Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng'an tried to persuade Baird to support Benjamin's rebellion by promising him wealth and power, while Baird weighed the risks of opposing the Infer Empire. Yu Sheng'an suddenly teleported them both away, leaving their destination unknown.

• Baird rejected the Ironclad Production Line proposal, but Yu Sheng'an exposed his desire to profit from unrest and mocked his devotion to the God of Storms.
• After Yu Sheng'an and Benjamin left, Baird debated whether to report them or secretly support them for greater profit.
• Yu Sheng'an appeared on Baird's balcony and offered him a ministerial position if he helped overthrow the Infer Empire.
• Baird argued that the church and the empire's military strength made rebellion impossible, but Yu Sheng'an claimed the gods would accept a change of dynasty.
• Yu Sheng'an offered Baird the Infer Empire, then even more worlds, and grabbed him as a Teleportation Array appeared beneath them.
• The Teleportation Array lit up and transported Yu Sheng'an and Baird away.

Yu Sheng'an showed Baird visions of the world's wars and powers, then bound him by contract and tasked him with driving an Industrial Revolution in the Kevil Empire. Meanwhile, Clementine and other noblewomen became Bank Tellers, and the Internet Bank quietly launched across the Empire.

• Yu Sheng'an transported Baird through visions of battles, magic, and destruction before returning him to Puen Manor, where Baird swore loyalty.
• Yu Sheng'an told Baird their relationship was a transaction, and Baird signed a blood contract that connected him to the Sea of Life.
• Yu Sheng'an took some of Baird's flesh and soul to make him a Flesh Clone, intending to use him to lead an Industrial Revolution in the Kevil Empire.
• Clementine left Willis for the first time to establish an Internet Bank branch, while Keshan watched her depart.
• Dendall negotiated twenty Bank Teller positions for noblewomen, each with a personal maid, and the recruits trained to use the Internet Bank backend.
• Bank Tellers took up their posts in major Imperial cities, and the Internet Bank quietly went live.

After being brought to Elands, Chad and Geli built a more secure life as the city recovered and they became citizens of the Kevil Empire. Chad tried to persuade Geli to deposit their savings in the new Internet Bank, but her distrust of handing over their money left the bank facing widespread resistance.

• Chad recalled how the Helots found paid work clearing Necromancy and Living Corpses in Elands and learned about the Kevil Empire's policies and the Internet.
• Chad became a citizen of the Kevil Empire, earned money as a hunter, and rented a house for himself and Geli.
• Geli and Chad made a modest dinner in their new home as Geli gradually found joy in their life together.
• Chad suggested depositing their savings in the Internet Bank to earn interest, but Geli refused because she trusted only money she could keep in her own hands.
• Chad did not know that Geli's concerns reflected many people's doubts, and the Internet Bank met resistance in its first battle.

Yu Sheng'an discovered that few people trusted Internet Bank enough to deposit money, so he summoned Lucia and asked whether she wanted to return to Aizeya and start over. At Clementine’s bank branch, deposits from a merchant and a marquis’s entourage suddenly arrived in force.

• Yu Sheng'an saw that Internet Bank had attracted more gawkers than depositors, while young nobles deposited money mainly to court the noblewomen working as tellers.
• Yu Sheng'an considered how hoarded gold worsened Kevil’s deflation and decided that the Empire needed a forceful way to get money circulating.
• Yu Sheng'an summoned Lucia and asked whether she wanted to return to Aizeya and begin her life again.
• At Clementine’s branch, Kenneth and a young Knight competed to deposit money and impress her, while Clementine regretted that her teller job fell short of her hopes to become a heroine.
• A merchant arrived with chests of money to deposit, followed by a marquis and his entourage bringing more chests, leaving Clementine astonished.

Clementine saw nobles and merchants begin using Internet Bank after the Empire and the Three Magic Gods mandated cashless settlements, while Asheff’s policies also brought farmers in with their savings. The chapter ended when Old Tony reported that his balance had changed, frightening a farmer into demanding his deposit back.

• Marquis Bloom and several merchants explained that tribute, mine purchases, and other transactions were driving them to deposit money in Internet Bank.
• Clementine realized Asheff had pushed the Empire and the Three Magic Gods to require cashless settlements, making the bank more convenient for large businesses.
• Clementine welcomed an Old Farmer and explained that deposits earned 1% annual interest under the God of the Internet’s protection.
• The Old Farmer deposited compensation money he feared thieves would steal, and Clementine carefully counted and credited it to his account.
• Old Tony rushed into the branch, alarmed that his account balance had changed, and the Old Farmer begged Clementine to return his money.

