Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Hot Spring Inn”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette travels north toward the Snow Kingdom, first taking an airship to the Xite Kingdom before joining a merchant caravan bound for Ice Hammer City.
• She chooses to travel with the caravan rather than alone because the route is poorly documented, the Snow Emperor’s territory may be dangerous, and she wants to avoid attracting attention.
• After several days, Ivette reaches Ice Hammer City, the mountainous capital of the Snow Kingdom. She observes its massive icy walls, modest development, and multicultural population of humans, dwarves, and Orcs.
• Following directions from Anya, Ivette goes to Snow Smoke Manor, a hot spring inn.
• The inn’s private suites are supposedly fully booked because of a merchant caravan convention. However, Ivette presents Anya’s special token, revealing herself as a Gold Member, and is immediately granted a private suite.
• Ivette enters her room, which contains Snow Kingdom decorations and a private outdoor hot spring. While preparing to secure the area with spiritual fragments, she discovers an invisible white-haired girl already bathing in the spring.
• Through the Rune Siphon Effect, Ivette determines that the stranger possesses at least Archmage-level strength, with more than 10,000 Mana Points. The chapter ends with Ivette shocked and suspicious that such a powerful figure has secretly occupied her private bath.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Demonstrates caution, strategic thinking, and resourcefulness during her journey. She deliberately keeps a low profile in unfamiliar territory and uses Anya’s token to gain access to better accommodations. Her vigilance is confirmed when she detects the hidden intruder despite the girl’s invisibility magic.
• Anya: Although absent, she influences the events by providing Ivette with the Snow Smoke Manor token and detailed directions.
• The white-haired girl: Introduced as a mysterious and exceptionally powerful figure. Her use of Light and Shadow Magic to conceal herself, combined with her apparent comfort in Ivette’s room, suggests that she may have a hidden purpose.

Significant Themes

• Caution in unfamiliar political territory: Ivette is entering the Snow Emperor’s domain and deliberately avoids acting conspicuously until she understands the local power structure.
• Hidden power and deception: The mysterious girl’s invisibility and immense magical strength emphasize that appearances can be misleading and that danger may be concealed in ordinary situations.
• Travel and cultural contrast: The chapter contrasts Ivette’s warmer homeland and the Academy of Truth with Ice Hammer City’s harsh climate, rugged architecture, and communal, multicultural atmosphere.
• Luxury and privilege: The Gold Member token demonstrates how status and connections can open doors, even in a remote and modest city.

Character Interactions

• Ivette interacts briefly with the caravan and border officials during her journey, paying the entry tax and passing inspection at Ice Hammer City.
• At Snow Smoke Manor, she speaks with the courteous innkeeper, who initially offers only a standard room but changes her attitude after seeing Ivette’s Gold Member token.
• A young attendant escorts Ivette to her private suite.
• The most important interaction is yet to occur: Ivette discovers the powerful invisible girl in her hot spring, setting up a confrontation between the cautious traveler and the mysterious intruder.

Chapter Summary: The Snow Emperor and the Silver Witch’s Game

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette discovers a mysterious white-haired girl, later identified as Frost Hua, bathing in a private hot spring that Ivette has entered by mistake.
• The inn’s waitress reveals that Frost Hua’s room is normally forbidden to guests, suggesting that the girl is an important or dangerous figure.
• Ivette suspects Frost Hua may be connected to the Witch Cult and decides to investigate her, especially because Ivette plans to remain in Ice Hammer City for some time.
• When Frost Hua secretly peers over the wall into Ivette’s hot spring, Ivette detects her invisibility and strikes her forehead with a magically thrown stone.
• Frost Hua is astonished that Ivette can see through her advanced invisibility spell. Her teacher had warned her that only a particular silver-haired, red-eyed beauty might possess such ability, but Ivette does not match that description.
• Frost Hua begins to suspect Ivette may be associated with the Witch Cult and decides to investigate her as guardian of the Snow Kingdom.
• Ivette outlines her plans: gather information about the Snow Kingdom, meet the prophet Esvia Solomon, learn about the Snowfields’ hidden secrets, and eventually explore the forbidden inner regions.
• She is especially wary of the Snow Witch, a mysterious being who rescues travelers in the dangerous Blizzard Belt, and of the Snow Emperor, whose home territory would give him a major advantage if he viewed Ivette as a religious threat.
• At dinner, Frost Hua—still invisible—sits beside Ivette and eats. Because Ivette interprets her deliberate-looking actions as possible warnings or tests, an unspoken psychological “game” develops between them.
• Frost Hua becomes tipsy while eating and suddenly leaves, accidentally abandoning magically concealed leftovers and tableware. Ivette removes the concealment and takes the food, reasoning that their private conflict should not inconvenience the inn’s staff.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Demonstrates caution, strategic thinking, and strong suspicion toward unknown supernatural figures. Although she is powerful and confident, she prefers avoiding unnecessary conflict and plans carefully before exploring the Snowfields. Her concern for the inn staff also reveals a practical and unexpectedly considerate side.
• Frost Hua: Is revealed to be the guardian of the Snow Kingdom and likely the identity behind the legendary Snow Witch. Despite her immense age, power, and sophisticated invisibility magic, she is socially withdrawn and inexperienced at initiating conversations. Her curiosity and suspicion toward Ivette gradually overcome her usual passivity.
• Their relationship: Both characters misinterpret the other’s actions as deliberate threats, tests, or warnings. Their mutual wariness creates a tense but almost comedic rivalry.

Significant Themes

• Mutual suspicion and miscommunication: Both women attach elaborate meanings to ordinary or accidental behavior, turning a series of misunderstandings into a silent contest.
• Hidden identities and concealment: Invisibility, secret origins, divine identities, and disguised affiliations dominate the chapter. Neither character knows the other’s true nature.
• Power and territorial caution: Ivette is wary of the Snow Emperor’s influence in the Snowfields, while Frost Hua recognizes that Ivette possesses abilities capable of penetrating ancient divine magic.
• Isolation and social awkwardness: Both characters are accustomed to living apart from ordinary people. Frost Hua’s inability to initiate conversation contrasts with Ivette’s emotionally reserved but observant nature.
• Exploration versus danger: Ivette’s desire to uncover ancient secrets conflicts with the lethal nature of the Snowfields and the possibility of attracting the attention of local divine powers.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Frost Hua first interact indirectly through the hot-spring incident, with Ivette exposing Frost Hua’s invisibility and striking her with a stone.
• Frost Hua studies Ivette from concealment, while Ivette monitors her with spiritual alarms and magical perception.
• At dinner, Frost Hua silently chooses the seat beside Ivette, hoping to investigate her, while Ivette interprets the gesture as an intentional provocation.
• Their silent meal becomes a tense exchange of observation, suspicion, and mistaken assumptions, establishing the “game” that will likely shape their future relationship.

Chapter Summary: “Bookstore Conversation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette travels from Snow Smoke Manor to Old Book Street in Ice Hammer City to research the Snowfields before venturing deeper into them.
• At the White Bear Bookhouse, she studies old records about Snowfields monsters:
  • Frost Ghosts infect victims with a toxin that transforms them into mindless Frost Ghosts. Their existence may predate the War of Divine Judgment and possibly reach back to the Withering Era or the Ultra-Ancient Civilization.
  • Snow Lice produce the Cold Mist responsible for many Snowfields blizzards.
  • Frost Giants are powerful ice-element creatures rumored to guard the Snow Emperor’s hidden divine residence.
• Ivette suspects that officially denied rumors about the Snow Emperor controlling Frost Giants may contain some truth, making the depths of the Snowfields especially dangerous.
• A white-haired, invisible girl named Frost Hua approaches Ivette and reveals that she knows Ivette’s real name—the true name of the legendary Silver Witch.
• Ivette claims to be the Silver Witch’s chosen divine representative and embodiment of her will. Frost Hua accepts this possibility and asks to meet the goddess.
• Ivette tells Frost Hua that she must sincerely spread the Silver Witch’s faith and convert people into devout believers if she wishes to gain the goddess’s attention.
• When Ivette asks Frost Hua to reveal her identity, Frost Hua refuses but agrees to provide useful information instead.
• Ivette asks about Dugrabi, seeking information unrelated to the Snowfields. Frost Hua says she has heard of him but does not know whether he is alive. She reports that he once attacked the Crimson Holy Temple and was later suppressed within the Divine Kingdom of the Primordial Ancestor Spirit.

Character Developments

• Ivette demonstrates careful preparation, intellectual curiosity, and growing suspicion about the true origins of Snowfields monsters. Her research strengthens her belief that the Snowfields may contain secrets connected to the Ultra-Ancient Civilization.
• Ivette also shows resourcefulness and strategic thinking in conversation. Rather than directly asking Frost Hua about politically sensitive Snowfields matters, she tests her reliability with the unrelated question about Dugrabi.
• Frost Hua is revealed to be a powerful but socially awkward and emotionally inexperienced young woman. Despite her strength and invisibility abilities, she behaves with unusual innocence and takes Ivette’s claims at face value.
• Frost Hua is curious about the Silver Witch and appears to possess some connection to the goddess or her followers. She wants to meet the Silver Witch badly enough to agree immediately to spread her faith.
• Frost Hua remains cautious about her own identity, suggesting that she neither fully trusts Ivette nor completely rejects the possibility that Ivette is genuinely connected to the Silver Witch.

