Chapter Summaries

Diya offered Ash a way back to Gospel, but Sonia and the Witch fought over their feelings for him and whether he should return. As the argument turned bitter, Ash stood up and challenged everyone to fight at full strength.

• Sonia suggested hiding Ash in her basement, but Diya revealed that the Gospel System could establish a Space Gate to Gala City within three days.
• Sonia asked whether the Space Gate could be used regularly, and Diya admitted she had not planned to tell her about it.
• Sonia accused the Witch of confusing affection for Ash with a desire for fatherly love, and the Witch said Ash’s return to Gospel was why she had wanted to keep the connection secret.
• Sonia and the Witch argued over who had loved Ash first, who had the right to pursue him, and whether the Witch would bring him to Gospel.
• Ash stood with his sword, unfurled his Void Wings, expanded his Holy Domain, and challenged the others to fight at full strength.

Mi Jia suspected that Siffrin Gawain and her Veela companion shared a secret behind their unusually rapid advancement, and planned to capture the Veela to investigate. As Ruby Mountain’s weather stabilized, he noticed three faint new colors appear at the bottom of its list.

• Mi Jia recalled how Ruby Mountain’s deadly weather had once nearly corroded his soul, though artificers continued climbing it to search the sky for a path.
• Mi Jia worried that Siffrin Gawain’s rapid rise would strengthen the Blood Tears Research Institute ahead of the Annual Financial Conference.
• Mi Jia noticed Siffrin had requested Three-Winged Mind Spell Spirits and suspected she meant them for her Veela companion, who had also advanced unusually quickly.
• Mi Jia decided to secretly capture the Veela and test whether she would reveal Saint Domain powers.
• Mi Jia felt Ruby Mountain tremble, checked its list of artificers, and spotted three pale colors at the bottom.

Mi Jia explained how Ruby Mountain’s Artificer List forced legends into battles, investments, and wagers, then targeted a supposedly weak artificer for an easy victory. He discovered the target was Ash, protected by Diya and Sonia, and they killed Mi Jia before he could escape.

• Mi Jia described how Ruby Mountain’s weather, the Artificer List, and its compulsory investment and gambling contracts shaped competition among Legendary Arcanists.
• Seeing three pale color codes on the Artificer List, Mi Jia placed a Gambling Contract on one and tracked the target to a battle between Ash, Sonia, and Diya.
• Mi Jia attacked Ash with Bloody Judgment while Sonia and Diya were occupied fighting over him.
• Diya slowed Mi Jia’s bullet with Empress Vision, and Sonia intercepted it with Meteor Tribulation.
• Diya and Sonia trapped Mi Jia with their Miracles, and Sonia finished him with Blood Moon Shattered Lake.

After surviving the Blood Art Legend’s attack on Ruby Mountain, Ash learned that Sonia and Diya planned to keep him close while he prepared to return to Gospel. The Sorcerer’s Manual revealed new career traits for Sonia, Diya, and Youlan Weiser, and Ash resolved to save Youlan from Senluo’s apocalypse before opening the Operator Search interface.

• A Blood Art Legend attacked Ash, but Sonia and Diya defeated him, leaving the three of them alive and ending Sonia and Diya’s fight.
• Sonia said she would visit Ash in Gala City, while Diya planned to bring Yin Gula and Harvey there in three days; Ash agreed to bring them back, and Sonia insisted on going too.
• Ash received growth reports showing that Sonia gained the Sword Demon career, Diya gained the Empress career, and Youlan Weiser gained the Silver Lamp career.
• Ash saw that Youlan’s Silver Lamp assessment task required purifying the decayed Green Beasts of Senluo World, and he vowed to save her from the apocalypse.
• Ash opened the Operator Search interface after viewing Youlan’s information.

Ash used a single search pull and obtained the Small Four Pillars Gate, then spent the morning with Felix and Harvey at the villa. Felix came to see Ash and his companions as dangerously abnormal Evil Artificers after watching them calmly eat breakfast beside Harvey’s coffin full of insects.

• Ash used one Source Crystal to search and pulled the Small Four Pillars Gate, which let up to four artificers with the same Void Realm progress enter together.
• Ash found Felix preparing breakfast and explained why he trusted her not to poison him, while Felix warned that she was skilled in the Poison Art faction.
• Felix asked whether Ash would kill her when they left, and accused Ash, Bo Jin, and Harvey of being Evil Artificers.
• Ash told Felix he was exhausted by months of crises and wanted to live as an ordinary artificer, prompting her to feel some pity for him.
• Ash and Felix discovered Harvey sitting beside a coffin as insects and gu insects swarmed over its corpse.
• Ash calmly brought breakfast to Harvey and ate while watching a Shadow Drama, leaving Felix convinced that the group were insane Evil Artificers.

