Chapter Summaries

Okita Urei founded Abyss Mineral Company with Qin Xiang’s investment and sought Jiang Bo’s help connecting the business to magic. Meanwhile, Gu Qianqian learned that Abyss World’s magic could work in reality, as Penglai finished selecting its first million residents.

• Okita Urei proposed building a player-run mining and weapons business, then secured Qin Xiang’s backing for Abyss Mineral Company.
• Qin Xiang offered an initial investment of one million Credit Points and promised further funding if Okita’s progress was good.
• Okita offered Jiang Bo twenty-five percent of the company to handle its magic-related connections, and Jiang Bo agreed to consider joining after his lessons.
• Gu Qianqian asked Lin Shiqin whether her roommate could learn meditation and whether game magic was real, and Lin Shiqin explained that magic could work where Magic Power was sufficient.
• Penglai completed selection for its first million residency slots.

Shen Shi joined Okita Urei’s Abyss Mineral Company and chose to specialize in enchantment, while the company began preparing a blast furnace at a nearby mining site. Jiang Bo learned meditation and found that it worked in reality, then returned to the classroom to study the Solidification Technique.

• Shen Shi logged into the game, signed up with Okita Urei’s Abyss Mineral Company, and chose to learn enchantment inscriptions.
• Okita Urei led the recruits to a nearby ore deposit and explained the company’s plans to build a blast furnace there.
• Jiang Bo attended a mage lesson, learned the Meditation Technique, and discovered that it refreshed his mind both in the game and in reality.
• Jiang Bo returned to the game and began studying a book about the Solidification Technique and related spells.

Qin Xiang’s firearms hunt sparked debate and drew studios and companies into Abyss World, while Umbrella announced space launches. Lin Shiqin then revealed that Saturn might host a hydrogen-based electronic civilization, and Wang Yi planned probes and a Mage Tower so he could investigate it in person.

• Qin Xiang’s team killed a Flame Hound with heavy fireguns and uploaded footage that demonstrated the weapons’ early-game power.
• Players discussed the cost and strengths of firearms, and Zhao Qi asked the Ziya instructor to refund his training fee so he could pursue magic and guns instead.
• Gaming studios and companies began recruiting closed beta players as interest in Abyss World surged, while Umbrella announced plans for several space launches from South Heaven Gate.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that radio signals from Saturn might come from a hydrogen-based electronic civilization living in a layer of metallic hydrogen near the planet’s core.
• Wang Yi ordered more probes to investigate Saturn and accelerated construction of the Mage Tower on the Space Elevator so he could meet the civilization in person.

Jiang Bo successfully used magic to solidify a furnace, while Gu Qianqian inscribed it with Flame Enhancement, drawing attention to their skills. Meanwhile, Old Morgan used Umbrella’s revealed magic knowledge to strengthen his position, and SX Company prepared to launch Starship II from Penglai.

• Jiang Bo completed the Solidification Technique on a mud-brick furnace and celebrated his first successful cantrip.
• Gu Qianqian inscribed the furnace with Flame Enhancement as Jiang Bo and Okita Urei watched, and viewers praised her skill.
• Old Morgan learned that Umbrella’s magic texts and meditation technique were genuine and resolved to use his alliance with a Legendary Lord against Umbrella.
• Umbrella Cargo Ships delivered aerospace equipment to Penglai, where residents and tourists registered to watch Starship II’s launch.
• Masra learned that SX Company’s spacecraft would launch first, possibly alongside an Umbrella spacecraft, and ordered his team to prepare.

Umbrella Corporation launched Star Constellation I from South Heaven Gate as an asteroid visitor changed course toward Mars. Wang Yi brought Enzo to investigate, and Enzo suspected the visitor was an Abyssal Zerg egg sac gathering materials to develop.

