Chapter Summaries

Orsaga traveled to the Eternal Obelisk after Mersaid summoned him to help against another abyss lord’s allies. He eagerly accepted a paid contract to fight one opponent, and he and Mersaid finalized the terms.

• Orsaga crossed the Void Stratum and entered the Eternal Obelisk using Mersaid’s permission.
• Mersaid asked Orsaga to hold off the helpers of an abyss lord with whom she had a dispute.
• Orsaga agreed to take the job for extra payment, but said he would fight only one opponent.
• Mersaid and Orsaga negotiated his fee and the consequences if he failed to win.
• They settled the contract details, leaving both satisfied.

After signing an Abyssal Contract with Orsaga, Mersaid sought further safeguards while Orsaga wandered the Eternal Obelisk. He found a shop that reminded him of the purchase that had helped set him on the path to becoming a chaos god.

• Mersaid verified that the Abyssal Contract was notarized and began preparing additional support by contacting two abyss lords.
• Orsaga stayed in the Eternal Obelisk after signing the contract and wandered through its levels with attendants clearing his way.
• Orsaga spotted a familiar shop that had remained open since his visit millions of years earlier.
• Orsaga recalled how the materials he bought there had contributed to his risky rise to becoming a chaos god and regarded the shop with nostalgia.

Orsaga searched a shop for old acquaintances, found none, and left after buying unusual plants to eat. When Mersaid's message arrived identifying the enemy Orsaga had to hold off, he eagerly departed Crimson Heaven to meet the coming challenge.

• Orsaga entered the shop hoping to find old acquaintances, but after searching for several dozen minutes he bought unusual plants and left.
• Twenty-two months later, three points of light shot from the Eternal Obelisk and delivered Mersaid's message to three abyss lords.
• Orsaga received information identifying the enemy he needed to hold off and laughed with excitement.
• Orsaga's excitement warped the palace hall as his maids continued their performance, and he launched himself from Crimson Heaven in a pillar of crimson light.
• Golanel and Philala watched Orsaga depart and remarked that his opponent had given him something to look forward to.

Orsaga shed his human disguise and raced through the Void Stratum toward the Abyss of Silence, destroying ships and killing countless beings along the way. The Demon Lord of the Abyss of Silence sensed his approach and sent a vast tide of shadow through spacetime to meet him.

• Orsaga transformed into his towering Abyss Demon form and unleashed his full power as he left Crimson Heaven.
• A merchant association's armed transport sensed Orsaga approaching, but its attempt to escape through spacetime failed, leaving most of its crew dead or injured.
• Orsaga continued across the Void Stratum, annihilating everything that crossed his path.
• The Demon Lord of the Abyss of Silence sensed the hostile arrival and set out to confront it.
• The Demon Lord sent a vast, serpent-like tide of shadow through spacetime, engulfing countless lives along the way.

Orsaga battled Halifask, the Abyssal Shadow Demon, across spacetime, using his flames and other abilities to burn and weaken him. Halifask escaped the direct confrontation by splitting into countless copies and fleeing through spacetime, and Orsaga pursued him.

• Orsaga attacked Halifask with a Time and Space Storm, but Halifask gathered the storm with Black Water and hurled it back at him.
• Orsaga swept the chaotic spacetime flat with a fiery punch and struck Halifask through his distance-warping defenses.
• Orsaga's False Calamity Flame burned Halifask's shadow body and converted part of his power into Orsaga's strength, while Orsaga's other abilities inflicted pain and illness.
• Halifask destroyed his afflicted body, formed another from Black Water, and shed the part touched by Orsaga's next punch to escape the harmful effects.
• Halifask split into countless copies and fled through different stretches of spacetime, and Orsaga transformed into streaks of light and chased him.

Halifask’s Black Tide annihilated an entire plane and its civilizations, while Orsaga’s Blood Flames arrived to battle the resulting black serpent. The flaming serpent eventually devoured its opponent, but the conflict between Orsaga and Halifask continued across countless regions of spacetime.

