Chapter Summaries

Gewa explained how the Demons planned to seize Augustus and discussed the Demons’ power with a human ally. The Demons dispersed, while the young man returned to recruiting allies inside the city.

• Orsaga asked Gewa how they would deal with nearby forces, and Gewa revealed that defected nobles would help him seal Augustus so the Demons could complete a sacrifice before reinforcements arrived.
• Gewa estimated that preparations would take another two or three years and warned the Demons to avoid hunting near Augustus; after the meeting, Orsaga and the others left.
• A young human man emerged from hiding and questioned Gewa about how the unruly Demons had become so powerful.
• Gewa described the Demons’ immense numbers, innate cultivation methods, Slaughter Evolution, and immortality, then promised the man an Ascension to Demon Ritual if he contributed enough.
• The young man returned to the shadows to recruit more allies within Augustus, and Gewa said the Demons who had sensed him would not interfere with the plan.

Orsaga declined Allison and Golanel’s invitation to visit the Elsera Elf Kingdom after they announced they were leaving. Elsewhere, Sarah’s effort to recruit an influential old man in Augustus stalled, and her lord ordered her to check whether the same problem affected her other targets.

• Allison and Golanel told Orsaga they were leaving, and Golanel invited him to visit the Elsera Elf Kingdom with them.
• Orsaga declined the invitation, watched the two elves depart, and wondered whether he and Golanel were connected by fate.
• Sarah urged an old man from a prominent Augustus family to join her church, but he left without agreeing.
• Sarah reported the old man’s hesitation to her lord, who instructed her to contact her other targets and assess whether the problem was widespread.

Orsaga mixed a potent, beautiful wine for Allison and Golanel as they rode to Augustus's Teleportation Array. Golanel kissed him goodbye and asked him to keep in contact before leaving with Allison for the Elsera Elf Kingdom.

• Orsaga rode with Allison and Golanel toward Augustus's Teleportation Array in a carriage provided by the inn.
• Orsaga combined hundreds of ingredients and repeatedly tossed the mixture into the air, transforming it into fragrant wine that glowed like a nebula.
• Allison and Golanel tasted the wine, and Golanel praised it while Orsaga said its creator, Grig, had a sad story.
• At the Teleportation Array, Golanel kissed Orsaga and asked him to contact her, then left with Allison.
• Orsaga watched Golanel leave and told the driver to take him back.

After two years in Augustus, Orsaga watched an evil god recruit powerful nobles and sensed that the Demons’ long-awaited operation was beginning. At a gathering of nearly two hundred Demons, he selected Augustus’s largest library as his target.

• Orsaga observed Sarah meeting with an evil god and recognized that powerful nobles were being recruited by both the evil god and the Demons.
• The Abyssal Contract signaled Orsaga that the plan he had awaited for two years was about to begin.
• Gewa briefed nearly two hundred Demons on Augustus’s population, powerful residents, and the targets listed on their parchment scrolls.
• Orsaga registered Augustus’s largest library as his target despite its four known demigods and other defenses.
• The Demons chose their targets, and Gewa urged them to spare the commoners needed to construct the Land of Pollution.

Orsaga met with three Demons who had chosen the Central Library as their target, and they agreed to fight separately for whatever they could seize. As night fell, a little girl killed a gate officer and the corrupted barriers sealed Augustus beneath Black Mist.

• Orsaga dismissed a Demon’s attempt to discuss how they would deal with rivals for the Central Library.
• Two other Demons arrived, and the four agreed to charge in without interfering with one another and keep whatever they obtained.
• As the city gates closed at night, a little girl appeared beside the gate officer and killed him by devouring his upper body.
• The girl told the horrified Soldiers and passersby that they were unfortunate as the corrupted barriers revealed themselves.
• The barriers poured Black Mist over Augustus and cut the city off from the outside world.

Abyssal Demons ambushed Augustus, destroying the Lord's Mansion and trapping the city beneath a barrier that prevented escape. As the survivors prepared to fight their way out, Zaniel joined Sarah and the others to seek help, while Orsaga and three Demons attacked the library's outer barrier.

