Chapter Summaries

After returning to the Central Forest, Wien reunited with Jekain and learned about the High Lord Gatemont, the forest’s lords, and Yisrute, whose wide-range sensing threatened their plans. Wien secretly killed Yisrute and returned with his head, leaving Jekain to prepare for Gatemont’s summons while he went to retrieve Nel.

• Wien and Nel returned to the Central Forest, where Wien concealed his Spiritual Pressure and went to find Jekain while Nel hid nearby.
• Wien reached Jekain’s territory and reunited with him, learning that Jekain had recruited four loyal Pseudo-Adjuchas and gathered intelligence on the forest’s lords.
• Jekain explained Yisrute’s wide-range Spiritual Pressure detection and described the High Lord Gatemont and the guards near the central tree.
• Wien vanished and went to assassinate Yisrute, while Jekain and his subordinates waited in his territory.
• Less than three hours later, Wien returned carrying Yisrute’s head and mask, told Jekain to prepare for Gatemont’s summons, and left to bring Nel over.

Wien used Yisrute’s death and the resulting distrust among the Forest of Menos lords to build his forces and divide Gatemont’s coalition into factions. As conflict neared, Wien kept his group formally under Gatemont’s jurisdiction and prepared to defend its territory while waiting for an opportunity.

• Jekain returned to Wien and reported that Gatemont had failed to find the killer, and Wien ordered him to consolidate their territory, gather intelligence on the lords, and prepare for expansion.
• Wien and Nel began organizing Gillian routes and resources, while Jekain’s subordinate with the Rock Ability built a stronghold for their group.
• Wien used Jekain to approach wavering lords and secretly assassinated opponents, framing Gatemont’s allies and deepening suspicion among the Forest of Menos factions.
• Over the following year, the Thirty-Six Lords split into four factions alongside Gatemont’s core forces, while Wien gathered twelve Pseudo-Adjuchas and secured the loyalty of two neighboring lords.
• When Jekain reported that Gatemont had ordered the Reform Faction exterminated and that it was pressuring Wien to join, Wien refused to commit and ordered his forces on alert, with instructions to seek support or attack depending on the pressure they faced.

Gatemont ordered a retreat and a campaign against rival factions after Jekain proposed avoiding a direct fight. Wien used the opportunity to secretly harvest Pairomon’s territory, and Pairomon began investigating the disappearance of Gillians near his southern border.

• Gatemont’s faction faced demands from four rebel factions, and Gatemont ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• Jekain urged Gatemont to avoid a head-on fight, give up western resources, and attack weaker lords; Gatemont approved a campaign against Kielas and ordered Yinfeng to move north.
• After leaving the Central Tree, Wien identified Pairomon as nearby prey and sent scouts to study his territory.
• Wien led Nel, Jekain, and three lord-level Menos Grande to Pairomon’s border, where they trapped and hunted Gillians while concealing their tracks.
• As resources dwindled, Pairomon learned that many Gillians had disappeared near his southern border and ordered an investigation for a possible Giant Sand Dune entrance.

Wien and his allies ambushed and killed three Pseudo-Adjuchas in Pairomon's territory, and the masks they gathered helped Wien advance to the middle tier. With their presence exposed, Wien ordered a small team to use guerrilla tactics against Pairomon.

• Wien sent Nel to hide and left Jekain as bait while the group continued harvesting Gillians in Pairomon's territory.
• When three Pseudo-Adjuchas confronted Jekain, Wien used Void Flash to ambush and decapitate the scout they sent to warn their lord.
• Wien and Jekain killed the other two Pseudo-Adjuchas, while Nel caught the one who fled and returned with his mask.
• Wien consumed the masks and the Gillian harvest, then advanced from the peak of the initial tier to the middle tier of Pseudo-Adjuchas.
• After Jekain warned that Pairomon likely knew their location, Wien ordered most of his forces to remain in their territories and chose Nel, Jekain, and a strong sensor to accompany him in a guerrilla campaign.

Wien built up a disciplined force in the Forest of Menos and prepared an ambush for seven pursuing Pseudo-Adjuchas. He slaughtered the first attackers with a powerful concealed Cero and moved into the cave to face the remaining enemies.

• Wien organized Hollows in his territory by ability and loyalty, cultivating promising fighters and eliminating those who resisted him.
• Wien and his force found a mountain cave, where he assigned Nel and Jekain to hold the interior while he prepared to ambush their pursuers outside.
• Seven Pseudo-Adjuchas reached the cave, and their leader sent four scouts inside while Wien charged a concealed Cero.
• Wien’s Cero killed one Pseudo-Adjuchas and badly injured two others, after which the survivors fled into the cave.
• Wien caught the fleeing Pseudo-Adjuchas, pinned one with his greatsword and killed the other with a Space-Bending Cero and a sword strike, then headed deeper into the cave.

