Chapter Summaries

Ash, Sonia, and Diya discovered that Drama Poet’s Blessing Curse Scramble Shopping Book could grant blessings and curses that were actually spell-spirit summoning rituals. They discussed which options might unlock rare Spell Schools, but the chapter left them weighing the risks of permanent curses against the book’s benefits.

• Ash, Sonia, and Diya entered a café marked on the Void Realm Map and found the Blessing Curse Scramble Shopping Book, which required each of them to make a purchase.
• Ash and Diya examined the book’s strange blessings and curses while Sonia recognized that they resembled the Sincerity Ritual.
• Sonia explained the Sincerity Ritual, and Ash and Diya realized that many book options were summoning rituals for different Spell Schools.
• Sonia and Diya identified rare opportunities among the options, including Insight Into Truth, Favor of Fate, and Foresight of Death.
• Ash warned that purchases beyond ten points could leave curses permanent, and he speculated that Chat Channel might be valuable because of its members.

Ash, Sonia, and Diya bought Fatal Danger Sense and curses from the Shopping Book, then fled pursuing Heroic Soul Legions while a curse forced them to maintain eye contact. Their escape brought them to a Six Kingdoms Main City, a fortress built by the strongest spellcaster that resisted the Void Realm’s rules of time.

• Ash, Sonia, and Diya chose Fatal Danger Sense as their blessing and each selected a curse, with Diya switching to another personality to avoid Weak-Minded Slowness.
• The Shopping Book extracted their experiences to create new entries, including a Grand Wedding blessing, a Family Reunion blessing, and an Emotional Swindler curse aimed at Ash.
• After leaving the Cafe, the three received an Eye Contact curse, and Ash arranged them in the sports car so he could keep driving while maintaining eye contact.
• Heroic Soul Legions relentlessly pursued the group, deploying ranged troops and forcing Ash to change direction as Sonia counted seven different legions.
• The group crossed an invisible barrier and discovered a fortress of giant trees and vines, with a spiral steel structure rising at its center.
• Ash realized the fortress was a Main City of one of the Six Kingdoms, where a Divine Lord’s will had eroded the Void Realm.

Ash and his companions accidentally entered Main City while fleeing the Heroic Soul Legion, whose forces hemmed them in among terrifying creatures. With their escape route closing and Ash unable to die without losing the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit, they debated sending one person to hold off the pursuers, and Sonia insisted on taking that role.

• Ash and his companions accidentally crossed into Main City while the eye-contact curse made it difficult to focus on their map, and they saw powerful Evil Eye Shadow Dragons on the walls.
• The Heroic Soul Legion continued pursuing them, while White Queen warned that Ash could not die because losing the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit would ruin their wager with the Empress.
• Ash and White Queen realized they might break the curse by blinding one Operator and having two others maintain eye contact, allowing them to try crossing the Gilded River.
• Another Heroic Soul Legion force blocked their escape, forcing the sports car closer to Main City as their room to maneuver dwindled.
• White Queen proposed giving the blinded Operator Armed Troops to delay the pursuers, and Sonia volunteered to stay behind, arguing she needed to take greater responsibility.

Ash, Sonia, and White Queen were trapped between the Heroic Soul Legion and a fortress, but Ash refused to abandon his teammates. Danzel and the Spider Tower Legion arrived, launching a full-scale assault on the Giant Wood Fortress as Danzel threatened to make Ash and the others her Commanders.

• Sonia pinned White Queen down and volunteered to stay behind, but Ash gouged out his own eye to break free from Watcher Form and revealed that the city gate had opened ahead of them.
• Ash told Sonia and White Queen that he would not sacrifice them, and they realized they could no longer escape the approaching Evil Eye Shadow Dragon.
• The Evil Eye Shadow Dragon was struck down by a sudden attack, and Ash, Sonia, and White Queen recognized the voice of Empress.
• Spider webs spread across the territory, and Danzel's Spider Tower Legion poured through them to attack the Giant Wood Fortress and clash with its defenders.
• Danzel appeared near Ash and the others atop an Eight-Eyed Weaver Spider and said she would make them her Commanders.

