Chapter Summaries

Lanchi and Sigrid spent their last hours together in Purgatory Corridor Academy teasing each other and discussing Sigrid’s plans to reunite with Hughberlian. The chapter ended with them walking hand in hand through the dark academy, laughing as they recalled their time together in Helrom City.

• Sigrid said she wanted to thank Talia for taking care of Lanchi, while Lanchi privately worried about what would happen when they met again without their disguises.
• Sigrid planned to visit Hughberlian and her family after reaching Iketerite, and warned Lanchi not to interfere in their sisterly relationship.
• Sigrid joked about pinning Hughberlian down, and Lanchi pleaded with her not to fight Hughberlian or get arrested.
• Sigrid hugged Lanchi before leaving and said she did not want to part from him; Lanchi promised to visit her in the Northern Continent within two years.
• Lanchi took Sigrid’s hand to guide her through the dark corridors so she would not get lost, and they reminisced about Helrom City while walking together.

Lanchi met Melo Gas at the Demon King's Palace and asked her to join him in destroying the Honing Empire after the Tiberius Mirror revealed a blood-clan plot. Melo Gas agreed to help as his friend, forming an alliance against the looming threat.

• Melo Gas learned that Lanchi had arrived in Nekaris and asked to meet her, then prepared to receive him at the palace.
• Lanchi arrived at the Demon King's Palace, and Melo Gas escorted him to the Reception Room while Talia watched from within him.
• Lanchi asked Melo Gas to help destroy the Honing Empire and explained that the Tiberius Mirror had revealed the blood clans' plan to unleash a devastating northward campaign.
• Lanchi proposed that the Great Demon Race members disguise themselves as his familiars, promising the Demon Realm a century to recover and giving it the Land of Eternal Night.
• Melo Gas accepted Lanchi's request, saying she agreed as his friend rather than as Regent of the Demon Realm.

Sigrid was crowned Pope of the Holy Plant Religious Nation and planned to reunite with Lanchi, while Lanchi and the Great Demon Race attacked Blood Moon City. Separated across the city, his allies fought the Blood Race Progenitors as Lanchi faced Third Progenitor Lasha'er and unleashed the sun’s power, leaving the battles on the other fronts turning in his favor.

• Sigrid was crowned Pope in Jerusalem, pledged to lead the Holy Plant Religious Nation, and privately thought about reuniting with Lanchi.
• Lanchi and the Great Demon Race arrived in Saint Tric with less than an hour remaining in the Shadow World, then were scattered into different parts of Blood Moon City by its spatial barriers.
• Third Progenitor La Sha Er confronted Lanchi in Blood Royal Palace, and Lanchi provoked him by asking why the True King had abandoned him.
• Mercury Lord Mishio and Bone Lord Damon Gate fought Eighth Progenitor Somerset, Melo Gas fought Seventh Progenitor Heliti'er, and Myriad Might Lord Ogilvy fought Ninth Progenitor Bernhard in their assigned halls.
• Lanchi summoned Truth Lord Planai, Law Breaker Sinora, Guardian Qing Antanas, and Ice and Snow Lord Almirs to defend him against Lasha'er.
• Lanchi released a dazzling sun-like radiance in Blood Royal Palace, and Somerset, Mishio, and Damon Gate realized the decisive battle was unfolding there.

Lanchi and the four Great Demon Race members defeated Third Progenitor Raschal, transformed him with a demonification reagent, and sealed him with the Nuclear Fusion Wolf. As the Blood Moon Ruined World reached its settlement phase, the surviving challengers were separated as the Shadow World disappeared.

• Planai, Sinora, Antanas, and Almirs overwhelmed Raschal, protecting Lanchi and preventing him from destroying Radiant Virtue.
• Lanchi released Talia in her Poet of Great Love guise, and her Demonic Voice disrupted Raschal long enough for the four demons to split him in half.
• Lanchi injected Raschal with the Midnight Lord's demonification reagent, rendered his contract powerless, and sealed him inside the Nuclear Fusion Wolf.
• Talia carried the Nuclear Fusion Wolf toward the surface with Little Black Cat, while tremors shook Blood Moon City and the other battles across the city ended.
• Lanchi thanked Almirs and spoke with the Great Demon Race members before the Shadow World countdown reached zero and sent the challengers back to their separate settlement areas.

