Chapter Summaries

Duwa faced ruin when a bumper crop drove Golden Bubble Fruit prices below two qian, but his son Brandon proposed selling it directly to customers in Kevil through the new Internet Shopping service. Duwa agreed to let Brandon test the idea, and Brandon opened an online store just before Internet Shopping launched.

• Duwa and Salina worried that the low price for their Golden Bubble Fruit would leave them unable to pay Brandon's Butler Academy tuition.
• Hansen told Duwa that the purchase price had fallen to two qian and blamed the Holy Meal Divine Food for the collapse.
• Brandon called his parents and proposed selling their fruit directly to people in Kevil through Internet Shopping.
• Brandon returned home by Magic Bike and explained his plan, and Duwa agreed to risk a small amount of fruit on a trial.
• Brandon set up the online store, and Internet Shopping officially launched at noon the next day.

Selina, a financially strained court etiquette instructor who had become wealthy by serializing a novel online, embraced Internet Shopping and delighted in its rapid deliveries. She used her purchases to impress three jealous noblewomen, discovering the power her new wealth gave her, while sellers across the platform were overwhelmed by the booming business.

• Selina had earned a fortune writing a court novel under the pen name Court Dancer, drawing on scandals from aristocratic circles.
• When Internet Shopping launched, Selina browsed its everyday goods and placed orders for everything she liked.
• Selina chose instant delivery, and the items arrived in her courtyard just minutes after she ordered them.
• Three noble ladies visited Selina after seeing beams of light over her courtyard, and she invited them inside to inspect her purchases and try her snacks.
• Selina continued ordering and showing off her deliveries until the ladies became jealous and flattering, while sellers on Internet Shopping were stunned by the surge in business.

Brand’s Golden Bubble Fruit sales exploded after Internet Shopping launched, bringing new income to farmers and consumers across the multiverse. As people outside the limited logistics network demanded access, the gods faced pressure to admit the God of the Internet’s service or risk unrest.

• Brand received a flood of orders and payments, then asked Duwa to buy more Golden Bubble Fruit from local farmers.
• Duwa rallied the farmers through their chat group, and a stream of fruit deliveries drew crowds in Cusco City as Brand struggled to keep up with orders.
• Internet Shopping helped sellers across connected regions move local specialties, earn money, and buy goods from elsewhere in the multiverse.
• Buyers celebrated low prices and convenient shopping while merchants who had profited from monopolies complained about losing their margins.
• People beyond logistics coverage grew envious and demanded access, prompting petitions and marches across some regions.
• The gods worried that refusing logistics coverage could provoke unrest, but accepting it would open their territories to the God of the Internet.

The God of Dark Night visited Angelo incognito to assess the Express Sorting Center and Internet Shopping’s effects on his Missionary Zone. He saw that the town had grown prosperous and its people cared little for divine authority, while a wave of articles attacking Internet Shopping had begun spreading across the Star Network.

• During Little Night, the God of Dark Night hired a local old man to show him around Angelo.
• The old man explained that Internet Shopping had brought buyers and middlemen to town, allowing locals to sell goods that had once been difficult or dangerous to trade.
• The old man dismissed the God of Dark Night’s authority and admitted that he followed whichever god proved useful, prompting the God of Dark Night to reconsider what he had heard.
• The old man led the God of Dark Night to a crowded tavern, where a drunkard cursed the God of the Sea and drew a crowd around his Virtual Screen.
• The God of Dark Night found numerous Star Network News articles attacking Internet Shopping and judged the campaign to be a desperate response.

Angelo’s residents and merchants angrily rejected Star Network’s attacks on Internet Shopping, while the Goddess of the Earth benefited from her geothermal partnership with the God of the Internet. She learned that the God of Death had joined Internet Logistics, then faced urgent questions from the God of the Sea and the God of Life about Dark Web map authority.

• Angelo’s common folk and industrialists cursed Star Network’s propaganda and argued over the effects of Internet Shopping on local businesses.
• The Goddess of the Earth savored the Source Essence from her Geothermal Resource project with the God of the Internet.
• Victor told the Goddess of the Earth that Hive Pyramids had appeared over all six major cities in the God of Death’s Missionary Zone.
• The Goddess of the Earth used Divine Perspective to confirm that the God of Death had joined Internet Logistics.
• The God of the Sea and the God of Life asked the Goddess of the Earth whether she had provided the Dark Web’s map authority, and she realized what had happened.

The Goddess of the Earth explained why the God of Death had joined Internet Logistics, then brought the God of the Sea and the God of Life into a meeting with Yu Sheng'an. Yu Sheng'an offered to share Internet Logistics with their networks, leaving the gods to consider his proposal and his teasing demand for the Underworld Authority.