Danzel activated Spiderweb after Ash and his companions entered a Main City area with Concept Incarnations, giving the Spider Tower Legion a chance to teleport in and attack them. The Miracle’s full capabilities were revealed as Spider Tower began its assault on the Giant Wood Fortress.

• The Spider Tower Legion used threads from the sky’s web to cross frozen time and attack the Giant Wood Fortress, where defenders slowed its advance in street fighting.
• Danzel explained that Spider Tower’s strategic Miracle was incomplete and that she had leaked the Secret Incarnation’s location to lure Ash and his companions toward a Main City area.
• After Secret Purple spread over the Oasis, Danzel applied to activate Spiderweb and requested Commander-in-Chief authority.
• Spiderweb created a teleportation sub-net and empowered Spider Tower’s troops while spreading traps that bound and corroded enemies.
• Spiderweb’s listed ultimate weapon could destroy enemy Fate Threads and restore or resurrect allies, but it remained incomplete and required the web to exceed half its quantity.

Ash, Diya, and Sonia escaped Danzel’s Spider Tower Legion and returned to the Upstream Golden Rain, while Danzel’s incomplete Spider Web caused the Spider Tower’s luck to worsen. The Oasis activated its strategic Miracle, Silent Helix, and Danzel urged Yisu to repair the Spider Web’s remaining holes before the coming war.

• Ash, Diya, and Sonia realized Danzel had used the Secret Incarnation to track them, and Sonia wondered how Concept Incarnations affected the Void Realm’s wars.
• Danzel recognized the group was in a restricted state and sent one-seventh of her forces after them, but an Oasis squad formed a defensive line to hold back the Spider Tower Legion.
• Ash’s sports car survived the barrage, and the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit absorbed an incomplete spell spirit, unlocking the Holy Temple Apprentice and upgrading the Dual-Color Anchor into the Three-Colored Anchor.
• Ash and his companions escaped into the Upstream Golden Rain, while Danzel ordered her legion to resume its attack on Giant Wood Fortress.
• The Oasis activated Silent Helix, strengthening its soldiers and plants, as Danzel explained that the incomplete Spider Web was bringing bad luck to the Spider Tower.
• Danzel urged Yisu to repair the Spider Web’s remaining seven holes quickly so its effects could help the Spider Tower during the coming rounds of war.

Ash woke to Harvey’s cockroach collection and learned that Harvey planned to use the insects in Alice’s Ghoul enhancement ritual. After breakfast preparations, Ash and Harvey looked out over the chaotic city of Fi Deng La.

• Ash recoiled from Harvey’s box of cockroaches and learned they were for Alice’s Ghoul enhancement ritual.
• Igula explained that the scavenger creatures were common pets in Blood Moon, and Ash found out Igula had watched Harvey collect them all night.
• Harvey treated the cockroaches with a ritual liquid and sealed the box beneath Ash’s bed, prompting Ash to ask Igula to switch beds.
• Ash and Harvey brushed their teeth on the balcony while Igula combed Liss’s hair and Bange prepared breakfast.
• Ash surveyed Fi Deng La at dawn, seeing its crowded streets, disorderly residents, and mix of advanced technology and shabby surroundings.

Funeral settled into an ordinary working life in impoverished Fi Deng La, where Annan planned to use their shared hardship to qualify for the upcoming happiness list. At dinner, the Gospel unexpectedly announced an extra chapter.

