Chapter Summaries

A century after Lilith fell asleep within the Life Divine Tree, Legrie had grown into a colossal dragon and become a familiar, worshipped presence in World One. Still longing for her mother, Legrie heard the tree promise that Lilith would wake “soon” and went back to sleep in her nest among its branches.

• Legrie flew over a city, and the Wind Holy Dragon calmed the storm her wings stirred up before scolding her for flying too low.
• Legrie asked the Life Divine Tree when Lilith would wake, and it answered, “Soon.”
• Legrie recalled that Lilith’s clones had entered Shadow Space to research weapons thirty years earlier, while Lilith’s true body slept in the tree.
• Legrie remembered challenging powerful figures, including the Saintesses, Popes, and Five Holy Dragons, and hoped to surpass the dragons without relying on Spatial Magic.
• Legrie ate a large magical beast, cleaned the blood from the tree with wind and fire, then returned to her branch-built nest and fell asleep.

After sleeping for 102 years inside the Life Divine Tree, Lilith awakened with a mature body and strength at the ninth tier. She learned that her inherited memories offered two paths to godhood and decided to pursue both.

• Lilith absorbed the energy stored in the Life Divine Tree and awakened after 102 years of slumber.
• Lilith saw that her clone had grown into a mature beauty and joked that she had surpassed her original body.
• Lilith sensed that her original body in the DanMachi world had barely changed while she had spent centuries adventuring across worlds.
• Lilith reached the ninth tier, awakened her inherited memories, and learned methods of becoming a god through faith or mastery of rules.
• Lilith decided she wanted to become a god through both faith and mastery of rules.

Lilith pursued godhood through both faith and mastery of laws, refining her followers’ beliefs to support her ascent. After issuing a divine oracle, she reunited with Legrie, who had missed her during her century-long sleep.

• Lilith decided her avatar would seek godhood through faith while her true body pursued mastery of laws, and she sent avatars to spread faith in other worlds.
• Lilith used the System to issue a divine oracle, standardizing prayers and defining her divine authorities as Creation, Life, Reincarnation, and Magic.
• The churches responded to Lilith’s oracle and revised their prayers without questioning her command.
• Legrie arrived, recognized Lilith, and embraced her, saying she had missed her during Lilith’s hundred-year sleep.
• Lilith pulled Legrie from her embrace when her horns hurt, then set her down and stroked her hair.

Lilith discovered that the population in worlds covered by her System stopped growing, threatening the long-term stability of her faith. She sent avatars to search for a solution while deciding to create a Pseudo-Artifact to refine faith more efficiently and advance her divinity of Reincarnation.

• Lilith stayed with Legrie, found that her Demon Bloodline caused her bouts of irritability, and was pleased to discover that Legrie had learned Spatial Magic.
• Lilith took Legrie to several worlds to gather energy and the Power of Faith, then noticed that their populations had stabilized.
• Lilith realized that covering conquered worlds with her System halted population growth and could eventually undermine faith in her.
• Lilith considered using her Reincarnation authority to understand souls and solve the problem, while sending more avatars to search other worlds for answers.
• Lilith decided that creating a Pseudo-Artifact to refine faith would help her condense divinity faster, and continued storing the purified Power of Faith she had already refined.

After refining faith for years, Lilith condensed and fused with a drop of Creation divinity, triggering a storm of inspiration that revealed how to make a faith-refining Pseudo-Artifact and improve the System. She sent clones to implement the System changes and search for missing materials while she began building the artifact.

• Lilith used six ninth-rank clones and many eighth-rank clones to improve the efficiency of refining faith.
• After years of effort, Lilith condensed a drop of Creation divinity and fused with it instantly.
• Lilith recorded a flood of ideas, including a method for creating a Pseudo-Artifact that could refine faith.
• Lilith learned that her believers' prayers could eventually condense divinity for her even without active refinement.
• Lilith sent clones to modify the System and began manufacturing the Pseudo-Artifact from the materials she had collected.
• Lilith found that some materials were still missing, so she planned to have her clones search for them.

After the Inspiration Storm, Lilith continued building a prototype Pseudo-Artifact to refine faith and spent several months refining faith until she condensed her second drop of divinity. Its fusion triggered another Inspiration Storm, which gave her new ideas for improving the Pseudo-Artifact and exposed more loopholes in Evil God D’s System.

