Chapter Summaries

Enri begged Tang Zheng to save the humans and Demi-Humans dying under the Alliance Leader’s Sixth-Tier Magic, and her strange aura grew clearer when Tang Zheng promised he could. Tang Zheng drank an Assimilation Potion and merged with the Principality, breaking the attack and driving the Alliance Leader into a desperate fight as he tried to stall until the Angel’s time ran out.

• Enri rode the Barghest through the battlefield to ask Tang Zheng to save the dying Paladins, and Tang Zheng noticed that her strange aura strengthened with her expectations.
• Tang Zheng promised Enri he would find a way, then flew toward the Principality while the Alliance Leader attacked him with Dragon Lightning.
• Tang Zheng drank the Assimilation Potion and merged with the Principality, then used its Extreme Holy Strike to shatter the Alliance Leader’s Negative Energy attack.
• Tang Zheng controlled the Principality in a fierce aerial battle, forcing the Alliance Leader to evade its powerful attacks and seek a way to capture him alive.
• The Alliance Leader realized Tang Zheng was fighting recklessly because the Principality’s summoning time was limited, so he decided to conserve mana and stall.

Khajit became a Soul Eater and began killing Demi-Humans as panic spread across the battlefield. Enri awakened the unique Heroic Moment class, and Tang Zheng recognized that its power belonged to her alone.

• Khajit died in the Corpse Pit and transformed into a Soul Eater, killing the Gray-robed Magic Caster who guarded the area.
• The Soul Eater reached the battlefield and killed Demi-Humans with its death aura, prompting Kelart and Remedios to order a retreat.
• Enri refused to flee, said she wanted to help Tang Zheng, and picked up a sword as the Soul Eater approached.
• Enri called on everyone to lend her strength, and fallen companions' power gathered around her sword as the Attribute Panel revealed the unique Heroic Moment class.
• Tang Zheng discovered that he could forcibly acquire the Hero class but chose not to, recognizing it as Enri's own power and choice.

Enri destroyed the Soul Eater with the power of Heroic Moment, while Tang Zheng defeated the alliance leader with a hidden binding spell and the Principality’s Extreme Holy Strike. The battlefield celebrated victory, but Tang Zheng searched for the surviving alliance leader as Kelart prepared a ritual aimed at the remaining Demi-Humans.

• Enri used Heroic Moment to destroy the Soul Eater in one strike, then collapsed unconscious as her sword shattered.
• Tang Zheng baited the alliance leader into range, bound him with Sacred Bind, and struck him with the Principality’s Extreme Holy Strike.
• The Principality dispersed after the attack, and Remedios and the Barghest caught Tang Zheng before he hit the ground.
• The surviving humans and Demi-Humans celebrated their victory while Tang Zheng sent a Shadow Clone to search for the still-living alliance leader.
• Kelart ordered the surviving Clerics to prepare a ritual as she considered how to deal with the surviving Demi-Humans.
• Thousand Miles Astrologer struggled to imagine how she would report that Enri had killed the Soul Eater with one sword slash.

Kelart used the Holy Kingdom’s Crown of the Holy King to summon an Angel army with Final Holy War, while Tang Zheng discovered the spell was a degraded version of Tenth-Tier Magic and repaired it. The chapter left him weighing the powerful spell against an even greater summoning item created by Ulbert.

• Thousand Miles Astrologer assessed the battle’s losses, including Captain Nigun’s death, the loss of the Sealing Crystal, and the Sunlight Scripture’s heavy casualties.
• Kelart gathered the surviving clerics and channeled their mana through the Crown of the Holy King to activate Final Holy War.
• Remedios questioned Tang Zheng after he guessed that Kelart intended to attack the Demi-Humans, and Tang Zheng wondered about the crown’s spell.
• Kelart summoned 128 Guardian Archangels, 64 Flame Archangels, and 32 Peace Authority Angels, while the clerics collapsed from exhaustion.
• Tang Zheng’s Attribute Panel identified the spell as degraded Tenth-Tier Magic, Great Ritual: Benevolent Armageddon, and he spent five Skill Points to repair it.
• Tang Zheng examined the repaired spell’s Angel-summoning abilities, then lost some of his excitement when he recalled Ulbert’s more powerful Malevolent Armageddon item.