• More than a dozen attacks annihilated the Lord's Mansion, leaving its surviving officials and adventurers surrounded by Demons beneath a spreading Land of Pollution.
• The Lord of Augustus suspected someone had betrayed the Miling World and altered the city's barrier, while the Adventurers' Guild branch president handed out strength-enhancing potions.
• Zaniel failed to escape through the rewritten barrier, then told Sarah and the others that the Demons planned to kill the city's residents and turn Augustus into a new descent point.
• Zaniel persuaded Sarah and the others to support the city's powerhouses, and they headed toward the Lord's Mansion.
• Orsaga revealed his True Body Form, killed city guards with a single wingbeat, and joined three Demons in preparing to break the library's outer barrier.

Orsaga found a flaw in the library’s barrier, allowing the four Demons to break inside and face the defenders waiting for them. After an assassin wounded one of the Middle Demons, Orsaga flew toward the opponent who had marked him as a target.

• Orsaga studied the barrier’s changing patterns, disrupted one of its nodes, and helped bring the barrier down.
• The four Demons smashed through the library doors, and an Upper Demon killed civilians and destroyed books on the first floor.
• The Demons intercepted incoming Magic Bullets, then a hidden attacker struck a Middle Demon with a deep wound.
• Orsaga sensed five demigods and twelve Legends had targeted the Demons, while the wounded Middle Demon retaliated with purple mist.
• Orsaga agreed to fight the opponent who had chosen him and flew through the ceiling toward the waiting enemy.

Orsaga attacked the Professionals guarding Kafila Library, but Larte struck him with powerful exorcising attacks that repeatedly destroyed his body. Orsaga’s Evil Grudge Undying Body let him reform each time, leaving Larte facing an enemy whose attacks he could not understand and could not permanently kill.

• Orsaga tore through the library’s defenses and confronted the Professionals, while Larte protected them with a barrier.
• Larte told Orsaga that the library’s treasured materials had been hidden, then struck him with an attack Orsaga could not detect.
• Larte’s exorcising attacks dissolved Orsaga’s exoskeleton and destroyed most of his body.
• Orsaga reformed from scarlet slurry and resumed fighting, while Larte repeatedly attacked him without finding a way to stop his regeneration.
• Orsaga’s Evil Grudge Undying Body restored him even after Larte reduced him to nothing, leaving Larte grimly facing his undying opponent.

Larte repeatedly wounded Orsaga with attacks tied to a localized manipulation of time, then banished him to an extradimensional space when he could not kill him. Orsaga returned unharmed, identified how Larte's technique worked, and concluded that its limits meant time was ultimately on his side.

• Larte banished Orsaga after failing to kill him, but the plane's barrier limited where the spell could send him.
• Larte protected the nearby professionals from spatial rifts as Orsaga tore through space and returned, fully healed.
• Orsaga used scorching ripples to reveal hidden Magic Runes and recognized that Larte's attacks involved a ritual manipulating time.
• Orsaga explained that Larte replayed the moments his attacks landed and used time manipulation to evade Orsaga's strikes.
• Larte said Orsaga could not resist his power and wounded him again, while Orsaga inferred that Larte's control over time was limited and believed time favored him.

Orsaga endured Larte’s sealing spells until he unleashed dozens of Body Burning Blasts, annihilating Larte, nearby fighters, and the library. He contained the heat before it escaped the library, but the blast’s light spread across Augustus and blinded countless people.

• Orsaga’s passive ability kept replenishing his resurrection energy from the negative emotions filling Augustus, while Larte’s repeated sealing spells failed to hold him.
• Larte continued sealing Orsaga, hoping to break away and help his companions elsewhere in the city.
• After Larte repeated his strongest seals dozens of times, Orsaga grew impatient and triggered the power stored in dozens of Body Burning Blasts.
• Orsaga’s bloodflame destroyed Larte, nearby professionals, the library, and the Demons and fighters battling below.
• Orsaga gathered the spreading heat back into the library, but the resulting blood-colored light blinded countless people throughout Augustus.

Orsaga discovered a hidden cache of Legendary Rank items after the Body Burning Blast and took them before flying toward the battle at the Lord's Mansion. There, he accidentally killed Sarah and decided to read her memories to learn about her leader.

