Chapter Summaries

After resolving the conflict with Moros, Dr. Mei pursued reforms to strengthen Moth to Fire. Six months after the Tenth Great Collapse, Hua joined a mission near Cairo and grew uneasy as her team advanced, while a headquarters assistant reported to Dr. Mei.

• Dr. Mei made personnel changes after Eden’s Kuala Lumpur concert, apologized to Eden, and secured Moros’s agreement to let the assassination attempt go unpursued.
• Dr. Mei identified Moth to Fire’s shortage of Flame-Chaser Warriors and intelligence failures, and proposed accelerating META-MORPH research and reforming intelligence.
• Moros returned to his Mage Guild, where Eden and Vill-V welcomed him and Vill-V presented devices to help manage his territory.
• Moth to Fire sent Hua and an elite Special Operations Team to Cairo to seize a resource site and test the Tenth Divine Key.
• The team received orders from a research assistant and encountered only minor Honkai Beasts, while Hua’s sense of danger continued to intensify.
• After communicating with the Assault Team, the assistant turned and reported to Dr. Mei in the command room.

Hua faced the Emperor-class Honkai Beast Ganesha after Moth to Fire sent her assault team into battle with false intelligence. Near death, she awakened the Garuda Gene within her Hypervariable Factor META-MORPH and rose into the sky with a new power.

• Dr. Mei learned that Hua's assault force had encountered Ganesha, while the research assistant urged her to arrange another experiment after five casualties and no awakenings.
• Ganesha attacked the dispersed assault team, and Hua heard her captain's distress call before deciding to go to the battlefield.
• Hua struck Ganesha with the Tenth Divine Key, but the weapon shattered, and Ganesha's Convergence Beam left her gravely wounded.
• Hua remembered that Captain Himiko was dead and resolved that she could not die before learning why Himiko had become a Herrscher.
• Hua awakened the Garuda Gene, transformed, and took flight as Ganesha sensed the new threat.

Hua’s success with the META-MORPH factor led Dr. Mei to expand the Flame-Chaser Warrior forces and adopt Elysia’s three-person squad plan, while preparing a new role for the Poison Pupa Unit. Outside powers stirred discontent among the assassins, and the chapter ended with Shadow Blade completing a mission while privately unsettled by Dr. Mei’s reassurances.

• Hua transformed with the Garuda Gene, revealed the Key of Domination’s power, and defeated Ganesha, proving META-MORPH successful.
• Dr. Mei began expanding the Flame-Chaser Warrior forces despite the high casualties, and Elysia’s three-person squad plan proved effective in combat tests.
• Moros remained unconcerned about the expansion, while conserving intelligent creature souls for the threat of the Herrscher of the End.
• Dr. Mei prepared to disband the Poison Pupa Unit and find its assassins new roles, but outside power brokers stirred unrest within the unit.
• Shadow Blade completed an assassination, cleared the scene, and assured Dr. Mei of the Poison Pupa Unit’s loyalty while privately struggling with his doubts.

Sakura and the other Flame-Chaser Warriors purged the Poison Pupa assassins and the conspirators behind their riot, while Dr. Mei ordered a broad suppression operation to restore order across human society. The chapter left the response in the Undead Wizard’s territory unresolved, as its bureaucrats awaited his decision and Mei planned to speak with him.

• Sakura confronted Moros, who explained that Gray Serpent’s organizations and experiences were part of his pursuit of freedom and human understanding.
• Poison Pupa assassins exploited difficult missions to keep Sakura and Kalpas occupied while they targeted Dr. Mei and incited riots across human society.
• Sakura, Kevin, and Kalpas eliminated the assassins, while Sakura personally dealt with Gabriel, Alexei, Conrad, and the other chief conspirators.
• Dr. Mei learned from Prometheus Seventeen that riots had spread to 4,317 cities and affected more than one billion people, then ordered suppression forces to act.
• Seventeen warned that the Undead Wizard’s response could complicate the operation, and Dr. Mei said she would speak with him personally.
• The bureaucrats in Canberra deferred the decision about suppression in the Undead Wizard’s territory to him.

