Chapter Summaries

Thor Dressrosa defeated a Saint Realm opponent in the Special Recruit assessment and was officially accepted into Canaan Academy alongside Fapuer Neville. Emory explained their privileges, including Imperial Merit Points and access to the Outer Realm War, before the Illusory Domain registered their identities.

• Thor's final attack shattered the opponent's domain, and Jax and Ryze agreed that he had passed the assessment.
• The academy announced Thor's victory, restored his condition, and Emory led him and Fapuer away to register as Special Recruits.
• Emory explained that Special Recruits received Level Two authority, increased Merit Points, ranking bonuses, and the right to retain seventy percent of their Outer Realm War gains.
• Emory told Thor and Fapuer that Divine Realm students could join the Outer Realm War, while Saint Realm students could participate only through conscription.
• The Illusory Domain registered Thor Dressrosa and Fapuer Neville as Special Recruits of Canaan Academy.

Thor and Fapuer explored Canaan Academy, learning about its Academy Ranking and the Merit Points awarded to top students. They reached the library and asked a sprite to show them books about the History of the Continent.

• Emory guided Thor and Fapuer around Canaan Academy and explained that Special Recruits could use its vast library.
• Emory showed them the Academy Ranking and described the Merit Point rewards, including doubled rewards for Special Recruits.
• Thor learned the next ranking would be in about seven months and considered aiming for the top thousand, while Fapuer was stunned by the strength of the ranked students.
• Emory left Thor and Fapuer, and they decided to visit the library together.
• Thor and Fapuer entered the library with access to its first two floors, and Thor asked a sprite to guide him to books about the History of the Continent.

Thor studied the creation myth in Canaan Academy’s library, then returned to Eagle Ridge and revealed his Special Recruit status to Neil Morton. He asked Neil whether he would return to Canaan Academy, leaving Neil’s answer unknown.

• A Book Pixie guided Thor to books about the History of the Continent on the library’s second floor.
• Thor read Genesis and learned about Chaos, the gods’ Divine Wars, and the Goddess of Life’s disappearance.
• Thor reflected on the Goddess of Life’s unusual influence among humans, then used his Student ID to return to his study.
• Thor summoned Neil Morton, who had recently recovered from his injuries and advanced to the Saint Domain.
• Neil Morton saw Thor’s Canaan Academy badge and learned that Thor had become a Special Recruit.
• Thor asked Neil Morton whether he would return to Canaan Academy as a lecturer.

Thor brought Neil Morton to Canaan Academy to apply for a mentor position and learned about Neil’s past with Sophia and Haigel. Neil then sought the Illusory Realm, while Thor returned to his territory and spent the next ten days handling affairs and studying at the academy.

• Thor persuaded Neil Morton to visit Canaan Academy and used his Special Recruit privileges to bring him into the Illusory Domain.
• Thor contacted Emory, who reunited with Neil and revealed that Sophia had joined the Outer Realm War and never returned.
• Neil erupted in anger at Haigel, but Emory warned that Haigel had reached high-stage Saint Domain and was away fighting in the Outer Realm War.
• Emory explained that Haigel had separated Neil and Sophia, and Thor learned Haigel belonged to the Bitch Family.
• Neil passed the mentor assessment, then asked Emory to take him to the Illusory Realm after Thor left.
• Thor returned to his territory and spent the following ten days managing affairs and visiting Canaan Academy to read.

Thor learned that the two great empires had united against the gods and conquered more than twenty worlds, then went to watch Ryan’s Special Recruit assessment. Ryan was struggling against a Half-step Saint Domain opponent but had not yet used his Thunder Spear.

• Thor studied the History of the Continent and learned how the empires had fought the gods, united against Valoran, and begun conquering worlds through Outer Realm Wars.
• Thor realized that his empire controlled more than seven continents and that Canaan Academy’s million students came from across them.
• After leaving the library to exchange supplies for his territory, Thor overheard students discussing exceptional Special Recruit candidates who had defeated Saint Domain and Divine Domain projections.
• Thor remembered that Ryan’s Special Recruit assessment was taking place and hurried to the arena to watch.
• Thor saw Ryan’s domain breaking under a Half-step Saint Domain opponent’s Domain Prototype, but recognized that Ryan had not yet used his Thunder Spear.

Ryan constructed a Domain Prototype during his assessment, defeated the illusory projection, and became a Special Recruit of Canaan Academy. Thor used the academy's trading platform to buy resources for his territory, then returned to Eagle Ridge with plans to expand its alchemy and merchant association.

