Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Ivanka dies in Suzune’s arms after briefly telling her sister that she does not hate her and is finally free from her suffering.
• The Little King arrives, applauds Ivanka’s death, and tries to command the Steam Golems to attack Suzune. Black mist infused with Death Psychic Energy blocks his control.
• Suzune attacks the Little King, but Grand Duke Mora’s protective magic shields him from harm. She then stabs herself with both swords, activating runes that raise her power from High-Level Legendary to Calamity Rank—at the cost of burning through her life force and soul.
• Suzune’s assault devastates the factory and steadily cracks the Little King’s shield. Terrified, he begs for his life and blames others, but Suzune is too consumed by rage to listen.
• Just as the shield breaks and Suzune prepares to kill him, a Portal opens. A golden hand briefly blocks her attack, giving the Little King time to escape. Suzune’s body begins failing from the strain.
• A five-meter-tall, headless Deformed Angel with a face on its abdomen emerges through the Portal. After healing his severed hand, he condemns Suzune in the name of Holy Light.

Character developments and interactions

• Suzune shifts from grief to furious resolve. Her willingness to sacrifice her own life shows the depth of her love for Ivanka and her desire for revenge. By the end, her power has pushed her to the brink of death.
• Ivanka dies with a final expression of reconciliation, suggesting that despite their pain, she no longer holds hatred toward Suzune.
• The Little King appears cruel and confident, but fear strips away his bravado once Suzune threatens him. His frantic, contradictory accusations reveal his desperation and possibly his compromised judgment.
• Green watches from hiding. He recognizes signs of soul corruption and Holy Light, considers saving Suzune, but delays because he suspects a larger plot. He believes the Little King’s survival matters to both Grand Duke Mora’s plan and an unseen manipulator.
• The Deformed Angel enters as the new threat, intervening to protect the Little King and presenting himself as an agent of divine judgment.

Significant themes

• Grief and vengeance: Ivanka’s death turns Suzune’s sorrow into a nearly uncontrollable drive to kill the Little King.
• The cost of power: Suzune’s Calamity Rank strength comes from consuming her life and soul, making victory potentially fatal.
• Manipulation and hidden agendas: The Little King’s corruption, the Portal, and Green’s suspicions suggest that multiple forces are exploiting the conflict.
• Contrasts between appearance and reality: The Little King’s royal status masks corruption and terror, while the Angel’s supposed holiness is embodied in a grotesque, unsettling form.

Plot points and events

• Suzune continues her brutal fight against the Headless Angel, repeatedly cutting through his arms and torso. Though her attacks approach Calamity Rank strength, he rapidly heals from severe injuries.
• Green realizes the Angel’s healing comes from a faint trace of a Divine Core inside it—a rare power source far more significant than Divine Power.
• As Suzune’s forbidden technique consumes her life force and damages her soul, Green sends her a Divine Power Crystal. It restores her strength and clarity, but using it directly further erodes her body.
• At Green’s request, Suzune agrees to kill the Angel and leave its remains to him. With the crystal fueling her, she overwhelms it, severing its wings and badly damaging its body.
• Suzune unleashes a final, giant-sword attack that pierces the Angel deep in its crater. Its Divine Core trace flares as it tries to heal, leaving the outcome unresolved.

Character developments

• Suzune fights with relentless determination, even as the battle leaves her irreversibly injured. The crystal lets her keep fighting, but she is expected to live only three to five more months afterward.
• Green identifies the Angel’s secret and deliberately sustains Suzune, intending to obtain the Angel’s remains and eventually turn Suzune into a lich for the Graveyard. Watching her struggle briefly stirs his conscience, but he suppresses the feeling.

Significant themes

• Power at a cost: Suzune’s extraordinary strength is purchased with her life force, soul, and ultimately her remaining lifespan.
• Exploitation and moral compromise: Green helps Suzune, but treats her suffering and death as part of a plan.
• Determination amid tragedy: Suzune keeps fighting despite her injuries and the losses that have shaped her life.
• Divine power and rarity: The Angel’s Divine Core explains its unnatural resilience and represents a prize of immense value.

Character interactions

• Green communicates with Suzune through their Soul Link, giving her the crystal and demanding the Angel’s body or remains in exchange.
• Suzune recognizes Green’s voice and accepts the bargain with a brief acknowledgment, then returns her attention to the fight.
• Green watches Suzune’s battle with a fleeting sense of guilt, but does not change his plan.

Plot points and events

• Suzune kills the wounded Headless Angel before he can recover, then sets off after the Little King, apparently driven by vengeance for her younger sister, Ivanka.
• A powerful old man wrapped in Holy Light descends and stops Suzune. Green recognizes him as Modi, General James’s eldest son, though Modi now appears near death and wields immense Holy Light power.
• Green realizes Modi likely engineered the conflict to trap him. Suzune, however, had been warned through their Soul Link and only pretended to rush after the Little King to draw Modi out.
• Suzune fights Modi for over a dozen minutes. Green’s summoned Skeleton Lord stands behind Modi, forcing him to divide his attention. Suzune lands a fatal strike, piercing Modi’s chest and destroying his heart and lungs.
• Modi dies lamenting that he failed to liberate the Void World. He vows that he will return stronger and destroy the Kingdom, which he blames for widespread suffering.
• Green emerges after Modi’s death and tries to claim his soul, but cannot find it—just as with Sebolutes. Modi’s confidence in a future return suggests that death may not be the end of him.

Character developments and interactions

• Suzune shows both lethal resolve and tactical restraint. Though badly wounded and reduced to one broken sword, she remains steadfast and defeats Modi with Green’s indirect support.
• Modi is revealed as a ruthless idealist: he killed his father and apparently accepted a terrible cost to gain his power, believing the Kingdom must be destroyed to end suffering. He is confident he will be reborn, even as he dies.
• Green recognizes Modi’s identity and suspected scheme, but stays hidden during the fight. His Skeleton Lord’s presence helps turn the battle in Suzune’s favor; afterward, Green confirms that Modi’s soul cannot be collected.
• Suzune and Modi clash directly, with Suzune’s feigned pursuit drawing Modi into the open. Green and Suzune coordinate through their Soul Link, while Green’s refusal to reveal himself leaves Modi unable to confront him directly.

