Recaps

Moss joined the battle at the World Gate and wounded the Giant Dragon, while Korelinus summoned a Mountain Giant to restrain it. The Giant Dragon remained trapped at the gate as Moss prepared to fight more seriously.

• Fred charged the Giant Dragon with his Severing Sword, but it broke his greatsword and struck him into the mountains.
• Korelinus ordered Hezley to evacuate the soldiers and sent Novi to check on Fred, then began a summoning spell.
• Moss attacked the Giant Dragon and inflicted five deep wounds on its left arm, despite it twisting her arm out of shape.
• The Giant Dragon unleashed its Dragon's Breath, but Moss dodged the flames.
• Korelinus summoned a Mountain Giant, which seized the Giant Dragon by the neck and punched it in the face.
• Moss praised the Mountain Giant and said she would fight more seriously.

Moss and Korelinus wounded and restrained Fagaliir at the World Gate, but the dragon revealed a second head and broke free of their control. As Fagaliir forced its way out, reinforcements struck it with arrows, setting the battle to continue.

• Fagaliir destroyed Korelinus's first rock giant, and Moss used the distraction to carve a deep wound into the dragon's neck.
• Moss broke Fagaliir's left arm in a clash, then regenerated her own shattered hand as Korelinus summoned a many-armed rock giant to restrain the dragon.
• Korelinus ordered the giant to strike the World Gate, but a second dragon head and claw emerged and shattered the giant, leaving her unconscious.
• Fagaliir healed its wounds and forced its chest through the World Gate as Moss realized it was about to escape.
• Arrows from distant reinforcements exploded against Fagaliir, and Moss prepared for a prolonged fight.

Captain Rosmote’s support fleet reached the World Gate and found a vast monster front and a Giant Dragon guarding it. A transmission from Novi revealed that Coraline had been corrupted, the Eighth Captain was dead, and the Fourth Captain was missing, before communications cut off during the dragon’s attack.

• Rosmote ordered his six ships to push their Mana Furnaces beyond their limits and descend when their detection arrays failed.
• The fleet saw that the terrain had changed and that monsters filled the region around the World Gate.
• Rosmote learned that the World Gate was two hundred kilometers away and guarded by a towering, two-headed Giant Dragon.
• Rosmote contacted Novi Augustine Villa Licia of the Third Squad and demanded a battle report.
• Novi reported that Coraline Ingrid had been corrupted by Blood Devour, the Eighth Captain had been killed, and the Fourth Captain was seriously wounded and missing; she assumed command and ordered the army to destroy the World Gate.
• The transmission cut out as the Giant Dragon unleashed its breath, leaving Rosmote and his crew stunned and without answers.

Moss, Novi, Fred, and Korelinus fought to destroy the World Gate and stop Fagaliir from entering their world. Moss damaged the gate, but Korelinus was corrupted by Blood Devour, killed Fred, and attacked her allies, allowing Fagaliir to force his way through and emerge fully.

• Moss and Novi regrouped, learned Fred and Korelinus were safe, and received a repaired communication crystal as the Giant Dragon advanced through the World Gate.
• Novi and Moss exchanged weapons and potions, then attacked the World Gate while Fred and Korelinus fought Fagaliir; Korelinus summoned the Obsidian Giant to restrain the dragon.
• Moss used a high-speed waterline strike to sever a corner of the World Gate, causing it to begin closing and threatening to cut Fagaliir in half.
• Fagaliir poured his Magic Power into the World Gate to repair it, while Novi and Fred tried to stop him; the Obsidian Giant suddenly crushed Fred, and Korelinus attacked Moss and Novi.
• Novi identified Korelinus as corrupted by Blood Devour and said she would hold her back, but Fagaliir broke through the gate and emerged fully, announcing that Moss would be his first meal.

Novi fought to restrain Korelinus, who had been corrupted by Blood Devour, and destroyed the core of her giant with a carefully aimed arrow. Korelinus revealed that the giant could regenerate around countless cores and began transforming it into a headless angel with power from her god.

