Chapter Summaries

Ash, Sonia, and Diya debated how Silly Woman had tried to capture the Witch and concluded that the master may have secretly arranged a trap. Ash then revealed his Fate Question about his closest companion had come with no conversation, only an answer, because his future self had cheated.

• Diya retold the conversation about Silly Woman, and Ash explained why someone might depend on a relationship that made an otherwise miserable life bearable.
• Sonia and Ash ruled out violent abduction and persuasion, while Sonia initially guessed Silly Woman had only visited the Witch to apologize.
• After Diya's answer was marked wrong, Ash proposed that braiding the Witch's hair had been a trap designed to leave her vulnerable.
• Ash speculated that the master had engineered the pursuit and closeness between Silly Woman and the Witch so Silly Woman could capture the Witch unknowingly.
• Ash revealed that his Fate Question asked who his closest companion was, gave the answer as the third person, and had no dialogue because his future self cheated.

Ash and his teammates learned that his future self could detect Fate Question and use the Secret Incarnation to resist its spying. They used their remaining questions to seek guidance on the Secret Incarnation and the Seven-Colored Tail, and the chapter ended with the Void Realm revealing two ways to unlock the Secret Incarnation’s authorities.

• Ash’s future recording revealed that he had recognized Fate Question’s surveillance and used the Secret Incarnation’s concealment effect to evade it.
• Sonia and Diya questioned Ash about the recording, and the group concluded his future self might be powerful enough to help them exploit later Fate Questions.
• Ash heard a second recording that warned him not to reveal future information and included unclear options, then failed to answer the third question.
• Ash, Sonia, Diya, and Sword Maiden decided to ask about developing the Secret Incarnation and finding the Seven-Colored Tail, assigning Ash the former question and Diya the latter.
• Ash asked how to develop the Secret Incarnation, and the Void Realm explained that threatening the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit with specified spells would unlock its first authority, while killing a Spider Tower Commander would unlock its second.

Ash and his companions learned that the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit’s Mysterious Authority could help them infiltrate the main city regions and gather Commander Maps while searching for the Seven-Colored Tail. Back in Fi Deng La, Ash asked Liss to stay with him after the Weaving Festival, and their conversation ended with Igula unsettling them both.

• Ash threatened the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit, which revealed the Mysterious Authority and its ability to make their troops appear neutral to creatures of the Void Realm.
• Diya asked how they could find the Seven-Colored Tail, and the Void Realm advised them to obtain the Time Continent’s Full Territory Map.
• Ash proposed using Secret Incarnation and Mysterious Authority to provoke another main-city battle and collect Commander Maps from the chaos.
• After waking in Fi Deng La, Ash found Liss awake and asked whether she would live with him after the Weaving Festival; she agreed, and he said they would be family.
• Liss warned Ash that Aunt Bo Jin might use Domination on him, and Igula emerged from the bathroom with a suggestive reply that alarmed Ash and Liss.

Freya read Ash’s diary while waiting for his promised account of the Golden Fish, then followed his entry about a motorcycle ride with Annan and the Empire canceling his Wanted Order. The entry ended with Ash still troubled by the circumstances of his new legal status.

• Freya emerged from a Vortex with Little Bat and said she was close to condensing her Silver Wing and hoped to reach the Time Continent by following Ash’s diary.
• Freya found Ash’s update but discovered it covered two matters instead of explaining how to find the Golden Fish.
• Ash rode with Annan, Igula, Liss, Bange, and Harvey along the Miracle Highway as Annan sped and performed motorcycle tricks.
• Annan switched places with Ash and taught him to drive the motorcycle sports car while riding behind him.
• Annan told Ash that the Empire had canceled his Wanted Order, and Ash suspected it was because of the Evil Spell List but said he could not feel happy about it.

Ash and Funeral entered Nabistin’s chaotic underground city, where Ash’s objection to the Gospel’s judgment of future criminals was overshadowed by a public death that matched the Evil Spell List. The crowd blamed Ash, believing he had made Roger Di Youer confess and kill himself, and Ash realized he had become the Substitute for the Gospel’s supposed agent.

• The Gospel revealed its Evil Spell List, and Ash rejected the way “Gospel Ash” had forced future criminals to repent before killing themselves.
• Annan explained that Nabistin had three layers and guided Funeral into its lawless Bottom City, where criminals and ambitious people gathered.
• The group entered the underground city and suspected the Evil Spell List’s plague spellcaster might be there.
• Roger Di Youer appeared on a Sky Bridge, cut out his heart, and dissolved after activating a plague Miracle.
• Witnesses recognized Roger’s death from the Evil Spell List and accused Ash of making him confess and kill himself.

