Chapter Summaries

Cui Ciyou and Roxy rescued Sara and her family from monsters, giving Sara the chance to evacuate with her parents instead of losing them. Cui Ciyou took them back toward Roa City, determined to keep making choices he would not regret.

• Cui Ciyou and Roxy defeated the monsters surrounding a hunter, his family, and an older man.
• The hunter explained that his family had missed the evacuation notice while he was away tracking a rare magic beast.
• Cui Ciyou recognized the little girl as Sara and realized her family would have died without his intervention.
• Cui Ciyou invited Sara and her family to return to Roa City and join the last evacuation convoy.
• Roxy comforted Sara and helped her onto a horse as Cui Ciyou led the family toward the city.

As the Great Migration neared completion, Cui Ciyou and his companions prepared to leave Fitoia Territory while continuing to strengthen themselves for the coming Displacement Incident. Suspecting that Cui Ciyou and the unprecedented evacuation were new variables in the world’s fate, Orsted set out for Roa City to investigate him.

• By the end of the winter of Dragon King Calendar Year 416, more than ninety percent of Fitoia Territory’s population had been evacuated, and Cui Ciyou’s group remained among the last preparing to leave.
• Cui Ciyou improved his mental power, Anti-Magic Field, combat skills, and Blue Stream Blade while coordinating the migration and preparing for the Displacement Incident.
• Roxy supported Cui Ciyou and the migration, while Alice and Sylphy advanced their swordsmanship and magic under the guidance of Ghislaine and Roxy.
• Orsted noticed that the Great Migration, increasingly frequent magic surges, and Cui Ciyou had never appeared in his memories of earlier loops.
• Orsted wondered whether Cui Ciyou was an apostle of the Human God or a new variable, then vanished to investigate him in Roa City.

Cui Ciyou discussed parallel spacetimes and branching worldlines with Roxy, then wondered whether his arrival had changed the world’s original course. Roxy realized he might be thinking about his homeland or how different their lives would have been if they had never met.

• Cui Ciyou and Roxy studied together in the Boreas Estate as Roa City emptied ahead of the final withdrawal.
• Cui Ciyou explained his idea that choices could create parallel worldlines with different futures.
• Roxy considered whether their world was shaped by chance or by an inevitability written in a higher dimension.
• Cui Ciyou wondered whether his arrival as a variable had irreversibly changed the world’s original trajectory.
• Roxy asked whether Cui Ciyou was thinking about his homeland or imagining what would have happened if they had never met.

Cui Ciyou wondered whether Roxy would have been happy if he had never entered her life, and Roxy considered the path she might have followed instead. Remembering their life together, she answered him with a radiant, unwavering smile.

• Cui Ciyou told Roxy he felt grateful to have met her but worried that his presence had changed her life and the world’s original course.
• Roxy imagined becoming Rudeus Greyrat’s tutor before returning to a solitary life of exploring labyrinths and pursuing magic.
• Cui Ciyou asked whether Roxy would have found love and happiness in a world without him.
• Roxy recalled Cui Ciyou’s care, their shared Blue Stream Blade magic, and his confession and kiss.
• Roxy looked at Cui Ciyou and smiled with conviction.

Roxy told Cui Ciyou that she would fall in love with him in any world where he existed, and that a future without him was not the future she wanted. Cui Ciyou pulled her into an embrace, and Roxy privately revealed that the Human God had already told her about Rudeus and the original future.

• Roxy took Cui Ciyou’s hand and recalled how he had supported her, taught her magic, made her desserts, and reassured her when she felt inferior.
• Roxy declared that she would fall in love with Cui Ciyou again in any parallel world where he existed.
• Cui Ciyou embraced Roxy and thanked her for choosing him, while privately asking Uncle Rowin and Aunt Rokari to forgive him if anything happened that night.
• Roxy returned Cui Ciyou’s embrace and privately reflected that the Human God had told her about Rudeus and the original future.

