Chapter Summaries

Anvis learned from Fiona that the Olyvendi Family expected a conspiracy after First Bud Moon, but he still traveled toward the Star Territory as part of the plan. As ninth-rank figures gathered outside Silver Gull City, Marquis Vent began the attack and contacted the Circle of Truth.

• Anvis contacted Fiona and learned that a family guardian had warned her of an unknown conspiracy threatening the Olyvendi Family after First Bud Moon.
• Anvis told Fiona he would leave a magical double at Pamir Academy and secretly head to the Star Territory, and she agreed to have Annie meet him there.
• On the twelfth day of First Bud Moon, Anvis left an Avatar at the academy and traveled toward the Star Territory as another Avatar, carrying the Crystal Ball.
• Marquis Poloqi and the Revelation Sect's pontiff watched Silver Gull City with other concealed ninth-rank beings and noted that Anvis had entered the Star Territory in disguise.
• Marquis Vent summoned dark-red Thunderclouds over Silver Gull City and used his half Stone Tablet to tell the Circle of Truth that the operation was beginning.

Marquis Vent and Marquis Poloqi launched an attack on Silver Gull City while the Revelation Sect prepared to bring down its God. Anvis destroyed the crystal linking him to the God's power, but a new crimson point appeared in the city as Players began appearing.

• Marquis Vent provoked Olyvendi guardian Hilders with a blood-red thunderstorm while the Revelation Sect's Pope tracked Anvis's crystal through a mirror.
• The crystal's point vanished as Anvis fed it to the Old Days Secret Scripture, dispersed the tainted Avatar, and created a new one.
• The Pope concluded the Olyvendi Family had expelled vessels carrying the God's power, then urged Marquis Poloqi to honor their agreement.
• Marquis Poloqi unleashed a tide of darkness west of Silver Gull City, and an Alfred Family guardian joined Hilders in holding back the attack.
• The mirror's scattered gray dots turned pale red, and a new crimson point appeared as hundreds of Players logged into Silver Gull City.

Blue Galaxy and Silver Blue Esports activated a backup crystal to summon the Daughter of the Crimson Cup into Silver Gull City. Hilders could not restrain the Blood Shadow, while attacks on both the Olyvendi and Alfred Families left the city’s defenders overwhelmed.

• Blue Galaxy confirmed that the Revelation Sect’s operation had begun and prepared Silver Blue Esports’ Players to serve as Magic Array anchors.
• Blue Galaxy activated the backup crystal, which transformed his body into a graceful blood-red figure carrying a Holy Grail of blood.
• The Pope of the Revelation Sect prayed and bled into a pool as the Blood Shadow advanced toward the Lord’s Manor.
• Hilders forced Marquis Vent back and tried to move the Blood Shadow beyond Silver Gull City, but her Zero Domain could not restrain it.
• Hilders called for help from the Alfred Family, and Barry reported that Ninth Ranks were attacking the Alfred Family elsewhere as the Olyvendi Family also came under attack.
• Marquis Vent laughed and asked Hilders why they had openly joined forces with the Revelation Sect.

Silver Gull City came under attack as Hilders fought the Daughter of the Crimson Cup’s avatar, while the Circle of Truth assaulted the Lord’s Manor. Anvis escaped with Fiona and called on Holy Son Yanile to intercept the avatar as the crisis widened across the Empire.

• Marquis Vent told Hilders that the Four Great Families had lost their purpose, while Marquis Poloqi’s darkness battered Silver Gull City’s City Protection Array.
• Hilders used an Icy Wind Crystal Bird Feather to transform and battle the Daughter of the Crimson Cup’s avatar, while Barry tried to hold off the two marquises.
• The Silver Floating City attacked the Lord’s Manor, and a Black Robed Man fled with Fiona before the avatar stopped him.
• Anvis carried Fiona toward the floating city and resisted the avatar’s influence as he considered the coordinated attacks against the Empire’s Four Great Families.
• Holy Son Yanile appeared at Anvis’s request and confronted the Daughter of the Crimson Cup’s avatar.

Anvis took Fiona aboard the Circle of Truth’s Floating City during the battle at Silver Gull City, leaving the Olyvendi Family unable to protect or retrieve her. As the family faced mounting attacks, the Revelation Sect and Marquis Poloqi discovered they could no longer contact the Circle of Truth.

