Chapter Summaries

Iyadase entered the Shadow Mist Zone and discovered that its black shadows were powerful creatures guarding the Void Giant Tower. Unable to reach an entrance without confronting overwhelming foes, it met Nitotip, who recalled a hidden passage from the Abyssal Confluence Demon Eye’s blueprints.

• Iyadase learned that closing its eyes let it perceive the black shadows’ true forms, including an Abyssal native and a lightning-tailed leopard that fought at mid-rank demon strength.
• Iyadase inferred that slain shadows might regenerate, then avoided a powerful Half-Blood Demon after noticing that perception was weakened throughout the Shadow Mist Zone.
• Iyadase reached the Void Giant Tower but found its main entrance blocked by an Abyss Dragon stronger than Fafnir, while other entrances were guarded by similarly formidable beings.
• Iyadase met Nitotip and explained that the guards made the tower’s entrances impassable, warning that unfolding her raincloud would attract countless shadows.
• Nitotip remembered a hidden passage shown on the Abyssal Confluence Demon Eye’s blueprints.

Nitotip and Iyadase investigated the Shadow Mist Zone and realized its black shadows were inscription constructs that could revive endlessly. They reached the pipeline entrance, where two unusual constructs guarded the way, and Nitotip sensed that the eagle was watching them.

• Nitotip told Iyadase that Komodo had taken the two Blood Cocoons to the Demon Blood Pool, and they discussed whether Jupiter had opened the basement seal or been manipulated.
• Nitotip found a pool of demon blood and a trident but no corpse, leading her and Iyadase to suspect that something besides the black shadows was making bodies disappear.
• Nitotip recognized the black shadows as inscriptions carrying the Demon God's aura, and Iyadase connected them to the Cruel Scholar's work in the Void Giant Tower.
• Nitotip and Iyadase reached the domed building above the pipeline and found two black shadows guarding it, whose true forms were an old Abyss native and a crowned eagle.
• Nitotip and Iyadase prepared to test the guards, but Nitotip noticed that the eagle seemed to be looking at them.

Bobota absorbed the power of a Gluttony Demon and reached for the stone that controlled Lasudelan’s defenses, while Iyadase entered the Void Giant Tower. Lasudelan began to tremble beneath gathering Black Cloud and violent winds, and Canaan said she heard it whimpering.

• Nitotip distracted the native guarding the hidden passage, allowing Iyadase to rush into the Void Giant Tower.
• Bobota descended into the underground hall, where his chain drained a Gluttony Demon and transformed him into a grotesque, powerful creature.
• Bobota approached the stone at the center of the hall that controlled the light patterns protecting Lasudelan and began reaching for it.
• Lasudelan trembled as Black Cloud gathered and violent winds swept across the city, unsettling the wizards and prompting Monchi to look toward the Void Giant Tower.
• At the Illusion Hut, Fafnir sensed danger and turned toward the Void Giant Tower, while Canaan said she heard Lasudelan whimpering.

Lasudelan’s inscriptions sent out a sorrowful warning as Bobota approached the main inscription hub in the Void Giant Tower’s underground hall. Iyadase arrived to stop him, but the hall’s hidden mechanism activated and the statue began to unfold its wings.

• Fafnir recognized Lasudelan’s sorrow as a warning, while Iyadase sensed the inscriptions calling for help and hurried toward the basement.
• Iyadase found traces of powerful flames and a hole in the basement doors, then descended into the underground hall.
• Iyadase found the unconscious Jupiter and confronted Bobota, who ignored its questions and continued reaching for the main inscription hub.
• Bobota’s power had grown at the cost of his rationality, and he kept pressing onward despite the inscriptions’ attempts to stop him.
• The inscriptions ceased trying to influence Bobota, activating a hidden mechanism that made the statue spread its black wings.

As Lasudelan’s upheaval spread, Night Innkeeper began the final step of a Lord of Fire and entered the world of the Origin Fire through the painting in the Prey Hall. Orucia prepared to guard the painting and wait for Night’s return, hoping to claim the Origin Fire that emerged.

• Orucia and Tandin watched Lasudelan darken as black clouds and fierce winds gathered, while Orucia noted the flames consuming the painting of Night.
• Night sensed Bobota at the Void Giant Tower and recognized the aura of the Source-Worshippers before the painting’s flames enveloped him.
• Sinafa and Samantha noticed the fire element changing, while Angel saw sparks fill the sky and Fafnir identified them as signs of a Lord of Fire’s final step.
• Night’s body broke apart into fundamental particles, and a wind carried him and the Exhibition Hall’s flames through the vortex in the painting.
• After Night vanished, Orucia told Tandin to guard the painting and wait for Night’s return so they could seize the Origin Fire.