After Dr. Mei authorized Moth to Fire to crush a worldwide uprising, Sakura realized the operation was a deliberate massacre meant to eliminate refugees whose desperation threatened humanity’s stability. The revolt was silenced, but a surviving girl swore revenge, leaving hatred toward Moth to Fire and human civilization alive in the ruins.

• Moros agreed to let Dr. Mei send Moth to Fire forces into his territory to suppress the uprising, and the troops and Flame-Chasers rapidly overwhelmed the rioters.
• As she surveyed the devastation, Sakura concluded that Mei had intentionally allowed the refugees’ grievances to ignite so Moth to Fire could destroy the resulting threat before the next Great Collapse.
• A Moth to Fire soldier denounced the operation as a massacre and tore off his insignia, while his comrade tried to justify it as necessary for humanity’s future.
• Moth to Fire crushed the global uprising at a terrible cost, but human society soon forgot the massacre amid the continuing Honkai disasters.
• A refugee girl watched Moth to Fire soldiers kill her parents, escaped into the ruins, and vowed revenge against Moth to Fire and the world that had tolerated the slaughter.

The Cocoon of Finality reassessed Moros after he seized control of the Dominion Theater and empowered the Eleventh Herrscher, the Herrscher of Binding, to investigate him. The newly transformed Herrscher declared revenge on human civilization and unleashed a vast Divine Prayer Barrier, leaving a city within its reach trapped in deathly silence.

• The Cocoon of Finality concluded that Moros wielded an unknown power beyond its understanding and decided to use a strengthened Herrscher of Binding to uncover his secrets.
• The Cocoon of Finality offered its power to a refugee girl whose hatred of Moth to Fire and human civilization drove her to accept.
• The girl transformed into the Eleventh Herrscher, the Herrscher of Binding, and received a protective gemstone from the Cocoon of Finality.
• The Herrscher of Binding vowed revenge on the unjust world and created a Divine Prayer Barrier with a radius of one hundred fifty kilometers.
• The barrier engulfed a once-prosperous city, leaving it bound in silence and despair.

The Herrscher of Binding’s Divine Prayer Barrier destroyed a city and crippled a Moth to Fire force sent to investigate its abilities. Dr. Mei tested the barrier with ballistic missiles, learned it extended about 150 kilometers, and prepared a second wave of attacks.

• The Herrscher of Binding’s barrier shut down the city, killed its inhabitants and Flame-Chaser Warriors, and nullified its defenses.
• Dr. Mei ordered an elite rapid-response unit to enter the barrier and collect data, but its weapons, vehicles, and equipment failed as the soldiers’ life force drained away.
• Dr. Mei ordered Collapse Energy Fission Bombs launched despite an officer’s objection that the trapped soldiers were already doomed.
• The missiles struck the barrier and disintegrated, allowing Dr. Mei to estimate its range at 150 kilometers.
• Dr. Mei ordered a second wave of ballistic missiles to launch.

Moth to Fire’s missile barrage failed to breach the Herrscher of Binding’s Divine Prayer Barrier, but Dr. Mei analyzed its effects and called on Moros to honor their agreement and fight the Herrscher. Moros prepared to travel to Moth to Fire headquarters for intelligence, where he noticed something unusual about the Herrscher’s route.

• Over a hundred Collapse Energy Fission Bombs detonated over the Western European Plains, but the Divine Prayer Barrier neutralized their blast and left the Herrscher of Binding unharmed.
• Dr. Mei concluded that the barrier weakened multiple forms of energy, and Moth to Fire officers proposed ways to wear down the Herrscher.
• Dr. Mei chose to ask Moros for help through official channels, wary that summoning him by other means could cause severe collateral damage.
• Keen and Margaret relayed Moth to Fire’s urgent notice to Moros, who agreed to fight the Herrscher and ordered them to prepare his territory for increased Honkai incidents.
• Moros equipped himself and set out for Moth to Fire headquarters to gather intelligence, where he noticed that the Herrscher’s route of advance was strange.

