Chapter Summaries

Bernadette confronted Rosell about his past, while he refused to reveal information that could endanger her and acknowledged his responsibility for his sins. At the Rosell Memorial Exhibition, Klein and Little Amon joined Luo Lin and Rosell, leaving Klein face-to-face with the Emperor he had only known through Rosell’s Diary.

• Bernadette told Rosell that he should apologize to the people he had harmed, and Rosell admitted that he had committed real sins.
• Bernadette guessed that an outside power had influenced Rosell’s later depravity, and Rosell did not deny it.
• Luo Lin told Bernadette that learning the truth was dangerous and urged her to advance to Sage if she wanted to know more.
• Klein recognized the disguised man beside Luo Lin as likely Emperor Rosell, but hesitated to approach them.
• Little Amon ran to greet Luo Lin, and Klein explained that he was looking after Amon and had brought him to learn modern history.

Klein met Rosell for the first time, and the two transmigrators bonded over their shared origins and unusual fates. Rosell learned Klein knew about his destiny, while Luo Lin revealed Klein could still become the Celestial Worthy without Mr. Door.

• Luo Lin introduced Sherlock Moriarty as his student's student and explained that Little Amon was a clone living as an ordinary child.
• Rosell introduced himself to Klein as Huang Tao, and Klein revealed his real name was Zhou Mingrui and listed the identities he had used.
• Klein told Rosell he had reached Sequence 7 in less than four months, and Rosell marveled at his rapid progress while worrying that he had transmigrated too late.
• Rosell suggested Luo Lin had sought Mr. Door to help Klein become the Lord of Mysteries, but Luo Lin said Klein could become the Celestial Worthy without him.
• Luo Lin and Klein confirmed that Klein knew about his fate, and Rosell reflected on how both transmigrators had been tormented by fate.

Luo Lin, Rosell, and Klein joked about their diaries and transmigrant past before touring the Rosell Memorial Exhibition. Rosell revealed that a bookmark hid a Blasphemy Card for Klein to find, but the conversation ended with Rosell struggling to name a use for it beyond its valuable potion formulas.

• Luo Lin teased Rosell about writing romantic affairs in his diaries, and Rosell admitted he had not expected fellow transmigrators to find them.
• Luo Lin disclosed that he had spread some of his own diaries, prompting Rosell to marvel at his boldness.
• Rosell promised to teach Bernadette Chinese once he was able to move freely again.
• Luo Lin and Rosell joined Klein and Little Amon to tour the Rosell Memorial Exhibition.
• Rosell pointed out a bookmark concealing a Blasphemy Card and challenged Klein to retrieve it himself.
• Klein said he wanted to sell the potion formulas for money, and Rosell could not think of another use for the card.

Rosell warned Klein and Luo Lin about the danger of collecting Mother Blasphemy Cards, while Little Amon returned the stolen card to Klein. Luo Lin whisked the group away before the Machinery Hivemind could catch them, and the chapter ended with Will realizing how many people Luo Lin knew.

• Rosell warned Klein and Luo Lin that the Blasphemy Cards might have a problem, especially the Mother cards.
• Little Amon gave Klein the Blasphemy Card disguised as Sherlock's bookmark, and Klein thanked him.
• Luo Lin transported the group away as the Machinery Hivemind closed in, then Rosell reassured Klein that the pursuers would not remember their faces.
• Rosell lamented that he had only ten minutes left with Bernadette, while Luo Lin made tea at home.
• Will paused his lesson with Jack Jones after sensing Rosell and the others downstairs, and Jack Jones said he knew too many people to count.

Rosell considered helping his youngest son Bonoa regain his humanity after Bernadette said she believed her brother was still himself. Luo Lin offered Rosell a way to approach the God of Steam and Machinery, revealing that he wanted the church’s help to advance technology, though Rosell warned that the world had no oil.

• Rosell and Bernadette finished talking and greeted the people who came downstairs, while Rosell decided Bernadette should join Lucifer’s pirate ship.
• Luo Lin reminded Rosell that Bonoa was still alive, and Rosell admitted he did not know whether his youngest son remained himself.
• Bernadette told Rosell that Bonoa had kept the toys he had given him and said she believed Bonoa was still her little brother.
• Luo Lin said Rosell and Bernadette could serve as Bonoa’s anchors and offered them a mask that could amplify emotions.
• Rosell resolved to approach the Steam Church, and Luo Lin revealed he wanted Rosell to introduce him to the God of Steam and Machinery so they could discuss advancing technology.
• Rosell recalled that the world lacked oil, which had prevented him from bringing its technology up to the level of their former world.

