Chapter Summaries

Suren welcomed Mr. Mirror to Lington, where they opened an ancient chest and discovered a sea chart linking Serpent Island to several mysteries, including Mímir's Well and Black Sam's lost expedition. They then crafted Isaac's Giant Strength, an immensely powerful Augment Armor whose fusion requirements Suren could not yet meet.

• Suren overheard dockworkers discussing how the Red Death afflicted their families and how the Scarlet Potion's price put treatment beyond ordinary workers' reach.
• Suren secretly brought Mr. Mirror to an apartment, where she unlocked the chest containing three scrolls from the Nicunaya Magic Civilization: a Dragon Knight method, a Dragon Slaying Potion recipe, and a sea chart.
• Suren and Mr. Mirror matched Serpent Island on the sea chart to the island on the Tarot Card of The One-Eyed Hanged Man, connecting it to Mímir's Well, Cyclopes, gorgons, Black Sam's lost crew, and other clues.
• Suren gave Mr. Mirror the Eleven Primordial Qualities and discussed his advancement, bodily mutation, and the possibility of asking Master Pierre Rey Polnareff for guidance.
• Suren and Mr. Mirror spent a day and night refining Isaac's Giant Strength from the Arm of the Hecatoncheires King, producing an Epic Augment Armor that required far greater vitality and strength than Suren currently possessed.

Suren attended the Full Moon Ball, thanked the Shadow Duke for saving him, and arranged a major exchange with Ekaterina for strategic metals and a Gusmao Airship in return for Neuro-Mechanical Technology. After the ball, he visited Rena’s apartment with Sabina, whose Succubus talent let her transform into Ekaterina.

• Suren met the Shadow Duke, confirmed he was Master Pierre, and asked why he had allowed the Red Death and the Giant Hermitage Society’s conspiracy to spread; Pierre said he had one chance left to act and could not control the entire situation.
• Suren conveyed Mr. Mirror’s request to meet Pierre, and Pierre agreed to receive her at his home.
• Ekaterina asked Suren for mechanical weapon blueprints and Neuro-Mechanical Technology, offering strategic metals and agreeing to provide a Gusmao Airship in exchange.
• Suren and Sabina went to Rena’s apartment after learning she would be delayed, and Sabina transformed into Ekaterina during their intimate encounter.

Suren spent a quiet day at home with Sabina and Rena, giving Rena Rodriguez Family business documents to manage before receiving word that the Curator would appear that night. He prepared to use himself as bait to draw out the Giant Hermitage Society member, with Mr. Mirror and his connections reducing the risk.

• Suren gave Rena stocks, securities, and intelligence about Rodriguez Family businesses, asking her to manage the assets carefully.
• Sabina teased Suren and Rena, then made breakfast while Rena helped Suren get dressed.
• Suren stayed home for the day as Rena reviewed the documents and Sabina served him.
• Mr. Black sent word that Blood Refined Crystal Cores would be delivered to Buckchi Biopharmaceutical Company that night and the Curator might appear.
• Suren recalled that he had identified the Curator as Heidman Elpso and decided to use himself as bait to lure her out.

Suren ambushed a shipment of Blood Refined Crystal Cores at Cactro Port, then faced Heidman and the four Horror Wax Figures. Heidman trapped him with her Summoning Technique: House of Wax, transporting them to a dilapidated manor.

• Suren met Mr. Black at Cactro Port and concealed him in a spatial black hole while waiting for the shipment.
• Mr. Mirror warned Suren that a top expert from the Giant Hermitage Society might appear after her meeting with Master Pierre.
• Suren intercepted the Iron Boots Mercenary Group’s vehicle, killed its captain with a Gargoyle, and seized three briefcases containing Blood Refined Crystal Cores.
• The Ghost Bride, Sleeping Beauty, Headless Horseman, and Grimm Witch appeared and attacked Suren with their combined power.
• Heidman Elpso arrived, blocked Suren’s probing strike with the Headless Horseman, and cast House of Wax, shifting the scene to a dilapidated manor.

