Chapter Summaries

Xue Yunfeng learned that the renewed fighting with Scarlet’s forces had started after Ismael’s affair with Denise Miranda Scarlet, and he realized the conflict would likely continue until the truth came out. He complained that the game operators were disrupting the orderly battlefield and threatened to call customer service.

• Xue Yunfeng went to Hill for an explanation after Triton’s forces attacked the players again.
• Hill told Xue Yunfeng that Ismael had become involved with Denise Miranda Scarlet, who was now pregnant and had accused him of trying to kill their child.
• Xue Yunfeng learned that Scarlet’s Royal House, rather than Triton, had turned against them to defend Denise’s dignity.
• Hill said the fighting would likely continue until the water receded and the ball was revealed.
• Xue Yunfeng lamented that the operators were ruining the players’ organized merit-grinding and declared he would call customer service to curse them out.

Hill explained to Xue Yunfeng that Ismail and the Scarlet princess’s unexpected child resulted from her divine-blessed companion shell, and Xue Yunfeng left determined to berate William. Hill then watched a special livestream of Ismail being beaten by Scarlet avengers, while the Grand Sages on both sides fought nearby.

• Hill explained that Scarlet people could inherit companion shells, and the princess’s shell had a blessing from Triton that boosted vitality and fertility.
• Xue Yunfeng accepted that the pregnancy was an accident, collected Hill’s sweets and tableware, and left intending to scold William.
• Hill asked Purvi to organize dessert recipes and make selected dishes with chef puppets, while Purvi complained about being made to manage the kitchen.
• Hill opened Oaisis’s special livestream and watched Ismail being beaten by three Scarlet men as Grand Sages from Damboro and Scarlet fought nearby.
• Hill sensed that Ismail’s beating might not be entirely undeserved.

Hill reflected on the backlash caused by Gaia’s actions and resolved to abandon godhood as a fallback and pursue his own path as a mage. As Ismail’s scandal unfolded, Hill watched the Scarlet Royal House confront him and considered how the new child’s birth might free Lucimar from Gaia’s schemes.

• Hill reasoned that Oaisis and Ismail were facing consequences for the harm caused by Gaia, which Ismail had helped enable.
• Hill decided to stop relying on godhood as a fallback and committed to finding his own path as a mage.
• Ismail explained that he had taken a potion to prevent more children, but Triton’s Sea King’s Blessing had overcome it.
• The Scarlet Royal House’s Grand Sages beat Ismail after his explanation, while Hill watched to learn whether they would allow the princess’s child to be born.
• Hill concluded that the new child would make Lucimar less useful to Gaia and that Rose had placed a spy beside him to protect against Gaia’s return.

Hill watched Lucimar establish himself in the oasis while the Undead fortified it and searched the desert for Lucia. Their patrols drove smaller raider bands together, setting the stage for more dangerous attacks on noble caravans.

• Hill reflected that Oaisis’s growing favor toward Lucimar had briefly suppressed Ismail’s luck, while Triton may have influenced their romantic entanglement.
• Lucimar negotiated a one-time child-support settlement with Scarlet and began overseeing construction and administration in the oasis alongside Mo Bi Chenxin.
• Black-and-White Road excavated and fortified the oasis, while the Undead maintained Faction Detection and Lady Ruth agreed to protect Lucimar within a thousand meters.
• Lucimar recruited suitable professionals for official posts after his former subordinates refused to leave the Ismail Family and join him.
• Black-and-White Road organized patrol teams of raid groups to search the desert for Lucia, forcing smaller raider bands to join larger groups.
• The newly consolidated bandit groups gained enough manpower to threaten noble merchant caravans, but struggled to feed everyone.

The Noble Coalition went to war with desert bandits while the Undead returned to DeVilo County, leaving Lucia’s group increasingly isolated and short of supplies. As people fled her oasis and the Undead cleared nearby settlements, Lucia faced a choice between hardship and further flight.

