Chapter Summaries

Two years later, Orsaga continued investigating why spirits became monsters while tormenting a Fierce Spirit in an apartment. A newly formed Spirit Exorcism Department squad entered the building to deal with the haunting, unaware of what awaited them inside.

• Orsaga tortured a Fierce Spirit for hours, repeatedly dismantling it before imprisoning it in Eternal Pain.
• Orsaga reflected that he had dissected more than ten thousand spirits and anomalies without discovering what caused their transformations.
• A Spirit Exorcism Department squad arrived to handle the haunting, and the rookie members urged their Captain to seal the room instead of entering.
• The Captain insisted the squad had to confront the Ghosts, warning that they would be punished if they refused.
• The Captain's team opened the door and entered the bleak apartment as the sun rose.

Orsaga trapped the Spirit Exorcism Department team in personalized hallucinations while investigating whether his own senses had been compromised. The team believed they had defeated the Ghosts and left, never noticing Orsaga, who vanished after they departed.

• The Captain warned the team to stay composed as they approached the house, but fear made some members lose their nerve.
• The Captain's compass flashed, and he found himself facing a pack of wolves in a wilderness hallucination while his talisman helped him resist it.
• Orsaga watched the team panic in their separate illusions and wondered whether one of his own senses had been obscured.
• Orsaga examined himself and cast more than a hundred spells, but found no sign that he had been affected.
• The Spirit Exorcism Department members fought among themselves in their hallucinations, then the survivors believed they had defeated the Ghosts and left.
• Orsaga remained unnoticed in the room and vanished after the team departed.

In the capital of the Erick Republic, Stil prepared to spread advanced technology through a company while Keliya and Kaila took a break after two years of training. The students considered visiting Orsaga, but he sensed their thoughts and chose not to meet them.

• Stil told Keliya and Kaila that their spiritual powers and arts were strong enough for her plan to begin.
• Stil explained that she would use a company to introduce advanced knowledge gradually, with help from her signal-expert younger sister, and planned for Keliya and Kaila to manage key departments.
• Keliya and Kaila, unsure how to spend their newly available free time, thought about meeting Orsaga.
• Orsaga sensed that Keliya and Kaila were thinking of him, then withdrew his attention and decided not to visit them.

Charles used his influence to secure support for investing in Liuguang Company’s small communications devices, which promised to reshape the communications industry. He left the meeting with the nobles persuaded by the devices’ quality and potential profits, while they abandoned plans to copy them.

• Charles proposed investing in Liuguang Company’s communications devices, drawing doubts from most of the nobles present.
• Charles showed the nobles two working devices and assured them that Liuguang Company had solved problems with miniaturization, signal quality, and mass production.
• Charles explained that the devices would cost 1,000 to 2,000 and yield roughly a quarter of the sale price in profit, with regional sales rights divided among the nobles.
• The nobles accepted Charles’s plan to distribute sales rights and take a cut of net profits.
• A noble asked whether they could replicate the devices, and Charles said Liuguang Company’s manufacturing process was at least twenty years ahead, persuading them to drop the idea.

Orsaga destroyed a powerful ghostly creature and traced the force controlling an approaching army, discovering that an unseen external entity on the planet was behind the phenomenon. After annihilating the army and receiving no response from the hidden entity, he left through a spatial passage.

• Orsaga found a ghostly creature beneath a ruined mountain and provoked it by praising its strength and saying it would taste good after advancing.
• The ghostly creature attacked with tens of thousands of vines, but Orsaga shattered the mountain and seized it from several kilometers away.
• Orsaga used the Eye of Elissa to trace the force controlling approaching Soldiers, but a stronger, sinister power broke the spell and struck back before his Evil Grudge Armament neutralized it.
• Orsaga concluded that an external force on the planet was responsible for the ghostly phenomena and was likely observing him.
• The controlled army fired shells at Orsaga, who destroyed the Soldiers, vehicles, and shells with a vast firestorm.
• After waiting without receiving a response, Orsaga opened a spatial passage and left.

