Chapter Summaries

The God of War discussed the Star Network crisis with Veronica and admitted that he feared being pulled into a conflict with the God of the Internet. At Time Rain Farm, Erin hid her grief as Dorothy proposed shifting research away from food seeds, then Asheff contacted Erin.

• Veronica urged the God of War to exploit the crisis and seize a share of the Star Network, but he said he feared losing his position if war engulfed him.
• The God of War told Veronica that only two chess players remained in the multiverse and that they were both merely pieces.
• Erin scolded the distracted staff at Time Rain Farm, then broke down in private over the damage to Magic Forest.
• Dorothy proposed closing some food laboratories and redirecting resources toward magical plants and fungi, citing the food crisis and the research leaders’ recommendation.
• Erin said she needed Asheff’s instructions, and a message from Asheff arrived on her Internet Social.

Yu Sheng'an reassured Magic Forest’s researchers that crop research would continue despite the Holy Meal’s impact, and urged Erin and Dorothy to keep working while trusting in a path toward a more harmonious society. In November of the fifth year of the Internet Calendar, the Dark Web launched Divine Food and Dark Garment, shocking the gods with its apparent use of the Wealth Authority.

• Yu Sheng'an inspected Magic Forest headquarters, encouraged its researchers, and promised continued funding for crop seed research.
• Dorothy argued that ordinary grain could struggle to compete with Holy Meal, while Erin warned that relying on outside food threatened Kevil’s security.
• Yu Sheng'an described a classless society based on shared resources, said Star Network had helped move society toward it, and told Erin and Dorothy to focus on their work.
• In November of the fifth year of the Internet Calendar, the Dark Web launched Divine Food, which converted matter and energy into meals, and Dark Garment, which generated heat and let users sell clothing designs.
• The gods were stunned by the Dark Web’s sudden imitation of Star Network functions and puzzled that Divine Food appeared to use the Wealth Authority.

The God of Death’s Divine Food and Dark Garment challenged the Star Network’s dominance, while the God of the Sea and God of Life feared a secret alliance between the God of Death and God of the Internet. The God of the Internet launched an update after Current Affairs Review raised alarm about dependence on the Star Network, and the Goddess of Luck examined the new Internet Local feature.

• The Dark Web launched Divine Food and Dark Garment, and their advantages began drawing users away from the Star Network.
• The God of the Sea and God of Life suspected the God of Death and God of the Internet had formed a strategic partnership.
• Current Affairs Review warned that the Star Network could use Holy Meal and Star Clothing to control other worlds by cutting off their supplies.
• The Goddess of Luck awaited the God of the Internet’s response as the Internet received a major update.
• The Goddess of Luck explored Internet Literature, doubted its prospects against piracy, then turned to the newly launched Internet Local feature.

The Goddess of Luck studied Internet Local’s franchise templates and traveled to Willis to investigate launching them in the Missionary Zone. While applying to become a rider, she discovered that nearly half the gods of the multiverse had gathered at the recruitment site.

• The Goddess of Luck recognized that Internet Local’s Food Delivery, Errand Running, and Ride Hailing templates could create jobs and bind the gods to the God of the Internet’s services.
• The Goddess of Luck decided to visit Willis and learn how to launch the three services in the Missionary Zone.
• The Goddess of Luck received approval to enter Willis, disguised herself as an ordinary man, and joined the rider recruitment line.
• The Goddess of Luck observed the crowded recruitment site and memorized the rider requirements enforced by the Volunteer Aunties.
• The Goddess of Luck spotted the God of Dark Night and sensed that nearly half the gods of the multiverse were in the square.

The Goddess of Luck registered as a Willis rider to investigate the God of the Internet’s delivery business, where she discovered that cheap Food Delivery relied on industrially produced Instant Meal Packs. An Archmage offered to sell them at cost, leaving her to consider importing them from Kevil or building her own Production Line.

• The Goddess of Luck and other gods registered as Willis riders, hoping to benefit from the God of the Internet’s new project.
• The Goddess of Luck used the rider dashboard and found that Errand Running and Food Delivery had more orders than Ride Hailing because of Willis’s transport system, commercial activity, and platform subsidies.
• She investigated an unusually cheap Food Delivery order at a private residence and saw employees heat Instant Meal Packs, then serve them with rice and freshly cooked vegetables.
• A middle-aged Archmage explained that the Instant Meal Packs came from large-scale Production Lines and offered to sell them to her at cost.
• The Goddess of Luck accepted his QR-code business card and considered importing the packs from Kevil or building her own Production Line.

The Goddess of Luck investigated the Instant Meal Packs and discovered their meat came from an industrial farm built around Degradation Worms and Quick-Growth Chickens. The farm tour revealed how the God of the Internet’s closed food-production loop could reshape the multiverse, while the Zerg began their final assault on the Orcs and the Swarm Championship advanced to the Top Ten Thousand Tournament.

