Chapter Summaries

Nasher unveiled Neverwinter’s new electric streetlights, while Li Wei learned that a force was destroying gods’ Divine Realms and threatening the barriers around the Sanctuaries. The Night Goddess sent him to find a mysterious Saint for help, suggesting he take their power if they refused.

• Nasher switched on the streetlights, and Neverwinter’s residents cheered as he declared it the City of Brilliant Light.
• Li Wei returned to the Sanctuary world after the Night Goddess’s ring heated up, and the Night Goddess begged him for help.
• The Night Goddess explained that the Sun God’s Divine Realm had become a dead realm and warned that destroyed Divine Realms would bring down the barriers around their worlds.
• Li Wei learned that gods could weaken when their believers, temples, and records were destroyed, but he doubted he could face the enemy responsible.
• The Night Goddess revealed that she had sensed a Saint in the Sanctuary and offered to give Li Wei the Saint’s location, advising him to seize their power if they refused to help.

Li Wei searched Stone Town for an unawakened Saint and met a woman who asked him to stop a group preparing to ruin the village celebration. He followed her to a forest, where he found the group torturing people and heard their plans to attack the village.

• Li Wei entered a tavern during a village celebration and searched the revelers for the Saint.
• He spoke with a neglected woman who asked him to protect the celebration from people intent on bringing pain and sorrow.
• A quest called "Sorrow of Pain" appeared, and Li Wei followed the woman out of town and into a forest.
• Li Wei found several women in spiked outfits whipping dozens of injured men among the brambles.
• The group proclaimed that they would attack the village after the banquet, and Li Wei agreed to stop them.

Li Wei defeated Loviatar’s followers and killed the woman who carried the goddess’s unawakened power. Shuni, the goddess of beauty, revealed herself and explained that Loviatar would be reborn only after a long delay before asking Li Wei to leave with her.

• Li Wei killed the Daughter of Pain and cut down the wounded warriors and priests with cards.
• The surviving woman attacked Li Wei with a whip and shrill cries, while a quest urged him to submit to her.
• Li Wei used grenades to overwhelm the woman, then shot her in the forehead and watched her soul dissipate.
• Shuni emerged from the woods, revealed her divine identity, and named the dead woman as her enemy, Loviatar.
• Shuni explained that Loviatar would be reborn after a long time and invited Li Wei to leave with her.

Li Wei brought the beauty goddess to Third Haven to investigate the world's destruction and help her regain her divine power. They entered a burned, ash-covered wasteland, where she sensed a strange presence that did not belong to the world.

• Li Wei discussed the beauty goddess's lost power and learned that the Goddess of Joy might have been imprisoned or replaced.
• Li Wei received mission rewards, including a new Demon Hunter skill called Judgment.
• Li Wei took the beauty goddess aboard the Eye of the Sky and traveled to Third Haven.
• Li Wei opened a rift into Third Haven and found a scorched world beneath a gray sky, with ash falling like snow.
• The beauty goddess ruled out demons and devils and sensed a peculiar presence that seemed foreign to Third Haven.

Li Wei discovered that the Third Sanctuary World was nearing destruction and could unleash its shadow creatures into the Empire, so he secured military support to investigate and contain the danger. He led the Eighth Special Mech Division into the world, where red flares signaled that the monsters were approaching.

• Li Wei and Shuni escaped the shadow monsters and learned that the Sanctuary World’s destruction could make it collide with the Prime Material Plane.
• Li Wei asked the Old Butler to request imperial troops, warning that the world’s collapse might threaten the Empire and its vital Levin Canal.
• The Empire authorized the Central Military District’s Eighth Special Mech Division to accompany Li Wei and test its experimental equipment.
• Li Wei led the mech division into the Black Forest Sanctuary World with Shuni and Katie.
• A red flare rose ahead, and Li Wei ordered all units to prepare for battle.

Li Wei’s forces easily wiped out a swarm of Dark Spirits, then continued toward a ruined city while he considered their supplies and searched for clues. In the city, a boy fleeing the Dark Spirits was rescued by Li Wei’s soldiers after they destroyed the church, and he was carried away confused.

