Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi and the Furnace Witches watched Penelope’s journey through the Radiant Catastrophe and Bliss’s unwavering protection of her. Penelope parted from Randyl and reached Mount Denali, where Tang Qi recognized a rift leading to the Battlefield of the Gods.

• Bliss slaughtered the jellyfish monsters threatening Penelope, and she woke with another soul-purifying whip mark before continuing her journey.
• Penelope fought a young Spirit of Nature named Randyl, who restored her human form, while Bliss watched from the forest’s edge in confusion and sorrow.
• Tang Qi told the Furnace Witches that Bliss would stay with Penelope to the end, then deflected their questions about his romantic experience by invoking the Master’s instructions.
• Penelope left Randyl to pursue revenge and crossed the wasteland with Bliss following her, until they reached the foot of a mountain buried in radiant dust.
• Tang Qi identified the mountain as Mount Denali and said a rift at its summit led to the Battlefield of the Gods.

Tang Qi and the Furnace Witches watched Penelope climb the Black Sky Ladder toward a doorway into the Battlefield of the Gods, where Little Tadpole appeared to protect her from the Radiant Catastrophe. A divine artifact pierced him, and as he dissolved, he passed Penelope toward the doorway; she turned back to look at him.

• Tang Qi explained that the Radiant Catastrophe came from an ongoing war in a new Battlefield of the Gods beyond the rift atop Mount Denali.
• Penelope entered the Ray Torrent and climbed the Black Sky Ladder despite the repeated torment it inflicted on her body.
• Little Tadpole, grown into a Domo Giant, appeared and shielded Penelope as he carried her up the ladder against the torrent.
• Little Tadpole reached the doorway, but a Black Crystal spear fragment emerged and pierced him, causing his body to dissolve.
• Little Tadpole passed Penelope toward the doorway as he faded, and Penelope turned back to look at him.

Tang Qi and the Furnace Witches witnessed a world-destroying light erase and remake Origin Star, then encountered the decaying Bliss with missing students in his protection. Tang Qi sensed a connection between the Time-Space Bubble’s altered history and the Origin Divine Race, leaving the cause of the catastrophe unresolved.

• A destructive light swept across Origin Star, shattering and reassembling the world while Tang Qi and the forty Furnace Witches were caught in the upheaval.
• Tang Qi awoke on Mount Denali to find the Time-Space Barrier expanded around a vast white expanse filled with cycling Time-Space Fragments.
• Bliss appeared on the summit, weakened and decaying, with a Black Spear still pinning him through the chest and abdomen.
• Bliss explained that he could no longer suppress the spear constantly, and the Furnace Witches saw that he had protected the missing students in tentacle-wrapped shields.
• Tang Qi tried to use Omniscience but sensed overwhelming danger and connected the altered history and world-destroying light to the Origin Divine Race.

Bliss explained that a Time-Space Bubble preserved a restarted timeline in which Penelope suffered a tragic life, and asked Tang Qi and the Furnace Witches to intervene. She revealed that the bubble would collapse when she died and begged them to kill her so Penelope could have a happy life there too.

• Tang Qi questioned Bliss about the sleeping high school students, and she explained that she had put them to sleep for their protection.
• Bliss said she had learned from the students that history had changed and that Penelope's parents had survived, making Penelope a legendary protector of humanity.
• Bliss described how she had been caught as the anchor of a Time-Space Bubble after a power restarted the timeline, and warned that the bubble held a trace of that power.
• Bliss explained that the bubble would collapse when she died and asked Tang Qi to help Penelope live without suffering in this timeline.
• Bliss showed Tang Qi a scene of a young Penelope approaching a phosphorescent stream and begged him to kill her.

Bliss asked Tang Qi Number Two to kill his childhood self and collapse the Time-Space Bubble before the cycle with Penelope began again. Tang Qi entered the past and seized the young Bliss, but the Domo Giant's defensive evolution began as Tang Qi prepared a brilliant burst of Furnace Magic Power.

• Bliss asked Tang Qi Number Two to kill the version of himself who had not yet met Penelope, offering his body, an artifact fragment, and his Graffiti Works as payment.
• Tang Qi Number Two judged Bliss sincere and agreed, then entered the Time-Space Cycle through a doorway in the barrier around Mount Denali.
• Tang Qi crossed into the Dark Age and saw childhood Bliss in the stream before Penelope reached him.
• Tang Qi resisted the stream's soul-controlling power and grabbed the tadpole-like Bliss.
• Bliss began rapidly evolving into a Domo Giant, and Tang Qi summoned a brilliant sun of Furnace Magic Power to end the cycle.

Tang Qi and the Furnace Witches escaped the collapsing Time-Space Bubble after Bliss vanished, bringing back a Black Crystal spear fragment and Bliss’s mysterious Graffiti Work. As Tang Qi prepared to examine them aboard the Eternal Siren, the ship struck an iceberg and began to sink.

