Recaps

After the Lord of Madness triggered a Level One alert from the Abyss cage, Hao Ren and his allies prepared for the prison’s imminent failure. With the Creation Engine nearing completion and up to two months before the alert could become Level Zero, they turned their attention to the Abyss’s borderline.

• Hao Ren returned to the World Tree Temple and caught up with Izax, Vivian, and the others before a sudden wave of dread swept through the temple.
• Lia arrived and revealed that the Lord of Madness had quickened, triggering a universal alert from the Dark Domain.
• Asuman reported that the Abyss cage had issued a Level One alert and that its oldest defensive layer had gone silent, though the Night Watchers had evacuated without casualties.
• Lia estimated that the prison could fail within two months, while Lemendusa said the Creation Engine would be assembled in ten days.
• Hao Ren ordered increased monitoring of ecological planets and told Muru to activate psychic filters only if Madness began spreading widely.
• Hao Ren and Lia agreed to examine the Abyss near its borderline as the crisis approached.

Hao Ren and his allies inspected the Boundary Line as the Abyss cage’s failing defenses allowed the Lord of Madness to spread its corruption. Lia explained that her evil god avatar had fused with the Lord of Madness, creating a vulnerable core and setting the terms of the coming war.

• The Abyss cage’s seals weakened, triggering the Boundary Line’s defenses as drones and the Guardian Legion gathered to contain the spreading corruption.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily arrived at a corrupted planet and watched the clean-up forces bombard it while collecting samples.
• Hao Ren and the others observed the darkened Abyss cage, then returned to the bridge to speak with Lia.
• Lia reported that the Lord of Madness’s power had integrated and that her evil god avatar had finished fusing with it.
• Lia explained that the war would have two battlefields: the forces containing the corruption outside the cage and the assault on the Lord of Madness’s core, her avatar.

Hao Ren and Lia planned the final battle against the Lord of Madness, assigning elite fighters to confront its true form and a separate force to protect the surviving Mortal Civilizations. Hao Ren revealed that the restored Einherjar Legion could bypass the Wall of Reality and serve as the emergency army for those worlds.

• Lia explained that the outer defensive line would fight the Lord of Madness’s derivatives while elite forces confronted its true form; Hao Ren, Lia, and Vivian volunteered for the central battle.
• Hao Ren and Lia warned that the Lord of Madness could infiltrate the minds of the surviving Mortal Civilizations, so a team would need to monitor their worlds and destroy any infiltration points.
• Izax suggested using Demon King's City and Erem Elves, but Lily pointed out that their armies could not pass through the Wall of Reality in large numbers.
• Hao Ren revealed that the Einherjar Legion could exploit a loophole in the Wall of Reality and explained that he had already arranged for the legion to be restored.
• Hao Ren reported that around sixty thousand Einherjar were ready for battle, with another twenty thousand and ancient autonomous weapons potentially available if the armory was restarted.

As preparations for the final battle continued, Hao Ren and his companions arranged command, mobilization, and warnings for the Survivor Civilizations. Their dinner discussion was interrupted when Lemendusa reported a serious synchronization problem with the Creation Engine.

• Hao Ren assigned Izax command of the Einherjar Legion and arranged portal access between planets.
• Nangong Sanba insisted that he and Nangong May would stay and fight, while the group agreed Roll, Dodo, and the little weakling should stay home.
• Hao Ren and Lia planned to warn the Survivor Civilizations about the final battle and coordinate their response to the Lord of Madness's leakage points.
• Lia admitted she felt nervous about meeting Horleta's believers and explaining the legends that blamed her for the ancient apocalypse.
• Lemendusa appeared and told Lia that an intense Information Fluctuation was preventing the Heart of God and the three golden disks from synchronizing.

Hao Ren, Lia, and Vivian investigated the golden discs after their malfunction disrupted the Creation Engine. Lia realized Hao Ren’s blood-mark might explain the discs’ strange behavior and pulled him into a mental connection with one of them.

• Lemendusa reported that the three golden discs rejected the Heart of God’s commands and sent chaotic information into the Creation Engine.
• Lia, Hao Ren, and Vivian traveled to the Star Forge to inspect the discs, while the others stayed behind and continued eating.
• Lia examined the discs and found their hardware and energy stable, but sensed an extra segment of data.
• Hao Ren’s palm mark reappeared, and he told Lia that it had come from his earlier contact with the discs and an illusion he had seen.
• Lia ordered Vivian to connect her mental power to the discs, then pressed Hao Ren’s marked palm against one and joined him as he plunged into darkness.

