Chapter Summaries

Ang infiltrated Tute City to seek revenge on the half-demon-blooded ruler, then seized an opening to strike and escaped through a teleportation scroll. He reunited with Quintina and his companions at Weil Fortress and led them through the array to the God-Demon Battlefield.

• Ang disguised himself among Tute City's demons and identified the half-demon-blooded demon that had ambushed him.
• Ang discovered that the half-demon-blooded demon had taken Tute City from the ordinary Tier 3 Foul Spirit that built it.
• The half-demon-blooded demon announced its rule over Tute City, and Ang decided to attack when it inspected the stone house district.
• Ang used his Slowing Domain and eight Holy Light Spears to grievously wound the half-demon-blooded demon, then cut its Half-Demon Horn with a Spatial Blade as he escaped by teleportation scroll.
• Ang reunited with Quintina and his companions at Weil Fortress and led them through the Magic Teleportation Array to the God-Demon Battlefield.

Ang returned to the teleportation hall after defeating the Tier 3 Foul Spirit that had ambushed him, and he prepared to return to the Empire with his companions. In Tute City, Tutesuk killed the injured Tutadama, seized his demon bloodline, and began an assault on the fortresses under Byron Fortress, claiming revenge for Tutadama.

• Ang told Quintina and the others that he had found and gotten revenge on the Tier 3 Foul Spirit, then explained how he had passed the Grand Judge's trial.
• Ang led his companions toward Akreli's Magic Teleportation Array so they could return to the Empire.
• The injured Tutadama lured two newly arrived Tier 2 Foul Spirits close and devoured them to drive the Holy Light Power from his body.
• Tutesuk returned to Tute City, confronted the weakened Tutadama, and devoured him, gaining strength from his demon bloodline.
• Tutesuk mobilized his followers and attacked the fortresses under Byron Fortress, declaring that he was avenging Tutadama.

Ang and his companions returned from the God-Demon Battlefield to the Archipelago Plane, where their powerful auras startled people at the teleportation plaza. After traveling to Amnath City, they headed to the Governor's Mansion to reunite with Natiya.

• Habakkuk questioned the Holy Light Mages about Tutadama's killer and decided he needed to become stronger rather than rely on them.
• Ang and his companions discussed how the God-Demon Battlefield had changed them, then traveled from Akreli back to the Archipelago Plane.
• At the Fortress of Will teleportation plaza, Dana's aura frightened a soldier, and Ang calmed him with holy light.
• Dana and the others traveled by tram to Amnath City, where Ang said he had brought everyone home.
• Ang, Quintina, and Aisha headed to the Governor's Mansion, anticipating Natiya's reaction to their return.

Ang returned to the Governor's Mansion after more than a year away and reunited with Natiya and Quintina, then visited his family and strengthened the Purple-winged Bee colony. He left the bees with new resources and arranged to raise some at the Governor's Mansion.

• Ang returned to the Governor's Mansion with Quintina and Aisha, where Natiya realized he was truly home and rushed into his arms in tears.
• Natiya fainted from exhaustion, and Ang carried her and Quintina to rest; three days later, the three of them returned to the North Wind Territory.
• Ang reunited with his mother, Aida, and his young nephews at the family estate, then left with Quintina and Natiya for the Purple-winged Bee colony.
• Ang found that the Purple-winged Bees had grown to more than one hundred thousand and that their queen had become a Level 3 Magical Beast.
• Ang arranged to raise Purple-winged Bees at the Governor's Mansion, received an egg from the queen, and placed magical herbs, gems, and crystal cores around the colony to support its growth.

After recounting the God-Demon Battlefield, Ang demonstrated his Slowing Domain to Quintina and Natiya and explained his path toward becoming a Level Three Legendary Warrior. Back in Amnath City, he gathered his people to process the hundreds of Demon heads and more than a thousand Foul Spirit corpses he had brought back, leaving Gesang to marvel at their spoils.

• Quintina told Natiya about the God-Demon Battlefield, and Natiya praised Ang for putting others before himself.
• Ang demonstrated the Slowing Domain, letting Quintina and Natiya experience how it suppressed movement and reactions while straining his body.
• Ang told Quintina and Natiya that fusing his six mastered elements and condensing chaotic energy could let him become a Level Three Legendary Warrior.
• Ang, Quintina, and Natiya traveled by teleportation array from North Wind Territory to Amnath City, where Ang led them to the Magic Workshop.
• Ang summoned Puli, Ade, Gesang, and the others, then ordered them to extract Black Magic Crystals and salvage materials from more than four hundred Demon heads and over a thousand Tier 2 Foul Spirit corpses.
• After three days and nights of processing the corpses, Gesang looked at the spoils and said the happiness felt unreal.

