Chapter Summaries

Alduin disguised himself as a Terror Demon and entered the Abyss of Fear to pose as a Plane Merchant and study the Law of Fear. After defeating a group of demons with Fear Spell, he accidentally convinced them that he was a high-ranking member of the Fear Royal Family, and they eagerly pledged themselves to him.

• Alduin used Demon Shapeshifting to become a Terror Demon and teleported into the Abyss of Fear.
• A group of Snake Demons, Berserker Demons, Doom Guards, and Nightmare Beasts charged at Alduin, led by a Doom Guard.
• Alduin used Fear Spell, amplified by the Law of Fear in the Abyss of Fear, to force the demons to their knees.
• Alduin dispelled the spell and offered to spare the demons if they surrendered, and they eagerly accepted.
• The demons mistook Alduin for a powerful member of the Fear Royal Family and believed he was leading a Holy Son Trial.

Alduin exploited the demons’ mistaken belief that he was a Fear Royalty Sacred Son, enslaved Doom Guard Zair, and learned about the Sacred Son trial. He led his party toward the White Bone Wilderness with a genuine Fear Demon King bloodline, where they encountered a far more formidable rival procession.

• Alduin let Zair believe he was a Sacred Son, made him a guard, and granted him power while using Demon Enslavement to make him a servant.
• Alduin learned from Zair’s memories about Fear Royalty, the Sacred Son trial, and the Fear Demon King’s ambitions to escape the abyss’s restraints.
• Alduin ordered Zair and the demons to march toward the White Bone Wilderness, intending to take part in the trial and play a game with the Fear Demon King.
• Alduin reassured his main body that his constructed Fear Demon King bloodline could pass the White Bone Wilderness’s restrictions without raising suspicion.
• Alduin’s party encountered another Sacred Son’s immense procession, and Zair trembled at the sight of its ten thousand Balrogs.

Alduin faced the Nightmare Sacred Son’s cavalry and revealed overwhelming power, drawing the attention of the Fear Royal Family. The Fear Demon King sensed Alduin’s bloodline and mistakenly concluded he was one of his pure-blooded descendants.

• Alduin refused to move aside as the Nightmare Cavalry charged, and his roar overturned the entire force.
• After the surrounding Sacred Sons questioned his identity, Alduin named himself Nefarian and unleashed Fear Aura, causing the nearby teams to collapse in terror.
• The Fear Royal Family’s high-ranking figures sensed the powerful bloodline aura at the White Bone Wilderness.
• The Fear Demon King felt his bloodline respond and decided Alduin must be his descendant, though he could not remember who his mother was.

Alduin, under the name Nefarian, drew attention across the Abyss of Fear and rejected the Sacred Flame Family’s offer of gifts and alliance. He gave Sanchez a stone that awakened a stirring song, setting the stage for a slave uprising.

• Alduin’s display of strength made Nefarian famous and prompted powerful families to seek his allegiance.
• Sanchez offered Alduin a war chariot and Blade Demon army on behalf of the Sacred Flame Family, hoping to secure his friendship.
• Alduin learned that Sanchez was a Demon-blooded Human and sensed the pain and resentment hidden in his soul.
• Alduin refused the family’s offer, gave Sanchez a stone, and continued toward the White Bone Wilderness.
• Sanchez tried to crush the stone, but it shattered and a fiery song calling on starving and oppressed slaves to rise up sounded in his mind.

After Nefarian refused the Grand Duke of Sacred Flames’ task, Sanchez faced execution and awakened the Flame of Revolution. He incinerated the Blade Demon Army and then used the Materialist Worldview against the legendary demons, stripping them of their supernatural power.

• Sanchez struggled to reconcile Nefarian’s dialectical materialism with the demons before him as Alduin laughed at his confusion.
• A Blade Demon leader threatened to kill Sanchez and his clansmen unless he completed the Grand Duke of Sacred Flames’ task.
• With a blade at his neck, Sanchez awakened the Flame of Revolution and destroyed the Blade Demon leader and the ten-thousand-strong army.
• Sanchez’s flames spread across a thousand miles, terrifying demons and drawing the legendary demons organizing the Sacred Son trial.
• Sanchez declared that the scene was not scientific, and the Materialist Worldview stripped the legendary demons of their supernatural powers.