• Li Wei’s forces annihilated the attacking Dark Spirits, and Li Wei warned the commander that deeper advances could strain their ammunition and supplies.
• Li Wei, Katie, and the Beauty God rode toward the next city as Li Wei planned to search its temples for clues.
• A boy risked crossing the infested streets to reach a church and find medicine for his sick little sister.
• The boy entered the church and found it crowded with Dark Spirits, but a sudden blast left him alive amid the church’s ruins.
• Li Wei’s soldiers found the boy, secured him, and ordered their unit to return.

Li Wei questioned a survivor about the shadow monsters and the Holy Lord Church, then led imperial soldiers to the refugees in the sewers. The survivor recognized Katie as a prophesied Holy Maiden, but a Sun Temple priest attacked her as a witch, leaving Li Wei intrigued by the conflict.

• Li Wei learned from a wanderer that a white light had transformed the city’s dead into shadow monsters and driven survivors into the sewers.
• Li Wei struck a deal with the wanderer to find the refugees in exchange for treating his younger sister.
• The wanderer recognized Katie from murals depicting the Holy Maiden, but shellfire had destroyed the mural and its church.
• Imperial soldiers brought the sewer refugees into a square, where a Sun Temple priest lunged at Katie and called her a witch.
• The wanderer identified the attacker as a respected local priest, and Li Wei grew interested in the priest’s hostility toward Katie.

Li Wei investigated an old man whose corrupted sun faith caused a fatal reaction when the Beauty God probed his memories, learning that the force behind the twisted sun feared Katie. He chose to head for Dawn City to trace the caravan that spread the Holy Lord Church’s faith and ordered the injured soldiers quarantined before the group moved out.

• Li Wei questioned the deranged old man, and the Beauty God tried to calm him before his head exploded and she staggered in pain.
• The Beauty God explained that a dark, cold force had corrupted sun worship and nearly discovered her probing the old man’s memories; she had sacrificed part of her domain to escape it.
• The Beauty God said the force seemed to fear Katie, while Li Wei admitted he did not know who Katie truly was.
• Li Wei studied the map and chose Dawn City to investigate the caravan that had spread the Holy Lord Church’s faith.
• Li Wei ordered the soldiers who had been attacked by shadows quarantined and monitored, then told the commander to bring him another cup of tea.

The narrator reported that the doctor planned to remove their insulin pump and switch them to injections twice daily. Their blood sugar had mostly come down, and they expected to leave the hospital in a few days if things went well.

• The doctor told the narrator they would stop using the insulin pump that afternoon.
• The doctor planned to switch the narrator to morning and evening injections.
• The narrator said their blood sugar had mostly come down and they would see how things went after the pump came off.
• The narrator expected to leave the hospital in a couple of days.

Li Wei discovered that Sun City remained eerily normal and encountered a monstrous Holy Maiden whose appearance suggested an Outer God was involved. While his forces fought shadow monsters in Dawn City, he investigated the Holy Lord Church’s persecution of the Pearl Merchant Guild and searched for the guild’s location.

• Li Wei learned that sunstone was a powerful energy crystal, prompting the Empire to send the Eleventh Joint Operations Force to occupy Noon City and investigate its mines.
• Li Wei used the Doll Bird to scout Sun City and saw that its streets remained active, unlike the devastated satellite cities.
• Li Wei spotted a girl in the church whose face became a black hole under [Soul Sight], and the encounter shattered the Doll Bird and revealed an image resembling Katie.
• The girl’s priest called her the Holy Maiden and spoke of purifying the world, while Li Wei suspected the Holy Lord Church was connected to an Outer God.
• As troops fought shadow monsters in Dawn City, Li Wei traced executed heretics to the Pearl Merchant Guild and searched the city records with the Beauty God.
• A soldier found the Pearl Merchant Guild’s location, relieving the Beauty God as Li Wei’s search advanced.

Walter’s reconnaissance team discovered a district covered in the corpses of strange feathered beings, and Li Wei recognized them as Feather Monsters connected to the Holy Lord Church. Li Wei arrived to investigate and learned from the Beauty God that the creatures might be a deity’s divine envoys, leaving him to wonder what had destroyed them and whether their forms carried memetic contamination.

• The commander ordered Lone Wolf to reconnoiter A-13 District, and Walter found a strangely white area with explosions but no shadow monsters.
• Walter spotted a mass of feather-covered beings and reported that they looked like countless people tangled together; headquarters ordered him to withdraw.
• Li Wei identified the beings as Feather Monsters like those once created by the Holy Lord Church and decided to investigate A-13 District himself.
• Li Wei arrived with Katie, the Beauty God, and armed troops, then examined the enormous feathered corpses and found agonized faces fused together beneath their feathers.
• The Beauty God suggested the creatures were a deity’s divine envoys, and Li Wei wondered whether their monstrous appearance was a form of memetic contamination.

