Chapter Summaries

Roderick led the players through Rust City to collect enough Energy Cores for the first stage of the Epic Quest, then discovered the Sin Origin Furnace could turn their unwanted loot into War Insignias. The party used the insignias to obtain the required ingots and stones and completed all quest requirements.

• Roderick directed the party to hunt Elite Lords across Rust City, and they gathered 1,031 Energy Cores.
• Kevin warned Roderick that they still lacked the required Purified Metal Ingots and Immaculate Stones.
• Roderick fed Sin Karma-tainted loot into the Sin Origin Furnace, earning War Insignias, then exchanged them for 5,000 ingots and 10,000 stones.
• Scott urged the players to empty their packs into the furnace, and the party's War Ladder Total Points rose beyond 100,000.
• The Regional Epic Quest, Dawn of Faith, announced that all quest requirements had been met.

After completing the Regional Epic Quest, Roderick used the Faith Lighthouse Blueprint to build and activate the first Faith Lighthouse in Rust City. Its light connected with the War Ladder, purified Rust City into a Tier-One Safe Zone, and announced Roderick’s achievement to the North American War Zone.

• The players celebrated completing the Regional Epic Quest and received the Faith Lighthouse Blueprint and War Ladder Permission.
• Roderick selected the center of Rust City’s square as the lighthouse site and used the gathered materials and Energy Cores to build it.
• The Faith Lighthouse lit, sending a Platinum-Gold Pillar of Light over Rust City and clearing the players’ negative effects.
• A Dark Gold pillar rose from the Court of Sin Punishment as the War Ladder descended across the North American War Zone.
• The system announced Roderick as the lighthouse’s Guardian and upgraded Rust City and its surroundings to a Tier-One Safe Zone.
• Players across North America reacted to the announcement while Rust City’s residents took pride in having changed the world.

Night Cherry Tangle received a surge of Faith Power from Roderick’s success in Rust City, strengthening his Divine Kingdom and bringing him closer to Mid-Rank God. He ordered the Court of Sin Punishment to establish Faith Lighthouses across North America as the Seven Sin Gods’ global invasion continued.

• The light from Rust City’s pillar joined with the War Ladder’s radiance, spreading a purifying wave across North America and weakening the Sin Monsters born of envy.
• Night Cherry Tangle absorbed the faith sent by Roderick and his followers, strengthening the End Court, his divine abilities, and his reserves of Divine Might.
• Night Cherry Tangle understood the Spiral of Faith and ordered Adams to send expeditionary legions from the Court of Sin Punishment to establish Faith Lighthouses.
• Adams formed legions of a hundred and led the players out to cleanse North America and fight the Shadows of Jealousy.
• Night Cherry Tangle sensed that Jealousy Divinity was stirring elsewhere and that Wrath Divinity and Sloth Divinity were awakening in Western Europe and Africa.

Roderick’s Faith Lighthouse transformed Rust City into a protected haven, but Blackwater Company demanded control of it as a massive Jealousy Plague horde advanced. Thousands of Ladder Seekers joined Roderick’s group, strengthening the lighthouse just as the city faced threats from both outside and within the war zone.

• Roderick inspected the activated Faith Lighthouse and learned it could shelter Rust City, strengthen allies, and provide teleportation and transmutation services.
• Kevin showed Roderick Blackwater Company’s demand that Roderick surrender the lighthouse within 24 hours, prompting Scott and the players to vow resistance.
• Kevin revealed that a huge tide of Jealousy Plague-corrupted monsters and players was approaching Rust City and would arrive within an hour.
• Roderick allowed thousands of Ladder Seekers to enter the Shelter Aura, swelling the group to nearly five thousand people.
• Kevin noticed that the new believers strengthened the Faith Lighthouse, expanding its Shelter Aura from five to six kilometers.

Roderick realized that Faith Power grew with the number of people under the Faith Lighthouse, so he invited struggling players to Rust City to strengthen it and prepare for the coming Monster Siege. As newcomers gathered and the city organized its defenses, Blackwater Company arrived demanding control of the lighthouse.

