Chapter Summaries

Ryan promised to take the villagers to land and impressed the Witch Crows by granting Furia extraordinary power. On Turtle Island, Kael revealed that Raven Orcs had become believers of the lost half of Miklagard’s Great Being’s authority, and Ryan realized it might be connected to the Storm Divine Grace he had gained from Shatterbone.

• Furia asked Ryan to convince the villagers that land was real, and Ryan promised to take everyone there.
• Ryan gave Furia a Spirituality Blessing, prompting the Witch Crows to suspect Ryan possessed a Great Being’s authority or Divine Grace.
• Kledar explained that Kael had fused his soul with a Tania Giant Turtle in an attempt to become a Demigod, but the experiment had twisted him.
• Ryan reached Turtle Island and found Raven Orcs imprisoned in cages; Kledar said Kael had captured them as outsiders.
• Kael explained that Raven Orcs had become believers of the lost authority after it fled into their world and sought faith to recover.
• Ryan connected Kael’s revelation to the Storm Divine Grace he had gained from Shatterbone and reconsidered the Witch Crows’ prophecy.

The Raven Monarch used the Book of Knowledge to open a passage from the Northlands to Miklagard, hoping to flee an approaching calamity. Ryan and Wizard Kael uncovered the connection between the Raven Orcs and Miklagard’s divided deity, while the Raven Monarch cautiously sent an army through the passage.

• The Raven Monarch used the Book of Knowledge to connect with an Otherworldly Plane and sent Raven Orc scouts through, but they failed to return.
• On Turtle Island, Ryan told Wizard Kael that one half of the deity had chosen the orcs while the other had chosen him, and Kael explained how the Raven Orcs’ faith and the Book of Knowledge had opened the passage to Miklagard.
• Kael revealed that the passage led to Turtle Island, and Ryan urged the Witch Crows to make the Raven Monarch believe Miklagard was safe so they could confront the deity projection in the Chaotic Sea.
• The Raven Monarch sent Tuk through the passage to investigate, then dispatched the Raven Royal Court army after Tuk reported the area was safe.
• Ryan and the Witch Crows watched the Raven Orc army search beyond their concealment formation, and the Raven Monarch entered Miklagard a day later.

Ryan and the Stag Legion trapped the Raven Orc army in Miklagard, sealed the Raven Monarch’s Book of Knowledge, and defeated the fleeing monarch. Brandt brought the Raven Monarch back alive, while Ryan was left astonished by the more than one thousand Saint Realm Wizard Crows.

• Wizard Crows created temporary land over the sea and used Gravity Field magic to ground the Raven Orcs as Ryan and the Stag Legion revealed their ambush.
• Kek and the Wizard Crows sealed the Raven Monarch’s Book of Knowledge, cutting off its divine power and sending its army fleeing.
• Brandt pursued the Raven Monarch, but it encountered a Crow Ship carrying one thousand and forty-three Saint Realm Wizard Crows and fled again.
• Brandt unleashed his Spiritual Body and Psionic Armor, fought the Raven Monarch through a storm, and overpowered it with Ryan’s Spiritual Energy support.
• Brandt returned to Ryan with the half-dead Raven Monarch, and Ryan stared in shock at the vast number of Wizard Crows.

Ryan tried to convince the gathered Wizard Crows that their deity had not died but had fallen into a deep slumber, and proposed recovering its stolen authority and using faith to revive it. The Wizard Crows considered his plan while the Raven Monarch realized it would require sacrificing its people.

• Liv took the Book of Knowledge from the Raven Monarch and nearly awakened the Giant depicted inside before Ryan closed it.
• Kek’s meeting with the Wizard Crows erupted into a battle, which Brandt’s Legendary presence helped bring to a halt.
• Kek presented Raven Orcs whose souls had been stripped of divinity, and a Wizard Crow concluded that their deity had truly died.
• Ryan argued that the deity was gravely wounded rather than dead, and the Raven Monarch confirmed that it had been unable to reach its lord.
• Ryan proposed reclaiming the deity’s authority from the shadow in the sea and using the Raven Orcs’ Faith Essence to revive the deity, prompting the Raven Monarch to attack him.

