Chapter Summaries

Orsaga secretly empowered one contestant in its battle with the Giant Starfish, turning the attack into a devastating blow that wounded the Starfish and nearly destroyed a distant tree. The onlookers mistook the hidden intervention for the contestant revealing its true strength and began to suspect it was plotting something.

• Orsaga considered intervening as two powerful contestants fought with attacks that strained their limits but remained manageable.
• Orsaga secretly amplified the power of the contestant who had stopped the Giant Starfish from manipulating events.
• The boosted attack overwhelmed the Giant Starfish, pierced its chest, and sent it howling as the sound waves annihilated countless possible futures.
• The attack continued through the Starfish and breached the defenses around a distant tree, carving a large wound into its trunk and causing its leaves to wither and fall.
• The Giant Starfish, its seven-horned opponent, and the other onlookers assumed the opponent had concealed its strength and began suspecting it of a dangerous scheme.

The Seven-Horned Yuan Shen considered who might have caused the disaster, suspecting Orsaga while recognizing that nearly every contestant had plausible motives. As the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer suffered devastation, Orsaga’s authority absorbed the evil consequences and his preparations began to emerge.

• The Seven-Horned Yuan Shen suspected Orsaga of causing the disaster but could find no evidence, and considered the many other contestants who might be responsible.
• The damaged great tree’s connection to the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer caused violent quakes, meteors, lightning, and hurricanes that devastated the world.
• Orsaga’s Source of Eternal Suffering absorbed the growing evil consequences and fed them into his arrangements.
• The forging crucible made from the Death Tribulation Flower’s trunk shattered, releasing seven blood-red weapons that flew to key points in the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer.
• The seven cocoons formed from the Death Tribulation Flower’s petals stirred and opened their eyes, revealing the Calamity Giant Serpent and the Primal Dragon among their occupants.

Orsaga’s creations strengthened his influence in the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, while three black-robed beings arrived to repair the wounded tree. The Three Brothers of Death restored the tree and destroyed a contaminating lifeform growing inside a severed section of its trunk.

• Orsaga sensed that his seven spear-like weapons and seven hatched lifeforms had expanded his reach into the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, and he was pleased that someone else would take the blame for the damage.
• The Three Brothers of Death arrived beneath the tree, and their leader used his scythe to cut away its wounded section.
• The brothers removed the damaged trunk and its wound, then the leader cut away the tree’s weakness and restored it, stabilizing the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer.
• The leader tried to destroy the contaminated section, but black mist blocked his scythe, so his two brothers attacked with him.
• The Three Brothers of Death combined their power and killed the developing lifeform inside the contaminated trunk section, erasing it completely.

The eldest of the Three Brothers of Death named the restored tree the Tree of Knowledge and announced limits on the contestants’ battles. The Seven-Horned Yuan Shen left after plundering part of the wounded Giant Starfish’s domain, while the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer retained lasting changes from the disturbance.

• The eldest of the Three Brothers of Death named the restored tree the Tree of Knowledge and warned that the brothers would oppose anyone who fought beyond certain limits.
• Orsaga and most contestants ignored the warning, while the Seven-Horned Yuan Shen considered taking advantage of its wounded opponent.
• The Seven-Horned Yuan Shen tore away part of the Giant Starfish’s domain and strengthened its own concept of seven against the Starfish’s concept of five.
• The Seven-Horned Yuan Shen left cackling, and the Giant Starfish could only watch in anger.
• The restored Tree of Knowledge stabilized the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, but the earlier disturbance left its spacetime layers with a stricter hierarchy.

The chapter explained how the Tree of Knowledge’s upheaval widened the differences between layers of the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, making lower-level beings more vulnerable to higher-level ones. Orsaga and other transcendent beings remained unaffected by these environmental changes, which mattered mainly to weaker beings dependent on external energy.

• The Tree of Knowledge’s upheaval altered the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, increasing the disparity between its levels and suppressing lower-layer beings.
• The chapter illustrated how beings powerful on one layer could become helpless against ordinary inhabitants of the next layer up.
• Orsaga and other beings above the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer remained unconcerned because they had transcended time, space, Destiny, and other restrictions.
• The chapter contrasted levels of Great Demon Level power, explaining that their varying feats often depended on energy rather than fundamentally different abilities.
• The chapter concluded that environmental factors affected weak beings dependent on outside resources, while true Great Demon Level beings could endure even the end of the world.