After cleansing his companions of the lingering effects of Demon's resentment, Ang interrogated Joandi about the Black Magic Society's teleportation arrays. She identified Tanaster Province and Agnis Province as the locations of arrays directly controlled by the Society, and Ang left her in prison with an offer to guide him to one.

• Ang purified Gesang and the others with holy light and ordered them to rest for two days.
• Ang visited Joandi in Magic Prison, where she saw the resentful shadows of Demon surrounding him and told him only creatures with special Abyssal Prison bloodlines could see them.
• Ang demanded information about the Black Magic Society's private planes, punished Joandi with holy light when she claimed she could not reveal its secrets, and questioned her about the arrays.
• Ang had Joandi indicate provinces on a map, and she identified Tanaster Province and Agnis Province as holding arrays directly controlled by the Black Magic Society.
• Ang offered to release Joandi if she took him to a Society teleportation array, then left her alone as she wondered about Helen and her family.

Ang met with Candice and Leon in Fian City, gave them resources, and ordered them to uncover nobles tied to the Black Magic Society and its private planes. He sent Leon to sell diluted Tears of the Succubus and use the potions to extract secrets, then watched a caravan carry them to Lakeside City.

• Ang met Candice and Leon in a secluded tavern and learned that Candice controlled the Black Magic Society in Sava City while Leon had secured a foothold in the Society.
• Ang gave them two thousand magic crystals and ordered them to identify nobles with close ties to the Black Magic Society in Tanaster and Agnis Provinces.
• Leon told Ang that nobles in Tanaster Province feared conscription and that the Demon remained stalled outside Wolf City in the Maple Sugar Plane.
• Ang ordered Leon to sell five hundred diluted bottles of Tears of the Succubus and use ten undiluted bottles to seduce noblewomen and uncover secrets about private planes.
• Five days later, Ang watched a merchant caravan carrying the diluted potions disappear toward Lakeside City and hoped Candice and Leon would surprise him.

Leon used Tears of the Succubus to win Lady Lati’s favor and gather intelligence among Lakefront City’s nobles, then accepted a Black Magic Society assignment in hostile Lehol City. After Ang received Leon’s report, he told Quintina he planned to seize a private plane controlled by the Society for an experiment.

• Leon received a shipment from Fortress of Will and kept an icy silver case while sending the other materials to Mudinglin Magic Shop.
• Leon used Tears of the Succubus on Lady Lati, gained her favor, and entered Viscount Gatt’s social circle to gather information.
• Leon learned that someone in Lehol City had a private plane, and the Black Magic Society appointed him its person in charge there.
• Leon closed his shop, traveled to Lehol City, and sent Ang a secret report about his findings.
• Ang warned Leon to be careful and told Quintina he wanted to take a Black Magic Society private plane because buying coordinates would cost one hundred thousand Merit Points.

Ang completed a secret thousand-strong Nightmare Knight regiment and traveled to Lehol City after Leon uncovered the Maum Family’s ties to the Black Magic Society. Unable to find their hidden teleportation array, Ang followed a secret convoy to Ruse and infiltrated a manor disguised as a servant.

• Ang and Ad completed the summoning of a thousand nightmares, and Ang trained the knights until the Nightmare Knight regiment took shape.
• Ang sent the disguised Nightmare Knights into Tanaster Province and traveled to Lehol City, where Leon revealed that the Maum Family secretly belonged to the Black Magic Society and controlled a private plane.
• Leon gave Ang his gathered intelligence and returned to Lakefront City, while Ang investigated the Maum Family but found no teleportation array.
• Ang followed two Maum Family carriages from Lehol City to a manor in Ruse after suspecting they were transporting people.
• Ang knocked out a servant, used Shapeshifting to take his appearance, and entered the Ruse manor.

Ang infiltrated a Maum Family estate and discovered that the Black Magic Society had abducted women with pure souls for a sacrifice. He disguised himself as one of the captives and followed them through a teleportation array into the Sola Plane, where the women were confined in a palace ahead of the ritual.

• Ang used the Cloak of Concealment to follow carriage tracks into an underground chamber, where he found more than thirty captive women and learned that their souls were being examined.
• Ang disguised himself as a captive while observing a teleportation array and learned that it led to the Sola Plane, a private plane controlled by the Maum Family.
• An Archmage arrived with two Rank 1 Mages, confirmed the captives met the sacrifice requirements, and ordered them transported to the Sola Plane to recover.
• The Archmage killed the warrior guarding the captives by setting him on fire, then led the others through the array.
• Ang arrived with the captives at a palace in the Sola Plane, where the mages confined them in a luxurious side hall until the ritual.

