Chapter Summaries

Fu Hua tried to reach the spaceport as the Void Herrscher awakened, but Rita and Shi Hen blocked her. After Rita revealed Otto had ordered them to let the experiment unfold, Fu Hua realized Otto had planned for Welt Yang to appear, and Shi Hen attacked her before Durandal intervened.

• Helheim Laboratory's energy barrier vanished, storm clouds gathered, and Fu Hua flew toward the spaceport while Bronya and Seele headed back to the Helios.
• Fu Hua tried to pass Rita and Shi Hen, explaining that the Void Herrscher had awakened and needed to be subdued.
• Shi Hen rejected Fu Hua's assurances and refused to trust her after she had betrayed them by taking Kiana.
• Rita revealed that Otto had ordered her to prevent interference and let the Far East Branch and Anti-Entropy handle matters themselves, making Fu Hua realize Otto had anticipated Welt Yang's arrival.
• Shi Hen activated Star of Eden's Zeroth Power to trap Fu Hua and Rita, but a black-and-white beam destroyed the black hole and damaged the Apollo.
• Durandal arrived and struck down Shi Hen's black hole, leaving Fu Hua stunned.

Yae Sakura took Shi Hen away while Fu Hua rushed toward the Herrscher of Thunder, and Durandal let Bronya and Seele pass. At Helheim, Otto found his corpse, while Sirin confronted Mei above the Anti-Entropy fleet and their battle began.

• Yae Sakura seized Shi Hen and retreated, then Fu Hua thanked Durandal and hurried toward the thunder.
• Durandal told Rita to leave Bronya and Seele’s fate to Otto, allowing them to head for Helios.
• Otto inspected his mutilated corpse in the ruined Helheim Laboratory and vowed to compete with Welt over the awakened queen.
• Theresa led Helios and the Anti-Entropy fleet toward Helheim, where Sirin appeared and blocked their advance.
• Mei confronted Sirin in the sky, defended humanity’s bonds, and attacked her with Seven Thunders of Sin’s Purge.
• Sirin blocked Mei with Void Lances and mocked her hope of awakening Kiana.

Mei and Sirin continued fighting while Fu Hua was gravely wounded after they joined forces to attack her. Theresa, Wendy, and the Book of Cang Xuan reached Fu Hua, who refused to explain her betrayal and asked to do one last thing for Bai.

• Sirin tried to recruit Mei, but Mei rejected her and broke through Sirin's Void Lance to attack her.
• Sirin summoned Honkai Beasts and fought Mei, who said she trusted Theresa and the others to protect themselves.
• Fu Hua arrived, and Mei and Sirin simultaneously attacked her, leaving her badly wounded and severing her left arm.
• Fu Hua fell to the Floating Island and struggled against Honkai Beasts until Theresa, Wendy, and the Book of Cang Xuan rescued her.
• Theresa questioned Fu Hua about Kiana's abduction, but Fu Hua refused to explain and asked permission to do one last thing for Bai.

Otto trapped Fu Hua and sent Durandal to intervene in Mei and Sirin’s battle, while Wendy attacked him on the Floating Island. Sirin appeared beside Otto as Theresa charged at her, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Theresa agreed to trust Fu Hua, but Otto arrived with Durandal and separated Fu Hua from the others with golden chains.
• Otto sent Durandal to attack Mei, and Durandal transformed her armor with the power of Starchasm Nyx, forcing Mei onto the defensive.
• Wendy attacked Otto, breaking his golden chains and overpowering his imitation Divine Key weapons.
• Sirin appeared beside Otto through a golden wormhole and taunted the humans, while Otto warned her about Welt Yang.
• Theresa charged at Sirin with Judah, determined to reclaim Kiana’s body.

Shi Hen intervened to save Mei from Durandal’s lethal attack, then challenged her strength and invited Durandal to watch the fight between Wendy and the Void Herrscher. Durandal remained wary of his intentions as he pointed her back toward Otto’s plan.

• Sirin teleported herself and Wendy away, while Otto taunted Theresa about Wendy’s likely death and Theresa left with Fu Hua to track them.
• Durandal defeated Mei and unleashed Black Abyss White Flower’s strongest attack, but Shi Hen appeared and blocked it.
• Shi Hen reflected on how he had maneuvered Durandal into summoning him and suspected Otto had persuaded her by promising to save the World Bubble she anchored.
• Mei attacked Shi Hen, but he caught her blade with two fingers and knocked her back.
• Shi Hen invited Durandal to watch the battle between the Void Herrscher and Wendy, then told her to question Otto about his intentions.