Moros suspected the Herrscher of Binding was acting under the influence of the Cocoon of Finality, so he returned to his Demiplane to prepare for their confrontation. His change of plans left towns in the Herrscher’s path exposed, while he assembled a fleet of Charon-class Light Frigates to carry his Undead Troops toward the coming battle.

• Moros noticed the Herrscher of Binding was advancing toward a specific destination and suspected the Cocoon of Finality was behind her behavior.
• Moros reassured Elysia but kept his suspicions secret, then returned to his Demiplane to gather potions, Undead Troops, and war machines.
• Moros informed Dr. Mei that he was changing his plans, and Dr. Mei adjusted Moth to Fire’s deployment despite being unable to evacuate every threatened town.
• More than a hundred thousand residents were trapped when the Divine Prayer Barrier reached the towns in its path.
• Moros assembled tens of thousands of undead aboard 120 Charon-class Light Frigates and ordered the fleet to move through a transmission passage toward Tasmania Island.

Moros brought his fleet to Tasmania Island, negotiated with Dr. Mei to keep Elysia and Eden away from the battle, then led his forces through a portal to confront the Herrscher of Binding. The chapter ended as his fleet launched a massive bombardment against her Divine Prayer Barrier.

• Moros's fleet of 120 Charon-class Light Frigates and tens of thousands of Flying Undead appeared over Tasmania Island, alarming Moth to Fire Headquarters.
• Dr. Mei recognized the fleet as Moros's and considered his arrival a warning about the Herrscher of Binding's strength.
• Moros sent Councillor William to ask Dr. Mei to keep Elysia and Eden off the front lines in exchange for his full effort against the Divine Apostle, and Dr. Mei accepted.
• Moros sent the Flying Undead through a portal first; when the Herrscher of Binding did not attack them, he concluded the Cocoon of Finality was targeting him and sent the fleet after them.
• The Herrscher of Binding halted the Divine Prayer Barrier and prepared to meet Moros's assault.
• Moros ordered the fleet to bombard the Divine Prayer Barrier with its main guns and missiles, including 360 Collapse Energy Fission Bombs.

Moros’s fleet and undead forces broke through the Herrscher of Binding’s Divine Prayer Barrier after the Charon-class frigates’ bombardment, a curse, and a swarm assault. The injured Herrscher restored her Collapse Energy and prepared to fight back, but the concealed Avatar of Death descended to attack her.

• Moros watched the Divine Prayer Barrier survive the Charon-class frigates’ first full barrage and decided to join the attack.
• The Herrscher of Binding fired golden beams at the fleet, but Moros realized her attacks could break the frigates’ shields without penetrating their armor.
• Moros ordered the frigates to fire again, then sent the Flying Undead toward the barrier as the Herrscher of Binding dispatched her Honkai Beasts to stop them.
• Moros cast Empower Spell · Curse of the Underworld, killing the Honkai Beasts outside the barrier and heavily damaging the Divine Prayer Barrier.
• The Flying Undead overwhelmed the barrier and shattered it, prompting the Herrscher of Binding to draw in Collapse Energy at the cost of severe bodily damage.
• The Herrscher of Binding began preparing the barrier again, but Moros’s concealed Avatar of Death swooped down to strike her.

Moros’s Dragon of Death nearly killed the Herrscher of Binding, but the Cocoon of Finality took control of her and unleashed a vast Divine Prayer Barrier that disabled Moros’s fleet and forced its ships to fall. Dr. Mei watched as Moros escaped the falling vessels, leaving the Undead Troops delivered to the battlefield, while the Cocoon of Finality turned its attention to him.

