Chapter Summaries

Orsaga explained that the Bottomless Abyss and Styx in Evil Serpent’s spacetime may have originated as dormant concepts injected from elsewhere before the God Above Gods were born. He revealed that Bottomless Abysses vary greatly according to the planes that nurture them, leaving Evil Serpent and the others to reconsider the origins of their world’s Abyss.

• After hearing Orsaga mention “partial silhouettes,” Evil Serpent searched the Bottomless Abyss repeatedly but found nothing suspicious.
• Orsaga asked why the Bottomless Abyss and Styx had appeared, prompting the God Above Gods to recognize that they had arisen through spacetime’s evolution rather than their own actions.
• Evil Serpent cautiously asked whether the concepts of the Bottomless Abyss and Styx had been introduced from another spacetime long ago.
• Orsaga confirmed that the concepts may have lain dormant until the spacetime stabilized, then manifested and merged with it.
• Orsaga explained that Subspecies—Bottomless Abysses develop differently depending on their environments and regarded Evil Serpent’s Abyss as a valuable, richly nurtured plane.

Orsaga revealed that the Bottomless Abyss and Styx contained alien parasites, then demanded half of both realms in exchange for his information. The Gods Above Gods agreed, triggering a catastrophic upheaval across the Abyss that left the Chaos Queen terrified and feigning death.

• Orsaga offered to destroy the Subspecies - Bottomless Abyss for the Evil Serpent, who distrusted his motives and refused to accept the offer.
• Orsaga warned the Evil Serpent and the Lady of Pain that more alien parasites existed, and AO asked him to state his price.
• Orsaga demanded half of the Styx and half of the Bottomless Abyss, and the Gods Above Gods agreed after discussing the danger.
• The Bottomless Abyss convulsed as space-time tsunamis tore through its layers, killing or displacing countless beings and frightening even the abyss lords.
• The Chaos Queen sensed a terrible wail through her enhanced perception and decided to play dead rather than investigate further.

After the upheaval shook the Abyss, powerful beings searched for its cause and investigated rumors about someone surviving contact with the Styx. Orsaga received the sealed Subspecies - Bottomless Abyss from AO, then told AO and the others that the civilizations of their plane and Dominia shared a common source: an existence at the level of an Abyss Prince.

• The Chaos Queen and other powerful beings searched the Abyss after the disturbance, while reports spread that someone had touched the Styx and survived.
• AO sent a sealed Subspecies - Bottomless Abyss across spacetime, and Orsaga received it through a spell he had prepared.
• Orsaga's avatar asked the Evil Serpent whether Lady of Pain had shared information about the Outer Plane with AO and the others.
• Orsaga pointed out similarities between the peoples and civilizations of their plane and Dominia despite their separation and lack of contact.
• Orsaga said those similarities came from a common source, an existence that had reached the level of an Abyss Prince.

Orsaga explained how Abyss Prince factors spread across planes and caused local lifeforms to evolve into different subspecies, using humans from thousands of worlds as examples. Evil Serpent then asked what danger these external factors posed and how they had escaped detection.

• Orsaga revealed a sealed human specimen from the destroyed Dominia Plane and explained that it differed greatly from humans in the current plane.
• Orsaga showed humans from 24,514 planes, whose bodies, powers, lifespans, and cultures varied widely while retaining a humanoid form.
• Orsaga explained that Abyss Prince factors could shape native organisms into similar subspecies across unrelated planes, including Subspecies - Human and Subspecies - Dragon.
• Orsaga described the specimens as part of his collections, used to stock repositories and farms within Crimson Heaven.
• Evil Serpent asked what threat the external factors posed and how they had evaded perception.

Orsaga explained that Abyss Princes’ scattered factors were harmless influences that merged invisibly with planes and expanded their possibilities. As the powers of many Abyss Princes intersected, they drove the endless creation and destruction of worlds across the Multiverse.