• Umbrella Corporation launched Starship II and Star Constellation I, whose rotating structure and vast scale drew attention from observers and overshadowed Masra's craft.
• The asteroid changed course toward Mars, prompting Wang Yi to ask Enzo to use his Abyssal connections to identify it.
• Wang Yi arrived in Penglai with Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke, then took them and Enzo aboard the Space Elevator.
• Enzo said he could faintly sense the visitor and suspected it was an Abyssal Zerg egg sac that had detected a threat and was heading to Mars to gather materials.

Wang Yi identified the visitor on Mars as an Abyssal Zerg egg sac manipulated by an Abyss Lord, and Earth’s powers prepared an orbital nuclear bombardment. As public debate over contacting the Zerg spread, Wang Yi directed Lin Shiqin to use a failed bombardment as a chance to draw out the Abyss Lord.

• Wang Yi recalled that Abyssal Zerg could be peaceful when unprovoked but became dangerous war machines when manipulated, and he suspected the egg sac on Mars had already entered its war response.
• During the elevator ride, Enzo confirmed the visitor was an Abyssal Zerg egg sac being used as a vanguard by an Abyss Lord stronger than himself.
• NASA discussed the difficulty of attacking the Zerg on Mars, while Umbrella announced that it considered them hostile and likely to establish a forward base.
• Mars Express images revealed that the visitor was alive and producing eggs, and Li Yao briefed space agencies on the Abyssal Zerg before they agreed to bombard them from orbit.
• After the meeting’s contents leaked and people argued for communication, Wang Yi told Lin Shiqin to let Old Morgan’s group attempt contact if the first bombardment failed, hoping to lure out the Abyss Lord.

SX Company and Umbrella prepared to bomb the Zerg egg sac that had landed on Mars, while the Zerg rapidly spread across the surface and underground. The Brain worm emerged, killed the Horned creature that had tried to control the swarm, and left the swarm’s next move uncertain.

• Masra and SX Company planned to deploy probes around the Martian landing site to improve the accuracy of their bombing, and Umbrella agreed to share its data-link technology.
• Umbrella mocked people who called for peaceful contact by offering to take volunteers to Mars, while Old Morgan’s group discussed using possessed experimental subjects to communicate with the Zerg.
• Umbrella’s orbital cameras revealed that dark-purple fungal mats and insect eggs were spreading around the egg sac, prompting many people who had opposed immediate bombing to fall silent.
• Starship II and three other spacecraft deployed fourteen probes toward Mars as Masra urged the companies to attack before the Zerg expanded further.
• The Zerg’s fungal mats spread through Martian soil as insects hatched, burrowed underground, mined iron, and carried resources through their growing tunnels.
• The Brain worm used the Queen worm to trap and kill the Horned creature after it threatened the Queen, then emerged from the Queen’s back.

The Zerg expanded across Mars, shot down probes, and survived repeated nuclear and electromagnetic-cannon strikes by retreating underground. Umbrella sent robots to investigate, where they encountered surviving Insects, and Wang Yi judged that the threat remained but could be managed.

• The Zerg shot down most of Earth's probes, prompting spacecraft to launch nuclear warheads at their Martian basin.
• The Brain worm tracked the incoming warheads, and three nuclear explosions destroyed the Zerg's surface structures while injuring it through the fungal network.
• Wang Yi ordered the remaining spacecraft to monitor Mars as Umbrella's Star Constellation I fired ten electromagnetic-cannon shots into the basin.
• Umbrella sent landing craft carrying robots and mechanical dogs to survey the blast zone, where reconnaissance robots found fungal carpet and surviving Zerg tunnels underground.
• Umbrella divided its robots into four teams, and Zerg soldier Insects attacked the team guarding the landing craft.
• Wang Yi assessed the attack as a test of the Zerg's tactics and judged the risks controllable.

Umbrella’s assault on Mars failed to destroy the Zerg, and Wang Yi concluded that humanity would need to target their core units rather than fight a war of attrition. As Earth prepared for a long-term confrontation, Wang Yi strengthened Enzo with an artificial False God godhead, while players captured another Flame Hound and prepared to capitalize on their success.

