Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting explored the strange boulder and discovered a cavern filled with treasure and a ruined temple. He found a sleeping giant sprawled atop the temple and recognized her, finally understanding his situation.

• Ye Ting noticed that the boulder’s repeated surface patterns and suddenly appearing cave suggested it was artificial.
• Ye Ting entered the cavern using Darkvision and found enormous piles of treasure beside an ancient Greek-style temple.
• Ye Ting explored the temple and its treasures but found no clear clues about who had built them or whom the temple had worshipped.
• Ye Ting felt a breeze in the sealed cavern and turned to find a giant sleeping atop the temple.
• Ye Ting recognized the giant and realized that the temple was her bed and the breeze came from her breathing.

Ye Ting recognized the sleeping giant girl as Altera, the Harvest Star Vanguard, and realized he had arrived in the Type-Moon world inside Mooncell’s Unrevealed Region. He pieced together how he had reached this point in time and why his magic worked, but still had to decide what to do next.

• Ye Ting identified the giant girl as the Harvest Star Vanguard sealed within Mooncell.
• Ye Ting recalled how Velber 02 invaded Earth and Mooncell, and how the Vanguard was defeated on Earth and sealed on the Moon.
• Ye Ting connected the Vanguard’s identity as Attila to Earth’s history and recognized the world as Type-Moon.
• Ye Ting reasoned that the Swirl of the Root had brought him to this point in time and incorporated his Warcraft magic into its rules.
• Ye Ting found answers to most of his questions and considered what to do next.

Ye Ting awakened Attila inside Mooncell and comforted her about her size and the fear she had inspired. Attila told him her name, and Ye Ting reassured her that he liked her and thought she was cute.

• Ye Ting explored Mooncell and approached the sleeping giant Attila, the only living being he could find there.
• Ye Ting touched Attila’s cheek, waking her, and used a spell to understand her ancient language.
• Attila excitedly greeted Ye Ting, then apologized when he recoiled from her sudden movement.
• Attila lamented that her enormous size made people afraid of her, and Ye Ting asked her name.
• Attila introduced herself, and Ye Ting told her he was not afraid of her and found her cute.

Ye Ting met Artemis in her hunting grounds on Mount Taygetus and explained how his magic worked. Artemis had never seen mortals perform magic independently, leaving Ye Ting wondering whether this world was truly the Type-Moon world he expected.

• Artemis introduced herself with a long list of divine titles, and Ye Ting teased her for boasting until she blushed and apologized.
• Artemis explained that Ye Ting had damaged her hunting ground, so he used a restoration spell to return fallen trees, branches, and leaves to their places.
• Artemis questioned Ye Ting about his wand and magic, and he explained that mortals could use learned techniques to imitate divine power.
• Artemis praised Ye Ting and said she had never seen anyone but gods, demigods, or priests perform miracles, prompting him to wonder why magic seemed absent from this world.

Ye Ting watched Artemis restore the ruined forest with divine power and learned that Zeus had summoned her and the other chief gods. Artemis insisted Ye Ting wait for her at her temple, but he refused, eager to explore the world and discover why she had never seen magic.

• Ye Ting tried to restore the forest with spells, but Artemis used her divine power to regrow it in minutes.
• Ye Ting praised Artemis's power, and she explained that the difference was that she was a god and he was human.
• Britomartis arrived and told Artemis that Zeus urgently wanted to see her, with several chief gods gathered at Olympus.
• Artemis told Ye Ting to wait for her at her temple, but he refused because he wanted to explore the world.

Ye Ting explored Artemis’s divine realm and rejected Britomartis’s attempts to persuade him to stay with the goddess. He insisted that he would pursue his mission and immortality through his own efforts, while Britomartis maintained that mortals could not overcome the gods’ power.