• Novi battled Korelinus’s regenerating giant while Molly fought Red Dragon in the distance.
• Novi lured Korelinus into position and fired through the giant’s head, shattering its core.
• Korelinus dismissed Novi’s victory as a cheap trick and revealed purple patterns linking countless new cores across the giant.
• Korelinus invoked Puppet Play: Hundred God Cores, merging puppet phantoms into the giant and forming a purple ring around its neck.
• Novi watched in shock as the headless giant began to take the shape of an angel.

Moss fought Fagaliir while her talents grew and her instincts kept her alive, using the battle to buy time for her Kin to gather millions of magic cores for a huge explosion. After freeing her consciousness from commanding the Kin, Moss returned to her body just as Fagaliir’s tail came hurtling toward her.

• Moss broke one of Fagaliir’s fangs with a 6,400-fold gravity punch, then fought the dragon head-on as her talents and physical limits increased.
• Moss let her Trembling Will guide her body while she commanded temporary Kin through her Sea of Consciousness to gather magic cores and prepare a fifteen-kilometer explosion around the World Gate.
• Xi and Wa warned Moss that the planned blast was excessive, and Moss apologized to the weakened Storage Ring for being affected by the rules while collecting cores.
• Moss learned that Captain Novi had run into trouble and decided she could not ignore her employer.
• Moss ended her Kin commands, cast off the restraints on her consciousness, and returned to her body as Fagaliir swung her tail at her.

Moss rescued Novi from Korelinus’s bombardment and proposed facing Korelinus and Fagaliir alone while Novi sought reinforcements. As the two enemies approached, Moss prepared to turn their partnership into a chaotic three-way fight.

• Moss evaded Fagaliir’s Dragon’s breath and diverted toward Korelinus, intending to attack the headless giant.
• Korelinus unleashed a barrage from the giant’s nodes, and Moss used Observation Veil to save Novi from the attack.
• Moss revived Novi with a potion, and Novi recovered before Korelinus turned the giant toward the World Gate.
• Novi asked whether they should fight one-on-one again, but Moss said the two enemies joining forces would make things worse.
• Moss told Novi to find the retreating soldiers and contact the reinforcements while she fought Korelinus and Fagaliir alone.

Moss weakened Fagaliir with a Steel Giant while battling Korelinus, then struck down the Headless Giant and shattered Korelinus’s linked soul cores. Korelinus escaped through a portal with Shadow Mouse secretly attached to her, leaving Moss to face Fagaliir.

• Moss recognized that Fagaliir had weakened and decided to target Korelinus while using the Steel Giant to restrain the dragon.
• Moss trapped Fagaliir beneath the Steel Giant as the dragon struggled to break free.
• Moss distorted Korelinus’s attacks and pierced her with a concentrated beam, grievously injuring her and slicing through the Headless Giant.
• Moss shattered Korelinus’s linked soul cores, but a portal opened beneath her and pulled her away before Moss could finish her.
• Moss sent Shadow Mouse through the portal with Korelinus and turned back to confront Fagaliir.

Moss battled Fagaliir, using threads and Earth Magic to restrain the dragon and draw it away from the ground. After completing the first phase of her plan, she used Mental Corruption to make Fagaliir believe the World Gate was in danger as the Steel Giant ran toward it.

• Moss used threads to raise Earth Giants and fought Fagaliir, gradually matching the dragon's strength.
• Moss restrained Fagaliir with a towering Earth Giant and restored the shattered Steel Giant with her threads.
• The Steel Giant attacked Fagaliir's wings, but the dragon broke free and took to the air.
• Moss vanished toward the World Gate, leaving the Steel Giant to run there while Fagaliir searched for her.
• Moss appeared before Fagaliir and used Mental Corruption to make it believe the World Gate was about to be destroyed.

Moss fought Fagaliir near the World Gate while reflecting on the traitors and learning about the dragon’s magic. After the Trembling Will left her a cryptic message and became a new talent, Novi arrived and ordered a full assault on the gate, forcing Moss to abandon her original plan and rely on a backup.

• Moss learned from Novi that Jetetu had attacked Hezley and fled with Koreya, while Northus and Axio stopped him.
• Moss used her Steel Giant to attack Fagaliir, but the dragon unleashed spatial Dragon Language Magic that shattered the construct and forced her to take cover.
• While shielding herself from Fagaliir’s breath, Moss studied how its anti-magic property interacted with fully elementalized Mana Essence.
• Moss questioned the Trembling Will, which warned that detonating the underground magic core would not defeat the threat and that Moss would die; it then vanished and became Trembling Mark.
• Novi rescued Moss and ordered an all-out attack on the World Gate, so Moss abandoned her original plan and prepared to use her backup.

