Chapter Summaries

Ocean announced the paid-release schedule and recounted how earlier writing setbacks led him to create I Became a New Game Plus Boss. Encouraged by the novel’s strong response, he planned to keep writing for several million characters.

• Ocean said paid chapters would begin releasing at noon on May 15 and described plans to publish more chapters the following day.
• Ocean recalled ending a kingdom-building novel and an animation-industry novel after both struggled, then scrapping an unreleased Tokyo-themed infinite-flow story because its pacing was too slow.
• Ocean studied recent rankings and popular light-novel elements, including Cthulhu, Tokyo, and supernatural stories, before taking inspiration from the phrase “New Game Plus Boss.”
• Ocean drew on his earlier summoning novel and developed I Became a New Game Plus Boss around sacrifice-based powers, side effects, and the anticipation of the unknown.
• Ocean explained that the protagonist would steadily grow before Cthulhu’s seal broke, after which he would beat up the players.
• Ocean celebrated the book’s rapid growth to 36,000 bookmarks and over 1,500 recommendation votes in a day, and pledged to write two or three million characters or more.

Professor Leon joined researchers watching Liu Siting’s altered detective game, where Little Peach described a happy world with a blue ocean that seemed to be the Dream World. As Little Peach’s parents began acting strangely, Leon recommended canceling the plan to create a second Nightmare Disease patient until they understood the changes.

• Leon posted about experiments he had conducted in the Dream World and argued with commenters using his findings.
• Gawain told Leon that researchers planned to give another NPC Nightmare Disease to see how two identical patients would affect the game.
• Leon went with Gawain to watch Liu Siting play the detective game, where Little Peach described visiting a caring place with a blue ocean whenever she slept.
• Liu Siting noticed that Little Peach’s parents secretly watched her with concern and resumed their usual behavior when Liu Siting approached.
• Leon said the researchers should cancel the second-patient test and investigate the changes in Little Peach’s family first, and others agreed.

Liu Siting investigated the increasingly hostile villagers while researchers concluded that her character’s strange behavior was fueling their suspicions. A towering villager then called her by name and asked her to marry him and escape the village.

• Li Shen asked Liu Siting to listen in on Little Peach’s parents, and she heard them worrying about her presence in the village.
• Little Peach interrupted Liu Siting by the wall, while her parents reacted with alarm to their daughter speaking to her.
• Liu Siting noticed the villagers smiling at her but showing disgust when she turned away, while Little Peach privately wished to leave the village.
• Psychologists theorized that the villagers found Liu Siting’s inactivity and lack of communication strange, so Liu Siting kept her character moving.
• A towering male villager blocked Liu Siting’s path, called her by name, and asked her to marry him and escape the village.

Liu Siting revealed to the villagers that they were game data and that she was an outside player, but the furious bully shoved her into the game's uncharted black region. The screen and audio went dark before strange rustling began through the surround-sound system.

• Little Peach said she could not describe the black area, and the villagers covered her eyes and carried her home while they seized Liu Siting.
• The bully accused Liu Siting of pushing her seven companions into the void and challenged her to explain who she was.
• Liu Siting told the bully and villagers that she was a player outside the game and explained how nightmare disease had given them consciousness and mutated the village.
• The villagers drove Liu Siting toward the map's boundary, and the bully shoved her into the black region despite her warning that they needed her.
• The game screen and headset audio went dark, then a rustling sound came from the surround-sound system.

After the Detective Game’s strange rustling reached Liu Siting, she heard it again in the Dream World and collapsed as chaotic information flooded her mind. Ke Meng traced the source to her, recognized her connection to Little Peach’s game world, and considered using that world as a new source for his Dream World.

• Authorities quarantined everyone who had heard the rustling and forbade them from discussing or uploading information about it.
• Liu Siting entered the Dream World, heard the rustling again, and absorbed chaotic information until she collapsed without waking from the dream.
• A guard found Liu Siting unconscious in the Dream World, where her body remained instead of disappearing.
• Ke Meng sensed the intrusion, tracked the chaotic information to Liu Siting, and recognized it as the same information he had encountered in Little Peach’s dream.
• Ke Meng concluded that Liu Siting had used Dream Propagation on Little Peach and considered connecting the game world to the Dream World as a new source.

Ke Meng entered Liu Siting’s deeper dream and absorbed most of the chaotic information, waking her but leaving her prone to powerful mad ramblings. He considered other ways to spread the Dream World and sensed that a new sacrifice had arrived.

