Chapter Summaries

Moros used higher-grade Death Curse rituals to kill Councillors Winifred and Aubrey, ending his retaliation against those responsible for Griseo’s experiments. As Sleeping Sickness spread to millions, Dr. Mei’s investigation revealed that victims shared dreams, while the disease’s origin remained unknown.

• Moros killed the remaining names on his list, including Councillor Winifred in Sea Abyss City and Councillor Aubrey in Lunar City: New Atra, using Soul Crystals to strengthen his curses.
• After the councillors’ deaths, human elites avoided confronting Moros and sought to ease tensions with him through diplomacy and exchanges of interests.
• Sleeping Sickness spread across both human society and Moros’s territory, exceeding two million cases in a month and overwhelming hospitals.
• Moth to Fire officials initially suspected Moros, but reports from his territory showed that the disease was affecting his people as well.
• Dr. Mei ordered Dr. Spasi to investigate victims’ shared dreams, while artificial intelligence found recurring keywords in the web pages they had visited.

Dr. Mei identified the Eighth Herrscher as the source of Sleeping Sickness, but the Moth to Fire Council rejected her request to cooperate with Moros. With millions falling asleep, Mei launched a dangerous plan to enter the Herrscher’s dream and locate her, while Mobius and Vill-V recalled Moros’s warning about the threat.

• Dr. Mei and the Moth to Fire research team determined that Sleeping Sickness came from the Eighth Herrscher’s memetic weapon, which infected people through contaminated words and trapped them in dreams.
• Dr. Mei proposed seeking Moros’s help, but the Moth to Fire Council refused, believing it could defeat the concealed Herrscher on its own.
• Dr. Mei devised a plan to send warriors into the Eighth Herrscher’s dream using the Observation Hub, and worked with Dr. Spasi to develop the Consciousness Lock drug.
• With more than ten million people already asleep and the total expected to exceed one hundred million within ten days, Dr. Mei briefed seven Flame-Chaser Warriors and other soldiers before their perilous mission.
• Mobius and Vill-V recalled how Moros had warned them about Sleeping Sickness and the Eighth Herrscher, and recognized that his prediction had come true.

Moros explained why he was waiting rather than risking a search for the hidden Eighth Herrscher, while the Herrscher of Consciousness overwhelmed Moth to Fire with dreams. Su broke free of her dream and revealed her location, allowing Moth to Fire to kill her; afterward, Kevin urged Su to take over Dr. Spasi’s work and keep fighting Honkai.

• Moros told Vill-V and Mobius that his Soul Collection Array limited losses in his territory, so he would wait rather than enter the dangerous dream world to find the Eighth Herrscher.
• The Eighth Herrscher found a way around Moth to Fire’s Consciousness Lock and trapped soldiers and most Flame-Chaser Warriors in dreams, while deciding the necromancer was an even greater threat.
• Su entered the dream through the Observation Hub, resisted its illusions, and discovered the Eighth Herrscher’s location as his mentor restarted the Hub despite suffering a fatal wound.
• Moth to Fire sent one Flame-Chaser Warrior to the Eighth Herrscher’s former home and killed her.
• Kevin told Su that Mei wanted him to succeed Dr. Spasi and lead the Fifth Science Department, and Su accepted the responsibility.

After the Herrscher of Consciousness fell, the dream world collapsed, killing nearly one hundred million people and leaving societies and Moth to Fire’s bureaucracy severely damaged. Moth to Fire expanded its influence while Moros prepared to rebuild his administration, and Vill-V and Mobius returned to Earth with a warning that the next Great Collapse could arrive within two or three years.

