Chapter Summaries

Kadan Folich, a poor farmer in Eerga City, discovered a White Obelisk that revealed a true Path to Godhood and granted him supernatural power. After testing his new ability, he realized Eerga City’s future had changed forever.

• Kadan found his farmhands missing and discovered his Personal Terminal had no signal.
• A glowing White Obelisk burst through Kadan’s warehouse and began purifying the soil around it.
• Kadan touched the obelisk and heard a voice explain that it was the Path to Godhood opened by Li Aoz, inheritor of Dominion.
• The obelisk granted Kadan power, and he used Aoneng to make himself and nearby objects float.
• After falling from the air, Kadan lay in the hay and realized Eerga City would be transformed.

Li Aoz used the White Obelisk to open a path into the Red Arrow market and discovered he could rent Aoneng through it. As Kadan brought more Mutants into the Path Building, Li Aoz began earning experience from its residents and planned to expand the system.

• Li Aoz saw the White Obelisk as a chance for Nethermark Heavy Industries to enter the Red Arrow market, despite the risk of losing its Frostplate business.
• Li Aoz discovered he could inspect the Path Building and store selected Aoneng inside the White Obelisk for players and NPCs to rent.
• Li Aoz placed Gravity Aura, Eye of Truth, and Blood of Immortality in the White Obelisk, but kept Malefic Calamity out because of its danger.
• Li Aoz explained the importance of Gravity Aura for Starcallers and compared its power with telekinesis and other Aoneng.
• Kadan shared six Mutants with Li Aoz, and the growing number of residents helped Li Aoz earn experience and plan for future expansion.

Li Aoz entered the Valenkov Autonomous State, slipped into its residential district, and learned that Olavier wanted to recruit him for a job. Olavier warned that Valenkov’s reputation concealed a more complicated reality, leaving Li Aoz curious about what lay beneath its propaganda.

• Flana completed the ship’s entry paperwork and warned Li Aoz that Valenkov’s Aliens collected body parts and could be dangerous.
• Li Aoz secretly infiltrated Valenkov’s starport and explored the residential district while Flana arranged supplies.
• Li Aoz contacted Olavier, who confirmed Radon Glutinous had 1.4 billion mu of cultivable land and discussed the recent events involving Liu E.
• Olavier offered Li Aoz a job, citing his victory over Liu E and his willingness to visit Valenkov.
• Olavier challenged Valenkov’s reputation as a warlike society, claiming its Aliens were actually not good at fighting.

Li Aoz learned that United Company’s failed bid to acquire Vanlenkov had contributed to the mercenary state’s economic collapse and that its aliens were being worn down by war. Olavier tasked him with rescuing Kalmetz’s children and killing their father, triggering a timed side quest with several possible rewards.

• Li Aoz observed Vanlenkov’s deserted streets as Olavier explained how United Company’s rejected acquisition was followed by broken finances, shrinking orders, and protests that emptied the treasury.
• Olavier explained that United Company wanted Vanlenkov’s business networks, not its soldiers, and would break up the legions and replace them with its own mercenaries.
• Li Aoz questioned why the aliens could not support themselves, and Olavier said they lacked the ability to produce and survived by pretending to be formidable enough to attract employers.
• Olavier told Li Aoz to have his Dark Elf companion take Kalmetz’s children to Fire Wolf Star and advised him to kill Kalmetz.
• Li Aoz triggered the side quest “Yesterday Before Yesterday Was Spring,” which set a seven-day limit and offered rewards for abducting Kalmetz’s children, assassinating him, or waiting.

Caramel Snail arrived on White Candle Star, joined the Kendlau squad, and settled the quests that brought him into space. While he and Cumin Powder went to find Li Aoz, they encountered a mysterious cloaked woman whose eyes seemed familiar to him.

• Caramel Snail woke on White Candle Star and reconnected with his clubmates, including Xia Chong Yu Bing, whom he encouraged to pursue her character’s wish quest.
• Cumin Powder invited Caramel Snail to join a pioneering squad with Ye Zhangjian, Yu Tianxiao, and Garryton, and he accepted.
• Caramel Snail settled the Main Quest “Unknown Airspace,” gaining rewards and reaching 265 Favorability with Li Aoz.
• Caramel Snail and Cumin Powder headed into the ruins to find Li Aoz, but found a mysterious woman surrounded by players instead.
• Caramel Snail’s Eye of Truth could not inspect the woman, whose web-patterned, colorless eyes made him feel he had seen them before.

Yawen introduced herself as Weaver and began relaying Li Aoz’s missions, giving the players ways to build a life and gain power on White Candle Star. She then revealed two Memory Crystals that let players explore Li Aoz’s memories, including the Nethermark Humanity Laboratory and Vanlenkov Winter.

