Chapter Summaries

Anvis secured Marquis Vent’s agreement to leave the Olyvendi Family to him, then learned that Star Gazer Brentz wanted to cooperate against the Outer Existences. As Anvis’s Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild reclaimed territory in Carlas Province, Pomona sought a meeting with its backer, but a mysterious attacker defeated him and he died after falling into the Life Forbidden Zone.

• Marquis Vent accepted Anvis’s demand for the Olyvendi Family and ended their meeting.
• Anvis confronted Star Gazer Brentz, who proposed working together against the approaching Outer Existences, but gave no answer to Anvis’s demand.
• The Glory Alliance halted its advance, the Spark Rebel Army grew less active, and Hua Luo Tian Xia expanded across Carlas Province.
• Pomona received reports of Hua Luo Tian Xia’s victories and invited its backer to meet at Moonrise Fortress.
• A mysterious person attacked Pomona at Moonrise Fortress, and Pomona fled through a Space Gate into the Life Forbidden Zone, where his Bloodline Crystal Ball shattered.

Anvis recovered the Old Days Secret Scripture from Moonrise Fortress and left to seek ancient beings to seal, while Fiona returned to Carlas Province in disguise to assess the Empire’s worsening crisis. Fiona remained hidden as the Four Great Families lost ground and the Imperial Royal Family stayed silent.

• Anvis took control of Moonrise Fortress after defeating Pomona and retrieved the Old Days Secret Scripture from the library.
• Anvis discovered that the Scripture’s prophecy pages had turned pitch-black, but its other abilities still worked, and he hung it at his waist.
• Anvis left an Avatar to hold Carlras City and departed to find targets for the Old Days Secret Scripture.
• Fiona returned to Carlas Province disguised by a secret technique, fearing a traitor within the Olyvendi Family and choosing not to reveal herself or seek help.
• Fiona secretly observed Anvis, found him mingling with nobles, and decided to stay in Carlas Province and watch events unfold.
• Fiona heard that the Olyvendi Family was withdrawing its forces as the Four Great Families suffered defeats in intensifying wars and the Imperial Royal Family remained silent.

Saint Messiah III received a divine revelation of encroaching darkness and learned that the Day of Judgment was near, while the Church still lacked a path to Legendary power. As ancient entities invaded the Holy Messiah Empire, he sent Yanile to find and destroy the source.

• Saint Messiah III prayed in Gansawalan and saw darkness consume the holy light in a revelation he recognized as divine guidance.
• Saint Messiah III asked Yanile about his Saint Transformation, and Yanile said he had surpassed the Ninth Rank but could not reach the Legendary realm because the world's rules seemed incomplete.
• Saint Messiah III received an urgent report that amorphous ancient entities were invading cities across the empire and infecting people.
• Saint Messiah III ordered Yanile to go to the City of Judgment and destroy the source of the disaster while he stabilized the situation.

Yanile used the Eye of God's Punishment to locate Paramisius and destroyed its manifested body, freeing those it had assimilated. Watching from the desert, Anvis considered Yanile's altered nature and the Holy Radiance Church's god, then prepared to claim Paramisius while his Obelisk continued gathering energy to return him to his original World Line.

• Yanile discovered that Paramisius, an ancient entity from the Civilization of Stars, had escaped its seals and was consuming human thoughts across the Holy Messiah Empire.
• Yanile found Paramisius's core near the Woebur Plain and attacked it with Saint Transformation, purifying its influence and freeing its victims.
• Anvis watched the battle in disguise and reflected on how this world's Yanile differed from the one he had known.
• Anvis questioned whether a god existed behind the Holy Radiance Church and decided the coming darkness of prophecy would reveal the truth.
• Anvis prepared to seal Paramisius for the Old Days Secret Scripture's power feedback while his Obelisk slowly accumulated energy to open a path to his original World Line.

Anvis sealed Paramisius's core in the Old Days Secret Scripture while Yanile tried to stop him. Yanile's power faltered, allowing Anvis to escape as Church reinforcements arrived.

• Yanile found Paramisius's core, but Anvis appeared and used the Old Days Secret Scripture to draw it into the book.
• Yanile attacked Anvis, who evaded the holy power chains by severing his Fate Line.
• Anvis completed the seal on Paramisius's core, causing its remaining body to lose control and become easy for the Holy Knights to purify.
• Yanile invoked a Word of Spirit to trap Anvis in God's Kingdom, but the Old Days Secret Scripture resisted and Yanile's Saint Transformation ended.
• Anvis tore open Yanile's domain with the power of fate and vanished as an Archbishop and Church reinforcements arrived.