• The collapse of the dream world awakened many victims of Sleeping Sickness, but nearly one hundred million people died, including many of society’s leading experts and administrators.
• The deaths of elites disrupted industries and governance, while great-power struggles, resource plunder, and famine plunged underdeveloped regions into violence and anarchy.
• Moth to Fire’s victory over the Herrscher of Consciousness strengthened its standing, and the councilors sent Kalpas and Sakura with the Poison Pupa Unit to kill dozens of powerful figures opposing its expansion.
• Vill-V and Mobius asked Moros to leave the Demiplane and return to Earth, and he warned them that another Great Collapse might occur within two or three years.
• Moros saw Vill-V and Mobius through the planar crystal wall, then turned to rebuilding his bureaucracy after Sleeping Sickness killed many of his administrators.

Moros enforced harsh tax collection to preserve his territory’s revenue, while Moth to Fire councillors Eugene and Wang agreed to send the Poison Pupa Unit after Collapse weapon research. Their plan and General Diego’s soul-trading deal were interrupted when an unknown force attacked his military base.

• Moros ordered Margaret and Keen to ensure quarterly tax targets were met, threatening officials who failed with execution, and the taxes were collected at the people’s expense.
• Councillors Eugene and Wang discussed the major powers’ plan to seize Collapse weapon research and agreed Moth to Fire should secure it first.
• Eugene proposed sending the Poison Pupa Unit, and Wang agreed to support the plan without taking the lead against the major powers.
• General Diego handed Soul Storage Orbs to an Australian visitor as part of their trading arrangement.
• An unknown force attacked Diego’s military base, setting off alarms and explosions and alarming the Australian visitor.

Sakura assassinated General Diego and everyone else at his military base, then recovered three Soul Storage Orbs and delivered them to Dr. Mei. Dr. Mei offered the necromancer a deal: the orbs in exchange for joining Moth to Fire’s fight against Collapse, and Councillor William confirmed her proposal to Moros.

• General Diego tried to maintain control as an attack disrupted his meeting, but Sakura killed his adjutant and entered the room.
• Sakura killed General Diego, Hobart’s deputy mayor, and everyone else in the meeting room, leaving forget-me-nots on the two men’s chests.
• Sakura took the briefcase containing three Soul Storage Orbs and escaped as flames destroyed the military base and its Collapse weapon files.
• Sakura brought the orbs to Dr. Mei at Moth to Fire Headquarters and explained what had happened at the base.
• Dr. Mei contacted Councillor William and offered the necromancer the three Soul Storage Orbs in exchange for joining Moth to Fire’s anti-Collapse effort.
• Councillor William confirmed Dr. Mei’s proposal to Moros over the Communication Badge.

Moros accepted Dr. Mei’s offer of support from Moth to Fire in exchange for three hundred thousand souls, while continuing his magical research and resolving to grow strong enough to protect Vill-V. As Moth to Fire’s covert operations alarmed the traditional powers, their leaders moved to contain its influence, but conflicting interests made unified action difficult.

• Moros agreed to support Dr. Mei’s cause and allow Moth to Fire to establish a branch in his territory, but said three hundred thousand souls were not enough to secure his full cooperation.
• Dr. Mei sent Sakura to deliver the three Soul Storage Orbs containing three hundred thousand souls and retrieve Moros’s official response.
• Moros returned to studying a Legendary Spell and reflected that he needed greater power to protect Vill-V and face the Herrscher of the End.
• Moth to Fire’s Poison Pupa Unit destroyed bases and seized Honkai weapon research materials, prompting the North American president to call for measures to restrict the organization.
• The North American president rejected the secretary of state’s warning about neglecting Honkai, while the leaders present recognized their shared need to resist outside threats.
• Traditional powers convened high-level meetings, but factions benefiting from Moth to Fire’s rise divided their governments and obstructed a common response.

Beatrice’s vampire clan agreed to seek allies before expanding further and negotiated with Moros for his support, offering him access for Soul Collection Arrays and an annual fortune in resources. With Moros’s power backing them, the vampires rapidly expanded across Europe and began recruiting influential humans.