After the garrison troops vanished and a bizarre wildfire erupted, the authorities mobilized personnel and machinery to contain it and investigate the transformed mountain. A week later, researchers entered the area and discovered that the mountain’s soil had become harder than metal.

• A military commander ordered his troops to retreat 500 meters from the wildfire after the extreme heat became unbearable.
• Researchers told the commander that the flames approached 6,000 degrees and could not be extinguished with ordinary methods, so an isolation belt over 100 meters wide was needed.
• The commander reported the situation up the chain of command, prompting a large deployment of troops, police, machinery, and experts to contain the fire and investigate the mountain.
• After the flames burned for a week and died out at the completed isolation belt, an Expert Group entered the mountain to examine it.
• A researcher struck the mountain’s soil with a small hammer, but it rang like metal and remained unmarked until engineering machinery cut off a piece.

Orsaga continued provoking his unknown enemy, treating the attacks it sent as seasoning while enjoying the city’s forced hospitality. He used divination to learn that the enemy was recovering its strength and expected their game of hide-and-seek to end soon.

• Orsaga amused himself by tormenting eight evil spirits and naming the spinning contraption the Eight-Tone Disc.
• Orsaga accepted lavish meals and service from the mayor’s household, whose members were compelled to obey him.
• An unknown enemy fired a crimson pillar of light at Orsaga, but he compressed it into a sphere and ate it.
• Orsaga used the Eight-Tone Disc as a divination tool, killing the spirits as its rotation accelerated.
• Orsaga concluded that his enemy was recovering its power and smiled at the thought that their contest would soon end.

Charles investigated a mysterious soil sample before meeting his teacher, Saladin, to discuss the worsening spread of evil creatures. With humanity potentially facing extinction within twenty years, they agreed to begin the Journey to an Alien Planet Project, leaving Charles to solve its many practical challenges.

• Charles learned that the mysterious soil was ordinary in composition, though an undetectable factor had made it as hard as metal, and he redirected the sample to Liuguang Company.
• Charles visited Saladin and reported that evil creatures had proliferated another third over the past two months.
• Saladin agreed to support Charles and resolve external troubles so they could proceed with their established plan.
• Charles announced that the Journey to an Alien Planet Project would begin, aiming to build a large portal and send a group of people on an interstellar migration.
• Charles considered the portal materials, energy, and protective equipment he still needed to secure.

Charles struggled to build an Interstellar Portal after discovering that the planet lacked the technology, materials, and manpower to follow its blueprints. He secured government cooperation and began farming task points to fund the portal and help civilians escape, while humanity’s abnormal conditions remained beyond the system’s affordable reach.

• Charles used NZT-48 to help the researchers understand the Interstellar Portal blueprints, but outdated equipment, scarce materials, and insufficient manpower stalled construction and drained his task points.
• Charles negotiated with the various national governments, revealed part of his Special Ability, and persuaded them to contribute resources to the portal project.
• With government support improving task completion, Charles directed his subordinates to carry out nearby tasks, including giving a little girl ten strawberry cakes, and earned nearly two thousand task points in one day.
• Charles determined that using the system to resolve the planet’s abnormal conditions would cost far more than building the portal, so he continued prioritizing escape and saving civilians.

On the day Charles had died in his previous life, Layagren appeared in Nasa City and confronted Orsaga. Their battle devastated the city and shook the entire Galite Republic, leaving the country in chaos.

• Charles waited inside the heavily guarded portal base on the anniversary of his death in his previous life.
• Orsaga encountered Layagren in Nasa City, and the two exchanged threats before attacking.
• Layagren transformed and turned nearby humans into monsters, but Orsaga’s heat burned the creatures away.
• Layagren diverted Orsaga’s crimson beam and tried to freeze him, but Orsaga shattered the attack and struck Layagren with a powerful punch.
• Layagren crashed into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that destroyed Nasa City and caused buildings to collapse across the Galite Republic.

Orsaga battered Layagren across Nasa City until Layagren sacrificed a fifth of his eyes and much of his Life Force to blast Orsaga into a satellite. Layagren caught up with the badly injured demon and began searching for the power best suited to pierce his defenses.