At the Void Giant Tower, Bobota continued toward the central hub despite the Cruel Scholar’s warning, and the Lord of Profundity’s True-Name Sigil forced the Cruel Scholar to yield. Bobota regained some clarity but still chose to press the hub, leaving the tower’s fate unresolved.

• Iyadase recognized the statue as the Cruel Scholar, which tried to persuade Bobota to stop destroying Lasudelan.
• Bobota defied the Cruel Scholar, and it summoned weapons and used its power to restrain him while Iyadase prepared to attack.
• Bobota’s chains released the Lord of Profundity’s True-Name Sigil, forcing Iyadase away and prompting the Cruel Scholar to yield after learning Iyadase had once received a revelation from the Abyssal Confluence Demon Eye.
• The Cruel Scholar restored some clarity to Bobota, invited him to its world if he abandoned the Lord of Profundity, and then vanished.
• Bobota hesitated as he looked at the central hub but ultimately pressed down toward it.

As Lasudelan began collapsing after the master control was pressed, Fafnir warned Angel and Canaan that its final hour had arrived. She led them toward the Void Giant Tower, which she believed would be the last place to fall.

• Iyadase recovered from being pinned against the wall, saw that Lasudelan’s destruction could no longer be stopped, and left Bobota behind amid falling rubble.
• Angel discovered that the badly injured Nitotip had left the Shadow Mist Zone while Canaan said the sorrow surrounding it had vanished but its foreboding had grown stronger.
• Angel noticed the dark light around the Void Giant Tower had disappeared, and Fafnir declared that Lasudelan had reached its final hour.
• Fafnir removed her Wind Domain and showed Angel and Canaan that the land’s outer edge was cracking and collapsing into the void.
• Canaan asked how they could escape, and Fafnir said Lasudelan was sealed as the Throne approached.
• Fafnir led Angel and Canaan toward the Void Giant Tower, saying it would be the last place to fall.

Angel, Fafnir, and Canaan left the Illusion Hut and headed toward the Void Giant Tower through increasingly dangerous streets in Lasudelan. Demons ambushed them because they wanted to capture Angel, but Fafnir quickly drove them off.

• Angel left the Illusion Hut with Fafnir and Canaan, while Canaan said she hoped Angel would open another Illusion Hut someday.
• As they neared the core district, Angel and Canaan sensed demons hiding nearby and passed the site of Kant and Samantha’s battle.
• Angel recognized a mysterious aura left by Nitotip’s Mystic Umbrella and offered to forge a weapon for Canaan if they met again.
• Demons surrounded the group and ordered their comrades to capture Angel, hoping to use the method behind the Panas Succubus’s awakening.
• Fafnir unleashed Wind Tornadoes that blasted the attacking demons away and sent the others fleeing.

Komodo learned that Lasudelan was doomed after spatial collapse fissures appeared around the Blood Pool Hall. He healed his injuries by sacrificing the demons in the hall, then turned his attention to Edesinos and Minotaur, who remained inside the Blood Cocoons.

• A shadow demon reported that the Shadow Mist Zone had disappeared, and Komodo suspected the Void Giant Tower’s defense mechanism had been destroyed.
• Komodo checked Lasudelan, returned, and killed the shadow demon for supposedly lying when he saw the spatial collapse fissures surrounding the Blood Pool Hall.
• Komodo realized Lasudelan was doomed and decided to use the disaster to strengthen himself.
• Komodo threw every demon in the hall into the blood pool and absorbed the blood qi until his injuries healed.
• Komodo looked toward the Blood Cocoons containing Edesinos and Minotaur and decided to sacrifice them to gain more strength.

Angel, Fafnir, and Canaan traveled through Lasudelan toward its core district, where demons repeatedly attacked Angel despite Fafnir’s strength. Canaan realized the latest attackers seemed to be controlled, suggesting someone was directing the assaults.

• Angel learned that demons could sense the distinctive Flame Mark Odecras had placed on him, making his Transformation Technique useless.
• Fafnir explained that another Dragon Scale could conceal the mark, but Angel refused to use Binaqiongsi’s scale because it would disrupt Toby’s Freezing Curse.
• After reaching Lasudelan’s central region, Angel’s group was surrounded by nearly a hundred demons, and Fafnir defeated them while protecting Angel with a ring of breeze.
• As they entered the core district, an even larger group attacked Angel, and Fafnir summoned the Endless Wind to fight them.
• Canaan noticed the demons attacked with nearly identical fanaticism and movements, then concluded that someone seemed to be controlling them.