Wien prepared to take Pairomon's territory, but Pairomon's Mutant Hollow Gusutafu exposed Wien's concealed position and forced him into a running fight. As Pairomon and his subordinates pursued him, Wien grew angry and realized he might be able to defeat them rather than keep fleeing.

• Wien ordered Jekain and Nel to draw Gillians into his territory and prepare an attack, then went alone to scout Pairomon's stronghold.
• Pairomon learned that his subordinates had been killed and sent Ji'antelisi and another Pseudo-Adjuchas to seek help, but Wien killed them and followed Pairomon as he gave chase.
• After Wien fired his signal, Nel led the Pseudo-Adjuchas toward him while Pairomon found two more dead subordinates.
• Gusutafu used a strange ability to reveal Wien's location, and Wien fled as Pairomon and his four remaining subordinates attacked him with Ceros and Balas.
• Wien evaded their attacks and blocked Pairomon's Cero with his Rift-Splitting Greatsword, then decided he was strong enough to fight back.

Wien stopped fleeing and fought Pairomon and the four Pseudo-Adjuchas accompanying him, using his spatial powers and concealed attacks to kill three of them. The battle continued with only Pairomon and one subordinate left facing an injured Wien.

• Wien halted, raised his Spiritual Pressure, and drew the Rift-Splitting Greatsword as Pairomon and the four Pseudo-Adjuchas prepared to fight him.
• Wien used Dimensional Slash to kill the sensory-type Hollow Beast, then wounded another Pseudo-Adjuchas with Space-Splitting Slash.
• Wien evaded Pairomon's Earth-Splitting Shockwave and killed the wounded Hollow Beast with Shadowless Strike Flash and a point-blank Cero.
• The two remaining Pseudo-Adjuchas injured Wien with their Cero, but he retaliated with Bala: Ethereal, whose concealed Bala wounded them without warning.
• Wien struck a wounded Pseudo-Adjuchas with a concealed Cero and killed him, leaving Pairomon and one subordinate alive.

Wien survived Pairomon's devastating attack with help from his hidden companions and defeated him. As Wien killed Pairomon, he accepted the dying Hollow's request to absorb his Spiritual Power.

• Wien killed the last Pseudo-Adjuchas subordinate, but Pairomon knocked him into a crater and struck him with Core Quake.
• Pairomon believed Wien was dead and decided he could no longer return to the alliance without followers.
• Wien rose from the pit, revealing that a pangolin Pseudo-Adjuchas had protected him with Negación while Nel, Jekain, and the sensory-type Hollow waited nearby.
• Wien and his companions overwhelmed the exhausted Pairomon, who asked Wien to kill Gatemont and become master of the Forest.
• Pairomon asked Wien to devour him and absorb his Spiritual Power, and Wien quietly agreed before killing him.

After defeating Pairomon, Wien secured and harvested his territory while studying ways to improve his regeneration and combat abilities. A month later, he learned that neighboring lords had discovered Pairomon’s defeat, and he had to prepare for a larger retaliation despite losing his strongest sensory scout, Adal.

• Wien ordered Jekain to harvest Pairomon's territory and assigned Nel to patrol the borders and defend their forces.
• Wien returned to his fortress, recovered in an underground cave, and researched his regeneration and ways to improve Dimensional Slash and Void Flash Sonído.
• After a month of training, Wien learned that his forces had consumed nearly all the Gillian resources in Pairomon's territory and that Gatemont had conquered two territories.
• Nel reported that six Gillians with consciousness had joined Wien's forces, while clashes with Pairomon's former allies had killed five of their Pseudo-Adjuchas, including the sensory specialist Adal.
• Jekain told Wien that Snegatakk had discovered Pairomon's defeat, making a larger attack likely, and Wien considered how to respond.

Wien planned traps and ambushes to slow enemy reinforcements while supporting Gatemont, then tested how Hengdeen’s spikes could be combined with Gesibolude’s living bombs. The experiment weakened the bomb’s explosion, and Wien went to inspect it.

• Wien explained his plan to delay enemy forces with traps and ambushes, then left Nel and Jekain in charge while he was away.
• Hengdeen demonstrated his regenerating spikes, and Gesibolude showed how he created and controlled explosive larva bombs.
• Wien ordered Hengdeen to fill a larva bomb with spikes, and the bomb remained intact with about thirty spikes embedded in it.
• Bolute put the spiked bomb into dormancy, buried it, and severed his control so two Gillians would trigger it.
• The bomb exploded when the Gillians approached, but its blast was weaker than expected, so Wien descended to inspect it.