Significant themes

• Death and rebirth: Modi’s calm acceptance of death—and the missing soul—foreshadows a possible return.
• Idealism and extremism: Modi’s desire to end suffering is inseparable from his willingness to kill and destroy.
• Deception and strategy: Suzune’s performance, Green’s concealment, and the Skeleton Lord’s tactical pressure all shape the outcome.
• Power’s cost: Modi’s aged appearance and fatal injuries suggest that his extraordinary strength came at great personal expense.

Plot and events

• Modi’s corpse cannot be claimed by the Nightmare Kingdom, suggesting he is not entirely dead. Before Green can examine it, the body decays into highly lethal corpse poison, leaving behind a jade-like skeleton.
• The Skeleton Lord asks to eat the remains. Green allows her to consume the skeleton, which increases her combat power by 300. She also uses her warhammer and Death Psychic Energy to draw the poison out of the contaminated ground. Green stops her from eating the headless Angel’s corpse, which he intends to preserve for research.
• Green hopes to study the Angel and eventually learn how to create Angels—or Angel Liches—artificially, potentially giving him an army of his own.
• Cyrabelle urgently summons Green to a conference. There, he learns that the Revolutionary Army has taken the Red Fortress. A traitor apparently opened its gates, allowing an army of 140,000 to destroy General Lukase’s force of nearly 40,000 and kill Lukase. The sudden defeat shatters expectations that the Revolutionary Army was too depleted to act soon.

Character developments and interactions

• Green remains practical and focused on research, but readily rewards the Skeleton Lord’s hunger when the skeleton is expendable. Their Soul Link reveals that she was once a female Ancient Giant; she responds sharply to Green’s teasing.
• The Skeleton Lord shows initiative by extracting the corpse poison, but obeys Green when he forbids her from consuming the Angel.
• Green’s concern for his growing forces is evident in his plan to find a way to strengthen Lily and Talaga, who remain in soul form, and the weaker Angel Sisters.
• At the conference, the officials defer to Green’s standing, and his arrival briefly eases the tense atmosphere. Cyrabelle communicates the news through the report rather than explanation, underscoring its gravity.

Significant themes

• Power gained through death: Corpses can yield knowledge, resources, and strength, but may also be dangerous or corrupted.
• Faith and corruption: Modi’s poisoned remains result from the distortion of Archbishop Ye Lijin’s Holy Light after betrayal and the merging of their consciousnesses.
• Preparedness and uncertainty: Green plans for future military strength, while the Red Fortress’s rapid fall shows how quickly the balance of power can change.

Key plot points and events

• Green and Cyrabelle had expected the Revolutionary Army to be weakened after its failed surprise attack alongside the Holy Crusaders. Instead, the Rune Federation committed even more troops, revealing its determination to seize Number Twelve Void World.
• The Revolutionary Army captured the Red Fortress, removing General Lukase and leaving its route toward the royal capital, Stinnard, largely open. The Kingdom’s forces are poorly positioned to stop it in a direct fight.
• During a war council, the generals offered opinions but no concrete strategy. Many seemed unwilling to fight to the death, and Cyrabelle doubted the resolve of those who made the loudest declarations.
• Green suspects the Church’s apparent defeat and silence conceal a deeper plan. He reasons that neither the Church nor the Rune Federation would accept being used without pursuing its own goals; their alliance may be a tangle of mutual manipulation.
• Green worries that the Church may target Cyrabelle as a way to retaliate against Grand Duke Mora. If so, the conflict could expand beyond a political struggle between kingdoms into a wider contest between secular powers and religious institutions.
• After the meeting, Green and Cyrabelle privately discuss his suspicions. They agree that the Church’s motives need investigation, and Green suggests sending Suzune.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shifts from viewing the Church’s intervention as a failed bargain to suspecting a concealed plot. His concern becomes personal when he considers that Cyrabelle may be a target, and he recognizes that his newly awakened Skeleton Lord may not be enough to protect them.
• Cyrabelle remains composed but is frustrated by the council’s lack of unity and practical planning. She takes Green’s warning seriously while insisting that suspicion must be tested through investigation.
• Green and Cyrabelle share a brief, charged look during the meeting, which Cyrabelle misreads as unusual attention. Their private conversation afterward is focused on trust, strategy, and the danger facing her.
• Suzune, recently recovered from her wounds after using Divine Power Crystals to kill Modi, is proposed as an investigator. Her healing comes at a cost: Divine Power is eroding her body more quickly.

Significant themes

• Plots within plots: The Rune Federation and Holy Light Church may be exploiting one another while hiding their true objectives.
• The limits of alliances: Cooperation can conceal competing interests, and apparent defeat or silence may be strategic.
• Fragile loyalty and morale: The Kingdom’s leaders lack the shared commitment needed for a desperate defense.
• Power and vulnerability: Green’s confidence in the Skeleton Lord is shaken by the possibility of a stronger, more personal threat.

Plot points and events

• Suzune reports that Marquis Belon has disappeared and that two identical Little Kings have appeared, leaving it unclear which is genuine. Signs in the Royal Palace suggest a major Holy Light Church figure has entered through the Space-Time Gate.
• Ivanka, now reunited with Suzune in Green’s Nightmare Kingdom, has helped identify clues pointing to a larger Church conspiracy. Her mind has cleared since escaping the restraints of her former body.
• Green tells Suzune to rest and slow the spread of Divine Power consuming her body, then joins Cyrabelle as she directs the defense of Stinnard.
• The Revolutionary Army resumes its advance after only a day’s pause. Green and Cyrabelle suspect the Rune Federation’s approaching midterm elections are driving its leaders to seek a quick, politically useful victory.
• Concluding that the Holy Light Church wants the Kingdom and the Holy Crusaders to destroy each other, Cyrabelle proposes abandoning Stinnard so the Church cannot achieve that outcome. Green realizes she likely knows of another route out of the Void World and leaves the plan to her.
• Under strict secrecy, the Kingdom evacuates more than 100,000 Royal Guard personnel, Anomalies Bureau staff, and their families to the Northern Province. Green uses Undead troops and Psychic Energy to prevent spies from leaking the plan, ordering suspicious people killed.