• Halifask’s black light pierced a plane’s defenses, killed its consciousness, and transformed its energies into Black Water.
• The Black Tide swept through the plane’s Worldlines, annihilating its worlds, civilizations, and powerful beings.
• A black serpent formed from the Black Sea as Orsaga’s Blood Light reached the plane and produced a giant flaming serpent.
• Orsaga’s flaming serpent wrestled with Halifask’s black serpent as Blood Flames set the Black Sea ablaze and strengthened its foe.
• Orsaga’s flaming serpent devoured Halifask’s black serpent, while their countless avatars continued fighting across distant regions of spacetime.

After a devastating earthquake, Hood crawled out of his collapsed building and found the city in ruins. As a nursing student tried to treat him, the Moon shattered, fleets appeared in the sky, and people, objects, and memories began disappearing around him.

• An earthquake collapsed Hood’s building, but his computer desk protected him and helped him crawl out of the rubble with a metal rod lodged in his shoulder.
• Hood saw the ruined city and worried that the earthquake might have reached his hometown.
• A young nursing student approached Hood and offered to disinfect his wound without moving the metal rod.
• The Moon shattered after a spindle-shaped spacecraft punched through it, and countless damaged battleships appeared in the sky.
• People and objects began vanishing at random, including the nursing student, while Hood felt his memories disappearing too.

As the Calamity of the Past made everything in the universe vanish, Ekd Ayersad Kawinst and the Radiant Eye Civilization stabilized spacetime and asked the natives to join forces. Ekd then learned that his civilization had limited resources and that many potential allies had already disappeared.

• Hood watched the fleets and everything around him dwindle, realizing that the alien fleets were victims of the same unknown force.
• Deep-blue and golden lights from gigantic Triangular buildings halted the disappearances and stabilized the fleets.
• Ekd Ayersad Kawinst introduced himself to the universe, explained the Calamity of the Past and the Calamity of the Future, and asked the natives to cooperate.
• Ekd shut off the projection and told his adjutant that even a below-average universe could provide useful helpers.
• Ekd's adjutant reported that the Radiant Eye Civilization had 6,227,754 artificial miniature universes and alternate dimensions, but could freely use only three-quarters of them.
• Ekd's adjutant reported that 23 Level 11 civilizations and 33,524 Level 10 civilizations had been contacted, and that most had agreed to ally while many others had vanished.

Ekd ordered the Radiant Eye Civilization to gather resources, build artificial alternate-dimension worlds, and recruit allies as the Calamities of the Past and Future closed in. Having witnessed his civilization’s homeland erased by the Calamity of the Future, he sought allies because he could see no way to stop the disasters alone.

• Ekd ordered subsidiary civilizations to construct artificial alternate-dimension worlds and gather energy and materials.
• Ekd instructed the Radiant Eye Civilization to share information about both Calamities with allied civilizations and help them prepare defenses.
• Ekd reviewed a Golden Tree Diagram showing the Calamity of the Past and the Calamity of the Future closing in on his Worldline.
• Ekd recalled how the Calamity of the Future had erased the Radiant Eye Civilization’s homeland, YYIED--H244U779KF, without warning or resistance.
• Ekd decided that seeking more allies and pooling their wisdom was his only hope of finding a way to survive.

After the Calamity of the Past erased Hood’s ancestors and memories, Fadop Civilization restored the planet’s damaged records but could not bring back what had been erased. Confused and rootless, Hood signed up for training as the Fadop Civilization began recruiting people to prepare for future calamities.

• Hood struggled with his missing memories and the bewildering hatred he felt toward the force that had erased his ancestors.
• A warship fired an ink green beam that restored the planet’s destruction and revived the dead, but did not restore anything whose information had been deleted.
• The Fadop Civilization announced that it would recruit qualified people for training and modification to help face the Calamity of the Past and the Calamity of the Future.
• Hood registered for training because he did not know what else to do.
• The three-headed commander dismissed the planet’s people as ignorant natives and ordered his subordinates to explore abandoned dimensions and planes.

Decades later, Hood spoke with the Fadop Civilization’s Third Fleet commander about the approaching Great Destruction and learned that the Calamity of the Future was a living entity beyond their ability to comprehend. The commander began to explain the terrifying effects it caused, leaving Hood alarmed and asking what those effects were.