• Orsaga found a concealed space containing more than a hundred Legendary Rank items and stored them in his Pocket Space.
• Orsaga left the crater and flew toward a nearby battle after sensing a familiar aura.
• Sarah drank a potion and prepared to return to the fighting at the ruins of the Lord's Mansion.
• Orsaga struck Sarah from behind and took her head, then decided to read her memories.

Orsaga learned nothing useful from Sarah before killing her, then watched Gruul regain strength with Soul Crystals supplied by Augustus's city lord. When Orsaga attacked the city lord, he discovered the man was another evil god and narrowly escaped being eaten.

• Orsaga found Sarah's memories useless, drained her brain, and burned her remains to ashes.
• Gruul sensed Sarah's death and glared at Orsaga while the Upper Demons kept him occupied.
• Gruul secretly asked Augustus's city lord for sacrifices, and the city lord gave him a bag of Soul Crystals.
• Gruul consumed the Soul Crystals and drove back the Upper Demons, strengthening the native powerhouses' confidence.
• Orsaga chose the wounded city lord as his next target, but the man's body broke apart to reveal an evil god who seized Orsaga's arms.
• Orsaga severed his arms and exchanged places with his Avatar to escape, while the evil god crushed the Avatar and ate the severed arms.

Gewa negotiated the departure of Gruul and the other Evil God, then led the Demons to crush the remaining defenders of Augustus. After the battle, Gewa sacrificed the city's residents to the Bottomless Abyss, transforming the surrounding land into a polluted region where Demons could survive.

• Gewa offered to let the two Evil Gods leave if they swore not to reveal intelligence about the area for one month, and Gruul negotiated to take their followers with them.
• Gruul and the other Evil God departed with many of the city's powerhouses, while Orsaga secretly left dormant toxins inside the other Evil God to track him.
• When the remaining defenders tried to surrender, Gewa ordered the Demons to attack, and they killed the defenders before moving on to other battlefields.
• Hours later, Gewa distributed the mission rewards, and Orsaga left the square to rest.
• Gewa ordered the city's residents to sacrifice themselves to the Bottomless Abyss, and their ritual began turning the land around Augustus into a polluted region.

After Augustus became a Land of Pollution, neighboring factions prepared for the Abyss’s spread while Demons and Native Factions clashed over the ruins. Orsaga escaped the conflict and went underground to absorb the powerful magic tomes he had Plundered.

• People across surrounding regions saw the vortex over Augustus and began fleeing, while its neighboring King ordered troops to seal the borders and inspect refugees.
• Several million Demons arrived at Augustus’s ruins and fought the Native Factions before either side had fully prepared.
• Orsaga collected his mission reward and fled before the defenses around Augustus were built.
• After traveling more than ten thousand kilometers, Orsaga went underground to find a favorable place to absorb the Legendary, demigod-level, and near-God Rank knowledge he had Plundered.

Twenty years after the operation against Augustus, Orsaga remained in the Elsera Elf Kingdom, gathering strength while enjoying a life of idleness with Golanel. When Golanel said she planned to help the nearby Koria Kingdom against the Demon Tide, Orsaga revealed that the Bottomless Abyss was winning its war against the gods and this world was nearing its end.

• Orsaga reflected that he had reached the limit of Middle Demon and was staying in the world to gather more knowledge and Evolution Points before advancing.
• Golanel questioned Orsaga about his behavior, while her thoughts revealed that she had feelings for him but had never received a clear answer about his feelings.
• Golanel told Orsaga that she might go help the nearby Koria Kingdom, which was about to be struck by the Demon Tide.
• Orsaga argued that Golanel's help would make little difference because the world was already nearing its end.
• Orsaga told Golanel that the Bottomless Abyss was gaining ground against the gods, its influence was spreading, and its main force would soon reduce the world to ashes.

Orsaga told Golanel and Allison that the Miling World was unlikely to survive the Abyssal invasion, explaining why attrition would not defeat the Demon Lord. He offered a possible way to save people by moving their souls and creating new bodies for them in the Bottomless Abyss.

