Recaps

Kyle and Meltis arrived in Galos Cloud City, where Meltis’s mother saw Kyle and mistook him for her daughter’s partner. The chapter ended with Meltis learning that Kyle had noticed her mother watching them and offering to confront her.

• Leviael used a teleportation scroll to return toward the kingdom while the middle-aged man continued the Gray Caller Floating Airship to Galos Cloud City.
• Kyle arrived in Galos Cloud City with Meltis and asked De Roth how much the journey had cost; Meltis paid him two Intermediate Magic Crystals.
• Princess Fiole saw Meltis flying with Kyle and told her Head Maid, Elfrin, to arrange a welcome banquet under the pretext that Meltis had found a partner.
• Kyle sensed Fiole watching him from the Sky Tower and guessed she was Meltis’s mother.
• Meltis offered to beat up the silver-haired angel spying on Kyle, then turned embarrassed when he said the angel looked like her.

Kyle accompanied Meltis to Galos Cloud City, where he learned about its angel forces and the five Legendary ancestors honored there. Meltis described her great-aunt’s battle against five Outer God Saints, and Kyle asked where she was now.

• Meltis asked Kyle to forget her earlier words, and he agreed as they left the Floating Ship Port.
• A blue-haired maid welcomed Meltis back, and she and Kyle boarded a magic carriage to the Sky Tower.
• Meltis told Kyle she disliked the maid because she served as her mother’s eyes, and Kyle teased her about seeking revenge.
• Kyle observed that the Two-winged Angels patrolling the Sky Tower were transformed souls rather than true angels.
• Meltis showed Kyle the statues of her five Legendary ancestors and recounted their feats, including her great-aunt defeating five Outer God Saints.
• Kyle asked Meltis where her great-aunt was now.

Kyle visited Fiolet with Meltis, whose uncertainty about whether her parents knew her great-aunt's whereabouts remained unresolved. To correct Fiolet's mistaken belief that Kyle was Meltis's lover, he revealed Yusia Crown's Golden Feather, triggering a citywide blessing and leaving him suspecting Yusia Crown had deceived him.

• Kyle suggested that Meltis meet her parents, and she followed him while wondering if they knew where her great-aunt was.
• Fiolet welcomed Kyle and Meltis, then arranged for Meltis to change clothes and sent the other maids away.
• Fiolet told Kyle she had mistaken him for Meltis's lover and invited her kin to a banquet because of that assumption.
• Kyle revealed a Golden Feather gifted by Seraph Yuxia, and its power produced a vast phantom and a blessing that spread across Galos Cloud City.
• Fiolet recognized the phenomenon as a blessing from the Crown, while Kyle wondered whether Yusia Crown had deceived him.

Kyle arrived in Garros Cloudsea City, where Fiolet welcomed him and discussed his plan to recruit thirty Soul Intent Tier followers. Fiolet explained how difficult it was for angels to become legends, and revealed that she had spent more than eight hundred years stuck at the threshold.

• Fiolet apologized to Kyle for the city's inadequate welcome, and Kyle accepted her offer to make amends.
• Fiolet led Kyle through the great hall and seated him in the pavilion's honored northern position.
• Fiolet asked why Kyle had come to Garros Cloudsea City, and Kyle said he wanted to find thirty Soul Intent Tier followers.
• Fiolet said Kyle's guidance could give the followers a chance to become legends, while Kyle said their success would depend on them.
• Fiolet described the advantages angels gained after becoming legends and explained that she had remained at the threshold for over eight hundred years.

Kyle and Fiolet discussed Meltis’s future and the search for thirty Soul Intent rank followers before attending the Banquet in Galos Cloud City. Fiolet announced Kyle’s identity and invited qualified angels to seek his assessment, and Kyle agreed to consider them under harder trials.

• Kyle confirmed that Meltis would continue following him and asked Fiolet to help find twenty-five Soul Intent rank followers, after promising five to the Ilondewin Kingdom.
• Fiolet and Kyle arrived at the hall, where Meltis and her younger sister were bickering, and learned that Iksandor was returning late.
• Iksandor arrived, and Fiolet led Kyle and the angels into a side hall sealed off by Heavenly Script.
• Fiolet admitted that she had wrongly told the angels Meltis had brought back a companion and announced that Kyle was her teacher.
• Fiolet told the angels to send approved Soul Intent High-level candidates to Sky Tower for Kyle’s assessment.
• An angel asked Kyle for a chance to follow him, and Kyle said the angels’ trials would be more difficult than those of other candidates.