Li Wei investigated the ruined Pearl Merchant Guild and found signs that the battle’s aftermath involved a strange deathly power rather than the Sun God. At the Sun Temple, a mural suggested that green fire had once devastated the world before the Sun Temple sealed it away, and Li Wei believed he had pieced together what happened.

• Li Wei reconstructed how the Sun Temple attacked the Pearl Merchant Guild, which unleashed feathered monsters before the altar and guild were destroyed.
• Li Wei found a Holy Lord Church leaflet claiming the Sun God had stolen the gods’ authority, while the Beauty God sensed both the altar’s feathered-monster aura and an icy power of death.
• After learning that the Beauty God sensed no Sun God presence at the altar, Li Wei suspected there was another explanation and led the group to the Sun Temple.
• Li Wei examined murals showing green fire devastating the world, the Sun Temple fighting it, and a priest sealing it after great sacrifices.
• Li Wei concluded that he had more or less figured out what had happened to the world.

Li Wei concluded that an Outer God, likely the green flames once sealed by the Sun Temple, had been released and was involved in the war between the Sun Temple and the Holy Lord Church. Unable to find a way to contain it, he realized a Night Temple might still exist and ordered an investigation north of Sun City.

• Li Wei pieced together that the Sun Temple may have deliberately released the Green Meteor to fight the Holy Lord Church, only for the Outer God to escape control.
• Li Wei learned that the Sun Temple's legend described a green-flamed meteor sealed by the Holy Maiden and clergy, and he suspected the Holy Maiden herself had served as its vessel.
• Li Wei asked the Beauty God how to deal with the Outer God, but she admitted she had no experience with a power from beyond the heavens.
• Katie suggested repeating the Sun Temple's sealing method, but Li Wei said they lacked records and doubted the Temple could help.
• After Katie wondered why the world had no Moon God, Li Wei noticed the map's unexplored area north of Sun City and ordered a mobile unit to investigate for a possible Night Temple.

Li Wei arrived at Night City and stopped a faction from sacrificing the high priestess, then discovered the Night Goddess had ignored her followers because she was obeying his earlier warning. The goddess was safe, leaving Li Wei to deal with the crisis her silence had caused.

• A high priestess and an elderly woman faced a violent struggle in the Night Temple after the goddess stopped answering prayers and radicals tried to sacrifice the high priestess.
• Li Wei and his companions found bodies throughout the temple, and Li Wei forced the armed factions to surrender before they could break into the prayer hall.
• A radical told Li Wei that the high priestess's sacrifice would supposedly win back the goddess's favor, and Li Wei learned that the other faction had been protecting her.
• Katie shoved open the massive stone doors, and Li Wei entered the prayer hall and identified the black-haired girl as the high priestess.
• Li Wei touched the Night Goddess's statue and found the goddess safe in her Divine Realm; she admitted she had not answered prayers because Li Wei had told her not to respond to her followers.

Li Wei consulted the Night Goddess about the dangerous outsider occupying the Sanctuary and contacted a Plane Merchant, negotiating a way to seal or banish it without paying a Divine Artifact upfront. Back in the Temple, the Night Goddess answered the High Priest’s prayers with an extravagant manifestation, and the High Priest pledged herself to Li Wei as his servant.

• Li Wei learned from the Night Goddess that the Sun God might have sacrificed a Saint avatar to contain the green flame, which could be too powerful to destroy directly.
• The Night Goddess lent Li Wei a Crystal Skull that connected him to a Plane Merchant, who offered sealing or banishment for one Divine Artifact.
• Li Wei haggled until the Plane Merchant agreed to provide a solution with payment due after it was used.
• Li Wei returned to the Temple and urged the High Priest to pray again, prompting the Night Goddess to answer with a starry sky and moonlight.
• The High Priest declared that the goddess had guided her to follow Li Wei forever as his most faithful servant.

Li Wei learned that activating the Night Temples in Dawn City and Dusk City could weaken the Sun God and expose Sun City's hidden reality. Outside the city, the high priestess performed the ritual of night, revealing a monstrous city of flesh as the enemy roared within.

