Chapter Summaries

Soren and Soran battled Yeenoghu’s Avatar as the demon lord’s summoned legion threatened to overwhelm them. Karena appeared beside Soren, used her Plant Domain to trap the demons, and healed the wounded, revealing that she had grown stronger.

• Soran attacked Yeenoghu’s Abyssal Legion while Soren fought the Avatar, and Chan sensed a connection between herself and Soren through her soul contract.
• Yeenoghu’s Avatar realized defeat was inevitable and tried to buy time for his true body’s divine soul power to escape.
• Yeenoghu’s Avatar sent the summoned demons to swarm Soren as he called for a High Dryad.
• Karena appeared beside Soren, used her Plant Domain to bind the demons, and healed Soren and the others with Nature’s Healing.

Soren killed the Avatar of Yeenoghu, destroyed the Gnoll King's soul projection, and gained divine power and a new domain for his Demon Avatar. He left the battle site with the survivors and claimed the Flail of Ages [Ice], bringing him closer to assembling the complete artifact.

• Karena restrained the demons as Soren killed the Avatar of Yeenoghu and used the death domain to destroy the Gnoll King's soul projection.
• Soren gained five points of divine rank, one point of divine rank value, enhanced Fear Aura, and fear divinity from the avatar.
• Soren's Demon Avatar absorbed rage divinity and mastered the [Rage] domain.
• Soren dismissed his Demon Avatar, collected the Flail of Ages [Ice], and led Karena, Chan, the young Swordmaster, and the other survivors away.
• Soren recognized the artifact's slaughter divinity and realized that combining its ice head with the venom head would create a Tier 2 Flail of Ages.

Saruman received a point of heaven-bestowed divinity and the gifted Fertility Spell after completing research on magical fertilizer. The High Priest recognized that his work had opened a path toward the Fertility domain, though Saruman still needed to grow stronger before he could pursue godhood.

• Port Nyanzaru’s abundant fish catch kept its people well fed as the second abyssal fiend attack drew closer.
• A pale golden light descended into Saruman’s laboratory, prompting the High Priest and Goria to investigate.
• Saruman realized that completing his magical fertilizer experiment had transformed his understanding, granted him a spell, and given him a trace of divinity.
• Saruman cast the Fertility Spell, scattering his fertilizer granules and making the soil more fertile.
• The High Priest recognized Saruman’s new connection to the Fertility domain and explained that it could become a stepping stone to divinity.
• Saruman accepted that he had gained a promising start but still needed to master his power and reach the legendary realm.

Soren returned to the Eastern Realm and persuaded the legendary Puppeteer Alice to travel with him to Port Nyanzaru, where he hoped to recruit her and develop Saruman as a Subordinate Deity. Alice agreed after consulting her Girl Dolls, and the group prepared to leave for the Overseas Islands.

• Soren learned that Saruman might have the potential to become his Subordinate Deity and hurried back toward the Overseas Islands.
• Soren revealed his identity as a true god to Alice and invited her to visit Port Nyanzaru, promising she could leave if she found nothing useful there.
• Alice considered the invitation and asked Lilith and Chris for their opinions; both supported traveling with Soren.
• Alice agreed to go with Soren to the Overseas Islands, and her Girl Dolls packed their belongings.
• Alice finished packing her books and the Girl Dolls' suitcases, then told Soren they were ready to set off.

A mysterious pillar of light rose from Arendelle's Imperial Palace, and snow began falling across the Material Plane despite the approaching spring. Soren recognized the divine power behind the snowfall as the Princess's, while powerful figures in other lands noticed the unusual weather.

• A silvery-white pillar of light rose from Arendelle's Imperial Palace and faded after remaining in the sky.
• Snow began falling in Arendelle, surprising residents who had expected warmer weather.
• Soren arrived at Port Tyler with Alice and her Girl Dolls, who delighted in seeing snow.
• Soren sensed divine power from Arendelle and recognized the Princess's unique signature.
• Goria, an elderly wizard in Wizard City, and a woman in the Eastern Capital noticed the snowfall, and the woman wondered if the Goddess of Ice and Snow was responsible.

