Chapter Summaries

Orsaga patiently waited as Ideal Dreamland continued to develop, while its inhabitants debated sharing power and authority among all beings and repaying the world itself. He anticipated that their choices might awaken the plane’s full potential and help him advance.

• Orsaga honored his agreement by leaving Ideal Dreamland undisturbed, trusting his instincts that the moment he awaited was approaching.
• The Ideal Dream Race noticed that other races remained weaker despite the abilities they had been granted.
• An Ideal Dream Race member proposed joining everyone into a whole that shared power and authority without affecting individual thoughts.
• Lifeforms debated the proposal, with some supporting shared powers and others warning that careless use could create dangers.
• Some Lifeforms argued that Ideal Dreamland’s earth, sky, Primal Star, and spacetime should also receive rights and be repaid, though they had no plan yet.
• Orsaga watched the debate and anticipated that Ideal Dreamland might reach Abyss Prince Level if it realized its full potential.

A thousand years later, Faltershi visited Orsaga in Crimson Heaven and asked him to help suppress the Resonance Assimilation Ritual. He wanted to forcibly gather an Abyss Lord Level counterpart, and Orsaga heard the request.

• Faltershi arrived at Crimson Heaven and was escorted through its gate to Orsaga’s palace.
• Faltershi saw how immensely Orsaga and Crimson Heaven had grown since their last meeting.
• Orsaga welcomed Faltershi and asked why he had come after so many years.
• Faltershi said he wanted to make a transaction with Orsaga.
• Faltershi asked Orsaga to suppress the Resonance Assimilation Ritual so he could forcibly gather an Abyss Lord Level counterpart.

Faltershi hired Orsaga to stabilize a Resonance Assimilation Ritual while he fought a dangerous counterpart, paying him in advance under an Abyssal Contract. As Orsaga prepared to help, Faltershi discovered that the powerful being he had been speaking to was only one of Orsaga’s avatars.

• Faltershi explained the Resonance Assimilation Ritual’s risks and asked Orsaga to stabilize it so his counterpart could not escape.
• Orsaga considered the job and accepted Faltershi’s offer of High-level plane Origin in exchange for guarding the ritual rather than fighting.
• Faltershi and Orsaga signed an Abyssal Contract, and Faltershi paid Orsaga in advance.
• Faltershi said he needed to act quickly because his counterpart’s strength was catching up to his own.
• Orsaga swallowed the payment, split off a powerful avatar, and offered to help Faltershi resolve the matter.
• Faltershi realized Orsaga was only an avatar and was overwhelmed by how far Orsaga had surpassed him.

Orsaga replenished some of his lost power with the high-level plane Origin Faltershi provided, then waited as Faltershi began a Resonance Assimilation Ritual to challenge a powerful being in a distant plane. The ritual drew both wills toward a remote meeting point, where their nearly imperceptible battle began.

• Orsaga considered Faltershi’s high-level plane Origin a small contribution toward replacing the authorities he had lost when creating Ideal Dreamland.
• Orsaga met Faltershi in the Gemstone Sea of Clouds and waited for his signal to begin the Resonance Assimilation Ritual.
• Orsaga activated the ritual, which used the gemstone continent’s radiance and Faltershi’s will to draw the distant being’s will toward him.
• The being on a divine throne learned through the ritual that peace with Faltershi was impossible, and the ritual began pulling their wills from their home grounds.
• Orsaga watched the wills converge and suppressed the ritual’s disturbances so Faltershi and the distant being could continue their battle.

Faltershi and his opponent fought to exhaustion, and Faltershi accepted defeat and transferred his accumulated power, collections, and remaining authorities to Orsaga. Orsaga received Faltershi’s final gift and left as the Gemstone Sea of Clouds collapsed.

