Chapter Summaries

Orsaga traveled through the Void on a bicycle, following a Causality Line toward an unknown god. In his Divine Kingdom, the god sensed approaching danger and used divination to identify Orsaga as the being connected to an ominous blood-red line.

• Orsaga entered the Void through the Space Door and saw a line that precisely guided him to an unknown god.
• Orsaga summoned a bicycle and rode along the Void’s currents of time and space toward his target.
• Hundreds of thousands of believers prayed to the god in his Divine Kingdom as he sensed a growing danger.
• The god cast a divination spell and saw countless Causality Lines connected to himself.
• The god identified the ominous blood-red Causality Line as belonging to the approaching being and guessed that the other end led to another god.

The God of Plunder traced Orsaga through a crimson Causality Line, discovered that he was a mortal, and prepared to attack as Orsaga approached. Their clash drew the attention of distant gods, who watched as Orsaga gained the upper hand and a crimson light tore through the God of Hunting’s Divine Kingdom toward the God of Plunder.

• The God of Plunder used divine power to follow the Causality Line and saw Orsaga riding a bicycle through space-time.
• Orsaga sensed the God of Plunder watching him, threatened to kill him, and the connection between them abruptly shattered.
• The God of Plunder recognized Orsaga as the killer of his worshippers and mobilized his Divine Kingdom to attack.
• Orsaga and the God of Plunder collided, drawing the attention of distant gods who gathered to observe the Divine War.
• The watching gods realized Orsaga was close to defeating the God of Plunder, and a crimson light swept through the God of Hunting’s Divine Kingdom toward him.

The God of Plunder sent a powerful avatar to test Orsaga, then attacked with two abilities meant to reveal whether Orsaga was a god. Orsaga’s tail destroyed both attacks, pierced the avatar and the Divine Kingdom’s defenses, and raced toward the God of Plunder as he finally sensed the danger.

• The God of Plunder created a powerful avatar to probe Orsaga rather than attack with his true body.
• The avatar cast Commandment - Death and secretly used Life Deprivation against Orsaga.
• Orsaga’s tail automatically intercepted and dismantled both abilities, then pierced the avatar’s divine power core.
• Orsaga’s tail breached the Divine Kingdom, killing its believers and Holy Spirits as the land and oceans collapsed.
• The tail reached toward the God of Plunder’s throne, and he used his divine power to sharpen his reactions just as he sensed the attack.

Orsaga overwhelmed the God of Plunder inside his Divine Kingdom, destroying his divine artifact and consuming his body and divine spark. The God of Plunder died within three seconds, while the gods outside watched his Divine Kingdom collapse and his statues explode across the Material World.

• The God of Plunder ignited his divine power, empowered his body, and summoned his battle axe to attack Orsaga with Word Spirit and the Power of Rules.
• Orsaga’s tail struck the God of Plunder’s axe, and the collision shattered temples, landmasses, and parts of the Divine Kingdom.
• The God of Plunder’s axe and divine-power attack disintegrated, so he tried to destroy his Divine Body and Divine Kingdom as a final strike.
• Orsaga altered the flow of time and pierced the God of Plunder’s body and divine spark before he could act.
• Mouths on Orsaga’s tail devoured the God of Plunder, leaving only his skin as the gods watched the Divine Kingdom collapse and believers saw his statues explode.

Orsaga killed the God of Plunder, taunted the assembled gods, and was abruptly seized and taken away by a powerful, unknown being. AO identified Orsaga as a demon god from a Different Time and Space and advised the gods to avoid provoking him, while they mocked the God of Plunder and fought over the Divine Kingdom's remains.

• Orsaga watched the God of Plunder's Divine Kingdom vanish, then challenged the gathered gods to send him more opponents.
• Several gods prepared to attack Orsaga, but a lightning-ringed halo appeared and an unseen being grabbed him and dragged him away.
• Suren asked Mithril what she had detected, and Mithril said she could not identify Orsaga and had seen only a blur of the one who took him.
• AO told the gods that Orsaga was a demon god from a Different Time and Space and urged them to avoid conflict with him.
• The gods relaxed, mocked the God of Plunder, and scrambled to collect the remnants of his shattered Divine Kingdom.

