Chapter Summaries

Yu Feng learned that the strange creatures shared thoughts and could rapidly learn, while Waver showed him the last restrained specimen. After Qin Zheng summoned Yu Feng alone, the others left, and Scathach confronted Cú Chulainn about avoiding a fight.

• Waver explained that the creatures shared thoughts and gained regenerative abilities as they learned or combined, while Merlin, Emiya, and Chen Gong examined their last captive.
• Waver led Yu Feng and the others to the completed wooden house, then revealed that Qin Zheng had summoned only Yu Feng.
• Yu Feng entered the house alone, while Little Mo left in a sulk and Gawain followed her.
• Cú Chulainn tried to leave, but Scathach called him out for planning to look for women and challenged him to a fight.
• Cú Chulainn backed away and asked Scathach to hold back, prompting her to give him an enigmatic smile.

Yu Feng met with Qin Zheng, who explained that the third Yu Feng—the version from proper history—had remained in Xianyang and was connected to the world’s survival. Yu Feng learned the world needed a Seed of the World to escape destruction, and that the Holy Grail was the only way to provide one.

• Scathach dragged the unwilling Cú Chulainn away to find another place to fight.
• Yu Feng joined Qin Zheng for tea and let him address Yu Feng as he wished.
• Qin Zheng told Yu Feng that the third Yu Feng, the version from proper history before his death, had always been in Xianyang and that Merlin seemed to know about him.
• Qin Zheng explained that the Counter Force would destroy the world unless it gained what it lacked and became part of human history.
• Qin Zheng said the world needed a Seed of the World and that the Holy Grail was the only way to place one there.
• Yu Feng realized he might have to find Qin Zi Xi, who possessed the Holy Grail.

Yu Feng learned that obtaining the Holy Grail and filling the Seed of the World would resolve the Singularity, but he also had to stop a potential Beast from taking shape. He left to consider the danger, knowing that the Beast might be Beast I or Beast II and would come while Xianyang remained in the world.

• Qin Zheng told Yu Feng that obtaining the Holy Grail and filling the Seed of the World would protect the world from the Counter Force and resolve the Singularity.
• Qin Zheng explained that Yu Feng’s next task was to eliminate a potential Beast before it fully formed, possibly Beast I or Beast II.
• Yu Feng asked where the Beast was, and Qin Zheng said it would come as long as Xianyang remained in the world.
• Yu Feng left Qin Zheng and walked through Xianyang, thinking over what he had learned and reviewing the known Beasts and other would-be Beasts.

Yu Feng considered Qin Zheng's claims about Xianyang and the unfinished world, then examined the Seed of the World and sensed someone watching him. Qin Zi Xi confronted Saver, who warned that Qin Zi Xi's plan endangered the world's balance, but Qin Zi Xi argued that humanity was already beyond redemption.

• Yu Feng reflected on whether Xianyang was an anomaly and wondered if the Seed of the World could support an entire world.
• Yu Feng sensed someone watching him, but the presence vanished before he could identify it.
• Qin Zi Xi watched from a crumbling city wall and recognized what Yu Feng had discovered.
• Saver warned Qin Zi Xi that his path was dangerous and that success would destroy the world's balance.
• Qin Zi Xi rejected Saver's warning and declared that humanity had already fallen beyond redemption.

Qin Zi Xi dismissed Saver’s concerns and saw through Saber’s apparent departure, while Merlin led Saber through a dark desert and struggled to avoid provoking her. The chapter left Merlin wary of Saber’s keen instincts and temper.

• Saver accepted that Qin Zi Xi had made up his mind and explained that he had intervened because Qin Zi Xi’s new world threatened the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Qin Zi Xi told Saber that he needed her strength, but Saber mocked his inability to restrain her without Command Spells.
• Qin Zi Xi recognized that Saber’s departure had been a nightmare illusion, and the false Saber vanished into cherry-colored petals.
• Merlin addressed Saber as Ria while they crossed a dark desert and asked whether she had anything to say after he rescued her.
• Saber warned Merlin against improper thoughts, and he concealed his fear that she would strike him with the Wind King Hammer.