Fafnir fought off repeated demon attacks as a hidden force tried to capture Angel, but Angel escaped a speed-specialized Goat Demon using Gravity Veins. Hai then revealed that a Greater Demon had ordered Gruda to capture Angel, and the group continued toward the Void Giant Tower.

• Fafnir defeated another wave of little demons while suspecting that a hidden force was directing them to distract her and target Angel.
• A peak mid-rank Goat Demon ambushed Angel after breaking through Fafnir's breeze and took him away, but Angel escaped with Gravity Veins and returned to his body.
• The Goat Demon fled when Fafnir prepared to fight, and Fafnir warned that the hidden force might attack again.
• Hai and Gruda appeared near the Shadow Mist Zone, where Gruda admitted he had been ordered to capture Angel.
• Hai persuaded Gruda to let Angel pass and told him that only a Greater Demon unrelated to her could have commanded Gruda.

Angel and Fafnir confronted Komodo, who had fused with Edesinos and Minotaur’s Blood Cocoons and intended to seize Angel to resolve his hidden calamities. The chapter ended with Monchi discovering that demons around the Void Giant Tower had been moving toward Angel.

• Angel reasoned that Komodo was the most likely mastermind behind Gruda’s actions, and Fafnir led him and Canaan toward a disturbance in the empty plaza.
• Komodo emerged through a spatial crack, and Fafnir identified him despite his transformed appearance.
• Fafnir recognized that Komodo had fused with Edesinos and Minotaur’s Blood Cocoons, warning that the fusion had left hidden calamities.
• Komodo revealed that he wanted Angel to help him awaken and resolve those calamities, but Fafnir refused to let him take Angel away.
• Monchi investigated unusual demon movements near the vanished Darklight Zone and discovered that the demons shared a target: Angel.

Fafnir slaughtered the demons attacking Angel, while Monchi and the wizards on the floating ice speculated about why the demons were targeting him and why he was heading for the Void Giant Tower. After Angel escaped a speed-type Goat Demon and Komodo confronted Fafnir, she asked what deal Komodo wanted to make.

• Fafnir effortlessly killed hundreds of demons, and the wizards watched in awe as she continued on with Angel.
• Monchi concluded that the demons were trying to capture Angel because of his awakening and suspected the Void Giant Tower’s changes had prompted Angel to leave the southern outskirts.
• A speed-type Goat Demon grabbed Angel, but he escaped by leaving his body with his soul and using the Gravity Veins.
• Komodo appeared as the apparent mastermind behind the attempt to capture Angel and told Fafnir that they could make a deal.
• Fafnir said Angel carried Odecras’ mission and refused to let Komodo take him, then asked what deal Komodo wanted.

Komodo revealed that Lasudelan was nearing destruction and offered Fafnir access to the Void Giant Tower’s peak in exchange for Angel. As Fafnir weighed the bargain and Sanders prepared to intervene, Iyadase warned that the tower’s teleportation system had also failed.

• Komodo announced that the Inscription Nexus had been destroyed and Lasudelan would collapse into the void, and Luchi and Monchi confirmed the danger.
• Komodo explained that reaching the Void Giant Tower’s peak required the help of one of its remaining Seats, then offered to take Fafnir there if she handed over Angel.
• Fafnir considered Komodo’s offer while Angel grew uneasy, and Sanders prepared to join the confrontation.
• Iyadase appeared and criticized Komodo’s greed, warning that the teleportation system at the tower’s peak had also gone wrong.

Komodo learned from Iyadase that the intruder had destroyed the Void Giant Tower’s top-floor teleportation, then faced Fafnir with its leverage gone. Though Komodo’s battle-scarred instincts drove it to attack, their clash devastated Lasudelan, leaving Angel trapped beneath them as he searched for a chance to escape.

• Iyadase told Komodo that the intruder had destroyed the top-floor teleportation and that the Cruel Scholar’s will had descended into the underground hall.
• Komodo realized it could no longer use the tower’s teleportation as leverage over Fafnir, and Fafnir refused to accept its proposed trade.
• Although Komodo considered retreating to preserve its strength for the Origin Fire, the violent malice of Edesinos and Minotaur’s Blood Cocoons pushed it to attack Fafnir.
• Komodo and Fafnir fought in a probing clash that tore through Lasudelan and threatened to overwhelm Angel’s Wind Domain.
• Trapped beneath the battle, Angel suppressed his emotions and analyzed the surrounding energy while waiting for a chance to escape using his Gravity Veins.