As the Great Migration neared completion, Cui Ciyou felt confident that his preparations could protect the group from the Displacement Incident. Then an overwhelming fear suddenly froze everyone except him, signaling the arrival of a terrifying presence.

• Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Ghislaine departed with Alice, Sylphy, Lilia, and Aisha after clearing the last monsters from the Fitoia Territory.
• Cui Ciyou reflected that nearly all residents had been evacuated and used his mental power to monitor the growing mass of magic in the sky.
• Roxy took Cui Ciyou's hand, and he held it as Alice and Sylphy watched their intimate exchange.
• An immense, instinctive terror descended, paralyzing everyone except Cui Ciyou.

Orsted confronted Cui Ciyou and accused him of being the Human God's Apostle, then attacked Roxy after she revealed she had met the Human God. Cui Ciyou blocked Orsted’s strike and declared that he would fight him.

• Orsted appeared on the road and demanded to know whether Cui Ciyou was the Human God's Apostle.
• Roxy murmured that she had met a strange man who called himself a god, and Orsted concluded that she was the Human God's Apostle.
• Orsted lunged at Roxy, but Cui Ciyou pulled her behind him and blocked the attack with his sword.
• Cui Ciyou learned that Orsted had tried to kill Roxy because he believed she was the Human God's Apostle.
• Cui Ciyou claimed that he had also met the Human God and challenged Orsted to a fight.

Cui Ciyou and his allies fought Orsted after he accused them of being Human God's Apostles, but the Dragon God effortlessly defeated their strongest attacks. The group lay injured before an overwhelming gap in strength, while Roxy struggled to rise.

• Cui Ciyou shielded Roxy, Alice, Sylphy, Lilia, and Aisha, then declared that Orsted would have to kill him before reaching Roxy; Roxy and Ghislaine joined him to fight.
• Cui Ciyou unleashed a slash beyond light, but Orsted stopped it with one fist and judged it near Emperor-level yet still inadequate.
• Ghislaine attacked Orsted with the Sword of Light, but he caught Hiramune between two fingers and sent her crashing to the ground.
• Roxy cast Blue Stream Blade at Orsted, who dispersed it with Dragon Saint Battle Aura and struck her down.
• Roxy struggled to get up as Cui Ciyou's three strongest King-level fighters lay defeated and the others faced Orsted's immense strength.

Cui Ciyou unleashed his strongest strike against the Dragon God, Orsted, and severed his left arm, but Orsted healed himself and counterattacked. Cui Ciyou was left gravely injured and losing consciousness.

• Cui Ciyou poured his remaining mental power into a strike that clashed with Orsted’s Dragon Saint Battle Aura and devastated the battlefield.
• Cui Ciyou’s attack severed Orsted’s left arm, and Orsted healed it with advanced healing magic.
• Orsted praised Cui Ciyou’s strength, identified him as a threat, and resolved to kill him.
• Orsted struck Cui Ciyou with his Divine Sword, breaking his steel longsword and smashing through his guard.
• Cui Ciyou was hurled through several trees and collapsed in the mud, badly wounded and slipping out of consciousness.

Cui Ciyou was nearly killed by Dragon God Orsted, but the Displacement Incident began before Orsted could finish him. As the world was swallowed by spatial distortion, Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine shielded the others and were swept into the chaos.

• Cui Ciyou realized his Anti-Magic Field had suppressed Orsted’s Battle Aura, but Orsted’s physical strength still left him gravely wounded.
• Orsted prepared another fatal strike, while Alice charged him and Sylphy tried to heal Cui Ciyou.
• Orsted knocked Alice aside and moved to attack the girls, suspecting they were also Human God apostles.
• A burst of white light and spatial distortion swept across the Fitoia Territory, shocking Orsted and beginning the Displacement Incident.
• Cui Ciyou held Alice and Sylphy close, while Ghislaine shielded Roxy, Lilia, and Aisha as they were pulled into the spatial chaos.

Cui Ciyou saved Alice and Sylphy from a deadly fall by using Sylphy’s magic power, Magic Crystals, and his mental power to create water and slow their descent. After shielding the girls from the impact, he collapsed and asked the green-haired warrior Rujierd Superdia to look after them.

