Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren and his companions faced a vast horde of undead blocking the route to Hades’s Bronze Palace. Heiserana concealed the others with Blood Magic while Hao Ren drew the undead away with an explosive attack, leaving the group to continue toward the palace.

• Hassu explained that many undead on the plain had risen again after the Demon Hunters killed them with silver weapons.
• Heiserana tried to hide the group’s living auras with Blood Magic, but her spell could not affect Hao Ren because he was immune to her magic.
• Hao Ren proposed that Heiserana, Hassu, and the others sneak toward the Bronze Palace while he lured the undead away alone.
• Heiserana cast Blood Curtain on the four companions, allowing them to pass among the undead unnoticed.
• Hao Ren fired two plasma hand cannons into the horde, drawing countless undead toward the resulting explosion.
• Heiserana led the concealed group onward toward the Bronze Palace while Lily assured her that Hao Ren would be fine.

Hao Ren’s group reached the Bronze Palace safely while he crossed Tartarus by riding a missile toward them. He landed in a crater after redirecting the missile, then insisted his plan had mostly worked.

• Heiserana, Lily, Hassu, and little Heiserana crossed the undead plain and entered the Bronze Palace through its blasted-open gate.
• Hassu explained that Hades’ lingering power revived shattered undead near the palace, while Heiserana said Hades was dead for good.
• The group waited at the gate for Hao Ren and wondered how he would cross the sea of undead.
• Hao Ren appeared riding a missile and used a shield of light to withstand ghosts that collided with him.
• Hao Ren jumped from the missile, kicked its warhead away from the palace, and crashed into the ground near the group.
• Heiserana questioned Hao Ren’s plan, and he said the landing had gone wrong but the rest had worked as planned.

Hao Ren and his companions reached the Bronze Palace and found Hades and Cerberus defeated by the Demon Hunters. Cerberus revived and went berserk, and its rampage opened the Abyssal Prison, releasing Cronus.

• Hao Ren and the group crossed the ruins of the Bronze Palace and reached the Wall of Sighs, where Hades was pinned by holy swords.
• Hassu led them to the breach in the Wall of Sighs, where they found the dead three-headed Cerberus.
• Cerberus suddenly revived and attacked Heiserana, but Hao Ren shielded her while Hassu struck the monster and exposed its mechanical components.
• Lily attacked Cerberus's weakened central head and drove it into a berserk charge before retreating behind Hao Ren.
• An explosion and tremors shook the Bronze Palace, and Hassu realized Cerberus had opened the Abyssal Prison and released Cronus.

Hao Ren and his group fled Tartarus as Cronus and the imprisoned Titan Giants broke free and began climbing the tower toward Mount Olympus. The Underworld Tower started exploding beneath them as the Titans advanced toward a Mount Olympus whose gods had already been defeated.

• Hassu explained that Cronus had been imprisoned in Tartarus and that Cerberus had released him, while the land began splitting apart.
• Hao Ren led the group through the breach in the Wall of Sighs and into the mechanical tower connecting the Underworld to Mount Olympus.
• As the group rose through the tower, Cronus emerged from Tartarus with the Titan Giants and tore apart the Bronze Palace.
• Cronus and the other Titans crossed the Wall of Sighs and began climbing the tower toward Mount Olympus.
• The Titans damaged the tower as they climbed, triggering explosions that raced upward from its base.

Hao Ren and his companions escaped the collapsing Underworld and arrived at the Temple of Hades on Mount Olympus. As the transport conduit began to fail, Hao Ren hoped Cronus and the Titans would reach Olympus and create chaos among its factions.

• Cronus led the Ancient Monsters up the unstable Underworld Tower while Hao Ren's group raced through the transport passage toward Olympus.
• Hassu explained that the Titans had mutated after arriving on Earth, and that Zeus had imprisoned them because they had grown enormous, lost their sanity, and threatened to spread the mutation.
• Hao Ren's group reached a deserted transport hall in the Temple of Hades, where they found metal sculptures depicting Hades nailed to the Wall of Sighs.
• The Underworld's collapse began disrupting the conduit, and Hao Ren said he hoped Cronus and the Titans would reach Olympus and cause chaos.

Hao Ren and his companions crossed the ruined Palace of the Underworld King and found the lightway to Poseidon’s domain guarded by more than a hundred Demon Hunters. Cronus’s arrival drew half the guards away, leaving the group with a better chance to pass the platform.

