Chapter Summaries

Cynthia attacked the wizards trying to protect Lynn’s advancement, while Evina seized a holy relic and accidentally struck Cynthia with its Annihilation Light. Cynthia turned the relic against Evina, but Lynn emerged from the Solar Furnace, destroyed it, and confronted Cynthia at supersonic speed.

• Aurora trapped Cynthia in a Thunder Net, and Harov followed with a spatial strike, but Cynthia’s hidden true body severed Aurora’s arm.
• Cynthia summoned her Divine Kingdom and tore open Vittorio’s protective array while Monroe charged the holy relic’s Annihilation Light.
• Raphael wounded Monroe and knocked the cube away, but Evina caught it and fired Annihilation Light into Cynthia as Cynthia attacked the advancement platform.
• Harov and Aurora revealed that Cynthia was Ella, the Goddess of Moon, and that the Saintess was a shell used to sustain her descent.
• Cynthia took control of the cube and drained Evina, but Lynn emerged from the Solar Furnace and shattered the relic.
• Lynn assured Harov and Aurora that he would handle Cynthia, then broke the sound barrier and punched her through the air.

Lynn used his newly gained Legendary abilities to overwhelm Cynthia’s incarnation, but her Divine Descent Technique forced him to unleash a directed nuclear spell. His End-Atomic Breath destroyed the bronze gate and Cynthia’s incarnation, then burst through the castle and into the sky, where people mistook the spectacle for the Goddess of Moon’s arrival.

• Lynn accelerated past the sound barrier, struck Cynthia, severed her arm with a vibrating particle blade, and battered her with powerful punches.
• Cynthia cast Time Stop and Starfall, then used Slow-motion Barrier and Wrath of Stars to hinder Lynn and attack the injured Aurora.
• Lynn rescued Aurora from Cynthia’s starfire, while Cynthia summoned a bronze gate with the Divine Descent Technique.
• Lynn formed uranium-235 and unleashed End-Atomic Breath, destroying the bronze gate and annihilating Cynthia’s incarnation.
• The energy pillar blasted through the castle and into the troposphere, leading people across the kingdom and half the empire to believe the Goddess of Moon had descended.

Pope Alvis halted the Church’s planned attack after the Lord’s power fell silent, while Randall realized that the Lord’s incarnation had lost to Lynn again. In the City of Fire Oil, Lynn’s [Atomic Breath] defeated Cynthia, and Vittorio returned after defeating Gustav and resolving the northern border crisis.

• Pope Alvis suspended the operation against the Kingdom and ordered the Church to select a new Saintess.
• Randall told the Cardinal Bishops that the apocalypse was punishment for their sins, then recognized that the Lord’s incarnation had lost again.
• Lynn descended beside the fusion reactor after [Atomic Breath] destroyed Cynthia and the fortress above the City of Fire Oil.
• Harov, Aurora, and Lynn discussed the spell’s power before Vittorio arrived carrying a bound, half-dead man.
• Vittorio explained that he had defeated Gustav, subdued the remaining evil god, and left the northern border unrest to Redell and the others.
• Lynn noted that the Church had now lost three Legendary clergy and two successive Saintesses.

After defeating Cynthia’s attack on the City of Fire Oil, Lynn examined his new Legendary abilities and ordered reconnaissance of the Empire. The returned pilots reported that an invisible force concealed the Holy City, and Harov suspected it was a projection of the false god’s Divine Kingdom.

• Lynn ordered the wounded treated, sent Vittorio to inspect attacks elsewhere in the city, and had Monroe and Evina imprisoned separately.
• Lynn searched Monroe and Evina’s memories, found Monroe’s mind difficult to penetrate, and ordered Fighter Jets to investigate the Empire and the Holy City.
• Lynn examined his status and realized his Legendary power was weakened until his soul recovered, so he considered expanding the Magic Net to draw on more wizards’ processing power.
• The Council reassured the City of Fire Oil’s residents that Lynn’s new spell had defeated the Church’s attack, while workers speculated about the pillar of light.
• Fighter Jets returned with reports that an invisible force surrounded the Holy City, and Harov suggested it might be a Divine Kingdom Projection.

