Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo and Ritsuka summoned Xu Fu in a Qin-era Lostbelt, where she panicked at finding herself back in her homeland. Reines El-Melloi arrived as Rider with Volumen Hydrargyrum, reunited with Bai Mo, and told him what had happened to Kayneth.

• Bai Mo told Xu Fu that she had been summoned to Qin, prompting her to panic and try to flee.
• Reines used Volumen Hydrargyrum to stop Xu Fu, then revealed she was Rider, a Pseudo-Servant of Sima Yi.
• Reines recognized Bai Mo from Kayneth's portrait and thanked him for looking after her brother in Fuyuki.
• Reines told Bai Mo that Kayneth had suffered trauma, stepped down as Lord, and gone to Romania, while she recruited a talented student using legal methods.

Bai Mo’s group established a mountain base and learned that the Great Qin Lostbelt was divided by the Hong Canal, with Blue Country ruled by the Lan Clan on the other side. As Bai Mo prepared to infiltrate Blue Country, Hinako Akuta crashed nearby in a falling pod.

• Bai Mo built a furnished mountain base, and Ritsuka and Reines went to negotiate with the villagers.
• Bai Mo questioned Xu Fu about her sudden willingness to work, but let her keep her secret after warning her not to cause trouble.
• Xu Fu returned to her workshop to make puppet familiars that could help her find Lady Yu.
• Ritsuka reported that the Hong Canal divided Great Qin from Blue Country, which was ruled by the Lan Clan and known to Qin’s people mainly as a land of rebels.
• As Bai Mo prepared to infiltrate Blue Country, Hinako Akuta’s burning pod fell from the sky, and Bai Mo split it in two with a vacuum blade.

Xu Fu’s research was interrupted when Bai Mo shot down an incoming pod carrying Hinako Akuta and her Servant, and Chaldea attempted to negotiate with the Crypter. Hinako attacked them with bitter accusations, and Ophelia’s attempt to calm her only provoked further insults.

• Xu Fu panicked at an explosion outside, but Bai Mo told her he had shot down an airdropped pod to protect the workshop.
• Bai Mo identified the pod’s survivors as a Servant and an elemental, while Arcueid explained that she had arrived to assist Chaldea.
• Hinako Akuta emerged from the burning pod with her masked Saber and charged toward Bai Mo’s group.
• Bai Mo tried to negotiate, but Hinako insulted Chaldea and ordered Saber to attack them.
• Ophelia contacted Hinako, who accused her of betraying the Crypters and mocked her feelings for Wodime.

Bai Mo watched Ritsuka and Reines battle Hinako Akuta and Saber, but their fight was interrupted by bounty hunters from Blue Country who captured Hinako and revealed that they trafficked people from Qin. Bai Mo freed Hinako and Saber with his power, and the bounty hunters realized they had provoked a formidable opponent.

• Ritsuka insisted on facing Hinako Akuta and Saber herself while Bai Mo watched for the group on the nearby hill.
• Reines's Volumen Hydrargyrum gained the upper hand against Saber, while Ritsuka questioned Hinako Akuta's strange battle orders.
• Seven bounty hunters from Blue Country arrived on flying devices, surrounded Hinako Akuta, and demanded that Bai Mo hand her over.
• The bounty hunters described Hinako Akuta as a lackey of the Corpse Emperor and admitted they treated people from Qin as two-legged sheep.
• Bai Mo's pressure snapped Hinako Akuta's bonds and dispersed the mercury restraining Saber, while the bounty hunters began bleeding and recognized his power.

Bai Mo rescued Hinako Akuta from the bounty hunters, killed the men who fled, and questioned their leader about the Blue Country. The fat man revealed that Qin Hong had disappeared and that the country’s new ruler was preparing an inauguration, then connected the ruler’s Tower of Babel to the appearance of a tree.