Significant Themes

• Hidden history and unreliable records: Ancient texts provide valuable information but also raise contradictions, especially concerning whether Frost Ghosts originated before or after the War of Divine Judgment.
• The relationship between myth and truth: Rumors about the Snow Emperor’s Frost Giants may be officially denied yet still contain truth, emphasizing the uncertainty surrounding religious legends and political narratives.
• Faith and manipulation: Ivette uses religious language and invents a practical test of devotion to control the conversation, while Frost Hua’s sincere desire to meet the goddess makes her vulnerable to such guidance.
• Identity and divine representation: The chapter explores how a person can act as an intermediary, chosen vessel, or embodiment of a deity without necessarily being the deity itself.
• Trust and information exchange: Both characters conceal important facts, negotiating knowledge through partial honesty and carefully chosen questions.

Character Interactions

• Ivette confronts Frost Hua about following her and demands direct communication, establishing a firm, suspicious tone.
• Frost Hua identifies herself but refuses to explain her background, creating a cautious and uneven exchange.
• Their conversation shifts when Frost Hua recognizes Ivette’s name as the Silver Witch’s true name. Ivette exploits Frost Hua’s belief by presenting herself as the goddess’s chosen representative.
• Ivette challenges Frost Hua to prove her faith by spreading the Silver Witch’s religion, while Frost Hua eagerly agrees.
• Ivette presses Frost Hua for information, and the two reach a compromise: Frost Hua will not reveal her identity but will answer a useful question.
• The resulting information about Dugrabi gives Ivette her first concrete lead concerning his fate: he was reportedly imprisoned in the Divine Kingdom of the Primordial Ancestor Spirit after attacking the Crimson Holy Temple.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette reflects on Dugrabi’s fate, realizing that he was the Evil Dragon King and that his assault on the True God Church was so serious that the Primordial Ancestor Spirit had to intervene personally.
• She speculates about why Dugrabi was suppressed instead of killed. Possible explanations include political considerations connected to his father, the former Flame Dragon King, or Dugrabi’s own strength—though Ivette considers the latter unlikely.
• Ivette privately wishes Dugrabi had truly become powerful enough to challenge the True God, as she would then have been proud of him.
• Her conversation with Frost Hua ends. Both women have withheld important information because of their mutual suspicion, but Ivette considers their first meeting successful and believes future trust may develop.
• Frost Hua abruptly leaves the bookstore in a swirl of snow and wind.
• Ivette heads toward Snow Smoke Manor for dinner but encounters the young waitress who accidentally led her to Frost Hua’s private hot spring the previous night.
• The waitress invites Ivette to dinner as thanks and perhaps partly to ensure Ivette keeps the embarrassing incident secret.
• While walking through Ice Hammer City, the waitress explains her local background, former work as a Snowfields guide, and the harassment that forced her to change careers.
• They arrive at a small local tavern, where the waitress finally introduces herself as Sara after realizing she never learned Ivette’s name.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Shows concern and reluctant affection for Dugrabi, revealing that despite her teasing and criticism, she wants him to succeed. She also demonstrates patience and political awareness in judging Frost Hua, recognizing that trust must be built gradually.
• Frost Hua: Remains mysterious and cautious, sharing only limited information before disappearing. Her behavior reinforces the uncertainty surrounding her identity and motives.
• Sara: Emerges as friendly, observant, and socially capable. She is perceptive enough to read Ivette’s mood and status, but her past experiences with harassment have made her cautious and forced her to abandon guiding work.
• Dugrabi: Though absent, his reputation is expanded. His attack on the True God Church is presented as an extraordinary accomplishment, even if Ivette doubts he could truly rival the True God.

Significant Themes

• Trust and secrecy: Ivette and Frost Hua deliberately conceal information, emphasizing that meaningful trust requires time and verification.
• Power and reputation: Dugrabi’s legendary status is weighed against the limits of his actual strength and the political circumstances surrounding his survival.
• Affection beneath criticism: Ivette’s thoughts reveal that her mockery of Dugrabi masks genuine pride and concern.
• Vulnerability and personal safety: Sara’s story highlights the dangers faced by women in adventuring professions and how harassment can restrict their choices.
• Local life versus elite society: The chapter contrasts Ivette’s privileged status at Snow Smoke Manor with Sara’s modest home and the warmth of ordinary local communities.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Frost Hua: They exchange guarded information about Dugrabi and the True God Church. Though neither fully trusts the other, their conversation ends on a positive note and leaves open the possibility of future cooperation.
• Ivette and Sara: Sara recognizes Ivette from the previous night’s incident and invites her to dinner. Ivette accepts, and their casual conversation gradually establishes a more personal connection.
• Ivette and Dugrabi: Their interaction is indirect, but Ivette’s internal reflections show a complicated, almost maternal or mentor-like mixture of exasperation, pride, and concern.

Chapter Summary: “Preaching”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette follows Sara to the Yak Tavern, where they share a meal of Snow Kingdom specialties, including Rock Stew, ice-lake fish, snow rabbit, and pickled cabbage.
• Ivette questions Sara about unexplored regions of the Snowfields and possible ruins from the War of Divine Judgment or the Ultra-Ancient Civilization. Sara explains that such places are largely legendary and likely lie within the deadly Blizzard Belt or Frost Abyss Belt.
• Ivette asks how to meet the Great Prophet Esviya. Sara tells her that he appears at the Snow Emperor Temple in Ice Hammer City during the Snow Emperor Festival and will answer one question—for a fee of more than one hundred gold coins.
• After dinner, Sara guides Ivette to the Snow Emperor Temple. Ivette observes the temple’s unusual structure: worshippers conduct their own prayers, there are few temples, and no clergy actively organize worship.
• Using spiritual perception, Ivette discovers that the Faith Elements offered by worshippers are not absorbed by the Snowflake Sigil but instead dissipate. She concludes that the Snow Emperor does not require or collect faith.
• This discovery reassures Ivette that establishing the Silver Witch Church in the Snowfields may face little religious opposition, especially because local mythology places the Silver Witch beneath the Snow Emperor and the Legendary Mage in importance.
• Sara spends the rest of the evening showing Ivette around the city. Before they part, Ivette gives Sara a wooden statue of the Silver Witch and instructs her to pray to the goddess in times of danger.
• Ivette plans to explore the Snowfields, search for people in need, and use a miraculous rescue to identify her first apostle and begin her first public preaching effort.

Character Developments

• Ivette remains observant, strategic, and pragmatic. She carefully studies the Snow Kingdom’s religion, economy, geography, and social customs while considering how to expand her church.
• Her understanding of the Snow Emperor changes significantly. She recognizes that he differs from other gods because he appears not to depend on Faith Elements.
• Ivette also reveals a calculating side: she considers using the imagery of the Silver Witch on national currency to strengthen religious influence and views potential apostles as a limited resource that must be chosen carefully.
• Sara demonstrates enthusiasm, local knowledge, generosity, and genuine friendliness. Though inexperienced regarding legendary ruins, she is an earnest guide and becomes increasingly drawn to Ivette’s calming presence.
• Sara accepts the Silver Witch statue happily, suggesting that Ivette’s influence is beginning to take root even among ordinary Snow Kingdom residents.

Significant Themes

• Religion and divine power: The chapter contrasts the Snow Emperor’s apparent independence from faith with the faith-dependent systems of other gods and churches.
• Preaching and religious expansion: Ivette begins planning the Silver Witch Church’s growth in the Snowfields, carefully seeking opportunities to establish influence without provoking conflict.
• Faith as a resource: Faith Elements and apostle slots are treated as limited assets, emphasizing the practical and strategic side of divine authority.
• Cultural adaptation: The Snow Kingdom’s distinct food, currency, worship customs, and legends highlight its unique identity and separation from neighboring powers.
• Kindness and manipulation: Ivette genuinely wants to protect Sara, but giving her the holy statue also serves Ivette’s larger goal of spreading belief in the Silver Witch.
• Mystery of the Snow Emperor: His unusual relationship with faith and his connection to the Legendary Mage and Silver Witch remain important unresolved questions.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Sara bond over dinner, with Sara enthusiastically explaining local customs and attractions.
• Ivette tactfully avoids pressing Sara when the girl admits she knows little about legendary ruins, preserving their friendly relationship.
• Sara acts as Ivette’s guide through Ice Hammer City and the Snow Emperor Temple, while Ivette subtly studies the region’s religious structure.
• Ivette gives Sara the Silver Witch statue and encourages her to pray for protection. Sara responds respectfully and gratefully, despite the Snow Emperor being the dominant local deity.
• Their parting establishes Sara as Ivette’s first possible follower, though Ivette remains uncertain whether Sara will eventually become an apostle.

