Chapter Summaries

Shade ignited his divinity as the Moon God and the God of Misfortune appeared on the cliff, and their powers collided above the Fate Ruins. Shade’s ascension empowered the Moon-marked fighters as God-Bestowed Demigods, while preparations continued to protect the island and move the Ring Bearers.

• Shade asked the God of Misfortune why His advent had been silent, and the god explained that the damaged world no longer required the usual preparations.
• Shade sensed an ambush and ignited his divinity, stopping a half-chessboard object as the Moon God’s silver light descended upon the cliff.
• The Moon God and the God of Misfortune appeared together, drawing the attention of the battlefield and prompting the Demigod Witches to question whether Shade was summoning a god or becoming one.
• Shade’s ascension caused Moon Marks to flare on Galina, Vanessa, Butterfly Wings Girl, Chloe, Past World Adele, Little Mia, and Luvia, empowering them; the Snake called Chloe and Past World Adele God-Bestowed Demigods.
• Butterfly Wings Girl gave [Night Watchman] to Luvia and sent Angelina back to the Radiance Messenger, where the ship, Sylvia’s tower, and Winnie’s Ice and Snow Castle helped shield the island and relocate Ring Bearers.

Daniste joined the defense at the mountain summit as Shade and the God of Misfortune fought a divine battle through a starry chess game. Shade won, but was left weakened and stranded in the snow, where he spotted a golden chess piece descending through the blizzard.

• Daniste used the Moon Mark’s power to destroy monsters, raised a Red Moon barrier, and flew toward the summit while Sivie, Megan, and Claire returned to the Radiance Messenger.
• A two-colored chessboard appeared in the sky, and the Moon God, Shade, faced the God of Misfortune in a game played with divine pieces, cards, and coins.
• The God of Misfortune’s pieces attacked, but Shade countered them with the priest, wall, gambler, Clown, and Dancer pieces before striking the board with the Moon.
• The chessboard vanished, leaving the Silver Moon in the sky, and Shade reappeared on the Snow Mountain after winning the divine battle and losing his four gold coins.
• Shade tried to recover and return to the battlefield, then noticed a golden chess piece descending through the blizzard.

Shade faced the God of Misfortune at Saint's Precipice, where they wagered divinity in a final gun game and both pulled the trigger. Meanwhile, Stella left the battlefield on Luvia's orders to contest for the final Chosen One.

• Shade saw through the God of Misfortune's illusion and avoided being pushed from Saint's Precipice.
• The God of Misfortune challenged Shade to a final round using three guns and two bullets, with death blessed by divine power.
• Shade chose the guns and bullets, aimed at the God of Misfortune, and explained that the encounter might make losing a form of victory.
• Shade asked whether the meeting was arranged to make him fall from Saint's Precipice, and the god said his fall had begun long ago.
• Five minutes earlier, Stella watched the battle, felt outmatched by the other fighters, and left the battlefield at Luvia's order to contend for the final Chosen One.

As the battle against the Metamorphosis Snake continued, Stella abandoned her chance to become a Chosen One after receiving an emergency signal and rushed to join a gathering at the Oracle Plaza. Her arrival brought the group to eleven, while the final contest in the Temple produced no apparent result.

• Stella transferred the [Breeding] shield to Iluna and left the battlefield as the Great Witches and other Ring Bearers held the line against the Metamorphosis Snake.
• Stella reached the Temple, where Father, Mr. Mortis, and Old Mr. Charat prepared with her to determine the final Fate candidate, and Charat revealed that he would not complete the Seventh Act.
• The four candidates used their Serpent's Sheddings to create a gambling table and set their dice spinning, but Stella's rune stone lit all three stars with an urgent gathering signal.
• Stella gave up her candidate qualification and hurried out to answer the signal, leaving the other three candidates to wait for the dice to stop.
• The remaining candidates saw no result from the dice, and Miss Pawo said the God of Fate's sixth mural had changed.
• Stella crossed snow-covered mountains to the Oracle Plaza, where she joined ten gathered girls, including Luvia and Ellie.

Luvia, Adele, Ellie, and ten other girls performed a moon ritual to call Shade back after the god’s [Luck] bullet killed him and sent him falling from Saint's Precipice. As the song awakened Shade’s buried memories and his powers, he grasped a hand from above and woke in the snow.

• Stella, Daniste, and the others gathered at [Oracle Plaza], where Luvia waited for the right moment and summoned Adele using a rune.
• Luvia, Adele, and Ellie joined the ten girls in a ritual performance, singing and playing instruments to call for Shade’s return.
• Below Saint's Precipice, the god’s [Luck] bullet struck Shade, and his body fell from the cliff as he heard the girls’ song.
• Shade resisted falling into eternal Slumber and recalled memories of climbing the Moon Tower in 1853, naming Helena Carter, Euclid, and Miss Shibel Beast.
• Shade remembered the words “Fallen traveler, rewrite the world's The Canticles,” caught a hand reaching down to him, and awakened in the snow.

