Chapter Summaries

After Fredos died fighting the Mind Flayer King, Orsaga summoned his soul and rewarded him by transforming him into a high-tier Holy Spirit with Demigod Rank strength. Fredos mistook the gift for the culmination of a divine trial and left ready to serve Orsaga in his Divine Kingdom.

• Orsaga sensed Fredos's death and judged that Fredos had failed because he had not been ruthless enough to use Slaughter and Blood Bath against the Mind Flayer Empire.
• Orsaga summoned Fredos's battered soul and told him that, as his first believer in that spacetime, he deserved a reward.
• Fredos knelt and said that Orsaga's approval mattered more to him than any reward.
• Orsaga infused Fredos with divine power, repairing his consciousness and transforming him into a high-tier Holy Spirit with Demigod Rank strength.
• Fredos thanked Orsaga and privately concluded that his defeat had been part of a difficult trial designed to make him worthy of power.

Orsaga sent Fredos to his makeshift Divine Kingdom, which gathered believers’ souls and refined their faith into power capable of harming gods. Meanwhile, a group of ambitious figures demanded the secret of building such a realm and prepared to take it by force when Orsaga refused.

• Orsaga warned Fredos not to invent strange divine roles for him, and Fredos mistook the warning for evidence of Orsaga’s extraordinary foresight.
• Orsaga entrusted Fredos with an important task, and Fredos traveled to Orsaga’s makeshift Divine Kingdom.
• The chapter explained that Orsaga’s inferior Divine Kingdoms gathered believers’ souls after death and converted their faith into quasi-divine power that could wound gods.
• A group of figures approached Orsaga and proposed trading for the method of creating his half-finished Divine Kingdoms.
• Orsaga refused, saying the gods would object to the technology spreading, and the group blamed the gods and readied themselves to seize it.
• The group’s strongest member raised his enchanted sword and gave Orsaga one last chance to agree to a trade.

Orsaga effortlessly killed the professionals who came to seize his technology, then picked a heart from their corpses to cook. Lady of Pain accepted his invitation to try the grilled meat, leaving Orsaga wondering whether he had enough ingredients to host her.

• The professionals tried to peacefully obtain Orsaga’s technology, but discovered too late that his strength made him vastly more dangerous than they expected.
• Orsaga killed all of them in moments without getting blood or dust on himself.
• Orsaga’s tail searched the corpses and selected a still-beating heart as an ingredient.
• Orsaga invited Lady of Pain to try his plain grilled meat, and she initially declined because she had no need to eat.
• Lady of Pain reconsidered and agreed to try his cooking, leaving Orsaga concerned that one heart would not be enough.

Orsaga used Demon Summon to lure Abyss Demons to the picnic site and kill them for ingredients while the Lady of Pain watched. After seeing him slaughter one demon after another, she wondered whether the higher beings on his side would intervene.

• Orsaga summoned an Upper Demon Flame Demon by making him believe a Great Demon needed help fighting a Native Faction.
• The Flame Demon recognized the Lady of Pain’s immense authority and began to flee, but Orsaga killed him with a single stroke.
• Orsaga continued summoning Abyss Demons of various kinds and slaughtering them for ingredients.
• The Lady of Pain watched Orsaga kill his own kind and asked whether the higher beings on his side would intervene.

Orsaga explained to the Lady of Pain that demons in his homeland treated killing their own as a selection that weeded out the weak and unlucky. He argued that survival and freedom in the Abyss belonged to the powerful, leaving the Lady of Pain with a clearer picture of his brutal society.

• Orsaga compared his current slaughter of victims with the casual violence common among demons in the Bottomless Abyss.
• Orsaga told the Lady of Pain that demons killed their own to select for strength and luck, beginning from birth and continuing until they reached the lower demon stage.
• Orsaga ate an eye from a beholder and showed the Lady of Pain how his kind's immortality made them difficult to kill.
• The Lady of Pain remarked that life without strength in Orsaga's homeland must be difficult, and Orsaga replied that the weak were merely food reserves and that power granted the right to survive and move freely.

The Lady of Pain learned that Orsaga’s homeland was so brutal that its survivors were exceptionally dangerous, but its people were too unruly for any ruler to control. Orsaga considered the Abyssal Will and the Unity Council’s plan to destroy the Multiverse, leaving the Lady of Pain unnerved by his unsettling smile.

• The Lady of Pain considered creating a similarly brutal environment to train powerful fighters, but decided the cost and lack of control made it impractical.
• She asked Orsaga how the supreme ruler of his race managed its people, and he explained that no ruler could control the many lunatics there.
• Orsaga reflected that the Abyssal Will barely counted as a ruler, since it neither managed Abyss Creatures nor reacted to threats against the Bottomless Abyss.
• Orsaga wondered whether the Unity Council’s plan to destroy everything could bring perfection and transcendence, and considered joining them.
• The Lady of Pain told Orsaga that his strange smile made her want to punch him, and he said he enjoyed being hated by people who could not hurt him.