• After Artemis left for Zeus’s summons, Britomartis led Ye Ting into the temple, where curious nymphs questioned him until she sent them away.
• Ye Ting observed that true ether was denser in the divine realm and that Artemis’s domains held overwhelming power within her temple.
• Britomartis offered Ye Ting divine food and wine and urged him to remain with Artemis, but he refused because he had an important mission to complete himself.
• Britomartis suggested that the gods could grant Ye Ting immortality and power by making him a star, but Ye Ting rejected depending on Zeus for his fate.
• Britomartis called Ye Ting stubborn and declared that the power of the gods was absolute, especially compared with that of mortals.

Artemis told Ye Ting that Zeus had created Pandora after Prometheus gave humanity fire, and warned that Zeus’s gift threatened humankind. Ye Ting still planned to return to the mortal world, and Artemis agreed to let him go with her deer and form a contract with her.

• Britomartis failed to persuade Ye Ting to stay among the gods, and they parted on bad terms.
• Artemis returned to the temple and told Ye Ting that Prometheus had stolen heavenly fire and been punished by Zeus.
• Artemis recounted how the gods created and blessed Pandora, while Zeus gave her a box filled with calamities and Athena secretly added hope.
• Artemis urged Ye Ting to remain in the Moon Temple for safety, but Ye Ting said he needed to return to the mortal world.
• Britomartis advised Artemis, who accepted Ye Ting’s decision and offered him her deer; Ye Ting instead proposed forming a contract so he could teleport to her.

Ye Ting realized he had arrived just before the Heroic Age and decided to study Pandora, the gods’ newly created human, for clues to divine bodies and the creation of Heroic Spirits. He returned to the human world as the Olympian gods prepared to give Pandora to Epimetheus, while Artemis watched him with growing admiration.

• Ye Ting placed the story at the boundary between the Bronze Age and the Heroic Age and concluded that he would need to learn magic by studying the gods.
• Ye Ting reasoned that Pandora’s divinely made body might reveal how gods and Heroic Spirits used magical energy and cores to surpass ordinary physical limits.
• Ye Ting returned from the Moon Temple on the day the Olympian gods were to give Pandora to Epimetheus and, guided by Artemis, found Epimetheus among the humans.
• Ye Ting was challenged after accidentally bumping into a man and beat him with the strength of Dragon's Power.
• Artemis secretly watched Ye Ting and admired his strength, deciding that he was a perfect man.

Ye Ting stayed disguised among the Bronze humans as Zeus and the Olympian gods arrived to face Epimetheus. After Epimetheus rejected Zeus's explanation and suspected a trap, Zeus presented Pandora as a gift and potential spouse.

• Ye Ting joined a hunt among the Bronze humans while Artemis guided him through oracles and nearly exposed him with her attention.
• Zeus and the other Olympian gods descended, and Ye Ting pretended not to recognize Artemis.
• Zeus claimed he had punished Prometheus out of duty, but Epimetheus denounced his hypocrisy and refused to forgive him.
• Zeus offered Epimetheus a gift to reconcile with him, but Epimetheus rejected it and warned it might be a trap.
• Zeus ordered his servants to bring Pandora before Epimetheus and presented her as a perfect woman created to be his spouse.

Zeus arranged Pandora’s marriage to Epimetheus and secretly relied on her curiosity to carry out his plan. After Pandora arrived among humanity, she approached Ye Ting, puzzled that he alone seemed to pity her instead of admiring her beauty.

• Pandora’s beauty captivated Epimetheus, and Zeus persuaded him to accept her as his bride despite his initial refusal.
• Zeus swore that Pandora was not meant to harm Epimetheus or humanity, then arranged their wedding for that day.
• Zeus reminded Pandora never to open the box he had given her, making her more curious about it.
• The humans prepared for Epimetheus’s wedding, while Pandora noticed Ye Ting watching her with pity rather than desire.
• Pandora approached Ye Ting and asked whether he thought she was beautiful.

Pandora opened the box before her wedding night, unleashing calamities that devastated humanity while trapping Athena’s hope inside. Blamed and rejected by Epimetheus and the gods, she fled into the wilderness, where she began surviving alone and harboring hatred for Zeus.