• Orsaga said Abyss Princes barely cared whether the subspecies derived from their factors survived.
• Orsaga explained that the disseminators’ factors carried no harmful information and blended invisibly into planes, where local conditions shaped them.
• Orsaga cited OAA as an example of a powerful native who could detect and choose foreign factors when forming Worldviews within himself.
• Orsaga described how factors representing humans, supernatural powers, and steam technology could combine to produce new subspecies, civilizations, and histories.
• Orsaga explained that intersecting Abyss Prince influences multiplied possibilities without pattern, causing countless planes to be created and destroyed.
• Orsaga said Abyss Princes were regarded as the Beginning, the Origin, and the Source because they caused countless events across the Multiverse.

Orsaga explained that the influences of Abyss Princes posed little direct danger to a high-level plane unless they chose to attack, but the plane and its Gods Above Gods would be helpless if one did. He relied on bloodline inheritance to understand the vast power gap and the risks of confronting an Abyss Prince.

• Orsaga's explanation established that Abyss Princes' influence usually acted only as beacons and could not directly control subspecies across a high-level plane's barrier.
• The chapter described the plane as a valuable petri dish that would likely encounter other planes and spread the factors of powerful beings.
• Orsaga's knowledge of high-level planes explained why he had risked becoming a Demon Lord rather than remaining a Chaos God dependent on one.
• Orsaga concluded that even he could only flee from an Abyss Prince, whose power exceeded that of an abyss lord by an infinite gap.
• Orsaga's bloodline inheritance provided fragmentary intelligence about the Abyss Prince who embodied the concept of humanity.

Orsaga learned that the Master of Humanity’s abilities made Him an overwhelming power, though several Abyss Princes and concept-symbolizing beings surpassed Him. The chapter ended by describing these supreme existences as beyond mortal comprehension.

• Orsaga’s knowledge explained how Sum of Humanity gave the Master of Humanity the combined power and knowledge of humanity across the Multiverse.
• Orsaga learned that Eternal Being preserved every acknowledged Human and related being within the Master of Humanity, beyond true destruction.
• Orsaga learned that the Master of Humanity was an apex existence, but not invincible among Abyss Princes.
• Orsaga’s inheritance identified the Lord of Light, the Lord of All Desires, and the being who symbolized energy as stronger than the Master of Humanity.
• Orsaga learned that Demon Princes and other supreme beings could alter reality and destinies across vast time and space, beyond mortal description.

Orsaga finished his vague explanation to Lady of Pain and the others, then wandered along the Styx and reflected on its power. In the Saltwater Swamp, the battered and hungry Dimogegen spotted a figure emerging from a Styx tributary.

• Orsaga gave Lady of Pain and the other four a brief account of the forces that had entered the plane, withholding details about Abyss Princes.
• Orsaga strolled along the Styx, admired the river’s connection to the plane’s rules, and considered swimming in the true Styx despite its dangers.
• The chapter described the Saltwater Swamp and the intelligent Benthic Demon Fish, who dominated its territory and preyed on weaker creatures.
• Dimogegen, an injured and hungry Two-headed Baboon, watched the Styx tributary while resting from his last hunt.
• Dimogegen noticed a figure walking out of the Styx.

Dimogegen spotted a strange white trace within the deadly Styx and argued with himself over whether to flee or investigate. Orsaga emerged from the river, praised Dimogegen’s behavior, and drew both heads’ attention as he stepped into the Saltwater Swamp.

• Amur and Heslati noticed a white anomaly within the purplish-red Styx, which they had believed could destroy anything that entered it.
• Amur urged Dimogegen to flee, while Heslati wanted to stay and watch for a chance to claim spoils.
• Amur and Heslati argued so fiercely that Dimogegen slapped himself with both hands while cursing.
• Orsaga emerged from the Styx, saw Dimogegen fighting with himself, and praised his style.
• Dimogegen turned toward Orsaga as he walked from the Styx into the Saltwater Swamp, his white clothes untouched by either river.

Orsaga intimidated Dimogegen into becoming his lackey, then gave him a Soul Crystal as a gift. Dimogegen accepted eagerly, unaware that the inferior crystal could worsen his schizophrenia if he overused it.

• Dimogegen instinctively knelt before Orsaga, and a vision of Orsaga tearing him apart made him abandon thoughts of resisting.
• Orsaga told Dimogegen to become his lackey, and Dimogegen agreed despite his fury.
• Orsaga gave Dimogegen a Soul Crystal condensed from tens of thousands of souls to increase his strength.
• Dimogegen delightedly accepted the inferior crystal without realizing that overusing it could worsen his schizophrenia.