Shi Hen arrived on the Floating Island and overwhelmed Wendy, taking the Desire Gem while Apollo rescued her. Wendy lost consciousness, and Shi Hen handed the gem to Sirin, challenging her to regain more of her power.

• Wendy struggled against Sirin and Bella until Theresa arrived and freed her from Sirin’s spatial grasp.
• Shi Hen appeared, attacked Wendy, and pierced her body to seize the Desire Gem as Theresa tried to stop him.
• Apollo struck Shi Hen with the Star of Eden, rescued Wendy, and retreated with her while Shi Hen kept the Desire Gem.
• Wendy lost consciousness in Apollo’s arms, leaving Theresa fearing she had sacrificed herself.
• Shi Hen tossed the Desire Gem to Sirin and urged her to recover her strength so he could face her at her peak.

Shi Hen used Sirin’s Desire Gem to transport himself, Sirin, Durandal, Mei, and the others into the Kaslana family’s Stigmata Space, while Theresa and the Book of Cang Xuan remained behind with Fu Hua and Wendy. The chapter ended with Shi Hen challenging the group and promising not to use the Phoenix Incinerator.

• Theresa and Mei attacked Shi Hen, while Fu Hua used Feather of Dust to stabilize Wendy and Durandal treated her with the Black Abyss White Flower.
• Fu Hua unleashed Divine Resonance, transforming into the Chiyuan Divine Bird and collapsing as her attack met Shi Hen’s flaming dragon.
• Shi Hen caught a scorched crimson feather containing Fu Hua’s remaining essence, then triggered the Desire Gem in Sirin and sent the group to unfamiliar coordinates.
• Shi Hen revealed that the group had arrived in his Kaslana family Stigmata Space, while Theresa stayed behind and contacted Einstein and the others.
• Shi Hen threw the Phoenix Incinerator into the crimson desert and invited the group to prove their worth.

Shi Hen overwhelmed Durandal and Mei while Sirin escaped, then revealed that he had been acting and summoned Kevin. Kevin appeared beside the Divine Keys and demanded to know who Shi Hen was, while Shi Hen claimed to be his subordinate.

• Durandal, Mei, and Shi Hen fought as Shi Hen’s power suppressed the others, while Apollo’s damaged mecha was strengthened by the Plague Gem.
• Sirin opened a spatial wormhole and escaped the battle, despite an ice dragon tearing off part of her arm.
• Shi Hen transformed into his Asura form, disarmed Durandal, and struck her into the depths of space.
• Mei unleashed Seven Thunders of Sin’s Purge against Shi Hen, but he defeated her and she fell unconscious as Apollo’s light faded.
• Shi Hen collected Phoenix Incinerator and Black Abyss White Flower, called for Kevin, and told him that he was now his subordinate.

Shi Hen returned from the Stigmata Space with Mei, but the group failed to capture the Void Herrscher, who still controlled Kiana’s body. As the Hyperion prepared to face the Herrscher, Shi Hen secretly set out to sacrifice himself, leaving Himeko to realize he had made his decision.

• Shi Hen used the Plague Gem and the Apollo mech to stage a convincing sacrifice in front of Kevin, then returned to realspace with Mei.
• Himeko used the Moonlight Throne to drive Welt Yang away, and Shi Hen urged Theresa to retreat because the battlefield was still dangerous.
• On the Hyperion, Bronya promised to bring Kiana back, and Shi Hen placed his damaged positioning wristband beside Mei before leaving the infirmary.
• Himeko confronted Shi Hen about withholding part of his account and tried to stop him from going to his death.
• Shi Hen escaped Himeko’s grasp with a wall of flames and told her to live for Theresa, Kiana, and the others.

Shi Hen fought Sirin inside her Imaginary Space, using the Plague Gem and burning himself to overcome her attacks. He stopped his final punch just short of Sirin, but his body had turned gray and the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Himeko grieved Shi Hen’s sacrifice as he left the battleship and used the Star of Eden to destroy Honkai Beasts and clear the clouds.
• Sirin trapped the battleship fleet in Imaginary Space and challenged Shi Hen, who crushed her Void Lance and attacked her.
• Sirin’s spatial ribbons cut apart Shi Hen’s Xuanyuan Swords, but his awakened Flame Sword broke through her defenses before burning to ash.
• Shi Hen set his body ablaze and endured Sirin’s attacks, insisting that Kiana was the one and only Kiana, not a counterfeit.
• Shi Hen’s burning fist stopped centimeters from Sirin’s head as the flames went out and his body turned gray.

