Chapter Summaries

At the emperor’s audience, Marquis Ang rejected involvement with Grand Archmage Adelaide and made clear that he would settle the conflict with the other Legends himself. After leaving the palace, Ang confronted President Kash, who had just urged Adelaide’s side to find a way to deal with him.

• The emperor asked Ang for his views on the empire, and Ang said it needed to push the God-Demon Battlefield’s front line beyond its first defense.
• Ang refused to involve himself in Preston’s matter and challenged Kash after the Archmage rebuked him for naming Adelaide.
• Katie realized Ang had mentally attacked Adelaide, and Ang insisted the provocation could only be forgotten once its perpetrators were dead.
• The emperor left Ang and Adelaide to settle the matter themselves and invited Ang to a celebratory ball the next evening.
• After Ang departed, Adelaide bled from the nose, and Kash said someone else should take the lead in dealing with Ang.
• Ang appeared beside Kash outside the palace and asked where he was going, leaving Kash terrified.

Ang held Kash at the imperial palace and questioned him about legendary figures and the God-Demon Battlefield before letting him go. Kash escaped on his Magic Broom, while the Emperor sent a noblewoman to accompany Ang to his celebratory ball.

• Kash secretly sent a plea for help and gripped a Magic Teleportation Scroll while Ang confronted him.
• The Emperor ordered the golden-armored warrior to monitor Ang and sent a noblewoman to Ang’s residence for his celebratory ball.
• Royal Archmages gathered nearby but stayed back, and Ang recognized that they were there to contain any fight rather than rescue Kash.
• Ang questioned Kash about Stan, Mildred, Therese, and why legends had been sent to the God-Demon Battlefield.
• Ang took Kash’s Teleportation Scroll without him noticing, returned it, and warned him not to bear ill will before letting him leave.
• Kash flew toward the Mage Association on his Magic Broom and relaxed only after putting distance between himself and Ang.

Ang defeated Zenia after she attacked him at the palace, then let Kash take her away once he explained the misunderstanding. The chapter ended with Zenia beating Kash before teleporting away with him.

• Ang dismissed Kash as a sheltered support mage, but Zenia appeared and demanded to know what he had done to Kash.
• Zenia attacked Ang with her Flame Giant, but Ang stopped her with his Slowing Domain and seized her while the royal mages trapped and destroyed the Flame Giant with Ice Giants.
• Ang repeatedly smashed Zenia into the ground as holy light healed her, until an Archmage recognized her and urgently summoned Kash.
• Kash returned to the palace, found Zenia badly injured, treated her wounds, and begged Ang to forgive her for acting on a misunderstanding.
• Ang said he had no grievance with Zenia and left with the golden-armored warrior, while Zenia recovered and explained that she had feared something had happened to Kash.
• Zenia pinned Kash down and punched him, then carried him away through a Magic Teleportation Scroll.

After Ang left the palace battle with Elias Roland, he discovered that Emperor Alfred VII had placed Preston’s mother in his room as a test and a means of leverage. Ang questioned her about the emperor and his heirs, while Alfred listened in secret and found Ang’s suspicions interesting.

• The Archmages watched craftsmen repair the palace floor, and Elias Roland told Ang that Zenia would attend his celebratory ball the next evening.
• Ang entered his assigned palace, dismissed the maids, and discovered a naked noblewoman whom the emperor had arranged to serve him.
• The noblewoman said she belonged to House Hall and was Margherita Hall’s aunt; Ang realized she was Preston’s mother and learned she had angered the emperor by calling him arrogant.
• Ang suspected the emperor might be an impostor and questioned who would become Alfred VIII, while Emperor Alfred VII listened through a hidden magic array.
• The noblewoman denied that the emperor was an impostor and avoided discussing his successor, and Alfred smiled at Ang’s questions.

Ang questioned Preston’s mother about the emperor’s palace, the succession struggle, and her unwillingness to leave, then helped her survive the emperor’s demand. The chapter ended with Ang sending away the witnesses and the emperor ordering his two women to repeat what Miley had done.

• Ang learned that the emperor’s other children had died and that Preston’s mother stayed because she valued her position and feared the consequences of defying a magic contract.
• Preston’s mother revealed that the emperor’s three women were rivals and had helped eliminate earlier women; Ang stopped her from undressing and asked her about her relationship with the other princes’ mothers.
• Ang and Preston’s mother spent the night together, and she asked him to keep it from Preston; she also said the emperor would kill the servants who had brought her.
• Ang gave Preston’s mother a chest of magic crystals for the servants’ families, then sent the guards and maids away before she left with the chest.
• The emperor ordered the two women beside him to do what Miley had done after Ang’s celebration banquet, and they reluctantly agreed.

