Chapter Summaries

After the Yan Country gods announced a sanctuary and demanded North American players serve the Court of Sin Punishment, Templar Grand Master Richard suppressed calls for resistance and chose submission to protect his people. As Adams became overseer of the new territory, Richard received a mysterious message claiming his god had not abandoned him.

• Yan Country players celebrated the global announcements establishing the God-Chosen Sanctuary and summoning North American players to the Court of Sin Punishment.
• Sir Gregory urged the Templar Order to resist the eastern gods, but Richard challenged his faith and ordered everyone to abandon talk of honor and surrender to survive.
• Gregory lowered his head and accepted Richard's order, while Richard warned he would purge anyone who incited resistance.
• Dawn, Mirror, and Night Cherry Tangle disappeared after completing their preparations, leaving Adams as the Court of Sin Punishment's acting overseer.
• Richard received an unfamiliar Dark Gold message telling him to lift his head because his god had not abandoned him.

Richard received a message from an unknown deity, awakened the Spark of Resistance, and chose to defy the Eastern God rather than submit. After ordering Gregory to gather elite Templar knights for an expedition to the Scarlet Swamp, Richard acquired the unique profession Apostle of Wrath.

• A dark-gold dialogue box told Richard that his god had not abandoned him and urged him to awaken the power hidden in his bloodline.
• Richard awakened blazing golden power called the Spark of Resistance, and Gregory mistook the display for a Divine Miracle and knelt before him.
• The dialogue box directed Richard to the Scarlet Swamp to claim a sacrifice and ignite a Beacon Fire of vengeance.
• Richard chose to pursue a third path rather than submit to the Eastern Deity or accept certain death, then ordered Gregory to assemble the First Templar Knight Squad.
• Richard received the unique profession Apostle of Wrath, which strengthened him as his health fell, empowered his attacks against Corrupted and Undead Creatures, and blessed nearby allies.

Richard led Gregory and eleven Templar Knights into the Scarlet Swamp, where his new Divine Grace Aura strengthened the squad and his Divine Fire obliterated their first enemies. They found a Fallen Angel’s corrupted heart, the source of the swamp’s corruption, and a divine message called it a sacrifice that would earn Richard the first key to the New Era.

• Richard left the Joint Command Center with Gregory and eleven Templar Knights, heading for the Scarlet Swamp.
• At the swamp’s edge, Richard’s Divine Grace Aura protected the knights from the mist and greatly increased their strength.
• Richard destroyed a pack of Corrupted Beasts with a single pillar of Divine Fire, convincing Gregory that Richard could stand against the Eastern Deity.
• The strengthened Templar Knights fought through the swamp’s corrupted creatures as Richard followed the energy of the offering deeper inside.
• Richard and the knights discovered a Fallen Angel’s skeleton beside a pit, with a black heart that drew corruption from the Void and caused the Scarlet Swamp.
• A Dark Gold dialogue box told Richard to sacrifice the corrupted Heart of God to his lord in exchange for the first key to the New Era.

Richard defeated the Fallen Angel’s skeleton by tearing out its corrupted heart, then crushed the heart at his New God’s command. His knights witnessed the victory and knelt before him in worship.

• The Fallen Angel’s skeleton awoke and attacked Richard’s Templar Knights, while its black heart weakened them with Corrupting Divinity.
• Richard charged the skeleton, endured a deep wound, and unleashed the power of the Heart of Wrath.
• Richard struck the skeleton’s chest and tore out its beating Fallen Divine Heart, causing the skeleton to dissolve and the Scarlet Swamp’s corruption to fade.
• Gregory and the Templar Knights knelt before Richard, convinced they had witnessed a Divine Miracle.
• The New God commanded Richard to sacrifice the heart, and Richard crushed it in golden flames.

Richard raised the Altar of Wrath in the Western European War Zone, and a global announcement declared a new path for those who resisted submission and offered them the Authority of Vengeance. He renamed the Templar Order as apostles of the returned True God and sent them to spread the new faith.

• The Fallen Angel's shattered heart poured black energy into the earth, causing a colossal altar to rise beneath Richard in the Scarlet Swamp.
• The Altar of Wrath's emergence triggered a worldwide announcement proclaiming a new path and offering the Authority of Vengeance to those who sacrificed their fury.
• Yan Country players interpreted the announcement as a challenge to their gods, while servants in the Court of Sin Punishment reconsidered their choices before Sin Punishment Guards threatened to purify wavering believers.
• Richard told the Templar Knights that the altar was their path to survival and declared that the Templar Order would become apostles of the new god.
• Gregory and the knights tore off their Templar emblems and pledged themselves to the lord of wrath and vengeance.
• Richard ordered the newly named apostles to return to the city and invite all who refused to be slaves to offer their fury at the Altar of Wrath.