• Roderick recognized that the Faith Lighthouse drew strength from the number and faith of its believers.
• Roderick announced that Rust City offered a powerful Shelter Aura and called on North American players to come there for safety.
• The announcement drew countless independent players toward Rust City, and Roderick ordered Scott and Macron to organize them while Kevin distributed equipment.
• A scout reported that fewer than a hundred heavily equipped Blackwater Company members had arrived, demanding that Roderick surrender control of the Faith Lighthouse.

Roderick left Rust City’s defenders to prepare for the monster tide and went alone to confront Blackwater Company’s Iron Hammer Squad. After challenging them over their violence against other players, he revealed his divine power and transformed into the Walking Holy Spirit.

• Scott reported that Blackwater Company had given them ten minutes before clearing the area, and Roderick asked about the troop reorganization instead of responding to the threat.
• Roderick told Scott and Macron to prepare the defenders for the eastern monster tide while he went alone to face Blackwater Company and establish his authority.
• At Rust City’s western entrance, Iron Hammer and his squad waited to claim the Faith Lighthouse, while Iron Hammer worried about the city’s holy radiance.
• Roderick met Iron Hammer’s squad and asked how many players they had killed; the Berserker defended their violence as the strong devouring the weak.
• Roderick released terrifying pressure, replaced his armor with radiant Platinum Battle Armor, and revealed himself as the Walking Holy Spirit.

Roderick unleashed divine power that erased Blackwater Company’s Iron Hammer Squad in an instant, leaving their equipment behind. As Rust City’s players hailed him and the Faith Lighthouse’s protection expanded, he prepared the city for the monster horde, which was less than twenty minutes away.

• Roderick’s divine light overwhelmed Iron Hammer and dissolved nearly a hundred members of the Iron Hammer Squad, leaving their equipment behind.
• Andre the priest knelt in devotion, and Rust City’s players erupted into cheers for Roderick.
• The crowd’s fervent faith caused the Faith Lighthouse’s protective range to expand to eight kilometers.
• Roderick ordered Kevin to collect the spoils and distribute them to unequipped warriors and priests, prioritizing shields for the front line.
• Scott reported that the monster horde would arrive in less than twenty minutes, and Roderick returned to the city.

Roderick led Rust City's defenders as the Jealousy Plague's monster army reached the walls. With the Faith Lighthouse shielding the city, he unleashed Holy Light, Cleanse and wiped out every Sin Monster in a vast area, but the battle continued.

• Kevin reported that the main force had received Dark Gold Sets, with equipment left over.
• The Jealousy Plague's monster army surged toward Rust City, frightening the defenders until Scott rallied them by invoking Roderick and the Faith Lighthouse.
• Roderick ordered the warriors into three defensive lines and directed ranged classes and priests to prepare for the assault.
• Corrupted Beasts rammed the Faith Lighthouse's golden Shelter Aura, while Scott and the defenders attacked the monsters from the wall.
• Roderick cast Holy Light, Cleanse, purifying every Sin Monster in a two-hundred-meter radius outside the wall.

Roderick unleashed a Divine Word that cleared the monsters beneath Rust City’s walls, inspiring the defenders and strengthening the Faith Lighthouse as the siege resumed. Videos of his power spread worldwide, making players eager to obtain the Lighthouse’s protection.

• Roderick’s Holy Light wiped out the monsters and corpses in a clearing beneath Rust City’s walls.
• Andre and thousands of players knelt before Roderick, and their Faith Power expanded the Faith Lighthouse’s Shelter Aura to ten kilometers.
• War Correspondent Tom uploaded videos of Roderick defeating Blackwater Company’s ace squad and purifying the monsters.
• A shriek from behind the monster army revived the monsters’ madness, and they charged Rust City again.
• Roderick urged the defenders to fight, and the emboldened players resumed battling the siege.
• Players across the world watched the videos and began praising Roderick and seeking the Faith Lighthouse.

Qin Chuan explained how Faith Lighthouses could use united belief to weaken the Seven Sin Gods’ corruption and guide a global war to reclaim their territory. He revealed that the New Order let him grant Holy Spirit power—and take it away.

• In Magic City, Qin Chuan and the others watched Roderick become a Holy Spirit, defeat Blackwater Company's elite squad, and cleanse the land with divine light.
• Season Star studied the Faith Lighthouse while Dies Martin called faith a deception, and Aleisa defended it as a source of hope and survival.
• Qin Chuan explained that Faith Lighthouses could create sanctuaries where Envy’s power weakened and the faithful grew stronger.
• Season Star proposed building lighthouses in every war zone, and Qin Chuan said they would reclaim the Seven Sin Gods’ territory piece by piece.
• Dies Martin questioned whether powerful Holy Spirits could escape Qin Chuan’s control, and Qin Chuan said he could take away the power granted by the New Order.