Ang attended the imperial celebration ball and met the First and Second Princes after the Emperor arranged for them to visit him. He bluntly reminded Olgart of his defeat during the Demon invasion, leaving the prince visibly embarrassed as the meeting continued.

• Ang decided to leave Akreli after the celebration ball, while the Emperor watched him and ordered an attendant to summon Olgart and Adrian.
• Ang walked with a palace guard, learned the guard was a baron’s son with limited prospects, and urged him to grow stronger for the God-Demon Battlefield.
• Ang arrived early at the ball’s estate and found that he recognized few names on the guest list, since Quintina handled most of his connections.
• Olgart and Adrian arrived and introduced themselves to Ang, explaining that the Emperor had sent them to visit him.
• Ang reminded Olgart that nobles under his command had fled during the Demon invasion, and Olgart promised to investigate and punish them.

Ang attended a ball where the Emperor honored him as a legendary expert and proposed that he command the Plane Expansion War. Ang declined in favor of the God-Demon Battlefield, explained his plan to seize Demon territory, and learned from Katie that the empires deliberately kept the Demons occupied there to divert their strength from invading other planes.

• Adrian and Olgart visited Ang, who urged them to fight on the God-Demon Battlefield if they wanted to advance, but they left without agreeing.
• At the ball, the Emperor’s host revealed Ang’s achievements, and the Emperor toasted him as a newly gained legendary expert.
• The Emperor offered Ang command of the Plane Expansion War, but Ang instead asked for support on the God-Demon Battlefield and presented his strategy to seize Demon territory.
• When the nobles lost interest in Ang’s plan, his aura knocked several of them down, and they became more fearful and respectful of him.
• Katie told Ang that the empires used the Second Defense Line to keep the Demons focused on the battlefield and divert them from invading other planes.

At his Celebration Ball, Ang discussed the Abyssal Prison and the God-Demon Battlefield with Katie, then learned more about the Empire’s hidden power and its political divisions. He invited several experts to join him at the battlefield, but Kash lacked authority to recruit the Mage Association’s Archmages, and Zenia declined because her family depended on her.

• Ang argued that humanity should eradicate the Demons, while Katie warned that the Abyssal Prison was boundless and urged him to focus on becoming an Epic expert.
• Katie told Ang that Lanlost shared his goal of eradicating the Demons, then introduced him to the Empire’s powerful figures and estimated it had around one hundred and twenty experts of the third tier or above.
• Ang spoke with Austin of the Paston Family and sensed a rift between the Paston and Rodriguez Families.
• Ang asked Kash to persuade the Mage Association’s Archmages to join him at the God-Demon Battlefield, but Kash said he lacked the authority.
• Kash had Zenia apologize for her earlier recklessness, and Ang invited her to the battlefield; Zenia declined because her family relied on her.

Ang left the celebration ball, but the Emperor summoned him back with an offer of support for his next God-Demon Battlefield campaign. Ang discovered the Emperor was monitoring a coercive encounter with two noblewomen and used the situation to demand five hundred Second-tier experts before agreeing to proceed.

• Kash urged Ang to reconcile with Adelaide, but Ang dismissed the idea, and Kash left the ball with Zenia.
• Kash warned Zenia that Ang's conflict with Adelaide could reshape the Empire and endanger its powerful figures if Ang returned safely from the God-Demon Battlefield.
• Ang departed the palace, but the Emperor sent a palace guard to summon him back to discuss supporting his battlefield strategy.
• The Emperor's private conversation revealed his interest in Ang's response to two noblewomen, while the women suppressed their desire to escape their situation.
• Ang returned to the palace, discovered a sound-transmitting array, and demanded five hundred Second-tier experts equipped with suitable weapons and staffs before his next deployment.
• The Emperor signaled agreement, and Ang calmly addressed the two noblewomen as the Emperor listened.

Ang returned to World City after leaving the imperial palace and discussed the territory’s growing forces with his subordinates. He promised to equip the giants with Tier 2 Enchanted Armament before leading them to the God-Demon Battlefield in about ten months.

• Ang left the palace and traveled through Akreli’s teleportation array to the Archipelago Plane, while Adelaide met with Prince Ak and questioned Kash about Ang.
• Ang returned to World City, where Quintina and the others welcomed him and told him the emperor had sent his promotion document.
• Ang ordered the remaining Purple-winged Bees to support spiritual power potion production and heard that his forces were close to controlling Brook Prairie.
• Ang told Quintina and Natiya that integrating multiple races would strengthen his territory, despite their concerns about absorbing the Grassland Lizardmen.
• Ang met with Regol and the other thirty giants, promised to forge each of them Tier 2 Enchanted Armament, and said they would go to the God-Demon Battlefield in about ten months.

Ang outfitted the thirty-one giants with custom Tier 2 Enchanted Armament, demonstrating their new power before World City. He chose not to expand into the Amos and Fett Mountains, and other nobles began seeking charters to settle those regions.