• Hassu explained that most of the Olympians’ servants and lower-ranking descendants were modified humans or demigods, and described how gifted descendants could rise in rank.
• Hao Ren’s group reached the lightway platform and spotted over a hundred Demon Hunters, including three master-rank commanders, guarding it.
• Hao Ren held back from attacking and said that reinforcements would distract the guards.
• Cronus and the Titan Giants arrived in a storm, prompting the Demon Hunters to mistake them for an Olympian counterattack.
• After the Demon Hunters began fighting Cronus’s forces, a master-rank commander led half the platform guards away to reinforce the front line.

Hao Ren’s group used a Space Collapse bomb to seize the light-path platform, killing its Demon Hunter commander before he could raise an alarm. With less than twenty minutes before their intrusion was discovered, Hao Ren prepared a radioactive explosive trap for the guarded platform at the Poseidon Temple and sent it through the light path ahead of them.

• Hao Ren waited as two waves of Demon Hunter reinforcements left the platform to fight Cronus and the Titans, then launched a Space Collapse bomb at the remaining guards.
• Hassu killed the master-level Demon Hunter commander before he could send an alarm, while Lily fought the guards and Hao Ren’s group wiped out the platform’s defenders.
• Hassu warned that their absence would be noticed within twenty minutes, and Hao Ren’s group prepared to cross the light path to the Poseidon Temple.
• Hao Ren packed Nuclear Warheads, radioactive energy crystals, and plasma bombs into the light path to create a dangerous blast and radiation zone at the far end.
• Heiserana activated the light path, sending six and a half tons of explosives through before Hao Ren told everyone it was their turn to follow.

The Olympian gods faced the imminent destruction of Poseidon Temple as the Demon Hunters steadily wore down its barrier. After Zeus approved plans to preserve some descendants and learned Hercules had left with a treasure, a series of unexplained explosions shook the temple, leaving the gods scrambling to learn what had happened.

• Zeus asked Poseidon to show him the siege outside, and Poseidon confirmed that Hades and Hermes were dead and no reinforcements could reach them.
• Zeus and Poseidon discussed Ansesta's unstable condition and a plan to help selected Olympian descendants escape.
• Zeus learned that Hercules had already departed with the treasure.
• A series of explosions shook Poseidon Temple, and Poseidon ordered warriors to investigate.
• The smoke outside the temple concealed a platform where no living carbon-based creatures remained.

Hao Ren and his companions infiltrated the Demon Hunters’ stronghold, using radioactive nether-energy dust to kill the guards at the lightway platform. When the enemy commander Hassu arrived to investigate, the group ambushed him, and Hassu confronted his own younger counterpart.

• Hao Ren’s radioactive dust and nuclear warheads killed the Demon Hunters guarding the lightway platform, allowing his group to reach the stronghold.
• Hao Ren had little Heiserana turn into a bat and hide in his jacket pocket before the group moved toward Poseidon Temple.
• A magical gale began dispersing the radioactive mist, so Hao Ren and his companions hid and advanced under cover toward the temple.
• Hao Ren’s group encountered the enemy Hassu and his elite Demon Hunters, then launched an ambush as Hao Ren and the allied Hassu split their opponents between them.
• The enemy Hassu froze at the sight of his identical older counterpart, and the two Hassus began fighting while Hao Ren battled the other Demon Hunters.

Hassu defeated his historical counterpart, and Hao Ren’s group hid the unconscious commander inside a cruise missile to prevent the Demon Hunter army from detecting his death. Hassu then impersonated his two-thousand-year-old self and led his former subordinates toward headquarters to open a path for Hao Ren’s group.

• Hassu defeated his historical counterpart while Hao Ren, Lily, and Heiserana watched and struggled to tell the two apart.
• Hassu explained that killing his counterpart would trigger a soul-bound warning spell, so Hao Ren bound him and sealed him inside an empty cruise missile.
• The missile carrying the unconscious Hassu flew into the radiation clouds, while Hao Ren’s group sensed more than a hundred Demon Hunters approaching.
• Hassu set off to meet the approaching Demon Hunters and promised to open a path for Hao Ren’s group.
• Hassu told his former subordinates that he had purified the person controlling the strange missile and ordered them to return to headquarters to adjust patrols and guard posts.

Hao Ren, Lily, and Heiserana used Hassu’s redeployment of the Demon Hunters to sneak through the siege and reach Poseidon Temple’s rear entrance. Hao Ren repeatedly shattered the self-repairing barrier, draining Poseidon through the temple’s control system as Athena sent warriors to meet the intruders.