• Caramel Snail and Cumin Powder discussed their intense dislike of Yawen’s spiderweb-like eyes and their inability to see her stats.
• Yawen quieted the curious players, introduced herself as their guide and Li Aoz’s representative, and issued the long-term “New Journey” mission with construction, combat, and exploration paths.
• Players considered how to exploit White Candle Star’s abundant resources, while others planned to hunt small creatures, restore ruins, or study the Crystal Tower’s language and magic.
• Yawen placed two Memory Crystals at the ruins’ shrine: one let players explore Li Aoz’s memories of the Nethermark Humanity Laboratory, and the other recreated Vanlenkov Winter for missions and combat.

Players discovered new dungeons in the ruins and celebrated the expanded content while taking quests from Ya Wen. After they left, an unfamiliar woman named Vierria warned Ya Wen not to touch a spacetime fracture crystal and sang a cryptic song about love before introducing herself.

• Players identified Memory Echo: Nethermark Humanity Laboratory as a dungeon and discussed its difficulty rankings and the benefits of dungeon content.
• Caramel Snail and Cumin Powder discussed the dungeon’s costs, then shared news of the new content with their team, whose members planned to focus on quests and gathering resources.
• Caramel Snail received a list of material-gathering tasks from Ya Wen, while Ya Wen assigned Cumin Powder a quest to hunt Feathered Winged Beasts.
• After the players left, Ya Wen reached toward a Memory Crystal and an uninvited woman warned her not to touch it.
• The woman sang to Ya Wen about love and danger, then introduced herself as Wei Erwei Aellria Saint Valendino, or Vierria.

Vierria confronted Yawen about her feelings for Li Aoz and warned her that, as a Social Citizen, she was in danger from both the Hidden Society and Star Abyss. She invited Yawen to join her protection, then revealed that Li Aoz had become a god.

• Vierria warned Yawen that touching the Echoer's Memory Crystal would destroy her with temporal energy.
• Yawen insisted her feelings for Li Aoz were her own business and said she lived because he needed her.
• Vierria told Yawen that Social Citizens lacked independent will and urged her to live for herself rather than love Li Aoz or the Grand Narrative.
• Vierria explained that Gaia's people might merge Yawen into the Aether, while Narrative-level Civilizations might dismantle her, and offered to protect her.
• Vierria told Yawen that Li Aoz had become a god.

Nikita investigated Verrazzi Security’s operations in Valenkov and learned that the company was searching for Nakis Blood. After Andrew Verrazzi killed manager Yulitus and took control, a mysterious headless figure named Lioz confronted Nikita.

• Sorenf erased his family records and sent a final message declaring his loyalty to Valenkov before preparing for an attack on Verrazzi.
• Nikita watched Andrew Verrazzi arrive at the Verrazzi docking port and overheard him demand an update from manager Yulitus about Nakis Blood.
• Andrew extracted Yulitus’s soul, had his memories distributed across the company, and ordered that Yulitus’s body be repaired to keep serving Verrazzi.
• Nikita overheard Verrazzi employees admit that market expansion was a pretext for searching for Nakis Blood before a voice in his heart confirmed their goal.
• Nikita attacked a headless humanoid who appeared behind him, but the stranger evaded the blow and introduced himself as Lioz.

Li Aoz persuaded Nikita that Nakis Blood had drawn a Narrative-level Civilization’s attention and asked him to help remove Kalmetz Shield Emblem’s children from Valenkov. Nikita agreed to cooperate and led Li Aoz toward Murdock Tower, where Kalmetz lived and worked.

• Nikita challenged Li Aoz’s identity, but listened when Li Aoz warned that Valenkov could face ruin and explained the significance of Nakis Blood.
• Li Aoz argued that Nakis Blood might be connected to the Path and offered to make Verrazzi leave Valenkov.
• Li Aoz asked Nikita to help take Kalmetz Shield Emblem’s children out of the country without Kalmetz knowing.
• Nikita admitted he did not want Kalmetz to remain leader because his policies had helped bring Valenkov to ruin, despite his good character.
• Nikita agreed to help and took Li Aoz toward Murdock Tower, revealing that he was Sorenf, a former scout and the only living person who had known every member of the Shield Emblem family.

Li Aoz paid Nikita 500 Ammonium Gold to prepare supplies for their mission in Valenkov, where poverty and social collapse shaped daily life. At home, Nikita cared for his daughter Rosa, whose inherited Hydra Syndrome was making her grow younger, and the chapter left him facing her illness and the hardships surrounding their family.