• Orsaga pinned Layagren down and unleashed tens of thousands of attacks, devastating much of the Duchy of Galit and triggering tsunamis along the coast.
• Layagren extinguished one-fifth of his eyes and sacrificed Life Force to release a golden pillar that hurled Orsaga from Tar Star into a nearby satellite.
• The impact shattered Orsaga's armor and damaged his body, so he dug out the parts infected by Layagren's power.
• Layagren caught up with Orsaga and used the many powers stored in his eyes to identify the one Orsaga was least able to withstand.

Orsaga overwhelmed Layagren with his immense physical strength and tried to prevent him from escaping, while Layagren searched for a way to fight back. The chapter ended with Layagren transforming his energy into a holy power that Orsaga recognized as Angel Power.

• Orsaga strengthened himself with several Magic Spells, broke Layagren's radiance, and charged toward him at super-high speed.
• Layagren reinforced the earth into a massive barrier, but Orsaga smashed through it and drove the land upward into a towering formation.
• Layagren feared that Orsaga might kill him, but hesitated to flee because Orsaga had already taken one-fifth of his accumulated resources.
• Orsaga cast dozens of Marking Spells, and two merged into Layagren, allowing Orsaga to track him and obstruct his escape.
• Layagren, enraged by Orsaga's attempt to trap him, transformed his energy into pure white power, which Orsaga identified as Angel Power.

Orsaga fought Layagren after Layagren converted his power into Angel Power and used it to make sacred earth. Their clash distorted space and energy across the area, and a spacecraft nearby detected a Sixth Energy Level battle involving a Special Grade Dangerous Species.

• Orsaga decided to kill Layagren and claim both the method for creating evil spirits and aberrations and a chance to sample Angel Power.
• Layagren used Angel Power to turn the ground into sacred earth that harmed evil creatures.
• Orsaga disrupted Layagren’s control of the land, broke free of confinement, and struck him with a series of powerful punches.
• Layagren attacked Orsaga with white blades of light, and the two clashed amid violent explosions that disturbed space, energy, and matter.
• A spacecraft several light-years away exited Space Travel after detecting spatial fluctuations, then sounded an alarm over a distant Sixth Energy Level reaction involving the Telthuseye Race.

Gru ordered his ship to retreat from the battle between Orsaga and Layagren while attempting to collect combat data for the Empire. Watching the fighters’ uncensored forms overwhelmed most of his crew, and the ship continued observing only after their appearances were obscured.

• Gru ordered the ship to retreat through the Material Plane and deploy automatic detectors to gather combat data if possible.
• The ship’s computer played footage of Orsaga and Layagren, and seeing Orsaga’s true form caused most of the crew to suffer intense pain and hallucinations.
• Gru ordered the footage blocked and the injured taken to the medical bay, then requested that the battle continue playing with both fighters’ appearances obscured.
• Orsaga and Layagren fought across Tar Star and its moon, while their collisions unleashed destructive energy throughout the star system.
• People on Tar Star saw flashes in the sky but remained unharmed because they were too weak to be affected by many of the fighters’ attacks.

Orsaga defeated and killed Layagren after a prolonged battle, then tracked down Gru’s ship and slaughtered its crew. He left the burning wreck behind through a blood-red portal.

• Orsaga battered Layagren across the Planetary System, while Layagren exhausted his power and failed to seal him.
• Layagren sacrificed half the eyes on his body to boost his power, but Orsaga continued fighting him for hours.
• At the sun’s core, Orsaga tore apart Layagren’s barrier and killed him with a bite.
• Orsaga sensed Gru watching from a spaceship several light-years away and disrupted the ship’s systems.
• Orsaga entered the ship through a blood-red ring, killed Gru and the other Crew Members, and burned the vessel before leaving through the ring.

After destroying much of Tar Star, Orsaga returned to Nasa City and searched for Charles, intrigued by memories of an Interstellar Portal. He found Charles at the damaged mountain base, where a mythical-level mission appeared and offered an enormous reward for driving Orsaga away or eliminating him.