Lanchi, Talia, and Cat Boss returned from the Blood Moon Ruined World and received their settlement, including major rank increases and rare Magic Cards. Lanchi’s final reward was a Red Legend sealing spell tied to Lan Keluos’s legacy.

• Lanchi and Talia waited in the Liminal Space for the settlement after spending twenty-one days in the Shadow World, while Talia proposed becoming Lanchi’s fiancée in Bulida.
• The settlement credited the team with defeating four Blood Moon progenitors and listed their accomplishments, then gave the group an overall SSS evaluation and raised Cat Boss to Tier 9 and Lanchi to Tier 6 Limit.
• Cat Boss received the Tier 9 Pink Divine Spell Card Night Dew Wind Whisper, while Talia received the Orange Epic Fallen Heavenly Kingdom Veil and the Purple Rare Transformation Art: Cat.
• Lanchi received the Red Legend Spell Card Black Sun Tyrant Eternal Punishment Edict, a Rank 7 sealing spell that continuously consumed Mana to lock a target’s life state.

Lanqi and Talia left the Shadow World after gaining a new spell and finding Kali Yella’s letter, agreeing to save its memory recording for later. They returned to the present to cure Ifatia and prepare for Lanqi’s plans at Saint Krui Di Monastery.

• Lanqi bound the Black Sun Tyrant Eternal Punishment Edict, a Red Legend Sealing Art that could repeatedly prevent healing and lock HP.
• Lanqi and Talia reflected on Black Sun Tyrant and Kali Yella, then Talia cheered him up by joking and chasing him around the Liminal Space.
• Lanqi discovered Kali Yella’s letter might contain a memory recording, but he and Talia decided to wait until they returned to the Real World before activating it.
• Lanqi and Talia agreed to watch the recording together later and set out to cure Ifatia by obtaining Violet’s Blood of the Wolf Witch.
• Lanqi, Talia, and Cat Boss left the Liminal Space, ready to begin the second half of their time in the Krui Di Empire.

Loren survived fifty-five days in the Illusionary Territory, growing powerful as he fought off repeated void-beast tides. Meanwhile, Hughberlian and her companions received their Shadow World rewards, including an Epic spell card tied to Melo Gas, and returned to Bulida to meet their Allied Spy contact.

• Loren fought off the 1,562nd beast tide and declared that he could now challenge Geya Te, though he still avoided the strongest void beings.
• Sinora, Antanas, and Planai received Pink Divine rewards, including Ogilvy’s gauntlets and a summoning card that could create a powerful clone.
• The Ice Witch received the Mercury Hazy Body spell card and used it, while Hughberlian declined the offer to take it.
• Hughberlian received Melo Gas’s Profane Royalty, a Tier 7 Orange Epic spell card, as a cumulative reward for completing the Blood Moon Ruined World quests with Lanchi.
• Planai warned Hughberlian that the turmoil in the Krui Di Empire seemed more serious than expected, and the group prepared to report to their Allied Spy contact.
• Hughberlian led the group through the Void Gate to find Miss Unity in Bulida.

Hughberlian and her companions met with Allied agent Unity in Bulida, where Unity proposed that Hughberlian pose as Professor Landry’s fiancée to monitor him and strengthen the Allies’ influence. Hughberlian refused the risky infiltration, but agreed to help assassinate Landry if he became a threat, leaving the group waiting for Unity’s next instructions.

• Hughberlian and her companions used a gallery’s secret entrance to meet Unity, the Allied intelligence contact in Bulida.
• Unity explained that Landry might soon lead the Krui Di Empire’s New Magic Energy Agency and proposed that Hughberlian pose as his fiancée to monitor him.
• Hughberlian realized Unity suspected Landry of cooperating with the Allies while pursuing his own plans amid the Empire’s factional conflicts.
• The Ice Witch objected to sending Hughberlian into Landry’s home, and Hughberlian declined the infiltration mission.
• Unity said she would contact Hughberlian if circumstances changed, including if the Allies decided Landry needed to be killed.

