating Ship, where Anvis gave the Last Dragonborn and Xia Ye Ying Huo their team Stone Tablet and temporary Identity Plates.
• The Last Dragonborn asked Anvis for permission to livestream the expedition, and Anvis agreed so he could promote himself among Players and test the broadcast's effect on the Continental Web of Fate.

The Last Dragonborn sought the White Light Club’s help in joining the Glory Secret Realm expedition while Anvis and the others reached the Radiant Ruins. As the entrance opened into a strange vortex, Olbins warned that the space beyond might have completely different coordinates.

• The Last Dragonborn contacted Nyarlathotep, who agreed to approach the White Light Club’s senior members but warned that they would want high-level storyline information.
• The Last Dragonborn explored the Floating Ship while waiting for it to reach the Radiant Ruins.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo admired the glittering entrance and misread the change in others’ hostile looks after Anvis appeared as a sign that he cared for her.
• Anvis surveyed the assembled imperial descendants and their companions, including his siblings Evan and Aranis and the Third Princess’s Seventh Rank Prophet.
• At noon, the entrance’s lights converged into a gray, multicolored vortex, and Olbins said its spacetime coordinates might differ completely from their world’s.

Anvis entered the Radiant Ruins and headed toward Last Dragonborn after locating him with a Stone Tablet Fragment. Last Dragonborn paid to livestream the secret realm, drawing a large audience eager to study the ruins.

• Anvis explained that the Glory Secret Realm opened because of a rare Space-Time Change, then waited for Prince Lanno to enter before following with his attendants.
• Anvis emerged in the Radiant Ruins, spotted an ancient city with a towering Giant Spire, and set out toward it.
• Anvis used the Stone Tablet Fragments to locate Olbins and Last Dragonborn, then flew toward Last Dragonborn.
• Last Dragonborn discovered that activating the livestream in the Special Map cost 6,480 yuan and paid the fee.
• Last Dragonborn began livestreaming his exploration, and viewers and club members gathered to watch and record the footage.

The Last Dragonborn entered the Radiant Ruins, where two rock monsters ambushed him and drained his life force until Anvis rescued him. Anvis then found Olbins, who had defeated a Sixth Rank monstrous bird and recovered a Mithril plate and crystals.

• The Last Dragonborn noticed the wasteland was unusually quiet and discovered that two of the five ruin fragments behind him had vanished.
• Two enormous rock monsters burst from the desert, restrained the Last Dragonborn, and began draining his Mana and life force.
• Anvis arrived in his Alchemy Flying Shuttle and struck one monster with a Disintegrate spell, forcing the other to flee underground.
• Anvis healed the Last Dragonborn and took him aboard the shuttle so they could find their other companions.
• Anvis located Olbins, who had killed a monstrous bird and recovered a Mithril plate and sparkling crystals from its nest.
• Olbins tossed the Mithril plate to Anvis, who examined its engravings.

Anvis investigated a Titan-language Mithril plate, then flew toward the city ruins with Olbins and the Last Dragonborn. As Anvis sensed an approaching threat, a cult began replacing Gamon and others with agents serving a god.

• Anvis concluded that the Mithril plate was probably inscribed by a later civilization and that the ruins contained ancient Magical Beasts.
• Anvis, Olbins, and the Last Dragonborn boarded the Alchemy Flying Shuttle and headed for the city, where its defenses destroyed attacking avian Magical Beasts.
• Anvis sensed that an unfavorable event would draw him in, and wondered whether someone was targeting the Ninth Prince.
• Krad pierced Gamon Aslaide's chest and covered him with a black substance that transformed him into a double.
• The disguised Gamon questioned whether a Prophet could detect them, and Krad said the god's power would conceal their plans as similar attacks began throughout the Glory Secret Realm.

Marquis Vent and other conspirators prepared to help a mysterious cult undermine the Empire and the Four Great Families. Anvis, Olbins, and the Last Dragonborn reached the Radiant Ruins, where Anvis and Olbins equipped themselves for separate explorations.

• A noble questioned the cult's plan, but its members assured him that the gods' return was drawing near and the first targets would only lose control of their bodies.
• Two gray-robed figures affirmed the plan's guidance by Fate, and the conspirators ended their meeting and returned to their identities.
• Marquis Vent revealed himself in his study and accepted the risk of cooperating with the cult because his family's power had stagnated under the Four Great Families.
• Anvis and his companions landed beside a giant Titan statue in the Radiant Ruins and discovered crystal clusters that interfered with the nearby Spacetime Constant.
• Anvis agreed to explore separately from Olbins and arranged to meet beneath the city's High Tower the next day.
• Olbins donned armor that brought his aura close to the Seventh Rank, while Anvis linked his Magic Raiment to the shuttle; the Last Dragonborn felt pressured by both of them.

Anvis brought the Last Dragonborn through the Ruins, outfitting him with powerful armor so he could survive while livestreaming their expedition. After finding Prince Lanno’s group, Anvis sensed something wrong about one member, and the Last Dragonborn’s inspection revealed that person had a blood-red name.

