Chapter Summaries

Fang Ran realized the Covenant planned to use the real world’s darkness to fill the Dark Energy Crystals and create an Artificial Numbered. He reached the Colosseum and confronted Hemifis, while the other battles converged on Rome.

• Fang Ran connected the Evil Cult’s malice, the Dark Energy Crystals, and the Covenant’s energy rituals, realizing they intended to use the real world’s darkness to fill the crystals.
• Fang Ran identified the Roman Colosseum as the Seventh Node and raced there as his allies and equipment returned to action.
• Bayerdians recognized that the Covenant was pursuing a realm humanity had never reached as Klausel and Yag fought its powerful prototype monster.
• Fang Ran entered the Colosseum and saw Hemifis filling a Dark Energy Crystal with black droplets, discovering that the Covenant sought to create an Artificial Numbered.
• Hemifis greeted Fang Ran, while Ye Sheng, Le Guien, Si Ai, and Osphia continued their battles and converged on the plan’s end.

Fang Ran witnessed Hemifis activate the ring machine in the Colosseum, drawing participants across Rome toward the ritual site. As allies battled to reach him, six Covenant A-ranks gathered around the nearly exhausted Fang Ran, and the masked mechanical woman behind his worst memories appeared.

• Hemifis placed the Dark Energy Crystal in the ring machine, sending an energy signal across Rome and beginning the ritual.
• Eru Beishili and Schmidt used White Night to cover Rome with a virtual canopy so participants could enter the Night Battle unnoticed.
• Harmon went ahead toward the Colosseum while Si Ai and Le Guien stayed behind to block the pursuing officers.
• Ignat and Brianna attacked Osphia, but Ai Ma appeared through her Divine Art Coordinate and a summoned ally helped suppress Brianna.
• Osphia headed toward Fang Ran despite his warning, while the Covenant's Executive Officers joined Hemifis in the Colosseum.
• A masked mechanical woman with silver-white hair appeared before Fang Ran as he faced six fully intact A-ranks.

Fang Ran confronted the Covenant’s Executive Officers at the Seventh Node ritual site in Rome, but Hemifis revealed that the missing Dark Energy Crystal had shifted the true node elsewhere. Fang Ran realized that London was the real Seventh Node.

• Fang Ran found seven A-rank enemies, including Dead Line, gathered beneath the ring-shaped machine in the Colosseum.
• Fang Ran recognized that he was exhausted and badly outnumbered but prepared to destroy the machine with Silver Severing Dragon Tooth.
• The Executive Officers embedded six Dark Energy Crystals in the machine, bringing its energy loading to six-sevenths.
• Hemifis explained that seven filled crystals were needed to maintain the Dark Energy balance and asked where the real Seventh Node was after Fang Ran had destroyed one crystal.
• Fang Ran realized that the missing crystal had shifted the true Seventh Node from Rome to London.

Fang Ran defied the Covenant Executive Officers in the Colosseum and used a time-accelerating magic ability to unleash the Simulation Scenario above Rome. As Adrian moved to attack him, a powerful woman emerged from the scenario and protected him.

• Fang Ran realized the Dark Energy operation could not be stopped by destroying the machine in the Colosseum, and the Executive Officers urged him to leave.
• Fang Ran chose to stand against the Executive Officers despite his injuries and revealed that he had drawn a new ability card.
• Dead Line pierced Gluttony and knocked the Magic Cube-like device from Fang Ran's hand, but he shouted “Seal.Release!”
• An old man with long elven ears appeared and restored the damaged device, accelerating its countdown until the Simulation Scenario was unleashed above Rome.
• A woman with amber eyes descended and blocked Adrian's attack, greeting Fang Ran as her young master.

Fang Ran used the Time Card to bring Clotilde to Rome, where she swapped London’s reality and Simulation Scenario to remove the Covenant’s energy-gathering node. Clotilde and Aurelia then helped transport the opposing forces away from Rome, leaving Fang Ran back at his original battlefield as something began to emerge beneath Westminster.

• Fang Ran activated the Time Card, restoring Rome’s timeline and summoning Clotilde to confront the Covenant’s Executive Officers.
• Clotilde used Arcane - The World to remove her pursuers, then cast Arcane - The Fool with support from London to exchange the city’s reality and Simulation Scenario, erasing the ring machine’s energy node.
• Clotilde called on Aurelia, whose prepared spears formed a teleportation array that sent the people in Rome away as Trinity opened Dimensional Light Doors for the Covenant’s forces.
• Fang Ran endured the Time Card’s cost and returned to the ruins of the Lantehe Building, where he saw a crack beneath Westminster as something seemed about to be born.

