Chapter Summaries

Kallen visited retired clerics and learned that veteran formation masters were preparing to sacrifice their lives for future wars, then considered how his growing authority could help him investigate the First Knight Order, the Sealed Space, and Raniedal's missing brain. At a cathedral meeting, the Whip Bearer publicly elevated Kallen to Minister of the Discipline Inspection Department, making him the system's second-in-command.

• Kallen greeted the retired clerics at the seniors' club, where Pilo and Liwen showed him the war maps and the formation masters' preparations to spend their lives activating Sarnan System formations.
• Kallen considered using his official and shadow identities to investigate the First Knight Order, the Sealed Space, and the research team holding part of Raniedal's brain, while deciding he could not yet investigate his parents' deaths.
• Kallen followed the Whip Bearer into the cathedral, where Fudeng approved Leon as York City District's next chief and told Kallen to begin a major purge of the Discipline Inspection Department.
• The Whip Bearer seated Kallen beside him and supported him as he opened the meeting, prompting the district chiefs and senior officials to rise with him.
• The second-in-command announced Kallen's appointment as Minister of the Discipline Inspection Department, and the assembly answered Kallen's salute with “For Order!”

Kallen settled into his new role as the Whip of Order’s Number Two, built political ties, and returned to York City District. He arrived at the new Discipline Department headquarters and began his tenure by ordering an audit of every department’s finances.

• Kallen cultivated ties with senior officials, arranged for their grandchildren to join his Discipline Department, and returned home after staying with Number Three.
• Kallen met Chief Bishop Byrne, told him Leon would become district chief, and urged Byrne to remain in office and mentor Leon.
• Kallen greeted his maternal grandfather Delong and promised to visit the Guman Family home soon.
• Kallen arrived at the new Discipline Department headquarters, where Alfred, Vic, and Leon welcomed him.
• Kallen ordered an immediate audit of every department’s finances during the reform process.

Kallen settled into the new Disciplinary Department headquarters, appointed Leon as York City District Chief and Vic to manage the department’s affairs, then met with Mavario about his pregnant wife and the missing [War Scythe] mark. While blessing Gaspol’s unborn child, Kallen briefly connected with its consciousness and heard a mysterious plea before cutting the connection to protect himself.

• Kallen assigned Leon to become York City District Chief, put Vic in charge of the Disciplinary Department’s practical affairs, and freed Alfred to coordinate the team’s resources in secret.
• Mavario visited Kallen, revealed that Gaspol was pregnant and struggling emotionally, and Kallen arranged for her to advise Leon while keeping the appointment confidential.
• Kallen showed Mavario that the [War Scythe] mark had vanished from his hand and agreed to visit Mavario’s laboratory to have it restored.
• Kallen visited Gaspol and blessed her unborn child, then sensed and connected with the child’s faint consciousness before breaking the link as his hunger addiction stirred.
• Kallen heard the child’s voice say, [My Lord... I am in such pain...].

Kallen investigated the continuing God-Making Plan, ordered surveillance of John Rotini, and sought a mark from the [War Scythe]. After the scythe’s consciousness flooded into him, Hunger Addiction erupted, leaving him sealed in the crashed carriage with Little Kangna.

• Kallen learned from Mavario that Mavario’s research team was assisting with precautions against divinity pollution and that the God-Making Plan was still underway, with another experimental subject remaining.
• Kallen ordered an investigation into John Rotini and everyone involved, then went to Mavario’s laboratory to reconnect with the [War Scythe].
• The [War Scythe]’s spirit resisted Kallen, but when Niyaleila began wearing away its excess consciousness, it fled into Kallen and left him with a large scythe totem bound by chains.
• Kallen’s Hunger Addiction surged, and he left the laboratory with Little Kangna while asking Alfred to send his sealing coffin.
• The Hunger Addiction erupted before Kallen could return to the barrier, wrecking the carriage and killing its horses; at Kallen’s command, Little Kangna pinned him with bone spikes and sealed him as he lost control.