• Li Wei learned that the Night Temples beneath Dawn City and Dusk City could turn the world into eternal night and weaken the Sun God's power.
• Li Wei ordered the imperial army to prepare for Sun City after suspecting its residents were unnatural and its apparent normality was a disguise.
• Two days later, Li Wei's army arrived outside Sun City, and he chose to begin with the high priestess's ritual rather than charge into a possible trap.
• The high priestess used the ritual to replace the gray sky with a starry night and moonlight.
• The moonlight revealed Sun City as a ruin covered in rotting flesh, and Li Wei ordered everyone to prepare for battle as roars sounded from within.

Li Wei used his violin and [Old Sign Blessing] to shield the Empire's forces from the Night Goddess's mental corruption, allowing them to bombard and advance on Sun City. After the army broke through the city's walls, he stopped playing and led Katie, the Beauty God, and the High Priest toward the mass of flame.

• Sun City's roar overwhelmed the soldiers with mental corruption, but Li Wei remained unaffected alongside Katie and the High Priest.
• Li Wei played a violin through the army's broadcast system, using [Old Sign Blessing] to weaken the corruption and restore the troops' ability to fight.
• The commander ordered an artillery barrage that drove back the monsters pouring from Sun City, then sent the Empire's steel army forward.
• Li Wei's music continued to support the troops as their Mecha and artillery operated smoothly under sustained fire.
• The Empire's bombardment shattered Sun City's walls, and Li Wei stopped playing before leading Katie, the Beauty God, and the High Priest toward the mass of flame.

Li Wei and his companions fought their way through the Sun Temple Tower to confront a girl wielding chaotic divinity and blue-green flames. Li Wei’s surprise attack struck her, but Holy Lord Angel wings burst from her back and lunged at him.

• Li Wei, Katie, the High Priest, and the Beauty God fought through the Maggot People guarding the door, using bullets, brute strength, and ice magic to destroy them.
• Katie smashed open the door, and the group found the girl with a black-hole-like face surrounded by green flames.
• The Beauty God sensed chaotic divinity in the girl, while Li Wei suspected she might be an incarnation of the Holy Lord.
• The girl attacked with blue-green flaming tentacles that turned Katie’s stone pillar to sand, so Li Wei had Katie and the High Priest distract her.
• Li Wei used Shifting Positions to teleport behind the girl with a ricocheting bullet and shot her repeatedly, triggering the emergence of white Holy Lord Angel wings that lunged at him.

Li Wei fought the girl as the Outer God’s incarnation, using the Mechanical Dragon’s Plasma Breath to expose the Sun God’s divine flame. He chose to use a Plane Merchant’s mirror to swallow the girl’s remaining powers into a void, then checked the emptied hall.

• The girl’s wings wounded her, and Li Wei, Katie, and the High Priest attacked before blue-green flames erupted and drove them back.
• The Beauty God sensed the Sun God’s power within the girl, and Li Wei led the others in a retreat while drawing the girl’s attention.
• The Mechanical Dragon struck the girl with Plasma Breath, destroying most of her body and exposing a golden spark that the Beauty God identified as the Sun God’s divine flame.
• A system quest called “Choice” activated, and Li Wei ordered Katie to take the others out of the hall before he confronted the girl.
• Li Wei opened the Plane Merchant’s mirror, creating a void that swallowed the girl’s green flames and angel wings, then confirmed the hall was empty.

Li Wei banished the Outer God from the Tower and discovered a necklace containing the Sun God's Divine Power Seed. He used it to settle his debt with the Night Goddess, who instead urged him to keep and raise it, while warning that the Third Haven would soon return to its original world.

• Li Wei confirmed the Outer God had vanished, searched the ruined hall, and found a golden necklace beneath the rubble.
• The High Priest identified Li Wei's ring as the Moon Heart and explained that it was one of three Night Goddess Divine Artifacts that could summon and awaken her.
• The Beauty God explained that the necklace was the Sun God's Divine Power Seed, a contingency that could allow a god to return after destruction.
• Li Wei took the necklace and returned to the Night Temple, where he offered it to the Crystal Skull as payment for his debt.
• The Night Goddess offered to pay Li Wei's bill if he kept the necklace, then told him to raise it with sunlight or by feeding it evil spirits.
• The Night Goddess warned Li Wei that the Third Haven's barrier would fail now that the balance between her power and the Sun God's was broken, and the region would soon return to its original world.