• Tang Qi watched the Time-Space Bubble collapse and returned from Mount Denali as Bliss thanked him and disappeared, leaving a Black Crystal spear fragment and a Graffiti Work.
• Tang Qi rescued the suicidal high school students and led the forty Furnace Witches out of the collapsing bubble through a doorway to Emperor Station.
• Tang Qi told the Furnace Witches they had passed and urged them to build their strength for a future mission, while Klaus Lovich complained that they had been left at the foul-smelling station.
• Aboard the Eternal Siren, Tang Qi examined the divine objects and saw that Bliss’s Graffiti Work resembled a miniature world that might hold answers about the altered timeline.
• The Eternal Siren struck a massive iceberg, triggering alarms and panic as passengers rushed toward the escape boats and life vests.

Tang Qi discovered that the drifting iceberg threatening the Eternal Siren was an animated toy belonging to a colossal ocean beast. A giant red crab emerged from the sea and trapped the ship in a bubble, leaving Tang Qi and the conscious supernaturals facing it.

• Tang Qi and Tom Larkin learned that a drifting iceberg had appeared in the Siren's path and threatened to capsize the ship.
• Tang Qi used Omniscience and discovered that the iceberg was an animated toy belonging to an unknown ocean giant beast.
• The sea erupted in hypnotic sound waves that knocked out ordinary passengers and weakened many supernaturals, while Tang Qi warned the Sword Bearers not to act rashly.
• A huge, rainbow-lit water bubble rose from the seabed and began enveloping the Eternal Siren.
• A giant red crab emerged from the sea with the iceberg on its head, staring curiously at the ship and its remaining conscious defenders.

Tang Qi identified the Giant Red Crab as Miskatata, a powerful collector that had trapped the Eternal Siren in a bubble, and searched its collection for something the Sword Bearers could release to distract it. As Miskatata closed in, Tang Qi recognized a familiar spotted octopus among the collectibles.

• Tang Qi learned that Miskatata had captured the Eternal Siren because it coveted rare ships, and he stopped Conan Julius Fesso from attacking prematurely.
• Tang Qi found Miskatata's collection room beneath its abdomen and proposed breaking a bubble to distract the crab and let the Siren escape.
• Tang Qi examined the imprisoned ships and Sea Monsters, including a Deep Sea Sunfish, a white whale, a Kelp Sea Serpent, and a Vitan Bone Dragon, looking for a useful candidate.
• Tang Qi spotted a dark-blue-spotted octopus in one bubble, and the creature turned its eye to meet his gaze.

Tang Qi befriended the Monarch Octopus imprisoned in Miskatata’s bubble and told it that Miskatata had deceived it. The Monarch Octopus began breaking free, and Tang Qi ordered the Eternal Siren to escape before the confrontation’s aftermath reached them.

• Tang Qi recognized the Monarch Octopus in Miskatata’s collection and learned that Miskatata had lured it into the bubble as a collectible.
• Tang Qi offered to help the Monarch Octopus search for the Mystic Monarch and accepted its friendship, despite the danger of becoming an ally to its race.
• Tang Qi told the Monarch Octopus that Miskatata was deceiving it and advised it to admonish Miskatata rather than abandon their friendship.
• The Monarch Octopus offered to break the bubble, then rapidly expanded and clashed with Miskatata as its Master Level power threatened to shatter the prison.
• Tang Qi warned Chief Conan to move the Eternal Siren away, and an enormous azure-blue storm descended as the Sword Bearers saw a terrifying shadow.

Tang Wang used a mysterious language to turn the Monarch Octopus against Miskatata, allowing the Eternal Siren to escape. He left to rest while Chief Conan prepared to replace the passengers’ memories, and Tang Wang continued keeping his identity separate from the famous Tang Qi.

• The Monarch Octopus appeared, seized Miskatata, and dragged it beneath the sea as the Eternal Siren fled the waves.
• Tang Wang exchanged friendship imprints with the Monarch Octopus and explained that he had told it Miskatata knew where to find the Mystic Monarch.
• Chief Conan praised Tang Wang’s knowledge and spoke of the legendary Tang Qi, whom he wanted to challenge.
• Tang Wang returned to his cabin with the three little fellows, maintaining his invented identity as a scholar named Tang Wang.
• Chief Conan asked whether he had killed the conversation again, and the Sword Bearers prepared to implant new memories in the passengers.

Tang Qi entered Bliss’s graffiti work in Dreamland and was pulled into a scene from the Church of Light’s history. He watched Martin Sims provoke Holy Nun Theresa beneath the statue of the Lord of Light, and the quarrel remained unresolved.