• Faltershi chose to continue the battle, deciding that one of them had to die despite the risks.
• After a long exchange of attacks, Faltershi judged that his opponent had no hope of reaching the summit and extinguished his own Life Force.
• Faltershi’s accumulated power surged toward the victor as the Gemstone Sea of Clouds began collapsing.
• Orsaga initially thought Faltershi had lost, then received a gemstone carrying Faltershi’s remaining will, collections, and authorities.
• Orsaga thanked Faltershi and left without seeking revenge as the Gemstone Sea of Clouds collapsed.

Orsaga reflected on Faltershi’s death and valued the resolve he had shown more than the treasures he left behind. After briefly regretting that he could not test himself against Faltershi, Orsaga devoured the gemstone and returned to indifference.

• Orsaga considered Faltershi’s life and concluded that he had died because he lacked sufficient strength.
• Orsaga examined the gemstone containing Faltershi’s wealth and the remnant of his authority.
• Orsaga praised Faltershi’s resolve and promised himself that he would succeed.
• Orsaga regretted missing the chance to compete with Faltershi, though he believed he would have won.
• Orsaga devoured the gemstone and returned to calm indifference.

Orsaga attended a Unity Council team-building event and, after Purple Tribulation urged him to try it, agreed to participate using an avatar. He also learned that most Chief Councilors and Grand Councilors spent their time sleeping or silently observing, leaving him astonished by their inactivity.

• Purple Tribulation encouraged Orsaga to join the team-building event, explaining that it was safe and offered valuable rewards.
• Orsaga questioned why Purple Tribulation would not participate, and Purple Tribulation admitted it had no reason to work for rewards it could not use.
• Orsaga decided to join the event using an avatar to familiarize himself with the Unity Council's activities.
• Orsaga asked what Chief Councilors and Grand Councilors did for entertainment, and Purple Tribulation said they mostly slept or watched silently.
• Purple Tribulation pointed out inactive Seats of Power, and Orsaga was surprised that the Council's highest-ranking members were so motionless.

Orsaga learned how the Unity Council’s team-building events were organized and entered Competition Zone Fifty-Five, whose arena existed within Boundless Dreamscape. After crossing into the dreamlike venue, he found Greed’s avatar waiting in a blank white space and stood by for instructions.

• Orsaga asked whether the same person always spoke at events, and Purple Tribulation explained that organizers’ temperaments shaped each event’s style and that beings below Abyss Lord Level were largely disregarded.
• The organizers divided the competition into tens of thousands of independent arenas, and Orsaga drew Competition Zone Fifty-Five without knowing its rules or opponents.
• Orsaga observed the contestants gathered outside his arena and learned that its venue was one of Boundless Dreamscape’s thoughts, created to host novel dreams involving Abyss Lord Level beings.
• Orsaga entered the enormous hollow and crossed through a shifting landscape of nightmares and fantasies until he reached a white expanse.
• Orsaga encountered Greed’s avatar, who gestured for him to wait, and Orsaga respectfully stood aside.

Orsaga passed the Boundless Dreamscape’s preliminary test first, and Greed introduced a Worldview Configurator for the contestants’ next venue. Greed set mortals on Earth to create and develop a shared Worldview, which became known as the XXX Association.

• Orsaga reached the gathering first because he had little inner confusion, stable emotions, and great strength.
• Greed noticed Orsaga’s history of surviving powerful attacks and considered him a promising candidate for advancement.
• Greed revealed a computer-like Worldview Configurator and explained that it could turn generated dreams into reality.
• Greed opened a window onto Earth and decided that mortals would plan the Worldview instead of the contestants.
• A new website gathered bored internet users, who expanded and connected their settings into a shared Worldview called the XXX Association.

Greed set the event’s difficulty at 77 and used the Worldview Configurator to create a new plane, assigning contestants identities and missions. Orsaga drew the role of Evil God with the mission to destroy the world, while the contestants began plotting against those whose assignments seemed dangerous or impossible to control.

• Greed extracted information from the target website, loaded it into the Worldview Configurator, and drew an event difficulty of 77.
• Greed activated the Configurator, causing dreams to materialize into an ocean of bubbles as the new Worldview began to form.
• Greed told the contestants to draw their identities and missions, and Orsaga went first, receiving Evil God and Destroy the world.
• The contestants drew varied identities and missions, and several agreed to seal away a reckless Creation God who had been assigned to maintain spacetime stability.
• Some contestants with disruptive or unmanageable assignments became targets for the others before the event officially began.