• The Goddess of Luck traced the Instant Meal Packs’ ingredients to the Agricultural Trade Association and a recently established farm, then attended its investment and franchise tour.
• Ella introduced the farm’s Quick-Growth Chickens, which reached market size in thirteen days at less than fifteen Internet Coins per chicken.
• Ella revealed that the chickens ate protein-rich Degradation Worms raised on City food scraps and swill, impressing the visitors with the farm’s low-cost production system.
• The Goddess of Luck realized that Degradation Worms, chickens, Instant Meal Packs, Food Delivery, and restaurant waste formed a complete ecological loop that left the gods little choice but to accept Internet Local.
• The Zerg launched their final all-out assault on the Orcs, while the Swarm Championship advanced from preliminary selections to the Top Ten Thousand Tournament.

The God of the Sea and the God of Life realized the God of the Internet’s Food Delivery and livestock plans were advancing his wider online shopping ambitions, so they sought the Goddess of the Earth’s help with navigation. After the Beast God demanded weapons against a Zerg offensive, the two gods went to negotiate with the Goddess of the Earth, who revealed the God of the Internet had just visited her with the same proposal.

• The God of the Sea and the God of Life confirmed that Degradation Worms and Quick-Growth Chickens bred normally, then discussed how the God of the Internet could profit from future livestock improvements and expand toward Personal Online Shopping.
• The God of the Sea and the God of Life decided to seek the Goddess of the Earth’s help with Map Navigation so they could compete in Errand Running and Ride Hailing.
• The Beast God Bruman arrived at Sea King Hall, claimed the Zerg were launching a full-scale offensive, and demanded weapons; the God of the Sea and the God of Life provided some support.
• After Bruman left, the God of the Sea and the God of Life worried that the Orcs might retreat and endanger the gods’ Missionary Zones, so they contacted the Goddess of the Earth about cooperation.
• The Goddess of the Earth told the God of the Sea and the God of Life that the God of the Internet had visited moments earlier and guessed they would come seeking cooperation.

Yu Sheng'an visited the Goddess of the Earth to propose using geothermal energy, offering her a share of the profits in exchange for altering Earth Veins beneath Cities. She questioned whether the project could generate enough Source Essence to justify her work.

• The Goddess of the Earth recognized Yu Sheng'an at her Temple and demanded to know what he wanted.
• Yu Sheng'an proposed partnering to develop Geothermal Resources, with her altering Earth Veins and him providing technology.
• The Goddess of the Earth was astonished that he had found a new use for her Earth Godhead, but she questioned how the plan would protect her interests.
• Yu Sheng'an explained that controlling Earth Veins would give her control over geothermal production, while he would handle extraction and development.
• The Goddess of the Earth asked how the Geothermal Resources would be used and whether they could generate enough Source Essence to make the project worthwhile.

Yu Sheng'an negotiated with the Goddess of the Earth to use geothermal energy for the logistics network behind his online shopping platform, while the Star Network’s allies struggled to respond. Meanwhile, Sarah led Zerg and Orc forces toward Draenor, challenging the Beast God as Yu Sheng'an watched.

• Yu Sheng'an explained that geothermal energy would power Express Sorting Centers and help launch his Personal Online Shopping Platform, then negotiated cooperation with the Goddess of the Earth.
• Yu Sheng'an told the Goddess of the Earth to accept the Star Network’s coming request to replicate its map function, and he departed.
• The God of the Sea and the God of Life learned about the geothermal plan and worried that the Internet would widen its lead over the Star Network.
• Sarah’s Zerg forces advanced against the Orcs with help from Orcs who had abandoned the Beast God and joined her ranks.
• As the Zerg Championship entered its top hundred, Sarah led a vast army of Zerg and Orcs toward Draenor while Yu Sheng'an watched.

Zerg forces led by Brain Worm Sarah conquered Draenor, forcing the Beast God and many Orcs to flee as the invasion widened into a multiversal war. Yu Sheng'an chose to keep the Orcs Sarah recruited, while God of Prophecy Phoebus hurried to oppose the decision.

• The Zerg overwhelmed Draenor’s defenses with relentless waves, parasites, and an advancing insect tide, while Sarah’s Orc followers urged the survivors to surrender.
• Beast God Bruman sounded the retreat, and loyal Orcs fled through portals as Draenor fell and Orcs across the plane began evacuating to other worlds.
• Draenor’s fall shocked the multiverse, prompting several gods to attack the displaced Orcs and expanding the conflict beyond the Orc Plane.
• Yu Sheng'an decided to keep the Orcs recruited by Sarah as subjects and believers rather than dispose of them.
• God of Prophecy Phoebus rushed to Draenor and begged Yu Sheng'an to slaughter the Orcs, warning that their population would soon become impossible to feed.

