Chapter Summaries

Ellie and Little Liana defeated the Infinite Snake and a Fish Monster, turning their Bent Arcs into apples and gaining the Spirit Rune [Sinking]. At the Radiance Messenger, Flora learned that the candidates were breaking the Thirteen Seals and was sent to deliver apples to Ellie, while battles spread across Snow Mountain.

• Ellie and Little Liana charged through the Infinite Snake, and Ellie ate the Black Apple it became, increasing her spirit energy limit.
• Ellie rescued Little Liana from a Fish Monster beneath a mountain pool, then ate the Bent Arc of [Sinking] and inscribed the Spirit Rune Whisper—[Sinking] on her Second Ring.
• Flora reported seeing Ellie, Little Mia, and a Little Unicorn to Angelina, Bella, and Luvia at the Radiance Messenger.
• Bella explained that the candidates were breaking the Thirteen Seals, and Luvia sent Flora to deliver a basket of apples to Ellie and the others.
• Flora flew out with the apples as the blizzard and battles intensified across Snow Mountain, where Ring Arcanists followed commands from the Radiance Messenger.

Ellie used a white apple formed from Destiny to cross a twilight barrier and destroy the third seal, while the island’s defenses faced an increasing flood of monsters. The seal’s destruction granted Ellie the Enlightenment-[Innocence] Spirit Rune and advanced her to the Third Ring of Fate, and she continued her search for more apples to give Shade.

• Flora could not find Ellie and the others, while Luvia explained that Stella had destroyed the second seal and that the Mermaid Girls were in trouble at sea.
• Ellie and Little Liana reached a canyon blocked by unnatural twilight, which Ellie could not overcome with her existing powers.
• Ellie connected with Dorothy’s Fairy Tales and drew on the fragment of Shade’s Mystic Lock to create a white apple of [Innocence], with Little Liana helping her form it.
• Carrying Ellie and Little Mia, Little Liana crossed the twilight, and Ellie shattered the Golden Snake Runes marking the third seal.
• The third seal’s destruction caused a black rift to appear across the sky and brought corrosive black water and more monsters out of the ground around the towns.
• Ellie received the Enlightenment-[Innocence] Spirit Rune and advanced from the Second Ring to the Third Ring of Fate, then continued her apple hunt to make a white apple for Shade.

Ellie and Little Liana climbed the Snow Mountain toward another seal while the broken seals worsened the battles across Fatumonst Island. They encountered an Undead-Demon knight wielding the Ring of Fate · Evil, and the chapter ended with Ellie and Little Mia cornered beneath its attack.

• Old Mr. Charat broke the fourth seal, Mr. Mortis and "Father" shattered the fifth and sixth, and Katerin Schwartz destroyed the seventh after fighting a stranger with the destiny "Desolation."
• Vanessa used Chaos Bestowal to dispel the Power of Fate as Ring Arcanists fought Doomsday Fate's enemies on the Snow Mountain.
• Ellie, Little Liana, and Little Mia climbed higher up the mountain, defeated a two-headed snow leopard, and gained the Miracle-[Split] Spirit Rune.
• Ellie formed a Unicorn Sword from her horn and charged the Undead-Demon knight riding a black-flamed horse.
• The knight's evil destiny overpowered Ellie and Little Liana, knocking them aside before it charged Ellie and Little Mia with its greatsword.

Ellie and Little Liana battled a Demon Undead Knight on the Snow Mountain, gained a new Spirit Rune, and continued breaking seals while dangers gathered around them. After Adele Isabella found them resting in a cave and offered to take them down the mountain, Ellie transformed into a human and surprised the Great Witch.

• Ellie and Little Liana fought off a Demon Undead Knight, and Ellie took a Fate Fragment from its destiny and gained the [Evil] Spirit Rune.
• The giant snake tried to observe Ellie but was blinded by a golden Sun, then sent its Followers to threaten the Unicorns as it continued its transformation.
• Ellie broke the ninth seal, gained a fourth Destiny Ring, and rested with Little Liana in a cave while battles raged across the region.
• Adele Isabella followed fleeing Pseudo-Ring Beasts to the cave, treated the exhausted Unicorns, and offered to take them down the mountain.
• Ellie refused to leave and transformed into a human, astonishing Adele, then told Little Mia to move from her head.

Adele discovered that Ellie had gained four rings and a strange ability to turn Bent Arcs into apples, then confronted Bella and Claire about what the Council had been hiding. The chapter ended with Bella suggesting that Ellie might be the sixth candidate.