Clementine explained Internet Bank’s daily interest to Tony and the watching crowd, sparking a rush of deposits across Kevil. Lucia reflected on her master’s covert marketing campaign and accepted that she would become his shadow, while the God of the Internet extended his influence over Aizeya Continent.

• Tony questioned why his account had gained interest, and Clementine explained that Internet Bank paid daily interest at its 1% annual rate.
• Tony withdrew his interest and then his principal, demonstrating the bank’s payouts to the assembled crowd.
• Clementine said Internet Bank had been established by the merciful God of the Internet, prompting the crowd to praise the god.
• Citizens across Kevil deposited their fortunes, checked their growing interest, and shared screenshots of their accounts online.
• Lucia recalled how her master had directed her to target different groups with posts and Zombie Followers to promote Internet Bank.
• Lucia accepted her role as her master’s shadow as the God of the Internet spread another wing over Aizeya Continent.

Baird established an industrial factory in the Aizeya Continent using magic-powered machinery, and the Dragon Factory produced the world’s first Bicycle. Yu Sheng'an unveiled it to the factory workers, who stared at the unfamiliar device in astonishment.

• Baird took charge of industrial enlightenment in Aizeya and built a factory with support from the God of the Internet, skilled blacksmiths, and Production Lines brought from Vilia.
• Mages used fire and water Magic to power the factory’s steam engine because the Divine Runes used in Vilia would alert the God of Mechanical Steam.
• Korton learned to operate the machinery, which produced metal components far faster than blacksmiths could.
• Baird told Yu Sheng'an that component production had reached an eighty-percent qualified rate and presented the factory’s first Bicycle.
• Yu Sheng'an removed the red covering from the Bicycle, and the workers reacted with astonishment.

Yu Sheng'an revealed the Bicycle and explained to Aphnora that it could help commoners save time and support the spread of Music. After Aphnora joined him for a ride, he raced with her through Vias, drawing a crowd’s attention.

• Yu Sheng'an unveiled the Bicycle at the factory, and Baird wondered whether Aphnora was also a god.
• Aphnora confronted Yu Sheng'an for disappearing after the war without thanking her for her help.
• Yu Sheng'an argued that the Bicycle could boost productivity and give commoners more time to enjoy Music.
• Yu Sheng'an coaxed Aphnora onto the Bicycle’s rear seat and took her for a test ride.
• Yu Sheng'an sped with Aphnora through Vias’s crowded streets, where onlookers recognized Lord Asheff and erupted into an uproar.

Duke Mallory watched his son learn to ride a Bicycle and reflected on how the Internet Bank and Dragon Factory had transformed his business. He and the Duchess then discussed their daughter’s upcoming Apprentice Mage assessment, which was expected to take place in Conquest of Sub-Plane.

• Duke Mallory let go of Little Mallory’s Bicycle, and Little Mallory rode around the garden before falling and angrily running off.
• Duke Mallory explained to the Duchess that Little Mallory had to face difficulties on his own.
• Duke Mallory recalled how he had resisted the Internet Bank before realizing it made settlements easier and paid interest on his deposits.
• Duke Mallory recognized that Dragon Factory’s booming Bicycle sales secured its loans and increased demand for his steel.
• The Duchess worried about her daughter’s upcoming Apprentice Mage assessment, and Duke Mallory said it would be held in Conquest of Sub-Plane.

Aphnora sought Yu Sheng'an's help to secure the Dorphy Plane, while Kevil restarted its Apprentice Mage examination as a national test inside the Conquest of Sub-Plane. The chapter ended with Beast God Bruman and Shaman Gurnell discussing how to capture Dorphy City without alerting the other gods.

• Aphnora came to see Yu Sheng'an and pursue a way to protect the Dorphy Plane after the Orcs disrupted its recovery.
• Kevil resumed the Apprentice Mage examination, which Magic Apprentices would take through the Conquest of Sub-Plane using Magic Golems.
• A Magic Mentor warned the apprentices that the examination was a tactical drill as well as a test, and the apprentices logged in to begin.
• Shaman Gurnell urged Beast God Bruman to capture Dorphy City because Magic Golem attacks were disrupting Orc tribes and their training.
• Bruman rejected a large-scale summoning of elite shamans because it could expose the Dorphy Plane to the gods, then offered an alternative that made Gurnell's eyes light up.

Beast God Bruman secured Dwarven weapons and ordered the Orc tribes to capture Dorphy City, while the Kevil Empire began a difficult Apprentice Mage examination. Nancy led her Players toward the Orcs’ rear to test a new Dragon Factory rifle, and her first shot missed an elite Orc warrior who cursed the shooter.