The council discussed how to counter the church and Ella, choosing to undermine imperial faith and prepare for a powerful counterattack rather than launch nuclear strikes on cities. Lynn became a new Speaker, then hurried to see Evina as she awoke in confinement.

• The council concluded that the Holy City's divine defenses blocked a direct [Skyfall] strike, while Lynn said they would need to test whether [Atomic Breath] could break through them.
• Lynn rejected proposals to nuke imperial cities and proposed turning wealthy merchants against the church, spreading leaflets that challenged its teachings, and preparing to strike the Holy City.
• Lynn shared the spell models for [Skyfall] and [Endgame—Atomic Breath] with Harov, Aurora, and Vittorio, and the council unanimously appointed him a new Speaker.
• An attendant told Lynn that Evina was showing signs of waking, so he left the meeting and went to the confinement room.
• Evina awoke on a stone bed, recalled being struck by the holy artifact, and heard someone tell her she was finally awake.

Lynn explained to Evina that wizards and divine arts both drew on the world’s laws, and that Ella had once been a powerful wizard rather than the world’s creator. He brought Evina to confront Gustav, whose defense of the church’s sacrifices left her faith shattered and revealed his belief that heaven would soon descend.

• Lynn defined wizardry as studying the laws of the world and explained that divine arts were a special form of magic.
• Lynn taught Evina a rune, and she used it to cast a Thunder Spell she had never learned.
• Lynn told Evina that Ella had once been a wizard and that Gustav had released an evil god in the northern borderlands.
• Lynn brought Evina to Gustav, who accused her of betraying the church, while she demanded answers about its role in evil-god attacks.
• Gustav said the Divine Punishment Army’s sacrifices had not been in vain because the dead would join Ella’s divine kingdom, and he declared that heaven would soon descend upon the mortal world.

Lynn learned from Gustav that the Space-Time Gate led to the root of all evil, then explained the Council’s plans for reforming believers and ordered the war against the Empire to accelerate. He sent thirty fighter planes on a dangerous propaganda mission to scatter flyers across Imperial cities, with Lydia and his magical incarnation heading for the Holy City.

• Gustav told Lynn that the other side of the Space-Time Gate was where everything began, the root of all evil, before falling silent.
• Evina asked what the Council would do with the Divine Punishment Army, and Lynn described investigations, punishment, hard labor, and ideological reform for believers.
• Lynn ordered Chairman Harov to accelerate the war against the Empire and later examined a flyer printed with black-and-white photographs.
• Lynn created a magical incarnation to investigate the Holy City while he continued researching Ella’s divine kingdom.
• At the City of Fire Oil airport, Lynn briefed thirty pilots on their mission to distribute flyers throughout the Empire instead of bombing its cities.
• The pilots accepted the dangerous mission, and Lydia flew toward the Holy City with Lynn’s incarnation.

Lynn and Lydia flew over Badas Territory and dropped leaflets and bread to counter the Church’s claims about the City of Fire Oil. Old Marn and the stable hands found the materials, and Dali read the leaflet’s title aloud as “Truth cannot be killed!”

• Lynn and Lydia tested the fighter’s modified speed before heading toward a city on their leaflet mission.
• Old Marn and the stable hands discussed Gadel’s execution for trying to flee to the City of Fire Oil and the rumors of better conditions there.
• A fighter approached Badas Territory, dodged the Cardinal Bishop’s divine magic, and dropped leaflets and bread near the stables.
• Old Marn examined photographs showing life in the City of Fire Oil, while Dali opened the bread package and read the leaflet’s title aloud.

Lynn and Lydia dropped flyers exposing the Church’s hidden war losses across several cities before approaching the Holy City to test its defenses. The city deflected Lynn’s attack and struck their fighter jet with a concentrated beam, forcing him to confront the strength of Ella’s defenses.

