Chapter Summaries

Ang returned from the God-Demon Battlefield as a Legendary expert and explained how he survived, while warning his companions that he still fell far short of an Epic expert. After resting and setting out with a five-thousand-strong army, he reached the outskirts of Lizardmen City and began the assault.

• Ang demonstrated his Legendary form, revealing that his own body embodied all six elements and that he could also control Elemental Giants.
• Ang recounted his battle in the God-Demon Battlefield, and Gesang suggested that the silver-white figure who rescued him might be an Epic expert.
• Quintina and Natiya tearfully confronted Ang about the danger he had faced, and he comforted them before giving them Divine Blessings the next morning.
• Ang led several thousand troops north toward Lizardmen City, traveling by railcar and airship until the city sounded the alarm.
• Ang ordered the Flame Swordsman Regiment and Enchanted Armament Knights to advance, and soldiers began jumping from the descending airships.

Ang led his forces to Lizardmen City, where he confronted four Lizardman Legends and revealed that he had killed Gewalong for colluding with the Abyssal Prison. He began attacking the Legends with powerful magic, damaging the city walls as the battle erupted.

• Ang rallied his warriors and mages by showing how Gewalong had brought Demons into the Archipelago Plane, then enhanced the army with a large-scale spell.
• Ang led the airship fleet and ground forces to Lizardmen City, where the defenders recognized Count Ang's banner and feared the approaching army.
• Four Lizardman Legends flew out to confront Ang and demanded to know why he had brought an army to the city.
• Ang admitted that he had killed Gewalong, showed Therese his head, and declared that he would kill the other Legends as well.
• Ang unleashed Wind-Fire Meteor Shower, forcing the four Legends to combine their domains while the attack destroyed their singing serpents and broke through the city walls.

Ang unleashed powerful composite spells and led his army in an assault on Lizardmen City, overwhelming its defenders. After killing Kzir and defeating the fused Gusa and Lanmane, he pursued the fleeing Therese as his forces crushed the remaining resistance.

• Ang's Wind-Fire Meteor Shower battered the four Lizardman Legends, and he ordered his troops to attack while sparing anyone who surrendered and killing every Lizardman Great Warrior.
• Ang trapped the Legends in a Storm Tsunami and Water-Fire Thunderstorm, then killed Kzir with the Despair Greatsword.
• Gusa and Lanmane fused into a two-headed giant lizardman, while Therese fled after they warned her that they were losing control.
• Ang fought and killed the giant lizardman, burned away Gusa and Lanmane's souls, and absorbed the remains with his sword.
• Ang set off after Therese as Quintina, Natiya, Linya, and the army swept through the remaining defenders of Lizardmen City.

Ang pursued Therese to the coast and captured her after learning she had colluded with the Abyssal Prison, but he rushed back when Quintina reported the Empire's legendary experts had arrived. After Stan Rodriguez attacked Quintina and Natiya, Ang struck down their airship and charged at the three legends, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Augustus, Tavia, and Stan Rodriguez arrived at Lizardmen City, where Stan demanded to know where Ang was and ordered Quintina and Natiya to summon him.
• Ang froze the sea to stop Therese from escaping, trapped her in ice, and learned she remembered him from the World Tree and had spared him before.
• Quintina warned Ang through the Magic Communication Crystal that the Empire's legends had arrived, and Ang carried the bound Therese back toward the city.
• Stan attacked Quintina and Natiya with invisible force, knocking them from their Magic Brooms until soldiers caught them.
• Ang hurled Therese toward the airship, slashed its hull with the Despair Greatsword, and declared he would kill the three legends.
• Ang transformed into a giant and charged at Augustus, Tavia, and Stan; Augustus and Tavia prepared defenses while Stan fell after Ang's Soul Shockwave Technique struck him.

Ang rescued Quintina and Natiya after defeating Stan, then returned to confront Stan, Augustus, and Tavia. He trapped them inside a barrier and overwhelmed them with elemental magic, ending as he tore open the water and fire Elemental Planes.

• Stan stopped his fall with wind magic, equipped Heavy Wind Armor, and charged Ang with an emerald spear, but Ang shattered the spear and wounded him with spikes of light.
• Ang rushed to Quintina and Natiya, gave them healing potions and Holy Light treatment, then evacuated his forces and returned to the battlefield.
• Therese told Augustus, Tavia, and Stan that Ang had killed all four Lizardmen legends, and that their clan believed he had become a legend less than a month earlier.
• Ang trapped everyone in a one-kilometer barrier and summoned hundreds of Ice Giants, while Tavia sent a distress message to the imperial capital.
• Augustus and Stan combined fire and wind domains to melt the Ice Giants, but Ang tore open the water and fire Elemental Planes, prompting Therese to recognize the coming Water-Fire Thunderstorm.