Samantha, Kant, and Sinafa fled as Lasudelan began collapsing after its Inscription Nexus was destroyed, while demons and the people of Prey Hall rushed toward the central region. Outside the Flame Birdcage enclosing the failing city, powerful observers watched as a throne’s descent approached, and Galar was sent toward Lasudelan with an unexpected companion.

• Kant relayed Sinafa’s urgent message to Samantha, who spotted the Fire Attendant Demon watching her from Prey Hall before returning to the crossroads.
• Sinafa told Samantha that the Inscription Nexus sustaining Demon City had been destroyed, and the three escaped as Lasudelan’s outer regions collapsed and spatial energy turned dangerous.
• Samantha saw demons fleeing toward the central region and a flaming streak escape Prey Hall, then concluded that the central region near the Void Giant Tower would become the final battlefield.
• Outside Lasudelan, demons gathered around the Flame Birdcage as Odecras and Balalaika observed the coming throne’s descent from afar.
• Galar met the green ghostfire in the distant void, learned that the Lord of Profundity sought the Abyssal Confluence Demon Eye’s authority, and was told to go to Lasudelan with a newly presented figure.

Angel struggled to escape the chaotic energy surrounding Fafnir and Komodo until Sanders contacted him and carved out a safe passage. When an unknown force destroyed the next passage, Angel chose a risky route into a deep pit, plunging into darkness.

• Angel failed to find an escape from the energy turbulence surrounding Fafnir and Komodo.
• Sanders contacted Angel through his essence blood and promised to carve out an energy-vacuum passage for him.
• Angel followed Sanders's passages out of the Wind Domain as it collapsed, drawing closer to Sanders.
• A strange energy from beyond the sky shattered Sanders's next note, leaving Angel's current passage on the verge of collapsing.
• Angel spotted a less dangerous route leading into a deep pit and plunged into it as his safe passage failed.

Angel survived his fall into a dim underground passage beneath the Void Giant Tower, while Sanders identified the hidden pipelines and could not reach him through the chaotic energy. Angel recovered enough to assess his situation, but remained trapped as Sanders suspected the attack had come from Gravity Forest or Deep Sea Song.

• Sanders sensed that Angel was stable, but the essence blood could not communicate with him through a barrier.
• Sanders discovered a pipeline beneath the pit and concluded that Angel had fallen into the Void Giant Tower’s underground pipelines.
• Unable to enter the chaotic energy field while Fafnir and Komodo fought, Sanders suspected Gravity Forest or Deep Sea Song had caused the attack.
• Angel used Firefly Velvet Potion to ease his pain and Black Porpoise Gland Fluid to overcome his drowsiness.
• Angel checked that Toby remained sealed by the Freezing Curse, examined the gray membrane at the passage entrance, and realized the attack on Sanders’ sound note had been deliberate.
• Fafnir briefly sensed that he had forgotten something, but Komodo attacked again and forced him to resume fighting.

Angel explored the underground tunnel with scouting puppets and concluded that it connected to the Void Giant Tower, but a spreading collapse forced him to flee into the darkness. His puppet was destroyed at the exit, confirming that Fafnir and Komodo were still fighting above.

• Angel sent scouting puppets down both ends of the tunnel and found a fading inscription that threatened to trap his consciousness.
• Angel used a holographic simulation to conclude that the tunnel led toward the Void Giant Tower, where Iyadase and another powerful intruder were believed to be.
• Angel decided to wait in the tunnel, but the wall bearing the failed inscription cracked and triggered a spreading collapse.
• Angel sent a scouting puppet through the exit, and its destruction confirmed that the battle between Fafnir and Komodo had not ended.
• Angel ran deeper into the dark tunnel to escape the collapse and avoid the chaotic energy above.

Angel reached the Abyssal Mithril door beneath the Void Giant Tower while a tunnel collapse pursued him, but he could not open it. After tracing its inscription, he encountered a mysterious eye as the collapse stopped short of the tower, leaving him trapped and searching for a way out.

• Angel reached the enormous Abyssal Mithril door at the bottom of the Void Giant Tower and noticed an inscription depicting a strange story.
• Angel tried pushing, pulling, knocking, and probing the door with spiritual force, but it remained shut as the tunnel rumbled closer.
• Angel entered a state of absolute rationality and traced the door's inscription with magic power, triggering darkness and the vision of a sinister eye.
• A familiar itch on Angel's shoulder obscured the eye, and the darkness faded as the rumbling stopped and the tunnel remained intact beneath the tower.
• Angel found rubble blocking the tunnel, returned to the closed door, and sent spiritual force through a gap in the debris to scout a way out.