Chapter Summaries

Allen deduced that Human God had gone offline after changes to the futures of people Allen considered family, and used a staged letter to test the absence before preparing his next move. As Allen departed with the others, Aisha sobbed while Lilia watched him leave.

• Allen explained Human God's Observation ability through a comic example in which Human God turned a man beneath a bed into an apostle.
• Allen traced how Human God had used quests and staged events to steer his Turning Points and influence the futures of people around him.
• Allen displayed a false plan in a letter and waited, then destroyed it when Human God did not respond.
• Allen reasoned that Human God's disconnections were tied to changes affecting people Allen wanted to save, and suspected the system had a hidden creator.
• Allen hurried to carry out his setup to improve the Great Transfer's chances of success.
• Half an hour later, Allen departed by carriage as Lilia held the sobbing Aisha and watched him go.

Isolte dreamed of her childhood encounter with Millish and woke in a carriage beside Allen, relieved by his presence. The group reached the town of Moralit after midnight, where Allen noted how quiet it seemed.

• Isolte woke from a dream of her childhood self finding Millish on a throne made of corpses.
• Isolte awoke in the second carriage and realized Allen was watching over her.
• Allen told Isolte she had woken before he decided whether to wake her, and she saw that they had arrived at Moralit.
• Allen showed Rudy and Sylphy the map and explained that Moralit was a small town sustained by travelers and trade.
• Rudy, Sylphy, Isolte, and Allen observed Moralit’s dark streets and sparse lights, and Allen agreed it seemed deserted.

Allen’s group reached a village inn after a long day of travel and discovered that its rooms were designed for multiple guests to share one bed. The innkeeper said only one room remained, leaving Allen to decide how the group would sleep.

• Allen decided the exhausted group would rest at the village inn instead of continuing toward the next city.
• Rudy noticed an oddly unattended blacksmith’s furnace and stepped on a bellows, while Allen observed that the surrounding houses were silent and had no human heartbeats.
• Allen paused to watch a drunkard outside the tavern before joining the others at the inn.
• Eris woke Isolte’s sleeping inn attendant by slamming the counter and demanding rooms.
• Isolte and the others discovered that every room had one bed, and the innkeeper said only the largest room remained for sixty Asura copper coins.

Allen exposed the receptionist’s claim that Mortalit’s inn had only one room and discovered that all its rooms were empty. He arranged for the group to stay in two five-person rooms, while the attendant watched them from the candlelight.

• The receptionist claimed only one room was vacant, prompting Sylphy, Isolte, Eris, and Rudy to react to the prospect of sharing a bed.
• Rudy tried to arrange two rooms so he could share with Allen and avoid sleeping in the stable.
• Allen questioned the receptionist and paid him to reveal how many rooms were available.
• Allen used his enhanced senses to confirm that every room on the inn’s first floor was vacant.
• Allen booked two five-person rooms so the group could stay together, and the attendant watched them in silence.

Allen used Sense Flow to monitor the inn and tavern, then confronted and killed the mustachioed attendant, who had helped organize an assassination attempt. After learning the North King was involved and that another attack was planned in Flowfall City, Allen left the inn to confront the threat at the tavern.

• Allen kept Sense Flow active through the night, monitoring his sleeping companions, the attendant, and a drunkard outside the tavern.
• Allen confronted the mustachioed attendant at the counter and accused him of planning an assassination with information about Allen and Isolte.
• Allen pressured the attendant into revealing that the North King had prompted a probe and that the next attempt was planned for Flowfall City.
• Allen stopped the attendant from drawing his sword, killed him, and concealed his body behind the counter.
• Allen left the inn and headed toward the tavern.

Allen uncovered the bandits’ plan, killed the Witin guard who had helped them, and prepared to face the tavern’s attackers. Inside, the bandits drank and celebrated while the North King waited at the bar, poised for a confrontation.

• Allen sensed the inn was safe, confronted the Witin guard, and identified him as James’s hidden agent who had helped plan the ambush.
• The guard revealed Sarco’s plan to use sleeping gas and fire, then kill anyone escaping through the windows, and said the North King had taken charge while the others drank.
• The guard urged Allen to flee and then tried to stab him, but Allen turned the dagger against him and killed him.
• In the tavern, the bandits celebrated their expected victory and argued over who would claim Eris, while the North King watched them from the bar and waited.