Ang fought Augustus, Tavia, and Stan after they attacked his subordinates, but Adelaide, the Empire’s Grand Archmage, arrived and forced the battle to a halt. Ang accepted Adelaide’s settlement only on condition that the man wearing the Armor of Wind and Therese remain in his custody.

• Ang formed unstable water-and-fire giants that became thunderstorm giants, while Tavia’s magic scroll failed to break Ang’s seal.
• Tavia’s teleportation scroll was intercepted by Ang’s Space Magic, injuring all four opponents; Ang healed himself and renewed the giants, leaving them trapped.
• Adelaide appeared, absorbed the thunderstorm giants, and restored the unconscious Therese before asking her to recount what had happened.
• Therese blamed the dead Gewalong for the Demon-related matter, and Adelaide proposed ending the dispute because the chief culprit was dead.
• Ang agreed to Adelaide’s decision only if the man wearing the Armor of Wind and Therese stayed, then threatened Stan for glaring at him.

Ang confronted Adelaide over the three Imperial Archmages and demonstrated his strength by using Space Magic to land ten punches on a legendary warrior. Adelaide then renewed his threat, and Ang prepared to face the Grand Archmage.

• Ang demanded that Adelaide leave the three warriors behind, but Adelaide refused after Stan spoke privately with him.
• Ang questioned Adelaide about the Elemental Staff, and Tavia identified it as his teacher's famous magical equipment.
• Ang's warriors cheered for him from the airship, prompting a legendary warrior to roar at them to be quiet.
• Ang vanished and struck the legendary warrior ten times before returning to his position, leaving the man bleeding and the onlookers stunned.
• Simona Longfero asked Ang to forgive the others, but he rejected her appeal without speaking.
• Adelaide threatened Ang, who stood his ground and prepared to test a Grand Archmage's power.

Ang broke through Adelaide’s attempt to sever his connection to the elements and forced the Grand Archmage to retreat after their battle. Exhausted but victorious in proving his strength, Ang declared Adelaide his enemy and rejoined Quintina and the others aboard the airship.

• Adelaide summoned a towering rock giant, but Ang discovered its weakness and destroyed it with a horde of Elemental Giants.
• Ang attacked Adelaide with a Chaos Spear that broke through his defenses and stopped just short of his brow.
• Adelaide activated his Elemental Body, repelled the Chaos Spear, and escaped with Tavia, Stan, and Therese inside a contracting magical wall.
• Too exhausted to pursue, Ang declared Adelaide his enemy as the watching warriors recognized his power.
• Quintina and the others brought the airship to Ang, and Natiya praised him before the group laughed together.

Ang and his companions headed for the World Tree after he warned that they would eventually face a Grand Archmage, while Adelaide recognized Ang as a future rival and prepared for that possibility. At the World Tree, Ang declared that he intended to claim it, leaving Natiya worried about how its inhabitants would respond.

• Ang told his companions to grow stronger and aim for the Grand Archmage realm as they traveled toward the World Tree.
• Adelaide rescued Tavia, Therese, Augustus, and Stan, then explained that Ang wielded Chaos Power and could become his future rival; he sent Tavia to the God-Demon Battlefield.
• News of Ang’s rise spread across the empire, and Preston decided to visit him on the Archipelago Plane after receiving Emperor Alfred VII’s summons.
• Ang’s airship reached the World Tree, where he told Natiya he intended to claim it and would make its races submit or leave.

Ang confronted the World Tree’s hidden will and negotiated for the intelligent races living on it to descend, securing the tree as his own. The will manifested as Drumil, who agreed to help Ang build a giant city around the World Tree.

• Quintina admired the World Tree as Ang approached it, while Flame Swordsmen captured the lizardfolk studying magic nearby.
• Ang transformed into a Chaos giant and leapt toward the clouds, where the World Tree’s will stopped him and revealed itself.
• Ang demanded that the World Tree bring its inhabitants down and threatened to chop it down if it refused; Drumil agreed after Ang promised to protect it.
• Ang returned to the ground and told Natiya and the others that the World Tree belonged to them and that they would build a giant city around it.
• Drumil introduced himself, and Natiya recognized him as a portion of the World Tree’s will; Ang welcomed him as their tree.

