Chapter Summaries

After the Abyss Lords departed, Faltershi reflected on Orsaga’s power and regretted that he had declined to join the Resonance Assimilation Ritual. Orsaga dismissed Faltershi’s cautious interest and considered how Abyss Lords’ strength and near-immortality differed, leaving Faltershi to focus on his ritual.

• The surviving maidservants cleared the palace and removed the remains of those eaten by Abyss Lords.
• Faltershi regretted that Orsaga had refused to cooperate in the Resonance Assimilation Ritual and decided force was too dangerous.
• Faltershi continued preparing for his ritual after deciding that caution had helped him survive and advance.
• Orsaga used his precognitive Special Ability to guess Faltershi’s thoughts but did not care enough to act against him.
• Orsaga reflected that Abyss Lords were difficult to kill and that their strength varied according to their energy reserves, output, and growth.
• Orsaga recognized that destroying the Warhammer plane had advanced him to the middle tier of Abyss Lords and that his versatile authority gave him further advantages.

After expanding his forces across many planes, Orsaga decided to test the Abyss Blood War by sending selected troops into its endless slaughter. The chapter ended after one hundred legion slots were chosen, with Orsaga expecting little from the relatively small force.

• Orsaga’s followers built many kinds of legions, including specialized forces such as the Black Knight Legion, Dragon Legion, and Lost Mind Legion.
• Orsaga prepared to enter the Abyss Blood War, where combatants killed opponents to gain their power, could not use resurrection abilities, and had to meet a kill quota to leave.
• Orsaga sent a message ordering the selection of one hundred legion slots and promised each participant a portion of his power before deployment.
• One day later, the selected force consisted of 174 Great Demons, 8,474,845 Upper Demons, and lower-ranking beings totaling 25 to the 33rd power.
• Orsaga considered the force too small to matter in the Abyss Blood War but sent it anyway to test the waters.

Orsaga bestowed Talent Abilities on members of a hundred legions and sent them into the Abyss Blood War, where they appeared amid a vast battlefield. A Bloodthirsty Demon Legion Commander began slaughtering opponents to meet his required kill count and grow stronger.

• Orsaga used his authority to grant the hundred legions increasingly powerful Talent Abilities according to each member’s rank.
• Orsaga ordered the legions to enter the Abyss Blood War, while secretly connecting his vision to their Legion Commanders and making each legion member a potential Avatar.
• The legions arrived in a boundless battlefield where countless beings fought and gained strength through killing.
• A Bloodthirsty Demon Legion Commander watched a metallic sphere destroy hundreds of billions of creatures before it was overwhelmed and destroyed by surrounding enemies.
• The Bloodthirsty Demon Legion Commander received a requirement to kill 22.475.813.658.987.484.854.854.845 living beings and began killing nearby opponents, relishing the slaughter and the increase in his power.

Orsaga’s Abyss Demon legions plunged into the Blood War, with many fighters abandoning coordination for frenzied slaughter. The cautious Ailuxile Elf Legion tried to unleash an inherited spell, but a massive Abyssal Bone-Eroding Worm dispersed it, leaving their commander relieved to avoid a fight.

• Orsaga’s Bloodthirsty Demon Legion Commander charged into battle, gaining greatly enhanced rewards for every kill and ordering his subordinates to fight independently.
• The Abyss Demon legions rushed into combat without regard for teamwork, leaving weaker fighters to be slaughtered while powerful demons focused on their own battles.
• The Ailuxile Elf Legion Commander surveyed the battlefield, then ordered his troops to use the Third Law, Five Little Tunes.
• The Ailuxile Elves shaped nearby killing intent and malice into a growing corrosive black storm.
• An Abyssal Bone-Eroding Worm erupted from the ground and dispersed the storm with its roar before burrowing away.
• The Ailuxile Elf Legion Commander judged that the worm was among the strongest Great Demons and felt relieved that it had not attacked his legion.

Orsaga studied the Abyss Blood War Law until his research hit a bottleneck, then applied what he had learned to improve his illnesses and other creations. After strengthening the Ozhaki Legion and Shi Tiankong, he turned to optimizing them as direct manifestations of his will.

