Chapter Summaries

Ang led Ebony Fortress's defense against a larger Demon assault, using holy light and Chaos Power to repel attacks from a Tier 3 Foul Spirit and withstand a Tier 4 Foul Spirit's blows. The chapter ended with the fortress's magic formations striking the Tier 4 Foul Spirit with a Holy Light Spear, provoking its furious counterattack.

• The Demons returned with more catapults, and Ang rejected the Tier 3 Foul Spirit's demand that the humans abandon their fortress.
• Mephini's arrow failed to harm the Tier 3 Foul Spirit, but Ang wounded its shoulder with a Holy Light Arrow.
• Ang's forces blocked the Demons' burning boulders and answered with Holy Light Bullets, while Ang slowed the Demon advance and attacked the Tier 3 Foul Spirit with holy light.
• A Tier 4 Foul Spirit ambushed Ang, who escaped to the fortress wall and raised a Chaos Shield powered by the nine Magic Towers.
• The Tier 4 Foul Spirit struck the Chaos Shield twice, but the barrier held and the fortress's magic formations launched a Holy Light Spear that wounded it.
• The Tier 4 Foul Spirit roared as its dark power erupted.

Ang drove back the Tier 4 and Tier 3 Foul Spirits at Ebony Fortress, but the battle left him unconscious for three days. After recovering, he learned that Lord Lanlost was waiting to communicate with him and ordered the fortress to prepare to harvest Ebony Forest.

• Ang used Chaos Spears to sever the Tier 4 Foul Spirit’s leg, then drove it and the Tier 3 Foul Spirit into retreat with the Chaos Spears and Holy Light Spear.
• Ang warned the warriors away from the severed leg, sealed it in an anti-magic crystal box, and collapsed from exhaustion after ordering Dana to activate the Anti-Magic Field.
• The warriors cleared the battlefield as the fleeing Tier 2 Foul Spirits scattered, and Aisha and the others celebrated the victory at Ebony Fortress.
• That night, Ang moved the box containing the severed leg into the Anti-Magic Field, then collapsed again and remained unconscious for three days before waking.
• Ang recovered enough to walk by the fourth day, learned that Lord Lanlost was waiting at Blue Bridge Fortress, and asked Quintina to arrange communication through the Magic Communication Crystal.
• Ang told the others to prepare to harvest Ebony Forest while the Demons were unlikely to return.

Ang coordinated with Lanlost on defending Ebony Fortress and harvested ebony to make Holy Light Bolts and Rune Arrows. The fortress repelled scattered attacks as Ang prepared to equip its defenders with Magic Ballistae.

• Lanlost agreed to remain at Blue Bridge Fortress and intervene briefly if multiple Tier 4 Foul Spirits attacked, after Ang told him he had wounded one with the Chaos Spear.
• Quintina reported that Puri had cleared the outer Ebony Forest of foul spirits, so Ang sent giants and ogres to harvest its trees.
• Ang’s workers made fewer than a hundred Holy Light Bolts from the ebony and prepared the remaining wood for Rune Arrows.
• Ang’s troops repelled scattered foul spirit attacks while he forbade deep reconnaissance into the forest.
• After the hundredth Holy Light Bolt was completed, Ang said he would ask Hansen to send Magic Ballistae to Ebony Fortress.

Lanlost ordered Tavia and the Rockefeller Family to activate covert agents and investigate Tutakasa after suspecting his reported injury could transform the war. A succubus infiltrated the God-Demon Battlefield, confirmed Tutakasa’s disappearance and severe wounds, and contacted her human handler with the intelligence.

• Lanlost told Tavia to investigate Tutakasa and insisted that covert agents be sacrificed if necessary, while Tavia warned that their exposure could endanger informants in the Abyssal Prison.
• The Rockefeller Family head accepted Lanlost’s order to activate covert agents and also directed the steward to send the intelligence back to Akreli.
• A succubus received a gray crystal, left Saimansha despite Hasa’s challenge, and crossed the Holy Tower’s trials to reach the God-Demon Battlefield.
• The succubus won the favor of a Tier 3 Foul Spirit and learned from Tutasuk that Tutakasa had disappeared after being severely wounded in a fight with humans.
• The succubus reported her findings through the gray crystal, and an imposing human voice told her how to return or where to make contact if she could not.