Velin completed and piloted his first hundred-meter-class Floating Battleship after four months of intensive work, while O'dor assessed its performance and planned further training. After testing its flight limits, O'dor began an aerial combat trial, leaving Velin to evade his attacks.

• Velin activated the Floating Battleship and successfully lifted it off under O'dor and Calista's supervision.
• Velin guided the ship upward until it reached its limit of eighty thousand meters, then descended to thirty thousand meters at O'dor's instruction.
• O'dor questioned Velin about Floating Battleship power sources and offered to teach him other methods, but Velin declined.
• O'dor announced a combat test, appeared outside the ship, and attacked with mana Spears as Velin maneuvered to evade him.

Velin endured O'dor's punishing test of his Floating Battleship and received an assignment to build two more ships. Meanwhile, Kyle finished two months of study and learned that 373 Soul Intent High-level Transcendents had arrived hoping to follow him.

• Velin evaded O'dor's attacks until the Magic Shield broke and Magic Spears damaged the Floating Battleship, then shut down systems to increase its speed.
• O'dor ended the test, praised Velin's control while criticizing his combat performance, and ordered him to build two more Floating Battleships within three years, including one at least 300 meters long and another at least 600 meters long.
• Velin set aside his frustration and began planning the 300-meter ship while O'dor repaired the damaged vessel with mana clones.
• In Galos Cloud City, Kyle spent sixty-four days reading magic-related Transcendent knowledge in the Sky Tower library, after defeating Iksandor in a duel.
• Meltis told Kyle that 373 Soul Intent High-level Transcendents had arrived after selection to follow him.

Kyle began the trial for the Soul Intent High-level Transcendents, requiring them to defeat one of his clones or withstand a thousand blows. An Eight-winged Female Angel fought one clone with her unusual magic, while the others studied its techniques and prepared for their own turns.

• Kyle welcomed the three hundred seventy-two Soul Intent High-level Transcendents and announced the first round of his trial.
• Kyle created ten clones of varying strengths, then watched from the stands as Meltis explained the rules and began the trial.
• An Eight-winged Female Angel chose an enhanced clone and was struck so quickly that she could not see its attack.
• The clone urged the female angel to use her best method, and she dispersed her armor and attacked from hidden locations across different planes.
• The clone countered her attacks with ease while the Transcendents watched and analyzed its fighting methods.

Kyle concluded the follower trial, accepting all thirty successful challengers and instructing them to gather at Sky Tower plaza in half a month. He also accepted five candidates from the Ilondewin Kingdom, then departed with Meltis, who did not realize he might be leaving his homeland for a long time.

• Kyle's avatar defeated Zalivila, encouraged her to keep improving, and learned that she had no surname.
• After seven days and seven nights, the trial ended with thirty successful Trial-takers and 342 failures; Kyle declared there would be no second round.
• Kyle told the thirty followers to gather at Sky Tower plaza in half a month and allowed them up to ten attendants each, while Meltis was permitted to bring one hundred.
• Kyle assessed and accepted five Soul Intent High-level Transcendents recommended by the Ilondewin Kingdom, but gave them no attendants.
• Meltis told Kyle he had chosen one hundred Four-winged Angels and beaten them into submission; Kyle asked whether he had said goodbye to his parents, then left with him.

Fiolet and Iksandor met with Kyle to ask him to care for Meltis and to compensate him for their earlier discourtesy with a valuable gift. After Kyle accepted, they agreed to visit his homeland, and Iksandor learned how powerful Kyle’s lord was.

• Meltis brought Kyle to meet her parents, then left after Fiolet dismissed her.
• Iksandor asked Kyle to take care of Meltis, while Fiolet presented a gift list as compensation for their previous discourtesy.
• Kyle inspected the valuable gifts, including battleships, angel armor, angels, and Oath Golden Fruits, and asked about the angels’ origins.
• Fiolet and Iksandor assured Kyle that the angels had been transferred or newly created according to the rules, and Kyle thanked them.
• Kyle invited Fiolet and Iksandor to visit his home, then told Iksandor that his lord’s avatars could defeat him in under a minute.

Kyle learned that the Hirsarel Crown had launched a massive war to save a Seventh Energy Level world from the Abyss, but he chose to return home rather than seek advancement in the conflict. He gathered his followers for the journey to Reality Space and arrived at a camp where thousands of angels awaited him.