Chapter Summary: “Ivette Gave Up Thinking”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette repeatedly visits Old Book Street but does not encounter Frost Hua again. She does, however, continue seeing Sara, who warmly greets her each morning.
• In mid-October, Ivette begins her first exploratory journey into the Snowfields. Her main concern is not the Snow Emperor’s surveillance but the lack of reliable maps, which makes navigating the vast, featureless region extremely difficult.
• She travels through Furnacehold, a semi-autonomous Snow Dwarf settlement and important supply center for adventurers, then crosses the Cold Mountain range and enters the Blizzard Belt.
• Ivette spends several days crossing the tundra, recording landmarks in a sketchbook and secretly using spiritual power to search underground. She deliberately avoids flying so she will be less conspicuous and can investigate beneath the ice.
• On the second evening, she encounters a Frost Ghost—apparently a former adventurer infected and transformed by the Frost Ghost Virus. She captures and partially dissects it using wind magic and her tentacle-like abilities.
• Her analysis reveals that the Frost Ghost Virus resembles the Mutation Factor in its effective structural components, though it is far more chaotic and appears to be an imitation rather than the original.
• This discovery leads Ivette into increasingly complicated speculation about the Garden of Eden, the First Sage, the Witch of Finale, Black Tower Pharmaceuticals, the Divine Molt, and the origins of the Green Crown and Core Heart. Unable to reconcile the conflicting timelines and possibilities, she eventually abandons the thought process.
• On the fifth day, Ivette realizes she has unknowingly traveled in a huge circle and returned near a previously recorded canyon. Despite this navigational failure, she considers the expedition productive because she has mapped part of the Blizzard Belt.
• Planning to return to Snow Smoke Manor for rest, hot springs, and food, Ivette notices a group of adventurers being pursued by Snowfields magical beasts. She secretly approaches, intending to rescue them and use the opportunity to spread her faith.

Character Developments

• Ivette demonstrates patience, curiosity, and methodical habits by carefully recording landmarks and surveying the underground terrain.
• Her normally controlled intellect becomes increasingly overwhelmed when she investigates the relationship between the Frost Ghost Virus, the Mutation Factor, and ancient civilizations. Her decision to “give up thinking” highlights both the complexity of the mystery and her humorous limits.
• Ivette also shows a more relaxed and self-indulgent side. She looks forward to resting, bathing in hot springs, and enjoying good food rather than endlessly working.
• Her desire to rescue the adventurers reflects her continued interest in spreading her religion and turning heroic acts into opportunities for conversion.

Significant Themes

• The limits of knowledge: Even Ivette’s extraordinary intellect cannot resolve contradictions surrounding ancient history, divine artifacts, and the origins of powerful forces.
• Exploration and disorientation: The Snowfields’ emptiness and sameness symbolize how difficult it is to impose order on an unknown world.
• Ancient mysteries and conflicting timelines: The chapter deepens the mystery of the Ultra-Ancient Civilization, the Witch of Finale, and the relationship between the two worlds.
• Scientific inquiry versus absurd speculation: Ivette’s careful biological analysis gradually spirals into increasingly ridiculous theories about multiple Witches of Finale and the First Sage’s possible creations.
• Rest and personal enjoyment: The chapter contrasts grand investigations with ordinary pleasures, showing that Ivette values relaxation despite her ambitious pursuits.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Sara: Sara continues to greet Ivette warmly each morning, providing a familiar and friendly connection during Ivette’s stay.
• Ivette and the Frost Ghost: Their encounter is one-sided and analytical. Ivette restrains, examines, and partially consumes the Frost Ghost to study its infection.
• Ivette and the adventurers: They have not yet directly interacted by the chapter’s end, but Ivette secretly moves to rescue them and intends to use the encounter to spread her faith.
• Ivette and Frost Hua: Although Ivette continues visiting places where Frost Hua might appear, they do not meet during this chapter.

Chapter Summary: Snow Witch

Key Plot Points and Events

• The four-member Icefang Squad—Captain Leif, a dwarf warrior, a barbarian magic swordsman, and a female healer—is pursued across the Snowfields by five powerful Icefield Wolves.
• Exhausted and badly equipped, the adventurers are on the verge of death when Ivette appears.
• Ivette uses a blue Rune Ring to create an enormous, razor-thin ice blade that instantly bisects all five wolves, including an alpha wolf nearing the high tier.
• The terrified adventurers thank their mysterious rescuer. Ivette gives Leif a wooden icon of the Silver Witch and tells them to thank the God of Encounters, claiming that the god guided her to save them.
• Ivette then disappears into the snow, leaving no trace.
• The squad speculates that Ivette must be the legendary Snow Witch, a mysterious guardian who appears during disasters to rescue lost travelers.
• Their interpretation spreads the legend of the Snow Witch and unexpectedly links her to the Silver Witch rather than the Snow Emperor.
• Elsewhere, in the Snow Emperor Temple at Ice Hammer City, the true Snow Witch—Frost Hua—asks Grand Prophet Esviya Solomon whether the temple has begun supporting shrines to the Silver Witch.
• Esviya explains that the temple lacks the political authority to promote another god because real influence belongs to the Four Clans’ ancestral shrines and their elders.
• Frost Hua accepts this apparent setback, but Esviya suspects she will not truly abandon her goal.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Demonstrates overwhelming magical power and a calm, enigmatic nature. She deliberately cultivates the image of a divine messenger by attributing her rescue to the Silver Witch and distributing the god’s icon.
• Captain Leif: Moves from fear and confusion to reverence and excitement. His belief that Ivette is the Snow Witch allows him to interpret the miraculous rescue within familiar local legends.
• Icefang Squad: Their terror turns into gratitude and religious awe. The encounter strengthens their faith in the God of Encounters and the Silver Witch.
• Frost Hua: Reveals an unusual emotional investment in spreading the Silver Witch’s faith. Though outwardly composed, she is disappointed by Esviya’s report and shows her characteristic stubborn determination.
• Esviya Solomon: Acts as a pragmatic adviser. He understands the limits of the Snow Emperor Temple’s authority and begins to suspect Frost Hua may personally intervene despite the indignity of acting as a missionary.
• The Silver Witch: Though absent, the god’s influence grows through Ivette’s actions and the survivors’ interpretation of events.

Significant Themes

• Mythmaking and misinterpretation: Ivette’s identity is misunderstood, but the misunderstanding creates a powerful new legend around the Snow Witch.
• Faith and divine authority: The chapter explores how belief spreads through miracles, symbols, and personal testimony rather than official institutions alone.
• Political limits of religion: The Snow Emperor Temple may represent divine power, but practical authority rests with the clan elders and ancestral shrines.
• Destiny versus manipulation: Ivette claims divine guidance, leaving it unclear whether the rescue was truly ordained or strategically arranged.
• Hidden identities and reputation: The true Snow Witch, Frost Hua, remains separate from the figure receiving the title, showing how legends can detach from their origins.
• Persistence beneath restraint: Frost Hua’s calm exterior conceals strong determination and possible plans to bypass established religious structures.

Character Interactions

• Ivette interacts briefly with Icefang Squad, saving them, accepting their gratitude, and giving Leif the Silver Witch’s icon before vanishing.
• The squad members discuss Ivette’s identity among themselves, collectively transforming an unknown powerful woman into the legendary Snow Witch.
• Frost Hua questions Esviya about promoting the Silver Witch’s worship, while Esviya respectfully but firmly explains the temple’s lack of political leverage.
• Esviya’s final reflections contrast Frost Hua’s controlled exterior with his belief that her stubborn nature will drive her to act independently.

Chapter Summary: “Harvesting”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After completing her first five-day expedition across the snowfields, Ivette stores part of her map in the Soul Brain as a backup and returns to Ice Hammer City.
• She relaxes in the hot spring courtyard at Snow Smoke Manor and checks on Frost Hua with her mental power, but the girl is absent. Ivette is disappointed because she wanted to learn how Frost Hua was spreading the goddess’s faith.
• Ivette enters her personal mental domain, a white space formed from Faith Element. She observes:
  • Ezra’s lightning symbol, representing his status as the Thunder Apostle.
  • Holy emblems and sacred statues connected to her faith.
  • Countless particles of light representing the souls of devoted believers.
• Ivette reflects on the three major applications of Faith Magic:
  1. Creating apostles as elite agents and commanders.
  2. Using believers and holy relics as remote surveillance points.
  3. Using them as channels to cast spells and attack distant targets.
• She recognizes that Faith Magic is highly versatile and allows her to act without personally exposing herself, but it consumes Faith Element quickly. She currently possesses only about fifteen units, most of which came from the Omniscient Sect.
• Ivette observes Ezra in Adlock, where he is working at the newly established Grand Temple of the Silver Witch Church.
• The temple was deliberately built opposite the Adventurers’ Guild Plaza, allowing the church to attract adventurers, merchants, and travelers.
• Ezra conducts blessing rituals while wearing the impressive Heavenly Wolf Armor. Although Ivette suspects he enjoys showing off, she admits that the armor serves as an effective symbol of divine power and helps attract believers.
• Ivette harvests the accumulated Faith Power from Adlock. The city has generated slightly more than one unit of Faith Element since August, raising her reserves from fifteen to sixteen units.
• She compares this steady religious income with the declining returns from attacking evil sect strongholds. The Eye of Omniscience has adapted by reclaiming the power granted to its believers whenever Ezra appears, preventing Ivette from gaining much energy.
• Ivette imagines expanding the Silver Witch Church throughout the Free Alliance and eventually across the Eastern Continent. She hopes to create many apostles, challenge rival gods, and make the continent itself an extension of her consciousness.
• Despite her grand ambitions, she acknowledges that she has only sixteen units of Faith Element and faces powerful opposition from other gods.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Becomes more knowledgeable and strategic about Faith Magic. She understands both its enormous potential and its strict resource limitations. Her ambitions grow from local expansion to continent-wide domination, but she remains practical enough to recognize the difficulty of achieving them.
• Ezra: Continues serving as the Thunder Apostle and plays an important role in developing the Silver Witch Church. His public use of the Heavenly Wolf Armor turns him into a living advertisement for Ivette’s divine power.
• Frost Hua: Remains absent from the location Ivette checks, leaving her current activities and progress unknown.
• The Eye of Omniscience: Demonstrates increased intelligence and adaptability by countering Ivette’s attacks and preventing her from harvesting Faith Element from its followers.