Lily and Merlin hurried through the desert after sensing something behind them, but Merlin vanished in a swirl of pink petals. In Xianyang, Yu Feng searched for Gilgamesh until a familiar stranger appeared and triggered his sealed memories.

• Lily taunted Merlin about how quickly he had once hidden from the fairies in Britain.
• Merlin sensed something approaching from the dark desert and urged Lily to hurry.
• Merlin disappeared, leaving drifting pink petals as Lily turned to face the desert.
• Yu Feng failed to investigate beyond Xianyang’s barrier and continued searching for Gilgamesh.
• A stranger appeared beside Yu Feng, and the sight of them awakened his sealed memories.

Yu Feng encountered Aige, who recognized him as Ge and embraced him with affection. He invited her to accompany him as he went to find someone, while Gilgamesh decided to keep watching them.

• Yu Feng instinctively called Aige by name, and she happily embraced him, saying she had finally found him.
• Aige told Yu Feng she only needed to know he was Ge and did not care about his other women or secrets.
• Yu Feng invited Aige to come with him to find someone, and she eagerly agreed.
• Yu Feng and Aige left hand in hand as Gilgamesh watched and Enkidu breathed a sigh of relief.
• Gilgamesh said he had not had his fill of watching and left with Enkidu.

In Xianyang, Yu Feng searched for Gilgamesh with Aige, who revealed that she knew about Shiki and Rin. Her knowledge unsettled him, while the chapter explained how meeting Yu Feng had awakened Sajyou Manaka’s sense of self and first love.

• Yu Feng searched Xianyang for Gilgamesh with Aige, who clung to his arm and asked whom they were looking for.
• Yu Feng asked whether Aige knew Gilgamesh, and she froze before denying that she knew him or his whereabouts.
• Aige mentioned Shiki and Rin, making Yu Feng stiffen and wonder how she knew their names.
• The narration explained that Sajyou Manaka had once been nearly omniscient and felt hollow until she met Yu Feng, whom she could neither understand nor control.
• Aige smiled at Yu Feng and asked whether it was strange that she knew Shiki and Rin.

Yu Feng realized Aige was restraining her killing intent for his sake, then encountered Ritsuka Fujimaru, who was terrified of Aige despite Mash reassuring her. Ritsuka remained convinced Aige was frightening.

• Yu Feng wondered whether Aige had changed because she cared more about his opinion than attacking people for his sake.
• Aige avoided explaining herself further and changed the subject by asking about the person they were looking for.
• Ritsuka Fujimaru surprised Yu Feng by jumping onto his back, and Aige briefly showed killing intent before suppressing it.
• Ritsuka stumbled over her words while trying to explain that she knew a different version of Aige, then denied knowing her in the present.
• Mash told Ritsuka that Aige was not scary, but Ritsuka privately remained certain that she was terrifying.

Yu Feng and Aige searched for Gilgamesh, but Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash could not tell them where he was. Gilgamesh watched Yu Feng from afar with Enkidu and declared that Yu might become his second dearest friend if he survived the ordeal ahead.

• Aige paid little attention to Ritsuka Fujimaru, who nervously tried to leave with Mash.
• Yu Feng asked Ritsuka Fujimaru where Gilgamesh was, and Mash suggested he look for Enkidu.
• Yu Feng let Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash go, and Aige asked whether she was frightening.
• Yu Feng and Aige resumed their search, then heard a familiar voice as Gilgamesh watched them from a distance.
• Gilgamesh drank from the Holy Grail and told Enkidu that Yu Feng could become his second dearest friend if he emerged unharmed from the purgatory.

Yu Feng reunited with Ryougi Ori and Rin Tohsaka while Aige clung to his arm, prompting a tense standoff between Aige and Rin. Ori helped defuse Rin’s anger, and Yu Feng ended the encounter by reassuring Aige that she was cute too.

