Chapter Summaries

Clarissa and Leonora searched a corpse-filled city for a treasure, where they encountered Angie and a third-order vampire named Brujah. Angie’s overwhelming force of Silver Knights and Toy Soldiers attacked Brujah as the sisters watched in awe.

• Leonora used divination to find the route to the church at the city’s center, while Clarissa fought through the Black Death Hosts carrying her sister on her back.
• Clarissa and Leonora encountered Angie as she fled an alley and warned them of danger.
• Brujah, a third-order vampire, appeared and summoned six Giant Wolves while Black Death Hosts surged toward the witches.
• Angie summoned twenty Animated Guardian Silver Knights to surround Brujah and opened her Brass Toy Box to deploy three hundred Toy Soldiers.
• Angie’s Toy Soldier commanders ordered the artillery to fire at Brujah, leaving Clarissa and Leonora amazed by her wealth.

Angie and the Silver Knights defeated the vampire Brujah and recovered the Blood Holy Grail from the church at the heart of the secret city. After returning to her team, she learned that rival factions were racing toward the Clock Tower’s sixth layer to claim the Balance Holy Sword.

• Brujah tried to escape the Silver Knights, but Angie used the Ring of Domination and White Dragon Ride to destroy him and the Black Death Hosts in her path.
• Angie, Liuguang, and Yinghuo found the Blood Holy Grail in the central church, and the sisters exchanged Spirit World Beacons with Angie before she claimed it.
• Angie returned to the forest and reunited with Milan, Sister Anita, and Sister Olivia.
• Macaulay Oston led the assembled Iron Wall Knights toward the sixth layer, the Eye of the Giant, carrying the jeweled crown from the throne.
• Dorn Douglas and the Black Wing Order also set out for the Eye of the Giant, determined to obtain the Balance Holy Sword before their rivals.

Evan’s team climbed the fourth layer of the Clock Tower, where impossible stairs and pursuing monsters revealed signs of an insect-related contamination. After Milan revealed he had obtained a Clock Tower inheritance spellbook, the party encountered a swarm of strange insects and prepared to fight.

• After the party walked nearly ten kilometers, Dalos Hound Demons leaped from a corner and attacked Milan, and Evan swept them away with a storm.
• Milan showed the team Echoes of Time and Space, an Inheritance Spellbook of the Clock Tower School, and they suspected the hounds and the spellbook came from opposing wills.
• Evan warned the team to watch for narrow corners as they continued up the seemingly endless staircase and fought more Dalos Hound Demons.
• After passing four corners, Evan’s team encountered a tall, four-armed Insect Man and a swarm of insects crawling onto the stairs.
• Evan and Anita unleashed Flame Dragon Breath and Frost Dust Breath against the approaching insects.

Evan's group reached the fourth floor of the Clock Tower, defeated the Desecrating Ant Queen, and obtained a Seed of Space-Time that could greatly expand Evan's Sorcery Garden. They then arrived on the fifth floor and spotted Silver Knights from the Dawn Church.

• Evan's group completed twelve circuits of the Penrose Stairs and reached the Desecrating Ant Queen's hidden space.
• The Desecrating Ant Queen attacked with Red lights and released swarms of Army Ant Knights, so Evan and Anita transformed into dragons to shield the group.
• Olivia and Angie fired Electromagnetic Cannons 3.0 at the queen, destroying most of her body and revealing a Seed of Space-Time.
• Kaka's Shadow Tentacles picked up the Seed of Space-Time, and the group was transported to the fifth floor.
• Evan noticed Silver Knights from the Dawn Church on the fifth floor.

Evan and his companions encountered a force of Silver Knights in the Clock Tower’s strange Fifth Layer, where the knights accused them of blasphemy and prepared to attack. Evan decided to fight back, and the chapter ended as the Silver Knights charged his group.

• Languedoc warned the Silver Knights against relying on Dawnbreaker’s gifts instead of proving their faith through their own efforts.
• Languedoc’s formation encountered Evan, Angie, and three companions, then drew their swords and surrounded them.
• Languedoc accused Evan’s group of conspiring against the Dawn Church and declared they would be dealt with before reaching the Eye of the Giant.
• Evan resolved to kill the Silver Knights rather than argue with them, and his companions mournfully remarked that the knights had chosen a narrow road.
• The Silver Knights charged Evan’s group, shouting that they would wash away the blasphemers’ sins with blood.

Evan and his allies used rockets to devastate the Silver Knights, then fought Knight Commander Languedoc in the graffiti-like secret realm. Languedoc escaped after Evan struck him with a hidden attack, but Evan’s redirected spell hit the realm’s sun and collapsed the world, sending the group toward the Sixth Layer.

