Chapter Summaries

The Light Church’s twelve-million-strong army attacked the Godless Alliance, and its outer kingdoms surrendered or fought until they were conquered. The Church’s brutal treatment of prisoners helped drive the last kingdoms to resist, while enormous losses weakened the Light Legion’s advance as the war entered its second phase.

• The Light Church launched a simultaneous invasion of the Godless Alliance from three directions with twelve million troops, prompting eight outer kingdoms to surrender and six others to offer brief resistance before their leaders fled.
• After capturing more than 1.5 million prisoners, Cardinal Archbishop Obarhe received the God of Light’s order to kill them, and Commander-in-chief Hilbert persuaded him to execute the noble prisoners while sending the rest to Death Camp as cannon fodder.
• The remaining eight outer kingdoms fought to the end after learning how the Church treated its prisoners.
• The Light Legion conquered the last eight outer kingdoms over the next two months, ending the first phase of the war.
• Hilbert’s forces lost more than three million troops in the final campaign, leaving fewer than ten million combat-capable soldiers and weakening the Light Legion’s offensive as the war entered its second phase.

At the Royal Council Meeting, Zhou Ming and his ministers devised a defensive plan to stop the Light Legion beyond Yadoud Kingdom’s borders while protecting the homeland. They approved the use of strategic weapons and prepared to fortify the second line of defense against the approaching invasion.

• General Clemons recommended sending another batch of reinforcements to the twelve neighboring countries, and Zhou Ming approved a force of three hundred thousand elite troops and five hundred thousand second-line troops.
• Zhou Ming and the council weighed the risks of fighting outside Yadoud Kingdom against leaving its homeland defenses vulnerable.
• The council adopted the Border Great Wall + Neighboring Countries Fortress Plan, combining border fortifications with one hundred and eighty-six strongholds in the neighboring countries.
• Zhou Ming lifted restrictions on strategic weapons, allowing the secret weapons developed by Yadoud Kingdom to be used in the coming war.
• The nobles celebrated the weapons’ deployment and voiced hopes that Yadoud Kingdom would defeat the Light Legion at the second line of defense.

The Light Legion’s western army spent three months failing to capture a star fort, suffering enormous casualties while the defenders held firm. After learning that only 671 defenders had died, Hilbert flew into a rage and sought permission to send the Holy Knight Order against the fortress.

• The Light Legion breached the Godless Alliance’s outer line and began brutally screening residents across the second defensive line, while the Church planned to eradicate the Yadoud Kingdom’s population.
• The western army’s advance stalled at a star fort, where more than three million troops attacked for three months and suffered over a million casualties.
• Hilbert and other Church generals argued over how many defenders had died, with Hilbert estimating that the fortress had lost about twenty percent of its garrison.
• On July 20, the defenders sent a letter revealing that only 671 of their 10,632 brothers had died and taunting the Light Legion to attack harder.
• Hilbert destroyed his table and demanded permission from Archbishop Obarhe to deploy the Holy Knight Order against the fortress.

Hilbert urged Cardinal Archbishop Obarhe to deploy the Holy Knight Order against the fortress blocking the Light Legion, revealing that the defenders had suffered only 671 deaths while the attackers lost more than a million. Obarhe finally ordered both the Holy Magician Corps and the Holy Knight Order to attack the fortress at any cost.

• Hilbert knelt before Obarhe and requested permission to deploy the Holy Knight Order against the fortress.
• Obarhe explained why the Holy Knight Order was unsuitable for sieges and why the Holy Magician Corps could not overcome the fortress's Legendary Magicians, cannons, and high ground.
• Hilbert challenged General Bannon's casualty estimates and said the defenders had lost only 671 men while the Light Legion lost more than ten thousand soldiers a day.
• Obarhe was shocked by the casualty figures and considered the strategic cost of leaving the fortress in place.
• Obarhe ordered the Holy Magician Corps and the Holy Knight Order deployed to flatten the fortress.

The Light Church launched its fifty-thousand-strong Holy Knight Order, supported by the Holy Magician Corps, against the Godless Alliance’s fortress. The knights’ Holy Light Shield initially withstood every attack, but the defenders’ secret weapons cracked it, and a strange sound from the eastern sky heralded a new battle.

• The Light Church deployed the Holy Knight Order and Holy Magician Corps to attack the fortress, while Obarhe, Hilbert, and Yulis watched from the high ground.
• The Holy Knight Order charged as the fortress defenders waited until the knights came within three li before firing more than three hundred cannons.
• A giant Holy Light Shield protected the Holy Knights from artillery, bullets, and magic, leaving them without casualties as they advanced to within thirty meters of the Stone Wall.
• The fortress defenders unleashed High-Power Sniper Rifles, Hand-Cranked Machine Guns, and rocket launchers, cracking the shield and killing many Holy Knights.
• A strange sound came from the eastern sky as an even more brutal battle loomed.