• Funeral reached Fi Deng La, where Annan used a Random Avatar Blessing to conceal their identities and explained why the city was beyond Gospel's reach.
• Annan revealed that the fourth list would measure happiness and set rules requiring everyone to work, live on earned income, and save without sacrificing their quality of life.
• Ash stayed home to guard Liss and supervise her studies, discovering that his help with her math homework had led the Gospel to recommend she give up the subject.
• Ash and Liss bought affordable groceries, while the rest of Funeral worked; they reunited for dinner and shared an unusually peaceful evening.
• The Gospel suddenly announced that it had updated with an extra chapter.

The Gospel issued an unprecedented extra update announcing a Happiness Ranking, and its tenth entry showed Daphne Bonaba and Carlos Bonaba, siblings who defied its plans to marry. The wedding record was interrupted by Ash, Harvey, and Igula appearing at the ceremony, leaving Ash furious that the Gospel had ranked him among the Three Giants of Doomsday.

• Annan and Bange panicked when the Gospel released an unexpected extra update, then opened its new Happiness Ranking.
• The Gospel named Daphne Bonaba and Carlos Bonaba the Happiest Wedding, but its text blurred and changed to display Ash Hiss's name.
• Annan, Ash, Harvey, Igula, and Liss joked about weddings while watching the record of Daphne and Carlos's ceremony.
• The record revealed that Daphne and Carlos were biological siblings whose determination to be together had thwarted the Gospel's plans for their lives.
• As the couple prepared to exchange Gospels, Ash appeared at their wedding, followed by Harvey and Igula, and the guests recognized the trio as the Three Giants of Doomsday.
• Ash objected to being ranked alongside Igula and Harvey as a calamity.

The Happiness Ranking showed Ash disrupting Daphne and Carlos’s wedding, but the ranking was declared invalid because Ash and the others had interfered with its future. Annan and Igula suspected the strange ranking pointed to a deeper irregularity, while Ash blamed the rushed update.

• Ash and his companions noted that the Happiness Ranking’s participants already knew about the Weaving Festival and its rankings.
• The ranking showed Ash arriving at Daphne and Carlos’s wedding and claiming he wanted to steal Daphne’s future, before revealing that his group had come to recruit Carlos and Daphne.
• The Gospel declared the tenth-place wedding ranking invalid because of Ash Hiss and others, and its reward was void.
• Annan and Igula questioned Ash’s role and the ranking’s unusual details, including its early update and its references to the ranking itself.

The Gospel Chart revealed that Leia Bo Jin would become a powerful threat to the Divine Lord, and Ash’s words led her away from the happy life the Gospel had arranged. The ranking was voided, while Ifrin celebrated Leia’s supposed future before the next ranking identified Harvey’s wife as the happiest wife.

• The Gospel Chart named Leia Bo Jin, daughter of Anfield Beldet and Igula Bojin, the happiest child, but the introduction was obscured and Ash Hiss was blamed.
• Ifrin’s Domination Miracle attacked Igula, who transferred its gray flames to Ash and then extinguished them.
• Ash told the eight-year-old Leia that the Gospel was suppressing her talent and that she could grow strong enough to threaten the Divine Lord.
• Leia chose a dark, blood-colored path and grew into a powerful figure, so the Gospel voided her ranking and reward and named Ash the culprit.
• Ifrin celebrated Leia’s future and plotted to bring Igula back to Beldet, but Anfield pointed her toward the Future List.
• The Gospel Chart updated with Happiness Ranking No. 8, naming Nalbel Harvey the happiest wife.

Ash and his companions watched the Happiness Ranking, but Ash repeatedly appeared in the footage and disrupted the listed women’s lives, voiding every reward. After the ranking ended, Annan explained that the Weaving Festival’s sudden events were like contrived plot twists, and called Ash and the others meteorites.

• Harvey explained that he valued undead creatures for their functionality, while Ash and Igula realized he viewed creating intelligent undead as a kind of reproduction.
• Ash appeared in the Happiness Ranking footage for Crolyce, Ifrin, and other women, drawing them away from their original paths and invalidating their rankings.
• The No. 2 footage showed Ash with Qinna and Nona Senheiser, and the Gospel declared Qinna’s ranking invalid because she had become Ash’s forbidden plaything.
• The No. 1 footage showed Ash on a throne with an unidentified empress, and the Gospel voided the ranking because Ash existed.
• Ash asked Annan and Igula what had happened to the Weaving Festival, and Annan compared its contrived events to Deus ex Machina before calling them meteorites.