• Three robot squads fighting underground were overwhelmed by corrosive flesh-ball Insects and detonated their nuclear bombs; the escaping landing pods were also destroyed, and all contact was lost.
• Umbrella announced that its exploration teams had disappeared and that Star Constellation I would monitor Mars, while people around the world feared the Zerg’s adaptability and reproduction.
• Wang Yi reasoned that the Zerg’s core units had to be eliminated and that the nuclear strikes had slowed their development by exhausting their initial resources.
• Umbrella sent probes toward the Asteroid Belt, while nations expanded military research and corporations invested in Abyss World and trained workers for its trades.
• Wang Yi used chaotic faith and Cerberus’s honorific name to give Enzo an artificial False God godhead, opening a new path for his growth.
• Lu Yi’s team captured a second Flame Hound alive and planned to publish footage and build their reputation before competitors entered the business.

After the Flame Hound capture video drew widespread attention to Abyss World, Yoko’s parents asked her to recruit Gu Qianqian for Arasaka Group’s guild. Gu Qianqian refused to join an organization but agreed to help Yoko, then demonstrated how quickly and powerfully a mage could cast Fireball, leaving the gathered players stunned.

• Lu Yi’s squad’s video of capturing a Flame Hound sparked debate as players and companies rushed to invest in Abyss World.
• Yoko’s parents told her that Umbrella-backed businesses in Japan had merged into Arasaka Group and asked her to recruit Gu Qianqian for its guild.
• Gu Qianqian introduced Yura to Yoko, then declined the guild request while offering to help Yoko when needed.
• Gu Qianqian gathered Yoko and other players in Enzo Territory to observe Yoko cast Fireball, which took five minutes to prepare and exploded after flying a short distance.
• Gu Qianqian rapidly rebuilt the Fireball model in the air, explained how to stabilize it, and fired a blast that smashed a rocky hill with tank-cannon-like force.

Gu Qianqian’s improved Fireball drew the attention of Archmage Zabo, who tried to recruit her before Enzo intimidated him into retreating. The chapter ended with closed-beta player Lu Yi realizing that his intensive in-game combat training had improved his real-world reactions and technique.

• Gu Qianqian helped Yoko stabilize her Fireball, cutting its casting time and making it strike with artillery-like force.
• Archmage Zabo offered to teach Gu Qianqian, then demonstrated powerful spells when she said she already had a Teacher.
• Enzo unleashed overwhelming magic and forced Zabo to apologize and withdraw, leaving players amazed by his strength.
• Players and livestream viewers renewed their interest in learning magic after watching Yoko, Gu Qianqian, Zabo, and Enzo display its potential.
• During a real-world sparring match, Lu Yi instinctively dodged Old Li’s punch and knocked him down with a counter, then calmed himself using the Knight Breathing Technique.

Lu Yi’s real-world sparring success and other players’ tests suggested that Abyss World’s breathing and combat techniques worked outside the game, prompting Umbrella to issue safety guidance as people rushed to practice. Meanwhile, Old Morgan’s team reproduced a magical silver inscription, Wang Yi prepared to expand player operations across Enzo Territory, and Abyss Lord Kolo warned Tam that a Magic Civilization had anchored nearby.

• Lu Yi knocked Old Li out with techniques he had practiced in Abyss World, then impressed the gym owner with his improved force redirection and footwork before the owner defeated him.
• A gym student posted Lu Yi’s sparring footage, and another closed-beta player described using game-trained instincts to dodge and choke a stray Tibetan Mastiff.
• Umbrella confirmed that the game’s combat knowledge came from other civilizations, warned against unsafe practice, and explained the risks and dietary requirements of the simplified Knight Breathing Technique.
• Yoko demonstrated a small spark of magic, while Jiang Bo confirmed that his Solidification Technique had hardened one lump of putty compared with an untreated one.
• Old Morgan’s researchers confirmed that Spirit Monster-possessed Wang Dazhu could inscribe silver to make it exceptionally strong and heat-resistant, and Morgan ordered them to reduce the silver needed.
• Wang Yi approved opening a six-hundred-thousand-player closed beta and directed Lin Shiqin to guide players in claiming territories; later, Kolo told Tam that a Magic Civilization had anchored near him.