Sigrid arrived at South Wantina Port and met Dimensional Bishop Toliado, who offered to send her directly to Bulida in exchange for delivering something to Professor Landry. She accepted and stepped through the spatial gate, arriving at a hall in Saint Krui Di Monastery.

• Sigrid retrieved her suitcase, navigated South Wantina Port by following the crowds, and found the Dimensional Branch employee waiting for her.
• The employee drove Sigrid away from the port and revealed himself as Dimensional Bishop Toliado.
• Toliado offered to send Sigrid directly to Bulida if she posed as a Dimensional Branch Grand Priest and delivered something to Professor Landry at Saint Krui Di Monastery.
• Toliado gave Sigrid his Bishop's Certificate as collateral and promised to share his information about the person she was seeking after the delivery.
• Sigrid agreed to the deal, entered Toliado's spatial gate, and arrived in a hall filled with theatrical documents.

Lanchi and Talia planned how to prepare for the coming assault on Blood Moon City while handling Imperial Special Operations Division politics and their allies’ uncertain support. When Sigrid arrived as Toliado’s proposed fiancée for Lanchi, Talia mistook her for a salesperson, then welcomed her after realizing how much she resembled her lost daughter.

• Lanchi and Talia discussed the dangers of confronting the Real World’s Blood Moon City and the need for help from Princess Alexia and an Imperial Army insider.
• Lanchi reviewed Colonel Maquire’s invitation and considered the rivalry between Maquire and Nikola for leadership of the Imperial Special Operations Division.
• Unity delivered Lanchi’s ingredients in disguise and told him the Allied Forces’ spy would not serve as his fiancée, while Talia agreed to help contact Toliado.
• Sigrid arrived at Lanchi’s home as a Dimensional Express courier, and Talia initially told her to leave before inviting her inside after recognizing her resemblance to Sigrid from the Shadow World.

Sigrid visited Talia’s home and mistook her for her lost mother, while Talia welcomed her warmly and shared details about her relationship with Lanchi. When Lanchi came downstairs, Sigrid recognized him and learned that he and Talia were pretending to be engaged, leaving the three of them to confront the misunderstandings over lunch.

• Talia invited Sigrid to stay for lunch, and Cat Boss secretly took charge of cooking in the locked kitchen.
• Sigrid and Talia bonded over their resemblance to Sigrid’s lost mother, and Talia described her closeness with Lanchi.
• Lanchi came downstairs, and Sigrid recognized him as the Holy Son and confronted him about being Talia’s husband.
• Talia and Sigrid pressed Lanchi about their relationship, while Cat Boss accidentally knocked kitchenware to the floor.
• Lanchi explained that he and Talia were pretending to be engaged, and Sigrid proposed that they discuss everything over lunch.
• Talia and Sigrid sat on opposite sides of Lanchi, who hesitantly took the seat between them.

Lanchi explained how Toliado’s mistaken introduction brought Sigrid to his home as a second fake fiancée, and he endured a tense lunch as Sigrid and Talia competed for his attention. After Lanchi lost consciousness during their quarrel, the two women made peace and agreed to live together as his fake fiancées.

• Lanchi explained that Toliado had arranged for Sigrid to meet him as a potential fake fiancée, but the Imperial Special Operations Division arrested Toliado before he could clarify the plan.
• Talia and Sigrid argued over who was Lanchi’s preferred fiancée, then competed to feed him during lunch while Cat Boss tried to stay out of their dispute.
• When both women offered Lanchi food at once, he pretended to be ill, but Sigrid and Talia checked him and held his hands as they continued pressing him to choose.
• Talia embraced Lanchi and challenged Sigrid, and their argument escalated until Lanchi screamed and slipped into unconsciousness after his Mental Rift acted up.
• After Lanchi mistook Talia and Sigrid for Kali Yella and Sigrid, the two women softened and agreed to live peacefully together as his fake fiancées.
• Talia and Sigrid clasped hands and signed the Xi Ta Non-Aggression Pact, then sat down to eat together while Cat Boss watched with relief.