Luo Lin discussed mass-producing Extraordinary items and developing biotechnology with Rosell, then reunited Rosell with Bernadette before sending her home with Das Kapital to read. The next day, Luo Lin invited Klein to meet Frank Lee, whose research might help develop biotechnology.

• Luo Lin asked Rosell to explore making machine tools for mass-producing Extraordinary items, and Rosell suggested several promising research directions.
• Rosell said goodbye to Bernadette, who promised to wear fashionable clothes when they next met.
• Luo Lin sent Bernadette to her residence and gave her Das Kapital to read before explaining his plans.
• After catching up on sleep, Luo Lin told Klein that Frank Lee had been one of his friends in his original fate.
• Klein realized Luo Lin wanted to use Frank's talent to advance biotechnology.

Luo Lin, Klein, and Bernadette boarded the Future and found Frank’s experiments had transformed the ship and its inhabitants after reacting with power left by the Earth Mother. After helping resolve the chaos, Luo Lin explained that he wanted Frank to hear about his laboratory before deciding whether to join.

• Klein and Bernadette saw the Future covered in giant plants and strange creatures, including a cow with a watermelon growing from its head and a cannon spraying milk.
• Cattleya explained that Frank’s welcome experiments had reacted with power in the Sea of Divine War after the crew fled the King of Undying.
• Frank showed that he could remove the green transformation from his body by growing and cutting off a living mushroom.
• Luo Lin reassured the others that the situation could be handled, and Bernadette, Luo Lin, and Klein helped resolve the Future’s problems.
• Frank eagerly asked Luo Lin about the laboratory that had recognized his ideas, and Luo Lin offered to explain its purpose before Frank decided whether to join.

Luo Lin persuaded Frank to join his newly established Biological Laboratory by affirming that Frank’s unusual ideas were a gift to humanity. Frank accepted, and Luo Lin welcomed him with a Druid potion formula and Extraordinary characteristic while planning where to build the laboratory.

• Luo Lin described his plans for a Biological Laboratory researching the human body, food, and medicine, and invited Frank to join.
• Frank doubted whether he could contribute, but Luo Lin called him a miracle and persuaded him that his talent could help humanity.
• Frank accepted Luo Lin’s invitation, while Cattleya and Klein reconsidered their views of Frank and felt glad that he had been recognized.
• Luo Lin gave Frank the Sequence 5 Druid potion formula and characteristic from Silver City’s tribute as his first payment.
• Frank asked when he should go to the laboratory, and Luo Lin said he would take him once the unfinished facility was ready.
• Luo Lin considered building the laboratory in an uninhabited, spacious place that would avoid attracting the authorities’ attention.

Luo Lin discussed plans for a biological laboratory with Frank, then took Bernadette to see the revolutionary work firsthand after she struggled to understand Das Kapital. He visited Medici at the vampire stronghold and realized how many responsibilities he had piled onto Little Red.

• Luo Lin asked Frank to plan laboratory equipment and suggest suitable recruits, then toured Frank's inventions with Klein and the others.
• Klein told Jack Jones about their visit after the group returned to Backlund, while Luo Lin offered to show Bernadette the revolution's work instead of explaining Das Kapital.
• Luo Lin brought Bernadette to the vampire stronghold, where Medici sarcastically complained that his workload was making him nearly collapse.
• Luo Lin recognized that Medici was handling revolutionary organizing, political schemes, vampire affairs, household duties, mysticism, and Das Kapital study.

Luo Lin and Medici discussed undermining the Loen royal family’s cooperation with the Witch Sect and stopping Augustus from bringing forth a new Black Emperor. Bernadette learned that the planned Great Smog could kill hundreds of thousands and that a new Black Emperor would mean Rosell’s permanent death, while Medici asked Luo Lin to restore the power of his past self.

