Chapter Summaries

Gustavo persuaded Victor to lead him to the Shadow Serpent Clan, confident he could destroy it without a direct assault. Meanwhile, Anim Quiniel searched for Victor and the ancient ruins’ coordinates, relying on the power and influence his gifted son had earned.

• Gustavo shrank onto Victor’s shoulder and said they would go to the Shadow Serpent Clan.
• Victor warned Gustavo about the clan’s strength and suggested they seek the Blood Pact Circle Sect’s favor first, but Gustavo insisted he could wipe out the clan without attacking head-on.
• Gustavo set off alone, prompting Victor to follow and guide him; Gustavo bound them with spider silk and used the natural elements to speed their journey.
• Gustavo sensed that the natural elements were suppressed and less pure than those in the Astral Realm, but decided to leave the question to Logo.
• Anim Quiniel berated his followers for failing to capture Victor while they searched the area around the Crawford Family’s castle.
• The chapter revealed that Anim’s son, Ice Realm Auerbach, had joined the Blood River Will Sect after awakening a powerful Fate, and that Anim had destroyed the Crawford Family to obtain the coordinates of ancient ruins.

The Shadow Serpent Clan concluded that the Star God Lineage had likely killed Rosalie and withdrew to Buda City to wait for news of the escaped boy. Disguised by Gustavo, Victor entered Buda City with him, where Gustavo began preparing Hades.

• A Shadow Serpent Clan scout reported finding Rosalie's headless corpse, and Anim ordered the news kept quiet.
• Anim and the clan elders suspected a Star God Lineage expert had intercepted Rosalie, but agreed to wait for word from Green Harbor City before acting.
• Anim ordered the clan to return to Buda City after their search through the valley turned up little.
• Gustavo disguised Victor, and they entered Buda City, the Shadow Serpent Clan's base.
• Gustavo spent a day buying medicinal ingredients, then shut himself in a room and began preparing Hades.

Gustavo refined Hades Poison while checking the Fate Supremacy War rankings and rewards. He resolved to pursue the Legend Holy Light and inspected the Fate Baptism scroll in the Fate Shop, which he needed to remove the effects of Luck Deprivation.

• Gustavo used the Eye of Omniscience to examine Star God Realm materials and smoothly prepared Hades Poison.
• Gustavo checked the rankings, where Sylvia led with nine Fate Gold Coins, followed by Ailiuen with four and Gorgon with three.
• Gustavo coveted the Legend Holy Light and Blade of Thirst among the top rewards, resolving to pursue the Legend Holy Light and hoping to obtain the Blade of Thirst to help kill Diorus, King of Ashes.
• Gustavo opened the Fate Shop and saw that the Fate Baptism scroll could perfect a fate-type talent, but cost 500 Fate Gold Coins and had only two copies in stock.

Gustavo finished preparing Hades Poison, trained Victor in the Black Hole Fission Meditation Method, and led him toward the Shadow Serpent Clan’s base to avenge Victor’s clansmen. He alerted the Star God Lineage to the coming fight, prompting Volatus to assemble Star Soldiers to protect civilians.

• Gustavo completed the Hades Poison and watched Victor meditate using the Black Hole Fission Meditation Method.
• Gustavo told Victor to focus on mobilizing mana and using Thunder Battle Cry, then said Victor would be the main character in their attack on the Shadow Serpent Clan.
• Gustavo disguised Victor with a black cloak, clung to his chest, and guided him through Buda City toward the clan’s base.
• Gustavo sent a message through a Star Soldier, prompting the soldier to report the coming conflict to Volatus.
• Volatus ordered the Star Soldiers to assemble outside the Shadow Serpent Clan’s base to keep civilians safe.

Gustavo secretly poisoned the Shadow Serpent Clan, killing everyone in its compound except its patriarch, Anim. Victor watched the clan’s destruction as Gustavo controlled him, while Anim confronted the cloaked pair and then fled.

• Gustavo spread undetectable spider silk throughout the Shadow Serpent Clan’s compound and began killing its members with Hades Poison.
• Gustavo’s poison killed the clan’s members, servants, and snakes, but Anim survived after being struck with a heavy dose.
• Anim emerged from an exploding building and discovered that the entire Shadow Serpent Clan had been wiped out.
• Gustavo controlled Victor with spider silk and taunted Anim while Victor watched the clan’s destruction.
• Anim confronted Gustavo and then fled on his Blood Serpent.

Anim fled the cloaked attacker, but Gustavo caught up and killed him with Victor’s Thunder Battle Cry. The Shadow Serpent Clan’s traps devastated Buda City, while Yousaili wrongly concluded that the Star God Lineage was behind the clan’s destruction and set out to tell Auerbach.