Qin Chuan summoned Night Cherry Tangle to report how Roderick’s ascension and the Faith Lighthouse were strengthening his Divine Kingdom and Judgment Divine Authority. After hearing that the faith could counter Sin Karma, Season Star volunteered to create Holy Spirits and establish a Faith Lighthouse in the Western European War Zone.

• Qin Chuan sent his Divine Sense to Night Cherry Tangle and ordered him to form an incarnation and share what he had learned.
• Night Cherry Tangle formed a Divine Power Incarnation and sent it to Qin Chuan in Magic City.
• Night Cherry Tangle described how the Faith Lighthouse’s pure Faith Power rapidly strengthened his Divine Kingdom, Divine Might, and skills.
• Night Cherry Tangle explained that the faith’s collective will refined his laws and gave his Judgment Divine Authority an advantage against Sin Karma.
• Season Star volunteered to create a group of Holy Spirits and light a Faith Lighthouse across the Western European War Zone to oppose the Breath of Wrath.

Season Star proposed using logic and machines to turn the Western European War Zone into a war machine, but Qin Chuan explained that faith had to resonate with human courage and hope. He sent her to understand the survivors and purge the Breath of Wrath, leaving her determined to build a Logic Lighthouse and find a leader who could inspire them.

• Dies Martin questioned whether Holy Spirits could be mass-produced, and Night Cherry Tangle explained that Roderick had earned survivors' trust through his actions.
• Season Star proposed a Logic Lighthouse that would use faith, calculations, and machines to coordinate the Western European War Zone.
• Qin Chuan explained that the Faith Lighthouse amplified human emotions and that logic alone could not inspire people to resist despair and the Seven Sins.
• Qin Chuan shared new principles about faith and humanity with Season Star and told her to find, understand, and become like the struggling survivors.
• Season Star resolved to establish a Logic Lighthouse, find the Western European War Zone's own Roderick, and purge the Breath of Wrath.

Season Star returned to Tianshu and found the survivors losing faith as the God of Wrath’s lingering influence spread through the city. She showed them Rust City’s battle and argued that its strength came from trust and courage, leaving them to witness a different path than Richard’s sacrifice.

• Season Star absorbed Qin Chuan’s lessons about faith and human nature, then left the Divine Might Space.
• Season Star returned to Tianshu and learned that instability had risen, faith had fallen, and the Breath of Wrath was taking root among the survivors.
• Season Star summoned Tianshu’s residents to the central square and said she would show them how to fight Sin Karma.
• Season Star broadcast Rust City’s battle, showing Roderick and its warriors fighting the Shadow of Jealousy’s army under the Faith Lighthouse.
• Season Star told the survivors that Rust City’s god and lighthouse had been built through trust and courage, contrasting its unity with Richard’s choice to sacrifice his city.

Season Star confronted Tianshu City’s survivors with their past compliance under Richard, then offered them a new path through her Logic Lighthouse and a Contribution Points system. The crowd embraced her rules, eager to fight and earn rewards.

• Season Star showed the survivors North America’s success and blamed them for accepting Richard’s abuses and planned sacrifice without resisting.
• Season Star announced that she would give the survivors one final chance rather than judge their past.
• Season Star introduced the Logic Lighthouse and a Contribution Points system that rewarded work and combat with supplies, housing, and a chance at energy enhancement.
• Season Star warned that slacking, unrest, and spreading negative emotions would cost points and could lead to reduced rations or expulsion from Tianshu City.
• A limping young man supported the new rules, and the crowd followed by declaring their desire to fight and earn Contribution Points.

Season Star revealed Mechanical Ascension as a way for Tianshu City's top contributors to gain powerful mechanical bodies without surrendering their identities. She chose Leo, the leading contributor, to become the first Ascender, and the nanomachines began assembling around him.