• Moros’s Dragon of Death struck the Herrscher of Binding with a Fatal Blow-enhanced breath, but the Cocoon of Finality intervened and kept her alive.
• The Cocoon of Finality bound the Avatar of Death with golden chains and began drawing immense Collapse Energy through the Herrscher of Binding’s body.
• The Cocoon of Finality expanded the Divine Prayer Barrier over Moros’s fleet, shutting down the Charon-class Light Frigates’ reactors and sending the ships plunging toward the planet while the Flying Undead remained airborne.
• Dr. Mei tracked the battle and realized that both Moros’s fleet and the Herrscher of Binding were far more powerful than she had estimated.
• Moros used a teleportation gate to escape a falling warship and hover above the battlefield, while the Cocoon of Finality reached toward him.

Moros used Legion’s Shelter to withstand the Herrscher of Binding’s attacks, then cast Soul Torrent with hundreds of thousands of souls’ worth of crystals and destroyed the Herrscher. The Cocoon of Finality lost only a sliver of its projected consciousness and chose to wait for the Herrscher of Finality to investigate Moros further.

• The Cocoon of Finality controlled the Herrscher of Binding and attacked Moros, but Legion’s Shelter blocked the Authority of Binding.
• Moros prepared his counterattack, spending Soul Crystals and Mid-grade Soul Crystals to empower Soul Torrent.
• Moros unleashed Soul Torrent, which pierced the Divine Prayer Barrier and struck the Herrscher of Binding.
• Soul Torrent annihilated the Herrscher of Binding and the sliver of the Cocoon of Finality’s consciousness controlling her.
• The Cocoon of Finality regarded its loss as insignificant, studied the frozen Moros, and chose to wait for the Herrscher of Finality to descend.

Moros defeated the Eleventh Herrscher with Soul Torrent, but sensed that the Cocoon of Finality had intervened and retreated. Moth to Fire prepared to clear the Honkai Beasts and take control of the devastated vampire territory, while Dr. Mei sought Moros’s approval for the operation.

• The Cocoon of Finality chose to withdraw and observe after Soul Torrent threatened it, and Moros felt an unexplained unease as time resumed.
• Dr. Mei and Moth to Fire confirmed the Herrscher of Binding’s defeat, and Dr. Mei ordered Flame-Chaser Warriors to eliminate the Honkai Beast hordes.
• Dr. Mei planned to resettle the remaining civilians and move into vampire territory, whose ruling aristocracy, including Beatrice, had been killed by the Divine Prayer Barrier.
• Dr. Mei contacted Councillor William to request an audience with Moros, and William relayed her intentions using Moros’s Communication Badge.
• Moros summoned the Dragon of Death and reflected on the Cocoon of Finality’s overwhelming power after Soul Torrent had consumed the Herrscher and its controlling consciousness.

After defeating the Herrscher of Binding, Moros agreed to Dr. Mei’s plan to absorb the remaining vampire forces, provided Moth to Fire supported him and kept Elysia and Eden safe. He then continued salvaging his damaged warships and confronted the heavy losses his undead army had suffered.

• Moros recovered the Herrscher Core and decided to transport the grounded Charon-class Light Frigates back to his Demiplane one by one.
• After considering Dr. Mei’s proposal, Moros agreed to support Moth to Fire’s campaign against the vampires in exchange for resources and guarantees that Elysia and Eden would not be endangered.
• Moth to Fire captured the last vampire survivor within two days and sent the captive to Mobius’s laboratory for study.
• Moros accepted the vampires’ downfall after Mobius became involved, then used Town Portal to send a damaged Charon-class Light Frigate from the Caspian Sea to his Demiplane.
• Moros waited for the undead troops aboard the frigate to disembark before repairs, recognizing that his army had suffered terrible losses from the battle against the Herrscher of Binding.

After surviving the Herrscher of Binding’s attacks at great cost, Moros returned to the Demiplane and fell into an exhausted sleep. Padofelis woke to a surprise celebration, while Vill-V quietly kept watch over Moros at home.

