Chapter Summaries

Linsey’s use of the Eternal Night Iris caused the War Graveyard to manifest in the Real World as Lone Mountain, while the City of Law contained Polar Night around it. Muli Danny returned as a living girl and told Linsey she was Muli Danny, but not entirely.

• Merchants, artists, Awakened, and Ailini reacted to Lone Mountain appearing outside the City of Law, while Yao Xing and Ala Song suspected Linsey was involved.
• Alvitte asked Linsey about the mountain, and Linsey confirmed it was connected to him but said he would explain later.
• Linsey recalled using the Eternal Night Iris to help Muli Danny alter the World Law, after which the War Graveyard emerged into reality.
• The City of Law’s protections pushed the Eternal Night Iris’s Polar Night back and confined its effects around Lone Mountain.
• Linsey caught the reassembled girl as she collapsed, identified her as a living person, and asked if she was Muli Danny.
• The girl confirmed she was Muli Danny, but not entirely.

Linsey learned that the girl revived through the Righteous Walkers’ laws was a new being formed by the overlap of Muli Danny’s soul and a deity. She named herself Nia, and Linsey asked her about the God Slayer, leaving her answer unknown.

• Nia explained that Muli Danny had been willing to sacrifice her existence to change the War Graveyard’s laws, and that the laws unexpectedly revived her while overlapping her with a deity.
• Nia said the War Graveyard could protect the City of Law, make buried bodies and objects useful again, and help Awakened strengthen their source material.
• Nia helped Linsey resonate with the warrior spirits, advancing his Basic Swordsmanship into Weapon Master (Instinct).
• Nia revealed that she had lost to Adrian, now possessed only a seed of her former Law power, and was at the Sixth Stage, though she could threaten an ordinary Seventh Stage Awakened.
• Nia chose a new name for her new life, and Linsey asked whether she knew the secret of the God Slayer buried in the City of Law after the Abyss War.

The Righteous Walker and Xiao Bei kept Lone Mountain under guard while the City of Law struggled to manage its crisis. When Liz and Nia descended the mountain, the Awakened recognized Nia as a deity, and the Law Knights drew their swords as she insisted she was human.

• The Righteous Walker told Xiao Bei that the City of Law could not risk making contact with the mountain while the city remained under pressure.
• The Righteous Walker ordered the Law Knights to prepare for battle after powerful energy emerged from Lone Mountain.
• Liz and Nia appeared on the mountainside, drawing the attention of the Law Knights and other gathered Awakened.
• An artist identified Nia as a living god, prompting the Law Knights to draw their swords.
• Nia offered goodwill, denied being a god, and challenged the artist's belief that humans could not become gods.

Nia revealed that she possessed a divine spark and explained that Lone Mountain was a contingency prepared by the City of Law’s seventh ruler to protect the world. She declared that she intended to tell the City of Law what was happening and help those who wished to survive leave, then continued toward the city to meet Alvitte.

• Nia admitted that she had a divine spark, and Ala Song urged everyone to focus on the mystery of Lone Mountain instead of whether she was human or god.
• Nia asked the Righteous Walker whether Linsey had told the Princess about the mountain, then revealed that it was a contingency prepared by the City of Law’s seventh ruler.
• Nia said Awakened allied with the City of Law could enter Lone Mountain and receive its power, but ordinary people could not.
• Nia announced that she planned to tell the City of Law about the world’s troubles and lead those who wanted to live away from the city or world.
• The Righteous Walker drew his sword and challenged Nia, but she demanded that the city’s ruler judge her actions and continued toward the City of Law.
• Nia asked Liz to take her to meet Alvitte, a friend of Linsey’s who was in the city.

Linsey pursued the Melancholy One and Sloth along the Quiet River and discovered they had reached a nearby Small World to evade him. He stopped at the gorge, realizing he would have to find a way into the world to finish the hunt.

• Linsey followed the Abyss School Awakened west along the Quiet River, using his Scouting Skill to track their footprints.
• At a gorge where the river plunged downward, Linsey found vivid tracks but could not locate the pair with his Map Skill.
• Linsey used his Scouting Skill to reconstruct the Melancholy One and Sloth discussing his pursuit and a nearby Small World.
• The Melancholy One carried Sloth, who said Linsey would catch them within a day and suggested hiding in the Small World.
• Linsey inferred that the pair had entered or planned to enter the Small World and looked for a way to follow them.