• Skinny Monkey fled with Hinako Akuta on his modified flying device, but Bai Mo caught and decapitated him before Hinako accidentally crashed in the mountains.
• Bai Mo killed the other bounty hunters as they fled, while Saber thanked Ritsuka and the others before heading toward Hinako’s crash site.
• Bai Mo found the fat bounty hunter hiding near the mountain and dragged him to the cave entrance, where he showed him the six severed heads.
• Bai Mo questioned the fat man, who said Qin Hong had disappeared and the Blue Country was preparing to inaugurate a ruler known as the Son of Heaven or Western Emperor.
• The fat bounty hunter described the Blue Country’s executions of powerful people who refused to submit and said its ruler’s Tower of Babel looked like a big tree.

Bai Mo captured and revived seven bounty hunters to interrogate them about the Blue Country and its Blue Dream Organization. After Xu Fu accidentally revealed Yu Mei-ren’s identity, Bai Mo asked her to examine the captives and their implanted Dream Creators and magecraft measures.

• The fat bounty hunter tried to poison and attack Ritsuka, but Bai Mo’s Nidhogg’s Bite consumed his poison arts and destroyed his body.
• Bai Mo used matter reconstruction to restore the fat hunter and his six companions, while Enkidu kept their powers sealed.
• Bai Mo brought Xu Fu out of hiding and asked her to perform surgery on the captives.
• Xu Fu accidentally identified Hinako Akuta as Yu Mei-ren and Lanling Wang, allowing Sherlock Holmes to confirm Yu Mei-ren’s identity.
• Bai Mo explained that the captives were alive for Xu Fu to examine, and Xu Fu prepared to torture them for mistreating Yu Mei-ren.

Hinako Akuta returned to Xianyang after her encounter with Chaldea, while the Emperor dismissed the threat and focused on gaining power from Yu Mei-ren and the Blue Dream Company. Bai Mo analyzed the bounty hunters’ thought-key patterns and took Chaldea directly to Xianyang, where its interests could still put it at odds with the Lostbelt.

• Hinako Akuta rejected Lanling Wang’s hopes that Chaldea might save their world and complained that she lacked the power and support to fight the Blue Country’s influence.
• The Captain of the Guard reported Chaldea’s arrival and the presence of someone with at least seven hundred and fifty thousand horsepower to the Emperor.
• The Emperor ordered soldiers from Mount Li to be brought out of the freezers but refused to attack Blue Country, saying power was the foundation of everything.
• Xu Fu completed her analysis of the bounty hunters’ thought-key patterns and sent a familiar carrying Bai Mo’s message to Xianyang.
• Bai Mo boarded a modified aircraft with Xu Fu, Ritsuka, and the others and declared that Chaldea would go straight to Xianyang despite potentially becoming enemies of the Lostbelt.

Bai Mo and Chaldea arrived at Xianyang, where Xiang Yu attacked their aircraft. Bai Mo defeated him without serious harm, and Hinako Akuta surrendered before the palace guard invited them to meet the emperor.

• Ritsuka asked Bai Mo whether he was interested in the Qin Lostbelt, but he showed little concern.
• Hinako Akuta prepared to face Chaldea as Kuaiji Type Zero, who also called himself Xiang Yu, arrived to assist her.
• Xiang Yu launched repeated blade attacks at Bai Mo’s aircraft, then leaped toward it in a spinning assault.
• Bai Mo caught Xiang Yu’s blade and used his force to hurl him into the distance.
• Hinako Akuta surrendered and realized she had been tricked into testing Bai Mo’s strength.
• The captain of the guard invited Bai Mo, Hinako Akuta, and the others to meet His Majesty.

Bai Mo and the Chaldea group entered Epang Palace, where he sensed artists forced to produce works praising Qin Shi Huang. When the emperor addressed Xu Fu about the immortality elixir, Bai Mo stopped her from kneeling and asserted that his Servant would not bow.