Kallen broke free from Little Kangna as Hunger Addiction threatened to make him devour her, then fled the carriage in black mist. His arrival near York City District overwhelmed Guardian Puyuesen when he tried to locate him, while Alfred and the others began a discreet search.

• Kallen’s Hunger Addiction Sculpture stopped devouring the Rebel Dragon God, briefly restoring Kallen’s awareness, and he ordered Little Kangna to let him go.
• Kallen tore himself free of Little Kangna’s bone spikes, escaped the carriage as black mist, and told her to go away.
• Puyuesen received the Divine Temple’s order to cooperate with Kallen, then sensed a contradictory presence and tried to locate it through the Water Mirror.
• Puyuesen’s Eye of Order failed against Kallen, bursting his eye and damaging Saluxie’s statue; Andrew heard the Guardian’s screams and rushed to report to the Army Commander.
• Alfred, Vic, Leon, and Philomina found Little Kangna in the carriage, and Alfred sent them to contact allies and contain the situation while he organized a search for Kallen.

Kallen agreed to let Hunger Addiction use his abilities in exchange for its power, then attacked the Moon Order God Church’s hotel in Vien District. As Hunger Addiction prepared to consume Sarayina, Princess Ankara appeared within her and addressed Kallen as her father.

• Kallen encountered Rotini’s election motorcade, then stopped outside the Moon Order God Church’s hotel and negotiated a transaction with Hunger Addiction in his Soul Space.
• Sarayina ordered her staff to investigate how the Order God Church would end the desert war, but Sains warned her that Kallen had returned and might offer a breakthrough.
• Kallen breached the hotel’s Defensive Formation, killed the returning conference attendees and security personnel, and defeated Sains when he confronted him.
• Kallen overwhelmed Sarayina’s mental attack and began preparing to consume her, but she called for help from the presence within her.
• Princess Ankara awakened inside Sarayina, sealed off the hotel, and greeted Kallen as her father.

Ankara sacrificed herself to reveal how Kallen could resist the Hunger Addiction, leaving him locked in a struggle with it as he wandered the city. Kallen restored a dead girl’s face and attended her funeral, where his friends gathered; he finally spoke and suggested they eat hot pot.

• Ankara let the Hunger Addiction consume her after learning that the God of Order was close to falling, then taught Kallen a way to pull the Hunger Addiction into a stalemate.
• Kallen used Ankara’s method to resist the Hunger Addiction, while Alfred’s forces covered up the destruction at the hotel and Alfred went searching for Kallen.
• Kallen wandered into a funeral society and used Order powers and Formation Setup to restore a dead girl’s face, briefly awakening her so she could choose whether to wear makeup.
• The girl’s parents and friends held her memorial service, while Alfred, Richard, Philomina, and Kallen’s other companions gathered quietly in the back of the hall.
• Kallen opened his eyes and said he was hungry, then suggested that Xili prepare hot pot for everyone.

After returning from the Moon Order God Church outpost, Kallen set plans in motion to investigate several church matters and retrieve Ankara’s lost [Blade of Sighs]. He worked through the night, then dreamed that the [War Scythe] and an Order Sculpture were trapped in mud—and discovered he was covered in it too.

• Kallen ordered Alfred to prepare a new sealing coffin, arrange visits to the First Knight Order and sealed space, and have Chief Bishop Byrne investigate the time project team.
• Kallen instructed Alfred to investigate Mr. Rotini’s protectors and identify the research team so its members could be arrested and sent to Frontier Space.
• Kallen revealed that his hunger addiction had absorbed Ankara’s inheritance, including the ability to sense the lost [Blade of Sighs], and ordered Earl Recar to search for it in Frontier Space.
• Alfred told Vic that Kallen’s hunger addiction had chosen the Moon Order God Church outpost because Kallen had sworn to help the Dark Moon Goddess exact revenge.
• Kallen read case files until dawn, went to sleep, and dreamed of the mud-covered [War Scythe] and Order Sculpture before realizing he was covered in mud himself.

