Chapter Summaries

Orsaga killed Komuser Berent and then attacked the demigod Emerson with a magically compressed boulder. Emerson survived the strike by entering the Shadow Realm, but Orsaga appeared beside him when he returned to the Material World.

• Komuser Berent’s Self-Imprint shattered, and the fortress guard reported the Legendary Priest’s death to the Earth Church.
• Komuser’s orc companion escaped through a prepared teleportation point and hurried to warn the command center about Orsaga’s strength.
• Orsaga ignored the fleeing orc and hurled a compressed boulder toward Emerson, tearing through the battlefield on its way.
• Emerson cut the blazing stone apart, but its magic power burst into corrosive, scorching droplets around him.
• Emerson escaped into the Shadow Realm and reappeared more than a thousand meters away, where Orsaga was waiting just meters ahead.

Orsaga overpowered Emerson by injecting him with a deadly plague, then killed him despite a golden projectile arriving to intervene. The chapter left Orsaga struck by the projectile after tearing off Emerson’s head.

• Orsaga attacked Emerson, who pierced his arm and poured toxins into the wound.
• Orsaga’s blood vessel injected a potent plague into Emerson, forcing him to sever his own infected arm.
• Emerson activated a concealed communication device while Orsaga circled him and explained that the plague could spread through skin.
• The plague slowed Emerson’s senses and obstructed his attempt to enter the Shadow Realm, leaving him unable to evade Orsaga’s attack.
• A golden-yellow stream of light shot toward Orsaga from over ten kilometers away, but Orsaga seized Emerson and broke his neck before the projectile struck his face in an explosion.

Allison and the wounded Emerson confronted Orsaga, who survived her holy strike and fought both elves with ease. After gaining the upper hand, Orsaga withdrew into another dimension, leaving the elves wary and unwilling to pursue.

• Allison appeared beside Emerson and revealed that she had saved him from Orsaga's strike with a magical item.
• Orsaga healed the damage from Allison's holy attack, then asked whether the elves belonged to a party.
• When the elves did not answer, Orsaga attacked Allison, and Emerson joined the fight to block his tail.
• Allison and Orsaga exchanged attacks while Orsaga kept Emerson occupied with his tail, and neither showed signs of tiring.
• After the battle devastated the surrounding area, Orsaga sensed the elves might call for reinforcements and withdrew into another dimension.
• Allison and Emerson stayed behind, watching the area warily instead of pursuing Orsaga.

After retreating from the battlefield, Orsaga found Harte’s head in a cavern and bargained with an injured Upper Demon for a piece of flesh carrying residual divine power. He brought the sample to a hidden underground chamber to study it, having decided that the gods were too difficult to fight until he grew stronger.

• Orsaga withdrew from the battlefield after learning that specialists would intercept powerful Demons.
• Orsaga found Harte’s head in a cavern where an injured Upper Demon was eating, and he kicked the head away.
• Orsaga asked the Upper Demon for a piece of flesh bearing residual divine power, and the Demon gave it to him.
• Orsaga opened a portal, left the cavern, and created a concealed underground chamber with a powerful punch.
• Orsaga examined the divine power and concluded that he needed to advance further before attempting to kill a god.

Orsaga examined the hatred toward Abyss Creatures within a divine artifact while the defense-line representatives discussed his strength and learned that he had badly injured two demigods. They debated whether to send their strongest expert, Master, to kill him with the divine artifact before he could become an even greater threat.

• Orsaga used his demonic power to test and study the divine artifact’s power, which was especially hostile to Abyss Creatures.
• Harlan warned the racial representatives that Orsaga was dangerously powerful, but the Dwarf Race representative doubted his account of Orsaga lifting a massive chunk of land.
• An Elf representative identified Orsaga as the Demon who had fought Allison and Emerson, and the Dark Elf representative confirmed Emerson was severely injured and receiving emergency treatment.
• Harlan realized Orsaga had spared him despite being able to intercept his escape.
• The Elf representative proposed that Master use the divine artifact to eliminate Orsaga, and the representatives debated whether the threat justified deploying their strongest weapon.

