Recaps

Otto used Kiana’s battle against the Herrscher of Domination to collect its thousand mental threads and weave a net that would isolate the World Lines and raise the odds of reviving Kallen to nearly one hundred percent. The observers warned that the souls he had treated as tools might awaken and undo his plan, leaving the struggle to continue until someone within the net opened their eyes.

• Tang San and Tang Wulin realized Otto had been watching the Theater’s structure rather than caring about Kiana’s fight.
• Otto explained that the Herrscher of Domination’s thousand souls formed a psychic network able to connect World Lines without interference.
• Kiana shattered the Theater, allowing Otto to collect its mental threads and announce that Kallen’s revival was nearly certain.
• Huo Yuhao and the others concluded that Otto had used Kiana’s fire and courage to dismantle the Theater while preserving its souls as material for his plan.
• Gu Yuena and the Dragon God warned that the souls Otto had crushed might resist being used, and Huo Yuhao said the game would continue until someone awakened within the net.

After Kiana shattered the Theater of Domination, Otto used his Soul Steel Bodies to overwrite the fading souls of the Thousand-Person Consciousness and seize their network. The observers realized his apparent victory had completed his plan, and Xiao Xiao wondered whether the game’s outcome was now certain.

• Xue Ye left after declaring that fate resisted anyone who tried to calculate its answer.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had hidden countless Soul Steel Bodies around the world as footholds for his consciousness.
• As the Thousand-Person Consciousness faded after Kiana destroyed the theater, Otto’s consciousness raced through the Soul Steel Bodies and overwrote the dying souls.
• Huo Yuhao and the others concluded that Otto had claimed the Thousand-Person Consciousness Network as an extension of himself and intended to use it to reach the World Lines.
• Tang Wulin realized that Kiana’s apparent victory had completed Otto’s plan, and Xiao Xiao asked whether the game’s ending was now certain.

Huo Yuhao explained that a fragment of a soul resisting Otto’s control might disrupt his plan to hand the web of consciousness to Kallen. As the Will of Honkai noticed Otto after he seized the Theater of Domination’s Authority, the observers realized that its attention might be the next step Otto had anticipated.

• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena identified Kiana and a possibly unassimilated soul fragment as variables Otto might have overlooked.
• Otto stood at the center of the web of consciousness and announced that only one final step remained.
• A brilliant crack appeared in the scene, and Huo Yuhao sensed that something far away was watching Otto.
• A vast white phantom appeared over the moon, and Huo Yuhao identified it as the Will of Honkai.
• Tang San and Gu Yuena explained that Otto had seized Honkai’s Authority and was now exposed to a supreme existence.
• Otto smiled at the Will of Honkai, and Huo Yuhao concluded that being noticed might be part of Otto’s plan.

Otto revealed that he had seized the Authority of Domination to draw the Will of Honkai’s attention and prove he had reached something beyond the world. Facing its gaze, he offered to regress human civilization by five hundred years, while the others realized his true goal was to break a World Line and reclaim the girl waiting behind the door.

• Zhou Weiqing and the others concluded that Otto had risked everything to force the Will of Honkai to notice him.
• The Will of Honkai’s gaze pressed down on Otto’s Dark-Gold Giant Web, and Huo Yuhao explained that the screaming souls reflected Otto’s buried fear and guilt.
• Otto bowed to the phantom and declared that he had finally reached the point he had pursued for five hundred years.
• The Dragon God explained that Otto wanted the Will of Honkai to witness him breaking a World Line to reclaim the girl who had already died.
• Otto offered to use the Authority of Domination to send global civilization back five hundred years, provoking Bei Bei’s horror and anger.

Otto offered the Will of Honkai the regression of civilization by five hundred years in exchange for Kallen's resurrection, and it accepted his bargain. The observers realized Otto had made all humanity a sacrifice and that, by the time he faced God, stopping him meant standing against the Will of Honkai.

• Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao, and Tang San explained that Otto offered to regress civilization because the Will of Honkai wanted humanity stripped of technology and reason.
• Otto called Kallen an insignificant soul and offered the accumulated souls of humanity as the first payment for her resurrection.
• Otto claimed the Authority of Domination allowed him to erase five hundred years of civilization, and the Will of Honkai accepted his offer.
• The Light Screen went dark after Otto declared the deal made, leaving the observers horrified by the scale of his sacrifice.
• A'Dai asked why no one stopped Otto, and the Dragon God explained that by then opposing Otto meant standing against God.