Suren confronted Heidman in her sealed House of Wax and discovered that the Curator could command a vast collection of powerful wax figures. After Heidman revealed four figures wielding the Four Attendants Mystic Method, Suren realized the battle had escalated to a deadly fight against foes approaching the Seventh Tier.

• Heidman trapped Suren inside a vast sealed space, but Suren resisted her hypnosis and fought through her elemental defenses.
• Suren restrained Heidman and sent the Gargoyle to attack her, but he noticed that she remained unharmed despite the barrage.
• Heidman revealed dozens of wax figures in the manor and introduced her collections, including the Eighth Tier Wind God Herman Regadi and the former empress Flora Golwin.
• Suren recognized that Heidman was a Grave Digger who had turned powerful opponents into wax figures, and he prepared to attack her true body.
• Heidman empowered four elemental wax figures with the Four Attendants Mystic Method, forcing Suren to face opponents approaching the Seventh Tier.

Suren and Mr. Black fought Heidman in the House of Wax, where her thirty-six enchanted wax figures and damage-transfer magic initially threatened to overwhelm them. Mr. Black exposed the magic’s weakness and turned the fight around, leaving Heidman under pressure as he announced that he had found something.

• Suren attacked Heidman with his Mechanical Armor legion, but the wax figures’ elemental defenses stopped his barrage and Black Scythe.
• Suren used Sigurd's Dragon Slayer Dagger to wound Heidman, but she transferred the damage and struck him with a cursed rod that nearly separated his soul from his body.
• Suren identified the rod as part of his Rune Umbrella, recognized that Heidman transferred damage through an unknown medium, and summoned Mr. Black for help.
• Mr. Black used Mind Reading to identify Heidman's Corpse Whisperer talent, her advanced undead spells, and an altar located far to the east.
• Mr. Black cast Mind Alchemy · Divine Illumination and redirected a Tier 6 fire spell, while Suren deployed hundreds of puppets to hold back the wax figures.
• Heidman struggled to kill Suren and Mr. Black as her wax figures suffered damage, and Mr. Black suddenly announced that he had found the key to the situation.

Su Lun and Mr. Black wore down Heidman’s wax figures until Mr. Black uncovered the hidden altar entrance, allowing Su Lun to break the array that protected Heidman’s immortality. Su Lun killed Heidman, gained her memories and knowledge, and discovered that the golden scroll was a fragment of a mythical death spell and that the Red Death had once been cured.

• Mr. Black used Heidman’s emotional distress to read her mind and tell Su Lun where the altar entrance lay, while they continued destroying her wax figures.
• Su Lun entered the spatial maze beneath a dried-up well, mapped its shifting rooms, and killed the Drowned Female Corpse, breaking the Four Anomalous Spirits Fallen Sacrifice Array.
• Su Lun reached the maze’s center and found a golden scroll radiating the Law of Death; Heidman rushed in as Mr. Black held back most of the wax figures.
• Su Lun overwhelmed Heidman with his speed, killed her with the Black Scythe and Dragon Slayer Dagger, and harvested her soul and memories.
• Su Lun identified the scroll as a fragment of The Sage’s Admonition, a mythical forbidden death spell, and learned from Heidman’s research archive that the Red Death had been cured in ancient times.

After killing Heidman, Suren claimed her treasures, completed the Rune Black Umbrella, and learned that the Red Death could be treated. He prepared for the approaching Marriage Alliance while building his strength, and the chapter ended as the wedding date arrived.

• Suren combined the Rune Black Rod with his Rune Black Umbrella, creating Goddess Hel's Rune Soul Umbrella, which could preserve spirits' memories and strengthen soul magic.
• Suren escaped Heidman's House of Wax, reunited with Mr. Mirror, and learned that a mysterious Eighth-Tier professional—possibly the Giant Hermitage Society's pontiff—had confronted her.
• Suren took Mr. Mirror for her first motorcycle ride and night-market meal, then discussed the Red Death, the Sage's Admonition, and the danger posed by otherworldly invasions.
• Suren gave Ekaterina the Red Death treatment formula, and she supplied the rare metals he needed from a Lance Family warehouse.
• Suren used his spoils to strengthen himself, began adapting Heidman's Living Corpse Wax Figures for his Puppet Legion, and reached the day of his wedding.