Yu Sheng'an divided two Orc Planes between Goddess of the Forest Leticia and arranged for Sarah to station Zerg troops there. When Phoebus argued that keeping the Orcs would be costly and dangerous, Yu Sheng'an insisted that their light-eating trait made them worth preserving and revealed his plan: Inception.

• Leticia chose the Orc Planes Habakkuk and Harvey, and Yu Sheng'an ordered Sarah to withdraw the Zerg and transfer governing authority.
• Leticia asked Yu Sheng'an to station troops in the two Planes, and he assigned the task to Sarah.
• Phoebus arrived and urged Yu Sheng'an not to keep the Orcs, arguing that the Zerg were more useful and cheaper to maintain.
• Yu Sheng'an said the Orcs possessed Source Essence, but Phoebus and Aphnora argued that their costs and uncontrolled reproduction outweighed that benefit.
• Yu Sheng'an decided to keep the Orcs and said their light-eating trait would let him preserve the race while selecting an elite legion through Inception.

The forest races began relocating to the worlds granted to the Goddess of the Forest, while Queen Sarah ordered the Orcs who had submitted to her to assemble. The Orcs who obeyed found themselves facing enormous pitcher-plant-like trees, leaving both them and the watching gods uncertain about what would happen next.

• Harrison guided the forest races through a Portal to their new homes and assured them that the Goddess of the Forest had been granted vast territories.
• Harrison reached a mountain peak in his new home and looked out over a world covered in green forests.
• Queen Sarah ordered all Orcs to reach designated assembly points within one day, threatening to treat those who failed to arrive as enemy collaborators.
• The Orcs split between those who fled and those who obeyed the order and brought their families to the assembly points.
• The Orcs who assembled discovered towering trees covered in glittering pitcher plants, while the observing gods wondered what the God of the Internet intended.

Billy received a Kara Chip and discovered that it let him enter Warcraft World, where he could eat and socialize without restraint. After the virtual experience left him desperately hungry, he climbed into a Star Spirit Tree’s leaf pod to replenish his energy and immediately returned to the virtual world.

• Billy joined the Orcs gathering at Queen Sarah’s order and received a Kara Chip after she announced laws protecting the Star Spirit Trees.
• Billy entered Warcraft World and ate virtual livestock and approached the female Orcs he met there.
• A warning that Billy’s health was critically low forced him out of the virtual world and back to the gathering site.
• Driven by hunger, Billy climbed into a Star Spirit Tree’s leaf pod, where its nectar replenished his energy.
• Billy accepted the prompt to enter Warcraft World again and returned to the virtual realm.

The God of the Sea tried to rally the gods against the God of the Internet and secure support for the Beast God, but the Goddess of Wisdom revealed that the God of the Internet had placed the Orcs in a Bliss Dreamland. The gods realized the Orcs would become his Spring of Source Essence rather than return to the Beast God, leaving the Beast God facing ruin.

• The God of the Sea urged the gods to unite against the God of the Internet, but the Goddess of Luck rejected his appeal and criticized the Star Network.
• The Beast God threatened to counterattack the Orc Plane, and the God of Fertility warned that he might target the gods' Missionary Zones instead.
• The God of Life argued that the gods should support the Beast God and persuade the Orcs under the God of the Internet to defect.
• The Beast God offered not to enter the gods' Missionary Zones and promised to supply Orc slaves, while the gods weighed his proposal.
• The Goddess of Wisdom revealed that the God of the Internet had created a Bliss Dreamland where Star Spirit Trees raised the Orcs, and the gods confirmed her account.
• The gods realized the Orcs would become the God of the Internet's Spring of Source Essence, and the God of Fertility mocked the Beast God as doomed.

Yu Sheng'an planned to reclaim the Goddess of the Forest's Missionary Zone while secretly developing Star Spirit Orcs to counter the Zerg. Worried that material abundance and total dependence on the gods could destroy society, he also considered testing new paths of development through dreams.

• Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora that he intended to reclaim the Goddess of the Forest's Missionary Zone without invading the gods' territories.
• Yu Sheng'an revealed that he was creating Star Spirit Orcs by linking their minds through a Soul Pool and Kara Chips, allowing them to share commands, memories, and souls.
• Yu Sheng'an said he would not yet absorb the Orcs who followed the Beast God because their fanaticism made them dangerous.
• Yu Sheng'an reflected on Rat Utopia and feared that absolute abundance and the gods managing every part of their subjects' lives could lead to the extinction of a race.