Lady of Pain warned Orsaga that killing several gods had caused consequences beyond their deaths, but Orsaga dismissed the warning and mocked the gods and demons of the young plane as weak and impoverished. He left the conversation still viewing the plane as insignificant and its inhabitants as immature.

• Lady of Pain calmly warned Orsaga that his recent killings had caused greater consequences than the gods’ deaths themselves.
• Orsaga said he had killed the gods because he was bored and that replacements were easy to create.
• Lady of Pain did not dispute Orsaga’s claim that the gods were replaceable to the God Above Gods.
• Orsaga considered how the gods misunderstood the vast gulf between their power and that of the God Above Gods.
• Orsaga ridiculed the plane’s gods and demons for their small armies, poverty, and weak ambitions.
• Orsaga concluded that only the plane’s distinctive early-creation nature had made him interested in visiting it.

Lady of Pain questioned Orsaga’s indulgence in pleasure, and he explained that he enjoyed using it to manipulate weaker beings. In the Abyss, the Chaos Queen expanded her forces and planned to prove her right to rule by extending the Abyss’s power beyond its borders.

• Lady of Pain criticized Orsaga for pursuing food and other pleasures, and Orsaga explained that he enjoyed making weaker beings sink into destructive indulgence.
• The Chaos Queen watched new Demon breeds being created and believed she would be ready to lead her armies against the outside world within ten years.
• The Chaos Queen recalled that she had overthrown Obox-ob through betrayal and that the other Demon Lords still doubted her legitimacy.
• The Chaos Queen decided that creating a new Demon Branch and expanding the Abyss would prove her strength and silence opposition.
• The Chaos Queen grabbed a Demon stirring a cauldron and began reproducing with him in public.

The Chaos Queen’s general, Kara, warned that the rapidly developing Tanari Demons could threaten the Obriss Demons and destabilize the Abyss. She paused plans to create high-level Tanari Demons and decided to observe the existing ones.

• Kara reported that the Tanari Demons filled twenty training grounds and showed considerable potential.
• Kara warned the Chaos Queen that the Tanari Demons’ strength, independent reproduction, and distinct nature could eventually let them replace the Obriss Demons.
• The Chaos Queen asked whether Kara feared their potential, and he admitted that the Tanari Demons could become a grave threat if left to develop.
• The Chaos Queen set aside plans to create high-level Tanari Demons, including Balrogs and Six-armed Snake Demons, and chose to monitor those already born.

The Chaos Queen took the Flame Demon’s intelligence about the Tanari Demons seriously and considered safeguards to protect the Obriss Demons. In the World of Toril, a primitive tribe uncovered a secondary scroll from the missing God-Bestowed Scroll of the Gith Empire, whose strange power would help bring forth a new civilization.

• The Flame Demon reported what he had learned while training the Tanari Demons, and the Chaos Queen listened cautiously.
• Several months later, a leaf-clad tribe in the World of Toril reached the crater where golden light had fallen.
• The tribe’s leader performed a blood sacrifice and primitive ritual before a cracked boulder, causing its golden light to flare and the rock to break apart.
• The tribe discovered a secondary scroll from the long-missing God-Bestowed Scroll of the Gith Empire.
• When the leader opened the scroll, its power gave the illiterate tribe a feeling of half-understanding, and they carried it home as a treasure.
• In the years that followed, a new civilization emerged in the World of Toril.

Fifteen years later, the Chaos Queen gathered nearly a million demons and declared war on every world, displaying the strength of her armies to the Abyss Lords. Most accepted her orders to attack assigned targets, while a few defied her and became targets for elimination before the war began.

• The Chaos Queen surveyed her vast demon army and relied on Lord-level Tanari Demons to control their kind.
• She declared that her forces would invade worlds, slaughter foreign races, and destroy civilizations, prompting the gathered demons to cheer.
• Abyss Lords watched the rally and recognized the military strength of the Chaos Queen's legions.
• The Chaos Queen sent each lord a coordinate and ordered them to attack that location during the war.
• Most Abyss Lords accepted her orders, while a few laughed them off and withdrew.
• The Chaos Queen let the dissenting lords leave and resolved to eliminate them before the war began.