Ang patrolled Ebony Forest while his forces prepared to harvest ebony, unaware that a wounded succubus was hiding nearby. At Weil Fortress, Lanlost learned Tutkasa was missing and confronted church-aligned powerhouses who claimed the right to pursue the Tier 4 Foul Spirit, leaving him asking what they wanted.

• Ang gave Dana Holy Light rune crossbow bolts to practice with the Magic Ballistae, then agreed to scout Ebony Forest before sending Quintina and Regol's group to gather ebony.
• Ang searched the forest, confirmed that only scattered low-tier Foul Spirits were nearby, and gave Quintina one hour to move quickly with the harvest team.
• A hidden succubus survived Ang's Holy Light Illumination and watched him destroy Four-armed Foul Spirits with holy spears before healing her burns with a black potion.
• Tavia confirmed to Lanlost that Tutkasa was seriously injured and missing, and Lanlost said he would find and kill him.
• Fisher and several other powerful figures confronted Lanlost at Weil Fortress, claiming Tutkasa belonged to their church's pursuit; Lanlost punched Fisher, then demanded to know what they wanted.

Lanstos met with other Grand Archmages, who planned to capture the Tier 4 Foul Spirit Tutakasa and wanted Ang to carry out their scheme. Meanwhile, Ang caught a succubus sneaking away from Ebony Forest and confronted her.

• The burly man asked Lanlost to help the group seize Tutakasa, and Lanlost refused to participate while warning them not to expect Ang to obey.
• Fisher and the burly man agreed that Ang should be forced to carry out their plan, while Lanlost left the pavilion and the others began discussing countermeasures.
• Ang repeatedly inspected Ebony Forest, suspecting someone was hiding there, while a succubus waited for him to leave before escaping under cover of night.
• An elven guard spotted the succubus crawling out of the forest, and Mephini immediately reported it to Ang.
• Ang pursued the fleeing succubus and landed in front of her, stopping her with a quiet question about where she was going.

Ang captured and interrogated the succubus Yasberti, while major powers reacted to news that Tutakasa had disappeared. The chapter ended with Yasberti recognizing Ang’s past dealings with succubi and reacting in terror.

• Ang captured a second-tier succubus and imprisoned her in Ebony Fortress under an Anti-Magic Field.
• Ang told Quintina he suspected the succubus had been heading toward Blue Bridge Fortress or Weil Fortress to gather intelligence.
• A Rockefeller Family lord learned Joandi and Joyce had disappeared and ordered someone to contact Ang, then secretly set out to pursue a chance at becoming a Demigod.
• Elijah urged Emperor Wilderland to use Ang to pursue Tutakasa, but the emperor declined to intervene directly and ordered Preston summoned to Akreli.
• Adelaide declined to send forces after Tutakasa and directed a message linking the matter to Ang, despite knowing it was untrue.
• Ang interrogated Yasberti, who denied having a mission, until he mentioned that captured succubi were supplying him with magical materials; Yasberti reacted with terror and shame.

Ang harvested all the ebony in Ebony Forest and sent squads into the Northern Wilderness to hunt Demons, but an urgent summons drew him to Blue Bridge Fortress, where powerful figures had gathered and the front-line fighting had stopped. After disguising himself as Homans, he learned the ceasefire might be connected to him, then realized his disguise had been exposed when the real Homans arrived.

• Ang arranged for Hansen to trade another shipment of ebony for practical materials, then ordered the forest cleared after Quintina reported that the Demons had vanished.
• After seven quiet days, Ang's warriors harvested the last ebony tree, and he sent teams of thirteen into the Northern Wilderness to search for Demons.
• Hansen told Ang that powerful people at Blue Bridge Fortress demanded his return, then secretly warned him not to come because they might harm him.
• Ang left Ebony Fortress alone, infiltrated Blue Bridge Fortress, and disguised himself as the warrior Homans to question Hansen.
• Hansen told the disguised Ang that fighting along the first line of defense had mostly stopped and might be related to Ang.
• When the real Homans appeared on the stairs, Hansen realized the other Homans was an impostor and rushed back up the wall.