The Godless Alliance’s bombers devastated the Holy Knight Order with explosives and napalm, killing thousands and driving the Light Legion’s leaders into crisis. Although Obarhe considered retreat, Yulis persuaded him to commit every available force to capture the fortress, and the Light Legion launched a desperate assault.

• A hundred bombers dropped explosives and napalm on the Holy Knight Order, killing at least five thousand knights and leaving many more wounded or burning.
• As a second wave of bombers approached, Hilbert tried to attack them while Obarhe ordered the army to retreat.
• Yulis urged Obarhe to send every Holy Knight, magician, and ordinary soldier against the fortress, arguing that retreat would destroy the army’s morale.
• Obarhe accepted Yulis’s proposal and ordered the Light Legion to attack the fortress with all its forces.

The Light Legion finally captured the fortress after a 99-day siege, but its victory came at the cost of enormous casualties. With more fortresses ahead and the Godless Alliance’s bombers still attacking, Archbishop Obarhe and the Light Legion faced a dwindling army and worsening supply problems.

• The Light Legion launched a full-scale assault, overwhelming the fortress defenders despite their firearms, rockets, magic, and bomber support.
• The defenders abandoned the fortress after suffering over 60 percent casualties and retreated to another bastion three hundred miles southeast.
• The Light Legion’s tally showed over two million casualties, including 30,000 Holy Knights and 8,000 Holy Magicians killed.
• Archbishop Obarhe and the other commanders confronted the losses and the prospect of facing at least ten more similar fortresses.
• Godless Alliance Iron Birds continued bombing the Light Legion during its march, threatening to destroy its remaining troops and supplies before it reached the next fortress.

After the Light Legion’s catastrophic losses against the Godless Alliance, Archbishop Obarhe and the other church leaders abandoned hope of a conventional victory and planned to exterminate the Alliance’s population. The chapter ended with the Light Church preparing to send its remaining troops out as Sweeping Squads to kill civilians, livestock, and domesticated animals.

• The Light Legion suffered immense casualties from the Godless Alliance’s weapons and bombers, and its advance slowed as deserters appeared.
• Archbishop Obarhe and other church leaders recognized that the Alliance’s mass-produced weapons rendered their manpower advantage ineffective.
• The chapter explained that the Light Church had suppressed scientific research because it feared that knowledge would weaken faith in the gods.
• After several days of discussion, Archbishop Obarhe and the other senior officials devised a plan to divide their remaining soldiers into Sweeping Squads.
• The Light Church leaders ordered the squads to exterminate everyone in the Godless Alliance’s territory and slaughter its livestock to destroy its ability to wage war.

After the Light Church launched an indiscriminate campaign of destruction, Zhou Ming deployed levitation warships to protect the Yadoud Kingdom and its neighbors. The warships devastated the Light Legion’s Sweeping Squads, forcing the survivors to hide and halt their open rampage.

• The Light Church ordered its Sweeping Squads to kill everyone in villages, towns, and cities across the kingdom.
• Zhou Ming shifted to a backup plan and saw the church’s campaign as a chance to bring the populations of twelve neighboring kingdoms into the Yadoud Kingdom.
• Zhou Ming sent the first thousand levitation warships to the Western Border in late August.
• The levitation warships used magic cannons and machine guns to destroy the Light Legion’s Sweeping Squads across the region.
• Within a week, seven or eight out of every ten Sweeping Squads had been destroyed, and the survivors stopped operating openly in daylight.

The Godless Alliance destroyed the Light Church’s first offensive, including its leadership, and Zhou Ming planned to use the next three years to prepare for the Church’s return. He named his buildup plan the Eternal Fortress.

• Zhou Ming ordered fifty Levitation Warships to strike the Light Church’s command camp, killing most of its senior leaders while Hilbert escaped.
• The Godless Alliance defeated the remaining three Light Legion armies, ending the Church’s first offensive with overwhelming losses for the invaders.
• Nobles and ministers celebrated and called for an invasion of the Light Church’s territory, while Zhou Ming warned himself that the Church remained powerful.
• Zhou Ming planned to reclaim the Alliance’s lost kingdoms and restore its sphere of influence before beginning another round of war preparations.
• Zhou Ming estimated that the next Light Legion offensive would arrive in about three years and named his plan to turn the Alliance into an impregnable fortress the Eternal Fortress Plan.

Zhou Ming explained that the Eternal Fortress Plan depended on creating a vast Isolation Zone by conquering and emptying around fifty Light Saint Kingdoms. He planned to relocate most of their population into the Godless Alliance, turn fanatics into Magic Puppets, and destroy the zone’s infrastructure and farmland to starve The Light Church’s armies as they advanced.