Significant Themes

• Faith as power and infrastructure: Belief is not merely spiritual; it provides energy, surveillance, communication, and military influence.
• Expansion versus limited resources: Ivette dreams of building a continent-wide church, but every apostle and magical action consumes scarce Faith Element.
• Adaptation and strategic competition: The Eye of Omniscience learns from Ivette’s tactics, forcing her to rely on slower but more stable religious growth.
• Religion and presentation: The impressive Heavenly Wolf Armor shows how symbols, spectacle, and visible miracles can attract followers.
• Ambition and realism: Ivette imagines making the entire Eastern Continent part of herself, yet the chapter repeatedly contrasts this grand vision with her modest current reserves and powerful rivals.

Important Character Interactions

• Ivette briefly interacts with Sara, who welcomes her back to Snow Smoke Manor.
• Ivette mentally searches for Frost Hua, hoping to discuss her religious mission, but cannot find her.
• Ivette observes Ezra conducting blessings alongside Aina, who assists in a priestly role at the Grand Temple.
• Ezra’s temple operates near the Adventurers’ Guild, creating a practical connection between the church and the adventuring community.
• Ivette’s conflict with the Eye of Omniscience remains indirect but increasingly strategic, as the Evil God counters her attempts to gain Faith Element.

Chapter Summary: “First Priest”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Throughout November, Ivette continues traveling weekly to the Snowfields, mapping different routes and landmarks while enjoying the region’s hot springs and food.
• Rumors spread that the mysterious “Snow Witch,” who rescues travelers in blizzards, is a servant of the God of Encounters. Ivette realizes the rumor likely concerns her own activities but allows it to continue because it increases the Silver Witch’s influence.
• Sara, a waitress at Snow Smoke Manor, discovers that the holy statue Ivette gave her has healed her chronic stomach problems and an old shoulder injury.
• The statue later protects Sara from Barton, an adventurer who breaks into her home intending to assault her. It strikes him with lightning, killing and reducing him to ash.
• This miracle convinces Sara that the Silver Witch personally protects her. Though she retains some belief in the Snow Emperor, her devotion shifts decisively toward the Silver Witch.
• Sara asks Ivette how she can properly worship the goddess. Ivette suggests that Sara become the first local priest of the Silver Witch Church and spread its faith throughout Snow Kingdom.
• Sara enthusiastically accepts. Ivette promises that, if Sara successfully establishes a respected congregation in Ice Hammer City, she may become a founding elder of the church’s Snow Kingdom branch.
• Sara receives no Gift or financial support yet. Ivette considers the holy statue and rescue sufficient compensation until Sara proves her ability to build the church.
• Sara plans to begin evangelizing among her family and ancestral settlement. However, she is confused about Ivette’s own role in the church and disturbed that she has been asked to create suitable doctrines herself using Snow Emperor legends as a foundation.

Character Developments

• Ivette grows more confident and strategic in expanding the Silver Witch’s influence. She deliberately allows the Snow Witch rumors to spread and manipulates Sara’s desire to serve the goddess into establishing a church.
• Ivette remains cautious around other gods, especially the Snow Emperor, and prefers indirect influence rather than direct confrontation.
• Sara transforms from an ordinary waitress into the Silver Witch’s first local priest. Her personal healing and miraculous rescue produce intense religious devotion and a desire to repay the goddess through missionary work.
• Sara also begins imagining a future as an important religious leader, inspired by the authority held by Snow Kingdom’s shamans and ritual priests.
• Barton serves as a threat from Sara’s past, but his attempted assault ends with the Silver Witch’s divine intervention and his death.

Significant Themes

• The birth of a religion: The Silver Witch Church begins establishing itself in Snow Kingdom through a single devoted believer.
• Faith based on personal experience: Sara’s direct experience of healing and protection makes her faith in the Silver Witch stronger than her inherited belief in the Snow Emperor.
• Manufactured myths and religious influence: Ivette knowingly permits the Snow Witch rumors and uses existing Snow Emperor traditions to shape a culturally acceptable form of Silver Witch worship.
• Power and responsibility: Sara interprets divine protection as a responsibility to spread the goddess’s teachings, while Ivette treats religious expansion pragmatically.
• Irony and improvisation: Despite presenting herself as an organized religious authority, Ivette has not prepared clear doctrines, funding, or formal structures for the church and instead expects Sara to create them.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Sara: Sara approaches Ivette for religious guidance after the statue saves her. Ivette reassures her, recruits her as a priest, and gives her a future goal within the church.
• Sara and the Silver Witch: Their relationship is built on divine protection. The holy statue heals Sara and saves her from Barton, convincing her that the goddess personally favors her.
• Ivette and the Snow Emperor: Though they do not directly interact, Ivette invokes the supposed humility of the Snow Emperor toward the Silver Witch to make Sara feel safe joining the new church. Internally, Ivette remains wary of provoking a direct confrontation.
• Sara and Barton: Barton’s attempted assault triggers the miracle that permanently changes Sara’s religious allegiance and sets the chapter’s main development in motion.

Chapter Summary: “Could She Be an Ally?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Sara leaves her waitress job at Snow Smoke Manor and returns to Ice Stone Valley, intending to use the Silver Witch’s sacred icons to heal villagers and establish a stronghold for the Silver Witch Church.
• Ivette continues mapping the Snowfields while rescuing travelers and adventurers from blizzards and magical beasts. She gives those she saves wooden icons of the God of Encounters, unintentionally helping spread the Silver Witch’s influence.
• Adventurers begin claiming that the legendary Snow Witch rescued them and gave them sacred icons. These stories rapidly strengthen the rumor that the Snow Witch serves the Silver Witch or the God of Encounters.
• In a tavern, the true Snow Witch, Frost Hua, overhears these rumors. She realizes that the mysterious missionary being mistaken for her has discovered a method of spreading faith without speaking directly to people.
• Frost Hua, who is socially timid and unsure how to promote the Silver Witch’s faith, decides to imitate this approach: rescue people and silently give them icons.
• By mid-November, Sara has successfully converted people in Ice Stone Valley, while the Silver Witch’s reputation grows among settlements and adventurers near the Cold Mountain Belt.
• Ivette notices that some adventurers falsely claim to have been rescued by the Snow Witch. Their ordinary wooden figurines, lacking the magical markings of genuine sacred icons, reveal that they are copying the popular trend to gain status.
• During a blizzard, Ivette sees a gray-cloaked figure rescue a group of adventurers by creating an ice shelter. The figure gives their leader a familiar wooden icon.
• Ivette confronts the figure and confirms that she is Frost Hua, the true Snow Witch. Frost Hua does not explain herself and vanishes into the snow.
• Ivette concludes that Frost Hua’s actions may have the Snow Emperor’s approval. She begins to wonder whether the Snow Emperor and Frost Hua might secretly be allies helping spread the Silver Witch’s faith.

Character Developments

• Sara becomes more determined and proactive. Despite lacking formal theological knowledge, she relies on the sacred icon’s real healing power and begins building the Silver Witch Church through personal relationships and practical miracles.
• Ivette grows more confident in missionary work and exploration. She remains socially observant and analytical, though her interpretation of the adventurers’ false claims humorously reveals her tendency to reach overly convenient conclusions.
• Frost Hua shifts from frustration to inspiration. Her social anxiety and lack of missionary experience make traditional preaching impossible, but she discovers a method suited to her personality: quietly saving people and leaving them icons.
• Frost Hua also becomes an indirect supporter of Ivette’s mission, though she does not openly communicate her intentions.
• The Snow Emperor remains absent but increasingly important as a possible hidden patron of Ivette’s religious expansion.

Significant Themes

• Faith spreading through action rather than preaching: Both Ivette and Frost Hua promote the Silver Witch by rescuing people and providing tangible protection instead of relying on sermons.
• Misunderstanding and reputation: Frost Hua’s deeds are incorrectly attributed to the Snow Witch, while fake adventurers exploit the legend for prestige. These misunderstandings nevertheless benefit the Silver Witch’s growing influence.
• Identity and anonymity: Frost Hua does not seek recognition, and Ivette’s missionary work also operates quietly. Their anonymity allows rumors and legends to grow beyond their control.
• Cooperation without direct communication: Frost Hua and Ivette unknowingly work toward the same goal, demonstrating how allies can emerge through shared actions even without explicit agreements.
• Power versus coercion: Frost Hua refuses to use the Snow Emperor’s authority to force the Snow Kingdom to accept the Silver Witch. Her preference for voluntary faith emphasizes the difference between genuine belief and imposed obedience.

