Chapter Summaries

As rising taxes drove people to flee or join Resistance Organizations, Anvis sensed that the Federation's Web of Fate was stirring. At his Silver Moon City residence, assassins attacked him and another target, but they killed one another and died before Anvis calmly disposed of their bodies.

• Royal families raised taxes, and lesser nobles piled on further increases, driving commoners and Low-Rank Professionals to petition, flee, or join Resistance Organizations.
• Anvis told Lia that the weather was about to change, then sent her inside to finish purifying phosphide powder.
• Anvis sensed intruders in the courtyard and warned them that his residence was protected.
• Black-Clothed Men emerged from hiding and attacked Anvis while two others tried to enter the house to seize another target.
• Anvis watched the attackers slaughter one another, cleared the courtyard, and sank their bodies into the ground before leaving for lunch.

Landon and Freya settled into a Spark Organization stronghold, where Landon asked Dark Raven whether he should bring his sister Lia to safety. As Landon and his new friend Luo Qi prepared to meet representatives of the ember organization, Anvis watched the Spark members arrive, revealing that he had founded the ember organization.

• Landon and Freya used potions to disguise themselves and joined Spark as Outer Members, then became middle-level managers at its stronghold.
• Landon asked Dark Raven whether he should bring Lia to the stronghold, but Dark Raven warned him to establish himself in Spark first and noted that Vio seemed unusually composed for a Fourth-Rank Professional.
• Landon told Freya and Luo Qi that he had two younger sisters and explained that he joined Spark after being framed and hunted.
• Luo Qi said he hoped to make the world more equal and led Landon and Freya to a meeting with the ember organization to discuss cooperation.
• Anvis waited with his subordinates at the meeting place and anticipated the results of the Seeds he had planted.

Anvis met with Spark Organization and agreed to an alliance against the Kingdom’s nobles, while warning them about the Construct Network and arranging mutual protection for merchant caravans. After the meeting, he secretly extracted two Seeds of Power from Luo Qi and Landon.

• Anvis greeted Newman, Luo Qi, and Landon at a meeting in Mist Forest and sensed the unusual powers concealed within Luo Qi and Landon.
• Newman proposed an alliance between Spark Organization and Embers, and Anvis agreed before Landon could finish his prepared speech.
• Anvis warned Spark Organization that the Construct Network might conceal a scheme and proposed reciprocal protection for caravans backed by the Black Ring Merchant Guild.
• After discussing cooperation, Newman and the others departed, and Anvis revealed that he had secretly extracted Seeds of Power from Luo Qi and Landon.

Anvis analyzed the Seeds of Power taken from Landon and Luo Qi and used them to cultivate two Chaos Aggregates. He planned to use their copied abilities against the Spark Organization while continuing to steer conflict away from the Gloria Empire and toward the Federation.

• Anvis sealed Landon and Luo Qi's Seeds of Power in Magic Crystals and sent them to his laboratory for analysis.
• Anvis discovered that Luo Qi's power resembled World Tree Power and Landon's was a variant of the Thousand-Eyed Crow's Death Gaze.
• Anvis implanted the two Seeds of Power into Chaos Aggregates, which began adapting their bodies to replicate the abilities.
• Anvis considered how he could use the Chaos Aggregates against the Spark Organization and watched Lia continue her assigned practice.
• Anvis reflected that his efforts had shifted war from the Gloria Empire to the Federation, sparing the Empire while bringing destruction to the Federation.

Anvis summoned Xia Ye Ying Huo to Silver Moon City, put her to work in his alchemy shop, and later brought her to the embers headquarters. There, he addressed leaders of several rebel armies and declared that the time to rise against the nobles had come.

• Xia Ye Ying Huo delivered a letter to Anvis at the Mithril Star Alchemy Shop, and Anvis assigned her to tend the shop to repay her debt.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo accepted a monthly wage of one thousand Gold Coins and processed alchemical materials for Anvis.
• On New Life Festival, Landon took Lia away from the shop and left a Green Dragon Dragon Crystal as payment.
• Anvis gave Lia a protective charm with a hidden teleportation function, then left Silver Moon City with Xia Ye Ying Huo.
• Anvis brought Xia Ye Ying Huo to the embers headquarters and joined his Avatar before addressing leaders of several rebel armies.
• Anvis urged the rebel leaders to unite against the nobles and declared that the hour to rise had come.

Several Resistance Organizations joined forces to overthrow the Gray Iron Kingdom, then sought recognition in the Federation Parliament under the Patikala Agreement. As they consolidated control, eased taxes, and encouraged trade, other kingdoms weighed the threat and prepared for possible conflict.