• Tang Qi examined the Annihilation Life Spear fragment and learned it had belonged to Balest, the fallen God of Death, Pain, and Despair.
• Tang Qi examined Bliss’s graffiti work, learned that reading it could have dangerous consequences, and chose to read it inside Dreamland.
• Tang Qi entered the miniature universe of painted scenes and selected a stable image that seemed to depict two people kissing.
• The scene transported Tang Qi to the Holy Hall, where he recognized Martin Sims and Holy Nun Theresa.
• Martin Sims taunted Theresa by asking who would need her service besides the statue of the Lord of Light, enraging her.

Tang Qi explored Bliss’s Graffiti Work and glimpsed a hidden history involving a one-eyed Origin Divine Race Giant, but the vision destabilized the work and cost him three days. After returning to the Siren at the Knova Islands, he learned the Furnace Witches had grown stronger and set out to investigate a Church of Light bounty mission involving a local branch.

• Tang Qi viewed several scenes in Bliss’s Graffiti Work before a vision showed an eye-gouged Origin Divine Race Giant falling through a rift as other Giants reached for him.
• Tang Qi speculated that the Origin Divine Race had fought the gods and that the history had been erased, then was forced out of the unstable artwork.
• Tang Qi learned that he had spent three days viewing the painting and that the Siren had safely reached the Knova Islands.
• Tang Qi Number Two confirmed that all forty Furnace Witches had survived and grown stronger, then reviewed a bounty mission issued by the Church of Light.
• Tang Qi arrived on Knova Island with Tom Larkin and said they needed to learn what had happened to the local branch.

Tang Qi learned that the Church of Light planned to eradicate the Terror Gnawers and realized the hunt was meant to showcase the Church’s power after its Master’s return. Despite Stana warning him not to participate, Tang Qi prepared to use the operation as a stage for the New Era’s Furnace Witches, summoning his Master with the Mesoliya Soup Pot.

• Tang Qi received the Church of Light’s bounty notice declaring war on the Terror Gnawers and studied maps of their strongholds, including their headquarters beneath Mount Saint Huntington.
• Tang Qi deduced that the Church had sealed off the Terror Gnawers’ headquarters to orchestrate a public destruction, and Rose Madeline confirmed the Church’s plan and explained that the Gnawers had tried to summon a Subordinate God.
• Stana sent Tang Qi an urgent warning not to participate in the Church’s operation.
• Tang Qi concluded that the Church underestimated him and decided to use its grand campaign to unveil the New Era’s Furnace Witches.
• Tang Qi opened the Mesoliya Soup Pot and summoned his Master from the Furnace Universe through a gateway of golden flame.

News spread that the Church of Light had declared total war on the Terror Gnawers, prompting supernatural beings across the Divine Eagle Federation to decide whether to join the fight. Stan Duplessis accepted an invitation to help in Carthage City, while Ailey revealed her strength at the Non-Human Bar and left the crowd stunned.

• Major supernatural organizations and individuals received the Church of Light's announcement and reward notice, while the Manor Bureau and Merida Special Education School chose not to get involved.
• Schuttel resigned from his job at the Erebus haunted house and headed for a church outpost to join the fight.
• Stan Duplessis heard Arisa Scott's invitation to cooperate in Carthage City and agreed to grow stronger to protect his family and help his allies.
• At the Non-Human Bar, Annie Fox and the Furnace Witches learned of the Church of Light's call for supernatural beings to join the war.
• Annie told Ailey to finish her cage match, and Ailey struck the giant monster with her hammer, sending it crashing into the wall.

Tang Qi Number Two inspected the Furnace Witches’ rapid progress and agreed to lead them to Carthage City to sacrifice the Terror Gnawers’ Subordinate God. When the war began ahead of schedule, he brought the forty witches to the city, where the Church of Light and the Terror Gnawers were already drawing Transcendentalists into battle.

• Denzel thought he recognized a red-haired woman at the Eagle's Nest Building, but she disappeared when he looked again.
• Tang Qi Number Two met the forty Furnace Witches and was satisfied by how much they had improved through fighting together.
• Ailey and the others eagerly proposed ways to exploit the conflict between the Church of Light and the Terror Gnawers to sacrifice the Subordinate God.
• Tang Qi Number Two confirmed their target, then sensed the Holy Pillar of Light shatter and ordered the Furnace Witches aboard the Ship of Fools.
• The Ship of Fools carried Tang Qi Number Two and the forty witches to Carthage City, where they saw the Church's barriers, the approaching Transcendentalists, and the conflict unfolding below.

Tang Qi watched the Terror Gnawers unleash hordes of monsters across Origin Star as the Church of Light fought them in brutal battles throughout the Federation. As the Church opened the Kingdom of Light and Charles I descended, the New Pope appeared, beginning the struggle over who would lead the New Era.