Character Interactions

• Sara interacts indirectly with her family and villagers as she begins converting them through healing and personal testimony.
• Adventurers reinforce one another’s stories about the Snow Witch in taverns, turning rumor into a widespread cultural belief.
• Frost Hua overhears these discussions and interprets the false reports as a useful model for missionary work.
• Ivette and Frost Hua finally meet during a blizzard. Ivette identifies Frost Hua as the Snow Witch, but Frost Hua remains silent and disappears, leaving Ivette uncertain of her exact intentions.
• Their brief encounter creates the possibility of a secret alliance between Ivette, Frost Hua, and perhaps the Snow Emperor.

Chapter Summary: “On the Verge of Being Revealed”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After unexpectedly encountering Ivette while preaching the Silver Witch’s faith, Frost Hua retreats to Snow Smoke Manor, embarrassed by her abrupt departure.
• Ivette later visits her, and the two sit down for a private conversation over tea.
• Ivette confirms that Frost Hua is the mysterious missionary she saw on the snowfield, then asks whether she is the Snow Maiden and the Snow Emperor’s messenger. Frost Hua admits that all three identities are connected to her.
• Ivette asks to meet the Snow Emperor. After a long hesitation, Frost Hua agrees to introduce her immediately.
• Frost Hua reveals that the Snow Emperor is already present—within her own mind. She is not merely the Snow Maiden or the Snow Emperor’s messenger; she is the Snow Emperor herself.
• Frost Hua brings Ivette into her Divine Realm, a small, snow-covered domain consisting of icy peaks, constant snowfall, and heavy Cold Mist.
• Ivette examines the realm and compares its size with the domains of other powerful beings, such as Tertia and Vermes.
• Ivette then reveals her true appearance by removing her Light and Shadow Magic disguise.
• Frost Hua recognizes her as the Silver Witch, the God of Encounters, and her “grandteacher,” realizing that the legendary deity has been beside her all along.

Character Developments

• Frost Hua: Her normally calm and distant demeanor gives way to embarrassment, anxiety, and insecurity. She worries that Ivette will think less of her after learning her true identity and struggles with the contrast between her public image as a majestic god and her actual shy, introverted personality. Despite this, she shows trust by revealing herself and granting Ivette access to her Divine Realm.
• Ivette: She remains composed and confident even after learning that Frost Hua is a major deity. Rather than reacting with fear or reverence, she questions Frost Hua directly and treats her almost as an equal. Her decision to reveal her true form demonstrates both trust and a desire to confirm their deeper connection.
• Their relationship: The interaction shifts from suspicion and awkwardness to mutual revelation. Ivette learns Frost Hua’s secret, while Frost Hua discovers that Ivette is the legendary Silver Witch connected to her teacher.

Significant Themes

• Hidden identities and revelation: Both characters have concealed their true natures. The chapter builds toward the revelation that Frost Hua is the Snow Emperor and Ivette is the Silver Witch.
• Appearance versus reality: Frost Hua’s timid, awkward personality contrasts sharply with the grand, authoritative image of the Snow Emperor worshiped by millions.
• Trust and vulnerability: Frost Hua’s willingness to reveal her identity and Divine Realm marks a significant act of trust, while Ivette’s removal of her disguise reciprocates that openness.
• Humanity within divinity: The chapter emphasizes that gods and legendary figures can possess uncertainty, embarrassment, and emotional vulnerability.
• Equality before power: Ivette’s calm attitude suggests that true strength is reflected in inner composure rather than submission to authority.

Important Character Interactions

• Ivette gently but persistently questions Frost Hua about her identities.
• Frost Hua responds with hesitant nods and increasingly difficult admissions, revealing her discomfort.
• Ivette asks to meet the Snow Emperor, prompting Frost Hua to reveal that the deity is herself.
• Within the Divine Realm, Ivette studies Frost Hua’s power while Frost Hua observes Ivette’s remarkable calmness.
• Ivette finally reveals her silver hair, crimson eyes, and true beauty, allowing Frost Hua to recognize her as the Silver Witch and the figure connected to her lineage.

Chapter Summary: “Secrets of the Past”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette reveals her true appearance to Frost Hua, displaying her silver hair and crimson eyes. Frost Hua initially freezes in shock before formally acknowledging Ivette as her grandmaster.
• To confirm Ivette’s identity, Frost Hua asks to see her tentacles. Ivette manifests one of her evolved black Shadow Tendrils, which Frost Hua cautiously examines.
• Ivette questions Frost Hua about Rosaline’s disappearance and the War of Divine Judgment. Frost Hua explains that she and Tertia believe Rosaline’s fall concealed a larger conspiracy.
• Five hundred years earlier, the War of Divine Judgment involved Rosaline, the Dragon Kings, powerful demons, the Elven King, and possibly the Kraken and Leviathan. Every participant except the four True Gods supposedly perished.
• Tertia and Frost Hua later investigated the battlefield ruins, which were sealed inside an impenetrable barrier of Cold Mist created by the True Gods. Tertia concluded that Rosaline and possibly the Witch of Finale had been imprisoned within.
• Frost Hua spent four centuries guarding the area and cultivating from High Mage to Divine Realm powerhouse, eventually becoming the Snow Emperor of the snowfields.
• Ivette promises to help Frost Hua enter the ruins.
• Frost Hua reveals the shocking truth: Rosaline may have released the Witch of Finale. Forty years before the Day of Ending, Rosaline traveled to the Land of Finale using a Remnant Abyss while searching for Ivette.
• The Witch of Finale allegedly took Ivette’s appearance, deceived Rosaline, and was brought into the Mortal Realm, where she became the source of later calamities.
• Ivette questions this account, realizing that the Witch may actually be connected to her through the strange relationship between the Land of Finale and the Mortal Realm.
• She theorizes that the two worlds may exist at different points in time, forming a cyclical or Möbius-strip-like timeline. This could explain the Witch’s resemblance to her, the similarities between monsters and fossils, and the rise and fall of high-magic civilizations.
• Frost Hua warns Ivette that the True Gods and ancient powers may consider her dangerous if her existence becomes known.
• Ivette learns that the True Gods promoted worship of the Silver Witch not merely to honor Rosaline’s teacher, but to track Ivette through the direction of flowing faith.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Reveals her true form and begins confronting the deeper mysteries surrounding her identity, the Witch of Finale, and the timeline of the two worlds. She becomes more protective of Frost Hua and resolves to investigate the sealed ruins.
• Frost Hua: Displays intense reverence and nervousness toward Ivette but gradually opens up. Her long devotion to Rosaline and four centuries of solitary guardianship reveal her loyalty, patience, and emotional restraint.
• Rosaline: Her reputation becomes increasingly ambiguous. Rather than simply being a fallen hero, she may have unknowingly caused the Day of Ending by bringing the Witch of Finale into the Mortal Realm.
• Tertia: Though absent, she is shown to be Frost Hua’s stronger and more forceful senior sister. Her theories and investigations have shaped Frost Hua’s understanding of Rosaline’s fate.
• The Witch of Finale: Becomes linked directly to Ivette’s identity and possibly to the time structure connecting the two worlds.

Significant Themes

• Truth versus official history: The four True Gods control the accepted interpretation of the War of Divine Judgment and Rosaline’s legacy.
• Identity and mistaken identity: The Witch’s ability to resemble Ivette raises the possibility that their identities are connected across time.
• Time and cyclical reality: Evidence suggests that the Land of Finale and Mortal Realm may exist in different eras of the same reality, creating a repeating temporal cycle.
• Faith as power and surveillance: Religious worship is revealed to be a tracking mechanism rather than merely devotion.
• Loyalty and endurance: Frost Hua’s centuries-long wait for Rosaline reflects steadfast devotion despite uncertainty and despair.
• Hidden manipulation: The True Gods may have concealed the truth, imprisoned Rosaline, and used religious doctrine to locate Ivette.

Character Interactions

• Ivette gently teases Frost Hua with her tentacle and a temporary mimicry of her own face, helping ease Frost Hua’s nervousness.
• Frost Hua reverently confirms Ivette’s identity and carefully handles the Shadow Tendril, afraid of offending her grandmaster.
• Ivette comforts Frost Hua after hearing about her centuries of waiting, ruffling her hair and telling her that she has worked hard.
• Their conversation shifts from awkward reunion to a serious exchange of historical information, with Ivette acting as an inquisitive investigator and Frost Hua as a restrained but reliable source.
• Ivette’s promise to bring Frost Hua into the sealed ruins strengthens their bond and gives Frost Hua renewed hope.

