Chapter Summaries

Orsaga brought Allison and Golanel to Kalasya in the Bottomless Abyss, where he revealed his true form and introduced them to the city’s brutal customs. Allison recognized him as the red Demon from the Goreli Defense Line but stayed silent as they explored a place where violence was legal.

• Orsaga arrived near Kalasya and stepped on a passerby before happily making his way toward the city.
• Orsaga bought entry permits, summoned Allison and Golanel, and led them into the Elf district to investigate its inhabitants.
• Golanel examined Orsaga’s true form and tail, and Orsaga placed a Death Tribulation Flower in her hair.
• Allison recognized Orsaga as the red Demon she had fought at the Goreli Defense Line but chose not to confront him.
• Allison asked who maintained order after seeing Demons roast dwarves, and Orsaga explained that killing and robbery were legal in Kalasya.

After fulfilling his Abyssal Contract with the Elsera Elf Kingdom, Orsaga began his long-delayed advancement and emerged a month later as an Upper Demon. His transformation granted him greater power and new abilities, leaving him ready to continue his ascent in the Bottomless Abyss.

• Orsaga brought Allison and Golanel to an elf gathering place, where its bizarre residents shocked them and a special identity marker allowed them to enter.
• After the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s residents arrived in the region, its nobles chose to investigate before deciding whether to remain or move elsewhere.
• Three days later, the kingdom’s supplies and population had been transferred, its temporary settlement began construction, and Orsaga’s contract was fulfilled.
• Orsaga traveled far from Kalasya, burrowed underground, and began advancing with the aid of his Evolution System and the Abyss Consciousness.
• A month later, Orsaga emerged from a shattered black cocoon as a twenty-meter-tall Upper Demon with eight wings and enhanced abilities.

Orsaga emerged from the earth in the Bottomless Abyss after advancing to Upper Demon and challenged a powerful Upper Demon. He killed it within seconds, concluding that he was likely unmatched among Upper Demons but could not yet defeat a Great Demon.

• Orsaga adapted to his evolved body and rose through more than ten thousand meters of earth to the surface.
• Orsaga spotted a formidable Upper Demon, which attacked him with toxic rays that failed to penetrate his armor.
• Orsaga and the Upper Demon exchanged spells and close-combat attacks, with neither gaining an advantage at first.
• Orsaga studied the enemy’s fighting patterns and detected the shifting energy hub within its energy-state body.
• Orsaga used his eight wings to sever the enemy’s energy circulation, then crushed its manifested life core and killed it.
• Orsaga judged that he probably could not defeat a Great Demon but that no Upper Demon should be able to defeat him.

A Great Vortex consumed the defeated Miling Plane and fed its remains into the Molten Wasteland, leaving Golanel and the other refugees with no home to return to. Two years later, the refugees had adapted to life in the Bottomless Abyss, while Orsaga continued his womanizing ways before heading off to handle business.

• Orsaga used Eye That Sees the World—Descent to witness the Miling Plane’s Crystal Wall System collapse into the Great Vortex and merge into the Molten Wasteland.
• Golanel and the refugees in Kalasya felt sorrow as they realized the Miling Plane was lost and they had nowhere to return.
• Over the next two years, the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s refugees struggled to adapt to the Bottomless Abyss and lost nearly twenty Legendary Rank elves and one Demigod Rank elf.
• The Elsera Elf Kingdom’s leaders split between seeking a new world to settle in and staying in the Abyss to grow stronger.
• Orsaga flirted with a Succubus until Allison reminded him it was time to handle business, then left with her.

Orsaga retrieved and completed a set of rings forged from accumulated materials, giving them the ability to store Negative Energy, resist world suppression, and repair themselves. After Allison chose a name from his cards, Orsaga named his new growth-type equipment Scarlet Sin.

• Orsaga entered Kalasya’s designated forging area and retrieved ten rings from a Crimson Fire Pillar.
• Orsaga reshaped the rings with Death Tribulation Flower patterns and confirmed their abilities to store Negative Energy, resist world suppression, and repair themselves.
• The rings connected with Orsaga’s armor and Talent Ability, Self-Evolution—Evil Grudge Armament, becoming growth-type equipment.
• Allison asked whether the forging had failed, and Orsaga explained that he was deciding what to name the rings.
• Allison chose a card marked Scarlet Sin, and Orsaga named the rings Scarlet Sin.

