Chapter Summaries

Anvis learned that saving others would shorten the Time Orb’s reach, leaving him to observe the coming apocalypse and return alone if necessary. As the Imperial Marquises activated blood-fueled arrays across the Empire, Anvis suspected they had pledged themselves to a Dark Being, and their plan began producing Overlapping Zones.

• Claire told Anvis that everyone he cherished would die and that bringing his sister into the future would sharply reduce how far he could travel.
• Anvis accepted that he had no choice but to witness the Darkness Apocalypse and record what happened so he could prepare a better resistance in the original timeline.
• Anvis and Claire discussed the Marquises’ planned Breakthrough to Legendary, and Anvis suggested they might have pledged allegiance to a Dark Being.
• Vast scarlet arrays activated across the Empire at former battlefields and massacre sites, drawing in blood and souls while creating expanding Overlapping Zones.
• Blood Armor Guardians killed Professionals who tried to destroy the arrays, while Imperial Marquises gathered before a pulsing Dark Pyramid in an underground cavern near the capital.

The Marquises and the Door in the Pupil prepared to awaken a sealed Sub-body of a Dark Being, hoping to use its power to open a route out of Uniwal. The ritual began with Lani Garo, a descendant of Emperor Phineus, as its sacrifice.

• Marchioness Anlita questioned the plan to borrow the power of a Dark Being, but Marquis Delaka, Marquis Anderson, and Marquis Vent insisted it was their only escape from the coming apocalypse.
• Marquis Anderson explained that the Sub-body's reconnection with its main body could pierce the Ceiling Wall and open a gate to the Nether Sea.
• The Marquises planned to disguise themselves as the Dark Being's Vassal Race and had stored knowledge and living specimens to preserve Human Civilization after fleeing Uniwal.
• Gray Mist announced that the magic array had gathered enough soul Fragments and ordered the sacrifice to begin.
• Marquis Vent placed the sleeping Lani Garo on the altar, and Gray Mist activated the magic array and began chanting the sacrificial prayer.

Gray Mist began using Lani's blood to lift the Seal on the Dark Pyramid, but Landon and the Royal Guardians interrupted the ritual. Landon rescued Lani while Gray Mist let him escape, and the Seal continued to weaken.

• Gray Mist stabbed Lani with a ritual dagger and used her blood to break the Dark Purple Runes sealing the Dark Pyramid.
• Landon and the Spark Rebel Army elites broke into the cavern, followed by the Royal Guardians and other Ninth Rank experts.
• The gray declared that the Marquises had lost their Imperial titles, and the Royal Guardians attacked the Marquises and their allies.
• Landon and his companions combined their power to shatter the barrier, and Landon rescued Lani from the altar.
• Gray Mist allowed Landon to escape because Lani's blood had already provided what the ritual needed, and the Seal continued to vanish.

As the Marquises and Royal Guardians fought around the Dark Pyramid, Lani revealed that her royal bloodline had been used to lift the Seal holding the destroyer of the Ancient Magic Empire. The pyramid collapsed, and the sealed entity, Veil of Truth Oni Chaos, appeared as Lani feared that the world’s doom had begun.

• Gray Mist said the Seal needed about ten more minutes to lift as the Marquises and Royal Guardians battled around the Dark Pyramid.
• Landon’s group hid in Lord Dark Raven’s Folded Space, where the wounded Lani regained consciousness and warned that breaking the Seal would bring doomsday.
• Lani revealed that she was descended from Emperor Phineus and had been captured because her bloodline could lift the Seal; she identified the sealed being as the destroyer of the Ancient Magic Empire.
• The Dark Pyramid’s remaining Runes vanished, its bricks crumbled to sand, and the Ninth Ranks paused their battle as a rhythmic heartbeat echoed across the field.
• Gray Mist invoked Veil of Truth Oni Chaos, and the pyramid disappeared, revealing a sphere of dark red mist made of twisted geometric forms.
• Landon sensed the sphere’s terrifying aura, while Lani despaired that the Seal had been completely lifted.

The Royal Guardians summoned the King of Annihilation to fight the newly unsealed Oni Chaos, while the Marquises’ disguised forces faced the threat of becoming sacrifices. Oni Chaos demanded offerings to restore itself, and those without sacrifices were assimilated.

• Marquis Vent and the other Marquises transformed into their disguised Dark Minion forms as Oni Chaos broke free of the Seal.
• The Royal Guardians invoked their pact with the Emperor, and Gloria III was sacrificed to summon the King of Annihilation.
• The King of Annihilation and Oni Chaos clashed, each trying to dissolve and assimilate the other.
• Oni Chaos demanded sacrifices, and Gray Mist offered a sealed Ninth Rank Golden Dragon while Marquis Delaka and two Ninth Ranks from the Door in the Pupil also provided prepared sacrifices.
• Oni Chaos trapped the Dark Minions who could not provide sacrifices and assimilated them, while one marquis abandoned his Avatar to escape.

