Chapter Summaries

Elina faced five Black Robe Knights and Barbarian Beast as the Turing Cult’s forces overwhelmed her guards, forcing her to consider summoning Lilith. Arthur arrived and fought the cult knights, while Lilith urged Elina to keep testing whether he could become a trustworthy confidant.

• Elina assessed the encirclement and asked Lilith to hold off Barbarian Beast and the Black Robe Knights so she could escape.
• Arthur entered the fight, and two Black Robe Knights charged him; he unleashed Silver Radiance and sent them flying.
• Barbarian Beast sent another knight to join the attack, but Lilith stopped Elina from intervening and urged her to test Arthur’s reliability.
• Lilith explained that Elina needed talented, loyal confidants who could learn the Breathing Techniques she possessed.
• Arthur struggled against three Black Robe Knights and looked toward Elina as a battle began in her direction.

Elina unleashed Lilith’s power to fight the Turing Cult’s Black Robe Knights while Arthur held off three attackers of his own. After Elina’s reinforcements failed to arrive, the enemy revealed they had deliberately stalled her until her strength was nearly spent, and Arthur prepared to act.

• Elina charged the Black Robe Knights but was overwhelmed by their coordinated attacks, while Arthur fought three of them using only his apparent Titled Knight-level strength.
• Elina called on Lilith, who took control of her body and raised her power to the limit of a Sky Knight; Elina’s Crimson Annihilation wounded Barbarian Beast but did not defeat him or the two Knights with him.
• Elina and her opponents fought to a stalemate as she waited for her people to arrive, while Arthur remained on the defensive against his three attackers.
• After several hours passed without reinforcements, Barbarian Beast revealed that his group had deliberately kept Elina occupied until her power was nearly exhausted.
• Arthur sensed Elina’s growing anxiety and concluded that the situation was worsening, then decided he had to take action.

Elina’s escape attempt failed as the Turing Cult knights kept her pinned, while Arthur fought the Barbarian Beast Knights to protect her. After burning his life force to kill one Black Robe Knight, Arthur was mortally wounded, refused the Barbarian Beast Knight’s offer to serve him, and faced a killing blow.

• Elina and Lilith considered exhausting their life forces to break through, but Arthur arrived and took on the Barbarian Beast Knights so Elina could flee.
• Three Black Robe Knights blocked Elina’s escape, forcing her to fight while Arthur kept the Barbarian Beast Knights occupied.
• Arthur burned his life force and struck down one Black Robe Knight with a powerful sword attack.
• A hidden Black Robe Knight stabbed Arthur through the chest, and the Barbarian Beast Knight offered to heal him if he changed allegiance.
• Arthur refused, affirming his oath to Elina, and the Barbarian Beast Knight raised his greatsword to kill him.

Arthur survived the Barbarian Beast Knight’s killing blow by forming Battle Qi Wings and advancing to Titled Knight, then fought him until Elina intervened. The enemy withdrew, and Arthur secretly reflected that his apparent sacrifice had concealed his true strength and helped explain his advancement.

• The Barbarian Beast Knight struck Arthur, but Arthur’s Battle Qi reignited and formed silver Battle Qi Wings as he advanced to Titled Knight.
• Lilith and the Barbarian Beast Knight recognized Arthur’s breakthrough, and the enemy attacked again, believing Arthur might be a Royal Descendant.
• Arthur fought the Barbarian Beast Knight with Silver Radiance, and both were injured before Elina stepped between them and stopped the fight.
• The Barbarian Beast Knight withdrew with his surviving Black Robe Knights, while Elina chose not to pursue and asked Lilith about Arthur’s injuries.
• Lilith said Arthur had lost at least a hundred years of life and might need to reach Radiant Knight to recover, and Elina resolved to find a way to help him.
• Arthur secretly revealed that he had faked burning his life force and injuries to conceal his advancement and strengthen Elina’s trust in him.

After Elina’s forces rescued the survivors and failed to find Count Oris, Arthur sensed a mysterious pull in the distance but lost it before he could follow it. Elina gave him an advanced breathing technique and encouraged him to pursue becoming a Radiant Knight, while Arthur studied the book and reflected on its limits.