• Over four months, Ang hunted Level 5 Magical Beasts, acquired rare ores, and oversaw the forging of custom armor and weapons for the giants as Brook Prairie joined his territory.
• The thirty-one giants tested their new Enchanted Armament at the training grounds, displaying powerful elemental Combat Techniques before a crowd of onlookers.
• Ang reassured three ogre elders that their own Enchanted Armament was being forged, and they joined him at the training grounds.
• Ang told Quintina and Natiya that his Law of Deceleration and growing Chaos Power made ordinary legendary experts unable to defeat him.
• Ang refused to occupy the Amos and Fett Mountains, explaining that his population and settled territory were too limited to justify further expansion.
• After Ang's army stopped expanding, nobles sought imperial frontier charters and set out to develop territories in the Amos and Fett Mountains.

Ang prepared his forces to return to the God-Demon Battlefield while learning that Prince Ak and Grand Archmage Adelaide planned to harm him there. He split his troops’ routes and brought the elves to the Sola Plane, where he demonstrated the danger of demons by capturing a Tier 2 Foul Spirit alive.

• Ang ordered his Second-tier experts to secure the Archipelago Plane’s rear and prepare for the expedition, while the Empire promised five hundred experts to support the fortress.
• The Empire conquered the Amos Mountains and Fett Mountains, and Putt visited Ang after becoming governor of the Archipelago Plane.
• Putt delivered the Emperor’s warning that Prince Ak and Grand Archmage Adelaide had joined forces to attack Ang in the God-Demon Battlefield, prompting Ang to suspect a demonic trap.
• Ang divided his forces between the Sola Plane’s Magic Teleportation Array and the official route, keeping the Emperor’s warning from his companions.
• Ang led the elves to the Abyssal Prison Passage and emerged with a captured Tier 2 Foul Spirit, showing them a demon they would soon face.

Ang trained 103 elves to fight Tier 2 Foul Spirits and brought them to Blue Bridge Fortress for the God-Demon Battlefield expedition. After arranging for Torei and Selen to join the expedition as well, he secretly settled the elves in the fortress, where Mephini and the others began meditating amid the battlefield’s unusual elemental energies.

• Ang taught the elves that holy light weakened Demons and used Divine Blessing to help their weapons pierce a Foul Spirit’s defenses.
• The elves trained for more than ten hours, killing 43 Tier 2 Foul Spirits and becoming confident in their teamwork.
• Ang told Torei and Selen they would join the expedition, then traveled to Blue Bridge Fortress and learned that Demons had not attacked its western front for some time.
• Ang told Hansen that more than a hundred elves would be stationed at Blue Bridge Fortress, then secretly brought 103 elves through its Magic Teleportation Array.
• Ang gave Mephini food, water, and Cloaks of Concealment, and promised to release her contract if the elves served at the battlefield for ten years.
• The elves settled into their stone houses and began meditating as they sensed the battlefield’s dense, unfamiliar mix of elements.

Ang returned to the Empire with the giants and refused the emperor’s banquet so his group could travel to the God-Demon Battlefield. When Prince Ak confronted him at the teleportation plaza, Ang defeated him and led his companions onward.

• Ang brought the giants through Fortress of Will to Akreli, where Elijah invited him to the emperor’s banquet, but Ang declined until after the expedition to the God-Demon Battlefield.
• Prince Ak accused Ang of defying the emperor, and Ang mocked him before warning him to leave.
• The emperor ordered Elijah and the Royal Magic Corps to protect civilians by raising a barrier around the plaza.
• Ang used his Slowing Domain and a barrage of punches to crush Prince Ak, then threw him to the ground and warned Elijah that he had spared the prince for the emperor’s sake.
• Ang shattered the barrier and led his group into the Magic Teleportation Array while Prince Ak lay defeated in the plaza.

Ang led his group to the God-Demon Battlefield, where he discovered that the Empire’s five hundred assigned experts were imprisoned captives. He tried to force them into his command through threats and executions, leaving their response unresolved.

• Ang reassured his companions after beating Prince Ak, promised to secure them raised titles, and led them through the teleportation array.
• Prince Ak awoke and disappeared, while Adelaide said the prince’s absence from the God-Demon Battlefield was essential to his plans; the Emperor learned that Ak was missing and confirmed that five hundred Second-tier experts awaited Ang at Weil Fortress.
• Ang arrived at the battlefield, accepted the deployment credential, and traveled with his team to Weil Fortress, where the giants rejected recruitment offers from independent squads.
• Ang discovered that the assigned force consisted of 574 prisoners captured during the Empire’s conquests and ordered the cell opened.
• When the prisoners refused to follow him, Ang suppressed them with his aura and killed more than a dozen who continued to resist before asking the survivors one final time.