• The guard captain explained that Epang Palace’s lower levels housed musicians and artists who created works praising Qin Shi Huang.
• Bai Mo shared what he sensed with the group, and Da Vinci was angered by the artists’ cramped conditions and lack of creative freedom.
• Xu Fu suggested that Bai Mo help raise a rebellion, and he agreed that it was not a bad idea.
• The group entered a vast hall, where Qin Shi Huang’s voice asked Xu Fu whether she had found the elixir of immortality.
• Xu Fu apologized and began to kneel, but Bai Mo lifted her and told her that his Servant would not kneel.
• Hinako Akuta remained kneeling beside Lanling Wang and felt awkward compared with the standing Chaldea group.

Bai Mo sensed that Qin Shi Huang’s consciousness survived as a primordial spirit inside the iron sphere, while Bai Wunan warned against absorbing it. Qin Shi Huang pardoned Hinako Akuta’s failure to kneel but put Xu Fu on trial for deceiving the emperor, and Bai Mo defended her by challenging Qin Shi Huang’s own responsibility.

• Bai Mo sensed a primordial spirit inside the iron sphere and suspected it belonged to Ying Zheng, whose lifespan had long since run out.
• Giant Shark proposed destroying the sphere and absorbing the primordial spirit, but Bai Wunan rejected the plan because Bai Mo’s primordial spirit was damaged.
• Xu Fu joked that she would provide Bai Mo with funeral offerings if he died, and Qin Shi Huang pardoned Hinako Akuta for remaining on her knees.
• Qin Shi Huang accused Xu Fu of deceiving the emperor and offered her a chance to defend herself, while Bai Mo declared that he would protect his Servant.
• Bai Mo argued that the immortal herb might have been taken by someone else, then questioned whether Qin Shi Huang had been derelict by spending the people’s resources on the search for immortality.

Qin Shi Huang pardoned Xu Fu after accepting responsibility for the choices that led to her search for immortality, but Bai Mo’s blunt remarks caused Xu Fu to faint. After she awoke, Bai Mo and the others visited, and Ritsuka tried to discuss Hinako Akuta’s return to Chaldea, which Hinako rejected.

• Bai Mo challenged Qin Shi Huang over the past, and Qin Shi Huang admitted his responsibility and pardoned Xu Fu.
• Bai Mo’s comments about Qin Shi Huang’s mercury consumption made Xu Fu faint, and she dreamed of Qin Shi Huang drowning her.
• Xu Fu woke in a Qin-dynasty bedroom and asked Ritsuka to tell her the story of Jiang Taigong fishing.
• Ritsuka explained that Qin Shi Huang had ended the confrontation and sent them to the room, while Xu Fu blamed Bai Mo for nearly giving her a heart attack.
• Bai Mo, Hinako Akuta, and the others visited Xu Fu, and Hinako said she had no attachment to Chaldea despite Ritsuka’s invitation to discuss returning.

Bai Mo questioned Hinako Akuta about Qin Shi Huang, the Lostbelt, and her devotion to its Xiang Yu, while she explained the emperor’s survival and the bronze nails that sealed people’s powers. After Arcueid and Ritsuka challenged Hinako’s attachment to a Xiang Yu with no shared past, she stormed out, and Xiang Yu arrived to invite Bai Mo to negotiate with the First Emperor.

• Hinako Akuta agreed to answer Bai Mo’s questions and said Qin Shi Huang had preserved himself as an AI using Shang dynasty technology.
• Hinako explained that Qin Shi Huang used bronze nails to seal Magnetic Field Power and preserve people’s Primordial Spirits, including hers and those of the Mount Li residents and Li Shuwen.
• Hinako said she served Qin Shi Huang because she could remain with Lord Xiang Yu, but Bai Mo pointed out that the Lostbelt’s Xiang Yu had no shared history with her.
• Arcueid and Ritsuka challenged Hinako’s attachment to the Lostbelt Xiang Yu, and Hinako angrily stormed out after Ritsuka called it a substitute meal.
• Xiang Yu told Xu Fu that he was there on the First Emperor’s orders and invited Bai Mo outside to negotiate.