• Before her wedding night with Epimetheus, Pandora secretly opened the box a crack, releasing curses and disasters across the world while leaving Athena’s hope trapped inside.
• The curses drove humans into madness and conflict, while plague, famine, locusts, floods, and earthquakes killed countless people; Ye Ting resisted the curses.
• Epimetheus realized the gods’ scheme, blamed Pandora for the destruction, and drove her from his home.
• Humans shunned Pandora as the source of disaster, and the gods ignored her prayers when she sought answers at Zeus’s temple.
• Pandora entered the wilderness and learned to survive alone, while hatred for Zeus and the gods grew within her.
• One day, Pandora’s salvation arrived.

Ye Ting revealed himself to the despairing Pandora as the gods’ world-ending flood began, offering her a chance to survive and someday take revenge on Olympus. Pandora remained doubtful, and Ye Ting left her with the claim that gods were only more powerful living beings.

• Ye Ting secretly followed Pandora through her wilderness hardships, intervening only to save her from the Hydra and the Cockatrice while ensuring she stayed unconscious.
• As a world-ending flood threatened to swallow her cave, Pandora, cold and starving, asked the approaching stranger to kill her and fulfill her wish to experience the purpose for which the gods had created her.
• Ye Ting asked whether Pandora would seize a chance to survive and gain the power to take revenge on the gods.
• Pandora doubted that she could ever oppose the gods, and Ye Ting told her that others could do what she could not and that gods were merely more powerful living beings.

Ye Ting reunited with Pandora and comforted her after revealing that he had warned her about Zeus and secretly saved her from monsters. The two spent the night together in a cave, and the chapter ended with Ye Ting explaining his magic as floodwaters surged outside.

• Ye Ting told Pandora that gods were merely more powerful living beings, then reminded her that he had once warned her about Zeus.
• Pandora recognized Ye Ting as the man who had warned her and realized he had killed the Hydra and Cockatrice to protect her; she cried in his arms and apologized for distrusting him.
• Ye Ting comforted Pandora, fed her Cockatrice jerky, and held her as she fell asleep.
• Pandora woke before Ye Ting and admired his true face after his disguise magic expired.
• Ye Ting explained that his magic created his disguise, an eternally burning flame, and an invisible barrier keeping the floodwaters out of the cave.

Ye Ting and Pandora grew closer while sheltering from the flood, and he began teaching her magic. The chapter ended with Ye Ting trying to stop their morning intimacy so they could focus on studying magic.

• Ye Ting showed Pandora his magic, and she said she trusted him unconditionally because he cared about her.
• Ye Ting tried to explain that he had approached Pandora because of her body, but she welcomed his desire and drew him close.
• Ye Ting and Pandora spent several days together in the cave, growing more intimate while the flood raged outside.
• Ye Ting decided not to reveal his original purpose because he feared that losing his love would devastate Pandora.
• On the fourth day, Ye Ting planned to teach Pandora magic, but she tried to lure him into another intimate encounter beneath the dining table.

As the flood wiped out humanity, Ye Ting and Pandora watched from safety and confronted the gods’ responsibility for the catastrophe. Ye Ting revealed that Athena had left hope inside Pandora’s Box, giving Pandora a reason to resist hatred and grow stronger.

• Poseidon and the river gods unleashed the flood, which submerged the land and killed humanity.
• Zeus and the other Olympian gods watched the destruction, believing they had justly cleansed humanity.
• Pandora condemned the gods, and Ye Ting told her that the strong controlled who could claim justice.
• Pandora vowed to learn magic and grow stronger, while Ye Ting urged her not to let hatred consume her.
• Ye Ting showed Pandora the light of hope still shining inside Pandora’s Box and explained that Athena had left it there.

Ye Ting persuaded Pandora that Athena’s power of hope did not mean she had doomed humanity by keeping the box closed, then considered how he might study and spread magic after humanity was remade. Once the flood receded and the gods left, a mysterious woman emerged from rainbow-colored sea foam beside Ye Ting and Pandora.