Novi and Moss watched six Floating Ships bombard the World Gate and Giant Dragon while they waited for the battle to end. Six captains arrived to reinforce them, and Rosmote asked Novi how they could defeat the beast.

• Moss and Novi watched the Floating Ships fire continuously at the World Gate and Giant Dragon, with Novi explaining how the ships had helped make the Realm Gate War a prolonged stalemate.
• Moss complained that she was hungry after fighting all day, then spotted six captains flying toward them.
• Ischa Augustine Villa embraced Novi, checked that she was unhurt, and was introduced by Novi as her cousin.
• Novi greeted Rosmote Gallier and the other arriving captains: Smott, Yas, Ellis, and Erica.
• Rosmote noted Fred and Korelinus's deaths, then asked Novi whether she had a plan for the Giant Dragon.

Moss learned that dragons guarded World Gates as a source of food and realized her earlier illusion had intensified Fagaliir’s fixation on its target. After an unknown gaze swept over her, Rosmote, Yas, and Novi launched an assault on Fagaliir, but their opening strikes barely harmed the dragon.

• Novi told Rosmote that killing Fagaliir would be nearly impossible and urged the group to destroy the World Gate.
• Ischa explained dragons’ relationship with World Gates, and Moss concluded that her illusion had strengthened Fagaliir’s resolve to guard the gate.
• Moss sensed an unknown presence observing her and used Observation Veil to block it, exhausting her Magic Power in 0.01 seconds.
• Fagaliir unleashed Dragon’s breath and black storms as Rosmote and Yas charged, with Novi joining their advance.
• Rosmote knocked Fagaliir upward with Fierce Strike, and Yas struck its chest and abdomen with his battle-axe, but the dragon’s defenses held.

The captains fought Fagaliir at the World Gate, using coordinated attacks to wound and bring down the dragonkin, only for it to recover with astonishing speed. Fagaliir unleashed a far more powerful blue dragon’s breath, and Rosmote and Ischa raised layered defenses as the chapter ended with Rosmote recounting familiar old stories.

• Yas attacked Fagaliir at close range while Rosmote and the other captains struck the dragonkin with shields, axes, and magic.
• Fagaliir took flight, but the captains’ arrows hit it, and Novi and Moss appeared on its back to disrupt its balance and reopen its chest wound.
• Fagaliir crashed to the ground but quickly recovered most of its injuries, astonishing Moss and the other captains.
• Fagaliir gathered deep-red flames and unleashed a blue, plasma-like breath that scorched the ground and forced the captains to defend themselves.
• Rosmote built layers of protective shields while Ischa cast blessings, and the two joked as Rosmote began retelling stories the captains had heard before.

The captains crippled Fagaliir’s wings and Moss froze it after it rampaged across the battlefield. As the captains prepared to finish the dragon, Fagaliir begged an unseen master for mercy, only for that voice to command it to take its own life.

• Smote reconstructed the array and projected Yas and Rosmote above Fagaliir, where Ellis and Erica restrained the dragon long enough for them to badly damage both wings.
• Moss sensed a strange warning from her Trembling Mark, then joined the captains’ assault and severed one of Fagaliir’s wings completely.
• Fagaliir rolled violently across the ground, resisting the captains’ ranged attacks until Moss froze it with Artful Frost of Freezing.
• Fagaliir begged its master for forgiveness, but the voice ordered it to take its own life.

The Giant Dragon gathered its Mana Essence and exploded before Moss and the captains could stop it, devastating the battlefield. As the survivors struggled under a powerful presence, Rosmote identified the humanlike figure emerging from the flames as a Dragon King.

• The Giant Dragon's life force appeared to fade as its body rapidly decayed, leaving Novi and the captains uncertain about what had happened.
• Moss sensed Mana Essence gathering inside the Giant Dragon and warned Novi that the group could either attack at great risk or retreat.
• Moss detonated a compressed mana attack toward the ground as Novi ordered everyone to attack the Giant Dragon with everything they had.
• The Giant Dragon exploded first, scattering the incoming attacks and sending a devastating shock wave across the battlefield.
• Moss used her Gravity Shield to escape the shock wave, while the seven closest captains collapsed under the immense pressure.
• Rosmote recognized the black, humanlike figure rising from the flames as a Dragon King, a powerful dragon capable of taking human form.