After Anvis escaped with Yanile’s core Seal, Yanile began to succumb to corruption, forcing Saint Messiah III and Saint Arbiter Yorgensen to restrain him. The Pope brought Yanile to a hidden chamber beneath the first Holy Radiance Church, where a Great Existence’s radiance drew a small Crystal Stone from Yanile’s Sea of Spirit and began resisting the corruption.

• Saint Messiah III arrived too late to pursue Anvis and focused on Yanile, whose body was rapidly corrupting as his aura surged.
• Saint Messiah III’s command briefly restored Yanile’s clarity, and Yanile stabbed his own heart to suppress his rising power.
• Saint Messiah III and Saint Arbiter Yorgensen sealed Yanile, after which the Pope carried him through a space gate to Gansawalan.
• Saint Arbiter Yorgensen stayed behind to handle the battlefield aftermath and questioned whether the Church was following the right path.
• Saint Messiah III brought Yanile through a secret door beneath the first Holy Radiance Church to an underground cavern containing a vast Holy White Crystal Stone.
• The Crystal Stone’s radiance drew an illusory fragment from Yanile’s Sea of Spirit, where it resisted the encroaching corruption and converted some of it into holy power.

Yanile’s rescue revealed that the Saint Plan’s angelification would erase his independent will, while the Church’s vast Crystal Stone could not answer the threat of ancient beings. After returning to Carlas Province, Anvis sensed a Diviner’s trap around his allies and followed fate to Silver Gull City, where Fiona was staying.

• Yanile reported that a Ninth Rank Diviner had thwarted his mission, and Saint Messiah III learned that Yanile’s growing sanctification would eventually turn him into part of God.
• Saint Messiah III sought guidance from the Crystal Stone, but the Grand Will could only acknowledge that it could not stop the ancient beings beyond the Legendary realm.
• Anvis studied the Old Days Secret Scripture’s power and found that it could strengthen him but could not overcome the obstruction blocking his path forward.
• Anvis sensed that a Diviner had laid a trap around his foundation in Carlas Province and people close to him.
• Anvis followed fate to Silver Gull City, where Fiona was staying under a concealed identity, just as something unusual happened.

After thieves stole a magical device and a secret key from Viscount Nisfim’s Treasure Vault, Fiona discovered the Rebel Army squad hiding in her basement. Before she could capture them, magic split open the earth above them and exposed the squad to daylight.

• Viscount Nisfim locked down Silver Gull City and sent his City Guard searching for the thieves who had escaped with a treasure from the City Lord's Mansion.
• Fiona let the City Guard search her residence, then detected traces of a spatial spell in her courtyard and followed them to the basement.
• Fiona discovered the disguised Rebel Army squad hiding in the basement and heard through their mental link that they had stolen a magical device and Viscount Nisfim's secret key.
• As Fiona prepared to capture the squad, a loud boom shook the entrance and magic parted the earth above them, revealing their hiding place.

Fiona followed Silver Wolf’s team after their escape from the City Lord’s Mansion, where they had stolen a mysterious item, but an Eighth Rank pursuer cornered them outside the city. Anvis intervened through his Original Sin Knight, seized the item, and altered the course of events as Fiona and the others were taken to meet the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild Master.

• City Guard forces exposed and surrounded Silver Wolf’s team, but Lakrui’s attack and Silver Wolf’s time-accelerating pendant let the team escape by group teleportation.
• Fiona appeared at the team’s destination and asked Silver Wolf what they had stolen, while he tried to recruit her into the Spark Rebel Army.
• Aixikesi trapped the group and attacked them, and Luo Qi arrived to hold him off while the others searched for a way to escape.
• Anvis sent his Original Sin Knight, which shattered Aixikesi’s spatial lockdown, wounded Aixikesi, knocked out Luo Qi, and demanded the stolen item from Silver Wolf.
• The Black Knight took Silver Wolf’s Space Ring, then Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild members escorted the team and Fiona away to meet their Guild Master.
• Anvis examined the ring’s contents and identified a cylinder covered in Magic Inscriptions as a Magic Node belonging to a larger Magic Array.

Anvis met Fiona after rewriting a Fate Node and revealed that he knew her true identity and that she came from another World Line. Fiona asked to join his faction, and Anvis accepted on the condition that she investigate a mysterious Magic Array device.

• The Prophets sensed that an Unknown Existence had rewritten a critical Fate Node and began performing divination rituals to learn how fate would unfold.
• Anvis summoned Fiona to his study, where he observed her unusual Thread of Fate and wondered whether she had crossed over from another world with him.
• Anvis revealed that he was Vian, the Ninth Rank Diviner known as the Mirror Man, and asked Fiona to show her true appearance.
• Anvis exposed Fiona's identity as an Olyvendi and a visitor from another World Line, and Fiona offered information in exchange for joining his faction.
• Anvis agreed to let Fiona join Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild and tasked her with taking a Magic Array node back to her Little Buddies, deciphering it, and reporting the findings.