At lunch, Talia and Sigrid agreed to share a room and settled on calling each other Little Sister Tata and Big Sister Sid. After waking, Lanchi asked Sigrid for wolf blood to cure Talia’s sister Ifatia, and Sigrid readily agreed, prompting the two women to embrace as sisters.

• Talia and Sigrid discussed where to live and agreed to share a room so neither would sneak into Lanchi’s room.
• Talia and Sigrid discovered their stated ages made Sigrid the elder and agreed to call each other Big Sister Sid and Little Sister Tata outside.
• Lanchi woke from his nap and asked Sigrid to give him blood to cure a friend poisoned by the Blood King Divine Fire.
• Sigrid agreed to help, and Lanchi revealed that the friend was Talia’s sister, Ifatia.
• Sigrid called Ifatia her sister too, and she and Talia embraced while Lanchi reacted in confusion.

Lanchi set out with Talia and Sigrid to rescue Toliado from the Imperial Special Operations Division so they could find Ifatia. Red Falcon Nikola intercepted them at the monastery, and the chapter ended with Talia and Sigrid clinging to Lanchi in front of a growing crowd of students.

• Lanchi decided to retrieve Toliado so Toliado could open a portal to Ifatia, and Talia and Sigrid insisted on accompanying him together.
• Lanchi, Talia, Sigrid, and Cat Boss crossed Saint Krui Di Monastery while students whispered about Professor Landry and the two women beside him.
• Red Falcon Nikola stopped Lanchi and revealed that the Action Team had captured a suspect near his residence and sent him to the Imperial Special Operations Division.
• Nikola questioned whether Talia and Sigrid were really Lanchi's fiancées, and Lanchi admitted that both women were.
• Sigrid and Talia each pulled Lanchi close to demonstrate their closeness, drawing cheers and astonished reactions from the watching students.

Lanchi traveled with Talia and Sigrid to the Imperial Special Operations Division, where he secured Toliado’s release after Captain Maquire arrested him. The group headed to the Bulida Opera House so Toliado could help rescue Ifatia, while Sigrid eagerly anticipated meeting her.

• Students cheered as Lanchi left Saint Krui Di Monastery with Talia and Sigrid, and Red Falcon Nikola drove them to the Imperial Special Operations Division.
• Lanchi told Nikola he wanted to see the suspect, and Nikola led him and his wives to the underground interrogation room where Captain Maquire held Toliado.
• Lanchi explained that Toliado was his friend, so Maquire ordered his release; Maquire also invited Lanchi to contact him if Nikola caused trouble.
• Lanchi and Toliado left the headquarters with Talia and Sigrid and traveled to the Bulida Opera House, where Toliado used its doors to move them inside.
• Toliado explained that he had been too injured to defeat Morodian at the northern border, while Talia demanded to hear the story and Sigrid looked forward to meeting Ifatia.

Lanchi and his allies gathered at Abigail’s residence to plan their assault on Blood Moon City during the Empire’s National Day, while Toliado brought Ifatia to Bulida. Sigrid’s blood cured Ifatia’s Blood King Divine Fire, and Ifatia eagerly joined her sister and the others, though Lanchi worried about their household arrangements.

• Lanchi, Sigrid, Talia, Toliado, and Abigail discussed the Empire’s political factions and planned to attack Blood Moon City during the National Day ceremony, when the War Gods would be occupied.
• Toliado compared the strength of the War Gods with Lanchi and Sigrid, and the group agreed to recruit allies and prepare for the assault.
• Toliado opened a portal and brought Ifatia to Abigail’s residence, where she felt an intense reaction to Sigrid’s power and blood.
• Sigrid gave Ifatia half a cup of her blood, which healed the Blood King Divine Fire and strengthened Ifatia.
• Ifatia asked to stay with Lanchi and Talia, and Sigrid welcomed her; Ifatia then revealed that she had another older sister in Iketerite.

Maquire reported the Blood Race’s progress to Seventh Progenitor Marquis Heliti'er and the allied bishops, who planned for a possible attack on Blood Moon City during the Krui Di National Day Festival. The Blood Race prepared its defenses around the newly rescued Tenth Progenitor Ulysses while keeping Duke Mi Gaiya imprisoned.