Orsaga studied divine power and devised a way to imitate its missing components with resentment and the Death Tribulation Flower’s domain. He began absorbing the accumulated hatred and pain, eager to see whether his experiment would work.

• Orsaga’s Apocalypse—Awakening warned him that a large group of natives within the defensive line intended to kill him, but he remained unconcerned.
• Orsaga reasoned that his enemies would have to confront him during the Demon Tide and decided he could evade them by playing hide-and-seek.
• Orsaga concluded that divine power combined the Power of All Beings, World Authority, and energy containing willpower, and that it was far more potent than magic power.
• Orsaga considered substituting resentment and pain for the Power of All Beings, and his Death Tribulation Flower’s domain for World Authority.
• Orsaga cast emergency spells, filled the cavern with Death Tribulation Flowers, and gathered the dead’s negative consciousness around himself.
• Orsaga laughed and began eroding the hatred and pain so they would merge into him.

After the Demon Tide, Henry Mur and the demigods discovered an unseen Black Mist spreading across the defensive line. Blood-red rain and lightning led them to suspect that an Ancient Evil was awakening nearby, a threat they feared they could not defeat.

• Henry Mur saw Black Mist drifting from the land and corpses, but his weapon passed through it without effect.
• Henry Mur summoned the defensive line’s powerful figures, and a golden light revealed the Black Mist to everyone.
• A demigod’s noble power provoked the Black Mist into attacking him, while an Elf demigod struggled to recall where he had seen such a phenomenon.
• Blood-red rain and lightning prompted the Elf demigod to ask whether an Ancient Evil was awakening nearby.
• The gaunt old man recognized the possibility and feared the demigods would be helpless against an Ancient Evil.

Orsaga absorbed the Black Mist and began a violent transformation while Henry Muir struggled to decide whether to evacuate the defensive line. The Miling World’s World Consciousness struck him with blood-red lightning, forcing him to escape and abandon his transformation there.

• Abyss Creatures fled the growing Black Mist, leaving Henry Muir uncertain whether to investigate or evacuate the defensive line.
• Blood-red lightning struck the Land of Pollution and carved a vast crater into the earth.
• Orsaga endured the Black Mist’s whispers in his consciousness, then slaughtered the figures formed from the dead and absorbed their remnants.
• The Black Mist fueled Orsaga’s body and the Evolution System as they began reshaping his magic power and bloodline.
• The World Consciousness attacked Orsaga with lightning as his transformation neared completion, and he escaped after emergency spells gave him a brief chance to flee.
• Orsaga sensed the World Consciousness’s warning and decided to abandon his transformation in the Miling World.

After Orsaga returned from dimensional space with his interrupted transformation stabilized, he tested his new strength against Jalot. Jalot’s attacks failed to harm him, leaving Jalot convinced he was in serious danger.

• After Orsaga disappeared, the defenders debated whether the Ancient Evil had descended and decided to keep the defensive barrier at full power while staying alert.
• Several dozen days later, Orsaga emerged from dimensional space with new wings in place of his ears, a vertical eye on his forehead, and transformed Death Tribulation Flower markings.
• Orsaga noticed that his presence was causing the land to wither, but dismissed the world’s rejection of him and flew off to find an opponent.
• Orsaga confronted Jalot and said he wanted to fight him, then attacked with spears of blood-red flame.
• Jalot created dozens of clones and struck Orsaga with a combined assault, but Orsaga emerged unharmed and Jalot realized he was outmatched.

Orsaga fought Jalot to test his improved strength and newly awakened ability, ultimately killing him after a brutal exchange. He then assessed his power and discovered that evil thoughts could fuel his recovery and strength.

• Orsaga taunted Jalot into attacking again, then kicked him into a crater and set him ablaze with Bloodflame.
• Jalot enhanced his physical abilities and clashed with Orsaga in a high-speed exchange of punches.
• Orsaga broke Jalot’s arms, blasted his head apart, and burned his corpse to ashes.
• Orsaga concluded that his magic power was far more potent than Jalot’s and considered how it compared with divine power.
• Orsaga discovered his Evil Grudge Undying Body, which drew strength from evil thoughts and enabled rapid recovery.

