Chapter Summaries

Ang defeated Dax and Damodi on the northern city wall, ending the Demon assault and securing a decisive victory. After the defenses were restored and the battlefield cleared, Ang announced the win and heard that nearly sixteen hundred Demons had been killed.

• As the Holy Light Spear arrays resumed firing, Ang realized Dax had been evading his attacks deliberately and transformed into a towering eight-armed form.
• Ang restrained Dax, overwhelmed his defenses, and tore off his head, prompting the soldiers on the northern wall to celebrate.
• Ang pursued Damodi, blocked his escape with a spiked Stone Wall, and killed him with a barrage of Holy Light Spears as the remaining Demons fled.
• Ang returned to the wall and dismissed Six-armed Momentum, then told Quintina and the others to collect spoils while he recovered.
• The defenders restored the northern wall's defenses, and Pri reported that they had killed nearly sixteen hundred Demons without losing any of their more than two hundred Great Warriors.
• Ang declared victory, while the surviving warriors celebrated and Ang reflected on the magic crystals and Black Magic Mark Skin they had recovered.

Ang welcomed reinforcements at Blue Bridge Fortress and strengthened its defenses while the Demons stayed away. Meanwhile, Habakkuk rose to deputy commander, Qiong left the battlefield, and Preston asked Ang to assess a new defensive plan for Baker Fortress.

• Ang recounted how his 231 warriors defeated 4,000 Demons, and the arriving reinforcements eventually accepted the account after hearing from Blue Bridge Fortress's defenders.
• Ang persuaded the commander of Fokas Fortress to leave 100 warriors at Blue Bridge Fortress before the other reinforcements departed.
• Habakkuk became Deputy Commander of Byron Fortress, while Qiong left the God-Demon Battlefield after giving up her hope of avenging Heidni and committing herself to a legendary powerhouse.
• Ang reinforced Blue Bridge Fortress's northern wall with five additional Holy Light Spear arrays as he and Dana noted that less than half a year remained in their assignment.
• Preston visited Blue Bridge Fortress and asked Ang to calculate whether Holy Light Spear arrays could be installed on shorter Magic Towers at Baker Fortress.

Ang designed and rebuilt a section of Baker Fortress’s wall into a reinforced defense equipped with Holy Light magic arrays. After seeing Ang repel the Demons, Preston accepted the reconstruction, leaving Baker Fortress stronger against future attacks.

• Ang arrived at Baker Fortress with a plan to tear down and rebuild part of its wall, then helped defend it by shielding the Great Warriors and killing many Demons with Holy Light Spears.
• Preston hired Ang to stay and defend the fortress, and Ang agreed after confirming Blue Bridge Fortress was safe.
• Ang repelled a larger Demon attack before dawn, then Preston agreed to rebuild the vulnerable wall section immediately.
• Ang collapsed the old wall and spent three days rebuilding it with Earth Magic, adding reinforcement and three Holy Light Spear magic arrays.
• Preston praised the new wall, and Ang recognized that Baker Fortress’s survival was vital to protecting Blue Bridge Fortress and Indy Mountain Pass.

Ang tested the Holy Light Spear formations at Baker Fortress, drove back a demon assault, and left Preston in charge before returning to Blue Bridge Fortress. As the fighting stalled elsewhere on the First Defense Line, Fitz ordered Ang and Preston to report to Fokas Fortress.

• Ang activated Baker Fortress's Holy Light Spear formations and helped crush a demon assault by striking its commander and firing holy light arrows.
• Ang taught Preston how to operate and maintain the formations, then left Baker Fortress in his care.
• Ang returned to Blue Bridge Fortress and checked with Hansen about conditions at Indy Mountain Pass and the steady supply of Black Magic Crystals from Fokas Fortress.
• At Fokas Fortress, Fitz rejected a proposal to send Blue Bridge's commander to support the stalled attacks on Linqi Fortress, Blackstone Fortress, and three other fortresses.
• Fitz ordered the commanders of Blue Bridge Fortress and Baker Fortress to report for duty at Fokas Fortress.