• Anim chose to flee, and Gustavo took control of Victor’s body and pursued him.
• The Buda Star Envoy and Star Soldiers raised a barrier around the Shadow Serpent Clan compound to protect Buda City.
• Anim threatened to release Aberrant Demons and detonate steam bombs unless the Buda Star Envoy let him escape.
• Gustavo overtook Anim and used Victor’s Thunder Battle Cry to reduce Anim and his Blood Serpent to dust.
• The Shadow Serpent Clan’s cages opened and steam bombs exploded across Buda City, prompting the Buda Star Envoy to order a rescue.
• Yousaili blamed the Star God Lineage for the clan’s destruction and headed to tell Auerbach what he believed had happened.

Gustavo learned that the Shadow Serpent Clan had used Buda City’s mortals as hostages with backing from powerful factions, and he explained to Victor why the Crawford Family had been destroyed. After wiping out the Shadow Serpent Clan, Gustavo set out with Victor to seek a new backer: the Molten Fire Great Star Envoy.

• Gustavo extracted memories from a dead Shadow Serpent clansman and learned that the clan had held Buda City’s mortals hostage to restrain the Star God Lineage.
• Victor revealed that he regretted the Crawford Family had not used mortals in the same way, prompting Gustavo to question his attitude toward them.
• Gustavo guided Victor to realize that the Shadow Serpent Clan’s hostage tactic depended on support from stronger powers, possibly the Blood River Will Cult and the Blood Pact Circle Sect.
• Gustavo told Victor that the Crawford Family had failed to keep secrets and understand itself, contributing to its destruction.
• Gustavo and Victor left to seek a new backer, the Molten Fire Great Star Envoy.

Gustavo claimed rewards for completing the Escape mission and used a Fate Gold Coin to buy a map that revealed the participants on Savage Star. Meanwhile, Lancelot began training in the Fate Master System and offered Radiant Echo exclusive access to Savage Star in exchange for a condition.

• Gustavo received two Fate Gold Coins for exceeding the Escape mission requirements and saw that he had entered the top 100 in the Fate War rankings.
• Gustavo bought a Basic All-Region Map, which showed eighty-nine participants on Savage Star, and considered hunting them to restore his strength.
• On Light Arrow Star, Lancelot began cultivating under teachers from the Soul Well Council and Radiant Echo, whose representatives both hoped to recruit him.
• Lancelot sent Weishande away so he could speak privately with Kuliya, then asked Kuliya to tell Radiant Echo's elders that Savage Star could become the sect's exclusive resource territory if they accepted his condition.
• Kuliya hurried away to report Lancelot's offer, while Lancelot considered how the All-Region Map might help him.

Lancelot deduced that the Radiant Echo Cult was the likeliest group behind the swapped awakening aid potion and decided to negotiate rather than seek revenge. The Radiant Echo leader agreed to send Elder Leimingduo to hear Lancelot’s terms, provided they were reasonable.

• Lancelot reasoned that a high-level Fate Master from a major sect had likely swapped Luoni’s potion and identified the Radiant Echo Cult as the strongest suspect.
• Lancelot decided to lay his cards on the table and settle the matter through negotiation if possible.
• Kuliya reported Lancelot’s message to the Radiant Echo Cult’s leader and elders, carefully repeating his words.
• The Radiant Echo leader judged that Lancelot did not want to oppose the cult and ordered Leimingduo to negotiate with the Medici Family.
• Leimingduo surrounded himself and Kuliya with brilliant light, and they flew out of the hall.

Lancelot offered Radiant Echo support and family influence in exchange for killing Saerfu and the Medici relatives who switched his awakening assistance potion. Radiant Echo agreed to a contract, which Lancelot signed, leaving Leimingduo convinced he had made a ruinous bargain.

• Lancelot met with Elder Leimingduo and Kuliya and offered to help Radiant Echo control Light Arrow Star and gain the Medici Family’s cooperation.
• Lancelot demanded that Radiant Echo kill Saerfu and the collateral family members involved in switching his potion.
• Lancelot offered to sign a contract promising to strengthen Radiant Echo once he gained authority over the family.
• Leimingduo consulted Radiant Echo’s leader and elders, who agreed to the deal.
• Lancelot wrote the terms, sealed the contract with his blood, and handed it to Leimingduo.
• Leimingduo read the contract and regarded Lancelot as the greatest prodigal son he had ever seen.