Richard returned to the Western European War Zone after purifying the Scarlet Swamp and empowered his knights with divine flames. He rejected surrender to the Eastern Deity, destroyed the cathedral’s statue, and demanded that the leaders choose between fighting alongside him or becoming sacrifices.

• Richard’s Divine Grace Aura strengthened the twelve Templar Knights, who used golden flames to kill the Corrupted Beasts as the Scarlet Swamp began to recover.
• Richard and the knights returned to the main city, where Bishop Anthony urged Richard to sign a surrender document for the Eastern Deity.
• Richard refused to surrender and went to the Holy Light Cathedral, telling the gathered leaders he had brought them a weapon with which to survive.
• Richard called the gathering a last supper, denounced the Pure Gold statue, and destroyed it with golden flames while Bishop Anthony tried to stop him.
• Richard declared the Old Gods dead and ordered the leaders to choose between following him into battle or becoming sacrifices for the first Beacon of Vengeance.

Richard destroyed Anthony’s sacred relics and burned him with golden flames, forcing Western Europe’s leaders to submit and pledge their resources to the Legion of Wrath. The chapter ended with a report that countless Mechanical Constructs were teleporting in and heading toward the city.

• Anthony denounced Richard and tried to exorcise him with a Sacred Relic, but Richard caused the relic and Holy Scripture to crumble into dust and ash.
• Richard burned Anthony with golden flames, and the Western European leaders knelt and pledged to follow him.
• Richard ordered the leaders to devote their armies and resources to building the Legion of Wrath for his lord.
• Richard ordered Gregory to gather every Old God Relic, Holy Scripture, badge, and statue for sacrifice at the Altar of Wrath.
• A messenger reported that countless Mechanical Constructs had assembled through Teleportation Passages and were advancing toward the city.

Richard rallied the newly surrendered Western European leaders and soldiers to meet the invading Mechanical Constructs, using the Divine Grace Aura to drive them into battle. The Legion of Wrath held the first assault, but the Annihilator pierced the city’s Magic Shield with one shot, leaving the defenders terrified and unsure how to fight.

• Richard turned the church’s panicked leaders toward the incoming Mechanical Constructs by calling the invasion a gift and urging them to welcome the sacrifices.
• Richard led the Western European elites to the city walls, where dozens of Space Channels opened and poured out a vast Mechanical Legion.
• Richard unleashed the Divine Grace Aura, and Gregory led the enraged soldiers in a charge that halted the Mechanical Legion’s first assault.
• The Destroyer and Annihilator emerged from the largest Space Channels as the Altar of Wrath absorbed energy from destroyed machines and fallen soldiers.
• The Annihilator fired its main cannon through the city’s Magic Shield, carving a vast ravine and leaving the defenders afraid and shaken.

Richard answered Season Star’s demand to bring out his god by channeling the power of the Altar of Wrath and disrupting the Mechanical Constructs. Season Star erased the disruption with the Data Purification Protocol, leaving Richard facing the full extent of her control.

• Season Star demanded that the Western European War Zone envoy bring out his god, and Richard turned the challenge into a call to resist.
• Richard drew power from the Altar of Wrath and sent a torrent of anger into the Mechanical Constructs, disrupting their movements and targeting systems.
• Gregory celebrated Richard’s apparent success as the soldiers watched the machines falter.
• Season Star activated the Data Purification Protocol, restoring the Mechanical Constructs and drones to coordinated operation within a second.
• Richard realized Season Star had held back from destroying the city because Qin Chuan wanted to draw out the unknown deity and preserve the players as sources of Faith Power.

The Annihilator’s silver data cloud analyzed Richard, neutralized Gregory’s divine power, and began targeting the Altar of Wrath. As fear spread among the defenders, Richard sacrificed a general to send the general’s life force and emotions to the altar.

• The Annihilator released a silver cloud that passed through Richard’s barrier and scanned the defenders, then classified his divinity as a “shoddy god.”
• Gregory charged the Mechanical Legion, but Humanoid Combat Robots disarmed him and pinned him to the ground.
• Richard sensed the silver cloud neutralizing Gregory’s Divine Grace and analyzing the Altar of Wrath, leaving the altar unable to channel its power freely.
• A Western European general lost hope and fell to his knees as despair spread among the soldiers.
• Richard sacrificed the general, draining his life force and emotions and sending the resulting energy toward the Altar of Wrath.

