Chapter Summaries

Ye Uchiha discussed developing a base and recruiting help with Paracelsus, Hassan of the Hundred Faces, Justeaze, and Irisviel. Their skills gave him a plan for producing puppet servants, fortifying the base, and preserving fallen Servants.

• Ye Uchiha brought the group to Lute Village and explained that it would serve as their temporary base.
• Paracelsus offered to create artificial lifeforms, and Ye Uchiha proposed mass-producing simple cleaning puppets for sale.
• Ye Uchiha ordered Hassan of the Hundred Faces to recruit skilled craftsmen and apothecaries from nearby towns without exposing their involvement.
• Justeaze revealed that she could turn underground veins into spiritual ley lines, and Paracelsus proposed using them to fortify the new base.
• Irisviel explained that she could absorb fallen Servants and resurrect them if enough magical energy was available.

Ye Uchiha and his companions completed their fortified base in the Mine, while Paracelsus began creating artificial spirits to guard it. The spirits proved weaker than he had hoped, but he sent them to patrol the forest around the base.

• Ye Uchiha spent his savings on construction and materials, then hunted valuable monsters to earn money for Paracelsus's projects.
• After nearly half a month, the base was finished, and Ye Uchiha and his companions moved into its well-equipped, heavily fortified facilities.
• Ye Uchiha discovered that Princess Kaguya had learned numerous spells and reached master-level potion creation, leaving him envious of her progress.
• Paracelsus prepared materials in his magecraft workshop and summoned five artificial spirits to create guards for the base.
• Paracelsus judged the artificial spirits weaker than the previous batch but ordered them to patrol the forest and stop anyone entering with malicious intent.

The lord of Dreik City struggled to respond to a string of abductions, while his elderly teacher helped him plan to catch the thieves. Ye Uchiha learned that the teacher had disrupted the latest raid and ordered the kidnappings to stop.

• The lord of Dreik City angrily confronted his guards over the disappearances of residents and skilled workers.
• His elderly teacher calmed him and said she had called old friends to help capture the thieves.
• Ye Uchiha noticed the Hassans had brought back fewer captives than before.
• A Hassan reported that an elderly woman had spotted them and forced them to withdraw.
• Ye Uchiha ordered the Hassans to end the raids because they had already taken enough people.

At the Leno Auction House, nobles bid on a foxfolk slave and other valuable lots before Gert Fleming unveiled twenty Magic Automatons sold on behalf of the Lute Village Lord, the Fifth Hero. Bidding on the automatons began, and Gert reassured the competing patrons that there were enough for everyone.

• Gert Fleming opened the auction, and the nobles competed to buy Raphael, a foxfolk girl, until the black-robed bidder in seat ninety-nine won her for 150 gold coins.
• Two rival nobles threatened the bidder in seat ninety-nine after losing the first lot.
• The auction continued through its lots, including a high-tier Dragon Egg that went to the guest in seat thirty-two.
• Gert introduced twenty Magic Automatons offered under the name of the Lute Village Lord, the Fifth Hero, and demonstrated the Magic Crystal that powered one.
• The patrons began bidding individually on the Magic Automatons, and Gert urged them not to rush because twenty were available.

Gin Ichimaru freed Raphael from her chains and offered to take her with him if she became stronger, and she agreed. After leaving the auction house with her, Gin followed a butler to a secluded alley, where two nobles argued over who would deal with him.

• Gert gave Gin Ichimaru the auction proceeds and a VIP card, then offered to handle the men waiting outside, but Gin declined.
• Gin Ichimaru broke Raphael’s chains and asked whether she wanted to follow him and train to become stronger; Raphael agreed.
• Gin Ichimaru took Raphael by the hand and left the auction house, allowing a butler and his men to lead them away.
• In a secluded alley, the tall, thin noble and the dark-faced noble argued over who would deal with Gin Ichimaru.

Gin Ichimaru killed the guards who attacked him and forced Raphael to decide whether she would kill the two nobles herself. After Raphael stabbed them, Gin told her she had passed the test and invited her to go home with him.

