Chapter Summaries

After killing Gord’s physical form, Orsaga searched the Sun for Gord’s Divine Kingdom and began draining the celestial body with a ritual of bloodflame-spewing spears. The terrified Kololoya Merchant Guild employees sent frantic messages begging him to spare the Sun.

• Orsaga absorbed Gord’s flesh and blood essence, burned the remains, and flew toward the Sun to find Gord’s hidden Divine Kingdom.
• Orsaga created thousands of magical eyes to search the Sun, but its hostility interfered with his detection spells and Gord’s Divine Kingdom remained hidden.
• Orsaga formed a giant spear from meteors and hurled repeated spears into the Sun, creating a ritual that drained its heat and light.
• The Kololoya Merchant Guild employees watched through magical artifacts and feared Orsaga’s actions would destroy the Sun and ruin their plans to colonize the world.
• The guild employees frantically messaged Orsaga to spare the Sun, and Orsaga complained that the messages were annoying.

Orsaga used the sun’s energy to expose and force his way into a Divine Kingdom, then fought its ruler. The Divine Kingdom disintegrated into the void, leaving the outcome of the ruler’s fate unstated.

• After the Kololoya Merchant Guild warned him about the Abyssal Contract, Orsaga abandoned his plan to destroy the sun outright and instead filled it with enormous vortices.
• Orsaga detonated the vortices, unleashing a solar storm that disturbed a hidden passage and revealed its location.
• Orsaga tore open the passage and entered the Divine Kingdom, where the Supplicant Legion attacked him.
• Orsaga burned away the Supplicant Legion and entered the central temple, saying he had come to kill the figure on the divine throne.
• The temple shattered during the ensuing clash, and the Divine Kingdom disintegrated into the void.

Orsaga recovered from his battle with Gord, then used his Bloodflame to kill the God of Earth and Life during the fighting below. He kept the god’s crystalline remains for himself, and Zalt offered no objection.

• Orsaga gathered Gord’s wealth from the remnants of the Divine Kingdom and destroyed his injured body, then regenerated a new one at full strength.
• Orsaga returned to the sun, withdrew the Bloodflame covering it, and shaped the flame into a spear.
• Orsaga hurled the spear at the God of Earth and Life, engulfing the god and nearby Zalt in its flames.
• Orsaga held the surviving god inside a sphere of Bloodflame until the god became a golden crystal.
• Orsaga asked Zalt whether he objected to keeping the crystal, and Zalt humbly agreed.

After killing the God of Earth and Life, Orsaga helped force the defeated gods’ side to keep fighting, then arranged a plane-wide broadcast declaring the Seven Seas Plane conquered. The announcement left the island’s residents stunned and believers rushing to churches for answers.

• Orsaga tracked down the God of Earth and Life in his Divine Kingdom and ground him to ashes despite his desperate struggle.
• The remaining gods considered retreat after their side’s consecutive losses, but the Abyss Demons forced the battle to continue.
• Two days later, Orsaga waited in a palace while a Kololoya Merchant Guild member prepared a device to broadcast across the Seven Seas Plane.
• The guild member announced that the gods had been defeated and gave the plane’s residents one month to surrender.
• The residents reacted with disbelief, and believers rushed to churches to ask whether the gods had truly fallen.

Orsaga visited a sealed evil god in Gutohai, sampled its poisonous blood, and ate a hidden creature that attacked him. After learning the gods’ memories, he continued to search the world for the remaining treasures and inheritances.

• Orsaga examined the sealed evil god beneath the sea and learned it had been imprisoned for over a hundred thousand years as a source of valuable toxins.
• Orsaga told the evil god that its old enemies were dead and that it was about to die, then tasted its blood and found it tolerable.
• A two-mouthed, eyeless snake burst from the evil god’s wound and attacked Orsaga, who bit off its head and ate it.
• The next day, Orsaga left Gutohai and headed to another site to collect treasures using information from the gods’ memories.