Moss faced the Dragon King after he unleashed a devastating fireball, and used her newly mastered Demon Breaking power to transform and disperse it. The captains survived, but Moss stood alone at the front as the battle continued.

• Moss freed the captains from the Dragon King's suppressive force, and Smote explained that the Dragon King had emerged from the remnants of a devoured Blood Clan.
• The Dragon King praised the humans and summoned a fireball more than a thousand meters wide, leaving the weakened captains convinced they could not stop it.
• Moss sensed the fireball's Fire Elements and mastered Demon Breaking, using her Demonic Eye to take away part of the Dragon King's Magic Power.
• Moss used Ice-Flame Conversion and Reverse Demon Breaking to make the fire and ice destroy each other until the fireball's energy dispersed.
• Moss told the surviving captains to fall back and declared that she would face the Dragon King alone.

Molly von Nilia stayed behind to challenge Ainpeist, the Sky Domain Dragon, while the fleet fled. Their battle left Molly badly injured, but she healed and returned to face him as Ainpeist declared that she was the challenger.

• Moss refused to flee and told the man she would challenge him, then introduced herself as Molly von Nilia.
• The man revealed himself as Ainpeist, the Sky Domain Dragon, and Molly recognized that he had sensed the magic core underground.
• Molly and Ainpeist exchanged a fierce series of blows while Ischa and Novi watched anxiously from the Floating Ship.
• Ainpeist used spatial magic to redirect Molly's attack, then pierced and badly damaged her arm before throwing her into a mountain.
• Molly cut off her necrotic arm, healed it with her talents, and flew back to confront Ainpeist, who called her the challenger.

Moss fought Ainpeist while the damaged World Gate began absorbing Magic Power and dissolving her magic core, leaving her with little time. She unleashed her speed and used spatial teleportation to counterattack, surprising Ainpeist by revealing that she could use Space Magic too.

• Ainpeist sliced through the area with a spatial attack, damaging the World Gate, whose blue light then activated a powerful suction that began draining Magic Power from the ground.
• Moss sent Xi and Wa back from underground, taunted Ainpeist, and resumed fighting as he attacked her with crimson flames.
• Moss used water to cut through the flames, activated Limit Break, and struck Ainpeist with a rapid barrage at ten times the speed of sound.
• Ainpeist unleashed Collapse Ring and then used clouds and enormous fists to smash Moss, but she escaped by striking her chest and vanishing through spatial teleportation.
• Moss emerged from the void, hit Ainpeist, and dropped enormous fists onto him; after he recovered, Ainpeist demanded to know why she could use Space Magic.

Moss unlocked Space Manipulation by using a teleportation arrow and immediately tested her new spatial abilities against Ainpeist. After a fierce exchange, Ainpeist emerged unharmed from the void and declared that he wanted Moss to become his kin.

• Moss broke through the spatial plane with the teleportation arrow, understood subspace, and awakened Space Manipulation at the Control level.
• Moss used Space Jump to strike Ainpeist, who laughed and challenged her to show him her abilities.
• Ainpeist attacked with spatial fragments and needles, while Moss countered with blood-based abilities, gravity control, and Anti-Magic Flame.
• Moss fought Ainpeist with fireballs and copied his Void Shattering Claw, then attacked him with a Black Spatial Line.
• Ainpeist avoided the attack by emerging from the void and told Moss he had decided to make her his kin.

Moss refused Ainpeist’s demand to become his servant and provoked him into attacking, but their fierce battle left her injured and Ainpeist still trying to seize her by force. The chapter ended as Ainpeist pressed his palm against Moss’s abdomen and began shattering the space around her.