• A noble ordered his guards to kill Gin Ichimaru and capture Raphael, and Gin drew Shinsō to defend them.
• Gin Ichimaru killed the attacking guards while Raphael remembered the bandits who had murdered her parents and began to cry.
• Gin handed Raphael Shinsō and told her to kill the two wounded nobles to prove her determination to become stronger.
• Raphael stabbed the two nobles in their throats, then asked Gin Ichimaru whether she had passed the test.
• Gin Ichimaru confirmed that Raphael had passed and invited her to go home with him.

At a noble’s manor, greedy nobles plotted to steal the Magic Automaton blueprints and blamed a bandit attack on Lute Village, hoping to seize the creator and his profits while Ye Uchiha was away. The instigator secretly served a religious cause and wanted the nobles to test the power of the “heretical” hero.

• The manor’s owner showed the nobles his Magic Automaton and said it had cost three hundred gold coins.
• The nobles learned the automatons brought their creator hundreds of thousands of gold coins a month and discussed stealing the blueprints despite fearing Ye Uchiha.
• A noble proposed disguising themselves as bandits, attacking Lute Village, and capturing the automaton creator while Ye Uchiha was in the Capital.
• The nobles agreed to prepare a strike that night and planned to conceal their involvement.
• The instigator hid a silver emblem bearing a spear, sword, and bow, and privately resolved to use the nobles to test the strength of the “heretical” hero.

A band of seventy-six fighters attacked Lute Village to steal the Magic Automaton blueprints and find their designer, while Paracelsus, Gin Ichimaru, and Raphael learned of the assault at the Mine base. Gin Ichimaru offered to fight the attackers with Raphael, and Paracelsus sent thirty artificial spirits to assist them and capture survivors.

• A squad leader ordered the bandits to raid Lute Village, find the Magic Automaton blueprints and their designer, and leave no witnesses.
• The bandits killed a drunk villager, set fires, and began slaughtering the village residents.
• Paracelsus examined Raphael and reported her injuries, malnutrition, and distress; Raphael defended Gin Ichimaru from his suspicions.
• Paracelsus spotted the organized attack on the surveillance feed and ordered artificial spirits to intervene and capture attackers for questioning.
• Gin Ichimaru volunteered to take Raphael into combat practice, and Paracelsus agreed to send thirty artificial spirits to support them.

Gin Ichimaru and Paracelsus arrived at Lute Village during a massacre and subdued the attackers. After uncovering their mission with his Artificial Mystic Eyes, Paracelsus felt responsible for the villagers’ deaths and warned Ye Uchiha that their territory had been attacked.

• Gin Ichimaru interrupted the black-clad men as they were slaughtering Lute Village and subdued most of them with his spiritual pressure.
• Paracelsus arrived with Raphael, ordered automatons and water artificial spirits to rescue survivors and extinguish the fires, and used his Artificial Mystic Eyes to read an attacker’s memories.
• Paracelsus learned that the attackers sought his Magic Automaton Manufacturing Method and realized the village had suffered because of him.
• Paracelsus contacted Ye Uchiha by Telepathy and reported that their territory had been attacked.

Ye Uchiha returned to Lute Village and found it devastated by an attack arranged by nobles seeking to seize his Magic Automaton business. After the villagers begged him to avenge their dead, he promised to do so and left gold to help rebuild.

• Ye Uchiha surveyed the ruined village as Paracelsus explained that nobles had sent attackers disguised as bandits and gave him a list of those involved.
• Ye Uchiha learned that nearly half the villagers had been killed, including the Lute Village Lord’s son and daughter-in-law.
• Ye Uchiha told the villagers that the nobles had ordered the massacre to seize his business and offered to compensate them.
• The Lute Village Lord rebuked villagers who blamed Ye Uchiha and urged them to seek revenge against the nobles responsible.
• The Lute Village Lord and the villagers knelt and pleaded with Ye Uchiha to avenge their loved ones.
• Ye Uchiha promised revenge, left gold coins for rebuilding Lute Village, and departed.

Gin Ichimaru killed Evan Dresack and took his Gray Silver Ring, while Ye Uchiha confronted Joyce Damanlaev over the attack on his territory. Ye overwhelmed Joyce and his forces with Susanoo, leaving the battlefield in ruins.