As Oni Chaos and the King of Annihilation summoned their true wills and fought through the Abyssal Sea, Gray Mist used the Golden Scales and a fate-powered array to seal the breach. With both deities weakened and the barrier reinforced, Gray Mist revealed his ambition to seize the opportunity.

• Oni Chaos assimilated its followers and strengthened its struggle against the King of Annihilation, while Landon and the Spark Rebel Squad recognized the book used by the Royal Guardians.
• Dark Raven recalled that both deities might draw the attention of their original bodies, and Oni Chaos’s core began shining silver as it tore open a breach to the Abyssal Sea.
• The King of Annihilation projected its primary will into the world, and the two original bodies clashed, weakening both and expanding the Abyssal Sea void.
• Gray Mist activated the Golden Scales and a complex fate-powered array at the Altar, drawing on the Continental Web of Fate to restore the Dream World and seal the breach.
• Gray Mist watched the weakened Oni Chaos and revealed his burning desire and ambition.

Gray Mist’s Fate Seal Magic Array trapped the Spark Squad with Oni Chaos after the King of Annihilation’s projection was destroyed. Gray Mist revealed that he planned to use Landon to invoke the Continental Web of Fate against Oni Chaos and claim its remains to break through to Legendary.

• The Royal Guardians entered the Fate Seal Magic Array and used their power to stabilize it as Gray Mist warned that it was close to failing.
• Oni Chaos defeated the King of Annihilation’s projection and assimilated the Book of Yellow Robe.
• Gray Mist raised the Golden Scales and used the array to pull the Spark Squad out of their pocket space and trap them in its central region with Oni Chaos.
• Gray Mist revealed that he had deliberately put Landon, the Child of Destiny, in danger to trigger the Continental Web of Fate’s retaliation against Oni Chaos.
• Gray Mist hoped to obtain Oni Chaos’s remains, break through to Legendary, and escape the consequences by leaving the Uniwal world for the Abyssal Sea.

Landon used the Book of Yellow Robe to draw Oni Chaos away from the Spark Squad, then killed its weakened sub-body with a fate-charged Nirvana strike. Anvis claimed the resulting crystal and confronted Gray Mist, asking if it was what he wanted.

• Landon refused Dark Raven's advice to escape and used the Book of Yellow Robe to attract Oni Chaos's attention.
• The King of Annihilation's projection appeared and fought Oni Chaos, but Oni Chaos destroyed it and absorbed the Book of Yellow Robe.
• Gray Mist directed the Fate Seal Magic Circle as Oni Chaos attacked the barrier and Landon entered a mysterious state.
• Landon struck Oni Chaos with a gray-white Nirvana blade, piercing its core and causing its body to disintegrate into silver Stardust.
• Anvis took the fissured crystal that fell from Oni Chaos and asked Gray Mist whether it was what he had been after.

Anvis revealed himself as the Man in the Mirror and used Oni Chaos's Crystal Core to expose Gray Mist's plan to escape the world with it. From Moonlight City, Anvis explained that he had created a decoy and intended to learn how Gray Mist would use the core and leave this world.

• Anvis ignored the Royal Guardians, and Gray Mist identified him as the Man in the Mirror after he took Oni Chaos's Crystal Core.
• Anvis posed as Timmy to Landon, while Dark Crow warned Landon that Anvis was a Ninth Rank Diviner and that they could not defeat him.
• Gray Mist saw through Anvis's weak Avatar as the Royal Guardians activated the Seal Magic Array against him.
• Anvis accused Gray Mist of planning to use the Magic Array and Web of Fate to sever the core's link to the Veil of Truth and escape this world with it.
• Anvis's Avatar collapsed into the core, and Gray Mist seized it before an invisible Rule Attack shattered his giant hand and sent the core to the ground.
• In Moonlight City, Anvis told Claire that the core was a decoy and that he wanted to discover how Gray Mist would use it and escape the world.

After Gray Mist stole the Crystal Core, the backlash from the Web of Fate left him unable to manipulate fate, forcing him to seek a way to escape before his enemies found him. Meanwhile, the Gloria Empire descended into turmoil, and Fiona managed Carlas Province as the chapter ended with Mirror Man teasing her about Saint Messiah III.