• Iksandor told Kyle that the Hirsarel Crown had mobilized vast armies and angel legions to fight the Abyss and hoped the war would help it reach the next level.
• Kyle left the palace and resolved to return home after nearly a year away, while Iksandor and Fiolet speculated that Kyle or Meltis might be tied to the era's destiny.
• Kyle gathered the thirty-five followers who had passed the trial and their attendants, then sent them into the Messier Demiplane for the long journey to Reality Space.
• Kyle flew to Sarriel Barracks, where Fiolet and Iksandor had assembled thousands of angels and four Star-Radiant youths, including Meltis.
• Kyle saw that the Four-winged Angels were energetic, while the unmarked Two-winged Angels looked unfocused and puppet-like.

Kyle used World Origin to give three thousand two hundred angels new life and greater power, then received their eternal oath of loyalty and pledged his protection in return. He sent the angels into his Demiplane and stored fifteen floating battleships there.

• Meltis left the military camp, and Kyle manifested his Angel Power as Iksandor watched with envy.
• Kyle divided World Origin-infused Angel Power among two hundred Four-winged Angels and three thousand Two-winged Angels, strengthening the former and transforming the latter into new angelic beings.
• Over three hours, the Two-winged Angels awakened and knelt before Kyle, while some Four-winged Angels advanced in strength or evolved into Six-winged Angels.
• The three thousand two hundred angels swore eternal loyalty to Kyle, and he vowed to protect and guide them, formally forging an Eternal Oath with them.
• Kyle sent the angels into his Demiplane and stored three Saint Mark Type II Floating Battleships and twelve Radiant Wing Type IV Floating Battleships inside it.

Kyle returned to Qixing Territory after a twenty-three-month absence with Meltis, whom he planned to keep by his side for six months of training. After learning that the Underground World had fallen, Kyle offered to handle the matter with the troops he had brought back.

• Meltis left Galos Cloud City with Kyle after saying farewell to Fiolet and Iksandor.
• On November 19, 9781, Kyle and Meltis returned to Qixing Territory through a passage in the sky.
• Kyle told Meltis she would stay by his side for six months to learn before taking on battles.
• Velin welcomed Kyle back and told him the Underground World had fallen.
• Kyle offered to deal with the Underground World using his returning troops, surprising Velin, who wondered if Kyle had brought an entire Angel Army.

Kyle showed Velin the more than three thousand angels and thirty high-level Transcendents he had brought back, and Velin approved the new Dawn Camp. The two then inspected fifteen Floating Battleships, leaving Velin pleased but concerned that Qixing Territory lacked enough Spellcasters to operate its expanding fleet.

• Kyle led Velin into the Messier Demiplane, where more than three thousand angels assembled at his command.
• Velin learned that Kyle had also brought back thirty Soul Intent High-level followers, bringing Qixing Territory's new arrivals to thirty-five Transcendents of that rank.
• Kyle explained that the angels would form the Dawn Camp under Meltis, and Velin approved the name and suggested expanding it into a legion in the future.
• Velin said Qixing Territory would prepare to explore the Interlayer Space after conquering the Underground World and aim to test a Ten-Thousand-Meter Floating Battleship within five years.
• Kyle revealed that he had brought back fifteen Floating Battleships and led Velin to inspect them; Velin was delighted but worried that the territory lacked enough Spellcasters to crew its growing fleet.

Kyle delivered orders for the First Floating Fleet to receive twelve new hundred-meter-class warships, bringing its total to twenty-six vessels. Italia planned personnel changes before the fleet departed in three days, while she and Krell traded teasing orders at the port.

• Velin ordered the three kilometer-class warships assigned to Dawn Camp and the twelve hundred-meter-class warships transferred to Krell’s fleet.
• Krell returned to Landier Mountain and embraced Italia, who told him to lead the fleet personnel to Star Moon Fort to receive the ships.
• Italia explained that the First Floating Fleet would grow to twenty-six vessels and outlined its staffing and factional tensions.
• Italia planned to rotate five hundred spellcasters from the Lunar-class II ships and replace them with five hundred trainees before departure.
• Italia ordered Krell to clean the West Wind II Floating Warship, then arranged food and strong liquor for him that night.

Kyle inspected the Underground Auxiliary Army and selected its four strongest battalions for the assault on the Gadas Underground World. He assigned Kark to guard the supply line and Seraphina to oversee wartime logistics, leaving her wondering whether he planned to transfer her someday.

