Chapter Summaries

Sera’s group gathered to finalize their plan to expose Oswald Schneider, while Sera advised Pearl to add Elation to her Preservation without abandoning it. Pearl outlined a coordinated operation for that night, and the group prepared to lure out Oswald and make him wanted.

• Sera explained that he wanted Pearl to incorporate some of Elation’s color while keeping Preservation as her foundation.
• The group gathered at a coffee shop, where Wojian and Weidi reflected on being different sides of a person summoned by the Holy Grail, and Feiying and Sakura arrived alongside Yaoguang and Sparkle.
• Yaoguang revealed that she had finished her work before playing cards, leaving Qingque to struggle with the paperwork at the Yaoqing general’s residence.
• Aventurine arrived as Pearl began detailing the plan to target Market Development Department director Oswald Schneider.
• Busitu, Weidi, Wojian, and Ruan Mei took responsibility for releasing and controlling the Shadow of Voracity to draw out Berserker and Oswald.
• Pearl assigned Sparkle to manage a livestream exposing Oswald, while Diamond and Yaoguang would pressure the board members to declare him wanted and Herta would control public opinion.

Sera assembled a coalition to confront Oswald Schneider, who appeared at the harbor after Busitu’s Shadow of Voracity was released as bait. As the company and Xianzhou Alliance moved to condemn Oswald, Diamond, Pearl, and Aventurine struck him with their combined authority, but Oswald questioned their haste as the smoke cleared.

• Sera named those joining the frontal battle, including Boothill, Aventurine, Pearl, Fuli Cyrene, Ms. Black Tomb, Feiying, Sakura, Himeko, Jing Yuan, and Kiana.
• Busitu released the nail suppressing the Shadow of Voracity, and Wojian, Weidi, and Ruan Mei contained it with the Star-Shattering Bait.
• Oswald emerged at the harbor and revealed that he had absorbed the Shadow’s Spirit Origin, transforming himself into a vessel for an ancient beast of Voracity.
• Diamond proposed expelling Oswald from the IPC and placing him on its highest-level wanted list; Jing Yuan declared the Alliance’s support, and the board voted in favor.
• After Diamond’s signal, Pearl and Aventurine activated their Cornerstones with his support and brought a massive hammer of authority down on Oswald.
• Oswald asked why they were in such a hurry as smoke covered his figure.

Sera and the others fought Oswald Schneider, who had become a pseudo-Emanator of Voracity, while Ms. Black Tomb, Feiying, and Sakura tried to destroy him. Wojian summoned the Astral Express as the battle turned toward a final strike against Voracity.

• Ruan Mei confirmed that Oswald had become a vessel for Voracity while retaining his own will, and Boothill and Aventurine’s attacks were swallowed by his maws.
• Cyrene restrained Oswald as Ms. Black Tomb’s Noble Phantasm burned him to ashes, but the Abundance within him revived him.
• Oswald declared that he would devour the others, find the Aeons, and use Voracity to strengthen the Amber Lord’s wall.
• Feiying severed Oswald’s Abundance-granted immortality, and Sakura followed with a final slash.
• Wojian summoned the Astral Express and declared its next stop was Voracity, while Aventurine, Boothill, and Black Tomb gathered their power for a final blow.

Sera and the others defeated Oswald Schneider, and Boothill and Aventurine found closure with their pasts. As the group set off to celebrate, Finality used Oswald’s Command Spells to summon Weidi and Wojian away, prompting Sera to pursue them.

• Cyrene stopped time while Black Tomb and the others poured their powers into the Astral Express, and their combined strike erased Oswald Schneider.
• Boothill told Busitu that he had avenged his family, and Busitu urged him to live well; Aventurine said goodbye to Kakavasha.
• Boothill agreed to perform for the Rangers, while Sera led the others toward a victory feast.
• The chapter revealed that Oswald had traded all three Command Spells to Finality for Shuhu’s flesh and information about suppressing Voracity, learning that the answer was Elation.
• Finality used Oswald’s Command Spells to summon Caster Weidi and Rider Wojian away, leaving a note explaining how he had evaded Sera’s usual search range.
• Sera clenched the note and urged the group to pursue Weidi and Wojian.

Finality staged a battle against the group, using his three manifestations to attack them. Himeko accepted Akivili’s ticket and became a navigator before Finality was swallowed by Voracity, leaving his fate unknown.