• Tianshu City's citizens competed for Contribution Points while David and Leo raced for the top of the rankings.
• Season Star reviewed the deaths of an elite squad ambushed by a Wrath Host and summoned the top hundred contributors.
• Season Star showed the crowd the Court of Sin Punishment's Holy Spirit Ascension and explained that it cost people their identities.
• Season Star unveiled Mechanical Ascension, which would use contributions and combat data to synchronize citizens with custom Steel Bodies.
• Season Star selected Leo as the first Ascender, and thousands of nanomachines swarmed around him.

Leo underwent Season Star’s nanomachine transformation, which repaired his injuries and bound advanced battle armor to his body. He tested his new strength in the square and saw a warning-filled assessment of Season Star.

• The nanomachines scanned Leo and diagnosed his malnutrition, old leg fracture, and nerve damage.
• Season Star guided Leo through the painful repairs and urged him to draw strength from his anger and desire for power.
• Leo embraced the transformation, and the nanomachines formed a dark-gray exoskeleton battle armor connected to his bones and nerves.
• Leo tested his restored leg and felt the armor respond like an extension of his body.
• Leo looked at Season Star and saw a data assessment identifying her as a deity and warning him against hostile intentions.

After Leo completed his Mechanical Ascension, an Epic-grade Raging Butcher attacked Tianshu City, and Season Star sent him to fight it alone. Leo dodged the monster's cleaver and wounded its arm, but its psychic attack threatened to overwhelm him as the chapter ended.

• An alarm warned Tianshu City that an Epic-grade monster was approaching, and survivors identified it as the Raging Butcher.
• Season Star ordered Leo to kill the monster, and he blasted off toward the city's wall using his Energy Backpack.
• Leo dodged the Raging Butcher's cleaver and stabbed its arm with a High-Frequency Vibrating Particle Blade.
• The Raging Butcher unleashed Soul Roar, flooding Leo with painful memories and dropping his synchronization rate to 71%.
• The survivors feared Leo would succumb to the psychic attack, while Season Star remained calm.

Leo overcame the Raging Butcher’s Soul Roar when his Neural Interface activated the Logic Scavenger protocol and restored his synchronization to 100%. Using the resulting Absolute Rationality combat state, he exploited the monster’s weakness and destroyed its Energy Core, killing the Epic-grade boss alone.

• Leo’s suppressed anger and memories overwhelmed him as the Raging Butcher’s Soul Roar drove his synchronization rate down.
• Leo’s Neural Interface activated Logic Scavenger, clearing his emotions and restoring his synchronization to 100%.
• Leo analyzed the Raging Butcher’s weakness and used a cable, Magnetic Boots, and his Energy Backpack to evade the monster’s attacks and reach its neck.
• Leo wounded the Raging Butcher’s neck with his Particle Blades, making the monster reel and exposing its chest.
• Leo drove both Particle Blades into the Raging Butcher’s Energy Core, causing the monster to explode in a burst of blue energy.

After Leo killed the Raging Butcher, Season Star transformed the ninety-nine top contributors into Mechanical Ascenders and formed Tianshu City's first Expeditionary Army. She sent the hundred Ascenders to destroy the corrupted settlement of Black Iron Town before dawn.

• Leo descended after killing the Raging Butcher, and the survivors celebrated his victory and longed for Mechanical Ascension.
• David and the other top contributors asked Season Star to choose them for enhancement, and she began transforming the ninety-nine survivors.
• The Logic Lighthouse completed the transformations, and the ninety-nine new Ascenders joined Leo to form a force of one hundred.
• Season Star named them Tianshu City's first Expeditionary Army and ordered them to eliminate the Wrath Hosts in Black Iron Town.
• The one hundred Ascenders launched toward Black Iron Town in attack formation.

Leo, David, and a hundred Ascenders launched a coordinated purge of the monster-infested Black Iron Town. They eliminated every enemy in under five minutes without suffering any casualties.

• David flew with the Ascenders toward Black Iron Town and felt his new strength and connection to the formation.
• Leo ordered the team to enter Ghost Mode and carry out the Scythe Cut purification protocol.
• The Ascenders divided into aerial support, wall-based crossfire, and ground assault squads as monsters attacked them.
• David used an electrical net and a Particle Blade to destroy monsters while Leo and the other Ascenders cut through the horde.
• Leo killed the final Wrath Host, and the team completed the purge with 312 enemies eliminated and zero allied casualties.