Hansen withdrew the Wilderland Empire’s garrison from Blue Bridge Fortress, leaving the various factions to occupy it and build a magic array to trap their target. After receiving Natiya’s message that Preston wanted to see him at Blackstone Fortress, Ang slipped away from the fortress and headed there.

• Hansen sent Homans to Indy Mountain Pass, then obtained Commander Fitz’s approval to move the garrison from Blue Bridge Fortress.
• Hansen ordered more than three hundred Great Warriors to withdraw, and the brown-haired man claimed the abandoned fortress for the factions.
• The white-robed mage led the construction of a magic array across Blue Bridge Fortress while Ang secretly observed and infiltrated his group.
• The factions debated how to lure their target, and a young Archmage reported that the target had built a fortress near Demon territory and might be linked to Tutakasa’s disappearance.
• Natiya told Ang that Preston was waiting at Blackstone Fortress and that Quintina’s group had hunted more than a hundred Tier 2 Foul Spirits.
• Ang warned Natiya that Blue Bridge Fortress was no longer under the Empire’s control, then left in secret and traveled toward Blackstone Fortress.

Ang agreed to help the Empire track the wounded Tier 4 Foul Spirit Tutakasa after Preston revealed that its corpse could be refined into Law Potions, drawing the interest of human and Demon factions alike. Ang recalled his teams to Ebony Fortress for safety, while news of Tutakasa’s location reached Habakkuk and spread through the Foul Spirit faction.

• Preston told Ang that Emperor ordered him to find Tutakasa, whose corpse could yield Law Potions capable of helping powerful warriors advance toward demigodhood.
• Ang learned that Lord Lanlost knew about the Empire’s plans and that both human experts and Abyss Prison faction forces were searching for Tutakasa; he agreed to help and accepted a Tracking Crystal from Preston.
• After returning to Ebony Fortress, Ang learned from Natiya that unknown people had appeared nearby and ordered Quintina and the other teams back to the fortress.
• Ang explained the danger to Natiya and Quintina, and the gathered teams stayed at Ebony Fortress, ready to retreat to Weil Fortress if needed.
• At Byron Fortress, Habakkuk learned that a clue to Tutakasa was in Ebony Forest, and the news spread through the Foul Spirit faction.

Ang and Ebony Fortress faced a massive Demon assault while Blue Bridge Fortress chose not to help. Ang killed three Tier 3 Foul Spirits and drove off the remaining leaders, but he expected a greater threat to follow.

• At Blue Bridge Fortress, the brown-haired man refused to aid Ang, choosing instead to focus on finding Tutakasa.
• Ang spotted thousands of Demons approaching Ebony Fortress and ordered the defenders to prepare for battle.
• Mephini led the defenders in firing Holy Light Rune Arrows, while Ang entered the Demon horde and killed three Tier 3 Foul Spirits.
• The remaining Tier 3 Foul Spirits fled to summon reinforcements after recognizing a scent linked to Tutakasa, and the Tier 2 Foul Spirits scattered.
• Ang allowed Quintina and the defenders to pursue the fleeing Tier 2 Foul Spirits only within two kilometers of Ebony Fortress, then ordered them back.

After Ebony Fortress repelled the first Demon assault, Ang used a Tracking Crystal to locate a Tier 4 Foul Spirit hiding near the fortress and secretly reinforced the ground against its suspected underground approach. Three days later, a vast army of Demons and other abyssal creatures arrived, and Ang raised the Chaos Shield as he prepared to learn their weaknesses.

• The warriors harvested Black Magic Crystals and Black Magic Mark Skin from the defeated Demons, and Ang embedded three Tier 3 crystals in Ebony Fortress's magic array.
• Ang traced the severed leg of a Tier 4 Foul Spirit with a Tracking Crystal, spotted an abnormal fluctuation beneath nearby hills, and reinforced the ground around the fortress with Fortification Runes.
• At Blue Bridge Fortress, mages watched a recording of Ang's victory and realized he resembled someone who had helped set up a magic array, but learned that the man had disappeared.
• Three days later, Natiya warned Ang that the Demons had returned with Flame Demons, Faceless Ones, and Spiderfolk among their ranks.
• Ang activated the Chaos Shield over Ebony Fortress and began gathering information about the three unfamiliar kinds of abyssal creatures.

