Chapter Summaries

Emilia and the others fought the Ancient One as he warped time and attacked the elves. After the Elf Girl was captured, Iluna drew on an unfamiliar power and transformed the Destiny Ring into a Sunlight Gun.

• Emilia used the Ocarina of Time to stabilize spacetime, then Sylvia carried her and Little Liana away from the Ancient One’s attack.
• A swarm of Paradox Worms erupted from the ground, and a golden-haired elf helped Emilia and Sylvia by blasting the insects and stopping the Ancient One’s beam.
• Iluna and Sister Devlin pierced the Ancient One’s arm with the Sunlight Gun, but he healed and reversed time to slow the battlefield.
• The Ancient One attacked the golden-haired elf, and Iluna used the Angel’s power to hold back his giant hand while the elf helped her.
• The Ancient One seized the Elf Girl, and Iluna drew power from the cold figure she saw in the Great Elf’s eyes.
• Iluna transformed the Destiny Ring into the Sunlight Gun and raised it toward the Ancient One.

Iluna and the others fought the Ancient One in Vesta Woodland until Shade arrived with three powerful spellcasters. Shade advanced to the Ninth Ring beneath the Moon, and golden light transformed his appearance as he faced the Ancient One again.

• Iluna wielded the Sunlight Gun against the Ancient One while the Great Elf and Emilia helped stabilize the chaotic flow of time.
• The Ancient One regained the advantage, but Sister Devlin returned to the fight and the Red Butterfly Twins continued battling as the others supported them.
• Shade arrived with the Demigod Witch, the Black-Haired Lady, and the red-haired girl, and their combined moonlight challenged the Ancient One's power.
• Shade began advancing as the Watcher and the Ancient Evil Spirit attacked him, but the Spirit Runes of darkness, crystal light, first fire, and death absorbed or destroyed them.
• Shade infused divinity into the Enlightenment-Direction Spirit Rune and emerged with a nine-ring Destiny Ring.
• The Rift spread across Shade's body as golden light poured from the cracks, and he faced the Ancient One beneath the Moon.

Shade and the three women combined their Moon powers to strike the Ancient One and retrieve the World Tree’s divinity, which Shade absorbed. Empowered by the divinity, Shade returned to face the Ancient One and grew to match his hundred-meter size.

• Miss Olanord, the black-haired Sorceress, and the red-haired girl sacrificed themselves as the hands of the Mystic Lock Tower Lovers, letting Shade use their moonlight to fire Moon Goddess's Forgiveness at the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One removed the arrow from his chest, but Shade emerged from the wound holding the World Tree’s divinity and absorbed it after saying, “I am you.”
• Shade gained greater mastery over time, increased Time Resistance, Forest Blessing, and a temporary Divinity Overflow state as Vesta Woodland called his name.
• The Ancient One challenged Shade to summon his god, and Shade used the Black Time Key to bring Adele back from the future as Blaney joined him.
• Shade grew to a hundred-meter body to face the Ancient One, while Galina was still approaching on a land bird.

Shade and the Ancient One exchanged a devastating punch, then revealed the ancient Time Scar the Ancient One had been guarding and why he had forced the confrontation. The Ancient One refused to remain on the throne or surrender peacefully, and transformed Vesta Woodland into an extension of himself as the battle resumed.

• Shade combined the powers of Time and Moon with the Demigod Witches’ aid and struck the Ancient One, but their collision left Shade badly hurt and the woodland shaking.
• The Ancient One explained that a dangerous Time Scar lay beneath Vesta Woodland, and that he had guarded it for five epochs using the throne and the World Tree Remnants.
• The Ancient One admitted he wanted someone to replace him, but also wanted revenge and was willing to let the Time Scar destroy the woodland and the Material World.
• Shade offered to defeat the Ancient One without summoning a god, but the Ancient One rejected the wager and said he could no longer remain on the throne.
• The Ancient One poured the clock face’s light into the giant tree, making all of Vesta Woodland become part of him.

As the Ancient One began its final attack, Emilia completed the time loop and returned to protect Shade. Shade prepared a powerful Words of Sublimation, but the chapter ended before he spoke it.

• The Ancient One transformed into its true form and declared that it would use all its strength to kill everyone.
• Shade asked his allies to hold off the Ancient Evil Being while he prepared, and they launched their strongest attacks.
• The Great Elf kicked Emilia into a Time Rift with the Ocarina of Time, a satchel, and the Elven Royal Authority, sending her back to the forest of one year earlier.
• Emilia completed the time loop, took up the crown and Ocarina of Time, and returned to the battlefield to shield Shade from the World Tree Remnants.
• Shade lit Spirit Runes on his Destiny Ring and recalled Luvia's Words of Sublimation, while the Ancient One demanded to know where his god was.