Lancelot secured the Radiant Echo Cult’s admission that it had arranged the substitution and bound it to a contract protecting his parents while giving him access to its Fate Arts and Kuliya’s service. After buying a map with his Fate Gold Coin, he eyed the remaining Fate War participants, while the cult prepared to take control of the Medici Family and secretly killed Saerfu and Maisili’s collateral branch.

• Lancelot’s contract required the Radiant Echo Cult to kill Saerfu and hostile members of the collateral branches, teach him its Fate Arts, provide Kuliya’s service, and protect his adoptive parents.
• Leimingduo admitted that someone in the cult had arranged the substitution, and Lancelot completed his mission and received a Fate Gold Coin.
• Lancelot used the coin to buy a Basic All-Region Map, found that ninety-three participants remained, and considered killing them for their rewards.
• Leimingduo reported the contract to the Radiant Echo leader, who ordered him to kill Saerfu and the people of Maisili’s branch while concealing the contract from Ed and his wife.
• The Medici Family found Saerfu and the collateral branch members dead without visible wounds.

Lancelot revealed that he had ordered the Radiant Echo Cult to kill Saerfu and Maisili's faction, leaving Ed Medici to question the nobles’ dependence on Fate Master sects. He then prepared to hunt Fate War participants from Light Arrow Star to gain an early advantage.

• Ed Medici learned that Saerfu and the core members of Maisili's faction had been killed with the Radiant Echo Cult's Fang of Nightmare Fate Art.
• Lancelot arrived with Kuliya and told Ed to summon Medusa before he explained the deaths.
• Lancelot admitted that he had ordered the Radiant Echo Cult to kill Saerfu and Maisili's faction in exchange for promised benefits.
• Ed and Medusa questioned how much control Fate Master sects held over great nobles, and Ed acknowledged the need for martial strength.
• Lancelot concluded that the Fate War's first stage rewarded early gains and set out with Kuliya to hunt participants from Light Arrow Star.

Lancelot used the All-Region Map and his influence across Light Arrow Star to hunt Fate Supremacy War participants, collecting Fate Gold Coins to buy Revival Badges and restore his power. After killing Cassius, he continued his campaign and rose to first place in the Fate War Rankings, surpassing the Goddess of Misfortune.

• Lancelot used the All-Region Map to memorize nearby participants’ positions and ordered local nobles to prepare a search.
• Lancelot and Kuliya ambushed Cassius as he entered a house, bound him, and killed him.
• Lancelot used Cassius’s Fate Gold Coin to buy a first-stage Revival Badge and regain strength.
• Lancelot took Kuliya from one region of Light Arrow Star to another, killing participants from both factions and exchanging their coins for Revival Badges.
• Lancelot climbed the Fate War Rankings and displaced the Goddess of Misfortune from first place.

The Goddess of Fortune and the Goddess of Misfortune reacted to Terra rising above her in rank, each seeking to advance her own plans. In Minghu City, Duolong and Hake fought off Aberrant Demons before Fate Masters from the Apocalypse Cult confronted Duolong and demanded he take them to his master.

• The Goddess of Fortune learned that Terra had surpassed the Goddess of Misfortune and resumed working to build her strength.
• The Goddess of Misfortune resolved to move faster and drained a nobleman of his bloodline aura and Fortune, then set her sights on his family.
• Duolong drove a wagon through deserted Minghu City with Hake, who transformed into a giant dog and battled the Aberrant Demons surrounding them.
• Duolong threw his eye-shaped pendant into the air, and its golden light destroyed several Aberrant Demons and cleared the black mist.
• Fate Masters from the Apocalypse Cult stopped Duolong, and their leader demanded that he take them to his master, who had survived the Cult of the End.

Logo used potions and his own methods to restore his strength, develop the Book of Runes, and defeat the followers of the End who came to kill him. Ouljia of the Apocalypse Cult and the Star Guards arrived with Logo’s servant and dog, then questioned him about his power and his potions.

• Logo studied the Star God Realm’s impure Ether Power and the way a Fate warped its master’s spirit, then began strengthening Lude’s body and creating Fate Arts.
• Logo completed the Book of Runes, while followers of the End surrounded his courtyard and attacked him.
• Logo used the Book of Runes to block the attackers, burn them with flames, and bind them while sealing their mana.
• Ouljia arrived with Duolong and Hake restrained by his subordinates, identified himself as a member of the Apocalypse Cult and a Star Guard, and demanded to know why Logo was so strong.
• Logo said he had hidden his strength to avoid provoking the Cult of the End, and Ouljia asked what potion was in the empty bottles.