• Orsaga told Golanel that the Miling World was beyond saving as the Abyss grew stronger and the gods and nations fell.
• Allison asked Orsaga how the world could resist, but he said contacting other worlds would be difficult and refused to reveal how to bypass the demons' isolation belt.
• Orsaga explained that the invading Demon Lord ruled the Molten Wasteland, whose immense population made the Miling World's losses insignificant by comparison.
• Golanel and Allison despaired when Orsaga said their years of resistance had barely dented the Abyss's forces.
• Orsaga offered to keep Golanel and Allison safe and said he could save more people by taking their souls to the Bottomless Abyss and making them new bodies.

Orsaga offered Allison a way to smuggle her family and friends into the Bottomless Abyss in exchange for her soul, leaving her uncertain whether to trust him. He then hunted down and killed the evil god Charasser, devastating a vast forest before fleeing its awakened Guardian God, while Gruul abandoned his attempt to rescue Charasser.

• Allison hesitated over Orsaga's proposal to take her soul and send her people to the Bottomless Abyss, and Orsaga told her to consider it while he left after sensing someone had emerged from hiding.
• Orsaga tracked Charasser through the plague infecting him, transformed into his Demon form, and charged toward the evil god and his group in a blaze of Bloodflame.
• Charasser recognized Orsaga and prepared to fight, but the dormant poison and plague inside him disrupted his power as Orsaga crashed into him.
• Orsaga used Solo Time - Thirty Thousand Consecutive Strikes to kill Charasser's Demigod Rank subordinate and the others, flatten a mountain into a basin, and beat Charasser into a crystal.
• The awakened forest Guardian God confronted Orsaga, but he apologized and fled; Gruul sensed Charasser's death before reaching him, withdrew from the spatial rift, and ran away.

Years after the Demon Tide destabilized the region, the fall of the God of Radiance plunged the Elsera Elf Kingdom into crisis. Allison told Orsaga that the kingdom’s leaders had accepted his smuggling terms, and they signed an Abyssal Contract after contentious negotiations.

• The Elsera Elf Kingdom began military training as the regional situation worsened, and years later its God of Radiance fell.
• Orsaga remained unmoved by the god’s death, while the grieving Golanel told him he could not understand her faith.
• Allison told Orsaga that the Elf King and council of elders had accepted his terms, provided he signed an Abyssal Contract.
• Orsaga agreed to the guarantee and joked that the kingdom’s leaders had lowered their bottom line because of the crisis.
• Orsaga and the kingdom’s senior officials negotiated and signed a contract nearly a million words long, leaving the Elf King delighted.

As the Miling World collapsed, Orsaga completed a new Pocket Space talent to carry the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s people and resources to safety. With a Great Demon already invading and no other escape route, the Elf King began the ritual to send his tens of millions of subjects to an unknown world.

• The Miling World’s decline worsened, and nations sought escape routes as devils and monsters overran the lands.
• Orsaga emerged from his coffin after spending hundreds of millions of Evolution Points to create the Pocket Space talent.
• Golanel told Orsaga that a Great Demon had descended and that the Elf King was ready to evacuate; Orsaga told her to proceed.
• Over the following months, the Elsera Elf Kingdom moved its resources into Orsaga’s Pocket Space, and its residents learned they had an escape route.
• The Elf King began the ritual in the Royal Capital, telling his tens of millions of subjects they would abandon their bodies and travel to an unknown world.

Orsaga concealed the sleeping souls and corpses of the Elsera Elf Kingdom before touring the Miling World with Allison and Golanel. When Karto invaded and battled the King of Gods, Orsaga escaped to the Bottomless Abyss with Allison and Golanel as the Demon Legion began its assault and the world fell into destruction.

• Orsaga stored the soul-filled sphere and the dead elves in his Pocket Space, then asked Allison and Golanel where they wanted to go sightseeing.
• Golanel chose the Xihuang Sea, and the three spent the next year visiting famous sights across the Miling World.
• After sensing that the world's resistance had weakened, Orsaga returned with Allison and Golanel to the Elsera Elf Kingdom to await the world's final hour.
• Red pillars of light rose from the Lands of Pollution, and the world consciousness destroyed the forming vortex before a wounded figure crashed into the sun.
• Karto entered the Miling World, seized the souls of nearly all its inhabitants, and fought the King of Gods as the world consciousness and its allies joined the battle.
• Orsaga put Allison and Golanel into his Pocket Space and returned to the Bottomless Abyss, while Karto sent the Demon Legion into the collapsing world.