As the newborn plane took shape, Greed appeared as the Cat God and explained that the contestants were about to enter the event. He revealed the plane’s future story center and told them to choose Character Background Settings, which would determine their power and how difficult it was to descend.

• The plane continued forming while the contestants waited for the right moment to enter the event.
• Greed appeared in a cat-themed guise, introduced himself as the Cat God, and explained that he and Boundless Dreamscape were the event’s organizers and referees.
• The Cat God revealed a hidden layer of the Space-time Structure containing a huge tree and figures who had created it and were the plane’s earliest Lifeforms.
• The Cat God explained that the tree would produce a new generation of primitive Gods and Devils, whose guises the contestants would use.
• The Cat God presented Character Background Settings and explained that stronger settings granted more power but made descending into the plane harder.

Orsaga found the contestants’ Character Background Settings contradictory, so Cat God assigned them Strength tiers. Orsaga picked a powerful-sounding setting to idle in, attracting suspicion from the other contestants before admiring his own appearance.

• Orsaga mocked the contradictory Character Background Settings, and Cat God explained that they were unreliable mortal inventions.
• Cat God added Strength labels to the settings so the contestants could compare their characters’ power.
• Orsaga weighed the different strategies for entering the stage, then chose a strong character because he planned to idle rather than compete seriously.
• The other contestants saw Orsaga’s choice as a sign of confidence and began treating him as their main rival.
• Orsaga suspected they were jealous of his looks, admired himself in a mirror, and put it away before it could mutate.

Orsaga was born prematurely through a disrupted fruit on the world tree, but his Main Game Account remained sealed and required him to complete prerequisite quests to unlock its full power. Disinterested in rushing the process, he rode away while other contestants plotted to use a native tree-tormentor as cover for eliminating dangerous characters.

• A poisonous-mist figure emerged from the first fallen fruit and left rather than attack the contestants still growing on the tree.
• The Cat God turned unchosen Character Background Settings into native lifeforms, whose chaos included one native trying to tear down the tree and prematurely knocking fruits loose.
• Orsaga was born from one of the disturbed fruits with his Alt Game Account active, while his Main Game Account remained sealed behind a series of prerequisite quests.
• Orsaga dismissed the effort of unsealing his account and rode off by bicycle, leaving the tree-tormentor to continue his work.
• A group of established contestants secretly agreed to let the native tear down the tree so they could blame him while preparing to eliminate disruptive characters.

A dark red fruit fell from the tree and gave birth to a cloudlike Creation God, whose arrival disrupted the newborn plane. Order and Chaos observed without intervening as the new being attacked the life-form chopping the tree.

• Several years passed as the native life-form continued chopping the tree, while the other contestants prepared to deal with the dangerous abyss lord-level beings.
• A dark red fruit fell, and its roar and strange power sent chaos spreading through the tree's region, the Black Domain, and the Red Domain.
• Order restored stability in the Black Domain, while Chaos watched the disturbance from the Red Domain; neither intervened directly.
• The fruit became a cloud of flesh covered in eyes and teeth, revealing its authority of creation and its nature as a Creation God.
• The newly born being attacked the tree-chopper out of hunger, and the tree-chopper counterattacked.

The brainless flesh-cloud clone attacked the plane’s world-spawning tree, but Unity Council members ambushed it and began dismantling its body. It unleashed a power that turned their attacks into music and reshaped countless parallel spaces, prompting the plane to grow a new spacetime stairway while the battle continued.

• The flesh-cloud finished its first meal and charged toward the tree that had birthed primitive Gods and Demons.
• The Unity Council members countered its attacks, carved up its body, and purified the severed flesh before it could transform.
• The wounded clone unleashed shrieks that split time into countless possibilities and banished the attackers’ strikes into parallel spaces.
• The tree gathered the resulting chaotic spaces and energy, and the plane began forming a stairway-like spacetime structure.
• Cat God’s identity setting had given the brainless clone a passive creation power that activated unpredictably as it fought.