Ang was summoned to Fokas Fortress, where Commander Fitz learned about his Holy Light Spear magic array and considered expanding it to other fortresses. After Svenborn was sent back to Baker Fortress, Ang was kept behind to attend a meeting with fourteen late-stage Tier 2 Great Warriors.

• Ang handed Blue Bridge Fortress's defenses to Dana and flew to Fokas Fortress, where he met Svenborn outside the gates.
• Commander Fitz questioned Ang and Svenborn about their fortresses, and Ang explained how he had built and enhanced the Holy Light Spear magic array at Blue Bridge Fortress.
• Svenborn reported that Ang's array had saved Baker Fortress from heavy losses, prompting Fitz to consider replicating it across the defensive line.
• Fitz told Ang and Svenborn to stay at Fokas Fortress for two days while he considered the resources needed to rebuild other fortresses' walls.
• Ang exchanged his Merit Points for Tier 2 magical materials to prepare a Tier 2 Enchanted Armament, then received orders to attend a meeting alone.
• Ang entered a meeting with fourteen late-stage Tier 2 Great Warriors, and Commander Fitz arrived and took the seat at the head of the table.

Ang attended Commander Fitz’s meeting about retaking the lost fortresses and proposed extending Blue Bridge Fortress’s Holy Light Spear magic array. The other commanders resisted the plan over its risks and costs, and Ang returned to Blue Bridge Fortress after Fitz gave him permission to leave.

• Commander Fitz rebuked the Great Warriors for their role in losing the First Defense Line, and Felliman challenged him and questioned Ang’s loyalty.
• Fitz praised Ang’s defenses at Blue Bridge Fortress and Baker Fortress, then presented the Holy Light Spear magic array as a solution that could be replicated.
• Hexi asked Ang to explain the array, but the commanders objected to the costs, maintenance, and need to rebuild fortress walls.
• Ang explained how the array worked and argued that old fortresses could be rebuilt quickly, but the commanders remained unconvinced.
• Fitz dismissed Ang from the meeting, and that night Ang flew back to Blue Bridge Fortress on his Magic Broom.

Ang returned to Blue Bridge Fortress and decided to scout the wilderness for Black Magic Crystals while drawing demons toward the fortress’s Holy Light Spear magic array. On the first expedition, his team stumbled into a nest of Cave Demon Spiders and fought back as the spiders attacked.

• Ang returned to Blue Bridge Fortress, told Quintina about the dispute at Fokas Fortress, and announced that he would lead a team into the wilderness.
• Ang explained his plan to gather Black Magic Crystals and lure demons to Blue Bridge Fortress, and Dana and the others welcomed the idea.
• Ang led Dana, Quintina, Gweny, Gesang, and the rest of the team beyond the northern wall to scout the wilderness.
• Dana’s sabertooth tiger fell into a pit, and a Cave Demon Spider shot a corrosive web at him.
• Ang sensed thirteen Cave Demon Spiders underground, and more than thirty spiders erupted from their tunnels to surround the team.
• Ang raised earthen walls and sent Earth Spears at the spiders while Quintina, Gesang, and the others attacked.

Ang led his team through the wilderness beyond Blue Bridge Fortress, clearing beast nests and surveying the terrain. After surviving a dangerous encounter with a Level 5 Chaos Demon Spider, they finished mapping the area and continued north toward the Demons, reaching an ebony forest.

• Dana and Gweny helped the team defeat a swarm of Cave Demon Spiders, and Ang sealed the pit so they could kill the rest.
• Ang led the team in surveying hundreds of square kilometers beyond Blue Bridge Fortress and clearing manageable magical beast nests.
• A Level 5 Chaos Demon Spider badly wounded Dana and injured Gweny and Ade before Ang used his Eight-armed form to kill it and heal the wounded.
• The team completed its survey and learned that the terrain rose northward toward the Demons' territory, so Ang led them farther north to draw the Demons' attention.
• The group entered a forest of black, iron-hard ebony trees, and Ang warned everyone to be careful in the difficult terrain.