• The Goddess of the Earth concluded that the God of the Internet had won over the God of Death by granting him authority over maps, and argued that the God of the Internet's unconventional choices had reshaped the multiverse.
• The God of Life and the God of the Sea questioned the Goddess of the Earth, but she invited them to meet the God of the Internet.
• Yu Sheng'an appeared with the Goddess of Music, the God of Prophecy, and the God of Death, then proposed expanding Internet Express into the God of the Sea's and God of Life's Missionary Zones.
• Yu Sheng'an offered to let the God of the Sea and the God of Life run their own shopping services using Internet Logistics, and suggested they launch secondhand local trading to build delivery capabilities.
• The God of Death accused Yu Sheng'an of exploiting his weakened position, and Yu Sheng'an asked him to grant the Underworld Authority in exchange for advice.

Yu Sheng'an explained his dealings with the God of Death while considering whether to launch a privacy-selling feature on the Dark Web. As rival networks copied online shopping and secondhand services, demand for Internet Logistics spread, revealing that Yu Sheng'an had planned to draw more regions into his system.

• Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora that he had given the God of Death a way to accept Internet Logistics, while hiding that he had already killed him and taken the Underworld Godhead.
• Yu Sheng'an questioned whether people were truly free to sell their privacy and hesitated over a new Dark Web feature.
• Star Network launched Star Network Used Goods, and Internet Local quickly added used-goods categories with delivery services.
• The gods copied Internet Shopping by adding local shopping categories, which made online trade more convenient and transparent in areas beyond Internet Logistics.
• The God of the Sea and the God of Life realized Yu Sheng'an had been drawing out demand for Internet Logistics across the multiverse.

Caesar prepared to leave Camp Port for the Goddess of the Forest’s missionary zone on Habakkuk as Elijah watched an enormous Ironclad Ship arrive. Their discovery of a Dragon Race materials store sparked a shopping frenzy, and the chapter ended with Hypotina telling Yu Sheng'an that the Main God Space had been built.

• Caesar told Elijah that his transfer to Habakkuk would begin on the eighth and that he would help build roads for Internet Logistics.
• An Ironclad Ship emerged from a Teleportation Array at Camp Port while residents gathered to watch.
• Elijah and Caesar found the World of Dragons store on Internet Shopping, and its Dragon Race materials sold out within ten minutes as demand for Internet Logistics surged.
• Yu Sheng'an explained that he had helped Dillon Adam launch the store with Dragon Island’s dragons as shareholders, while Hypotina objected to using the boy this way.
• Hypotina told Yu Sheng'an that the Main God Space had been built, and he prepared to inspect it.

Masik was resurrected as a Cycler and survived his first mission in a magic-forbidden desert, earning an A-rank. After returning to what seemed to be his room, he discovered the world outside had become a shifting, multicolored expanse.

• Masik accepted the Main God Space's contract after dying, then found that it had stripped his possessions and prevented him from using prayers or magic.
• Masik assessed the desert and focused on surviving the 24-hour mission despite the heat, thirst, and restrictions.
• Hypotina and Yu Sheng'an watched Masik and discussed how the Main God Space captured, trained, and deployed Cyclers to explore abandoned planes for Titans.
• Masik survived the desert by removing a scorpion's venom gland, communicating with a caravan through hand signals, and killing a bandit during an attack on an oasis.
• Masik completed the mission, received an A-rank and 1,400 Evolution Points, and returned to a room that seemed familiar.
• Masik opened the door and found that the world outside was a chaotic, shifting mass of colors.

Masik explored the Main God Space and spent 1,000 Evolution Points on a weak Death Ray skill, while Yu Sheng'an watched and discussed the system’s pay-to-win design with Hypotina. The chapter left Yu Sheng'an facing energy shortages as Hypotina questioned whether he planned to enlist the Dragon Race to persuade the gods.

• Masik learned that the Main God Space contained many worlds and facilities, including bloodline modification and skill equipment centers.
• Masik bought the Death Ray skill for 1,000 Evolution Points and discovered that its level-one attack was weak and had an eighteen-hour cooldown.
• Masik learned that the Death Ray could be upgraded, then carefully spent his remaining 400 Evolution Points.
• Yu Sheng'an watched Masik spend his points and reflected that costly upgrades and survival pressures would drive cyclers to keep working.
• Hypotina asked why soul capture had stopped, and Yu Sheng'an blamed the energy cost before denying her suggestion that he would use the Dragon Race to persuade the gods.

Yu Sheng'an proposed building a Dyson Sphere to solve the Main God Space’s energy shortage without delaying his search for Blue Star. Hypotina considered helping with the project, but Yu Sheng'an planned to invite the gods and divide control among the contributors while retaining half for himself.

