Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Ciri reached Geralt at the Watts River, where the Wild Hunt had trapped him while he was fishing. Su Ming joined the fight, killed one of the Wild Hunt Riders, and faced the remaining enemies beside Geralt.

• Ciri told Su Ming that Geralt was fighting the Wild Hunt at the mouth of the Watts River on Kholusia Island.
• Su Ming and Ciri flew to the river and found Geralt battling Wild Hunt Riders and their hounds amid the White Frost.
• Su Ming told Ciri to stay in the air and provide fire support while he dropped into the fight.
• Su Ming killed a Wild Hunt Rider and its Skeleton Horse with his Lightsaber, then returned to Geralt's side.
• Su Ming taunted the remaining Wild Hunt enemies as he stood between them and Geralt.

Deathstroke rescued Geralt and Ciri from the Wild Hunt, destroying the attackers with his shadow-based power. Geralt explained that the Wild Hunt were projections whose true bodies remained in another world, while Deathstroke revealed that they pursued Ciri to escape the White Frost.

• Geralt struggled against the Wild Hunt and the freezing White Frost until Deathstroke arrived with reinforcements.
• Deathstroke used the hounds’ shadows to destroy them and the Wild Hunt knight, then said the attackers were projections from another world.
• Geralt explained that the Aen Elle invaded worlds through the Celestial Convergence and that the Wild Hunt appeared as undead projections.
• Ciri checked Geralt’s injuries and said the Wild Hunt would keep pursuing her while she remained in their world.
• Deathstroke explained that the elves were fleeing the White Frost and wanted Ciri’s help escaping their coming extinction.

Su Ming explained the White Frost and agreed in principle to shelter Ciri’s world in the 40K Multiverse if necessary. As the Celestial Convergence threatened the First World and Eorzea, he decided to stay and confront the Aen Elle.

• Ciri told Geralt and Su Ming that the White Frost had destroyed worlds and might be driving the Wild Hunt from them.
• Geralt said Yennefer and the other sorceresses had completed an underground shelter on Skellige and were now running the city.
• Su Ming agreed that Ciri’s world could be moved into the 40K Multiverse if the White Frost became an immediate threat.
• Su Ming explained that the Aen Elle were using the Celestial Convergence to steal people and resources, while seeking Ciri’s Elder Blood to escape their frozen world.
• Geralt sensed someone skilled at cards near Eulmore and warned that monsters might have entered the First World through the Celestial Convergence.
• Ciri said strange celestial phenomena had appeared in Eorzea and insisted they stay to help their friends, so Su Ming agreed to confront the Aen Elle.

Su Ming and Ciri arrived at Eulmore while Geralt sensed a nearby Card Master and hurried off to play cards. Su Ming and Ciri went to find food, while Ciri explained that her Palico had returned to Monster Hunter World to pursue hunting.

• Su Ming devoured the White Frost around the river mouth before traveling with Geralt and Ciri to Eulmore.
• Su Ming described Eulmore and the First World's recovery after the Flood of Light and the defeat of the former Warrior of Light.
• Ciri wondered whether they had seen Ghouls, and Su Ming said the First World's people could handle minor monsters.
• Geralt sensed a Card Master and left to play Nine Palace Illusion Cards while Su Ming and Ciri continued through the castle.
• Ciri invited Su Ming to find food and revealed that her Palico had returned to Monster Hunter World with an automatic rifle and grenade launcher to try hunting a Rajang.

Su Ming reunited with Ciri in Eulmore and learned about her struggles to find a home in Eorzea. After they ate, he prepared to travel with her to Tir Na Lia and raid the Wild Hunt’s base.

• Ciri asked how Su Ming controlled darkness, and he explained that it was his control over a concept rather than magic.
• Su Ming reassured Ciri that she could keep traveling with Geralt and said he would settle the Wild Hunt so she could rest safely.
• Ciri told Su Ming that she and Geralt had been unable to secure a house in Eorzea, and he suggested entering Ishgard’s housing lottery.
• After their meal, Ciri warned Su Ming that Tir Na Lia had powerful Mages and a huge army, but he insisted they go there to confront the Wild Hunt.