Three hundred and fifty-seven years after Fredos’s resistance was defeated, the Gith had reunited in a hidden underground city and held a bloody sacrificial rite for their god. The second Pope of the Bloody King Church ended the rite by pleading for the Apocalypse and asking whether their people’s vengeance had begun.

• The Gith survived for centuries in a concealed city beneath the frozen wastes, where the Githyanki and Githzerai reunited as one people.
• Several dozen Gith warriors fought deadly magical beasts during a grand sacrificial rite and offered their kills at the altar.
• As blood and sacrifices strengthened the altar’s red light, the Gith gathered to chant from the Sacred Text written by Fredos.
• The second Pope of the Bloody King Church called on his Lord to grant them the Apocalypse and asked whether the time for their people’s vengeance had arrived.

The Bloody King answered the Gith believers’ prayers for revenge and granted their Pope the weapon Slaughterer of All Beings. The Pope examined its powerful enchantments, realizing that the silver sword was effectively a divine artifact.

• The Gith Pope asked the Bloody King whether the time for their people’s revenge had arrived as the sacrifice ritual gathered power.
• A blood-colored sphere formed above the spire, released lightning across the underground city, and opened into the Bloody King’s enormous eye.
• The Bloody King declared that the time had come for the Gith to rise and slaughter, granting permission for destruction and bloodshed.
• The melted offerings and gathered magic forged a silver sword named Slaughterer of All Beings.
• The Pope reached for the sword, received the Bloody King’s blessing, and learned of its six quasi-divine enchantments.

Three months after preparing nearly a hundred thousand Gith for war, Pope Goethe Elajia declared the Gith’s campaign against the Mind Flayer Empire and received a divine blessing for selected warriors. The Bloody Guard emerged as the church’s elite, ready to fight in the war that had just begun.

• The Gith assembled nearly a hundred thousand combat-capable warriors, and the Pope concluded that their scarcity of resources made expansion against the Mind Flayer Empire necessary.
• Pope Goethe Elajia knelt before the Bloody King’s statue, raised a powerful silver blade, and declared war on the Mind Flayer Empire.
• The Gith cheered as a blood-colored blaze from the spire’s enormous eye split into streams and entered dozens of warriors who had fought in earlier sacrificial battles.
• The marked warriors became the Bloody Guard, gaining enhanced life force, combat instincts, killing marks, and improved aptitude for spells, martial combat, and Psionics.
• The Bloody King Church’s new elite strengthened its forces as the Gith prepared to fight the war.

Pharus City’s Mind Flayers held a banquet while their Elder delivered a lengthy speech, unaware that the city was under attack. A silver force field then sealed away magic, special abilities, and the Mind Flayers’ psychic network, leaving the city in chaos.

• Pharus City’s Mind Flayers gathered for a banquet while their Elder began a speech about the empire’s affairs.
• The Elder continued through dozens of minor issues as the Mind Flayers endured his speech.
• A red light appeared in the sky, but the Elder mistook it for an aurora.
• The city’s outer defenses reported successive breaches, and the Elder shouted that the city was under attack.
• Silver waves descended over Pharus City and formed a force field that disrupted spells, abilities, and the Mind Flayers’ Mind Network.

Slaughterer of All Beings activated Mind Block, weakening the Mind Flayers in Pharus City and prompting their Elder to flee toward an emergency teleportation array. Before he could escape, the Pontiff unleashed a silver blade that carved a massive chasm through the city and its defenses.

• Slaughterer of All Beings activated Mind Block, reducing every Mind Flayer's strength by more than ninety-five percent.
• The Mind Flayer Elder ordered his companions to abandon their possessions and follow him to an emergency escape tunnel with a Teleportation Array.
• The Elder led the fleeing Mind Flayers toward the tunnel, intending to escape the restricted area and warn the Mind Flayer King.
• A distant force locked onto the Elder, and he saw a figure raise a sharp blade as silver light filled the sky.
• The Pontiff's silver blade annihilated White Dragons and the mountain ranges along its path, carving a vast chasm beyond Pharus City and destroying its defenses.

The Pope used the Slaughterer of All Beings to devastate Pharus City, then rallied his troops to charge and surround it. In the Mind Flayer Empire’s capital, the Mind Flayer King sensed that a suppressing stronghold had vanished and lost contact with Pharus City, leaving Him alarmed.

• The Pope was shocked when the Slaughterer of All Beings cleaved through the land and nearly destroyed Pharus City.
• The Pope proclaimed the weapon’s power as a gift from the Bloody King and ordered his believers to charge and kill every enemy.
• The Gith armies advanced from all sides and encircled Pharus City.
• The Mind Flayer King sensed that one of the Empire’s worldwide suppressing strongholds had vanished.
• The Mind Flayer King tried to contact Pharus City, but His Mind Power disappeared when it approached the region.

The Mind Flayer King mobilized a massive army to crush the resistance force that had attacked Pharus City. Two hours later, the army’s battered survivors reported that they had been nearly wiped out, leaving the King shocked.