• Ye Ting calmed Pandora’s self-blame by explaining that humanity was too weak to use Athena’s power of hope effectively.
• Ye Ting decided to avoid seeking an alliance with Athena until he was stronger and had built a closer relationship with her.
• Ye Ting planned to spread magic among the new humans and establish the first magical organization of the Age of Gods.
• The flood submerged the land, and Ye Ting waited until the gods had left before preparing to take Pandora home.
• Rainbow-colored sea foam appeared beside Ye Ting and Pandora, and a beautiful woman emerged from it.

Aphrodite appeared before Ye Ting and Pandora, and her divine charm overwhelmed Pandora while Ye Ting managed to resist it. Ye Ting recognized Aphrodite as the goddess born from sea foam and teased her, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Aphrodite's appearance and innate charm captivated Ye Ting, Pandora, and even the sea and wind.
• Ye Ting recovered his senses, but Pandora was aroused by Aphrodite's charm, so Ye Ting used magic to put her to sleep.
• Aphrodite praised Ye Ting for resisting her charm and expressed interest in him as potential prey.
• Ye Ting identified the stranger as Aphrodite by reasoning that only a goddess of love and beauty could produce such an effect.
• Aphrodite became annoyed when Ye Ting revealed he had guessed her identity from the legend of her birth, then brightened when he complimented her beauty.

Ye Ting questioned Aphrodite about how she found him despite his concealment, while resisting her attempts to make him reveal his secrets. Aphrodite explained that she sensed Ye Ting and Pandora because they were the only humans with love and desire between a man and a woman.

• Ye Ting asked Aphrodite how she had found him, since even Zeus should not have been able to detect his concealment.
• Aphrodite praised Ye Ting's methods but refused to answer until he revealed his secret first.
• Ye Ting protected his mind with magic and insisted Aphrodite trade something of equal value for his secret.
• Aphrodite explained that she sensed Ye Ting and Pandora because they were the only humans with love between a man and a woman.

Ye Ting explained magic to Aphrodite and discovered that the goddess could not sense his identity through her divine authority. When he challenged her shallow understanding of love, he described love as emotional devotion and told her famous love stories, leaving her stunned.

• Aphrodite told Ye Ting that her divine authority could not sense him, and he realized his outsider status helped conceal his information from the gods.
• Ye Ting traded his secret of magic to Aphrodite and explained the power, increasing her interest in him.
• Ye Ting questioned why Aphrodite had watched Pandora to learn about love, and she insisted that she already understood it.
• Aphrodite defined love as reproduction and physical pleasure, so Ye Ting challenged her understanding and asked whether love was merely a side job for the goddess of beauty.
• Aphrodite demanded that Ye Ting explain love, and he described it as emotional attachment and devotion before telling her the stories of Romeo and Juliet and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
• Aphrodite listened in stunned silence as Ye Ting explained love beyond desire and reproduction.

Ye Ting’s stories and theories changed Aphrodite’s understanding of love, leading her to condemn Zeus’s infidelity and offer Ye Ting a place among the gods. He declined and realized that his stories might shape Aphrodite into a very different kind of meddlesome Goddess of Love.

• Aphrodite listened to Ye Ting’s love stories and began to see the gods’ betrayals and affairs as ugly rather than as true love.
• Ye Ting joked that Aphrodite should hand her divine office of love to him, and she offered to make him a subordinate god instead.
• Ye Ting refused the offer because he wanted to remain human and gain power through magic.
• Aphrodite admitted she had never experienced love and explained that she knew little beyond the gods’ constant infidelity.
• Ye Ting realized Aphrodite had accepted his varied stories as lessons and now considered Zeus and Hera’s relationship deeply flawed.
• Ye Ting worried that Aphrodite’s new ideas would cause chaos if she later meddled in mortal love affairs.