• Anvis confirmed that the Last Dragonborn’s broadcast worked in the Ruins and gave him Sixth Rank Magic Construct armor to keep him alive.
• Anvis and the Last Dragonborn looted artifacts as they traveled through the ruined city toward Prince Lanno’s group.
• Anvis found Prince Lanno and four surviving companions in an underground palace, where Lanno explained that a mysterious Magical Beast had attacked him and one subordinate had vanished.
• Anvis sensed that the second-to-last member of Lanno’s group felt out of place, and the Old Days Secret Scripture flickered at his waist.
• Anvis asked the Last Dragonborn to inspect the suspicious person, whose name appeared bright crimson on the elf’s Panel.

Anvis detected a disguised enemy among Prince Lanno’s companions but chose to wait for the enemy to act, then joined Lanno in exploring the city ruins. They reached a hidden chamber in the western district, where they found Xia Ye Ying Huo.

• Rivers spotted an apparent enemy in Lanno’s party, and Anvis told him to keep quiet and wait for the enemy to make a move.
• Anvis asked Lanno about private assets and proposed exploring the city together, but Lanno said he had already made arrangements and chose to search the western district.
• Anvis and Lanno’s group traveled through the ruins and followed Lanno’s clues into an underground labyrinth.
• Lanno opened a secret chamber with a moon symbol, and Xia Ye Ying Huo greeted Anvis while Lanno stared in surprise.

Xia Ye Ying Huo had reached the treasure vault ahead of Anvis and Lanno, where a hidden attacker tried to kill Lanno before vanishing. Anvis learned that Xia had the Key to the Tower of Oblivion’s top floor and rewarded her with powerful equipment.

• Lanno and the Last Dragonborn were shocked to find Xia Ye Ying Huo waiting in the treasure vault, while viewers teased the Last Dragonborn for mistaking her for a casual player.
• A Red Name party member attacked Lanno from behind with a strange substance, but Anvis stopped the strike with God's Eggshell.
• The attacker called Anvis the Godblasphemer from the Oracle, threatened to sacrifice the group, and disintegrated into dark green ash.
• Lanno thanked Anvis and described the Key as a Mithril sphere held by a Silver Titan statue, which Xia revealed she had stored in her backpack.
• Anvis took the Key, learned from Lanno that it opened the Tower of Oblivion's top floor, and gave Xia a powerful Crystal Dress as a quest reward.

Xia Ye Ying Huo received a glittering dress and completed the maze quest with Last Dragonborn, while Lanno revealed that the ruins were the ancient city of Bohemianis and that the Tower of Oblivion held the Legendary Silver Titan Kassenos. As the group entered the tower, attackers’ rituals began shrinking the Glory Secret Realm and driving possessed youths toward the city.

• Xia Ye Ying Huo received the Magic Crystal Dance dress and completed the Explore the Maze quest with Last Dragonborn, while concealing her identity behind a duck mask.
• Lanno led the group back to the surface and explained that the Key was connected to Bohemianis and the Tower of Oblivion, where the Legendary Silver Titan Kassenos was said to reside.
• Anvis shared what he knew about the Cultists and Priest who had attacked them, and the group prepared to explore the tower.
• Attackers across the Glory Secret Realm completed dark green symbols that caused the Gray-White Sky to contract, erasing anything it touched into the Space-Time Turbulence.
• Possessed noble youths gathered toward Bohemianis as Anvis and the others reached the Tower of Oblivion, met Olbins, and entered.

Anvis and Lanno opened the hidden spiral staircase beneath the throne in the Tower of Oblivion, but Anvis sensed danger approaching. Meanwhile, Aranis headed for the Ruins to protect Anvis, unaware that the Secret Realm was shrinking and that a secret ritual was being prepared there.

• Lanno warned the group to stay alert as they entered the Tower of Oblivion’s vast Rock Hall and activated their defenses.
• Anvis’s Key opened the throne, revealing a spiral staircase that Lanno identified as the route to the tower’s summit.
• Anvis sensed a powerful threat approaching and tossed his Fate Gold Coin into a corner, claiming he was guarding against hidden enemies.
• Aranis escaped an ambush in which an Eighth Rank Spellcaster attacked her and Evan, then set out to find and protect Anvis.
• Aranis noticed unusually frequent encounters with other travelers but avoided them, missing signs that the Secret Realm’s sky was contracting.
• A group led by the Third Princess allied against the suspected Heretic God Cult enemies, while those enemies secretly regrouped in the Ruins to prepare a Ritual Magic Circle.

Landon, Luo Qi, and Ailisha infiltrated the Tower of Oblivion with Dark Raven’s help, while Anvis’s trap revealed that the intruders belonged to the Star Praise Sect. As Anvis’s group searched the tower for a route upward, Xia Ye Ying Huo described her exceptionally lucky hidden achievements.

• Landon, Luo Qi, and Ailisha waited with the cultists at the tower entrance as Dark Raven reassured Landon and urged them to continue the mission.
• A light orb struck the Green-Robed Priest as he entered the tower, triggering Anvis’s secret art and letting him identify the enemy as the Star Praise Sect.
• Anvis and his companions emerged in the Transit Hall, where Lanno explained that they needed to find their own path to the higher floors.
• Lanno’s group split up to search for a passage while the Last Dragonborn livestreamed with Xia Ye Ying Huo and discussed hidden achievements.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo revealed that she had drawn all six legendary set components in the first ten-pull of several banners, stunning the Last Dragonborn.