Qin Shi Huang authorized Bai Mo to receive nearly any support he needed for an assault on the Blue Country, while Bai Mo prepared to depart the next day and secretly treated the sick in Epang Palace. The chapter left Bai Mo set to seek intelligence and a concealed route into the Blue Country, as a woman mistook his healing for Qin Shi Huang’s divine power.

• Qin Shi Huang questioned Li Shuwen about Bai Mo and ordered that Bai Mo receive all support except scholars while Qin Shi Huang focused on finding a vessel for his body.
• Bai Mo learned that he could recruit people frozen on Mount Li, including former opponents of Qin, and heard how Landao Tianwu had stolen many warriors decades earlier.
• Bai Mo told Kuaiji Type Zero that he would leave for the Blue Country the next day, demanded intelligence and a concealed route, and insisted that Kuaiji Type Zero accompany him to protect Ritsuka.
• Bai Mo secretly used the Asura Way to treat the sick among the people sleeping in Epang Palace’s lowest level.
• A woman saw a painter’s lung disease heal and encouraged him to believe that Qin Shi Huang had noticed his work, without realizing Bai Mo had treated him.

Bai Mo’s group set out for Blue Country with Qin Liangyu as their military overseer and Kuaiji Type Zero assigned to protect Ritsuka, Xu Fu, and Reines. On the way, Bai Mo learned that Blue Country’s ruler, the Western Emperor, was Zhang Xianzhong, who had rebelled in Qin Liangyu’s hometown.

• Qin Shi Huang reprimanded Hinako Akuta, ordered Kuaiji Type Zero to take his own life, then transferred him to Bai Mo after Bai Mo intervened.
• Qin Shi Huang appointed Qin Liangyu as military overseer and sent Bai Mo’s group toward Blue Country in an armored vehicle.
• Bai Mo read intelligence about the Mount Li explosion and the stolen frozen soldiers while Qin Liangyu offered information about former Great Qin retainers.
• A group of Qin citizens asked to flee to Blue Country, but Qin Liangyu threatened them; Bai Mo stopped her and used a rune of suggestion to send them home.
• Bai Mo found Qin Shi Huang’s handwritten note identifying the Western Emperor as Zhang Xianzhong, a rebel from Qin Liangyu’s hometown.

Bai Mo and his companions entered Blue Country, where its neon-lit prosperity contrasted with the farmland beyond the border. While the group explored a mall, Reines recognized its layout as Han Xin’s Five-Army Formation, and Bai Mo revealed they were looking for the city’s strongest person so they could enter under a different guise and reach Qin Hong.

• Bai Mo disabled the border checkpoint’s control panel, and Xu Fu cursed a guard who had tried to detain them while Bai Mo paralyzed his legs.
• The group entered Blue Country and, despite Qin Liangyu’s objections, Bai Mo led Ritsuka and the others to a mall to eat.
• Qin Liangyu stayed with the vehicle, drove off thieves who tried to steal it, and chased them when they escaped.
• Reines examined the mall’s layout and recognized it as the Five-Army Formation Han Xin had used against Xiang Yu.
• Bai Mo explained that he had come to find the city’s strongest person and planned to reach Qin Hong under a different guise before dealing with him and Zhang Xianzhong.

Bai Mo and his companions fought through Han Xin’s forces in Bustling Metropolis, where Han Xin revealed that a reactor would destroy the city in ten minutes and challenged them to a final battle. Bai Mo struck Han Xin with the Orca Tyrant Fist and sent him crashing into the distant city wall, leaving his fate unclear.

• Bai Mo and Xiang Yu fought their way through the mind-controlled brutes while Ritsuka and Reines tried to break the formation.
• Hinako Akuta used Laevateinn to burn away the bounded field, and Han Xin appeared and refused Bai Mo’s request for passage to the capital.
• Han Xin revealed the reactor’s ten-minute countdown and explained that he wanted to die in battle after centuries of war and a life with only one year left.
• Han Xin transformed and fought Xiang Yu, gaining the upper hand with his Unorthodox and Orthodox Mutually Generating Fist.
• Bai Mo defeated the seventy-two brutes, intercepted Han Xin’s attack, and struck him with the Orca Tyrant Fist, sending him through several buildings into the city wall.