• Knight Commander Languedoc ordered the Silver Knights to scatter, but twenty cluster rockets killed nearly thirty second-tier knights and badly wounded the Grand Knights.
• Evan transformed into his Thunder God Battle Form Phoenix Form and battled Languedoc while Anita, Kaka, and the others attacked the remaining Grand Knights.
• Evan fired the Infernal Prison Dragon Spear at Languedoc, who used his blood to divert it before fleeing into the depths of the realm.
• Evan revealed that Gene Hunters had already infected the enemies with an attack that would cause full-body DNA breakage.
• The Infernal Prison Dragon Spear struck the graffiti-like sun, causing it to fall and the secret realm to peel away into a scroll in Evan’s hand.
• Evan told his team to head for the Sixth Layer as the sound of waves began to fill their ears.

Ekchuwa and Cold Face Balje Mister used a beetle token to open a gate to the Clock Tower’s Seventh Layer, while Evan’s group waited on an island in the sixth-layer Eye of the Giant amid endless naval battles. After three and a half days, Jerros, Stephanie, and Parrot Ram finally joined Evan and Angie.

• Ekchuwa and Cold Face Balje Mister reached the ancient battlefield’s center, where their token opened a beetle-made gate to the Seventh Layer.
• Evan’s group remained trapped on a barren island as warships from different eras fought and repeatedly repaired themselves across the Eye of the Giant.
• New outsiders continued arriving while Evan and Angie studied the Pink Book and the Blood Holy Grail.
• Jerros, Stephanie, and Parrot Ram arrived on the island with the help of Adventurer's Blood and the Beacon Amulet, bringing the team together.

Evan and Jerros expected to dominate the Eye of the Giant’s final competition, but discovered its rules prevented them from using their powerful private warships. Their group was forced to face the first attack aboard an ancient galley, with Black Sam Bellamy’s pirate ship closing in.

• Evan and Jerros discussed the many factions competing in the Eye of the Giant and agreed that their strength made the other competitors little threat.
• Three foghorn blasts ended the island confinement, and the group found themselves aboard an ancient galley with eighty soldiers and a heroic-spirit crew.
• Evan and Jerros tried to bring out the Crown of Miracles and Theseus, but the space rejected both warships.
• A prompt revealed that competitors had to rely on their assigned ships and crews, and that all warships without commanders would be enemies.
• Black Sam Bellamy’s pirate ship attacked the galley with its cannons as Evan’s group watched the cannonballs land around them.

Evan, Jerros, and Anita led their group in boarding Black Sam Bellamy’s pirate ship, forcing the pirates and their heroic spirits to disappear. Evan and Jerros then rebuilt their galley sailing ship into a Heavy Galley Sailing Ship, and the group set course deeper into the Eye of the Giant to gather more materials and upgrade it further.

• Milan suggested escaping into the wind, but Evan, Jerros, and Anita ordered a head-on charge and boarding attack.
• The galley sailing ship rowed through the pirates’ cannon fire, grappled Black Sam Bellamy’s ship, and began the boarding battle.
• Black Sam Bellamy recognized Anita and fled into the sea with his Pirate Executives, causing the pirate crew and heroic spirits to vanish.
• Evan and Jerros dismantled the empty pirate ship and combined its materials with their own vessel to build a Heavy Galley Sailing Ship.
• The rebuilt ship regenerated its crew and equipment, and Evan tested its speed before the group sailed deeper into the Eye of the Giant.

Evan’s group captured ships in the Eye of the Giant and upgraded their heavy galley into a fast, heavily armed cruiser before setting course for the inner ring. Meanwhile, the Iron Wall Knights and the Oathbreakers raced to claim the Balance Holy Sword, while a mysterious voice worried about the requirements for reaching the Seventh Layer.

• Olivia directed the heavy galley’s Basilisk Cannon as the crew defeated and captured enemy warships.
• Evan and the Great Wizards used salvaged materials to upgrade the galley into an 1,100-ton high-speed cruiser armed with forty cannons and a rifled bow gun.
• Milan divined that the group’s luck lay northeast, and Evan ordered the cruiser to sail toward the inner ring.
• A mysterious voice sighed that spacetime and the qualities needed to enter the Seventh Layer were becoming troublesome.
• Macaulay Oston and the Iron Wall Knights defeated a giant fish monster, broke through an island’s defenses, and charged forward in pursuit of the Balance Holy Sword.
• Dorn Douglas and the Oathbreakers destroyed stone men on another island, displaying fanatical devotion to the Black Wing God as they raced against their rivals.

Evan and his companions upgraded their ship and gathered treasures while exploring islands in the Clock Tower. On the sixth day, a fortunate divination drew them toward a major island, where they found rival factions converging far earlier than expected.