• Dara arrived with the Scarlet Knight Order, explained that berserk Barbarian Beasts had delayed him, and carried the injured Arthur to a carriage.
• Elina’s search found no trace of Count Oris, but Anum reunited with her and told her how Arthur had rescued him; Elina ordered the manor burned.
• An old man appeared in the flames and said that the image of fate had changed, while Arthur felt a familiar stirring in his soul from afar.
• Arthur considered following the mysterious sensation, but it vanished before Elina arrived; he then concealed his intentions and spoke with her about his injuries.
• Elina gave Arthur the Gale Battle Qi breathing technique and left, while Lilith told her that Arthur had less than a one-in-ten chance of becoming a Radiant Knight.
• Arthur read and memorized the technique, noting that it taught advancement to Radiant Knight but offered no guidance beyond that rank.

Arthur continued to conceal his exceptional progress while developing potions for Elina, then secretly went to a Turing Cult meeting under his alias Andak. After Lida recruited him for a mission near the Malan Empire–Xilan Kingdom border, Lida showed him a portrait and asked whether he knew the silver-haired young man depicted.

• Arthur trained with his sword and breathing technique while Elina and Lilith marveled at his talent, unaware that he was deliberately hiding how quickly he had advanced.
• Arthur drank a potion he had brewed to boost breathing exercises, and Elina told him she had nearly gathered the materials he needed to make more Boiling Blood Potions.
• Arthur rode into a remote forest, left his horse in a protected cave, changed his appearance, and traveled to a cabin as Andak.
• At the cabin, Arthur encountered Lida, the Barbarian Beast Knight who had previously fought him, along with Sala, Tiriel, and other Great Knights gathered for a Turing Cult mission.
• Lida announced that the group would reinforce a base near the Malan Empire–Xilan Kingdom border and ordered them to leave in half a month.
• After the others departed, the red-haired man asked whether Andak had attended Malan Academy, and Lida showed him a portrait of a silver-haired young man holding a Silver Longsword.

Arthur learned that the Turing Cult had discovered his Boiling Blood Potion and suspected a leak from someone close to Elina. He strengthened his cover as Andak by gathering information for Lida, then accompanied Lida and four Great Knights to a hidden path revealed by a crimson ring.

• Lida questioned Arthur about his portrait, his ties to Malan Academy, and the Boiling Blood Potion, then told him to use his old connections to investigate.
• Arthur suspected an important figure near Elina had leaked information about the potion and considered his Turing Cult cover a way to gain access to advanced breathing techniques.
• Over the following days, Arthur contacted old Malan Academy friends and reported selected information to make Lida and the Turing Cult take him more seriously.
• Half a month later, Arthur followed Lida with four other Great Knights to a desolate canyon.
• Lida activated his crimson ring, and the barren canyon transformed to reveal a narrow stone path; Arthur sensed a high-energy reaction and wondered whether Life Energy had caused it.

Arthur searched the ruined base after discovering its occupants had been dead for half a month, despite receiving messages from it until two days earlier. A strange mist revealed fragments of the future and seemed to trigger another change in his Shuttle Ability, ending with an image of Elina and three others amid a devastated world.

• Lida and Arthur found the base in ruins and realized its corpses had been dead for at least half a month, even though messages had arrived from the base until two days earlier.
• Lida ordered the group to search the area while staying close enough to sense one another.
• Arthur found a corpse marked "Bloodline No. 73" and considered the Turing Cult's efforts to collect the bloodlines of knightly and royal families.
• Arthur's companions' life auras vanished from his perception as mist appeared, revealing interwoven lines and fragmented scenes that stirred his soul.
• Arthur saw Elina repeatedly in the visions and sensed that his Shuttle Ability might be evolving again.
• Arthur witnessed a final vision of a more powerful Elina standing with three obscured figures on shattered, bloodied earth, said "Child of Destiny," and heard an aged voice answer, "Exactly!"

Arthur encountered Chiral, a Destiny Messenger who explained the Wheel of Destiny, World Poison, and the role of Children of Destiny. Chiral offered Arthur the chance to become a Destiny Operator in exchange for one thousand World Stones, and Arthur was left to decide whether to accept.

• Chiral showed Arthur visions of Lida and the others facing a deadly monster, explaining that the scenes depicted a possible future.
• Chiral told Arthur that he came from another world and was unusually resistant to World Poison, which had ravaged Chiral's body.
• Chiral identified Elina as a Child of Destiny and explained that such people gathered World Power and were central to their world's fate.
• Chiral introduced himself as a Destiny Messenger and offered to make Arthur a Destiny Operator, promising a Destiny Mark and knowledge of the world.
• Chiral demanded one thousand World Stones, described ways Arthur could earn them by influencing or killing a Child of Destiny, and asked Arthur to choose.

