Chapter Summaries

Miss Tamamo’s massive Fox’s Wedding ritual reshaped Inabayama Castle for Oda Ichi’s wedding, while Gu Mo struggled to resist its Authority and devised a desperate countermeasure. As the auspicious hour arrived, several people returning from elsewhere were unexpectedly transported into rooms at the castle.

• Oda Ichi grew nervous as Miss Tamamo reassured her that she would fulfill their agreement and help her leave after the wedding.
• Miss Tamamo prepared to impersonate Oda Ichi, and her Anti-Country-level ritual made the people of Inabayama Castle accept the wedding as natural.
• Miss Tamamo sensed Gu Mo’s Authority of Lies trying to interfere, but her ritual overwhelmed his resistance.
• Gu Mo equipped a newly condensed Skill Badge for the Authority of Lies, then used Self-Modification and his powers in a desperate attempt to distort what would happen.
• Miss Saito returned to Inabayama Castle without her sister, while Hidechiyo and Kikyo with Ciri also arrived in unexpected rooms there.
• A woman outside told Kikyo and Ciri that the auspicious hour had arrived.

Gu Mo could not stop Miss Tamamo’s Fox’s Wedding ritual, so he secretly altered its details and arranged for the returning travelers to arrive at Inabayama Castle. Miss Tamamo entered the wedding hall expecting to be the sole bride, only to find two other brides arriving with her.

• Miss Tamamo used Fox’s Wedding to arrange a grand ceremony, while Gu Mo calmly greeted the guests and accepted that he could not directly resist the ritual.
• Gu Mo used the Power of Lies and overlapping Teleportation Gates to direct the returning Hidechiyo sisters, Ciri, and Kikyo to Inabayama Castle.
• Miss Tamamo entered the hall in wedding robes, believing Gu Mo had stopped interfering and that she would be his only bride.
• Two other young women appeared in matching wedding attire, leaving Miss Tamamo shocked and Kikyo unable to remain calm.

Miss Tamamo’s wedding ritual swept Gu Mo, Kikyo, and Hidechiyo into the ceremony, and Gu Mo enthusiastically played his role while Tamamo reluctantly accepted sharing the wedding. After the guests departed, Oda Ichi waited alone, and Gu Mo faced the others in a tense room still dressed in their wedding clothes.

• The ritual drew Kikyo and Hidechiyo into the wedding, while the guests treated the ceremony and its three couples as perfectly ordinary.
• Miss Tamamo considered stopping the ritual but decided to continue, and Gu Mo cheerfully asked her about the next wedding rites.
• Hidechiyo realized she was at a wedding and blushed, while Kikyo watched coldly and Tamamo accused Gu Mo of choosing the others despite her being first.
• Oda Ichi waited alone in the Tenshu, fell asleep, and woke after the banquet had ended without anyone coming to send her away.
• Gu Mo sat in silence with Kikyo, Hidechiyo, and a dejected Miss Tamamo in a secluded room, all still wearing their wedding clothes.

After the surprise wedding left Tamamo, Hidechiyo, and Kikyo stunned, Gu Mo apologized and admitted that the ceremony had reflected his own wishes. He proposed holding a proper ceremony later, leaving Kikyo flustered and Tamamo jealous as he turned to discuss how to resolve the situation.

• Gu Mo observed Tamamo's dejection, Hidechiyo's embarrassment, and Kikyo's quiet composure after the wedding.
• Gu Mo apologized to Kikyo and Hidechiyo, admitting he had acted on his own wishes instead of asking them first.
• Gu Mo proposed holding a proper ceremony later, startling Kikyo and leaving her unsure how to respond.
• Tamamo interrupted to insist she had been first, and Gu Mo challenged her claim by pointing to the time they had spent together in the past.
• Gu Mo changed the subject to resolving the situation, and Tamamo nervously avoided his gaze.

Gu Mo discussed the consequences of Miss Tamamo using Oda Ichi’s identity and the political marriage, while worrying about how Axiu’s family would understand what happened. The next morning, Mino Province appeared stable and prosperous, and Gu Mo defended his reforms as requiring bloodshed.

• Miss Tamamo explained that Oda Ichi had agreed to lend her identity in exchange for a chance to leave this world, and Gu Mo warned that the difference in time between worlds could separate her from her family.
• Gu Mo realized that Fox's Wedding had made everyone remember Miss Tamamo as Oda Ichi and the sole bride, but feared Saito Dosan would misread the marriage as a betrayal of Axiu.
• The next morning, Owari Province’s delegation observed Mino’s thriving city and concluded that Oda Nobunaga’s plans to exploit its supposed weakness would fail.
• Gu Mo’s covert network monitored the delegation’s spies as Mino’s new forces and reforms continued to develop.
• Gu Mo told the Witcher girl that he had accepted the need for bloodshed to carry out reforms, and she asked whether he meant other people’s lives.