• Ke Meng realized he could spread nightmares to the Detective World and considered how dreams might affect data-built beings like Little Peach.
• Ke Meng sensed that Liu Siting had become trapped in a deeper dream after chaotic information overwhelmed her consciousness.
• Ke Meng entered Liu Siting’s deeper dream, absorbed most of the chaotic information, and caused the dream to break so she awoke on Orange Star.
• Liu Siting’s remaining chaotic thoughts made her chant disturbing words, prompting researchers to retreat and her superiors to raise her danger rating and isolate her.
• Ke Meng regretted that he had not fully cleared Liu Siting’s mind and considered cultivating other believers among the players.
• Ke Meng heard an indistinct murmur carrying the scent of believers and realized that a new sacrifice had arrived.

Orange Star players tracked the Kobolds into Spiritcalling Forest and discovered them meeting with the Tree Spirits. The players realized a sacrifice ritual was underway to summon Cthulhu and were warned to flee.

• Orange Star's team followed the Kobolds into the level 60 Spiritcalling Forest, where the Kobolds were farming monsters and wearing equipment taken from players.
• A black ghost noticed the hidden players, but most escaped with return scrolls while One Dream Sea Sky and Likes Chocolate hid inside a tree using Hiding Tree Bark.
• One Dream Sea Sky and Likes Chocolate resumed watching the Kobolds and saw them follow a blue-eyed Tree Spirit deeper into the woods.
• Likes Chocolate spotted Tree Spirits wearing black robes near a Dryad Pool and saw someone spreading powder.
• The commander identified the gathering as a sacrifice ritual to summon Cthulhu and urgently told One Dream Sea Sky and Likes Chocolate to get away.

One Dream Sea Sky and Chocolate were captured by Tree Spirits and Kobolds, who looted their belongings before beginning a Sacrifice Ritual. During the ritual, Ke Meng infected the unconscious players and watched as the Tree Spirits offered their ancestral tree.

• One Dream Sea Sky and Chocolate fled the Tree Spirits but were caught by poisonous mist and captured alive.
• The commander forcibly logged both players out before the Sacrifice Ritual began.
• The Kobolds and Tree Spirits searched the players' belongings, and the Kobolds collected the bark items the Tree Spirits discarded.
• The Tree Spirits and Kobolds dressed in black robes and performed a Sacrifice Ritual around the pool.
• Ke Meng infected the players' bodies through the ritual, and the Tree Spirits carried their ancestral tree into the pool as an offering.

Ke Meng accepted the Tree Spirits’ and Kobolds’ offerings, bringing a Spirit-Sensing Fruit Tree, Hiding Tree Bark, and Level-Up Fish into his room. He tested the fish on Tangyuan and White Sugar, then began feeding one to the Big-Faced Cat.

• Ke Meng used Group Random Buff Magic on the Tree Spirit followers, and some burned to ashes as the power took effect.
• The Kobold Priest offered Hiding Tree Bark, and Ke Meng accepted it along with the other sacrifices.
• Ke Meng used the Big-Faced Cat to identify the Spirit-Sensing Fruit Tree and Hiding Tree Bark, then stored both in his Storage Scarf.
• Ke Meng identified the fifty fish as Level-Up Fish and fed one each to Tangyuan and White Sugar, which both became full and felt stronger.
• Ke Meng decided to give a fish to the Big-Faced Cat and had Tangyuan pry open its mouth so he could feed it one.

Ke Meng handed the Spirit-Sensing Fruit Tree over to the Special Affairs Investigation Bureau so its staff could test its effects and risky emotion-based watering process. The Bureau confirmed that it could grow new fruit and even sprout from a buried Spirit Fruit, while the people who watered it lost some of their emotions.

• Ke Meng filmed White Sugar endlessly sweeping up the sand it shed, then took it to the Special Affairs Investigation Bureau.
• Ke Meng gave the Spirit-Sensing Fruit Tree to Director Lei and explained that watering it required emotions and drained them from the person who watered it.
• The Bureau began testing the Spirit Fruit and planted one in a separate room to see whether it would grow into another tree.
• A tester used the Crying Photograph to produce sadness and water the tree, which grew brighter before eventually producing a new red fruit.
• Ke Meng tested the Hiding Tree Bark, which Director Lei rated as a Level Five Object because it blocked perception, even from infrared detection.
• The Bureau observed that the buried Spirit Fruit had sprouted, while the testers who had watered the tree appeared listless and emotionally diminished.