Arthur accepted Chiral’s offer to become a Destiny Operator and activated the Seed of Destiny, which triggered another evolution in his ability. After discovering that he could harvest World Power and convert it into World Stones, he left the laboratory with a strong premonition that something was about to happen.

• Arthur agreed to Chiral’s contract, negotiating the option to pay a thousand World Stones within five hundred years or surrender his gains from this world after expenses.
• Arthur activated the Seed of Destiny, whose power was absorbed by his soul before the contract took effect and a purple Destiny Mark appeared on his palm.
• Chiral warned Arthur that the world was in a period of heightened destiny and that its World Power was unusually active, then vanished.
• Arthur discovered that his ability had gained the power to harvest World Power, and strands of purple energy began increasing his World Energy.
• Arthur condensed some of his World Power into a purple crystal, estimated that five World Energy equaled one World Stone, and adjusted his status panel’s exchange rate.
• Arthur left the corpse-filled laboratory with a strong premonition that something was about to happen.

Arthur and Lida escaped a branch base overrun by Polluted Beasts created using the Seed of Pollution, and Lida left to report the experiment’s success. After Arthur returned to Elina, she told him to prepare for a trip to Catutan City.

• A three-headed Polluted Beast erupted from underground and attacked Lida, but Arthur cut off its arm and helped him escape.
• Lida explained that the Polluted Beasts were experiments combining bloodlines with the Seed of Pollution, then fled with Arthur as other monsters rose from the ruined base.
• The beast watched Arthur and Lida leave, showing intelligence in its central head.
• Half a month later, Lida departed for headquarters to report the incident and appointed Arthur as a regional branch head.
• Arthur returned to Elina’s estate and told her he had found a method for preparing a vitality-restoring potion.
• Elina asked Arthur to prepare for their upcoming trip to Catutan City.

Arthur learned that Elina had applied for him to receive a knighthood in the Malan Empire and prepared to leave for the ceremony. He entered the Destiny World, where he discovered a crowded gathering place for Destiny Operators and realized that most had limited power.

• Elina told Arthur that she had applied for him to be knighted and that they would set out in half a month.
• Arthur hurried to a guarded room and noticed that interacting with Elina had accelerated the growth of his World Energy.
• Arthur activated his Destiny Mark and logged into the Destiny World.
• Arthur arrived in a vast plaza filled with beings from many worlds and explored the lively streets beyond it.
• Arthur observed that most Destiny Operators had power around the level of Wizard Apprentices or Official Wizards and considered why becoming powerful was difficult for them.

Arthur explored the Destiny World’s guides, trading posts, and Light Gates, learning how Destiny Operators traveled between worlds and paid for its services. He met Chiral, who revealed that he had left the world where they met after surviving there for twenty years.

• Arthur browsed guides and trade listings, noticing that knowledge was cheaper to exchange than physical goods.
• Arthur learned that the Lord of Destiny created the Destiny World to gather World Power and took half of what Destiny Operators collected.
• Arthur examined the Light Gates, found no gate to the Knight World, and learned that operators could use costly random teleportation to reach worlds matching their requests.
• Chiral approached Arthur in a different appearance and confirmed that he had left their previous world after enduring its World Poison for twenty years.

Chiral explained the dangers of entering worlds and warned Arthur about the Knight World’s Children of Destiny and the Turing Cult. Arthur listened to his intelligence and asked what he knew about Origin Knights and Progenitor Knights.

• Chiral described how world rejection, World Poison, and the Wheel of Destiny could endanger Destiny Operators, though he had profited greatly from his recent trip.
• Chiral explained that Arthur’s soul resisted other worlds unusually well, but warned that prolonged contact with a Child of Destiny could still bring severe backlash.
• Chiral told Arthur that the Knight World had at least four Children of Destiny, one in each great empire, and that only Elina in the Malan Empire had been identified.
• Chiral advised Arthur to watch the Turing Cult, which he suspected was connected to the other Children of Destiny.
• Arthur asked Chiral what he knew about the Knight World’s Origin Knights and Progenitor Knights.

Arthur bought a damaged King's Book from Chiral and used the Chip to study the legacy of a Progenitor Knight. He learned that Progenitor Knights gained their power through Demonic Beast bloodlines and concluded that the beasts capable of producing new Kings had likely been hunted to extinction.

