Chapter Summaries

A tsunami hundreds of meters high struck the U.S. West Coast, sweeping away a carrier fleet and engulfing a beachside crowd. As the wave continued inland, it demolished buildings and killed many who had survived its initial impact.

• A vagrant heard a strange roar from the sea and saw an enormous tsunami approaching the coast.
• The vagrant realized he could not escape and watched the beachgoers panic as they fled in every direction.
• The vagrant accepted his impending death with eerie delight, drawing the attention of an indifferent observer.
• The tsunami carried at least five aircraft carriers and many other vessels in its waters before engulfing the vagrant.
• The wave flattened buildings and drove debris through the flooded area, killing many survivors.

Xiao Jun ordered his teammates to seize control of the country’s regions while he openly flew toward its heartland to challenge its authorities and claim the right to rule. A distant military base identified him and his companions as their approach began.

• Xiao Jun watched the tsunami devastate the city below and ordered Zanos, Huang Tian, Huan Yao, and Zana Borg to take separate regions while he targeted the headquarters.
• Xiao Jun told his teammates to finish within half an hour and avoid excessive destruction, warning them that they were to rule the country rather than destroy it.
• Xiao Jun noticed satellites tracking him, challenged those watching, and flew openly toward the country’s heartland at more than ten times the speed of sound.
• Xiao Jun planned to defeat the country’s forces publicly, relying on his spells to disable modern weapons and devices if necessary.
• A military base retrieved information and identified Xiao Jun and several teammates, including Code Lag, Huang Tian, Sanyao Huanjing, and Del Kexi.

Xiao Jun confronted his former teammate Nick Morten, whose power matched his own, while moving against the forces threatening the United States. Nick said he did not intend to stop Xiao Jun, but revealed he had been secretly corrupting the nation to make it his Underworld Demon Kingdom.

• Governments around the world mobilized people and resources to persuade or threaten Xiao Jun and his group, but their efforts had no effect.
• Xiao Jun arrived above a cluster of buildings and sensed a powerful, familiar presence below.
• Xiao Jun recognized the being as Nick Morten, a former teammate he had not seen for decades.
• Nick Morten told Xiao Jun he did not want to become his enemy and admitted he had been corrupting the nation to create an Underworld Demon Kingdom.

Xiao Jun confronted Nick Morten, who admitted he had been secretly corrupting a country but chose to withdraw and give Xiao Jun a meeting gift. After Nick left, Xiao Jun saw the horrific cost of Nick’s Slaanesh Demon Army and concluded that he was dangerously insane.

• Xiao Jun surveyed the city and confirmed that Nick Morten had been corrupting its people to establish an Underworld Demon Kingdom.
• Xiao Jun proposed a contest, but Nick said he did not want to be his enemy and would withdraw to another country.
• Nick named where he had settled in Metaphysics Hong Huang, teleported away, and extracted the fruits from the infected people, killing them.
• Xiao Jun reflected on the extreme requirements for awakening the Slaanesh Demon Army and how he had avoided choosing such a race.
• Xiao Jun decided that Nick seemed lucid but was nevertheless a severely deranged lunatic.

Xiao Jun recalled the strange ambitions of Nick Morten and their other former teammates, then faced an international group of players who had gathered to stop his assault on the United States of America. He killed their spokesman and prepared to fight the 155 high-level players trapped with him in their formation.

• Xiao Jun remembered Nick Morten’s appetite and wondered what had become of the other teammates who had left with him.
• Xiao Jun considered warning his team to stay alert, but a group of players surrounded him before he could act.
• A burly middle-aged man demanded Xiao Jun surrender, while 155 high-level players from at least a dozen countries activated a formation around them.
• Xiao Jun dismissed the formation and said he had let the players make the first move so they would have no regrets.
• Xiao Jun killed the spokesman with a flick of White Light, then summoned an azure-blue sword and unleashed countless air blades.

Xiao Jun defeated the white man and cremated him, while an alien device seized control of satellites and forced the world to watch the battle live. The broadcast revealed Xiao Jun’s team had launched an attack on the United States, drawing attention from people around the world and other high-level players.

