Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng studied how Blue Star’s laws differed from the Game World while reaching max level and honing his ability to manipulate lifelines. As players searched for Nara and Nina, the women prepared to suppress them, and Ke Meng sensed that the Nyarlathotep Avatar was about to act.

• Ke Meng tested a whistle’s effects and confirmed that Blue Star’s fundamental laws differed from those of the Game World.
• A year passed, and Ke Meng reached max level as players also advanced rapidly through teamwork and Meme Infection.
• Ke Meng joined the search for the First Playthrough Boss and continued developing his Lifeline Between Life and Death skill.
• Nara and Nina asked Ke Meng to help suppress the players, but he refused and questioned whether their player bodies had become gods.
• After Nara and Nina logged off, Ke Meng sensed an approaching catastrophe and considered Mental Pollution as a way to eliminate the players.
• Ke Meng’s resistance reached two hundred million after he absorbed resistance with the Necromantic Art and enhanced his equipment to +20.

Ke Meng witnessed the Nyarlathotep Avatars drag the Game World's sun and atmosphere into the void, leaving the world dark and exposed to cosmic radiation. The players carried on, while Ke Meng sensed death spreading and wondered what Nara and Nina intended.

• Ke Meng logged off rather than enter dreams, determined to witness the Nyarlathotep Avatars' actions directly.
• The sky split open as cosmic radiation poured into the Game World, and Ke Meng saw the sun sinking and the Scarlet Moon in the void.
• Ke Meng watched void turbulence and Nara's and Nina's powers erode the sun, then returned to find it had vanished and the atmosphere was gone.
• Ke Meng traveled to Gray Castle Main City, where players discussed the catastrophe before resuming their usual activities.
• Ke Meng sensed the growing aura of death and wondered whether Nara and Nina were turning the world into an amusement park of death.

As the sunless Game World grew colder and more dangerous, Ke Meng opposed unsealing Cthulhu and secretly increased his Resistance by absorbing power from monster corpses. He encountered Liu Siting but decided against killing her, choosing to keep building his strength instead.

• The sunless world withered, Wild Monsters grew stronger, and Players struggled to level up as weaker Meme Infection skills stopped working.
• Ke Meng decided against unsealing Cthulhu and avoided helping the Nyarlathotep Avatar while he secretly absorbed power from unclaimed monster corpses.
• A month after the sun vanished, temperatures fell below minus one hundred degrees, making it nearly impossible for new Players to survive or level up.
• Liu Siting encountered a black-mist figure whose presence overwhelmed her with terror, but he passed without harming her.
• Ke Meng considered killing Liu Siting, then abandoned the idea because she would respawn and could discover his player ID; he resolved to keep accumulating Resistance.

Ke Meng harvested resistance as the Game World descended into freezing darkness, while players investigated the vanished sun and the two red moons. Nara and Nina came online, revealed their plan to bring Ke Meng into the chaos, and activated coordinates that drew an exiled god toward the place where gods were nurtured.

• Ke Meng continued harvesting resistance and recognized it as a fundamental law of the Game World.
• Players discussed the falling temperatures and shared footage showing the sun being eroded in the void, prompting scholars to form the Scarlet Moon Research Society.
• Ke Meng noticed Nara and Nina had come online and questioned them about causing the global collapse; they embraced the chaos and told him to stop bothering them.
• Ke Meng sensed something ominous through Synesthesia and decided to avoid appearing before players so Nara and Nina could not learn his location.
• Nara and Nina said they intended to drag Ke Meng into the fray and activated coordinates while waiting for something to return.
• An exiled god in the distant void deciphered the coordinates and changed course toward the place where gods were nurtured.

Players explored Deep-Sea R'lyeh to investigate the changing Game World, but the ancient god seal made the city impossible for most of them to reach. Xiao Dong followed Cthulhu’s call into the forbidden zone, and the chapter ended with the others trying to understand how he had entered.

• A research institute-led team descended into Deep-Sea R'lyeh and killed a powerful sea beast on the way.
• The players could not find R'lyeh, so Li Shen told them to keep scouting and report anything they found.
• Black Ghost entered R'lyeh, revealing the city to the players, but they still circled outside because they could not pass the ancient god seal.
• Xiao Dong heard Cthulhu’s call and unconsciously left the group, moving closer to R'lyeh while the others could not approach him.
• Xiao Dong told the group he had briefly failed to resist the voice, and the captain wondered if accepting mental pollution was necessary to enter R'lyeh.