Kelart used the Crown to summon Angels that attacked the Demi-Humans, while Tang Zheng’s Shadow Clone found the wounded Alliance Leader and learned his plan involved the True Secret Society Corpus of the Abyss. The Alliance Leader tried to bargain with the Sealing Crystal, but Tang Zheng recovered it and struck him with Silver Knight Lance.

• Kelart asked the summoned Angels to eliminate the Demi-Humans, and they swooped into the exhausted army as Tang Zheng watched.
• Tang Zheng’s Shadow Clone found the injured Alliance Leader, who revealed that Zurrernorn had drawn the attention of Corpus of the Abyss.
• The Alliance Leader teleported away and tried to use Clementine to kill the Shadow Clone, but Clementine considered turning against him.
• The Alliance Leader sent a Skeleton Griffin away with the Sealing Crystal as a bargaining gift, and Tang Zheng teleported after it.
• Tang Zheng returned with the Sealing Crystal and pierced the Alliance Leader with Silver Knight Lance.

Tang Zheng defeated the alliance leader and then intervened as the Holy Kingdom’s Angels slaughtered the Abelion Demi-Humans. After Rokesh surrendered and offered a bargain, Tang Zheng persuaded Kelart to halt the battle, leaving the Demi-Humans alive and the Abelion Hills Incident concluded.

• Tang Zheng’s Shadow Clone killed the alliance leader, and Clementine used Lightning Strike and Fireball to cover her escape.
• Tang Zheng considered reviving the alliance leader while the Holy Kingdom’s Angels overwhelmed the exhausted Demi-Humans; he refused to stop the slaughter without a reason.
• Go Gin asked Tang Zheng for help, and Tang Zheng restrained him with Cuiye’s vines and promised to keep him safe.
• Remedios charged at Hectowaizes and Rokesh, while Rokesh bypassed the battle and prostrated himself before Tang Zheng to ask for help.
• Tang Zheng confronted Kelart and offered the potion he had refined as leverage; Kelart agreed to stop the fighting while presenting the decision as a plea made using his reward from Holy Queen Calca.

After returning to Khalinsha, Tang Zheng arranged to conceal the Slane Theocracy’s summoned Principality and left the Abelion Hills under the Verdant Leaf Witch’s authority, with his allies helping stabilize its survivors. He tested his gains in the Lava Zone and cast Great Ritual: Benevolent Armageddon, summoning increasingly powerful Angels as a huge final figure began to emerge.

• Tang Zheng watched the city while Enri recovered from the exhaustion of breaking through her level cap, and he considered the agreement to conceal the Principality while publicizing his defeat of the Soul Eater.
• Rokesh of the Rainbow Scales submitted to the Verdant Leaf Witch, giving her authority over the surviving Abelion Demi-Humans, while Tang Zheng planned to rely on her allies to stabilize the hills.
• Tang Zheng teleported to the Lava Zone, dismissed his Shadow Clone, collected the Sealing Crystal, and confirmed that the leader’s corpse showed no sign of revival.
• Tang Zheng examined Great Ritual: Benevolent Armageddon and used Mad Meditation to cast it without paying its Experience Point cost.
• Great Ritual: Benevolent Armageddon summoned Angel Guardians, Archangel Flames, Purifying Principalities, Protective Angels, Regulating Throne Angels, and Judging Throne Angels before a massive figure began emerging from the vortex.

Tang Zheng tested the 239 Angels he summoned, studied the Level 70 Judgment Throne Angel’s abilities, and wondered whether their dispersing light could be useful holy energy. Meanwhile, the Holy Kingdom’s leaders discussed their losses and Kelart’s report, while the Slane Theocracy ordered investigations into Enri and moved to contact Tang Zheng.

• Tang Zheng attacked the summoned Angels with Dragon Lightning, confirmed they did not retaliate or grant Experience Points, and tested several Throne Angels’ spells.
• After the Angels dispersed into white particles, Tang Zheng speculated that the particles might be holy-attribute energy and decided to investigate the Alliance Leader next.
• Holy Queen Calca questioned Kelart about the Holy Kingdom’s heavy casualties, and Kelart returned the Crown of the Holy King and explained her actions in the Abelion Hills.
• Kelart reported that the southern nobles’ grain trade had helped the drought-stricken Demi-Humans, and Calca grew shocked as she heard the details of the incident.
• The Slane Theocracy’s six Cardinals discussed Tang Zheng’s team and the mysterious Enri, then ordered the Water Eradication Grand Ceremony to investigate Enri and the Windflower Scripture to invite Free Will to the Holy Kingdom.