Ryan left Miklagard to recruit support for studying the Wizard Crows’ knowledge and told Rose to prepare the Alchemy Academy and Mage Corps to travel there. In Andara Royal City, he invited Aven to help confront a Deity’s projection, and Aven eagerly agreed to kill it so he could investigate its heart.

• Ryan left Miklagard with Liv and brought her to the Frozen Earth Territory, where he suggested she explore the region or join the West Coast navy.
• Ryan asked Rose to lead the Alchemy Academy in learning from the Wizard Crows, and he planned to bring Grand Mage Macken, Grand Mage Luna, and the territory’s Mage Corps to Miklagard as well.
• Rose summoned the Alchemy Academy’s students to prepare for the journey while Ryan went to Andara Royal City.
• Ryan asked Aven what he thought of Deities, then described the Deity’s projection threatening Miklagard and the Wizard Crows’ attempt to destroy it.
• Aven crushed the letter urging him to return to the Empire and agreed to help Ryan kill the projection so he could examine its heart.

Ryan brought Alchemist apprentices and Grand Mage Macken to Turtle Island to study with the Wizard Crows and help prepare the God-Slaying Array. As the exchange of knowledge began, Ryan discovered that the Miklagard World’s people had independently developed a large market, trade, and shell currency.

• Aven told Ryan that he sought a Deity’s life essence to become a Demigod and insisted his approach differed from Lan’s failed attempt.
• Ryan brought Alchemist apprentices to Turtle Island and persuaded the Wizard Crows to teach them, warning that they must not die without reason.
• Wizard Kek assigned five apprentices to extract every drop of blood from a Raven Orc, while Dean Rose entered Kledal’s Wizard Tower and revealed her Animated Shadows.
• Grand Mage Macken and Mage Luna discussed Life Magic with the Wizard Crows, who began exchanging knowledge with the newcomers.
• Ryan watched people from across Miklagard gather around Turtle Island and form a market where they traded goods and used deep-sea Shells as currency.

Ryan recruited Furia and other ambitious traders from the sea market, offering them a chance to become merchants in his territory. After the Wizard Crow agreed to hand them over, Ryan prepared to make them his subjects and establish new rules.

• Furia and his group bought gemstone ores in the market, but rival buyers and dwindling funds made them fear losing their chance to profit on The Mainland.
• Two people from The Mainland summoned Furia to meet the Baron, while Ryan watched the market and discussed its traders and raiders with the Northern Territory Merchant Guild stewards.
• Ryan confronted Furia and more than a hundred other traders aboard the Crow Ship, revealing that he had watched their dealings and inviting them to become merchants instead of villagers.
• Furia pledged himself to Ryan, and the Wizard Crow agreed that the people could become Ryan's subjects.
• Ryan told the new recruits that their lives under him would follow new rules.

Aven joined the Wizard Crows to activate the Wizard Array and use Taisu to summon Miklagard’s native great existence, hoping to lure the invading projection into a trap. The projection sensed the threat and sent waves and monsters against the people at sea, leaving Ryan to order them aboard the Crow Ships.

• Aven discovered that Miklagard was a young great existence and agreed with Ryan to keep their dealings secret.
• Aven recognized the Wizard Crows as beings whose bodies came from Deity shells, then discussed magic with them and was accepted as the Wizard Array’s core.
• The Wizard Crows gave Aven control of Taisu and used the Rainbow Bridge to pour magical power from many worlds into the Wizard Array.
• The Wizard Array began tearing apart Raven Orc souls to extract faith and summon Miklagard’s great existence, while Aven shaped Taisu into a massive crow.
• Ryan realized the Wizard Crows intended to lure the deep-sea projection into a Divine Kingdom War, and the projection responded by sending enormous waves and monsters toward the boats.
• Ryan ordered the people at sea to board the Crow Ships as the follower-monsters approached beneath the dark water.