Orsaga waited on Okuli while the gods’ fall plunged the Seven Seas Plane into chaos, digesting the gods’ legacy until his strength increased. As the deadline approached, he visited Gerlan and Allison and learned they had spent their freedom eating good food and buying clothes.

• Orsaga watched disorder and wickedness spread across the Seven Seas Plane as people reacted to the gods’ fall.
• Orsaga reflected on the lives he had taken while absorbing the gods’ legacy, then continued digesting his gains on Okuli.
• As the Kololoya Merchant Guild’s deadline neared, factions remained divided or settled on surrender and resistance, while summoned Abyss Demons attacked larger cities before their feast period ended.
• Orsaga finished digesting the gods’ legacy, celebrated his increased strength, and traveled to find Gerlan and Allison.
• Gerlan said she and Allison had eaten delicious food and bought pretty clothes, while Allison remained dazed.

Golanel told Orsaga how the city’s peaceful garden had been destroyed amid factional conflict, but she refused his offer of revenge. When the city sounded its alarm, Orsaga explained that demons were nearing the end of their month of free activity and said he viewed his ten-percent share of the plane as a commodity to sell.

• Golanel explained that she and Allison had settled in the city when it was peaceful, but its people fell into conflict after a worldwide announcement and someone burned down the garden.
• Orsaga offered to avenge Golanel, but she declined because she and Allison were outsiders and had no right to interfere with the city’s people.
• Orsaga argued that anything he liked should belong to him, and Golanel considered whether her people were too content to drift with the current.
• Urgent horns sounded as residents fled indoors and soldiers took positions on the city walls; Gerlan asked if Orsaga had called the attackers, but he denied it.
• Orsaga said the demons had only four or five days left of their contracted free activity and that attacking a large city was normal.
• Allison questioned how Orsaga could tolerate the attack when the plane had been divided into hunting grounds, and Orsaga said he saw his ten-percent ownership as a commodity he could sell.

Orsaga judged that the city could not withstand an attack by Abyss Demons, but Allison chose to stay and watch its fate. The city's barrier collapsed under a wave of flames, and panic spread as the Soldiers and residents fled.

• Orsaga saw that three Middle Demons, several dozen Lower Demons, and insiders among the Fallen Ones made the city's defeat inevitable, so he prepared to leave with Golanel.
• Allison said she wanted to stay and see what happened to the losers, and Orsaga closed the Space Door so they could watch.
• A controlled Meteor Fire Rain struck the city's Defensive Barrier while flames surged toward it.
• The barrier rapidly faded and vanished, and the flames swallowed the Soldiers on the walls before spreading into the city.
• Residents fled in panic, and fear broke the army's resolve.

The City Lord betrayed the city to the Abyss Demons to hold on to his power, and the city descended into slaughter and chaos. As Allison watched the massacre with Orsaga and Golanel, one of Orsaga’s summoned Abyss Demons appeared and received permission to continue its work.

• The City Lord explained that he had allied with the Abyss Demons rather than lose his position, then killed the wounded elderly Dwarf.
• The city’s residents and the Abyss Demons plunged the streets into escalating disorder and slaughter.
• Allison watched the massacre and considered how much worse the Elsera Elf Kingdom might have fared without Orsaga and Golanel’s alliance.
• Orsaga and Golanel ate noodles while Allison watched, and Orsaga warned Golanel that his Evil God-flavored jerky could contaminate her.
• A four-armed Abyss Demon appeared, greeted Orsaga, and left to continue its actions after Orsaga told it to do as it pleased.

After the Middle Demon left, Orsaga explained his ruthless plans for commanding demons to Golanel and Allison. Meanwhile, demons completed their hunt inside the city and began wiping out the remaining inhabitants, leaving the survivors with little hope of escape.

• Orsaga told Golanel and Allison that he would force demons into his future legion and kill those who resisted.
• A city guard carrying stolen treasure found the city gates sealed and realized he could not escape.
• A hidden Middle Demon trapped and devoured the guard, then another Middle Demon arrived and ordered him to end the hunt.
• The giant worm-shaped Middle Demon spread Black Water over one-third of the city, melting buildings and living creatures as similar attacks struck the rest of the city.
• The surviving residents fought back against the demons, but their resistance was futile.