• Kyle reviewed the more than fifty thousand soldiers of the Underground Auxiliary Army with Caius, Kark, and Seraphina.
• Caius identified the Third Camp, Seventh Camp, Fifth Battalion, and First Battalion as the army’s strongest units, and Kyle sent the other six battalions back to camp.
• Kyle examined the four selected battalions and ordered Caius to requisition them for the assault on the Gadas Underground World, with the transfer order due in three days.
• Kyle tasked Kark’s Theo Fortress Battalion with guarding incoming military supplies for the next half month.
• Kyle appointed Seraphina to oversee the Underground World’s wartime logistics and told her she could put her ideas into practice, leaving her unsure what he meant.

Kyle prepared Caius to command four newly established battalions in the coming campaign to conquer the Gadas Underground World. At a military meeting at Theo Fortress, Meltis presented reconnaissance findings on the region and its Dark Elf tribes, and Kyle began issuing orders.

• Caius told Kyle that commanding the Underground Auxiliary Army had taught him to manage officers, though he lacked experience leading troops in combat.
• Kyle assigned Caius command of four newly established battalions, numbering over twelve thousand soldiers, and gave him half a year to prepare them for the battlefield.
• Kyle’s forces transported supplies to Theo Fortress, trained the four battalions, constructed a teleportation array, and sent Dark Elf assassins to scout the Gadas Underground World.
• At the June 11, 982 Radiant Calendar military meeting, Meltis reported that the Gadas Underground World was divided among the Iris, Oricxos, and Draksil Tribes, and that the Iris and Oricxos were fighting over a city-state.
• Kyle announced that he would issue orders for the campaign, and the assembled generals stood ready to hear them.

Kyle organized the invasion of the Iris Tribe and sent Meltis to command Dawn Camp in the assault on Iris City. As the Angels assembled above the city, Meltis formed them into a battle formation and Kyle ordered the attack to begin.

• Kyle assigned the forces for the campaign, ordered Silver Rank Iris Tribe professionals killed without accepting surrender, and set the attack to begin in three days.
• Kyle told Meltis that she would command Dawn Camp in the assault on Iris City while he oversaw the battle.
• Kyle planned to rotate newly formed battalions through the war before developing the Pioneer Interlayer Space, then returned to the surface and headed for Star Moon Fort.
• Kyle and Meltis traveled with six Soul Intent High-level Angels to Iris City, where Kyle surveyed its defenses and the enslaved population.
• Kyle opened the Messier Demiplane and deployed 3,200 Angels; Meltis formed them into a 3,201-Angel battle formation, and Kyle ordered the attack to begin.

Meltis led the Angel Army in a devastating attack on Iris City, slaughtering the Dark Creatures in its Outer City while Dark Elf Matriarch Ilisik sealed herself inside a barrier. As Meltis gathered her forces outside the barrier, Ilisik resolved to sacrifice the city's inhabitants to preserve the Iris Tribe.

• Meltis led 3,201 angels in an assault that split Iris City and destroyed hundreds of palaces.
• Dark Elf Matriarch Ilisik abandoned the Outer City and raised a Divine Art Barrier around the Inner City District.
• Meltis ordered her angels to divide into squads and slaughter the unprotected Dark Creatures across the Outer City.
• A squad of angels killed Shaffra and more than a hundred Dark Creatures as they tried to flee toward the Inner City.
• The Angel Army wiped out the Outer City’s Dark Creatures in two hours, while Kyle watched and judged the angels’ fighting ability.
• Meltis regrouped outside the Divine Art Barrier, and Ilisik planned to sacrifice the city’s inhabitants to preserve the Iris Tribe.

Ilisk forced the Dark Elves inside the temple to produce sacrifices, and twenty-eight were left injured on the ground while nineteen survivors departed. Outside Iris City, Meltis and six other high-level angels used the Seraphic Sky Formation to drain the Divine Art Barrier’s power, leaving the barrier visibly weakened.

• Ilisk sealed the temple and revealed that she needed fifteen Dark Elves as sacrifices, threatening to choose victims herself if none were nominated.
• The Dark Elves turned on one another, capturing and maiming their weaker kin until Ilisk counted twenty-eight sacrifices and allowed nineteen survivors to leave.
• Ilisk lifted the sacrifices and carried them to the bloody altar beneath the temple.
• Meltis noticed the Dark Elves returning in reduced numbers and decided to break through the Divine Art Barrier with the Seraphic Sky Formation.
• Meltis and six Soul Intent High-level Angels gathered their Angel Power into a sphere that rapidly consumed the divine power sustaining the barrier.

The angels broke the Dark Elf defenses in Iris City and hunted down the leaders who tried to escape. After Miserandor killed Matriarch Ilisik, Kyle confirmed that tens of thousands of Dark Creatures had been wiped out.