Shade survived his fall from Saint's Precipice, gained the Fall Spirit Rune and a new Ring of Fate, and recovered a hazy memory of arriving in the world at Moon Tower in spring 1853. He realized the fall had advanced his Demigod Road, then returned to the battlefield as the War of Fate reached its most difficult moment.

• Shade learned that his fall had granted him the Fall Spirit Rune, sublimated Falling Star Strike, and completed the Ninth Ring’s four Element Spirit Runes.
• Shade recalled arriving in the world at Moon Tower in spring 1853, where he had encountered Lady Helena Carter, Astrologer Euclid, and Miss Bister before leaping from the tower.
• Shade understood that the Newborn Ritual’s Roots of the Teacher, Finger Bone of the Astrologer, and Hair of the Moon Chaser referred to known figures, while the other elements remained unclear.
• Shade caught the God of Misfortune’s chess piece, absorbed its divinity, and formed his third Ring of Fate, Fall.
• Shade recognized the fall as a ritual that had strengthened him and helped him understand how to defeat the Serpent of Doomsday after its molting.
• Shade flew to the sand-sea battlefield, where the War of Fate had reached its most difficult moment.

Shade returned to the battlefield as the Serpent of Doomsday overwhelmed the defenders, while the candidates withdrew from the Fate ceremony. After the true Sixth Act was revealed and the remaining candidates gave up, Shade began his promotion as he faced the Serpent.

• The sixth mural changed to depict the true Sixth Act: calling The Falling Moon back through song and helping the fallen Outlander recover his past.
• Mr. Charat, the Father, and the other remaining candidates gave up their candidacies, leaving the ceremony to its true Chosen One.
• Bells and a steam whistle announced the ceremony, and Shade emerged from the yellow sand with Ellie and Little Mia as his life level rose.
• The Serpent of Doomsday launched a black thunderbolt at Shade, who began his promotion while holding Ellie's hand and carrying Little Mia.
• Shade's Spirit Runes and their phantoms blocked the Serpent's attacks, cleared his path, and halted it with a slash of his sword.

Shade reached the tenth ring of the Twelve Divinity Ascension Path and then used his Mystic Lock, Snow White Princess, to transform the doomsday sandstorm into a flourishing forest. The Snake watched the change from afar, while Shade and Ellie stood before a small house amid the spreading greenery.

• Shade imbued Miracle-[World] with divinity, choosing Blasphemy-[Fall] as his future Core Ling Rune and advancing to the tenth ring.
• Ellie gained Miracle-[Strength], Blasphemy-[Fall], and Whisper-[Sword] after the girls' performance and Shade's ascension.
• The Snake sent a wave of yellow sand at Shade and Ellie, but Shade stopped Ellie and asked to borrow her apple.
• Shade summoned Mystic Lock: Snow White Princess, and flowers, grass, and forest creatures spread across the ruins as the sandstorm receded.
• Shade held the apple beside Ellie before a small house while the forest night replaced the doomsday landscape.

Shade’s Mystic Lock spread a fairy-tale forest across the apocalyptic landscape, transforming the world and halting its advance at the Snake. After returning Luvia’s Destiny to her, Shade challenged the Snake to a final duel, and their swords collided at the boundary between forest and desert.

• Shade’s Mystic Lock reshaped the apocalypse into a moonlit forest, healing injuries and altering the castle, temple, and Radiance Messenger.
• The Snake stopped the forest’s expansion, leaving the Fate Ruins divided between forest and desert as Shade encouraged Ellie to understand the Mystic Lock’s power.
• Shade returned [Nobility] to Luvia, who heard her complete High-Ring Words of Sublimation: [The Fool Who Destroys the World, guide the final hope.].
• The Snake recited its apocalypse prophecy and warned Shade that his Mystic Lock could only delay the world’s end.
• Shade and the Snake prepared their swords and met in a final duel at the forest’s edge.

Ellie realized her fate-gift was Connection and used the Unicorns’ shared power to complete the Chosen One Ritual. She became the Ninth Chosen One, and the golden ripples from her transformation calmed the turbulent power of fate as the final battle ended.