Ang questioned Ula, a kidnapped noblewoman, and learned that they were imprisoned in the Sola Plane, an abandoned plane once jointly owned by Lehol City. He resolved to investigate the place himself after Ula could offer little beyond old family records and rumors of the Black Magic Society.

• As the imprisoned women broke down in tears, one clung to Ang, discovered he was a man in disguise, and asked him to save her.
• Ang promised he would most likely save everyone and persuaded the woman to share what she knew.
• The woman introduced herself as Ula, daughter of Viscount Bennicott of Lehol City, and said the Maum Family had kidnapped her.
• Ula identified the prison as the Sola Plane from runes on its iron doors and explained that it had lost contact with Lehol City more than forty years earlier.
• Ula said the plane was rumored to have been seized by the Black Magic Society, but Lehol City abandoned it after a rebellion and the depletion of its resources.
• Ang found Ula's knowledge incomplete and decided he would have to investigate the Sola Plane himself.

Ang helped Ula and the captive women attempt to delay their sacrifice, then escaped the Black Magic Society’s palace and discovered that the Sola Plane had been altered. He established a teleportation link to Amnath City, summoned his forces, and led them back to claim the plane.

• Ang gave Ula a laxative potion and explained that weakening the captive women could make them unfit for sacrifice; Ula persuaded the others to try it.
• After the women drank the potion, no effects appeared within two hours, leaving Ula afraid that Ang had lied to her.
• Ang escaped the palace, traveled across the Sola Plane, and sensed that its water elements were unusually sparse and its spatial barrier exceptionally strong.
• Ang built an underground base and a Magic Teleportation Array linked to Amnath City, then summoned his elite warriors and mages.
• Ang told his followers that the Black Magic Society occupied the private plane and led them back through the array to begin taking it.
• Gesang sensed the plane’s uneven magic elements, and Ang said its alterations meant it was less important than they had assumed.

Ang gathered the Nightmare Knights and returned to the Sola Plane to infiltrate the Black Magic Society’s operation. He secretly helped move the captive women to a cleaner hall and reassured Ula, leaving her to endure the abuse until he could act.

• Ang instructed his companions to hide, returned to the Empire, summoned the Nightmare Knights, and sent them through a teleportation array to the Sola Plane.
• Ang secretly reentered the Black Magic Society’s base and overheard mages discussing plans to bring Foul Spirits to the Sola Plane and attack Tanaster Province.
• Ang followed the mages to the hall holding more than thirty captive women and used Silent Shadow to avoid detection.
• Ang pressured the black-armored warriors into moving the women to a clean hall, where the mages began abusing them under the pretense of inspecting their condition.
• Ang found Ula among the captives, quietly praised her, and told her to keep her head down and hold on a little longer.

Ang secretly prepared to stop the Black Magic Society’s sacrifice and invasion plan in Sola, destroying its escape routes while Quintina and the others infiltrated the ritual site. As the Black Magic Society began its ceremony to open a passage to the Abyssal Prison, Ang learned that the Nightmare Knights had taken control of the outer perimeter.

• A Black Mage told the captive women that their sacrifices would be chosen at random, then privately insisted that every woman would be sacrificed; Ang ordered the guards to provide the captives with food and basic care.
• Ang contacted Quintina and the others, who approached the palace in disguises, and used a hidden communicator to reassure Ula.
• After the palace sealed its gates and the Magic Teleportation Array went dark, Ang infiltrated the palace and destroyed its main teleportation array and hidden backups throughout Sola.
• Ang reached the ritual site and saw hundreds of captives gathered around an altar, where an Archmage announced the Black Magic Society’s plan to bring Demons into the Empire.
• Ang learned through his Magic Communication Crystal that the Nightmare Knights had replaced the black-armored warriors guarding the outer perimeter.

Ang disrupted a Black Mage Society ritual that summoned a Demon King and opened a passage to the Abyssal Prison, while secretly sabotaging the altar and rescuing Ula. The gate remained open, and Quintina’s hidden allies revealed themselves as the Nightmare Knights attacked the Black Mages.

• The Black Mages sacrificed more than three hundred captives to summon a Demon King, who traded magical treasures and opened a vortex toward the Abyssal Prison.
• Ang struck the altar with Holy Light Spears, killed a Black Mage with a golden arrow, and spoke with the Demon King in the language of the Abyssal Prison.
• Ang secretly severed the sacrificial array’s rune connections and freed Ula, but the Demon King revealed that his Demonic Power kept the gate open.
• The Black Mages mistook the arriving Nightmare Knights for reinforcements and gathered behind them while Quintina and her companions hid among the crowd.
• When the Black Mages attacked Ang, Quintina ordered the Nightmare Knights to kill them, and the knights cut down the mages in a sudden assault.