• The Third Fleet commander praised Hood for surviving hundreds of operations, but Hood dismissed the honor and suggested the commander was afraid.
• The commander admitted he feared the coming Great Destruction and explained that his prophetic senses constantly warned him of approaching death.
• Hood questioned why the civilizations were so pessimistic after preparing for so long, and the commander revealed that their plan to make the two calamities collide had proved useless.
• The commander told Hood that the Calamity of the Past and the Calamity of the Future were living entities, not merely natural mechanisms crossing the civilizations’ path.
• The commander said the Calamity of the Future caused terrifying effects even after the Fadop Civilization recognized its existence, and Hood demanded to know what they were.

The Commander explained to Hood that the Calamity of the Future tracked civilizations through Mind Poison, an infection spread by thoughts and records that made its victims beacons and hastened its arrival. He then revealed that the supposed resource dispute between the Fadop Civilization and the Kaiduoluo Civilization had a deeper cause, leaving Hood awaiting the truth.

• The Commander told Hood that the Calamity of the Future could trace prey through time but relied more dangerously on Mind Poison.
• The Commander explained that thinking about or recording the Calamity of the Future connected civilizations to it, spreading infection and accelerating its approach.
• Hood felt the Calamity's distant malice after learning that no one could escape its influence.
• The Commander asked Hood about the past conflict between the Fadop Civilization and the Kaiduoluo Civilization.
• Hood recalled that he had fought in the conflict and believed it had been resolved over a precious resource.
• The Commander disputed that explanation, arguing that the civilizations would not normally risk their unity over resources at such a critical time.

The Commander explained how the Calamity of the Future’s Havoc had driven the alliance into conflict and wrecked its plans, leaving Hood shaken by the scale of the threat. He told Hood about the Ark of the Mortal World, a last-ditch plan involving a specially layered Artificial Universe, though its chances of success remained bleak.

• The Commander told Hood that the alliance’s many internal conflicts were caused by Havoc, an influence accompanying Mind Poison that pushed events toward disastrous outcomes.
• The Commander revealed that the alliance had suffered 75,513,159 conflicts and that Havoc had ruined its efforts to find a survivable future.
• Hood reacted with fury and despair, questioning whether his years of training and pursuit of revenge had been pointless.
• The Commander tried to give Hood hope by describing the Ark of the Mortal World, a plan to create a Special Artificial Universe and reset the survivors’ destinies and Worldlines.
• The Commander explained that the Ark would layer many Artificial Universes to strengthen spacetime, while privately believing Havoc made the plan nearly impossible to complete.

Many years later, Casto and the World Forgers completed the Ark of the Mortal World Plan, creating a rapidly expanding composite universe designed to resist the Calamities of the Future and the Past. With the Ark declared a success, Casto ordered the Alliance to begin purifying its contaminated Timelines before moving into their new refuge.

• Casto activated the final devices of the Ark of the Mortal World Plan while powerful beings stabilized the surrounding ten-dimensional space.
• The Light Dot transformed into a composite universe containing countless complete universes that gathered into ever-higher layers.
• The composite universe's Spacetime Structure overlapped more than twenty layers and continued expanding, strengthening its Time-Space Wall.
• Casto and the researchers celebrated as the Ark of the Mortal World Plan was declared a success.
• Casto ordered the Final Purification Plan to restart and purify contaminated Timelines and sever threats from the Calamity of the Future.

The Ark of the Mortal World had grown into an immense structure, and civilizations assembled a defensive force along its Time-Space Wall to face the approaching Calamity of the Future. Hood waited with the troops, resolved to fight his enemy even if resistance proved futile.

• Civilizations emptied the surrounding worldlines and moved usable resources into the Ark of the Mortal World, whose expanding layers of universes made it nearly impossible to destroy.
• Civilizations stationed their strongest warriors and numerous warships along the Ark's Time-Space Wall in case it failed to stop the Calamity of the Future.
• Hood listened as a Recorder recited the force's numbers and explained that he had come to document the disaster.
• The Recorder asked Hood whether he despaired over his distant path of revenge, and Hood said he had despaired long ago but would still face his opponent and fight if the wall failed.
• The time calculated for the Calamity of the Future's arrival drew closer.

The Calamity of the Future arrived and erased the world outside the Ark of the Mortal World, but the Ark initially seemed untouched. Five enormous blood-red sickle-like objects then struck the Time-Space Wall, causing violent disruption and destruction within the Ark.

