Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and the others watched evidence of Otto’s experiments and mass deaths, learning that he had caused Honkai disasters and sacrificed countless people to pursue his obsession with Kallen. The Dragon God warned that Otto’s obsession would keep demanding more lives and could never be satisfied.

• Tang Ya recoiled as Bei Bei condemned Otto for turning young girls into Valkyries, while He Caitou noted that their cries could not be heard outside.
• The Light Screen showed Honkai Beasts destroying a city and the death toll climbing into the tens of millions under the Otto Plan.
• Huo Yuhao and the others condemned Otto for treating casualties as data and manipulating Valkyries into believing their deaths were heroic sacrifices.
• The group concluded that Otto had divided the world into Kallen and everyone he was willing to sacrifice to see her again.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had unleashed Honkai and then posed as its savior, leaving the victims unaware of his role.
• The Dragon God declared that Otto’s obsession would consume countless lives in pursuit of Kallen, yet would never be satisfied.

The Light Screen revealed that Otto deliberately held back Schicksal’s progress against Honkai, keeping humanity in danger so he could remain its indispensable savior. The chapter ended with the Douluo God Realm realizing that he had turned generations of human lives and hopes into pieces on his chessboard.

• The Dragon God said Otto would sacrifice the world to the name he sought, while the Light Screen showed him surrounded by cultivation chambers and promising to keep trying until that person returned.
• Otto demoted a proposal that could suppress Honkai sources within twenty years, telling Schicksal’s research director to slow the work down.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Otto was deliberately preserving Honkai’s spread, and he explained that Otto needed the threat to keep his chessboard intact.
• Otto said that fear made people cling to hope and become obedient, while the gods condemned him for sustaining an endless war and withholding victory.
• The gods concluded that Otto used Valkyries’ short lives and delayed technologies to control humanity, leaving generations unaware of the possibilities he had sealed away.

The God Realm concluded that Otto had prolonged humanity’s suffering and silenced anyone who might expose his design, leaving only Kallen’s return as a possible way to stop him. The Light Screen then showed Otto eliminating a scholar who had uncovered the pattern behind Schicksal’s carefully timed victories, before redirecting a Valkyrie squad into a dangerous mission.

• Hai Long, Tian Hen, Huo Yuhao, and the others described how Otto kept humanity dependent on him by withholding a real cure for Honkai.
• Tang San said Otto could only be stopped if he realized Kallen would reject the game he had built.
• An Elder discovered that Schicksal’s victories were calculated to fall just short of ending the threat and hurried away with his evidence.
• A shadow killed the Elder, and the next day’s news reported that he had died of sudden cardiac arrest.
• Huo Yuhao and the others recognized the death as part of Otto’s effort to erase anyone who approached the truth.
• Otto calmly ordered a Valkyrie squad to continue advancing into a region with especially high Honkai activity.

The observers watched evidence of Otto sacrificing Valkyrie squads and eliminating researchers who uncovered suppressed ways to fight Honkai. Huo Yuhao explained that over five hundred years, Otto had systematically killed those capable of seeing through his rule, leaving humanity dependent on his guidance.

• Otto ordered Squad Seven’s deaths recorded as a valuable sacrifice after sending them into a high-concentration Honkai Energy zone without reinforcements.
• The observers condemned Otto for treating the squad as disposable pawns and erasing their names and sacrifice from history.
• A researcher discovered a delayed proposal that could have ended Honkai, and Otto admitted he had postponed it because he was not ready.
• Otto’s confrontation with the researcher ended with a sound of something snapping, while Zhou Weiqing identified the death as one of Otto’s supposed accidents.
• Huo Yuhao told A’Dai that Otto had eliminated every wise person who got close to the truth over the past five hundred years.
• The Dragon God concluded that Otto had treated perceptive people as pieces to capture early, making the game steadier by removing them.

Huo Yuhao explained how Otto stole the Laws of Imaginary and Soul from the Honkai God and obtained the Ganges Sand Plan, giving him a way to alter reality and pursue a world where Kallen lived. The chapter left Otto poised to use those two inheritances to change the world.

• Xue Ye, Huo Yuhao, and Gu Yuena discussed how Otto had suppressed an entire civilization and lost his way back to the person Kallen had been.
• The Light Screen showed Otto using Fenghuang Down to connect to Sirin and steal the Honkai God’s knowledge of the Laws of Imaginary and Soul.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the theft succeeded but further eroded Otto’s humanity, leaving him with knowledge of the world’s underlying rules.
• The image showed Su giving a golden-haired Valkyrie a wooden box containing the Ganges Sand Plan and a Bodhi Leaf that recorded countless World Lines and possibilities.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao explained that Otto could combine the God’s Laws with the Bodhi Leaf’s possibilities to seek a world where Kallen lived, using other worlds as fuel.