Hao Ren entered a more vivid version of the Founding Star illusion and witnessed the God Slayer’s attack on the Creation Goddess from within the assassin’s body. The illusion left him beside the wounded Lia, who gripped his arm and complained that it hurt.

• Hao Ren found himself in the temple on the Founding Star and realized the illusion was far more detailed and dangerous than before.
• Explosions and battle cries filled the temple as the God Slayer’s attack shattered its defenses, and Hao Ren ran toward the hall where the Creation Goddess had fallen.
• Hao Ren reached the frozen scene of the deicide and grabbed the God Slayer, but its armor covered him and forced him to drive the sword into the Creation Goddess.
• The armor vanished after the deed, revealing the wounded Lia, and Hao Ren rushed to check on her as the events following the deicide remained delayed.
• Lia clutched Hao Ren’s arm with enough force to drain his shield and complained that it hurt.

Hao Ren learned that he had stabbed Lia ten thousand years ago in a previous life, and the revelation explained his unusual connection to the Dream Plane. Lia forgave him and joked with him, but they ended by wondering how he had survived divine punishment and reincarnated on Earth.

• Lia woke Hao Ren and told him to pull the God-Slaying Sword from her chest, and the sword returned to its familiar, talkative form.
• Lia explained that her divine dictum, “Everything returns to its proper place,” had triggered Hao Ren’s past-life memories and revealed that he had once slain her.
• Lia said the mark on Hao Ren’s hand proved he had once killed a god, and Hao Ren accepted that he had stabbed her ten thousand years earlier.
• Hao Ren offered to take responsibility, but Lia forgave him and asked him to compensate her by skipping her homework.
• Hao Ren and Lia reasoned that the Guardian Giants probably would not retaliate, then wondered how Hao Ren had crossed the Wall of Reality and reincarnated on Earth.
• Hao Ren suggested rewinding the illusion to watch what happened, and Lia objected that she had been the one stabbed.

Hao Ren and Lia replayed the God-slaying incident to uncover what they had missed. They discovered that their past selves had shared a secret plan, and Hao Ren began to suspect the God-slaying War had been meant to create a weapon.

• Hao Ren reasoned that Lia must have protected his soul and sent it to Earth after he stabbed her, though she could not remember doing so.
• Lia rewound the temple’s events and removed the mist obscuring the God Slayer and the Creation Goddess.
• Hao Ren noticed that both the dying Goddess and the God Slayer had smiled at the moment of the fatal strike.
• Hao Ren and Lia concluded that their past selves had secretly planned something, with the God-slaying strike serving as its final step.
• Hao Ren looked at the God-slaying Sword and suspected that they had been creating a weapon.

Hao Ren and Lia cleared the golden discs’ malfunction and oversaw the successful activation of the Creation Engine. Its startup resonated with the Destruction Goddess’s completed engine, and Lia prepared to return to the Outer World to begin the next stage.

• Hao Ren and Lia emerged from the illusion and explained that Lia’s consciousness fragments had interfered with the golden disc’s program.
• Lemendusa reinstalled the three golden discs and connected them and the Heart of God to the Creation Engine.
• Lia ordered the engine ignited, and it powered up successfully.
• The engine’s activation triggered a resonance that revealed the Destruction Goddess’s engine and a cold image of the Destruction Goddess.
• Lia said the Creation Engine was now a weapon against the Lord of Madness and the Abyss cage, and Hao Ren proposed returning to the Outer World to seek Raven 12345’s help.

Hao Ren told Raven 12345 that his previous life was the God Slayer, and he and Lia pieced together how the God-slaying War and his journey to Earth connected to a hidden plan centered on Vivian. Raven examined Hao Ren and Vivian’s souls, found a newly unlocked segment of information in Hao Ren that matched Vivian’s soul, and prepared to teach him how to use his God-slaying sword.

• Hao Ren told Raven 12345 that his previous life had been the God Slayer, then recounted what he had seen at the Creation Engine.
• Lia explained that Hao Ren’s past self had likely acted with her understanding, and that the divine punishment had sent his soul from the Dream Plane to Earth.
• Lia said her plans had converged on Vivian, while Vivian inferred that Lia had erased the relevant memories to hide the plan from the Destruction Goddess.
• Raven 12345 agreed to examine Hao Ren and Vivian’s souls, and discovered newly unlocked information in Hao Ren that matched Vivian’s soul.
• Raven 12345 told Hao Ren to take out his God-slaying sword and said she would teach him an ability he should have had from the beginning.