• Yanile confronted the Daughter of the Crimson Cup’s blood-red vessel and prepared to purge her, while Anvis used the chaos to bring Fiona aboard the Floating City and escape.
• Duke Carlot angrily demanded that Anvis return Fiona, but Anvis questioned whether the Olyvendi Family could keep her safe and refused to promise her return.
• After ending the call, Anvis turned to Fiona, who silently waited for an explanation.
• The Olyvendi Family’s Guardians returned without Fiona and struggled to handle attacks from the Marquises and the Revelation Sect while searching for her.
• The Revelation Sect’s Pope and Marquis Poloqi tried to contact the Circle of Truth, but received no response and feared it had vanished after taking Fiona.

Anvis reviewed the escalating attacks and political split threatening the Four Great Families and concluded that his current strength could not prevent their defeat. He turned his attention to Senior Claire’s team, which had finally reached the ancient gate to the City of Origin.

• The Pope of the Revelation Sect declared that the Circle of Truth was connected to the High Elf Prophet, prompting two Marquises to plan to leak the news to the Nature Elves.
• Aluke Marquis returned from the Life Forbidden Zone, accused the Enoch Family of conspiring against him, and declared war on them with the Royal Guardians’ support.
• Anvis learned that Titan Giants were fighting the Dragons summoned by the Aslaid Family, while Ailisha, Landon, and Lia had gained prominence under Aluke Marquis.
• Anvis assessed the growing conflict between the Four Great Families and the royalists and found that even using all his resources would only delay his family’s defeat.
• Anvis focused on his Avatar with Senior Claire’s exploration team after they reached the ancient gate to the City of Origin.

Claire led Anvis and Silver Eyes Instan across the forgotten land to the colossal gate, where the silver key could open the way to God's Kingdom. At the altar, Instan turned on Claire and Anvis, trapping them in the Olyvendi Family artifact Winter of Indulgence.

• Silver Eyes Instan asked how much farther they had to travel, and Claire said they needed to cross the cold plain and Silent Stone Forest before following the Pilgrim's Road.
• Claire led Instan and Anvis through the soul-chilling plain and the silent stone forest.
• Claire guided them up the Pilgrim's Road to the summit, where they saw the colossal gate and the altar bearing instructions for the silver key.
• Claire explained that activating a ritual at the altar with the Key would open the gate.
• Silver Eyes Instan revealed his intention to keep Claire and Anvis there forever and activated Winter of Indulgence, freezing the surrounding world white.

Instan discovered Anvis’s identity and learned from Duke Carlot’s recording that he was an Eighth Rank Peak Prophet nearing the Ninth Rank, then allowed him to continue with Claire. The three entered the City of Origin Yaina and found the Great Library of the Civilization of Stars, where the expedition’s target, the Final Weapon, awaited inside.

• Instan activated Winter of Indulgence, sensed two people with the Icy Wind Crystal Bird Bloodline, and confronted the hooded Anvis.
• Anvis showed Instan Duke Carlot’s Magic recording, and Instan accepted his hidden status and urged him to keep the secret.
• Instan considered silencing Claire, but Anvis persuaded him that she was trustworthy and important under the Guidance of Fate.
• Claire used the Silver Key at the Altar, transporting the three to the desert God's Kingdom and the ruined City of Origin Yaina.
• Anvis and Claire opened the Great Library with the Stellar Disk and found thirty-six doors surrounding a silver sphere they suspected was the Final Weapon.

Anvis and Claire explored the Great Library of the Civilization of Stars, where ancient languages opened doors to records of vanished civilizations. Claire recognized memories of the Serpentfolk capital and revealed that her past self had visited the library for a purpose connected to its silver sphere.

• Claire spoke the Serpentfolk word for “open,” and the Serpentfolk Civilization door swung open; Anvis then opened the High Elf door by speaking in High Elven.
• Anvis sent Fourth Rank Avatars into the High Elf library and learned it held vast knowledge, including Legendary Magic and Seer-Class Floating City blueprints.
• Claire recalled witnessing the Serpentfolk city of Kartashin before its destruction and explained that each library preserved a vanished civilization’s history.
• Silver Eyes Instan entered the High Elf library to gather magical knowledge after Anvis’s Avatars reported it was safe.
• Anvis asked whether Claire had come to the Great Library for the same reason, and she said her memories indicated she had once visited the silver sphere containing the power of time and space.

After the Stellar Disk activated the silver sphere, a temporal-spatial catastrophe stripped Anvis of his body and sent him to another time and place. He made a temporary body, discovered he was in the Gloria Empire during Gloria III’s era, and learned from the news that Olivenndi had fallen.