Ash and his companions suspected the Isu Royal Family had staged Rogge’s murder to protect the Gospel’s credibility. In Nabistin, Annan explained that the Gospel’s Enlightenment guided people toward actions that best fulfilled their desires, leaving Ash alarmed by how easily it could influence them.

• Ash examined his Two-Winged Substitute Spell Spirit while Igula described the rumors spreading about Ash on the Underground Forum.
• Igula argued that the Gospel needed Ash’s apparent fulfillment of the Future List to reassure powerful organizations, and Annan identified the Isu Royal Family as the likely mastermind behind Rogge’s murder.
• Annan, Liss, Igula, and Harvey behaved strangely around Ash, prompting him to realize that something was affecting them.
• Annan explained that Nabistin’s residents received the Gospel’s Enlightenment, which used its computational resources to guide their actions through intuition.
• Annan said Enlightenment helped people overcome hesitation and choose advantageous actions, while Ash worried that it amounted to being controlled.

The Funeral Agency pursued intelligence on the princess’s whereabouts and found themselves face-to-face with Helaifeisi, the notorious First Sea Witch. Helaifeisi confirmed she knew where the princess was, leaving the group to negotiate under armed surveillance.

• Annan explained that Enlightenment lasted only five minutes per hour, and the group discussed its effects while Ash joked that he was already that smart.
• Annan kept the plan to assassinate the princess on course and led the Funeral Agency toward someone likely to know where she lived.
• The group traveled through Nabistin’s guarded sewer to Mermaid Palace, where Si Li Mo Luo greeted them and led them to a meeting with ten Sea Witches.
• The speaker of the Ten Sea Witches Parliament introduced herself as Helaifeisi, prompting the group to draw their weapons before she withdrew the gun turrets.
• Helaifeisi guessed that the group wanted to know where Princess Isu was and confirmed that she knew.

Annan's group questioned the Sea Witches about the Princess Isu and the coming doomsday, and Igula concluded that the Mermaids wanted chaos to overturn their life in the sewers. Helaifeisi confirmed that the Sea Sirens welcomed the apocalypse and ended by asking whether Igula knew about the Unfated List.

• Liss tripped while jumping rope, and Ash comforted her while the others discussed the Princess Isu's secrecy and the First Gospel's role in the succession of dynasties.
• Helaifeisi explained that the Imperial Palace had likely leaked news about the princess because people believed an accident had befallen her and that the next Empress could not prevent doomsday.
• Igula argued that the next First Gospel could inherit the throne and that the Future List's doomsday was the best outcome the next Empress could achieve.
• Helaifeisi revealed that the Mermaids had already guessed Annan wanted to kill the future First Gospel to claim the God Lord's Wish, and Igula took charge of the negotiation.
• Igula accused Helaifeisi and the Sea Sirens of supporting doomsday because they wanted to escape the sewers and establish a kingdom on land, and Helaifeisi admitted they welcomed the apocalypse.
• Helaifeisi asked Igula whether he knew about the Unfated List.

Helaifeisi explained how the Unfated List transferred vanished descendants’ destinies to their closest loved ones and revealed the Sea Sirens’ plans to exploit Gospel test lists. After negotiating with Funeral and revealing the Princess’s location, the Sea Witches were left pondering Ash’s role in the Gospel’s plans; the next morning, a Sea Siren was found dead as foretold by the Evil Spell List.

• Helaifeisi explained that the Unfated List took children at adulthood and transferred their remaining destinies to those closest to them, a practice Conglomerate Families exploited by sacrificing their own descendants.
• Helaifeisi revealed that the Sea Sirens hoped to use Gospel test lists to develop their power and build a Mermaid Dynasty after the apocalypse.
• The Sea Witches prophesied that Harvey could gain a Necromancy Concept Incarnation through a chain of fortuitous encounters, but he had already missed the first one in the Doomed Arena.
• Helaifeisi asked Ash whether he had caused Roger Di Youer's death, and after Ash denied it, she told Funeral that the Princess lived in a tower on the island in Yalan Lake.
• After Funeral left, Helaifeisi suspected the Gospel had been building momentum for Ash, and the next morning a dried-up Sea Siren was found dead in the plaza fountain, as shown on the Evil Spell List.

Ash and the Witch Sisters visited Beldet Joy World before their planned assassination of the Princess, and the Void Realm Thriller ride revealed the true way to find the golden fish. The chapter ended with the Golden Fish Secret Poison infecting the Witch Sisters and granting them a way to convert Silver Artificery into Golden Artificery.

