Chapter Summaries

Thor revealed his ice Law Imprint to prove he qualified for the discussion, then joined the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance’s ten duelists. After briefing the group and guiding Pavla, he arrived at the central venue as the duels began.

• Thor introduced himself to the archdukes and marquises, then used his ice Pseudo-Domain to freeze Marquis McKendie and two Sky Knights after McKendie challenged his right to attend.
• The archdukes recognized Thor’s Law Imprint and welcomed him into the discussion, where his inclusion reduced the number of candidates to be selected from two to one.
• The alliance chose a Peak Sky Knight under Duke Lepur as its tenth duelist, and the archdukes briefed the participants on the opposing nobles’ strengths.
• After the meeting, Pavla asked Thor for guidance, and he trained her for more than an hour at Count Engel’s encouragement.
• The next morning, Thor and the other nine duelists gathered at the central venue as the duels officially began.

Thor and the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance gathered with sixteen kingdoms for the Ancient Duel, where matchups were decided and several alliances began fighting. As the Violet Kingdom lost to Macedon, Thor’s alliance prepared to face the Beast Soul Kingdom, which was now weaker than them.

• Thor surveyed the gathered alliances, met Isabelle, and learned that Macedon and Serra had produced powerful Half-step Saint Domain experts.
• The kingdoms agreed to Ancient Duel rules and drew matchups, pairing the Tulip Kingdom with the Beast Soul Kingdom.
• Divine Wood Kingdom surrendered half its Law Fragments to Serra, while Satchi defeated Greenfield and claimed half its fragments.
• Macedon defeated the Violet Kingdom after a young Sky Knight with a Law Imprint overcame several opponents, including Isabelle’s father.
• The Tulip Kingdom and Beast Soul Kingdom began their duel, with Thor’s alliance now holding the advantage.

The Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance faced the Beast Soul Kingdom Noble Alliance in a duel, where Segund Isakov killed Marquis Solo before Count Engel entered the arena. Engel defeated Isakov with his Domain and Phoenix Flame, but another Beast Soul Kingdom fighter transformed into a giant bear and unleashed a Domain against him.

• Segund Isakov killed Marquis Solo with a single strike, leaving the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance shaken.
• Count Engel volunteered to fight Isakov, and his Domain surprised the Beast Soul Kingdom and the Violet Kingdom Noble Alliance.
• Isabelle recognized the Dreyrosa Family crest and told her father that Engel was a count from Frost Moon Province.
• Engel burned Isakov with his Domain and Phoenix Flame, absorbing his life force and defeating him.
• A Beast Soul Kingdom fighter approached Engel after transforming into a giant brown bear and released his own Domain.

Count Engel defeated several Beast Soul Kingdom fighters before Archduke Leopold took over against its powerful representative. Their clash revealed that both leaders could wield true domains, and Leopold fought on even terms with the Beast Soul Kingdom’s representative.

• Count Engel defeated Nazril Hilbert by overpowering his domain and piercing his chest with a flaming spear.
• Count Engel went on to defeat three more Beast Soul Kingdom fighters as his Fire Domain suppressed their domains.
• The Beast Soul Kingdom’s middle-aged representative dispersed Count Engel’s domain, prompting Archduke Leopold to step forward and take his place.
• Archduke Leopold and the Beast Soul Kingdom’s representative revealed true domains and began a fierce battle.
• The Serra Kingdom’s representative identified the Beast Soul Kingdom fighter’s power as that of a Saint Domain magical beast, while Leopold’s domain proved strong enough to contend with him.

Archduke Leopold defeated the Beast Soul Kingdom’s champion, securing Law Fragments for the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance. After debating whether to risk another challenge, the alliance chose the Divine Wood Kingdom and won again, leaving the story after the second round as the nobles began discussing their next move.

• Archduke Leopold defeated the Beast Soul Kingdom’s expert after an hour-long battle, and the Beast Soul Kingdom handed over half its Law Fragments.
• The Inferno Kingdom defeated the Skyforest Kingdom, while the Beast Soul Kingdom considered challenging the weakened alliance for its newly gained fragments.
• Archduke Leopold, Archduke Karenina, and Archduke Skodar discussed their next challenge, and Count Engel identified the Satchi Kingdom as a tempting but risky target.
• The Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance chose to challenge the Divine Wood Kingdom instead of the Satchi Kingdom.
• In the second round, the Tulip Kingdom defeated the Divine Wood Kingdom and gained twenty-five Law Fragments as the Macedon Kingdom, Violet Kingdom, and Beast Soul Kingdom also won.

The Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance chose the Macedon Kingdom for the third-round duel, and Thor revealed his Law Imprint and overwhelming thunder Pseudo-Domain. He defeated Tilly Smith decisively, leaving the other alliances astonished by the Dreyrosa Family’s strength.

• Archduke Leopold chose the Macedon Kingdom as the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance’s third-round opponent and assigned the duelists.
• The Violet Kingdom defeated the battered Satchi Kingdom, while the Greenfield Kingdom crushed the Divine Wood Kingdom.
• Tilly Smith of the Macedon Kingdom stepped forward with a Law Imprint, and Thor answered with his own Pseudo-Domain.
• Isabelle recognized Thor’s extraordinary growth, while other alliance members wondered about the Dreyrosa Family and a Serra Kingdom representative considered recruiting him for Canaan Academy.
• Thor overwhelmed Tilly Smith’s thunder Pseudo-Domain and struck him down with a barrage of lightning.

Thor defeated Tilly Smith and then fought Archduke Smith, whose Gravity Domain failed to overcome Thor’s lightning power. Thor gained the upper hand and continued suppressing Archduke Smith as the battle intensified.

• Thor overwhelmed Tilly Smith with his Lightning Pseudo-Domain, leaving the noble alliances stunned.
• Archduke Smith entered the duel and used his Gravity Domain to crush Thor’s Pseudo-Domain, but Count Engel insisted Thor could handle him.
• Thor strengthened his Pseudo-Domain with the lightning Divine Artifact Phantom and clashed with Archduke Smith’s Domain Prototype.
• Thor charged Archduke Smith with a Thunder Spear and forced him to retreat after their weapons collided.
• Thor drew on the abundant Thunder Power to grow stronger and began suppressing Archduke Smith, while a figure from the Serra Kingdom sensed something and looked over in confusion.

Thor’s Thunder Power overwhelmed Archduke Smit as the Law of Thunder awakened throughout the Thunder Prison, and Thor brought down a massive hammer that shattered Smit’s Domain Prototype. The Macedon Kingdom conceded just before the hammer struck, leaving Thor victorious and the onlookers stunned.

• Thor’s Thunder Prison suppressed Archduke Smit, while nobles gathered within the Thunder Prison and their blood intensified its lightning and revealed traces of the Law of Thunder.
• Thor sensed that Divine Revelation had begun and gained strength as the Law of Thunder spread through the sky.
• Archduke Smit used a secret technique to push Thor back briefly, but Thor summoned a colossal Thunder Hammer that shattered Smit’s Gravity Domain Prototype and left him helpless.
• The Macedon Kingdom conceded before Thor’s Thunder Hammer struck Archduke Smit, and others caught Smit as he fell.
• The Thunder Hammer and dark clouds dissipated, and the gathered nobles looked at Thor with newfound awe.

Thor defeated four Half-step Saint Domains from the Macedon Kingdom, forcing its Noble Alliance to concede and surrender more than a hundred Law Fragments to the Tulip Kingdom. After the Tulip leaders praised him, Lecturer Carol of the Serra Kingdom arrived and invited Thor to join Imperial Canaan Academy.

• Thor defeated Hani Hershi and Rabid Hicks, then won a half-hour battle against a stronger fourth challenger from the Macedon Kingdom.
• The Macedon Kingdom conceded, and its Noble Alliance sent more than a hundred Law Fragments to the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance.
• Thor returned to his allies, reassured Count Engel, and received praise from Archduke Leopold, Archduke Skodar, and Archduke Karenina.
• Thor focused on the Serra Kingdom as the alliance discussed choosing its opponent for the duel's final day.
• Lecturer Carol arrived with an old Half-step Saint Domain expert and asked whether Thor, a descendant of Dressrosa, would join Imperial Canaan Academy.

Thor accepted Carol’s offer to apply for special recruitment to Canaan Academy after learning he would not need to leave his territory. The Tulip alliance celebrated Carol’s decision not to challenge them, and Thor later went with Isabelle to meet Duke Anubi.

• Thor initially declined Carol’s offer to join Canaan Academy because he could not abandon his territory, but agreed after Carol explained that students could remain there.
• Carol gave Thor a Temporary Student Certificate and announced he would not challenge the Tulip Noble Alliance again, prompting the alliance to celebrate its safety and gains.
• After the arena battles, Thor returned to his room to study the certificate, then prepared to guide Pavla before Isabelle arrived with an invitation from her grandfather.
• Thor left with Isabelle for the Violet Kingdom’s residence, where Duke Anubi and his companions welcomed him.

Thor received three High-Grade Life Potions from Archduke Anubi and learned that his youth convinced the Anubis Family he could reach Canaan Academy. His Daily Intelligence showed a changed future in which he survived the coming Divine War, while the Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance won the gladiatorial matches and amassed more than five hundred Law Fragments.