• Anvis placed the Stellar Disk on the pedestal, but the Base developed a Crack and the silver sphere’s power spiraled out of control.
• The temporal-spatial energy froze every Anvis Avatar and true body, as well as Claire and Fiona, before the sphere swallowed Anvis into darkness.
• Anvis awoke as a bodiless soul in a cemetery and used corpses, soil, and stones to shape a temporary body.
• Anvis flew to a nearby city and determined that he had arrived in the Gloria Empire during the era of Gloria III.
• Anvis read the Empire Morning News and discovered that Crystal Bird had fallen, Olivenndi’s defenses had been breached, and His Eminence Winter’s Chill was confirmed dead.

Anvis discovered that he had arrived in a parallel timeline more than a decade in the future, where the Olyvendi Family had suffered a devastating defeat and the Gloria Empire was nearing collapse. After Pigeon confirmed that Anvis could not affect his original world and hinted that the Silver Obelisk might help him return, Anvis decided to attempt his Ninth Rank Diviner breakthrough while the Star Gazer could not detect him.

• Anvis read that Winter's Chill Carrot Lo Olyvendi was presumed dead and that the Olyvendi Family's fleeing members were being hunted for their treasures.
• Anvis checked a Player's Panel and confirmed that the current game version was Ver1.4: Empire's Setting Sun, then deduced he had returned to the past in a parallel timeline.
• Anvis used Vision of Fate and noticed that his Fate Line had not yet connected to the Continental Web of Fate.
• Anvis summoned Pigeon, who confirmed that he had entered another possibility and that his actions would not affect his original world.
• Pigeon identified a light source within Anvis's soul, which Anvis recognized as the Silver Obelisk, and Anvis resolved to attempt his Ninth Rank Diviner breakthrough.

Anvis used his unusual state to evade the Star Gazer’s defenses and become a Ninth Rank Diviner, appearing to diviners across the continent as the Man in the Mirror. The power of miracles revealed that his breakthrough had awakened Dark Beings in the Sea of Chaos, leaving Anvis’s new beacon as a possible path for them to return.

• Anvis connected to the core of the Continental Web of Fate and slipped past the Star Gazer’s attempt to block his breakthrough.
• The Web of Fate announced Anvis’s advancement, and diviners across the continent sensed the new Ninth Rank Diviner called the Man in the Mirror.
• Anvis concealed his Fate Line from the Star Gazer and waited for the Web of Fate’s power feedback.
• Anvis gained the power of miracles and saw the gaze of an obscure being in the darkness.
• Anvis realized the Star Gazer’s breakthrough had awakened Dark Beings, and that his own appearance could guide them back to the Main Material World.

Anvis became a Ninth Rank Diviner but chose to remain in this timeline to investigate the ancient beings’ impending return and uncover the era’s secrets. Guided by prophecy, he reached a hidden cave in the Federation’s Valchenko Mountain Range.

• Anvis realized the ancient Outer Existences could still find their way back to the Main Material World, despite the Star Gazer’s efforts to delay them.
• Anvis completed his breakthrough as a Ninth Rank Diviner and sensed that the Silver Obelisk could return him to his original point in time at the cost of its power.
• Anvis decided to stay in the timeline to study humanity’s response to the ancient beings and investigate Fiona, the Imperial Royal Family, the Holy Radiance Church’s Saint Plan, and the Wish Spell.
• Anvis concealed his aura, entered the city’s crowds, and set out to investigate Fiona and this era’s version of himself.
• Anvis followed prophecy magic to a mountain in the Federation’s Valchenko Mountain Range, discovered a cave hidden by Illusion Magic, and entered it.

Anvis confronted Marquis Vent at the hidden base tied to Fiona’s disappearance, rejecting Vent’s offer of cooperation and battling him with his Fate Domain and Mirror Reflection. Anvis gained the upper hand, wounding Vent with his own attack.

• Anvis bypassed the base’s guards and defenses, then recognized Marquis Vent’s Mana Avatar and deduced that the New Nobles had abducted Fiona with Gray Mist’s help.
• Marquis Vent teleported to the base, warned Anvis that other Marquises would join the fight, and offered to share the base’s research in exchange for Anvis’s silence.
• Anvis refused the offer and revealed that he had delayed the other Ninth Ranks, then opened his Fate Domain as Marquis Vent unleashed his Azure Sea Domain.
• Marquis Vent abandoned the Domain clash and charged Anvis in his Blood Eye Azure Dragon form, using the Star Devour ability.
• Anvis evaded the attack by scattering into mirror fragments and used Mirror Reflection to inflict Marquis Vent’s own attack on him.