• Heiserana confirmed that Hassu had opened a gap in the Demon Hunters’ patrol routes, and Hao Ren led the group toward Poseidon Temple.
• Hao Ren and his companions crossed the guarded battlefield through the hidden gaps and reached the temple’s rear entrance.
• Lily’s greatsword bounced off the barrier, but Hao Ren shattered it with his Magic Immunity talent; the barrier immediately repaired itself.
• Poseidon was repeatedly struck by energy backlash from his trident as the temple drained his power to repair the barrier, and Athena realized the rear entrance was under attack.
• Hao Ren kept breaking the barrier as it regenerated, while Lily counted the repeated attempts.

Hao Ren, Lily, and Heiserana broke through the Poseidon Temple’s barrier and gained entry by claiming to be Vivian’s friends. Inside, they found the Olympian gods desperate and Vivian confused, while Athena asked whether the newcomers knew a safe way past the Demon Hunters.

• Hao Ren, Lily, and Heiserana repeatedly destroyed the Poseidon Temple’s barrier until its defenses weakened, then prepared a sign saying they were allies as powerful figures approached.
• Athena learned that three visitors had breached the barrier and claimed to be Vivian’s friends, and Poseidon ordered the soldiers to let them in.
• Hao Ren’s group entered the temple and passed despairing Olympian gods alongside fearless human servants whose wills had been erased by biochemical modification.
• Hao Ren found Vivian confused in the upper hall, and Athena explained that Vivian’s lucid periods had dwindled after her confrontation with the Demon Hunters.
• Athena asked Hao Ren and the others how they had entered the divine realm undetected, hoping they could provide the Olympians with a safe escape route.

Hao Ren and his companions reached Hades's temple and negotiated with the Olympian gods over helping a small group escape the Demon Hunters. Vivian remained confused and repeatedly failed to recognize Hao Ren, though she recognized little Heiserana, while Lily encountered Hesperis and warned her about Hassu.

• Hao Ren explained that the group had entered through the Underworld and used Cronus to distract the Demon Hunters, while Poseidon revealed that the temple's defenses had weakened him.
• Zeus asked how much the newcomers could interfere with the Demon Hunters, and Heiserana offered to help a small group retreat while warning that Olympus could not be saved.
• Athena said Olympus's gods had planned to send Ansesta and preserve their bloodline, and Poseidon offered the visitors temple treasures in exchange for their help.
• Hao Ren tried to speak with Vivian, who was disoriented and repeatedly asked who he was, but she recognized Heiserana and tearfully apologized for losing her.
• Little Heiserana introduced Vivian to Hathaway, while Hao Ren explained that he had brought her daughter to help her reconnect with her memories.
• Lily met Hesperis and warned her to wear a helmet because Hassu would soon shoot her in the head, leaving Hesperis confused.

Hao Ren led Vivian and ten Olympian survivors away from the Poseidon Temple, planning to meet Hassu rather than immediately escape the battlefield. As Zeus died and the group waited near the Demon Hunters’ lines, Vivian still could not remember who Hao Ren was.

• Hao Ren gave up explaining himself to the confused Vivian and helped Poseidon prepare ten Olympians to leave, including Hesperis.
• Hao Ren took Vivian and the selected Olympians from the temple’s treasury, then made them exchange their flashy armor for Roman civilian clothes.
• Zeus died while Poseidon maintained the temple’s barrier, reflecting on humanity’s rise before his final breath.
• Hao Ren led the group through nearby ruins to a small palace instead of crossing the blockade, intending to meet Hassu there.
• Hao Ren warned the Olympians that their approaching ally might startle them, while planning to use the confusion to awaken Vivian.
• Vivian approached Hao Ren and asked who he was again.

Poseidon and the remaining Olympus gods overloaded the divine kingdom’s light routes, setting off a chain of explosions that began Mount Olympus’s fall and gave Hao Ren’s group a chance to escape. When Hassu arrived and triggered the survivors’ hostility, Hao Ren used Vivian’s memory-bond key to bring her back from the brink of a rampage.