The Princess dispersed her excess ice-and-snow divine power after it began escaping her control, preventing a disaster in Arendelle. She reunited with Princess Anna and planned to strengthen her divine rank further by defeating the Winter Maiden.

• Princess Anna noticed a pillar of light from her elder sister's tower and hurried there.
• The Princess told Princess Anna she was fine, then cleared the ice that had formed throughout the room.
• The Princess explained that her divine power exceeded what her divine rank could contain, so she had dispersed the excess into the sky as ice and snow.
• The Princess resolved to keep strengthening her divine rank and aimed to absorb the Winter Maiden's power by defeating her.

Soren brought Alice to Port Nyanzaru, where she was impressed by the city and its magical facilities. He then learned that Mano, his first fanatical believer to die, was near death in the Wind Spear Hills, and went there to guide his soul during the Time of Troubles.

• Soren returned to Port Nyanzaru with Alice and found the harbor covered in drying fish.
• Goria and the Fallen Witch met Alice and showed her Port Nyanzaru's laboratory, the Shadow Plane Wizard Tower, and the Elemental Furnace.
• Soren sensed that Mano, a pirate and fanatical believer, had died during a mission in the Wind Spear Hills.
• Soren projected an avatar from the Grand Temple and traveled to the Wind Spear Hills to guide Mano's soul.
• Soren arrived among demon corpses and wounded Port Nyanzaru warriors, where the dying Mano recognized him and tried to speak.

As Mano died after the victory at Wind Spear Hills, Soren gathered his soul and those of nine fallen comrades. Unable to rely on the unstable divine realm, Soren brought them to the temple to begin transforming them into spirits under his protection.

• Mano recalled Port Nyanzaru’s victories as he succumbed to his wounds after his twelve-person squad defeated the demons, with only three survivors breaking through.
• Soren appeared to Mano as he died, then drew Mano’s soul from his corpse and purified it with divine radiance.
• Soren gathered nine more souls from the forest and erased the karmic traces that could have drawn them to the Lower Planes.
• Soren carried the ten souls to the temple, where the high priest greeted him and he merged them with its radiance.
• Soren planned to shelter the souls in a small space within the temple, with Mano becoming a Heroic Spirit and potentially advancing into a Holy Spirit.

Soren turned the zealot Mano into a Guardian Heroic Spirit, then recognized that the temple could not house the growing number of dead worshippers. He took another soul to The Abyss to test whether he could create demon-type Petitioners without access to his God's Realm.

• Soren spent 1 point of Divine Rank to transform Mano's soul into a Guardian Heroic Spirit tasked with guarding the Grand Temple.
• The High Priest warned Soren that the temple could not sustain or accommodate large numbers of souls, and Soren agreed that he needed another solution.
• Soren took the soul of a young warrior from the temple and used Plane Shift to travel to The Abyss.
• At the Abyssal Blood Pool, Soren entered Avatar Form and began using his Divine Power Value and Slaughter Experience to create a demonic body for the soul.
• Soren used a sliver of bloodline power from his Demon Avatar as the core of the experimental demon.

Soren used Gurumba Arena’s fame and rewards to attract powerful combatants while maintaining order under his Demon Avatar’s rule. He then used the arena’s blood pool and slaughter experience to advance a believer’s soul through the demon gene tree, beginning a data-based simulation of demon mutations.

• Soren established Gurumba Arena as a source of fame, fortune, and recruits, drawing fighters and influential demon leaders to its death combats.
• A newly risen Hezrou Lord entered the arena to attract demons and mercenaries, while Soren focused on preserving order.
• Soren brought a believer’s soul to the blood pool and transformed it into an abyssal worm.
• Soren spent slaughter experience and divine power to skip the abyssal worm and dretch forms, activating the demon gene tree.
• Soren used deity-level processing to simulate and record demon-form mutations, temporarily severing his connections to the temple and his believers.