Orsaga answered a summoning in a new world and negotiated with a vengeful middle-aged man who lacked a sufficient sacrifice. The man accepted Orsaga’s altered contract, allowing Orsaga to remain in the world after fulfilling his wish.

• Orsaga chose a summoning ritual at random and sent an Avatar to investigate the destination before crossing over.
• In a cave in Zijing City, Orsaga appeared before a middle-aged man who wished for help killing a powerful target.
• Orsaga judged the man’s sacrifice insufficient and offered to add a condition to their deal.
• Orsaga showed the man Magic Runes that would let Orsaga act freely in the world after completing the contract.
• The middle-aged man replaced the original runes, and Orsaga’s true body merged with his Avatar and descended into the world.

Orsaga entered a new world, accepted a job to eliminate a special phenomenon at a villa in Lingxun City, and traveled to the steam-powered Zijing City to gather information. He selected a passerby as a target and appeared at a gathering of bank robbers, where two brothers had secretly poisoned the others.

• Orsaga learned that the new world's suppressive force left him with about a quarter of his strength and accepted the middle-aged man's request to eliminate a phenomenon at 177 Fifth Avenue in Glense Town, Lingxun City.
• Orsaga left the cave, disguised himself as an ordinary human, and used a spatial door to reach Zijing City.
• Orsaga sensed that Zijing City's lingering fog was condensed water vapor, listened to pedestrians to learn the local language, and chose a passerby to target.
• Orsaga appeared at a run-down residence where a group of bank robbers celebrated their successful robbery.
• Two biological brothers at the gathering secretly poisoned the alcohol and planned to kill the other robbers and take the money.

Orsaga learned local customs by killing a gang whose members had poisoned one another, then boarded a Steam Railcar to Glense Town to clear out a villa. As the train departed, he sensed that the middle-aged man who summoned him had died.

• Orsaga arrived during a gang's meal, identified multiple poisons in the wine and food, and watched the men collapse from their combined effects.
• Orsaga killed the poisoned gang members, read their memories to learn about the world, and set their hideout on fire before leaving.
• Orsaga boarded a VIP carriage on a Steam Railcar bound for Glense Town, where the villa he needed to clear out was located.
• As the train began moving, Orsaga sensed through the Abyssal Contract that his middle-aged summoner had died from organ failure.
• Orsaga smiled at the news, drawing the attention of several young ladies from wealthy families nearby.

Orsaga arrived in Glense Town and headed to a villa on Fifth Avenue that had been consuming its tenants and nearby people. He entered the guarded Isolation Belt and walked into the villa, while the investigators outside remained unaware of him.

• Orsaga took a steam taxi to Fifth Avenue and learned from the driver that people had disappeared there amid strange phenomena and a failed military attempt to destroy something.
• Orsaga reached the Isolation Belt and passed the Soldiers guarding it without being noticed.
• Orsaga assessed the armed Soldiers, supernatural investigators, and villa, judging their strength and technology weak.
• Captain Charlie asked Dr. Alri about the villa, and he explained that it could not be destroyed and had to be fed criminals weekly to prevent it from taking people nearby.
• Orsaga read the villa's recorded properties and walked inside.

Orsaga investigated the villa’s anomaly and discovered that the evil spirit inside repeatedly revived, allowing him to kill and consume it for Evolution Points. After more than six hundred meals, the spirit stopped reviving, so Orsaga burned the villa and left.

• Orsaga killed the evil spirit repeatedly while studying its resurrection and gaining Evolution Points.
• Orsaga decided to use the endlessly reviving spirit as a source of Evolution Points, then hunted it through the villa.
• Orsaga skewered and drained the spirit, then roasted it and blended it into juice while the people outside wondered why they smelled barbecue.
• After two days of cooking, Orsaga discovered that the spirit had stopped reviving after more than six hundred meals.
• Orsaga confirmed the spirit was dead for good, set the villa on fire to fulfill his contract, and left as the crowd watched in confusion.