Ryan and the Wizard Crows defended a sea fortress from the ocean deity’s followers while trying to lure the cautious new great existence into their trap. The battle continued as the deity’s call intensified, and Aven prepared the Divine Realm Fragment as bait for the coming confrontation.

• Ryan and the Wizard Crows summoned ocean Magical Beasts to battle the deity’s followers beneath the Crow Ships.
• Ryan linked dozens of Crow Ships into a sea fortress with enchanted vines, and Brandt cut apart a towering wave with his sword.
• Ryan sent Stag Attendants through the Planar Gate to reinforce the ships as the followers climbed aboard.
• Aven told Ryan that the deity was a newly born great existence seeking the world’s knowledge and that the Wizard Array needed three hours to activate.
• Aven and Lord Ivy prepared Divine Essence and a Divine Realm Fragment to lure the deity into the Wizard Array.
• The deity called from the deep, driving most creatures into fear, while Ryan’s retainers rallied and continued fighting its followers.

Liv learned why Amay had fled the sea after summoning Kraken, the Ruler of the Deep Sea, and realized a living Deity dwelled beneath the mortal world. In Miklagard, Ryan and the Wizard Crows summoned Kraken’s projection into the Wizard Array as the maritime fortress continued to shrink under attack.

• Liv questioned Amay about the West Sea, the Golden Coast, and why he had left the sea, and he revealed that an enemy warship had forced him to summon a deep-sea Deity.
• Amay explained that Kraken’s mist appeared over the battle, marked his soul, and drove him to seek refuge in the Northlands; he named Kraken as the Ruler of the Deep Sea.
• Liv wondered whether a Deity lived beneath the mortal world, while the battle in Miklagard continued to turn dead sea life into monsters and force the Crow Ship fortress to contract.
• Ryan watched as the Wizard Crows called upon Kraken, and their eyes grew tentacle-like eyelashes covered in tiny eyes as Kraken’s projection began entering the Wizard Array.

Ryan and the Wizard Crows used Kek, the Crow Ships, and a Divine Prison Cage to trap and destroy Kraken’s projection in Miklagard. Ryan escaped with his crew, but the projection’s tentacle-form survived with its intelligence intact and vanished into the sea.

• Ryan warned the forces to stay out of the water as Kraken’s presence emerged, while dozens of Wizard Crow believers became Legendary monsters and attacked Aven’s position.
• Kek merged with Turtle Island, used its gravitational power to drag the Legendary Wizard Crow believers into the sea, and helped the Wizard Crows and Ryan’s Magic Crystal Cannons defeat them.
• Kraken attacked the Crow Ships with its tentacles, and Ryan cut through one while the Wizard Crows fought the rest and searched for its true body.
• Aven activated the Wizard Array, closing Ivy vines around Miklagard to form a Divine Prison Cage as Ryan freed the Crow Ships and led them out through the narrowing gaps.
• The Wizard Crows summoned Forni and Wujin, and the Wizard Array’s golden blast annihilated the trapped projection while Ryan and his crew escaped.
• Aven survived with severe injuries, but a tentacle-based projection later reformed aboard the ship, looked toward the golden sun, and vanished into the sea.

Ryan gathered the surviving Wizard Crows’ knowledge, weapons, and followers as Miklagard grew colder and approached its end. He summoned Liv to help claim the world’s remaining wealth, but told her she needed to gain power first so she could take riches from those who already owned them.

• Ryan watched his new magic change from flames to lightning, while Rose explained her plan to create Deity Blood with a Philosopher’s Stone and Macken described his plans to advance the Northern Warhorses.
• Ryan assessed his recovered Magic Crystal Cannons and ordered his followers to search the seas for Miklagard’s remaining wealth before the world froze.
• Egil noticed snow falling and warned that Miklagard was growing cold, while Ryan predicted the world would enter Eternal Winter when its Sun went out.
• Ryan declared the surviving people his subjects and ordered them to salvage the world’s wealth before they left for The Mainland.
• Liv returned to Miklagard, and Ryan urged her to seek power from the dying world instead of focusing on salvaging treasure so she could claim wealth on Norris Avenue.