The Gith Empire halted its territorial expansion to address the problems caused by rapid victory and consolidate its gains while the Mind Flayer Empire relied on dispersed warfare. The Gith began building stronger institutions and absorbing technology, though they had yet to secure lasting hegemony.

• The Mind Flayer Empire abandoned frontal battles after the Slaughterer of All Beings wounded the Mind Flayer King and killed dozens of Mind Flayer Elders.
• The Mind Flayer Empire shifted to dispersed warfare and raids, exposing the Gith's overstretched manpower and weak administration.
• The Pope of the Bloody King Church recognized that victory and sudden prosperity were making the Gith arrogant and threatening the stability of their expanding realm.
• The Pope announced the founding of the Gith Empire and redirected efforts from conquest toward administration and consolidation.
• The Gith expanded education and began applying knowledge from the God-Bestowed Scroll, mass-producing improved equipment and developing prototypes of sky-sailing ships.

The Mind Flayer Empire’s leaders prepared an operation to destroy the God-Bestowed Scroll, fearing that it would let the Gith Empire surpass them. The Mind Flayer King refused to consume the preserved brains of fallen Elders and ordered them distributed to strengthen others for the coming operation.

• The Mind Flayer King ordered the operation to begin in three days and declared that the God-Bestowed Scroll had to be destroyed.
• The Mind Flayer King fed on captives, recovering some strength and restoring his psionic shields, but remained wary of Mor. Derg and the Slaughterer of All Beings.
• A Mind Flayer Elder presented the preserved corpses of fallen Elders for the Mind Flayer King to consume.
• The Mind Flayer King refused the corpses, arguing that stronger individuals would not change the fight against the Slaughterer of All Beings.
• The Mind Flayer King ordered the Elder corpses distributed so that other Mind Flayers could consume them and improve the operation’s chances.

A Mind Flayer Empire assault devastated the isolated Gith city holding the God-Bestowed Scroll, but the treasure’s guards survived inside its heavily protected building. With reinforcements unable to arrive and the attackers closing in, the guards prepared to exile the indestructible scroll into the Time and Space Storm, knowing the spell might cost them their lives.

• The Mind Flayer Empire’s charged attack destroyed most of the city and killed over seventy percent of its residents, while the scroll’s protected building remained standing.
• The Gith guards realized the city had been sealed off and its Teleportation Arrays destroyed, leaving them cut off from reinforcements.
• The red-robed guard leader ordered the others to help cast a Spatial Spell that would send the God-Bestowed Scroll into the Time and Space Storm.
• The guards agreed to risk their lives to keep the scroll from falling into Mind Flayer hands.

Mor Deg learned that a Gith city had fallen, its guardians had died, and the God-Bestowed Scroll had been lost, so he ordered the Gith Empire to prepare for all-out war against the Mind Flayers. Elsewhere, the Lady of Pain split the scroll into dozens of versions sent to different spacetime coordinates, while Koma struggled to understand her plans and worried about his recovering followers.

• Mor Deg sensed the destruction of a distant city and grieved over the deaths of loyal believers and the loss of the God-Bestowed Scroll.
• Mor Deg ordered the Gith Empire's forces to prepare for all-out war and vowed to destroy the Mind Flayers.
• Orsaga sensed that the Gith Empire's fortune was rising amid the turmoil.
• The Lady of Pain split the scroll into dozens of versions and sent them to different spacetime coordinates.
• Koma failed to understand the Lady of Pain's actions and reflected on the slow recovery of the Enir Pantheon.

Orsaga watched a golden light, the Splitting Body of the God-Bestowed Scroll, streak across the night sky while Dimogegen feared him and resisted the urge to pursue it. Orsaga foresaw the rise and fall of civilizations shaped by the scroll, leaving the plane’s story poised to begin.

• Orsaga stood atop Dimogegen as he watched the night sky, while Dimogegen remembered the torture he had endured after attempting to escape.
• A golden light appeared in the sky and sped toward a distant shore, stirring Dimogegen’s desire to chase after it.
• Orsaga recognized the light as the Splitting Body of the God-Bestowed Scroll and watched it fall toward the shore.
• Orsaga foresaw the scroll passing through the rise and fall of civilizations and helping to perfect the plane’s Spellcasting System.