Gu Mo proposed adapting Witcher mutations to reform the military, while Ciri warned him about the trials’ dangers and limitations. He planned to develop suitable mutant plants in the Ecological Dome, drawing on his growing ability to create life, and left the idea awaiting experiments.

• Gu Mo told Ciri he wanted to reform the traditional military by adapting Witcher training and bodily mutations rather than replacing soldiers with machines.
• Ciri warned that Witcher training began in childhood and that the Trial of the Grasses killed most apprentices, making mass training dangerous and difficult.
• Gu Mo explained that he would use the trials as a reference and optimize them rather than copy them, and Ciri shared what she knew about the first two stages and their potion.
• Ciri pointed out that many potion ingredients did not exist in their world, and Gu Mo proposed cultivating similar plants in the Ecological Dome.
• Gu Mo reflected on his life-creation project on Europa and his plan to use biological samples and designs from other worlds to develop new ecosystems and useful materials.

Gu Mo considered breeding monsters and designing lifeforms to obtain the ingredients for Ciri’s alchemical decoction while dealing with the strained reactions of those around him. In Mino, Owari’s envoys witnessed the province’s rapid industrial and military advances, and a hidden figure stoked their fear into a plot to send a signal to Oda Nobunaga and seize Mino’s machines and firearms.

• Gu Mo recorded the ingredients Ciri described, asked her about monster traits, and considered breeding the creatures needed for the decoction.
• Ciri went to spar with Minamoto no Raikou while Gu Mo reflected on Miss Saito, Kikyo, Axiu, and Tamamo avoiding him after the wedding.
• Gu Mo sketched designs for plants and animals in his mind and recognized that he was learning to create life.
• Owari’s envoys watched Mino’s harvesters and saw the city’s factories, advanced weapons, and rapid changes, becoming alarmed by its growing power.
• One envoy urged the others to send a signal to Oda Nobunaga and use the chaos to steal Mino’s technology.
• An unseen figure with a khakkhara staff and red-lit eyes inflamed the envoys’ emotions and drove them toward impulsive action.

Kashin Koji’s influence pushed the Owari delegation to plan an urgent attack on Mino and gather intelligence about Inabayama Castle’s defenses. As one of their spies tried to pass a secret letter out of the city, Mino’s Anbu and Onmyoji trapped and weakened him.

• The Owari delegation returned to the consulate and agreed to send intelligence to Lord Nobunaga, prepare for an invasion, and scout Inabayama Castle’s defenses.
• The delegation’s spy met a contact in the marketplace and passed along a secret letter.
• The contact concealed the letter in a cylindrical container and noticed the door opening, then threw a smoke bomb and escaped through a window.
• The spy cut through a net with kunai and fled into an alley, where Anbu had sealed the exits with talismans.
• Onmyoji Magic struck the spy with a Slowness Talisman and an Energy Sealing Talisman, leaving him barely able to move or shout.

Mino Anbu captured an Owari spy and delivered him to a secret underground facility, while the untouched letter he had sent prompted Oda Nobunaga to invade Mino. The Owari delegation waited for an uprising inside Inabayama Castle, but Nobunaga's army was halted by a small force of Mino mechanical soldiers.

• Mino Anbu silently captured the elite ninja, found his secret letter, and carried him to an underground complex beneath Inabayama Castle.
• The captive saw mechanical laborers and familiar defectors before his senior brother took him toward rooms filled with machines and metal helmets.
• The young ninja returned to his residence and sent the unaltered letter to Owari, prompting the Oda clan to mobilize its troops.
• Gu Mo reassured the Owari delegation that he would care for Oda Ichi, while the envoys waited anxiously for their plan to begin.
• Oda Nobunaga's army entered Mino but was driven into disarray by the superior gunfire of a small enemy force.
• Shibata Katsuie charged the Mino soldiers with the power of Inotake-ō, blasting aside more than a dozen mechanical troops without stopping them.

Shibata Katsuie unleashed the Inotake-ō’s power against the Mechanical Golems as Oda Nobunaga ordered his army forward. Meanwhile, Gu Mo hosted Owari conspirators who decided to act when their attack failed to bring news, and Oda Ichi saw a blade flash as they prepared to leave.