Linsey followed the Sky Compass to a hidden cave and opened a Small World by speaking a king’s name, discovering it contained the abandoned original City of Law. He found the Melancholy One and Sloth trapped amid spatial disorder in the village ruins.

• Linsey used the Sky Compass to locate a concealed cave beneath River Valley’s waterfall and found clues describing how to enter the secret realm.
• Linsey spoke a king’s name and entered a Small World that contained the abandoned original City of Law.
• Linsey discovered that the Righteous Walker’s restrictions prevented him from examining clues inside the Small World.
• Linsey found that the scenery alternated between a peaceful village and a ruined wasteland every fifteen meters as he crossed the area.
• Linsey located the Melancholy One and Sloth in the ruined village, where they appeared to be facing a dangerous environment.

Melancholy One and Sloth entered the Primal City of Law to escape Linsey, but the ruined world attacked them with deadly force. After struggling through its hidden machines, they reached a village just before Linsey arrived, seemingly unharmed by the dangers.

• Melancholy One crossed into the ruined city and was struck by a violet-red beam that hurled him back into the peaceful world.
• Sloth tested the boundary, recognized the city’s danger, and proposed hiding deeper inside by exploiting its chaotic time and space.
• Melancholy One and Sloth advanced through the ruins, dodging hidden self-regulating machines powered by source essence and physical energy.
• Melancholy One and Sloth reached the center of a village after enduring repeated threats to their lives.
• Linsey strolled into the village unharmed, while Melancholy One and Sloth watched him approach.

Linsey discovered that the Mechanical Species had turned the buried City of Law into a Small World, where their machines attacked Sloth and Melancholy. As the two Abyss School Awakened tried to revive a being underground, a battered Mechanical Maid emerged and Linsey recognized her as Rota.

• Linsey identified a red laser attack as the work of the Mechanical Species, whom he had created.
• Sloth sensed a dormant presence underground, and he and Melancholy poured source essence into it to revive it.
• Linsey fired an arrow carrying a Radioactive Origin Stone to stop them, but a mechanical hand caught and swallowed it.
• A battered Mechanical Maid emerged from underground, leaving Sloth and Melancholy bewildered that a machine had responded to their revival.
• Linsey lowered his bow and asked whether the Mechanical Maid was Rota.

Linsey recognized the revived Mechanical Servant as Rota and wondered why the City of Law had created a Small World after its conflict with the Mechanical Species. Rota killed Melancholy and Sloth, and a new mission ordered Linsey to deal with her.

• Linsey confirmed the Mechanical Servant was Rota and noted that the Beam Weapons stopped firing after she appeared.
• Rota attacked Melancholy and Sloth with her High-Speed Calculation and Photon Spirit Blade skills, grievously wounding them.
• Rota struck again as she continued to revive, killing both Seventh Stage Awakened.
• Linsey checked Rota's hero status and realized her ally-enhancing aura was not affecting him.
• A mission appeared ordering Linsey to repair Rota's body or kill her, with an Intelligent Calculation Core or Advanced Energy Furnace as the reward.

Linsey fought Rota after she killed Sloth and the Melancholy One, surviving her devastating Photon Spirit Blade and damaging her with his Ghost Sword. Rota began rapidly repairing herself, and Linsey realized her battle depended on an energy supply, though the fight remained unresolved.

• Linsey faced Rota after the Mechanical Maid killed Sloth and the Melancholy One, and the Sky Compass warned him of danger.
• Rota attacked at extreme speed, but Linsey blocked her Photon Spirit Blade, causing an explosion that injured him and melted her right arm.
• Linsey healed his burned arm with Sixth Stage Life Source Material as Rota formed another Photon Spirit Blade and charged again.
• Linsey made his Ghost Sword intangible to pass through Rota's blade, then slashed her, leaving most of her upper body severed.
• Rota's damaged body began repairing itself, and Linsey deduced that her recovery relied on an energy supply.