• Ellie refused to return to the ship, asked Adele to send the ship and help toward the mountaintop, and transformed two Bent Arcs into apples.
• Ellie gave Adele the white apple, and their touch caused Ellie to gain the Whisper-[Time] Spirit Rune; Ellie then left with Little Liana and Little Mia.
• Adele arrived aboard the Radiance Messenger, learned that four seals remained, and offered reinforcements before Bella directed her toward the mountaintop.
• Adele asked Bella and Claire about Ellie and the unfamiliar cat, then showed them the apple and described Ellie's transformation and new abilities.
• Bella confirmed the apple was genuine Solidified Fate but denied knowing about Ellie's powers, then proposed that Ellie was the sixth candidate.

Adele left the banquet hall after giving Bella the relic [Thunder God's Wrath], while Luvia organized the group’s next moves and warned that they might need to delay Mr. Snake. On the mountain, Stella rested after breaking the tenth seal, “Father” defeated Mr. Mortis but suffered conceptual poisoning, and Old Mr. Charat and Ellie’s Unicorns became lost in the unnatural blizzard.

• Adele gave Bella [Thunder God's Wrath], kept the apple for study, and departed for the mountaintop with Matilda.
• Luvia sent Angelina to tell Sivie to wait at the City of Time Wheels docks for Shade, then prepared Bella and Claire to fight while keeping the Radiance Messenger in Kael-Todd Town.
• Shade directed Stella to rest after she broke the tenth seal, while Mr. Mortis and “Father” fought over the eleventh seal.
• “Father” defeated Mr. Mortis and broke the eleventh seal, but Joker’s conceptual poison left him seriously weakened.
• Old Mr. Charat became lost in the storm zone as interference undermined his divination, while Ellie and the Little Unicorns repeatedly circled the same area.

Ellie and Little Liana escaped a blizzard’s looping path and reached the final seal, where Ellie opened the barrier by trading three items for the Holy Rings. Ellie then advanced to the Mid-Ring, and the earthquake and shattered chains signaled that the danger around Starfall Bay had begun.

• Ellie used her Ice and Snow and Time Spirit Runes to calm the storm around the Unicorns and escape the force disrupting her inspiration.
• Ellie and Little Liana fought past a beast and ignored a Humanoid Relic before reaching the final seal, whose barrier was powered by three Holy Rings in ancient shrines.
• Ellie exchanged Adele’s [pain] apple, her Dragon scale, and Little Liana’s dew drop for the Holy Rings, causing the shrines to close and the barrier to vanish.
• Ellie opened the final seal and, after charging into the stone wall, completed the Low-Ring Words of Sublimation and entered the Mid-Ring.
• Ring Arcanists with divination talents heard chains shatter as an earthquake struck, while Shade and the others at the Drowned Ghost Tavern realized the danger had begun.

After the seals were broken, Mr. Snake interrupted the card game and tried to keep Shade from reaching the Upper Spring by offering a temporary truce. Shade refused the bargain and attacked, but his moonlight passed through Mr. Snake as the confrontation began.

• Lady White announced that all thirteen seals had been broken and explained the Second Stage, in which the candidates had to reach the Upper Spring before Mr. Snake returned to the Material World.
• Mr. Snake appeared behind Lady White, disrupted the card game, and forced the other players to leave while the Seventh Act continued.
• Shade let Mrs. Reinhart, Ms. Elfoth, Baron Gerard Rogers, and Prince Samuel Anjou escape, but the tavern door became unreal before he could leave.
• Mr. Snake offered to spare anyone entering the Fate Ruins until one o'clock Saturday morning if Shade stayed in the tavern and did not interfere with his Shedding Plan.
• Shade refused the agreement, appeared behind Lady White, and struck at Mr. Snake with moonlight that passed through him.

Shade and Lady White confronted Mr. Snake after he sealed the docks, and their battle escalated when Shade summoned a calamity from the Doomsday. The clash left both Shade and Mr. Snake seriously wounded, while Lady White continued trying to break the barrier.

• Shade and Lady White followed Mr. Snake to the docks, where they found the area sealed off from the chaos outside.
• Shade summoned the Silver Moonbeam Greatsword and fought Mr. Snake with Lady White’s aid, but the Black Snake overcame them with Doomsday Power.
• Lady White vanished under the dim yellow light, and Shade’s Silver Snake form was overwhelmed before [Resurrection] transformed him into Red Butterflies.
• Shade summoned Mrs. Lemmer from [Calamity Cards of the Deep Sea] and fought Mr. Snake amid a spreading Mystic Lock.
• The dim yellow landscape shattered, leaving Shade with a serious shoulder wound and Mr. Snake with a torn robe, damaged flesh, and a deep abdominal wound.

Shade fought Mr. Snake across the sea, wounded him, and was left unconscious by the snake’s poison as Mr. Snake escaped. Sivie arrived and chose to play If’s game to save Shade, and they vanished together in golden light.