Furia sought permission to buy a manor in the Frozen Earth Territory, but Eteria explained that wealth alone was not enough and that he needed greater contributions to Ryan and the territory. Learning that Miklagard was nearing its end, Furia returned there determined to salvage more wealth and opportunities, then discovered that news of his plans had spread among the Crow Ships.

• Furia reached the Frozen Earth Territory and decided to use his remaining wealth to buy mountain and manor rights.
• An administrative officer referred Furia to Chief Magistrate Eteria, who explained that manor ownership required both wealth and contributions to Ryan and the territory.
• Eteria credited Furia's naval service and treasure salvage but said his contributions were not yet enough, and suggested seeking valuable resources or specialties in Miklagard.
• Eteria warned Furia that Miklagard was close to dying and that his access to it was his unique advantage.
• Furia returned to Miklagard, told his companions that the sea held their wealth, and became furious when the information spread among the Crow Ships.

Ryan considered how to settle Miklagard’s more than two hundred thousand inhabitants before their world froze and planned to use their trading skills to create wealth in Frozen Earth Territory. He discussed relocating them and expanding Northwind Province’s defenses with Count Winter, then persuaded him to send Castor Winter to Ryan’s new Knight Academy.

• Ryan learned that Miklagard’s Natives wanted wealth, trade permits, and authority over merchant caravans and Crow Ships, and he began considering how to use their skills.
• Ryan agreed with Grand Mage Macken that the Natives could not be left to fend for themselves or allowed to leave, and decided they needed new places to live.
• Ryan told Count Winter he planned to move some Natives to Northwind City and expand Cold Mountain City and Golden Ear City as defensive gateways.
• Ryan urged Count Winter to send noble children to his Northlands Knight Academy, arguing that it could give Castor Winter better opportunities than the Imperial Knight Academy.
• Count Winter agreed to send Castor, and Ryan confidently assured him that the academy could match the one in the Imperial Capital.

Ryan arranged to settle Miklagard's people across Northwind Province by building towns, while considering the political risks of expanding his influence. In Miklagard, he investigated Liv's sudden power, learned about her extraordinary abilities and her crow's identity as a Fairy, and examined magical creatures that might be raised in Northgar Lake.

• Ryan won Count Soron's advice and secured Lord Beian and Viscount Wick's reluctant agreement to build a trading town at the border of their territories.
• Ryan arranged for Bilder to send craftsmen and slaves to build towns and expand the three cities, while he considered how Marquis of Northwind and the Emperor might respond.
• Ryan used Spirituality Blessing on Liv to check for remnants of Deities, but Liv explained that she had grown stronger by salvaging the source of the distant Sun.
• Grand Mage Macken and Grand Mage Luna explained that Liv could control Magic Factors directly and might become either a legendary Mage or an ordinary person depending on the energy in her body.
• Liv left on a Crow Ship after Ryan challenged her claim to the luminous pearl, and Egil remarked that her crow had grown fat from carrying Gold Coin.
• Ryan learned from Grand Mage Luna that the Crystal Shell Squid could adapt to the cold and might be raised in Northgar Lake with the crow's help; she identified the crow as an Elemental Fairy.

Ryan agreed to let the Miklagard people establish aquaculture near Northwind City, while Grand Mage Macken proposed raising Crystal Shell Squid in Northgar Lake and thawing part of the river. An Eight Claw secretly survived in a crate of squid and recognized that the river might connect to the ocean near its main body.

• Furia persuaded Ryan to fund a lake for Miklagard’s aquatic farming, and Ryan set rules for its trade, ownership, and risks.
• Ryan divided the Miklagard people among Liv’s venture, the Northern Territory Merchant Guild, and commodity production while arranging their relocation.
• Grand Mage Macken proposed raising Crystal Shell Squid in Northgar Lake and possibly thawing the river toward Rhino Horn Mountain, and Ryan ordered the squid separated for transport.
• A weakened Eight Claw hid among the Crystal Shell Squid after the Native people tossed it into a crate.
• Stag Attendants discussed the possibility that the river reached the East Coast, and Eight Claw realized the waterway might lead toward its main body.