• Finality used the Command Spells to bring Weidi and Wojian to his stage, then burned them away and summoned the Trailblaze and Elation masks.
• Finality revealed his three forms and attacked the group, but Yaoguang used her divination to counter his attempt to prevent her from acting.
• Himeko summoned the Astral Express and Starblazer, then demanded to know why Finality had pretended to be her father.
• Sera offered Himeko Akivili’s ticket and guided her through the Trailblaze Creed, officially making her a navigator.
• Finality let the Astral Express strike his Preservation form, then was swallowed by Voracity after saying a Lord Ravager would get his wish.
• Kiana pierced Voracity with a shot, and the maw fell into the abyss; the unrest was expected to remain suppressed for three days.

Sera and the geniuses concluded that Finality had likely entered Voracity to reach his final mask, “emptiness,” and prepared for his possible ascension. They built a machine to draw Elation energy from Phantasmoon and convert it into wishes, then Sera discovered someone had tampered with it.

• Sera returned to Two-Dimensional City with Kiana and the others, then told Herta, Black Tomb, and Ruan Mei that Finality might still be alive.
• Sera and Ruan Mei reasoned that Finality had let Voracity swallow him so he could sever his attachment to himself and attain the final mask, “emptiness.”
• Herta outlined two possible paths ahead: Finality’s ascension as a Lord Ravager or Elation being devoured by Voracity.
• Sera, Herta, Black Tomb, and Ruan Mei devised a plan to wrap reality in an Imagenesis forgery, using Phantasmoon’s Elation energy as the power source for wishes.
• The geniuses built and concealed the machine at the hotel, where Phantasmoon agreed to lend energy to save Dual-Phase Paradise.
• An unknown figure secretly touched the machine, activating a hidden marking, and Sera realized he had found the intruder.

Sera unmasked Xuzhao as a fragment of Aha and brought her to Herta, Ruan Mei, and Black Tomb, who identified her as Polka Kakamond. Xuzhao then began recounting how serpent venom and moonlight had affected Aha, leaving the story at the start of her tale.

• Xuzhao revealed herself to Sera as Aha, but Sera concluded she was only a reflection of the Aeon rather than Aha herself.
• Xuzhao offered to take Sera to Louis Fleming, but Sera said Fleming had already invited him to meet.
• Sera took Xuzhao to the geniuses, where Herta, Ruan Mei, and Black Tomb examined her.
• Black Tomb identified Xuzhao as Polka Kakamond, an Interastral Peace Corporation employee and manga artist using the pen name Blurry QR Code.
• Xuzhao explained that Aha had been poisoned by the serpent's venom and began describing a troupe master's challenge to the moon knight.

Xuzhao explained that the moon was Aha’s tear and that the heroes would have to confront the mad moon, then Sera brought her to the Astral Express to reunite with Pom-Pom. Their reunion was interrupted by the approach of a figure whose ticket seemed to recognize Xuzhao.

• Xuzhao told Sera and Herta that Aha’s tear became the moon and that the moon hid the sleeping, mad Aha; she said the moon would be revealed after the heroes defeated the demon king.
• Sera asked Xuzhao to come meet Pom-Pom, and she tried to escape before he brought her to Himeko’s studio in the Tavern.
• Sera sent Xuzhao to help clean the Astral Express, where Pom-Pom recognized her and struck at her with a broom.
• Xuzhao and Pom-Pom exchanged greetings, and Xuzhao said she had found a solution to her weakness as a figure approached the Express.

Himeko received her ticket and learned that Xuzhao was actually the Aeon Aha, who wanted to board the Astral Express again. Pom-Pom agreed to let her return, but set three rules for her.

• Sera and Pom-Pom welcomed Himeko as a passenger and navigator, then brought up Xuzhao's debt statement.
• Xuzhao clung to Sera to avoid settling her debt, but Himeko caught the statement and discovered that it identified Xuzhao as Aha.
• Himeko and Suzi reacted with disbelief when Pom-Pom confirmed Xuzhao was Aha and reassured them she would not cause trouble.
• Xuzhao grabbed Sera's sensitive wings and persuaded him to let her follow him and gather material for her manga.
• Sera deferred to Pom-Pom about Xuzhao returning to the train, and Pom-Pom agreed on the condition that she follow three rules.

Xuzhao signed Pom-Pom’s train rules under both Aha’s and her own name, then joined Sera aboard the train. After Sera gave her a room, he discovered Cyrene had written a story inspired by the day’s events, whose opening paired Herta and Ruan Mei.