• Bruman announced his agreement with the Dwarf King and ordered every tribe to mobilize for an assault on Dorphy City in two days.
• Nancy and the other Magic Apprentices learned that they had to kill 100 Orcs before 70% of candidates passed, and the Item Mall unveiled Dragon Factory firearms.
• Nancy rejected cooperation, studied her twenty Players, and led them toward the Orcs’ rear.
• Nancy’s team found fifteen elite Orc warriors, and she ordered Caesar and Erock to encircle them so they could test their firearms.
• Nancy fired a Magic Rune Bullet from a Single-shot Hunting Rifle, but the targeted Orc dodged and angrily demanded to know who had wasted the shot.

Nancy led the Players in an ambush that wiped out most of an elite Orc force carrying Dwarf Blunderbusses. Enraged by the weapons’ appearance, Beast God Bruman confronted Dwarf King Cort in Kazadum and demanded an explanation.

• Nancy ordered the Players to charge the Orcs after they fired their first volley, and she blinded them with Light Burst.
• Nancy and the Players killed the Orcs with spells and close combat, lost three Magic Golems, looted the battlefield, and withdrew.
• Beast God Bruman learned that Magic Golems on the Dorphy Plane had Dwarf Blunderbusses and realized Dwarf King Cort had deceived him.
• Bruman traveled to Kazadum and confronted Cort during a drunken feast, threatening to attack the Dwarf world.
• Bruman scattered metal weapons across the hall and demanded that Cort explain what they were.

Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora about the undiscovered Prime Plane Vilia and refused to take her there, then asked for her help spreading the Internet across Orc-controlled planes. Aphnora provided coordinates and asked to move part of the Dragon Factory to Vias, but Yu Sheng'an refused, leaving her angry and doubtful.

• In the Dwarf Stone Palace, Dwarf King Cort examined the unfamiliar blunderbusses and insisted the Dwarves had not forged them, while Beast God Bruman demanded to know where they came from.
• Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora that the Dragon Factory’s products came from Vilia, an undiscovered Prime Plane occupied by the Four Primal Gods, but refused to reveal its coordinates or take her there.
• Aphnora admitted she had secretly spread faith across several Small and Medium Planes, and Yu Sheng'an asked her about Orc-occupied planes with local resistance forces.
• Aphnora gave Yu Sheng'an the coordinates of planes she knew, and he said he wanted to spread the Internet there.
• Aphnora asked Yu Sheng'an to move part of the Dragon Factory to Vias, but he refused, angering her.

Yu Sheng'an refused Aphnora’s request for a Bicycle Production Line and proposed making Vias a trade hub to spread Kevil’s goods and the Internet. He revealed the Music Godhead’s weakness to show his sincerity, and Aphnora agreed to trust him.

• Yu Sheng'an explained to Aphnora that moving production to Vias would raise costs and weaken his industrial plans, then suggested turning Vias into a trade bridge between the Kevil Empire and the Kaman Confederation.
• Yu Sheng'an described how trade through Vias could spread the Internet across Aizeya and increase Aphnora’s Spring of Source Essence, while Aphnora worried that he might eventually discard her or seize her Godhead.
• Aphnora asked whether the Music Godhead had a fatal weakness, and Yu Sheng'an demonstrated that a vacuum blocked the mechanical waves it controlled.
• Yu Sheng'an told Aphnora that he had revealed the weakness to prove his sincerity, and she accepted his explanation.
• Yu Sheng'an and Aphnora clasped hands, strengthening the bond of trust between the God of Contracts and the Goddess of Music.

Yu Sheng'an reflected on the gods’ mistrust before watching Caesar’s brutal success in the Kevil Apprentice Mage examination. Caesar and his companions completed their mission, and Nancy encouraged him to apply to a Magic Academy, though he doubted he deserved admission.

• Yu Sheng'an released Aphnora’s hand and turned his attention to the Virtual Screens, where the examination’s first Magic Apprentice had passed.
• Yu Sheng'an watched Caesar use a Mud Golem and a Double-Barreled Shotgun to kill Orcs, and considered helping him gain admission to a Magic Academy.
• Caesar realized the battle was over, and Nancy and the other Players celebrated completing their mission before collecting their spoils and withdrawing.
• Nancy asked Caesar whether he was a mage or Battle Disciple, then encouraged him to apply to a Magic Academy as enrollment expanded.
• Caesar agreed to try applying but kept his paralysis secret and doubted that someone like him deserved to attend.

Nancy passed the Apprentice Mage assessment, but found her father Duke Mallory rushing to deposit gold coins so he could qualify for the auction of Bicycle Production Lines. The auction sparked a wave of noble deposits that boosted trust in Internet Bank, while the Kevil Empire sent a Bicycle delegation to the Kaman Confederation to promote the product.