Two years after the changes to Purgatory Planet, Bania and a Valkyrie observed the growing ties between the Tribal Alliance and Aurora World as Einherjar warriors trained the natives. The Valkyrie received an edict ordering the Einherjar Legion to assemble in Asgard for an imminent war.

• Gai Ze'er lost focus during a spar with an Einherjar warrior, who helped him up and advised him to stay focused.
• Bania discussed Yggdrasil's stability, the Sky Tower, and future trade with the Valkyrie.
• The Valkyrie explained that improving conditions on Midgard were reducing Aurora World's need for food, while trade would continue to grow.
• The Valkyrie told Bania that the Einherjar had once been prepared for Ragnarok and now fought for their new master.
• The Valkyrie received an edict ordering the Einherjar Legion to assemble in Asgard in forty-eight hours for war.

Ofra visited the Radiant Grand Cathedral as strange darkness covered Horleta, seeking answers about the divine will that had swept across the world. Pope Autums received the Goddess’s warning of an approaching cosmic evil and instructions for preparing the people, while the Goddess was also busy writing an exam prep workbook.

• Ofra arrived at the Radiant Grand Cathedral and learned that Pope Autums had been praying since the divine will swept across the world.
• Ofra reflected that the Firstborn’s influence had shaped the Radiant Church’s beliefs and that the awakened Creation Goddess had not previously sent Horleta a clear message.
• Pope Autums established contact with the Goddess, who explained that her previous voice had only been a loudspeaker test.
• The Goddess warned Pope Autums that an ancient evil had awakened and ordered the people to prepare defenses, shelter civilians, light sacred fires, pray, and stop worldly conflicts.
• The Goddess told Pope Autums to identify and deal with infected people without abusing that power, then revealed that she had paused to write an exam prep workbook.

Pope Autums spoke with the Creation Goddess, who taught him prayers and divine arts to prepare the world for the Lord of Madness. After conveying her decrees to the church, Autums went to meet Marshal Ofra as the mortal defenses began to take shape.

• The Creation Goddess taught Autums prayers to resist madness and restored divine arts, then charged him with organizing defenses across the world within a month.
• Autums and the Goddess agreed that the Radiant Church’s distorted holy portrait would be replaced, and she revealed a new icon depicting a girl making a V sign.
• Autums left the prayer room and told the bishops that the Goddess had ordered them to prepare for the world’s greatest challenge.
• The bishops learned that the abnormal weather was not a prophecy and were told to go home and bring in their laundry.
• Autums learned Marshal Ofra was waiting in the Grand Cathedral and went to meet her, saying mortals had to take their places on the battlefield.

Lia and Hao Ren prepared at Watchtower Fortress for the Night Watchers’ withdrawal from the Dark Abyss as the Lord of Madness broke through the blockade. As the horizon began to open, a signal arrived amid a surge of Madness Contamination and visible derivatives.

• Lia and Hao Ren confirmed that the surviving worlds had been left with plans to maintain order, then agreed to go to Watchtower Fortress.
• Loken reported that the Lord of Madness had broken through the middle-layer blockade and that the Night Watchers would abandon their outposts and withdraw.
• Lia, Hao Ren, and their companions reached Watchtower Fortress, where Lia explained that the Night Watchers had cut off communications to limit the Lord of Madness’s influence.
• Hao Ren and the Drone Collective Consciousness prepared the fortress’s defenses, activating shields, turrets, and Annihilation Spears as the group awaited the Night Watchers.
• As the horizon opened, the sentinel detected a Night Watcher signal and warned that heavy Madness Contamination and visible derivatives were leaking out.

Hao Ren and the Watchtower Fortress helped the Night Watcher forces escape the Dark Abyss, then joined them in destroying the pursuing Madness Derivatives. After meeting Tyr, Lia and Hao Ren prepared to learn what had happened inside the Abyss.

• The Night Watcher forces emerged from the Dark Abyss as an Ocean of Light, pursued by waves of Madness Derivatives.
• Hao Ren ordered Watchtower Fortress to open fire, while the Night Watchers transformed into crystal warships and attacked alongside the fortress and its drone swarms.
• Tyr told Lia that the Night Watchers had lost one-third of their forces and that their previous commander died when the Prisoner broke through the middle defensive line.
• Lia explained that the Derivatives were new monsters drawn from the nightmares of intelligent beings across the universe, and the allied forces eventually suppressed the attack.
• Tyr warned that the Prisoner's behavior had changed sharply in recent years, coinciding with the collapse of the inner defensive line.
• Tyr met Lia and Hao Ren aboard the Control Tower, and Hao Ren asked what was happening inside the Dark Abyss.