• Beatrice persuaded the vampire nobles to seek allies before attempting to conquer more human nations.
• The vampire leaders discussed envoys and offers, then struggled to decide how to win over the powerful necromancer Moros.
• Moros told Prime Minister Keen that the vampires’ offer was worth considering but that he wanted more.
• Keen negotiated with the vampire envoy until the clan agreed to permit Territory-level Soul Collection Arrays and provide Moros with resources worth two hundred billion Mu Continent Currency each year.
• Eight hundred Low-tier Undead arrived at Port Constanta, and the vampire clan used the moment to seize territory in Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe within three days.
• The vampires began infiltrating powerful European nations and recruited humans who sought immortality.

Elysia reunited with Moros in Australia, revealed Moth to Fire’s mission, and learned the details of his arrangements with the vampire elites. After spending a romantic day together in Sydney, they returned to their hotel, where Elysia asked Moros to stay the night and he kissed her.

• Elysia arrived in Canberra and told Moros that Moth to Fire had sent her to investigate him, along with the details of her mission.
• Moros explained his agreements with vampire elites such as Beatrice and how his Territory-level Soul Collection Arrays would protect vampires within their boundaries.
• Moros and Elysia visited the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, then shared dinner at a seaside restaurant.
• At their hotel, Moros helped Elysia dry and comb her hair after her bath.
• Elysia embraced Moros and asked him to stay the night, and he confirmed she had thought it through before kissing her.

Moros and Elysia shared an intimate farewell before she returned to her duties with Moth to Fire, and Moros resumed researching magic at the Mage Guild. He began the thirty-fourth attempt at a Soulology spell experiment, undeterred by its high cost and earlier failures.

• Moros and Elysia spent several days together, and he used Light Vitality Regeneration to ease her soreness before preparing a meal for her.
• Elysia chose to return to Moth to Fire headquarters on the Mu Continent and resume her responsibilities as captain of the First Squad.
• Moros gave Elysia summoning talismans, spell scrolls, and protective ornaments to help keep her safe on her journey.
• Elysia departed aboard a Moth to Fire military transport plane, and Moros returned to the Mage Guild.
• Moros began a Soulology experiment using low-grade Soul Crystals, entering its second phase as his thirty-fourth attempt despite the expense of previous failures.

Moros completed the second compression of his Soul Torrent experiment before its third stage failed and destroyed his laboratory, while human allied forces attacked vampire positions in Albania and the vampires struck back. The chapter ends with Moses leading the Fixers toward L-Nest as a battle unfolds around them.

• Moros successfully stabilized and compressed the soul energy, then began the experiment’s third stage, which failed and sent the energy rampaging through his laboratory.
• Moros escaped by teleportation as the laboratory’s protective arrays moved the facility into another dimension.
• Human allied forces attacked vampires in Albania with helicopters, artillery, and drones, inflicting heavy losses on the vampires and their auxiliary troops.
• Vampire Warriors ambushed the low-flying Attack Helicopters with man-portable air-defense missiles and destroyed several aircraft.
• General Joseph ordered the allied fleet and ground forces to accelerate their offensive against vampire reinforcements, but the chapter cut off before he finished his command.
• Moses led the Fixers in black overcoats toward the entrance of L-Nest after ordering them to move out.

Odysseus faced a choice about betraying L Company as coordinated explosions struck its facilities, while the human coalition’s fleet turned the tide against the Vampire Warriors in the Albanian Forest. The vampire elites sent Beatrice to the front with a Curse Crystal to target General Joseph, as the battle continued to favor the coalition.

• Odysseus realized the explosions at L Company’s energy plants were a diversion and went toward the Singularity’s defenses to carry out Benjamin’s plan.
• The Vampire Warriors used the Albanian Forest to counterattack the human coalition, but General Joseph ordered the Floating Fleet to support the ground forces.
• The Floating Battleships and aircraft bombarded the vampires, allowing the human coalition to regain the upper hand and advance into the forest.
• After learning the fleet had appeared, the vampire elites gave Beatrice a Curse Crystal and asked for a volunteer to negotiate with the human elites.
• Beatrice traveled to the Albanian Forest carrying the crystal and found the coalition advancing under the Floating Fleet’s fire.

