Chapter Summaries

Anlek and the Circle of Unity began a ritual to awaken Milos, while Veronica and Brando’s group confronted them in Spiral Hall. As the battle escalated and Kouhua joined Anlek’s side, Brando and Aloz used the Cloak of Concealment to sneak toward Anlek and the Star-shaped Stone.

• Milondar revealed that the Black Iron People could choose their future under an agreement between the Gods and Crystal, then disappeared.
• Anlek ordered the Circle of Unity to open a portal near the throne, while Kouhua said that Veronica and her companions had arrived.
• Veronica confronted Anlek, and Brando warned her that the Circle of Unity’s formation was not their main target; they needed to reclaim the Star-shaped Stone.
• Veronica and Mephisto attacked the Circle of Unity, broke its magical barrier, and forced Anlek to call Kouhua into the fight.
• Brando identified Kouhua and hid with Aloz beneath the Cloak of Concealment, then persuaded her to help ambush Anlek and seize the Star-shaped Stone.

Brando and Aloz infiltrated Duke Anlek’s position under the Cloak of King Punius, but Aloz seized the Dragon Heart and attacked him while Brando faced the cloaked swordsman. The stranger revealed himself as the Lizardmen Sword Saint Shang and nearly killed Brando before the hall suddenly tilted, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Brando appeased Aloz by promising to lend her the cloak, and she agreed to help attack Anlek.
• Aloz sensed an unfamiliar scent of dragon blood on the cloaked stranger guarding Anlek, so Brando and Aloz split their targets.
• Aloz emerged from hiding, snatched the Star-shaped Stone from Anlek, shattered his staff, and punched him down.
• Shang revealed himself as the Red Ring Lizardmen Sword Saint and thrust his sword at Brando.
• The hall floor tilted violently, causing Shang’s sword to miss Brando by a hair.

Milos explained to Freya that her ordinary status made her the right person to stop his awakening, then revealed the ancient Gods’ dispute over whether mortals should choose their own fate. Meanwhile, Kohua shattered the purple crystal in the Spiral Hall, causing it to collapse and exposing the imprisoned Frostfang Tooth as Brando realized her actions served a purpose.

• Milos told Freya that she had to stop his awakening because only ordinary people could decide their own fate, then began recounting the Azure Knight legend and the Gods’ ancient disagreement.
• Milos described how Alphus and Crystal argued over whether to entrust decisions to mortals, and revealed that the Bronze Generation consisted of the monsters scattered across the earth.
• Kohua explained that the ancient Order included the Golden Kin and Silver Generation, and that the Gods and Mortals had rebuilt the world twice after the Twilight’s destruction.
• Kohua used Mephisto’s strike to reach and shatter the purple crystal, causing the Spiral Hall to rotate and sink while people fell into the abyss.
• Brando lost contact with the others as the hall’s collapse revealed Frostfang Tooth below, and he began to understand what Kohua was trying to do.

Brando struggled to escape as Kohua released a Chaos force that merged into the hall and triggered the mountain’s collapse. Elsewhere, Milos explained to Freya how the gods had tried to preserve civilization by letting mortals build a fragile society, but warned that the Twilight Dragon would return.

• Brando surveyed the wrecked hall, worried about his missing companions as Frostfang Tooth climbed from the abyss and the walls began to crack.
• Kohua released a black, humanoid smoke from her body, and it explained that the gods had not simply abandoned Vonder after the ancient war.
• The black smoke spread through the hall and merged into the dome, while Mephisto rescued Veronica from its deadly reach.
• The mountain began collapsing, the hall’s exits disappeared, and Brando caught a falling woman just before he was left trapped inside.
• Milos told Freya that the gods had tried to preserve civilization by allowing a weak, Chaos-infiltrated society to grow independently of them.
• Milos said the Twilight Dragon would descend again.

Freya received Milos’s charge to kill the Twilight Dragon, then escaped as his glacier sanctuary collapsed. Brando awoke beneath the Hall of Spirals with Kouhua and Anlek, realized Kouhua’s survival had changed history, and faced the danger of his secrets being overheard.

• Milos told Freya that the Age of Mortals required humans to seize control of their fate and that she must kill him when he appeared as a false god.
• The glacier sanctuary collapsed, and Freya thanked Milos before a ring of white light carried her through the falling ice.
• Brando regained consciousness in a cramped underground cavern and discovered that the silver-eyed woman beside him was Kouhua’s kind side.
• Brando realized Kouhua’s survival differed from the game’s history and could change Echisis’s Return and threaten Vonder.
• Kouhua revealed that Anlek was in the cavern and asked whether Brando would blame her for hiding him.

