Chapter Summaries

The contestants left three newly created jailers to guard the imprisoned Abyss Lord, whose energy continued to grow automatically even while he slept. The jailers discussed their task and decided they needed to curb his energy growth.

• The contestants departed the palace, leaving the sleeping prisoner and the three jailers behind.
• The three jailers sensed their mutual hostility and desire to consume one another, but recognized that they had to rely on the contestants to survive.
• The shapeshifting jailer asked what they should do, and the proliferating lump of flesh suggested guarding the prisoner because the outside world was desolate.
• The glowing-bubble jailer proposed curbing His Majesty’s energy growth after sensing that his Infinite Energy Trait was still rapidly increasing it.

Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, and Nyarlathotep discussed the danger of Azathoth’s steadily recovering power and agreed to curb its growth by releasing and purifying some of its energy. They chose names for themselves while continuing to revere Azathoth, and the palace’s effort to contain it remained uncertain.

• The three jailers recognized that Azathoth’s gradual recovery could eventually overwhelm them and agreed to address the danger early.
• They activated a contingency left by the contestants to draw out, purify, and discharge Azathoth’s energy through the palace’s Magic Rituals.
• The ever-changing jailer asked whether they should choose names, and the others agreed they could name themselves.
• The glowing sphere chose the name Yog-Sothoth, the mass of flesh chose Shub-Niggurath, and the changing entity chose Nyarlathotep.
• The three jailers called their source Azathoth and remained instinctively loyal and fearful toward it.

Yog and the other wardens extracted and purified energy from the sleeping Azathoth, feeding it to a growing tree and expanding the positive and negative spacetime tiers. Orsaga and the participants learned of the changes but remained unhurried as the game world continued to develop.

• Yog and the other two wardens drained energy from Azathoth through rituals, then sent it for purification rather than absorbing it themselves.
• Purified energy poured into the lower regions, where the tree drew it in and accelerated the growth of its Trapezoidal Spacetime Layers.
• The tiers were described: the roots divided positive from negative levels, with Azathoth, Orsaga, and the Cat God occupying increasingly higher positive levels, while negative levels remained in a primordial state.
• Orsaga and the participants sensed the changes but did not rush, as Orsaga wandered and discussed the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult with the Flying Spaghetti Monster God.
• Participants continued waiting to send dangerous individuals to the upper regions, while Native Lifeforms in the Red Domain and Black Domain remained hidden.

Orsaga recognized that the contestants had largely finished descending and began preparing to fulfill his world-destruction quest without drawing the ambushers’ attention. He shaped the plane’s Evil Fruit into the Death Tribulation Flower, whose structure had remained unchanged across ages.

• Contestants captured after descending were dragged back to the upper regions, while others remained to bolster the three factions and create distractions.
• Orsaga assessed the coming conflicts and concluded that he needed to make preparations before the contestants’ schemes unfolded.
• Because direct action to destroy the world would get Orsaga sent away, he chose to act indirectly while the plane’s worldview was still taking shape.
• Orsaga drew out the plane’s Evil Fruit and formed it into the seven-layered Death Tribulation Flower.

Orsaga sent the Death Tribulation Flower to the tree, where it merged into the roots and transformed into seven rings and seven Crucibles. The event was about to begin, and the coming chaos would feed the flower’s creations and gradually unlock Orsaga’s sealed power.

• Orsaga reflected on how the Death Tribulation Flower and the numbers 6 and 7 were tied to his essence and power.
• Orsaga released the Death Tribulation Flower, and it drifted across an immense distance toward the tree.
• The Death Tribulation Flower separated into seven layers of petals and seven stem sections, which merged into the tree and briefly formed seven crimson halos.
• Contestants and local natives sensed a signal, and the contestants realized that the event and its chaotic battle were about to begin.
• Within the tree, the flower’s petals became seven rings that nurtured lifeforms, while its stem sections became Crucibles that forged seven objects using the plane’s growing Evil Fruit.

