Chapter Summaries

Night Cherry Tangle opened the End Court and sent Sin Punishment Guards into the Black Forest to weaken the giant tree trapping Dawn. With the threat contained, he directed Dawn and Mirror to attack using their Divine Kingdom powers, and Mirror located the Twin Gods’ true form within the tree.

• Dawn freed two children from the roots, but they revealed themselves as bait and merged with the giant tree, trapping him in a cage of corrosive mist and roots.
• Mirror’s mirrored path shattered as Dawn’s life force drained, while Night Cherry Tangle identified the giant tree as the trap’s core.
• Night Cherry Tangle forged a weapon of Sin Punishment in the End Court, opened its gate into the forest, and sent Sin Punishment Guards to attack the trees and roots.
• Night Cherry Tangle told Dawn to use Swift Shadow Storm and Mirror to find the tree’s Divine Soul while the guards kept its core occupied.
• Dawn unleashed Swift Shadow Storm, broke free of the root cage, and drove his storm toward the giant tree.
• Mirror used Eye of Truth to discover that the Twin Gods had willingly fused with the tree, then prepared to strip away the deception with Mirror Realm · Strip.

Mirror’s attempt to sever the Soul Fire from the rotten giant tree triggered the Twin Gods’ sacrifice, which summoned their Divine Kingdom, Nirvana Paradise, into reality. With Night Cherry Tangle and the others surrounded by an army of the dead, Night Cherry Tangle opened the End Court above the enemy realm to judge it with another Divine Kingdom.

• Mirror severed the chaotic energy around the giant tree’s core, but its Soul Fire swelled and released crazed laughter.
• The rotten tree dissolved into soul motes, and Night Cherry Tangle realized the Twin Gods were using the souls and the forest’s life force to summon their Divine Kingdom.
• The Black Forest transformed into Nirvana Paradise, trapping Night Cherry Tangle, Dawn, Mirror, and the Sin Punishment Guards inside the enemy realm.
• The Twin Gods summoned the sacrificed souls as a vast army of plague-twisted dead and challenged their trapped enemies.
• Night Cherry Tangle connected with the End Court and opened its enormous stone gateway above Nirvana Paradise, suppressing and assimilating the Twin Gods’ laws.

Night Cherry Tangle’s Sin Locks dismantled the Twin Gods’ Divine Kingdom as Dawn and the Sin Punishment Guards fought its defenders. The Twin Gods merged and fired their remaining power at Night Cherry Tangle, who drew Sin and Punishment: End Judgment to meet the attack.

• The Twin Gods tried to drive away the gray-white doorway, but Sin Locks pierced Nirvana Paradise and began draining its laws.
• Dawn cut through the dead while Night Cherry Tangle’s Sin Punishment Guards purified them into soul light.
• Mirror located Nirvana Paradise’s law nodes, and Night Cherry Tangle destroyed them one by one with the Sin Locks.
• As their Divine Kingdom collapsed, the Twin Gods merged and concentrated their remaining power into a ray aimed at Night Cherry Tangle.
• Night Cherry Tangle drew Sin and Punishment: End Judgment and pointed its tip at the incoming ray.

Night Cherry Tangle’s End Court confiscated the Twin Gods’ Divine Origin and swallowed their Divine Kingdom, Nirvana Paradise. After forging a new Sin Punishment from their laws, he, Dawn, and Mirror received Qin Chuan’s order to return to Yan Country and fight on separate battlefields.

• Night Cherry Tangle’s sword judged the Twin Gods’ gray ray and drained their Divine Origin through it.
• Sin Locks dragged the collapsing Nirvana Paradise into the End Court, which swallowed the Divine Kingdom and left a crater in the Black Forest of Europe.
• The Twin Gods’ remains became a new Sin Punishment, and Night Cherry Tangle found a flower mark and a gray seed formed from their Plague and Withering Laws.
• Qin Chuan ordered Night Cherry Tangle, Dawn, and Mirror to return to Yan Country, defeat foreign enemies on separate battlefields, earn players’ faith, and complete their Divine Kingdoms.

Qin Chuan sent Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle to confront threats across Yan Country and understand the power and duties of gods. At Black Stone Fortress, Dawn appeared before a monster army and effortlessly destroyed its Stitched Behemoth.