• Xiao Jun emerged from the formation with the white man as the only survivor and held him by the neck.
• Xiao Jun praised the white man’s strike, then killed him with scorching energy that reduced him to dust.
• An alien device bypassed satellite firewalls and changed their control authority to broadcast Xiao Jun and his teammates’ actions worldwide.
• People across the world saw the live footage and its location annotations, while some players recognized the fighters.
• In a Paris tavern, a bear-built man laughed at the broadcast, and a young Black woman identified Xiao Jun’s team and remarked on their unexpected attack.

A rebel leader considered exploiting the United States’ defeat to strike both France and Great Britain. Meanwhile, Nick Morten turned a Mexican city into a scene of horrific transformation and gathered the resulting blood into a fruit.

• A young female leader considered using Xiao Jun and his team’s victory to attack France and Great Britain.
• Nick Morten watched the livestream in Mexico and grew disgusted when people tried to rob him.
• Nick Morten transformed the people and animals in a Mexican city into grotesque creatures as blood-red worms poured from their bodies.
• Nick Morten drew bloody fluid from the creatures and condensed it into a Blood-red Fruit.

Nick Morten began a ritual on a snowy mountain, transforming into a malformed infant and invoking the Supreme God of Pleasure. The ritual spread unbearable pleasure across the country, and a few players recognized that Nick Morten was trying to sacrifice everyone.

• Player forces rapidly conquered France and Great Britain, overshadowing the earlier upheaval in the United States of America and the disappearance of a Mexican city.
• Nick Morten searched the surrounding area from a snowy peak, found no powerful threat, and raised the Blood-red Fruit.
• Nick Morten's mouth tore open until he became a malformed infant, whose first cry triggered an avalanche.
• The Blood-red Fruit hovered above the infant as red light and chaotic whispers spread across the country during a ritual to the Supreme God of Pleasure.
• Residents felt intense pain turn into overwhelming pleasure, while a few players resisted and recognized the sacrifice, shouting for someone to stop Nick Morten.

Nick Morten continued the Sacrifice Ritual, confident it would transform him into a true Longevity Race member and make him temporarily the world’s strongest. The blood-red storm over the small country alarmed military authorities and players across the globe, who feared it could devastate or destroy surface civilization.

• Nick Morten dismissed the players trying to stop him, trapped them outside a dense fog, and continued praying over the blood-red fruit.
• Nick Morten’s ritual intensified as crimson clouds, violent winds, and lightning battered the country, sweeping people, animals, and debris into the air.
• Military personnel around the world monitored the enormous cloud layer but could not see through it.
• A subordinate told a military commander that the clouds held energy equivalent to more than fifty thousand Big Ivan Tsar bombs and could destroy surface civilization if they exploded.
• The commander blamed high-level players and ordered his subordinates to contact the special forces for intelligence.
• Players across the globe sensed the evil aura and turned their attention toward the small border nation.

Nick Morten completed the Sacrifice Ritual and offered the Fruit of Blood and every lifeform in the land to a powerful entity in exchange for greater power and a territory remade for his kind. The land became a colossal Demonic Beast, while Nick’s new body began forming atop its highest mountain.

• Nick Morten continued the ritual as its surging energy threatened to destroy Blue Star, while the chosen nation became a Demonic Domain filled with transformed monsters.
• Nick Morten completed the ritual, and the rooted Fruit of Blood opened a path through the clouds to a strange presence that asked what he wanted.
• Nick Morten offered the Fruit of Blood and every lifeform on the land, requesting greater power and a territory suited to his kind.
• The monsters were drained of their life essence, and blood-colored beams transformed the land, buildings, and some players into monstrous forms.
• The land began changing into a nation-sized Demonic Beast, with Nick Morten’s new body taking shape inside a mass of flesh atop its highest mountain.

Godevaga received the Crimson King’s command to accept Nick Morten’s sacrifice and destroy the connected space-time without descending except as a summon. Believing the Crimson King had already foreseen and planned the events, Godevaga prepared to carry out the order.