• Pom-Pom listed the train rules, and Xuzhao signed the agreement as Aha before Sera made her sign her own name too.
• Xuzhao greeted Himeko and Suzi, while Sera suspected she was planning a comic and offered a cleaning robot to help the train’s crew.
• Himeko told Suzi she had wanted to see Sera’s bashful reaction again, and Sera later let Xuzhao choose an available room.
• Sera found Cyrene writing in her notebook and persuaded her to show him the story she had written.
• Cyrene’s story began with Ruan Mei offering Herta a plum blossom cake during an experiment.

Sera spent the night with Cyrene after she teased him with her writing and combed his wings, then joined Kiana and the others for a swimsuit outing at the beach. The group gathered at Sera’s private beach area, where he settled into a lounge chair as Pearl, Yaoguang, and Sparkle were invited to join them.

• Cyrene wrote a suggestive scene about Herta and Ruan Mei, then combed Sera’s wings until he fell asleep in her lap.
• On the third day of the Holy Grail War, Cyrene woke Sera with a kiss and reminded him that Kiana was waiting.
• Kiana gave Sera a men’s version of the Sea Breeze swimsuit and added cat ears to complete his outfit.
• Sera found Herta, Black Tomb, Himeko, Feiying, Xuzhao, Cyrene, and the others waiting in swimsuits for a beach trip.
• Sera opened a portal to the beach, messaged Pearl, Yaoguang, and Sparkle, and relaxed in a lounge chair with a coconut.

Sera and his friends played a relaxed beach volleyball match, then rested as Cyrene sang them to sleep. After waking at noon, Sera prepared a beach barbecue and coconut milk, and everyone gathered to eat and toast together.

• Feiying invited Sera to play beach volleyball, and the group split into blue and red teams with Yaoguang and Sparkle refereeing.
• The teams played a friendly match that ended in a tie, and Sera rested on a lounge chair above the sea.
• Cyrene sang a lullaby while the others fell asleep, and Kiana silently encouraged Sera to keep moving forward.
• Sera woke at noon and gathered seafood, watermelon, and coconuts for lunch, while Ruan Mei cooked salmon and offered plum blossom cakes.
• Everyone gathered around the table and raised their drinks as Sera toasted, followed by Busitu and the rangers calling out to justice.

On the seventh day of the Holy Grail War, Sera and his allies attacked Voracity, but Finality emerged with a trace of the Power of Finality and challenged Dual-Phase Paradise. Sera invoked the Command Spells to connect the remaining Masters and summon the wishes of the people, preparing to face Finality with their support.

• Kiana had delayed the seal’s disappearance until the war’s final day, while the geniuses evacuated Dual-Phase Paradise’s people and prepared to broadcast the battle.
• Ruan Mei, Herta, and Black Tomb used their research to weaken Voracity’s contamination, and Sera commanded Lancer to unleash his Noble Phantasm.
• Black Tomb struck Voracity with an attack drawing on Nous’s power, then Sera pierced it with Holy Lance -- Liberation and stopped its rampaging tentacles.
• Finality emerged from Voracity’s wound with stolen Power of Finality and declared that he would test Dual-Phase Paradise.
• Sera told his allies to support him, then joined Feiying and Busitu in using their Command Spells to summon the people’s wishes through the livestream device.
• Sera announced that the power of those wishes would arrive in three minutes.

Sera used the universe’s gathered wishes and his allies’ powers to fight Finality, who had become the martyr and taken the poison of Voracity into himself. After Sera struck him with a spear of hope, the martyr asked the god of Elation for release, and Xuzhao granted it as the wishes bloomed into flowers.

• Sera gathered wishes from across the universe and rejected Finality’s claim that he was breaking the rules.
• Finality brought Voracity and its shadow into reality, while Herta, Himeko, Feiying, and Busitu helped suppress them with painted possibilities.
• Sera summoned his companion Honkai Beast, Serapeum Kenem, and ordered Saila to attack Finality with dragonfire.
• Finality revealed that he had become a martyr, drew the poison of Voracity from the Pathstriders of Elation into himself, and accepted his fate.
• Sera struck the martyr with the Spear Shining at Finality, combining hope and wishes with purple and gold energy to resist Voracity.
• The martyr asked the god of Elation to grant him release, and Xuzhao sent a giant hand to end his suffering as the wishes became flowers in the sky.

With the Holy Grail War ending in twelve hours, Sakura said goodbye to Sera and the others before returning to where she belonged. Sera then took Kiana and the others aboard the Astral Express to visit Phantasmoon, where he offered to decorate Xuzhao’s empty world.