Ryan traded Surtr's abandoned body matter for control of some of his Divine Essence, then used its power to thaw the river below Northgar Lake. He released Crystal Shell Squid into the freshwater to test whether they could survive, while Eight Claw searched for a route east and became buried in the lakebed mud.

• Ryan negotiated with Surtr, offering Taisu's Primeval Essence in exchange for Surtr's authority and help restoring his power through Faith of Dawn instead of killing other Deities.
• Surtr transformed his body matter into a bracer that let Ryan wield his destructive flames, then vanished.
• Ryan used the bracer to thaw the frozen river from Northgar Lake, and residents of Frozen Earth Territory celebrated the miracle.
• After Armored Bears feasted on fish from the lowered lake, Ryan ordered Mages to replenish its water and released Crystal Shell Squid to test whether they could adapt to freshwater.
• Ryan sent Eight Claw east through the thawed river, but it hit a wall of ice and returned to Northgar Lake, where other Crystal Shell Squid began uncovering it from the mud.

Fermont and his fellow academy students struggled with the Knight Academy’s harsh training and were assigned to patrol Corland Avenue, where they encountered Castor Winter arriving as a student. Castor greeted them as classmates, leaving the three embarrassed about their low-status assignment.

• Fermont complained to his roommates about the academy’s exhausting work, but they reminded him that his father could not challenge Baron Ryan’s order.
• The next morning, Fermont and the other students trained or set out to patrol trade routes, with Fermont’s group assigned to Corland Avenue.
• The three knights assessed an approaching party and recognized its noble riders and Magical Beast mounts, including Unicorn Flying Wolves associated with Count Winter.
• Fermont and his companions learned that the rider was Castor Winter, heir to Count Winter, and discussed rumors that royal and great noble descendants would attend the academy.
• Castor identified the three as academy students and asked whether they also had to patrol the trade routes, leaving them unable to explain their assignment.

Ryan visited the Northern Kingdom Knight Academy, assessed its noble students and veteran instructors, and urged the academy’s first class to produce Golden Knights within three years. He introduced measurable training rankings and promised rewards to build the academy’s reputation, leaving the students poised to compete for progress and support.

• Ryan arranged for the Crow Ship to be dismantled because the Planar Gate could not accommodate it, then traveled by river to the Knight Academy.
• Ryan asked Brandt about the academy’s enrollment and learned that it had 370 students, most from noble families, with more noble descendants still expected.
• Ryan toured the academy and found noble youths gathered around Castor Winter, while injured Stag Attendants served as instructors.
• Ryan addressed the students, challenging them to become Golden Knights within three years and to outperform higher-ranking relatives in their noble families.
• Ryan unveiled crystal training displays and Transcendent Leaderboards, promising resources and rewards for the academy’s strongest students.

A shortage of Life Potions sparked violent conflict at the Imperial Knight Academy, which Emperor Columbus IV settled by requiring graduates to serve ten years in the Imperial First Legion. After Ryan recognized how military reform could strengthen the Imperial House and received Count Clayton’s request to support future legions, he decided to send Brandt to the Imperial Capital with Knight Life Potions.

• Rumors that Neichiu Province’s ingredients for Life Potions were dwindling led the Imperial Knight Academy to cut its potion allocation by fifteen percent, escalating clashes between powerful and peripheral noble bloodlines.
• Emperor Columbus IV ended the academy conflict by requiring graduates to serve ten years in the Imperial First Legion and establishing a three-year graduation cycle.
• Ryan concluded that the new legions would weaken minor and middling nobles while helping the Imperial House centralize power.
• Count Clayton asked Ryan to help incorporate some noble armies in Northwind Province into a future Imperial Legion, with Aatrox Clayton expected to command the proposed Second Legion.
• Ryan decided to send Brandt to the Imperial Capital with Knight Life Potions to build his reputation among the academy’s students.