Chapter option not working

I am back with this one. A user complained that the chapters do not flow successively as was the case with the previous fanfiction archive.

I went back to square one. I went to the demo to view the screen shots and the video.
1. I created a taxonomy for books and a taxonomy for chapters.
2. When I checked “Content in a term of this taxonomy can be ordered manually” I get an empty drop down menu. The option to go to the next chapter is not there.
3. When I uncheck this box, the chapter numbers appears, but they are not linked and the readers are complaining, especially for long books.

What am I missing?

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