Suren attended Ekaterina’s wedding at Mechesais Manor, where the two discussed their plans and grew closer while playing chess. As the ceremony approached, Ekaterina invited him to become acquainted with her as herself, and they shook hands.

• Suren bid farewell to Karma and Aberk as they left Lington to train, then took a taxi to Mechesais Manor for the wedding.
• Suren arrived as Fick Regardie and went to Ekaterina’s room, where she prepared for the ceremony with her bridesmaid Anna.
• Ekaterina allowed Suren to remain while her maids dressed her, then wore the black-diamond Nightingale of Roccovaren gown.
• Suren ignored Regadi XI’s summons, changed into a Storm Cavalry Regiment uniform, and played chess with Ekaterina while they discussed the Alchemy manuscript, the Red Death treatment, and their allies.
• When the wedding was about to begin, Ekaterina asked Suren to get reacquainted with her as Ekaterina, and they shook hands.

Suren and Ekaterina traveled through Lington for their wedding, and Ekaterina revealed that the Regadi Family’s Blasphemous Crown could help Suren comprehend a domain. As they headed to the wedding ceremony, Suren learned that Ekaterina was pursuing a political gamble amid the Red Death crisis, aiming to reshape Lu Ying’s power structure.

• Suren and Ekaterina appeared before the reporters and rode a golden carriage through Lington toward Friedrich Palace.
• Suren asked about Ekaterina’s strength, and she explained that she had entered the Sacred Realm through the Poetry Pathway with help from Oxiang's Chapters of Poetry and Katyusha’s poem.
• Ekaterina told Suren that the Regadi Family’s Blasphemous Crown could enhance domain comprehension and was accessible only to the family head or first heir, implicitly urging him to kill William.
• Suren and Ekaterina received Empress Charlotte’s blessing at Friedrich Palace and left without incident.
• Ekaterina explained that the Empress had likely made a deal with the Giant Hermitage Society and was tolerating the Red Death for power.
• Ekaterina described the crisis as a political gamble in which rival factions expected the Red Death to trigger a struggle for control, and Suren realized the scale of her ambitions.

Suren and Ekaterina celebrated their wedding while the Scarlet Potion’s looming spread and the Regadi Family’s Blasphemous Crown drew their attention. The chapter ended with Suren assessing the crown and sensing that William had grown stronger and still wanted to kill him.

• Old John lost his dockworker job after his illness caused him to collapse and cough up blood, leaving him despairing over how his family would survive.
• Suren and Ekaterina married at the Zosimos Alchemy Sanctuary, and Anna caught the bouquet.
• At the wedding banquet, Suren and Ekaterina heard nobles celebrate profits from the Scarlet Potion, while Ekaterina warned that merchants would soon release a large stockpile.
• Kelson Regadi and the Regadi elders summoned Suren, who went with Ekaterina to meet them.
• Suren appraised the Blasphemous Crown above William and confirmed that it could aid law and domain comprehension, while its use could erode the wearer’s lifespan.
• Suren sensed that William had grown stronger and suspected he still intended to kill him.

At the Regadi court, Ekaterina agreed to trade her Scarlet Potion shares for Southern Railway and Southern Shipping stock, while Suren endured the family’s attempts to control him and discovered that Lady Portia was an Outer God believer. The Regadi elders then discussed their political alliances and promised William that he would marry princess Sophia.

• Ekaterina told King Kelson and Lady Portia that her family had given her half of its Scarlet Potion shares as dowry.
• Ekaterina proposed exchanging the shares for 40% of the Southern Railway Company and 35% of Southern Shipping, and the Regadi royals agreed to arrange the trade.
• Ekaterina asked Suren’s opinion, and he left the decision to her before she went to sign the contract.
• King Kelson ordered Suren to drink a Superior Awakening Potion, and Lady Portia and the elders lectured him to serve the Regadi Family and share information about the Dawn Organization.
• Suren left with Ekaterina and told her that Lady Portia was an Outer God believer; Ekaterina said that explained matters.
• The Regadi elders met without Suren, discussed their alliances and Scarlet Potion plans, and told William that princess Sophia would marry him.

