Chapter Summaries

Gibril continued growing stronger by striking Arteshu with Heavenly Strikes, while Raphael suspected that Gibril was inheriting Arteshu’s battle concept. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Winged Species learning that Gibril had gone alone to fight a Dragon Essence Species.

• Gibril made Azriel promise not to impose new rules on her, and Azriel agreed to let her act freely within the Heavenly Winged Species’ rules.
• Gibril’s Heavenly Strike wrecked the Throne Hall and injured several Heavenly Winged Species, while Arteshu praised her rapid growth.
• Azriel asked Arteshu to make Gibril call her big sister, but the others rescued Gibril and left Azriel clutching a doll.
• Raphael noticed that Gibril seemed to absorb something from Arteshu as he grew weaker, but she kept her suspicions to herself.
• Azriel went looking for Gibril, and the Heavenly Winged Species discovered that Gibril had challenged a Dragon Essence Species alone.

After recovering from her fourth defeat by a Dragon Essence Species, Gibril prepared to challenge it again while Raphael noticed the world’s wars growing strangely quiet. An enormous metallic construct then emerged from underground, leaving the Heavenly Winged Species facing a new anomaly.

• Gibril returned from her fourth challenge in better condition than before, and the Heavenly Winged Species began to believe she might eventually defeat a Dragon Essence Species alone.
• After recovering, Gibril researched several subjects to prepare for her next challenge instead of immediately returning to battle.
• Raphael noticed that Goblin Species and Forest Elf conflicts had become less frequent and asked the Heavenly Winged Species to watch the other races’ movements.
• Reports confirmed that wars among the Created Species had diminished, and Raphael took seriously a Goblin Species member’s warning that the Heavenly Winged Species’ era was ending.
• A colossal metallic construct suddenly rose from beneath the ground.

Raphael uncovered the Goblin Species’ plan to turn inactive Divine Cores into god-slaying bombs, while Sinknielbaen and Nina Kleib recounted their encounters with the Heavenly Winged Species. Azriel dismissed the threat to her master but ordered closer monitoring of the Created Species as signs pointed toward preparations for a final war.

• Raphael destroyed a Goblin Species battleship, recognized a Divine Core in its cargo, and watched its crew self-destruct to conceal their secret.
• Sinknielbaen reflected on her rivalry with the Goblin Species’ leader and her plan to create a world for herself and Nina Kleib; Nina returned and described meeting Raphael and witnessing her defeat the Goblins.
• Raphael studied the Goblin Species’ documents and learned they planned to detonate inactive Divine Cores as weapons.
• After Gibril was injured challenging the Dragon Essence Species, Raphael continued investigating and confirmed the Goblin Species intended to use Divine Cores as bombs.
• Azriel rejected a proposal for targeted attacks on the Goblin Species, then directed the Heavenly Winged Species to monitor every race’s preparations for a possible final war.

Gibril returned to Abanteheim with books from the Forest Elf race and discovered their secret weapon, while a dying stranger prompted the Machina to search the Sentient Races for a heart. The Machina began observing other races, and Lord Arteshu refused to restrict Gip-chan’s freedom.

• Azriel found that Gibril had left the restoration chamber, and Gibril returned three days later with books after visiting a Forest Elf race city.
• Gibril explained that the Forest Elf race had nearly perfected a spell to dominate magical lifeforms, then spent years studying its spell structures.
• Gibril discovered the Forest Elf race’s trump card, Void's Zero Blessing, which could rival the Goblin Species' Essence Burst.
• A dying, black-ash-corroded figure told the Machina that the heart they sought existed among the Sentient Races, and the Machina ordered their connected Command Bodies to search for it.
• Machina groups watched battles and other races, causing the Forest Elf race and Goblin Species to stop fighting when they noticed the observers.
• Lord Arteshu refused to command or imprison the Final Individual, Gip-chan, and told the First Individual that she would need the strength to restrict her herself.

The Final Individual, Gibril, defeated the First Individual, Azriel, in a duel after using a spatial-temporal ability resembling the Dragon Essence Species'. Meanwhile, a nearly six-year-old girl named Cronie lived in a human settlement where food and safe places to relocate were running out, and the return of the final scouting team brought the settlement to despair.

• Azriel hesitated to fight Gibril, but the voice from the throne urged her not to retreat, so she unleashed her full power.
• Gibril escaped Azriel's black sphere with an ability like the Dragon Essence Species' spatial-temporal movement and stabbed Azriel from behind, defeating her.
• Raphael and the person on the throne recognized that Gibril had discovered the Dragon Essence Species' secret, while the person on the throne considered her the second plan if the first plan failed.
• Cronie ate meager porridge in a human settlement where nearby battles had polluted resources and scouting teams had found potential shelters unsuitable.
• Several days later, the fourth scouting team returned without good news, and Cronie reassured a younger child by suggesting they play a game.