• Crimson Heaven’s boundless Sea of Blood contained countless overlapping semi-independent space-times, making it perilous to swim through.
• Godevaga, a Great Demon-level Demonized Creature, recalled how he had risen from mortal life after sacrificing his former space-time to the Crimson King.
• The Crimson King ordered Godevaga to accept Nick Morten’s sacrifice, guide him to destroy that space-time, and win the round of the game without descending there by force.
• Godevaga pledged to obey and interpreted the developments in the other space-time as confirmation of the Crimson King’s foresight.

Godevaga accepted Nick Morten’s sacrifice and began pouring power into his land, despite despising Nick’s lack of devotion to Orsaga. The chapter left Nick thrilled by his apparent success, unaware that Godevaga planned to kill him eventually.

• Godevaga sensed that Nick Morten sought power rather than serving the Crimson King and felt disgust toward him.
• The chapter described Crimson Heaven’s loyalist, profit-seeking, mad, and hidden traitor factions, which Orsaga largely let manage themselves.
• Godevaga decided Nick would die someday but agreed to his request because Orsaga’s orders did not require Nick to survive.
• Godevaga began channeling power into Nick’s region, drawing on the power systems and legacies Orsaga had gathered.
• Nick Morten celebrated his gamble, unaware that Orsaga was not particular about sacrifices and usually chose sacrificers according to his mood.

Haral, a Reincarnator hiding in a distant secret base, activated a transmitter to spread intelligence about the Primordial World and its races before the World Reversal Mechanism fully began. Unknown to him, powerful observers across the stars watched his choice, including beings who recognized him from a previous life.

• Haral monitored strange events on Blue Star and concluded that the World Reversal Mechanism would soon bring powerful beings from the Primordial World into the Real World.
• Haral lamented that his limited strength forced him to operate in secret and prevented him from warning others openly.
• Haral pressed the button that remotely broadcast his collected intelligence and triggered the destruction of the asteroid transmitter.
• Observers across the stars watched Haral, and one being aboard a Metal Warship recognized him as the Mysterious Person who had shared intelligence in a previous life.
• Other powerful beings realized that many Reincarnators were hidden throughout the sea of stars.

Di Jun watched Blood Wine accumulate in the Holy Grail and recalled how its overflow would trigger the World Reversal Mechanism, swapping the roles of Players and NPCs. Determined not to repeat his disastrous fate from his previous life, he considered whether the reversal would recur in an endless cycle.

• Hidden beings considered Blue Star’s role in future disasters and opportunities, but avoided contacting it while preparing in secret.
• Di Jun focused on the Blood Wine multiplying inside the golden Holy Grail after handling Demon Court affairs.
• Di Jun recalled that Blood Wine would overflow, distort space-time, cause regions of the Real World and Primordial World to overlap, and activate the World Reversal Mechanism.
• Di Jun remembered that the reversal would remove Players’ rapid slaughter-based growth and grant Player abilities to certain NPCs, while still leaving powerful beings capable of killing them.
• Di Jun calculated when the Blood Wine would overflow and vowed not to take the fall for other factions as he had in his previous life.
• Di Jun conjectured that emptying the Holy Grail would trigger another reversal, beginning a repeating cycle as Blood Wine filled again.

The Mechanical Supreme discovered that the Holy Grail’s Blood Wine increased faster when the Primordial World suffered major disasters, and he reported his findings to the future Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao ordered him to abandon a direct conquest and keep concealing his strength while waiting for a chance to summon it into the past, then remembered its agreement with Time Reversing Devil Wheel—Ephasus.

• The Mechanical Supreme observed that the Holy Grail’s Blood Wine accumulated faster when many lives were lost and slower during peaceful periods, and suspected it was a mechanism to balance the two worlds.
• The Mechanical Supreme contacted the future, where the Primordial World had become a vast metallic machine and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao manifested in the sky.
• The Mechanical Supreme reported what he had learned about Players, the Real World, and world reversal to the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao.
• The Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao told the Mechanical Supreme to abandon plans for a swift conquest with metal creations and continue hiding his strength in the past until he could summon it over completely.
• After the Mechanical Supreme returned to the past, the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao recalled its agreement with Time Reversing Devil Wheel—Ephasus to win a game in exchange for unifying the world’s Worldlines.

