Chapter Summaries

Angel and Grewu were pinned down by the immense pressure of a being who resembled Orucia, while Bobota fought him. Grewu identified the newcomer as an avatar of the Lord of No Flame and revealed that Orucia had also originally been one of the Lord’s avatars.

• A meteor-like white light struck the barren mountain, and Angel fled with Grewu before a vast pressure knocked them to the ground.
• Bobota was hurled into a lava pool, while the newcomer emerged from the smoke looking almost exactly like Orucia.
• Angel saw that the unconscious Orucia floated behind the newcomer, who declared that outsiders could not interfere with his child and attacked Bobota.
• Bobota rose from the lava protected by a phantom eclipse and fought the newcomer as Angel and Grewu watched from the ground.
• Angel suspected the newcomer was the Lord of No Flame, and Grewu confirmed that he was an avatar and said Orucia had originally been one of the Lord’s avatars too.

As the Lord of No Flame overwhelmed Bobota, Orucia’s divine soul explored a preserved world of the ancient Glory Front Station and found the route and coordinates to Asgard. Returning to his body, Orucia learned that the Lord of No Flame intended to extinguish his soul and heard Grewu declare that he would resist.

• Grewu and Angel watched Bobota struggle against the Lord of No Flame, and Angel noticed Orucia’s finger twitch.
• Orucia used the Kindled Fire Relic to enter a frozen remnant of the ancient Glory Front Station and searched for the path to Asgard.
• After months of searching and overcoming restrictions, Orucia found the passage and gained Asgard’s coordinates.
• Orucia sensed the Lord of No Flame near the passage and overheard Angel and Grewu discuss the plan to return him to silence.
• Grewu said Orucia would resist the Lord of No Flame, and Angel realized Orucia had awakened.

Orucia resisted the Lord of No Flame’s attempt to return its soul to stillness and remake it, choosing to fight for its own path. The two clashed evenly in the dark sky, with Orucia resolved to keep resisting.

• The Lord of No Flame defeated Bobota and approached the apparently sleeping Orucia, intending to return it to stillness.
• Orucia attacked the Lord of No Flame, but he restrained its strike and explained that he planned to remake it.
• The Lord of No Flame sowed doubt in Orucia by suggesting that Asgard might offer despair rather than a path of its own.
• Grewu warned Orucia as the Lord of No Flame attacked, prompting Orucia to overcome its hesitation and resist.
• Orucia declared that it would never walk alongside the Lord of No Flame and fought him to a standstill.

Angel struggled with a curse-amplified disruption to his energy circulation while watching Orucia fight the Lord of No Flame, but Grewu restored his circulation and the two spoke more openly. The Lord of No Flame revealed his true form and overwhelmed Orucia, leaving Angel and Grewu retreating as Orucia was cut in half.

• Angel’s energy circulation grew dangerously disordered as he watched the battle, but Grewu sent energy into him and relieved the discomfort.
• Grewu discovered Angel was human, questioned whether he belonged to the human group he hated, and eventually said he did not dislike Angel.
• Orucia laughed after landing a minor wound on the Lord of No Flame, who transformed into a larger, winged true form and struck Orucia with a soundless attack.
• Orucia tried to unseal the power of his true name but found it had vanished from his memory, and the Lord of No Flame attacked him from behind.
• Angel and Grewu edged toward the battlefield’s outer edge, but Grewu cried out as the Lord of No Flame sliced Orucia in half at the waist.

The Lord of No Flame destroyed Bobota’s Artificial Descent Object and returned to finish Orucia, who realized the Lord wanted the Kindled Fire Relic. Grewu tried to save Orucia with a flaming arrow, but the Lord of No Flame turned it back on him, leaving a burning pit where Grewu had stood.

• Bobota began a Descent Object ritual to invoke the Lord of Profundity, but the Lord of No Flame shattered the chain’s eclipse emblem and revealed that the Lord of Profundity had already abandoned him.
• The Lord of No Flame returned to Orucia, whose severed body was beginning to reconnect, and said he would repair it after Orucia’s soul fell silent because it could bear the Kindled Fire Relic.
• Grewu tried to rush to Orucia, but Angel stopped him, and Orucia silently pleaded with Grewu to stay away.
• Grewu remembered how Orucia had let him grow freely and fired a flaming arrow at the Lord of No Flame despite Orucia’s warning.
• The Lord of No Flame turned the arrow back toward Grewu, and an explosion left a burning pit where Grewu had stood.