Character developments and interactions

• Suzune regains hope after meeting Ivanka in the Nightmare Kingdom. She no longer fears Green’s intentions and resolves to help him while her body is still usable.
• Ivanka emerges as a valuable source of intelligence: despite her brutal treatment, her memories remained intact, and her clearer mind lets her recognize clues to the Church’s plans.
• Cyrabelle demonstrates strategic confidence and political insight, choosing a retreat from the capital over a direct struggle that would serve the Church’s interests. Her trust in Green is evident as she directs the operation and he defers to her judgment.
• Green shifts from gathering intelligence to supporting Cyrabelle’s unconventional strategy, while using his Undead forces to enforce secrecy—even at the cost of civilian complaints and potential lives.

Significant themes

• Strategic retreat as a path to advantage: surrendering Stinnard may prevent the enemy from dictating the conflict.
• Political self-interest and military risk: election pressures push the Rune Federation toward a reckless offensive.
• Hope, trust, and renewed purpose: Suzune’s reunion with Ivanka restores her resolve.
• Control versus security: the evacuation’s secrecy depends on coercive surveillance and harsh measures.
• Hidden schemes and uncertain identities: the Church’s intentions, Belon’s whereabouts, and the true Little King remain unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• A month after Cyrabelle’s withdrawal, she has established a defensive line on Northern Province’s border. The Revolutionary Army, weakened by its defeat at Red Fortress and General Lukase’s betrayal, chooses not to pursue her with its remaining 140,000 troops. It occupies Stinnard instead.
• The Revolutionary Army’s leaders quickly abandon their promises to serve the people, declaring victory, claiming wealth, and preparing to establish a kingdom. With the Rune Federation no longer funding them—and Green having removed many Factories and much of Stinnard’s wealth—the army raises taxes and issues promissory notes to squeeze the population.
• Within half a month, the Revolutionary Army loses the public’s trust. Some citizens die by suicide; many others flee to the countryside. Its rule proves little better than the Kingdom’s.
• The army’s decision to remain in Stinnard gives Green and the forces in Northern Province time to recover. Green studies the headless Angel’s remains, filling a Graveyard research bar that unlocks an Angel Lich option, though he learns that five more comparable Angel corpses would be needed to produce one.
• Unable to animate or control the headless Angel, Green uses its remains to upgrade his existing Angel Liches. Three High Formal Rank Liches become Legendary Rank Four-Winged Angels, greatly increasing their combat power.
• Holly’s upgrade initially appears to require 150,000 Psychic Energy. Green discovers that most of the cost would remove a hidden trace of Divine Core from the remains. He saves that valuable fragment, reducing Holly’s upgrade cost to 22,000, and advances her to High-Level Legendary.
• Green also uses the remains of a Calamity Rank Holy Light Angel to upgrade his Death Angel Clone. The upgrade completes, but its resulting attributes leave him surprised; the chapter ends before the result is explained.

Character developments and interactions

• Cyrabelle emerges as decisive and strategically cautious: her early retreat and new border defenses prevent her forces from being drawn into another battle.
• The Revolutionary Army’s leaders become the very kind of oppressors they once claimed to oppose. Their treatment of Stinnard’s citizens destroys their hard-won reputation.
• Green becomes more capable through his Legendary Rank advancement and more resourceful in using rare remains. He balances upgrades against Psychic Energy costs, investigates the Divine Core rather than wasting it, and improves several key units.
• Green’s main interactions are with the Graveyard system, whose research and upgrade notifications guide his experiments, and with the Angel Liches and Death Angel Clone, whom he treats as assets to strengthen.

Significant themes

• Revolution betraying its ideals: New rulers reproduce the abuses of the old regime once they gain power.
• The human cost of political ambition: Stinnard’s citizens suffer when leaders prioritize power and spoils over recovery.
• Strategic restraint and its consequences: The Revolutionary Army’s fear of another defeat keeps it from pursuing Cyrabelle, while giving Northern Province time to stabilize.
• Power through careful resource management: Green’s upgrades show the value of experimentation, patience, and preserving rare materials rather than spending energy blindly.

Plot points and events

• Green’s Death Angel Clone fails to reach Calamity Rank, remaining at High-Level Legendary despite reaching the Legendary combat-power cap. However, its Divine Power Blessing improves to level 3, enabling a temporary burst of Calamity-level strength. Its False Divine Core also reaches level 1, though Green cannot determine what it does.
• Green prepares to use the Hundred Thousand Swords, a Divine Artifact taken from Archbishop Hiltonstin. He has weakened its Holy Light by exposing it to Death Psychic Energy, but must still remove the Holy Light Church’s tracking runes. He spends over 30,000 Psychic Energy to do so, wary of hidden safeguards and the Church’s ability to trace the artifact to him.
• In Stinnard, Revolutionary Army soldiers surround the Royal Palace, where Holy Crusaders and the former Royal Guard are sheltering the Little King. The Revolutionary Army and Church remain nominal allies, so the army has tried negotiating rather than attacking; the Church continues to stall, and tensions outside the palace rise.
• Louis Bonaparte, newly chosen King of the Rune Federation’s new kingdom, faces the palace standoff soon after arriving in Stinnard. His lineage won the throne through political bargaining, but the situation threatens to make its accession look weak.
• Two generals, sent by Bonaparte’s political opponents to pressure the new King, warn him of the crisis but avoid offering a solution. Louis recognizes their role and dismisses them without punishment, provided they perform their duties properly.