• Charles assessed the ruined mountain base, learned communications were still down, and ordered the wounded and important materials evacuated once the tunnel was cleared.
• Orsaga returned from the Sun's Depths to Tar Star, having used the marked aliens to descend and devastated the region in the process.
• After reading the memories of the souls he had Plundered, Orsaga became curious about the Interstellar Portal and searched for Charles.
• Orsaga found Charles among the survivors at the mountain base and remarked that Charles's soul seemed foreign to the planet.
• Charles saw Orsaga's golden Vertical Pupils and received a rainbow-colored mythical mission that offered billions of mission points for driving Orsaga away or eliminating him.

Orsaga interrogated Charles and discovered that he was a fellow transmigrator from Earth, but killed him and used his Evolution System to devour him. The system returned hundreds of times the Evolution Points Orsaga had spent, leaving him satisfied with the unexpectedly valuable prey.

• Orsaga slapped Charles and forced him to reveal that he had reincarnated on Tar Star from Earth with a system that granted rewards for fulfilling conditions.
• Orsaga recognized Charles as a fellow Earthling and called him a fellow townsman before killing him.
• Orsaga silenced the assistant and the rest of the base, then questioned Charles's terrified soul about why he had been killed.
• Orsaga searched Charles's body and soul for his system but found nothing, so he ordered his Evolution System to devour him.
• Orsaga spent 4,348,000,000 Evolution Points to overcome Charles's automatic countermeasures, and his reserve quickly returned several hundred times over.

Orsaga killed Charles, then used a signal to infiltrate the Lar Empire’s Strategic Information Collection Department and plunder its data. He learned that the empire had four Sixth Energy Level experts, while the department’s supervisor was left confused by the deaths and unexplained file access.

• Orsaga took Charles’s memories, stuffed his corpse into a coffin, and buried him beneath the collapsing mountain base.
• The Lar Empire’s Strategic Information Collection Department opened Orsaga’s signal, and its staff suffered intense pain until the optical computer shut down the footage.
• Orsaga projected his consciousness to the department, intensified the victims’ pain until they died, and read their memories.
• Orsaga accessed the department’s databases and other internal files, learning more about the Lar Empire and its four Sixth Energy Level experts.
• The supervisor received an emergency call accusing his department of mass deaths and large-scale file access, but he saw no evidence of the access.

After leaving the Strategic Information Collection Department, Orsaga decided to spread diseases across the Lar Empire and other interstellar powers, despite the plane's growing suppression of him. Meanwhile, investigators questioned the department's supervisor and concluded that the incident required support from higher-ups.

• Orsaga left the Strategic Information Collection Department and considered attacking the Lar Empire, but worried that the plane consciousness would strike him down.
• Orsaga counted the people on the street, chose to poison the population by indirect means, and developed diseases suited to the Lar Empire's advanced medicine.
• Orsaga expanded his plans to other interstellar powers and gathered information about different races to improve the diseases' adaptability.
• Two days later, interrogators questioned the supervisor, who said no one had used the console before the unknown being's footage caused agonizing pain and killed several staff members.
• The interrogators found no trace of the Teradi vessel and agreed to seek help from higher-ups because the investigation exceeded their capabilities.

A newly arrived investigation team examined the victims and survivors, discovering evidence of an otherworldly attack linked to a powerful eight-winged figure. The team leader reported that the figure had likely entered through information and stolen data from the Lar Empire’s database, prompting the authorities to investigate further.

• A stronger investigation team arrived, and its leader ordered the first team to remain and assist under Article Thirteen.
• The leader examined the dead employees, and a biology professor determined that their bodies had transformed to maximize pain without killing them.
• The leader examined the survivors and used a deep-blue crystal to reveal flower-like imprints on their bodies and souls.
• The leader searched the control room and corpse storage area, discovering that the dead employees’ souls had vanished without a trace.
• After reviewing surveillance and database access records, the leader concluded that a powerful eight-winged figure had arrived through information and stolen data using the employees’ souls.
• The leader informed his superior, who said he would report the discovery to several lords and ordered the team to gather more information.