Clotilde shifted the Simulation Scenario into reality for several seconds, then turned it into a hunting cage around the artificial A-Rank Numbered’s birth site. As the final stage began, she used her home-ground advantage to move the Covenant Executive Officers away from the rift, but Dead Line remained to guard it.

• The Simulation Scenario briefly replaced real London, restoring the participants’ senses before spatial fluctuations returned the city to its original position.
• Ye Sheng sent Hua Ling and Su Qun to find the bureau members as a mass of dark energy gathered above the Narrow Space.
• Clotilde revealed that she had created an Artificial Hunting Scenario to trap and destroy the artificial A-Rank Numbered.
• Hemifis challenged Clotilde, and a rift opened behind him as the artificial A-Rank Numbered’s birth reached its final stage.
• Clotilde transferred the Covenant Executive Officers away from the rift, while Dead Line stayed behind and sealed the space with threads.

Clotilde and four A-rank fighters attacked the Dark Energy rift, but Colossus blocked part of their combined strike. Fang Ran regained his power and launched a mythic spear attack at the rift, yet it still remained as the Covenant’s Executive Officers rushed back toward London.

• Clotilde confronted Dead Line while Ye Sheng, Eru Beishili, Spellcaster, and Herschel Lin Hua unleashed their strongest attacks on the Dark Energy rift.
• Colossus intercepted part of the four A-ranks’ combined attack, leaving the rift intact as the Covenant’s Executive Officers reappeared and hurried toward central London.
• Fang Ran’s power returned, and despite Osphia’s pleas, he poured his strength into a silver spear and invoked the King of Gods’ declaration.
• Fang Ran’s spear struck the rift, crushing nearby Numbered Monsters and forcing the Covenant’s forces to defend themselves.
• After the attacks from Fang Ran and the four A-ranks, the rift remained open, while Clotilde continued battling Dead Line overhead.

Fang Ran’s final strike failed to stop the Covenant, and an artificial numbered entity began forcing its way into London as the Executives held off the A-ranks. The Covenant adjutants opened the remaining dark energy nodes to complete the entity’s arrival, but Ignat encountered a familiar figure at his node.

• Fang Ran exhausted himself and collapsed after his strongest attack failed to close the dark energy fissure.
• Hemifis activated the ring-shaped machine, and a gigantic pitch-black foreleg smashed half of Westminster as an artificial numbered entity began descending.
• The Executives fought the A-ranks while Hemifis sent Adrian and the Covenant adjutants to activate the remaining dark energy nodes across London.
• Ignat reached the Kingston node and opened a new fissure with a dark energy crystal, as other adjutants activated nodes across the city.
• Ignat sensed a familiar, repulsive presence and found a black-suited figure approaching with a He Huang Ancient Sword.

As the Artificial Numbered prepared the engine’s final stage over London, the Magician and allies confronted the forces behind the rifts across the city. Battles erupted on multiple fronts, and the chapter left Fang Ran collapsed in the Financial City as a young man leaped into the pit and shouted his name.

• Ignat discarded his weapon and armor, activated a ring device, and challenged the Magician to a final duel; the Magician answered with the He Huang Ancient Sword and unleashed A-rank power.
• Francis activated his ring device against Si Ai, while Si Ai prepared to join forces with his uncle; Simon charged Brianna as Ai Ma arrived, and Pedro pursued Yun Yin at Heathrow Airport.
• Lorraine confronted Le Guien in Chigwell Forest, summoned the demon horse’s power, and advanced to A-rank.
• Clotilde watched the rift interceptions from above London’s Financial City as the masked Executive Officer pursued her; Qing Ning, Yota, Su Qun, and Hua Ling fought monsters around the wrecked Observation Room.
• Fang Ran collapsed after hurling the enormous Silver Spear, and a pale young man leaped into the circular pit and shouted his name.

Fang Ran collapsed after exhausting himself, and Klim tried to save him before Fermiller arrived and revealed he was Klim’s father. As Fermiller recovered the Dark Energy Engine and attacked Fang Ran, Fang Ran realized Klim had been the key figure behind the experiment all along.

• Klim reached the crater and tried to carry the unconscious Fang Ran to safety, but could not climb the crater wall before Numbered Monsters swarmed toward them.
• Fermiller appeared, drove off the monsters, and prepared to kill Fang Ran, but Klim stood between them and pleaded with him as his father.
• Fermiller recalled raising Klim, condemned his failure to enter the Night Battle world, and crushed Klim’s stored belongings and mechanical models.
• Fang Ran recognized the experimental apparatus and connected Klim’s Dark Energy Engine research to the material residue that had attracted the Black Shadow.
• Fermiller recovered the engine, collapsed the crater edge, and fired a lethal blood-red beam at Fang Ran as he fell.