Shade’s Mid-Ring Words of Sublimation summoned Luvia Fiocchi Annette from the end of time, revealing that her arrival was the destined event that would let the Sixth Epoch’s cycle continue. Luvia reached the exhausted Shade as the woodland fell silent before her presence.

• Shade realized that his Words of Sublimation could guide the final direction, and the Silver Moon’s Shadow summoned Luvia through his shadow.
• The Ancient One sealed Shade between its hands, but yellow sand and shadow spilled out and forced its palms apart.
• Luvia emerged from the rift in Shade’s shadow, and her presence silenced the woodland and darkened the stars and earth.
• Adele and Blaine Olanode recognized the terrifying figure as Luvia, while the Ancient One failed to stop her arrival.
• Luvia placed her hand on Shade’s shoulder and told him, “I’ve come.”

Long-Haired Luvia appeared in the clearing and defeated the Ancient One with the combined power of three Old Gods Holy Emblems. With the battle over, she told Shade that the forest’s final secret was about to be revealed, and the gathered survivors assembled to witness the Chosen One of Time complete the final ritual.

• Long-Haired Luvia’s arrival silenced Vesta Woodland, freed Thomas Bennett from the Ancient One’s control, and sent diviners and onlookers across the region into alarm.
• Luvia told the Ancient One to kill himself, then accepted his challenge to fight.
• The Ancient One unleashed the World Tree Remnants’ final strike, but Luvia combined the holy emblems of Radiance Dragon, Supreme Sun Binder, and Chaos Witch to pierce and decapitate him.
• Shade waited for a further threat, but Luvia assured him that the battle was over and said the forest’s final secret remained.
• Shade announced that the Chosen One of Time would complete the final ritual, and the surviving groups gathered before the throne as he and Luvia descended.

Professor Yuke Wood explained how he had spent ten thousand years suppressing the Time Scar beneath Vesta Woodland and revealed that Emilia Xianode had won the Time War. He asked Emilia to take his place on the throne and suppress the Scar forever, leaving Shade to face the final choice as the Scarlet Moon drew near.

• Professor Yuke Wood explained that he had dealt with Thomas Bennett and the Paradox Worms to prevent them from becoming new threats after his departure.
• Professor Yuke Wood acknowledged Emilia Xianode as the Chosen One of Time and transferred his remaining power to her.
• Professor Yuke Wood revealed that the throne beneath the Upside-down Tree had bound him to suppress the Time Scar for over ten thousand years.
• Professor Yuke Wood explained that he could no longer hold the seal and asked Emilia to replace him on the throne for eternity.
• Emilia said she would listen to Shade, while Professor Yuke Wood warned that only one day remained before he could no longer hold on.

Shade learned that refusing to let Emilia become the World Tree would unleash the Time Scar and hasten Doomsday, while sitting on the throne would bind her there forever. He rejected her offer to sacrifice herself and asked whether he could take her place.

• The old man explained that the Time Scar would engulf Vesta Woodland, unleash time-traveling monsters, and bring Doomsday closer if left unsuppressed.
• Shade learned that only someone with the World Tree’s ancient power and the Chosen One’s seed could sit on the throne, and that the staff was dead.
• Emilia pleaded to become the Tree and protect the world, but the old man warned that whoever sat on the throne could never leave it.
• The old man said the Chosen Ones could temporarily suppress the scar, but doing so would consume much of their power and leave the remaining Murmuring Chapters to face.
• Shade told Emilia that the other methods would not work and asked the old man whether he could ascend the throne instead.

Shade explored whether he could seal the World Tree’s Time Scar without sacrificing himself, but Professor Yuke Wood said their combined powers were insufficient. As the gathering reached a deadlock, Galina arrived with Tifa and other Crescent Moon Secret Society members, bringing a stone casket.

• Shade asked Professor Yuke Wood whether a time-focused Mystic Lock could seal the Time Scar, but Wood said it required power beyond Shade, Adele, Luvia, and the Yggdrasil Staff combined.
• The assembled Witches and others opposed Shade sacrificing himself, while Shade clarified that he was searching for a way to seal the scar without turning into a tree.
• As snow began to fall and strange sounds approached through the woods, Galina rode into the clearing with Tifa and other Sorceresses on Luku Birds.
• Galina dismounted, took a stone casket from her Luku Bird, and walked toward Shade as the gathered people made way for her.