• Ryan endured the illusory projection's domain, began constructing a Domain Prototype, and defeated it after his domain took shape.
• The academy declared Ryan a Special Recruit, and Thor went to the trading platform after Ryan's breakthrough settled the battle's outcome.
• Thor spent his Merit Points and borrowed ten thousand more to exchange for a High-Grade Alchemy Compendium, Star-Moon Fruit seeds, and Purple Gold Grass seeds.
• Thor received the exchanged items at Eagle Ridge and planned to use them to accelerate his territory's alchemy and expand his merchant association beyond Northern Province.

Thor gave Arch Alchemist Semp a foundational alchemy compendium and rare seeds to help Eagle Ridge produce high-grade potions. After Peros became an Earth Knight, Thor sent him to help expand the Eagle Merchant Guild into the Violet Kingdom.

• Thor summoned Arch Alchemist Semp to the castle and showed him a complete foundational alchemy text from Imperial Canaan Academy.
• Semp studied the book for over two hours and believed he could brew High-Grade Life Potions within a month.
• Thor gave Semp Star-Moon Fruit and Purple Gold Grass seeds and asked him to have Allen try planting them.
• Peros reported that he had reached Earth Knight, becoming Eagle Ridge's fifth Earth Knight.
• Thor directed Peros to find Lajos Assad and help expand the Eagle Merchant Guild into the Violet Kingdom.

Thor sent the Eagle Merchant Guild’s expedition toward the Violet Kingdom, then prepared to travel to the Natural Forest with Anna and Avila so Anna could receive her elf inheritance. He left Ryan in charge of Eagle Ridge and departed with more than thirty knights.

• Thor arranged for Peros and Steve to join the Eagle Merchant Guild’s expansion, and a convoy set out for the Violet Kingdom with Lajos Assad and supplies.
• Avila confronted Thor after he forgot his promise to take her and Anna to the Natural Forest, reminding him that the Tree of Life would bear fruit in half a year.
• Thor apologized and promised to leave in ten days, then summoned Joseph and began arranging the journey while planning to leave Ryan to protect Eagle Ridge.
• Thor chose Marco and twenty-seven other talented knights to accompany him, including seven Great Knights and twenty Formal Knights.
• Thor entrusted Eagle Ridge to Ryan and departed toward the Natural Forest with Anna, Avila, and the knights.

Thor returned to Dreyrosa Castle, where Marquis Engel described the unrest spreading through the Tulip Kingdom and offered him another hundred thousand refugees. Thor told his father he planned to travel to the Natural Forest, and Engel agreed after testing his strength before beginning to brief him on the kingdoms along the route.

• Thor arrived at Dreyrosa Castle and reunited with Marquis Engel, who offered him a hundred thousand people gathered from other territories.
• Marquis Engel explained that the Kingdom War had left nobles dead, land devastated, and refugees flooding the provinces while the kingdom failed to intervene.
• Thor asked Engel to watch over his Northern Province territory while he traveled to the Natural Forest, and Engel agreed to consider it after testing Thor's strength.
• Thor defeated Engel in their sparring match, and Engel judged that Thor had reached at least the Half-step Saint Domain level.
• After dinner, Engel began briefing Thor on the seven kingdoms along the route and said he knew the most about the Salca Kingdom and the Macedon Kingdom.

Thor set out east after Marquis Engel warned him about the Salca and Macedon Kingdoms and gave him a Merman Pearl to conceal his identity. As Thor crossed into the chaotic Raymond Kingdom, he hurried onward, while followers of the God of the Underworld prepared for their god to descend in three months.

• Marquis Engel warned Thor that the Salca Kingdom rivaled the Serra Kingdom and gave him a Merman Pearl to hide his appearance and aura from the Macedon Kingdom.
• Thor left for the east and traveled through the Tulip Kingdom, where Frost Moon and Western Moon Provinces were plagued by disorder and Eastern Moon Province remained stable.
• After entering the Raymond Kingdom, Thor suppressed two feuding marquis families that attacked him and demanded fifty thousand gold coins from each.
• Thor encountered repeated noble attacks as he crossed the Raymond Kingdom and ordered Marco to hasten their departure.
• In the Sack Ducal Family's territory, black-robed followers declared that the God of the Underworld would descend in three months and celebrated the Empire's inability to discover their plans.

Thor discovered that the Daily Intelligence System had been disrupted by an unknown force, then learned that the Church of the Gods planned to sacrifice him to the Lord of the Underworld. He realized that the Church might be behind a broader pattern of deadly attacks across the Raymond Kingdom.