Brando spared Quhua and Grand Duke Anlek, but the Ouroboros Ring forced him and Anlek into a wary stalemate. Trapped beneath the Spiral Hall in the Gods' Eternal Slumber, Brando learned that Quhua's other half controlled the awakened body of Milos and asked his companions to help find a way out.

• Brando lowered his sword instead of killing Quhua, while Anlek identified him as the Dark Dragon.
• Brando noticed the Ouroboros Ring on Anlek's finger and realized killing him could reveal his identity to the Circle of Unity, so the two kept each other's secrets as leverage.
• Quhua deduced that Brando would not kill her before Anlek died, and Brando searched the sealed ice chamber for an exit.
• Quhua told Brando they were in the Gods' Eternal Slumber beneath the Spiral Hall, where Milos could awaken despite having fallen into eternal slumber.
• Quhua explained that Milos's consciousness was absent from his body and that her other half controlled it; Brando asked Quhua and Anlek to help them escape.

Brando, Anlek, and Kouhua dug through the glacier while searching for a way out, until a Frostbite Giant Worm King passed their hiding place. As the Little Prince and others fell through the ice into their tunnel, Brando silenced the Little Prince, but the disturbance made the monster stop nearby.

• Brando and Anlek took turns digging through the ice, while Kouhua used divine power to carve a tunnel far faster than either of them.
• Anlek questioned why Brando remained in Eluin and tried to persuade him to pursue the Circle of Unity’s search for truth.
• Brando heard a strange scraping sound approaching, and Kouhua confirmed that it was coming toward them.
• Brando, Anlek, and Kouhua hid in a concealed side tunnel as the Frostbite Giant Worm King passed them without noticing.
• The ice ceiling cracked and several people, including the Little Prince, fell into the tunnel; Brando pulled the Little Prince close and covered his mouth as the monster stopped nearby.

Brando stayed behind with Anlek to hold off Frostfang Tooth while Kua opened an escape passage for the others. He trapped the monster’s mouth with an Ice Wall Spell and ordered Anlek to keep reinforcing it as they tried to buy time to retreat.

• Brando asked Kua to open a passage, entrusted Haruze to Lainaret, and stayed behind with Anlek to delay Frostfang Tooth.
• Brando’s first strike failed to pierce the worm’s hide, but Piercing Strike wounded it and provoked it into charging.
• Kua opened a passage, and Haruze, Shido, Laurenna, Firas, and Lainaret escaped while Brando remained to draw the monster’s attention.
• Brando thrust his Sword of Earth into Frostfang Tooth’s upper palate and held its jaws apart with Fanaticism Talent as Anlek hesitated to help.
• Brando ordered Anlek to cast an Ice Wall Spell across the worm’s mouth, trapping its Petrifying Breath and telling Anlek to reinforce the barrier until they could retreat.

Brando and Anlek struggled to survive inside Frostfang Tooth as the enraged creature smashed through the underground glacier and plunged into an abyss. Meanwhile, Mountain Maiden searched the ice fissure for survivors, but Little Prince, Medisa, and Miss Aloz remained missing as the rescued Cruzian nobles confronted the deaths of two Cecil Family heirs.

• Brando reassured Anlek that he would spare him for now while waiting for Kouhua and the others to finish digging an escape route.
• Frostfang Tooth suddenly went berserk, knocked Anlek aside, and dragged Brando through the glacier before breaking through a cliff into an abyss.
• Brando activated Flowing Hand during the fall and began climbing off Frostfang Tooth toward the cliff, then sensed something was wrong and turned around.
• Mountain Maiden woke at the bottom of an ice fissure, searched for Brando, and rescued Babain from beneath the ice.
• Mountain Maiden and Babain rescued several survivors and uncovered many Cruzian corpses, including two heirs of the Cecil Family.
• Mountain Maiden walked away from the distressed nobles, and one of them asked who she was.

Brando discovered the hidden realm of the Gods' Eternal Slumber, but an immense power disrupted the Flowing Hand and caused him and Frostfang Tooth to crash into the plaza. There he confronted Kouhua’s dark side, who revealed herself as Surash and announced a god’s resurrection as the glaciers began to awaken.

• The nobles blamed Count Tonigell for their predicament and began considering a conspiracy involving Veronica, Mephisto, and Brando.
• Brando found an illusionary platform beneath the cliff and recognized it as the hidden location of Surash, but chose to leave rather than risk disappointing his companions.
• A vast power shattered the Law Lines and rendered the Flowing Hand ineffective, sending Brando and Frostfang Tooth crashing into the plaza.
• Brando met Kouhua’s dark side, who identified herself as Surash and claimed she would show him a god’s resurrection.
• Saint Osore sensed Mephisto and others approaching as pipes beneath the platform lit up and the glaciers began to tremble.