• Gray Mist escaped with Oni Chaos's Sub-body Crystal Core, but the destroyed ritual and fate backlash severed his connection to the Web of Fate and left him unable to use the core safely.
• The Gloria Empire's leaders vanished, unrest and war spread, and the Royal Guardians focused their efforts on finding Gray Mist and recovering the Crystal Core.
• Finnis Enoch split from the Four Great Families Alliance, formed the Avengers Alliance, and expanded his territory with the strength of his Winter Legion.
• Fiona quelled the fighting in Carlas Province and earned renewed acclaim, though her bloodline bottleneck prevented her from advancing beyond the Eighth Rank Limit.
• Fiona reviewed provincial intelligence in Carlras City, then asked Mirror Man whether he had been idle after he reported Saint Messiah III's church-building campaign.

Anvis revealed that he had recognized Fiona as his sister and told her she would soon be able to return to her own World Line, though she first needed to help him. After an emotional reunion, Anvis took Fiona on a walk through recovering Carlras City, where she reflected on her responsibility to its people.

• Anvis told Fiona that she might soon return to her own World Line and asked her to do something for him first.
• Fiona guessed that Anvis had known her identity, and Anvis explained how he had recognized her as his sister.
• Fiona embraced Anvis, admitted she feared losing him, and accepted his reassurance and praise for her growth.
• Anvis gave Fiona a magic cloak, and they left the City Lord's Mansion to walk through Carlras City unnoticed.
• Fiona credited the city's recovery to everyone's efforts and said she could still help the world despite her limited personal strength.

Anvis asked Fiona to unify the Gloria Empire within a year by claiming the throne herself and reaching the Ninth Rank. Over the following half year, Fiona allied with Lanno, won the civil war, and became the Duke of Calvani, known as the White Princess.

• Fiona explained that Carlras's memorial statue honored fallen warriors and Outsiders, while Anvis noted that her popularity among the Players had soared.
• Anvis told Fiona he needed her help to unify the Gloria Empire before they returned to their timeline, and revealed that she would have to take the throne herself.
• Anvis said Fiona would need to reach the Ninth Rank, and that the Web of Fate could help her break through as the Child of Destiny.
• Fiona allied with Lanno, led his forces against the rival factions, and unveiled the Unifier, a legion of powerful Magic Constructs.
• During the final battle before the Royal Capital, Fiona broke through to the Ninth Rank and drove off an attacking Ninth Rank with her Domain of Winter.
• Fiona and Lanno divided the Empire's territories, with Lanno becoming Imperial Regent and Fiona invested as Duke of Calvani and named the White Princess.

Anvis visited his fugitive counterpart in Savass, where the fallen heir had hidden after the Olyvendi Family was overrun. The counterpart opened a secret box containing a shifting Crystal, and Anvis sensed it as well.

• As the empire's war subsided, Ninth Rank beings hunted Gray Mist after rumors claimed he held a path to escape the world and reach Legendary rank.
• Anvis followed fate to Savass and waited outside a secluded house for his counterpart to arrive.
• Anvis's counterpart, living under a false identity after extracting his bloodline, had lost hope of restoring his family until news of Fiona's rise revived his spirit.
• He revealed an Oil Painting of Moonrise Fortress and his family, then drew an ancient black stone box from within the canvas.
• The counterpart opened the box to reveal a shifting Crystal, which Anvis sensed from the roof.

Anvis witnessed a Wishing Orb ritual that erased this timeline’s Anvis after he wished to restore the Olyvendi Family’s glory. Claire absorbed the orb and revealed a message from High Elf Prophet Hill, who gave Anvis a possible way to destroy the Outer Deities and warned him about the limits of power beyond Uniwal.

• Anvis recognized the aura of yīn, the Wishing Orb, and watched this world’s Anvis wish to restore the Olyvendi Family’s glory.
• The wish unleashed a vast power that rewrote fate and caused this world’s Anvis to vanish with the light.
• Anvis collected the powerless Crystal Ball, and Claire appeared and recognized it as something that had once been part of her.
• Claire absorbed the orb and projected a message from Hill, who explained that he had obtained a method to destroy the dark beings by making a wish at the cost of his life.
• Hill revealed that someone who reunited the orb with its Sub-body could wield power to eliminate the Outer Deities, and that shutting down Uniwal’s Dream at its core nexus would expose them at their weakest.
• Hill warned that only Legendary Rank beings with complete Rule Power could retain some of their strength in the Endless Underworld Sea.

Anvis received a vast surge of power from the Wish Spell and set out with Claire for the Fate Stone Tower, where they could contact Uniwal's Dream's core hub. Gray Mist also reached the tower seeking escape, but Star Gazer Brentz appeared and called him his outstanding student.

• Anvis received enough Wish Spell power to reach the world's limit in every attribute, and he told Claire that the wish was to restore the glory of the Olyvendi Family.
• Anvis and Claire left to visit the Fate Stone Tower on the Eternal Night Ice Field.
• Gray Mist used a special Avatar to divert his pursuers, then secretly made his way to the tower to escape into the Endless Underworld Sea with Uniwal's Dream's core.
• Star Gazer Brentz appeared in the tower doorway, and Gray Mist recognized his former teacher.
• Brentz urged Gray Mist to stop.