Hao Ren and the others planned how to breach the Lord of Madness’s defenses and discussed a last-resort evacuation of the Dream Plane. The chapter ended with Hao Ren and Vivian promising to return alive before the battle.

• Tyr explained that the Abyss’s defensive barriers had mostly collapsed and that the Lord of Madness’s core was hidden in the deepest part of the cage.
• Lia said the core was waiting for her, while Hao Ren concluded that conventional methods could not cross the chaotic spacetime surrounding it.
• Nolan proposed disabling the Void Engine’s safety lock and overloading it to blast through the spacetime barrier, despite the damage that would leave the platform unable to escape.
• Hao Ren revealed an evacuation route to the Great Gate in Kolo that could save only a portion of the Dream Plane’s inhabitants, while Raven 12345 would destroy the Dream Plane to contain the collapse’s shockwaves.
• After the meeting, Vivian confronted Hao Ren about keeping the evacuation plan secret, and they embraced and vowed to return alive.

Ulanov and Karl guarded the frontier settlement on Tanagrus as the universe faced an imminent invasion. The horizon opened across multiple worlds, and Lia prepared to confront her old rival as the defenses engaged the Derivatives.

• Ulanov and Karl stood watch at Sacred Spring Valley, armed with weapons supplied by the drone factory stations.
• Three Enherjar Warriors arrived as reinforcements from the Observers and flew toward their temporary camp.
• Ulanov and Karl experienced terrifying visions, then realized the attack had begun as alarms sounded across Tanagrus and other planets.
• Watchtower Fortress activated its defenses and fired on the chaotic masses of Derivatives pouring through the torn horizon.
• Lia surveyed the invasion from the command center and prepared to face her old rival.

The Boundary of Events vanished, exposing the spreading Chaos Structure, and the Vaccine slowed its advance while defenses mobilized across the Dream Plane. Hao Ren and his companions left the front lines aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform and entered the Chaos region on a one-way mission, where unseen attacks began striking their ship.

• The Boundary of Events disappeared, revealing the vast Chaos Structure as it spread toward the order Universe and fought against the drone swarms.
• The World Tree Temple activated the Vaccine, and the amplified signal slowed the Chaos Structure's advance across the battlefield.
• Hao Ren received reports that the ecological planets were defended and confirmed that Nolan and the Giant Turtle Rock Platform were ready to depart.
• Hao Ren transferred command of the defenses to the drone swarm AI, Salamander, Izax, and Valkyrie, while Vivian instructed Muru, Lemendusa, and Loken to evacuate everyone if the situation worsened.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lia departed aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, which entered stealth mode and advanced into the Chaos region as unseen attacks battered its shields.

Hao Ren’s ship crossed the formless true essence of Lord of Madness while Lia reflected on why life must resist chaos, as the Guardian Fleet struggled to hold Watchtower Fortress. In Kolo, Veronica and her allies repelled returning chaos monsters, leaving the world’s peoples preparing for a wider war.

• Lia told Hao Ren and Vivian that survival and resistance were part of the universe’s natural order, despite the universe’s eventual destruction.
• Chaos derivatives overwhelmed drones near Watchtower Fortress, and the Guardian Fleet’s line retreated under heavy losses.
• The Annihilation Spear array destroyed many derivatives but lost a nearby Control Tower and entered an hour of forced cooling.
• Veronica and an Enherjar Heroic Spirit defeated a monster in Kolo, while a guard reported a new infiltration point in the Shadow Jungle.
• Veronica said the Holy Wolf Tribe Nation had sent beast warriors to handle the new threat and called all intelligent life natural allies against chaos.

The first wave of Chaos corruption erupted at four dangerous sites, where prepared forces fought to hold back the monsters. Aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, Lia and Hao Ren prepared to enter the Lord of Madness’s chaotic spacetime, equipped with a new weapon designed to impose order.

• Ofra and the Werewolf warriors defeated Chaos monsters at the sacred mountain, while Becky rallied the soldiers and learned that Hodius was heading to the larger battle in the Beinz Region.
• Lia watched mortals fighting across the universe and admitted she regretted the civilizations lost after her failure ten thousand years earlier, but Hao Ren urged her to look forward.
• Nolan redirected the ship’s navigation energy to its shields as the Giant Turtle Rock Platform struggled through the Dark Abyss’s chaotic spacetime.
• Lia warned Hao Ren and Vivian that the ship’s concealment and her divine shroud would fail as they entered the Lord of Madness’s view.
• Hao Ren took up the Star-Slaying Crowbar, and Lia revealed a book containing Words of Truth that could establish a more orderly battlefield against Chaos.