• Li Aoz gave Nikita 500 Ammonium Gold and arranged to meet him at Murdock Tower that night.
• Nikita left through Valenkov's desperate streets as starving Aliens looted a shop and attacked its owner.
• Nikita returned home with supplies and restarted the fire for Rosa, who had grown cold after someone stole her blanket.
• Nikita told Rosa that Doctor Fox was right and only a Narrative-level Civilization could cure her Hydra Syndrome, but Rosa refused to betray her homeland for treatment.
• Nikita worried that Rosa's husband, Julian, had gone out with the fleet despite the lack of supplies and weapons.
• Rosa asked whether Nikita hated Kalmetz, and Nikita said he hated him because he gave money to the elderly and families of fallen soldiers.

Li Aoz persuaded Nikita to tell him about his missing son-in-law Julian and the children of Kalmetz, while Nikita considered entrusting Rosa’s future child to him. After Nikita listed the obstacles to kidnapping Kalmetz’s three children, Li Aoz revealed he had already assembled the required help and prepared to act.

• Rosa and Nikita argued about Kalmetz, the Social, and Narrative-level Civilization while Li Aoz listened outside their home.
• Li Aoz offered to find Nikita’s missing son-in-law Julian, and Nikita gave him Julian’s description and information about his cousin Jacob.
• Nikita gave Li Aoz details about Kalmetz’s children—Flova, Melrie, and Frey—and described the robot nanny, hacker, and medium needed to kidnap them.
• Li Aoz revealed that he had already obtained the robot nanny, hired a hacker, and brought in a medium.
• Li Aoz said he would investigate Julian later and announced that they would go to Murdock Tower to kidnap Kalmetz’s three children.

Li Aoz and Nikita infiltrated Murdock Tower through its sewage system and reached the inner tower, where they planned to extract Melrie Kalmetz Shield Emblem. Nikita advised Li Aoz to fabricate damaging footage of Kalmetz, and Li Aoz accepted the mission before heading for the supreme leader’s office.

• Li Aoz and Nikita entered Murdock Tower and passed through its chaotic outer section.
• Nikita secretly altered the electrical system, allowing them to slip through the sewage pipes into the inner tower while Li Aoz used Space-time Ripple to help.
• Li Aoz gave Nikita the hacker’s program and told him to retrieve Melrie Kalmetz Shield Emblem for a rendezvous on the top floor.
• Nikita urged Li Aoz to gather and edit damaging material about Kalmetz, and the mission updated with the additional condition to fabricate and spread footage.
• Li Aoz activated his optical camouflage and headed for Valenkov’s supreme leader’s office.

Li Aoz reviewed the mission’s events and the lucrative, dangerous Nakis Blood trade that drew outsiders into the Vanlenkov Autonomous State. The state had become a brutal war zone where criminals and even Valenkov People profited from trafficking Nakis Blood, leaving the original resistance in disarray.

• Li Aoz scouted near the office and reviewed the plot of "The Day Before Yesterday Was Spring."
• Li Aoz recalled that Nakis Blood raised genetic potential, could be used by any lifeform, and was worth enormous sums, while extraction required carrying it inside a human body.
• The Interstellar Alliance barred high-ranking outsiders from entering the war zone, but civilians and mercenaries still poured in seeking Nakis Blood and battlefield loot.
• Volunteer groups and mercenaries turned humanitarian operations into profit-making ventures, while gray industries grew around the war zone.
• Criminals flooded into the Vanlenkov Autonomous State, and surviving criminals became elite enforcers and butchers.
• Some Valenkov People joined the Nakis Blood trade and collaborated with outsiders instead of resisting Verrazzi.

Li Aoz entered Kalmetz Shieldcrest’s office and secretly recorded King Gorlett urging him to declare bankruptcy and mortgage Vanlenkov’s soldiers to repay its debts. Kalmetz refused to sell his people’s freedom, and Li Aoz finished recording before retrieving Jannia.

• Li Aoz reviewed Vanlenkov’s history and planned his route through its crisis-ridden war zone.
• Li Aoz slipped into Kalmetz Shieldcrest’s shabby office and began recording the leader’s call with King Gorlett.
• King Gorlett urged Kalmetz to seek Narrative-level Civilization intervention and mortgage his soldiers’ labor and rights to repay Vanlenkov’s debts.
• Kalmetz refused to trade away his people’s freedom and ended the call without accepting Gorlett’s offer to help him escape.
• Li Aoz completed the recording and retrieved Jannia from the space-time rift.

Li Aoz assassinated Kalmetz and abducted his two young children, Flova and Frey, to prevent Valenkov from collapsing into an even more destructive fate. He handed the children to Nikita as Flana prepared to arrive, then looked out over a city with no clear future.