• A black-robed leader ordered Kaddafi to investigate Thor without drawing his attention, after sensing a promising sacrifice from the Tulip Kingdom.
• The Daily Intelligence System refreshed early in the morning, announcing that it had detected and cleared unknown interference.
• Thor read the intelligence and learned that the Church of the Gods intended to sacrifice his powerful soul, while noble houses would later attack him in Raymond and the Black Knight Kingdom.
• Thor connected the Church of the Gods to intelligence about towns being destroyed and thousands of people killed, and suspected the Church had orchestrated wider bloodshed and divine interference.

Thor reported the Church of the Gods' schemes and possible connection to the Lord of the Underworld to Canaan Academy, prompting Vice Dean Jax to mobilize urgently. Jax sought Ryze's help contacting the Dean, while Thor waited at the Academy.

• Thor used the Student ID to return to Canaan Academy and told Neil Morton about the Church of the Gods' influence in the kingdoms and the Divine Revelation during the Kingdom War.
• Neil Morton brought Thor to Vice Dean Jax, who listened as Thor described the sacrifices, vanished towns, and possible involvement of the Lord of the Underworld.
• Jax ordered Neil Morton to return to Thor's location and obtain a Semi-Divine Artifact, then hurried away himself.
• Jax entered a pure white room and urgently asked Ryze to contact the Dean, but Ryze said the Dean and others were on the Yulan Continent.

Jax learned that the Church of the Gods’ upheaval might threaten the Empire, and Ryze revealed a terrifying domain before taking charge of the response. Thor continued toward the Natural Forest under Canaan Academy’s protection, carrying a concealed safeguard that could summon Ryze if danger arose.

• Jax told Ryze about the Church of the Gods’ reported influence in the Empire, and Ryze decided to investigate the Raymond Kingdom himself.
• Ryze briefly unleashed his domain, leaving Jax unable to move and revealing that his strength far exceeded Jax’s expectations.
• Ryze gave Jax Illusory Origin Power for Neil Morton and questioned Thor about what he had witnessed and suspected.
• Ryze told Thor to keep the matter secret, continue to the Natural Forest, and accept a sphere of light that Jax identified as Soul Origin.
• Ryze instructed Jax to alert others as he prepared to investigate whether his teacher’s domain could spread through Canaan Academy.
• Thor continued his journey and learned through Daily Intelligence that the sphere held conscious Soul Origin sealed to summon Ryze, a powerful Upper God, if Thor faced danger.

The Church of the Gods and Raymond Kingdom nobles set a trap for Thor, surrounding him with thousands of troops and sealing the sky. Thor revealed power beyond an ordinary Sky Knight and prepared to fight, while the Church’s hidden agent remained unexposed.

• The Church of the Gods ordered Kaddafi to tell the nobles they could begin, while the controlled nobles prepared to act against Thor.
• Avila warned Thor that a growing number of people had been following them, but Thor said he expected an attack and ordered his Knight Order to wear armor at dawn.
• Duke Sack and Nizar Pass confronted Thor with thousands of elite troops, accusing him of attacking Raymond nobles and demanding his surrender.
• Thor called out Duke Sack and the Pass Family for serving the Church of the Gods, but the surrounding forces attacked him.
• Duke Sack sealed the sky around Thor and brought eleven Sky Knights to surround him, but Thor’s domain power shocked Duke Sack and revealed he was more than an ordinary Sky Knight.
• Thor called for the Church’s hidden agent to show themself, formed a Thunder Spear, and charged at his attackers.

Thor overwhelmed Duke Sack’s forces despite the Divine Domain suppressing his domain, while Avila and Anna helped Eagle Ridge’s outnumbered knights turn the battle around. Duke Sack killed the two remaining Sky Knights to absorb their hearts and prepare to enter the Saint Domain, giving Thor the chance to test himself against a true Saint Domain expert.

• Thor used his enhanced body and speed to bring down nine of the twelve Sky Knights in a matter of moments, even after Duke Sack expanded his domain.
• Anna froze the Earth Knights who charged her and Avila, while magical enhancements allowed Thor’s twenty-eight knights to hold off Duke Sack’s much larger force.
• The enemy troops saw Sky Knights falling from the sky and panicked, giving Marco and his remaining men an opening to counterattack.
• Duke Sack lured the final two Sky Knights close and killed them, taking their hearts to trigger a temporary advance into the Saint Domain.
• Thor stopped attacking and prepared to fight Duke Sack, eager to test his strength against a real Saint Domain expert.

Duke Sack sacrificed two Half-step Saint Domain hearts and thousands of knights to enter the Saint Domain, but Thor overwhelmed him with his Thunder Domain and spear. After Thor defeated Duke Sack, Kaddafi of the Church of the Undead appeared and challenged him with the power of the Divine Domain.