• Shibata Katsuie battered the Mechanical Golems with his twin axes, but their advance continued despite damage.
• Oda Nobunaga ordered the entire army to advance as Katsuie, wounded by gunfire, began to undergo Yokai Transformation.
• The Owari men grew anxious when their planned attack on Mino produced no news and decided to kill Gu Mo before leaving.
• Gu Mo allowed the conspirators to rise and prepare to depart, while Oda Ichi spotted a flash of blade light.

Gu Mo stopped the Owari Province delegation’s attack, captured a man transformed into Sukuna, and ordered the survivors questioned. A disguised maid then transported him to a hostile group led by Edward Kelley, who claimed they would correct history, and Gu Mo warned that their operation might instead cause the future they feared.

• The Owari Province leader attacked Gu Mo, who snapped his blade and killed him with a fragment, before disarming the other attackers and letting the guards subdue them.
• Oda Ichi tried to shield Gu Mo, then stood horrified as the delegation’s members were killed or captured.
• A wounded man transformed into the giant demon Sukuna, and Gu Mo captured it in a gourd before ordering the survivors taken for questioning.
• A maid revealed herself as an agent and used a rune gate to transport Gu Mo away from the hall.
• Edward Kelley confronted Gu Mo with a group of powerful allies, declaring that they would correct history, while Gu Mo recognized Kelley’s Guardian Spirit Ouroboros and warned that their actions might bring about the future they feared.

Gu Mo killed an attacker but was caught in a massive gravity Alchemy Array and overwhelmed by the others’ Essence Secret Techniques. As they bombarded him, a black-robed member suddenly turned on the group, killing and disabling several of them.

• A member stomped on an Earth Vein to trigger an Alchemy Array, and Gu Mo killed him and destroyed his consciousness with a Spiritual Whiplash.
• The Array activated across the ground, forming a gravity field that crushed Gu Mo and cracked his projected body.
• The surrounding members unleashed a barrage of Essence Secret Techniques against the suppressed Gu Mo.
• A black-robed member attacked his own allies, beheading two and extracting the souls of several others.

Gu Mo massacred the time-traveling warriors after they destroyed his body, then tracked down and killed Edward Kelley when he escaped into a clone. Edward’s death revealed Ouroboros and another mysterious Guardian Spirit, which Gu Mo suspected belonged to Saoirse.

• Gu Mo possessed a black-robed warrior and used soul extraction, mental attacks, and Spiritual Whiplash to kill many of the attackers and turn some against their companions.
• Gu Mo destroyed the Alchemy Array by tearing apart its ground nodes, prompting Edward Kelley and the surviving warriors to flee.
• Gu Mo killed a warrior who burrowed underground by using Point the Ground into Steel, while Edward escaped by committing suicide and transferring into a backup clone.
• Gu Mo used divination to find Edward’s hidden cave, then beheaded him and extracted his Soul Spirit before he could transfer again.
• Ouroboros and a second Guardian Spirit appeared after Edward’s death, and Gu Mo suspected the second spirit was connected to Saoirse.

Gu Mo investigated the alchemists’ hidden revival chamber, kept their clone technology for research, and claimed Edward Kelley’s Guardian Spirit, Ouroboros, as loot. He then uncovered Queen’s Eye’s attempt to restore a World Line in which England ruled the world.

• Gu Mo found a concealed chamber containing clone bodies and alchemical devices that could serve as revival backups, and decided to preserve them for research.
• Gu Mo opened Edward Kelley’s loot and obtained the Gold Grade Guardian Spirit Ouroboros, whose powers included balancing opposing forces and seizing other Guardian Spirits.
• Gu Mo found no sign of Saoirse among the loot but collected several Skill Badges, including ones for alchemy, clone reincarnation, and consciousness transfer.
• After defeating the final possessed target, Gu Mo used gathered memories and intelligence to learn that the future alchemists belonged to the resistance society Queen’s Eye.
• Gu Mo learned that Queen’s Eye sought to restore an original World Line in which England became a global colonial empire.

Gu Mo deduced how the Queen's Eye organization had used cloned bodies and altered memories to keep fighting after its defeat, while his forces captured the Oda clan and brought them to Inabayama Castle. Back in Lunar City, Gu Mo asked Ciri to help him test a new way of sending out avatars that might eventually find the world she wanted to return to.

• Gu Mo concluded that the Queen's Eye organization had relied on indoctrinated clone reincarnations after losing Saoirse, then left the wilderness with his damaged Spirit Core.
• At Inabayama Castle, rumors that Owari had tried to assassinate Gu Mo enraged the townspeople, while Saito Dosan returned with Minamoto no Yoshitsune and complained about the city's changes.
• Saito Dosan saw the Oda clan being brought into the city in prison carts and suspected Gu Mo had already planned Owari's downfall before the assassination attempt became public.
• Ciri returned to her comfortable room in Lunar City and was surprised when Gu Mo came to her door.
• Gu Mo told Ciri that improvements to his Avatar Walking Technique might let him search across many worlds, and asked her to open doors so they could test it.