After waking from a two-day sleep, Enri learned that Miss Cuiye was safe and joined Tang Zheng on the way to Khalinsha’s Adventurer’s Guild. Adventurers gathered to welcome Free Will’s rise to Adamantite Rank, while Tang Zheng considered Enri’s new abilities and how to keep the Slane Theocracy from suspecting too much.

• Enri woke at the inn after sleeping for two days and told Tang Zheng she had been able to help on the battlefield.
• Tang Zheng explained that Miss Cuiye had stayed in the Abelion Hills, questioned Enri about her strike against the Soul Eater, and told her to describe her power as an Innate Talent.
• Tang Zheng reflected on Enri’s possible immunities, his preparations involving Eight Fingers, and what he had learned about Zurrernorn’s remaining disciples and the Spiral of Death Ritual.
• Adventurers gathered in Khalinsha to celebrate Free Will’s achievement, and Tang Zheng and Enri arrived at the Adventurer’s Guild in a Barghest-drawn carriage.
• Enri walked confidently through the crowd to catch up with Tang Zheng, while Guildmaster Bert Jin welcomed them and Tang Zheng remarked on the unusually large gathering.

Tang Zheng handed Free Will’s Gold Rank badges to the Adventurer’s Guild and explained his precautions against detection magic before attending a banquet in Khalinsha. There, he met with Kelart and Remedios to discuss the Assimilation Potion, leaving Remedios confronting his stated reason for helping the Demi-Humans.

• Tang Zheng gave Free Will’s Gold Rank badges to Chairman Bert Jin, who arranged to display them prominently in the Adventurer’s Guild.
• Tang Zheng told Enri that the Gold Rank badges were fakes made to misdirect anyone using detection magic to track him.
• At the Guest House celebration banquet, Enri declined Red Auland’s invitation to spar and asked after Pabel.
• Tang Zheng showed Kelart and Remedios the Assimilation Potions and their Demi-Human blood ingredients, inviting the Holy Kingdom to try making the potion.
• After Remedios objected to his role in stopping the extermination of the Demi-Humans, Tang Zheng declared that he was an Alchemist skilled in using Demi-Human blood to brew potions.

Tang Zheng left the Holy Kingdom for the Abelion Hills, while the Holy Kingdom and other nations reacted to the events there. In the Lava Zone, he perfected a ritual that absorbed the Holy Energy of dismissed angels and converted it into Experience Points.

• Tang Zheng rejected Kelart's attempt to keep him in the Holy Kingdom and departed for the Abelion Hills with Enri; Kelart teased Remedios about her interest in him.
• In the hills, Tang Zheng sent Enri to learn from Beast General Hectowaizes and brought the dwarf craftsmen to meet the Dark Dwarves.
• Kelart and Remedios were attacked while returning to Hoburns, the Baharuth Empire withdrew its bounty on Free Will, and Princess Renner asked Climb to gather information about Tang Zheng.
• After several days of experiments in the Lava Zone, Tang Zheng used Benevolent Armageddon and a modified Spiral of Death Ritual to absorb the departing angels' Holy Energy.
• The ritual granted Tang Zheng 500,000 Experience Points, and he realized he could earn up to 1.5 million Experience Points per day by repeating it.

Tang Zheng used the Spiral of Death Ritual to gain experience, reached level fifty-one, and unlocked the High-tier Class [Holy Lord] before resetting his classes and preparing to return to Despair Valley. The chapter then shifted to Brain following a merchant caravan near Pashui Town, where its adventurer captain recognized him as a dangerous threat.

• Tang Zheng repeatedly performed the Spiral of Death Ritual, gained experience, and raised his Overall Level to 51 and [Sacred Knight] to level ten.
• Tang Zheng unlocked [Holy Lord], examined its skills, and discovered that Experience Value Spellcasting could not cast Great Ritual: Benevolent Armageddon because it was not ordinary Tier Magic.
• Tang Zheng reset his classes, gained experience by casting ordinary magic, and decided to return to Despair Valley to check on the human tribe.
• Tang Zheng teleported to Pashui Town in the Re-Estize Kingdom and considered the situation surrounding the Assimilation Potion before leaving to handle another matter.
• Brain followed a merchant caravan out of Pashui Town, claiming he wanted to borrow money, while the adventurer captain stared at him in fear.