Yin Gula returned to the villa, where the group reacted to a Legendary Arcanist invading Gala City and discussed how more invaders might change Star Country’s policies. Ash revealed that Sword Maiden would visit him that night, and Yin Gula declared it their first real-life date and criticized Ash for not preparing properly.

• Yin Gula returned disguised as Felix, changed back, and scolded Harvey for making a mess with his necromantic breakfast ritual.
• Harvey tossed a sunny-side-up egg into the coffin, and Felix was overwhelmed by terror at the figure inside waving to her.
• Ash, Yin Gula, and Harvey read a Wanted Order for a dangerous Legendary Arcanist invading Gala City and discussed how more invaders might force Star Country to change its policies.
• Ash said Sword Maiden would visit that night and that he planned to send Yin Gula and Harvey back to Gospel in three days.
• Yin Gula realized that Ash and Sword Maiden’s meeting would be their first real-life date and criticized Ash for not getting ready.

Sonia prepared for her first date with Ash while her friends rushed to help her get ready, and Ash sought advice on his own appearance and a gift. The chapter ended with Ash and Yin Gula asking Felix to take off her clothes, hinting that they intended to use her outfit for Ash’s date.

• Sonia declined girls' night after accidentally revealing she was meeting Ash for their first date, so Adele, Lois, and Ingrid planned a makeover trip for her.
• Ash asked Yin Gula for dating advice, but rejected Harvey's suggestion to give Sonia a coffin as a love token.
• Ash and Yin Gula decided to find suitable clothes without shopping because they were wanted criminals.
• Felix tried to recover from her fear of the Evil Artificers, but Ash and Yin Gula entered her room and asked her to take off her clothes.

Sonia prepared for her first date and chose a gift for Ash, but an emergency Throne Hall summons ordered her to join the hunt for two foreign Legendary Arcanists in Lone Diamond District. Realizing Ash might be among those detected, she accepted the summons while keeping the Couple Rings she had bought for him.

• Sonia, Lois, Adele, and Ingrid tried on outfits and browsed gifts while an unexplained Dark Night appeared over Gala City.
• Sonia decided to buy a gift for her date, and Ingrid encouraged her to act openly on her feelings.
• Sonia received a compulsory Throne Hall summons to help the Star-Flicking Guard eliminate two foreign Legendary Arcanists last seen in Lone Diamond District.
• Sonia realized the detection might have exposed Ash because he had recently condensed Sword Color artificery, and that she could encounter him during the operation.
• Sonia accepted the Couple Rings and declared that there was nothing she could do about the summons.

Ash discovered that Yin Gula and Harvey could not enter Ruby Mountain on their own, but realized he could use his Small Four Pillars Gate to bring them there. After sharing the good news and revealing the Couple Rings he had bought, Ash prepared to lead them into Ruby Mountain.

• Felix helped Yin Gula dress Ash in her clothes and makeup, and Ash put her to sleep before joining Yin Gula and Harvey in the hall.
• Ash told Yin Gula and Harvey that his Miracle: Delayed dream Awakening would let them attempt to reach Ruby Mountain, but both were expelled from the Void Realm and could not return to the Distant Void Domain.
• Yin Gula and Harvey lamented that they might be left behind as Ash advanced, while Ash withdrew to the restroom in distress.
• Ash returned excitedly and explained that the Small Four Pillars Gate could let him bring Yin Gula and Harvey into Ruby Mountain.
• Ash showed Yin Gula and Harvey the Couple Rings he had bought, then activated the Small Four Pillars Gate to lead them toward Ruby Mountain.

Ash woke in a world where he was a famous actor and cult leader, and learned from his childhood friend and assistant Rose Lena that he had repeatedly claimed to travel to a world called Blood Moon. Rose asked when he would submit the unfinished Artificer 100% manuscript.

• Ash awoke in a basement surrounded by worshipful members of his Doomsday Watcher Study Group and discovered he was still a Legendary Arcanist.
• Rose Lena identified herself as Ash's childhood sweetheart and assistant, and explained that the worshippers belonged to his publicly recognized fan club.
• Ash asked Rose whether she knew Felix, Igula, and Harvey, but she said she had never heard of them.
• Rose explained that Ash often returned from Blood Moon with brilliant ideas and forgot his life in this world, so she treated his questions as familiar roleplay.
• Rose reminded Ash that he had left Artificer 100% unfinished and asked when he planned to submit the manuscript.