• Orsaga compared his abilities with the Abyss Blood War Law while using his legions to investigate how it absorbed power without limits or losses.
• Several decades later, Orsaga reached a research bottleneck and stopped trying to make further progress in the short term.
• Orsaga modified the illnesses he had spread across countless planes, increasing the share of life, souls, and power they returned to him from roughly one-third to half.
• Orsaga used information gathered by the illnesses, along with the Sole Dominator, pain, knowledge, and wisdom, to reproduce hosts' memories and personalities and learn their private information.
• Orsaga began handling the affairs of the Ozhaki Legion and Shi Tiankong, optimizing both as direct manifestations of his will.

Orsaga’s gift strengthened Imokku, the other Ozhaki, and Shi Tiankong as Imokku investigated a powerful plane. There, the Void Legion’s Leaders encountered Planeswalkers whose Spark-fueled abilities made them a major obstacle, and they retreated after their corrupted worlds were destroyed.

• Orsaga’s gift enhanced Imokku, the other Ozhaki, and Shi Tiankong, and Imokku resumed his investigation of a newly discovered plane.
• Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire sent avatars into the plane, where they corrupted worlds and gathered forces despite the plane’s suppression.
• The plane’s powerful beings noticed the destruction, and the three Leaders identified Planeswalkers as their greatest threat.
• Imokku tried to capture a Planeswalker, but the attempt failed and the Planeswalkers and other factions destroyed several corrupted worlds.
• Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire escaped the pursuing native forces.

A team of Planeswalkers exterminated Ozhaki Derivatives left behind by Imokku and the others while Wujin prepared to finish something. The team stayed to contain the corruption despite knowing the trio had fled to buy time, and Wujin remained their strongest safeguard against the threat.

• More than a dozen Planeswalkers fought the young Ozhaki Derivatives, which were still too weak to pose much danger individually.
• A human Planeswalker asked when Wujin would be ready, and an energy lifeform replied that a dragon's idea of soon differed from a human's.
• A Demon Planeswalker complained about cleaning up the corrupted region, but a justice-minded female Planeswalker threatened him into continuing the extermination.
• The Planeswalkers contained the corruption because it had already consumed nearly a third of the region and could spread if the Derivatives were allowed to grow.
• The Demon Planeswalker explained that the trio had fled after testing Wujin, an Elder Dragon and Planeswalker powerful enough to match their true bodies.

After two days, Wujin arrived and used a tower connected to the world's Earth Veins to spread purification light, weakening the Ozhaki corruption and turning the battle toward the Native Factions. He privately concluded that the Ozhaki might come from beyond spacetime and resolved to keep them alive for study.

• While Wujin was delayed, the Planeswalkers spent two days clearing monsters from the mountains and plains.
• Wujin arrived, placed a silver-white tower, and used it to spread a green purification curtain across the world.
• The purification light weakened the Ozhaki corruption and Derivatives, allowing the Native Factions to launch a unified counterattack.
• Wujin sensed that the Derivatives were beginning to adapt to the light, though their evolution was not fast enough to save them that day.
• Wujin suspected the Ozhaki came from beyond spacetime and secretly decided to steer the team toward capturing and sealing them rather than killing them.

After Imokku reported that his group had found a young, resource-rich plane with no top-tier defenders, Orsaga ordered them to open a passage so he could invade it. Orsaga resolved to seize the plane before it could produce a powerful protector, seeing the opportunity as crucial to his rise to Demon Prince.

• After two years of pursuit and battles, Imokku and his companions grew stronger and confirmed the new plane's extraordinary potential.
• Imokku reported their discovery to Orsaga and asked for guidance before taking the next step.
• Orsaga ordered Imokku to construct a spatial passage at any cost and authorized him to use most of their resources.
• Orsaga assessed that the young plane could eventually nurture beings capable of resisting an Abyss Lord, but its current strongest inhabitants were only Great Demons.
• Orsaga decided to invade before the plane could produce a powerful defender, believing its resources could aid his advancement into a Demon Prince.

Orsaga considered the immense difficulty of becoming a Demon Prince and chose to pursue advancement by conquering planes, while treating influence across the Multiverse as an impractical alternative. As Shi Tiankong devoured a small plane, a nearby plane’s Only God discovered him and felt fear for the first time.