Ang learned the Abyssal Prison creatures’ weaknesses from Hansen and organized Ebony Fortress’s defenses around them. The defenders drove back the allied forces, but the enemy commanders planned to wear them down in another siege.

• Hansen told Ang that Flame Demons feared extreme cold, Faceless Ones could be exposed by sound and destroyed with fire, and Spiderfolk could be countered by slowing them down.
• Ang assigned Quintina to freeze the Flame Demons, Puli to sound the Horn of Courage against the Faceless Ones, and Mons to help him use wind magic against the Spiderfolk.
• Ang and Mons unleashed a hurricane that slowed the Spiderfolk, letting the elves kill more than ten of them with rune-inscribed arrows.
• Puli used the Horn of Courage to reveal the Faceless Ones, and the defenders burned them to ash.
• Quintina froze the Flame Demons, and the defenders shattered them with rune arrows and other attacks.
• After three hours, the allied forces withdrew from Ebony Fortress, but the Tier 3 Faceless One said the enemy would wear the defenders down over time.

Lanlost’s plan sent Blue Bridge Fortress’s army to reinforce Ebony Fortress, where Ang used the Magic Ballistae to control the battle without letting the troops approach. The reinforcements withdrew, leaving the factions to depend on the descended angels or risk Ebony Fortress falling.

• Lanlost urged the factions to reinforce Ang and discussed Tutakasa’s missing severed leg, which could help him recover.
• Blue Bridge Fortress deployed its army toward Ebony Fortress, where Ang warned that both the reinforcements and the Abyssal Prison forces wanted the fortress.
• The reinforcements clashed with the Abyssal Prison Allied Forces, and Ang ordered the Magic Ballistae to fire when the humans began to falter.
• Ang stopped the ballista fire whenever the human force advanced toward Ebony Fortress, keeping it trapped in a costly stalemate.
• The reinforcements retreated, and Shaya said the factions could only place their hopes in the descended angels.

Ang faced the three angels who came to claim him, but Tutakasa’s attack drew them into battle above Ebony Fortress. As the angels weakened Tutakasa with holy light, a black-robed figure intervened, and Ang’s Chaos Spears revealed him to be the Dark Grand Archmage.

• After Blue Bridge Fortress’s assault failed, Fisher gave three angels Ebony Fortress’s location, and they flew there to demand that Ang surrender.
• Ang pretended to lower the Chaos Shield, prompting Tutakasa to burst from beneath the western wall and attack the angels.
• Ang ordered Quintina, Natiya, and Dana to flee to Weil Fortress, then opened a brief escape route for the imprisoned succubus.
• The angels trapped Tutakasa in a domain of holy light until a black-robed figure broke the domain and freed him.
• Ang launched Chaos Spears at Tutakasa and the black-robed figure, whose protective fog failed to stop them, and Ang identified him as the Dark Grand Archmage.

Ang faced the angels and the Dark Grand Archmage as Tutakasa fought them, while the wounded mage turned on Ang to break through his Chaos Shield. Ang countered the mage and nearly killed him, but an unidentified figure struck Ang and sent him crashing to the ground.

• The Dark Grand Archmage glared at Ang after the Chaos Spear wounded his shoulder, while the angels warned Ang that other Tier 4 Foul Spirits were approaching.
• Tutakasa attacked Ang's Chaos Shield, then vanished and battered two angels as the tall angel healed his comrades with Holy Light.
• The angels unfolded their Holy Light Domains, and Tutakasa urged the Dark Grand Archmage to break Ang's shield in exchange for fulfilling his wishes.
• The Dark Grand Archmage used a Spatial Blade against Ang's shield, but Ang countered it with Space Magic.
• The Dark Grand Archmage drilled into the Chaos Shield, but Ang slowed him with the Slowing Domain and struck him with the Despair Greatsword.
• An unidentified figure hit Ang in the chest and sent him crashing toward the ground.

Ang fought Tutataab and badly wounded him with Chaos Power, but seven Fourth-tier experts suddenly arrived and blocked Ang’s next attack. The newcomers turned on the Foul Spirits to obtain materials for Law Potions, leaving the battlefield in chaos as Fisher and Lanlost’s factions confronted the angels.