Character developments and interactions

• Green remains cautious and pragmatic: he values the Divine Artifact but takes costly precautions to avoid provoking the Holy Light Church. His growing resources let him afford the rune removal, though the artifact’s deeper protections remain a concern.
• Louis Bonaparte displays composure, political insight, and confidence. He jokes with his longtime butler, Lured, about being addressed as “Your Majesty,” then sees through the generals’ manufactured concern and handles them calmly.
• Lured is protective of Louis and attentive to the political implications of the standoff. He recognizes that the Bonaparte family prioritizes practical power over appearances.
• The two generals are reluctant agents of rival factions. Their evasiveness contrasts with Louis’s directness, and his reassurance leaves them exposed but not threatened.

Significant themes

• Power and political legitimacy: Winning a throne does not automatically bring control of institutions or the army.
• Pragmatism over appearances: The Bonaparte lineage accepts reputational embarrassment if its real position remains secure.
• Caution around greater powers: Green avoids openly challenging the Holy Light Church, while the Revolutionary Army is constrained by its alliance with it.
• Political maneuvering and restraint: Rivals exploit crises indirectly, while Louis responds with insight and measured clemency rather than force.

Plot points and events

• Fighting outside the Royal Palace erupts into a full battle after an Enchanted Weapon kills a Revolutionary Army corporal. Both the Revolutionary Army and the Holy Crusaders suffer casualties, but neither side moves to stop the violence.
• Louis Bonaparte watches the clash with Lured and refuses to intervene. He argues that the Bonapartes lack the authority and political security to take control, and that letting their rivals exhaust their anger may cost less than a failed display of power.
• Louis asks Lured to follow up on efforts to secure Marquis Carpson’s support, emphasizing the need to win over local factions if the Bonapartes are to govern the new state.
• The Holy Light Church secretly reinforces the palace through a Space-Time Gate, with the Lorenzo Kingdom’s permission. Nearly thirty thousand Crusaders have crossed, reflecting the new alliance formed around shared interests despite the kingdoms’ recent hostility.
• Inside the palace, Church forces search the devastated great hall for something important but find nothing. The wounded Little King and the bound, power-suppressed Marquis Belon are held captive.
• A richly dressed boy resembling the Little King enters. He is the prepared impostor, but a powerful soul has taken control of his body and consciousness. The possessor pressures Belon to cooperate; Belon refuses. He suspects the identity of the possessing soul but does not understand its motive.

Character developments

• Louis Bonaparte appears politically cautious and pragmatic. Rather than seize the opportunity to demonstrate authority, he prioritizes protecting his family’s position and building alliances.
• Lured initially urges Louis to intervene, but recognizes his superior political judgment and carries out his instructions.
• Marquis Belon remains defiant despite captivity and defeat. His growing suspicion about the possessor suggests he knows more about the identity involved than he can yet explain.
• The Little King is gravely injured and powerless, while his replacement has become a vessel for an unknown, formidable presence.

Significant themes

• Politics driven by interest: The alliance between the Lorenzo Kingdom and the Holy Light Church illustrates the chapter’s claim that there are no permanent friends, only shifting interests.
• Power and legitimacy: Louis’s hesitation highlights the gap between holding a throne and having the authority and support needed to rule.
• Hidden motives and deception: The Church’s secret reinforcement, the wrecked palace search, and the possession of the impostor all point to concealed agendas.
• Conflict escalating through inaction: The leaders’ failure to stop the street clash allows a single killing to trigger a much larger battle.

Character interactions

• Louis and Lured debate whether to intervene in the battle, exposing their different instincts and Louis’s more cautious approach.
• Louis tasks Lured with contacting Marquis Carpson, linking political strategy to the effort to consolidate the new government.
• The soul controlling the impostor confronts Marquis Belon and offers him a chance to cooperate, while Belon’s silence and refusal preserve their tense, unresolved standoff.

• Xiweina interrogates the captives: Saintess Xiweina Ye uses a double to torture Little King and Marquis Belon, demanding the location of the Void World’s World Key. Belon refuses to answer despite severe pain. Xiweina reveals her identity, but this only deepens his distress.
• The secret remains protected: Belon and Little King know that the World Key is sealed inside Little King, and that Grand Duke Mora used the Void World’s origin to help King Prady XIV advance to Calamity, pushing the world into its Terminal Stage. Mora’s mental Magic Restrictions make the information impossible to disclose—and punish attempts to reveal it with potentially fatal pain.
• Little King’s act collapses: Xiweina recognizes that his apparent foolishness is partly an act. After seeing Belon tortured, he breaks down, and she confronts him directly. He can only nod when she guesses that Mora’s restrictions prevent him from talking. Xiweina abandons the interrogation, realizing Mora has anticipated every workaround.
• The captives’ hidden motives: Once Xiweina leaves, Belon and Little King silently understand one another. They would protect the World Key even without the restrictions, since revealing it would leave them with no chance of survival; Mora’s spell provides a useful excuse.
• A second Belon is revealed: Xiweina returns to another room and consults a younger, more vigorous version of Marquis Belon. He is a consciousness split from Belon’s soul, not the original’s independent equal, and lacks access to the original’s secrets. Xiweina says his only hope of becoming a fully independent person is to worship the Lord of Light; he responds with apparent devotion.
• A separate mission remains unresolved: Xiweina asks the younger Belon whether he has made progress finding Ye Lijin. His troubled reaction suggests he has not succeeded, but the chapter ends before he explains.
  Character developments and interactions: Belon endures torture but remains defiant, while Little King’s performance fails under pressure. Xiweina proves perceptive and ruthless, yet recognizes the limits imposed by Mora’s precautions. The younger Belon appears deferential to her, though a fleeting strange expression hints at possible tension beneath his obedience.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes loyalty and self-preservation, coercion and the limits of torture, the power of forethought and magical control, and the uncertainty of identity and independence.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Saintess Xiweina Ye questions the younger Marquis Belon about Archbishop Ye Lijin’s soul. He claims Ye Lijin was connected to Marquis Belon’s original self and to Modi, the missing son of General James.
• The younger Belon conceals his most important finding: Ye Lijin’s soul occupies Modi’s body. He withholds this because helping Xiweina find Ye Lijin would put him at greater risk.
• Xiweina continues using the younger Belon’s connection to Marquis Belon to probe memories sealed by a Magic Restriction. The process is slow and yields memories largely at random.
• At the Northern Province’s defensive line, Green and Cyrabelle observe that the Revolutionary Army has not pursued them and is instead fighting the Holy Crusaders. They remain wary that the apparent conflict could be a feint.
• Cyrabelle reports that King Prady XIV has reached Calamity Rank and that Grand Duke Mora has given them freedom to act, with a three-month deadline to withdraw.
• Green suspects the Holy Light Church has a hidden objective beyond obtaining the World Key: it may be using the key to locate something else. He and Cyrabelle decide to spread this suspicion to the Revolutionary Army and Rune Federation.
• In Stinnard, a previous clash has left more than a hundred dead. Both sides reinforce: over fifty thousand Revolutionary Army troops gather near the Royal Palace, while the Holy Crusaders fortify it with over thirty thousand reinforcements. The city again faces the threat of war.