Otto bypassed the Will of Honkai and approached the Imaginary Tree, intending to rewrite the world so Kallen had never died. He pressed a light containing five hundred years of calculations and sacrifices against the Tree’s roots to create a new World Line.

• Tang San explained that the Will of Honkai had become Otto’s accomplice, while Huo Yuhao pointed out that a girl Otto used as a bridge still carried a tiny flame.
• The Douluo group saw Otto approach the Imaginary Tree, and Huo Yuhao and Tang San explained that Otto had used his deal with the Will of Honkai as a smokescreen to reach the Tree’s roots.
• Gu Yuena explained that Otto wanted to rewrite reality from five hundred years ago so Kallen had never died, rather than resurrect her.
• Tang San warned that changing the World Line could erase the current world and everyone who had lived in it, while Gu Yuena explained that Otto’s web of more than a thousand souls could let him slip past the Tree’s rejection.
• Otto reached a root node and pressed a brilliant drop of light, containing five hundred years of calculations, phenomena, and sacrifices, toward it to make the Imaginary Tree acknowledge a World Line where Kallen did not die.

The God Realm watched Otto approach the Imaginary Tree, intending to sacrifice his world to reach a World Line where Kallen lived. He then deceived Durandal into opening a path to Imaginary Space, leaving her unknowingly serving as his bridge to the tree.

• The Dragon God explained that Otto’s success would create a new world from five hundred years earlier at the cost of this world, and Ye Yinzhu said Otto was prepared to die for the chance that Kallen lived elsewhere.
• Otto reached toward the tree root as the God Realm realized he was willing to destroy countless lives to reach the world he sought.
• Otto told Durandal that he wanted her help saving Bubble Worlds, and she agreed to accompany him into Imaginary Space.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto’s real aim was to use Durandal’s strength and sincere purpose to stabilize his connection to the Imaginary Tree.
• Durandal entered the light-formed doorway in armor, with Otto following her under the guise of an honorable expedition.

Otto used Durandal’s resolve to create a bridge to the Imaginary Tree, concealing that he intended to leave her behind and reach the Tree Heart himself. Once the bridge formed, he confirmed that Durandal alone had provided enough of the will he needed.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had hidden his plan to use Durandal’s Anchor Point to rewrite time five hundred years in the past.
• Durandal entered Imaginary Space first, and Otto followed as the gate closed behind them.
• Otto used Durandal’s steps and will to form a golden bridge through Imaginary Space toward the Imaginary Tree.
• Durandal sensed something watching them, but Otto told her it was the Imaginary Tree and urged her onward.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Otto had extracted a stable Will Anchor from Durandal and could now reach the Tree Heart without her.
• Otto stopped at the bridge’s beginning and remarked that Durandal alone had been enough.

The onlookers watched Otto use Durandal’s will to complete a bridge through the Imaginary Space, leaving her to fade as he approached the Tree. After the screen went dark, it showed Otto in Kolosten publicly revealing the truth about Honkai, while Huo Yuhao warned that he was using fear to distract the world from his actions.

• Durandal’s fingertips began turning transparent as Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had made her part of the bridge and that she could no longer turn back.
• Otto walked toward the Tree, and the Light Screen went dark as the onlookers reflected on the people he had sacrificed to reach it.
• The Light Screen showed Otto addressing a crowd in Kolosten and revealing that Honkai threatened every civilization.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto was using the true danger of Honkai to make the world afraid and conceal what he was doing in the Imaginary Space.

The observers watched Otto announce his retirement and appoint Theresa as Schicksal’s new leader, while recognizing that he had left her with the blame and burden of a power vacuum he had engineered. The Light Screen went dark, and the observers concluded that Otto had already left the human world and would return with a world tied to Kallen.

• Otto announced that Theresa would succeed him as Schicksal’s Overseer and asked the public to trust her.
• The observers said Otto had used the handover to make Theresa a scapegoat while preserving his own escape and a path back to power.
• Theresa watched Otto leave without turning back as he told her, “From today onward, you are Schicksal.”
• The observers said Otto’s disclosure of Honkai and removal of potential dissenters would leave humanity afraid and calling for his return.
• The Light Screen went dark, and Xue Ye reflected that Otto had left the world beneath the threat of a sword.