• Nancy passed the Apprentice Mage assessment and hurried home after she could not find her family's carriage outside the academy.
• Nancy found Duke Mallory loading crates of Gold Coins into carriages to meet the five-million-gold-coin Asset Verification requirement for the Bicycle Production Line auction.
• Mallory told Nancy that Lord Asheff was selling the lines because he was focusing on producing Blunderbusses for the Dragon Factory.
• Nobles across the Empire opened their cellars and pooled or sold assets to raise the money needed to qualify for the auction.
• The sight of noble Gold Coins being deposited into Internet Bank reassured ordinary citizens and triggered another wave of deposits.
• The Kevil Empire sent a Bicycle delegation to the Kaman Confederation to negotiate trade and promote Bicycles.

Baird proposed splitting the Bicycle Production Line into component factories, but Yu Sheng'an urged him to think beyond short-term profits and explained his plan to unite industry under shared standards. Yu Sheng'an released the Guild system and continued preparing to expand his power before entering the pass.

• Baird visited Yu Sheng'an at Dragon Factory and proposed selling production units for the bicycle's major components instead of auctioning the whole production line.
• Yu Sheng'an praised Baird's business insight but warned that his proposal focused too narrowly on immediate profits and urged him to consider industry from a god's perspective.
• Yu Sheng'an explained that he wanted to distribute industrial production among suppliers while retaining control of standards and using industry to reshape society and weaken the gods' influence.
• Yu Sheng'an reflected that he still needed to proceed cautiously and prepare to expand his forces before entering the pass.
• Yu Sheng'an finished adjusting the Guild system and approved its release.

Dudod, a once-disgraced magical failure who found recognition in Conquest of Sub-Plane, seized on the new Guild feature and founded Conquer All Directions. As players reacted to the update, a further announcement promised hope to F2P players.

• Kabayer City residents credited Conquest of Sub-Plane with drawing Dudod and other troublemakers away from the streets, while Dudod felt grateful to the God of the Internet for giving him a way to prove his worth.
• Dudod’s Party members urged him to create a Guild as soon as the feature launched, and he studied its costs, benefits, and promise that Guilds could eventually conquer territories and become Plane Lords.
• Dudod spent ten thousand Gold Coins on a Guild Creation Token and chose a hill near Magic Tower No.2 and the Orc Tribe for his headquarters.
• Dudod named his Guild Conquer All Directions, prompting a flood of applications and excited reactions from his Party.
• The Guild update sent the game’s forums into a frenzy, and after F2P players began despairing over the apparent advantages for high spenders, the game issued another announcement that delighted them.

Okata analyzed how the new Guild system supported the God of the Internet’s conquest of the Dorphy Plane, then predicted a balancing feature for ordinary Players. After the Mercenary System appeared, Okata met Yu Sheng'an and learned that the speaker was Phoebus, wielder of the Prophecy Godhead.

• Dolly left Okata’s team to join Conquer All Directions, prompting the remaining Players to lament how Guilds threatened the balance between ordinary and wealthy Players.
• Okata explained that Guilds based beside Magic Towers would encourage Players to protect and develop the towers as part of the God of the Internet’s plans for the Dorphy Plane.
• Okata predicted that the God of the Internet would introduce Guild-like benefits for Players who could not join Guilds.
• A system notification announced the Mercenary System, which let Players establish Mercenary Corps with most Guild functions but no territory or commercial activity.
• Okata established a Mercenary Corps and then approached Yu Sheng'an, where Phoebus identified himself as the wielder of the Prophecy Godhead.

Yu Sheng'an agreed to let Phoebus, the God of Prophecy, join his alliance after consulting Aphnora, and exchanged Virtual Godheads with him. After sensing the Prophecy Godhead, Yu Sheng'an began suggesting ways to bring Phoebus's abilities onto the Internet.

• Phoebus asked to join Yu Sheng'an's alliance and agreed to exchange Virtual Godheads.
• Yu Sheng'an consulted Aphnora, who approved Phoebus and invited him to The Palace.
• Yu Sheng'an, Aphnora, and Phoebus signed the Alliance Contract, then Yu Sheng'an exchanged a Virtual Contract Godhead for Phoebus's Virtual Prophecy Godhead.
• Yu Sheng'an sensed the Prophecy Godhead and Phoebus asked what Internet sections his authority could support.
• Yu Sheng'an suggested services such as Birth Eight Characters, Marriage Matching, Zodiac Signs, Four Pillars of Destiny, and Tarot Divination.