Qinna and Nona discussed how the Gospel’s early Happiness Ranking had fabricated futures for the outsiders, while Annan explained that the Gospel had used them as filler because it could not accurately predict the future. The group concluded that the ranking was largely false, though its plots had some basis in reality, and ended up blaming the Gospel for its most embarrassing predictions about Ash and Annan.

• Qinna ordered the Listening Minister to suspend long-range plans and prioritize present stability, then explained to Nona that the Gospel had misjudged the outsiders’ futures.
• Qinna and Nona argued over their depictions in the Happiness Ranking, and Nona accused Qinna’s Clone Spell Spirit of leaking feelings about Ash into her.
• Annan explained that the Gospel had rushed its update by inventing storylines for the outsiders, whose unknown pasts let it predict their futures vaguely.
• Igula and Harvey said the ranking had forced them into implausible plotlines, while Annan asked Ash why it had portrayed him with Qinna and Nona.
• Ash insisted the Gospel was framing him, and Bange pointed out that Leia had urged Ash to have a child with Annan, prompting Annan to agree that the Gospel was framing him.

Ifrin blamed Ash for the Happiness Ranking being invalidated, but Annan, Igula, and the others explained that Gospel was using Ash and his companions as Meteorites to end stories while rushing to update. Igula then realized that only the first three rankings might count toward God Lord's Wish, leaving Annan with two possible claims.

• Ifrin complained that Ash's interference had cost the Beldet family two ranking rewards, but Anfield argued that Ash was only Gospel's excuse for invalidating them.
• Annan explained that Gospel used Ash, Igula, and Harvey as Meteorites to destroy characters' stories and avoid weaving their futures.
• Igula said the rankings were fabricated to make Ash's interference seem plausible, while Annan thought the tenth-place wedding ranking might have been genuine.
• After the group finished dinner, Igula noticed Annan was happy and suggested she was pleased that the rankings had been invalidated.
• Igula reasoned that Gospel's rush to end the Weaving Festival might invalidate later rankings, leaving only the first three eligible for God Lord's Wish.
• Ash and Liss realized that Annan held two places among the first three rankings: first on the Artistic Ranking and tenth on the Scheme List.

Annan revealed that she had secured the ranking placements that would normally earn the God Lord’s Wish, but an unchanging final list still stood between her and the prize. The list was the Gospel List, which only included pure, innocent, kind, and beautiful young girls, leaving the group unsure whether Annan could claim its first place.

• Ash felt relieved that Annan held the wish quota, while Liss remained quiet and Igula and Harvey considered the stakes.
• Annan promised Harvey, Igula, Ash, and Liss that she would help fulfill their wishes if she obtained the God Lord’s Wish.
• Annan explained that the final list would not be voided and that its first place had been determined before the Weaving Festival began.
• Annan said the God Lord’s Wish had gone to the first-place entrant on the Gospel List at each of the last ten Weaving Festivals.
• Annan revealed that the Gospel List admitted only the purest, most innocent, kindest, and most beautiful young girls, and joked that the men had no chance because their professions were not innocent, pure, or kind.

Annan explained that the Isu royal family had always secured first place on the Gospel List and that its winner became empress, leaving the God Lord’s Wish beyond their reach. She revealed that Ash’s new status as a Person of Chaotic Fate could invalidate an Echoer’s ranking if he killed her, and sent him to assassinate the future empress in Nabistin.