Several months after the Abyss’s invasion began, demons ravaged hundreds of worlds while gods and other powers pursued conflicting strategies. The war remained fragmented, with factions debating whether to join the fight and no side united against the demons.

• Abyss Lords displayed power ranging from High Legendary Rank to God Rank, though restrictions limited what they could do outside the Abyss.
• Mortals facing demonic slaughter turned to worshipping gods, causing the gods’ Power of Faith to surge.
• Wicked gods cultivated believers’ fear while Abyss Lords targeted worlds without true gods, indirectly driving more mortals to seek divine protection.
• Good Gods fought demons and discussed defenses, while Tyr proposed invading the Abyss to attack the threat at its source.
• Mount Olympus’s sacred creatures wanted to fight, but its fragmented factions remained stuck debating who should lead.
• Most dragons and other neutral extraordinary races followed their racial gods into hiding, as the various factions pursued their own plans.

Dimogegen recovered his strength in the Saltwater Swamp and planned to raid an undefended Abyssal city while the war drew powerful forces elsewhere. Meanwhile, Orsaga stayed in Sigil City under the Lady of Pain’s restrictions and was welcomed as a famed creator of Flesh Art.

• Dimogegen surveyed the Abyss with dual magic and discovered its forces had been depleted by the war.
• Amur proposed raiding a lightly guarded Abyssal city and escaping to another world, and Heslati agreed after considering the rewards.
• Orsaga remained in Sigil City because the Lady of Pain had forbidden him from causing trouble for the next one or two hundred years.
• Citizens and art-loving fiends welcomed Orsaga as the Mythical Fallen Artist, renowned for creating coveted Flesh Art.

At a welcome party in Sigil City, Orsaga arrived to a spectacle of music, fireworks, and lightning. He took the center of the venue as the High-level Fire Element backed away and yielded to him.

• The High-level Fire Element welcomed the guests and recounted how Flesh Art had awakened his emotions and desire to possess it.
• The High-level Fire Element introduced Orsaga as the banquet’s heavyweight guest and invited him to speak.
• Orsaga asked the Goblin Waiters to play passionate music, and they suddenly gained masterful musical skill and elegant bearing.
• The Goblin Waiters played unfamiliar music as Orsaga walked toward the venue’s center beneath crimson fireworks.
• Orsaga summoned dark clouds and lightning that lit him like a spotlight, and the High-level Fire Element retreated to yield the center.

Atiya, a Moon Elf noble tasked with assessing powerful visitors in Sigil City, approached Orsaga at a banquet to learn his origins and intentions. Though he showed no reaction to her royal lineage or beauty, their discussion of horticulture and sculpture revealed his deep expertise and left her increasingly engaged.

• After delivering his speech, Orsaga sat apart at the banquet and observed the guests.
• Atiya introduced herself to Orsaga, emphasizing her Moon Elf royal surname, but he responded with calm indifference.
• Atiya began probing Orsaga's origins, intentions, and danger level as part of her intelligence-gathering mission.
• Atiya shifted the conversation toward art, discussing horticulture and stone sculpture rather than Orsaga's unsettling Flesh Art.
• Orsaga shared insights that impressed Atiya and made her conversation with him more enthusiastic.

Atiya's conversation with Orsaga turned from admiration to jealousy when she learned he had two Elf wives and realized he viewed most beings as insignificant. She challenged him to compare her beauty with theirs, determined to prove he could be tempted.

• Atiya praised Orsaga's knowledge of Elf culture and asked why he knew so much about her people.
• Orsaga explained that two of his wives were Elves and that he gathered information about their culture.
• Atiya remarked that Orsaga seemed to love his wives, and he said they were his equals and family.
• Atiya inferred that Orsaga considered everyone else beneath his notice and grew angry at being ignored.
• Atiya exposed her thigh, moved close to Orsaga, and asked whether she or his wives was more beautiful.

After Atiya irreverently compared herself to Orsaga’s wives, he erased her, her kin, and their gods from the Timeline. Lady of Pain accepted his compensation and rewrote history, replacing Atiya with a Sun Elf royal, while an unseen speaker noticed Orsaga’s displeasure.