• Milan divined that their first island offered only modest gains, and the group defeated its Eight-Armed Ghost Lizard guardians before claiming an ancient treasure trove.
• Evan, Olivia, Jerros, Angie, and Milan crafted a new figurehead from the Eight-Armed Ghost Lizard's skull, giving their ship stealth, enchanted cannons, and water-jet maneuvering.
• The group captured two more islands over three days and found the Weather Ring, while avoiding an island that Milan's divination marked as dangerous.
• On their sixth day at sea, the ship was mysteriously swept toward a massive island after the group destroyed a spirit-crewed Great Galleon.
• Milan divined a fortunate opportunity at the island, but the Black Obelisk's Quasi-Legendary Battleship and other factions arrived nearby, raising concern that the Clock Tower's progress had accelerated.

Evan’s group fought through sea monsters and rival factions to reach one of the three islands, where the island’s shipwreck-born guardians awakened around them. Olivia spotted something in the island’s depths, leaving the group facing a dangerous path toward their goal.

• Evan’s fast cruiser battled Bobbit Worms, Giant Isopods, and organism-covered warships while competitors from powerful factions converged on the islands.
• Evan used three Siren’s Songs to drive the sea monsters aside, allowing his cruiser to reach shore ahead of the others.
• Evan split the group, sending himself, Anita, Olivia, and Jerros onto the island while Milan, Angie, Stephanie, Parrot Ram, and Shadow Dragon Kaka stayed aboard to guard the warship.
• Evan’s group landed on the island, awakening shipwreck-like Demon Creatures and insect-shelled wooden figureheads that attacked them.
• Olivia pointed toward the island’s deepest part, drawing Evan’s attention to their next destination.

Evan’s group raced against five rival forces to reach the Ancient Scroll at the island’s central lighthouse. As the others fought through the monster horde, Olivia unleashed Gem Sorcery · Star Shattering from atop Evan’s Storm Dragon form, destroying the lighthouse and everything in its path; Evan, Anita, and Jerros charged into the aftermath.

• The Black Obelisk attacked Evan’s group, but Evan teleported them clear and Olivia blasted two of their members, sending the rest fleeing into the monster horde.
• The Winter Knights, Volcano Knights, Necromancy School, Voodoo Cult, and Black Obelisk advanced toward the lighthouse by fighting through the island’s Twisted Demon Creatures.
• Evan’s group stayed behind the other forces, and Evan transformed into a Storm Dragon so Olivia could ride on his head.
• Olivia used Gem Sorcery · Star Shattering to fire a vast rainbow beam across the island toward the lighthouse.
• The beam obliterated the monsters, lighthouse, and treasures in its path, and Evan, Anita, and Jerros charged forward.

Olivia claimed the Oceanic Secret Treasure Scroll, and Evan’s group deterred the other factions from challenging them. On a nearby island, Dorn Douglas and the Oathbreakers seized the Balance Holy Sword through sacrifice, but an unexpected attack interrupted his assault on the Iron Wall Knights.

• Olivia picked up the Oceanic Secret Treasure Scroll, and the skeleton Great Wizard attacked her with Edict: Death.
• A Flesh and Blood Puppet blocked the spell, and Evan’s group stared down the Necromancy School until the Great Wizard withdrew.
• Olivia displayed another Gemstone Star, prompting the Winter Knight and Volcano Knights to retreat from the treasure site.
• Dorn Douglas and the thirty-eight Oathbreakers used Sacrifice to empower him, and he seized the Balance Holy Sword from the Central Lighthouse.
• Ambrose prepared to lead the Iron Wall Knights in a desperate counterattack, but over a hundred meteors struck Douglas before he could bring down his pillar of light.

Evan helped the Iron Wall Knights defeat the Oathbreakers, but Douglas used his final power to steal away the divine artifact, causing the sixth layer’s game to end with the Knights’ mission a failure. Evan and Milan vanished from the ship, while the chapter revealed a ritual on the seventh layer that was close to awakening the ancient god Star Driller.

• Evan joined the Iron Wall Knights and accepted their thanks, joking that they should reimburse his expenses.
• Douglas survived Evan’s bombardment with the power of a divine artifact and announced that the Black Iron Cross Church and its allies would soon face trouble.
• Douglas used Authority · Plunder to destroy Macaulay Oston’s attack and make the divine artifact vanish, leaving the Iron Wall Knights’ mission a failure.
• The sixth layer’s game ended, and Evan’s group returned to the outside world with their cruiser, but Evan and Milan were missing from the ship.
• On the seventh layer, Ekchuahb and Balger’s ritual consumed the Black Wing God’s divine power crystal as the relief’s eyelids began to twitch.
• Ekchuahb and Balger declared that the Chaos Worm, Star Driller, Lord of the Underground Xiude Mier, was about to awaken.