Huo Yuhao and the others learned that Otto had spent five hundred years sacrificing lives to build a fulcrum for changing the World Line and bringing Kallen back. They discovered that he sought authority over the Imaginary Tree and needed a controllable, human Herrscher of the Void as his key.

• Huo Yuhao explained that using Fenghuang Down eroded Otto, but Otto accepted the cost to himself to bend reality toward his chosen World Line.
• Tang San and Chang Gongwei described the deaths and destruction Otto had meticulously accumulated as bricks in an altar that could support his attempt to alter fate.
• Gu Yuena warned that Otto had moved from being a chess piece to moving pieces across worlds as the Light Screen went dark.
• Otto examined the Imaginary Tree and concluded that technology and Honkai Energy could not overcome the Rules of the world without authorization to alter reality.
• Huo Yuyao explained that Otto needed a Herrscher of the Void to access the barriers between worlds, and Otto clarified that the key had to be controllable and possess humanity.

The observers realized Otto had raised Kiana Kaslana as a living key, nurturing her humanity and attachments so he could make her choose the power needed to reach Kallen. The chapter ended with Otto gazing tenderly at the infant Kiana floating in a biological pod.

• Zhou Weiqing and the others concluded that Otto needed a living person whose emotions could be shaped into a key for the World Gate.
• Huo Yuhao identified Kiana Kaslana as Kallen’s descendant, and the group recognized that Otto had cultivated her humanity and attachments for his plan.
• Tang San and Lie Yan reasoned that Otto intended to drive Kiana into despair until she chose the power herself and became the Herrscher.
• The observers condemned Otto’s plan to use Kiana as a bridge and reflected that his path toward Kallen had only taken him farther from her.
• The Light Screen showed Otto standing beside a biological pod, tenderly watching the infant Kiana inside.

Huo Yuhao and the others realized Otto had engineered Kiana’s humanity, using Himeko’s sacrifice and her companions’ genuine love to shape her into a Herrscher who could retain her will. They concluded that Otto treated every bond surrounding Kiana as part of his plan to make her a living key capable of moving the World Line.

• Otto’s plan for K-423 was revealed: he had designed Kiana’s kindness to help her bear the Herrscher’s Authority without being consumed by it.
• The group watched Himeko die protecting Kiana and learned that Otto had allowed the sacrifice to happen so its grief and final plea would strengthen Kiana’s resolve.
• Kiana mourned Himeko but held on to her words, and Huo Yuhao explained that her love for Himeko helped suppress the Herrscher’s consciousness.
• The group recognized that Kiana’s companions’ bonds also anchored her humanity, while Otto had secretly treated their genuine care and sacrifices as conditions for completing his key.
• A'Dai condemned Otto for using real love and loyalty to forge Kiana into a weapon.

The group analyzed how Otto shaped Kiana’s love, grief, and resolve into a means of controlling her and guiding her toward becoming the Herrscher of Flamescion. The chapter ended with Kiana wielding multiple Herrscher powers, unaware that Otto intended to use her as a path to Kallen.

• Zhou Weiqing explained how Otto used Kiana’s attachments and sacrifices to make her a controllable key.
• Gu Yuena and Tang San argued that Kiana’s own choices—not power or sacrifice—could ultimately free her from Otto’s script.
• The Light Screen showed Otto watching Kiana’s growth and later observing her gather multiple Herrscher powers among the stars.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto wanted Kiana to become the Herrscher of Flamescion, a torch that could reveal a route through the World Lines to Kallen.
• Gu Yuena, Lie Yan, and Rong Nianbing described how Otto used Kiana’s righteous motives and combined powers to guide her toward that goal.
• Kiana formed an Imaginary Blade, a greatsword, and then a burning banner, while Zhou Weiqing warned that Otto had scripted even her tears.

The group discussed how Otto had used Kiana’s compassion and mounting disasters to push her into becoming the Herrscher of Flamescion, while wondering whether her fire could ultimately break his plan. The screen then showed Kiana fighting the Herrscher of Domination’s collective consciousness as Otto watched from an observation room, though Huo Yuhao warned that her battle was not what Otto truly cared about.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had used escalating disasters and threats to Kiana’s loved ones to force her to gather Herrscher powers and become Flamescion.
• The group speculated that Kiana might turn her fire against Otto’s scheme, while Tang San said Flamescion could eventually consume the false comfort Otto had offered her.
• The screen showed Otto welcoming the newly transformed Herrscher of Flamescion as the final chess piece landed where he wanted.
• The Light Screen showed Kiana entering the Theater of Domination, where she fought a labyrinth formed from the consciousnesses of thousands of dominated souls.
• Huo Yuhao identified the Theater of Domination and explained that its many voices and doors represented the Herrscher’s collective nature.
• The scene shifted to Otto watching the shattered Theater of Domination from an observation screen, and Huo Yuhao said Kiana’s fight was not what Otto truly cared about.

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.