• Qin Chuan assigned Dawn to Black Stone Fortress, Mirror to the plague-stricken Southern Border, and Night Cherry Tangle to a stretch of sea in the Eastern Sea.
• Night Cherry Tangle returned his consciousness to the End Court and found the Sin Origin Furnace processing Nirvana Paradise at a frantic pace.
• At Black Stone Fortress, Dragon Fights in the Wild ordered the defenders to prepare for a final charge as the shield neared collapse under the Stitched Behemoth's assault.
• Dawn appeared between the fortress and the Stitched Behemoth, and his Swift Shadow Echo doubles stopped and erased the monster's barrage.
• Dawn used the Kinetic Energy Law to vibrate the Stitched Behemoth's body into ash.

Dawn arrived at Black Stone Fortress and instantly destroyed the Stitched Behemoth, revealing that he was a Lower God from Apex Guild. He erected the Swift Shadow Divine Stone and opened a trial that could let assassin players unlock the Assassin of Speed advanced class.

• Dawn erased the Stitched Behemoth with a wave of his hand, leaving the players at Black Stone Fortress stunned.
• Dragon Fights in the Wild thanked Dawn, who introduced himself as a Lower God from Apex Guild and said he had come at his guild leader’s order to wipe out the invaders.
• Dawn formed the Swift Shadow Divine Stone from the Speed Law and placed it on the ground before the fortress.
• Dawn announced that assassin players could take the stone’s trial for a chance to unlock the Assassin of Speed advanced-class path.
• Eligible assassins across Black Stone Fortress received the Limit of Speed trial quest, which offered Instant Step and additional rewards based on how long they endured the trial.

Dawn placed a Swift Shadow Divine Stone in Black Stone Fortress, drawing thousands of assassin players to it, while Mirror tracked the source of the petrification consuming City of Mist. Mirror confronted the gray-robed thief and trapped him in her Myriad Flower Mirror Domain, where his own power began to drain his life.

• Dawn left a Swift Shadow Divine Stone outside Black Stone Fortress, and assassin players rushed to claim its new advanced class.
• Players surrounding City of Mist discovered that its fog petrified living things and resisted their attempts to purify it.
• Mirror used her sight to trace the gray threads draining the city's inhabitants to a hooded figure atop the observation tower.
• The gray-robed man used Silent Petrification on Mirror, but her stone form shattered into mirror shards and she reappeared unharmed.
• Mirror trapped the gray-robed man in her Myriad Flower Mirror Domain, where the prisms reflected his power back and began plundering him.

Mirror defeated the gray-robed god by analyzing and turning his Silent Petrification against him, then sealed his Divine Authority in a stone mirror. She restored the City of Mist and left a Silent God Monument that offered players a trial to gain resistance to curses and new powers.

• Mirror's Myriad Flower Mirror Domain analyzed and replicated the gray-robed man's Silent Petrification, turning his own power against him.
• Mirror severed the gray-robed man's connection to his Divine Authority and compressed his statue and Divine Origin into a small stone mirror.
• The gray fog lifted from the City of Mist, and its petrified citizens and players began to return to life.
• Mirror appeared before the players outside the city and transformed the Silent Stone Mirror into the Silent God Monument.
• Mirror announced that players could approach the monument to learn the Silent Law, and a system notification opened the Test of Silence quest to everyone in the Southern Border War Zone.
• Mirror vanished after the monument offered rewards including the Heart of Silence talent tree and a chance to learn Touch of Petrification or Life Drain.

Night Cherry Tangle arrived at the Dragon Bone Sea Trench and used the End Court to judge and purify the polluted sea. After the entity in the depths attacked and lost part of its power, Night Cherry Tangle plunged into the trench to confront it, where it revealed its true form.

• Tide Listener ordered the fleet to concentrate its energy as corrosive seawater overwhelmed the ships.
• Night Cherry Tangle appeared above the fleet, opened the End Court's gate, and sent Sin Locks into the sea to extract its pollution.
• The entity in the trench attacked with a column of black water, but the End Court trapped it and siphoned away its Origin Law.
• Night Cherry Tangle entered the trench to confront the hidden entity, which revealed itself as a giant heart of malice and decay with a bloodshot One-Eye.

Night Cherry Tangle destroyed the source of corruption in the Dragon Bone Sea Trench and reshaped the seabed into the Island of Judgment. He established the Judgment God Monument and announced a trial that offered players a path to become Judgment Knights, while Tide Listener ordered his forces to prepare to land.