Otto sent waves of clones to attack Kiana and her companions, then publicly admitted that his deal with the Will of Honkai would regress civilization by five hundred years. He challenged them to come to Kolosten, having engineered events so Kiana’s fury and power would help him reach the roots of the Imaginary Tree.

• Kiana and her companions fought off Otto’s mass-produced clones aboard a warship while protecting the people evacuating behind them.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had sent the clones to provoke Kiana and lure her to Kolosten.
• Otto appeared on a virtual screen and admitted that his deal with the Will of Honkai would return civilization to a state five hundred years earlier.
• Otto challenged Kiana and her companions to stop him at Kolosten before his deadline, then ended the transmission.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao concluded that Otto had left Kiana no viable choice but to pursue him, making her power serve his plan.

The God Realm watchers realized Otto had arranged Kiana and her companions’ trials to make them stronger and more desperate for his plan. Kiana continued toward Otto in Kolosten, unaware that he wanted her Flamescion to burn away her hesitation and tear open the Imaginary Tree’s barrier.

• Tang San said Kiana was the final variable Otto had left for himself, and Kiana vowed to stop Otto after he vanished.
• Kiana and her companions entered Kolosten, where three regions separated them into individual trials.
• Huo Yuyao and Tang San explained that Otto’s trials were meant to ripen the group’s strength, pain, and resolve rather than kill them.
• Kiana’s Flamescion blazed as Otto watched from beyond a distant door and urged her to keep going.
• Tang San concluded that Otto was forcing Kiana to abandon her hesitation so her perfected flame could break through the World Rules and open the Imaginary Tree’s barrier.

The observers explained that Otto’s trials forced heroes to grow into sacrifices, and Kiana completed her transformation into the Herrscher of Flamescion. The scene then shifted to Bronya’s trial in an opera house, where Rita began confronting her fear that she could not truly feel.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto designed the trials to make the heroes grow stronger while bringing them closer to becoming sacrifices for Kallen.
• Kiana rose and became a complete Herrscher of Flamescion, while Otto watched with satisfaction.
• The observers discussed how Otto intended the heroes to reach the altar willingly, believing they were fighting for the world.
• Bronya appeared alone in an opera house, where Rita welcomed her to a performance prepared by Otto.
• Rita summoned phantoms from Bronya’s past and challenged her to admit whether she could truly feel, while Bronya stood her ground.

Bronya awakened the full Authority of the Reason Law User by believing her heart still existed, but Huo Yuhao and the others realized Otto had manipulated her and Rita to complete his plan. The Light Screen then showed Li Sushang confronting Fu Hua on the wasteland at Kolosten.

• Bronya summoned thousands of Pseudo Black Holes that tore apart the opera house, but she spared Rita, who vanished with a smile.
• Huo Yuhao and the others concluded that Otto had used Rita as a whetstone and Bronya as a blade, turning their growth and humanity into part of his plan.
• Bronya returned to reality exhausted, clutching her doll as the markings of the Reason Law User stabilized in her palm.
• The Light Screen shifted to the wasteland at Kolosten, where Li Sushang faced Fu Hua, and the two recognized their shared martial teachings as they fought.

Fu Hua and Li Sushang fought to a bloody standstill because neither could fully turn against a fellow disciple, just as Otto had planned. Fu Hua urged Kiana onward, and Kiana ran alone toward the center of Kolosten, unaware she was following Otto’s design.

• Li Sushang and Fu Hua fought with Taixuan Sword God, with Fu Hua restraining herself while Li Sushang fought desperately.
• Their strongest attacks left both of them wounded and sprawled on the wasteland, fulfilling Otto’s plan to make their ties keep them from stopping each other.
• Fu Hua struggled to raise her head and signaled Kiana to go, despite knowing Otto was waiting for her ahead.
• Kiana looked back at Fu Hua and Li Sushang, then continued running alone toward the center of Kolosten.
• The Light Screen went dark as the onlookers realized Otto’s plan had brought Kiana to him after five hundred years of waiting.