The Dwarf chieftains debated whether to flee Kazadum or prepare to resist the God of the Internet and his Zerg. Dwarf King Cort chose resistance and evacuation plans, but Chieftain Luke of Copperbeard killed him and led a move to join the God of the Internet.

• The Dwarf chieftains argued over fleeing across the multiverse or fortifying Kazadum against the Zerg.
• Luke summarized the two options, and Dwarf King Cort chose to prepare for battle while sending some clansmen to other planes.
• Luke announced that his plan required the king's head, and a Giant Worm swallowed Cort before spitting out his severed head.
• Luke accused Cort and the chieftains of putting power and outside support ahead of their people, and said joining the God of the Internet would not require abandoning their faith in the Titans.
• The chieftains warned Luke that the God of the Internet would reject them and that Kazadum's Dwarves would be treated as a Dungeon, but they did not stop him as he left carrying Cort's head.

Five years after the Ironbeard Tribe submitted to the God of the Internet, Luke negotiated the Copperbeard Tribe’s and Dwarf Clan’s submission under strict terms. Norton then sought out Ebo at the Magic Academy and asked whether Ebo had thrown a stone at Asheff five years earlier.

• Luke saw how greatly the Ironbeard Tribe had advanced and regretted his past choices as Ken told him Norton would question him.
• Norton offered Luke autonomy, an army, freedom of faith, economic aid, and technical support, but required that the God of the Internet retain the power to revoke the Dwarf Clan’s autonomy.
• Luke accepted the condition, finalized the Racial Subordination Agreement, and secured the Dwarf Clan’s decision to submit despite its members’ anger.
• Norton visited Ebo at the Magic Academy and asked whether Ebo had thrown a stone at Asheff five years earlier.

Norton recruited Ebo, a Dwarf educated in Kevil, to serve as a relief aid worker and help the Dwarf Clan replace hatred with productive work. Yu Sheng'an accepted the Dwarf Clan's surrender for its enchanted forging skills, while his attention remained on the geothermal-powered express sorting project.

• Norton asked Ebo how Titan's Vengeful Spirit could be eliminated, and Ebo feared that destroying its base might be the only answer.
• Norton urged Ebo to become a Farmer for the Dwarf Clan, and Ebo accepted while asking Norton to protect his sister Ella if he died.
• Norton told Ebo that Dwarf King Cort was dead, the Dwarf Clan had signed a racial dependency agreement, and Ebo would be safe as a Relief Aid Worker.
• Ebo excitedly called Ella to tell her that Lord Asheff still remembered him, though Yu Sheng'an had only mentioned him in passing.
• Yu Sheng'an accepted the Dwarf Clan's surrender for its expertise in enchanted forging and decreed that a suitably educated Ironbeard Dwarf lead its relief aid.
• Yu Sheng'an focused on the geothermal-powered Express Sorting Platform as the first cross-plane express route neared completion.

Spencer, a devoted believer of the Goddess of the Earth, became convinced that the God of the Internet was corrupting his homeland and set out to destroy the Geothermal Castle powering the Hive Pyramid. He reached its underground facility and struck the Heat Transfer Pipe just as Internet Shopping was about to launch.

• After praying in Cusco Cathedral, Spencer saw the Hive Pyramid overhead and resolved to bring it down by destroying the Geothermal Castle beneath it.
• Spencer traveled on Line 4, where passengers discussed the upcoming Internet Shopping launch, and grew more convinced that the Goddess of the Earth had been deceived.
• Spencer entered the Geothermal Castle using a Magic Scroll and passed through its Appraisal Gate without raising suspicion.
• Spencer inspected the deep well and the magical artifact converting geothermal energy to power the Hive Pyramid, then checked the Star Network for Internet Shopping's launch time.
• Spencer swung his greatsword at the Heat Transfer Pipe.

Spencer destroyed the Heat Transfer Pipe to stop the Goddess of the Earth from cooperating with the God of the Internet, but she condemned his actions and he was sent to the Church Dungeon. As Internet Shopping continued to spread across the multiverse, the Archbishop told Spencer that his failed protest had at least shown that the nest would survive the broken egg.

• Spencer severed the Heat Transfer Pipe and surrendered as Cusco's leaders arrived, warning them that the God of the Internet had deceived his master.
• The Goddess of the Earth appeared, restrained Spencer, and told him that his actions had harmed her rather than helped her.
• Cusco's leaders imprisoned Spencer instead of killing or punishing him, and the Archbishop explained how his attack could give the God of the Internet grounds to claim jurisdiction over Geothermal Castle.
• The Archbishop showed Spencer people receiving goods through Internet Shopping and explained the benefits it brought to the Goddess of the Earth and the local church.
• The Archbishop told Spencer, “The egg breaks, but the nest remains,” as Internet Shopping drew the multiverse's attention.