Cronie’s settlement’s former leader, Teacher Zhou, returned with a map to a new home, and Cronie joined a group relocating there. After the group survived dangerous terrain and lost Zhou’s books to an abyss, they stopped to rest before their final push.

• Cronie welcomed former leader Zhou back, and he showed her a map marking the settlement’s new home.
• Cronie traveled with a group of about two hundred people through deep, dangerous black ash while Teacher Zhou carried her.
• When a child slipped near an abyss, Zhou rushed to save her, and he pulled Cronie back from the edge as his bundle of books fell away.
• After crossing the cliff face, Cronie prepared food for the orphaned children in her care and settled them to sleep.
• Cronie secured the tent against the wind and went to Zhou’s tent to ask if she could come in.

Cronie discovered that Teacher Zhou had been slowly poisoned by black ash and died after giving her his telescope. Four years after Gibril defeated a Dragon Essence Species and entered a restoration chamber, she awakened in Abanteheim to a crush of Heavenly Winged Species eager to hear what happened.

• Teacher Zhou asked Cronie to help him write about glass for making telescopes, then gave her his telescope.
• Cronie found Teacher Zhou dead from internal and external erosion caused by black ash, and learned his body had been unusually vulnerable to it.
• Gibril awakened in the restoration chamber after four years unconscious from her injuries defeating a Dragon Essence Species.
• The Heavenly Winged Species crowded into the chamber to hear Gibril's story, trampling their leader as she tried to clear a path.
• Raphael entered the chamber and lifted the Heavenly Winged Species leader after she clung to her foot.

Gibril recovered while Azriel teased her, and the Heavenly Winged Species’ master praised her after she killed a dragon. Twelve years before the story began, Cronie found a century-old book whose handwriting resembled Teacher Zhou’s and a familiar portrait, but Maruta said the book’s author and subject had lived more than a hundred years earlier.

• Azriel hugged Gibril during her recovery and refused to let go, even after Gibril reluctantly called her big sister.
• The Heavenly Winged Species’ master visited Azriel, praised her for slaying a dragon, and asked whether she would eventually challenge him.
• The master later received a report that the Machina had subjugated Yanlong, the Dragon Essence Species’ king, twelve years before the story began.
• Thirteen-year-old Cronie tried to build a spirit-reaction detector while Riku, the settlement’s young leader, asked her to translate her childhood notes.
• Cronie and Riku learned that two hundred survivors from another settlement had joined theirs, and Cronie noticed that one newcomer’s book had familiar handwriting and a portrait of Teacher Zhou.
• Maruta told Cronie that her settlement had never known Teacher Zhou and that the book and portrait dated back more than a hundred years, leaving Cronie stunned.

Cronie and Riku used an old book to improve their settlement’s building materials and create a Spirit Needle Compass, while the settlement grew over the next three years. Later, Cronie found telescopes from a settlement destroyed more than a thousand years earlier whose markings resembled Teacher Zhou’s handwriting, and she was still searching for an explanation when an expedition returned.

• Cronie and Riku found a formula for reinforced mud blocks in an ancient book and successfully made the stronger material.
• After a month of research, Cronie, Riku, and the others built a Spirit Needle Compass that could detect large-scale elemental reactions.
• Over three years, the settlement grew to nearly two thousand people while suffering relatively few deaths.
• Are brought Cronie damaged telescopes from a settlement destroyed more than a thousand years earlier, and Cronie found markings that resembled Teacher Zhou’s handwriting.
• Cronie told the others about the mystery, but they saw little reason to investigate, and nearly two years passed as she approached eighteen.
• Cronie heard movement and wondered if the expedition party had returned.

After Ewan died on an expedition, Riku returned to the settlement with Shubi, a mysterious child who became part of their lives. A year later, Cronie discovered Shubi had drawn the exact likeness of Teacher Zhou, and the chapter left her wary of Shubi’s purpose as an unexpected event approached.

• Riku told Ewan’s daughter and Maruta that Ewan had died after sacrificing himself to help the others escape Demon Species.
• Riku returned from a later trip with Shubi, and Cronie realized the child was not human but kept her suspicions to herself.
• Shubi told Cronie she had seen a spiritual compass like hers long ago and drew a portrait that looked exactly like Teacher Zhou.
• Cronie feared Shubi had come to investigate Teacher Zhou, but she hid her reaction and watched Shubi closely.
• Over the following year, Cronie saw Shubi’s apparent affection for Riku become genuine and eventually relaxed her guard.
• The chapter noted that the settlement possessed a powerful telescope recovered from a Goblin Species warship, as an unexpected day arrived.