• Hao Ren and the others watched Poseidon’s temple overload the light-route network, causing temples and mountains across Olympus to explode.
• The divine kingdom began falling into the human world, and Hesperis urged the group to escape before it collapsed.
• Hassu arrived late, and the Olympus descendants attacked him as Hao Ren’s group prepared to restrain them.
• Vivian began to lose control and identify Hassu as an enemy, so Lily struck her arm while Hao Ren showed her the memory-bond key.
• Vivian recognized Hao Ren as familiar and regained her composure.

Vivian awakened briefly in the frozen ruins of Olympus, regained her connected memories, and reconciled with Heiserana before the twisted spacetime expelled her again. Hesperis entered the spacetime as well, and the group prepared to continue their mission.

• Vivian awoke in the frozen temple and told Hao Ren that recovering her power had restored links to her memories and awakened Soul Fragments.
• Vivian apologized to Heiserana for leaving her behind in Rome, and Heiserana embraced her and called her Mommy.
• Vivian explained that she was struggling against a corrupted part of her soul that followed fixed rules, and she promised Hao Ren she would defeat it.
• Vivian vanished from the twisted spacetime after asking Heiserana to protect herself until Vivian woke again, leaving Heiserana ecstatic.
• Hesperis entered the spacetime and confronted Hassu, but agreed to set aside her personal anger while the group faced the larger crisis.

Heiserana absorbed the frozen memories of her younger self, including memories of Hao Ren, while the group prepared to continue their journey into the Mythical Era. Lily began to be expelled from the sandbox at 44 BC, leaving Hao Ren and the others to proceed without her.

• Heiserana watched her frozen younger self and said the girl had lived an idealized, carefree childhood.
• The younger Heiserana shattered into dust and merged into Heiserana, giving her childhood memories that included Hao Ren and a powerful older sister named Hathaway.
• Hao Ren teased Heiserana about holding her as a baby, and she warned him not to bring up her supposed sister during a fight.
• Hesperis said she would rather pass through Olympus quickly than risk becoming lost in the false spacetime.
• Lily began petrifying as the group reached 44 BC, so Hao Ren told her to leave the sandbox and let the others continue.
• Lily joked about taking her sword with her as she petrified, but the gray-white radiance covered the sword too.

After Vivian and Heiserana departed during the regression from Babylon in 1788 BC, Hao Ren continued his search through the Age of Gods with only Hesperis and Hassu beside him. The group prepared to press on through a brutal era where humans were treated as slaves, while Hao Ren remained unable to recruit allies except by chance.

• Hao Ren reflected on the lost kingdoms and mythological events he had witnessed while traveling through the Age of Gods.
• A lightning strike froze Babylon into gray information fragments, and Hao Ren confirmed the city had vanished as the regression continued.
• Vivian advised Hao Ren to stop posing as a human and left, promising they would meet in the next era.
• Heiserana criticized the Otherworldly Deities and advised Hao Ren to heed Hesperis before she was petrified and returned to the real world.
• Hao Ren, Hesperis, and Hassu remained together in 1788 BC, with no new ally joining them.

Hao Ren crossed a frozen wasteland to reach the giant ice tower where Vivian was sleeping, guided by two frightened tribal warriors. He found Vivian beneath the ice as the Mythical Era began with other gods arriving on Earth.

• Hao Ren asked two tribal warriors to guide him to the ice tower, which the tribes believed held the Great God who had frozen their homeland.
• The warriors refused to approach the tower, so Hao Ren gave them Alloy Daggers and continued alone.
• Hao Ren crossed the frozen zone and saw signs of the newly arrived Norse Gods, Rune Dwarves, Zeus, Ra, Osiris, and Isis.
• Hao Ren reached the ice tower, saw Vivian sleeping inside, and told her he had found her again.

Hao Ren traveled through prehistoric Earth, following a growing intuition toward the point where the Dream Plane and the Outer World converged. After waiting on a mountaintop for 106 days, he saw the sky distort, signaling that the time had come.

• Hao Ren crossed the frozen wilderness, found no human settlements, and used the stars and Vivian's notes to confirm that he was nearing his destination in Northern Europe.
• Hao Ren followed his inner guidance across the land and found a stone-tool tribe, whose people welcomed him as a god but knew nothing of Vivian or other gods.
• Hao Ren discovered no signs of alien colonies and realized he had traveled to a time before aliens arrived on Earth, beyond the clear reach of Vivian's memories.
• Hao Ren set up camp on a mountaintop and waited, believing he had arrived only slightly before the moment he sought.
• After 106 days, Hao Ren opened his eyes as the sky over the plain curled and a vast expanse of light and shadow appeared.