Orsaga devised a plague-based plan to break through the defensive line by infecting Demonic Beasts and sending them into the next Demon Tide. He left the infected creatures prepared to spread mutated viruses among the defenders, with poison-gas attacks as a fallback.

• Orsaga considered how to breach the repaired defensive line and realized he could use his experience with poisons.
• Orsaga defeated a group of newly arrived Demonic Beasts, leaving one confused about why he was attacking them despite the Abyssal Contract.
• Orsaga knocked the last conscious Demon unconscious and implanted hundreds of different plagues into the Demonic Beasts.
• Orsaga planted mental suggestions that would drive the infected Demonic Beasts into the next Demon Tide so defenders would carry the diseases back inside the line.
• Orsaga reasoned that the Abyssal Contract would tolerate his actions if they benefited the Bottomless Abyss, and planned to activate the plagues during the assault if necessary.

After poisoning and conditioning thousands of Demonic Beasts for the next Demon Tide, Orsaga’s plague began spreading as infected creatures fought at the defensive line. The chapter left powerful defenders unknowingly carrying the viruses, while Henry Moore maintained his cautious defense and Emerson remained consumed by hatred for Orsaga.

• Yate recovered from Orsaga’s attack, searched a slain demon for signs of tampering, and found nothing.
• Orsaga continued injecting plague strains and mental suggestions into unconscious Demonic Beasts to prepare them for the next Demon Tide.
• Several dozen days later, Henry Moore deployed troops and resources according to his established defensive plan as the Demon Tide approached.
• Emerson, recovered from his wounds, killed Demonic Beasts while nursing his hatred for Orsaga.
• Viruses clung unnoticed to Emerson and other powerful fighters, turning them into mobile sources that spread Orsaga’s plague.

Orsaga monitored the Demon Tide and waited for his plague to reach the defensive line, while Emerson and a dwarf demigod fought, reflected on the war, and shared a drink. After Emerson passed the defensive line’s inspection, Orsaga sensed the plague had entered and planned to spread more strains.

• Orsaga monitored the infected creatures and planned to make the plague viruses in the Demon Tide’s dead Demons self-destruct after the battle.
• Emerson met his dwarf demigod friend after days of fighting, and they discussed their chances of driving out the Demonic Beasts.
• Emerson and the dwarf demigod argued over who would pay for their drinks and went through a teleportation gate.
• Mages examined Emerson inside the defensive line and cleared him to leave.
• Orsaga sensed that his plague had entered the defensive line and prepared to spread more types of plague.

A hidden plague outbreak spread through the defensive line after the last Demon Tide, overwhelming its attempts to diagnose and contain it. Allison learned that the rapidly evolving diseases were nearly always fatal without rare treatments and could even transform objects into monsters.

• A mage discovered that more than a hundred returning warriors, including a demigod, carried strange viruses and reported the infections to Henry Muer.
• Orsaga observed the plagues spreading through the celebrating crowds while he waited for Karto and the others to finish fighting the world's gods.
• Several days later, Allison heard that illnesses had spread among civilians and low-ranking professionals despite Henry Muer's efforts to contain them.
• A researcher told Allison that more than five hundred plague varieties had been detected, that they were rapidly mutating, and that ordinary patients had almost no chance of survival.
• The researcher warned Allison that infected objects such as beds and blankets could turn into monsters, leaving her horrified.

Henry Muer and the defensive line’s leaders organized a joint divination ritual to locate the source of the city’s spreading plague after ordinary detection and divination failed. The ritual reached Orsaga, who resisted the search, leaving one Demigod Rank Mage gravely injured and the others struggling.

• Henry Muer explained that the plague had overwhelmed the city and that the defensive line’s passages were sealed, while its barrier could not reliably identify latent carriers.
• A Demigod proposed targeting the plague’s releaser, and Henry Muer said previous divinations by more than ten Legendary Mages had failed and harmed some of them.
• Charil volunteered to attempt a divination, and several Demigod Rank Mages joined him in planning a large-scale ritual.
• The factions of the defensive line assembled rare materials and inscribed an elaborate ritual across a plaza.
• Orsaga sensed the divination from hundreds of kilometers away and sent his will to oppose it as his anti-divination spells activated.
• One Demigod Rank Mage coughed up blood and collapsed, while the remaining mages continued the ritual under strain.