• Annan took Ash and the group to Beldet Joy World for a team outing before they assassinated the Princess, and Ash teased Annan after she got frightened during a simulated flight.
• Liss excitedly led Ash onto the Void Realm Thriller ride, where the group experienced familiar Sea of Knowledge sights and creatures.
• As the ride simulated flying upward with Silver Wings, Ash recognized the scene as the secret method for finding the golden fish, while the others dismissed it as amusement-park fantasy.
• Liss kissed Ash four times to make up for something she owed him, then clasped his hand and said they had found the golden fish too.
• The Witch Sisters received a message that the Golden Fish Secret Poison had infected them at level 15 and enabled a 65:35 conversion of Silver Artificery into Golden Artificery.

Ash and his companions spent the day at Beldet Joy World, where the fireworks gave Liss a rare moment of happiness. As the group watched the show, Annan asked Bange to take Liss back to Azula and look after her.

• Ash and Bange collected the group's meal, and Ash teased Igula about refusing to marry Anfield and become part of the Beldet family.
• Ash revealed that he remembered where Igula had slept in Fi Deng La, leaving Igula startled and unable to meet his eyes.
• The group rode to Fireworks Square and watched the underground fireworks together, with Bange bringing out coffin so Alice could accompany Harvey.
• Ash held Liss and promised they could visit Joy Worlds elsewhere, while the witch sisters sensed unease.
• Annan asked Bange to take Liss back to Azula and take good care of her.

Annan and her companions planned to infiltrate the Imperial Palace during the banquet announcing the Gospel List and assassinate the princess who was about to become Empress. As they prepared, Igula explained Nabistin’s Gospel Worker System, which erased workers’ memories of labor and made employment feel like clocking in and instantly receiving pay.

• Bange offered to leave the group and travel to Van Mula so Madam Qinna could care for Liss, while Annan recalled how he had helped her when she was young.
• Annan and Igula identified the Palace Banquet on the day the Gospel List was announced as their only realistic chance to enter the Imperial Palace and reach the princess.
• Annan said she would borrow guest identities using the Dolan Family’s Gospel Points, and Igula warned that they would have only a few hours to complete the assassination.
• Annan explained that the group needed to work as temporary staff to scout Surface City and observe the palace, prompting Harvey to complain about having to work.
• Igula described Work Revelation and explained that Nabistin workers’ memories of their labor were erased, so they experienced work as an instant transition from clocking in to receiving wages.

Annan insisted that Bange and Liss leave the assassination plan so Bange would have someone to care for if she died. As the Weaving Festival’s rankings accelerated, Liss asked Bange to take her away, and Ash led her out while Harvey stopped Igula from following.

• Igula explained that Work Revelation memories poisoned and aged the soul, making Bange’s age a serious risk.
• Annan told Bange and Liss they were dispensable to the plan and argued that Bange should take Liss away rather than entrust her to anyone else.
• Liss realized Annan was trying to give Bange a new purpose in life and that Ash had agreed she should leave.
• Everyone’s Gospels announced the Weaving Festival’s sixth ranking less than three days after the previous one.
• Liss told Bange, “Dad, take me away,” and Ash took her by the hand and rushed out.
• Harvey restrained Igula and told him to let Ash and Liss settle things themselves.

Lysithea spent a quiet moment with Ash before learning why she and Nicole Na Lu were separated and why the Isu Royal Family pursued the Armor Ceremony of Sanctification. Diya revealed that the ceremony relied on the Gospel and Unfated Lists, but Lysithea questioned how sacrificing Nina could extend their lives enough.

• Lysithea asked Ash to carry her away, and they stopped for ice cream beside an underground river.
• Lysithea asked her sisters why they had to join the Weaving Festival instead of persuading Ash not to participate.
• Diya explained that Lysithea and Nicole Na Lu had been separated as children, with Lysithea locked in the High Tower and Nicole imprisoned beneath the Imperial Palace.
• Diya revealed that the Armor Ceremony of Sanctification involved obtaining the Divine Spirit Gospel through the Gospel List and exploiting the Unfated List.
• Diya explained that the mortal body wielding Gospel could survive only ten Years, and that the ancestors planned to use another person's Fate to extend that lifespan.
• Lysithea realized Nina had been imprisoned to transfer her lifespan and Fate, then questioned whether that would only let them live twenty Years.

Diya revealed why she and her Sisters wanted to enter the Imperial Palace: they hoped to rescue Nina, whom they believed the Witch had made the new First Gospel. Lys refused to risk her family for someone she did not know and asked Ash to hide with her instead of joining the assassination plan.