Alduin went to the White Bone Wilderness, where he planned to exploit the Sacred Son trial to spread Sanchez’s Fire of Revolution and undermine the Fear Demon King’s rule. The Fear Demon King crushed Sanchez, but a spark of the flames landed in the trial grounds, leaving Alduin ready to ignite further rebellions.

• Alduin traveled to the White Bone Wilderness, where over a hundred thousand Sacred Sons and hundreds of millions of demons had gathered for the trial.
• Sanchez arrived in a wave of crimson flames and killed the five legendary Fear Demons overseeing the trial, sending many demons fleeing.
• The Fear Demon King formed a gigantic hand from dark clouds and slammed Sanchez into the ground, extinguishing most of the flames.
• A small cluster of revolutionary fire landed in the White Bone Wilderness, and Alduin expected it to inspire rebellion among the oppressed Sacred Sons and their forces.

Alduin entered the Sacred Son trial with only Zair and a Nightmare Beast, but received the standard allotment of ten thousand military tags. He set up a flag advertising the tags for sale, leaving the other Sacred Sons surprised by his plan.

• The Fear Demon King announced that the Sacred Son trial would begin in three days and sent Lord Gondos and other legendary Fear Demons to organize it.
• Alduin dismissed the danger of the scattered sparks of Sanchez's Fire of Revolution and hoped Gondos had never been oppressed.
• Alduin registered as Nefarian and received ten thousand military tags, despite having only one guard and one Nightmare Beast.
• Alduin returned to his nearly empty camp and reassured Zair that their small force would make them seem unthreatening.
• Alduin made a black flag reading "Military tags for sale, first come, first served," and the other Sacred Sons reacted with surprise.

Alduin sold military badges to the other Sacred Sons, drawing criticism from Renard while Gondos defended him. After selling nearly all ten thousand badges, Alduin and Zair were left with a fortune in Terror Demon Stones and legendary equipment.

• Renard condemned Alduin for selling military badges, but Gondos defended him and crushed Renard with his power before sending him away.
• Gondos hoped Alduin could change the treatment of Sacred Sons born outside the pure-blooded nobility.
• Alduin demanded steep prices for military badges and refused to accept appeals to family ties or friendship.
• Alduin sold all ten thousand badges except the one he had kept for Zair, receiving Terror Demon Stones and legendary equipment.
• Alduin told Zair to choose a set of equipment and store the rest.

Alduin drew Gondos’s attention by selling military badges and openly opposing the Pure-blooded Families. Gondos offered him protection, and Alduin began turning the powerful overseer into an underground ally.

• Gondos recognized that Alduin’s sale had earned him wealth and the hatred of the Sacred Sons, then visited his camp to test his stance.
• Alduin declared that he opposed the Pure-blooded Families, and Gondos gave him a location-locked teleportation scroll and promised help.
• Gondos’s visit deterred the Sacred Sons from attacking Alduin during the trial, though some still planned to kill him afterward.
• Alduin gave Zair a legendary demon-fang pendant to deliver to Gondos, intending to recruit him as an underground spy.
• Gondos refused the pendant, but a sudden explosion in his mind raised a red flag as “The Internationale shall surely be realized!” echoed within him.

Alduin entered the White Bone Wilderness trial with Zair and headed toward a distant crimson flame, intent on stirring up trouble rather than competing. They encountered a vast horde of undead skeletons, and the chapter ended with spectators laughing as they watched Alduin’s lone guard struggle against the swarm.

• Gondos opened the Tower of Bones, and the Sacred Sons and their armies entered the trial grounds.
• Alduin and Zair were transported into the White Bone Wilderness, where Alduin pointed them toward the crimson flame.
• Alduin and Zair discovered demon skeletons rising from a collapsed mound of bones, and Zair charged into the horde.
• Alduin warned Zair to look around, revealing that endless skeletons surrounded them.
• All the Sacred Sons’ teams fought undead skeletons as spectators watched their progress on a screen and mocked Nefarian for having only one guard.

Alduin revealed devastating power while crossing the White Bone Wilderness, convincing demons that he was the King of Terror’s son and making the Sacred Sons fear provoking him. He forced two warring armies to clear his path, then used a blood-splattered boot as an excuse to unleash his Fear Aura on them.

