Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and the others explained that Otto had made Kiana and Durandal’s strike a final test of whether he could survive the Imaginary Torrent as himself. After Otto returned from the Tree as a fragile fragment, Durandal and Kiana regained their strength, ready to continue toward the Tree and his attempt to change Kallen’s fate.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had used the Imaginary Torrent to test whether he and the others were worthy of approaching the Tree.
• Durandal struck Otto’s Tree-Pattern Core while Kiana attacked the chain connecting him to the Tree, and the Imaginary Torrent engulfed Kolosten.
• The Torrent badly weakened Durandal and Kiana, but Otto survived as a fragment with a trace of humanity and resolved to go before the Tree for Kallen.
• Durandal rose from the ashes on a black steed, while Kiana stood again in unextinguished flames.

Durandal and Flamescion Kiana broke through Otto’s False God defenses and stood over him as he knelt, stripped of his power. They told him it was time to wake up and promised to burn away his dream, leaving the outcome of their next strike uncertain.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Durandal’s strength could shatter Otto’s Law-based restraints while Kiana’s flames could overcome his Energy Decomposition.
• Durandal and Kiana fought side by side, breaking through Otto’s defenses as he became a powerless Old Days shadow.
• Durandal and Kiana stopped before Otto, recognizing that killing him was easy but choosing what to do with him was harder.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao said Otto was gambling on their wish to protect the world, while the two women could choose how to end his plan.
• Durandal told Otto it was time to wake up, and Kiana promised to burn his dream away before the Light Screen went dark.

Durandal and Kiana broke into Otto’s reconstructed sacred palace and attacked him, while the onlookers recognized that he had anticipated their arrival. Kiana’s Fuel Fire resisted Otto’s disassembly, forcing him to evade their attacks as the battle began.

• Durandal and Kiana tore open the sky, entered the sacred palace from opposite sides, and trapped Otto between them.
• Otto calmly admitted that he knew they had come to kill him, and the onlookers discussed how their hatred and his remaining humanity could challenge his script.
• Durandal struck Otto’s white barrier with Dea Anchora and shattered it, but Otto drifted out of the way.
• Kiana sealed Otto off from the side with Fuel Fire, which scattered under his disassembly and then gathered to burn again.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto could not disassemble Kiana’s will-powered fire and would have to keep moving.

Otto used the Binding Authority to imprison the temple’s space and decompose Kiana’s flames before they could reach him. Kiana and Durandal were left struggling against powers that could forbid movement and erase attacks, while the onlookers explained the danger of fighting a False God.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto wanted the battle to force him back toward his humanity, and the Dragon God described the clash as a struggle between different ways of living.
• Otto spread his arms beneath the temple dome and invited Kiana and Durandal to settle the debt of his five-hundred-year dream.
• Otto raised his hand and used the Binding Authority to turn the temple’s space into an invisible prison, slowing Kiana’s flames and trapping Durandal’s movement.
• Durandal forced a punch through the viscous space, but Otto stopped it three feet from his face by redefining distance.
• Kiana sent her Flamescion toward Otto, but his Energy Decomposition power broke the fire into fragments of information and erased it.

Durandal and Kiana faced Otto’s Binding Authority, which dismantled their attacks by controlling what could exist. Durandal took Otto’s Binding Chains upon herself to shield Kiana, opening a brief path for her to strike at Otto.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto could break down the parts of Kiana’s fire that entered reality, while the others realized the two women still resisted because they remembered who they were.
• Otto loosened his confinement slightly and challenged Durandal and Kiana to keep fighting.
• Otto summoned Binding Chains, and Durandal charged in to draw their force away from Kiana.
• Durandal endured the chains’ assault with her Tianyuan Power and blocked most of them while Kiana gathered her Fuel Fire.
• Kiana rushed through the opening, and her fire drove back the remaining chains, giving her a chance to reach Otto’s true body.

Durandal endured Otto’s Binding Chains to give Kiana an opening, and Kiana’s will-powered punch grazed Otto despite his Energy Decomposition. The Light Screen went dark after the two girls pledged to keep fighting, then lit again with Durandal still standing and Kiana moving to attack.