Allen ambushed and killed the North King Wayne after turning Wayne’s plan to use the bandits as bait against him. The chapter ended with Allen earning King Rank in the North God Style’s Qiba Faction as Isolte awakened at the inn.

• Vader planned to kill Allen and the bandits after using them to complete the job and keep the reward for himself.
• Allen entered the tavern and swiftly killed the bandits, prompting Wayne to attack him from behind.
• Allen used battle qi and his healing rune to survive Wayne’s strike, then overpowered him in a blade contest and sawed off his head.
• Allen’s victory earned him King Rank in the Qiba Faction, with the evaluation declaring his strength overwhelmingly superior.
• Isolte awoke at the inn during the night.

After killing Wayne and the bandits who had attacked the girls, Allen left the blood-soaked tavern without waking anyone. Meanwhile, Isolte told Sylphy and Eris about Allen’s years as the Water God Style dojo’s chief disciple, but Eris fell asleep before the conversation was over.

• Allen confronted Wayne’s corpse, then killed the three surviving bandits after asking whether they had claimed the red-haired, white-haired, and black-haired girls.
• Allen left the tavern carrying Wayne’s severed head and continued into the quiet night, relieved that no one had woken up.
• In the room next door, Eris hurried the others into a late-night conversation while Isolte offered to share stories about Allen in the Royal Capital.
• Isolte explained the dojo’s Large and Small Dojos, the chief disciple system, and the monthly challenge matches.
• Isolte described how Allen became chief disciple of the Large Dojo at five, entered the Small Dojo at seven, defeated its challengers, and held both positions without losing.
• Eris fell asleep after five minutes, leaving Isolte and Sylphy still awake.

Sylphiette explained to Isolte that she had stopped trying to imitate Allen and her teacher and had grown confident in standing beside them as herself. After the two discussed Allen’s past and Isolte’s decision to leave the royal capital for Roa, they admitted they envied each other and suggested trading places.

• Sylphiette told Isolte she wanted to remain herself rather than imitate Allen or her teacher, and she felt ready to face whatever changes lay ahead.
• Isolte thanked Sylphiette for helping Allen grow more relaxed, then explained that she had stayed away for two years before leaving the royal capital after receiving Lord Philip’s letter.
• Sylphiette said Allen had chosen to go to the royal capital freely, and Isolte agreed that he could have chosen another path.
• As they lay down beside each other, Sylphiette admitted she envied Isolte for growing up with Allen at the dojo.
• Isolte confessed that she envied Sylphiette too, and proposed that they trade places.

Isolte dreamed that the Millish god challenged her to stop calling her desires cowardice, then woke to discover the inn’s front desk attendant had been killed. Following a trail of blood to a stable, she found a throne made of corpses and saw Allen standing in the shadows beside it.

• Isolte envied Sylphy’s closeness to Allen, apologized in her thoughts, and put away the broken sword hilt she had planned to return to him.
• The Millish god appeared in Isolte’s dream and told her that her desires did not conflict with the doctrine, but called her a coward when she hesitated.
• Isolte woke to find Sylphy asleep beside her and moved away from her wandering hands.
• Isolte smelled blood, discovered the inn’s front desk corpse, and followed blood drops from the nearby tavern to its stable.
• Isolte entered the stable and found a throne built from countless corpses, then saw Allen standing in the shadows and looking toward her.

After Allen defeated an ambush that massacred a town, he kept Isolte from seeing the bodies and explained why he had faced the attackers alone. As Isolte comforted him on the walk back, Sylphy appeared outside the inn, apparently having experienced a significant dream.

• Allen told Isolte that James had arranged the ambush and that he had killed the North King Vader, then shielded her from the corpses.
• Allen said he would conceal the massacre from Eris, Sylphy, and Rudy, leave early, and inform Sauros about the town’s destruction.
• Sylphy woke from a vivid dream, found her clothes wet and her face streaked with tears, and realized Isolte was missing.
• As Allen and Isolte returned to the inn, Isolte told him she had noticed his constant strain and apologized for being unable to help him.
• Sylphy appeared barefoot at the inn entrance and asked Allen why he was wet.