A betrayed city lord watched Abyss Demons destroy his city, then chose to join the Kololoya Merchant Guild rather than meet an Upper Demon. Orsaga and Allison left the ruins as rescuers arrived, and the survivors buried the city’s remains while the Abyss Demons continued their rampage.

• The eagle-headed Demon offered the city lord a choice between an introduction to the Kololoya Merchant Guild and one to the Upper Demon behind the invasion, and the city lord chose the guild.
• Orsaga asked Allison if she had finished looking over the destroyed city, and the three of them departed through a Space Door.
• The arriving rescuers failed to interfere with the Space Door, and those left behind speculated about the departing group’s identities and power.
• After confirming that no survivors remained, the rescuers buried the foul slurry and planted purifying magical plants over it.
• The city vanished, while Abyss Demons continued hunting creatures across the region as their deadline approached.

Orsaga and the other five Upper Demons met with the president of the Kololoya Merchant Guild after conquering the island and wiping out its leaders. The Guild president lamented that all five Demons had survived, leaving him with unexpected costs, and envied Orsaga’s exceptional strength and prospects.

• The Upper Demons occupied the council hall, where most of the island’s population had been killed and the walls were stained with blood.
• Two Upper Demons argued over whether the mummified corpses hanging from the ceiling were art or dried meat, and Orsaga urged them to fight.
• The president of the Kololoya Merchant Guild arrived through a void and encouraged the two Demons to fight, offering to buy the loser’s corpse.
• After two hours of fighting without a victor, the two Upper Demons returned to their seats, disappointing the president.
• The president reflected that the Guild had expected two or three Upper Demons to die and resented Orsaga for exceeding expectations and nearing the rank of Great Demon.

Korol ordered the five Upper Demons to eliminate the factions that still refused to surrender and gave them scrolls listing targets and weaknesses. Orsaga chose Kertu Magic Academy as his first target and destroyed it, then left unharmed.

• Korol explained that the invasion was nearly complete and asked the Upper Demons to deal with the remaining resistant factions.
• Korol gave each Upper Demon a scroll of targets, locations, and weaknesses, then dismissed them to begin their missions.
• Orsaga asked Golanel and Allison to join him, but they declined, so he told them to watch for people pretending to surrender.
• Orsaga transformed into his True Body Form, selected a target, and flew to Kertu Magic Academy.
• The academy's guards raised the alarm, and its elderly leader activated the Defensive Barrier after Orsaga appeared to retreat upward.
• Orsaga dove through the barrier, destroyed the academy and its mountain, and left without injury.

Orsaga and the other Upper Demons continued crushing the plane’s disobedient factions with ease. After killing a woman who tried to assassinate him, Orsaga learned that remnants of three major churches had formed an organization against them and flew toward its headquarters.

• Orsaga turned a target island into glass during a low-altitude flight, killed its residents, and absorbed their souls.
• A woman attacked Orsaga with a dagger, but he blocked it and pierced her abdomen with his tail.
• Orsaga offered the woman one answer, and she asked why he had invaded the plane so cruelly; he said it was more convenient to eliminate those who disobeyed.
• Orsaga extracted the woman’s flesh, blood, and soul, then read her memories and learned that remnants of three major churches had formed an organization to oppose the demons.
• Orsaga chose the organization as his next target and flew toward its headquarters.

Orsaga uncovered the remnants of the three great churches beneath the Golden Desert and annihilated their forces when they attacked him. He swallowed the destruction he had unleashed, leaving the story with the churches’ stronghold destroyed and Orsaga disappointed by how little resistance they offered.