Linsey discovered the underground Vacuum Zero-Point Energy Reactor Chamber that had been supplying Rota and removed its functioning reactor core. Rota reached the chamber but lost power and became unable to move, leaving Linsey with the valuable Wonder and the damaged Mechanical Maid.

• Linsey used his Map Skill to find a concealed space 170 meters underground and descended toward it while Rota repaired herself.
• Linsey broke through the alloy ceiling and found an abandoned chamber containing a Vacuum Zero-Point Energy Reactor, but its repair required materials he could not obtain.
• Rota sensed the chamber had been invaded and tore through the earth toward Linsey.
• Linsey used his commander authority to open the reactor and took out the functioning Zero-Point Energy core.
• Rota lost her energy supply when Linsey removed the core and could no longer move.

Linsey used the Walkthrough Master to find a way to save Rota, removing the Corruption Power and restoring her with a Zero-Point Energy Reactor. Rota awakened with her mind restored and began repairing her body as Linsey urged her to rest.

• Linsey examined Rota and realized that removing the Corruption Power without providing new energy would leave her dead.
• Linsey used the Walkthrough Master and learned that a pure source of energy could restart Rota as the Corruption Power was expelled.
• Linsey converted a potion into a game item and used it to drive the Corruption Power from Rota’s body.
• As Rota’s condition deteriorated, Linsey inserted the Zero-Point Energy Reactor into her body.
• Rota’s blue eyes lit up, her body began repairing itself, and she recognized Linsey as her Commander.
• Linsey saw that Rota was now a friendly level 10 Hero Unit and told her to rest while she repaired herself.

Linsey and Rota destroyed the Revivalists Melancholy One and Sloth for good, then collected their drops, including a Staff of Corruption that could summon obedient Revivalists. As Rota recovered weapons from underground, a contingency triggered by the deaths of the Awakened began merging the worlds around them.

• Linsey asked the recovering Rota to help him destroy Melancholy One and Sloth permanently, and their bodies yielded two Curiosities and a Source Material Crystal.
• Rota gave Linsey a Source Material Crystal and the Staff of Corruption, which could awaken corpses as obedient Revivalists.
• Rota collected usable Rapid-Fire Turrets from underground and absorbed them into her body as Liquid Metal.
• A hostile aura triggered a collapse of the Small World's distorted boundaries, merging its green and red realms as the power spread into the void.
• Linsey identified the phenomenon as a contingency that activated when all Awakened of the Absolute Darkness paths died.

Linsey and Rota discovered that the City of Law’s kingly will was merging the sealed Small World with the outside world, and Rota explained how the Mechanical Species had clashed with the city’s rulers. She revealed that she survived the failed or uncertain ascension because she had rejected its power, and said she had always remembered Linsey’s words.

• Linsey and Rota watched the immense power recede as a King of the City of Law’s will confronted it and began merging the Small World with the outside city.
• Rota explained that the king who first sheltered the Mechanical Species had left the universe, after which a new king paid them less attention.
• Rota said the Mechanical Species had used the Assimilation Protocol to save dying or injured humans, provoking an irreconcilable conflict over Regulated Development and Preserving Humanity’s Infinite Possibilities.
• After they were defeated, the Mechanical Species activated the Ascension Engine, and the King of the City of Law sealed the Small World when its laws and energy became chaotic.
• Linsey asked whether any other mechanical individuals survived, and Rota said she was an exception because she had refused the ascension power and had always remembered his words.

Linsey and Rota traveled through the darkness toward the ancient wizard's tomb as eternal night spread across the City of Law World and drove civilians north. After they camped on the Yan Mountains, a lunar eclipse began to darken the moon.

• Linsey and Rota crossed the Roads of Righteousness and reached the summit of the Yan Mountains after a week of travel.
• Rota reported that eternal night was driving more people to migrate, and Linsey explained that a clash of powerful laws had spread the Eternal Night Iris's effect across the world.
• Linsey and Rota observed Awakened providing light and protection to refugees across the darkened land.
• Linsey asked whether Rota wanted the Intelligent Calculation Core, but she said she valued her emotions and soul more than its potential boost to her calculations.
• Rota pledged to support Linsey's resource-gathering plan, and Linsey noticed the moon's light being swallowed by a lunar eclipse.

