Zero/Chronology

## Chronology

First introduced after she was sent along with Isabella by Pope O'Brien to assist Mayne in dealing with the combined threat of Garcia and the King of Wolfsheart. Whilst waiting for the final attack order, she enjoyed herself by torturing captives, earning the dissatisfaction of Mayne. In one case she promised to free a captive if he became a believer, but instead poisoned him with pure dream water and watched him die over the course of an hour.

She along with Isabella chased after Garcia and the Wolfsheart King once they fled, using the former's power to nullify the God's Stone of Retaliation so that Zero could absorb them both. Absorbing Garcia however caused a profound change in her personality; whereas before she was aloof, afterwards she seemed to become more ambitious.

She was present when Pope O'Brien allowed Mayne to witness the truth of the Church in the viewing room, right before Mayne then ascended to become the new Pope. Zero was then imprisoned on his order so that she could learn to be more obedient and less willful. Upon getting freed by him, she revealed once they were alone in an elevator that O'Brien had set him up to be devoured by her. Although he fought back, disbelieving all of it, he was still beaten like all the others.

At this time she secretly took control of the Church as the 15th Pope, directing the operations as she saw fit whilst claiming to be carrying out the orders of Mayne. She was smart enough to understand the threat that Roland presented to them and so altered their plans to next attack the Kingdom of Graycastle, instead of Dawn as they had originally planned. Even so, she still underestimated how dangerous Roland was, her forces sent in secret to surround the Western Region ending up completely destroyed, including the Pure Witch Aurora - something that they only discovered three months after the fact.

After the First Army began setting up in the Northern region, Zero fell into Roland's trap and committed her forces to attack, suffering heavy losses with the advance wave that had even included God's Punishment Soldiers. Once Archbishop Soli Daal returned from this conflict, she absorbed him and reviewed his memories to discover just how powerful the weapons of Roland were. This forced her to recall all Pure Witches back, whereupon she led them along with all her forces against the First Army.

Isabella argued with her at this time that they should compromise and that Roland might be God's true chosen one, but Zero refused as she wanted that glory to belong only to herself. After seeing what Roland had created, she highly desired to absorb him, choosing to believe that he was a gift sent to her from the Gods. She did send letters to Roland, detailing the truth of the Church and the Demons it faced, but this was just a ploy to discover his location: the paper was laced with a powerful scent which would cling to those who touched it, creating a marker for Pure Witch Vanilla to find.

Although in the final clash she was forced to sacrifice many troops, including Pure Witches, she did manage to get close enough to reach Roland with her ability and initiated the Battle of Souls, after Isabella used the Sigil of Infinite they had to amplify her power to nullify the nearby God's Stone of Retaliation. Unlike all her past times however, what she saw inside his mind confused her greatly. Consequently she did not immediately gloat or explain the rules of her power to him as with all her past opponents, instead choosing to attack quickly and repeatedly, killing him over and over without giving him a chance to think.

Unfortunately he was quick to pick up on the rules himself, which surprised her. Eventually she couldn't resist answering his questions and boasting about previous fights, largely in order to convince him to willingly give up. He then successfully used his knowledge of science to make small changes to the Illusion world, using less energy to alter it in the process; using Newton's law of inertia to keep her immobile as he continuously pelted her with gunfire each time she respawned. Completely disbelieving of the situation, she tried to appeal to him by taking the form of Garcia and King Wimbledon III, to no avail (as the true Roland was dead, so no emotional shock could occur). In the end she lost, her screams swallowed up as the world she created vanished.

Zero lost her memories and became one of the creators of the dream world, Roland being the other. In this world, Roland is her Roommate. She seems to be pretty close to Roland and cares about him, as far as abandoning her own family to stay with Roland.

Later, she awakened her power as a martial artist, and was attacked by an Oracle. However she's saved by her master, Fei Yuhan who gets nearly killed by Oracle but later saved by Roland who defeats the Oracle and through Scroll's realm of Mind, they bring Nana's healing equipments to heal Fei, later Zero focuses on learning to use her powers to protect her master.

At the end of the novel, she becomes one the volunteers to transfer her consciousness back to the original world, along with Garcia.