Orsaga regarded his believers’ distant battle with indifference and considered Dimogegen’s many possible futures, in which he could become an Abyss Prince. As the Story Prologue approached its proper course, Orsaga decided to send Dimogegen back to his hometown so destiny could drive his rise.

• Orsaga ignored the battle between his believers and the Mind Flayer Empire, judging that only their success would prove them worth keeping alive.
• Orsaga saw futures in which Dimogegen became a powerful Abyss Prince and ruled over demons.
• Orsaga viewed the plane and its inhabitants as a story whose laws and outcomes beings like him could rewrite.
• Orsaga concluded that Dimogegen’s destiny would bring him opportunities and power if he returned to his hometown.
• Orsaga pondered an excuse to send Dimogegen home, unaware that Dimogegen already wanted to leave.

Orsaga devised a cruel training regimen for Dimogegen and gleefully imagined the suffering it would cause. Under the moonlight, Orsaga’s terrifying smile became a lasting source of fear for Dimogegen, who would later become a powerful but derided mad king.

• Orsaga planned an inhumane training program to strengthen Dimogegen before letting him go.
• Standing atop Dimogegen, Orsaga laughed and patted his two heads while Dimogegen watched him uneasily.
• Orsaga smiled beneath the moonlight, terrifying Dimogegen and engraving the sight in his memory.
• Orsaga’s training tormented Dimogegen over the following months and left him prone to violent episodes whenever he saw pale moonlight.
• Dimogegen later rose to the peak of the Abyss, ruled through his overwhelming strength, and became known as the mad king.

Several years after Dimogegen’s torment, the Gith Empire’s war against the Mind Flayer Empire reached its final battle, with Mor. Derg and the Slaughterer of All Beings overwhelming the Mind Flayer King. As the Mind Flayer King fell, he sent his empire’s remaining legacy toward a world where Orsaga resided.

• Dimogegen remained dispirited years after his suffering, while the prolonged war between the Gith Empire and Mind Flayer Empire neared its end.
• Mor. Derg confronted the battered Mind Flayer King with the Slaughterer of All Beings as the weapon’s power disrupted the Mind Flayers’ spells.
• The Mind Flayer King questioned why his empire was being defeated, and Mor. Derg declared that the Bloody King’s will guaranteed the Gith Empire’s victory.
• Mor. Derg struck with the Slaughterer of All Beings, unleashing silver lightning that erased the consciousnesses of many Mind Flayers.
• The Mind Flayer King sent his remaining legacy to Mind Flayer survivors experimenting with cross-world teleportation, whose coordinates led to the world where Orsaga resided.

Orsaga wandered through a medieval-style city, attracting fearful attention and giving a fruit seller a lump of gold. When a knight questioned him about entering without paying the fee, Orsaga killed the knight and his men with a sweep of his tail.

• Orsaga sensed the Mind Flayer Empire remnants arrive in this world, then continued strolling through the city.
• Orsaga took a fruit from a stall and tossed the stall owner a lump of gold, stirring greed among the onlookers.
• A knight serving Baron Kor confronted Orsaga over entering the city without paying the entry fee.
• Orsaga said the gate guards had welcomed him inside and warned that he hated being questioned by weaklings.
• Orsaga swept his tail, unleashing air blades that shredded the knight and the soldiers into dust.

Orsaga annihilated the people who had attacked him, then followed traces of divine power to hunt down the god they worshipped. As he traveled, he recalled how his old reputation as the Demon Controller had grown from his control of Dimogegen and the spell he later created.

• Orsaga destroyed a line of people with a gale, leaving a trench and terrifying the onlookers.
• Orsaga swept scarlet light through nearby houses, killing the black-robed figures inside and leaving one survivor.
• Orsaga questioned the survivor, who raved about his lord, so Orsaga cut off his head and declared he would kill the god.
• Orsaga entered a gate of light and followed the traces of divine power into the void beyond the Material Plane.
• Orsaga recalled that his title of Demon Controller had arisen from commanding Dimogegen through violence and fear, and that he later developed a real spell to control Demons.