Soren used Deity Form and divine power to create a humanoid petitioner body from a dretch’s demonic gene tree, shaping it around The Abyss’s laws. The body took form, but the chapter left it uncertain whether the worshipper’s soul could merge with it.

• Soren activated Deity Form and examined the dretch’s possible demonic mutations.
• Soren decided that future petitioners had to be humanoid creatures and chose the hezrou form as a foundation.
• Soren used the Demon Avatar’s bloodline essence, slaughter experience, and divine power to reshape flesh into a humanoid body.
• Soren completed the first demonic petitioner body, which had dark-red skin, horns, unfinished wings, and hoof-like feet.
• Soren waited to see whether the worshipper’s soul could merge with the new body.

Soren considered how souls were reincarnated and began planning the structure of his future god's realm. He created and tested a demon-blooded petitioner, whose abilities and combat performance convinced him the form could serve as the realm's core army.

• Soren reviewed the destinations available after death and considered how believers reincarnated into a deity's realm could live under its protection.
• Soren used divine power to create a demon-blooded reincarnated entity and simulated its potential, finding it had an innate CR of 7 and high Dexterity.
• The reincarnated entity recovered a trace of memory, recognized Soren as his lord, and demonstrated a temporary flame ability.
• Soren tested the entity's weapon preferences, and it chose two scimitars, suggesting an aptitude for Two-Weapon Fighting.
• Soren had the entity fight a CR 6 bebilith, and it adapted to the battle and killed its opponent without being injured.
• Soren judged the reincarnated entity a success and considered using its form as the blueprint for his future god's realm army.

Goria and Alice continued their research in Port Nyanzaru as Goria worried about her unborn child and checked on Vivian. Meanwhile, Malar’s fallen divine realm crashed into the Northwest Wilderness, creating a temporary demiplane that the Lady of Silver Moon entered to search for the dead god’s hoarded wealth.

• Alice told Goria that she had completed a third of the Tower Spirit analysis, and Goria promised to share spell-formula structures.
• Goria wondered why her pregnancy showed no physical signs, then visited Vivian, who was still fusing with a divine rank.
• A brilliant force fell into the Northwest Wilderness, creating a huge crater, spatial rifts, and a surge of power that made nearby beasts increasingly intelligent.
• The Lady of Silver Moon recognized the fallen realm as Malar’s and realized his divine power was transforming the wilderness into a temporary demiplane.
• The Lady of Silver Moon entered Malar’s collapsing realm and headed inward to seek the wealth he had stored there.

Soren learned that Malar’s God’s Realm had fallen into the Northwest Wilderness and set out to investigate its treasures and dangers. He reached the area near White Horse City, where many factions had gathered, and worried that other deities might arrive.

• Soren returned to Port Nyanzaru, where Goria told him that a God’s Realm had fallen near the orc nation.
• Soren identified the fallen realm as Malar’s and decided to investigate, then embraced Goria and entrusted Port Nyanzaru to her care.
• Soren visited the temple, gave the High Priest instructions, and teleported near White Horse City.
• Soren noticed Combat Clerics serving the Goddess of Strategy and stayed alert as he traveled through the Autumn Leaf Forest.
• Soren reached the Northwest Wilderness and found humans, elves, and orc armies gathering around the fallen God’s Realm.

Soren entered a shrinking fragment of Malar’s God’s Realm and found adventurers fighting a holy spirit amid the wilderness. The fragment was collapsing, but a temple and altar might still be sustaining it.

• Soren followed signs of battle through the wilderness and located a planar rift leading into Malar’s God’s Realm.
• Soren used Alter Reality to pass through the rift and discovered a small plane collapsing into the Twisted Nether.
• Soren found evidence that a temple might be sustaining the fragment and spotted a battle near the forest.
• Soren arrived as a beast-shaped holy spirit fought an elf, a half-elf, and a halfling, with corpses of adventurers and beasts scattered nearby.
• Soren saw an enormous altar beyond the forest and recognized that hunting dominated Malar’s savage realm.

Soren rescued three surviving adventurers by killing Malar’s Sanctified Apostle, then harvested divine power and valuables from the collapsing God's Realm Fragment. He escaped to the Material Plane just before the fragment was destroyed, while a strange black stone formed and vanished into the spacetime torrent.