Beatrice used the Curse Crystal to kill General Joseph, forcing the human coalition and the vampires toward negotiations that ended in a ceasefire agreement. Afterward, Ernest explained that new undead forces and the vampires’ destructive curse had made further pressure too risky, while Beatrice defended the agreement to vampire elites but privately worried about their future under joint rule.

• Beatrice used the Curse Crystal to curse General Joseph to death, then ordered the vampire forces to withdraw while the Human Auxiliary Army remained behind.
• At negotiations in Tirana, Odall rejected the United Nations’ demands, while Saifian Augsull proposed staged reparations and retaining historically significant territories.
• The United Nations and the vampire clan signed a peace agreement requiring two trillion Mu Continent Currency in reparations and joint governance of occupied countries.
• Ernest told Yang Qiwen that new Undead Troops had appeared at Port Constanta and explained that human leaders feared the vampires’ curse, making further pressure too dangerous.
• Beatrice told vampire elites that the agreement offered a path to legitimacy and influence, though she privately feared United Nations oversight would restrict the clan’s development.

Moros completed Soul Torrent, his first self-created Legendary Spell, and gained substantial experience, then accepted Vill-V’s invitation to see her work in the Victoria Great Desert. Vill-V revealed humanity’s first Space Battleship and began explaining her surprise, leaving Moros eager to learn why she had built it.

• Moros’s experience bar filled to nearly one-third after he completed Soul Torrent, and he turned his research interests toward Soulology.
• Moros accepted Vill-V’s invitation and traveled from his Demiplane to her research center in the Victoria Great Desert.
• Vill-V showed Moros the research center’s advanced automated production lines and led him to her workshop.
• Vill-V revealed a 500-meter Space Battleship powered by a Super Large Ship-borne Collapse Energy Reactor.
• Moros asked Vill-V what prompted her surprise, and she replied by asking whether Moth to Fire had already established New Atra.

Dr. Mei warned the Flame-Chaser Warriors that the next Herrscher would appear on the Mu Continent and revealed the Divine Key Seven Thunders of Purity, whose wielder would be chosen through a contested compatibility test. Meanwhile, Moros toured Vill-V’s battleship and learned it relied on artificial intelligence and Armed Dolls, while Dr. Mei’s meeting ended with Kevin’s question about evacuating civilians.

• Moros thanked Vill-V for her support and embraced her while she showed him the space battleship she had built.
• Dr. Mei told the Flame-Chaser Warriors that Honkai incidents were increasing and that the next Herrscher would be born on the Mu Continent.
• Dr. Mei unveiled the Third Divine Key, Seven Thunders of Purity, and explained that its compatible wielder would be selected through a test open to warriors backed by both her and the Moth to Fire Council.
• Kevin asked whether Moth to Fire should evacuate civilians, and Dr. Mei refused because moving them could shift the Herrscher’s arrival and make its attacks harder to contain.
• Vill-V explained to Moros that artificial intelligence and Armed Dolls operated her battleship, and she recounted how Einstein’s Armed Dolls won their freedom before the Council banned further production.

Moros transformed Vill-V’s battleship into the Charon-class Light Frigate, alarming the world’s powers when it entered space. During a lunar expedition with Vill-V, Moros discovered an ancient temple complex on the moon’s far side and sensed a Moth to Fire outpost nearby.

• Moros rejected relying entirely on Armed Dolls and spent more than ten days turning Vill-V’s battleship into an Undead Engine, naming it the Charon-class Light Frigate.
• The Charon-class Light Frigate entered outer space, prompting world powers to track it, reassess their military disadvantage, and accelerate aerospace research and cooperation.
• Moros and Vill-V traveled to the moon and scanned its far side, where they found an ancient temple complex distinct from the human-built city of New Atra.
• Moros used a wide-area spell to explore the temple complex and detected a Moth to Fire outpost on its outskirts.