Chen Dong and the other players entered R'lyeh under Cthulhu's mental influence and endured its corrupting atmosphere as they waited for the god to awaken. Ke Meng opened his eyes and sensed the players and the Black Ghost in the city.

• The players accepted Cthulhu's call and followed Chen Dong across the seabed into R'lyeh's Core District.
• The Black Ghost told Chen Dong to await his lord's awakening, while the players suffered strange debuffs and some chose to log out.
• The Black Ghost sealed the mouth of a player who questioned him, and that player later lost his sanity and logged out.
• Chen Dong stayed in R'lyeh, where the statue awakened and Cthulhu's return drove the players into madness.
• Ke Meng opened his eyes after three days and sensed dozens of living beings and the Black Ghost in the city.

Ke Meng learned that Nyarlathotep Avatars had been active in forbidden zones and deciphered a message about locating places in the Void. After regaining control of his spirituality, he told Chen Dong that his era had yet to come and investigated the Avatars’ traces, but could not determine who had received their coordinates.

• Ke Meng heard the Black Ghost’s report about a god connected to Nya and examined the memories it had relayed before dying.
• Ke Meng deciphered the two girls’ encrypted message and recognized it as complex knowledge about locating places in the Void.
• Ke Meng drew most of his spirituality back into himself, easing the pressure on the players in R'lyeh.
• Chen Dong regained his sanity, asked Ke Meng whether this was his era, and received the answer that his era had yet to come.
• Chen Dong left with the players without touching the dangerous treasure, while Ke Meng used Synesthesia to find traces left by Nyarlathotep Avatars and wondered who they had sent coordinates to.

The Orange Star researchers learned that Cthulhu had been awake and influencing their world, while Ke Meng pursued greater powers and watched the players grow stronger. A demigod Diviner tried to locate Nya but received a manipulated reading and prepared to use a dangerous divine object.

• The returning players showed severe mental pollution, and the researchers confirmed that the second game plus era had not begun.
• The researchers concluded that Cthulhu had been awake and affecting Orange Star through his dreams, though he had not undergone Unsealing.
• Ke Meng continued exploring other worlds and studying the game world's near-absolute-zero conditions as the players trained for godhood.
• After half a year, a player had become a demigod through Divination and began searching for Nya.
• The Diviner received the clues chaos, origin, and Cthulhu, recognized the reading as false, and decided to use a divine object despite the risk of being influenced by it.

The Diviner found Nya’s coordinates at the cost of his life, and players converged on the location, where Nara and Nina were hiding. The twins revealed their combat power as over a hundred million max-level players surrounded them, and Orange Star prepared to wear them down with resurrection support.

• The Diviner recovered Nya’s coordinates from the divine object, died after announcing them, and players sent the location to their guilds.
• A Leveling Group realized Nya was among them, but Nara and Nina vanished before the leader could identify them.
• The Antler Player tracked the twins through the environment’s spiritual sorrow, and Nara and Nina decided to fight using their player bodies.
• Nara killed hundreds of max-level Wild Monsters with a single slash, but the Antler Player summoned demigod players through spatial gates.
• Players sealed the battlefield with a Sky Lantern as over a hundred million max-level players gathered around the twins.
• Professor Li Shen joined the team building a Resurrection Altar while players prepared to use resurrection support and the Level-Lock Flag to grind the bosses down.

Nara and Nina slaughtered hundreds of millions of players, but the players’ endless resurrection and sheer numbers eventually killed them. The twins began reforming their bodies at the Resurrection Altar, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Nara claimed the players could not overwhelm her and Nina, while the Grand Diviner sensed that her claim about their resurrection abilities was a lie.
• Nina unleashed rapid dagger strikes that killed huge numbers of players, and Li Shen realized the twins were players rather than bosses.
• The players expanded the sky-lantern barrier to cover the completed Resurrection Altar and repeatedly resurrected to attack the twins.
• After hundreds of billions of player deaths, their combined attacks depleted Nara and Nina’s health and killed them.
• The players celebrated, then saw Nara and Nina reforming their bodies inside the Resurrection Altar.

Ke Meng watched Nara and Nina’s battle against billions of players, who repeatedly killed the Nyarlathotep Avatars but saw them respawn and slaughter the attackers. Though the players recognized Ke Meng as A Meng and begged him to help, he remained on the sidelines, convinced their attacks could eventually wear down even gods.