• Shade and Mr. Snake exchanged blows until Shade pierced Mr. Snake’s chest and sensed a ring inside its body.
• Mr. Snake used [Noble Fate] to escape, while Shade collapsed as the snake’s poison dragged his soul toward another dimension.
• Sivie carried Shade to the pier, where Desire offered her power in exchange for a deal.
• If warned Desire to leave and offered Sivie a game that could awaken Shade and sever her fated connection to Desire.
• Sivie agreed to play If’s game, and she and Shade vanished from the pier in golden light.

Shade awoke in a strange, moonlit version of Aurora Manor and found Sivie isolated there, believing the Council had imprisoned her for three years. As Sivie vanished and reappeared whenever he approached, Shade tried to understand her and ended the chapter asking why she kept him at a distance.

• Shade recovered in Aurora Manor after losing consciousness and followed Sivie's singing through the manor to a guest room.
• Sivie told Shade that the Council had imprisoned her for three years and warned that people she remembered met misfortune.
• Shade suspected that the scene blended reality and illusion, then asked Sivie to let him hold her hand.
• Sivie told Shade to remain where he was, removed her gown, and disappeared into the moonlight when he tried to approach.
• Shade found Sivie singing beside the courtyard fountain and asked why she would not let him come closer.
• Shade told Sivie that he wanted to understand the person she was now.

Shade confronted Sivie in an illusory version of her manor, where she confessed her loneliness and tried to keep him by force. He found her singing as a mermaid in the sealed underground chapel, where Sivie explained that Desire had cursed her with love.

• Sivie admitted that she loved Shade and wanted him to look at her more, then asked if he would stay forever if she broke his limbs.
• Sivie attacked Shade with pure light, but he blocked her strikes and insisted that he wanted to take her away.
• Sivie bound and embraced Shade, but he escaped her grasp by transforming into Red Butterflies and then a Silver Snake.
• Shade followed Sivie's lonely song into the underground Secret Passage and found her singing in her Mermaid form in the hidden pool.
• Sivie told Shade that she had refused Desire's power and received cursed desire—love—which changed the souls and Destinies of those who fell in love.

Shade confronted Sivie about her jealousy and discovered that the Curse of Desire was withering her soul because she refused to obtain love at the cost of bringing misfortune to others. After sharing his Soul Power and affirming his feelings, Shade helped Sivie use the God of Love's Thorn, and its pink light enveloped her as the Mermaid phantom disappeared.

• Sivie confessed her love to Shade and asked why he had been intimate with other women but not with her.
• Shade followed Sivie beneath the pool's water, where he saw memories of her future death from the Curse of Desire.
• Shade used Inner Fire and a kiss to share Soul Power with Sivie, briefly restoring her soul.
• Shade found Sivie at the hidden dock, where she remembered their encounter and warned him that loving her brought misfortune.
• Shade gave Sivie the God of Love's Thorn and helped her stab herself with it, filling the dock and sea with pink light as the Mermaid phantom vanished.

Sivie regained her memories and, believing intimacy with Shade was the final step to restore everything, reached the Thirteenth Order. Meanwhile, the battle at Fatumonst Snow Mountain continued as Iluna and the remaining defenders held the summit against waves of enemies.

• Sivie apologized to Shade after the curse lifted, but the disorder of her powers and the force of Desire overwhelmed her.
• Sivie transported Shade to her bedroom and said that restoring their relationship was the final matter needed to put the game back on track.
• Shade told Sivie that he loved her, and their intimacy helped her stabilize her powers and awaken the Thirteenth Ring.
• Iluna and the remaining defenders fought off Snakes, Pseudo-Ring Beasts, Serpent Plague infected, and other creatures at the summit.
• Witches prepared to receive Stella in the south, while Old Mr. Charat and Father defended the northeast and Mr. Mortis and Katerin Schwartz fought in the southeast.

Stella reached the summit with Megan and Flora, but the entrance to the ruins was blocked by a Snake Follower bearing the Fate of [Filth]. Stella, Dorothy, and Leisha fought the endless corrupting pus as the battle spread into the cracked starry sky.

• Emilia, Eden, Iluna, Vanessa, Galina, and Adele fought Mr. Snake’s Fate-bearing followers while the summit defenses held a tenuous stalemate.
• Stella arrived at the summit escorted by Megan and Flora, and Galina urged her to enter the ruins and search for the Upper Spring.
• Dorothy and Leisha brought Stella to the entrance, but the ruins repelled them as black pus poured out and formed a humanoid enemy bearing [Filth].
• Stella identified the pus as corrupting and linked it to the substance that had polluted the Snow Mountain Underground Water Veins, then used the Holy Bell and Ice and Snow to aid Dorothy and Leisha.
• The three fought the endless Filth at the entrance as their battlefield rose into the cracked starry sky, where the pus gathered into a giant octopus and its filthy wind began affecting everyone at the summit.

Sivie returned from the strange world with Shade having advanced to the Thirteenth Order, and her arrival turned the battle at Snow Mountain Peak. Ellie, Little Liana, and Flora cleared a path into the Mountain Top Ruins as the candidates of Fate gathered for the Seventh Act’s final contest.