Kallen reviewed church business and inspected the Discipline Department’s purge before visiting the Guman Family, where his official standing made the family gathering stiff and ceremonial. The meal loosened the household’s mood, though Kallen left the family wrestling with the divide between their past familiarity and their new relationship to his power.

• Kallen reviewed reports on the Blade of Sighs expedition, church visits, and the plot involving Mr. Rotini, then told Vic to use more aggressive interrogation methods.
• Kallen inspected the overcrowded interrogation castle and learned that Vic’s purge had filled the prisons and sent batches of prisoners to the Order Judgment Court.
• Kallen traveled with Little Kangna and Philomina to the Guman Family’s home, where Delong and local Clerics greeted him formally as Minister.
• Delong and Tang Li celebrated Kallen’s visit in private, while the family struggled to relax around him during the meal.
• Kallen rested upstairs, then found Philomina washing dishes under Tang Li’s eye as Richard mopped and Kaixi watched them, seeing echoes of her past and future.

Kallen attended a secret gathering at Heartsea Manor, where the Whip Bearer revealed that his predecessor, Buken, had contacted the forbidden Silent Ones. The chapter ended as Fudeng ambushed Buken’s departing Blood-Colored Octopus with a Frost Dragon, declaring that Buken’s divination had failed.

• Kallen received a summons from the Whip Bearer and traveled to Heartsea Manor with Philomina and Little Kangna, while Miguel asked for a field posting and accepted a low-level command in York City District.
• Kallen met Dai'ersen, Labota, and Ximilis, who discussed the Church of Order’s possible response to the apparent murder of the Moon Order’s Divine Son, Sarayina.
• The Whip Bearer introduced Kallen to his predecessor, Buken, who had emerged from Blood-Degree Space to meet him before departing on a blood-red octopus.
• Fudeng told Kallen that Buken had disappointed him by contacting the Silent Ones, a mysterious organization Kallen had secretly investigated.
• As Buken prepared to return to Blood-Degree Space, Fudeng summoned a Frost Dragon to trap the Blood-Colored Octopus and told Buken that his divination had been wrong.

Kallen watched Fudeng fight the former Whip Bearer Buken while guests from other churches observed, as Fudeng displayed Order’s mastery of other churches’ Spell Arts. The battle ended with Fudeng pressing Buken into a direct duel, and Little Kangna remarked that Fudeng resembled Kallen.

• Kallen arrived on the meadow and gave Labota, Dailson, and Himilis no explanation as Fudeng began fighting Buken over the sea.
• Fudeng summoned an armored war spirit to attack Red Octopus, while Buken shot Aoji with a blue arrow and wounded her.
• Fudeng sacrificed the war spirit to heal Aoji, then used black-crescent-moon Eyes of Order to strike Buken with a Spiritual Storm.
• Buken asked Fudeng to stop wearing him down and fight him directly, so Fudeng ended the storm, equipped a Lesser Divine Artifact, and accepted the duel.
• Fudeng drove Buken onto the defensive in a rapid exchange across the sea, and Little Kangna told Kallen that Fudeng looked like him.

Fudeng defeated Buken and revealed that he opposed the God of Order’s return, while Buken admitted he could not fully reject that conviction. Buken then went to Kallen, offering him his inheritance and octopus before asking Kallen to prepare him for a dignified death.

• Fudeng overwhelmed Buken in their duel, and Buken asked to join the First Knight Order before learning that Fudeng believed their Lord should not return.
• Buken confronted the conflict between the church’s survival and a world without gods, while Fudeng explained why he considered the Order’s cause already victorious.
• At Heartsea Manor, Kallen rejected Himilis’s accusations about Dali Wenluo and the Tree of Life branch, while Little Kangna watched her warily.
• Buken offered Fudeng his inheritance and his blood-red octopus for Kallen’s dragon, then asked to bathe, eat, and change clothes before dying.
• Buken appeared at Heartsea Manor and offered Kallen his inheritance, but Kallen said he had a duty to protect the Whip of Order’s property.
• Buken asked Kallen to personally prepare his final meal, bath, and clean clothes, and Kallen said he was a professional at caring for the deceased.