Ang defeated the demon’s attack, held off residual Demonic Power until it vanished, and survived the battle exhausted. With the Sola Plane secured and the Dark Archmage still being pursued by Natiya, Ang declared that the plane belonged to them.

• Ang slowed the demon’s spear and destroyed the Dark Archmage’s black dragon while she fled toward the palace.
• Ang ordered Dana to break the sacrificial pillars and free the captives, while the Nightmare Knights surrounded the abyssal prison passage.
• Ang used holy light to destroy the demonic spear and collapse the gate, but Demons emerged from the passage and fought the Nightmare Knights.
• Ang maintained his holy light for a day and night until the lingering Demonic Power disappeared, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Quintina told Ang that Natiya was pursuing the Dark Archmage, and Ang ordered Natiya to be careful and return once she could.
• Ang declared the Sola Plane belonged to them, and the gathered allies cheered.

After the Abyss Prison passage was secured, Ang arranged shelter for the rescued people and let them choose whether to stay or return home under a Magic Contract. Natiya returned with the dark Archmage’s corpse, and Ang discovered that the spoils included a sentient sword called Despair and a dark golden staff powerful enough to magnify his water magic.

• Quintina reported that the more than three hundred people used as sacrifices had recovered, and Ang visited them in the stone barracks built by Isi.
• Ang offered the rescued people a choice between signing a Magic Contract to return home or staying under his supervision; most chose to remain, while Ula and about thirty others still wanted to return.
• Natiya returned with the slain dark Archmage, and Ang praised her before examining the Magic Waist Pouch she brought back.
• Ang picked up a black greatsword and was pulled into a realm of suffering and trapped souls, where he learned the sword’s name was Despair.
• Ang touched a dark golden staff that briefly unleashed overwhelming darkness, then used it to cast Rain from the Heavens and wash away the lingering corruption.

Ang secured the Sola Plane, established defenses against invading Demons, and prepared to use the barren world as the site of a dangerous experiment. He revealed that he intended to build a Magic Teleportation Array linking the plane to the God-Demon Battlefield, leaving his followers shocked but obedient.

• Ang distributed ordinary crystals and materials to his companions, kept the rare spoils for his experiments, and ordered the team to map the Sola Plane.
• After half a month, Ang had Ula and her companions sign strict Magic Contracts and arranged for Quintina to escort them away, while his forces built a fortress and repelled Demon scouts.
• Ang explained to Quintina that he had chosen the barren Sola Plane because it could be altered freely, then revealed his plan to connect it to the God-Demon Battlefield with a seventy percent chance of success.
• Ang gathered materials while the Nightmare Knights helped, and the returning scouts reported that the Sola Plane had no rivers, lakes, or springs and almost no wildlife.
• Quintina told the others about Ang's plan, and despite their shock, they agreed to follow his command as he described the attempt as an experiment with little to lose.

Ang successfully connected the Sola Plane to the God-Demon Battlefield through a concealed teleportation array beneath Blue Bridge Fortress, then opened the link long enough for battlefield elements to flood into the fortress square. He left the connection in place and explained that he had prepared the hidden array when he built Blue Bridge Fortress.

• Ang and his allies spent ten days building a teleportation array, evacuated the ordinary people, and prepared defenses before he activated it with a World Tree branch.
• The array resonated with a hidden teleportation chamber beneath Blue Bridge Fortress, while Commander Hansen mistook the resulting tremor for a possible threat and activated the Holy Light Spear Magic Array.
• Ang crossed into the underground chamber, anchored its array with another World Tree branch, and returned to the Sola Plane after confirming the connection worked.
• Ang removed the array's protective seal, releasing a surge of God-Demon Battlefield elements into the square before sealing it again after half an hour.
• Ang told Ade and the others that he had built the hidden connection into Blue Bridge Fortress and had moved the experiment to avoid the risks of conducting it in Amnath City.

Ang strengthened the Sola Plane’s defenses to safely draw in Demons and harvest Black Magic Crystals, then returned to Amnath City and helped Natiya establish a welfare home for half-elf children. Nearly a thousand children were gathered there, and Ang recognized their potential as a force that could not be ignored.

• Ang limited the daily teleportation array to half an hour and ordered Dana and Gweny to guard the Abyss Prison passage as the group planned to draw more Demons into the Sola Plane.
• Ang and Isi built a fortified wall around the passage and inscribed it with the Holy Light Spear magic array, while residents gradually returned to the recovering Sola Plane.
• Ang transferred Joandi and the succubi to the Sola Plane, keeping Joandi imprisoned so she might prove useful against the Rockefeller Family.
• Ang and Natiya decided to gather half-elf children in Amnath City and establish a welfare home to protect and nurture them.
• Natiya collected children from their families over the course of a week and opened the welfare home, where she discovered that nearly a thousand half-elves had been gathered.