• Nara and Nina transformed into enormous masses of flesh as players attacked them, while the Twins killed players and regenerated through the barrage.
• Ke Meng entered the Game World, found the root portals leading to the battlefield, and traveled to watch the final battle.
• Ke Meng observed that Nara and Nina’s health fluctuated as they fought, and he judged that player attacks could exhaust them over time.
• The players eventually killed Nara and Nina, but the Twins respawned and resumed slaughtering them, filling the battlefield with bodies and blood.
• Players noticed Ke Meng remained unharmed, identified him as A Meng, and called on him to kill the Twins and trigger second game plus.
• Ke Meng refused to intervene and reasoned that the players’ attacks might eventually wear down even the Twins’ true god forms.

Nara and Nina let the players kill their avatars down to level one, then logged out to unleash their true god forms. As the Nyarlathotep Avatar attacked the players and cracked the Barrier Sky Lantern, Ke Meng observed the divine power and released his own near-divine spirituality.

• Nara and Nina endured repeated deaths until their avatars reached level one, while the players killed them again and again.
• Nara and Nina were slain once more and forcibly logged out, leaving their game bodies behind as they returned to their true god forms.
• Nara spoke to Ke Meng through his inner voice, and he said he would watch without joining the fight.
• A colossal Nyarlathotep Avatar appeared in the starry sky, struck the Barrier Sky Lantern, and opened a crack in it.
• The avatar reached through the barrier and crushed countless players while Ke Meng studied its divine power.
• Ke Meng unleashed his near-divine spirituality, surrounding himself in black waves of energy that frightened the players.

Ke Meng observed how Nya’s true-god power worked while it slaughtered players and prepared to corrupt the Joint Dream to plunge Orange Star into chaos. He hypnotized himself into sleep and entered the dream before Nya could stop him, though Nya remained confident its corruption plan was already underway.

• Nya attacked the players and destroyed nearly half the Resurrection Altars, while Ke Meng endured its blows and studied the laws behind divine power.
• Professor Li Shen realized that players would need defenses like Ke Meng’s to defeat a true god, then logged out to avoid Nya’s mental influence.
• Nya hypnotized the surviving players and revealed its plan to corrupt the Joint Dream and spread that corruption to Orange Star.
• Ke Meng put himself to sleep and entered the dream almost instantly, surprising Nya.
• Nya struck Ke Meng repeatedly, but his health remained unchanged as it claimed that returning to the dream was already too late.

Ke Meng discovered that Nara had used the joint dream to unleash chaos across Orange Star, destroying the planet’s society before he could stop her. After reviving the players and witnessing Orange Star’s devastation, he feared Nya might also attack Blue Star.

• Ke Meng entered the joint dream and found it empty except for Nya, who told him Orange Star had already been destroyed.
• Ke Meng purged the chaos embedded in the dream, then returned to reality and found the players unconscious under Nya’s influence.
• Ke Meng killed the players to clear their negative effects, then dismantled the Resurrection Altars and sent them to resurrect elsewhere.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to witness Orange Star’s destruction as reactors, artificial intelligences, weapons, and corrupted officials wreaked havoc.
• Ke Meng realized he had arrived too late to save Orange Star and worried that Nya might target Blue Star next.

Ke Meng ascended to godhood by sensing Orange Star’s apocalypse and discovered that Shub-Niggurath stood behind the laws of health. He snapped the Nyarlathotep Avatar’s lifeline after Nya transferred her consciousness into the game, leaving her divine body lifeless in the void.

• Ke Meng used the deaths on Orange Star and the boss battlefield to break through to godhood, gaining infinite Mana Points and vast life force.
• Ke Meng located Nya in the void and seized the Nyarlathotep Avatar’s lifeline, but Nya insisted that Orange Star was already destroyed.
• Nya revealed that she would return to her player body and use the world’s protection to escape Ke Meng.
• Nya demonstrated how to connect to the game and transferred her consciousness into the Game Pod, leaving behind her divine body.
• Ke Meng recognized Shub-Niggurath as the god connected to health and snapped the Nyarlathotep Avatar’s lifeline, turning Nya’s divine body into a lifeless sculpture.

After killing Nya, Ke Meng witnessed the Game World begin its second game plus era and discovered that Nara and Nina had survived by becoming level-one players. He tested their resurrection, while Orange Star’s survivors regained their sanity and began reaching one another by radio.