Ang stabilized and opened all 234 passages connecting the World Tree to the earth, bringing its many races face-to-face with his authority. The dwarves agreed to follow his arrangements, while Natiya tried to manage the elves’ resistance, and the chapter ended with Ang suppressing a vast swarm of Black Armored Ants as the migrations continued.

• Ang spent two days stabilizing 234 halos, then opened the Elf passage and demanded that the elves obtain his permission to remain on the World Tree.
• Legolas and the elves reacted angrily to Ang’s demand, while Natiya stepped through the passage to try to handle them herself.
• Ang reunited with Dialo, met the Dwarf Great Elder, and was told that the dwarves had prepared for his return and would follow his arrangements.
• Ang opened more passages, and the Giant race and several smaller races emerged and encountered him.
• Over the next week, Ang and Drumil opened all 234 passages, and Ang used Chaos Power to subdue a swarm of tens of thousands of Black Armored Ants.

Ang settled the World Tree’s ecosystem and allowed races that refused to follow him to leave, while dwarves, giants, ogres, and a small group of elves chose to join him. He entered the elves’ territory and forced the Elf Queen and more than eighteen hundred elves to sign servant contracts.

• Ang let the Black Armored Ants, tree mantises, red-eyed maggots, and other useful magical beasts return to their spaces, while Purple-winged Bees were free to travel outside and pollinate plants.
• The hobgoblins, Insectoids, sheepfolk, Molemen, and several other small races left, while dwarves, giants, and ogres chose to follow Ang.
• Natiya brought about one hundred and twenty elves willing to submit to Ang, and he sent them to rest on an airship before entering elven territory alone.
• Legolas shot an arrow at Ang, who turned it back and pinned Legolas to a tree; the Elf Queen then refused Ang’s demand that the elves leave.
• After Ang’s deadline passed, he seized the Elf Queen and bound the attacking elves with gray chains, then killed Legolas when he defied him.
• Ang forced the Elf Queen and more than eighteen hundred elves to sign servant contracts, leaving them under his control.

Ang took control of the elves and began turning the World Tree into a fortified city, assigning its public services to the kobolds and making plans to welcome other races. Drumil revealed that he had recently begun growing again, suggesting the World Tree was changing under Ang’s influence.

• Ang placed the elves under Natiya’s command and ordered Isi to transplant their ancient trees while he built a massive wall around the World Tree.
• Ang set World City’s residency rules and decided that the kobolds would manage its public services.
• Black Claw agreed to bring kobolds from Amnath City to staff World City’s services, and Ang promised the merfolk an artificial lake and permission to trade inland.
• Drumil told Ang that he had grown slightly for the first time in thousands of years, and Ang suspected the World Tree was changing because of him.

Ang spoke with Drumil about Druids, World Tree blessings, and their changing nature as World City continued to grow. The Rose Warband and Gweny and Dana arrived, and Dana sensed an unusual earth aura in the city before Drumil tried and failed to bless Ang.

• Ang learned from Drumil that Druids were formed from human souls and that no new Druids had emerged in a thousand years.
• World City’s residency rules and the relocation of the Warrior Academy and Magic Academy sparked excitement among Ang’s subjects, while nobles resented his claim to the World Tree.
• The Rose Warband arrived by airship, and Ang learned that Margherita had married His Highness Preston while he was fighting the Lizardman Legend.
• Ang summoned Gweny and Dana from the Sola Plane; Dana sensed a faint earth aura in World City and went to visit Beibei and Tassai.
• Drumil told Ang that the Minotaurs had sacrificed themselves to protect other races during the lizardmen’s invasion, then failed to place a blessing on Ang because his body and soul were too unusual.

Ang oversaw World City's rapid construction and received visitors after his victory over the Lizardman Legend. Preston brought the emperor's summons to Akreli, while Margherita confronted Ang about their past before he vanished, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Ang watched World City take shape as residents and merchants arrived, and the merfolk queen visited to establish trade.
• Shaven told Ang that Lufiel was the daughter of the Main Plane's merfolk queen.
• Preston and Margherita visited World City, where Preston delivered the emperor's summons for Ang to join the Imperial Council and attend a celebratory banquet in Akreli.
• Preston asked about Ang's battle with the legendary warrior and arranged a departure time for Akreli.
• Margherita told Ang that Preston knew about their past, but Ang insisted they should not meet alone again and vanished from the reception room.