Orsaga fought off a group of Demigod Rank mages in a consciousness battle, but their sacrificial attack badly damaged his mind. He escaped while his plague continued spreading, and the mages urged Henry and the others to use the opportunity to finish him.

• Orsaga fought alone against several Demigod Rank mages and eliminated one of them from the consciousness battle.
• The mages burned part of their power origins and overwhelmed Orsaga with a direct attack, crushing his brain and injuring his soul.
• Orsaga regenerated his brain, judged that he could not counter their brute-force assault, and decided to play dead while his plague spread.
• Orsaga vanished and began escaping before more groups could gather to attack him.
• The injured Demigod Rank mages told Henry and the others that Orsaga remained dangerous and transmitted the information they had gathered about him.

Henry Muer sent a team of Demigods into the Land of Pollution to hunt Orsaga before the defensive line collapsed. After teleporting, the team followed a magical compass to an unmoving signal and found what looked like a brain, unsure whether it belonged to Orsaga.

• Henry Muer gathered intelligence on Orsaga and decided to send an agile Demigod team behind enemy lines despite Allison warning that the information might be a trap.
• Henry Muer watched the team depart through a Teleportation Array and prayed that the operation would succeed.
• The Captain and his companions arrived in the Land of Pollution, used a compass made from Orsaga's aura, and followed its unmoving light dot.
• The team found a mushy mass that looked like a brain, and the Captain doubted that Orsaga could simply discard his own brain.

Orsaga evaded Clay’s Demigod hunting squad by sending multiplying Avatars to mislead them and drive Demonic Beasts after them. While Henry grew desperate for results, Orsaga watched the squad struggle from an underground cave and prepared to eat his former mount.

• A squad member destroyed a suspicious mass, unaware that tiny scraps clung to his weapon.
• Orsaga learned that seventeen Demigods were pursuing him and chose to play hide-and-seek, speeding away after feeding his mount explosive dried fish.
• Henry asked his adjutant for news from Clay, then angrily ordered the hunting squad to hurry after hearing they were lost and beset by Demonic Beasts.
• Clay’s squad found that killing Orsaga’s targets only multiplied the compass signals, while more than ten thousand Demonic Beasts chased them.
• Orsaga watched the squad through a Projection Spell from an underground cave and decided to roast and eat the mount he had fed for several days.

Allison and the defensive line’s leaders accepted that the infected residents would have to be sacrificed, while Orsaga eliminated a pursuing squad with a hidden weapon. Orsaga then turned his attention to the defensive line as his main act began.

• Allison continued clearing plague-mutated monsters and recognized that the defensive line was nearing collapse.
• Henry Muer told the emergency meeting that the defensive line could not hold and at least a third of its residents were infected.
• The Demigods approved abandoning the infected residents, and Allison silently consented; they also passed the Observe Plague proposal to study the outbreak and test medicines.
• In the Land of Pollution, Orsaga controlled a puppet to keep a pursuit squad trapped among Demonic Beasts until the squad’s Captain used a black cube to erase everything within several kilometers.
• Orsaga dismissed the pursuit squad’s destruction as an expected final measure and shifted his spell projection to the defensive line, announcing that the main act was beginning.

Allison killed a house-turned monster and continued rescuing civilians, unaware that Orsaga had infiltrated the defensive line and prepared a larger attack. Giant eye-covered snakes erupted from beneath the barrier nodes, destroying the century-old barriers and starting another Demon Tide.

• Allison killed a monster transformed from a house while protecting residents, though she knew they were marked for sacrifice.
• Orsaga watched Allison from a rooftop, concealed his presence, and considered the surface monsters a distraction from what he had prepared underground.
• Allison sensed Orsaga watching her but mistook him for a passerby of an unknown race.
• As Allison moved on, underground tremors cracked the buildings and ground across the defensive line.
• Hundreds-of-meters-long snakes covered in eyes erupted from the barrier nodes, destroying the barriers as Demonic Beasts gathered for the start of another Demon Tide.