• The Mind Flayer King concluded that the force behind Pharus City’s lost contact was a dangerous group that had secretly grown stronger.
• The King ordered nearby Mind Flayer cities to kill the attackers, find their hidden force, and destroy it.
• Mind Flayer cities assembled slave troops, dragons, Demonic Beasts, Mind Flayers, and Elders to march toward Pharus City.
• The Mind Flayer force traveled for an hour and a half, fought for ten minutes, and fled for twenty minutes.
• The surviving troops reported to the Mind Flayer King that their army had been almost completely wiped out.

The Mind Flayer King resolved to eliminate the growing threat and roused the Mind Flayer Empire to action. Meanwhile, Orsaga explored Pazunia without concern for the Gith-Mind Flayer conflict, until the layer’s flying predators spotted him and attacked.

• The Mind Flayer King overcame his shock at his army’s failures and ordered the Mind Flayer Elders to mobilize against the enemy.
• Mind Flayers across the empire began exchanging thoughts and joining the discussion through their Mind Network.
• Orsaga wandered through Pazunia, enjoying the desolate landscape and dismissing the fate of his Gith followers.
• As the sun’s heat waned, vast flocks of winged predators poured from the caverns and began hunting.
• The predators spotted Orsaga crossing the wasteland and dove toward him in a coordinated attack.

Orsaga turned into blood mist and infected a swarm of Demonic Beasts with a virus tailored to their species. Hours later, the infected swarm gathered above a lava pool and plunged into it, where strands from their bodies wove an enormous egg-shaped object.

• Orsaga let the Demonic Beasts' claws and teeth pass through him before transforming into blood mist that entered the nearby attackers.
• The blood mist spread through the infected Demonic Beasts and silently transmitted the virus to others in the swarm.
• The swarm continued hunting for hours without noticing any changes as the virus spread through its members.
• The infected Demonic Beasts gathered above a lava pool and plunged into it under an unexplained influence.
• Strands extended from the Demonic Beasts' bodies and wove an enormous egg-shaped object in the lava.

Orsaga emerged from the fused lava lake after a violent lightning storm, killed and consumed the beings who had gathered to watch, and learned enough about Pazunia to set off toward his next destination.

• Lightning and tremors battered the solidified lava lake as dozens of beings gathered nearby to observe.
• A white crescent-shaped blast split the lightning sphere and storm clouds, revealing the Scorching Sun.
• Blood-red threads pierced the spectators and drained their souls, reducing their bodies to dust.
• Orsaga rose from the former lava lake and thanked the spectators for providing him a meal.
• Orsaga transformed into blood birds and flew toward a destination in Pazunia, guided by information he had taken from his victims.

Blood Demon Birds approached the Blood Slaughterhouse Fortress, whose defenders prepared for battle. The fortress’s leader attacked the flock with a powerful spell, but an overwhelming light enveloped the fortress and left him suffering as if birds were devouring his body and soul.

• A Berserker Demon at the city gate noticed a vast flock of Blood Demon Birds approaching and raised the alarm.
• The fortress’s troops mobilized under the command of a six-meter-tall flame-wreathed Demon.
• The leader cast a crimson magical attack at the birds, confident it would force them to retreat.
• An intense light ignored the fortress’s Defensive Barriers and covered the entire fortress.
• The leader felt his body and soul being gnawed away, unable to move as he heard birds pecking and beating their wings.

Orsaga finished annihilating the life inside the Blood Slaughterhouse Fortress and traveled to the Styx to begin his experiments. The Styx Ferrymen called out to him, but he ignored them and walked into the river.

• Orsaga reformed from a flock of blood birds after the fortress's inhabitants had all been devoured.
• Orsaga teleported west of the fortress to the Styx, seeking to conduct experiments there.
• Orsaga relied on the native demonic concepts he had absorbed to disguise himself from the Styx as a native demon.
• The Styx Ferrymen offered Orsaga passage across the river, but he ignored them and entered the Styx on foot.

Orsaga walked unharmed through the Styx, witnessing the Bottomless Abyss’s origins and underlying truths as he traveled toward the river’s source. He reached a revolving gate of light and acknowledged to a mysterious voice that the journey had brought him great gains.

• Cody realized Orsaga had entered the Styx without being harmed and feared the consequences if powerful beings learned of it.
• The Styx Ferrymen panicked, speculated about Orsaga’s plans, and fled the area.
• Orsaga calmly explored the Styx’s riverbed, observing Abyss Layers, worlds, the birth of the first demon, and the plane’s underlying truths.
• After a long journey, Orsaga reached a revolving gate of light at the Styx’s source, where a mysterious voice remarked that he had gained much.
• Orsaga agreed that the journey had brought him considerable gains.

Orsaga explained that the Styx and Bottomless Abyss held significance beyond their structure or power, and that their creation had been guided by forces beyond Evil Serpent’s control. He revealed that they were partial projections of something from his homeland.

• Evil Serpent asked Orsaga what he had found special about the Styx.
• Orsaga said the Styx and the Abyss mattered to him for what they symbolized, not for their structure or energy.
• Orsaga explained that a meaning existed before Evil Serpent created them and had guided their emergence.
• Evil Serpent realized that an outside force might have influenced it and grew irritated.
• Orsaga confirmed that hidden factors had interfered with the Styx and the Abyss, which were partial projections of something from his homeland.