• Spark, embers, and Pride of the Sun launched a rebellion, broke through Silver Fir City’s defenses, and captured the Gray Iron Kingdom’s capital and other major cities.
• The Rebel Army captured the King, Queen, and many nobles, executed some nobles, and killed Dragon's Eye Philgood after he was ambushed by two suspected ninth-rank figures.
• Other small kingdoms ordered military constructs and repaired their city defenses, while larger kingdoms considered undermining the Resistance Organizations’ alliance.
• The Resistance Organizations took over the Gray Iron Kingdom, paused their expansion, and began selecting a representative to join the Federation Parliament under the Patikala Agreement.
• The Resistance Organizations restrained their troops, reduced taxes, and drew merchants who profited from expanded trade in the Gray Iron Kingdom.

Players and Rebel Army leaders celebrated the capture of Dawn City while Anvis considered the High-rank Prophets’ competition for Fate Feedback. The Circle of Truth resumed its attacks, and a dangerous curse left a Ninth-Rank individual haunted by whispers in his Sea of Spirit.

• Two players from guilds under White Light and Silver Blue discussed the Federation Councilor election and joked about Xavier Parkinson becoming Councilor Parkinson.
• The Rebel Army leaders compared their organizations’ strengths, with Spark ranking first and Anvis’s Embers Organization ranking third thanks to its Silver Knight II Models and immortal players.
• Anvis joined a gathering with a senior leader from Pride of the Sun while recognizing that the High-rank Prophets behind the Resistance Organizations competed for limited Fate Feedback.
• The Circle of Truth attacked several Magic Crystal Mining Areas and fought the mines’ Ninth-Rank guardians.
• A Ninth-Rank individual who cursed a Circle of Truth leader to track their true body developed destabilizing whispers in his Sea of Spirit, prompting others to fear using curses against the organization.

Anvis expanded Embers’ recruitment of Players while using his command of the organization to identify and manage spies. As the Federation’s forces reached a tense stalemate in the Web of Fate, he secretly prepared hidden Magic Array nodes in Magic Crystal mines as a contingency.

• Anvis saw that Players were flocking to the Resistance Organizations, and Embers attracted them with generous benefits and easier advancement.
• Anvis assigned quests to newly appointed Player commanders, identified two spies, and transferred them to the mole-exclusive section.
• Anvis gave Xia Ye Ying Huo free time and resumed observing the Web of Fate, where the Construct Network’s expansion threatened the Federation’s balance of power.
• Anvis recalled that the Construct Network had been suppressed in his previous life and decided to prepare a hidden countermeasure.
• Anvis secretly placed concealed mana marks and Magic Array nodes in Magic Crystal mines across the region.

After the Gray Iron Kingdom fell, the Resistance Organizations focused on securing their territories while the Glory Alliance and hostile Players tried to obstruct them. Fiona, now helping rebuild Dawn City, recalled how she and the other Stone Disk holders found the Stellar Disk and fought over the Civilization of Stars’ inheritance, which was divided before the ruins teleported everyone away.

• The Resistance Organizations consolidated their captured territories as Xavier Parkinson joined the Federation Parliament, while Oched Gray Iron and the Glory Alliance opposed them.
• A patrol in Dawn City defeated two Players who attacked with flame burst spells, and the attackers were blacklisted as the city’s reconstruction continued.
• Fiona finished shaping a stone house and recalled how a Stone Disk fragment had transported her to an Ancient Ruins, where she met Vent and the other fragment holders.
• The fragment holders united their pieces into the Stellar Disk and activated the Civilization of Stars’ Final Inheritance, but a Peak Seventh Rank Spellcaster attempted to seize it.
• The inheritance information and the Key for activating the Final Weapon were split between the protagonist team and the Spellcaster before the malfunctioning ruins teleported them away.

Fiona agreed to accompany Teacher Brandi to a meeting of Resistance Organization leaders after Brandi sensed that something beneficial might happen to her. At the meeting, Anvis felt his heart skip just as he waited for the attendees to arrive.

• Vent told Fiona that Teacher Brandi wanted to see her, and Fiona followed him toward the Spark Organization's base.
• Fiona and Vent passed through Dawn City, where grateful civilians greeted them and a resentful crow secretly followed them.
• Brandi welcomed Fiona at the base and invited her to attend a meeting of Resistance Organization leaders, and Fiona accepted.
• Two Magic Hours later, Anvis waited bored at the secret meeting until his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Anvis followed the Spark Organization’s cloaked members and discovered that the Girl was his younger sister Fiona, then secretly told her to meet him at a hotel to learn her brother’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, powerful Ninth Ranks debated the Prophets’ activities and the Star Gazer’s absence, leaving their purpose for gathering unresolved.