• Little Liana and the other Unicorns helped Ellie understand that her power came from their connection and friendship, while the candidates urged her to recognize her own fate.
• Ellie ate the white apple, gained the [Snow White Princess] Enlightenment Spirit Rune, and named her third Ring of Fate Connection.
• The Unicorns shared their radiance with Ellie, helping her become a High-Ring Arcanist and draw the [Connection] apple alongside the apples of [Innocence] and [Luck].
• Ellie began the Chosen One Ritual, declared that she would protect and connect all destinies, and transformed her Destiny Ring into the Ouroboros Roulette and a giant golden apple.
• Ellie’s golden ripples soothed the fairy-tale kingdom and halted the sea of sand at The Edge, marking the end of the final battle and her birth as the Ninth Chosen One.

Ellie and the Unicorns helped Shade damage Mr. Snake’s power, allowing the Chosen Ones to suppress him while Shade and Ellie gathered thirteen destinies to break the Doomsday Ring. They reached the sand dune with all thirteen rings assembled, ready to face the final battle.

• Ellie connected the Unicorns’ destinies and led their united phantom into Mr. Snake, shattering the thirteen rings behind him and giving Shade an opening to strike the Doomsday Ring.
• Shade’s Moonbeam Greatsword damaged the Doomsday Ring, and the six Chosen Ones suppressed Mr. Snake beneath the Holy Emblems of the Old Gods, though they could not defeat him completely.
• Ellie and Shade walked through the forest as Stella, Sister Devlin, Luvia, Iluna, Emilia, Angelina, Dorothy, and Leisha offered their destinies.
• Sivie offered Love and Claire offered Dawn, while Shade entrusted Night Watchman to Sylvia and Claire revealed that she had reached the Twelfth Order.
• Past World Adele gave Shade Survivor, Shade chose Falling, and Ellie remembered the Cat’s Promise, completing the thirteen destinies they needed.

Shade and Ellie used the thirteen Rings of Fate to strike down the Snake, but Shade realized the Serpent of Doomsday had survived and summoned it back with the Horn of Calling Doomsday. The Snake returned from the Myriad Phenomena Tower, and Shade’s Sure-Kill Handgun shot missed, leaving the final fight unresolved.

• Shade and Ellie rode a Unicorn through the thirteen Rings of Fate and struck the Snake with the Fate: Falling Star Strike, shattering the Mystic Lock.
• After the survivors returned to Saint's Precipice, Shade said the War of Fate was not over because the Snake had never shown its second head and the story's horn remained unused.
• Shade blew the Horn of Calling Doomsday, drawing the Snake from the Myriad Phenomena Tower with a bloodied eye and a body splitting into afterimages.
• Shade accused the Snake of deceiving the Misfortune Order and fired the Sure-Kill Handgun at close range, but the bullet passed through without hitting it.

Shade and the allies used Sylvia’s Sword of Fate and Ellie’s power to defeat the Snake at Saint’s Precipice. As the Snake perished, it warned Shade that the Sixth Epoch would still end in doomsday, and Shade accepted that he would wait for the world’s true end.

• The Snake evaded Shade’s attacks by choosing possibilities in which it would not be hit and declared that it had won.
• Shade embraced the Snake and plunged with it from Saint’s Precipice, then continued fighting while its Rings of Fate made his attacks miss.
• Luvia signaled the others, and the Chosen Ones distracted the Snake while the Chosen Ones of time and space brought Sylvia and Ellie behind it.
• Sylvia pierced the Snake with the Sword of Fate, and Ellie used her power to make its body solidify and dissolve into ashes.
• The Snake told Shade that doomsday would still come in the Sixth Epoch, and Shade said he would wait for the world’s true end before the Snake vanished.

After defeating the Serpent of Doomsday, Shade proposed that all Rings of Fate and Bent Arcs be gathered and used to heal Fatumonst Snow Mountain rather than kept by individuals. As the others prepared for the task and rested at the mountaintop camp, Shade said goodbye to departing allies and demigod Witches.

• Shade caught the Doomsday Ring, and Ellie used a Bent Arc and her Snow White Princess thaumaturgy to purify the cliff’s polluted edge.
• Shade proposed that no one keep Rings of Fate and ordered the rings and Bent Arcs gathered at Saint's Precipice.
• Winnie explained that the fate objects should be thrown from the precipice to help restore Fatumonst Snow Mountain, so factions began bringing them to the ruins.
• The Chosen One of the Earth departed to protect the Heart of the Earth, and Mr. Albert told Shade he would be able to appear as a Thirteenth Ring when needed.
• Violet asked Shade about the Silver Fire Marks on Chloe and Adele, then said goodbye and urged him to summon her again.

After the War of Fate ended, Shade said goodbye to Chloe and Adele and arranged for Ellie to attend Saint Byrens Comprehensive College. He then headed to the Myriad Phenomena Tower and asked If about the Myriad Aspects of Impermanence Cards.