Su Ming and Ciri surveyed Tir Na Lia and its suffering slave population before he unleashed an upgraded zombie virus to turn the slaves into an army against the elves. As the infected began attacking those around them, Su Ming and Ciri waited for the outbreak to reach the city.

• Su Ming and Ciri watched Tir Na Lia and saw how the elves forced countless slaves to labor in the White Frost.
• Ciri lamented the slaves’ suffering, and Su Ming said he would give them the power to fight back.
• Su Ming threw a tube containing the virus into the snow and injected Ciri with an updated vaccine.
• The virus revived fallen slaves as zombies, who began attacking people while Su Ming and Ciri watched.

Deathstroke spread the Stitched Monster Virus through the slave camps outside Tir Na Lia, turning the slaves into a rapidly growing zombie horde. As Ciri waited with him for the elves to respond, she said she planned to keep working as a Witcher once the Wild Hunt was dealt with.

• Deathstroke released the improved Stitched Monster Virus among the slaves, and the infection spread through the camps.
• Ciri asked whether Deathstroke intended to use the zombies to wipe out the elves or distract their army for a decapitation mission.
• Deathstroke said he wanted to let the elves enjoy the game he had promised them, so he and Ciri waited above the camps.
• The zombies overwhelmed the slave overseers and spread toward Tir Na Lia, while Deathstroke's Black Lantern Ring gathered energy from the deaths.
• Deathstroke asked Ciri what she would do after defeating the Wild Hunt, and she said she would continue living freely as a Witcher.

Su Ming and Ciri watched the zombies breach Tir Na Lia’s gates, then flew invisibly to the royal palace, where Eredin was gathering the elves to fight. Ciri wanted Eredin dead, but Su Ming held her back and prepared hotpot to watch the battle from the sky.

• Su Ming and Ciri guessed the abilities of approaching Special Infected, but Ciri’s guesses were wrong.
• A huge zombie exploded at Tir Na Lia’s gate, destroying it and allowing the zombie horde to flood into the city.
• Ciri gave up guessing and asked Su Ming to take her into Tir Na Lia so she could witness the elves’ fate.
• Su Ming carried Ciri on Cloak to the royal palace, where Eredin was organizing knights and mages for battle.
• Ciri tried to attack Eredin, but Su Ming restrained her and said they would watch from the sky.
• Su Ming promised Eredin would die and conjured a pot and hotpot base for their midnight snack.

Su Ming prepared seafood hot pot with Ciri and the Adjutant while observing the zombie army overrunning the city. As elven scouts encountered the zombie vanguard and fled back toward the palace, Su Ming and his companions began cooking and waited for the battle to come.

• Su Ming estimated that the zombies would take hours to reach the palace and called the Adjutant to help prepare squid for hot pot.
• Ciri greeted the Adjutant and discovered that Su Ming’s Dark Quantum projection could be physically touched.
• Su Ming followed a tutorial to cut a fishnet pattern into squid, then handed the remaining preparation to the Adjutant and watched the battlefield.
• The zombie army attacked elven homes, turning enslaved elves into more zombies while Su Ming transmitted observations for research.
• Elven scouts clashed with the zombie vanguard more than twenty kilometers from the palace and retreated in terror.
• The Adjutant brought the hot pot to a boil, and Su Ming conjured beef tripe for her to wash as the group prepared to eat.

Su Ming watched the zombie horde overrun the city while experimenting with his newly acquired Quantum Concepts and joking about making the infected provide smiling service. As the elves prepared to fight back, Ciri spotted their mages beginning a joint spell, which she revealed was an attempt to overcome the sorceresses’ infertility.

• Su Ming sensed the dead through his darkness and considered how to use the Quantum Concepts he had devoured.
• The scout cavalry returned to the royal palace, though some had been lost after encountering Special Infected.
• Su Ming joked that Kaecilius should research nitrous oxide so the zombies could smile and speak politely while attacking people.
• Ciri asked whether the Red Cavalry was about to fight, and Su Ming predicted Eredin would send the Court Mage Corps against the zombies first.
• Ciri spotted the elf mages preparing a joint spell and explained that it was meant to let sorceresses bear children.