• Orsaga weighed the two paths to becoming a Demon Prince and chose to grow by conquering planes and consuming their resources.
• Orsaga regarded a nearby High Plane without a top-tier powerhouse as an ideal target after hearing Imokku’s report.
• Shi Tiankong, an enhanced avatar of Orsaga, traveled through time and space while devouring a small plane.
• The Only God of a neighboring plane discovered Shi Tiankong feeding nearby and was terrified by his immense size and power.

The Only God realized his fear of Shi Tiankong had been amplified by Orsaga’s Special Abilities and concluded that Shi Tiankong could defeat him. Meanwhile, Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire began covert plans to infiltrate and exploit the Planeswalkers' plane.

• The Only God traced his growing fear to an outside influence, recognized Shi Tiankong as a threat, and simulated a fight that ended in his defeat.
• Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire discussed ways to evade the plane’s attention and use its inhabitants’ lack of knowledge about Outer Planes.
• Imokku scattered fragments of his flesh and will through the aether to encourage worship of disguised Ozhaki deities and secretly corrupt suitable followers.
• Ulamo infused Fragment Demons with pieces of a nest and evolutionary traits, then released them into a resource-rich primitive world to multiply.
• Kojire merged a nest into parasitic moss that strengthened its hosts while weakening their resistance to the Ozhaki, then planted it in another primitive world.

Imokku and the other two used Shadowless Core to hide themselves while sending weaker projections elsewhere to feed. Imokku planned to let Wujin capture them, using the dragonkin Planeswalker’s curiosity to secure their imprisonment and give their hidden schemes time to spread.

• Imokku and the other two activated Shadowless Core, shrinking into invisible cores while leaving one-tenth-strength projections behind.
• The trio sent their projections to other worlds to feed as their hidden cores drifted into the void.
• Imokku reasoned that being captured would make the trio seem harmless and redirect the plane’s attention, giving them room to act secretly.
• Imokku chose Wujin as the intended captor because the powerful dragonkin Planeswalker was curious about them and their Outer Plane methods.
• Imokku expected Wujin to imprison or seal the trio rather than kill them, allowing their hidden methods to corrupt the plane’s factions over time.

Ten years later, Wujin encountered his ambitious brother Nicol Bolas, who wanted to join the hunt for the Ozhaki, but Wujin refused to share them. After Nicol Bolas departed, Wujin and his companions prepared a plan to seal the Ozhaki projections and use them to reach the hidden true bodies.

• Nicol Bolas arrived and asked Wujin to let him join the effort to capture the Ozhaki.
• Wujin refused, and Nicol Bolas left after secretly deciding to investigate the Ozhaki himself.
• Wujin told his companions that an acquaintance had visited and redirected them to their preparations for the sealing plan.
• Wujin and the other Planeswalkers concluded that the Ozhaki they had fought were projections linked to hidden true bodies.
• Wujin supported a plan to use the projections' connection to seal the true Ozhaki, and he persuaded the others to approve it unanimously.

Wujin and the Planeswalkers lured Imokku and the other Ozhaki to Zendikar, where they intended to seal them with a vast spell. The Ozhaki knowingly entered the trap and began corrupting Zendikar, provoking the world's consciousness and nearby creatures.

• Wujin and the Planeswalkers prepared a sealing site on Zendikar using millions of sealing stones and Ugin's Eye.
• Nissa worried that the plan would damage her homeland, while Sorin Markov, Wujin, and the other Planeswalkers reassured her.
• The chapter revealed that Imokku and the other Ozhaki had known about the trap and had manipulated the Planeswalkers into devising it.
• Imokku and the other Ozhaki tore open a passage into Zendikar near a floating sea island.
• The Ozhaki's Pollution Field transformed the island and its surroundings into a gigantic Ozhaki Derivative, prompting Zendikar's World Consciousness and nearby creatures to attack them.

Wujin and the Planeswalkers used Zendikar’s energy and Ugin’s Eye to seal Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire after the Ozhaki trio revealed their full strength. The Planeswalkers reinforced the seal, unaware that the trio had planned to be captured.

• Ulamo seized a giant Lizardfolk, tore its bones from its body, and prepared to eat its flesh while Kojire uncovered triangular constructs carrying Wujin’s energy.
• Wujin and the Planeswalkers surrounded the Ozhaki trio with the constructs and formed a barrier, strengthened by the World Consciousness through Nissa’s communication.
• Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire fought at full strength, overwhelming the Planeswalkers and forcing Wujin to summon Ugin’s Eye.
• After several hours, Ugin’s Eye completed the Stasis Spatial Domain, restraining the trio and sealing the distant Shadowless Core.
• Wujin left to revive fallen Planeswalkers, while Nissa and the others moved mountain ranges and puppet guards around the sealed Ozhaki, unaware the capture had been part of their plan.