• Mode read flyers revealing the Church’s concealed defeats and feared the spell models they included, but stopped himself from testing them and ordered the flyers burned.
• Thousands of people in Badas Territory had already seen the flyers, while Lynn and Lydia continued toward the Holy City after distributing them over three cities.
• Lynn fired an electromagnetically accelerated copper sphere at the Holy City and discovered that its defensive field distorted space and destroyed fragments that penetrated it.
• Lynn considered ways to breach the Holy City’s defenses, then sensed danger and maneuvered the fighter jet out of the path of a beam from the city.
• The beam struck the fighter jet’s tail and cut through its Mithril protection and underlying steel, leading Lynn to suspect Ella had learned a form of laser magic.

Lynn helped Lydia escape the Holy City, but the new Saintess destroyed his magic avatar and the church prepared to accelerate its ritual. Back in the Land of Death, Lynn experimented with Divine Kingdom Descent, projected the Eye of Death, and turned to developing magic capable of defending against nuclear explosions.

• Lydia stabilized the fighter and climbed toward safety as starlight attacks pursued them, while Lynn jumped out to deflect the projectiles and delay the new Saintess.
• The Saintess trapped Lynn inside her Divine Kingdom Projection, but he destroyed his magic avatar and Ring of Secret Magic in an explosion of Undying Flame before she could seize them.
• Lydia escaped beyond the clouds, and Ella refused Pope Alvis's request to pursue her, ordering the church to begin its ritual as soon as possible.
• Lynn examined his Sea of Consciousness, projected the Eye of Death through his domain, and found that his Divine Kingdom Descent reached a radius of two kilometers.
• Lynn considered using the Magic Net and the council's wizards to strengthen his domain, then stopped practicing True Domain to develop defensive magic against nuclear explosions.

Lynn created a graphene shield and tested its ability to withstand his particle blade before returning to the City of Fire Oil to prepare for war. After Harov and Aurora advanced to Legendary Wizards, the council declared war on the Church as its forces attacked the border.

• Lynn used magic to create a graphene shield around himself, consuming nearly one-fifth of his magic power.
• Lynn tested the shield with his High-Frequency Vibrating Particle Blade and found that it stopped the strike despite being only about two thousand nanometers thick.
• Lynn returned to the City of Fire Oil, where he discussed fuel reserves and advancement preparations with Vittorio and explained why further rounds of nuclear fusion were impractical.
• Over the next three days, the council prepared its forces, with more than one hundred thousand regular troops and over a thousand armored vehicles ready for war.
• Harov and Aurora advanced successfully, and the council voted to begin its war against the Church and the Empire.
• Church troops attacked at the border as Harov convened the council, and Lynn called for the council forces to march on the Holy City.

Nix led tens of thousands of Imperial cavalrymen in a fanatical charge against the Kingdom’s armored forces, but artillery, electromagnetic cannons, and airships annihilated the Church army. The Kingdom army continued toward the Holy City, and after stopping less than sixty kilometers away, Lynn noticed an unexpected magical tide beneath the full moon.

• Nix rallied the Imperial cavalry with a sermon, and divine radiance filled the soldiers as they charged toward the Kingdom’s armored vehicles.
• The Kingdom’s artillery and electromagnetic cannons shattered the cavalry’s divine barrier, while airship bombs and vehicle guns killed tens of thousands.
• Nix and the remaining cavalry reached the armored convoy, but their attacks barely damaged the vehicles, which crushed the charging soldiers.
• Raphael, Harov, and Lynn discussed why the Church kept sending armies to their deaths as the Kingdom’s forces continued advancing.
• The Kingdom army destroyed the fifty thousand cavalrymen, then stopped for the night less than sixty kilometers from the Holy City.
• Lynn saw a full moon and sensed a magical tide, though he remembered that it should not have been Moon Day.