• Nearly a thousand Devouring Believers leaped into an abyss in the Huntington Mountain Range, and the Terror Gnawers sent flesh cocoons and armies of monsters into the world.
• Tang Qi recognized the monsters as discarded materials gathered to create a vessel for a god’s descent and realized the Terror Gnawers were summoning a true god.
• Tang Qi revealed battles across the Federation in light mirrors, showing monsters attacking towns and villages while Church forces fought, civilians died, and survivors fled.
• Tang Qi told the Furnace Witches that the New Era was beginning and that he would step onto the stage, igniting their fervor.
• The Church of Light opened the Kingdom of Light above Carthage City, summoned heroic spirits to strengthen its army, and brought down Charles I.
• A perfect, bewitching man wearing the Golden Robe and Crown of Light appeared in the sky, and the onlookers recognized him as the New Pope.

The Church of Light’s new pope, Chuck Mario Chrisworth, took power with Charles I serving as his guardian, just as the Evil Seamstress descended from underground. The Battle Hymn of Light began a massive war between the Church’s forces and the monsters, and Charles I struck the emerging evil god with the Sacred Sword of Judgment.

• Arisa Scott revealed that Chuck Mario Chrisworth had once worked as a male stripper and explained how he became the Church’s new pope.
• Chuck Mario Chrisworth completed the Transfer of Authority with Charles I, who remained beside him as his guardian and empowered him as a God of the Mortal Realm.
• The Evil Seamstress emerged from underground, and Tang Qi identified it as a Subordinate God of Terror Gnawers that was merging with an Artificial Divine Body.
• The Evil Seamstress’s giant hand shattered the Huntington Mountain Range, forming a battlefield between its monstrous army and the Church’s Army of Light.
• The Battle Hymn of Light inspired the living to fight as Chuck Mario Chrisworth and Charles I attacked the Evil Seamstress.
• Charles I revealed his true form as the King of Angels and drove the Sacred Sword of Judgment through the Evil Seamstress’s head and into its body.

Evil Seamstress emerged in its complete form and overwhelmed the Army of Light, but the believers of Carthage City renewed their faith and summoned a vast power from the Kingdom of Light. The chapter ended with Evil Seamstress kneeling before the holy figure as the Transcendental World reacted in shock.

• Charles I and the Army of Light initially slaughtered Evil Seamstress’s monsters, but a true giant form of the evil god burst from beneath the Huntington Mountain Range.
• Evil Seamstress contaminated the battlefield and infected Transcendents and Carthage City residents, while Tang Qi identified its complete form fused with an Artificial Divine Body.
• Evil Seamstress attacked Charles I with the powers of stitched-together creatures and began overpowering the light warriors.
• Millions of believers in Carthage City chanted the Lord’s words, calling down a sea of holy light that restrained Evil Seamstress.
• The holy figure ordered Evil Seamstress to repent, and the evil god knelt before them.

The Church of Light’s staged victory became a display of the Lord of Light’s overwhelming power when he subdued Taka Kenstan. The Lord began transforming the Evil Seamstress into a servant of the Light, while the Terror Gnawers proved unable to intervene.

• Stan Duplessis and Arisa Scott recognized the Church of Light’s battle as a carefully arranged performance meant to showcase its power.
• Supernatural beings and rival organizations abandoned plans to disrupt the Church’s spectacle after seeing the Lord of Light suppress Taka Kenstan.
• The Lord of Light ordered Taka Kenstan to repent and submit, declaring that it would be imprisoned in the Kingdom of Light and renamed the Good Seamstress.
• Taka Kenstan’s body was marked with light as the Terror Gnawers’ Source Imprint emerged but failed to overcome the Kingdom of Light.
• Spectators realized the Lord of Light was forcibly changing Taka Kenstan’s faction and humiliating the Terror Gnawers, which could not save its subordinate.

As the Church of Light and the Terror Gnawers fought over Taka Kenstan, chaotic Evil God Organizations invaded the Kingdom of Light and turned the battle into a spectacle. Tang Qi declared himself a Lucky Audience Member and unleashed his Furnace Flame, plunging from the Ship of Fools toward the fight.

• Taka Kenstan begged the Terror Gnawers to devour him rather than become a Subordinate God of the Lord of Light, and they began consuming him.
• The Lord of Light reversed the contamination of Taka Kenstan's stitching threads, provoking the Terror Gnawers into a struggle with the Lord over him.
• Evil God Organizations, including Simon Baker, burst into the Kingdom of Light and joined the battle as the Transcendental World watched.
• Tang Qi explained that the Church of Light had staged the conflict to prove its strength, then said it had overlooked the role of a Lucky Audience Member.
• Tang Qi unleashed his Furnace Flame and launched himself from the Ship of Fools toward the earth.