Allen, Sylphy, and Isolte buried the townspeople and the bandits after the massacre, then Allen explained his ambition to change the world by making its powerful leaders restrain their desires. As the three walked toward the royal capital, Isolte suggested Princess Ariel as an ally and revealed that Allen had met her years earlier at his dojo promotion banquet.

• Sylphy found Allen and Isolte after he killed the attackers, and Allen explained what had happened before Sylphy helped bury the corpses.
• Allen asked whether they wanted to change the townspeople’s fate, then argued that lasting change required civilization to endure and that he would make a powerful leader capable of guiding it.
• The three left the stable, and Isolte apologized for pressuring Allen before suggesting that Princess Ariel might suit his political aims better than the princes.
• Isolte described Ariel’s popularity and told Sylphy that Allen had met the princess at the Water God Style Main Dojo banquet celebrating his promotion to the Small Dojo.
• Allen was stunned when Isolte reminded him that Ariel had stood beside her at the banquet when he was seven.

Isolte recounted how Allen’s childhood commendation ceremony had been turned into a noble banquet, while Allen explained that his trip to the royal capital was about reclaiming what belonged to him. Later, Allen realized the Human God might be using dreams to influence events and asked whether Isolte and Sylphy had dreamed; they both answered yes.

• Isolte told Sylphy that Allen became the Small Dojo’s chief disciple at seven and won ten consecutive matches.
• Isolte explained that James had turned Allen’s commendation ceremony into a gathering of 1,721 nobles, worsening Allen’s rift with his family.
• Allen told Isolte and Sylphy that he was not pursuing Asura’s power and wanted them to relax during their trip to the royal capital.
• Allen reviewed the system’s return and wondered whether the Human God could use apostles and dreams to alter events in Buena Village.
• Allen turned to Isolte and Sylphy and asked whether they had both dreamed; they answered yes in unison.

Allen worried that the Man-God had used Sylphy and Isolte’s unexpected moonlit encounter to set a hidden Bad Ending Route in motion. When he asked what they had dreamed, Sylphy fled in embarrassment, while Isolte said she had dreamed of God but could not tell him about it.

• Allen realized that Sylphy and Isolte waking and meeting beneath the moon was an unforeseen variable that could conceal the Man-God’s influence.
• Sylphy remembered an intimate dream involving Allen and Isolte, and she suspected that Isolte had cried after dreaming too.
• Isolte reflected on her feelings for Allen and on how Sylphy and Lokkishi stood between her and the future she wanted.
• Allen turned back at their doors and urgently asked Sylphy and Isolte to tell him what they had dreamed.
• Sylphy screamed that her dream was too embarrassing and ran into her room, leaving Allen stunned.
• Isolte told Allen she had dreamed of God but could not share the dream with him, her eyes lonely in the darkness.

Allen asked Isolte to question God and choose him if she ever had to choose between them, and Isolte’s emotional response left him fearing she had misunderstood his intentions. As the Man-God’s disappearance and the night’s unlikely chain of events suggested another hidden turning point, Allen wondered who had truly shaped the future.

• Allen recognized Isolte’s feelings but hesitated to address them because he feared hurting Sylphy and Lokkishi and drawing more danger from the Man-God.
• Allen asked Isolte to question God and trust her own heart, choosing Allen if she ever faced a conflict between him and God.
• Isolte cried, said she needed time to think, and fled into her room, where she collided with Sylphy; Sylphy comforted her as she wept.
• Allen asked Rudy for advice about Isolte’s misunderstanding, but Rudy’s suggestion to beg for forgiveness only annoyed him.
• Allen called for the system and found the Man-God offline, then considered whether a hidden force had arranged the night’s events and changed the future.

Rudy and Allen’s group reached Cascade City, where they planned to continue toward the royal capital by river. Allen reflected on Sylphy and Isolte’s increasingly intimate behavior and the unresolved dream mystery, then prepared Eris for James’s expected second assassination attempt.