• Archduke Anubi gave Thor three High-Grade Life Potions and asked him to consider recruiting Anubis Family descendants if he remained at Canaan Academy.
• Archduke Anubi told his family that Thor was not yet twenty-two, leaving them astonished and convinced of his exceptional prospects.
• Thor read Daily Intelligence predicting that he would enter the Shattered Divine Ruins, avoid the investigation of Thunder Prison, and survive the Divine War.
• The Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance won the gladiatorial matches after the Serra Kingdom Noble Alliance declined to challenge it.
• The Tulip Kingdom Noble Alliance collected 135 Law Fragments from the other alliances, bringing its holdings to more than five hundred and raising the question of how to divide them.

After dividing the Law Fragments, Thor’s group used them to grow stronger and set out west in search of Life Grass. They neared their destination, where a canyon containing shattered buildings and traces of the Power of Rules caught their attention.

• Archduke Leopold assigned half of the Law Fragments to the Dreyrosa Family and divided the rest among the dukes and marquises, after which the alliance parted ways.
• Thor absorbed two Death Law Fragments, forming his Death Pseudo-Domain, while Ryan advanced to the Sky Knight realm and the others also strengthened.
• Count Engel asked Thor where they should go, and Thor proposed traveling west to find high-quality Life Grass seeds.
• Thor’s group traveled west and passed an Earthbound Dragon without alerting it.
• Near the Life Grass, Thor’s group noticed a canyon containing shattered buildings and a faint Power of Rules.

Thor, Count Engel, and the Eagle Knight Order entered a Divine Ruins that awakened into an illusory Divine Kingdom, but their exploration revealed no immediate inheritance. At dawn, Thor’s Daily Intelligence System detected a world anomaly and offered to temporarily rematch the world, which he accepted.

• The awakened Divine Ruins sealed the valley and restored its buildings as an illusory Divine Kingdom, while Fapuer escaped Earthbound Dragons by jumping from a cliff and found a Life Fruit.
• Thor reassured Count Engel that the deity was dead, and the two ordered their forces to explore the ruins for laws or an inheritance.
• Count Engel’s group found that the restored scenes were intangible and the Divine Ruins seemed nearly exhausted, so everyone rested inside the sealed world.
• At dawn, Thor’s Daily Intelligence System detected a world anomaly and asked whether to temporarily rematch the world, and Thor agreed.

Thor entered God of Death Thanatos's Divine Ruins and fought its undead while comprehending the Death Law. Outside, the Kingdom War neared its end as blood from the spreading battles gathered beneath Thunder Prison, beginning an unnoticed sacrifice.

• Thor received intelligence identifying the Divine Kingdom as Thanatos's and learned that its inheritance required mastery of the Death Law.
• Thor used the Death Law to transform the Divine Kingdom, revealing two Rivers of the Underworld, then entered with Anna, Ryan, and Marshall while Count Engel followed with Michael and the Earth Knights.
• Thor fought the undead with the Death Law, grew increasingly immersed in its power, and absorbed Death Law traces from the creatures he destroyed.
• As the Kingdom War neared its end, nobles fought over Law Fragments and other spoils, while blood from the battles seeped toward Thunder Prison and began an unnoticed sacrifice.

Marris Campbell gained the Law Imprint of Thunder in the Thunder Prison, rapidly became a Half-step Saint Domain expert, and slaughtered everyone there to absorb more Thunder Power. The Thunder Prison then erupted as an ancient god awakened, drawing nobles toward it before a vast lightning surge annihilated them; Carroll recognized the approaching figure and fled with his Knight Order.

• A battle between the Satchi Kingdom's Noble Knight Order and Great Horned Ox-Demon Beasts intensified as blood-red aura made the beasts more violent.
• Marris Campbell received the Law Imprint of Thunder, broke through from Earth Knight to Half-step Saint Domain, and attacked a Knight Order to gain more Thunder Power.
• Marris Campbell slaughtered the Knight Orders and beasts in the Thunder Prison, leaving no living creatures there.
• An ancient body beneath the Thunder Prison exploded into Thunder Power, sending a massive lightning pillar into the sky and drawing nobles toward the area.
• Thunder Power swept across a thousand miles, annihilating the approaching nobles as an illusory river showed a towering man of lightning stepping toward them.
• Carroll recognized the danger and ordered his Knight Order to flee.

Antonio, an Upper God of Fire, confronted the resurrected God of Thunder Perun in the Otherworldly Realm and overwhelmed him with golden flames. Perun’s Divine Kingdom collapsed, and he was left burning in Antonio’s fire.