With the Tree of Knowledge connecting and managing the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, the contestants’ creations and influences spread through its lower levels. Orsaga’s giant serpent and the Primal Dragon caused upheaval, and the Primal Dragon founded the Dragon Realm and became the Ancestor of Dragons.

• The chapter described the Tree of Knowledge as the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer’s ultimate database, which let Orsaga and the others influence lower levels from above.
• The giant serpent grew whenever it encountered new forces, so it divided into Infinity smaller serpents to reduce the destruction it caused.
• The Primal Dragon became the origin of the plane’s concept of dragons and gathered universes into Cosmic Polymers to create the Dragon Realm.
• The Primal Dragon used its knowledge and power to create millions of Pureblood Dragon Race branches and was revered as the Ancestor of Dragons.
• Orsaga and the other contestants left the concept of dragons unclaimed because they regarded strength and weakness as matters they could define at will.

Yadabos observed the native creatures of the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer, searching for a way to make them useful against the outsiders threatening both factions. After fifty years, he realized they lacked group cooperation and began considering how to give them that ability, though it lay outside his expertise.

• Yadabos descended into the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer and studied its native races, which he had created as the God of Flesh.
• Yadabos searched for what was missing from the plane’s thriving populations while the Red Existence and Black Existence’s factions cooperated against outsiders.
• After fifty years, Yadabos realized that the creatures lacked cooperation within and between their races.
• Yadabos concluded that native populations could help fight the outsiders’ low-level minions if they worked together, but he was unsure how to instill cooperation because it was the Order Faction’s specialty.

Yadabos and Mekane agreed to cooperate and created a race together, using the Twin Sages Tree to give its first member strength and calm thought. The first human, Adam, was named leader and guardian of the tree, which was expected to soon bear his companion.

• Yadabos proposed a plan to Mekane, who consulted Black Existence and agreed to help in exchange for part of the Control Authority over the new life race.
• Yadabos moved the local Magic Beasts away and planted a blood-covered creature underground, causing a vast tree to grow.
• Mekane forged rationality into the tree's first fruit and gave the tree the ability to spread calm thought to its creations.
• The fruit opened, and its newborn inhabitant emerged, bowed to Yadabos and Mekane, and pledged to fulfill their orders.
• Yadabos named the newborn Adam, the first leader and king of the Human Race, and named the tree the Twin Sages Tree.

Orsaga sensed the emerging human race near the Twin Sages Tree and sent Evil Fruit and his creations’ power to bring suffering to the region. Yadabos and Mekane decided to let the coming hardships test the humans, leaving Adam to prove their worth.

• Orsaga examined the Twin Sages Tree across time and space and judged that humans might become the plane’s primary race.
• Orsaga sent a great quantity of Evil Fruit and directed his creations to project some of their power toward the region.
• Yadabos and Mekane sensed the incoming trouble and considered whether to stop Orsaga.
• Yadabos and Mekane chose to let the hardships serve as a trial for the newborn race and departed after urging Adam to prove its value.
• Adam confidently agreed, while the Twin Sages Tree swayed behind him.

A distant valley was transformed into a monstrous cocoon that spread poison and produced eggs. Thirty-five years later, Adam received a vision of an apocalypse approaching from the east and hurried home to prepare, but the chapter revealed that the World Destruction Army still arrived years later.

• A blood-red eye devastated a vast valley, turning its life into a gigantic cocoon that contaminated the surrounding land and produced eggs.
• Over thirty-five years, Adam built a peaceful human civilization with his wife, descendants, and other humans beneath the Twin Sages Tree.
• Adam returned to the holy city after defeating a powerful Magic Beast, and the people celebrated him as their king and protector.
• The Twin Sages Tree sent Adam an Apocalypse showing the holy city destroyed and his body burning at the Tree amid a Demonic Beast invasion.
• Adam and the Sacred Tree Guardians sensed the threat from the east, and Adam hurried home to prepare, but years later the World Destruction Army still arrived.