• Hill suspected that Zhu Meili had helped provoke the bandits into attacking the nobles’ caravans, though he could not work out how the conflict had escalated so quickly.
• During negotiations, Ismail refused to give Scarlet Damboro’s latest alchemical weapons technology and instead offered to pay by selling the Ismail Family’s last iron mine.
• The Undead finished surveying the desert and returned to DeVilo County, where Lucimar had established a family name and red-willow emblem.
• With bandits blocking the trade route and the Undead clearing small oases, Lucia’s people ran short of water and supplies while dozens quietly left her oasis.
• Lucia discovered the desert map offered few safe destinations and had to choose between enduring worsening conditions or fleeing again.

Gaia struggled to maintain her Demeter identity and control Lucia while trapped inside Ismail Manor, as the Undead pursued other objectives. Meanwhile, the Noble Coalition mobilized against desert bandits when the Undead appeared to be racing toward an oasis.

• Gaia remained trapped in Ismail Manor, where its magic arrays prevented her from escaping without using power that would make Oaisis expel her.
• Poor, dying people entered the manor seeking supplies, while the Undead allowed them to go in after their commander told them to respect their freedom and dignity.
• Gaia continued to hold on to her Demeter identity and avoid descending into her son’s body before he developed feelings for Lucia.
• The Black-and-White Road Clan fortified the building around the Dimension Door and began working to reopen it using their Space-Time Sorcerers.
• The Undead rushed toward an oasis, prompting the Noble Coalition to prepare for their arrival and urgently move to eliminate the bandits along their trade routes.
• The nobles agreed that every bandit and underground merchant connected to the stolen goods had to be killed, while the weakened Damboro Royal Family could no longer restrain them.

Hill learned that the Dimension Door had been repaired in both directions after enough Undead arrived at Red Willow Oasis, while Aoskar adopted a cautious, cooperative attitude toward Oaisis. Lucimar publicly advanced two levels, laid out the oasis’s rules, and watched residents seize on the Undead’s low prices for food and water.

• Hill realized Aoskar had repaired the Dimension Door in both directions and was being unusually accommodating toward Oaisis.
• Xue Yunfeng repeatedly warned Oaisis about potential mistakes, and Oaisis increasingly hoped Lucimar would help guide him.
• Lucimar rose two levels during a public meeting, then told the residents to follow him and obey Red Willow Territory’s laws.
• Lucimar explained that the Undead would keep Faction Detection active and warned residents that theft could make them red names.
• Lucimar inspected the Undead’s general store and saw that residents planned to form teams to resell its food and clean water at desert prices.

Lucimar considered the Undead’s plans to control trade and reshape Oaisis, while Linde showed Dieter around Kane Valley. The chapter ended with Dieter revealing that Ellie’s soul had been suppressed and their parents wanted the Undead to help her.

• Lucimar recognized that the Undead’s trade permits and tests would give them influence over Damboro merchants.
• Lucimar read Xue Yunfeng’s warning and concluded that Oaisis might change the world’s foundations to prevent another figure like Ismael from gaining such influence.
• Lucimar avoided the Undead’s revelry in the underground plaza and wondered how Linde would fare in Kane Valley.
• Linde asked Dieter what was troubling him, and Dieter said Ellie’s soul had been suppressed and their parents wanted the Undead to help her return to the River Styx.
• Linde told Dieter not to ask the Undead for help.

Dieter returned to Basia City after Linde explained why Ellie could not be saved and urged him to stop their family’s hopes. Xue Yunfeng then investigated Dieter’s change of plans and suspected the former countess was pursuing a hidden political maneuver, while Umberlee fought a giant monster.