• Arthur negotiated with Chiral and bought the damaged King's Book for 130 World Stones, along with additional information.
• Arthur returned to his laboratory and used the Chip to examine the black crystal containing the legacy.
• The Chip simulated a Progenitor Knight unleashing a towering, fire-bull-shaped Battle Qi Armor.
• Arthur learned that Origin Knights required a bloodline to form a unique Knight Seed and that the first Kings gained bloodlines by hunting Ancient Demonic Beasts.
• Arthur concluded that the Demonic Beasts with King-level potential had likely been hunted to extinction, while royal bloodlines weakened over generations.

Arthur learned that the knightly system was declining because King Rank Demonic Beasts and their Bloodline Seeds had disappeared, then traveled to Catutan City to enter the Malan Empire's knighting ceremony and seek World Power. After following a flower-selling girl into an alley, he found abused beggar children and confronted Angli, who had just thrown a dead boy to the dogs.

• Arthur concluded that dwindling Bloodline Seeds had weakened the knights and that the world's surging World Power signaled a turning point.
• Arthur left the laboratory after learning only five minutes had passed in the outside world, despite his time in the Destiny World.
• Half a month later, Arthur arrived in Catutan City, intending to compete in the knighting ceremony and gain World Power.
• Arthur followed a timid girl selling flowers into an alley, where he found more than a dozen frightened children and fresh bloodstains.
• Angli emerged carrying a dead boy, tossed the body to the dogs, and told Arthur that he had only meant to discipline the child.

Arthur, newly assigned to lead a Turing Cult branch in Catutan City, learned that a Guno prince would attend the upcoming knightly investiture ceremony and ordered his subordinates to investigate. Several days later, he accompanied Elina to the Royal Palace and noticed Knight Secret Runes on the building as someone came to meet them at the gate.

• Arthur warned Angli not to lay a hand on the children again and met the four subordinates who formed the core of his branch.
• A subordinate told Arthur that knights were gathering for the Knight Competition and that a seventeen-year-old Guno prince would arrive with a diplomatic delegation.
• Arthur ordered his subordinates to watch the prince and gather information about the knights attending the investiture ceremony.
• Arthur left the branch and saw black dogs tearing at a corpse in the alley.
• Several days later, Arthur accompanied Elina to the Royal Palace and noticed traces of Knight Secret Runes in its structure.
• Someone at the palace gate approached Elina and her entourage.

Elina reunited with Lois and attended a banquet hosted by her half-brother Angre, while Arthur assessed potential rivals. Days later, Arthur passed the investiture ceremony’s gladiator selection and noticed Prince Henus of Guno among the entrants.

• Lois welcomed Elina and led her and Arthur’s party to meet Angre, whose displayed stats revealed that he had secretly reached Titled Knight strength.
• At the banquet, Arthur sized up the knights serving Lois and Angre, and Elina told him to compete confidently while concealing that he had formed Battle Qi Wings.
• Arthur entered the investiture ceremony’s arena selection and defeated his gladiator opponents without the brutality shown by Angre’s young knight, Gakdo.
• Arthur encountered Prince Henus of Guno leaving another arena entrance and judged him to be a promising fighter at the peak of the Great Knight level.
• Arthur exited the passage and rejoined Elina, Anum, and the others waiting for him.

Arthur faced Gakdo, Prince Angre’s knight and a Sky Knight, in a high-profile tournament match. Arthur’s growing fame accelerated his World Energy accumulation, and the chapter ended as the two armored knights clashed.

• Elina advised Arthur to eliminate Gakdo from the competition if he got the chance, and Arthur said Prince Guno’s strength was decent.
• Arthur bet one thousand gold coins on himself, reflecting that his rising reputation was making his World Energy accumulate faster.
• Arthur and Gakdo met in the arena, while Lois and Chris watched and discussed their chances of winning.
• Gakdo taunted Arthur before the match began, then attacked with his gray longsword and dark-gray battle qi.
• Arthur and Gakdo struck swords, and both formed Battle Qi Armor around their bodies.

Arthur defeated Gakdo in the competition, then Prince Guno challenged him despite having already lost his own match. As Arthur prepared to subdue Guno, he sensed his World Energy had increased by several points.

• Prince Guno watched Arthur and Gakdo fight and admired their Battle Qi Armor.
• Prince Angre judged that Arthur's calm, precise fighting would overcome Gakdo.
• Arthur shattered Gakdo's Battle Qi Armor and was declared the victor.
• Prince Guno challenged Arthur, and Arthur refused, warning that Guno had already lost his match.
• Prince Guno attacked Arthur, who repeatedly knocked him down without seriously hurting him.
• Arthur sensed a change, checked his status, and saw that his World Energy had risen by several points.