• Lilith made components for a first-generation Pseudo-Artifact, sorted the damaged parts, and salvaged the usable materials.
• Lilith continued refining faith with her clones, aided by the greater purity of the faith from her believers.
• Several months later, Lilith condensed her second drop of divinity and fused it into herself while recording the process in her book.
• The fusion triggered another Inspiration Storm, during which Lilith recorded new ideas for optimizing the Pseudo-Artifact.
• Lilith found that the System created by Evil God D contained many loopholes, which made improving it increasingly concerning.

Lilith reviewed her System research and the construction of a void-traveling spaceship while continuing to fuse divinity. As she prepared to fuse a third drop, she realized that her growing isolation might be connected to the severe consequences she foresaw.

• Lilith used her Creation divinity to spot and patch loopholes in the System, which the Life Divine Tree also instinctively helped repair.
• Lilith left her avatars to implement her ideas, and their nearly completed spaceship stalled at its Energy Reactor, which could not yet supply enough power for the ship's weapons and shields.
• Lilith continued spending time with Legrie, sometimes sending an avatar in her place, while her avatars traveled to other worlds.
• Lilith sensed that fusing too much divinity too quickly could have severe consequences, but she initially found no change in herself.
• Lilith realized she had become a shut-in and suddenly focused on the fact that she had been accompanying Legrie.

Over the years, Lilith fused another drop of divinity and developed a Pseudo-Artifact to refine the Power of Faith. She improved it while using it, and estimated that another fifty years of work could make it capable of refining faith as she intended.

• Lilith fused another drop of divinity, gained a demigod's body, filled a book with notes, and found new ways to modify the spaceship's Energy Reactor.
• Lilith gathered the materials and created a spherical Pseudo-Artifact with a rotating cube core to refine the Power of Faith.
• Lilith tested the Pseudo-Artifact and found its refined faith impure, but discovered that filtering it made her own refinement easier.
• Lilith modified the Pseudo-Artifact over the following years, enlarging it until it could filter all the faith World One provided and refine it more purely.
• Lilith estimated that fifty more years of modifications could produce a Pseudo-Artifact capable of Refining Faith.

Lilith fused Reincarnation divinity and gained new insight into souls and System modifications, while she prioritized the stalled population growth in her worlds. Before addressing that problem, she created Divine Guards after Legrie’s greed for Life Fruits led to the Life Divine Tree restraining her.

• Lilith fused a drop of Reincarnation divinity into herself while creating the Pseudo-Artifact, and discovered that more than a hundred worlds under her control had stopped growing in population.
• Lilith realized that her inability to condense a divine spark made her waste much of the Power of Faith, so she used the unrefined power to develop the Divine Kingdom.
• Lilith entered a state of enlightenment about souls and devised further plans to modify the System.
• Legrie became fixated on the Life Fruits and tried to reach them after growing stronger than the Wind Holy Dragon.
• The Life Divine Tree bound Legrie with a root and hung her upside down, while believers watched.
• Lilith created Divine Guards before resolving the population problem.

After Legrie nearly ate dozens of Life Fruit, Lilith stopped her and discovered that a devout soul had fused with a Life Divine Tree Seed. Inspired by the seed’s transformation, Lilith began a plan to nurture powerful new subordinates called Divine Guards.

• Legrie tried to eat dozens of Life Fruit, so the Life Divine Tree notified Lilith.
• Lilith immobilized Legrie, and the Life Divine Tree rescued the fruit before Lilith struck Legrie into a distant mountain.
• The Life Divine Tree showed Lilith a seed that had fused with a gestating soul and begun transforming into a new kind of life.
• Lilith realized such beings could become strong subordinates and decided to merge suitably devout souls with Life Divine Tree Seeds.
• Lilith named the future beings Divine Guards and chose to nurture them until she needed their help.

Lilith nurtured the first Divine Guards and advanced her research into creating new life after fusing life divinity. She also rewarded Legrie by spending time with her, and their journey across the world sparked rumors that Lilith had an older sister.

• Lilith sent the first batch of Divine Guards into an Illusion Seed to train and strengthen their bodies.
• Lilith fused a drop of life divinity, entered a prolonged state of enlightenment, and gained ideas for solving the population problem within thirty years.
• Lilith remembered she had promised Legrie a reward and asked what she wanted; Legrie asked Lilith to spend more time with her.
• Lilith accompanied Legrie in human form as they visited places and tried foods across the world.
• People mistook Lilith for the goddess depicted in statues and murals, and rumors spread that Goddess Lilith had an older sister.