Seven Legendary Mages in Leo Floating City identified spatial fluctuations that suggested a newborn god and began investigating through the Abyss, unaware that Wang Yi had recently stabilized his divinity. As Enzo gathered nearby Abyss Lords to face the mages, Wang Yi ordered him to hold steady and investigate while he concealed Enzo Territory.

• The chief of Leo Floating City told the other six Legendary Mages that spatial fluctuations might point to a newborn god, and they planned to investigate through a weak Abyss region by capturing the nearby Magic Eye alive.
• Wang Yi paused his experiments on Enzo when two Legendary Abyss Lords approached, and he sent Enzo to deal with them without disturbing the area.
• Enzo met Magic Eye Kolo and Tam, learned that mages had anchored Kolo, and discussed how to respond to the threat of a Legendary Mage.
• Wang Yi concluded that his recent breakthrough had likely attracted the mages, ordered Enzo to test their strength and bring back the resonating Abyss Magic Crystal if possible, and avoided taking risks himself.
• Enzo and the other Abyss Lords began gathering near Kolo's territory, while one Lord fled and four others chose to test the mages first.
• Wang Yi concealed Enzo Territory as Zabo took over the contract-signing duties while Enzo was away.

Wang Yi used Enzo’s Abyss Magic Crystal to seal the Magic Civilization’s connection and prepared to explore its world safely, giving players a new region to develop. As the closed beta approached, Umbrella and World Company announced six hundred thousand slots, prompting companies and players to prepare for the expansion.

• Enzo persuaded the nearby Abyss Lords to let him redirect the Magic Civilization’s anchoring connection, then brought the Abyss Magic Crystal to Wang Yi.
• Wang Yi sealed the crystal, blocked the mages’ surveillance, and began searching for a safer anchoring point in their world.
• Enzo announced the approaching Magic World connection to the players, who welcomed the prospect of a new map and more opportunities to fight.
• The mages on Ryan Floating City mistook Wang Yi’s intervention for the work of an Abyss Demon God and decided to seek another way to anchor the world.
• Li Qing told Kim Jun-ryang that the Knight Breathing Technique had improved his strength, then learned that New World Company would help employees secure closed beta slots.
• World Company and Umbrella announced six hundred thousand closed beta slots, and businesses began recruiting players while many spectators said they preferred to play casually.

Wang Yi explored the Seraphim Realm, prepared a World Tree passage and Mage Tower site for future players, and gathered information for their arrival. He then entered Darnick Town with a hunting party, where he began learning about the locals and their surroundings.

• Wang Yi sealed the Abyss Magic Crystal, sensed that the planet’s powerful will belonged to a god who was absent, and concluded that mages had likely risen after the gods withdrew.
• Wang Yi entered the Monster Forest, planted a World Tree to stabilize and conceal the passage between worlds, and found no nearby intelligent life or signs of settlement.
• Wang Yi instructed Zabo to guard the World Tree and oversee construction, then traveled away to gather information about the world.
• Dali and his four companions carried a trapped magical wild boar toward Darnick Town during a downpour, and Dali greeted Wang Yi on the forest path.
• Wang Yi used Human Kindness to encourage the hunting party to speak with him, and they walked together toward town while the young woman asked if he was a bard.

Wang Yi entered Darnick Town with Dali’s hunting party and gathered information about the Adventurer’s Guild, the town, and the Seraphim Realm. After paying for lodging with pure Mithril and meeting local adventurers, he examined the world’s moons and reflected on its gods and widespread mage education.

• Dali brought Wang Yi to Tia Tavern, where Wang Yi learned how adventurer ranks, quests, and rewards worked.
• At the tavern, Wang Yi paid with a Mithril bean, and the proprietress valued it at five gold coins.
• Dali joined Wang Yi and Old Walker for drinks, described the magical mountain boar hunt, and discussed magical beasts, adventurers, and the realm’s power structure.
• That night, Wang Yi looked through the clouds at the three moons and considered the Earth Mother Goddess, the Moon God, and the rise of magic academies.