• Gin Ichimaru infiltrated Evan Dresack's mansion, killed him, and took the Gray Silver Ring.
• Gin set Evan's mansion ablaze with Red Fire Cannon and left.
• Ye Uchiha confronted Joyce Damanlaev, who admitted he had incited nobles to attack Ye's territory and declared it the will of the gods.
• Ye summoned Susanoo, frightening Joyce's guards into dropping their weapons and fleeing.
• Joyce sacrificed his magic and life force to attack Susanoo, but Ye's sword strike destroyed his fireball and carved a vast chasm through the earth.

Ye Uchiha’s allies discussed the nobles’ backlash after he slaughtered dozens of them, revealing that he controlled the king and the Capital’s elite. In Kelan City, nobles split over whether to fight Ye, and Joseph Charles led the faction that planned to petition the king for a coalition army.

• Hassan of the Hundred Faces reported that provincial nobles planned to denounce Ye Uchiha, while Ye said their backlash gave him a chance to eliminate more troublemakers.
• Gin Ichimaru revealed that Ye had used illusions to control the Capital’s nobles and the king of Melromarc, leaving Paracelsus stunned.
• Joseph Charles gathered more than thirty nobles in Kelan City to discuss Ye’s slaughter of nobles and the destruction of Joyce’s territory.
• The nobles divided between those who wanted to form an alliance against Ye and those who feared provoking him, and nearly half left the meeting.
• Joseph Charles and the nobles who stayed planned to go to the Capital and ask the king to assemble a coalition army against Ye.

A coalition of hawkish nobles led by Joseph Charles arrived in the Capital to persuade the king to act against Ye Uchiha. As the nobles prepared to meet the king the next morning, suspicious watchers tracked them while Ye examined his newly loaded system interface.

• More than twenty hawkish nobles, joined by nobles from smaller territories, traveled to the Capital with troops gathering in their territories for a possible conflict with Ye Uchiha.
• Joseph Charles arrived in the Capital and felt a brief, unexplained sense that something hostile was watching him, but his magical scan found nothing.
• Joseph Charles reflected on his hatred of the queen's demi-human equality theory and resolved to kill Ye Uchiha to avenge his half-brother and defend the Charles Family's prestige.
• Joseph Charles and the other nobles decided to rest at the guesthouse and seek an audience with the king the next morning.
• An ordinary-looking noble watched Joseph Charles's carriage, a black-robed figure vanished into the shadows, and Ye Uchiha examined his system's newly unlocked worlds and 25% completion progress.

Joseph Charles led nobles to the Royal Palace to demand a campaign against Ye Uchiha, but Ye revealed that he had already taken control of the court. Joseph and the resisting nobles were arrested, leaving Ye in control of the kingdom for now.

• Joseph Charles presented the king with a distorted account of Ye Uchiha’s actions and called for a campaign against him.
• Ye Uchiha appeared in the Audience Hall and revealed that the guards had become his men.
• Ye seized Joseph Charles and stopped the nobles’ attempt to rescue him as disguised agents knocked them unconscious.
• Hassan of the Hundred Faces and her agents revealed themselves, showing that they had replaced nobles and monitored Joseph’s group from the outset.
• Ye ordered Joseph Charles and the captured nobles taken to the dungeon, then considered having his strategist work overtime.

Ye Uchiha left the organization’s planning and administration to Lord El-Melloi II, who laid out a plan to absorb provincial nobles and build an economically self-sufficient power base in Melromarc. The Queen’s return threatened to narrow their window for consolidating control, while El-Melloi II faced a growing workload.

• Ye Uchiha praised Lord El-Melloi II’s management and admitted he preferred fighting to paperwork.
• Lord El-Melloi II told Ye to hypnotize the imprisoned nobles and use Hassan of the Hundred Faces to keep them under control.
• Lord El-Melloi II proposed having Avicebron and Paracelsus build a magecraft city that could draw merchants, migrants, and production into their territory.
• Lord El-Melloi II explained that they needed to absorb the nobles before the Queen returned and rallied opposition against them.
• Ye suggested using genjutsu to control the Queen, but Lord El-Melloi II refused, preferring to let their enemies gather so they could be defeated together.