Bai Mo revived Han Xin after defeating him, then learned that Qin Shi Huang was still alive and asked Han Xin whether he had ever considered living differently from a ruler’s pawn. Han Xin agreed to help the group, but defended Qin Shi Huang’s rule as the only way their world could move forward.

• Bai Mo used the Asura Way to restore Han Xin after his head exploded, while Tiandao, Dongni, and Bai Cinan discussed Bai Mo’s strength and training.
• Han Xin asked why Bai Mo had brought him back, and Bai Mo told him that Qin Shi Huang was still alive.
• Han Xin pledged to continue serving Qin Shi Huang and prepare what Bai Mo needed, despite Bai Mo questioning the ruler’s secrecy and Han Xin’s unquestioning loyalty.
• Han Xin explained that he had accepted his place as one of Qin Shi Huang’s chess pieces, while Bai Mo challenged him to consider another way to live.
• Han Xin said the world could only move forward under Qin Shi Huang’s leadership, and later arranged rooms for Ritsuka and the others while waiting for their travel documents.

Bai Mo found that Qin Liangyu had let starving people take the supplies, then protected one of them when Blue Country machines came to arrest her. He destroyed the machines and their signal towers, and urged Qin Liangyu to learn more about the city and why it existed.

• Bai Mo found Qin Liangyu guarding the car after starving thieves had taken the food, and she admitted she had spared them.
• Bai Mo told Qin Liangyu that feeding the starving was not a failure, then asked whether she regretted showing mercy.
• A homeless man warned Bai Mo and Qin Liangyu that Blue Country machines were coming, and the machines targeted Qin Liangyu for evading service.
• Bai Mo blocked a machine from killing the homeless man, sent a message to Qin Hong through its camera, and destroyed the machines and signal towers.
• Bai Mo told Qin Liangyu to examine the city and the reason for its existence, then left her a room key and a box of grilled meat.

Qin Hong received a suspicious message claiming Landao Tianwu was in trouble in Northern Europe, and Landao Tianwu urged him to investigate. The message reached Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong, who killed his eunuch and consort before reading it and learning it concerned Bustling Metropolis.

• Qin Hong smashed the receiver after dismissing the message as a phone scam, but Landao Tianwu appeared and told him to take the caller seriously.
• Qin Hong sent word to have the city searched, and officials passed the message to Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong.
• A eunuch delivered the scroll to Zhang Xianzhong, interrupting him with a consort.
• The consort accused the eunuch of leering at her, and Zhang Xianzhong killed the eunuch in anger.
• Zhang Xianzhong blamed the consort for provoking him, crushed her head, and then read that the message concerned Bustling Metropolis, controlled by Han Xin.

Bai Mo and Xu Fu discovered that a game console was using the Book of Lu Ban’s Soul-Bewitching Method to influence Ritsuka. As Bai Mo considered the wider danger posed by the device, Han Xin reported that Zhang Xianzhong had arrived in Bustling Metropolis, where a huge warship appeared overhead.

• Bai Mo found Ritsuka awake late at night and discovered she had been using an AI chat interface on a game console.
• Bai Mo summoned Xu Fu, who identified the interface’s influence as the Soul-Bewitching Method from the Book of Lu Ban and cleared Ritsuka’s mind with a talisman.
• Bai Mo suspected the Blue Dream Company had spread the spell through a free service and considered examining the city’s residents.
• Han Xin reported that Zhang Xianzhong had unexpectedly arrived in Blue Country’s capital and said his forces were watching for Qin Hong.
• A huge warship bearing the character for loyalty appeared over Bustling Metropolis, lighting the sky with searchlights and explosions.