• Durandal resisted Otto’s Binding Chains, forcing him to pause and recalculate.
• Kiana struck at Otto with Fuel Fire, whose remaining spark passed through his Energy Decomposition.
• Kiana’s flame grazed Otto’s temple and burned away several strands of his golden hair.
• Durandal and Kiana promised each other they could endure another round, and the Light Screen went dark.
• The Light Screen lit again as Durandal stood firm and Kiana moved, trusting her to hold on.

Kiana turned her memories and feelings into Flamescion and, with Durandal opening a gap in Otto’s defenses, struck the Tree Chain tethering him to the Imaginary Tree. The chain remained intact but cracked, leaving Otto kneeling and wavering as Kiana and Durandal stood back-to-back, exhausted but together.

• Kiana forged Flamescion from her memories, pain, love, and every sacrifice she had made for her comrades.
• Durandal used her last strength to crack Otto’s invisible barrier, allowing Kiana to rush in.
• Kiana’s sword struck the Tree Chain behind Otto, opening a fissure and disrupting his connection to the Tree.
• Otto’s eyes filled with tree patterns as he stiffened and fell to his knees, no longer secure in his False God power.
• Kiana’s sword went out, and she joined Durandal, with the two exhausted fighters standing back-to-back.

As Otto struggled between the Imaginary Tree and the wound Kiana’s Flamescion had burned into him, Huo Yuhao explained that the Temple’s collapse marked a turning point beyond Otto’s control. The chapter left Otto facing a choice: retreat to the Tree and have his chain restored, or remain and let the crack widen.

• The Imaginary Tree’s Temple and sky began collapsing as Otto’s connection to the Tree visibly cracked.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto was being torn between the Tree’s pull and the choice opened by Kiana’s sword, though the Tree could still repair his body.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao explained that Durandal and Kiana countered Otto’s powers, leaving him unable to attack and forcing him to endure their assault.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto’s plan had slipped beyond his control, and that he might be reclaimed by the Tree or become an ordinary man again.
• Durandal and Kiana remained exhausted beside Otto, unable to cut his chain further; Huo Yuhao said Otto now had to choose whether to retreat or let the crack widen.

Otto stood up on his own and thanked Kiana and Durandal before Kiana pierced him with a sword carrying the Authority of the Void. Otto used the strike to sever his connection to the current world and reappeared before the Tree, free of the Binding Authority.

• Tang San explained that Otto had to choose for himself whether to rise from his kneel and leave the divine throne.
• Otto slowly stood amid the collapsing Temple, faced Kiana and Durandal, and quietly thanked them.
• Kiana charged Otto and drove her flaming sword through his chest, destroying his False God shell.
• Otto smiled at Kiana and said he was glad she had killed him before his body scattered into motes of light.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena explained that Otto used the sword’s Authority of the Void to sever his connection to the current world.
• Otto re-formed before the Tree in a colorless void, without the Binding Authority.

Otto reaches the Imaginary Tree and offers up his existence to bring Kallen back in a world where he never existed. After the Light Screen goes dark, it reveals the Tree’s true form as the source of countless universes.

• Huo Yuhao explains that Otto used Kiana’s strike to sever his ties to the old World Line and reach the Imaginary Space as an unclaimed soul.
• Otto stands before the Tree and prepares to trade his remaining existence for Kallen’s return in another world.
• Tang San explains that Kallen will live in a world without Otto and will never know he existed.
• Otto touches a leaf, the Tree glows, and he says, “Kallen, this time, I'll be the one to leave.”
• The Light Screen goes dark, then reveals the Imaginary Tree in its true form, with every leaf holding a universe.