• Ke Meng returned to the boss battlefield after killing Nya and saw the world changing as Nya’s influence faded and the second game plus era began.
• Ke Meng found that Nara and Nina’s bodies were gone and learned they had abandoned their divine bodies to become level-one inhabitants of the Game World.
• Ke Meng captured Nara and Nina, repeatedly broke their lifelines, and observed that a higher-order law protected players from permanent death.
• On Orange Star, people regained their sanity after Nya’s divine body died, and the Space Battleship No. 1 captain broadcast desperately for survivors.
• The captain heard Mech City respond that it was still alive, though two-thirds of the city had been destroyed.

After Orange Star suffered catastrophic destruction from Nya’s attack, Ke Meng confined Nara and Nina and discovered that Nya’s dead divine body could potentially be revived by reconnecting its lifeline. He destroyed the remains by cooking them in the Mystery Cooking Pot, raising his resistance to 1.5 billion.

• Orange Star’s communications returned ten minutes after the Nyarlathotep Avatar died, revealing cities reduced to craters and widespread devastation.
• Ke Meng kept Nara and Nina imprisoned after realizing they still had enough power to resist his Shadow-Grasping Hand and could not safely be handed over to the players.
• Ke Meng found Nya’s lifeless sculpture in the void and realized a god with the right knowledge could reconnect its severed lifeline and revive it.
• Ke Meng stored the sculpture in his Spatial Backpack and used the Appraisal Function, which rated it “Immeasurable” and warned that it could spread chaotic thinking.
• Ke Meng cooked pieces of the sculpture in the Mystery Cooking Pot, increasing his base resistance to one hundred million and his equipment-boosted resistance to 1.5 billion.

Ke Meng offered the Orange Star players a chance to punish Nara and Nina, but Colin refused to settle for powerless revenge and vowed to become a god before killing them. Back on Blue Star, Ke Meng discovered that becoming a god had made his body indescribable and dangerous to ordinary people, so he resolved to learn how Nya concealed his supernatural nature.

• Ke Meng told the Orange Star players that Nya's avatar was dead and that Nara and Nina were sealed in the game, and offered them time to vent their anger on the two girls.
• Colin rejected revenge while he was weak and vowed to become a god so he could kill Nya; the other Orange Star players also refused to vent their anger, and Colin promised to hold a public vote.
• Ke Meng returned to Blue Star and found that his soul's Resistance had transformed his body, allowing him to survive in space and giving him a hundred million Resistance.
• Ke Meng released Tangyuan, whose frightened reaction and reflection showed him that his divine form could no longer be observed normally.
• Ke Meng realized he needed to learn how Nya concealed his supernatural influence so he could live among people on Blue Star.

Ke Meng mastered perfect mimicry, returned to a transformed Whale City, and later traveled to R'lyeh to inspect the seal holding Cthulhu. He found Cthulhu's lifeline bound by threads that reached toward the Nameless Mist above the sea.

• Ke Meng studied Nara and Nina's spirituality and mastered perfect mimicry after a day of observation.
• Ke Meng returned to Whale City, explored its drone-powered delivery system, and ordered takeout without alerting the Investigation Bureau directly.
• Ke Meng returned to the Game World the next day and set out to destroy Cthulhu's consciousness or sever its connection to the system.
• Ke Meng teleported to Lonely Island and used Mirror Traversal to enter the sunken city of R'lyeh.
• Ke Meng saw that Cthulhu's lifeline was restrained by sealing threads, then sensed the Nameless Mist and several bright stars above the sea.

Ke Meng learned that Cthulhu’s call was slowly drawing the stars back into place, and discovered that the ancient god seal prevented him from killing Cthulhu directly. He left R’lyeh to grow stronger and released Nya’s air, planning to take it to Big-Faced Cat so it could be consumed.

• Ke Meng understood that Cthulhu’s call was aimed at returning the stars to their places, and that the evil god would eventually awaken even without believers.
• Ke Meng tried to pull Cthulhu’s lifeline but let go when the ancient god seal began trying to seal him too.
• Ke Meng concluded that he needed to raise his resistance before he could overcome the seal and kill Cthulhu.
• Ke Meng took offerings from R’lyeh, traveled through seawater to the game world, and created a small sun to brighten the gloomy land.
• Ke Meng’s appearance frightened a wild monster into fleeing, and he released Nya’s air from the Sealed Item.
• Ke Meng decided to take Nya’s air to Big-Faced Cat, which could digest it.