The plane’s rulers sensed the contestants’ battle changing their domains, while Orsaga rode away and let his Evil Fruit authority act without deliberately provoking trouble. The ambushers subdued a malformed being and sent it toward a prison of carved-out spacetime layers, intending to seal away unstable contestants.

• The rulers of the Red Domain and Black Domain sensed strange powers disrupting the plane and observed the battle with curiosity.
• Orsaga rode a floating electric motorcycle away from the conflict and ignored its effects, though his Evil Fruit authority continued to amplify misfortune on its own.
• The battle escalated into a vast pillar of dusky light that tore up the terrain and contaminated parts of the Special Domains.
• The ambushers pinned down a malformed being with chains that pierced its flesh and locked around its core.
• The ambushers sent the captive through the pillar toward an intermediate layer, where they planned to imprison dangerous contestants in newly carved Independent Time and Spaces.

Orsaga watched the contestants imprison an opponent in an Independent Time and Space Layer rather than risk killing him, then met a grotesque fellow Unity Council member. The being introduced itself as Flying Spaghetti Monster God, while Orsaga said he would use the title Crimson King in the plane.

• Orsaga watched the contestants seal their attacked opponent in a little black room because the opponent was difficult to kill permanently.
• Orsaga noticed another Unity Council member nearby and remarked on its distinctive appearance.
• The being greeted Orsaga and explained that its true essence had been hidden by its earlier appearance as a golden goblin.
• Orsaga introduced himself as Orsaga and said others called him the Crimson King or the Bloody King.
• The being gave its chosen Character Background Setting title as Flying Spaghetti Monster God.

Orsaga met the Flying Spaghetti Monster God, who planned to make spaghetti essential to all life and reshape the plane around it. Though Orsaga intended to keep slacking off, he was tempted into founding the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult with him.

• The Flying Spaghetti Monster God gave Orsaga a plate of spaghetti, and Orsaga discovered he could change its flavor and that creating spaghetti was the god’s innate authority.
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster God described plans to make spaghetti necessary from birth to death and establish a Spaghetti Hell for sinners.
• Orsaga warned that the other contestants would likely reject the spaghetti-centered worldview, while the Flying Spaghetti Monster God insisted he could still win.
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster God proposed teaming up with Orsaga, naming their faction the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult and suggesting Orsaga’s bite-marked plate as its emblem.
• Orsaga felt genuinely tempted by the proposal, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult was established.

Orsaga joined Flying Spaghetti Monster God's plan to pull a disastrous stunt in the competition, while the contestants continued building a cage for an unfortunate target. Orsaga watched the target being hauled toward it and recognized how the trap worked.

• Orsaga accepted Flying Spaghetti Monster God's invitation and shared His interest in sabotaging the other contestants for fun.
• The chapter described how Orsaga and other powerful contestants were trapped far above the competition zone and could not descend until the finale.
• Orsaga watched contestants reconstruct space-time and weave a massive magical cage beneath his location.
• Countless chains dragged the target toward the cage, and Orsaga realized the contestants were using the target's own power to bind Him.

A group of contestants imprisoned the flesh core inside a sealed palace and used hidden powers to divide off parts of its strength. Those parts became three newborn Higher Lifeforms, who accepted the task of guarding the core.

• The contestants sealed the struggling flesh-cloud-like being inside a palace built from layers of rituals and living chains.
• The flesh core began transforming the palace with its flesh and blood, but hidden powers contaminated its strength and forced it into slumber.
• The powers separated a small portion of the core’s strength into three seeds and infused them with rationality.
• The seeds became cocoons and developed into three living Higher Lifeforms with incomplete individual consciousnesses.
• The three newborns accepted the order to guard the flesh core, knowing they would die if it escaped its restraints.