Ang married Natiya and Quintina in a grand ceremony in World City, where the World Tree blessed the brides and Ang named them co-rulers of the city. The celebration ended with the city rejoicing as Ang vowed to protect their happiness.

• Ang proposed to Quintina and Natiya, and both joyfully agreed to marry him when World City was completed.
• Natiya and Quintina invited their friends and kin to the wedding, and their guests arrived in World City a month later.
• Ang, Quintina, and Natiya exchanged vows and rings at a ceremony officiated by Drumil before a crowd gathered beneath the World Tree.
• The World Tree blessed Natiya and Quintina with pillars of light, and magical fireworks filled the sky above the city.
• Ang declared Natiya and Quintina masters of World City, and the crowd celebrated their marriage.

After his wedding, Ang prepared to conquer the Brook Great Plains and rejected the Elf Forest’s attempt to take control of Drumil and the World Tree. He used World Tree leaves to make potions that awakened Aida’s children’s talents, but decided they would wait until age sixteen for formal training.

• Ang emerged from a week of seclusion with Quintina and Natiya, and Aisha and the others congratulated them on their marriage.
• Ang ordered his commanders to conquer the Brook Great Plains before the next God-Demon Battlefield trip, and they finalized plans for the campaign.
• Drumil told Ang that the Elf Forest wanted him to stop sheltering the World Tree and revealed that World Trees could devour one another as they pursued growth toward the Divine Realm.
• Ang rejected the elven priestess’s demands, allowing only some elves to remain in World City to watch over the World Tree, and reassured Natiya that it was safe.
• Ang brewed several hundred Gift of the World Magic Potions from World Tree leaves, discovered that Aida’s children had awakened varied talents, and chose to delay their training until they turned sixteen.

Ang traveled from World City to Akreli in response to the Emperor’s summons and impressed the imperial mages and escort with his legendary strength. At the palace, Lorraine began introducing him to the Imperial Council, and Ang asked about the Empire’s other legendary experts and the absence of Augustus and Tavia.

• Ang secured World City’s affairs before teleporting to Akreli and releasing his aura above the city, prompting three imperial mages to recognize him as Count Ang.
• A golden-armored man escorted Ang across Akreli to the imperial palace, where Ang arrived without showing any strain despite the escort’s increasing speed.
• Lorraine welcomed Ang and dismissed the assembled officials at Ang’s request, then accompanied him into the Imperial Council hall.
• Lorraine explained that the Council had forty-six seats for the Empire’s legendary experts and would add a forty-seventh for Ang.
• Ang asked Lorraine where the Empire’s legendary experts were and whether Augustus and Tavia had gone to the God-Demon Battlefield; Lorraine confirmed their departure but said he did not know why.

Ang learned about the Imperial Council, the Empire’s powerful experts, and its role in the God-Demon Battlefield while waiting to meet the Emperor. After Lorraine left, Ang passed the time by ordering and eating a lavish spread of palace dishes.

• Ang asked Lorraine about the Imperial Council’s duties and learned that it oversaw strategic operations on the God-Demon Battlefield and the Empire’s Plane Wars.
• Lorraine named the Empire’s Epic Warrior, Lanlost, and its three Grand Archmages; Ang learned that Adelaide ranked second among them.
• Lorraine described forty-two known Legendary experts and Archmages, while Ang wondered whether conquered planes had produced any new experts.
• Ang asked about council meetings and the God-Demon Battlefield, then dismissed Lorraine after learning that Lorraine knew little about it.
• While Ang waited for the Emperor, he asked the palace maids to bring local specialties and then ordered them to serve all the remaining dishes.

The Imperial Council debated how to handle Ang after hearing Lorraine’s report, then summoned him to meet Emperor Alfred VII. Ang remained composed during the audience and was elevated from count to marquis.

• Lorraine reported Ang’s behavior to the emperor and the assembled officials, prompting debate over whether Ang should be restrained or treated cautiously.
• Kash called for Ang to be punished to protect the Empire’s dignity, while Thomas and Katie warned against provoking him; the emperor ordered Ang summoned.
• Before leaving, Ang thanked the palace attendants and gave them a box of magic crystals to share.
• Ang entered the emperor’s hall, greeted Emperor Alfred VII, and explained that the Northern Council was his direct superior.
• Emperor Alfred VII elevated Ang’s title to marquis, and Ang accepted the reward.