• Alduin incinerated the undead skeletons with Soul Fire, and demons mistook his strength for the Ash Lord bloodline.
• Renard and demons from the various families warned their Sacred Sons not to provoke Alduin after believing he was a Son of Source Blood.
• Zair reported that the Eye of Destruction Family and Dark Wings Family were fighting ahead, but Alduin ordered them to clear the way.
• The two Sacred Sons stopped their armies from fighting and withdrew to make a path for Alduin.
• When the Nightmare Beast splashed blood onto Alduin’s boots, Alduin feigned outrage and overwhelmed both armies with his Fear Aura.

Alduin posed as Nefarian to lure the Fear Demon King into revealing his location, but the king brought him to the Fear Royal Palace and named him heir. Alduin suspected the king planned to use him as a sacrifice or substitute to escape the Abyss, and resolved to turn the scheme against him.

• Gondos reported Nefarian's Son of Source Blood status to the Fear Demon King, who went to bring him home.
• In the White Bone Wilderness, Alduin looted the defeated Sacred Sons, cutting off the Dark Wings Sacred Son's fang and taking the Eye of Destruction Sacred Son's ornament.
• The Fear Demon King appeared, took Alduin away, and left Zair behind, where the other demons treated Zair with deference because he was Nefarian's guard.
• At the Fear Royal Palace, the Fear Demon King declared Alduin his heir and offered him his kingdom, people, and possessions.
• Alduin suspected the Fear Demon King wanted to use Nefarian as a sacrifice or substitute to escape the Abyss, and decided to thwart him.

The Fear Demon King prepared to use Nefarian as a sacrifice to escape the Abyss, but Alduin revealed that he had impersonated Nefarian and rejected the Demon King's attempt to bind him. The Fear Demon King attacked, confronting Alduin as Deathwing.

• Sanchez returned from the dead in crimson flames and led a rebellion that grew to more than ten billion demons and captured one-third of the Abyss of Fear.
• The Fear Demon King ordered his forces to suppress the rebellion, then focused on making Alduin, whom he believed was Nefarian, his scapegoat for the Abyss's backlash.
• The Fear Demon King led Alduin to an altar and revealed that its ritual would sacrifice him and transfer the Abyss Law's backlash to him.
• Alduin recognized the sacrificial runes and resisted the Fear Demon King's bloodline power, revealing himself as Deathwing.
• Alduin mocked the Fear Demon King for mistaking his genetic clone for a son, and the Fear Demon King attacked him with a surge of Fear Qi.

Victor and Alduin fought the Fear Demon King in the Abyss of Fear, enduring his Fear Domain and Demonic Fire of Destruction while waiting for their plan to take effect. Alduin’s crimson force severed the Fear Demon King’s connection to the Abyss Law, leaving him no longer lord of his territory.

• The Fear Demon King unleashed his Fear Domain, but it failed to intimidate Victor or Alduin.
• Victor struck the Fear Demon King with Holy Light, and Alduin followed with Dark Judgment, badly wounding him before his neck healed.
• The Fear Demon King attacked with Demonic Fire of Destruction, forcing Victor and Alduin to defend themselves while they waited.
• Victor and Alduin discussed their preparations, and Alduin revealed they were waiting for the right moment.
• Alduin declared that the Fear Demon King’s territory was no longer his, and a crimson force expelled him from resonance with the Abyss Law.

Victor and Alduin defeated the Fear Demon King, then Alduin seized control of the Abyss of Fear by transforming its demons into his followers. With a vast reserve of faith power and the Abyssal Godhead researched, Alduin learned that the gods would soon descend into the mortal world and prepared to hunt them.

• The crimson flames liberated the Abyss of Fear, stripping the Fear Demon King of her high-level Abyssal Lord power, and Alduin chose to keep her alive.
• Alduin transformed the Fear Demon King into a Beautiful Soldier, enslaved her as Idia, and gave her a Warlock template.
• Alduin turned the crimson flames black, transforming the Abyss of Fear’s one hundred billion demons into Beautiful Soldiers and demonic fanatics.
• Alduin appointed Idia Grand Commander and restored her rule as an Abyssal Lord, with power derived from him and protected from Abyss Law.
• Alduin learned that the gods would soon descend into the mortal world, and he declared that the hunt was about to begin.