Shi Hen struck Sirin with the Serenity Gem but was pierced by a Void Lance and swept into spatial turbulence as Mei watched helplessly. Meanwhile, Durandal returned to Schicksal HQ, confronted Otto about her origins, and began awakening memories of her birth after Kevin helped her take up the Divine Keys.

• Shi Hen punched Sirin and used the Serenity Gem to weaken her, but Sirin pierced him with a Void Lance before both fell into darkness.
• Mei awoke aboard the Hyperion, learned Shi Hen had gone alone to fight the Void Herrscher, and watched him disappear into spatial turbulence as reality returned.
• Durandal returned to the ruins of Schicksal HQ and confronted Otto, demanding to know how much of what he had told her was true.
• Durandal recalled meeting Kevin in the Stigmata Space, where her Honkai-killing urge awakened and Kevin told her to take up Black Abyss White Flower and Phoenix Incinerator.
• Holding the Divine Keys, Durandal saw a memory of a white-haired woman asking Theresa to name her newborn daughter Kiana.

Durandal awakened and harmonized her Kaslana and Schariac powers in the Kaslana Stigmata Space, becoming a Transcendent and learning that Kevin had left a shadow to manage the place. Shigure Kira and Nicholas arrived with Candy House to address the World Bubble problem left over from five years earlier.

• Durandal recalled Kiana’s birth and her parents, mastered her inner killing intent, and awakened the full powers of both her bloodlines.
• Durandal questioned Kevin’s shadow about the Stigmata Space and whether Bai had come there, but the shadow refused to reveal Kevin’s secrets.
• Shigure Kira and Nicholas arrived through a spatial wormhole, and Kira explained that Nicholas was a Sugar who had once lived in symbiotic form.
• Kira told Durandal that she and Nicholas had been summoned to resolve a leftover issue from five years earlier, while Durandal angrily recalled being tricked by Welt Yang.
• Kira and Nicholas revealed that they had brought Candy House, the Sugars’ shelter, which could reconnect the World Bubble to the Imaginary Tree.

Durandal confronted Otto over his lies and resigned from Schicksal after learning the truth about her family. She left with Yae Sakura to join World Serpent and seek Siegfried, while Rita remained in Schicksal and promised that she would always have a home there.

• Durandal challenged Otto’s claim that reconnecting a World Bubble to the Imaginary Tree was only a possibility, pointing out that Bai had already succeeded.
• Durandal accused Otto of hiding the truth about Cecilia, Siegfried, and the experiments on her, then removed her Valkyrie armor and resigned from Schicksal.
• Durandal said she would watch Otto from outside Schicksal and kill him if he threatened the world, while Rita asked where she would go.
• Yae Sakura arrived on behalf of the acting sovereign and offered to take Durandal home; Durandal chose to go, partly because she wanted to meet Welt Yang and find Siegfried.
• Otto returned Black Abyss White Flower to Durandal, while Rita refused Yae Sakura’s offer and promised Durandal a place at Schicksal.
• Durandal said goodbye to Rita, mounted Krisna, and rode away beneath the starlight.

After Shi Hen’s apparent sacrifice, Mei struggled with grief while Anti-Entropy prepared its next operations. She tried to recreate an old game with Bronya and Seele, then broke down as the dawn arrived and Bronya felt sorrow again.

• Einstein announced that the Void Herrscher’s activity had stopped and described the operation’s casualties, while Mei challenged her to call the outcome a victory because Kiana and Shi Hen were missing.
• Theresa sent Mei away from the combat meeting, then asked Bronya and Seele to accompany her.
• Bronya told Mei that Captain Hen had been taken away by Sister Sakura during the mission, and Mei mourned as she held her mother’s comb and the red bracelet.
• Mei invited Bronya and Seele to play the mercury-control game that Shi Hen had taught her, covering their faces with HOMU-patterned stickers as she won.
• Mei recalled how Shi Hen used to beat her at the game and cried with Seele as Bronya watched the sunrise and felt sorrow again.

Haunted by the memory of killing Shi Hen, Kiana wandered alone through a ruined town, carrying the Star of Eden and avoiding others so she would not endanger them. In Raymond City, Raven found her and brought her to dinner, mistaking Kiana’s grief for trouble between her and Shi Hen.

• Kiana dreamed that Shi Hen fell into an abyss and that she killed him with a Void Lance, then woke in anguish.
• Kiana spent the night outside with the Star of Eden and recalled Shi Hen’s final gift and the day she had killed him.
• Kiana cooked instant noodles, resumed her journey, and reached Raymond City, where she remembered first meeting Shi Hen.
• Raven recognized Kiana and insisted on taking her to a seafood restaurant, while Kiana tried to keep her distance because she had caused Shi Hen’s death.
• Raven asked Kiana how things were between her and Shi Hen, then assumed they had fought when Kiana choked up.