• Night Cherry Tangle suppressed the Nest’s Rot Law with Myriad Law Cage and erased its black heart with End Judgment.
• The Sin Locks dragged the heart into the End Court, where the Sin Origin Furnace absorbed its Origin Essence.
• Night Cherry Tangle used the power of the End Court to raise a new island from the Dragon Bone Sea Trench.
• Night Cherry Tangle named the island Judgment, raised the Judgment God Monument, and invited those seeking fairness to face its trial.
• The system announced the Island of Judgment, the Just Judgment quest, and the Judgment Knight class progression for qualified players.
• Tide Listener ordered noncombatants to fall back and combatants to form squads for landing on the island.

Players in the Yan Country War Zone celebrated three divine monuments and the new powers they granted, then saw reports of apocalyptic disasters devastating other war zones. The chapter ended with an urgent, globally pinned appeal from the North American War Zone to the gods of Yan Country.

• Players on the Yan Country forum celebrated the Swift Shadow Divine Stone, Silent God Monument, and Island of Judgment and showed off their newly unlocked powers.
• Yan Country players opened the international forum and saw reports that disasters had devastated cities in North America, Western Europe, and the Sakura War Zone.
• Freedom's Eagle explained that North America's strongest players had not even passed the Holy Domain trial, leaving them far from becoming gods.
• Yan Country players fell silent as they recognized that their safety depended on being fortunate enough to have powerful figures such as Night Roaming God.
• Forum administrators pinned a red-highlighted post titled "To the Gods of the Yan Country War Zone—The North American War Zone's Final Request."

After General Adams begged Yan Country to save the North American War Zone from the Rotten Monarch, Qin Chuan decided to intervene and establish a Divine Domain there in exchange for the people’s sincere faith. The chapter left Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle preparing to act together under Qin Chuan’s orders.

• General Adams broadcast a plea for help as the Rotten Monarch devastated the North American War Zone.
• Yan Country players argued over whether to help, but recognized that only the Apex Guild could decide.
• Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle reported their completed tasks to Qin Chuan in the Shadow Domain.
• Qin Chuan asked the three incarnations for their views on the North American War Zone’s plea, and they weighed the lack of benefit, the laws, and the risks.
• Qin Chuan agreed to save North America but ordered the three to establish a Divine Domain of faith there for those who sincerely pledged themselves to them.

Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle arrived in Freedom City and demonstrated their power against the Rotten Monarch, offering the North American survivors refuge in exchange for their faith. The survivors recoiled at the demand as the monster regenerated, leaving General Adams to face the choice between dignity and certain death.

• The Rotten Monarch closed in on General Adams and the last defenders of Freedom City after their forces and supplies were nearly exhausted.
• Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle appeared and struck the Rotten Monarch with attacks that destroyed its torrent and severed one of its limbs.
• Night Cherry Tangle told the survivors that their refuge in the Divine Domain required faith, and Dawn ordered them to kneel and devote themselves to their lord.
• North American players protested that they would not kneel or become believers, while General Adams struggled with humiliation and hope.
• The Rotten Monarch began regenerating its severed limb as the survivors faced the cost of rejecting the offer.

Dawn’s demand that North American players kneel sparked celebration in Yan Country and fear among other war zones. After the Rotten Monarch killed more than a hundred holdouts, General Adams and hundreds of thousands of survivors surrendered, and Night Cherry Tangle began opening the Divine Domain to the devout.

• Yan Country players celebrated Dawn’s demand, while players from other war zones wondered whether they would have to kneel to receive help.
• In the ruins of Freedom City, the Rotten Monarch crushed more than a hundred North American players who had argued against surrender.
• A young woman knelt and begged the three figures to save her, prompting players across the city to drop their weapons and follow.
• General Adams surrendered and knelt after hearing his soldiers and the other survivors give in.
• Night Cherry Tangle said the Divine Domain opened only to the devout and began forming a vast gateway of light.

North American players who rushed toward the gate of light discovered that the Divine Kingdom rejected them as False Believers because their surrender was insincere. Trapped between the barrier and the regenerating Rotten Monarch, they faced slaughter while General Adams realized they had never understood the gulf between mortals and gods.

• The surviving players charged toward the gate of light, but an invisible barrier struck them down and stopped them from entering.
• The players accused the gods of deceiving them, and Night Cherry Tangle and Mirror revealed that their false faith and hidden motives barred them from the Divine Kingdom.
• The Rotten Monarch attacked the crowd with a tentacle of tangled corpses, capturing thousands and dragging them into its flesh.
• The players panicked and crowded against the gate's barrier as the Rotten Monarch killed them, while General Adams watched helplessly and recognized their mistake.