After Riku’s settlement lost its home, Cronie realized the reported dead were skilled operatives secretly preparing to manipulate the approaching war and force the Star Grail to appear. The chapter then shifted to Abanteheim, where a Heavenly Winged Species crashed through a series of floating cubes and became stuck in the thirteenth.

• The settlement evacuated as Dragon Essence Species and Goblin Species warships approached, and its former home burned with 177 people said to have died inside.
• Cronie recognized that the dead were experts in other races’ languages and technical fields, and deduced they had joined Riku and Shubi’s secret operation.
• Riku revealed that the Created Species were preparing for a final war, with the Forest Elf race and Goblin Species developing world-destroying weapons and rival alliances taking shape.
• Riku’s group planned to act as unidentified ghosts, beginning by misleading the Orc race with selectively framed information about the Goblin Species’ Essence Burst weapon.
• In a dreamlike scene in Abanteheim, a Heavenly Winged Species smashed through twelve floating cubes and became embedded in the thirteenth.

Raphael reported that the Goblin Species and Forest Elf race had completed secret weapons, while Riku and Shubi planned to use Passage Controls to redirect the powers of the three major factions and claim the Star Cup. After Shubi went alone to place the devices, she disappeared, and a report of a Machina fighting a Heavenly Winged Species left Riku and Cronie fearing she had been defeated.

• Azriel was eliminated from a dodgeball game, complained about being targeted, and was ignored when the others left to play cards.
• Raphael told Azriel that the Goblin Species and Forest Elf race had completed secret weapons and were expanding their alliances, then reported to Lord Arteshu, who looked forward to what came next.
• Shubi explained to Cronie that Riku's plan used Passage Control to channel the factions' attacks underground, destroy the Elf Corridor, and make the Star Cup appear.
• Cronie remembered her unanswered question about who had told the Machina that the heart was hidden among Sentient Races, but found that Shubi had gone alone to place Passage Controls while Riku slept.
• After Shubi failed to return for several days, a ghost reported seeing a Machina fight a Heavenly Winged Species, and Riku and Cronie feared the broken Machina was Shubi.

The Machina used Shubi’s plans to provoke God of War Arteshu into unleashing Divine Strike, hoping to make the Forest Elf and Goblin forces expend their trump cards and leave all three factions vulnerable. As Arteshu began preparing his attack, Xink and Roni’s forces waited to fire their weapons.

• The Machina commander hesitated before ordering more than five thousand Machina to sacrifice themselves so the race could endure the three factions’ attacks and replicate a planet-piercing weapon.
• Xink prepared the Forest Elf faction’s eighteen Void's Zero Blessings while Ronidolaobunir readied the Goblin Species’ Essence Burst, and both sides hoped the other would provoke Arteshu first.
• The Machina launched more than a thousand Divine Strikes at an unoccupied area, and the Forest Elf and Goblin factions held their fire after realizing they were not the targets.
• Arteshu understood that the Machina’s bombardment was meant to provoke him into using Divine Strike and deprive both enemy factions of their strength.
• Arteshu ordered his forces to prepare as Xink and Roni aimed their trump cards at the approaching Divine Strike.

The Forest Elf and Goblin fleets joined forces to unleash their ultimate weapons against Artorius’s Divine Strike, but the colliding powers began converging into a world-shattering vortex. As the Machina diverted the destruction and entered Abanteheim, Artorius revealed a power beyond the world, leaving them to face the strongest concept.

• Xink and Roni’s alliances shared intelligence, combined their forces, and timed their trump-card attacks to meet Artorius’s Divine Strike.
• The Forest Elf, Goblin, Dragon Essence, and Fantasy Species fleets fired their ultimate attacks at Artorius as Divine Strike descended.
• The attacks compressed together instead of canceling out, so Xink and the Goblin Species deployed their defenses as the energy vortex threatened to shatter the world.
• The Machina appeared and drew the destructive storm toward themselves, while Xink and Roni recognized a familiar figure among them.
• In Abanteheim’s Throne Hall, Artorius rose before the Machina as his existence and power surged beyond their calculations, and he told them that the strongest concept made power increases meaningless.
• Kainas and Okan placed their hopes in the ultimate clash, believing Void’s Zero Blessing could slay even gods.

The Machina recognized Arteshu’s world-destroying power as a disaster and began widening cracks in the universe to bring in void from beyond it, hoping to defeat him. As the campaign began, powerless Gibril remained trapped in the Repair Spell chamber, furious that she could not join the battle.