• Rudy woke in the carriage and saw Cascade City’s waterfalls and waterways from the mountain road.
• Rudy interrupted Allen, who was pinned in place by sleeping Eris, Sylphy, and Isolte, by announcing that they could see the city.
• Sylphy and Isolte woke, greeted each other warmly, and hurried out after becoming flustered when Allen mentioned their dreams.
• Allen recalled that the girls had grown closer during the journey and considered the dream mystery, Isolte’s misunderstanding, and Sylphy’s apparent support for his pursuit of Isolte.
• Allen looked over Cascade City and, knowing James’s second assassination attempt would happen there, whispered to Eris that it was time to eat.

Allen and his companions traveled by ferry into Cascade City, where Eris and Rudy caused a public commotion. As Isolte questioned Allen about his decision to enter the city despite the assassination threat, the couple’s intimate behavior beside them prompted Isolte to lean close and speak to Allen.

• Allen and his companions boarded a ferry and traveled downstream toward Cascade City's Bridge Land Bridge.
• Eris excitedly leaned over the railing to watch the fish, but Allen refused to let her stand on it after Sylphy warned him it was dangerous.
• Rudy provoked Eris by complaining that she had ruined his chances to be alone with Allen, and their argument drew the passengers’ attention.
• Isolte asked why Allen had chosen to stop in Cascade City despite the assassination threat, and Allen said James would pursue his plans even if they avoided the city.
• Isolte leaned against Allen and whispered to him while the nearby couple kissed and grew more intimate.

Allen and Isolte survived an assassination attempt aboard a sailboat, and Allen killed the two attackers before they reached the dock. Nearby, James and V. T. discussed their plans to trap Allen, while Allen’s group left the scene and entered Cascade City.

• Isolte warned Allen that the King would suppress open violence in the royal capital, and Allen reassured her that Cascade City suited his direct approach to assassins.
• As the land bridge’s shadow covered the deck, Allen spun Isolte out of the way, took the assassins’ hidden needles, and broke both attackers’ necks.
• Allen joined Eris, Sylphy, and Rudy, stopped their argument, and led them off the boat while Isolte reflected on his fighting and wondered if they would dance together.
• In a tower, James and V. T. discussed Allen’s arrival and Wayne’s death, then V. T. outlined a gradual plan to exploit Allen’s confidence before striking with a prepared trap.
• After the bodies were discovered, James told V. T. to proceed, while Allen’s group left the scene and acted as though the incident had nothing to do with them.

Allen and his companions arrived in Cascade City, where he inspected the Bridge Land Bridge and learned about the Styrian Sect and its Water Birth Festival. The chapter then shifted to Ariel aboard a ship, listening to Derrick explain the sect’s history while she teased her maid.

• Street Guard Corps members cleared away the bodies of two assassins after Allen’s group left the scene.
• Allen watched craftsmen repairing the Bridge Land Bridge and asked Isolte about the dolls hanging beneath it.
• Isolte explained that the dolls and fish-person carvings were connected to the Water Birth Festival and the Styrian Sect, also called the River God Sect.
• Ariel listened as Derrick recounted the sect’s legend of an ancient drought that devastated Cascade City.
• Ariel teased the maid serving tea in the cabin, while Derrick continued preparing her for political occasions.

Ariel considered Derrick’s suggestion that Luke serve as her personal guard but dismissed the idea as boring while traveling toward Cascade City. There, Allen heard Isolte explain the Styrian Sect’s ancient origin story and questioned whether sea folk had been involved, drawing a warning about blasphemy.

• Ariel considered recruiting Luke, the second son of the Notos Family, as her personal guard, then rejected the idea as boring and judged him too weak.
• Derrick recounted the fishermen’s suffering and the founding legend of the Styrian Sect aboard the royal pleasure boat bound for Cascade City.
• Isolte told Allen and the others how a Styrian Divine Attendant had rescued starving fishermen seven thousand years ago and how the Water Birth Festival began.
• Allen wondered whether sea folk had tested territorial expansion and sought to enslave others, then stopped when the stall owner and Isolte reacted.
• Isolte warned Allen that linking the Styrian god to sea folk could offend believers, while noting that Asura scholars doubted the legend for lacking evidence.