The North American War Zone's destruction horrified players worldwide, while Yan Country players recognized that their peaceful lives depended on their gods' protection. General Adams renounced his titles and begged the three gods to spare the North American survivors, and the figure holding the Sword of Sin Punishment finally moved.

• The restored livestream showed the Rotten Monarch devouring North American players while three gods watched without intervening.
• Yan Country players compared their peaceful cities and trials with the slaughter in North America and realized their safety came from their nationality and gods.
• Players across international forums argued over the gods' indifference, and the Western European Templar Grand Master feared his own war zone would face the same choice.
• General Adams admitted he had misjudged the gods and, after recalling the story of bearing thorns to beg forgiveness, prepared to plead for the survivors.
• Adams renounced the Shield of Freedom and his command, offered the survivors' faith and service, and prostrated himself before the gods.
• The figure holding the Sword of Sin Punishment finally stirred.

Night Cherry Tangle opened the Gate of Divine Punishment, which let sincere North American players pass into the Divine Domain but burned those whose hearts held malice. As the Rotten Monarch attacked again, the Faith Power of those who had passed through empowered Night Cherry Tangle to bind it.

• Night Cherry Tangle warned that the Divine Domain offered no refuge to False Believers, and General Adams entered the blazing gate unharmed.
• A wounded player and a distressed female player passed through safely, while the wounded player’s legs were restored by a Divine Miracle.
• A guild leader was exposed by the gate for plotting revenge against Yan Country and was burned away, revealing the gate as a judgment of their hearts.
• The Rotten Monarch attacked again as North American players confessed, with the sincere entering the gate and the malicious perishing in its flames.
• A young Paladin prayed sincerely for a new life, and Night Cherry Tangle gathered the Faith Power of those who had passed through the gate to bind the Rotten Monarch with Sin Locks.

Night Cherry Tangle erased the Rotten Monarch with End Judgment, then cleansed the ruined land and created Sin Punishment Guards to protect it. Mirror began using her Myriad Flower Mirror Domain as the story turned to restoring the aftermath.

• Night Cherry Tangle bound the Rotten Monarch with Endless Sin Locks and erased it with End Judgment.
• Yan Country players and the surviving North American players reacted with awe and relief after witnessing the Rotten Monarch’s death.
• Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle descended onto the corrupted ground, where Mirror’s purification failed against the twisted laws.
• Night Cherry Tangle used Sin Origin Furnace to cleanse the land and erase the corruption left by the Rotten Monarch.
• Night Cherry Tangle created two Sin Punishment Guards from the purified energy.
• Mirror began casting Myriad Flower Mirror Domain: Architect of Reality and Illusion.

Mirror, Dawn, and the survivors of Freedom City established a divinely protected sanctuary that healed and empowered its residents while binding them to the gods' authority. The sanctuary's creation left Yan Country players proud and Western Europe's Templar leadership fearful that their people would not meet the gods' standard for true believers.

• Mirror transformed the wreckage into houses, streets, a square, and a sanctuary, while Dawn sealed it off with a wall of wind.
• The survivors discovered that the sanctuary protected them from corruption, healed mental damage, increased experience gain, and that its fountain restored health and removed minor negative effects.
• General Adams learned that the Sin Punishment Guards would eradicate anyone who disrespected the gods or acted with malicious intent, confirming that the survivors were bound to the gods' scrutiny.
• Players around the world watched the sanctuary appear, and Yan Country players shifted from envy to pride in their gods' generosity.
• The Templar Grand Master concluded that the sanctuary set a standard for true believers and wondered how many Western European players could meet it.

Night Cherry Tangle established the Court of Sin Punishment and forced the surviving North American players into service under divine authority. The chapter ended with a global announcement offering devout players a one-use teleport to the new sanctuary as the deities turned their attention toward Western Europe.

• Night Cherry Tangle declared the North American survivors servants of the Court of Sin Punishment, tasked with gathering faith, expanding the Divine Domain, and cleansing impurity.
• Barton protested their servitude and was erased by a Sin Punishment Guard for disrespecting the deities.
• Night Cherry Tangle appointed Adams Supervisor and ordered him to purify nearby Corrupted Creatures within three days.
• Night Cherry Tangle announced that servants could obtain equipment through the Sin Punishment Forge and that the devout could earn resurrection after falling in battle.
• Dawn predicted that the Western European players would soon be subjugated, while Mirror warned that their entrenched faith would make them harder to sway.
• The system announced the Court of Sin Punishment as the first God-Chosen Sanctuary and granted devout former North American players a one-use teleport there.