• Cui Ciyou woke while falling from a great height with the unconscious Alice and Sylphy in his arms.
• Cui Ciyou used Sylphy’s magic power and Magic Crystals to gather moisture into a pool, then shaped the airflow with his mental power to slow their fall.
• Cui Ciyou turned in midair and took the impact on his own body while shielding Alice and Sylphy.
• Cui Ciyou carried the girls out of the water and recognized the green-haired warrior as possibly Rujierd Superdia.
• Cui Ciyou pleaded with Rujierd to look after Alice and Sylphy, then lost consciousness.

Rujierd Superdia found a gravely wounded young man who had protected two unconscious girls after they fell from the sky. Moved by the stranger’s sacrifice and lack of fear toward him, Rujierd agreed to care for them and carried all three into the Demon Continent’s wasteland.

• Rujierd noticed three figures falling from the sky and watched as one of them conjured a pool of water to break their fall.
• Rujierd found a bloodied black-haired young man holding two unharmed girls, one red-haired and one green-haired.
• The young man pleaded with Rujierd in Demon God Tongue to take care of the girls, then lost consciousness.
• Rujierd lifted the girls and the wounded young man, then carried them into the wasteland.

Alice and Sylphy woke in a cave on the Demon Continent beside the badly injured Cui Ciyou and faced Ruijerd Superdia, a Superd warrior they feared. Ruijerd explained that Cui Ciyou had saved them and that he was guarding them, but the girls spent their first night shaken and sleepless.

• Alice woke in a cave and found Sylphy frightened and cold, then discovered Cui Ciyou unconscious and badly injured.
• Ruijerd Superdia appeared at the cave entrance, and Alice stood between him and Sylphy and Cui Ciyou while the girls warned him not to hurt them.
• Ruijerd set down his spear and told the girls that Cui Ciyou was alive but badly injured and needed rest.
• Ruijerd explained that Cui Ciyou had shielded them when they fell from the sky and had asked him to look after them.
• Ruijerd revealed that they were in the Biekoia Region of the Demon Continent, and he kept watch as Alice and Sylphy huddled beside Cui Ciyou through the night.

Rujierd carried the unconscious Cui Ciyou through the Demon Continent toward a Migurdia village, protecting Alice and Sylphy from monsters along the way. After the girls thanked him, he comforted them, but Alice bristled when he called them children.

• Rujierd told Alice and Sylphy that a Migurdia village was nearby and could shelter them and help treat Cui Ciyou.
• Rujierd left the group briefly to kill monsters blocking their route, then explained that his Demon Eye let him detect them from afar.
• Sylphy and Alice offered to help carry Cui Ciyou and thanked Rujierd for protecting them.
• Rujierd felt moved by their sincere thanks and gently stroked both girls' heads.
• Rujierd told them that children needn't worry about unnecessary things, and Alice objected that she was nearly an adult.

Alice, Sylphy, Rujierd, and unconscious Cui Ciyou reached a Migurdia village, where the guard Rowin initially refused to let them enter. Rowin recognized the amulet Cui Ciyou carried as one he had made for his daughter Roxy, accepted that Cui Ciyou was her student, and invited the group into the village to care for him.

• Alice and her companions reached the Migurdia village after their trek across the Demon Continent.
• Rowin stopped the group at the entrance and refused to admit the newcomers, but Rujierd argued that they needed help.
• Rowin found Roxy's amulet on Cui Ciyou and recognized it as the one he had made for his daughter.
• Rujierd explained that Cui Ciyou was Roxy's friend and student, and that she had given him the amulet.
• Rowin trusted Rujierd's account, welcomed the group into the village, and offered to care for Cui Ciyou at his house.

After Cui Ciyou collapsed, Alice and Sylphy brought him to Rowin’s home, where Sylphy discovered that Healing Magic could not affect him. As his condition worsened through the night, Rujierd found a powerful battle aura destroying his vitality and said Cui Ciyou would have to drive it out himself.