• Chloe gave Shade the Castle Key, embraced him and Ellie, and returned to her own spacetime.
• Adele praised Shade, kissed him goodbye, and vanished back to the world at the End of Time.
• Shade decided that Ellie should study at Saint Byrens Comprehensive College with Emilia and Little Liana.
• Shade told Ellie to join the others, then went alone to the Myriad Phenomena Tower, where he found If waiting.
• Shade asked If what the Myriad Aspects of Impermanence Cards were.

After the War of Fate, Shade climbed the Myriad Phenomena Tower and discovered the Fate Egg, an abandoned divine artifact of the God of Fate. He rejected the chance to become an Ancient God's child, absorbed the egg's divinity, and inscribed the first Spirit Rune of his Tenth Ring: [Star].

• Shade learned that [Myriad Aspects of Impermanence Cards] predated the First People, then received the three pistols back from If.
• Shade entered the tower and used his new Mystic Lock, summoning apples that could detoxify anyone who ate them.
• Shade reached the summit and found the crystalline Fate Egg, which could transform him into the Serpent's Scion if swallowed while in Snake form.
• Shade refused to become an Ancient God's child, shattered the Fate Egg with Thunderclap Wave, and absorbed its golden divinity.
• Shade gained the divinity of Lord of the Ring, touched Miracle, and inscribed the Golden Miracle Ling Rune—[Star]—on his Tenth Ring.

After absorbing the God of Fate’s divinity, Shade gained new thaumaturgies and strengthened Moon Fire before helping restore the ruins and discussing the remaining dangers. Emilia then proposed holding her Coronation Ceremony after the Ring and Bent Arc were dealt with.

• Shade gained Star's Protection, improved his Fate Manual and Moon Fire, and entered the Divinity Overflow state.
• The Priest and Doctor said farewell to Shade, who learned that the Doctor had obtained the Misfortune ring and that Snake’s sword remained lost somewhere in the damaged spacetime.
• Shade used Breath of Time to restore the ruins and seal the enormous hole Snake had drilled into the mountainside.
• Shade told Emilia that Winnie and the Fatu People would handle the remaining entrances beneath the mountain after the Snow Mountain was repaired.
• Emilia told Shade that Grandma Qishala and the others had proposed holding her Coronation Ceremony after they dealt with the Ring and Bent Arc.

Shade arranged to hold Emilia’s coronation immediately after the battle, then met with Adele to discuss how the factions should handle the ruin and its Rings of Fate. The chapter ended with Adele approving his proposals for preserving and managing Solidified Fate.

• Shade and Emilia agreed to hold her coronation that night, and Shade asked her to study for her summer exams and kissed the Elf Queen.
• Shade arranged the ceremony with the elves and the Five Gods Church, while the Ring Arcanists agreed to stay and attend.
• Claire invited Shade to the Witches’ fire, where he greeted Adele, who introduced herself as Isabella, Speaker of the Witch Council.
• Shade proposed limiting excavation of the ruin, preserving some Rings of Fate and Bent Arcs, and rebuilding the Circular Hall with other factions.
• Shade explained that Destiny ink could grant Spirit Runes but required a Philosopher’s Stone, and said the Witches could decide whether to share the method.

Shade and the assembled factions decided which Rings of Fate to retain and prepared to sacrifice the rest to restore the Snow Mountain's spirituality. As the War of Fate ended in victory over the Serpent of Doomsday, Shade and Ellie stood ready to offer the collected Fate beneath the stars.

• Adele and Shade discussed the Council's need for greater strength while the other Witches wondered why the two seemed so familiar.
• Shade asked about Miss Sabelle, and Adele decided to return under that disguise after Claire said she had not seen her.
• The factions agreed to rebuild the Circular Hall and openly retained four Rings, while Ellie's three apples and several other special Rings were kept aside.
• Ellie transformed the contributed Rings and eighty Bent Arcs into apples, which Shade and Ellie carried to the cliff.
• Shade declared the War of Fate over and addressed the gathered leaders before preparing to pour the apples out toward the Star Sea.

After the War of Fate ended, Shade received a blessing and Iluna’s Command Card returned. As preparations began for Emilia’s coronation, Winnie, Tifa, and Matilda brought Shade to the Ice and Snow Castle to celebrate with him and do his makeup.

• Shade and Ellie cast the final apples over the cliff, and Shade received the Arrival Here blessing after his Resurrection and Falling destinies shattered.
• Iluna discovered that her Command Card had returned, while the loss of the Happiness Ring did not take away her powers.
• Shade announced that Emilia’s coronation ceremony would follow the War of Fate, and the elves prepared the red carpet, arch, seats, and ceremony grounds.
• Winnie found Shade and took him to the Ice and Snow Castle, where Tifa and Matilda joined her to prepare him for the ceremony.
• Winnie and Tifa kissed Shade and touched his hands before Matilda kissed him as the maids’ celebration.