• Yu Feng greeted Ryougi Ori and Rin Tohsaka while Aige held tightly to his arm.
• Rin Tohsaka and Aige silently confronted each other as Ryougi Ori warned Yu Feng to handle the situation properly.
• Yu Feng asked Rin Tohsaka and Aige to calm down, and Rin backed off after Aige did.
• Rin Tohsaka scolded Yu Feng, but he and Ryougi Ori flustered her by calling her cute.
• Rin Tohsaka led Ryougi Ori away, and Yu Feng reassured the dissatisfied Aige that she was cute too.

On the ruined city walls, Qin Zi Xi confronted Ashiya Douman about his sympathy for humanity and Douman’s hidden thoughts. In Xianyang City, Yu Feng learned that Gilgamesh’s Holy Grail could not fulfill his goal, then followed Aige as she took the lead.

• Qin Zi Xi warned Ashiya Douman that he would suffer the same fate as Goetia’s envoy if he had not come with a useful purpose.
• Ashiya Douman claimed that the alien visitor did not know his true thoughts and that both it and Qin Zi Xi still needed him.
• Yu Feng learned that Gilgamesh had avoided him because of the Holy Grail, and Gilgamesh said it could not achieve Yu Feng’s goal.
• Gilgamesh left after giving Sajyou Manaka a deep look, while Aige took Yu Feng’s hand and led him onward.
• Gawain caught Mordred watching Yu Feng and Aige, and Mordred told him to follow them because she did not know where they were staying.

Yu Feng returned to Xianyang and discovered that Aige was Jack’s mother before Merlin arrived with Lily. Yu Feng fled to a spare room to avoid an awkward encounter, while Lily recognized something about Aige and the others reunited after their own travels.

• Waver explained that Xianyang’s additional buildings had already existed and had only been improved.
• Yu Feng reunited with Emiya, Okita, Napoleon, and the recovering Li Shuwen, then learned that Aige was Jack’s mother.
• Merlin arrived with Lily, prompting Yu Feng to make an excuse and leave for a room.
• Lily exchanged a knowing look with Aige, then went to find a room on her own, while Merlin hurried away after sensing something.
• Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash returned with the battered Cú Chulainn and Scathach, along with Mordred and Gawain.

Yu Feng and the others prepared for the final battle against Qin Zi Xi, assessing the enemy forces and deciding to reinforce Xianyang with barriers. As the group split up to prepare, Lily gave Mordred unexpected guidance, leaving Mordred stunned but accepting it.

• Yu Feng joined the group's meeting, where Waver and Chen Gong concluded that Qin Zi Xi's forces would come to Xianyang and that the final battle should be fought outside the city.
• Lily identified Qin Zi Xi's known forces, including Archer, Lancer, two Assassins, Berserker, and Phantom Spirits, and revealed that Berserker was Enkidu.
• Yu Feng proposed erecting barriers and strengthening Xianyang's defenses, then dragged Waver away to help plan the barriers; Lily took Merlin, and Li Bai recruited Chen Gong.
• After the group dispersed to prepare, Lily advised Mordred to be more careful in the final battle, and Mordred accepted her words in disbelief.

The chapter recounted the Temple of Azrael and the Old Man of the Mountain, then described an anomalous figure who reached the mausoleum and died without hearing its bell. Several days earlier, Faldius questioned his silent Shadow Assassin about its wish for the Holy Grail, wary of the danger it posed even to its Master.

• The chapter described the Temple of Azrael as a secluded destination associated with death and the end of one's life.
• The Old Man of the Mountain appeared to Hassan-i-Sabbahs who strayed from their vows and executed them.
• An unnamed living figure crossed the boundary between the present world and the underworld, reached the mausoleum, and died after speaking with its Guardian.
• Several days earlier, Faldius asked his newly contracted Shadow Assassin what it wished for from the Holy Grail.
• Faldius considered using Command Spells to control the Assassin but feared that doing so would cost him everything.

Yu Feng completed a mana-converting barrier outside Xianyang, but before he and the others could return, magical beasts poured through a shattered sky and attacked the city. As Xianyang's defenders fought back, Qin Zheng feared the assault would split their forces across two battlefields.