Orsaga reflected on how contradictory contestant settings weakened his authority as an evil god, leaving him with only limited power from naturally occurring Malicious Influence. After a few thousand years, the contestants began acting, and a black pillar of light and a bizarre skull appeared in the plane.

• Orsaga recognized that many contestants had settings that overlapped with or contradicted his own, limiting the power he could gain from their evil deeds.
• Orsaga retained some authority over naturally occurring negative matters and could grow stronger from randomly generated Malicious Influence.
• A few thousand years after Orsaga infused his power into the tree, the contestants began carrying out their plans.
• A black pillar of light erupted from a phantom-like canyon and cleaved through space, exposing the void beyond the plane.
• A huge bizarre skull descended toward the Black Domain, where a gear-filled Black Metal Building stood.

The Golden Giant Serpent and the Deep Blue Scorpion fought across the Black Domain, unleashing forces that ravaged the still-forming plane. Neither Degenerator could overcome the other's defenses and immortality, leaving their battle locked in a war of attrition as other contestants fought nearby.

• The Golden Giant Serpent and the Deep Blue Scorpion battled in the Black Domain, tearing open canyons and churning the metallic land with their movements.
• The Golden Giant Serpent's collisions shattered golden scales whose light melted vast stretches of the metal ground.
• The Deep Blue Scorpion used shifting Spacetime Coordinates and layered defenses to evade or withstand the Golden Giant Serpent's attacks.
• The two Degenerators repeatedly recovered from injuries and grew stronger, leaving neither able to gain a decisive advantage.
• Other contestants fought in the surrounding region, causing immense destruction despite keeping their bodies comparatively small.

Orsaga was approached in the Red Domain by a heavily armored contestant eager to test himself against a Threshold Breaker. After realizing Purple Tribulation had advertised him as a rare challenge target, Orsaga sensed other contestants watching in anticipation.

• A four-armed, horse-bodied being climbed the heap of flesh and challenged Orsaga to a fight.
• Orsaga tried exchanging lines from a book of ancient dragon wuxia novels, then gave up when the dialogue felt unlike him.
• The challenger explained that Purple Tribulation had praised Orsaga's strength and said he had long wanted to fight a Threshold Breaker.
• Orsaga recognized that contestants saw his restricted power and expendable avatar as a safe way to test themselves.
• Orsaga sensed eager gazes from afar and concluded that Purple Tribulation had spread information about him to draw attention to his true strength.

Orsaga faced Fern Yates, who challenged him to test his strength, and the two fought across the flesh-and-blood landscape. Fern Yates’s opening attack failed to injure Orsaga, who countered by sending him flying and striking him from countless parallel spaces.

• Orsaga complained that Purple Tribulation had brought trouble to him, then agreed to fight the challenger who had come to test his strength.
• Orsaga transformed into his armored demon form, though his avatar’s abilities and power remained severely limited.
• Fern Yates introduced himself, summoned projections of his four divine weapons, and launched an attack that bypassed distance and applied curses on a hit.
• Fern Yates’s blades carved enormous canyons through the flesh-and-blood landscape, but Orsaga stood unharmed.
• Orsaga appeared in front of Fern Yates and struck him with his tail, then followed with countless attacks across parallel time and space.

Fern. Yates fought Orsaga by creating countless slashes to counter his attacks, but the clash exposed an enormous gap in their wills and power. Orsaga broke through Fern. Yates’s defense, seized his face, and drove him through layers of increasingly hardened corridors, shattering his body.

• Fern. Yates matched Orsaga’s attacks with an uncountable number of slashes, and their clash annihilated spacetime while creating nested corridors to contain the force.
• Fern. Yates realized that Orsaga could overwhelm his power despite wielding less energy, and concluded that Orsaga might kill him and destroy the entire Abyss Layer in their true forms.
• Fern. Yates tried to summon far greater power, but Orsaga’s hand pierced his defensive slashes and seized his face.
• Orsaga dragged Fern. Yates through the Great Corridors and increasingly hardened layers of corridors, gradually shattering his scales, flesh, and bones.