As the Demonic Beasts devastated the holy city, Adam faced his descendant Abel Leshar, who had been changed by forbidden magical knowledge and blessed by the Crimson King. Adam ultimately sealed Abel, but Abel’s warblade pinned him to the burning Twin Sages Tree.

• Adam recalled how studying dangerous magic to prepare for the apocalypse had driven Cain mad, leading Cain to kill Hervell, whom Adam later revived.
• Abel Leshar told Adam that he had severed Cain’s hands and feet and buried him alive, then raised his warblade against Adam.
• Adam summoned falling stars to subdue Abel, but Abel sliced them apart and attacked Adam, invoking the Crimson King’s blessing.
• Adam defeated and bound Abel in a crater, sealing him inside a spell-made coffin.
• Abel’s thrown warblade pinned Adam to the burning Twin Sages Tree.

Adam called upon the Great Creator, unleashing the World-Ending Flood that destroyed the old world and reshaped it into countless universes. Survivors began to emerge into a New World as remnants of the old era stirred, while Orsaga and other distant observers sensed that something interesting awaited in the newborn universes.

• Abel Leshar mocked Adam from inside the Magic Coffin, while Adam mourned the ruined holy city and reflected on destiny.
• Adam prayed for heavenly punishment, and silver-white waters poured from the collapsing starry sky as the World-Ending Flood began.
• The flood submerged Abel Leshar and Adam, destroyed the old world, and reshaped its land into universes and its grains of sand into stars.
• Ages later, survivors emerged from Adam's ark on an azure star, while buried Magic Coffins, deep-sea serpents, and other remnants of the previous era began to awaken.
• Orsaga watched the new universes and their upheaval without intervening, while other distant figures sensed that something significant would happen there.

As humanity declined through successive generations, Earth approached the Age of Discovery, when the Flying Spaghetti Monster God altered reality and rewrote history across countless spacetime realms. Dreamers across the universe witnessed the new history and mistook it for the hidden truth of their worlds.

• Old Humans’ descendants weakened over generations, becoming Golden Humans, Silver Humans, Bronze Humans, and finally Black Iron Humans.
• As Earth neared the Age of Discovery, a being in the upper region began changing the rules of reality.
• Yadabos and Mekane considered stopping him, but Orsaga supported him, so they allowed the changes to proceed.
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster God caused beings across countless spacetime realms to dream of Spaghetti God Mountain and its reality-warping fragrance.
• Earth dreamers saw the planet’s history rewritten to include spaghetti, including a giant ball of spaghetti dough that destroyed the giant reptiles.
• Aliens and other sentient beings witnessed the altered histories and believed they had glimpsed the truth of all things.

Edward Teach awoke in 1700 believing the Flying Spaghetti Monster God and the Crimson King had revealed the Great Treasure to him, and he set out to reach the sea and find it. Decades later, his final declaration that the treasure existed inspired countless people, while divine interference altered history and created the Lost Fifty Years.

• Edward Teach woke in Bristol convinced that the Great Treasure was a gigantic island of spaghetti dough and that eating it would make him the King of Humans.
• After his farm boss ordered him back to work, Edward Teach resolved to find a way to go to sea, as others who believed they had received the Apocalypse also began pursuing their dreams.
• Over a decade later, the Royal Navy arrested Edward Teach, now famed as a navigator, sailor, pirate king, and the person closest to the Great Treasure.
• At his execution in Charleston Port, Edward Teach declared that the Great Treasure existed, then died as the crowd's ambitions and convictions were stirred.
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster God was struck by a contestant while writing new settings, and the resulting upheaval further altered history, creating the Lost Fifty Years.

Orsaga watched as Yadabos and Mekane were ambushed by contestants while the chaotic history and future of the lower levels continued to shift. Yadabos was sealed in the Silver Net, Mekane escaped with part of His consciousness and left a contingency plan, and the Red Existence and Black Existence remained trapped above.