• Dieter told Linde he had considered asking Thunder to contact Xue Yunfeng, but Linde explained Ellie was doomed because she was caught between Triton and Umberlee.
• Linde said Ellie had made an impossible agreement with an Evil God and that their parents might test Dieter’s loyalty; Dieter promised to cut off their delusions while acknowledging he still loved Ellie.
• Dieter left for Basia City without contacting Xue Yunfeng, surprising Xue Yunfeng, who had expected Battle Domain Thunder to approach him.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Lu Huayu about Dieter and learned that Linde’s family had been nearby while Linde persuaded him.
• Lu Huayu suggested the former countess was using the situation for a concealed purpose connected to her teacher and the Swordsman from Basia Military Camp.
• Xue Yunfeng warned that the weakened Damboro Royal Family might threaten its last Guardian despite Gaia’s presence, while Umberlee struck a giant monster and he asked whether the other side had begun using its ultimate move.

Lu Huayu told Xue Yunfeng that Ellie planned to trigger a massive explosion in Kane Valley and that Umberlee was looking for a way to control the fuse. Xue Yunfeng then learned that unrest in Damboro threatened the Ismail Family, while Oaisis struggled to decide whether to intervene in the kingdom’s politics.

• Lu Huayu explained that Ellie was the hidden threat, that Oaisis was losing control of the sea, and that Umberlee was preparing to use the giant sea monsters against her.
• Xue Yunfeng questioned Lu Huayu about the explosion’s effects and timing, and Lu Huayu said they needed more time to gauge its power while he worked to control the fuse.
• Xue Yunfeng returned to his command tower and asked Oaisis whether Grand Sage Ismael’s lovers and children were safe and where they had been sheltered.
• Oaisis confirmed that most of them had taken refuge in temples and said she would not interfere if the Damboro Royal Family were overthrown, even if Lucimar were involved.
• Xue Yunfeng explained that nobles might replace the Ismail Family while keeping Damboro’s royal name, and Oaisis admitted she was unsure whether technology and Ismael’s summoning had ultimately helped the country.

Xue Yunfeng advised Oaisis to restore Alexei’s chance of becoming king by having Triton return him, then learned how that fate could have doomed the Ster Family. After Oaisis investigated Linde’s unusual intuition, Xue Yunfeng suspected there might be something hidden in the boy’s past and waited for an answer.

• Xue Yunfeng suggested that Oaisis ask Triton to return Alexei before his transformation into a sea god was complete.
• Oaisis consulted the Rune God and the Death God and discovered that Alexei’s dried-up fate had once led to him becoming king.
• Oaisis explained that Dieter would have died protecting Ellie and Alexei, causing Linde to turn against them and ultimately bringing about Ellie’s death and the Ster Family’s ruin.
• Xue Yunfeng reasoned that the Ster Family’s choices and Linde’s resentment could have shaped Ellie’s downfall, while her limited luck had eventually run out.
• Xue Yunfeng asked whether Linde’s unusually strong intuition came from sensing that Ellie threatened his fate, and Oaisis went to investigate.
• Xue Yunfeng considered whether Linde might have been affected by something during his mother’s pirate attack and waited for Oaisis to return.

Xue Yunfeng and Lu Huayu considered why Linde had acted unusually impulsively and suspected the spider silk’s toxicity had resonated with something connected to divinity. Xue Yunfeng sought Hill’s help investigating, while Oaisis began searching for the weapon that had wounded Lady Helena.

• Xue Yunfeng warned Lu Huayu that Linde’s sudden attempt to kill Ellie seemed out of character, and Lu Huayu agreed that something about it was strange.
• Lu Huayu suggested Linde’s behavior might have been amplified by the spider silk’s toxicity and urged Xue Yunfeng to question Lady Ruth.
• Xue Yunfeng reflected on Umberlee’s decline and decided he needed to pry the secret surrounding Linde from Lady Ruth.
• Oaisis consulted Hill, who confirmed that Linde had seemed ordinary when he entered Hill’s Mage Tower.
• Oaisis began searching for the weapon that had stabbed Lady Helena, and Hill agreed to meet Xue Yunfeng.

Hill advised "Xue Yunfeng" to wait for Oaisis’s investigation before approaching Rose and explained why Uranus’s possible connection to the weapon would not endanger the God of Space-Time. Meanwhile, "Mo Bi Chenxin" asked Lucimar to help observe Rose, leaving Lucimar puzzled by the Undead’s tangled relationships.