Logo used his potion-making skill to convince Ouljia to recruit him into the Apocalypse Cult, then helped question captured Cult of the End believers with a truth potion. Their answers revealed that a Time-Eroding Ouroboros follower named Sitele was searching for something in Fallen Leaf Town, and Logo became interested in the demon’s power over time.

• Ouljia discovered that Logo had refined the valuable potions himself, and Logo demonstrated his skill by making another bottle.
• Ouljia invited Logo to join the Apocalypse Cult, and Logo accepted after Ouljia promised him protection and rewards.
• Logo explained that Daniel had consumed a special potion rather than his mana, then Ouljia questioned the captured Cult of the End believers about their mission.
• Logo gave Daniel and the other believers a truth potion, which revealed that they had come to Fallen Leaf Town searching for something under the leadership of Sitele, a Time-Eroding Ouroboros follower.
• Logo considered the Time-Eroding Ouroboros’s ability to wield time and wondered what he might gain from that power.

After completing Lude Xiwa’s revenge, Logo used the Fate Shop’s map to spot a hostile participant approaching and prepared for an attack. Kevin Zhula ambushed him but was killed by Ouljia, and Logo arranged to stay with the Minghu Star Envoy while Ouljia continued the operation.

• Logo killed Daniel, completing Lude Xiwa’s revenge and earning a Fate Gold Coin that he spent on a Basic All-Region Map.
• Logo spotted a participant rapidly approaching and chose to let the attacker come to him while asking Ouljia to finish gathering medicinal ingredients.
• Ouljia left to contact Minghu City’s Star Envoy, and Logo reflected on how Daniel’s death had improved his fusion rate with Lude.
• Kevin Zhula attacked Logo, but Logo’s Golden Armor absorbed the knight’s strike without damage.
• Ouljia killed Kevin Zhula with a storm of golden light, and Logo earned a Fate Gold Coin for assisting in a participant’s death.
• Ouljia urged Logo to leave the dangerous operation, and Logo agreed to stay with the Minghu Star Envoy instead.

Logo advanced to a Level Four Fate Artifact Master, awakened the Felix and Kalenos bloodlines, and offered a potion to secure the Minghu Star Envoy’s protection. The envoy agreed to protect him while Ouljia and the Apocalypse Cult members left to complete their mission.

• Logo used refined metals to turn the Book of Runes into a Fate Artifact and advanced to Level Four.
• Logo drank a potion to replenish his mana and activated the first-stage Revival Badge, awakening the Felix Family’s Web of Time and the Kalenos Family’s Space-Devouring Ring.
• At Minghu City’s Star God Temple, the Minghu Star Envoy discussed the blurred images of the Thirteen Sacred Kings and asked Logo what he would pay for protection.
• Logo offered the envoy a pale blue potion, prompting him to request a larger supply.
• Logo explained that large-scale trades required the Apocalypse Cult’s approval, and Ouljia said they would discuss it after the mission.
• The Minghu Star Envoy promised that no Level Five Truth Fate Master could harm Logo in the temple, while Ouljia warned him to stay there; the others left and Logo followed the envoy deeper inside.

Logo investigated the Star God Temple’s hidden structure before leaving in a false body, while Sitele sacrificed her Followers of the End to activate a locating altar. The altar opened a dimensional rift and revealed a snake fang that could help their lord escape a seal.

• Logo used the Eye of Omniscience to examine the Star God Temple and inferred that it was part of a network built from natural forces and human Fortune.
• Logo created a false body, placed part of his consciousness inside it, and secretly left the Star God Temple in his real body.
• Sitele learned that Daniel and two others had acted against her orders and feared they might expose her location.
• Sitele agreed to activate the locating altar early, then she and her two trusted aides killed the Followers of the End gathered on the swamp island.
• Sitele used the altar to consume the dead Followers’ flesh and souls, opening a dimensional rift that revealed a snake fang left behind by their lord.

Sitele tried to claim the Time-Eroding Ouroboros's fang while Ouljia and the Apocalypse Cult attacked the altar, but Logo intervened without stopping the ritual. The fang emerged from the spacetime rift and chose Logo instead of Sitele.

• Ouljia and the Apocalypse Cult attacked the blood-red altar with golden spheres, and Sitele intercepted them with her Truth Fate Master domain.
• Sitele unleashed a soul shockwave that drove Ouljia into despair, but Logo appeared in a blazing sun and freed him from the attack.
• Ouljia urged Logo to destroy the altar, but Logo restrained him and the other Apocalypse Cult members while watching the fang emerge.
• A brief wave of terror swept over everyone as the fang left the spacetime rift, and Logo suspected it came from the Star God Realm's Plane Will.
• Sitele welcomed the fang, but it bypassed her, circled Logo, and hummed around him.