The Expert Group investigated the burned villa but mistook witnesses’ food-scent reports for shared hallucinations and quarantined them. Meanwhile, Orsaga met Keliya and recognized that an evil spirit was weakening her, leaving him ready to deal with it.

• The middle-aged woman told her subordinate to cooperate with the incoming Expert Group and ordered the old man in white robes to prepare evidence for analysis.
• The Expert Group questioned witnesses, and one soldier reported smelling a long list of meat dishes near the villa.
• The Expert Group concluded that the witnesses had experienced food-related hallucinations and sent them to a hospital for three months of isolation.
• Orsaga chatted with Keliya and her friend as Keliya described her goal of exposing strange phenomena hidden by the government.
• Keliya’s friend revealed that Keliya had nearly fallen from a two-story building, and Orsaga recognized that an evil spirit was clinging to her.

Orsaga chatted with Keliya and Kaila Tereishi, then sensed his power somewhere far away before it vanished. In Galit Country, Charles Gray woke from a death-triggered reset with residual pain, treated it using his system, and resolved to investigate what had killed him.

• Keliya thanked Orsaga for easing the heavy feeling in her body, and he credited their meeting to fate.
• Kaila Tereishi asked about Orsaga’s origins and reason for visiting; he said he had come to handle a request but had already finished and now wanted to explore for special ingredients.
• Orsaga sensed his own power far away, but it disappeared before he could locate it.
• Charles Gray awoke from a terrifying death-triggered nightmare, used 11,500 System Points to exchange for Morning Star Blessing, and had the lingering rule-level energy cleared.
• Charles recalled his past life and unexplained death, then decided to investigate its cause while preparing to deal with dangerous anomalies before they grew stronger.

A year later, Orsaga used his invention, Eternal Pain, to turn captured evil spirits and anomalies into a self-sustaining source of food and power. He left the city by train to hunt at random, while continuing a long-term scheme to profit from diseases he had released across the planet.

• Orsaga captured an evil spirit in his thermos, brewed it into soup, and named the container Eternal Pain.
• He explained that Eternal Pain cut away and regenerated its prisoners, feeding on their power to keep them subdued while their suffering strengthened his abilities.
• Orsaga boarded a random train, intending to hunt evil spirits and anomalies wherever he went.
• He reflected that he had released diseases across the planet and expected them to plague its civilization for centuries, earning him a substantial profit.

Orsaga ran into Keliya, Kaila, and their teacher Stil Ora after arriving in Galysan, and they shared coffee while catching up. He had no particular plans and intended to explore the city as a tourist.

• Orsaga sensed familiar presences at the station and reunited with Keliya and Kaila, who introduced him to their teacher, Stil Ora.
• Stil took the group to a coffee shop she liked, where they ordered drinks and desserts.
• Stil thanked Orsaga for rescuing Keliya, and he said he had helped because he did not want a beauty to die.
• Kaila asked why Orsaga had come to Galysan, and he explained that he had boarded a random train and planned to visit local sights and try the food before leaving.

Orsaga discussed his carefree outlook and the vastness of the world with Stil, Keliya, and the others, then left the café. Stil warned Keliya and her companions to keep their distance from him because her wristband could detect nothing about him, suggesting he hid dangerous secrets.

• Orsaga told Stil that living happily mattered more to him than ambition, and he agreed to visit the Central Library after she recommended it.
• Orsaga impressed Keliya and the others with his broad knowledge during their conversation.
• Stil asked what Orsaga thought of the world, and he called it large while privately worrying about powerful civilizations in the Vast Starry Sky.
• Stil said she wanted to change the world's cruel state, but Orsaga doubted that differences and conflicts could ever be avoided.
• After Orsaga left the café, Stil warned Keliya and the others to keep their distance because her wristband could detect no information from him.