Durandal entered the Kaslana Stigmata Space, discovered that she was the real Kiana Kaslana, and awakened Dea Anchora. Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had engineered both Kianas’ lives so their combined powers would unlock the final lock on the Imaginary Tree.

• Otto pretended to retreat as Durandal fought him, then opened a Stigmata-patterned door and urged her to enter and discover her real name.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had lured Durandal into the Kaslana Stigmata Space to force her bloodline and power to awaken.
• Durandal saw memories of her past and learned that she was the real Kiana Kaslana, while the silver-haired girl Otto raised was her clone.
• Durandal accepted her true name, awakened Dea Anchora, and gathered the Stigmata Space’s runes into herself.
• Huo Yuhao and the others concluded that Otto planned for both Kianas to unite and use their combined powers to open the final lock on the Imaginary Tree.

Tang San and the others watched Otto dismantle Kolosten and use its existence to form a pillar connecting to the Imaginary Tree. As Kiana and Durandal approached, Otto’s final ritual left them as the only remaining fighters capable of reaching him.

• Ji Dong and Lie Yan explained that Otto had turned Durandal’s suffering into fuel for her strength, while Huo Yuhao said Kiana and Durandal were the last pieces Otto needed.
• Tang San said Otto could not calculate the instant someone took a blade for another, and the Light Screen showed Otto halt in Kolosten as Kiana charged toward him.
• Otto raised a hand and dismantled Kolosten into golden data streams, revealing that the town had been a ritual altar prepared to power his plan.
• The golden streams formed a pillar that pierced the Imaginary Void and connected Otto to the Imaginary Tree, while the others realized the earlier battles had cleared the field for the ritual.
• Anti-Entropy’s soldiers collapsed after Otto used the Erosion Law User’s Authority to incapacitate them, leaving Kiana and Durandal as the final two fuses.

As Kiana and Durandal charged Otto in the golden pillar, Huo Yuhao explained that their fury would provide the Anchor Point Otto needed to reach the Imaginary Tree and rewrite reality. The pillar then turned white and began remaking Otto, and Huo Yuhao realized he was replacing the Constraint Herrscher rather than simply connecting to the tree.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto needed Kiana and Durandal’s intense emotions to stabilize the pillar and reach the root of the world.
• Kiana and Durandal rushed into the pillar toward Otto, who welcomed their attack because their wills would fuel his plan to reach the moment Kallen fell five hundred years earlier.
• Tang San proposed that Kiana and Durandal withdraw their emotions at the crucial moment to extinguish the pillar’s Anchor Point, though Gu Yuena warned they might be unable to hold back.
• The pillar abruptly became still and turned white as Otto’s body was rearranged by its light.
• Huo Yuhao identified Otto’s transformation as an attempt to replace the Constraint Herrscher, the Eleventh Herrscher, and claim its power of prohibition.

The onlookers learned that Otto had seized the Binding Authority and become a False God, placing him beyond the reach of Kiana and Durandal’s attacks. Otto rose toward the Imaginary Tree to rewrite Kallen’s fate, while the Dragon God and Gu Yuena warned that his new power had cut him off from mortal feeling and from Kallen herself.

• Gu Yuena and Tang San explained that Otto had obtained the Binding Authority, making Herrscher powers unable to affect him.
• Kiana and Durandal attacked Otto, but his Binding power stopped their flames and sword strikes just short of reaching him.
• The Dragon God and Gu Yuena said Otto’s godhood had separated him from mortal reality and would prevent him from seeing Kallen as a person.
• Tang San explained that Otto still had to reach the Imaginary Tree and change the line stating that Kallen was dead.
• Otto rose in a pillar of white light and invited Kiana and Durandal to follow him to the end of the Imaginary Tree.

Otto rewrote Kolosten and raised a vast temple stairway as he climbed toward the Imaginary Tree, leaving the human world behind. The observers believed his ascent would make him powerful enough to lose the humanity that could have reunited him with Kallen.

• Otto restored Kolosten by rewriting reality, though he did not bring back the people who had died there.
• Otto reshaped the earth and clouds into an immense stairway leading to a temple above the clouds.
• Huo Yuhao said Kevin was the only one who could overpower Otto, but Kevin was absent and Kiana and Durandal were not yet ready to fight a False God.
• Gu Yuena said Otto had built the stairway for himself, while Tang San and the others warned that ascending would distance him from Kallen and the human world.
• Otto climbed into the white temple and disappeared through its gates.