• The Divine Species watched Arteshu’s second Divine Strike overwhelm expectations, while the Machina redirected its destruction and sacrificed thousands of units to imitate its power.
• The Machina sent its remaining units into Abanteheim to confront Arteshu, and his Strongest Concept surged to a level that left the Divine Species despairing of the Star Grail.
• The Machina observed void seeping through cracks in the universe, but an analysis unit vanished upon touching it without obtaining any data.
• The Machina concluded that it could not replicate the void, so it planned to widen the cracks and bring higher-dimensional power into the universe to drown Arteshu.
• The Machina deployed its units to begin the campaign against Arteshu, while Gibril angrily slapped the Repair Spell barrier because she could not join the Divine Strike.

The God of War’s plan succeeded: the Machina opened a breach to the void, allowing the universe’s restorative force to kill him, while the Star Cup passed to a newly born God of Games who established the Ten Pledges. The war ended and the world recovered, but humanity still faced an uncertain future under the new rules.

• Gibril watched the Machina invade the Throne Hall, then saw it vanish in a burst of white light as her master’s divine core was stripped away.
• After dying, the God of War’s memories of the Star Cup returned, and his soul passed through its data channel toward Parallel Earth.
• The God of Games used the Star Cup to establish the Ten Pledges, banning killing, war, and plunder and requiring disputes to be settled through games.
• The God of Games mourned Riku and Shubi, deciding that reviving them would not restore the people they had been.
• Humanity emerged from its caves beneath a clear sky and found the land alive again, while the red-haired girl grieved her family and set out to unite the surviving settlements.

Queen Cronie expanded humanity’s territory through games, unified its culture, and concealed the role her younger brother and sister had played in ending the war. After meeting the surviving Machina, she learned of an unknown, Spirit Body-corroded figure who had once guided them, leaving her wondering whether she could meet that person again.

• Cronie defeated the Forest Elf race in a game, gaining its forestlands and forcing it to relocate under the Ten Pledges.
• Humanity won territory in further games and built a large city across nearly half the Lucia Continent as Cronie prepared to become Queen.
• Cronie began standardizing human writing and preserving settlement records, and she discovered a technique for printing books.
• Cronie ordered the original books destroyed to hide her younger brother and sister’s roles in manipulating the war.
• Cronie met with a surviving Machina, learned that an unknown race had prompted them to seek hearts among the Sentient Races, and recognized that the Machina’s description might refer to her former teacher.
• Cronie and the Machina agreed to keep the unknown figure’s identity secret, and she wondered whether they would meet again.

A woman on a hidden island successfully sent an elf soul through a passageway and prepared to transfer into a new body. Raphael reflected on humanity’s astonishing technological and military development in this world compared with the human civilization constrained by the Ten Pledges.

• The woman used a supercomputer and a special crystal to send an elf soul through a passageway, and the transfer succeeded.
• The woman nearly collapsed from her failing body and assigned Raphael to manage the facility while she prepared to transfer into another body.
• The woman’s system allowed souls unable to adapt to the human race to wait in crystals until they could enter the new world.
• Raphael recalled how humans here developed machines, aircraft, firearms, nuclear weapons, and space travel at an extraordinary pace.
• Raphael learned that humans in the original world had developed far more slowly because the Ten Pledges restricted them.

Bai Yue encountered Raphael and learned that the last-born Divine Species, holder of the Star Grail, had appeared in this world, while the God of Games investigated humanity’s history and games. The chapter ended with the God of Games noticing Blank’s repeated first-place rankings and wondering whether the player was cheating.

• Raphael realized humanity had developed its own advanced weapons and technology, then discovered a child emerging from a device and prepared to raise her.
• Bai Yue finished shopping in Akihabara, bumped into a petite girl, and recognized that she had been drawn into this world.
• Raphael arrived at Bai Yue’s apartment, where she served him as his maid and explained that she could exist there because it was an Apartment Space.
• Salakiel detected the last-born Divine Species and holder of the Star Grail, and Raphael wanted to attack before Bai Yue told her to leave them alone.
• The God of Games learned how war had shaped humanity and was horrified by the destruction of the World Wars and the power of nuclear weapons.
• The God of Games found that Blank repeatedly ranked first in games and questioned whether the player used cheats.

Bai Yue appeared before Stephanie Dora at her ancestors’ cemetery and claimed to be her teacher. He took her to a gambling tavern to compete for the throne, where he repeatedly beat challengers with a card game despite their efforts to prevent cheating.

• A brief electronic outage made a man suspect that the supposed solar storm had another cause.
• Stephanie Dora encountered Bai Yue at the cemetery, and he insisted that he was her teacher.
• Bai Yue asked Stephanie for money and won their rock-paper-scissors match, then tried to reach into her chest before she handed him her purse.
• Stephanie followed Bai Yue to a tavern, where he entered the contest to become Humanity's Strongest Gambler and claim the vacant throne.
• Bai Yue challenged gamblers to a card game with fivefold payouts for losses and won nearly every round, prompting one challenger to accuse him of cheating.