Fang Ran and Osphia survived the fall into an underground shaft, while Klim sank into despair over a lifetime of failing to meet others’ expectations. As the wreckage began to bury them, Gluttony held it back and Fang Ran rose, refusing to give up.

• Osphia caught Fang Ran as they fell, shielding him from an A-Rank strike with her Bio-Armor and White Wings before healing his injuries.
• Fang Ran remembered a vision of a colossal being declaring, “I am right by your side!” as the falling wreckage buried the shaft’s exit.
• Klim survived the fall but believed his life had been a failure, and he curled around his final mechanical model as the wreckage threatened to crush him.
• Gluttony appeared and held up part of the collapsing wreckage above Klim.
• Fang Ran ignored his pain, fear, doubts, and the child’s question until he answered, “No, not yet!” and stood up with golden light in his black eyes.

Fang Ran, gravely wounded beneath London, asked Osphia and Sharon to connect the Aether Spirit across the battlefield so he could call on the Night Bureau and seek one final source of power. The chapter ended with him asking his mentor whether the “plug-in module” could be connected to him.

• Fang Ran realized his strongest attack could not stop the horror emerging from the rift, but decided he had one last option.
• Fang Ran asked Osphia for the Aether Spirit’s power, and Osphia agreed to activate it despite her injuries.
• Fang Ran called on Sharon, and Clotilde used Arcane - Wheel of Fortune to link Aether Spirits across London.
• Night Bureau members heard one another through the link, and Fang Ran asked Ye Sheng for help; she insisted the Night Bureau belonged to all its members.
• Fang Ran asked his mentor whether the “plug-in module” could now be connected to him.

Fang Ran and his allies assembled the energy, materials, and connections needed to activate his Birth permission and bring a dream-made mechanical dragon into reality. The chapter ended as the colossal being burst from beneath London and awakened before the approaching Artificial Numbered.

• Schmidt confirmed that the Night Walker's spatial hub could connect the necessary systems, while Qing Ning, Rainham's deputy officer, and the young master supplied energy and equipment.
• Yota returned and pleaded for another chance to use his ability, and Fang Ran told him he had always believed in him.
• Fang Ran combined Klim's model, the Aether Spirit, the Mechanical Soul, and other allies' contributions, then awakened The Big card to enlarge the model into a giant dragon.
• Fang Ran used Silver Severing Dragon Tooth to match the Mechanical Soul's form to the dragon and followed Mu Cheng's direction to connect the Black Box.
• As the well collapsed, Fang Ran's Birth permission activated, and a colossal being of Infinite Magic Energy erupted from beneath London.

Fang Ran awakened Wind Card and united his powers to fire a Starlight Arrow at the colossal Artificial Numbered emerging from the Dark World. The chapter ended as the arrow drove the creature back and the fissure was annihilated.

• Fang Ran released Moon God Hunt’s restraints as a silver-white mechanical dragon appeared and expanded its weapon system into a colossal White Wing ring.
• Thunder God confronted Fermiller, while Adrian faced another figure who blocked his attempt to disrupt the attack.
• Hemifis activated the nested ring machine, tearing open the fissure and summoning a ten-thousand-meter Artificial Numbered from the Dark World.
• Fang Ran’s mind gave out as he prepared his strike, but Wind Card awakened and gathered the scenario’s winds and other cards into an arrow.
• Fang Ran drew Moon God Hunt to its limit and fired the Starlight Arrow, forcing the Artificial Numbered back as the fissure was destroyed.

Fang Ran and the others destroyed the dark energy rift and stopped the disaster threatening London, but the strike briefly opened a path for Numbered Monsters to escape into reality. The breach was sealed, the final mission was completed, and Fang Ran collapsed as the journey reached its end.

• Fang Ran and the others unleashed a massive attack that destroyed the dark energy rift and revealed a clear blue sky above London.
• Fang Ran and the girl exhausted their energy, while the White Wing, Aether Spirit, mechanical dragon, and other equipment disappeared or broke apart.
• A B-rank Numbered led more than a hundred Numbered Monsters toward a breach into reality, but a silver bolt struck it and spatial ripples sealed the opening.
• Fang Ran answered Sea Water’s call and heard Tang Bing worry about a metal Magic Cube that had crashed into her home.
• Fang Ran collapsed after receiving confirmation that he had completed the final mission, and the first person to arrive caught him and praised him.
• In a dream, Fang Ran reached out to the silver-white mechanical dragon as stars appeared across the sky of sun and moon.