Brain Unglaus seized a Mithril shipment to fund the purchase of the Divine Blade, but Tang Zheng defeated him and offered him a potion. After drinking the Dragon Blood Potion, Brain became stronger, joined [Zurrernorn], and was left questioning the value of his past efforts.

• Brain Unglaus defeated two Gold Rank adventurer teams that attacked him and found Mithril worth enough to help buy the Divine Blade.
• Tang Zheng, disguised as a black-robed Magic Caster, offered to help Brain defeat Free Will, but Brain attacked him and was subdued by magic and force.
• Tang Zheng revealed himself as the leader of [Zurrernorn] and gave Brain a potion to drink.
• The potion raised Brain to level 28, but he wept and wondered what his previous efforts had been worth.
• Brain bowed to Tang Zheng, who welcomed him to [Zurrernorn].

Tang Zheng returned to Despair Valley and reunited with Yaluer and the Oasis Tribe, but he grew suspicious of the Orcs’ dealings with the humans. As he recognized Little Nick as a threat, the boy suddenly attacked and sent Tang Zheng crashing into the desert.

• Tang Zheng considered how to draw members of [Corpus of the Abyss] out with magical knowledge and returned to the Magma Sea.
• After half a year of waiting, Yaluer met Tang Zheng near the Oasis and welcomed him back to the tribe.
• Tang Zheng questioned Chief Dielong about the abandoned Grey Dwarf Oasis and the tribe’s smooth trade with the Orcs.
• Tang Zheng realized the Orcs’ behavior and the Grey Dwarves’ delayed attack on the humans suggested something was wrong.
• Little Nick asked whether Tang Zheng had come alone, then struck him with an Air Burst Fist and hurled him through the Oasis into the desert.

Tang Zheng confronted Little Nick, who revealed himself as a powerful Dragonkin responsible for manipulating the Grey Dwarves while protecting the Oasis humans. After gathering information and confirming the Dragonkin had no companions, Tang Zheng dropped his feigned weakness and wounded him with a fourfold wind slash.

• Little Nick struck Yaluer and Chief Dielong with a shockwave, then found what appeared to be Tang Zheng's corpse and sensed the real Tang Zheng hiding nearby.
• Tang Zheng attacked with fire magic, identified Little Nick's Monk abilities and high level, and watched him transform into a dark-golden Dragonkin.
• Tang Zheng summoned a Sandstorm Elemental Spirit, then clashed with the Dragonkin using his Magic Greatsword and pretended to be badly injured.
• Tang Zheng questioned the Dragonkin about the Grey Dwarves and inferred that a powerful being had ordered him to protect the Oasis humans.
• Tang Zheng revealed that he had completed his investigation, recovered from his feigned injury, and identified himself as Mission Kemplitt.
• The Dragonkin charged, but Tang Zheng struck all four of its limbs with a wind-infused fourfold slash and sent it flying across the desert.

Tang Zheng fought Dragonman Ladon, a self-proclaimed Divine Scion and descendant of the Eight Greed Kings, and uncovered clues about his lineage and the fate of Divine Scions. Ladon transformed into a twenty-meter golden dragon, and Tang Zheng prepared to end the fight.

• Tang Zheng used his Magic Greatsword and combat skills to overpower Ladon, interrupt his Flame Breath, and force him to flee.
• Ladon recognized Tang Zheng as a Godkin, then revealed his name and claimed to be the son of the supreme God-King.
• Tang Zheng identified Ladon as a descendant of the Eight Greed Kings and guessed that many Divine Scions had been purged after their ancestors died.
• Ladon answered Tang Zheng's taunts by activating Sin Transformation and becoming a twenty-meter golden dragon, raising his level to 50.
• Tang Zheng judged that Ladon's transformed attacks were less threatening than his Dragonkin form and used Dimensional Move to appear above his head.