The Council’s wizards reached the Holy City and found its defenses protected by a powerful force field and divine projection. After their artillery barrage barely dented the walls, Lynn proposed tunneling beneath the city and detonating a nuclear blast to collapse it.

• Aurora confirmed that Moon Day had arrived two months early, and the wizards wondered whether Ella had caused the anomaly.
• The Royal Legion traveled to the Holy City, where the church’s defenses kept its forces from seeing inside.
• The Council fired several volleys of Electromagnetic Cannons, but the Holy City’s force field deflected most of the shells and the walls suffered only minor damage.
• Vittorio revealed his Solar Flame Cannon, a weapon capable of firing the [End—Atomic Breath] spell two or three times.
• Lynn stopped Vittorio from firing and proposed digging beneath the Holy City to detonate a nuclear blast and collapse it.

The church’s Saintess prepared to merge with a divine spark while the wizards destroyed the Holy City with an underground nuclear explosion. Alvis received the Divine Kingdom Projection’s power to defend Sky Dome Tower as Lynn and the others entered the ruins and targeted the tower.

• The Saintess and Pope Alvis found that their gathered believers fell short of the number needed to complete the ritual, and Alvis offered to sacrifice himself to make up the difference.
• An underground explosion collapsed more than half of the Holy City, killing thousands of clergy and destroying its defenses, while the Saintess preserved Sky Dome Tower.
• Alvis left the tower to defend the Saintess, and she bestowed divine power on him and blessed him with the strength to be invincible.
• Alvis met Saint Randall and Ascetic Monk Lava, and they vowed to stop the wizards from disrupting the ritual.
• Lynn, Harov, Aurora, and Vittorio entered the ruined city and discovered that many residents had died days earlier, their souls taken in a church ritual.
• Lynn suspected the Saintess was gathering souls to increase her power and launched iron spheres toward Sky Dome Tower.

Lynn and his allies battled Pope Alvis and the church’s Legendary clerics in the Holy City while trying to reach the Sky Dome Tower, where they believed [Ella] was carrying out something important. Alvis repeatedly rearranged space across the city to protect the tower, and Lynn used [Spatial Vibration Wave] to locate it by searching for its force field.

• Lynn and Vittorio protected themselves from Alvis’s Star Rain with the Graphene Shield and Seal Lock chains, then Lynn struck Alvis and raced toward the Sky Dome Tower while Harov and Aurora engaged Lava and Randall.
• Alvis invoked divine power to reverse the Holy City’s directions, causing the Sky Dome Tower to vanish from its apparent location and reappear elsewhere.
• Alvis summoned Divine Kingdom Guards and forced the Legendary wizards downward, while Aurora’s laser sweep confirmed that the tower’s position had truly changed.
• Alvis shifted the city’s space again, and Lynn realized the rearrangements were limited to the Holy City and that [Ella]’s divine power controlled its elements.
• Lynn cast a low-power, wide-ranging [Spatial Vibration Wave] to find the Sky Dome Tower by detecting the powerful force field protecting it.

Lynn and his allies destroyed the Sky Dome Tower with [Atomic Breath], bringing Ella’s true body forth as the Goddess of Moon. Ella tried to claim the divine spark by expanding Heaven and harvesting the church’s divine officials, but their resentment and shifting faith destabilized her Divine Kingdom under the power of the ancient Moon God, Diana.

• Lynn identified the Sky Dome Tower’s true location, and Harov and Aurora attacked it while Vittorio bound Alvis with Seal Locks and Undying Flame.
• Lynn unleashed [Finality—Atomic Breath], destroying Alvis and the Sky Dome Tower, but leaving a strange crystal unharmed.
• Ella’s true body emerged from the crystal as the Goddess of Moon, and the sun and moon appeared together over the Holy City.
• Ella summoned Heaven and used the faithful within it to purify the divine spark, but Diana’s moonlight suppressed the expanding Divine Kingdom.
• Ella summoned the church’s Bishops and Priests into Heaven, harvesting their lives to strengthen it, but their resentment and curses cracked the realm.
• Council propaganda had led some divine officials to doubt their faith, and many began praising Diana instead, worsening the collapse of Ella’s Heaven.