Fern Yates escaped Orsaga’s restraint by detonating himself, but Orsaga absorbed the blast and urged him to reveal a more personal technique. Orsaga then manipulated a parallel timeline to summon countless future versions of himself onto the battlefield.

• Fern Yates detonated all the energy in his body, melting Orsaga’s nails and breaking the technique suppressing him.
• Orsaga overpowered Fern Yates’s blast with blood-red energy and absorbed its power into his armor.
• Fern Yates revived completely, but Orsaga challenged him to show a more distinctive technique.
• Orsaga created a parallel timeline and repeatedly summoned versions of himself from increasingly later moments onto the battlefield.
• The summoned Orsagas began increasing their energy in unison.

Fern Yates faced an attack from an infinite number of Orsagas, whose power was restricted below Abyss Lord Level until he met a condition that could not yet be fulfilled. Fern used his Blade of All Slaying to erase the incoming beams, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Fern Yates considered how Orsaga had summoned infinite versions of himself and reasoned that Cat God's suppression would keep Orsaga below Abyss Lord Level for now.
• The chapter explained that Orsaga could summon his Main Game Account only after destroying most traces of life during the plane's prosperous period, a condition impossible in the current Initial Period.
• The infinite Orsagas decided to attack Fern Yates and fired beams that constrained his possibilities and forced him to face the assault directly.
• Fern Yates used the corridors around him as temporary shields, buying time to restrain interference and choose an opening.
• Fern Yates swung his four blades with the Authority Blade of All Slaying, carving open a new possibility and erasing the incoming energy beams.

Orsaga recognized that Fern Yates’s Blade That Cuts All was a secondary authority and quickly overwhelmed its assessment, then led a crowd of Future Bodies in killing Fern. He suppressed Fern’s immortality and prepared to eat him to recover some of his suppressed power.

• Orsaga sensed that Fern Yates’s authority had its summit occupied by another being and was likely not Fern’s main trump card.
• Fern Yates designated Orsaga as the Blade That Cuts All’s target, but the assessment instantly ruled Fern unable to outweigh him.
• Orsaga sent a crowd of Future Bodies to attack Fern Yates.
• Orsaga’s forces killed Fern, and one Orsaga suppressed Fern’s revival before biting into his head.

After consuming most of Fern Yates's foundations, Orsaga unlocked more of his strength and gained access to additional Authorities. He activated The Nonexistent and vanished from observers' perceptions, leaving the distant challengers vulnerable to unseen attacks.

• Orsaga sensed distant figures preparing to challenge him and considered eliminating the weaker ones.
• Orsaga left Fern Yates alive but stripped Him of most of the foundations He had brought into the plane, forcing Him to hide and recover.
• Orsaga used Fern Yates's foundations to restore himself and unlock additional Authorities.
• Orsaga's Source of Eternal Suffering made probability-related actions disastrously unfavorable, causing Fern Yates's Blade That Cuts All to fail.
• Orsaga activated The Nonexistent, vanished from observers' perceptions, and began launching attacks that only a few powerful figures could sense in time.

Orsaga fought off a massive coalition of participants as the battle around the tree spread across countless spacetime layers, spawning monsters and reshaping the ruined realms. After the conflict subsided, Orsaga left as the main beneficiary, while the surviving opponents hid or waited for another chance.

• After activating The Nonexistent, Orsaga entered a state between existence and nonexistence that made him difficult to affect and let him attack others with impunity.
• A red light pierced the Spacetime Structure beneath the tree, bringing destruction and new futures to the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layers.
• Participants entered the red-light battlefield and joined forces to prevent Orsaga from unlocking more of his power.
• The fighting spread across countless layers, spawning monsters from the remains of participants and causing the battlefield to expand as the layers grew amid destruction.
• After the prolonged battle subsided, Orsaga stood among the survivors and recognized that most weaker opponents had been eliminated or driven into hiding.
• Orsaga left the battlefield unchallenged, having survived the attacks of nearly all the others and grown stronger through the slaughter.