• The Calamity of the Future appeared as endless Blood Flames that erased the ten-dimensional space and high-dimensional energy outside the Ark of the Mortal World.
• Hood watched the garrison celebrate the Ark’s apparent safety and worried that he was powerless against the calamities he hoped to overcome.
• Five enormous, patterned objects emerged from the flames and approached the Ark, causing pain and distress among those who looked at them.
• Hood recognized something familiar in the objects and heard their engraved patterns as prayers of praise to a great being.
• The five objects clamped onto the Ark and struck the Time-Space Wall, unleashing dark-purple lightning and causing universes inside to collide and collapse.

Orsaga spoke to the Ark of the Mortal World and revealed his true form, while his influence transformed nearly everything inside the Ark into monsters. Hood and the others witnessed the vast being pinching their vessel between his fingers and suffered devastating harm merely from seeing him.

• Orsaga connected with nearly everything inside the Ark of the Mortal World and caused living beings, Dead Things, stars, and other cosmic entities to undergo Demonization Reactions and slaughter one another.
• The civilizations inside the Ark were nearly wiped out, while garrison troops behind the Time-Space Wall barely maintained order with barriers and special equipment.
• Blood Flames parted to reveal Orsaga’s enormous eye and then his true form, surrounded by halos, wings, and tails.
• Hood and the others recognized Orsaga’s many titles as he stepped down a spiral staircase of blood-red flowers, burning away Worldlines, Timelines, futures, and civilizations.
• Hood and the others realized the five unidentified objects were Orsaga’s fingers and that he held the Ark of the Mortal World like a marble.
• The sight of Orsaga’s true form caused Hood and the other powerful beings’ eyes to turn to ash as flames spilled from their sockets.

Orsaga devoured the Ark of the Mortal World, then descended the spiral staircase toward Halifask through the ruined plane. When their avatars finally faced each other, Orsaga launched an attack using blood serpents enhanced by his accumulated abilities.

• Orsaga cleared the Ark of the Mortal World's defenses with blood flames, then swallowed the creation and gained a little power from it.
• Orsaga continued down the staircase and sensed Halifask waiting in the Black Water below as their powers damaged the plane across time and space.
• Orsaga and Halifask's avatars approached from the future and the past, destroying worldlines that nourished them along the way.
• After their avatars came face-to-face, Orsaga attacked by sending blood-red fire serpents toward Halifask's Black Water.
• Orsaga's Spell Wheels enhanced the serpents with varied abilities, producing powerful creatures that could manipulate the forces of nature and corrupt time and space.

Orsaga used a feint and a dimensional rift to bite Halifask with his own tail, infecting him with the Boundless Demonic Plague. Halifask tried to reverse time to contain the infection, while Orsaga declared that he had won again.

• Orsaga and Halifask exchanged attacks that tore apart the surrounding space-time.
• Orsaga enlarged a space-time fragment and hurled it at Halifask, then used the debris to conceal a dimensional rift.
• A snake head formed from Orsaga's tail bit Halifask after a crimson light disrupted Halifask's attempt to shift away.
• The Boundless Demonic Plague infected Halifask, and its symptoms spread through both his body and the Black Sea.
• Halifask abandoned his body and tried reversing time, but the virus continued to resist his attempts to remove it.
• Orsaga stepped onto the Black Sea and told Halifask that he had lost again.

Orsaga's incarnation fought Halifask's across the Black Sea while viruses spread through the sea and prepared to form a Death Tribulation Flower. After accepting that his incarnation was doomed, Halifask abandoned resistance and launched an all-out attack to uncover Orsaga's hidden abilities.

• The Black Sea sent countless immense, thin blades at Orsaga, who met them with his transformed tail and weathered the attack.
• Viruses spread through a third of the Black Sea and began forming a Death Tribulation Flower that would let Orsaga devour Halifask's incarnation.
• Halifask realized Orsaga had influenced his judgment and decided to use his incarnation to probe Orsaga's hidden abilities.
• Halifask stopped resisting the viruses and made black droplets surge upward at ever-increasing speeds.
• Halifask reversed the definitions of up and down, sent the Black Sea crashing toward Orsaga, and reached for him with countless arms.