Ash found himself in a world without Spell Spirits or Spell Power, where Rose believed he was role-playing, and arranged to search for Igula Bojin and Archibald Harvey. As Ash recognized the star-filled sky above Multistar Country, Sonia saw the same stars from Star Country and reached toward a constellation.

• Ash discovered that he had a flesh-and-blood body and could not find a soul-thread connecting him to his real body.
• Rose explained that her world had no real arcanists or Spell Power, and Ash refrained from summoning a Spell Spirit after sensing danger.
• Ash asked Rose to help locate Igula Bojin and Archibald Harvey, and she messaged a police-agency employee for access to the resident database.
• Rose told Ash that he had named their world Multistar Country, and Ash stared at its star-filled sky, recognizing a star edged in red.
• At the command post outside Lone Diamond District, Tello Zan reassured Sonia about the coming battle, and Sonia raised her hand toward a shining star flanked by two others.

As the Gospel System’s collapse plunged Gospel Country into chaos, Diya discovered that the Omniscient Weaver had diverted national computing resources to open Void Gates and used the crisis to rally the ruling families behind her. The System’s failure also revealed that Gospel arcanists could not enter Ruby Mountain, while Siffrin received the Spell Spirit she had sought.

• Diya investigated the Gospel System’s failure and ordered a remote meeting with the imperial family’s honorary advisors.
• Diya revealed that the Omniscient Weaver had used 95% of the nation’s computing resources to open Void Gates, killing one Legendary Arcanist, injuring another, and sending a third away.
• Diya warned that the System would not fully recover for three days and that such disruptions might become common as the Six Kingdoms entered a new era.
• Diya displayed her three Void Wings and declared that only she could protect Gospel Country and potentially unite the Six Kingdoms, prompting Qinna and others to pledge support.
• Diya discovered that Gospel arcanists could not enter Ruby Mountain.
• At Kaimeng City General University Affiliated Hospital, Siffrin accepted the Spell Spirit from a blood-eyed nun.

Ash found Harvey working as a considerate chef in Ruby Mountain and helped him recover his memories, then tracked down Igula, who had become a homeless man living under a bridge. Ash and Harvey rescued Igula from thugs, but Igula ended up in the filthy Imperial River Canal with them.

• Ash discovered that Harvey had become a cheerful chef named Boulde, and Harvey woke up when Ash reminded him of his real name.
• Harvey said he had only vague, fading memories, while Rose learned he had been homeless before taking the chef job.
• Ash, Harvey, and Rose went to find a blond man and discovered Igula living under a bridge as a filthy homeless man.
• Thugs attacked Igula and burned his bedding, so Ash and Harvey fought them without using their arcanist abilities.
• Igula was thrown into the Imperial River Canal during the fight, and Ash kicked Harvey into the canal before jumping in himself.

Sonia and the Saint Domain Fifth Team took part in the operation to hunt Legendary invaders in the Lone Diamond District. The Star-Flicking Guard killed an Archery Legend who had apparently been trapped in the Void Realm, and Sonia’s team was sent to search Felix Voslotda’s villa for the second invader.

• Sonia, Dimi, Adas, and Aisha took positions around a villa while the operation’s vanguard prepared to search for a Legendary invader.
• The Star-Flicking Guard infiltrated the villa and found an Archery Legend sitting motionless in the Master Bedroom.
• A Star-Flicking Warrior beheaded the Archery Legend, and the Guard secured the body and searched the villa.
• Dimi and Adas suspected the Legend had been unable to exit the Void Realm, while Aisha wondered why he had entered it during a manhunt.
• The command center assigned the Saint Domain Fifth Team to search Skywalk Road Number 13, a villa held by Felix Voslotda.

Ash, Igula, and Harvey investigated their connection to Multistar Country and discovered that Sonia Serve was wanted there as a serial killer. Meanwhile, Sonia led a search party to Ash’s villa and entered, determined to meet him despite the danger.