Ventura brought Xili to Kallen’s island manor, where Kallen cooked dinner for Buken and the visiting church leaders before helping Buken prepare to transfer his power. As Buken’s inheritance reached Kallen, Buken saw the God of Order in Kallen’s soul and died praising his Lord.

• Ventura took Xili from Mavario’s home to the island manor, where she overcame her fear of teleportation and began preparing dinner for Kallen.
• Buken discussed Kallen’s suspiciously perfect background, his ties to the Silent Ones, and his decision to give Kallen his inheritance before learning that the High Priest had accepted him into the First Knight Order.
• Kallen confronted Himilis, Labota, and Dailson about false accusations between their churches and declared that the Order God Church would return to supremacy when its Lord came back.
• Kallen cooked dinner for Buken and the guests, then bathed Buken and helped him dress in ordinary Order clerical robes as they prepared for the inheritance.
• Buken began transferring his Soul Power and Spiritual Power to Kallen while the Great Red Octopus gave himself to Little Kangna, and Buken saw the God of Order in Kallen’s soul before praising his Lord and dying.

Kallen absorbed Buken’s Soul Power and arranged for Little Kangna to swallow his remains, then attended a meeting where Fudeng discussed the High Priest’s possible visit and gave Kallen authority over sensitive investigations. After returning to York City, Kallen discovered that Little Kangna had preserved Buken’s corpse and part of the octopus that remained within it.

• Kallen finished absorbing Buken’s gift, while Hunger Addiction consumed all of Buken’s Soul Power and left his spiritual power untouched.
• Kallen told Fudeng that Buken had willingly given himself, then had Little Kangna swallow Buken’s remains so they could be buried together.
• Fudeng held a meeting with Kallen, Himilis, Labota, and Dailson, then told Kallen the High Priest might inspect York City District and encouraged him to pursue a sensitive search in Frontier Space.
• Fudeng told Kallen to handle a disputed experiment as he saw fit and promised to take responsibility if trouble arose.
• Kallen returned to York City with Alfred and Little Kangna, who became carsick and revealed that she had preserved Buken’s corpse and an Octopus Tentacle containing traces of consciousness.

Kallen accepted an invitation to meet Elder Xidi and agreed to become her student, while Byrne revealed that his failed surgery had left him with about a month to live. The chapter ended with Kallen reminding Byrne to die in his office and asking him to choose a coffin.

• Kallen reviewed the York City interrogations and agreed to meet Regional Guardian Puyuesen at Byrne's house.
• Puyuesen offered Kallen a Divine Temple commendation and arranged for him to meet Elder Xidi, who wanted him as her student; Kallen agreed to meet her that night.
• Byrne told Kallen that his father had died and asked him to support his son in a succession contest at the Pamireth Church.
• Byrne revealed that an aggressive surgery had worsened his condition and that the Order God Church could announce his death in about a month.
• Byrne gave Kallen a list of candidates for the next Chief Bishop, and Kallen asked him to choose a coffin from Little Kangna's catalog.

Kallen visited the Millerton Funeral Society before traveling with Puyuesen and Little Kangna to Ponce Manor to meet Elder Xidi. Xidi’s attempt to test him with a staged sparring match turned hostile, and Kallen faced off against Kuluoyin Ponce.

• Byrne asked Kallen to order a second coffin for his son, but Kallen said Byrne had only one slot, then left with Little Kangna.
• At the Millerton Funeral Society, Kallen rested while Mrs. Millerton nervously spoke her thoughts aloud, and Little Kangna asked what home felt like.
• Kallen, Puyuesen, and Little Kangna teleported to Ponce Manor, where Xidi and Rohan discussed Kallen’s visit and Xidi’s plan to test him.
• At the council hall, Degunar Ponce offered Kallen an arranged exchange of skills with him and two other Ponce relatives, but Kallen refused and started to leave.
• Kuluoyin Ponce blocked Kallen and drew her sword after he challenged the absurdity of the situation, and Kallen warned her that she was courting death.