Otto learned that the Imaginary Tree had claimed the price of his power and ordered him to destroy civilization. As the Tree began to rewrite him, he needed Kiana to choose freely and use her authority to sever its control before he could secure Kallen’s return.

• The observers discussed Otto’s plan to fix Kallen’s World Line and predicted that an unexpected act of love could bring down his Cloudtop Divine Palace.
• The Imaginary Tree ordered Otto to prune the civilization by destroying it, revealing that he had become its envoy.
• Otto resisted the command because destroying civilization would prevent Kallen from returning, but the Tree’s influence began to grow inside him.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto needed Kiana to use her Kong Law User authority to cut off the Tree’s control, making her choice the final gamble in a race against the Tree.

Otto asked Kiana to release him from the Imaginary Tree before it erased his identity, while observers debated whether she would save him and the world. The screen then showed Otto blaming civilization for Kallen’s death, as the others pointed out that he himself had caused it.

• Otto told Kiana that only she could release him from his shell as the Imaginary Tree consumed him.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto needed Kiana to act and that her choice could break the deadlock between Otto and the Tree.
• The observers discussed Otto’s fear of losing himself before Kallen could return and Kiana’s role in bringing him back.
• Otto claimed that civilization’s cruelty and indifference had caused Kallen’s death and demanded repayment from humanity.
• Bei Bei accused Otto of shifting the blame, pointing out that Otto had released the Collapse Beasts that killed Kallen.

The God Realm commentators recognized that Otto had turned his guilt over Kallen’s death into hatred of humanity, using his supposed debt collection to excuse five centuries of atrocities. As Otto prepared to continue his plan to resurrect Kallen, they concluded that he could no longer stop or face what she might ask him.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had erased his own role in Kallen’s death from his memories and blamed the world instead.
• Gu Yuena and Tang San said Otto believed humanity was guilty because admitting his own responsibility would destroy the excuse that had sustained him for five hundred years.
• The commentators condemned Otto for making himself humanity’s judge while suppressing knowledge and killing anyone who might remind him of the truth.
• Lie Yan and Tang San reasoned that Otto wanted Kallen’s resurrection to escape his guilt, but feared that she would ask why he had hurt others.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto could no longer turn back, while Otto declared that he would make the world repay Kallen before the Light Screen went dark.

Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had prepared two paths: Kiana could sever his connection to the Imaginary Tree and free him, or refuse and let the world be destroyed. The chapter ended with Otto admitting that he needed Kiana’s hatred and power to cut his connection for him.

• Otto revealed a crack in the white barrier and urged Kiana to use the Authority of the Void and Imaginary Renormalization against him.
• Huo Yuhao explained that if Kiana severed Otto’s connection to the Imaginary Tree, Otto would escape its control and become a free False God.
• Huo Yuhao warned that Imaginary Renormalization would burn Kiana’s power, while refusing to attack would leave Otto to destroy civilization under the Tree’s influence.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Tree’s counterattack would concentrate pressure at the severed connection, creating a singularity that could peel Otto’s soul away from the Tree.
• Otto admitted that he needed Kiana to hate him and use her light to cut his rope, turning her attacks into an escape route.

Tang San and the others watched Otto prepare to regress the world if Kiana’s attack failed, and Tang San proposed that Kiana force Otto to face Kallen and the world together. The chapter ended with the group believing Otto would have to look at Kallen and answer Kiana’s question when she asked whether Kallen would accept a life bought at the world’s expense.

• Tang San explained that Kiana’s kindness might let her reach Otto without becoming like him, even if she had to use her fire to drag him back to the human world.
• Otto revealed a fallback plan to regress civilization by five hundred years if Kiana’s strike failed to free him or bring Kallen back.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena recognized that Otto had made the world pay in every possible outcome because he valued Kallen above it.
• Otto admitted that he had never hesitated between Kallen and the world, and Huo Yuhao called his choice a debt rather than love.
• Tang San proposed that Kiana place Kallen on the scales beside the world and make Otto see whether Kallen would accept a resurrection bought with everyone’s lives.