• Li Aoz used Kalmetz’s misfiring Laser Pistol and his own attacks to kill him, earning a Stratum Advancement Ticket.
• Li Aoz slipped past the building’s guards, found Flova in her crib, and took her with a nanny robot.
• Li Aoz entered Frey’s nursery, disabled the alarm, and carried the sleeping infant away.
• Li Aoz reflected that every possible outcome for Valenkov led to war or suffering, and that the main story offered no true happy ending.
• Li Aoz told Flana to meet him at the building, then handed the children and nanny robot to Nikita.
• Li Aoz watched the desolate city and concluded that Valenkov had no tomorrow.

Li Aoz rescued Nikita from Valenkov and wrestled with whether to intervene in the country’s fate, despite having no personal ties to its people. Nikita took him to a hill and began recounting how his father’s example shaped his life, ending with the story of how he refused his best friend’s desperate request and lost him.

• Li Aoz escaped with Nikita, left Flana to draw pursuit away, and paid Nikita 3,000 Ammonium Gold before asking whether he should try to improve Valenkov’s fate.
• Nikita refused to leave Valenkov, citing his daughter’s condition and his attachment to his homeland.
• Li Aoz asked Nikita whether he should change an outcome he could not fully fix, and Nikita offered to take him somewhere to think.
• Nikita led Li Aoz up an ordinary hill and told him how his father had brought home two orphaned children, saying he helped because he could.
• Nikita described how his father’s motto drove him to excel, even though he disliked fighting and competition.
• Nikita confessed that he refused his best friend’s request for a training slot because he believed the dangerous assault-team work would get him killed, and his friend died.

Li Aoz chose to stay in Valenkov and fight Verrazzi, inspired by Nikita’s account of doing what he could to save others. After receiving new knowledge and unlocking divine artifact abilities, he raced toward Verrazzi Building with Jannia to confront the company and find Julian.

• Nikita told Li Aoz how he had become a decorated war hero by saving comrades and acting according to his own will.
• Li Aoz decided to stay and fight, promising Nikita he would arrange treatment for his daughter and send the family to a safe planet.
• Li Aoz activated Dictator Form, and the mission awarded him the Law of Conservation of Energy and the Energy Refining Art.
• Li Aoz flew into Verrazzi-controlled airspace, crushed an anti-air missile, and told Jannia that Julian was in Verrazzi.
• Jannia transformed into a sword as Li Aoz charged toward Verrazzi Building, unlocking the divine artifact abilities Armed Empire and Vivid Demon Iron Monarch.

Kailai Stamm and Verrazzi executives presented Andrew with a plan to gather Valenkov Aliens carrying Nakis Blood, while Andrew demanded a force to deliver ten units to headquarters within a month. Their meeting was interrupted by Jannia, who crashed through the building and attacked Andrew, ending the chapter by declaring herself a god.

• Kailai Stamm entered the conference hall as Andrew berated Verrazzi executives over their failure to organize a force.
• Kailai presented a plan to recruit Valenkov Aliens as experimental subjects by advertising treatment for Nakis Blood, and Andrew approved it while demanding an additional force.
• A speeding attacker shattered the conference hall's windows and damaged the building, prompting Kailai to order everyone to the shelter.
• Andrew began invoking the Supreme Goddess for protection as a black shadow tore through the building toward him.
• Jannia struck Andrew's raised hand with her blade, severing his index finger before divine power stopped her sword.
• Andrew challenged the armored Jannia, and she declared, "I am a god."

Andrew offered Li Aoz a job at Verrazzi, but Li Aoz kept fighting Kailai and Martin Chamberler, using his immortality and linked-damage abilities to turn their attacks against company personnel. The chapter ended with Andrew realizing Li Aoz had deliberately sacrificed his defenses to destroy Verrazzi Company.

• Andrew offered Li Aoz a yearly salary of one million Ammonium Gold to work for Verrazzi, but Li Aoz attacked him instead.
• Kailai and Martin Chamberler overwhelmed Li Aoz with punches and blades, crushing his head into a diamond and tearing his body apart.
• Li Aoz revived, linked the people around him with Death Link, and used Sever Life to wound Kailai when Martin cut off his arms.
• Andrew broke the damage link with his supreme will, and the executives began evacuating as Li Aoz's attacks continued to hurt Martin and his colleagues.
• Verrazzi's combat craft opened fire on Li Aoz, but the bombardment caused severe casualties among company personnel, so Andrew ordered them to cease fire.
• Andrew concluded that Li Aoz had rejected his offer and deliberately dropped his defenses to destroy Verrazzi Company.