Ang led 410 Second-tier experts from the prison to Fokas Fortress, where he told Commander Fitz he planned to use Blue Bridge Fortress to open a route into Demon territory. The next day, Ang led his team toward Indy Mountain Pass and reunited with the guards at the fortress there.

• Ang received enchanted equipment for the experts, washed them clean with magic, and led them out of Weil Fortress toward Fokas Fortress.
• Ang met Quintina, Dana, and the rest of his team, then marched with them and the experts for three days to Fokas Fortress.
• Ang told Fitz he intended to attack from Blue Bridge Fortress and asked for Identity Tokens for his warriors; Fitz said he would discuss the plan with others.
• Fitz contacted his teacher after Ang left and reported that Ang had returned alive and become a Legend.
• Ang led his team, including Natiya, along the familiar road to Indy Mountain Pass and entered the fortress after its guards recognized him.

Ang returned to Blue Bridge Fortress with reinforcements, then traveled with Lanlost Pan to the Gods' Meeting, where he learned the battlefield was one of many and saw the three gods arrive. The meeting was about to begin as the three figures appeared before hundreds of Legendary Warriors and Archmages.

• Ang brought his team to Blue Bridge Fortress, raising its garrison strength above eight hundred, while Hansen said he wanted a replacement as commander.
• At Fokas Fortress, Lanlost Pan decided Ang's plan to attack the Demon defense line had to be discussed at a Gods' Meeting.
• After Fokas Fortress issued Identity Tokens to Ang's warriors, Fitz summoned Ang to attend the meeting, and Ang traveled to Fokas Fortress.
• Lanlost Pan told Ang that actual gods attended the Gods' Meeting and led him through teleportation arrays to a hall above the battlefield.
• Ang saw that thirteen Main Planes participated in this battlefield and learned that three gods held the highest seats in the meeting hall.
• Three radiant figures appeared in the top seats, and hundreds of Legends and Archmages watched in silence.

At the Gods' Meeting, Ang vomited when the gods' mental force struck him, and Lanlost later concluded that Ang's soul instinctively rejected them. Over drinks, Ang reaffirmed his plan, and Lanlost promised to protect his escape if a Tier 4 Foul Spirit intervened.

• Ang vomited during the Gods' Meeting when the gods' mental force swept over him, then cleaned the floor with a spell.
• After the gods departed, Lanlost warned Ang that his behavior counted as blasphemy and later said Ang's soul rejected the gods because he lacked reverence for them.
• Lanlost took Ang to a tavern, where Ang brought food to share with him over drinks.
• Ang confirmed he would pursue his plan even without support, and Lanlost explained that powerful Foul Spirits could retaliate if he killed their forces.
• Lanlost said he would remain at Fokas Fortress and stop a Tier 4 Foul Spirit if it threatened Ang, giving him a chance to escape.

Ang learned that his Chaos Power could make him a target for gods as well as demons, but resolved to pursue his goal of reclaiming Ebony Forest. After Fokas Fortress refused to send troops, he led a small team to build defenses there, and the first Demon assault was repelled by the walls and elven archers.

• Lanlost warned Ang that Chaos Power was coveted and that gods might stand among his future enemies, then vanished by seemingly using space laws.
• Ang told Quintina that he planned to push beyond the First Defense Line toward Ebony Forest, and she assured him that the fortress would support him.
• Ang forged Tier 2 Enchanted Armaments for the snake-people and black dwarves, then received Fokas Fortress's offer of material support without manpower.
• Ang spent his Merit Points on Holy Light materials and set out for Ebony Forest with Isi and several Archmages.
• Ang and the Archmages raised four Stone Walls and inscribed defensive arrays as more than a thousand Demons gathered outside the forest.
• A Tier 3 Foul Spirit led the Demons' attack, but the walls held until Holy Light Rune Arrows killed nearly a hundred Tier 2 Foul Spirits and forced the horde to retreat.

Ang fortified Ebony Fortress with magical defenses and prepared for an imminent Demon assault. The Demons tested the fortress with crude catapults and ebony spears, then withdrew, while Ang built his own siege weapons to answer their next attack.

• Ang established nine Magic Towers and activated the Shield of Holy Light around Ebony Fortress, then transferred his forces from Blue Bridge Fortress.
• Ang warned Quintina and Ade that the Demons were gathering for a full assault, while the defenders completed the fortress's interior defenses.
• The Demons attacked with crude catapults firing black-flamed boulders and a volley of ebony spears, testing the fortress before retreating.
• Ang and Puri identified the boulders' coating as Earthworm Stomach Fluid, which produced Corrosive Fire, and Ang prepared Holy Light Rune Arrows against further attacks.
• Ang built twenty giant catapults on each wall and equipped them with Holy Light Bullets to retaliate against the Demons' siege weapons.