• Anvis attended a meeting where the Spark Organization’s conservatives opposed the radicals’ plans for rapid expansion.
• Anvis followed Brandi and Fiona after the meeting and noticed that a crow was watching them too.
• Anvis recognized Fiona as the Girl, killed the crow under distant magical control, and perched on Fiona’s shoulder.
• Anvis whispered to Fiona to come alone to the Silver Maple Hotel that night if she wanted to learn her brother’s whereabouts.
• In the Silver Moon Kingdom’s capital, Ninth Ranks debated whether to confront the Prophets and discussed the Star Gazer’s slumber.
• Black Wing asked why the Ninth Ranks had gathered, after others argued that confronting the Prophets would mean a fight to the death.

The Speaker introduced the Construct Network and proposed using it to cultivate a Federation Ninth Rank prophet who could counter the Star Gazer. He argued that surpassing the Ninth Rank Limit required finding what lay beyond the Ceiling Wall and urged the Ninth Ranks to confront the new barrier facing Human Civilization.

• The Ninth Ranks debated whether to intervene in the chaos caused by the prophets, and the Speaker presented each of them with a device for connecting to the Construct Network.
• The Speaker confirmed that the Construct Network was connected to an Eighth Rank Peak prophet and proposed cultivating a Federation prophet to counter the Star Gazer.
• The Speaker offered the Ninth Ranks the chance to advance further and claimed the key to surpassing the Ninth Rank Limit lay beyond the Ceiling Wall.
• The Speaker argued that humanity's ancestors had overcome earlier advancement barriers without guidance and asked whether the Ninth Ranks were prepared to retreat from the challenge facing Human Civilization.

The Speaker proposed that the Federation’s Ninth Rank councilors use the Construct Network’s accumulated spiritual power in a joint attack to pierce the Ceiling Wall. In Dawn City, Fiona met the disguised Anvis, who revealed himself after Fia and Kate recognized him.

• The Speaker explained that the Construct Network gathered spiritual power from its users and could grow strong enough to challenge the Ceiling Wall.
• The Speaker said the Ninth Rank councilors would use crowns and a linked array to combine the network’s power into a single attack.
• The Speaker urged the councilors to attempt the plan even if it failed, arguing that future generations would remember their effort.
• Fiona arrived at the Silver Maple Hotel to find her brother and entered a room where Anvis was waiting in disguise.
• Fia attacked Anvis, but he trapped her in a Force Field, while Kate recognized something familiar about him.
• Anvis dropped his disguise and greeted Fia, revealing himself to Fiona.

Anvis reunited with Fiona, who explained how she had been drawn into the Ruins of the Civilization of Stars and why she had come to find him. Duke Carlot arrived after Fiona revealed she had alerted their father, and Anvis declined the Duke’s suggestion that he hold his coming-of-age ceremony early.

• Fiona ran into Anvis’s arms after recognizing him, and he comforted her before asking why she had joined the Spark organization.
• Fiona described how a fragment of the Stellar Disk had transported her to the Ruins of the Civilization of Stars, where an Evil Spellcaster stole half the inheritance.
• Fiona admitted she had contacted their father for protection, and Anvis praised her judgment as she chose to end her adventure and stay with him.
• Fiona told Anvis she had missed him, and the siblings spent a quiet moment together before Duke Carlot entered.
• Duke Carlot said Anvis’s performance made him consider an early coming-of-age ceremony, but Anvis asked to wait until after he graduated.

Anvis persuaded Duke Carlot to let Fiona finish exploring the inheritance before returning to the family, while arranging for the duke to investigate the Spellcaster who had been watching her. After they left, Anvis examined Fiona’s inheritance and recognized the value of its astral teleportation techniques.

• Anvis explained that Fiona’s Fate Power was erupting and argued that she should complete her exploration before returning to the family.
• Duke Carlot agreed to wait, planned to summon a Ninth Rank Limit for support, and took Anvis’s crow for the family’s High-rank Prophets to investigate.
• Anvis declined extra guards by claiming he had already returned to the Family Secret Realm, and Duke Carlot gave him a new Family Amulet before leaving with Fiona.
• Fiona gave Anvis a Crystal Ball containing part of the Civilization of Stars inheritance, and Anvis thanked her as she departed with their father.
• Anvis gained over a hundred units of Fate Feedback Power and found that Fiona’s inheritance included useful magic techniques and the Astral Teleportation Secret Art.