• Atiya’s words offended Orsaga, who erased her and her kin from the Timeline along with their gods.
• The four God Above Gods noticed Orsaga’s use of overwhelming power, and Lady of Pain prepared to reprimand him.
• Lady of Pain received Orsaga’s compensation, changed her mind, and allowed the disturbance to pass.
• Lady of Pain rewrote the Timeline, replacing Atiya with a golden-haired Sun Elf royal whose memories included a pleasant conversation with Orsaga.
• Orsaga remained in a bad mood despite the new Elf’s charm, and a delighted voice remarked that the incident had affected him.

Orsaga met the Evil Serpent, who marveled at his ability to alter history and at his unexpected attachments. Orsaga explained that his power came from his long experience and innate abilities, while the female elf watched their exchange.

• The female elf sensed a voice close behind her, drew on her mana, and turned to see the handsome Evil Serpent beside Orsaga.
• Orsaga agreed that discussing matters beyond one's station was an offense, and the Evil Serpent teased him about his seriousness.
• The Evil Serpent said Orsaga had exceeded his expectations by forming deep attachments, and Orsaga accepted that he valued his current life.
• The Evil Serpent admitted that Orsaga's power could alter history and surpassed his own ability, even under the constraints on Orsaga's incarnation.
• Orsaga explained that his long life, broad experience, and innate command of space-time, causality, and Destiny let him influence events with little effort.

The Evil Serpent spoke with Orsaga about the advantages of Orsaga’s inheritance, then revealed that it planned to join its own game under the name Asmodeus. Asmodeus invited Orsaga to visit its future territory near the Bottomless Abyss, which it planned to call the Nine-Layered Hell.

• The Evil Serpent praised Orsaga’s survival and accomplishments in the Outer Plane and envied his powerful inheritance.
• Orsaga described the advantages of his origin, including immortality, Slaughter Evolution, and Soul Devour Evolution.
• The Evil Serpent told Orsaga it wanted to join the game it had created while following its own rules, and said it would go by Asmodeus.
• Asmodeus drew a plan for a nine-level tower and invited Orsaga to visit the territory it intended to establish near the Bottomless Abyss.
• Asmodeus said it planned to call the territory the Nine-Layered Hell and explained that it would be inspired by an external factor that could generate a hell within spacetime.

Orsaga accepted Asmodeus’s proposal to establish the Nine-Layered Hell, while explaining the power and reach of Hell’s alliance. After Asmodeus departed, the female elf wondered who he was, unaware that he would later become the Lord of the Nine-Layered Hell and Emperor of Devils.

• The four Gods Above Gods had allowed foreign influences to remain because they were woven throughout their plane and too difficult to remove.
• Orsaga accepted Asmodeus’s goodwill and considered Hell a powerful alliance of thirteen Abyss Lords whose connected territories formed a Special Ritual.
• Orsaga explained that he had declined similar alliances and had long been more interested in joining the Unity Council, whose entry requirements he had not met.
• After Asmodeus left, the female elf complained that Orsaga’s acquaintances were arrogant, and Orsaga replied that such personalities were neither common nor rare among them.
• The female elf guessed that Asmodeus planned to build a large city, not realizing he would later create the Nine-Layered Hell and lead devils against demons.

After fifty years of war, the Chaos Queen created Miska, the first Tanari Demon Prince, to command and control the Tanari Demons. Dimogegen, enraged by Miska’s honors and his own mistreatment, swore to kill Miska and the Chaos Queen as dormant powers began to awaken within him.

• The Chaos Queen expanded the Tanari Demons’ ranks and created high-ranking members to improve their command and advancement paths.
• The Chaos Queen created Miska, the Wolf Spider, whose abilities let him overpower Tanari Demons and compel their obedience.
• The Chaos Queen declared Miska her consort, general, and subordinate god, granting him command over most of her Tanari Demons.
• Dimogegen learned of Miska’s status and raged over the honors given to him while Dimogegen had been discarded.
• Dimogegen’s heads, Amur and Heslati, vowed to kill Miska and the Chaos Queen as dormant abilities and a gift left by Orsaga began to awaken within him.