Ke Meng exchanged for a Sand-Salt Worm to deal with the sand White Sugar shed, then filmed the bird scattering sand like rain in the wilderness. Three backpackers spotted White Sugar and debated whether to report it or capture it themselves.

• Director Lei told Ke Meng that the Spirit-Sensing Fruit Tree had been rated a level four object and offered an exchange for his contribution points.
• Ke Meng asked for an item that could handle sand and exchanged for the level six Sand-Salt Worm, which ate sand and excreted pure salt.
• Ke Meng learned that the Spirit-Sensing Fruit Tree would be taken to a desert region to be made into special paper.
• Ke Meng filmed White Sugar flying through the wilderness and shedding sand, while Tangyuan played Honor of Kings on a phone.
• Three backpackers saw White Sugar raining sand and discussed reporting the special animal or catching it themselves.

Ke Meng encountered three hikers while filming White Sugar, and the men fled after seeing his strange pets and disappearing camera. Later, Nie Bochao went into the woods alone and vanished after hearing something in the dark, while Ke Meng returned home and uploaded his video, unaware of the incident.

• White Sugar fled from three hikers who had spotted it, then hid beside Ke Meng and Tangyuan.
• The hikers discovered Tangyuan playing a phone game and watched Ke Meng make his camera disappear before retreating in fear.
• Nie Bochao became fixated on White Sugar and later went alone into the woods, where red eyes appeared among the trees and he screamed.
• Nie Bochao's companions could not reach him and decided to call the police.
• Ke Meng drove home, uploaded his Sand Sculpture video, and shared the link with the Fan Group.

Ke Meng posted a review of White Sugar, then learned that three backpackers he had seen in the mountains had been found dead. Investigation Group 48 pursued the suspected animal attacker and concluded they needed an item that would induce jealousy to recreate the victims’ circumstances.

• Ke Meng watched his White Sugar review draw comments and noticed his account had reached three million followers.
• Ke Meng showed White Sugar shaking off sand and briefly summoned the Big-Faced Cat before putting it away.
• Luo Yuan told Ke Meng that three people had been found dead near Whale City, and Ke Meng recognized them as the passersby he had seen while filming.
• Luo Yuan said Investigation Group 48 was handling the case, so Ke Meng went to sleep and returned to Deep-Sea R'lyeh.
• Investigation Group 48 followed visions at the scene and decided to requisition an item that could make people feel jealous.

Ke Meng used Synesthesia to follow the players Likes Chocolate and One Dream Sea Sky back to quarantined rooms on Orange Star and secretly watched their psychological assessments. The chapter ended with both psychologists leaving, unsettled by unexplained reactions during the interviews.

• Ke Meng saw Likes Chocolate and One Dream Sea Sky leave the Tree Spirits’ territory safely, and the research institute brought their game characters back under its care.
• Ke Meng extended Synesthesia to Orange Star and observed the players in quarantine, where they watched the city’s high-rises and spacecraft from their window.
• Psychologist Little Dong interviewed One Dream Sea Sky, who felt an urge to recruit her into Cthulhu’s faith before falling asleep.
• Under hypnosis, One Dream Sea Sky described Evil Gods as threats to Orange Star, and Little Dong ended the session after sensing a brief surge of revulsion.
• Little Dong and the psychologist who interviewed the female assassin left their rooms confused by their reactions.

Ke Meng used Synesthesia to hear Liu Siting’s desperate prayer from her isolation room and answered by transmitting knowledge of Water: Mirror Traversal. As Liu Siting screamed through the knowledge, the unmonitored room concealed a dangerous new development in Orange Star’s capital.

• Ke Meng influenced two hypnotized Cthulhu Followers through their dreams so their answers would align with Orange Star’s mainstream views.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to observe Liu Siting, who prayed fervently to Cthulhu from a sealed isolation room.
• Ke Meng recognized Liu Siting’s prayer as a sacrifice-like invocation and decided to grant her an ability despite her lack of an offering.
• Ke Meng transmitted the knowledge of Water: Mirror Traversal to Liu Siting, causing her to hear chaotic murmurs and scream as visions of water filled her mind.
• Orange Star’s personnel had stopped monitoring Liu Siting, leaving her dangerous reaction unnoticed and turning her room into a hidden threat in the capital.