Anvis obtained the complete Astral Teleportation Array Runes and the reassembled Key after Fiona and Vent divided their inheritance, then began seeking the Civilization of Stars' Final Weapon. Three months later, renewed attacks on small kingdoms exposed the Council’s paralysis, while Ninth Rank Professionals maneuvered over the Construct Network and a prophet’s possible breakthrough.

• Brandi suppressed objections to Fiona’s visits after sensing that Fiona, Vent, and their companions were unusual.
• Duke Carlot captured the Eighth Rank inheritance thief, allowing Fiona to obtain most of the inheritance and complete the Key fragment.
• Fiona and Vent exchanged copied inheritance memories, and Vent gave Fiona his half of the Key while the duke provided him resources to reach the Seventh Rank.
• Fiona gave the reassembled Key to Anvis to search for the Civilization of Stars' Final Weapon, and he began studying it after returning to the Empire.
• Three months later, Resistance Organizations attacked nearby small kingdoms, whose representatives fled to the Federation’s Three Great Kingdoms and requested Council aid.
• The Council postponed the aid motion amid political maneuvering over the Construct Network and the threat that its power could help a prophet break through to the Ninth Rank.

Anvis’s factions used the renewed war to expand their influence, while the Rebel Army’s ban on the Construct Network intensified the conflict. Studying the Federation’s shifting power map, Anvis judged that the competing forces were nearing a boundary where one coming opportunity could trigger explosive growth.

• High-rank Prophets allied with the Resistance Organizations discussed the Construct Network, after which major Resistance groups banned it and confiscated Construct Headbands.
• The Construct Network’s supporters clashed with the Rebel Army as Guardian Ninth Ranks and Passing Kind Ninth Ranks entered battles across the Small Kingdoms.
• Anvis’s Embers Organization captured Rockhelm Kingdom, while the Black Ring Merchant Guild Alliance expanded its Construct Factories through orders from the kingdoms.
• The Glory Alliance expanded its power and cooperated with the Resistance Organizations when their interests aligned, while taking advantage of the war to absorb noble industries.
• Anvis studied the factions’ spread on a Federation Magic Map and concluded that the situation was nearing an Invisible Boundary and that a decisive opportunity was approaching.

Anvis accepted an invitation from Madam Mandel, a high-ranking Glory Alliance member, and met her at the Mandel Family castle. She revealed that the Resistance Organizations were being used to void the Patikala Agreement, after which the Three Great Kingdoms and other forces would turn against them.

• Anvis received Madam Mandel’s invitation to meet at her castle in three days.
• Anvis arrived at the Mandel Family castle in Kapok Territory and asked Madam Mandel why she had summoned him.
• Madam Mandel explained that the Prophets intended to unite the Federation by using the Resistance Organizations to replace kingdom rulers and remove their territories from the Patikala Agreement’s protection.
• Madam Mandel revealed that the Agreement would become void if its member states fell below seventy percent of the original number, and warned that the Three Great Kingdoms and other forces would attack once the Resistance Organizations had served their purpose.

Anvis met Madam Mandel, who offered to spare Embers Organization from the coming upheaval if he signed a Master-Subordinate Contract and helped the Glory Alliance. He asked for time to consider, then discovered a familiar Fate Thread connected to a young servant hidden beneath her desk.

• Anvis considered Madam Mandel's warning that the Patikala Agreement might be lifted and the Federation plunged into chaos, but remained unmoved.
• Madam Mandel offered Anvis a contract that would make Embers Organization her subordinate force and turn him into a Glory Alliance undercover agent; she promised to bear the consequences of his past actions.
• Anvis requested a few days to consider, and Madam Mandel gave him three days before the offer expired.
• As Anvis prepared to leave, Madam Mandel asked him to remove his hood, but he remarked that her own hobby was unsuitable for the occasion.
• Madam Mandel revealed a golden-haired youth crawling from beneath her desk, describing him as a former Little Prince she had bought at auction and made her lifelong servant.

Anvis rejected Madam Mandel’s attempt to recruit him, warned her against interfering with his illusions, and decided to alert Landon that Freya’s brother was in her hands. On leaving the castle, he encountered Players promoting the Construct Network across the Federation and stopped one to ask what was happening.

• Madam Mandel showed Anvis how she treated her Youth servant and offered to protect Anvis if he became her servant after the Embers Organization was destroyed.
• Anvis removed his hood, then left Madam Mandel’s castle after declining her offer and warning her through an illusion not to make trouble for him.
• Anvis recognized that the Youth might be Freya’s brother and decided to write Landon a letter about Madam Mandel holding him.
• Players repeatedly approached Anvis to promote the upgraded Construct Network as he walked through the city.
• Anvis stopped a promotional Player and asked what was going on.