Moros and Vill-V tested their Charon-class Light Frigate by destroying the Remnants of the Apocalypse guarding the Temple Complex on the moon. They reached the ancient ruins, discovered they were at least a hundred thousand years old, and began exploring for clues about an even older civilization.

• The Charon-class Light Frigate detected Remnants of the Apocalypse approaching the Temple Complex, and Moros decided to test the Undead Engine's combat power.
• The frigate destroyed the Remnants of the Apocalypse with its spinal cannon, missiles, and point-defense turrets while its Collapse Energy Shield blocked their attacks.
• Moros and Vill-V landed near the Temple Complex and traveled to its outer perimeter in Vill-V's customized light ground vehicle.
• Vill-V analyzed fragments from the outer temples and discovered that the ruins were at least a hundred thousand years old.
• Moros and Vill-V decided to explore deeper for evidence of an older civilization, and Vill-V prepared their route toward the ruins' core.

Moros and Vill-V explored the central temple on the Moon, saw a mural depicting the Herrscher of the End destroying an ancient civilization, and found no further major treasure. After Moth to Fire learned of their expedition, its researchers explored the ruins and uncovered the civilization’s trove of knowledge, which traditional powers began to learn about.

• Moros and Vill-V studied the mural of the Herrscher of the End holding Earth, and Moros told Vill-V that every civilization would eventually face her.
• Vill-V declared that she would not bow to fate, and Moros promised she would not need to enter such a dangerous battlefield while he was there.
• Moros and Vill-V defeated a swarm of young Remnants of the Apocalypse in the central temple, then found no major discovery beyond the ancient knowledge Vill-V had collected.
• Moth to Fire and human society detected the Charon-class Light Frigate’s lunar battle and learned that Moros and Vill-V had entered the Moon Temple Complex.
• Moth to Fire sent scientists and Flame-Chaser Warriors into the ruins, where they uncovered a vast trove of knowledge and shared their discoveries with traditional powers.

As nations competed to explore the Moon Temple ruins, the costs worsened public hardships and governments closed their borders to refugees. Lena led refugees through a shipwreck scare to reach the Mu Continent, where its restrictive admission policy crushed their hopes and tensions grew in the camp.

• Major powers pursued the Moon Temple ruins through expeditions, technology, and negotiations, while Moth to Fire profited from controlling access and sharing research.
• Governments redirected resources toward space exploration and military needs, cut public spending, and stopped accepting or aiding refugees.
• Lena traveled toward the Mu Continent aboard a battered smuggling vessel carrying refugees displaced by Honkai disasters.
• When the ship began taking on water, Lena rallied the refugees to seal the leak and stabilize the vessel.
• After the refugees reached the Mu Continent, the Coast Guard announced strict screening and few available admissions, leaving Lena and the others in despair.
• Scarce resources and fear intensified divisions among refugees in the temporary camp.

Lena’s refugee camp was consumed by the Ninth Great Collapse, as the Herrscher of Rock descended and overwhelmed Moth to Fire’s forces with gravity. After conventional troops and Flame-Chaser Warriors were defeated, the Herrscher appeared inside Moth to Fire’s artillery positions and unleashed a 500G gravitational attack.

• Lena lost hope as hunger and fighting tore apart the refugee camp, and the Ninth Herrscher: Herrscher of Rock descended upon it.
• Dr. Mei announced the Ninth Great Collapse and led Moth to Fire into battle under the authority granted by the Council.
• The Herrscher of Rock used gravity to neutralize Moth to Fire’s missiles, aircraft, ground forces, and Flame-Chaser Warriors, defeating them in fifteen minutes.
• The Herrscher of Rock concealed itself in a distorted gravitational field and reappeared among Moth to Fire’s long-range artillery positions.
• The Herrscher of Rock unleashed a gravitational attack reaching 500G, leaving the soldiers there unable to resist.