• Orsaga watched the Flying Spaghetti Monster God brawl with its attacker, then observed the blank stretches of history and the unstable future below.
• Orsaga expected other contestants to interfere with Yadabos and Mekane while he chose not to act.
• A powerful ambusher battered Yadabos into pulp and sealed Him in a prepared site called the Silver Net.
• A gigantic serpent struck Mekane with lethal venom, destroying His metal body and suppressing His regeneration.
• Mekane sent part of His uncontaminated body into a hyperdimensional region to preserve Physical Rules and leave a contingency plan for the Trapezoidal Spacetime Layer.
• Contestants sealed off the Red Existence and Black Existence in the upper regions, preventing Them from aiding Their subordinates.

Orsaga and Purple Tribulation discussed the gulf between threshold beings and Abyss Princes, and Purple Tribulation revealed that sixty-five Regular Councilors had advanced successfully. Orsaga declared that he would soon become the sixty-sixth.

• Purple Tribulation praised Orsaga’s strength, then reflected that both of them remained far below the Abyss Princes.
• Purple Tribulation admitted he envied Orsaga’s burning ambition and willingness to risk everything to advance.
• Orsaga laughed at Purple Tribulation’s desire to experience the struggles Orsaga had endured on his path upward.
• Orsaga asked how many Regular Councilors Purple Tribulation had seen advance, and Purple Tribulation said sixty-five had succeeded while countless others had failed.
• Orsaga declared that the number of successful advancements would soon rise to sixty-six.

Orsaga visited a mortal universe in the Dark Tower Plane and sat quietly in a Maine park in 1945. Andy Dufresne approached him and nervously introduced himself as an investment manager at a nearby Goldman Sachs Bank branch.

• Orsaga decided to take a stroll through the Dark Tower Plane’s mortal levels.
• Orsaga appeared on Earth in Everett Park, Maine, at six in the morning on June 6, 1945.
• Orsaga sat silently on a park bench for more than half an hour as the morning mist began to lift.
• Andy Dufresne approached Orsaga, introduced himself, and explained that he worked in investment management at a nearby Goldman Sachs Bank branch.

Orsaga met Andy Dufresne, who did not recognize him, and cryptically told him that he was destined to be imprisoned. Years later, after Andy was convicted of murdering his wife, he finally understood Orsaga's warning.

• Orsaga told Andy he had come to see him out of nostalgia, leaving Andy confused about their supposed connection.
• Orsaga told Andy that his Destiny was to be imprisoned and that he enjoyed watching him struggle.
• Orsaga left, warning Andy that he might visit him in prison, while Andy glimpsed what seemed to be inhuman traits on him.
• Several years later, Andy heard the court's verdict convicting him of murdering his wife and understood Orsaga's words.

Andy struggled with doubt over whether he had killed his wife and her lover, while the memory of Orsaga’s prophecy haunted him in Shawshank Prison. Orsaga appeared in Andy’s cell, but Andy mistook him for a hallucination and slapped himself to test whether he was real.

• In 1947, Andy arrived at Shawshank Prison and drew lewd taunts and bets from inmates who saw him as an easy target.
• After thirty days in prison, Andy lay awake questioning his guilt because he had been drunk during the killings and the police had never found the gun.
• Andy remembered the stranger who had predicted his imprisonment and wondered whether the phantom he had seen was real or an illusion.
• Orsaga appeared beside Andy in his cell, greeted him, and joked that Andy still had the potential to escape.
• Andy removed his glasses and slapped himself, suspecting that he had developed a mental illness.
• Orsaga watched Andy hurt himself and mocked him for starting to self-harm.

Andy Dufresne questioned Orsaga about his supernatural nature and the many identities he claimed across myths. Orsaga revealed that he held hundreds of thousands of divine names and described his usual hobbies, leaving Andy confronted with a vast world beyond his understanding.

• Andy asked whether Orsaga was a supernatural lifeform, and Orsaga agreed that the description was not inaccurate.
• Orsaga said his traces appeared in myths across the planet and listed identities including Asura King, Lord of Mount Tai, Shiva, Bhaal, and Typhon.
• When Andy questioned how Orsaga could hold positions in different pantheons, Orsaga claimed he was also Lucifer and Satan in the Bible's tradition.
• Orsaga told Andy that he had approximately 863,329 identities across the planet's existing and extinct myths.
• Andy asked whether the Bible's events were real, and Orsaga said its contents were half true and half false.
• Orsaga told Andy that he usually slept, slaughtered, and destroyed worlds.