• Moss rejected Ainpeist and mocked him for failing to protect his former servants, provoking his anger.
• Ainpeist recovered his composure, opened a spatial rift, and used Domain Collapse to attack Moss and try to place a servant mark on her.
• Moss halted the spreading black domain with her fire and dodged Ainpeist’s spatial slash before clashing with him in the sky.
• Moss and Ainpeist exchanged more than a hundred blows, and Moss was wounded in her left shoulder.
• Moss blasted Ainpeist out of subspace and locked fists with him, but Ainpeist caught her hand and pressed his other palm against her abdomen to shatter the space around her.

Moss exploited Ainpeist’s limits to strike him repeatedly, but he immobilized her and forced his blood into her body to mark her as his dependent. Moss rejected the transformation and self-destructed, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Moss revealed Ainpeist’s spatial abilities were limited and attacked him, but her body began reaching its limit as the World Gate gathered magic power.
• Moss used spatial teleportation and severance to cut Ainpeist apart and burn his body, but he reappeared and froze her before she could escape.
• Ainpeist injected his blood into Moss and declared that she would become a dragon and his dependent.
• Moss regained her composure, rejected Ainpeist’s mark, and self-destructed.

Moss rejected Ainpeist’s attempt to claim her, activated Absolute Domination, and used the Magic Power she absorbed to restore her body and unleash the power of her future self. She overwhelmed Ainpeist in battle and prepared a final, science-based attack.

• As Ainpeist’s blood devoured Moss’s soul, she refused to become his pet and activated Absolute Domination.
• Moss absorbed the surrounding Magic Power, revived her body for five minutes, and transformed the Black Crystal Mist into armor and a giant blade.
• Moss fought Ainpeist with her future power, cutting through his spatial attacks and severing his escape route.
• Moss froze Ainpeist and struck him into the ground, leaving him badly injured as he muttered that she and her kind were monsters.
• Moss froze Ainpeist again and compressed heavy water into a glowing sphere, then ignited it with a snap of her fingers.

Novi and Rosmote's fleet endured the devastating shockwave from the distant battle, while Rosmote identified Moss's power as the legendary Mana Conversion. The detection array confirmed that the World Gate had been destroyed and revealed Moss standing amid the flames.

• Novi ordered the fleet to connect its detection arrays and search for the battle's outcome.
• A blinding light and crimson shockwave struck the fleet, damaging its shields and injuring crew members.
• Novi directed the crew to assess damage and help the injured while Ischa treated them.
• Rosmote explained that Mana Conversion could magnify magic's destructive range and suspected Moss had used the legendary skill.
• Novi's detection array showed the shattered World Gate, confirming that the threat had been stopped.
• The array revealed Moss standing atop the flames in black armor, and she turned to look toward the ship as Jahari Ligu Esyin recorded her.

After destroying the World Gate and killing Ainpeist, Moss realized the blast would attract powerful factions and refused Novi’s invitation to travel together. She then confronted a puppet who had taken Korelinus’s form, and the two introduced themselves as outsiders from different realms.

• Moss unlocked her existence, gained new talents, and rose to Gold Level 1 after destroying the World Gate and vaporizing Ainpeist.
• Moss anticipated trouble from the attention her explosion would draw, declined Novi’s offer to travel together, and entered a spatial rift to pursue another unresolved matter.
• Jetetu admitted that the Boundary God Cult’s plan had failed, then Korelinus pierced his chest and crushed his heart.
• A puppet emerged from the void, pulled Korelinus’s corrupted soul out with magic threads, and destroyed it.
• Moss revealed herself to the puppet, and they introduced themselves as Molly von Nilia and Korelinus, outsiders from the Material Realm and Mechanism Realm.

Korelinus told Moss that she was an extraterrestrial who had awakened inside Korelinus’s newborn body and wanted to return to her original world through a World Gate. She revealed that the Empire’s capital might hold the gate used to summon the Brave Hero, then left with her original body.

• Korelinus explained that an unknown impact struck her exploration mission and she awoke inside Korelinus’s body.
• Moss questioned Korelinus’s intentions and suggested they cooperate against the Boundary God Cult, but Korelinus accused her of trying to use her.
• Korelinus said the Boundary God Cult was no longer her objective and described the legend of the Brave Hero who ended the Realm Gate War three thousand years earlier.
• Korelinus told Moss that a World Gate was rumored to be sealed in the imperial palace in the Empire’s capital.
• Korelinus and her original body stepped into the void, and she bid farewell to Moss.