Lilith discovered that the world was governed by gods playing a dice game, and that Goblin Slayer was an exception to the influence that made everyone disregard goblins. Hoping to investigate that influence without drawing the gods’ attention, she began hunting goblins, leaving fewer and fewer for adventurers to find.

• After hearing that a village had been massacred by goblins and seeing the guild’s indifference, Lilith became wary and began watching for goblins on her wilderness commissions.
• Lilith heard of Goblin Slayer, a Silver adventurer who focused on killing goblins, and learned that he was in the frontier town.
• Lilith realized the gods treated the world’s inhabitants as pieces in a game, and that Goblin Slayer had escaped the influence that made others look down on goblins.
• Lilith decided to investigate goblins while staying hidden from the gods, and began capturing and dissecting them as test subjects.
• Lilith cleared goblins from each area so efficiently that goblin-hunting commissions gradually disappeared from guild boards.

Lilith traveled to the Moon to investigate the goblins there, bringing a force of powerful mechas and devastating bombs. She found a goblin palace and discovered that its enormous ruler possessed objects imbued with the Power of Faith.

• After finding nothing unusual in her dissections, Lilith decided to investigate the Moon, where goblins were said to originate.
• Lilith prepared one hundred Dragon-shaped Mechas and three continent-destroying bombs for her expedition.
• Lilith found the Magic Mirror in Water Town’s sewers, then used Spatial Magic to reach the Moon when the mirror blocked her passage.
• Lilith flew toward the largest goblin gathering and discovered a magnificent palace.
• Lilith saw a huge goblin ruler wearing golden ornaments and holding a scepter surrounded by the Power of Faith.

Lilith discovered that the goblins on the moon worshipped a Goblin Demigod, which marked her and provoked her into attacking. She bombed the moon and the Goblin Demigod’s palace, leaving the demigod under renewed bombardment.

• Lilith observed the Goblin Demigod and was struck by its beam, which teleported her across the moon and marked her to enrage nearby goblins.
• Lilith summoned a blizzard to conceal herself, buried two timed bombs in the moon, and teleported above the Goblin Demigod’s palace.
• Lilith summoned four Red Dragon Mechas and sent three to bombard the goblins and palace while she rode the fourth.
• The Goblin Demigod survived the first barrage by shielding itself with goblin corpses, then used its prepared attack power to defend against Lilith’s next wave of shells.

Lilith used the Red Dragon Mechas’ barrage to drain the Goblin Demigod’s Power of Faith while diverting its persistent Green Light attacks into a separate space. The Goblin Demigod destroyed many shells and damaged a Red Dragon Mecha with a lightning strike, but Lilith escaped and swallowed both the lightning and another Green Light, leaving the barrage to resume.

• The Red Dragon Mechas bombarded the Goblin Demigod, whose shield consumed its dwindling Power of Faith.
• Lilith used Spatial Gates to divert several Green Lights into a separate space as the Goblin Demigod spent more power reinforcing its shield.
• The Goblin Demigod unleashed a massive purple lightning bolt that detonated most of the shells overhead and struck a Red Dragon Mecha, destroying part of its head.
• Lilith used Spatial transfer to evade the damaged mecha and swallowed both the pursuing Green Light and the purple lightning with Spatial Gates.
• The Red Dragon Mechas resumed their barrage before the Goblin Demigod could recover.

Lilith killed the Goblin Demigod on the moon, then her buried bombs shattered the moon and sent its fragments raining down across the world. After hiding from the gods and removing the mark the Goblin Demigod left on her, she returned to World One with its corpse and two drops of Reproduction divinity, but could not decide which subordinate should receive them.

• The Red Dragon Mechas bombarded the Goblin Demigod until it died, and Lilith collected its corpse and spilled divinity before leaving the world.
• Lilith's buried bombs detonated after she departed, breaking the moon apart and sending lunar fragments, including the four Dragon Mechas, crashing toward the world.
• Lilith hid in another small world and spent several years removing the Goblin Demigod's mark before her clone returned to World One.
• Lilith found the Goblin Demigod's corpse of limited use, but was pleased to discover that its divinity was Reproduction divinity.
• Lilith hesitated over whether to fuse the two drops of Reproduction divinity herself or give them to a subordinate, since she could find no suitable recipient.