• Hypotina urged Yu Sheng'an to wait before starting a war, but he explained that he could not afford to delay finding his hometown, Blue Star.
• Yu Sheng'an asked how many dragons could help and proposed that the Dragon Race build the Dyson Sphere’s framework and nodes.
• Yu Sheng'an explained that the Dyson Sphere would collect solar energy, using Dragon Race Magic Gods to inscribe runes and Players to construct and maintain its other sections.
• Hypotina reviewed Yu Sheng'an’s blueprints and demanded half the Dyson Sphere’s control rights, but Yu Sheng'an said he would keep fifty percent and offer the rest to participating gods.
• Hypotina suspected Yu Sheng'an was using the Dragon Race as bait, while he argued that the dragons could earn twenty or thirty percent of the shares.

After securing the Dragon Race’s participation in the Dyson Sphere Project, Yu Sheng'an was summoned to address a crisis threatening Internet Logistics. The chapter ended with Phoebus suggesting concessions to the gods’ transit-tax demands, leaving the Three Primal Gods unsure whether he spoke for Yu Sheng'an.

• Hypotina agreed that the Dragon Race would join the Dyson Sphere Project after Yu Sheng'an assured her the God of Death could not constrain him.
• The God of Storms observed that Hurst Harbor’s prosperity had drawn local residents into his faith, despite the ban on active proselytizing.
• Yu Sheng'an summoned the God of Storms, the Goddess of Night, and the God of Space to hear Darnell report that the God of the Sea planned a twenty-percent transit tax on foreign cargo ships.
• The God of Storms, the Goddess of Night, and the God of Space condemned the tax and warned that other gods were seeking similar levies on trade and port access.
• Yu Sheng'an said the precedent might be impossible to stop, and Phoebus proposed making concessions to preserve Internet Logistics.
• The Three Primal Gods wondered whether Phoebus’s call for compromise reflected Yu Sheng'an’s own position.

Yu Sheng'an heard the Internet Pantheon's leaders argue over whether to accept taxes on delivery stations, then rejected compromise and proposed going to war to unify the multiverse. The meeting ended in stunned silence as Darnell urged him to reconsider.

• Aphnora supported concessions to expand delivery stations, while the Goddess of Night and God of Storms warned that accepting taxes would weaken the Internet Pantheon.
• Phoebus argued that refusing the gods' demands could delay Internet Logistics and let Star Network overtake them, as Darnell recognized the dispute as a struggle between the old and new camps.
• Yu Sheng'an summarized the risks on both sides and asked the leaders to advise him.
• God of Storms unexpectedly proposed yielding, but Yu Sheng'an refused to compromise at the negotiating table.
• Yu Sheng'an said he regretted refusing Dragon God's earlier advice and announced that he intended to wage war and unify the multiverse.
• Darnell stood and urged Yu Sheng'an to reconsider, though he pledged to follow him.

Yu Sheng'an rejected both immediate war and excessive compromise, ordering the Internet Pantheon to prepare for a virtual war game to assess the choice. The God of the Sea and the God of Life learned that the game might lead to a war for unification as they planned a rival logistics network.

• Phoebus warned that war would devastate Vilia Prime Plane and Kevil, and the God of Storms and God of Space urged Yu Sheng'an to negotiate over taxes instead.
• Night suspected Yu Sheng'an was using the threat of war to make the Three Primal Gods yield, while Yu Sheng'an questioned Phoebus's prophecy and recalled how past predictions had failed.
• Yu Sheng'an gave his subordinates ten days to choose at least a hundred elite personnel each and prepare opposing sides for a virtual war game.
• The God of the Sea complained that the God of Storms was leasing ports and sending Ironclad Ships across the seas, while the God of Life predicted the gods could become vassals of the God of the Internet.
• The God of Life urged the God of the Sea to speed up surveys of underground rivers for a competing logistics network, and they both learned that Yu Sheng'an was gathering personnel for a virtual war game that could lead to war.

Belloc accepted a contract to command a simulated war in exchange for a large reward, while the Internet Pantheon prepared its own strategy and watched the simulation’s odds of victory rise. The chapter left the outcome uncertain as the gods across the multiverse began to panic.

• Kevil peace officers and a thin man offered Belloc two million Internet Coins to participate in a secret game simulation five days later.
• Belloc entered the simulation as Commander 563 and began learning its Zerg units, maps, and command system.
• Internet Pantheon elites gathered in a virtual command center and developed competing plans for a possible war.
• Yu Sheng'an asked Phoebus for the predicted chance of victory, and Phoebus reported that it had reached fifty percent.
• Aphnora asked whether the odds meant the war of unification had to be fought, but Yu Sheng'an said they needed to await the simulation’s final result.
• The gods of the multiverse began going mad as the war simulation unfolded.

The gods gathered at Sea King Hall after learning that the God of the Internet was conducting a war simulation, and debated how to counter his growing power. The Goddess of Luck proposed threatening mutual destruction, while the God of Plague argued that the simulation was a feint; the God of Life warned the gods not to let their guard down.