Anvis used his newly gained Ninth Rank abilities to overwhelm Marquis Vent, who decided to retreat rather than risk his life for the base’s secrets. Deep inside the base, Fiona encountered another version of herself in a dream and learned that she had been captured.

• Anvis revealed that he had intercepted Marquis Vent’s call for help and used prophecy to show possible delays for the other Marquises.
• Anvis summoned Space-Time Mirrors of himself from different points in time, and their Ninth Rank attacks pushed Marquis Vent toward retreat.
• In the base’s core Secret Chamber, the captive Fiona lay bound to a device that drained her blood while keeping her alive.
• Fiona used the power of Fiona's Adventures in Wonderland to turn the strange place she had entered into her home ground.
• Fiona met another version of herself in a dream, and their memories synchronized, revealing that the other Fiona had been captured.

Fiona realized she had entered the Dream World of an alternate version of herself, whose real body was trapped and in danger. After learning of the other Fiona’s lonely and painful life, she offered to help save her and let her rest in the Dream World until she was ready to face reality.

• Fiona recalled the theory of Alternate Space Isotopes and suspected that she had crossed into another world while her own body might be in danger.
• The two Fionas shared memories, and the dream-world Fiona learned that her counterpart had suffered loneliness, family rejection, and imprisonment after the Olyvendi Family fell into ruin.
• Fiona agreed to help the other Fiona escape and followed her toward the mist leading to her world.
• At the mist’s edge, the other Fiona asked to remain in the Dream World because she was exhausted and wanted to experience its warmth a little longer.
• Fiona told her counterpart she could rest until she was ready to return, and the other Fiona wept and embraced her.

Fiona escaped the secret base through the Dream World while Anvis kept Marquis Vent occupied, then Anvis traveled to Carlras City to recruit help for reviving the Olyvendi Family. He approached Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild as its leaders faced a disastrous retreat on the front line.

• Fiona descended into the Secret Chamber, removed her Magic Restriction Rings, reclaimed blood from the Blood Pool, and fled through the Dream World.
• Marquis Vent fled from Anvis after mistaking Fiona's escape for the work of Anvis's accomplice.
• Anvis examined the Secret Chamber, erased Fiona's traces, and left without pursuing her as the secret base collapsed.
• Anvis traveled to Carlras City to test whether reviving the Olyvendi Family could fulfill the Wish Spell and sought Players to handle its affairs.
• Qiu Shui Yi Ren heard Ju Ling You Xiang report that Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild's front line had retreated thirty-six kilometers despite hiring a new commander.

Qiu Shui Yi Ren punished a battlefield commander for disastrous losses and faced the guild’s worsening war against the Spark Rebel Army and the Glory Alliance. Anvis then offered her powerful Black Thorn demonic constructs in exchange for keeping Carlas Province from falling and carrying out tasks for him.

• Ju Ling You Xiang brought the Half-Elf Bard commander to Qiu Shui Yi Ren, who questioned him about the guild’s losses and retreat to Icefield City.
• Qiu Shui Yi Ren ordered demonic knights to drag the commander away and kill him until he deleted his character.
• Qiu Shui Yi Ren reflected on the guild’s bleak position, its losses to the Spark Rebel Army and Glory Alliance, and its lack of advanced Magic Constructs.
• Anvis appeared in Qiu Shui Yi Ren’s office and demonstrated a Fifth Rank Black Thorn demonic construct with strength rivaling an ordinary Sixth Rank construct.
• Anvis offered Qiu Shui Yi Ren an unlimited supply of Black Thorns, asking that Carlas Province not fall quickly and that she carry out tasks for him.

Hua Luo Tian Xia’s victories and Anvis’s intervention made the Olyvendi camp’s nobles wary, while Anvis pursued his plan to revive the Olyvendi Family. He met Marquis Vent to discuss cooperation and ended by demanding everything the family possessed.

• Hua Luo Tian Xia reclaimed territory with its new construct mechas, and a Third Generation Demonized Soldier drove off a Seventh Rank rebel commander.
• Anvis instructed Qiu Shui Yi Ren to accept invitations, gaining allies by claiming to be the true Olyvendi heir.
• The Marquises agreed not to retaliate against the Ninth Rank Diviner who took Fiona and sought to establish cooperation with him.
• Anvis read Marquis Vent’s invitation and decided to meet him, while anticipating news about Senior Claire and the Old God Ruins.
• Anvis met Marquis Vent at his estate, said he represented no faction and had no fundamental conflict with them, then demanded everything the Olyvendi Family possessed.

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.