• A pink Light Cannon struck the Black Octopus, and Sivie arrived with the Thirteenth Ring of Fate, destroying much of the monster and attacking the other creatures with Pink Crystal.
• Sivie revealed that she had advanced to the Thirteenth Order and used her Emotional Spectrum to restrain the Black Octopus while telling Stella, Dorothy, and Leisha to proceed.
• Sivie recalled that she and Shade had returned from the world of If and separated at the docks so she could reach the battlefield.
• Ellie and Little Liana raced up the mountain stairs, using Moonlight Slash to cut through the monsters, while their light eased the nearby fighters’ fatigue and unease.
• Flora transformed into a Unicorn and joined Ellie and Little Liana as they charged through the black pus blocking the Mountain Top Ruins entrance.
• Stella, Dorothy, and Leisha followed the Unicorns into the Path of Atonement as the other four candidates of Fate approached the summit.

Shade met the Demon Scholar Xiao En Asmon at the Drowned Ghost Tavern and suspected that their repeated encounters were connected to the Primal Demon. After leaving without hearing Asmon’s story, Shade found the Black Cat and Black Dog waiting for him on the docks.

• Shade sent Sivie and the Red Butterfly Young Ladies away, entrusting them with protecting Stella and Ellie while he sought another way through Mr. Snake’s barrier.
• Shade returned to the tavern as John Watson and met Xiao En Asmon, whose recurring appearances he suspected were more than coincidence.
• Asmon introduced his Black Cat and Black Dog companions, whom Shade recognized from the events in Randall River Valley.
• Shade declined Asmon’s offer to continue the demon story, gathered his belongings, and left the tavern.
• The Black Cat and Black Dog followed Shade onto the docks, where the cat urged him to hear the story’s interesting next part.

Shade accepted the Black Cat and Black Dog’s help and escaped the barrier with the blue Djinn’s teleportation gate. He returned to the Radiance Messenger, where Luvia briefed him on the worsening crisis and the candidates’ progress toward the mountaintop ruins.

• Shade promised to return to hear the rest of the demon’s story in exchange for the Black Cat and Black Dog’s help escaping the barrier.
• The Black Cat summoned the blue Djinn, who opened a teleportation gate for Shade without charging for the wish.
• Shade killed a sea monster on the beach and reached the Radiance Messenger before the delayed Fate Impact struck.
• Luvia told Shade that Stella had reached the summit, Ellie had grown extremely powerful, and Sivie had become a Thirteenth Order Great Witch.
• Bella reported that Stella, Old Mr. Charat, and Katerin Schwartz had entered the ruins while Mr. Mortis and the wounded Father remained behind.
• Bella said the fog and monster attacks had spread across the region, and a Twelfth Ring gentleman had sacrificed himself defending the City of Time Wheels.

Luvia and Bella assessed the worsening battle against Mr. Snake as Shade left for the Peak of Fate to join Stella and Ellie. With the ship’s diviners preparing to counter Snake’s plans, they discovered that the sea battle was intensifying and asked Illustrious Miss to ready the ship’s repaired modules.

• Luvia explained that the third Fate Impact and growing Doomsday corruption had made the Chosen One Ritual urgent, while Ellie had reached the middle ring and might possess Destiny.
• Shade accepted supplies and Destiny-bearing bullets, then left the ship by Crystal Shoes to travel to Sylvia’s High Tower and the Peak of Fate with Winnie.
• Luvia and Bella decided to use the [Fate Base] and [Ouroboros Eye Eye] to seek a way to counter Snake’s molting, and Luvia proposed preparing someone with three Rings of Fate.
• Luvia planned a separate divination for Angelina, whose resonance with [Redemption] might make her a trump card.
• Bella showed the group that a powerful enemy force was approaching the Kael-Todd Town dock, and Luvia asked Illustrious Miss to help prepare the ship for the sea battle.

Shade returned home during the War of Fate and discovered that the Fate Casino’s door had appeared in the kitchen, but he sealed it and traveled to Sylvia’s Tower. There, Sylvia revealed the tower held authority over the snow mountain’s space, and Winnie carried Shade toward the Peak of Fate.

• Shade found an unexpected door to the Fate Casino in his kitchen and ordered the maids to stay out of the room.
• Shade rejected the chance to gamble for another safeguard and sealed the casino door with Moon’s Thorn.
• Shade and Winnie traveled through the basement to the ruins beneath Sylvia’s Tower, where they saw the chaotic starry sky above the snow mountain.
• Sylvia told Shade that Mr. Mortis had entered the ruins, the Teleportation Gate was recovering, and the tower could control the snow mountain’s space.
• Sylvia gave Shade three rune stones that could return him to the tower, and Winnie carried him toward the Peak of Fate.