Lilith refined two drops of the Goblin Demigod’s divinity, then spent ten years restoring population growth across her worlds and created an artifact that increased the chance of pregnancy. She later improved her faith-refining pseudo-artifact and modified the mecha’s energy furnace to use the Power of Faith.

• Lilith erased the Goblin Demigod’s will from each drop of divinity, enduring repeated attacks from its naked goblin form, then fused the refined drops together and stored them.
• Lilith concluded that the worlds’ halted population growth stemmed from disrupted souls and reincarnation, not merely a lack of reproductive power.
• Lilith used life Divine Power and reincarnation divinity to restore the disrupted cycle, resolving the population problem ten years later at the cost of energy beneath the Life Divine Tree and Life Sacred Tree.
• Lilith forged an artifact from reproduction divinity that increased pregnancy chances in one world, and World One recorded far more births in Year 857 of the Divine Calendar.
• Lilith repeatedly improved the Pseudo-Artifact for Refine Faith, making it larger and more efficient while producing purer Power of Faith.
• Lilith modified the mecha’s energy furnace so it could use the Power of Faith as fuel.

In 883 of the Divine Calendar, the Life Divine Tree discovered a Spatial Rift linking World One and World Three, prompting Lilith to investigate. Lilith crossed into World Three and found the rift was gradually stabilizing, with a permanent passage expected to form within twenty years.

• The Life Divine Tree detected a Spatial Rift in World One and recognized the System and her descendants beyond it.
• Lilith stopped her research, confirmed the far side was World Three, and heard the Life Sacred Trees there call the Life Divine Tree their mother.
• Lilith and the Life Divine Tree scanned World One but found no other unusual activity, so Lilith suspected the cause lay in World Three.
• Lilith crossed the unstable rift into World Three and examined its spatial power.
• Lilith determined that the rift was calming and would stabilize into a Spatial Gate connecting the two worlds within twenty years.
• Lilith said, "Sword Come."

Lilith discovered that World One and World Three were slowly merging through a natural Spatial Rift, then stabilized the rift into a gate and let the worlds join gradually. She sent powerful Divine Guards to spread her faith across other worlds and eventually created an artifact that fully refined Power of Faith, while a divinity-refining prototype remained untested.

• Lilith discovered that the natural Spatial Rift could cause World One and World Three to merge, and she stabilized it into a Spatial Gate while allowing the process to proceed slowly.
• The Life Divine Tree told Lilith that more than ten thousand Divine Guards burdened it, so Lilith awakened the first batch and sent them to other worlds with Life Divine Tree Seeds, gear, and Red Dragon Mechas.
• Lilith reduced her use of avatars and arranged for Life Sacred Trees to nurture weaker Divine Guards, while building more production lines for their equipment.
• After several more years and another drop of divinity, Lilith created a Pseudo-Artifact that fully refined Power of Faith into a harmless, usable form.
• Lilith also built a prototype artifact for automatically refining divinity, but she lacked spare divinity to test it.

Lilith created a powerful faith-refining divine artifact and sent Divine Guards equipped with mechas to hunt divinity-bearing creatures and demigods in other worlds. They returned with several corpses but lost three members, while Lilith also completed the Blood Dragon Mecha and began nurturing the fallen Guards' souls.

• Lilith finished a compact divine artifact that refined the Power of Faith more than ten times faster than she could, and planned to develop it into a divine core and merge it with her divinity-refining artifact.
• Lilith equipped a team of Rank Eight Divine Guards with armor, weapons, and Red Dragon Mechas, then sent them to hunt divinity-bearing creatures and demigods in other worlds while avoiding those protected by true gods.
• Lilith used data she had memorized from the Battle Angel to develop the Second Generation God-Slaying Mecha, which she named the Blood Dragon Mecha in Divine Calendar Year 953.
• In Divine Calendar Year 956, the Divine Guards returned with a demigod's corpse and three corpses of divinity-bearing creatures, but only seven of the ten Guards came back alive.
• Lilith placed the three fallen Guards' captured souls in the Life Divine Tree to nurture them, replenished the team, and sent it out again.
• Lilith examined the bizarre demigod corpse, which had fur, four limbs, sixteen twisted horns, and tentacles growing mostly from its lower half.