Anvis learned that the Cylinder was part of a vast system likely designed to enable a breakthrough to Legendary, and his attempt to divine its origins alerted a hidden Ninth Rank faction. While Fiona worked with Spark to investigate the Cylinder, conflict spread across the Gloria Empire until Spark reported a new discovery.

• Anvis failed to divine the Cylinder’s origins and concluded that a Ninth Rank power was involved in a scheme that might enable a breakthrough to Legendary.
• Beihim and other hidden figures discussed Anvis’s interference, but decided not to recruit him and trusted their partners to handle him if necessary.
• Fiona brought the Cylinder to the Spark Organization, where Leo accepted her as the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild’s ambassador and agreed to help investigate it.
• Fiona returned to the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild’s base and researched how she had crossed over and how to return to her original World Line.
• Spark-led resistance and Glory Alliance nobles fueled wars across the Empire, while the royal family’s territories remained peaceful and the Four Great Families suffered heavy losses.
• Several months later, Spark reported that it had made a new discovery about the Cylinder.

Luo Qi’s team uncovered a soul-and-flesh ritual linked to the Bloody Cylinders, but a clash left them injured and brought the Glory Alliance’s crackdown on Spark. Fiona delivered a cylinder and Spark’s request to Anvis, who investigated the clues alongside the disappearance of Gloria III and the looming threats tied to the Federation and the Darkness Apocalypse.

• Luo Qi’s team discovered Spellcasters using a Dark Red Magic Array to extract souls and flesh from captives and channel them through Bloody Cylinders.
• Luo Qi called Spark headquarters for aid after the team was exposed, and Leo rescued the survivors while recovering two intact cylinders.
• The Glory Alliance began purging Spark branches, so Leo asked Anvis to share the pressure under their previous agreement.
• Fiona delivered a Blood-colored Metal Pillar and Spark’s message to Anvis, who began analyzing the cylinder and sent her back.
• Anvis discovered that Gloria III had gone missing while Royal Guardians hid the disappearance behind an imperial double.
• Anvis declined the Federation’s invitation to oppose the Star Gazer, choosing not to provoke him while the Darkness Apocalypse threatened both World Lines.

Anvis uncovered the Bloody Cylinder’s role in a sacrificial ritual tied to the Heretic God Cult and inferred that the Door in the Pupil and Glory Alliance were cooperating with an Outer Existence. He stopped investigating and watched the Empire’s war unfold from Carlas Province, where Fiona’s growing coalition gave the remnants of the Four Great Families a chance to survive.

• Anvis determined that the Bloody Cylinder gathered blood, souls, and negative power to nourish an Outer Existence as part of a sacrificial ritual.
• Anvis traced the Door in the Pupil’s warning letter to a Ninth Rank Professional in the Federation Parliament and inferred that the group and the Glory Alliance were cooperating with an Outer Existence for a path to Legendary.
• Anvis ignored the Door in the Pupil’s demand to stop investigating, passed his findings to Spark, and then ceased his own actions in Carlas Province.
• The Imperial Royal Family’s hidden institutions and Three Royal Guardians repelled incursions into royal territories, then contracted into a defensive posture as fighting elsewhere intensified.
• Fiona expanded her forces with Anvis’s backing, and the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild accepted surviving direct-line members of the Four Great Families, forming a coalition that gave the families a chance to endure.

Fiona and Finnis Enoch led an excavation of Langnuqinco, an Ancient Magic Empire experimental base buried beneath the Pale Plains. The Ruins emerged, but the immense magical phenomenon risked drawing the attention of powerful enemies.

• Finnis Enoch revealed that the Pale Plains concealed Langnuqinco, a secret base holding strategic supplies and the Ninth Rank weapon called the Winter Colossus.
• Fiona said the Mirror Man had entrusted the excavation to her and ordered the Spellcasters to begin the ritual.
• The Spellcasters' ritual melted the frost and opened cracks across the plains as a powerful ice-element phenomenon erupted from underground.
• Langnuqinco rose from beneath the ground, and the group raised their guard as the protective magic circle lifted and the mana fluctuation began to decline.

Fiona’s group explored an ancient Viseram base and encountered Itafus, the Pale Frost Lord, whose power fueled the Winter Colossus. Anvis learned that Itafus had fled into the hidden world to escape a powerful pursuer, while Finnis’s ambitions began to grow again.

• Marquis Delaka confronted Anvis’s avatar over the Pale Plains, then withdrew as Anvis claimed the Ruins for his territory.
• Fiona led her group into the base’s lowest level and found a frost-covered Winter Colossus in the Laboratory.
• The colossus communicated with the group and identified itself as Itafus, the Pale Frost Lord, explaining that Viseram had taken its power and exchanged sacrifices for it.
• Itafus revealed that it had been trapped in the world for thousands of years after fleeing a powerful pursuer in deep space.
• Anvis realized the world was concealed behind an enormous isolating Force Field and noticed Finnis’s Fate Line change as ambition returned to her.