Shi Hen revealed to Raven that he had faked his death and left to check on Kiana, who fled their dinner in grief. In the wilderness, Yae Sakura told Kiana that Shi Hen might still be alive and offered to share a secret about Stigmata, leaving Kiana stunned to learn he supposedly had Natural Stigmata.

• Raven defended Shi Hen to Kiana, who broke down and ran away from the restaurant.
• Shi Hen appeared, admitted that he had faked his death to deal with World Serpent business, and went after Kiana.
• Kiana fled into the wilderness, where Yae Sakura approached her and explained that Shi Hen had been capable of becoming a Herrscher.
• Yae Sakura suggested Shi Hen might still be alive and offered a Stigmata-related secret in exchange for Kiana meeting her requirements.
• Kiana questioned Yae Sakura after learning she believed Shi Hen possessed Natural Stigmata.

Mei, Bronya, and Seele packed Shi Hen and Kiana’s belongings as St. Freya prepared to relocate, while Mei resolved to find Kiana and keep Shi Hen’s memory alive. Elsewhere, Yae Sakura coaxed a hungry Kiana into dinner as she promised to explain how to find Shi Hen, and Theresa and Himeko faced the academy’s closure.

• Yae Sakura told Kiana she would explain how to find Shi Hen if Kiana learned to control the Herrscher’s power, then invited her to share a meal.
• Mei packed Shi Hen’s belongings in Himeko’s dormitory and mourned his sacrifice while Bronya and Seele finished packing Kiana’s things.
• Mei, Bronya, and Seele agreed they needed to find Kiana, and Mei insisted that Shi Hen had become a hero rather than the price of saving anyone.
• Theresa and Himeko discussed St. Freya’s indefinite closure and the need to move the students somewhere safer.

Theresa and Himeko learned that Durandal had joined Anti-Entropy as Vice Sovereign, while Durandal entered World Serpent territory with Shi Hen and questioned his intentions. Shi Hen brought her to meet Siegfried, where she arrived to find him winning a game against Miss Chiyou.

• Einstein told Theresa and Himeko that Durandal had joined Anti-Entropy as Vice Sovereign and that Otto had suspended her from Schicksal duty.
• Shi Hen gave Durandal an Anti-Entropy Vice Sovereign ID card and suggested the codenames Golden Dodo and Golden Penguin, which she rejected.
• Durandal asked to see Siegfried, and Shi Hen said she could meet him after completing a task while remaining free to make her own choices.
• Shi Hen led Durandal to a hall, where she heard Siegfried celebrating a win over Miss Chiyou.

Durandal revealed to Siegfried that she was his daughter, Kiana, and healed his lost arm. Siegfried learned that Durandal had come willingly after Bai told her the truth and entrusted her with Phoenix Incinerator, leaving him suspicious of how close she had become to Bai.

• Shi Hen left Siegfried alone with Durandal, who used Black Abyss White Flower to restore his arm.
• Durandal told Siegfried that she had once been Kiana Kaslana, his daughter with Cecilia, and explained that Destiny had recovered her after the aircraft crash and she had lost her memories.
• Siegfried blamed Otto for what happened to her, while Durandal said she had accepted the name Durandal and regretted her past choices.
• Siegfried mistakenly feared Durandal had been captured, but she said Bai had told her the truth and given her Phoenix Incinerator.
• Durandal described how Bai had helped her, and Siegfried grew suspicious and jealous of their closeness.

Durandal received Siegfried’s support for leaving Schicksal and joining World Serpent, while Siegfried mistook her loyalty to Welt for evidence that Welt had mistreated her. After Chiyou destroyed Siegfried’s hidden alcohol to obey Durandal, Durandal met Shi Hen on the surface and thanked him.

• Siegfried told Durandal he would support her choices, and she said she planned to protect the world in her own way.
• Durandal and Siegfried embraced and reunited as father and daughter, while Siegfried privately blamed Welt for her suffering.
• Chiyou offered Durandal potato chips, and Durandal asked her to stop Siegfried from eating them or drinking alcohol.
• Chiyou brought Siegfried five bottles of alcohol, then swallowed them all after Durandal’s instruction not to let him drink, leaving him devastated.
• Durandal returned to the surface, found Shi Hen waiting among the ruins, and thanked him seriously.