• Yu Feng finished the complex barrier with Waver's help, and Emiya explained that it converted external mana while providing concealment and defense.
• Emiya told Yu Feng and Waver that Merlin had reported the enemy's movement and that they would likely arrive near Xianyang that night.
• Rin Tohsaka spotted cracks in the sky above Xianyang, and countless magical beasts rushed through them toward the city.
• Okita Souji joined the fight and tried to rally the soldiers, while Li Shuwen urged her to focus on killing the enemy.
• Gawain, Napoleon, Mordred, Setanta, and others fought the magical beasts rampaging through Xianyang.
• Qin Zheng worried that the beasts' attack would divide Xianyang's limited forces, while Yu Feng reacted with surprise to an accident outside the city.

Yu Feng fought through Semiramis’s forces on his way to Xianyang, where a dangerous outsider began descending into the world. Inside the city, Qin Zheng confronted Qin Zi Xi about a childhood promise, while Qin Zi Xi revealed he wanted to witness humanity’s final struggle before its destruction.

• Semiramis sent Bashmu and a mass of Phantom Spirits against Yu Feng, but Old Man of the Mountain and Grand Duke of the Great Year intervened, allowing Yu Feng to head for Xianyang.
• Li Shuwen intercepted Yan Qing and stayed behind to fight him, while Yu Feng continued toward the city.
• Shakespeare’s summoned shell twisted as an unknown existence descended through it, and Shakespeare eagerly watched the scene unfold according to his script.
• Yu Feng and Arthur Pendragon sensed the danger above Xianyang’s city wall as Lily and Mordred also felt the ominous presence.
• Qin Zheng reminded Qin Zi Xi of his promise, and Qin Zi Xi admitted he had agreed because he wanted to see humanity’s final struggle before destruction.

An alien, chaotic beast descended over Xianyang, threatening humanity and the world. Arthur and Yu Feng resolved to fight it, while Shiki Ryougi headed toward the city wall and Sajyou Manaka stayed behind.

• Shiki Ryougi left Sajyou Manaka to head toward the city wall, and Sajyou Manaka realized she had been tricked into staying behind.
• Aige finished off the approaching demonic beasts as a massive shadow covered Xianyang.
• Sajyou Manaka recognized the descending creature and called it ugly.
• Arthur and Yu Feng observed the chaotic beast as it corrupted the surrounding mana.
• Yu Feng declared they would beat the beast, and Arthur agreed to fight.

Yu Feng and Arthur destroyed the Chaos creature that had descended to open a passage, then entered Xianyang while Emiya and Cú Chulainn stayed behind to face Berserker. Emiya told Cú Chulainn to fight Berserker while he covered him from the rear.

• Yu Feng and Arthur fought the Chaos creature while Waver and Emiya covered them, and Arthur identified how it triggered its explosions.
• Yu Feng protected himself and Arthur with Runes, and they attacked the creature as it shrank and created faceless copies of them.
• Yu Feng realized the creature was a medium opening a passage, so he and Arthur unleashed Excalibur and the Sword of the Holy Knight to destroy it.
• Cú Chulainn flew into the group after losing to Berserker, whom Yu Feng recognized as resembling Enkidu.
• Yu Feng, Arthur, and Waver entered Xianyang, leaving Emiya and Cú Chulainn to confront Berserker.
• Emiya told Cú Chulainn to fight Berserker while he provided cover, angering Cú Chulainn.

Qin Zi Xi left to face the crisis after Qin Zheng wished him a victorious return, while the demonic beasts poured into the city and the world began to transform. Gilgamesh and Enkidu confronted Berserker, trapping him with the Chains of Heaven and sending him back.

• Qin Zheng wished Qin Zi Xi a triumphant return, and Qin Zi Xi left as Qin Zheng watched him go.
• Emiya Alter met Sengo Muramasa, while Okita Souji defeated Vlad the Impaler III with the semi-finished sword Muramasa had forged for her.
• A powerful figure appeared in the sky and changed the world, as Gilgamesh and Enkidu arrived to fight Berserker.
• Gilgamesh struck Berserker with an axe from the Gate of Babylon and bound him with the Chains of Heaven.
• Enkidu apologized to Berserker, pierced him with the Chains of Heaven, and made him vanish in light.