Father Salian discovered that Milos's constellation had been restored as earthquakes and mana disturbances spread across Vonder. In the depths beneath White Gorge, Kouhua revived as both herself and Milos, declared that the Gods would rebuild the next age, and prepared to act on cities across the world.

• Father Salian saw a supernatural message in the holy water and ordered a monk to warn Bishop Gonzales and the Buga people that Milos's constellation had returned and a God had revived in Vonder.
• A shockwave struck Shallow Water Town, and a young fisherman rescued Lando as the lakeside pier collapsed.
• The Broken Sword Knight Order watched White Gorge collapse and black structures rise from the exposed valley; Nemesis identified them as Milos.
• Kouhua completed her rebirth in the abyss and announced that the Gods would return to rebuild the world's order.
• Kouhua showed Brando projections of cities across Vonder and challenged him to guess what she would do, prompting him to protest.

Kou Hua unleashed divine power against the cities, erasing Toquenin and threatening Wolez, Ambersell, and Kurk. Brando, Veronica, and Mephisto confronted her but could not pierce her Divine Power Barrier, leaving Brando to realize the world’s future had split onto a new path.

• Lemo prepared to evacuate Kurk Castle, but Griffine told him the shaking was not an earthquake and ordered him to activate the city's magical defenses.
• Wolez sounded its alarms and raised a violet magical barrier as its people panicked beneath the sky-spanning Tiamat Law formations.
• The formations converged on Toquenin, where Kou Hua's light obliterated the fortress and its thirty-four thousand inhabitants.
• Brando accused Kou Hua of destroying innocent cities, but she blamed him for awakening her and blasted him away when he attacked.
• Veronica and Mephisto arrived, and Veronica's sword attack also failed to penetrate Kou Hua's Divine Power Barrier.
• Brando concluded that the world quest had split the game's worldline and that he had entered a changed future.

Aloz and Medisa encountered Duke Anlek in the underground passage while Brando discovered that Kouhua’s power depended on the platform’s energy conduits. Qian confronted Babain and his hidden companions after realizing they intended to take her to Cruz, and her anger flared when Babain offered to restore her free status.

• Aloz and Medisa recognized each other and heard someone approaching, then identified the limping figure as Duke Anlek.
• Veronica attacked kind Kouhua, but Haruze’s intervention and Dark Kouhua’s lightning stopped her from striking.
• Brando realized Kouhua drew her power from the platform’s conduits, and Veronica and Mephisto began cutting them apart.
• Kouhua shielded the conduits and launched a Lightning Storm that badly injured Brando before defending the remaining network.
• Babain caught up with Qian to thank her, but Qian exposed his companions hiding in the underground glacier.
• Babain invited Qian to Cruz and offered to restore her free status, provoking a ferocious reaction from her.

Qian fought off the Cruzian nobles who threatened her companions, but Babain struck her with a hidden magical crossbow and left her badly wounded. Meanwhile, Lainaret and Shido planned to support Brando from above, and Sharr and Hypamira arrived with a warning that the Circle of Unity might be nearby.

• Qian ambushed the Cruzian nobleman who had been inciting the others, then broke through the encirclement and killed several soldiers with her spear and lightning powers.
• Qian’s rage intensified as she remembered her devotion to Brando and the hope he had given her, and she charged the remaining nobles in her lightning form.
• Babain fired a magical crossbow bolt into Qian’s back, breaking her semi-elementalized state and leaving her wounded as the Cruzian soldiers closed in.
• Lainaret and Shido decided to help Brando by targeting the tubes supplying magic power to Ke Hua’s older sister, while Haruze was told to watch for the Circle of Unity.
• Sharr and Hypamira emerged from the ice cavern and warned Haruze that they might not be the only ones who had come down there.

Brando and his allies fought Dark Kouhua’s Blazing Winged Divine Envoys as she continued to defend her plan to bring about the Twilight. Brando overwhelmed the constructs, leaving Haruze astonished by his ferocious fighting style as the battle continued.

• Kouhua refused to join the fight and urged Dark Kouhua to abandon her plan, but Dark Kouhua insisted that she would make everyone witness the end of the current order.
• Dark Kouhua summoned thirty-two Blazing Winged Divine Envoys, which scattered to attack Brando, Mephisto, Veronica, Charles, Hypamira, Lainaret, and Shido.
• Mephisto destroyed several constructs with his swordsmanship, while Lainaret and Shido worked together to defeat the envoy attacking them.
• Brando fought the twelve constructs sent after him, destroying most of them with the Sword of Earth, Bahamut’s Blessing, and unarmed attacks.
• Haruze watched Brando continue fighting among the remaining envoys, amazed by his battle instincts and strength.