• Orsaga used his energy hand to pull the churches’ hidden underground stronghold from beneath the Golden Desert.
• The elderly church leader rallied more than a hundred thousand priests and ordered them to attack Orsaga.
• Orsaga’s heat and energy field killed the charging priests and stopped their spells before they could reach him.
• Orsaga fired a massive blast through the Defensive Barrier, destroying everything inside it.
• Orsaga swallowed the resulting fireball and thought that the battle was over.

Orsaga and the other Upper Demons collected their rewards from Korol after completing the contract, and Orsaga chose and consumed sixty billion souls. He stayed for the Kololoya Merchant Guild’s celebration, where he and Allison discussed the conquered plane’s uncertain future.

• Korol offered the Upper Demons a choice of rewards, and Orsaga selected the souls rather than goods from the guild’s catalog.
• Korol delivered a rune-covered box of High-Concentration Soul Crystals, and Orsaga ate them all at once without losing his sanity.
• Most of the other Upper Demons chose goods or Soul Crystals, while one chose to retain ownership of the plane.
• Two days later, envoys and residents attended the Kololoya Merchant Guild’s celebration as Orsaga watched from the viewing platform.
• Allison doubted the conquered people would be happy, and Orsaga said their defeat meant they and their descendants would pay a price.

After returning to the Bottomless Abyss, Orsaga took Golanel and Allison to an extravagant underwater restaurant. Allison asked him to help her people find a safe place to live.

• Orsaga killed a passerby, gave the corpse to a scavenger, and bickered with Golanel and Allison about his behavior.
• Orsaga suggested they celebrate their return with a meal, and Golanel asked him to avoid the grotesque restaurant they had visited before.
• Orsaga took Golanel and Allison to a luxurious underwater restaurant with a choir of Mermaids, Sirens, and Sea Hags.
• Allison asked Orsaga to help her people find a sufficiently safe place to call home.

Allison asked Orsaga to help the Elsera Elf Kingdom abandon its failed attempt to settle in the Bottomless Abyss, where danger had killed many of its people. Though Golanel worried Orsaga had already done enough, he accepted Allison's request for her sake and asked for no price.

• Allison told Orsaga that the Bottomless Abyss was too dangerous for most of her people and that the kingdom had no safe settlement, so they had to abandon their original plan.
• Allison asked Orsaga to help once more and offered him her eternal loyalty in return.
• Orsaga explained that he had helped the Elsera Elf Kingdom because he liked Golanel, not for favors or loyalty.
• Orsaga asked Golanel why she had stayed silent, and she said he had already helped enough.
• Orsaga praised Golanel for considering his feelings, accepted Allison's request without asking for payment, and signaled the singers to continue.

Orsaga took Golanel and Allison by Dragon Chariot to another Abyss Layer to buy supplies. Outside the destination, he gave a group of Middle Demons coordinates and information about a plane, then sent them on their way.

• Orsaga hired a Dragon Chariot and instructed its driver to take them to the nearest Abyss Layer Teleportation Array hall.
• After two days of travel, Golanel asked whether they were going to another layer, and Orsaga said he planned to buy a few things.
• When they arrived, Orsaga pulled more than a dozen passing Middle Demons toward him and transmitted a plane's coordinates and rough intelligence to them.
• Orsaga flung the Middle Demons away without killing them, and they ran off while the guards watched without intervening.

Orsaga led Golanel and Allison through a crowded interlayer travel hub and paid to take a Teleportation Array to the Eternal Obelisk on the 7,358,475th Abyss Layer. The Harpy attendant flirted with Orsaga as they departed, while Golanel left irritated by the exchange.

• Orsaga explained that the fleeing Demons were sacrifices and led Golanel and Allison into the building.
• A Harpy staff member offered to arrange travel, and Orsaga requested passage to the Eternal Obelisk on the 7,358,475th layer.
• The Harpy quoted 3,500 Blood Gold for three slots, and Orsaga agreed to pay.
• The Harpy flirted with Orsaga and invited him to meet after he returned, provoking Golanel's anger.
• Orsaga, Golanel, and Allison entered the Teleportation Array and vanished.