Chapter Summary: “How to Become a Sacred Realm”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette reflects on the Sun God’s sudden withdrawal after launching a single counterattack. She wonders whether he mistook her for the Witch of Finale and retreated out of caution.
• She realizes that the Silver Witch Church may benefit from the Witch of Finale’s fearsome reputation. This could discourage True Gods and Orthodox Gods from directly attacking, allowing Ivette to focus on expanding the church.
• Despite this optimism, Ivette recognizes the danger of a possible divine coalition against her. To protect herself, she decides she needs a personal Divine Realm rather than continuing to rely on Frost Hua’s.
• Ivette asks Frost Hua to teach her how to obtain a domain. Frost Hua is shocked because she believes her ancestor, the legendary God of Encounters and Silver Witch, should already possess one.
• Ivette reveals that, by Mortal Realm standards, she is only an Archmage and does not possess a Divine Realm.
• Frost Hua explains that an Archmage must first create a completely new and systematic magic school unique to themselves. Once perfected, this school condenses into a Holy Core, allowing the mage to form a Sacred Domain.
• A Sacred Domain eventually evolves into a Divine Realm, while the personal magic school becomes the foundation of divine arts.
• Ivette questions whether her existing Magic Tomes and vast knowledge should qualify her for a Holy Core. She suspects that relying on knowledge inherited from the Origin Civilization may have prevented her from developing something truly personal.
• She also asks whether reaching 10,000 Mana Points is necessary. Frost Hua confirms that no one she knows has entered the Sacred Realm with less than that amount, though Ivette’s questions imply that her own situation may be unusual.

Character Developments

• Ivette: Becomes more strategically cautious after the Sun God’s retreat. She wants to protect the Silver Witch Church, conceal her true identity, and develop an independent Divine Realm. Her greatest obstacle is not a lack of knowledge or power, but the need to create something genuinely her own.
• Frost Hua: Displays deep respect and loyalty toward Ivette, immediately agreeing to help despite being nervous. Her understanding of the Sacred Realm and her memories from four centuries earlier show her expertise, while her shock at Ivette’s true level reveals how legendary Ivette’s reputation has become.
• Ivette and Frost Hua’s relationship: The exchange reinforces their ancestor-descendant bond. Frost Hua sees Ivette as nearly omnipotent, while Ivette treats her as a trusted source of knowledge and is comfortable admitting a surprising weakness.

Significant Themes

• Reputation as power: Ivette may be able to protect her church by leveraging the fear surrounding the Witch of Finale, even if that reputation is based on misunderstanding.
• Knowledge versus original creation: Ivette possesses immense inherited knowledge, but the chapter questions whether true advancement requires personal discovery rather than mastery of existing systems.
• The burden of exceptional knowledge: What makes Ivette powerful may also prevent her from easily creating a unique magic school, forcing her to build a new path rather than simply use what already exists.
• Growth and independence: Obtaining a Divine Realm represents Ivette’s need to become self-sufficient and stop relying on another person’s domain.
• Appearances versus reality: The legendary Silver Witch is perceived as an established divine being, yet she is technically only an Archmage, creating a contrast between public myth and private truth.

Character Interactions

• Ivette cautiously asks Frost Hua for help, while Frost Hua responds with immediate obedience and respect.
• Frost Hua struggles to reconcile Ivette’s legendary status with the revelation that she lacks a Divine Realm.
• Ivette calmly probes Frost Hua’s knowledge with increasingly unusual questions about Holy Cores, domains, and Mana Points. Frost Hua assumes these questions must contain deeper meaning because of Ivette’s status.
• Their conversation shifts Frost Hua’s perception of Ivette: rather than seeing her as omnipotent, she begins to recognize that Ivette’s power and unusual circumstances place her beyond ordinary cultivation standards.

Chapter Summary: The Method of Reaching the Divine Realm

Key Plot Points and Events

• Frost Hua admits she cannot explain why Ivette, despite possessing more than 24,000 Mana Points, has not reached the Holy Core or Sacred Domain stage. Frost Hua had always assumed that reaching 10,000 Mana Points naturally led to the next stage after sufficient time and cultivation.
• Ivette considers possible reasons for her stagnation, including her lack of exploration into advanced magical theories. She identifies Faith Magic—an underdeveloped field in Origin Civilization—as a possible direction for further research.
• Seeking inspiration, Ivette asks Frost Hua to show her the Snow Wind Divine Domain.
• Frost Hua’s Divine Realm is revealed to be a vast, highly customized space connected to her Snow Wind Divine Art. It amplifies ice, water, wind, and earth magic while suppressing elements such as fire and lightning.
• Ivette learns that Divine Realms function partly as enormous storage spaces. Frost Hua has spent over four hundred years gathering snow peaks, clouds, buildings, supplies, and other scenery to construct her domain.
• The design of a Divine Realm must reflect its owner’s divine art, personality, and philosophy. Proper construction improves combat ability and turns the realm into a personal training environment.
• Ivette explores Frost Hua’s domain, discovering warehouses filled largely with meat and alcohol, along with a luxurious hot-spring residence. She also notices how empty and unfinished much of the realm remains.
• At the boundary of the Divine Realm, Ivette discovers that the surrounding sea, sky, celestial bodies, and other scenery are merely highly realistic projections covering an invisible barrier.
• After examining the barrier with a Shadow Tendril, Ivette uses her Devouring and deconstruction abilities to analyze it.
• She discovers that the shell of a Divine Realm is composed of extremely low-purity Aberration Magic. By devouring and deconstructing it, Ivette realizes she may now be capable of creating a Divine Realm of her own.

Character Development

• Ivette: Moves from frustration over her unexplained cultivation bottleneck to identifying a promising research direction in Faith Magic. Her inspection of Frost Hua’s Divine Realm reveals her analytical, critical, and experimental nature. Most importantly, she makes a breakthrough by discovering the material underlying Divine Realm barriers and gains a possible route to creating her own realm.
• Frost Hua: Despite being the Snow Emperor and a powerful Divine Realm owner, she is unable to advise Ivette because Ivette’s condition is unprecedented. Frost Hua’s obedient and respectful attitude toward Ivette remains clear, but she also displays embarrassment and vulnerability when Ivette criticizes the flaws in her carefully constructed domain. Her personal tastes—especially her storage of food, alcohol, and a hot spring—make her seem more relatable and indulgent.

Significant Themes

• Limits of Established Knowledge: Even Frost Hua, an ancient and powerful expert, has no answer for Ivette’s unusual condition, showing that magical advancement does not always follow established rules.
• Research and Discovery: Ivette’s progress comes not through conventional cultivation but through observation, experimentation, and investigating neglected areas of magic.
• Personal Expression in Power: A Divine Realm is not merely a weapon or storage space; it reflects the owner’s nature, philosophy, and artistic vision.
• Appearance Versus Reality: The realistic scenery at the edge of Frost Hua’s realm is revealed to be a projection, emphasizing that magical worlds may conceal very different underlying structures.
• Power Through Understanding: Ivette’s ability to create a Divine Realm arises from comprehending and deconstructing its foundation rather than following the traditional path of cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Frost Hua respectfully acknowledges that she cannot solve Ivette’s problem, while Ivette accepts this without blaming her.
• Ivette asks Frost Hua to guide her through the Snow Wind Divine Domain, and Frost Hua obediently gives her a tour.
• Ivette evaluates the domain with a critical eye, identifying its empty areas and lack of immersion. Frost Hua becomes increasingly embarrassed because the realm represents centuries of personal effort.
• Frost Hua warns Ivette about the invisible boundary, demonstrating her continued attentiveness and loyalty.
• Ivette informs Frost Hua that examining the boundary may harm her, but Frost Hua trusts her completely and agrees without questioning her.
• Their interaction highlights the combination of grandmaster-disciple respect, Frost Hua’s absolute trust, and Ivette’s increasingly important role as both teacher and investigator.

Chapter Summary: “Divine Authority”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette reveals that she has created a tiny artificial Divine Realm by studying Frost Hua’s genuine one and reproducing its spatial structure through Mimicry.
• Frost Hua explains that Ivette has not truly broken through to the Divine Realm stage because she lacks both a Holy Core and Divine Authority.
• Frost Hua summons her Divine Authority, the Snow Emperor Staff, from the Snow Wind Divine Domain and allows Ivette to examine it.
• Ivette learns that Divine Authority:
  • Controls a Divine Realm and enables the use of divine arts.
  • Materializes from a cultivator’s Holy Core after reaching the Divine Realm.
  • Produces Divine Power, which is needed to expand and develop a Divine Realm.
  • Represents a major portion of a Divine Realm expert’s strength; losing it would severely weaken them.
• Frost Hua explains that even after centuries of cultivation, her Divine Authority produces only a small amount of Divine Power each month.
• Ivette realizes that the Aberration Magic generated by the Land of Finale may be comparable to Divine Power. Because her harvests are vastly greater than Frost Hua’s production, Ivette is no longer troubled by lacking Divine Authority.
• She concludes that her ability to create multiple customized Divine Realms may give her greater flexibility than ordinary Divine Realm experts.
• Ivette postpones developing her Divine Realm so she can prepare for an expedition into the snowfields, where she hopes to find Rosaline and the Witch of Finale in the ruins of the War of Divine Judgment.
• Frost Hua warns Ivette about the True Gods. She also reveals that the Divine Race depends on faith to prevent falling into madness, much like Evil Gods.
• Ivette decides to expand the Silver Witch Church across the Eastern Continent and compete with existing gods for believers, asking Frost Hua to help support the effort.

Character Development

• Ivette becomes more confident in her unusual power. Although she initially feels disappointed at lacking genuine Divine Authority, she recognizes that her access to Aberration Magic and ability to create multiple Divine Realms may compensate for—or even surpass—the normal advantages of Divine Realm experts.
• She also becomes more strategic, choosing to conceal her true strength behind the identity of the Witch of Finale while using Frost Hua as a public representative.
• Frost Hua grows increasingly respectful and astonished by Ivette’s abilities. She accepts Ivette’s leadership, provides valuable information about Divine Realm cultivation, and commits herself to helping develop the Silver Witch Church.
• Frost Hua’s explanation reveals her own limitations: despite centuries of cultivation and elite guidance, the growth of her Divine Realm remains extremely slow.