As ominous premonitions spread among Xiao Jun’s team, he realized that a major danger might threaten them all, though he could not identify its source. When his communicator rang with a familiar name, he suspected the crisis had come from someone else’s trouble.

• The bettors’ Ultimate Units were described as powerful pieces that could enter the game only after meeting certain conditions, and Orsaga had arranged for a Great Demon Level ally to stand by.
• Xiao Jun admitted he felt that something terrible was about to happen, and several teammates agreed that they sensed an approaching calamity.
• Xiao Jun realized that many of those feeling uneasy were powerful or had precognitive Talent Abilities, and he feared the whole team might be in danger.
• Xiao Jun considered whether their recent Plunder Nation had provoked someone, but could not identify an enemy capable of threatening them.
• When a familiar name appeared on his ringing communicator, Xiao Jun suspected that the caller had brought trouble upon him through their own conflict.

Xiao Jun answered a call from someone whose team shared his growing sense of danger, then found that acquaintances across distant regions and even the Real World felt the same. He concluded that a widespread disaster threatened players and possibly the wider world, but could not identify its source.

• Xiao Jun answered the urgent call and learned that the caller and their teammates had been feeling an intense, unexplained unease.
• Xiao Jun told the caller that his own side had felt the same, then contacted a distant player who reported similar danger even in the Real World.
• Xiao Jun questioned more acquaintances and realized the crisis extended beyond his team and the player community.
• Xiao Jun suspected powerful factions might be targeting players but doubted they would risk damaging their own foundations for that purpose.
• Xiao Jun considered the Sun Star and the Holy Grail as possible causes, dismissed both, and remained uncertain about the threat.

As the Blood Wine neared completion and Two-World Fusion approached, Xiao Jun considered fleeing the Solar System while players, natives, and Blue Star authorities confronted the growing danger. The chapter left Blue Star’s factions preparing to resist or escape as some civilians still denied that the Primordial World was real.

• Xiao Jun saw that the Blood Wine was almost full and considered taking a magical artifact to flee the Solar System when Two-World Fusion began.
• News of the Blood Wine and the fusion spread among players and Primordial World natives, stirring ambitious powerhouses to plan for the New World.
• Players realized that the Primordial World’s inhabitants might reach Blue Star, where the players’ vulnerable true bodies lived.
• Blue Star’s authorities confirmed that the worlds were overlapping, while some civilians dismissed the evidence as a government conspiracy.
• Countries built fortifications and spaceships, and politicians ordered crowds who attacked facilities to be shot.

Blood Wine’s fusion began across Blue Star, the Primordial World, and the Real World, spreading crimson light and an eerie sound that terrified beings throughout the universe. Real World civilizations descended into panic and violence, while ancient powers quickly began investigating the disturbance; the chapter ended by portraying the Primordial World as dangerously inexperienced beside the universe’s ancient civilizations.

• Xiao Jun watched Blue Star’s transformation from a mountain and hoped powerful beings in the stars would restrain the outsiders.
• Crimson light and an eerie sound spread throughout the Primordial World, Blue Star, and the Real World, frightening even powerful beings.
• Panic overwhelmed Real World civilizations, leading to widespread smashing, looting, burning, and destruction.
• Some ancient civilizations briefly panicked, then began investigating, analyzing, and responding to the disturbance.
• The narrator explained that Orsaga and the others had given the Primordial World’s natives Player Templates to help keep them from being taken to laboratories by ancient civilizations.

As the Two-World Fusion transformed Blue Star and disrupted the Moon Colony and spacecraft, players received a system notice that their Player Templates would be suspended and replaced with NPC Templates during the Identity Conversion Period. The countdown began amid worldwide disasters, leaving players on the verge of becoming NPCs.

• Orsaga's brutal beginner tutorial had left Blue Star players with lasting memories of savage beatings and years trapped in Novice Villages.
• The Two-World Fusion caused Blue Star's terrain to shift dramatically, collapsing cities and endangering people across the planet.
• The Moon Colony lost power, shutting down its oxygen and water systems, while spacecraft were left drifting as disabled iron coffins.
• Players heard the Game System announce the Identity Conversion Period and begin a countdown to suspending their Player Templates and loading NPC Templates.
• Players panicked as they faced the coming conversion into NPCs.