Huo Yuhao and the others learned that the Imaginary Tree gave birth to worlds while the Sea of Quantum received those that died, and they considered Otto’s attempt to restore Kallen. The chapter left them believing Otto had reached the Tree and offered his own life to create a new World Line for her, though his fate remained uncertain.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Sea of Quantum held dead worlds and that Kevin had returned from it.
• Chang Gongwei, Gu Yuena, and the others interpreted Otto’s journey as an attempt to restore Kallen by returning her fallen leaf to the Imaginary Tree.
• Tang San and Zhou Weiqing concluded that Otto had to replace Kallen’s lost existence with his own, sacrificing himself to create a World Line without him.
• Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao said Kallen would live happily without knowing Otto had made that life possible.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto had reached the Imaginary Tree and that it would draw a new leaf named Kallen; A'Dai asked what would happen to Otto.

The watchers realized Otto had reached only a projection of one branch of the Imaginary Tree, not its true form. He knowingly traded his existence through that projection to create a new world for Kallen, one that would have no place for him.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had left the Old Photograph by his bed because he had already decided to disappear rather than return.
• Tang San told Xiao Xiao that Otto had made himself the soil for Kallen to grow again, untouched by the past.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Tree before Otto was a projection of one branch, powerful enough to alter rules and cause and effect across countless worlds.
• The watchers realized Otto had reached only the projection’s range, though it was powerful enough to destroy or save him.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that the projection offered Otto a choice to trade himself for a new leaf, and Gu Yuena said Otto would not exist in the world he bought for Kallen.
• Tang San concluded that Otto knowingly begged beneath the Tree’s shadow for a tomorrow that would never bear his name.

The group discussed Otto’s sacrifice, which rewrote a World Line so Kallen could live without ever meeting him. They explained that Otto briefly gained the same borrowed Authority as Honkai itself, then vanished into the world he had changed.

• Gu Yuena explained that Otto merged with the projection and became part of a World Line where Kallen could live without meeting him.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang San described Otto’s sacrifice as a tiny change to the Imaginary Tree that gave Kallen a future while erasing Otto from her life.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Honkai itself also borrowed Authority from the Tree’s projection rather than touching the Tree directly.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao explained that Otto and Honkai received Authority from the same source, though Otto could hold it only briefly.
• Gu Yuena said Otto used that brief Authority to restore Kallen’s name in a World Line, while Honkai could only watch.

The Divine Realm watched Otto give up his existence to alter a world line so Kallen could live, becoming part of the Tree’s projection. A new branch began to grow, but Xiao Xiao was left asking whether Otto had ever intended to reunite with Kallen.

• Zhou Weiqing, the Dragon God, and Tang San explained that the Tree had lent authority to both Otto and Honkai, treating them as tools.
• Huo Yuhao said Otto was transforming into the condition that Kallen lived, becoming a past that had never existed rather than a person.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao explained that Honkai would not interfere because Otto had surrendered everything and was already resonating with the Tree.
• Otto’s figure vanished as a leaf on the branch lit and dimmed, and the Divine Realm realized he was gone.
• A new bud emerged from a crack in the branch, and Huo Yuhao said Otto had carved a new world line where Kallen lived without him or Honkai’s devastation.
• Xiao Xiao asked whether Otto had ever intended to reunite with Kallen.

Huo Yuhao and the others realized Otto had used his own existence to cut a new branch from the Tree, creating a world where Kallen could live a peaceful life without ever knowing him. The branch had begun to grow, but Otto had vanished and could not know whether his sacrifice would succeed.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Otto had used the Authority of a False God and all of his existence to carve a new World Line for Kallen.
• Tang San and Gu Yuena concluded that Otto had erased himself from Kallen’s history so she could live in a world where he had never existed.
• Bei Bei and Xiao Xiao grieved that Kallen would never know what Otto had sacrificed, while Huo Yuhao said Otto had wanted only for her to live.
• The Dragon Prince asked whether Otto had succeeded, and Huo Yuhao said the new branch had emerged but still needed time to grow.
• Huo Yuhao described the ordinary, peaceful life Kallen would have on the new branch, growing old without becoming a Herrscher or dying in the Honkai disaster.

The new world line formed as Otto’s intervention erased the Old World’s history and removed him from causality. Kallen survived in a peaceful world, while Otto dissolved into the river that carried her toward a future without him.