• Zhou Ming estimated that ten thousand small fortresses would be built along the outer defensive line, but said they were not the plan’s key; the Isolation Zone was.
• Zhou Ming planned to conquer around fifty Light Saint Kingdoms, screen their population, eliminate fanatics, and use Undead Magicians to turn their souls into Magic Puppets.
• Zhou Ming decided to relocate the other roughly nine hundred million people into Godless Alliance territory and import their food and supplies from the Vitros Empire, with help from Magic City if needed.
• Zhou Ming planned to use Levitation Warships to destroy houses, roads, and bridges, poison farmland, and burn forests across the five-thousand-to-ten-thousand-li Isolation Zone.
• Zhou Ming expected the resulting No Man’s Land to deprive The Light Church’s advancing armies of supplies and sharply reduce how many troops could reach the Godless Alliance.

Zhou Ming planned how to transport 900 million people and the supplies needed to resettle them in the Godless Alliance. Giant Passenger Airships could move the people, but supplying them by airship was too slow and required more magicians than the Alliance had; Zhou Ming settled on using Space Teleportation Arrays and Space Rings, leaving him to acquire 10,000 large rings.

• Zhou Ming arranged for 500 Giant Passenger Airships to help relocate people to the Godless Alliance, and estimated that airship transport could move the population needing long-distance travel within two years.
• Zhou Ming realized that airships could not deliver the enormous volume of food and other supplies quickly enough, and that operating enough cargo airships would require more magicians than the Alliance possessed.
• Zhou Ming considered using Space Teleportation Arrays to move supplies, but their narrow entrances could not carry enough cargo on their own.
• Zhou Ming calculated that people carrying Space Rings through the arrays could transport the required food in about a month, with Apprentice Magicians sufficient to operate the system.
• Zhou Ming concluded that he needed to obtain 10,000 Space Rings with a capacity of 100 cubic meters each.

Zhou Ming decided to make Space Rings himself because acquiring ten thousand of them would take too long and the continent lacked enough qualified crafters. Though he was still far from mastering spatial magic, he chose to risk a dangerous Soul Overclocking experiment and entered secluded cultivation for two months.

• Zhou Ming considered the scarcity of Space Rings and the difficulty of obtaining ten thousand for future wars.
• Zhou Ming identified the shortage of Magic Saints, Artisan God-level crafters, and Void Stone as the main obstacles to mass-producing Space Rings.
• Zhou Ming realized he could use Soul Overclocking to reach the soul frequency required for spatial magic despite being only a Legendary Magician.
• The system estimated a 70% chance of pushing Zhou Ming's soul frequency beyond 80% after reinforcing his Soul Chip, with failure risking severe injury or death.
• Zhou Ming accepted the risk and began a two-month overclocking experiment in the Secluded Cultivation Room.

Zhou Ming pushed his Soul Chip’s overclocking far enough to use spatial magic, then learned to craft Space Rings and devised a production line. The line began supplying the Godless Alliance with thousands of high-capacity rings for transporting materials.

• Zhou Ming spent months overclocking his Soul Chip and raised his base soul frequency by spending over 50 trillion Purple Gold Coins, reaching an effective 84% overclock.
• Zhou Ming studied Space Ring crafting with a Magic Saint, made his first one-cubic-meter ring, and soon learned to craft rings with 100 cubic meters of capacity.
• Zhou Ming designed a 63-step assembly line that could produce 500 hundred-cubic-meter Space Rings daily while reducing Void Stone consumption.
• Old Wolf sent five Magic Saint-level magicians to assist Zhou Ming after the Magic Association agreed to supply materials in exchange for 60% of the output.
• After the production line was established, it produced 10,000 Space Rings in about five months, equipping the Godless Alliance’s Space Material Transport Team.

The Godless Alliance's Eternal Fortress defenses and superior logistics defeated a massive Light Church invasion after nearly two years of fighting. Both sides prepared for a prolonged struggle, and a war that would last a thousand years began.

• Zhou Ming's Eternal Fortress Plan was completed, strengthening the Godless Alliance with fortresses, an Isolation Zone, relocated citizens, and expanded military forces.
• The Light Church assembled more than 51 million troops and hundreds of millions of logistical workers for another invasion of the Godless Alliance.
• The Light Church's invasion collapsed as its cannon fodder starved, griffin supply lines were destroyed, and the Holy Knights and Holy Magicians were defeated.
• The Godless Alliance's victory boosted confidence among its allies, while The Light Church adjusted its strategy rather than accepting defeat.
• The two sides entered a prolonged conflict that would last a thousand years.