• Luo Lin proposed establishing a Biological Laboratory and asked Medici about progress with the Loen royal family.
• Medici said Augustus had begun considering cooperation with the Aurora Order, but remained suspicious of the True Creator and their motives.
• Medici asked Luo Lin for the power of his past self so he could appear as a genuine War Angel and dispel Augustus’s doubts, and Luo Lin agreed.
• Luo Lin told Bernadette that Augustus and the Witch Sect planned to unleash the Great Smog on New Year’s Day to conceal their crimes and support the creation of a new Black Emperor.
• Luo Lin confirmed that a new Black Emperor would make Rosell perish permanently, and Bernadette offered to help stop it.
• Luo Lin explained that they would sabotage the royal family’s alliance with the Witch Sect while posing as Augustus’s collaborators, then asked Medici when he planned to act.

Medici confronted William I at the Augustus palace, seeking to prove his identity through a fight after William questioned how the supposedly dead War Angel had returned. Luo Lin and Medici watched the clash from Mr. Door’s Pocket Dimension.

• William I considered the Augustus Family’s plans to help George III become the Black Emperor and secure the family’s survival.
• Medici appeared before William I, who was alarmed to find the supposedly fallen War Angel seemingly real.
• Medici reflected on learning that Adam was the Lord’s divine Avatar and that Adam had arranged his death rather than trust him to surrender the Red Priest’s Uniqueness.
• Medici accused William I of doubting his identity and challenged him to settle the question with a fight.
• Medici attacked William I, filling the palace with flames, while Luo Lin and Medici watched the battle through a projection.

Medici and Luo Lin watched the War Angel fight William I and discussed whether the past could be changed. Medici questioned whether Luo Lin loved humanity, and Luo Lin said he wanted the world to reach a good ending even if he did not love its people.

• Medici watched the War Angel defeat William I and wondered whether the younger Him might change history.
• Luo Lin said he welcomed changes to history and explained that they would affect only those whose paths were directly changed, not cause a catastrophe.
• Luo Lin teased Medici for caring about humanity, and Medici admitted he was unsure whether changing the past was worth risking the world.
• Medici asked whether Luo Lin loved the people he saved, and Luo Lin said he did not, but wanted his world to have a good ending.

Luo Lin and Medici discussed their feelings toward humanity, with Luo Lin saying he was still learning how to be human. In the real world, the War Angel beat William I and secured Augustus’s concessions while William remained firm on matters of principle.

• Luo Lin told Medici that he loved humanity despite not caring for individual mortals, and Luo Lin recalled people who sacrificed themselves before the apocalypse.
• Luo Lin said he was learning to be human, and Medici mocked him for calling Amon inhuman.
• The War Angel finished beating William I and explained that Mr. Door had sealed off the space so the disturbance could not be detected.
• William I agreed to concede resources, colonies, and other matters, but refused to yield on the Black Emperor’s birth, Augustus’s independence, or the division of faith.

William I concluded negotiations with True Creator, believing their alliance was sincere, while Luo Lin and the others knew the ally was an illusion meant to deceive him. In the Pocket Dimension, Luo Lin, Medici, and the War Angel traded insults before Luo Lin promised to poach Sasrir to ease Medici’s workload.

• William I accepted the negotiation results and believed True Creator genuinely wanted to cooperate, while Luo Lin and the others knew the ally was an illusion.
• The War Angel arrived at the Pocket Dimension and mocked Luo Lin’s taste, but Luo Lin reminded him that he could not attack his summoner.
• Medici and the War Angel mocked each other as Luo Lin watched and ate an apple.
• Luo Lin said Medici shared responsibility for his exhaustion because he tried to handle too much himself, and Medici replied that Luo Lin assigned work faster than he could train subordinates.
• Luo Lin promised to poach Sasrir so Medici could be freed from some work, and Medici challenged him to actually succeed.

Luo Lin explained two possible ways to retrieve the Ancient Sun God and Sasrir, though neither plan was ready to carry out. He estimated he could attempt summoning them from the past after advancing further, while Medici complained that his progress was too slow.

• Luo Lin argued that Sasrir could be useful on his team and claimed he would at least give him paid leave.
• Luo Lin proposed purifying and recombining Adam and the True Creator to restore the Ancient Sun God and Sasrir, but admitted he did not know how to purify their consciousnesses.
• Luo Lin suggested using the Shadow of Time to summon the Ancient Sun God and Sasrir from just before their fall and preserve them in the present.
• Luo Lin said he might attempt the summoning path after reaching Sequence 2, and estimated he would finish digesting his Sequence 6 potion in about a month.
• Luo Lin explained that he still needed to complete his Sequence 5 Scriptwriter ritual and obtain supplementary ingredients, while Medici called his advancement too slow.