A miraculous arrow destroyed Hemifis’s dark-energy plan, and the Covenant’s forces withdrew from London through a portal opened by Final Ruler. Colossus stayed behind long enough to tell Herschel that he loved her before vanishing.

• An arrow erased the dark-energy rift and the enormous black mass, leaving Hemifis’s plan in ruins and a nearly unconscious young man standing amid wreckage.
• Clotilde confronted Hemifis, but Final Ruler appeared and broke through the Simulation Scenario’s spatial blockade.
• The Covenant’s fighters withdrew from their battles and gathered beside Hemifis as Final Ruler opened a portal out of the scenario.
• Harmon apologized to Clotilde on behalf of a Highness, while Fermiller declined to answer her question about his choice.
• Herschel stopped Colossus before he left, and he told her, “I do love you,” before vanishing.

After defeating the crisis in London, Fang Ran rested beside the injured Osphia as they discussed the aftermath and promised to visit Athens together. The journey completed his Dual Cards (THE TWIN), and he fell asleep missing his ordinary life.

• Fang Ran woke beside Osphia after collapsing, and she told him the Covenant had retreated while the others dealt with the remaining Numbered Monsters.
• Osphia described her injuries and plans to return to Rome to help restore order, while Fang Ran admitted he would likely be lectured during his recovery.
• Fang Ran mistakenly thought the Parthenon was in Rome, and Osphia offered to take him to Athens when he returned to Europe.
• Golden motes revealed that Fang Ran's Dual Cards (THE TWIN) had become whole as he recalled his journey.
• Fang Ran told Osphia he did not regret participating but missed his ordinary life, then drifted back to sleep.

After the battle in Financial City, Resurrection Jie treated Fang Ran and found his injuries were less severe than expected, while the others gathered around him. The group reunited with Ai Ma and the Young Master, though Mu Cheng was still missing.

• Gou Yu asked Meng Lang whether they should go to Fang Ran, but Meng Lang decided they would leave him alone with Osphia.
• Resurrection Jie arrived and treated Fang Ran, discovering that he had widespread fractures and muscle strain but was not near death.
• Osphia told Resurrection Jie that she had helped keep Fang Ran’s injuries from worsening.
• Qing Ning, Hua Ling, and Su Qun arrived with the unconscious Yota, and Resurrection Jie confirmed that Yota only needed rest.
• Resurrection Jie explained that she had been separated from the Young Master, Ai Ma, and Mu Cheng during the Yellow Mist lockdown.
• The Young Master arrived in a modified Knight XV with Ai Ma, an uncle, and Si Ai, greeting the group.

After the crisis in London ended, the Night Bureau reunited and learned that the Royal Court had forfeited the A-rank battle, giving them victory in the National War. Fang Ran tried to reveal his secrets to everyone but panicked and announced that he and Meng Lang had Magical Girl abilities.

• The Young Master, Ai Ma, Mu Cheng, the Magician, Ye Sheng, and the Spellcaster reunited with the Night Bureau, while Osphia chose not to say goodbye to Fang Ran.
• Herschel apologized for the Royal Court’s role in the crisis and announced that the Royal Court was forfeiting the restarted A-rank battle.
• Fang Ran told Herschel that Colossus had not truly expected to succeed in attacking her, and Herschel replied that she already knew.
• Hua Ling realized that the Royal Court’s forfeit meant the Night Bureau had won the National War, and the group celebrated.
• Fang Ran decided to reveal the truth about his abilities, but panicked and shouted that he and Meng Lang were Magical Girls, leaving Meng Lang choking on champagne.

Klim ended his engagement with Mei Lan Duo Er after revealing that he had become a Participant, then boarded a plane determined to use his abilities to help the mysterious figure who had changed his fate. He reflected on the dark crystal and the Mechanical Dragon that had shown him a miracle.

• Klim confirmed to Mei Lan Duo Er that he would publicly break off their engagement and demonstrated that he could use a Technologist’s personal storage space.
• Klim told Mei Lan Duo Er that she and her family had intended to exploit him, and she argued that she deserved an extraordinary partner and urged him to start over.
• Klim recalled their childhood and quietly told Mei Lan Duo Er that he liked her, then said goodbye and boarded his flight.
• On the plane, Klim thought about the dark crystal, the figure who had encouraged him, and his plan to conduct a new experiment to help that figure.