• Soren emerged from the shadows and killed Malar’s Sanctified Apostle, gaining a Legendary Soul Crystal, a Divine Rank, and divine power.
• Soren ordered the three surviving adventurers to leave, and they departed with their fallen companions.
• Soren absorbed thirty-two divine power points from the altar and used Greater Mage Hand to collect its gems and valuable materials.
• As the God's Realm Fragment collapsed, Soren used Alter Reality to escape to the Material Plane.
• The fragment was annihilated, and a strange black stone formed amid the collapse before the spacetime torrent carried it away.

Soren entered the main body of Malar’s fallen God’s Realm and tracked the Lady of Silver Moon to the Soul Pool. There, a sub-deity guardian attacked him, and Soren eagerly prepared to fight.

• Soren crossed a planar rift into the vast main body of Malar’s God’s Realm and found the remains of beast petitioners.
• After sensing a surge of energy and the Lady of Silver Moon’s presence, Soren hurried toward the disturbance and learned that Outsider Apostles still guarded the realm.
• Soren followed the signs of battle to a pristine lake and recognized it as the God of Hunt’s Pool of Reincarnation, whose power remained after its connection had been severed.
• A ferocious baboon-like guardian appeared over the Soul Pool, declared that intruders would be killed, and used Spatial Imprisonment to seal the area.
• Soren realized the guardian was a sub-deity of Malar and grew excited at the prospect of fighting it.

Soren fought and killed Malar’s Sub-Deity in the God of Hunt’s realm by overwhelming him with spells, then interrupting his recovery with Divine Power Shockwave and Power Word Kill. He gained divine power and rank from the kill and planned to integrate his gains before hunting more divine servants.

• Soren sealed the Sub-Deity’s teleportation and attacked him with five domains and a barrage of spells.
• Soren used Melf’s Minute Meteors to deal damage that bypassed the Sub-Deity’s defenses and drove him close to death.
• When the Sub-Deity began casting Greater Restoration, Soren hit him with Divine Power Shockwave and Power Word Kill, killing him before he could recover.
• Soren collected the Sub-Deity’s Soul Gem and gained divine power, divine rank, and divine rank value from the kill.
• Soren noted that he had reached 100 divine rank points and planned to integrate his divine power before leveling up or pursuing more prey.

After fusing the hunting sub-deity’s power, Soren reached Medium Divinity, gained a ninth-circle spell slot, and mastered Alter Space. He left the chapter taking the Pool of Reincarnation’s waters into his expanded dimensional space.

• Soren secured the battlefield and fused ten points of divine rank, advancing to Medium Divinity and gaining one point to all attributes.
• Soren allocated slaughter experience to his wizard levels, reached wizard level 17, and gained a ninth-circle spell slot.
• Soren returned to the Pool of Reincarnation and used divine power to master Alter Space.
• Soren expanded his Otherworldly Dimensional Space to more than a kilometer in diameter.
• Soren opened a rift and used Alter Reality to draw the Pool of Reincarnation’s water into his dimensional space.

Soren searched Malar's God's Realm for divinity, followed the Lady of Silver Moon toward its heart, and found the Grand Temple guarded by six powerful soul divine servants. The chapter ended as he watched the werewolves from the shadows, still approaching the mountain's summit.

• Soren transferred Malar's Soul Pool into his own God's Realm and killed several holy spirits, gaining divinity.
• Soren followed the Lady of Silver Moon's trail and found a temple whose reliefs recorded a long God's Realm war between Malar and another deity.
• Soren realized the Lady of Silver Moon had already taken the temple's valuable spoils and hurried onward toward the heart of the realm.
• Soren reached the ruins of a town beneath a towering mountain and identified the Grand Temple at its summit as the likely heart of Malar's God's Realm.
• Soren saw the Lady of Silver Moon's divine power flare at the summit, then approached stealthily and spotted six powerful werewolf soul divine servants guarding the Grand Temple.