Abyss World opened its expanded closed beta with six hundred thousand slots and launched an update that sent players to the Seraphim Realm. Chen Youyou joined the game and met other potential mages, while Wang Yi continued learning about Darnick Town through Shateya.

• Abyss Mineral Company recruited players with new investment, while World Company and Umbrella announced the Seraphim Realm update and its paid appearance modification feature.
• NPCs prepared three settlements for the arrival of six hundred thousand players, who logged in and explored their new surroundings.
• Chen Youyou entered the game with a Spirit stat of twenty-one and met Fireball Master and Kangaroo's Dad, who criticized Kangaroo Company.
• Wang Yi ate breakfast with Shateya at the Darnick Town inn while Lulu delivered the food.

Wang Yi traveled toward Dunno City with Shateya to keep the World Will from locking onto him, while players expanded their expedition camp beneath the World Tree. A powerful magical beast attacked the camp and was killed by Zabo, whose panicked reaction became a joke among players as construction accelerated.

• Players and Ziya people cleared the Monster Forest site and built the Mage Tower foundation, with players using improvised hauling methods and wooden construction tools.
• Wang Yi left Darnick Town with Shateya, Lulu, and Kiki, tracking his lock-on progress while Dali and his team escorted the caravan toward Dunno City.
• Six hundred thousand new players spread footage of the Seraphim Realm, and the expedition camp grew rapidly as players cleared and leveled the site.
• A giant fire-affinity bird swooped toward the World Tree, and Zabo used its defensive magic array to kill it before Wang Yi told him to summon King Arthur and Marquis of Victories for future threats.
• Players mocked Zabo for begging the World Tree for mercy and imagined the bird attack was a warning of a coming monster siege, prompting more players to join construction.
• Players began capturing wild boars as mounts, and two joked about whether eating their boars' feed or waste could solve the future hunger problem.

Wang Yi arrived in Dunno City with Shateya and the others, learned about Count Luke and rising tensions between the Diya Duchy and the Ide Kingdom, and considered how to manage the players’ exposure to the city’s distractions. At a tavern, he told Dali’s party that he had explored the Monster Forest’s interior and encountered savages called Cavemen, leaving them stunned and eager to know how far he had gone.

• Wang Yi heard Shateya describe Dunno City and Count Luke’s victory over the Flame Bird, which he recognized as the monster he had seen fall near the World Tree.
• Dali brought Wang Yi’s group to the Merchant Guild guesthouse, where Shateya learned that the Ide heir had been assassinated and war with the Diya Duchy might follow.
• Wang Yi noticed Dunno City’s taverns, gambling dens, and brothels, and decided he needed to reduce the players’ chances to indulge in them.
• Wang Yi joined Dali’s party for drinks at Sam Tavern, where Dali discussed Dunno City’s prospects and his own worries about moving there.
• Wang Yi claimed he was a spellcaster who also cultivated martial arts, then said he had explored the Monster Forest’s interior and found savages called Cavemen, startling everyone at the table.

Wang Yi performed a catchy song about savages leaving the Monster Forest, presenting it as a prophecy and bringing it to the Dunno City Bard Guild for registration. When President Mike tried to deny that Wang Yi had composed it, Wang Yi revealed overwhelming magical power, forcing Mike to change his position.

• Wang Yi told Dali's team that people in the Monster Forest might soon emerge and become a new source of trade for Darnick Town.
• Wang Yi borrowed Beifeng's concertina and performed a new song about savages preparing to leave the forest, captivating the tavern's listeners.
• Beifeng recognized the melody as Elf Wind, introduced himself to Wang Yi, and offered to take him to the Bard Guild to register the song.
• Beifeng brought Wang Yi, Shateya, and Dali to meet President Mike, who praised the song's potential after hearing Beifeng perform it.
• Mike insisted the song must be an ancient relic rather than Wang Yi's work, but Wang Yi displayed a powerful Spell Model and forced Mike to agree to register it.