Kallen fought Kuluoyin at Ponce Manor, where Xidi secretly intervened to give her advantages, but he ultimately killed her with [War Scythe]. After revealing his face, Kallen agreed to meet Xidi above.

• Kallen left his mask on and began the duel, countering Kuluoyin’s sword and sealing the formations she used to attack him.
• Kuluoyin drew on Ponce Manor’s formations, but Kallen took control of them and prepared a hidden attack; Xidi secretly interfered while Rohan urged her to stop the match.
• Kuluoyin summoned the sea siren Mo'ermეila’s phantom and blasted Kallen with a soul attack, but Kallen protected Little Kangna and trapped Kuluoyin inside [Black Prison Castle].
• Kallen invoked the 'Order Regulations' and pronounced a sentence of erasure; [War Scythe] cut through [Black Prison Castle] and killed Kuluoyin before Xidi could intervene.
• Kallen removed his mask, revealed his true appearance, bowed toward Xidi, and said he was coming up.

Kallen confronted Elder Xidi at Ponce Manor after executing her descendant, enduring her pressure while refusing to submit or become her student. He left with Little Kangna alive, while Xidi warned him that his protection might not last forever.

• Kallen removed his mask, took Little Kangna to the rooftop, and greeted Elder Xidi before grilling meat in front of her.
• Xidi confronted Kallen over the death of her descendant and used her power to crush him and Little Kangna with pressure.
• Xidi offered to make Kallen her student and successor, but Kallen addressed her only as Elder and rejected the offer.
• Xidi threatened to break Kallen's bones, but he prepared to burn away his soul if she tried to punish him, and she withdrew her pressure.
• Kallen wiped the blood from Little Kangna's face, thanked Xidi for the meal, and left the manor as she warned him about the day Norton lost his position.

Xidi suspected Kallen was hiding something, while Rohan tried to arrange a private meeting with him. Their struggle over a teleportation formation sent Kallen and Little Kangna to the Seal Land, where they encountered the ruined Siren Mo'ermეila, and Rohan rushed back to tell Xidi that the teleportation had gone wrong.

• Rohan told Xidi he planned to invite Kallen, but Xidi said her instincts told her the Divine Temple's investigation was flawed and that Kallen's words had shaken her faith.
• Xidi explained that the Siren Mo'ermეila had once entered Ponce Manor's Seal Land and made such a mess that Xidi had sealed its entrance herself.
• Kallen and Little Kangna prepared to return to York City District, while the invisible Rohan altered their Teleportation Magic Formation to send them to his private garden.
• Kallen sensed the alteration and fought Rohan for control of the formation, triggering a resonance with the ancient formation beneath the building.
• The formation sent Kallen and Little Kangna to the Seal Land, where they saw Mo'ermეila among the bodies of a giant Angel and a Ferocious Beast, and her attention turned toward them.
• Rohan discovered the damaged ancient formation and returned to the Council Hall to tell Xidi that Kallen's teleportation had gone wrong; Xidi reacted in alarm.

After Kallen and Little Kangna were accidentally teleported into the Ponce Families' Seal Land, Kallen tried to hide and await rescue, but the dungeon's creatures attacked them. They escaped the first threats together, while Rohan and Xidi began arranging a rescue from outside.

• Rohan realized Kallen had likely been sent into the Seal Land and demanded its formation records, but Xidi said they were missing because she had taken them from the archives.
• Xidi agreed to seek Senior Wukongjia's help while Rohan prepared to repair the entrance, though he cursed when he sensed Xidi trying to use the Teleportation Array again.
• Kallen created an Order-Despair Sealing barrier around himself and Little Kangna, but a scarlet eye breached it and tried to suck them in.
• Kallen bound the eye with Chains of Order and burned it, then Little Kangna carried him away as the approaching Siren Mo'ermelala attacked them with her song.
• Kallen entered Little Kangna's consciousness and spread Orderization through her bones, allowing her to overpower Mo'ermelala, but he grew exhausted and urged Kangna to disengage.
• A Twelve-Winged Angel blocked their escape, so Kallen sent Thousand Enchantments to draw its attention and Little Kangna flew out of the encirclement.