Angel used Withered Vigil to keep the gravely wounded Grewu alive, but the Lord of No Flame crushed Angel before Toby's calamity curse forced Him to let go. Angel drank Life-Saving Water to heal his injuries, then heard that the natural Descent Object was the only chance for life.

• Angel used Withered Vigil to stabilize Grewu after the Lord of No Flame's flame arrow badly wounded it.
• Grewu warned Angel of the Lord of No Flame's attack, but a porcelain-white flaming hand seized and crushed Angel.
• The Lord of No Flame released Angel after sensing Toby's calamity curse and recognized the statue that had fallen from Angel as a natural Descent Object associated with Cruel Scholar.
• Angel drank Life-Saving Water, which rapidly repaired his broken bones and damaged organs.
• A weak voice told Angel that the natural Descent Object was the only chance for life.

Bobota urged Angel to use the Cruel Scholar’s innate Descent Object to summon another demon-god, but Angel hesitated because doing so could cost him his soul and freedom. After the Lord of No Flame killed Orucia and took the Kindled Fire Relic and Origin Fires, He approached Angel and watched to see whether he would activate the statue.

• Bobota explained that Angel could summon the Cruel Scholar through the bloodied innate Descent Object and pleaded with him to use their last chance to survive.
• Angel refused because he feared the Cruel Scholar would claim his soul through an unequal exchange, though Bobota’s mention of Angel’s loved ones made him hesitate.
• The Lord of No Flame burned Orucia, preserved his soul consciousness, and placed the Kindled Fire Relic inside it.
• The Lord of No Flame took Orucia’s violet-white Origin Fire, gathered it with another Origin Fire, and made both follow the floating Eye of Light.
• The Lord of No Flame walked toward Angel, and Bobota shouted for him to use the Descent Object as the Lord of No Flame waited to see what Angel would do.

Angel remained silent as the Lord of No Flame approached, then struggled to his feet and faced him with fierce fighting intent. As the Lord of No Flame launched Flameless Fire, a bright green pattern appeared on Angel’s back and an unknown pair of eyes looked across time and space at the Demon God.

• Bobota urged Angel to activate the Descent Object, while Grewu hesitated after realizing Angel seemed unwilling to use it.
• Angel stayed calm and murmured, “Praise... Shava...” as the Lord of No Flame approached to take him.
• With the Lord of No Flame less than ten meters away, Angel forced himself to stand and met his gaze with fierce fighting intent.
• The Lord of No Flame conjured Flameless Fire and aimed it at Angel as Bobota and Grewu warned him of the danger.
• A bright green pattern shone on Angel’s back, and the Lord of No Flame froze when a pair of ice-cold eyes looked directly at him from beyond time and space.

The Cruel Scholar watched a veiled world after a distant gaze drove Its thoughts from the Descent Object. There, the Lord of No Flame attacked Angel, but an uncanny figure with golden hair appeared to neutralize His flames, and Angel began to transform as the Lord of No Flame struck again.

• The Cruel Scholar recalled how a terrifying gaze had expelled Its thoughts from the Descent Object and waited to learn the Lord of No Flame's fate.
• The Lord of No Flame was pulled into a chaotic void, saw a pair of distant eyes, and flicked Flameless Fire at Angel.
• Green patterns grew from Angel's back and blocked the flames before shattering, while a figure of light and shadow descended into Angel.
• The Lord of No Flame attacked Angel with pressure, Flameless Fire, and physical force, but Angel remained unaffected and the flames vanished again.
• Angel raised his head with his face hidden in shadow and long golden hair appearing behind him, and the Lord of No Flame tried to split him open as a dazzling gaze ignited.

Angel used mysterious Green Patterns to block the Lord of No Flame’s attack and trap him inside a vast ring. The Lord of No Flame summoned his true spirit, but Angel evaded its attacks and advanced to within ten meters of him.

• The Lord of No Flame’s strike was stopped by Green Patterns that sprang from Angel’s gaze, and the blast sent him flying backward.
• The Lord of No Flame noticed that some Green Patterns had faded from his cracked armor and questioned who Angel was.
• Angel formed a vast Green Ring that enclosed both him and the Lord of No Flame, blocking the Lord of No Flame’s escape.
• The Lord of No Flame summoned his true spirit from the Bottomless Abyss, alarming Grewu.
• Angel dodged the true spirit’s tentacles while his Green Patterns dissolved the black shadow, then advanced to within ten meters of the Lord of No Flame.
• The Lord of No Flame heard Angel laugh mockingly, and his vision was drowned in light.