• Hill told "Xue Yunfeng" that Rose cared more about the weapon’s origins and former owner than the weapon itself, and advised him to wait for Oaisis’s findings.
• Hill explained that Uranus’s ascension had made him a different being and that the God of Space-Time’s interest in Gaia likely did not concern his safety.
• "Xue Yunfeng" left after Hill assured him Oaisis could use the River of Fate to examine the matter, while Hill privately wondered why he had been asked about Rose.
• Lucimar found "Mo Bi Chenxin" on the city wall and worried that the Undead might have lost their battle.
• "Mo Bi Chenxin" said Old Dog had tasked him with observing Rose, but she rarely left home and he could not tell whether she was still there.
• Lucimar learned the area was protected by an Isolation Formation and wondered whether the Undead were friends or enemies.

Lucimar explained how the Ster Family’s conflict with the mage nobles ended in a negotiated compromise, while Mo Bi Chenxin revealed that Lucimar’s biological father was expecting another child. The conversation left Lucimar stunned and turned back to the evidence and deals that had let the Ster Family retain power in Bacia City.

• Lucimar told Mo Bi Chenxin that Lady Ruth carried a black crystal pendant and wove spider silk roses, but kept her distance from Undead.
• Lucimar explained that the Ster Family’s attempt to move into mage nobility had led to a pirate attack, and that the weapons involved had been destroyed.
• Xi Manman confronted Lucimar over calling the attack a little lesson, then described her friends rescuing a twelve-year-old girl from abusive nobles.
• Mo Bi Chenxin defended Lucimar from being implicated in the Ismail Family’s actions and revealed that Lucimar’s biological father was expecting another child.
• Lucimar explained that Countess Ster had traded evidence for benefits, including an Intermediate Magus teacher and permission for Ellie’s auction house to sell alchemical marvels.

Lucimar, Xi Manman, and Mo Bi Chenxin discussed Helena’s response to the harbor thieves and whether Grand Sage Ismael would retaliate against the Undead. Elsewhere, Xue Yunfeng questioned Linde about his family, and Linde suggested the answer to the investigation might not lie with the thieves.

• Lucimar explained that Helena burned the harbor spoils and the thieves’ bodies, strengthening her authority and deterring future attacks on Bacia.
• Xi Manman asked whether Grand Sage Ismael would make enemies of the Undead over his son’s death, and Lucimar said Ismael would avoid a costly conflict.
• Lucimar asked for news about one of Ismael’s unborn children, believing the child’s sex could affect his safety and his understanding of Demeter.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Linde about his family, and Linde said he understood Helena’s choices but could never fully trust someone who might abandon him in a crisis.
• Linde told Xue Yunfeng that the investigation might concern something other than the thieves.

Xue Yunfeng and Linde discussed why Parris, the Ster Family’s loyal head maid and Shadow Assassin, could have hidden a dangerous object from Lady Rose. Linde identified the object as a dagger in his mother’s Chamber of Secrets, and Xue Yunfeng recognized Linde’s talent for quietly investigating the matter.

• Linde explained that Parris had hypnotized herself to lock away the Ster Family’s secrets in her Mental Sea unless his mother brought her into the Chamber of Secrets.
• Linde said the Ster Family’s married-in women lacked the protection of its bloodline arrays, making Parris vulnerable to control and other threats.
• Linde recalled seeing a dagger with a golden-haired, snake-like blade in the Chamber of Secrets when he was a child, and described his mother taking him to temples after he showed an unnatural desire to possess it.
• Xue Yunfeng concluded that Linde had investigated the dagger’s history without his mother noticing and remarked that Eunuch Lu had good reason to favor him.

Linde asked Xue Yunfeng to tell him if anyone learned where his possibly connected dagger came from, and Xue Yunfeng reassured him that the dagger and spider silk had not harmed his soul. At the shore, Lu Huayu discussed a palace with Umberlee, then asked about a snake-haired goddess and heard her account of the Greek Pantheon’s troubled move to Mount Celestia.