After her wedding, Ekaterina brought Suren to Rose Manor, where they spent the evening experiencing the household’s lavish customs and growing more comfortable with each other. She warned Suren that William and the Regadi Main House might soon attempt to assassinate them, leaving Suren considering how to remove the threat.

• Suren observed that several political enemies of the Lance Family were Outer God believers, while Ekaterina was the hidden strategist behind her family’s plans.
• Suren and Ekaterina arrived at Rose Manor after Anna wished them a happy wedding night and admitted that she envied Ekaterina.
• Ekaterina told Suren that Anna disliked the mine owner she was expected to marry, then joked that Suren might help her.
• Suren and Ekaterina bathed and received massages from Ekaterina’s personal maids at the manor.
• Ekaterina warned Suren that William might target them both and that an assassination attempt could come as soon as Suren revealed his whereabouts.
• Suren decided he needed to find a way to eliminate the threat posed by William.

On their wedding night, William hired the bounty hunter Las Vegas to help kill Suren and another target, while Ekaterina revealed her Starry Sky Divine Realm to Suren. After sharing wine in a recreation of the Emerald Sacred Land, Ekaterina hinted that she had news that would make Suren feel less cheated, and he passed out before learning what she meant.

• At Monica's Club, William hired Las Vegas to help kill Suren and another person, promising to eliminate the experts around Suren before the attack.
• Ekaterina told Suren that she controlled several of Pierre's organizations and showed him her vast, incomplete Starry Sky Divine Realm.
• Ekaterina brought Suren to a recreation of the Daru Tribe's Emerald Sacred Land, where they drank Kvasir's Immortal Poet's Honey Wine together.
• Ekaterina asked Suren whether he wanted to exercise his rights as her husband, and he refused, saying he was himself and Fick was Fick.
• Ekaterina said her proposal was meant to make Suren feel less cheated when he heard certain news, but the wine overwhelmed him before she explained.

After waking in an intimate but still restrained situation with Ekaterina, Suren learned that their alliance against William’s assassination plot might involve the Lu Ying royal family. He remained at Rose Manor, helped Ekaterina study a cursed novel that transformed her understanding of her domain, and left with her for their planned honeymoon as the watching forces began to move.

• Suren woke beside Ekaterina at Rose Manor and learned that Immortal Poet's Honey Wine had left his memories of the previous night unclear.
• Ekaterina revealed intelligence linking Las Vegas, the assassin hired by William, to the Lu Ying Empress and warned that Suren and Ekaterina might be targeted during their honeymoon.
• Suren and Ekaterina planned to use their honeymoon as an opportunity to draw out their enemies and spent the next days appearing together at Rose Manor.
• Suren lent Ekaterina Fatal Novel: Land of the Yellow Springs, and after reading it, she declared that she finally understood something important.
• Suren and Ekaterina left for their honeymoon, prompting the forces watching Rose Manor to begin moving.

Suren and Ekaterina traveled south from Lington in their mobile Steam Castle, reading, enjoying the countryside, and preparing for a planned confrontation near Worton City. After nightfall, they discovered a cursed corpse by the roadside, and Suren realized an ambush had begun.

• Suren read Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript and learned that its Dragon Rune Golden Body required an entire giant dragon as its primary material.
• Leona reported that William Regadi had left Lington and was expected to ambush them near Worton City, so Ekaterina ordered the distribution of special medicine for Red Death.
• Suren gave Ekaterina a rose-gold necklace with a Spatial Coordinate, and she accepted it and asked him to put it on her.
• Suren and Ekaterina traveled through the countryside, enjoying a picnic and taking photographs before continuing toward Worton City.
• The Steam Castle stopped after the driver spotted a corpse by the roadside, and Suren found it bore a Voodoo Curse and sensed that a nearby village had no living souls.
• Suren's Black Crow warned him of an ambush, and he realized that the attackers had arrived.