• Annan told Ash and the others that every Gospel List’s first-place winner became Empress Isu, and that the royal family had held the position for centuries.
• Annan said the accelerated Weaving Festival had disrupted her plan and that the other lists might have been invalidated, but she still intended to pursue the God Lord’s Wish.
• Igula revealed through his reaction that he had planned to undo Annan’s Slave Contract using the Mind School, but the Festival’s acceleration had ruined his timing.
• Annan explained that Gospel recognized Ash as a Person of Chaotic Fate, allowing him to invalidate an Echoer’s ranking by killing her before she appeared on a list.
• Annan named the future Empress Isu, the princess living in Nabistin, as Ash’s target and ordered him to assassinate her.

Ash and his companions hunted Knowledge Creatures, upgraded the Alchemy Throne, and changed their plans as Blood Tomb’s forces withdrew to defend their city. After Diya admitted she had been distracted, she volunteered to investigate an unmarked special building, leaving Ash and Sonia outside.

• Ash used Heart Pen’s ink-mark traps to protect Diya and help the group defeat the Raging Slicing Dragon.
• Ash upgraded the Alchemy Throne to level 11, unlocking a speed-based bonus to Golden Artificery absorption.
• Ash concluded that Blood Tomb had recalled its forces to defend its Main City and proposed exploring special locations instead of seeking more Resource Points.
• Diya insisted that her distraction would not affect the group and asked Ash to resume their Resource Point route, but he said the Gilded River had blocked the way.
• Ash’s group reached an unmarked special building, and Diya volunteered to enter first and report its rules.

Ash and Sonia argued over her plan to keep Diya close to herself, then Ash rescued Sonia after she jumped into the Gilded River’s dangerous zone. Diya returned with a new Fate Question listening exam, whose first question asked who she and her companion wanted revenge on.

• Sonia explained that she had acted hostile toward Diya to make Diya trust her and distance herself from Ash.
• Sonia jumped from the car to erase Ash’s Heart Pen marks, and Ash carried her back after the Gilded River began aging her legs.
• Sonia said her weakened body might be an effect of the physique-reduction curse, while Ash recalled the curse he had bought.
• Diya returned from the Rain Curtain and told Ash and Sonia she had found a Fate Question with a different format.
• Ash, Sonia, and Diya put on headphones and heard the exam rules and a question about whom the speakers wanted revenge on.

Sonia and Diya compared their Fate Question dialogues, which hinted at revenge and a strained future relationship with Ash. Diya’s dialogue ended with White Queen and Black Butler agreeing to cooperate if White Queen hugged Black Butler again, leaving their relationship as the question to answer.

• Sonia shared a future conversation with the Witch in which they discussed taking revenge on the world, a Divine Lord, or Ash.
• Diya denied wanting revenge on anyone, including her grandmother, and said she wanted to resist the Yisu clan’s fate instead.
• Sonia reasoned that Ash was probably a misleading answer because he was the only one of the three options they knew.
• Diya revealed a dialogue between White Queen and Black Butler: White Queen trusted Ash to save them, while Black Butler accused him of abandoning and using them.
• Black Butler agreed to cooperate with White Queen on the condition that she hug her one more time, and the Fate Question asked what relationship the two speakers had.

Diya and Ash speculated about the identities behind the Fate Question, and Diya correctly chose that all three proposed motives applied to the Witch. Diya then heard another exchange between the Witch and a devoted woman, ending with a question about why the woman had come to see her.

• Diya said she could not identify the female speaker, while Sonia and Ash considered possible connections to the Witch and the other question.
• Ash suggested that “World” might be a person who would later become the Witch’s enemy and have a female follower.
• Diya chose “all of them” and answered her question correctly, while Sonia’s answer was declared incorrect.
• Sonia kicked Ash under the table and teased him with her stockinged foot as he tried to maintain his composure.
• Diya listened to the next exchange, in which the Silly Woman apologized to the Witch, explained she had come to protect her, and offered to braid her hair.
• The Void Realm asked what the Silly Woman had come to do and offered four possible answers.