Hao Ren and Nolan overloaded the Giant Turtle Rock Platform’s Void Engine to shatter the mirror-like Spacetime Structure guarding the Lord of Madness. After the breach, Hao Ren faced the Lord’s illusions and dismissed it as a walking year-end bonus.

• Lia showed Hao Ren her new weapon, a powerful book she had chosen instead of a chained Bible flail.
• Hao Ren and the others reached the ship’s mechanical bay, where Nolan prepared to disable two Void Engine safety conduits.
• Hao Ren struck the conduits with the Star-Slaying Crowbar, and Nolan overloaded the engine while steering the ship into the Spacetime Structure.
• The Void Engine’s meltdown shattered the mirror barrier and collapsed the surrounding chaotic spacetime.
• Hao Ren confronted the Lord of Madness through illusions, crushed its image, and called it a walking year-end bonus.

Hao Ren, Lia, and Vivian confronted the fully fused Destruction Goddess in the ruins of the ancient prison. Lia’s Light of Order pushed back the Lord of Madness, while Vivian prepared to unleash true moonlight.

• The Destruction Goddess appeared before Hao Ren and the others, revealed her monstrous true form, and attacked the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Nolan moved the damaged platform out of the battle as Lia tore at the Destruction Goddess’s surrounding spacetime and Hao Ren charged her with his swords.
• Vivian stayed out of the frontal fight and prepared to summon true moonlight.
• The Destruction Goddess’s attacks threatened to erase parts of the universe, but Lia restored the warped space with the Light of Order.
• Lia denounced the Destruction Goddess for bringing the universe’s destruction forward, forcing her to teleport away from the golden radiance.

Lia fought Destruction Goddess while the Destruction Engine prepared to erase the Creation Goddess from the universe. After Lia’s registration change made the engine crash, Destruction Goddess forced it to attack again, but the Red Moon appeared and suppressed it as Lia revealed that the engine was only half-finished.

• Lia used divine runes and new techniques to counter Destruction Goddess, who revealed that the Destruction Engine was nearly ready.
• Destruction Goddess activated the engine to search the universe’s underlying data for the Creation Goddess, but the search returned a 404.
• Lia trapped Destruction Goddess with divine runes, and Hao Ren attacked, wounding her before her power broke their restraints.
• Destruction Goddess forcibly reactivated the damaged engine and used it to distort spacetime and unleash chaos against Lia and Hao Ren.
• A bell rang and the Red Moon appeared, suppressing the engine as Lia revealed that she had shown Destruction Goddess only part of her memories and that the engine was incomplete.

Vivian activated the Creation Engine through the Red Moon and helped Lia suppress the Destruction Goddess’s corrupted engine, but their clash threatened the defensive lines and strained Vivian’s control. As the battle continued, Hao Ren prepared an ultra-long-range Annihilation Spear strike.

• Vivian synchronized with the Creation Engine as its Queen Node and activated it through the Red Moon.
• Lia revealed that the Red Moon was the Creation Engine’s container and that Vivian was its controller.
• The Destruction Goddess used the Lord of Madness’s power to break the engine’s suppression, while reports confirmed that the first defensive line was collapsing.
• Lia and the Destruction Goddess fought as their engines damaged each other, and Vivian struggled to keep the Creation Engine stable.
• Hao Ren told Lia his plan to use the Annihilation Spears on the first defensive line, then asked Nolan to guide their launch.

Lia and Hao Ren defeated the Destruction Goddess by combining Lia’s battle and Vivian’s reset of her characteristic code with Hao Ren’s true God Slayer power. The power of Madness vanished, and the survivors celebrated as Hao Ren and Vivian discussed getting married.

• Watchtower Fortress’s AI fired its remaining Annihilation Spears at Lia’s designated coordinates, then self-destructed and bought the retreating forces time.
• Lia froze the star sector, and Giant Turtle Rock Platform’s Annihilation Spears battered the Destruction Goddess before Lia impaled her with a spear formed from the Holy Scripture.
• The Destruction Goddess reassembled, but Hao Ren attacked with the God Slayer Sword and World-Breaking Blade while Vivian used the Creation Engine to reset her characteristic code.
• Hao Ren’s God Slayer power broke through the Destruction Goddess’s defenses and destroyed her, causing the dark celestial body and the Chaos creatures across the worlds to collapse.
• Lia confirmed that the power of Madness had vanished, and survivors across the planets heard her announce that the battle was over.
• Hao Ren drifted through space with his friends, then asked Vivian to marry him; she requested a star, and he called Lia over to give her homework.