Ella broke free from her daze and awakened as the Moon Goddess, overpowering the wizards in the Holy City while struggling against Diana’s influence. Lynn connected to the Magic Net and gained the perception to see the curves of space.

• Vittorio, Lynn, Harov, and Aurora attacked the motionless Ella, while Lava and Randall sacrificed themselves to shield her and strengthen her with their faith.
• Ella heard Lava and Randall’s prayers, regained her senses, and cleaved apart the bright moon in Heaven.
• Ella declared herself the Moon Goddess and destroyed Vittorio’s Seal Lock, then erased half of Vittorio’s body with a strike across space.
• Harov fired [End—Atomic Breath], but Ella diverted the nuclear blast; she then attacked Lynn, who escaped after a crystal shield briefly blocked her.
• Ella redirected several electromagnetic cannon shots, while Diana’s power and prayers eroded her, giving Harov and the others a chance to recover.
• Lynn connected to the Magic Net, increased his Mental Power rating from seven to eight, and began seeing the curves of space.

Lynn and the Great Wizards coordinated a Solar Flame Cannon strike, then used a concealed nuclear bomb to shatter Ella’s Divine Kingdom Projection. Ella survived and fled toward the holy mountain of Arulsta, where Vittorio struck the mountain with [Finality—Atomic Breath].

• Lynn sent Raphael a signal to fire the Solar Flame Cannon at the Divine Kingdom.
• The Solar Flame Cannon weakened Ella’s control over space, allowing Lynn to trap her briefly with the Eye of Death.
• Lynn revealed that the iron sphere in his hand was a fake, while a uranium-235 sphere hidden by the Eye of Death detonated inside Ella’s force field defenses.
• The nuclear blast broke the Divine Kingdom Projection, but Ella survived and fled west from the Holy City.
• Harov identified Arulsta as Ella’s destination, and Vittorio’s [Finality—Atomic Breath] struck the holy mountain before she could reach it.

Lynn and the Council members fought Ella at Arulsta, but she escaped through a Space-Time Gate that Vittorio suspected led to the origin of magic power. After sealing the gate, Lynn ordered the Holy City’s ruins searched for survivors and Church records while he and Vittorio went to seal the other gates.

• Ella opened a Space-Time Gate beneath Arulsta, and her attacks deflected the Council members’ attempts to stop her from escaping.
• Lynn and Harov sent magical incarnations through the gate, but both lost contact with them as soon as they crossed.
• Vittorio said information taken from Gustav suggested the other side of Space-Time Gates might be the source of magic power.
• Lynn and Vittorio sealed the gate at Arulsta, while Aurora warned that the remaining gates across the continent also needed to be secured.
• Lynn ordered the wizards to excavate the Holy City carefully, search for survivors, and find the Church’s library before flying with Vittorio to seal other gates.

Ella escaped through the Space-Time Gate into Moon Goddess Diana’s dying Divine Domain, where she found a starving remnant of Diana’s followers and began gathering information about the domain’s collapse. Meanwhile, Lynn and the Wizard Council continued their conquest of the Empire and investigated how the Magic Net differed from a godhood powered by faith.

• Ella reached Diana’s dying Divine Domain, found the Moco People praying, and learned that the Lord of Undead had invaded twenty years earlier and killed tens of millions.
• Ella created food from water and magical power for the starving Moco People, then told them her divine name was Ella and asked what had happened during her absence.
• The Moco People priest told Ella she had been gone for nearly seventy years, and she demanded a full account of events in the Divine Domain.
• Lynn and the Wizard Council continued excavating the Holy City’s archive while the Kingdom’s Firearm Teams conquered more than a third of the Empire.
• Harov, Aurora, and Vittorio considered how to strengthen their magic, while Lynn wondered why using the Magic Net did not expose him to the poison of faith.