• Maquire met Colonel McClay and the Cardinal Bishops in Blood Moon City before Seventh Progenitor Marquis Heliti'er arrived and asked for his intelligence report.
• Maquire reported that Violet had returned to Bulida, the Silver Moon Restoration Society was being blamed for the Blood Race’s killings, and more War Gods would return for the Moon God Festival and National Day Festival.
• Marquis Heliti'er explained that the Blood Race wanted to kill Mi Gaiya’s daughter and planned for her possible attempt to rescue her husband during the National Day Festival.
• Marquis Heliti'er introduced the newly unsealed Tenth Progenitor Ulysses and asked him to fight alongside the Blood Race.
• The Blood Race discussed assembling powerful defenders for Blood Moon City, while Duke Mi Gaiya remained sealed inside a black crystal beneath the city.

Lanchi returned to his villa in Krui Di with Talia, Sigrid, and Ifatia, then had Talia engrave the Bishop’s Certificate into him to reach Tier 7. After awakening the Black Sun Tyrant Eternal Punishment Edict, he discovered it made him nearly impervious to harm and planned to use it to tell La Sha Er he had won the resurrection match.

• Lanchi brought Talia, Sigrid, and Ifatia to his villa, where Ifatia settled into a first-floor guest room and Cat Boss agreed to make dinner.
• Lanchi showed Talia the Bishop’s Certificate of Crazy Love that Lao Sang had given him, and she helped prepare to engrave his class.
• Talia engraved the Bishop’s Certificate into Lanchi, expanding his mana circuits and raising him to Tier 7.
• Lanchi soul-bound and activated the Black Sun Tyrant Eternal Punishment Edict, which locked his health status and protected him from Talia’s blows at the cost of mana.
• Lanchi told Talia he planned to use Transformation Art to disguise himself and go to Blood Moon City to tell La Sha Er that he had won the resurrection match.

Lanchi used a dinner with Maquire to steer him toward suspecting Director Dikes of being an Allied spy, while Talia helped verify Maquire’s answers. Maquire left determined to investigate, and Lanchi stayed behind to celebrate, confident the suspicion would draw attention away from him.

• Lanchi and Talia met Maquire at Eleven Madison Park, where Maquire discussed the Empire’s shifting politics and his hopes of becoming director of the Imperial Special Operations Division.
• Lanchi pretended to share Maquire’s ambition and suggested they could benefit from the Empire’s upheaval, building Maquire’s trust while Talia focused on the meal.
• Lanchi raised Conner and Atticus as possible suspects, then asked Maquire whether he had ties to the Allies or the Silver Moon Restoration Society; Talia signaled that Maquire’s denials were true.
• Lanchi hinted that someone beyond the named directors could access the original documents, prompting Maquire to suspect Director Dikes and leave to investigate.
• Talia recognized Lanchi’s scheme to make Maquire pursue Dikes, while Lanchi ordered more food and dismissed the danger of an assassination attempt.

Lanchi spent a peaceful morning at home as the Imperial Special Operations Division closed in on Maquire, whom Lanchi and Toliado had framed with stolen research documents. With the Moon God Festival two days away and the decisive battle against the vampires approaching, Lanchi looked ahead to the end of his imperial journey.

• Cat Boss summarized how Lanchi had helped expose Maquire's disloyalty and noted that the Imperial Special Operations Division was changing rapidly.
• Lanchi and Talia explained that Toliado had stolen Maquire's credentials and planted a copy of Lanchi's research results in Maquire's home, prompting the Countermeasures Department to prepare a move against him.
• Ifatia enjoyed Talia's cooking while Cat Boss fetched her snacks, and Cat Boss teased Lanchi about acting like Ifatia's big brother.
• Sigrid joined the household for breakfast and playfully clung to Talia, while Cat Boss remarked that the home felt increasingly like a zoo.
• Lanchi noted that the Moon God Festival was on November fourteenth and that the decisive battle against the vampires at the end of the month was nearing.