• The gods learned that the God of the Internet's war simulation had leaked and convened an emergency meeting at Sea King Hall.
• The God of the Sea proposed reviving the Punishment Alliance, but the gods questioned how they could fight the Internet Zerg.
• The God of Fertility described his weaker Zerg replicas and urged the gods to share their research.
• The Goddess of Luck asked how the God of the Internet had persuaded the Four Righteous Gods to aid him, and the Goddess of the Earth revealed his threat to withdraw his defenses and attack their Missionary Zones.
• The Goddess of Luck proposed destroying mortals and the multiverse if the God of the Internet started a war, and the God of Life judged it a possible last resort.
• The God of Plague called the war simulation a feint, but the God of Life urged the gods not to trust the enemy or grow complacent.

The gods reconsidered God of the Internet’s military simulation as a warning tied to their proposed taxes on Internet Logistics, while Goddess of Pleasure argued against rashly provoking him. After Internet announced a live-fire exercise in Kazadum, rumors spread and the gods learned the simulation had given God of the Internet a 60 percent chance against a united front of all gods, leaving them alarmed but relieved that he likely intended deterrence rather than war.

• Goddess of Pleasure challenged God of Life’s alarm and argued that God of the Internet’s military moves were likely pressure over taxes, not preparations for war.
• God of Misfortune identified taxation as the likely cause of the conflict, prompting the gods to reconsider their assumptions about God of the Internet.
• Goddess of Luck noticed that the virtual military simulation had ended, and the gods sent projections to learn its results.
• Internet announced a live-fire military exercise in Kazadum, and Internet News explained that the event would use the Fourth Calamity in a realistic war simulation.
• Rumors about the simulation and the upcoming exercise spread across Internet, while the gods learned that God of the Internet had a 60 percent chance of victory against a united alliance of all gods.
• The gods concluded that the exercise was probably meant to reinforce deterrence, and they looked forward to seeing God of the Internet’s strength.

Justin told the Get-Rich Guild that it had been chosen as the Blue Army because it was the strongest, turning its anger into pride. After the Blue Army’s overwhelming advantages were announced, the multiverse argued over the exercise as its start date arrived.

• Jessie and the Get-Rich Guild members protested that they had been assigned to play the enemy army, but Justin explained that the higher-ups had chosen them as the strongest Blue Army.
• Justin revealed that he agreed the Guild would serve as a whetstone for the Internet Legion, and the Guild members celebrated being recognized as the strongest.
• The Blue Army roster named Phoebus supreme commander and listed unlimited troops, Firearms, Airships, and magic power, along with Life Sharing.
• The Blue Army’s advantages sparked intense anticipation and criticism online, while the gods tried to undermine the God of the Internet through propaganda.
• August 1st, Year 6 of the Internet Calendar, arrived as the multiverse awaited the live-fire military exercise.

Yvonne hosted the live broadcast of the Internet Pantheon's military exercise as the Blue Army launched a sudden offensive against Internet territories. The opening attacks and the Internet Legion's Space-Based Weapons stunned viewers and gods alike, leaving the exercise's unprecedented scale and apparent unlimited resources on display.

• Yvonne introduced the Blue Army command center and explained its grid-based combat mission rooms to the enormous audience.
• The Blue Army launched a surprise attack, capturing territories H11, H45, and H19 and sending forces across Kazadum.
• Phoebus launched a decapitation strike behind enemy lines, putting Internet territories C11, C48, and A99 under attack.
• The Internet Legion fired Space-Based Weapons, and Floating Airships linked their magical shields to block the barrage.
• The gods watching from the Pantheon realized the Blue Army was using effectively unlimited Airships and magical power, making the Internet's Space-Based Weapons seem ineffective.

The Blue Army overwhelmed the Internet Legion with overwhelming forces and god-enhanced abilities, while the Internet Pantheon’s known defenses struggled to hold. As the gods wondered why Yu Sheng'an had not revealed the Internet Pantheon’s trump cards, the exercise continued with its outcome uncertain.

• The Space-Based Weapons cleared many enemy forces inside Internet territory, but the battle settled into a costly tug-of-war along the central line.
• The Internet Legion used Steel Fortresses to establish strongholds, while the Blue Army revived fallen soldiers with the Goddess of Wisdom’s Grand Resurrection to attack from behind.
• The Blue Army’s god-enhanced units broke deep into Internet territory, as the Goddess of Luck, the Goddess of Wisdom, and the God of Plague displayed powerful battlefield effects.
• The God of Plague asked Yu Sheng'an whether his abilities could truly produce the effects shown, and Yu Sheng'an said historical records described similar feats.
• The Blue Army’s advance thrilled its believers, while the gods suspected the Internet Pantheon still had trump cards and wondered why Yu Sheng'an had not used them.