Gu Mo tested Ciri’s ability to open a gate to an unknown world and sent a Consciousness Seed through it, which took root almost immediately. He then opened a gate to another world, where a young man with a mutating right arm heard a voice in his empty room.

• Gu Mo asked Ciri about the number of unknown worlds she could sense, and she explained that the available worlds seemed limited and refreshed periodically.
• Ciri opened a Teleportation Gate in Lunar City’s tower testing ground while Gu Mo tried to probe the world beyond it.
• Gu Mo sent a Consciousness Seed through the gate and sensed that it had taken root after several days passed on the other side.
• Gu Mo confirmed the success, asked Ciri to open a gate to the next world, and sent another shimmering cluster through it.
• In a quiet town on an isolated island, a young man studied his mutated right arm as a voice called it a “Demon’s Right Arm.”
• The young man drew a double-barreled revolver and turned toward the voice, but found no one in the room.

Gu Mo contacted Nero, who had recently awakened demonic power in his right hand, and tried to persuade him to cooperate. Nero reluctantly agreed after Gu Mo threatened to approach Kyrie, and the next morning Nero left church to keep her away from the situation while Gu Mo continued speaking to him.

• Nero mistook Gu Mo’s voice for a demon responsible for his mutated right hand and refused his offer to cooperate.
• Gu Mo threatened to approach Kyrie, and Nero stopped him by agreeing to cooperate.
• The next morning, Nero attended prayers with Kyrie, hid his worries, and hurried out of the chapel.
• Gu Mo resumed talking in Nero’s mind, and Nero warned him not to involve Kyrie.
• Gu Mo claimed he had planned to train Kyrie and boasted that she could have fought Dante herself.

Nero accepted a mission to investigate the Second Mining Site while Gu Mo’s consciousness offered him a strange reward system. In another world, Gu Mo defeated an Alien Queen in Antarctica, where surviving humans and arriving aliens gathered around him as he struggled to remain standing.

• Nero set out to investigate the Second Mining Site after the mysterious voice assigned him a mission and displayed its rewards.
• Gu Mo considered how rewards and technology from different worlds could support Nero and his other counterparts.
• In Antarctica, Gu Mo defeated the Alien Queen but remained gravely wounded and barely upright.
• The human survivors rushed to Gu Mo as a battered alien approached, then additional aliens and a concealed spacecraft appeared.
• A powerful alien leader examined Gu Mo as he stood gripping a stolen spear, and the tense gathering fell silent.

After earning the Predators’ respect, Gu Mo’s injured body was taken aboard their ship for treatment, giving him a chance to join them and study their technology. Back in the real dimension, he tested creating Consciousness Seeds with Ciri, then sent one into a strange world where a silver-haired, six-winged girl accidentally shattered it and immediately began restoring it.

• The Predator elder recognized Gu Mo’s fighting prowess, and the Predators took his unconscious body aboard their ship for treatment and a possible invitation to hunt in space.
• Gu Mo thanked the exhausted Ciri and ended their experiment after confirming that Consciousness Seeds could let him create many independent incarnations across worlds.
• Gu Mo’s Consciousness Seed entered a world rich in spiritual energy and Yokai Energy, then fled after detecting powerful forces fighting in a field of sunflowers.
• As Gu Mo traveled through the wilderness, a spatial distortion appeared and a silver-haired girl with six wings collided with his Consciousness Seed, nearly destroying it.
• The girl apologized in alarm and used her power to repair the shattered Consciousness Seed, while Gu Mo sensed the immense creation and holy power in her aura.

A blond Englishman and the surviving crew of the Livard reached the Eastern World after a perilous voyage, hoping to find Saoirse and the alchemist who had stolen her. They were awed by a colossal steel warship and a modern port city, leaving the Englishman wondering whether they had truly arrived in God's kingdom.

• The blond Englishman recalled escaping the Tower of London, carrying Saoirse's feather amulet, and sailing east to find her and seek revenge.
• The Livard's crew celebrated when they sighted a vast coastline, believing they had finally reached the Eastern World.
• A gigantic steel warship appeared and stunned the crew, who began worshipping it as a sign of divine paradise.
• The warship's officers imposed registration, cleaning, and quarantine procedures before transferring the Livard's crew to a nearby port city.
• The crew saw electric lights, cranes, trams, skyscrapers, airships, and a bustling harbor, while the blond Englishman wondered if they had reached God's kingdom.