• Perun returned from the past as a vast Thunder Prison engulfed the Otherworldly Realm and destroyed the nobles and knights caught in it.
• Antonio revealed himself as the Upper God of Fire, and he and Perun clashed as their Divine Kingdoms and elemental powers tore apart the realm.
• Antonio unleashed golden flames that burned Perun’s lightning and began consuming his Divine Kingdom.
• Antonio entered Perun’s Divine Kingdom and spread the golden flames until the kingdom collapsed.
• Antonio pierced Perun’s chest with his flaming spear, and Perun’s Thunder Power and divine blood began to burn.

Antonio defeated God of Thunder Perun, but the battle shattered the Otherworldly Realm and trapped the Kingdom War participants among its fragments. After discovering the Church of the Alien God had arranged the disaster from within the Empire, Antonio began investigating and rushed to warn the Emperor, while the stranded nobles and Thor remained unaware of the larger crisis.

• Antonio overwhelmed God of Thunder Perun, destroyed his Divine Kingdom, and killed him as the Otherworldly Realm broke apart.
• Carroll told the Serra Kingdom’s survivors that humanity had won, but the nobles realized they were stranded among fragments of the shattered realm.
• Back in his main body, Antonio recognized that Perun’s presence at the Kingdom War site was deliberate and suspected the Church of the Alien God.
• Antonio ordered an investigation, but the officials shown in the records were already dead, confirming that the Church had infiltrated the Empire.
• Antonio ordered preparations to meet the Emperor, while the trapped nobles panicked and Thor and the others in the Divine Ruins remained unaware of the devastation.

Antonio reported that the Church of the Alien God had disrupted the Kingdom War, prompting Caesar XIV to order Vachuli Saint Topman to investigate while the Empire purged the cult. In the Divine Ruins, Thor endured after the others withdrew and reached a breakthrough that produced a diamond-shaped crystal as the illusory world collapsed around him.

• Antonio told Caesar XIV that the Church of the Alien God had moved the Kingdom War to the place where the God of Thunder Perun fell and summoned a Divine Descent, narrowly preventing catastrophic losses among the nobles.
• Caesar XIV gave Vachuli Saint Topman three days to produce results, and Vachuli led a sweeping purge of the Church of the Alien God across the Empire.
• The Kingdom War was declared over, and survivors were gradually teleported out of the shattered fragments with Imperial Merit Points promised as compensation.
• Marshall emerged from the Divine Ruins after a day with Peak Earth Knight strength and new insights into the Death Law, while Thor and the others continued fighting inside.
• Michael, Anna, Ryan, and Count Engel withdrew as they reached their limits, leaving Thor alone to face the growing undead and develop a Death Domain Prototype.
• Thor reached a critical threshold, causing the undead and skeletons to explode and a diamond-shaped crystal to appear as the Divine Ruins collapsed around him.

Thor absorbed the Death God’s godhead in the Divine Ruins, gaining deeper insight into Death Law as his Domain Prototype began to form. After the ruins collapsed, the group found themselves isolated in a void, and Michael reported that the surrounding area had been cut off.

• Thor touched the black crystal and absorbed the Death God’s godhead, strengthening his Death Law Imprint and advancing his Domain Prototype.
• The Divine Ruins began to collapse as the power sustaining them weakened, and Thor rejoined Count Engel and the others.
• Thor confirmed to Count Engel that he had absorbed the godhead, then used Life Source Power and Death Law to perceive a series of scenes.
• The Divine Ruins collapsed completely, returning the group to the canyon as the surrounding ruins rapidly weathered away.
• The group discovered that the forest and much of the valley had vanished into nothingness, and Michael reported that the area had been cut off from the outside.

After the Otherworldly Realm shattered, Thor explained to Count Engel that they were trapped in a fragment and expected the Empire to rescue them, then studied the Death Divinity he had absorbed. Nobles began returning to their kingdoms, where anxious families awaited them, but the Dreyrosa Family had not yet appeared.

• Thor told Count Engel they were likely inside a fragment of the shattered Otherworldly Realm and advised him to wait for the Empire's Teleportation Magic.
• Thor began comprehending the Death Law contained in Thanatos's divinity while the others reviewed their gains.
• White lights transported nobles out of the fragments and into the kingdoms' plazas, where their families waited anxiously.
• Carlo Dreyrosa worried as nobles returned in groups, and the crowd realized many survivors were visibly shaken by their ordeal.
• Archduke Leopold returned and asked whether the Dreyrosa Family Knight Order had arrived; Archduke Karenina and Archduke Skodar also asked after them.