Luo Lin and Medici tried to cheer the War Angel up about his grim fate, and the three spent his remaining time together trading jokes. Before the War Angel returned to his era, he chose to beat up an Amon's Avatar in Backlund, leaving Luo Lin curious about what Amon was doing there.

• Medici warned the War Angel to be careful about his destined fate, while Luo Lin suggested ways to make his future existence less miserable.
• Luo Lin and Medici traded barbs until the War Angel joined in and said Luo Lin was a black-hearted boss born to be hung up.
• Luo Lin told the War Angel he had five minutes left and offered him a choice between seeing the era or meeting an old acquaintance.
• The War Angel chose to find the nearest Amon's Avatar and beat him up over his part in the War Angel's fate.
• Luo Lin poked the bump on Amon's Avatar's head, then asked why he was in Backlund and whether he was plotting something.

Luo Lin met Amon's Avatar, who claimed he had been sent to Backlund to collect stories about Lucifer, then dismissed him and sent Medici back to the Fourth Epoch. Afterward, Amon's Avatar speculated about recent events in Backlund and wondered whether Little Amon could develop humanity.

• Amon's Avatar told Luo Lin that an All-Amon Referendum had sent him to Backlund to gather and spread stories about Lucifer.
• Luo Lin reassured Amon's Avatar that he had precautions against any betrayal, then ended the War Angel's summoning after exchanging farewells with Medici.
• The War Angel returned to the Fourth Epoch and asked Uroboros whether he could see Medici's fate, but Uroboros could not discern it.
• Amon's Avatar deduced that a sealed battle had likely taken place in Backlund and considered whether the Aurora Order's contact with the Loen royal family was a scam.
• Amon's Avatar wondered whether the way Little Amon was being raised could give him humanity.

Luo Lin decided to put Will in charge of the Biological Laboratory, then returned home and found Little Amon studying Ritual Magic. When Little Amon asked him not to dislike Sherlock, Luo Lin explained that feelings could not be forced, leaving Will to question whether that was fair to a child.

• Luo Lin ruled out Medici as the Biological Laboratory’s supervisor and decided that Will should take the role.
• Luo Lin noticed Little Amon had outgrown his clothes, but Azzik explained that Little Amon liked them and refused to replace them.
• Little Amon asked Luo Lin not to dislike Sherlock, and Luo Lin admitted he did not like him very much.
• Luo Lin refused Little Amon’s request, explaining that nobody could be forced to like someone else.
• Will asked whether Luo Lin should have said that to a child and suggested Little Amon might simply want Sherlock to be happy.

Luo Lin corrected Little Amon’s approach to helping Sherlock and persuaded Will to manage the Biological Laboratory. Will agreed to take responsibility for coordinating the researchers and lending them his luck, though he felt the weight of the task.

• Luo Lin told Little Amon to respect others’ wishes, and Little Amon apologized for his actions.
• Luo Lin asked Will to oversee the Biological Laboratory because he trusted him, and Will agreed to manage it despite lacking scientific experience.
• Luo Lin explained that Will could help the researchers by granting them good luck, and Will realized Luo Lin had planned to use his ability for this purpose.
• Will worried about the responsibility of the laboratory, and Luo Lin reassured him that failure would not be blamed on him and that other paths could be pursued.

Luo Lin arranged to establish a Biological Laboratory and a new settlement for the people of Silver City and Moon City. He told Colin Iliad that a second group of around a thousand people would arrive in one month, leaving Colin to prepare their new home.

• Will asked why Luo Lin pushed humanity’s development, and Luo Lin said he found the world and humanity’s potential interesting.
• Luo Lin told Will he would help establish the Biological Laboratory, then decided to build a new Silver City before advancing to Sequence 5.
• Luo Lin visited the City of Generosity and watched Amon teach the common language of the continent to Colin Iliad and the others.
• Luo Lin asked Colin Iliad about how the people from Silver City and Moon City were adapting, then confirmed they were living harmoniously.
• Luo Lin told Colin Iliad that he had secured a settlement and assigned him to direct its construction crews.
• Luo Lin said he would bring out a second group of around a thousand people in one month, and Colin Iliad promised to prepare for their arrival.