Shade used a crescent pendant to reveal a bark scroll containing the original story of his Mystic Lock, giving him a possible way to complete the seal. As Emilia began the Chosen One Ritual beneath the World Tree, the old man and Luvia left to destroy the transfer station and retrieve the seventh tree core.

• The Duchess presented Shade with a sealed stone box, and he used the werewolf girl’s crescent pendant to turn it to dust and reveal an ancient roll of World Tree bark.
• Shade showed the old man that the bark held the original story of his Mystic Lock, and the old man agreed that it might help but warned him to use the chair if the attempt failed.
• The old man took Shade’s Dwarf’s Bomb to destroy the transfer station, while Luvia joined him to retrieve the seventh tree core.
• The stars and World Tree brightened after the old man and Luvia departed, and the remaining observers gathered at the edge of the clearing as Emilia prepared for the ritual.
• Emilia invoked Yggdrasil in the name of the World Tree and began summoning the newborn sapling, tree of the future, and axis of time.

Emilia completed the ritual to become the eighth Chosen One, transforming her Destiny Ring with the newborn tree and restoring balance to time in Vesta Woodland. After Shade caught her as she descended, the giant tree contracted and the headless corpse on the throne dissolved into sand.

• Emilia revealed that the leaf patterns on her hands had formed a sapling, and the Time Great Witch explained that the tree’s growth had made Emilia appear older.
• Emilia declared that she would protect the order of time and become the caretaker of the New Tree, then began her ascension ritual as her Holy Emblem formed a thirteen-point halo.
• The sapling merged with Emilia’s Destiny Ring, transforming it into a dark gold clock face and sending golden ripples through Vesta Woodland that restored altered ages, stabilized spacetime, and destroyed nearby Paradox Worms.
• The eighth Chosen One of Time was born, and Shade caught Emilia as she descended; Emilia celebrated her success and showed she could still change between her little elf and Great Elf forms.
• The giant tree’s crown and roots receded, and the headless corpse on the throne crumbled into yellow sand carried away by the wind.

Shade used the throne’s power to locate the Time Scar in Vesta Woodland and cast a Mystic Lock that fused the woodland with a fairy-tale kingdom. With Emilia’s arrows and the World Tree Bark helping him, he began the final sealing ritual with “Mizzle - Crystal Light.”

• Emilia fired a World Tree arrow into the throne to suppress the Time Scar, then told Shade she had collected the arrows to stay with him longer at their final farewell.
• Professor Yuke Wood explained that Shade could sense the whole woodland from the throne, and Emilia gave him the sapling formed from her Destiny Ring.
• Shade sat on the throne, sensed the woodland, and found the Time Scar deep beneath the earth.
• Shade cast “Composite Mystic Lock: Fairytale Town,” transforming Vesta Woodland into a fairy-tale kingdom and merging the two worlds.
• Emilia fired a third arrow into the World Tree Bark’s radiance, and Shade struck the ground with his staff to cast “Mizzle - Crystal Light.”

Shade and the others completed the Crystal Throne ritual, using the power of two Demigod Witches, the Nascent Tree, and the World Tree Bark to suppress the collapsed time in Vesta Woodland. Shade became a crystal statue, and Professor Yuke Wood asked Emilia what final component the seal still needed.

• Emilia fired arrows into the throne while Luvia and Adele joined hands and lent Shade their power of Time.
• Shade drew power from the Nascent Tree, causing crystal to spread across the throne, his body, and Vesta Woodland.
• Shade fused the World Tree Bark with the throne, strengthening the Mystic Lock until Shade and the giant tree were almost entirely crystallized.
• The crystal seal stabilized time throughout Vesta Woodland, but Shade remained motionless as the Witches and Emilia waited for him to return.
• Professor Yuke Wood realized Shade had assigned him a role in the ritual and asked Emilia what component was still missing.

Emilia placed the World Tree crown on Shade’s Crystal Statue, completing the seal and healing the collapsing Time Scar. Shade and Emilia emerged from the Crystal Throne together, leaving their statues behind as a permanent sight.

• Emilia and the old man agreed that Shade’s silver diadem could serve as a vessel for the missing power of Blasphemy, and Professor Yuke Wood transferred his powers and knowledge into it.
• The old man enlarged Emilia so she could reach Shade, and she placed the crown on his head and knelt beside him, completing the arrangement of powers on the Crystal Throne.
• Emilia was frozen into crystal beside Shade as the seal’s radiance calmed spacetime, healed the Time Scar, and ended the battles in Vesta Woodland.
• A Witch’s hand passed through the Wolf Girl Mark and pushed Shade’s Crystal Statue forward, drawing Shade and Emilia out of the light in a Princess Carry.
• Shade and Emilia emerged while their Crystal Statues remained on the throne, and the people of Vesta Woodland watched the battle’s end.