Brando’s battle instincts astonished Veronica and Mephisto, while Dark Kouhua mistook his combat experience for evidence of an ancient divine identity. Kouhua broke the Divine Power Barrier, ignited her divine power through her connection to Milos, and attacked everyone in the hall.

• Brando defeated the Blazing Winged Divine Envoys around him and rescued Hypamira, impressing Veronica with his battle experience.
• Dark Kouhua accused Brando of hiding his identity and questioned whether he was a divine person, then asked whether he came from eleven, twelve, or seventeen.
• Brando pretended to know what Kouhua meant, and Veronica and Mephisto joined him as Kouhua realized she had been deceived.
• Kouhua shattered the Divine Power Barrier and began Divine Power Sublimation, strengthening her connection to Milos and his Divine Duty.
• Kouhua declared that she would clear away the obstacles to Milos’s plans and sent a fan of blazing-white lightning bolts toward everyone in the hall.

Kouhua’s storm of white lightning overwhelmed Brando’s group, forcing them to rescue the wounded and protect the unconscious hunter siblings. As Brando prepared to strike at Kouhua’s true body, black-robed knights entered the cavern and Qian, captured and interrogated by Cruzian nobles, heard a voice speak her name.

• Kouhua unleashed successive waves of white lightning, and Hypamira shielded Peya and Yalta before being gravely wounded.
• Mephisto drew Kouhua’s attacks toward himself, giving Charles time to shield Brando as he rescued Hypamira with Holy Water No. 13.
• Brando hid Hypamira beneath the platform and prepared to threaten Kouhua’s true body while Haruze lay badly wounded in the cavern.
• Black-robed knights entered the cavern as Shido and the others guarded Haruze.
• Cruzian nobles interrogated the injured Qian, who realized they were targeting Brando and Veronica and tried to alert her lord.
• An unknown voice spoke to Qian, saying, “Qian, I remember that’s your name, right?”

Black Knights captured Laurenna, Firas, Lainaret, and Shido while Dark Kouhua persuaded them to spare Shido. Aloz and Medisa followed Anlek as he prepared a guidance array to open the Gate of Flames, while Brando attacked Kouhua with the Flash Sword and she stopped his strike.

• A Black Knight refused Kouhua’s request to free the prisoners but released Shido, then warned Haruze to stay quiet as his comrades approached the cave entrance.
• Aloz and Medisa followed the wounded Anlek through the glacier and discovered him drawing guidance arrays to summon demons through the Gate of Flames.
• Aloz knocked Anlek down and captured him, but Medisa spotted Black Knights nearby.
• Brando circled behind Kouhua and used the Flash Sword, but Kouhua deflected his attack by manipulating space.
• Brando immediately struck at Kouhua again, and she grew furious at his refusal to give up.

Brando used his Time Element to wound Dark Kouhua and exposed her inability to resist laws, allowing Mephisto to press the attack. Kouhua then invoked Milos’s Domain and trapped Brando in a strange vision of the Storm Plains as the Frost Giant army appeared.

• Brando struck Dark Kouhua with the Sword of Earth through his Time Element, wounding her despite her lightning shield.
• Brando explained that Kouhua’s borrowed power came from Milos and that she could not resist the laws embodied by Elements.
• Mephisto attacked Kouhua with his Gray Domain while Brando revealed that she could still use Milos’s Domain.
• Kouhua expanded a static field that suppressed the others’ powers, and Brando asked Veronica to deal with the pipes before joining Mephisto.
• Kouhua used Word of Truth to immobilize Charles, Veronica, and Mephisto, then recognized Brando as a Godkin and mistook him for Odin.
• Kouhua’s Azure Poem separated Brando from her within the Domain, where he saw the Storm Plains and an advancing Frost Giant army.

Brando confronted Dark Kouhua inside Milos's kingdom and realized she had erased herself to become the awakening God Surash, binding her fate to Milos. He led the Black Wolves against the Frost Giants and forced a path toward Kouhua, surviving a dragon's attack through Illusion Magic as he reappeared behind it.

• Brando realized Kouhua had erased her own rules and become part of Milos's kingdom as the awakening God Surash.
• Brando summoned the Black Wolves with the Heart of Echisis and led them in a charge against Kouhua's Frost Giant army.
• Brando rode an Alpha Wolf through the giants, using the Sword of Earth to break open their ranks as the wolves were killed around him.
• The Alpha Wolf leaped into the air and carried Brando toward Kouhua; Brando carved a rocky passage through the Frost Giants and ran toward the cliff.
• Kouhua summoned two dragons to stop Brando, but he dodged the first and used Tree's Tenacity and Illusion Magic to survive the red dragon's flames and reappear behind it.