• Igula, Harvey, and Ash discussed the similarities between Star Country and Multistar Country, including their shared leader and the way Ash’s companions seemed to appear as projections.
• Ash and Igula reasoned that people entering Star Country might be projected into Multistar Country, where their counterparts embodied abandoned emotions.
• Rose showed them a wanted notice for Sonia Serve, revealing that she was suspected of eleven murders and had recently nearly killed Ash.
• Ash recognized the address of his villa as the place where he had hoped to meet Sonia, but said he would not make it to their date.
• Sonia led Dimi, Aisha, and Adas to search Ash’s villa, rejected her doubts about choosing a safe life, and stepped inside, intent on meeting him.

Sonia and her companions searched Felix's villa for an intruder and opened a hidden passage to his basement. Sonia prepared to kill them if they discovered Ash and his allies, but Dimi's discovery of a coffin interrupted her plan.

• Sonia, Aisha, Dimi, and Adas entered Felix's villa and discussed Dimi's hope of reforming the nobility.
• Aisha used her shield bracer to find a hidden basement entrance, and Sonia recalled that Felix used the basement as a training room.
• The group chose to descend together, while Sonia concealed her fear and prepared to kill Dimi and Aisha if they threatened Ash's hiding place.
• Dimi entered the basement and cried out in surprise when he saw a coffin.

Sonia’s team searched Felix’s villa for the Legendary Arcanist and found Felix disguised as a woman, while Ash remained hidden beneath her blanket. After the team left without exposing the secret, Felix reflected on how she had helped conceal Ash and the others from the encirclement.

• Dimi identified the sealed basement coffin as a Necromancer’s coffin, and the Iridescent Lamp found no Chromatic Artificery among the three corpses inside.
• Sonia realized Ash might be hiding in the coffin and using the Colorless Dream Secret Poison to conceal his Legendary status, then decided she would eventually go to Gospel Country to be with him.
• Sonia and Dimi found Felix in the Master Bedroom, where Felix’s appearance revealed that she was a woman, and Dimi asked the team to keep her secret.
• Sonia, Aisha, and Adas agreed not to reveal Felix’s secret, and the team reported that its search had found nothing.
• Felix watched the team leave and recalled that Contact Seat had told her to hide Ash in her room and reveal her sex so the searchers would withdraw.

Ash, Igula, Harvey, and Rose explored Multistar Country’s history and discussed how it differed from their world, while Igula noticed clues that Hiss had left behind. They found Hiss’s marked book, whose opening question suggested he had feared he might be dead.

• Igula struggled to understand how Multistar Country had developed advanced technology without arcanists, while Harvey became fascinated by the preserved remains of an ancient empress.
• Ash and Igula agreed to help Harvey obtain the remains before they left, provided he behaved himself.
• Rose’s attentive personal service embarrassed Ash, and Igula teased him about his apparent connection to her and other women.
• Igula found that several books shared a folded mark on page 18 and traced the pattern to the eighth book on Bookshelf No. 1.
• Ash, Igula, Harvey, and Rose opened the book Hiss had marked, and its first sentence read, “Am I dead?”

Ash, Igula, and Harvey discovered that Ruby Mountain had trapped them inside Multistar Country, where the Star Law Master was hunting the Ruby Angel. As they sought a way to find the angel, they encountered Death Frenzy, who bombed the Police Department and escaped.

• Ash, Igula, and Harvey read Hiss's Notebook and learned about the Mystic and Shared Heart chains, the Star Law Master's prison, and the plan to capture the Ruby Angel.
• Ash realized Ruby Mountain's Starry Sky curtain had trapped them in Multistar Country, and Igula reasoned that finding the angel might be their only way out.
• Rose revealed that Ash had arranged annual searches for antisocial murderers and had secured access to the Police Department's killer files.
• At the Jia Shi Police Department, a masked stranger fought off Ash, Igula, and Harvey before escaping across the street.
• The stranger bombed the Police Department and was identified as Death Frenzy; Ash recognized her blood-red hair and chased after her.

Ash tried to protect Niya from the police and convince her he cared for her, but she saw through his deception and left. Back at Felix’s villa, Sonia found Ash unconscious and claimed him as hers.

• Ash recognized Niya’s sword technique, overpowered her, and shielded her from searching police officers by pretending they were a couple.
• After the officers left, Niya rejected Ash’s help, said she did not trust him, and disappeared into the darkness.
• Felix confirmed the Star-Flicking Guard had withdrawn, opened Igula and Harvey’s coffin for air, and returned to find Ash still unconscious.
• Sonia appeared beside Ash’s bed, asked Felix what had happened to him, and learned he had been unconscious since entering Ruby Mountain with Igula and Harvey.
• Felix told Sonia Ash had prepared carefully for their date, and Sonia held Ash and declared that he was hers.