• Ang used his eight-armed form and elemental powers to battle Tutataab, then infused his elemental storm with Chaos Power and severely wounded him.
• Ang summoned Elemental Giants to strengthen the cloud of chaos and sent a rain of Holy Light arrows at the Dark Grand Archmage.
• Seven Fourth-tier experts, including Lanlost, attacked Ang, but Ang retreated into Ebony Fortress and the Chaos Shield blocked their combined attack.
• The weakened Tutataab emerged from the collapsing cloud of chaos, while the angels and the seven newcomers revealed their plan to capture the Foul Spirits and make Law Potions.
• Fisher agreed to fight the three angels first, and the groups split to attack Tutakasa and surround Tutataab as the Dark Grand Archmage joined the assault.
• Fisher accused Lanlost’s Wilderland Empire of colluding with the Black Magic Society, and Lanlost said their success depended on this one chance.

Ang fought alongside the humans and angels as they attacked Tutakasa and Tutataab, but the Demons used the Chaos Shield to withstand the assault. Ang transformed through the power of his nine Magic Towers, killed two angels, captured and helped dismember both Demons, then escaped Ebony Fortress’s explosion clutching Tutataab’s arm as the other fighters rushed for the scattered remains.

• The Dark Grand Archmage attacked Tutakasa, while Tutataab feigned unconsciousness as four human Fourth-tier experts launched a combined attack against him.
• Lanlost pierced Tutataab with a spatial spear, and Ang used the Chaos Spear to save Lanlost from Tutataab’s counterattack.
• Tutakasa and Tutataab used the Chaos Shield as cover against the combined assault of the humans and angels, causing cracks to spread across it.
• Ang drew power through all nine Magic Towers, grew enormous within the mist, killed two angels, and bound both Demons with Chaos chains.
• The Chaos Blade cut Tutakasa and Tutataab into pieces, and Tutakasa’s remains were sealed in anti-magic crystal boxes.
• Ebony Fortress exploded as Ang shrank and grabbed Tutataab’s arm, while the other fighters rushed to seize the scattered Demon remains.

Ang escaped with a piece of Tutataab's body while the remaining powers fought over the Foul Spirit’s remains, and Ebony Fortress was destroyed in a clash between a demonic claw and a jade-white finger. Ang returned to Weil Fortress, reunited with Quintina and the others, and led his troops back toward the Empire through the Magic Teleportation Array.

• After Ang vanished, the survivors claimed pieces of Tutataab’s body, but they could not damage the fragments or divide them further.
• Tutataab revealed that at least three portions of his body were needed to refine a Law Potion that could break through shackles, and the tall angel prepared to take his head to the Divine Realm.
• A demonic claw killed the tall angel, and Tutataab swallowed the angel’s blood mist and regenerated part of his body before a jade-white finger confronted the claw.
• The demonic claw and jade-white finger battled until Tutataab escaped; their clashes destroyed Ebony Fortress and left a vast lake in its place.
• Ang returned to Indy Mountain Pass with a piece of Tutataab’s arm, recovered, and used a magic scroll to reach Weil Fortress and reunite with Quintina and the others.
• Ang decided to end the garrison duty early and led his five hundred and seventy people through the Magic Teleportation Array toward the Empire.

Ang led 570 Tier 2 Warriors out of the God-Demon Battlefield rather than pay the early withdrawal fee, using his power to force their departure. After the golden-armored warrior shut down the teleportation arrays and challenged him, Ang defeated him and teleported away, leaving the guards to report the incident and prepare for a dangerous reassignment.

• Ang refused to pay the early withdrawal fee and used his domain to hold back the guards while Quintina, Ade, Dana, and the others escaped through the teleportation arrays.
• After the others left, Ang advanced toward the final array, and the golden-armored warrior ordered all arrays shut down and commanded the Great Warriors to attack.
• The Great Warriors hesitated, and Ang faced the golden-armored warrior alone after the crowd cleared the area.
• The golden-armored warrior's Leap Pierce struck Ang's Chaos Shield, and Ang's rebounding force and punch cracked the warrior's armor and knocked him unconscious.
• Ang ordered the arrays reopened and teleported away while the crowd watched.
• The golden-armored warrior woke, admitted Ang was beyond his strength, and ordered the guards to report the incident and prepare for possible assignment to the first defensive line.