Finis pledged allegiance to Anvis and gave him the key to control the Langnuqinco base and Winter Colossus in exchange for support rebuilding the Enoch Family. Anvis learned Finis had likely made a deal with Itafus, then reunited with Claire, who explained how she had become stranded in this world.

• Fiona's group agreed to provide Itafus with sacrifices in exchange for power, and they divided the recovered supplies between the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild and Fiona's alliance.
• Finis secretly visited Anvis, offered him an Ancient Magic Empire key and its activation method, and asked for support rebuilding the Enoch Family.
• Anvis accepted Finis's request and told him he could act as he wished regarding Itafus.
• Anvis and Claire concluded that Finis had probably made a deal with the Pale Frost Lord.
• Claire reunited with Anvis and explained that Paramisius had awakened when she fused with her final part, destroying the world's time-travel device and leaving her stranded.

Anvis explained why he supported Finis and the Four Great Families Alliance, while helping Claire suppress her Misfortune Trait. Finis expanded the Alliance through conquest and sacrifices to Itafus, which grew alarmed after Anvis revealed that Dark Beings were approaching the world.

• Anvis told Claire that Finis would become a Child of Destiny and that his alliance with Itafus could help the Four Great Families Alliance establish itself.
• Finis recruited supporters, captured seven cities on the edge of Magna Province, and sacrificed prisoners to Itafus for power.
• Itafus's gifts strengthened Finis but tainted his Spiritual Power, and Finis began capturing and sacrificing more prisoners.
• Major powers questioned Anvis's backing of the Alliance, while Diviners dismissed the idea that he could reverse the fate of the Four Great Families.
• Anvis met with Itafus, which learned that Dark Beings were approaching and realized it needed to escape the world to survive.

Finis expanded his Winter Legion through increasingly reckless campaigns and mass arrests as pressure from rival powers weakened the Four Great Families Alliance. In Moonlight City, Anvis questioned the nature of the starry sky, then learned that Fiona had come to see him.

• Itafus failed to win Anvis's cooperation and continued empowering Finis, whose Winter Legion grew while his territory later came under pressure from rival forces.
• Finis lost territory and sacrifices, then began attacking other provinces and arresting Commoner Professionals to fuel his rise toward the Ninth Rank.
• Finis's increasingly reckless actions created cracks in the Four Great Families Alliance, while Anvis took up residence in Moonlight City's Silver Palace.
• Anvis shut down his Vision of Fate and contemplated whether the starry sky was real as Claire reported that the Alliance would not support Finis's actions.
• Claire told Anvis that Fiona was waiting below, and Anvis invited her to come up.

Fiona visited Anvis and warned him about the Royal Guardians, the Marquises, and their plan to open the Gate of Legend. After she left, Anvis confronted Claire about her identity and asked how the ancient High Elves reached Legendary.

• Fiona reported that Finis's agents were abducting Commoner Professionals and that she had cooperated more closely with the Spark Organization.
• Fiona relayed Lady Hilders's warning that the Royal Guardians and nine Marquises were allied, the Four Great Families were being sacrificed, and the conspirators aimed to open the Gate of Legend.
• Anvis deduced that Lady Hilders of Silent Country had given Fiona the information, then let Fiona leave without revealing his own identity.
• Claire asked why Anvis had not told Fiona the truth, and Anvis said he wanted her to keep growing independently.
• Anvis addressed Claire as Claire Liddell and asked about her true body and how the ancient High Elves broke through to Legendary.

Claire explained that she began as a High Elf experiment, was scattered across time and space, and eventually reunited in the present as an Outer Existence. She revealed that incomplete world rules had shaped the rise and destruction of past civilizations, and that humanity had survived the Ancient Magic Empire’s collapse only by delaying a mysterious assimilating entity until it fell dormant.

• Claire told Anvis that she had been created as Experiment Body 24, named by the last High Elf Empress, and scattered across time and space in the Great Rift before her fragments reunited.
• Claire explained that ninth-rank High Elves naturally reached full rule synchronization because the world’s rules were incomplete, though the process of becoming Rule Beings risked erasing their identities.
• Claire said that a mysterious entity had assimilated all of Goblin Civilization because its people lacked ninth-rank beings capable of mastering Rule Power.
• Claire revealed that the entity later appeared during the fall of the Ancient Magic Empire, and a mad Alchemist’s incomplete god fought it after a world-ending catastrophe completed the god-creating ritual.
• Claire said humanity’s strongest beings used the Floating Cities and the god to hold off the entity until it became dormant again, but most of those defenders died and the survivors divided into kingdoms and factions.