• Duke Sack absorbed two hearts and the blood essence of thousands of knights, transforming into a Saint Domain expert.
• Thor stabilized his Thunder Domain with the Law Imprint and Divine Artifact Phantom, then struck Duke Sack and sent him flying.
• Thor tore apart Duke Sack's blood-red domain and kicked him into the ground, leaving him severely injured.
• Thor sensed a hidden observer and confronted Kaddafi, a First-class Priest of the Church of the Undead.
• Kaddafi declared that his Divine Domain could overwhelm Thor, but Thor prepared to fight and said he wanted to test its strength.

Thor fought Kaddafi, a Divine Domain expert, and discovered how overwhelming the gap between their powers was. The Death Law Imprint awakened, transforming the battlefield as Thor began comprehending the power of God of Death Thanatos, while Kaddafi struggled against the spreading corruption of his Divine Domain.

• Thor charged Kaddafi and survived the Divine Domain's crushing force, then attacked again despite the damage.
• Kaddafi immobilized Thor and began draining his Life Source Power, but the Death Law Imprint between Thor's brows pulsed and released a vast aura of death.
• Thor's domain transformed into a black world filled with the River of the Underworld, undead, and skeletons, which began corrupting Kaddafi's Divine Domain.
• Kaddafi tried to seize Thor but was struck back by a mysterious power, while an unseen voice told him to let Thor endure the rare opportunity.
• Thor's consciousness remained immersed in comprehending Thanatos's power as his Mental Power and domain began transforming, leaving Kaddafi besieged by the undead.

Thor was swept into visions of the ancient Divine War and experienced the life and battles of God of Death Thanatos, gaining a deeper understanding of the Power of Law as his Death Domain formed. While Kaddafi struggled against Thor’s expanding domain, Thor’s vision continued into the underworld’s war among its five Main Gods.

• Thor was carried through the River of the Underworld and saw five rivers and visions of powerful ancient gods.
• Thor entered the perspective of Thanatos, learned about his mastery of the Rules of Death, and accompanied him to the Okaren Plane, where Thanatos killed its inhabitants.
• Thanatos fought Hyperion, God of Light, and was destroyed; after emerging from the River of the Underworld, he found the Divine Domain had collapsed and the gods had returned to their continents.
• Thanatos joined further battles after sensing God of Darkness’s aura, while Thor’s understanding of the Power of Law deepened and his Death Domain rapidly took shape.
• Kaddafi retreated as Thor’s Death Domain contaminated more than a third of his Divine Domain, while Thanatos entered the war among the five Main Gods of the underworld.

Thor gained a profound understanding of the Death Law and began an unexpected transformation toward the Sanctuary Realm. As Avila and Anna supplied life magic to sustain him, his breakthrough continued to consume enormous amounts of vitality.

• During Thor's insight, Kaddafi fled, but Ryze caught up with him and killed him after Kaddafi's body exploded.
• Ryze infiltrated Duke Sack's manor, learned from Kulin Austin that the Church of the Undead planned to activate a Divine Revelation ritual in the Raymond Kingdom, and questioned the other black-robed figures as divine restrictions burned them.
• Thor remained immersed in his insight for five days while Marco and the Eagle Knight Order guarded him; Marco and two other knights advanced to Earth Knight, and no Formal Knights remained.
• Avila sensed Thor was about to break through and joined Anna in using life magic to support him as he awakened weak and nearly drained.
• Thor swallowed High-Grade Life Potions as his Life Seed began maturing and transforming, while Avila called for fourth-tier life magic when his vitality continued to run low.

Thor broke through into the Sanctuary Realm by cultivating his Thunder Domain, while Ryze faced Valkyrie, God of Death, in a battle between Upper Gods. Thor emerged with a domain spanning thousands of meters and began testing his new control over space.

• Thor chose to inscribe his incomplete Thunder Domain into his transforming Life Seed, and a Thunder Spear phantom entered it.
• Thor's breakthrough sent dark clouds and lightning across the sky as his domain spread beyond a thousand meters; Avila, Anna, Marco, and the nearby knights retreated.
• Ryze learned that more than seventy percent of the continent's kingdoms had fallen into the Church of the Gods' scheme, then confronted Valkyrie, God of Death.
• Ryze and Valkyrie summoned their Divine Kingdoms and began fighting, sealing off the Black Knight Kingdom from the surrounding world.
• Thor's Life Seed sprouted, and his Thunder Domain expanded to five thousand meters before he completed his breakthrough into the Sanctuary Realm.
• Thor rose into the air and used his new power to bring a distant magical beast directly before him.