This chapter opens with a flashback to the events of the previous chapter, in which the "blue-clad cultivator" explains that the fantasy points collected by the "castellan" will end up in his hands. The narrator wonders if this is really the case, and decides that he will lure the castellan out of the city and see for himself. He wonders if there is someone "bold enough" to kill his men, and he decides to use the "rules of space" to do so. He also wonders if the man can hit him while he's in the "void space" , and if he can capture his path with his "strike of mine" . He realizes that he admires the man's body, but he refuses to believe that he can defeat him. He decides to withdraw half of his maces to defend himself.