Su Ming and his companions watched the elves summon the Wild Hunt to fight the zombie horde while preparing dinner. The Wild Hunt’s charge faltered amid the city’s endless zombies and Special Infected, and elf mages began using the White Frost to turn the battle around.

• Su Ming recognized that the elf mages were using spatial Projection Magic to bring the Wild Hunt into their world, and he and Adjutant prepared a hot pot while watching.
• The elf mages opened a vortex in the palace square and sent the Wild Hunt cavalry charging toward the city districts.
• Adjutant estimated the Wild Hunt numbered about twenty thousand knights and sixty or seventy thousand hounds, while Su Ming and Ciri discussed the army’s strength and history.
• The Wild Hunt smashed through scattered zombies, but Special Infected attacked from unexpected places and the cavalry began suffering casualties.
• The Wild Hunt’s line was pushed back as zombies poured into the city from multiple directions, and another group of elf mages emerged from the palace to cast spells using the White Frost.

The elves used White Frost to freeze the zombie army, while Su Ming watched and waited for the next stage of his plan. A Parchment Scroll announced that the Aen Seidhe Elves had passed a selection test and that a National Destiny Game would begin in ten minutes.

• The elves redirected White Frost toward the capital, burying the city and freezing the zombies so the Wild Hunt Legion could slaughter them.
• Ciri worried that the frozen zombies would be unable to kill the elves, but Su Ming told her the Zombie Siege was only the first step of his plan.
• After five minutes, the wind and snow stopped, and Golden Light shone from the clouds as a Parchment Scroll descended.
• The scroll announced that the Aen Seidhe Elves had passed the selection test and that five contestants would be chosen for a National Destiny Game, with rewards or punishments affecting the entire race.
• Su Ming laughed and told Ciri to keep eating while the elves faced the game's ten-minute countdown.

Su Ming designed a lethal game for the elves, using the National Destiny Game as a guise and making the Aier Elf race share the consequences when contestants died. As the Wild Hunt Riders retreated to the palace, he began the first scenario: a race through Ancient Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius erupted.

• Su Ming explained that his game would send selected elves into Another World on missions, with no resurrection and collective punishment for the Aier Elf race if they died.
• Su Ming let Ciri choose a scenario for the Wild Hunt, and she asked for a world where they would be hunted in return.
• Su Ming selected five Red Cavalry contestants for a beginner scenario in Ancient Pompeii, where they would race against lava and volcanic ash.
• Su Ming created an artificial planet containing Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius as the arena for the first round.
• The Wild Hunt Riders withdrew through their Teleportation Portal to the royal palace, but Su Ming activated the Dark Quantum Concepts and started the game.

Su Ming launched the first National Destiny Game round, sending five Red Cavalry elves into an upgraded Pompeii as a volcano erupted. The contestants began racing across skyscraper rooftops, and Number Three fell to his death.

• Su Ming explained that the contestants had to cross Super Pompeii’s rooftops and escape the volcanic eruption.
• The game began, and the five elf contestants were placed on separate rooftops as the volcano erupted.
• The elves leaped between buildings to flee the falling flaming rocks while their people watched from Tir Na Lia.
• Number Three lost his grip while dodging a burning rock and plunged to his death.

Su Ming forced the remaining elf contestants to navigate a deadly obstacle course through Pompeii as lava engulfed the city. Three elves escaped the first stage on a paraglider after Number Four sacrificed himself, and Su Ming prepared to make the next stage more difficult.

• The remaining four elves watched Number Three fall into the lava, then fled toward the rolling cylinder zone as it spread through the streets.
• Number Four led the others across the rotating buildings toward the giant turntable stage.
• Number Four found a paraglider but was electrocuted by its high-voltage current, leaving it safe for his teammates to use.
• The remaining three elves launched the paraglider on rising air currents and headed toward the next stage.
• Su Ming decided to give the elves something more challenging in the next stage.

Su Ming watched the three surviving contestants escape the danger zone, then declared the first stage cleared and awarded the Aen Seidhe Elves extra lifespan and relief from the White Frost. The elves celebrated the restored city while Su Ming broadcast their reactions and stored the contestants for the next stage.