After Liu Siting passed out from the knowledge transfer, Ke Meng ordered the Black Ghosts to keep taming human adventurers and accepted a sacrifice from the Dwarf Werewolves. His random buff magic killed half their clan, while the survivors waited at the Resurrection Altar for newborns.

• Liu Siting went mad and passed out, and Ke Meng absorbed the loose fragments of chaotic knowledge from her dream.
• A Black Ghost reported that 256 Fanatical Believer communities had formed and asked whether to suppress human adventurers who kept disappearing after being tamed.
• Ke Meng used Control Fear to command the Black Ghosts to continue taming humans, and the ghost left R'lyeh strengthened and terrified.
• Ke Meng accepted a perfect sword from the Dwarf Werewolves, who asked him to grant strength to their elderly, weak, sick, and disabled.
• Ke Meng gave every Dwarf Werewolf Random Buff Magic, and half the clan died from the effects.
• The surviving Dwarf Werewolves wiped away their tears and waited at the Resurrection Altar for newborns.

Ke Meng tested a tiny sword and learned it made everything its wielder did seem perfect to anyone watching. After enlarging it, he saw the effect mesmerize his pets and even silence the hungry Sand-Salt Worm.

• Ke Meng used the Big-Faced Cat to identify the short sword as the Flawless Sword, which changed size on command and made its wielder appear perfect to observers.
• Ke Meng checked his review-video task list and saw that the Sand Sculpture video had not yet reached its viewer target.
• Ke Meng picked up the sword, startling Tangyuan and White Sugar with how impressive he seemed to them.
• Ke Meng brought out the hungry Sand-Salt Worm, whose eerie cries frightened White Sugar into shedding sand.
• Ke Meng commanded the Flawless Sword to grow, and its shine and the wielder's appearance entranced the Sand-Salt Worm, Tangyuan, and White Sugar.

Ke Meng tested the Flawless Sword’s ability to change size and brought it to the Investigation Bureau for examination. The sword’s aura made observers see Ke Meng as strikingly perfect, and the chapter ended with him demonstrating its growth.

• Ke Meng grew the Flawless Sword to two meters, then shrank it to ten centimeters.
• Ke Meng let the Sand-Salt Worm eat sand, and White Sugar teased it before letting it burrow into its feathers.
• The Sand-Salt Worm repeatedly chased sand around White Sugar’s claws until White Sugar shook it off.
• Ke Meng went to the Investigation Bureau and weighed the Flawless Sword at one hundred grams.
• Ke Meng grew the sword in the testing room, and the two young women again saw him as a perfect sword immortal.

Ke Meng tested the Flawless Sword, finding that it could grow to forty meters but had no supernatural sharpness and might break under the Mighty Gloves’ force. He then joined a test of the Eerie Script Book, whose first signs of creating an evil entity appeared as the room’s talismans activated.

• Ke Meng lengthened the Flawless Sword to forty meters, where it weighed eighty kilograms, then shrank it back to fifty centimeters.
• Ke Meng and the staff tested the sword on paper and soaked straw mats; the tests showed ordinary sharpness, slight edge wear, and a risk that the blade would break under the Mighty Gloves.
• A tester invited Ke Meng to watch an experiment with the Eerie Script Book, and he agreed.
• Ke Meng arrived with Director Lei at a talisman-covered testing room, where staff opened the sealed case containing the human-skin book.
• The tester cut a finger and wrote in blood, causing darkness and flickering lights as the room’s talismans and suppressing calligraphy glowed.

During the Eerie Script Book test, Chen Yi’s blood summoned a cloaked ghost that remained trapped by the testing room’s barrier. Ke Meng struck it with the Flawless Sword, but the perfect-looking thrust did no harm, leaving the enraged ghost to realize it had been toyed with.

• Chen Yi wrote seven eerie characters before the Eerie Script Book drew blood from his finger and spawned a cloaked ghost.
• The ghost tried to attack Ke Meng but repeatedly struck the barrier formed by the four pillars.
• Ke Meng extended the Flawless Sword to forty meters and thrust it through the ghost, which survived unharmed.
• Ke Meng carefully withdrew the sword, captivating the observers and the ghost with the flawless movement.
• The ghost realized it was still alive and screamed in fury, believing Ke Meng had been toying with it.