Stil warned Keliya and Kaila to keep their distance from Orsaga until they were more mature, while Orsaga accepted her wariness and decided to visit a library before hunting nearby supernatural beings. Across the ocean, Charles Grey traveled to a high official’s banquet, reflecting on his growing strength and the need to prepare for more powerful evil spirits.

• Stil told Keliya and Kaila that Orsaga’s selfishness and hidden dangers made it wise to avoid contact with him for now.
• Keliya and Kaila agreed to heed Stil’s warning, and Stil clarified that they could make their own choices once they were more mature.
• Orsaga sensed Stil’s vigilance, accepted that people had reason to fear him, and decided to visit a library before hunting nearby anomalies and evil spirits.
• Charles Grey rode to a high official’s banquet in Galit Country, where his noble family’s history had helped him gain an invitation.
• Charles reflected that his system-earned strength let him face ordinary evil spirits, but he urgently needed to grow stronger before the supernatural tide raised their power.

Charles attended a noble banquet alone, where Gewense pressed him to marry a wealthy, heavyset woman and Charles refused. He watched Hank surrounded by admirers, knowing one of them would soon die and become an evil spirit whose presence would bring Hank and those around him years of misery.

• Charles arrived by carriage and greeted Gewense, who complained that Charles's father had become arrogant after Charles's recent inventions made the family money.
• Gewense asked why Charles's father was absent, and Charles said he had gone to Green Tower City to discuss an ore deal.
• Gewense urged Charles to marry a deputy mayor's daughter with royal ancestry, but Charles refused because he could not bear the burden of marrying a two-hundred-pound woman.
• After the host arrived, Charles stayed away from the banquet's social circles and watched Hank entertain a group of young women.
• Charles recalled that one of Hank's admirers would soon die and become a powerful evil spirit, bringing death and despair to Hank's family, friends, and acquaintances.

Charles warned Gewense that unsafe machinery at his logging yard could cause a fatal accident and give rise to an evil spirit. Gewense agreed to repair or replace the machinery, while Charles resolved to prevent dangerous spirits when practical and pursue System Points through missions.

• Gewense told Charles that he and Charles’s father had bought timber mills to stockpile Lanxi Wood, and warned Charles not to compete with them or attract the upper class’s envy.
• Charles thanked Gewense for his candid advice, then explained that he had asked about the logging yard because its machinery was unsafe and accidents could spawn evil spirits.
• Gewense recognized the danger and promised to have the logging yard’s machinery repaired or replaced.
• Charles recalled that in his previous Timeline, a worker had died in the yard and an evil spirit had killed many workers before becoming too powerful to defeat.
• Charles decided that preventing every possible evil spirit was unrealistic, so he would earn System Points through missions and intervene early against especially dangerous spirits.

Charles told Saladin that he had found the man who killed Saladin’s relatives, and Saladin agreed to make Charles his disciple after verifying the information. The chapter ended with Charles hoping to learn from one of the strongest Supernatural Power users.

• Charles approached Saladin at the banquet and said he had found the person Saladin had searched for.
• Saladin crushed his wineglass and demanded to know if Charles was sure.
• Charles described the man’s incomplete yellow-green spider tattoo on his left cheek and slight limp.
• Saladin promised to grant Charles one condition if the information proved true, and Charles asked to become his disciple.
• Saladin agreed to take Charles as his disciple after verifying the information, while the onlookers assumed Charles would inherit Saladin’s wealth.

Orsaga secretly absorbed the contents of the Central Library and captured an evil spirit, whose memories gave him scattered information about the world. He continued probing the planet for the cause of the sudden rise in evil spirits and aberrations, with destroying the planet as a last resort.

• Orsaga entered the Central Library and used his mental power to record all 17,644,748 volumes without being noticed.
• Orsaga pulled a vicious-faced evil spirit from a book, ate part of its head, and stored it in Eternal Pain after restoring its injuries.
• Orsaga absorbed some of the evil spirit’s memories, including details about evil spirits and ordinary life on the planet.
• Orsaga decided the planet’s growing numbers of evil spirits and aberrations were the only matter there worth investigating.
• Orsaga considered destroying the planet to expose the phenomenon’s cause but hoped to avoid provoking the plane’s consciousness.