Ang and his team discovered that demons were using Ebony Forest to supply three camps making throwing spears, then attacked the camps and set the forest ablaze to provoke the demon rear. They flew away as the demons watched helplessly, and Ang expected the demons to respond.

• Ade struggled to chop ebony until Gweny felled several trees, while demons secretly watched the humans leave and carried cut ebony to their camp.
• Ang spotted a demon camp carving ebony spears and, after more demons arrived, marked its location and found two other spear-making camps nearby.
• Ang abandoned his plan to scout deeper into the demon rear and instead ordered the team to harass all three camps and lure demons toward Blue Bridge Fortress.
• Before dawn, Ang split the team into three groups, and they bombed the sleeping demons and ignited the camps.
• Ang and his team set Ebony Forest ablaze with more magic bombs, then flew away beyond the demons' spear range.

Ang led the Demons to Blue Bridge Fortress, where its defenses and a coordinated ambush wiped out nearly a thousand attackers. After witnessing the victory, Commander Hexi asked Ang to help transform Blackstone Fortress, but Ang postponed the discussion until the next day.

• Ang and his group burned Ebony Forest and harassed the pursuing Demons as they lured them toward Blue Bridge Fortress.
• Ang warned the fortress to prepare, and the Demons rested outside its walls before reinforcements from two battalions joined them.
• Ang ordered the fortress's Holy Light Spear arrays to fire as the Demons charged, while he and Isi raised an earth wall behind them to block their retreat.
• The fortress warriors and Ang killed nearly a thousand Demons, and Puri carried the exhausted Isi back to safety.
• Hexi watched the battle and asked Ang to help improve Blackstone Fortress, but Ang ordered the battlefield cleaned up and put off their discussion until the next day.

After Blue Bridge Fortress repelled repeated Demon attacks, Hexi asked Ang to rebuild Blackstone Fortress with defenses like his own. Ang led the bombardment and clearing of Blackstone Fortress, leaving the site ready for reconstruction.

• Hexi watched the Holy Light Spear magic array defeat two Demon offensives and asked Ang to rebuild Blackstone Fortress with similar defenses.
• Ang explained that Blackstone Fortress would need to be completely rebuilt, with its canyon leveled and incorporated into the defensive line, and Hexi agreed.
• Ang scouted the wilderness, entrusted Blue Bridge Fortress to Puri, and traveled with Hexi to Blackstone Fortress.
• After catapults and earth-element Archmages arrived, Hexi ordered them to bombard Blackstone Fortress with Holy Light Bullets for three days.
• Hexi led warriors into the ruins, where they cleared the surviving Demons and collected scattered Black Magic Crystals.

Ang, Tuwen, and Montgomery built and enchanted Blackstone Fortress’s defenses to repel the Demons. After the completed fortress’s Holy Light Spear arrays wiped out a large invasion, Hexi’s warriors celebrated its return to human hands.

• Ang, Tuwen, and Montgomery raised a three-kilometer Stone Wall with two gate openings to channel the Demons toward Hexi’s guards.
• Ang and Hexi’s warriors reinforced the wall with slag while Ang explained that runes and elemental arrays were needed to make it withstand the Demons.
• Ang, Tuwen, and Montgomery raised the wall to fifty meters, then spent weeks completing its defenses as Tuwen and Montgomery rebuilt the fortress buildings.
• Ang and Tuwen sealed the canyon’s southern end, and six Magic Towers raised barriers over the fortress.
• After the Demons repeatedly attacked through the gates, the Holy Light Spear arrays killed an entire large invasion and yielded nearly two thousand Tier 2 Black Magic Crystals.
• Hexi declared that Blackstone Fortress had returned to human hands as the warriors cheered Ang, Tuwen, and Montgomery.