Significant Themes

• Power through imitation and innovation: Ivette does not follow the traditional path of cultivation but reproduces its effects through Mimicry, suggesting that unconventional methods may surpass established systems.
• The cost and structure of divine power: Divine Authority is both a weapon and the foundation of a Divine Realm, while Divine Power determines the realm’s growth.
• Faith as a source of stability and control: Gods require believers not merely for strength but to avoid madness, making religious influence a central form of political and supernatural power.
• Knowledge and generational exchange: Frost Hua’s traditional expertise complements Ivette’s modern, experimental abilities.
• Concealed identity and strategic influence: Ivette intends to shape the continent through churches, alliances, and proxies while avoiding direct exposure of her true nature.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Frost Hua have a close ancestor-descendant relationship marked by growing trust and mutual reliance.
• Frost Hua allows Ivette to enter and study her Divine Realm, then entrusts her with the Snow Emperor Staff for examination.
• Ivette questions Frost Hua about Divine Authority, Divine Power, and the True Gods, turning their conversation into an exchange of specialized knowledge.
• Frost Hua offers practical support by agreeing to help spread the Silver Witch’s faith and potentially serve as a public authority for Ivette’s plans.
• Their relationship shifts from simple reverence toward an active partnership: Ivette supplies ambition and unconventional power, while Frost Hua provides legitimacy, knowledge, and protection.

Chapter Summary: “A Miracle Beyond Compare!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After resting at Snow Smoke Manor, Ivette immediately journeys into the Snowfields with her newly acknowledged grand-disciple, Frost Hua. Although she should ideally have spent time mastering her newly acquired Divine Realm abilities, curiosity about Tertia’s theories drives her onward.
• Frost Hua guides Ivette through the Blizzard Belt and into the Frost Abyss Belt, eventually bringing her to a massive basin hidden beneath perpetual polar night and filled with dense, oppressive Cold Mist.
• The mist is revealed to be a barrier created by a True God. It possesses extreme cold, corrosive power, spatial distortions, and maze-like properties that make navigation extremely dangerous.
• To prevent separation, Ivette takes Frost Hua’s hand as they enter. Frost Hua is reassured by Ivette’s calmness and immense reputation.
• Ivette analyzes the barrier and discovers that its runic structure includes defensive “firewall” mechanisms, divine power, faith anchors, and concealed counterattack systems. She warns that attempting to absorb it into a Divine Realm could have allowed the True God to plant a hidden spatial anchor inside, making the Divine Realm vulnerable.
• Ivette further identifies a surveillance mechanism: anyone remaining inside for more than five minutes is monitored. Frost Hua confirms that she and Tertia routinely spent far longer studying the barrier, meaning the True God has likely always known about their activities and may have deliberately allowed them to continue.
• When Frost Hua becomes frightened that they too are being observed, Ivette calmly assures her that the barrier now belongs to them.
• Ivette has effortlessly seized control of the supposedly impregnable barrier. The mist parts and forms a passage, leaving Frost Hua amazed at what appears to be an impossible miracle.

Character Developments

• Ivette demonstrates her newly elevated power and extraordinary technical understanding of Divine Realm systems. She is cautious enough to recognize hidden dangers but confident enough to directly take control of a True God’s barrier.
• She also shows a protective, reassuring side by holding Frost Hua’s hand and calmly guiding her through the mist.
• Frost Hua shifts from nervous uncertainty to complete reliance on Ivette. Her long-standing belief that Ivette is capable of anything is reinforced when Ivette succeeds where she and Tertia had failed for four centuries.
• Frost Hua’s understanding of the danger deepens as she realizes that the True God may have been monitoring her and Tertia all along. Her final stunned reaction highlights the enormous gap between Ivette’s abilities and her own experience.
• Tertia, though absent, remains important through Frost Hua’s memories and previous explorations. Her inability to breach the barrier emphasizes Ivette’s superiority.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and transcendence: Ivette’s effortless conquest of a barrier that defeated two powerful Divine Realm experts establishes her as operating on an entirely different level.
• Trust and mentorship: Frost Hua’s willingness to follow Ivette, combined with Ivette’s physical and emotional reassurance, strengthens their master-disciple bond.
• Hidden danger and surveillance: The barrier is not merely a physical obstacle but a carefully designed trap capable of compromising Divine Realms and secretly monitoring intruders.
• Knowledge versus raw strength: Ivette succeeds by analyzing the barrier’s architecture and mechanisms rather than recklessly attacking it.
• The limits of certainty: What Frost Hua and Tertia believed was an unexplored challenge may actually have been a controlled situation observed by the True God.

Character Interactions

• Ivette and Frost Hua travel together as teacher and grand-disciple, visually resembling sisters because of their similar appearance and temperament.
• Ivette takes Frost Hua’s hand to keep them connected inside the disorienting mist, creating a moment of trust and comfort.
• Their conversation reveals Frost Hua’s respect for Ivette and Ivette’s role as both protector and instructor.
• Frost Hua’s growing anxiety contrasts with Ivette’s calm confidence, culminating in her astonishment when Ivette claims the barrier and opens a path through it.

Summary: “Ruins of the War of Divine Judgment”

Key plot points and events

• Ivette and Frost Hua enter the Cold Mist Barrier, believing the ruins of the War of Divine Judgment might contain clues about Rosaline, the Witch of Finale, or the Garden of Eden.
• Inside, they find not a preserved battlefield or grand ruins, but an utterly desolate plain of ice and frozen dust.
• Ivette investigates beneath the surface with her spiritual power and discovers remnants of an ancient civilization: alloys, frozen organic matter, unusual particles, and damaged nanometer-scale magic circuits.
• She concludes the area was once an Ultra-Ancient Civilization city, base, or industrial zone that was completely destroyed and later buried beneath layers of ice and sand.
• After thoroughly searching the ruins, Ivette finds no direct evidence concerning Rosaline or the War of Divine Judgment.
• Rather than treating the journey as entirely fruitless, Ivette reasons that the location itself may be significant. Since legends place the entrance to the Garden of Eden in the Snowfields, the ancient site may have contained a spacetime-related device or other technology connected to the war, Finale Descent, or the Remnant Abyss.
• Ivette suggests that Rosaline and the Witch of Finale may not have died together. They might instead have entered the Garden of Eden together.
• Before leaving, Ivette modifies the Cold Mist Barrier’s runes so it continues sending false normal signals to the True Gods, concealing their presence and activities.
• Her examination reveals that the barrier was probably an ancient Ultra-Ancient Civilization creation that the True Gods later restarted and modified. The gods’ understanding of Rune Compilation is limited, and their methods differ from those of Ivette’s Origin Civilization.
• Ivette concludes that these mysteries may eventually be solved when she enters the Divine Kingdom of the Primordial Ancestor Spirit and rescues Dugrabi.

Character developments

• Ivette remains composed, analytical, and protective. Although disappointed by the lack of tangible discoveries, she quickly reframes the expedition as potentially meaningful and develops new theories from the site’s location and history.
• Ivette also demonstrates overwhelming technical superiority by understanding and altering the Cold Mist Barrier, while recognizing that even the True Gods possess only limited Rune Compilation expertise.
• Frost Hua begins the chapter admiring Ivette and hoping to uncover something valuable. She becomes deeply discouraged when the ruins prove empty, but Ivette comforts her and restores some of her hope.
• Frost Hua’s first smile appears in response to Ivette’s reassurance, though it is strained and sorrowful. Her repeated praise of Ivette shows her growing respect and dependence on her.
• Ivette’s affection toward Frost Hua is subtle: she takes pleasure in the girl’s admiration, holds her hand while guiding her, and deliberately offers emotional support when the search fails.

Significant themes

• Hope amid failure: Though the expedition yields no concrete evidence, Ivette refuses to interpret the absence of clues as proof that Rosaline is dead.
• The erasure of history: The battlefield has been so thoroughly cleansed that even a once-great civilization has been reduced to dust, emphasizing how completely powerful beings can erase the past.
• Mystery and uncertainty: The ruins raise more questions than they answer, particularly concerning the Garden of Eden, spacetime distortion, the Ultra-Ancient Civilization, and the War of Divine Judgment.
• Technological advancement versus divine power: The True Gods appear powerful but technologically limited compared with Ivette’s knowledge of Rune Compilation. Their authority rests partly on repurposing older civilizations’ achievements.
• Faith in possibility: Ivette’s willingness to believe in alternate timelines or a “perfect worldline” reflects her determination to rescue the people she cares about and repair the past.

Character interactions

• Ivette notices and quietly enjoys Frost Hua’s admiration, while Frost Hua reveres Ivette as her master’s master.
• When Frost Hua loses hope, Ivette reassures her that the lack of evidence does not confirm Rosaline’s death.
• Ivette explains her theories about the Garden of Eden and the possible survival or joint departure of Rosaline and the Witch of Finale, though she keeps some of her more speculative ideas private.
• Frost Hua worries that the True Gods will detect their intrusion, but Ivette confidently explains how she has concealed their actions.
• Frost Hua sincerely praises Ivette’s abilities, and Ivette accepts the compliment with quiet satisfaction.