After the contestants departed, the Native Order and Chaos sides emerged to assess the devastated battlefield and recognize how much the outsiders’ destructive actions had helped their plane grow. Despite their home-field advantage and a promise of autonomy if the plane survived, Orsaga’s overwhelming strength left them doubting whether they could endure until the event ended.

• The survivors left the ruined Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, seeing Orsaga as the obstacle they would have to overcome to win.
• A metal-bodied figure emerged from the Black Domain as a grotesque flesh-covered figure appeared in the Red Domain, and they met without fighting.
• The two native figures agreed that the contestants’ battles had supplied the plane with information, life templates, and techniques that would accelerate its growth.
• One native questioned whether the plane could survive the contestants’ continued influence until the event ended.
• The natives recalled that their Primal Wills had been promised autonomy if the plane survived, but Orsaga’s strength made them doubt their chances.

Yadabos and Mekane named themselves, while the origins behind them became known as Red Existence and Black Existence, signaling the rise of the native faction to the contestants. Orsaga stayed unconcerned with the new development and considered how his growing Authorities made him a formidable opponent.

• Yadabos dissolved the corpses into flesh and blood to restore the land and foster new life.
• Yadabos named himself, and the mechanical figure chose the name Mekane.
• The wills behind the Red Domain and Black Domain named themselves Red Existence and Black Existence, and the contestants learned their names and roles.
• Orsaga noticed the naming signal but dismissed the natives as cleanup crews and remained focused on the other contestants.
• Orsaga reflected that the contestants’ delay in attacking had let him recover, gain Authorities, and become difficult to defeat.

Orsaga reflected on why his strength came from his own accumulated knowledge, experience, and versatility rather than any single authority or bloodline. The chapter ended by explaining that outsiders joined the Bottomless Abyss chiefly because the Abyssal Will offered them an unusually unrestricted chance to advance.

• Orsaga could wield the authorities and knowledge absorbed from defeated opponents, combining them to strengthen his abilities and pursue new paths.
• Orsaga concluded that powerful beings relied on their own talent and experience, since their authorities and racial advantages were only parts of their strength.
• The chapter contrasted abyss demons’ combat experience and ruthless instincts with the idea that their strength came from bloodline alone.
• Outsiders joined the Bottomless Abyss for its resources and the hope of advancement granted through the Abyssal Will.
• The Bottomless Abyss accepted beings of every kind, regardless of their nature or aims.

Orsaga watched the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer stabilize and become increasingly resistant to contestants’ influence. A golden deer awakened from a cocoon on a mountaintop, leaving the primitive beings below in reverence.

• Orsaga assessed the creations gestating beneath the tree and recognized they would help him travel to the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer once its construction was complete.
• The Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer developed oceans, plants, beasts, and emerging sentient races as the contestants’ ability to enter and influence it declined.
• A golden deer awakened inside a green cocoon atop a mountain, and its radiance caused the primitive lifeforms to kneel.
• The golden deer surveyed the surrounding world with a gaze that reached from the heavens to the depths underground.

The Golden Giant Deer created future subordinates while suppressing its urge to cause trouble under the constraints of its neutral faction identity. Elsewhere, two contestants clashed over the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, forcing other contestants to intervene before their battle damaged the tree and its surrounding structure.

• The Golden Giant Deer created dozens of deer subordinates and granted them abilities, then restrained its desire to kill because actions against its Identity Background Setting could expel it from the arena.
• The Golden Giant Deer took comfort in imagining the bloodthirsty Order Faction contestants being forced to perform good deeds.
• A bizarre contestant projected power into the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer and tried to link its existence to the tree, but another contestant sensed the attempt and interfered.
• The two contestants' clash distorted time, space, and fundamental rules as their forces built toward opposing attacks across their territories.
• Their attacks threatened the tree and the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, prompting other contestants to intervene and restrain the spreading aftershocks.