Character developments and interactions

• Younger Marquis Belon proves calculating and self-protective. He presents selective information to win Xiweina’s trust while hiding that he already knows where Ye Lijin is.
• Xiweina Ye remains focused on finding Ye Lijin and exploiting Marquis Belon’s sealed memories, though she recognizes the search will take time.
• Green shows strategic caution, questioning whether the Church’s intervention and the apparent factional conflict conceal a larger plan.
• Cyrabelle shares Green’s suspicions, reports political developments, and proposes spreading the Church theory to keep rival powers occupied.
• Green and Cyrabelle’s close rapport is evident in their candid exchange and shared strategic thinking.

Significant themes

• Deception and self-preservation: The younger Belon manipulates Xiweina by revealing only what serves him.
• Hidden agendas and uncertainty: The Church, Grand Duke Mora, and other powers may be pursuing objectives not yet understood.
• Escalating conflict: Even temporary restraint cannot erase casualties or mistrust; military reinforcements quickly bring Stinnard back to the brink of war.
• Political change and fragile power: Prady XIV’s rise strengthens the royal lineage, but the kingdom’s broader troubles remain unresolved.

Key plot points

• The Revolutionary Army besieges the Royal Palace in Stinnard for over twenty days, but neither side dares begin a full-scale battle. The Holy Light Church’s supply gate makes the palace difficult to starve out.
• King Louis Bonaparte sidesteps the crisis by announcing a new capital at Nice City, then quickly withdraws 20,000 troops and vast supplies from Stinnard. The supposed construction project is mostly a pretext.
• Former Prime Minister Carpson declares the Eastern Province’s support for Louis and brings two neighboring provinces with it. Combined with Bonaparte lands, this gives Louis control of over a quarter of the Void World.
• Green meets Louis on behalf of Cyrabelle to discuss cooperation. Louis initially challenges Green’s claim that the Bonaparte Lineage has ties to the Holy Light Church, but Green’s account of Grand Duke Mora’s suspicions prompts Louis to reveal that the Lineage has secretly allied with the Church.

Character developments and interactions

• Louis emerges as a shrewd pragmatist rather than an ambitious would-be conqueror. He used the crown to take wealth and territory, then escaped Stinnard’s political trap. He admits the Bonapartes never wanted the throne and joined the Church only to protect themselves.
• Green remains cool and observant, probing Louis carefully and spotting a flicker of fear that exposes his secret. He serves as Cyrabelle’s messenger and representative.
• Cyrabelle’s family connection to Louis—she should call him uncle—gives her side a personal channel to the Bonapartes, though Grand Duke Mora prevents her from attending in person.
• Louis explains that the Bonapartes lack the strength to rule the Void World: even the powerful Prady Lineage failed to control its nobles and capitalists, while the Bonapartes have no Calamity Rank fighter of their own.

Significant themes

• Power versus titles: Louis recognizes that kingship without force is an empty and dangerous status.
• Pragmatism and political survival: The Bonapartes prioritize tangible gains over prestige, using the crown strategically and avoiding an unwinnable struggle.
• Suspicion and hidden alliances: Green’s meeting reveals how uncertain loyalties are and how a small reaction can expose a carefully guarded secret.

Key plot points and events

• Green meets King Louis Bonaparte and agrees to help return the Bonaparte Lineage’s people and wealth to the Main World in exchange for intelligence.
• Cyrabelle distrusts the Bonapartes but allows the arrangement to proceed. Lured secretly transports an initial shipment of plundered wealth through a Spatial Magic Artifact and the Space-Time Gate Grand Duke Mora retained.
• Once Lured reaches the Main World, Louis sends his intelligence: the Holy Light Church entered the Number Twelve Void World not to seize it from the Rune Federation, but to collect rare “Terminal Psychic Energy” produced as a Void World approaches its apocalyptic Terminal Stage. The Church may want the energy for a powerful Divine Artifact.
• Grand Duke Mora confirms he had already suspected the Church’s objective, though he claims he lacked proof.
• Cyrabelle explains why the Church partnered with the Bonaparte Lineage: an ancestor, Saint Bonaparte, was one of only three surviving Saints who served the Lord of Light in an ancient Divine War. The lineage’s historic ties to the Church remain, though Louis is willing to trade its secrets.
• With Prady XIV now a Calamity Rank Transcendent and Mora’s goal achieved, the safest option is to leave the Void World. Cyrabelle, however, is reluctant to abandon it.