Several years after the Sealing War, Orsaga arrived on Zendikar as a powerless stowaway and set out to find civilization. After making clothes and an improvised unicycle, he rode off toward a region where people were likely to live.

• Orsaga emerged from The Void on a desolate beach, and the draconic skull that brought him there crumbled to dust.
• Orsaga realized he had arrived without clothes or equipment and walked inland after finding nothing on the beach to cover himself with.
• Orsaga absorbed the information Imokku and the others had sent him and learned about the plane’s mana, though he could not yet cast spells.
• Orsaga entered a forest, stepped on a sleeping tiger-like Magic Beast to gather leaves and vines, and made himself clothes and flip-flops.
• Orsaga fashioned an axe and an off-road unicycle, padded its seat with fur from the sleeping beast, and rode toward a climate suited to civilization.

Orsaga upgraded his vehicle with a giant spider’s silk and venom, then used it to cross a vast forest and reach a Kou Clan city in Zendikar World. He entered the city to obtain basic gear and materials for his next move.

• Orsaga evaded a giant spider’s ambush, killed it with a burst of compressed air, and harvested its silk and venom sacs.
• Orsaga upgraded his unicycle into Vehicle 3.0, a wheelchair-like vehicle that swung through the trees using spider silk.
• Over five days, Orsaga crossed the forest and spotted a white-stone city belonging to the Kou Clan.
• Orsaga entered the city after paying the gate guards with spoils from his hunts, intending to buy basic gear and crafting materials.

Orsaga took control of much of the city by hypnotizing people and using them to gather resources, then linked his Crimson Book to his body through surgery. When the City Lord and a group of warriors confronted him, Orsaga calmly equipped a card-slot armguard from the book.

• Orsaga entered a gang’s alley, knocked down a Kou Clan member, and hypnotized the gang into becoming his followers.
• Orsaga used his followers to collect money and recruit more wealthy and powerful people, building a secret force and securing resources.
• Orsaga performed open-chest surgery on himself to inscribe spell formulas on his heart and improve his organs.
• Orsaga summoned the Crimson Book, which he had linked to his body, and examined its pages and embedded cards.
• The City Lord arrived with warriors and identified Orsaga as the man who had controlled the city, while a Lion tribe warrior promised to deal with him.
• Orsaga took a red ring from the Crimson Book, activated an ornate armguard, and extended a crescent-shaped device with twelve card slots.

Orsaga used the Crimson Book and its cards to defeat the city lord’s adventurer squad, then unleashed barriers that consumed the entire city. By the time investigators arrived the next day, the city had become a pit of purple acid.

• Orsaga summoned Foggy Butcher, which swiftly killed the city lord and members of the adventurer squad.
• A human warrior attacked Orsaga with throwing knives, but Orsaga cast Chain Lightning and burned more than half the squad to death.
• Orsaga observed that the plane’s abundant energy had allowed its mortal adventurers to attain strength close to Lower Demons.
• Orsaga left the basement and activated Dark Duel and Deadly Poison Feast, covering the city in barriers and deadly purple rain.
• The Crimson Book absorbed the city’s dead, and investigators found only a massive pit of acidic slurry the next day.

Orsaga spent three months harvesting a primeval forest in Zendikar World, greatly increasing his card collection and power. As an adventurer party prepared to investigate the forest’s strange disturbances, Orsaga’s cleanup was nearing its end.

• Orsaga used the Crimson Book and Crimson Cards to fight while gathering materials in the primeval forest.
• After three months of hunting, Orsaga amassed over a thousand Lower Demon-grade cards, hundreds of Middle Demon-grade cards, and upgraded his Duel Disk to activate sixty cards at once.
• Orsaga’s strength increased by more than a thousandfold, letting him contend with Planeswalkers, and he marveled at the forest’s abundant resources.
• An adventurer party assembled outside the half-cleared forest to investigate missing people and strange disturbances.
• The party’s Captain briefed his rowdy teammates while the client’s supervisor doubted their reputation and prepared a teleportation item to escape.