Evan and Milan discovered that the Clock Tower had fallen under the control of the ancient god Xiude Mier, who was nearing awakening, and Crown Wizard Graham Nicholas forced them to help delay the catastrophe. Graham directed them toward 364 crowned skeleton kings gathered around a stone wall.

• Evan and Milan awoke in a grave-filled space on the Clock Tower’s Seventh Layer and met the ghostly Graham Nicholas.
• Graham explained that Xiude Mier had seized the Clock Tower and would awaken within days, threatening both the Clock Tower School and the Material World.
• Graham revealed that the Clock Tower had drawn Evan and Milan into its depths because they were the only visitors suited to reach the Seventh Layer and weaken the corruption.
• Evan and Milan refused to fight an ancient god, but Graham threatened to keep them trapped until they agreed to delay Xiude Mier’s awakening.
• Graham pointed Evan and Milan toward 364 crowned skeleton kings surrounding a stone wall, and Evan recognized something familiar about their crowns.

Evan and his allies confronted the Chaos Worm’s corrupted skeletal kings in the Clock Tower. Evan summoned the restored Mountain Giant and prepared to crush the advancing army.

• Balger caught a golden message and learned that the first mission had succeeded, leaving the awakening of the Chaos Worm as the next step.
• The skeletal kings turned into guardians of the Ancient God and advanced toward Milan, Graham, and Evan.
• Graham told Evan that the Clock Tower’s lost core crown had helped bring about its downfall, while Evan recognized its likeness to the Frog God’s Golden Crown.
• Milan and Graham retreated behind Evan as the skeletal kings charged, and Evan summoned mountains to crush their vanguard.
• Evan brought Milan and Graham into the Mountain Giant’s control room and ordered the giant to crush the remaining skeletal kings.

Evan and his allies crushed the Corrupted Skeleton Kings and advanced toward the mountain wall, but the Chaos Worm’s guardian awakened as a Divinity Spawn. The Spawn trapped the Seventh Layer and cut the Mountain Giant in half, leaving Evan and the others in mortal danger.

• Evan used the Mountain Giant’s Gravity Core to crush the Corrupted Skeleton Kings while sealing their Golden Crowns away.
• Evan spotted the Balance Holy Sword held by Balger and moved toward the mountain wall with the Mountain Giant.
• The Ancient God Spawn awakened as a Divinity Spawn, terrifying Evan, Milan, and Graham.
• The Divinity Spawn attacked with tentacles, but Evan dodged and hurled stone crosses into the clouds without harming it.
• Milan demanded that Graham send them out, but the Divinity Spawn sealed the Seventh Layer with its time-and-space authority.
• The Divinity Spawn fired beams from its eyes and cut the Mountain Giant and nearby stone crosses in half.

Evan and his companions fought the Divinity Spawn guarding the Clock Tower’s ritual, and Evan destroyed it with the Balance Holy Sword at the cost of nearly all his wealth. The Clock Tower vanished as the survivors fled, while Evan secretly collected a tiny falling speck of light and learned that Graham had sent out other copies of Echoes of Time and Space.

• Graham helped Milan cast Doom Curse to disrupt the Divinity Spawn’s connection to the world while Evan evaded its attacks.
• Evan used the Two-Dimensional World to pass through the Divinity Spawn and reach Ai Ke Qu Wa and Balger, then killed them and claimed the Balance Holy Sword.
• Evan offered nearly all his treasures to power the Balance Holy Sword and destroyed the Divinity Spawn with a single strike.
• Evan secretly caught a tiny speck of light, then Graham revealed he had sent out multiple disguised copies of Echoes of Time and Space before kicking Evan and Milan out.
• The Clock Tower vanished from the Feichaz Sea Trench, survivors scattered, and Yellen ordered his party to hurry away.

After returning from the Clock Tower, Evan and Olivia relaxed at Cotton Castle before joining Sister, Molly, and Angie to crush grapes for the territory’s planned winery. Evan focused on expanding the territory’s industries to rebuild his wealth, until Sara announced that church representatives had arrived.

• Evan and Olivia soaked in Cotton Castle’s hot springs, and Olivia rejected his offer to develop the site into a vacation estate so the territory could prioritize essential spending.
• Evan and Olivia entered the expanded Sorcery Garden and found Sister, Molly, and Angie crushing Hartson River Valley grapes for the planned winery.
• Olivia joined the grape-crushing while Evan considered the winery and other industries as ways to restore his depleted personal wealth.
• Sara arrived and told Evan that the church’s people had come, and Evan eagerly anticipated their arrival.