• Linde asked Xue Yunfeng to share any news about the dagger, and Xue Yunfeng said Oaisis would investigate while reassuring him that his soul was unharmed.
• Linde left his own castle to avoid receiving further advice from Xue Yunfeng, who returned to his command tower.
• Lu Huayu told Umberlee that Xue Yunfeng had gone to question Linde and showed her a design for a palace to build by the shore.
• Lu Huayu asked Umberlee about a beautiful snake-haired goddess, and Umberlee said none of the sea-dwelling ones were beautiful and that Aphrodite was different from the Greek gods she associated with Hell.
• Umberlee explained that the Greek Pantheon had been deceived by the Order Gods and had entered Mount Celestia carrying Hell’s aura, where they faced intense justice light.

Umberlee told Lu Huayu how Mount Celestia deceived the Greek Pantheon and how Zeus’s attempt to seize power ended in disaster. She left him with a lead about her connection to a wandering singer from the Walkers of Sea and Sky Alliance.

• Umberlee explained that Mount Celestia’s Order Gods had misled the Greek Pantheon about Asmodeus and the Nine Hells, leaving them vulnerable to demons.
• Lu Huayu asked why Zeus and the other Supreme Gods of Mount Olympus had been asleep, and Umberlee connected Zeus’s ambition to Mount Celestia’s reaction to Odin.
• Umberlee described how Prometheus, Athena, and others opposed Zeus, while Lu Huayu explained Zeus’s cruelty and speculated that Gaia fled after Asmodeus killed her allies.
• Lu Huayu asked where Hades had gone, and Umberlee said the people of Mount Olympus might know but she did not.
• Lu Huayu thanked Umberlee for the information, and she revealed that a wandering singer from the Walkers of Sea and Sky Alliance shared old stories with her.

Umberlee reunited with Song of Silence and relayed information from Hermes about Medusa and Hades to Lu Huayu, who passed it to Xue Yunfeng. Xue Yunfeng proposed using Medusa’s dagger to provoke Triton, but Hill warned that Triton would recognize its origin, and Oaisis went to consult him.

• Umberlee told Lu Huayu that she had met Song of Silence, who shared stories he had heard from Hermes.
• Lu Huayu sent Xue Yunfeng the information linking Medusa and Hades, and Xue Yunfeng used Oaisis’s help to inspect the dagger’s image.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Oaisis to place Medusa’s dagger near Triton’s statue to provoke a clash with the Poseidon Pantheon.
• Hill warned Oaisis that Triton would recognize Medusa’s power on the dagger, and Oaisis left to speak with Triton.

‘Xue Yunfeng’ explained that a dagger carrying Medusa’s divinity and a trace of a Fate Spindle had altered Oaisis’s fate and changed events around Linde and Ellie. Learning Hermes may have been involved, he suspected the fragment could be tied to Taiji, the goddess of fate, and left Oaisis wondering how powerful she had been.

• ‘Xue Yunfeng’ reasoned that the dagger was meant to provoke Triton by invoking Medusa, whose vendetta had repeatedly harmed Triton’s followers.
• Oaisis told ‘Xue Yunfeng’ that Triton had detected a trace of a loom’s power in the dagger alongside Medusa’s divinity.
• ‘Xue Yunfeng’ identified the trace as Greek Fate Threads and explained that the dagger had changed Oaisis’s fate, contributing to Linde and his mother’s injuries and Ellie’s altered personality.
• ‘Xue Yunfeng’ told Oaisis that Umberlee’s information implicated Hermes, prompting him to ask ‘Lu Huayu’ to find out whom Hermes had sought.
• Umberlee directed ‘Xue Yunfeng’ to ask Lathander, and he realized Hermes might have taken the loom fragment to Taiji for her to examine fate.
• ‘Xue Yunfeng’ told Oaisis that Taiji may have been involved and teased him about underestimating her power.