Angel used Green Patterns to overpower the Lord of No Flame's true spirit, but the Lord of No Flame discovered that Angel's frail physical body could still be harmed. The Lord of No Flame exploited that weakness and wounded Angel, then prepared a follow-up attack.

• Angel's Green Patterns dissolved the Lord of No Flame's true spirit so quickly that He unleashed a High-Energy Surge, sacrificing part of His power and injuring His incarnation.
• Bobota and Grewu watched Angel suppress the Demon God's incarnation, while the Lord of No Flame wondered who the phantom behind Angel really was.
• The Lord of No Flame considered retreating but noticed cracks and blood on Angel's arm, then decided to keep fighting and target his physical body.
• The Lord of No Flame sent his domain and flames at Angel to create an opening, then struck him with a fast energy torrent.
• Angel blocked the torrent with Green Patterns, but its physical impact tore open his hand; the Lord of No Flame's Demon God's Murmur curse was also blocked, and He prepared another attack.

Angel appeared to be defeated after the Lord of No Flame used a sound-frequency attack to bypass the Green Patterns and shatter the Green Ring. As the Lord of No Flame approached, time froze and the phantom attached to Angel’s body rose, turning its gaze on him and filling him with terror.

• The Lord of No Flame exploited Angel’s growing fatigue and struck him with a sound-frequency attack strengthened by Demon God's Murmur, causing Angel to fall motionless.
• The Green Ring shattered, and the Lord of No Flame believed he had won as Grewu and Bobota despaired.
• A totem-masked figure and Kurangduo discussed the Lord of No Flame’s apparent victory and the coming end of the figure on the throne.
• The Lord of No Flame’s excitement spread to his believers across many planes as he approached Angel.
• Time stopped, and the golden-haired phantom rose from Angel’s body and looked at the Lord of No Flame, filling him with unprecedented terror.

A golden-haired figure killed the Lord of No Flame’s Demon God avatar with overwhelming speed, then destroyed its head before it could make a final attack. As the Lord of No Flame mourned the avatar and tried to recall his true spirit, he discovered he could no longer sense it, while Ominous Mischief questioned the Cruel Scholar about the strange events.

• The Lord of No Flame suppressed his panic and chose to test the golden-haired figure instead of recalling his Demon God true spirit.
• The golden-haired figure pierced the Lord of No Flame’s chest, destroying the avatar’s heart, then blasted its head before it could detonate its body.
• Grewu watched the avatar die and was overwhelmed by dread, longing, and reverence for the golden-haired figure.
• The Lord of No Flame’s true body roared in fury, drawing the attention of ancient beings and prompting Ominous Mischief to ask the Cruel Scholar what had happened.
• The Lord of No Flame tried to retrieve his Demon God true spirit but could no longer sense it, and a torrent of fury, dread, regret, and despair surged from the Bottomless Abyss.

The blond phantom bound and destroyed the Lord of No Flame’s true spirit, leaving the Demon God unable to recall it and at risk of losing his position. The spirit’s remaining power then grew into a luminous green tree whose vast phantom shook the entire Abyss.

• Green Patterns bound the Demon God’s true spirit and cut it off from its body in the Bottomless Abyss.
• The blond phantom drained the true spirit’s power despite the Lord of No Flame’s pleas, and the Demon God’s true spirit fell.
• Grewu praised the Shopkeeper, while Bobota watched his own body collapse and accepted that the ordeal was over.
• A green tree grew from the fallen spirit’s wound, drawing its remaining power from the black shadow.
• A totem-masked man considered claiming the energy but feared confronting the blond phantom.
• The tree’s enormous phantom rose through the sky and shook the entire Abyss.

The Lord of No Flame’s true spirit fell within a sealed continent, and the vast tree silhouette it left behind drew the attention of powerful beings throughout the Abyss. As Galar and Night recognized the fallen spirit, the humans escaped Lasudelan, while Night suspected Feng had orchestrated the event.

• Balalaika and the Cruel Scholar sensed the tree silhouette and realized that a Demon God’s true spirit had fallen; the Cruel Scholar learned from Ominous Mischief that it belonged to the Lord of No Flame.
• At Lasudelan, Galar urged Night to seek the Lord of No Flame after perfecting his domain, while keeping the remaining humans trapped for later punishment.
• Galar froze when it sensed the Lord of No Flame’s familiar aura coming from the tree silhouette, allowing Monchi and the humans to escape using their anchored coordinates.
• Night recognized the silhouette as the Lord of No Flame’s true spirit and welcomed the prospect of no longer having to serve him.
• Night considered how the spirit had fallen and suspected that Feng might have planned the incident.