• The Divine Art Barrier shattered, and the Dark Elves scattered while Meltis rallied the angels to pursue them.
• Miserandor and five other angels entered the temple, where Spider Queen Lolth’s statue vanished and Zalivila caused the temple to crumble away.
• An angel exposed the bloody altar, forcing Ilisik to abandon her unfinished Shadow Hunter Spider Demon and flee.
• Miserandor caught Ilisik after her teleportation scroll carried her only a short distance, then tortured and killed her.
• Kyle killed a fleeing Low-Gold Dark Elf Priest, and an hour later the angels had exterminated the tens of thousands of Dark Creatures in Iris City.

Kyle led Meltis and the Angel Army west toward Vishak, where the Iris Tribe faced the Oricxos Tribe. He delayed the attack to test Meltis’s command and the army’s limits, while the Spider Queen’s oracle prompted the Oricxos to join the Iris Tribe against the angels.

• Kyle accepted Meltis’s uncertain report that the Iris Tribe’s territory had been cleared and ordered the army west.
• In Vishak, Safrais ordered two prisoners to fight for her amusement, then sent scouts to investigate reports of enemies approaching from the sky.
• The scouts returned terrified, reporting that angels had arrived and that the Great Matriarch was dead, so Safrais hurried to the army camp.
• Kyle told Meltis to wait until Safrais returned and deployed her forces, explaining that the battle would train the Angel Army and test its limits.
• After Safrais began mobilizing the Iris army, Priest Verisys delivered the Spider Queen’s oracle to Malexis, who prepared the Oricxos army to cross the river and fight the angels.

Meltis led the Angel Army against the Iris Tribe, devastating its forces while Safrais used forbidden power to transform herself for a final stand. As Meltis charged at her, the Eight-winged Angels sensed the approaching Soul Intent reinforcements from the Oricxos and Draksil tribes.

• Kyle sensed Soul Intent Dark Elves approaching and ordered Meltis to begin the attack.
• Meltis led the Angel Battle Formation against Safrais's Iris Tribe army, and the angels swiftly crippled much of the slave force without suffering injuries.
• Safrais sacrificed fifty Dark Elf warriors to create a mass of black water, then let its incomplete Forbidden Power envelop her.
• The Eight-winged Angels recognized Safrais's forbidden transformation, while Feryn spotted opponents approaching from the west.
• Meltis charged at Safrais as the transformed Dark Elf prepared to fight.

Meltis fought Safrais, whose body was controlled by Forbidden Power, while Kyle’s angels engaged the arriving Dark Elf forces near the Dark River. The fighting devastated the area and spread across the battlefield, with the Spider Queen taking the soul of a fallen Dark Elf as Meltis continued trying to overcome Safrais’s rapid regeneration.

• Meltis attacked Safrais with Light Spears, and Safrais tore the souls from her fallen warriors to forge a weapon before charging at the angel.
• Malexis ordered the Oricxos Tribe’s army to delay crossing the Dark River, while the Great Priest of the Iris Tribe retreated and watched the battle.
• Kyle sensed twenty-one Soul Intent rank Dark Creatures and sent six Soul Intent High-level Angels to attack them as the Dark Creatures joined forces.
• Kyle ordered 3,200 angels to retreat farther away as powerful clashes shattered the Dark River and sent the Oricxos Tribe’s slave army into a rout.
• The Spider Queen claimed the soul of the first fallen Soul Intent rank Dark Elf, and Kyle relaxed after seeing that she did not enter the battle.
• Meltis kept fighting Safrais after shattering half her body, but Safrais restored herself almost instantly.

Miserandor intercepted Verisys as the angels wiped out the remaining Dark Elves, while Kyle ended Safrais’s battle with Meltis. Safrais recounted her race’s punishment in the Eternal Silence Sea Abyss, and a familiar figure appeared to answer her question about the price.

• Verisys activated a teleportation scroll to escape, but Miserandor waited along her route and confronted her.
• Miserandor recognized Verisys as a survivor of the Dark Elf forces and challenged her to fight.
• Kyle intervened when Safrais began overpowering Meltis, then destroyed Safrais’s original soul with a strike from Spear of Putrank.
• Safrais re-formed her soul fragments and told Kyle that her race had been erased and sentenced to the Eternal Silence Sea Abyss after following a Forbidden Figure.
• A voice answered Safrais that her race’s suffering was the price, and Kyle turned to see a familiar figure appear.