Linsey and Rota camped beneath the lingering eclipse, and Linsey discovered that the Eternal Night Phenomenon had continued beyond the Eternal Night Iris’s expected seven-day duration. He warned Alvitte, who reported that Nia was recruiting followers across the City of Law and had become dangerous.

• Linsey encouraged Rota to try roast meat, and she found the food delicious and recorded its effects.
• Rota refused Linsey’s offer of the Intelligent Calculation Core, explaining that keeping their promise was what she truly wished to do.
• Rota’s Floating Cannons stood watch overnight, and she reported that no magical beasts approached the camp.
• Linsey realized the eclipse had lasted beyond the Eternal Night Iris’s expected duration and contacted Alvitte in the City of Law.
• Alvitte confirmed that the Eternal Night Phenomenon persisted and that Nia was recruiting followers throughout the city, warning Linsey that she was dangerous.

Linsey continued south toward the Wizard's Tomb despite the lunar eclipse, while Alvitte investigated the Eternal Night Iris's mutation in the War Graveyard. Alvitte found pale blue runes fused with the mountainside where the flower had been planted and reported the discovery to Linsey.

• Linsey left Yan Mountain Peak with Rota and said they would keep searching for the Wizard's Tomb, suspecting the darkness was meant to delay their plans.
• Rota described her reactor-powered endurance, Liquid Metal defenses, Photon Spirit Blade, and Floating Cannons to Linsey as they flew south.
• Alvitte hurried out of the Royal City, leaving the South City matters to Xiao Bei, and headed alone for the War Graveyard to investigate Nia and the Eternal Night Iris.
• The Law Knights let Alvitte pass through the War Graveyard lockdown, and she climbed Lone Mountain to the flower's planting site.
• Alvitte found pale blue runes fused into the mountainside where the Eternal Night Iris had been planted and messaged Linsey that she did not understand what she was seeing.

A young man and his teacher searched underground for Anindaluhut while worrying about the crisis and wondering whether Linsey had reached the City of Law. Meanwhile, Linsey and Rota learned what caused the Eternal Night Phenomenon and continued south with a plan to fix it.

• The young man asked his teacher why they could not sense Anindaluhut, and the teacher explained that the Old King's will blocked their search and the enemy's approach.
• The young man worried that they might fail and asked about Linsey, but the teacher judged that Linsey probably had not reached the City of Law.
• Linsey told Rota that the Eternal Night Iris had merged into the Subsidiary World's rules after the clash between the Awakened of the Abyss School and the will of the Righteous Walker.
• Rota calculated that at least 71.64% of the City of Law was covered in eternal night, and Linsey explained that the laws could be changed through the Law Hall or by selecting a New King.
• Linsey decided to continue south, but when his flying ability ran out, Rota carried him through the air.

Linsey and Rota flew over Blue River Canyon during the City of Law’s prolonged night and encountered Green Fir and Reze, who were exploring the region. The chapter ended with the four recognizing one another after Linsey and Rota landed.

• Green Fir and Reze traveled south along Blue River Canyon while Green Fir collected plants and Reze consulted his map.
• Reze and Green Fir discussed the effects of the City of Law’s eternal night and their plans to reach the vast lake Anindaluhut.
• Green Fir sensed a strange life aura flying south and alerted Reze.
• Rota noticed that Awakened below had spotted her and Linsey, but Linsey recognized Green Fir and Reze and asked to descend.
• Linsey and Rota landed beside Green Fir and Reze, and all four called each other by name.

Linsey reunited with Reze and Green Fir in Blue River Canyon and warned them that Eighth Stage enemies and a wider crisis threatened the City of Law. Though they urged him not to continue south, he set out with Rota, and Green Fir gave him modified seeds that might help him face the danger ahead.

• Linsey reunited with Reze and Green Fir, who realized his strength had grown beyond what they could sense.
• Linsey introduced Rota as his Mechanical Servant and asked Reze how he and Green Fir had come together.
• Linsey warned Reze and Green Fir that Eighth Stage enemies might be ahead and advised them not to continue south.
• Linsey told them about the gods' revival and the Abyss School, revealing that the universe faced a major threat.
• Linsey prepared to leave with Rota, but Green Fir stopped him and gave him the modified seeds he had sent her.