• Moros reflected that the Herrscher of Binding’s two attacks had destroyed one hundred thousand low-tier Undead Troops, and that spending souls on Soul Torrent had been worthwhile.
• Padofelis woke alone in the base, saw a Herrscher combat directive, and feared that everyone else had disappeared.
• Padofelis followed music to the central hall, where Vier, Jona, Mila, and the others welcomed her with a recovery celebration.
• Moros returned the last fallen Charon-class Light Frigate for repairs and went to sleep in the Mage Guild after his exhausting battle and negotiations.
• Vill-V learned that Moros had returned, used her authority to reach his room, and watched over him without waking him.

After recovering from the battle with the Herrscher of Binding, Moros learned that Kevin had freed Apponia from The Abyss and brought her to Moth to Fire. He arranged a secret meeting with her, hoping her power to see the threads of fate would reveal how seriously the Cocoon of Finality regarded him.

• Vill-V watched over Moros as he slept, and he woke to find her beside his bed.
• On Mei's orders, Kevin entered The Abyss, freed Apponia, and brought her to Moth to Fire headquarters.
• Moth to Fire sent the other rescued prisoners to distant branches and harsh front lines after training and equipping them.
• Councillor William reported Apponia's release to Moros, who ordered him to arrange a meeting with her.
• Moros decided to meet Apponia so she could use her eyes to glimpse the Cocoon of Finality's intentions toward him.

Moros met Apponia, whose Discipline could not overcome his defenses, and they clashed over his deeds and their opposing beliefs. After Apponia revealed that he had appeared in others’ threads of fate before the final day, Moros inferred that the Cocoon of Finality might be testing him through the Herrscher of Finality and reflected on their coming confrontation.

• Apponia repeatedly used Discipline against Moros, but his Legendary Spells blocked its influence.
• Apponia refused to cooperate unless Moros showed sincere remorse, while Moros argued that those who opposed his goals were not innocent and rejected conventional morality.
• Apponia defended the value of every life, and the two accepted that their beliefs and paths differed.
• As Apponia left, Moros asked what she had seen in him, and she said he had appeared in others’ threads of fate before the final day.
• Moros returned to the Magic Guild Level 5 library and inferred that he had remained active before the Herrscher of the End arrived, then considered the Cocoon of Finality’s intentions and the Herrscher of Finality’s power.
• Moros concluded that he did not need to defeat the Herrscher of Finality and had chosen to face her for Elysia and Eden.

Moros decided he would confront the Herrscher of Finality for Elysia and Eden, while expecting Moth to Fire to fight first. Vill-V asked to study necromancy, and Moros reluctantly agreed to guide her only in gaining an initial understanding of it.

• Moros resolved to face the Herrscher of Finality for Elysia and Eden and said Moth to Fire would need to fight before he intervened.
• Vill-V visited Moros in the library and offered him pastries she had baked.
• Vill-V told Moros she wanted to learn necromancy so she could understand and support him better.
• Moros warned Vill-V about necromancy's dangers and agreed to teach her only its basics under his supervision.
• Vill-V accepted Moros's concerns but asked for the chance to glimpse the art's mysteries under his guidance.

After the 11th Great Honkai, humanity began rebuilding, but Sakura faced fear and rejection from people she had rescued, while a local lord’s officials brutally collected taxes from impoverished villagers. The chapter ended with taxes from across the territory reaching Canberra, the political center of the necromancer’s rule.

• Moros agreed to accompany Vill-V as she began learning necromancy, and the two shared pastries together.
• Moth to Fire’s Flame-Chaser Warriors traveled to Honkai disaster zones, while Sakura rescued 96 people from a collapsed building and was shunned because of her ears.
• A tax officer demanded full payment from a Borneo village and ordered his attendants to seize the villagers’ remaining possessions.
• Villagers surrendered their property, and some families gave up their children to cover their taxes.
• The local lord praised the tax officer’s use of fear and dismissed the villagers’ suffering as their own fault.
• Seven days later, taxes gathered across the territory flowed into Canberra.