• Diya explained that she and Nina shared an unusually deep Bond and that the cruel Isu Royal Family tradition had made them the Sinful Twin.
• Diya said Nina might have been taken from the Unfated List and made the new First Gospel, and she planned to free Nina by bringing a Sister into her body to replace her personality temporarily.
• The White Queen, Black Butler, and Red Death urged Diya to tell Ash the truth so he would take them into the Imperial Palace to save Nina.
• Lys told the Sisters that she cared about them and Ash but did not want to risk losing them to save someone she did not know.
• Lys asked Ash to abandon the assassination plan and hide with her until the Weaving Festival ended.

Ash explained why Igula and Harvey had agreed to join Annan’s dangerous pursuit of the God Lord’s Wish, then offered to help Liss fulfill her own wish. Liss revealed her identity as Princess Isu.

• Ash told Liss that Igula and Harvey hoped the God Lord’s Wish could help them hold on to happiness, while he remained uncertain about his own wish.
• Ash asked Liss what she hoped to accomplish and offered to help her if her wish mattered deeply to her.
• Liss cried and questioned why Ash cared for her, and Ash said she reminded him of himself before someone had saved him.
• Liss feared Ash might use his wish for her sake, then put on the Mirror Gloves and told him, “I am Princess Isu.”

Deya, disguised as Lys, told Ash she was a princess who wanted to reach her sister Nina in the High Tower and prevent her from becoming the First Gospel. Ash agreed to take her along and revealed he could make her a Spellcaster, but the latest Assassination List left them facing a new crisis: Bange Dolan was assigned to assassinate the Empress.

• Deya, disguised as Lys, explained her plan to save Nina and asked Ash to help her cancel the Unfated List.
• Ash agreed to bring Lys along, then offered to transfer one of his Spell Spirits to make her a Spellcaster.
• Lys refused the offer and asked how Annan could be persuaded not to send Bange away.
• Ash said the Gospel had solved the problem, and Lys checked the latest Assassination List.
• The list named Bange Dolan as the assassin assigned to assassinate the Empress.

Sonia survived Hubert’s lethal gunshot by instinctively parrying it, then faced Nobo after he eliminated Hubert. The chapter left Sonia and Nobo locked in a clash of powerful sword miracles, with the arena wondering whether Sonia had enough Spell Power to outlast him.

• Sonia activated Fatal Danger Sense and used Evil Light Slash to parry Hubert’s miraculous gun bullet, astonishing the audience and the Saint Domain Artificers.
• Sonia kept evading Hubert while refusing to accept defeat, determined to win for the people watching her and for the Watcher.
• Nobo charged through the arena, defeated Hubert with one sword strike, and triggered Death Prohibition to eliminate him.
• Sonia met Nobo in the cleared arena, and they traded Blood Moon Shattered Lake and Ash Erosion Wind across the open ground.
• Arseno explained that Nobo had explored the Time Continent for a year and could cast Ash Erosion Wind repeatedly, then questioned whether Sonia’s Spell Power reserves were sufficient.

In the Void Realm, Sonia and Diya talked about romance while Ash tried to praise Sonia indirectly. After the group reached a mine to hunt Fish-Slaying Dragons, Sonia confronted Ash over his compliments, and he told her to recognize herself in them.

• Sonia arrived in the Void Realm and found the Witch sitting on the Watcher, while Ash blamed their awkward overlap on a teleportation error.
• Sonia told Ash she had won the Quarterfinals, and Diya teased her about overpowering an opponent with weaker artificery.
• Diya asked Sonia for advice about flirting with the kind, handsome person she loved, and Sonia gave her a few tips.
• Diya explained that she was happy because Bange could not leave, Liss could stay, and she expected to rescue Nina and restore her true body with Ash.
• The group drove to a mine to lure out Fish-Slaying Dragons and their overlord, the Raging Slicing Dragon, and Diya rushed into the Rain Curtain.
• After Diya left, Sonia became irritated with Ash, who insisted he had praised her through descriptions of golden rain, sweet cake, and a starlit river.

Ash read a Sorcerer's Manual recounting the Four Pillar Gods Church's conquest of a nation and gained Mounted Combat Proficiency. He discovered Diya had accumulated dozens of skills, while Sonia reflected on her growing wealth and ambition.

• Ash read Explosive's combat record, which described the Four Pillar Gods Church's rise and the temple's defeat after a woman turned its Final Battle Weapon against it.
• Ash, Sonia, and Diya found the story of the defecting woman familiar, then Ash gained Mounted Combat Proficiency from the manual.
• Ash asked Diya how many skills she had learned, and she listed dozens, including Financial Analysis, Human Anatomy Analysis, and Cryptography.
• Sonia considered how her Spell Spirit earnings and commercial prospects could help her become wealthy enough to keep a Legendary Arcanist as a lover.