• Sera saw the Holy Grail’s countdown and realized the Servants would soon have to return.
• Sakura hugged Feiying, said farewell to everyone, and faded away.
• Sera invited Kiana and the others to visit Phantasmoon aboard the Astral Express.
• The train made its first Trailblazing expedition since setting off again and arrived at Phantasmoon.
• Xuzhao welcomed the group, revealed Phantasmoon had nothing but a lake because she had run out of money, and accepted Sera’s offer to decorate it.
• Sera opened a door and called Saila out from his space.

Sera and the others watched Xuzhao turn a dying planet’s destruction into a fireworks display, then discussed divinity before parting from Kiana. After the Holy Grail countdown ended, Sera reached for the charged Grail as Xuzhao announced that an even grander performance was still to come.

• Sera introduced Saila, who transformed the barren island into a flower garden, and he created a courtyard for the group.
• Xuzhao made three crescent moon boats from their reflections, and the group rode them to the courtyard while playing music with their tickets.
• Sera transported the courtyard into a separate space near a dying planet, but Xuzhao turned its explosion into celebratory fireworks.
• Black Tomb asked what divinity meant, and Kiana said she would always remain herself while Xuzhao said divinity and humanity were not separate.
• Kiana and the others said goodbye as the Holy Grail countdown ended, and Kiana awoke on the moon while Boothill lost the Servant Spirit Origin.
• Sera reached for the fully charged Holy Grail as Xuzhao dedicated the performance to the audience and promised that the grandest performance was yet to begin.

Sera awoke with missing memories in Herta’s garden and agreed to become her test subject. After Herta’s scanner failed to analyze him, Sera revealed that his authority was Corruption, and Herta asked him to demonstrate it.

• Sera woke in a purple-flowered garden and recalled that he had been in Elysia with Cyrene before losing some of his memories.
• Sera met Herta, explained that he did not know how he had arrived, and agreed to serve as her test subject in exchange for her help and temporary identification.
• Herta scanned Sera but found that her equipment could not analyze him.
• Sera told Herta that his authority was Corruption, and Herta asked him to demonstrate it.

Sera demonstrated that his authority could corrode machines and even alter space, then asked Herta for a way to return to Amphoreus. After Herta gave him a Star-Surveying Probe, Sera got lost on the way to the collection vault and began considering whether he could change Herta’s lonely life.

• Sera corroded a machine and took its highest access level, prompting Herta to suspect his ability worked on concepts rather than only machines.
• Sera corroded space and used his authority to rotate it, displacing objects within the affected area.
• Sera asked to go home, and Herta offered him a Star-Surveying Probe that pointed toward where he came from as payment.
• Sera got lost despite using a map, and Herta waited for him in the collection vault.
• Sera followed Herta back to the laboratory and resolved to try to change something for her.

Sera tested the Star-Surveying Probe and learned from the message in his Herrscher Core that he could return in a year and that Cyrene was safe. Herta let him stay at her laboratory, and he asked to study everything despite admitting he was an ordinary person who relied on his Authority.

• Sera used the Star-Surveying Probe, which pointed toward his heart, and realized he should follow his wishes to find his way back.
• Sera read a message in his Herrscher Core saying to stay with Herta, confirming Cyrene was safe and showing a countdown of one year.
• Sera told Herta he expected to return in a year, while Herta said she would finish studying him in a month.
• Herta showed Sera a guest room and gave him permission to buy daily necessities, then led him to the study.
• Herta asked what Sera wanted to study, and he answered that he wanted to learn everything.
• Sera told Herta he was an ordinary person who used his Authority to take shortcuts and could learn but not create like a genius.

Sera demonstrated his deep knowledge of android puppets and proposed using the Authority of Sentience to help Herta with her consciousness connection research. After letting Herta experience the power inside his Scepter, he asked her to show him around The Blue, and her interest in him grew.

• Sera found that knowledge about android puppets felt like something he had lost and recovered, then answered Herta's increasingly difficult questions at her level.
• When Herta asked about a consciousness connection module, Sera suggested Telepathy and offered to let her try the Authority of Sentience.
• Sera revealed a Scepter and invited Herta into its virtual world, asking in return for a tour of The Blue.
• Inside the Scepter, Sera granted Herta the Herrscher of Sentience's data, and she sensed a power beyond the Paths.
• After they emerged, Herta told Sera she was growing more interested in him.