Suren used his fight with William to test the pressure of the Seventh Tier before trapping him in the House of Wax and overwhelming him with four powerful wax figures. Las Vegas’s curse failed to kill Suren and killed Las Vegas instead, but the bounty hunter revived and realized Suren’s Fate/Destiny was terrifyingly strong.

• William ambushed Suren with a wind-element arrow, and Suren followed him to a hillside where the two fought as William used his Seventh-Tier strength to press the attack.
• Suren endured William’s assault as practice, then summoned the House of Wax and revealed four elemental wax figures, including one resembling Herman Regadi.
• William secretly shattered a rune crystal to call for help, and Las Vegas cast the Gaze of Nashmaro using Suren’s blood as its medium.
• The curse struck Suren without harming him, while its backlash killed Las Vegas; moments later, Las Vegas revived and exclaimed in disbelief at Suren’s Fate/Destiny.

Suren and Ekaterina defeated William’s assassination attempt and fought Las Vegas, who discovered Ekaterina’s overwhelming strength. Las Vegas invoked divine power to curse Suren, but the curse backfired and killed him again.

• Las Vegas’s curse against Suren failed, so he raised three corpses to attack Ekaterina’s carriage; the technique’s backlash killed him a second time.
• Suren enslaved William’s soul, collected William’s treasures and corpse, and returned to find Las Vegas attacking the carriage.
• Las Vegas defeated Ralph and entered the carriage, but Ekaterina knocked him back and revealed her formidable combat power.
• Suren and Ekaterina fought Las Vegas together, with Ekaterina using gravity attacks while Suren deployed puppets and wax figures until Las Vegas retreated.
• Las Vegas invoked the Lord of Calamity and empowered his curse against Suren, but Suren’s staged response caused the curse to backfire and kill Las Vegas once more.

Suren and Ekaterina’s plan to use Las Vegas’s curse against the Outer God succeeded, heavily injuring it and triggering a crisis in Lington. As Ekaterina returned to command the response, Suren set off toward the city with Pestoya, who teased him about marrying her sister.

• Suren’s plan used Pestoya’s Divine Fire to collapse the Outer God’s will when Las Vegas cursed him, and Suren and Ekaterina attacked the fallen monk.
• Las Vegas mutated into a monster, but Ekaterina used Astrological Annihilation: Black Hole while Suren restrained it, destroying it and harvesting its soul and knowledge.
• Suren learned that the Outer God had been heavily injured and that the Giant Hermitage Society had begun exposing its members as a zombie tide and political turmoil spread through Lington.
• Suren returned to South City, where Ekaterina boarded an airship to command the battle, and the two parted after their cooperation ended.
• Pestoya emerged from the Rune Black Umbrella and followed Suren, then suggested that he marry her sister and teased him about his past with Sabina.

As the Scarlet Potion merchants were overwhelmed by a mutation outbreak linked to their stock, Suren tested the Blasphemous Crown and discovered that absorbing Outer God parasites could strengthen him. He decided to seek out the densest monster swarms in Lington, hoping to weaken the Outer God and advance amid the disaster.

• Ekaterina secretly had the Lington Mafia distribute the Lance Family’s Red Death treatment for free, ruining the potion merchants’ hoarded Scarlet Potions.
• Mutated monsters erupted across Lington, and Scarlet Potion merchants and nobles were attacked when some of them transformed into monsters that fused together after being struck down.
• Suren examined the Blasphemous Crown, learned that it sharpened his perception and accelerated his skill comprehension at the cost of his lifespan, and found that Dominator’s Haki reduced that cost.
• Suren fought through a horde of monsters in Queen’s District, rescued fleeing civilians, and confirmed that absorbing their parasite-filled remains yielded unusually powerful Life Essence.
• Suren contacted Mr. Black to ask where monsters were most concentrated, planning to absorb parasites, weaken the Outer God, and use the battle to pursue greater strength and comprehension.