Ye Uchiha arranged for Avicebron and Paracelsus to design a Magecraft city, secured Gin Ichimaru as Lord El-Melloi II’s bodyguard, and asked Princess Kaguya to help the group while he was away. After settling his responsibilities, Ye Uchiha traveled to another world.

• Avicebron and Paracelsus agreed to work on plans for a Magecraft city, hoping it would bring residents who could become Magecraft apprentices and assistants.
• Gin Ichimaru made Raphael fight a captive guard to test her ability to defend herself, and Ye Uchiha explained that Lord El-Melloi II wanted Gin to serve as his bodyguard.
• Gin Ichimaru agreed to guard Lord El-Melloi II in exchange for him teaching Raphael, but said he would leave with her if the teaching proved unimpressive.
• Ye Uchiha asked Princess Kaguya to help the group if they faced trouble while he was away, and she agreed.
• Ye Uchiha used the world-travel option and vanished in a burst of light.

Raised by Beimingzi in the Taoist Heavenly Sect, Wuming, also known as Ye Uchiha, learned that he would need two more years before he could regain some of his Ninjutsu. He asked to leave the mountain, but Beimingzi instead tasked him with finding a gifted disciple and revealed that his own life was nearing its end.

• After mounted bandits massacred a village, Beimingzi rescued an infant and named him Wuming.
• Years later, Wuming cultivated on Jingshi Mountain and reflected on his past life, his diminished powers, and the system’s slow analysis progress.
• Wuming told Beimingzi he had reached the ranks of second-rate martial artists and asked permission to travel beyond the mountain.
• Beimingzi refused to discuss the request and sent Wuming to assess a gifted disciple whom Chisongzi had reported.
• Beimingzi told Wuming that he was over a hundred years old and had little time left, prompting Wuming to leave the hut in sorrow.

Ye Uchiha reflected on Taoist cultivation and how the system classified worlds by their laws and power. He explained that the system could analyze and merge worlds, while leaving the Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens world classified as a small world.

• Ye Uchiha recalled the split between Taoism's Heaven and Humanity Sects and the differing beliefs of the Heavenly Sect and the Earth Sect.
• Ye Uchiha described the secret Taoist techniques he had learned and compared cultivation in The World of Qin's Moon with chakra in the Naruto World.
• Ye Uchiha explained that the system could analyze a world's cultivation system after conquest progress reached 50%.
• Ye Uchiha outlined the great, middle, and small world classifications and placed the Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens world among the small worlds.
• Ye Uchiha explained how Chaldea used modified Holy Grails to analyze other worlds and how the Fate system could adapt to and merge their laws.

Ye Uchiha and Chisongzi watched eight-year-old Xiaomeng undergo a test to prove her worth as a potential disciple of Beimingzi. As Xiaomeng fought six elders, Ye Uchiha warned that their underestimation of her could backfire.

• Ye Uchiha told Chisongzi that their master wanted him to test Xiaomeng, but Chisongzi refused to let him examine her and arranged for six elders to assess her instead.
• A senior sister summoned Xiaomeng to the Heavenly Pool Platform, where an elder explained that victory would earn her the elders’ recommendation to Beimingzi.
• Xiaomeng accepted the challenge, drew her wooden sword, and faced the six elders as they restricted their strength to her level.
• The elders attacked Xiaomeng with their skills while she steadied herself, gathered internal energy, and struck back with her sword.
• Ye Uchiha observed that the elders were probing her rather than fighting seriously and warned Chisongzi that their underestimation could backfire.

Xiaomeng defeated six elders in a restricted duel by revealing mastery of two supreme Daoist arts. After the elders approved her, Wuming introduced himself and invited her to meet their master.

• Four elders formed the Heavenly Dipper Sword Formation against Xiaomeng, and two more joined their attack.
• Xiaomeng unleashed Heaven and Earth Lose Their Colors, immobilized all six elders, and stopped their wooden swords just short of their brows.
• The elders acknowledged Xiaomeng's mastery of Heaven and Earth Lose Their Colors and Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Waters, naming Wuming as the only more talented disciple.
• Xiaomeng released the elders, who praised her potential and approved her after the test.
• Wuming appeared behind Xiaomeng, introduced himself, and asked her to come pay respects to their master.