Painter Feng investigated the strange atmosphere surrounding the Saint Isa Kingdom while learning that a Demon God true spirit had fallen on the Barren Face of the Abyss. On the Barren Face, Grewu watched the golden-haired figure gather green light from the great tree after calling the scene a hodgepodge.

• At a church orphanage, Yayi told Painter Feng that Siegfried could not hold his pose, and Siegfried collapsed into the fountain from heatstroke.
• Painter Feng spoke with Rekton through his earring, explained that he was investigating rumors in the Saint Isa Kingdom, and promised to seek the Blackening Spell for Rekton.
• Rekton told Painter Feng that a Demon God true spirit had fallen on the Barren Face, and Feng said the Demon God's shadow should have vanished when his agreement with the Book of Kel dissipated.
• An old priest questioned Painter Feng about climbing onto the fountain statue and asked why he had been asking about the Holy Selection.
• On the Barren Face, Grewu heard the golden-haired figure call the scene a hodgepodge, then watched it draw streams of green light from the great tree into its hand.

The golden-haired figure healed Angel with purified true spirit power and transferred a Projected Bloodline into his right eye before vanishing. As Angel’s body began to fail during the painful fusion, the remaining energy started repairing him.

• The golden-haired figure purified energy from the Luminous Green Tree and used it to heal Angel’s severe injuries.
• The golden-haired figure poured Green Patterns into Angel’s right eye and disappeared, leaving Angel asleep.
• Grewu lamented that it could not claim the tree’s true spirit power while the Green Patterns still restrained it.
• Angel awakened and felt Shava’s suspected Projected Bloodline begin fusing with his body.
• Angel’s body began collapsing under the fusion, but the remaining true spirit power activated and started repairing him.

Angel survived the repeated collapse and repair of his body as the Projected Bloodline fused with him, transforming his magic power and physique and awakening a new change in his right eye. He received Shava’s memories and, wary that she might eventually take over his body, turned his attention to the Luminous Green Tree.

• Angel endured repeated bodily collapses and repairs, gradually realizing that the external energy was refining his magic power and strengthening his body.
• The Projected Bloodline fused completely, revealing that it had transformed Angel’s right eye and imprinted new green patterns in his mind.
• Angel received Shava’s memories, including her arrival from the Nightmare Realm, her battle with the Lord of No Flame, and her killing of the Demon God True Spirit.
• Angel learned that Shava had descended as an avatar and recalled that allowing the green pattern to grow had enabled her arrival.
• Angel worried that Shava might eventually replace him, then stood and looked toward the Luminous Green Tree.

Angel approached the Luminous Green Tree and decided to liberate the Green Pattern binding the Lord of No Flame’s True Spirit power, which could renew the dying continent and shield him from outside predators. As Angel prepared to act, he wondered why the person suspected to be Shava had created the tree instead of freeing its power earlier.

• Angel stopped to regain control of his newly enhanced strength before approaching the Luminous Green Tree.
• Bobota’s body rapidly collapsed, and he pleaded with Angel through mental waves to help the Origin-Worshiping Clan and its future.
• Angel recalled Sparrow Sparrow’s kindness and sorrowful past but refused to help Bobota, who had dragged him into danger.
• Angel reached the tree and felt his right-eye Green Pattern resonate with the pattern binding the True Spirit power.
• Angel learned that liberating the Green Pattern would scatter the True Spirit power across the failing continent, help it flourish, and keep outsiders away.
• Angel chose to liberate the Green Pattern, then questioned why Shava had bound the power into a tree in the first place.

Angel used the disposable Green Pattern to release the true spirit power bound inside the Luminous Green Tree, while the continent’s pan-consciousness stopped opposing him and protected the area. As the tree began its final transformation and spread its power across the land, Grewu and Bobota recovered, and dormant power stirred within Grewu.

• Angel endured the hurricane and pressed the Green Pattern in his palm against the Luminous Green Tree, causing the tree to blaze with light.
• A totem-masked figure in the distant land of darkness ordered someone not to obstruct Angel, speaking in Abyssal.
• The continent’s pan-consciousness halted the hurricane and other natural threats, allowing Angel to collapse the tree’s binding and study the Green Pattern before it vanished.
• True spirit power flowed from the Luminous Green Tree as its branches released glowing motes and mist across the continent.
• The motes healed the land and restored Grewu’s wounds, while dormant power began stirring within him.
• The motes revived Bobota from near death, and he stared at Angel beside the radiant tree with complex emotions.