• Su Ming prepared lampreys in a hot pot while Ciri complained about his grisly descriptions of the fish.
• The three contestants landed safely beyond the volcanic eruption zone, and Su Ming retrieved them into a cubic space.
• Su Ming announced that the first stage was cleared with a Good rating and that two of the five contestants had died.
• The Aen Seidhe Elves each gained three hundred days of lifespan as the White Frost, snow, and zombies vanished from Tir Na Lia.
• The elves celebrated the retreat of the White Frost, and Su Ming broadcast their reactions across the city.

Su Ming revealed that he had tricked the elves into believing the Flying Scroll would extend their lives, while the White Frost had not truly receded. As the elves celebrated and competed in New London, Su Ming arranged for Channel 52 to broadcast the games and discussed the city’s entertainment business.

• Ciri complained that Su Ming had given the elves extra lifespans, and he explained that the reward was a bluff and their apparent rejuvenation was psychological.
• Su Ming clarified that the White Frost’s weather effects had been hidden by darkness rather than meaningfully reversed.
• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to contact Ambush Bug about broadcasting the games on Channel 52, and the Adjutant confirmed the channel had accepted.
• Su Ming described the Olympic Comprehensive Sports Center and its planned connection to the Monster Amusement Park, managed by Little Rose Lorraine.
• The Adjutant explained that Gin was teaching Asgardian martial techniques to the Spider-Woman Alliance and Shuri, but Su Ming decided not to invite her along.

Deathstroke arranged for Ambush Bug to broadcast the game and interviewed him about the revenge operation and his powers. Ambush Bug went to interview the surviving elf contestants, while Deathstroke asked Ciri and Adjutant to choose the next stage of the game.

• Ambush Bug arrived, and Deathstroke arranged to send him footage of the first stage while they waited for the next round.
• Deathstroke told Ambush Bug that the game was a revenge operation against the Wild Hunt, presenting Ciri's scar as evidence of the elves' crimes.
• Ambush Bug questioned Deathstroke about his control of Quantum Concepts and his relationships with Wonder Woman and Dr. Quinzel, but Deathstroke dismissed the questions.
• Deathstroke sent Ambush Bug into the Blank Cube, where Ambush Bug subdued three surviving contestants and began interviewing them.
• Deathstroke asked Ciri and Adjutant what they wanted the elves to play in the next stage.

Su Ming designed the second game to enact Ciri’s revenge on the elves who had tried to force her to bear the Elf King’s children. The Red Cavalry contestants were sent to a barren planet filled with dangers, and they began searching for a way to escape.

• Ciri told Su Ming and the others that the elves had once tried to make her bear the Elf King’s children, and she wanted them to suffer the same fate.
• Su Ming reshaped the planet into a barren, moonlike arena and had the Adjutant prepare derelict ships and hidden dangers.
• Deathstroke sent three returning contestants and two newcomers from the Red Cavalry onto the planet, then announced the start of the second National Fortune Competition.
• The contestants picked up stones and walked toward the rising moon while Ambush Bug began a survival commentary with a wilderness expert.
• Su Ming’s planned monsters and traps awaited the elves, especially around the derelict ships.

The elves entered an abandoned spacecraft and split up to search it, while Su Ming invited Ciri and the others to bet on who would die first. The broadcast opened an online betting system, leaving the contestants exploring the ship separately as viewers placed wagers.

• The elves crossed the barren moonlit landscape and found an enormous spacecraft, then chose to enter it.
• Ambush Bug interviewed a wilderness survival expert who rambled about fire and survival essentials while the elves approached the ship.
• The ship's lights came on as the elves entered through a hole in the cargo hold, and the professor fell silent in amazement.
• The elves found a clean cargo hold, left one contestant to make a fire, and split up to explore different parts of the ship.
• Su Ming asked Ciri to bet on which elf would die first, and she checked that he would not rig the outcome.
• Ambush Bug and the Adjutant launched an online betting system for viewers, offering a Calendar Man-signed calendar to those who guessed correctly.