After Hexi reclaimed Blackstone Fortress, its Holy Light Spear formations helped him destroy a Demon force and impressed visiting commanders. Felliman rejected the rebuilding method and accused Ang of undermining humanity, prompting Fitz to summon and angrily confront him.

• Fitz celebrated Hexi's report that Blackstone Fortress had been reclaimed, and news of the victory spread through the fortresses under Fokas Fortress.
• Ang returned to Blue Bridge Fortress with two thousand Merit Points, while Hexi showed visiting commanders the rebuilt Blackstone Fortress.
• Hexi demonstrated the Holy Light Spear formations by wiping out more than a hundred Demons in under five minutes.
• Felliman refused to consider rebuilding Two Mountains Fortress with magic and wrote Fitz a report demanding an end to the method.
• Fitz summoned Felliman to headquarters and rebuked him for opposing the strategy, but Felliman insisted Ang might be a spy.

Fitz removed Felliman from command and sent him back to the empire, while Ang rebuilt the fortresses under Fokas Fortress and shared his Holy Light Spear magic array blueprint. After Ang and his group received approval to return home, a Tier 3 Foul Spirit attacked him on Blue Bridge Fortress’s wall, but an unknown middle-aged man drove it off.

• Fitz relieved Felliman of command and ordered him to leave the God-Demon Battlefield, and Felliman departed Fokas Fortress after failing to see him again.
• Ang helped rebuild twelve fortresses, and Fokas Fortress became the only stronghold on the first defense line to restore all its subordinate fortresses.
• Ang shared the Holy Light Spear magic array blueprint through the logistics department and earned more than five thousand merit points from exchanges.
• Ang exchanged merit points for equipment and supplies, then submitted a return application that Fokas Fortress approved three days before his term ended.
• A Tier 3 Foul Spirit ambushed Ang on Blue Bridge Fortress’s wall and shattered his defenses, but a middle-aged man in silvery-white enchanted armaments struck the demon with a spear and forced it to flee.

A silver-white figure arrived at Blue Bridge Fortress after Ang was struck down by a Tier 3 Foul Spirit with Demon blood and declared that Ang’s soul had been shattered. As the fortress fought off a Demon assault, Fitz ordered news of Ang sealed, and Hansen learned he had been appointed commander to help keep the truth quiet.

• Quintina and the warriors found Ang unconscious with a broken arm, and the silver-white figure revealed that a Tier 3 Foul Spirit had shattered Ang’s soul before vanishing.
• Quintina ordered everyone to secure Blue Bridge Fortress, then carried Ang inside as a Demon assault began; the warriors fought until the last Demon fell.
• The silver-white figure returned to Fokas Fortress and told Fitz that Ang was unlikely to survive, then warned him that the church might use Ang’s soulless body as a vessel for descent.
• Fitz ordered all news from Blue Bridge Fortress sealed and appointed Hansen as its new commander.
• Hansen traveled to Blue Bridge Fortress, heard Puli explain what had happened, and realized he had been chosen to conceal the news.

After Hansen became commander of Blue Bridge Fortress, Ang's companions chose to stay and guard him while they trained and repelled Demon attacks. Ang's consciousness reassembled, awakening a mysterious domain across the fortress, and Quintina noticed signs that he might soon wake.

• Hansen presented his appointment as commander, and Quintina insisted on staying beside the unconscious Ang.
• When their one-year term ended, Ang's companions chose to remain at Blue Bridge Fortress until he woke, and they sent letters to their families.
• Over the next month, the group repelled three Demon attacks and several warriors advanced in strength while Quintina guarded Ang.
• Ang's consciousness recovered its memories of being both Li Wei and Ang, and the original Ang's soul merged with him before he opened his eyes.
• A ripple from Ang slowed time across Blue Bridge Fortress, frightening a Foul Spirit Commander into retreat before the effect faded.
• Quintina noticed Ang's eyelids trembling and asked if he was going to wake.