Character developments and interactions

• Green is impressed by Louis’s political pragmatism but remains cautious, questioning both the Church’s motives and why it trusted the Bonapartes with important information.
• Louis proves calculating and commercially minded: he exchanges intelligence for a route home and protects himself by sending valuable goods first.
• Cyrabelle shows deep resentment toward the Bonaparte Lineage and distrusts its tactics, though she accepts the deal. She is also irritated by her father’s habit of withholding what he knows.
• Grand Duke Mora confirms his suspicions but remains secretive. Cyrabelle interprets his explanation as a smug acknowledgment that he had figured things out earlier.
• Green and Cyrabelle work together to assess the intelligence, while their views differ: Green focuses on verification and risk; Cyrabelle’s personal history colors her judgment of the Bonapartes.

Significant themes

• Power and pragmatism: Alliances are driven by advantage rather than loyalty; both Louis and the Holy Light Church act strategically.
• Trust and betrayal: The Bonapartes’ historic religious ties do not prevent Louis from selling the Church’s secrets.
• Hidden motives and misinformation: The Church’s true objective is obscured by uncertainty and deliberate false leads.
• Legacy versus present reality: The Bonapartes’ status as descendants of a Saint carries historical weight, but they have lost the privileges once attached to that heritage.
• Risk versus retreat: Although leaving is safest, Cyrabelle’s attachment to the Void World complicates the practical choice.

• Louis Bonaparte abandons Stinnard: After the Revolutionary Army sends a hundred thousand troops toward the city—partly to confront the Holy Light Church and partly to pressure Louis—he avoids a clash. He joins Marquis Carpson and other nobles, gathers thirty-five thousand troops, and marches north under the pretext of retaking the Northern Province.
• Cyrabelle charges Louis for entry: In the Northern Province, Cyrabelle objects that Louis has brought far more soldiers than she agreed to admit. Louis tries to charm her with childhood memories, but she demands a toll. After haggling, they settle on three million Gold Pounds. Louis pays, and his troops begin crossing through the Space-Time Gate in batches.
• Green and Cyrabelle weigh their next move: Green admires Louis for surrendering his claim to the throne, but Cyrabelle explains that the Bonaparte lineage is acting pragmatically: the Void World is nearing its end, so its throne has little lasting value. She describes her mother as a ruthless, cunning woman whom her father loved, revealing Cyrabelle’s longing to resemble her.
• Their gains are substantial: Green advises leaving while they can, noting that he and his allies have already extracted immense wealth, machinery, and expertise from Stinnard. Grand Duke Mora has received the largest share, while the Bonaparte lineage’s major gain is the thirty-five thousand soldiers it is taking back to the Main World.
• A catastrophe interrupts their decision: Before Cyrabelle can decide whether to stay or leave, violent tremors shake the Northern Province. The defenses crack and parts of the Revolutionary Army’s wall collapse. Green and Cyrabelle realize the shaking is unnatural and look toward Stinnard, where the disturbance appears to originate.
  Character developments and interactions: Green remains cautious and favors withdrawal; Cyrabelle keeps her reasons for staying private but demonstrates sharp bargaining skills and ambition shaped by her mother’s example. Louis uses humor and family familiarity to soften negotiations, yet clearly anticipates Cyrabelle’s demands and accepts the toll. The chapter emphasizes practical choices, family legacies, and the value of power and wealth when a world is nearing its end.

Key plot points and events

• Hundreds of kilometers from Stinnard, Green and Cyrabelle feel a massive Psychic Energy shockwave. They decide not to return in person, but Green uses the Death Ravens he had hidden in the capital to investigate.
• Most of the ravens have already been destroyed. Through the survivors, Green sees Stinnard in chaos: lightning and fires ravage the city, civilians flee, Revolutionary Army troops desert, and fighting has left the Central Square strewn with bodies.
• A vast sinkhole has swallowed the Royal Palace. From it emerges the World Consciousness Aggregate, a towering manifestation of the Void World’s self-protection mechanism. Green realizes the world has entered its Terminal Stage, likely because the Holy Light Church broke the seal on the Little King.
• The Aggregate’s appearance activates Death Psychic Energy across the world. Corpses rise as Undead, quickly forming an enormous army.
• The Little King, drained of his blood while embedded in the Aggregate, dies and rises again as a Legendary Rank Undead. At the Aggregate’s command, the Undead swarm into Stinnard, slaughtering everyone in their path.

Character developments

• Green remains cautious: rather than rush back into danger, he relies on his prepared network of ravens. As a Necromancer, he quickly recognizes the scale and consequences of the Undead Calamity.
• Cyrabelle shares Green’s alarm and restraint, choosing to observe rather than return blindly.
• The Little King is revealed as central to Grand Duke Mora’s effort to delay the world’s collapse. Once drained of his blood, he becomes a powerful Undead, the first Legendary Rank one seen in the emerging calamity.

Significant themes

• Worlds as living systems: The Aggregate functions like an immune response, activating when the Void World’s World Origin is critically depleted.
• The cost of exploitation and conflict: Human greed and the struggle for power have pushed the world toward destruction.
• Catastrophic escalation: A single broken seal triggers a chain reaction—from the city’s devastation to a world-spanning Undead Calamity.
• Survival through caution and preparation: Green’s hidden ravens let him gather information without exposing himself to immediate danger.

Character interactions

• Green and Cyrabelle exchange worried looks and agree not to return to Stinnard without knowing what awaits them.
• Green’s ravens provide him a remote view of the destruction and the Aggregate’s emergence.
• The Aggregate communicates its fury directly to those nearby, condemning humanity and ordering the Undead to destroy them.
• The newly risen Little King breaks free from the Aggregate, while its command sends the Undead army against the city’s remaining inhabitants.