The Godless Alliance, led by Zhou Ming, ultimately defeated The Light Church after the 1,034-year Millennium War, which nearly ended the world three times. The chapter described the war’s four stages and the Godless Alliance’s early advantages, then left the story poised to explain the later, more difficult stages.

• The chapter recounted how The Light Church and the Godless Alliance fought a merciless war that killed countless people and allowed no compromise.
• The Godless Alliance led by Zhou Ming eventually wiped out The Light Church, though victory came only after a long and arduous struggle.
• The war was divided into the Easy Defense Period, the Fierce Counter-Attack Period, the Difficult Defense Period, and the Difficult Counter-Attack Period, with three crises that nearly destroyed the world.
• During the first fifty years, The Light Church launched eight offensives, all of which the Godless Alliance repelled while rapidly developing its technology and military.
• After the eighth offensive, the Godless Alliance launched a sweeping counterattack, destroying Light Saint Kingdoms and conquering vast territories over roughly two hundred years.
• Zhou Ming estimated that the Godless Alliance could destroy The Light Church within another two hundred years, but the chapter warned that the later stages would bring far greater challenges.

The Light Church deployed its faith-powered Ultimate Humanoid Weapons, forcing the Godless Alliance into centuries of retreat during the Difficult Defense Period. Zhou Ming secured the Orc Race and Elf Race as allies, while the Magic Association mobilized the people across one hundred thousand stars, turning the conflict into a total war.

• The Light Church unleashed the Ultimate Humanoid Weapon, using believers’ power of faith to fuel a vast army of powerful, replaceable weapons.
• The Ultimate Humanoid Weapons drove the Godless Alliance back, beginning the nearly six-hundred-year Difficult Defense Period.
• The Godless Alliance sought allies among the Orc Race and Elf Race after its population and territory continued to decline.
• Zhou Ming led a team to meet the Orc and Elf leaders, and both races agreed to join the Godless Alliance; the Goblin Race also joined.
• The Magic Association mobilized and armed the population across one hundred thousand stars, spreading the war throughout the Ailuoluoa Plane.

The Light Church’s Third Generation Ultimate Weapons devastated the Godless Alliance until Zhou Ming countered them with a technology-driven Unmanned Legion. The Alliance regained a slight advantage, but the Church responded with Fourth Generation weapons and an incarnation of the God of Light, raising two new crises.

• The Light Church deployed Third Generation Ultimate Weapons that devastated vast regions and drove the Godless Alliance into retreat.
• Eight Law Gods destroyed eight hundred Ultimate Weapons, but the Church’s supply of believers meant it could build more.
• Zhou Ming created the Unmanned Legion, using networked machines and wireless magic power to counter the Ultimate Weapons and restore the Alliance’s momentum.
• The Light Church developed Fourth Generation Ultimate Humanoid Weapons powered by one billion believers.
• An incarnation of the God of Light descended into Azeroth by possessing a red-robed Bishop.

As the war threatened to destroy Azeroth, Zhou Ming agreed to The Light Church’s proposal for a designated battlefield, confident that the Godless Alliance’s new weapons would secure victory. The Space-Time Battleship and Desire Bomb devastated the Church’s forces and faith, forcing the God of Light to send an avatar into the war.

• The Light Church sought negotiations to end unrestricted attacks on civilians and establish a separate battlefield.
• Zhou Ming agreed to a military contest on a designated battlefield and proposed fighting top combatants at sea to limit damage to land.
• Zhou Ming told the Godless Alliance’s leaders that its nearly complete Space-Time Battleship and newly developed Desire Bomb would bring victory without further destroying their homeland.
• Space-Time Battleships inflicted devastating losses on the Fourth Generation Ultimate Humanoid Weapons, while the Desire Virus caused devout believers to flee toward the Godless Alliance.
• The God of Light sent an avatar into the war after The Light Church fell into dire straits.

The God of Light’s avatar turned the war around by purging the Desire Virus and piloting a Fifth Generation Ultimate Weapon, inflicting devastating losses on the Godless Alliance. With the Alliance nearing collapse, Zhou Ming resolved to assemble experts, set a trap, and carry out a God Hunting Plan.

• The God of Light descended an avatar to destroy the unbelievers and Traitors of the Gods, and to hunt down Zhou Ming.
• The God of Light’s avatar purged the Desire Virus and created Brain-Dead Believers to power The Light Church’s Ultimate Weapons.
• The avatar took control of a Fifth Generation Ultimate Weapon powered by one trillion believers and killed eighteen Law Gods and 234 Magic Saints.
• The God of Light’s avatar killed more than one hundred billion people in under a month, breaking the agreement not to harm civilians.
• After a little over three months, the Godless Alliance had lost half its population and forty percent of its industrial system, so Zhou Ming devised a God Hunting Plan.