After three months unconscious, Ang recovered from his injuries and awakened, revealing that he had regained his soul after acquiring the Law Seed of Deceleration from a Tier 3 Foul Spirit. His friends celebrated his return at Blue Bridge Fortress, where his awakening briefly caused a strange force field to slow everyone down.

• Quintina kept watch over Ang as he lay unconscious, while the fortress remained peaceful after the Demons stopped attacking.
• Ang realized the Law Seed of Deceleration had preserved his scattered soul and helped it reform, but he could not yet move his body.
• After three months, Ang heard Quintina and felt her holding his hand; he struggled until his fingers began gripping hers.
• Quintina summoned everyone, and the gathered friends watched Ang's hand move and his eyelids tremble before he opened his eyes.
• A decelerating force field briefly slowed the people in the room as Ang awakened, then faded as he greeted everyone.
• Ang comforted Quintina and his friends, joked with them, and asked them to bring him food.

After recovering, Ang used his control over the elements to help Dana and Gweny reach the late Great Warrior stage. He learned that Commander Fitz had concealed his condition to protect his body from the church, then planned to return to the Archipelago Plane after recovering and take revenge on the Demons.

• Ang regained his strength, emerged into the sunlight, and awakened his Six-armed Momentum.
• Ang guided elemental power into Dana and Gweny's momentums, helping them break through to the late Great Warrior stage.
• Ang explained that he had directed the elements rather than become a Legendary Warrior, and Dana and Gweny thanked him for their breakthroughs.
• The warriors celebrated Ang's return, and Hansen explained that Commander Fitz had taken charge of Blue Bridge Fortress to hide Ang's soul's dissipation from the church.
• Ang confirmed he would return to the Archipelago Plane and asked Hansen to defend Blue Bridge Fortress until he returned to target the Demon camp in the north.
• Ang told Quintina and Gesang that he would take a few days to recover before striking back at the Demons.

After recovering from the Tier 3 Foul Spirit’s attack, Ang sought soul-protective equipment and considered who had exposed him to the demons. He and his companions departed Blue Bridge Fortress and reached Weil Fortress, where they prepared to enter its teleportation array.

• Ang told Quintina that an unknown silver-white figure had left after declaring him beyond saving, and he resolved to find equipment that could protect his soul.
• Ang recovered fully, learned to use the Law of Deceleration in his Eight-armed form, and exchanged for three Teleportation Scrolls from Hansen.
• Hansen warned Ang that the demons’ ambush was likely no coincidence, and Ang suspected someone had leaked information about him.
• Hansen found no leads on soul-protection equipment, and Ang departed Blue Bridge Fortress with his group.
• Dana joked about wanting a flying magical pet as the group traveled, and his saber-toothed tiger leaped into the air before tiring.
• Ang and his companions arrived at Weil Fortress and headed toward its gates after discussing why its teleportation array stood outside the walls.

Ang entered Weil Fortress with his companions, then secretly traveled to the Demon territory to avenge himself by slaughtering camps near Ebony Forest. After infiltrating Tute City, the Demons' command center, he began searching for the Tier 3 Foul Spirit who had attacked him.

• Ang and his companions settled into Weil Fortress, explored its market, and Ang told Quintina he would return within a week before teleporting to Blue Bridge Fortress.
• Ang donned the Dark Armament, summoned the Nightmare King, and slaughtered all the Demons in three camps near Ebony Forest.
• Disguised as a Four-armed Foul Spirit, Ang infiltrated the main Demon camp and killed more than half its fifteen hundred Demons overnight.
• The Foul Spirit Commander ordered the survivors to retreat, and Ang followed them to Tute City, a Demon command center with nearly five thousand inhabitants.
• Ang learned that Tute City had dispatched most of the Demons attacking the western First Defense Line, then watched the commander who had led the retreat beheaded and turned his attention deeper into the city.