Gray Mist tried to use the Oni Chaos Core and Gray Balance to escape Uniwal by opening a passage to the Nether Sea, but Anvis arrived and broke his trump card. Gray Mist fled into the Fate Stone Tower as it activated, revealing the Nether Sea through a rift.

• Gray Mist rejected Star Gazer's demand to stop, arguing that he would seek a safer world beyond the Nether Sea for humanity.
• Gray Mist used the Gray Balance and Oni Chaos Core to isolate Star Gazer from the world, then prepared to deal with Anvis.
• Anvis arrived with Claire and resisted the Gray Balance's Fate Power, causing the balance to split apart.
• Gray Mist seized the Oni Chaos Core and rushed into the Fate Stone Tower as Anvis waited.
• The tower rang with an ancient bell and sent a silver-white beam into the sky, opening a rift that revealed the Nether Sea.

Anvis revealed that his Mirror World had concealed the true events at the Fate Stone Tower while Gray Mist escaped toward the Crack in the sky. As Saint Messiah III arrived to seal the Crack, Anvis’s mirror began to fracture, and the apocalypse remained an imminent threat.

• Anvis told Fiona that they would soon return to the original timeline and showed her the beam of light and Crack above the Fate Stone Tower.
• Anvis explained to Claire and Star Gazer that his World Deduction, which he called the Mirror World, exchanged the real world's fate with a simulated reflection.
• Anvis and Star Gazer watched Holy Knights led by Saint Messiah III arrive and cast a massive Magic Array to seal the Crack.
• Saint Messiah III's power caused a Crack to split across Anvis's illusory mirror, and Anvis recognized the Pope's perfected Saint Transformation.

Lord Gray Mist appeared to break through to Legendary inside the Abyssal Sea rift, only for a Great Existence’s true body to loom behind him. Anvis’s Mirror World collapsed and left Gray Mist back at Fate Stone Tower, while Anvis took Oni Chaos Core and prepared to leave.

• Lord Gray Mist used the silver motes of Oni Chaos Core to complete his breakthrough, and his new Legendary rules swept across the Main Material World.
• A vast Dark Red Eyeball appeared behind Lord Gray Mist, filling the Ninth Rank beings with chaotic whispers and Despair.
• Anvis’s illusory mirror cracked, collapsing the Mirror World and returning Lord Gray Mist and the bishops to Fate Stone Tower.
• Anvis told Lord Gray Mist that his breakthrough had been an illusion, then took Oni Chaos Core from him.
• The Star Gazer and Saint Messiah III demanded that Anvis leave the core behind, but Anvis said goodbye.

Anvis used the Silver Obelisk left by Hill to escape Saint Messiah III and return to his original World Line, while Claire and the Star Gazer also departed the mountaintop. Back in the Great Library in the City of Origin, Anvis found the silver sphere cracked and darkened after a scarlet eye appeared through a rift in the frozen sky.

• Saint Messiah III reached for Anvis, but silver light from Anvis and the Oni Chaos Core enveloped him.
• Anvis vanished, and Claire escaped the Pope’s Seal in seven-colored radiance.
• The Star Gazer calmly flew away, immune to attacks, while Saint Messiah III demanded an explanation from Gray Mist.
• Anvis activated the Silver Obelisk left in his soul by Hill, freezing the world as he began returning to his original World Line.
• A rift opened in the frozen sky, revealing an enormous scarlet eye that looked at Anvis before the return force took effect.
• Anvis awoke in the Great Library in the City of Origin and saw that its silver sphere was cracked and dim gray-black.

After reaching Ninth Rank, Anvis sealed a mysterious Dark Red Eyeball and unlocked the Old Days Prophecy’s final passage, which warned that the end was coming. His return also caused the Fate Stone Tower to ring twelve times, revealing the emergence of a second Ninth Rank Diviner.

• Instan rushed into the library, discovered Anvis had reached Ninth Rank, and struggled to believe what he saw.
• Anvis told Claire that the Wishing Orb was in the Olyvendi Family Treasure Vault and promised to retrieve it for her.
• Claire and Instan spotted a Dark Red Eyeball behind Anvis, and the Old Days Secret Scripture struggled to seal it until Anvis severed it from its root with Rule Power.
• Anvis opened the prophecy’s final pages and saw a blood-written warning: “The End is Coming—”.
• The Fate Stone Tower rang twelve times, alarming the continent’s leaders, and the Star Gazer concluded that a second Ninth Rank Diviner had appeared.