• Rowin led Rujierd and the others to his home, where Rujierd laid the unconscious Cui Ciyou on the floor.
• Alice urged Sylphy to heal Cui Ciyou, but her Healing Magic vanished when it touched his body.
• Alice told Sylphy that Roxy’s Healing Magic had also failed to heal Cui Ciyou after the Boreas kidnapping incident.
• Rujierd examined Cui Ciyou and concluded that his body erased magic, leaving them to rely on his natural recovery.
• Cui Ciyou developed a severe fever and labored breathing during the night.
• Rujierd sensed a powerful battle aura clinging to Cui Ciyou’s chest wound and warned that Cui Ciyou had to expel it himself.

While feverish, Cui Ciyou relived memories of his mother and called for her in Chinese, a language Alice and Sylphy did not understand. They comforted him at his bedside, while Rowin watched and grew suspicious of Cui Ciyou’s relationship with Roxy.

• Cui Ciyou fell into a feverish nightmare filled with memories of his life on another planet and his loving mother.
• Cui Ciyou murmured “Mom” in Chinese, and Alice and Sylphy realized how deeply he was suffering.
• Alice held Cui Ciyou’s trembling hand, recognizing that he needed comfort and protection.
• Sylphy laid her hand over his and repeatedly reassured him that she and Alice were there with him.
• Rujierd silently watched as Rowin grew hostile, wondering what Cui Ciyou’s relationship with Roxy was.

Cui Ciyou met the Human God in a white void while unconscious and accused him of manipulating events that led to the Dragon God attacking Roxy and the others. The Human God mocked Cui Ciyou’s choices, then offered help as he explained that the Dragon God’s battle aura was killing him.

• Cui Ciyou awoke in the Pure White Space and faced the Human God, who taunted him for sacrificing himself to protect Roxy and the other girls.
• The Human God blamed Cui Ciyou’s involvement in the Displacement Incident and Great Migration for attracting the Dragon God’s attention.
• Cui Ciyou accused the Human God of approaching Roxy and engineering the encounter with the Dragon God to get them killed.
• The Human God denied wrongdoing, then explained that the Dragon Saint Battle Aura was destroying Cui Ciyou’s vitality while his unconscious defensive ability could not remove it.
• The Human God asked Cui Ciyou if he wanted help before he died.

The Human God told Cui Ciyou that Roxy knew about his otherworldly origins and the story of Jobless Reincarnation, yet had continued to trust him. He then claimed that Orsted wanted to destroy the world by killing him, leaving Cui Ciyou with a dire warning: if the Human God died, the world would disappear.

• The Human God said he had visited Roxy and revealed Cui Ciyou's origins and knowledge of Jobless Reincarnation to her.
• He told Cui Ciyou that Roxy had believed in him and tried to persuade the Human God that he was not a bad person.
• The Human God blamed Cui Ciyou's misguided kindness for the danger he had faced and mocked his attempts to save others.
• Cui Ciyou realized that Roxy still trusted him after learning the truth, then grew furious and asked why Orsted hunted the Human God.
• The Human God portrayed Orsted as a villain who wanted to destroy the world and claimed that the world would disappear if he died.

Cui Ciyou learned that Roxy, Ghislaine, Lilia, and Aisha were alive, though the Human God refused to reveal their location. He also heard how overwhelmingly powerful Orsted was and learned that his magic power recovered very slowly.

• Cui Ciyou worried about his scattered companions and asked the Human God whether Roxy, Ghislaine, Lilia, and Aisha had survived.
• The Human God confirmed they were alive but refused to reveal where they were.
• Cui Ciyou asked how he could defeat Orsted, and the Human God laughed at the idea.
• The Human God described Orsted's immense physical strength, mastery of all three major sword styles and God-level magic, along with his dragon arts and Dragon Saint Battle Aura.
• The Human God identified Orsted's slow magic recovery as his likely weakness, taking decades to recover after expending his magic power.