Richard sacrificed soldiers to empower the Altar of Wrath, which manifested a Black-Red Figure that Season Star identified as a Mid-Rank God. Season Star enveloped the battlefield in Data Heaven and began producing vast numbers of Mechanical Constructs to wage a war of attrition against the god.

• Richard used the Altar of Wrath to draw on soul energy, as madness and black-red patterns overtook his body.
• The Altar of Wrath transformed, and a Black-Red Figure formed on its throne, forcing the battlefield into silence.
• Richard and the Western European War Zone soldiers knelt before the figure, while Season Star identified its power as conceptual erosion by wrath.
• The figure's shock wave erased thousands of nearby Mechanical Constructs, but the Annihilator and Destroyer resisted it with a defensive barrier.
• Season Star spread Data Heaven across the battlefield and declared that gods could be deleted, overwritten, and worn down.
• The Destroyer deployed aerial factories that rapidly produced tens of thousands of Mechanical Constructs.

The Destroyer’s factories replaced every one the Black-Red Figure destroyed, leaving Richard unable to wear down the endless mechanical army. Desperate to empower his god, Richard ordered the entire Western European Main City sacrificed, and the city’s people were immobilized as black-red energy was drawn from them.

• The Black-Red Figure destroyed an Aerial Factory with a Dark Red Beam, but the Destroyer produced a replacement immediately.
• Richard realized the mechanical army could keep replacing its losses while every attack drained his god’s Divinity Power.
• Richard killed a kneeling general and sent the man’s energy to the Divine Throne.
• Richard ordered the people of the Western European Main City to offer up their lives for his Lord’s victory.
• The city’s civilians panicked, but a force from the cathedral immobilized them and began drawing black-red energy from their heads.

Richard sacrificed the people of Western European Main City to empower the God of Wrath, but Season Star intercepted the soul energy and processed it for the Annihilator Mecha. The Annihilator absorbed the stolen power and aimed its Divine Might at the enraged god.

• Richard watched thousands of people across Western European Main City die as their souls surged toward the Altar of Wrath.
• The God of Wrath grew stronger and unleashed a Destruction Aura that destroyed more than twenty Aerial Factories.
• Season Star detected the inefficient soul harvesting and used Data Heaven’s blue chains to divert the energy toward the Annihilator Mecha.
• The Annihilator’s Soul Assembly Line purified the stolen energy and fed it into the mecha, leaving Richard devastated.
• The God of Wrath attacked the data conduit, but its runes dissolved the strikes, and the Annihilator aimed its Divine Might at the god.

The Annihilator Mecha’s Deletion Command began erasing the black-and-red god, but the dying god drained Richard’s soul to revive itself for one final attack. The monster charged Season Star’s Destroyer Mecha, and red warnings flashed across her screens as it closed in.

• The Annihilator Mecha pierced the god’s barrier with a Deletion Command, and the black-and-red god began dissolving under the Formatting Command.
• The dying god sent a ray into Richard and drained his life and soul, revealing that it had kept him as stored food rather than chosen him as an Apostle.
• The god used Richard’s stolen soul energy to form a grotesque human-sized monster bearing both its face and Richard’s.
• The monster abandoned its defense against the beam and charged Season Star inside the Destroyer Mecha, while red system warnings filled her screens.

Qin Chuan stopped the clash between Season Star’s Destroyer Mecha and the fused God of Wrath and Richard, then separated and absorbed the Wrath Divinity. He sent Richard’s soul to the Court of Sin Punishment and warned Season Star that the matter might not be over.

• Qin Chuan froze the battlefield just before the black-and-red meteor struck Season Star’s Destroyer Mecha.
• Qin Chuan dismantled the fused monster, separated Richard’s soul from the Wrath Divinity, and absorbed the Divine Origin into the Shadow Domain.
• Qin Chuan sent Richard’s soul to the Court of Sin Punishment in the North American War Zone.
• Qin Chuan released the locked space, and the meteor and the Annihilator Mecha’s Formatting beam vanished as the Western European soldiers collapsed in relief.
• Qin Chuan appeared in the Destroyer Mecha’s cockpit, reassured Season Star that the setback was not her fault, and warned her that the matter might not be over.

After Qin Chuan destroyed Wrath’s projection, he tasked Season Star with rebuilding the Western European War Zone and filling the void left by its dead deity. Season Star used the Mechanical Legion to clear the ruined city and construct a futuristic steel city, then gathered the surviving players in its central square.