Summary: “Chance Encounter Plans”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After exploring the ruins of the War of Divine Judgment, Ivette and Frost Hua return to Snow Smoke Manor in Ice Hammer City after a leisurely three-day journey.
• Ivette spends the trip sightseeing, rescuing lost adventurers, and distributing Silver Witch statues. Upon returning, she sleeps for an entire night and wakes the following afternoon.
• Frost Hua informs Ivette that she has contacted her senior sister, Tertia, but that Tertia’s arrival will take at least a month because communication and travel across the kingdoms are extremely slow.
• Ivette plans to meet Tertia mainly to prevent the Academy of Truth from viewing the growing Silver Witch Church as a threat and to ask for help hiding Lucia’s Demon Race heritage.
• Ivette reveals her larger strategy: she wants to spread faith in the Silver Witch throughout the Snow Kingdom. She believes Faith Element may eventually give her leverage against the Primordial Ancestor Spirit and the Crimson Holy Temple.
• Frost Hua agrees to support the plan, but Ivette rejects the idea of forcibly converting followers through the Snow Emperor Temple. Such converts would lack the genuine devotion needed to generate meaningful Faith Element.
• Instead, Ivette plans to create “chance encounters” by distributing magical items, treasures, scrolls, revelations, and other miracles that will inspire sincere belief.
• Because Ivette has limited Faith Element and the Snow Kingdom is geographically vast, she intends to rely on the industrial zone on Ish Island. Bingyu can mass-produce the necessary items.
• Ivette plans to establish her Divine Realm’s anchor on Ish Island, allowing her to transport manufactured goods efficiently and distribute them across the Snow Kingdom at low cost.

Character Developments

• Ivette shows a more relaxed, domestic side while sleeping and being helped to dress, contrasting with her usual powerful and mysterious image.
• She demonstrates increasing strategic awareness, recognizing that directly opposing a True God would be dangerous and that faith-based influence may be her best means of weakening or negotiating with the Primordial Ancestor Spirit.
• Ivette also becomes more pragmatic: rather than relying on force or artificial religious conversion, she seeks to cultivate genuine devotion through carefully planned miracles.
• Frost Hua continues to treat Ivette with deep respect as her grandmaster, while also becoming more openly helpful and involved in carrying out Ivette’s plans.
• Frost Hua’s lack of experience with ordinary household tasks is humorously revealed when she awkwardly dresses Ivette.
• Bingyu is established as a crucial logistical and industrial asset, capable of turning Ivette’s plans into mass-produced magical products.

Significant Themes

• Faith as power: Religious devotion is treated as a tangible resource that can strengthen or weaken divine beings.
• Strategy over direct confrontation: Ivette seeks indirect ways to challenge the Primordial Ancestor Spirit rather than provoking an immediate conflict with a True God.
• Authentic belief versus forced conversion: Genuine devotion is shown to be far more valuable than obedience imposed through political or divine authority.
• Industrialization and logistics: Manufacturing, transportation, and communication limitations play an important role in the spread of religion and power.
• The contrast between the ordinary and the divine: Ivette’s cozy, sleepy behavior and Frost Hua’s awkward domestic assistance humanize characters who otherwise possess extraordinary power.

Character Interactions

• Frost Hua respectfully reports on her communication with Tertia and offers immediate support for Ivette’s religious expansion.
• Ivette explains why forced conversion through the Snow Emperor Temple would be ineffective, teaching Frost Hua the importance of creating sincere belief.
• Their relationship combines reverence and familiarity: Frost Hua sees Ivette as a grandmaster, while Ivette comfortably accepts her assistance and discusses major plans with her.
• Tertia remains absent but important, representing a future ally whose knowledge may protect the Silver Witch Church and help conceal Lucia’s identity.
• Bingyu is not physically present, but her industrial capabilities form the foundation of Ivette’s proposed large-scale campaign.

Chapter Summary: “Island Tycoon”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ivette plans to expand the Silver Witch Church’s influence by distributing carefully selected “encounters”—gifts or opportunities meant to reach people who need them at the right moments.
• She decides that Bingyu, who has been managing and developing Ish Island, can act as her surveillance and distribution assistant.
• Ivette gives Frost Hua a silver ring containing a Flesh Beacon. It allows communication, emergency assistance, and potentially serves as an escape anchor if Frost Hua is attacked.
• Ivette confirms that Frost Hua cannot use Faith Magic, an ability exclusive to the Divine Race. Ivette clarifies that she is not a member of that race; she merely studied and replicated the rune structures behind the power granted by the Eye of Omniscience.
• Ivette offers to teach Frost Hua Faith Magic. Frost Hua accepts gratefully, allowing Ivette’s influence to spread through Frost Hua’s own followers without requiring Ivette to monopolize all worship.
• After teaching Frost Hua her first lesson, Ivette returns to the island and discovers that Bingyu has dramatically expanded Ish City’s industrial and agricultural infrastructure. Entire districts have been redeveloped with factories, parks, botanical gardens, and ranches.
• Ivette contacts Bingyu, who initially suspects the message is a virus because she cannot believe Ivette has voluntarily reached out after being absent for years.
• Ivette finds Bingyu stranded on a remote road while pushing a motorcycle after its Elemental Capacitor loses power. She repairs and recharges it, then rides back with Bingyu to the manor.
• Ivette asks Bingyu to help create encounter-treasures, identify suitable recipients, and provide guidance so recipients understand that the gifts come from the God of Encounters. Bingyu reluctantly agrees because Ivette is her best friend.

Character Developments

• Ivette becomes more strategic and delegating. Rather than personally arranging every encounter, she begins building a system involving Frost Hua and Bingyu. She also demonstrates trust by teaching Frost Hua Faith Magic and entrusting her with a Flesh Beacon.
• Frost Hua grows closer to Ivette, viewing her as a second teacher in the absence of her own teacher. Her respect deepens when she learns that Ivette mastered Faith Magic through study rather than innate Divine Race abilities. She begins training to establish her own religious influence.
• Bingyu is revealed to be industrious and highly capable despite her playful, lonely personality. During Ivette’s absence, she effectively transforms Ish Island into a growing industrial super-base. Her childish complaints conceal a strong emotional attachment to Ivette and a desire for companionship.
• Ivette and Bingyu’s friendship is reaffirmed. Their teasing and mutual dependence show that Bingyu is one of Ivette’s few genuine friends.

Significant Themes

• Delegation and institution-building: Ivette shifts from personally controlling every action to creating systems and allies capable of expanding the Silver Witch Church.
• Faith as power and influence: Faith Magic is presented as a specialized Divine Race inheritance, but Ivette’s ability to reproduce it suggests that knowledge and ingenuity can overcome innate limitations.
• Trust and mentorship: Ivette’s gifts and lessons establish a deeper mentor-disciple relationship with Frost Hua.
• Loneliness and companionship: Bingyu’s exaggerated reactions to Ivette’s absence reveal how isolated she feels, while Ivette’s return and acknowledgment of Bingyu as her best friend provide emotional reassurance.
• Industrial progress and preparation: Bingyu’s development of Ish Island reflects long-term planning and creates the material foundation for Ivette’s future plans.

Character Interactions

• Ivette gives Frost Hua the Flesh Beacon ring and explains its protective functions, reinforcing their bond.
• Frost Hua questions Ivette’s connection to the Divine Race; Ivette answers honestly and offers to teach her Faith Magic.
• Ivette and Bingyu exchange playful, sarcastic messages before Ivette rescues her from the powerless motorcycle.
• During the ride home, their comfortable companionship contrasts with Bingyu’s earlier loneliness.
• Bingyu initially acts resentful when Ivette asks for help, but quickly gives in and agrees because of their close friendship. Ivette responds by openly calling Bingyu her best friend.

Summary of “Taking a Break”

Key events

• The narrator explains that they have paused updates after writing and deleting 6,000–7,000 words over two days.
• They realize the church’s development in the Snow Kingdom storyline is not suitable for detailed treatment.
• Because Frost Hua can resolve every problem in the Snow Kingdom, the plot lacks natural tension and risks becoming repetitive or forced.
• Having identified the underlying structural problem, the narrator decides to take two additional days off.

Character developments

• The narrator shows increasing frustration and self-criticism over the failed drafts.
• Their problem-solving process develops as they move from repeatedly rewriting scenes to recognizing that the issue lies in the plot’s fundamental structure.
• Frost Hua is characterized as overwhelmingly capable, creating a challenge for maintaining suspense.

Significant themes

• Creative struggle: The narrator describes the difficulty of producing satisfying material despite sustained effort.
• Narrative tension and balance: An excessively powerful character can undermine conflict and make events feel contrived.
• Revision and self-awareness: Discarding extensive work becomes necessary to identify and address a deeper storytelling problem.
• Author-reader relationship: The narrator apologizes to readers and acknowledges the disruption caused by the break.

Character interactions

• There are no direct character-to-character interactions in the chapter.
• The main interaction is between the narrator and the readers, as the narrator explains the hiatus and apologizes.
• Frost Hua’s overwhelming ability is discussed in relation to the Snow Kingdom’s conflicts, highlighting how her power affects the story’s broader character dynamics.