Key plot points and events

• The Number Twelve Void World’s collapse accelerates as the collective world consciousness manifests as a hundred-meter-tall giant and unleashes an expanding army of Zombies and ghosts. Its Death Psychic Energy turns people into Undead, overwhelming Stinnard’s Revolutionary Army and Holy Crusaders.
• Xiweina Ye reveals herself and orders three specially prepared Holy Light Priests to collect Psychic Energy imbued with the world’s “aura of the end.” She prioritizes this task over rescuing the people being slaughtered.
• Revolutionary Army and Rune Federation leaders order a retreat, recognizing that the giant is beyond the strength of anyone present to fight.
• Marquis Belon breaks free of Xiweina Ye’s Binding and reveals that he is at least Mid-Level Legendary. The collective world consciousness spots him and grabs him. The Undead Little King briefly delays Belon, but the giant crushes him; his soul becomes a powerful Evil Spirit.
• Elsewhere, a younger consciousness split from Belon feels the original body’s death. Now free from the threat of being reabsorbed, he heads for the Revolutionary Army camp.
• With the Royal Palace underground and its Space-Time Gate destroyed, the remaining escape routes are a secret gate in the Northern Province and the Rune Federation’s Void Airship.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiweina Ye remains composed and focused on collecting end-tainted Psychic Energy, showing little concern for the mass casualties. She is surprised by Belon’s hidden strength but does not abandon her mission.
• Marquis Belon loses the schemes he had hoped would bring him greater power. After revealing his strength to escape, he is killed by the world consciousness and becomes an Evil Spirit.
• The younger Belon emerges as an independent, equally cunning consciousness. Though he has presented himself as a devout Holy Light worshipper, he has secretly sought freedom from Xiweina Ye’s control; the original’s death gives him his chance.
• The Little King, now an Early Legendary Undead, attacks Belon and momentarily obstructs his escape, indirectly contributing to Belon’s capture.
• Military leaders abandon any thought of confronting the giant and focus on retreating.

Significant themes

• Ecological harm and retribution: The world consciousness’s fury reflects the accumulated damage caused by exploiting its resources and World Origin.
• The collapse of human power: Armies and Legendary figures are helpless before a world-scale calamity.
• Self-interest amid disaster: Xiweina Ye pursues her objective while others flee or struggle to survive; Belon’s ambitions end in ruin.
• Freedom and divided identity: The younger Belon’s escape shows how a split consciousness can develop its own motives and seek independence.

Key plot points and events

• Green and Cyrabelle recognize that the Void World is entering its terminal stage and decide to evacuate. Green makes one last attempt to exploit the catastrophe by collecting its unusually potent Death Psychic Energy.
• Riding the Dragon Lich, Green finds a mountain outside a city and opens a gate to the Graveyard, drawing in the energy. The Graveyard begins expanding, while its inhabitants and structures grow stronger.
• The world-consciousness giant senses Green’s activity and charges toward him. Green escapes through Spirit World Traversal just before it arrives; enraged at finding him gone, the giant smashes the mountain and accelerates the world’s destruction.
• Green returns to Cyrabelle, shaken by the encounter. Her Royal Guard completes an orderly retreat through a portal to the Main World, which then closes.
• Above ruined Stinnard, Saintess Xiweina Ye and three remaining Holy Crusaders finish collecting the energy of the end. The three crusaders have been fatally corrupted by the Divine Power Crystals used to store it. Xiweina and the survivors depart in the Church’s rare Void Airship.

Character developments

• Green remains opportunistic and resourceful, recognizing the Graveyard’s potential to benefit from the apocalypse. But his near encounter with the giant exposes the limits of his power and leaves him genuinely shaken.
• Cyrabelle puts aside her attachment to the Void World and prioritizes her people’s survival, arranging a disciplined withdrawal.
• Xiweina Ye is shown as composed and strategically prepared, but also willing to accept extreme casualties for the Church’s goals.

Significant themes

• Opportunity amid catastrophe: The apocalypse brings extraordinary power and growth to the Graveyard, even as it destroys the world.
• The cost of ambition: The Church’s pursuit of the energy of the end sacrifices nearly all its crusaders, while Green’s attempt nearly draws a world-ending force onto him.
• Loss and irreversibility: The Void World is doomed, and both Cyrabelle’s attachment to it and the army’s presence there must give way to survival.
• The limits of power: Green can exploit dangerous forces, but the aggregate of world consciousness is far beyond what he can confront.

Character interactions

• Green and Cyrabelle coordinate their escape, with Green warning her after fleeing the giant.
• Green’s energy gathering inadvertently diverts the giant’s attention from Xiweina, allowing her to continue her own collection more freely.
• Xiweina’s mission depends on the sacrifice of the three crusaders, underscoring the Church’s willingness to treat its followers as expendable.

Key events

• After Saintess Xiweina Ye’s Void Airship departs, Arudika observes that the Holy Light Church sacrificed enormous forces to obtain a small amount of Terminal Psychic Energy. She considers following the World Consciousness Aggregate, but decides it is too dangerous and heads back toward the Rune Federation garrison to reunite with Modi.
• Green’s appearance draws the World Consciousness Aggregate away, giving the besieged Revolutionary Army a brief respite. At its camp outside Stinnard, more than 140,000 people face a desperate evacuation: the Void Airship’s passage is narrowing, and the surrounding Undead Army continues to grow.
• Xika, Anthony, and White—three of the last survivors of Zero Group—fear they will be left behind. Military Police escort them aboard early on Sebolutes’s orders, prompting resentment among those still waiting.
• After five hours and three attacks, the camp’s defenses collapse. With more than 80,000 people still outside, the airship’s general orders the passage closed and the ship to depart. Desperate survivors rush the entrance, competing for the few remaining chances to escape.
• In the Main World, tens of thousands of Cyrabelle’s Royal Guard soldiers arrive through the gate at Morask City. They must be screened for spies and housed, while Cyrabelle also faces the difficult task of integrating her officers into the kingdom’s government.