As the gods’ divine kingdoms collapsed and war consumed the Prime Material Plane, Victor led the Holy Light Alliance from its southern sanctuary to crusade against evil. He called the campaign his Investiture of the Gods War and urged Alduin to hurry his conquest of the Abyss and Hell.

• Victor watched the gods’ divine kingdoms begin to fail as weak deities, followed by stronger ones, fell to the mortal world.
• With the gods gone, the world descended into war as legendary powerhouses, rival deities, devils, and Abyssal Lords fought for power.
• Refugees sought safety in the southern lands of Holy Light, where order remained and former priests turned to Holy Light for support.
• In Amber City, kings, legendary powerhouses, and Holy Light legions asked Victor to lead them north to protect the people and fight evil.
• Victor renewed the Oath of Holy Light and commanded the legions to march north and save the world.
• Victor called the campaign his Investiture of the Gods War and told Alduin to speed up his conquest of the Abyss and Hell; Alduin replied that he might finish first.

Victor arrived to help Sauron and Vivian fight the God of Slaughter at his stronghold in the Shadow Mountain Range. The battle was still underway as Victor invoked Holy Light to judge the fallen god.

• Victor declared that capturing gods for research was a key mission and chose evil gods as his first targets.
• Sauron and Vivian attacked the beastmen in the God of Slaughter’s castle, purifying them with Holy Light.
• The God of Slaughter emerged in his giant golden-wolf form and attacked Vivian with his Slaughter Blades, but Sauron intervened.
• Sauron struck the God of Slaughter with his strongest shadow sword technique, but a golden ring spent divine power to block the attack.
• Victor arrived, agreed to help Sauron and Vivian, and unleashed Holy Light against the God of Slaughter.

Victor killed the God of Slaughter and gave his divine spark to Sauron, who chose to pursue the Divine Title of Slaughter while Vivian chose destruction. After analyzing the nature of gods, Li Yu devised a plan to use faith as a catalyst for the Third Step of Chaos and ordered Victor and Alduin to conquer the mortal realms.

• Victor defeated the God of Slaughter, whose divine kingdom collapsed and whose divine spark remained behind.
• Victor gave the Slaughter Divine Spark to Sauron, who decided to pursue slaughter rather than death, while Vivian chose the Divine Title of Destruction.
• Li Yu studied the divine spark and concluded that faith might let him become Chaos without losing his sense of self.
• Li Yu planned for Victor to become the God of Light and Order and Alduin to become the God of Darkness and Chaos, then use their faith to attempt Spirit transformed into Chaos.
• Victor prepared the Holy Light Legion to conquer the Prime Material Plane, while Alduin gave Idia one year to conquer the Abyss and flatten Hell.

After Alduin conquered the Abyss and Hell and Victor ascended as the Lord of Radiance, Li Yu merged them as opposing cosmic forces, destroying the multiverse. He found that the experiment had preserved their memories in Chaos but erased their selves, and he rejected becoming such a cold, emotionless Heavenly Dao.

• Alduin's Beautiful Soldiers conquered the Abyss and Hell, turning their demons and devils into Alduin's harem.
• The Holy Light Legion defeated the invaders on the Prime Material Plane, and Victor ascended to godhood as the Lord of Radiance.
• Alduin became the Dark Dragon and filled the Abyss and Hell with darkness, opposing Victor's Holy Light across the multiverse.
• Li Yu merged Victor and Alduin, whose opposing forces collided and annihilated the multiverse as he gathered every living being.
• Li Yu observed that Victor and Alduin's memories survived in Chaos, but they had lost their selves and become a mechanical Heavenly Dao, which he refused to become.

Li Yu created a new world inspired by Azeroth, then traveled to the X-Men world to study mutant powers. His incarnation arrived during World War II and located young Erik imprisoned in a concentration camp.

• Li Yu decided that biological evolution might help him preserve emotions at the Third Step of Chaos, so he chose to visit the mutant world.
• Li Yu created a new world and placed the souls of beings he had collected into it, where Sauron awoke as Illidan and reunited with Tyrande.
• Li Yu left the new world and traveled to Sovereign Space, where he observed the Central Continent Team and turned his attention to the X-Men world.
• Li Yu sent an incarnation into the X-Men world, identified the era as World War II, and found young Erik imprisoned in a concentration camp.