• The Light Screen showed a new shoot after Otto vanished, and Gu Yuena explained that he had become the soil beneath it.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the new world line would overwrite the old history and erase Otto from every chain of cause and effect.
• The river swept over the Old World’s ruins as the new world took shape, with Kallen alive and free of Honkai and Otto.
• Tang San said Otto had dissolved into the river and was carrying the new world toward Kallen, though she would never know he existed.
• Tang San and Gu Yuena said Otto had both won by saving Kallen and lost by disappearing from the world.

The spectators watched Otto disappear after spending five hundred years to give Kallen a peaceful life, believing he had changed her fate. The Light Screen revealed that convergence still destined Kallen to die, though Otto’s sacrifice prevented the catastrophe that would have followed.

• Kallen waved toward the faint figure of Otto, who watched her unseen as a warm breeze in her world.
• Huo Yuhao and the others discussed Otto’s erasure, and Tang San said they could remember him even though he no longer existed in cause and effect.
• The Light Screen went dark, and the spectators felt a final chill as Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena confirmed that Otto was truly gone.
• The Light Screen displayed that Kallen’s death remained unchanged, shocking Xiao Xiao and Xu Sanshi.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao explained that convergence would still bring Kallen’s death and that Otto’s sacrifice had only delayed it, while preventing the later Honkai catastrophe.

The group discussed how Otto’s attempt to change Kallen’s fate ended with him erased from the World Line, along with the memory of his crimes. They concluded that the Tree might carry his will into another World Line, where it could take root again.

• Xu Sanshi and the others questioned why Otto had sacrificed himself, and Ye Yinzhu and Gu Yuena explained that the Tree had erased him rather than simply punished him.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang San said the New World Line would continue, but Otto would be absent from it and its people would remember neither him nor his crimes.
• Gu Yuena and Tang San suggested Otto had known his plan might fail and had chosen to stake himself on its slim possibility anyway.
• The Dragon Prince said the group would remember Otto’s path, even though he could not hear them.
• Huo Yuhao warned that higher Rules might erase Otto’s ancient history, and Gu Yuena said the Tree could turn his ashes into the seed of another will in a different World Line.

The observers watched Otto’s sacrifice resonate with Kallen’s execution five hundred years earlier, making the past respond to his actions in the present. Otto’s attempt to alter her death threatened to destabilize their entire World Line, and the chapter ended as the Dragon Prince explained that Otto was gambling on the Tree counting his sacrifice during its recalculation.

• The Light Screen confirmed Otto’s existence had been reduced to zero while Kallen’s death remained, and the observers struggled with the cost of his failure.
• The Light Screen showed Otto burning before the Imaginary Tree alongside Kallen beneath the execution platform five hundred years earlier.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang San explained that Otto’s sacrifice had made the past resonate with the present, while Gu Yuena warned that the World Line could collapse if the resonance became unstable.
• As Otto faded, Kallen sensed him across time, and Huo Yuhao described how Otto’s sacrifices made her execution scene clearer.
• Gu Yuena explained that Otto was treating the past as something he could change in the present, and Tang San warned that the two eras could collide.
• The Dragon Prince said Otto had deliberately made history a variable, gambling that the Tree would count the part of himself he had put into it.

Huo Yuhao and the others explained how Otto briefly changed Kallen’s execution through a resonance across five hundred years, only for the Imaginary Tree to restore her death and erase him from causality. The chapter ended with the observers recognizing that Kallen’s glance at Otto had survived as a crack in the restored history.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Imaginary Tree had marked Kallen’s execution for correction, and that Otto’s resonance drew him into the past until he was erased from causality.
• Kallen’s execution scene synchronized with Otto’s disappearance, and the Honkai lights went dark as the Tree restored her death as an ordinary event attributed to force majeure.
• Gu Yuena explained that Kallen’s death was an early knot in the Tree’s causality, while Tang San said Otto had briefly made fixed history dynamic.
• A'Dai pointed out that Kallen had looked toward Otto during their moment of overlap, and Huo Yuhao said that the glance counted among those who witnessed it.
• The Light Screen showed the two timelines closing together while a crack remained, and Tang San said Otto’s interference had left a lasting mark on history.