After Shade sealed the ancient Time Scar and collapsed from overusing his power, the allied forces declared victory at Vesta Woodland. Adele then secretly warned her younger self to support Galina’s hidden group as it opposed a terrifying being manipulating Shade’s fate.

• Shade’s Mystic Lock gained the power to permanently seal Time Rifts and similar passages after he completed the ritual with the World Tree.
• Shade passed out while holding Emilia, briefly woke to announce a delayed recovery, then lost consciousness again before Emilia could finish her wish.
• Emilia cherished the memory of their statues on the Crystal Throne, while Iluna and the Witches teased her about the scene.
• The camp received confirmation that the spacetime barrier had vanished and the Battle of Vesta Woodland was over.
• Adele met her younger self, Miss Isabella, and urged her to pretend she knew nothing about Galina’s secret group while supporting its dangerous mission against a terrifying existence.

After the Battle of Vesta Woodland, Miss Isabella joined the Radiance Messenger and learned how the battle had ended and what had happened to Emilia Sinode. Emilia had become the Chosen One of Time, but much of her power remained bound to the Crystal Throne until the World Tree grew.

• Adele refused to explain the God Summoner to Miss Isabella, then vanished as the Material World expelled her.
• Miss Isabella led the Council's group through the woodland and boarded the Radiance Messenger, where Galina Cavendish welcomed them.
• Galina explained that the battle had lasted two days because of a Time Jump and described the exhausted witches' recovery and postwar arrangements.
• Miss Isabella learned that Emilia had returned to Saint Byrens Comprehensive College and that her Chosen One power was partly bound to the Crystal Throne.
• Illustrious Miss and Galina explained that Emilia could borrow her future World Tree power when necessary, though using it extensively would be difficult.

After the Time Calamity was quelled, Adele Isabella discussed the God Summoner with Galina and helped manage the aftermath before preparing to leave for the moon. In a dream, Shade asked the Tree Father to let Blaine Olanode stay in the Sixth Epoch, but when it refused, he asked for a chance to say goodbye and was reunited with her in the Time Corridor.

• Adele Isabella asked Galina about the God Summoner, then joined her and Vanessa in handling postwar matters.
• As dawn returned, Galina told Adele that the God Summoner was someone who did what she believed was right and trusted them greatly.
• Adele said she would visit Sister Devlin and meet with several groups before returning to the moon to oversee the relic's containment.
• After sleeping, Shade found himself in the Time Corridor and asked the Tree Father to let Blaine Olanode remain in the Sixth Epoch.
• When the Tree Father refused, Shade asked for a chance to say goodbye, and Blaine appeared before him in the fog.

Shade said goodbye to Blaine in a dream and received knowledge from the Tree Father about the Curse-Eroded Great Tree and Adele’s possible visits to the Present World. Before waking, he wished to learn the location of the nearest Space Labyrinth entrance to Saint Byrens Comprehensive College.

• Shade embraced Blaine, and they shared a passionate goodbye before she returned to her own time with a lock of his hair.
• Shade received a Youthful Immortality Leaf containing knowledge about the Curse-Eroded Great Tree and Helena Carter.
• Shade learned that the seed from beneath the Golden Music Hall might let Adele occasionally appear in the Present World.
• The Tree Father refused to lift the Black Time Key’s restriction, and Shade used his final wish to learn the location of the nearest Space Labyrinth entrance to Saint Byrens Comprehensive College.
• Shade awoke beside Galina as the Sun rose outside the cabin window.

After waking from his brief unconsciousness, Shade visited the recovering Witches aboard the ship and learned that the battle’s survivors were safe, though Vesta City was still assessing its losses. He read letters confirming that his friends were all right, while the Witches rested and prepared to return to the city.

• Galina examined Shade and told him that the Witches were recovering, relief work had begun in Vesta City, and Professor Yuke Wood’s heroism should be recognized.
• Vanessa lamented that her youth and fifteen-year-old appearance were gone, then said she had returned to change clothes before going back to the city.
• Shade visited Flora, who celebrated changing back from an owl and learned that her uncle Anthony Winslet had survived but remained detained by the Nature Church.
• Flora turned into an owl to test Shade’s theory about his cat, but the cat rejected her, prompting her to chase it around the room before Shade separated them.
• Shade visited the other recovering Witches, left sleeping Sivie undisturbed, and received letters confirming that Doctor Schneider and Mr. Ptolemy Albert were safe and heading into the city for a drink together.