• Qin Chuan explained that Wrath was an outside invader whose living infection could corrupt the world’s rules, and told Season Star that its true body still remained.
• Qin Chuan assigned Season Star to restore order and fill the Western European War Zone’s void of faith after Richard’s sacrifice and Wrath’s defeat.
• Season Star activated Cleanup Mode, and the Annihilator Mecha dismantled the collapsing Altar of Wrath while the Mechanical Legion cleared the city.
• Season Star’s machines rebuilt the Western European Main City as a futuristic steel city and placed a massive ring-shaped device in its central square.
• An invisible force brought the surviving Western European players into the square, where they inspected the unfamiliar city with unease.

Season Star declared the rebuilt city of Tianshu part of her Divine Kingdom and introduced a system that measured survivors’ faith by their value to the city. After Marcus’s assessment exposed his fear-driven faith as invalid, she began assessing every survivor and displayed their Faith Values on a ranking board.

• Season Star announced that Tianshu and the Western European War Zone belonged to her and said survivors had to prove their value to join the city.
• Season Star rejected the survivors’ offer of prayers and explained that Tianshu quantified faith according to order, logic, and contributions.
• Season Star scanned Marcus and displayed his assessment: his faith was invalid and worth 2.37, mostly because he feared for his survival.
• Season Star laid out the Faith Value thresholds for resources, housing, and management roles, explaining that contributions to Tianshu increased a person’s value.
• Season Star started a citywide Faith Assessment, sending blue beams over the survivors and displaying their scores on a ranking board.

Season Star established Tianshu’s Faith Value work system after a survivor was exiled for a negative score, then reported her mission’s partial failure to Qin Chuan. Qin Chuan revealed that the God of Wrath was a hostile law from another server that sought to infect and rewrite Apocalypse’s rules.

• Season Star’s robots dragged ID-2048 away for exile after his negative Faith Value marked him as a high-risk threat.
• Season Star explained that survivors could raise Faith Value by completing useful tasks, and the crowd began accepting jobs through their Personal Terminals.
• Season Star handed city operations to Tianshu AI and returned to Apex Guild headquarters, where she reported that the Tianshu framework was complete and her Western European mission had partially failed.
• Qin Chuan reassured Season Star and told Night Cherry Tangle, Dawn, and Mirror that the Western European threat had come from outside the Apocalypse System.
• Qin Chuan showed the group the God of Wrath’s twisted, replicating laws and explained that they came from another server and aimed to infect and rewrite Apocalypse.

Qin Chuan explained that the God of Wrath had descended because Western Europe’s faith system collapsed, and he ordered Apex Guild to gather the world’s unclaimed faith to prevent further invasions. He revealed that his Blood God Avatar and the Fourth True Ancestor had already taken control of India and South Yue, while the guild prepared to expand its influence elsewhere.

• Qin Chuan explained that Richard’s actions triggered the God of Wrath’s descent because Western Europe had become a Faith Desert after its players lost faith in their gods.
• Night Cherry Tangle and Season Star recognized that the Court of Sin Punishment had filled North America’s faith vacuum, while Tianshu had arrived too late to prevent the crisis in Western Europe.
• Qin Chuan declared that Apex Guild needed to gather unclaimed faith and make all of Blue Star part of the Divine Kingdom.
• Qin Chuan showed the world map and told the gods to target regions where faith remained uncertain, using divine miracles, protection, and the elimination of foreign gods to win followers.
• Dawn proposed starting in South America, while Season Star and Mirror debated the risks of intervening in South Asia.
• Qin Chuan revealed that his Blood God Avatar had taken control of India and South Yue, and that the Fourth True Ancestor was conquering the remaining regions as the First Apostle.

Qin Chuan assigned four newly ascended gods to establish the Divine Kingdom’s influence in Oceania, South America, and Africa while the earlier gods secured their existing territories. The new gods accepted their missions, with Africa’s assignment focused on saving lives rather than conquest.

• Qin Chuan told Night Cherry Tangle and Season Star to remain in North America and Western Europe because their regions were not yet stable.
• Tiga Lingyu, Song Ling, the Water God, and Evergreen appeared, and Qin Chuan said they would be tested by founding new territories.
• Qin Chuan assigned Tiga Lingyu to unify the scattered powers of Oceania.
• Qin Chuan sent Song Ling to South America and arranged for Dawn and Mirror to provide support against the remnants of the Feathered Serpent God System.
• Qin Chuan sent the Water God and Evergreen to Africa to provide water, restore the land, and heal disease so its people could survive.
• The Water God accepted the African mission enthusiastically, and Evergreen solemnly promised to do everything he could.