Tang Zheng defeated Dragonman Ladon and learned that his dragon transformation came from experiments conducted by the Eight Greed Kings using a True Dragon Lord's Heart and the World Item [Nameless Spellbook]. The heart remained impossible to appraise, while Tang Zheng kept Dragonman Ladon alive to question him further.

• Tang Zheng immobilized the transformed Dragonman Ladon, severed both of his wings, and subdued him after repeated Charm Species spells failed.
• Tang Zheng questioned Dragonman Ladon and learned that the Oasis lay in the continent's easternmost desert, far from the human lands in the northwest, and that Ladon had been ordered to protect its people.
• Dragonman Ladon explained that descendants who surpassed level fifty could inherit the King's Aspect, and that the Eight Greed Kings had experimented on True Dragon Lord corpses to study Wild Magic.
• Dragonman Ladon revealed that he had received a True Dragon Lord's Heart in an experiment involving the World Item [Nameless Spellbook], gaining the ability to transform into a dragon at the cost of severe restrictions.
• Tang Zheng knocked Dragonman Ladon unconscious, opened his chest, and found a heart covered in golden magical patterns that Item Appraisal could not identify beyond its name.
• Tang Zheng healed Dragonman Ladon as Yaluer and the others called to him, intending to question him further about the heart and the Eight Greed Kings.

Tang Zheng researched the True Dragon Lord's Heart, reached level 51, and unlocked the high-tier class [Fallen Lord]. After learning more about the region, he told Yaluer and Chief Dielong that he planned to leave the Oasis the next day.

• Yaluer brought Tang Zheng a meal but stayed back from the cabin because Dragonman Ladon's Dragon Fear overwhelmed her.
• Tang Zheng considered how the Eight Greed Kings had come into conflict with Surshana and suspected the Slane Theocracy might know more.
• Tang Zheng spent his accumulated experience to max out [Dark Knight], crossed level 50, and unlocked the high-tier class [Fallen Lord].
• Tang Zheng tested [Fallen Lord]'s abilities and found that he could wield holy and negative attributes alongside four elemental powers.
• Tang Zheng learned that Despair Valley had no other powerful figures or remnants of Player forces, then told Yaluer and Chief Dielong he would leave the Oasis the next day.

Tang Zheng organized the Oasis Humans for future operations and ordered magical equipment for them. At Black Castle, the Verdant Leaf Witch and her companions discussed how to strengthen their control of the Abelion Hills before Tang Zheng arrived and assigned them another task.

• Tang Zheng learned that 2,137 Oasis Humans were young and able-bodied, then ordered Yaluer to train them.
• The Verdant Leaf Witch, White Mist Witch, and Crusch Lulu discussed the challenges of ruling the Abelion Hills and considered winning support from additional Demi-Human tribes.
• Crusch Lulu said she wanted to bring her Lizardman kin from the Great Wetlands to the Abelion Hills, giving the Verdant Leaf Witch the idea of seeking external support.
• Tang Zheng teleported into Black Castle, and the three women greeted him.
• Tang Zheng confirmed that the Dark Dwarves had been settled with the Dwarf craftsmen and ordered them to forge three thousand sets of magical armor and weapons.

Tang Zheng investigated Dragonman Ladon's True Dragon Lord's Heart in the southern mountains and reached Overall Level 50, but failed to trigger a new class. Meanwhile, the Slane Theocracy reviewed the lost Sealing Crystal and the Assimilation Potion, then ordered Tang to be brought to the Theocracy.

• Verdant Leaf Witch warned Tang Zheng that crafting 3,000 sets of magical equipment would take considerable time, so he asked the Dwarves to estimate how long one item took to make.
• Tang Zheng returned to the southern mountains and studied Dragonman Ladon’s transformation into a golden dragon, observing that the process weakened Ladon’s aura.
• Tang Zheng leveled up to Overall Level 50, but no new class appeared despite Holy Lord and Fallen Lord reaching their maximum levels, so he set aside his plans to investigate the missing condition.
• Cardinal Dominic reported that Nigun had been resurrected, and the Cardinals decided to remove him as captain of the Sunlight Scripture and monitor Zurrernorn over the missing Sealing Crystal.
• Cardinal Zinedine presented the Assimilation Potion research results and confirmed the identities of Enri Emett and Tang, while Pontifex Maximus Yan ordered the Theocracy to bring Tang in.