Character developments and interactions

• Arudika shows caution despite her curiosity, choosing survival and a reunion with Modi over investigating a dangerous phenomenon.
• Xika is relieved that Sebolutes has not forgotten her group; Sebolutes’s connections preserve their chance to escape. Xika, Anthony, and White remain determined survivors, but their former organization’s collapse has left them vulnerable.
• The airship general accepts the painful responsibility of sacrificing those who cannot be evacuated. A young officer questions the order, but ultimately obeys.
• Cyrabelle gains considerable leverage from her military force and accomplishments, yet must manage both the soldiers’ welfare and political resistance. Kingdom nobles already fear her, blaming her for the massacre at Edis Prison.

Significant themes

• Survival and sacrifice: Limited evacuation capacity forces leaders to choose who can be saved, while individuals gamble everything for a place aboard.
• The human cost of catastrophe: The Undead Army’s spread and the collapsing world leave grief, panic, and mass displacement in their wake.
• Power and political leverage: Cyrabelle’s soldiers give her influence, but also create administrative burdens and intensify tensions with established elites.
• Loyalty and connections: Sebolutes’s intervention saves her former agents, while Cyrabelle’s treatment of displaced soldiers may secure their allegiance.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• The Rune Federation demands revenge for its catastrophic losses in the Number Twelve Void World, accusing Lorenzo of conspiring against it and demanding that Countess Cyrabelle be punished. It gathers 200,000 troops near the border.
• Lorenzo’s political balance has changed. King Prady XIV, now a Calamity Rank Transcendent, intimidates the nobles who want to appease the Federation. Grand Duke Mora likewise refuses to sacrifice his daughter, Cyrabelle.
• The King asserts his authority. Lorenzo mobilizes more than 200,000 troops, including nobles’ private forces. After nobles defy his order, the execution of two Counts, six Viscounts, and fourteen Barons makes clear that resistance will not be tolerated.
• The Federation destroys the Gilbaki Tribe, slaughtering nearly all of its roughly 500,000 members. The tribe’s silver wealth helps the Federation recoup some of its Void World losses.
• The two nations step back from war. Their diplomatic language emphasizes peace, but the apparent cooperation is pragmatic: the Federation has eliminated the Gilbaki and gained its wealth, while Lorenzo has strengthened royal control and gathered noble troops under the crown.
• Green settles into a powerful role in Lorenzo. He becomes assistant to Cyrabelle, Director of the Anomalies Bureau, while retaining his Major General rank. He also plans to rebuild Landon City, expand its factories, and improve equipment for his Undead Army.
• Green pursues an alliance with the Barbarians. Their chief and high priest invite him to negotiate after hearing that he can offer them safer territory in the Mist World. Green proposes an exchange: settlement in return for the tribe supplying a set proportion of warriors as his vassals.

Character developments and interactions

• Prady XIV has transformed from a relatively weak ruler into a forceful king whose Calamity Rank power lets him command obedience and consolidate royal authority.
• Grand Duke Mora openly stands by Cyrabelle, rejecting the idea of sacrificing her to satisfy the Federation.
• Cyrabelle has taken over the Anomalies Bureau, displacing its former Director; Green now serves under her.
• Green shows practical ambition: he invests his Void World wealth in Landon’s recovery and seeks stronger equipment for his forces. His proposed relationship with the Barbarians is a negotiated alliance rather than an attempt to absorb them outright.
• Niderland Alva has influence among the younger Barbarians, and his favorable report helps persuade the chief and high priest to meet Green.

Significant themes

• Power and political change: Prady’s rise reshapes the balance between the crown and the nobles.
• Cynical statecraft: Both nations exploit crises for their own benefit; their temporary de-escalation does not signify friendship.
• Oppression and survival: The Gilbaki are destroyed for their wealth, while the Barbarians seek a safer future to avoid eventual extinction.
• Recovery after catastrophe: Landon’s rebuilding is hindered by trauma and the lingering effects of Divine Power, not just physical damage.
• Pragmatic alliance: Green’s plan pairs protection and territory with military service, offering the Barbarians survival while advancing his own interests.

Plot points and events

• Green plans to recruit the Barbarian Tribe as a powerful legion, turning each recruit into a Shadow Totem Warrior bound to the Graveyard. He intends to visit personally and have the tribe make a difficult migration rather than move them instantly through a Space-Time Gate, both to keep the Graveyard secret and make the opportunity feel hard-won.
• Before he can set out, his Soul Link with Niderland abruptly breaks. Since Niderland still appears alive in the Graveyard’s records, Green suspects an obstruction or an attack. He decides to investigate, both because the Barbarians are valuable and because he wants to learn how the link was severed.
• Green travels in his Death Angel Clone, disguised as a young swordsman named Anbolan, to a border town near the Barbarian lands.
• At the local tavern, patrol captain Robin recounts seeing a strange event in the mountains: blue light and Magic Runes filling the sky. Robin assumes it was the work of a Legendary Rank fighter and avoided investigating.
• The event’s time and location match the place where Green lost contact with Niderland. Green concludes that Niderland—and likely the whole Barbarian Tribe—may be under attack by exceptionally powerful enemies.

Character developments and interactions

• Green is strategic and cautious: he weighs the risks of rescuing the Barbarians against exposing the Graveyard, then chooses to investigate when the link fails. His confidence in his powerful forces is balanced by concern about the unknown threat.
• Robin, a rough but observant patrol captain, tells an entertaining, exaggerated story. Though he lacks the strength to investigate the magical event, his account provides Green with crucial evidence.
• Green briefly speaks with Robin, presenting himself as a curious traveler. Robin initially senses something unusual about him but dismisses him as a pampered, eccentric young man after seeing his appearance and equipment. Green does not pursue Robin once he has learned what he needs.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even Green’s powerful network can be disrupted, while the Barbarian Tribe’s strength may not protect it from a superior force.
• Secrecy and risk: Green avoids an easy magical relocation because it could expose the Graveyard and create serious danger.
• Hearsay and truth: Robin’s tale is embellished for tavern entertainment, but its factual core gives Green a vital clue.
• The value of hardship: Green believes that an arduous journey will make the Barbarians’ eventual alliance feel more precious.