Chapter Summaries

Thor and his Knight Order entered Salca Kingdom, where its unusual history and centralized rule raised his suspicions. Daily Intelligence warned that the Seventh Prince would die after challenging him and that detours could expose the group to fatal divine threats, so Thor continued along the original route and reached information indicating they would safely leave the kingdom.

• Thor used his new spatial ability to release a magical beast, then ordered the Knight Order to continue their journey.
• Thor's group crossed several kingdoms and reached Salca Kingdom, whose ancient history, centralized monarchy, and lack of the Church of the Gods surprised him.
• Daily Intelligence predicted that the Seventh Prince would notice Thor, challenge him, die, and trigger a pursuit across Salca Kingdom.
• Thor tried to choose detours, but Daily Intelligence warned that each alternative route would bring a Divine Revelation, so he returned to the original route.
• Thor continued through Salca Kingdom as Daily Intelligence showed repeated troubles but no fatal outcome on the original path.
• Thor saw intelligence stating that the group would safely leave Salca Kingdom and wondered why the kingdom seemed connected to Dressrosa.

Thor used the Daily Intelligence to uncover the Dreyrosa Family’s rise and sudden ruin, along with the royal succession conflict and old grudges threatening him in the Salca Kingdom. After receiving intelligence that eased his remaining concern, he entered the City of Serbia, where the next stage of his journey awaited.

• Thor learned that the Dreyrosa Family had once been a powerful force before its continent and many of its members were destroyed, and that his branch might be the last.
• Thor connected the current danger to the Monk Ducal Family’s old hatred, the Heath Ducal Family’s past friendship, and the First and Second Princes’ interest in him and the Upper God divine spark.
• Thor concluded that the Seventh Prince’s death would implicate him regardless of changes to his route, but continued traveling through the Salca Kingdom.
• After two days of new intelligence dispelled his remaining concern, Thor and his group arrived at the City of Serbia.
• Thor noticed that the gate officer had disappeared, then entered the city with Anna and Avila excited by its size.

Thor and Avila arrived in the City of Serbia, where Thor rested with his group while waiting for their pursuers to act. The city’s authorities identified him as a descendant of the Dreyrosa Family, and the news spread, drawing the attention of the Salca Kingdom’s Seventh Prince.

• Thor took Avila and the group to an inn, where he paid for two days of rest and waited for the other side to make a move.
• The City Lord reviewed a list of suspicious arrivals and ordered an investigation after seeing Thor Dressrosa listed as a Count from the Dreyrosa Family.
• The City Lord learned Thor really was connected to the Dreyrosa Family and realized news of his arrival would spread despite the kingdom’s strict controls.
• A burly man learned that a Dreyrosa descendant had arrived and, despite his teacher’s concern, ordered his Knight Attendant to find Thor and the Eagle Knight Order.

Thor read that the City of Serbia would be destroyed by a magical beast riot and planned to leave before the crisis engulfed him. After refusing Harris Salca’s challenge, he prepared to depart the city the following evening, and the updated Daily Intelligence showed that his immediate troubles had been avoided.

• Thor saw that Harris Salca would challenge him, die the next evening, and become the focus of an arrest investigation as the City of Serbia faced a magical beast riot.
• Thor recognized the repeated reports of magical beast attacks as a threat possibly connected to the Church of the Gods and decided he could not intervene.
• Harris Salca confronted Thor and offered family information in exchange for a duel, but Thor refused and warned him privately to seek another way out.
• Thor returned to the inn, ordered his people to prepare supplies, and planned to leave the following evening after Harris Salca’s death was set in motion.
• Thor’s Daily Intelligence updated to show his immediate trouble had been resolved, and he turned his attention to reaching the Natural Forest and improving his Canaan Academy ranking.

After the Seventh Prince died in the City of Serbia, a massive magical beast assault destroyed the city, while the Church of the Gods also wiped out the City of Lockxia and other kingdoms. Thor continued toward the Macedon Kingdom, and the chapter ended with Neil Morton catching up with him.

• The City of Serbia's leaders investigated the Seventh Prince's death but found no suspects before an unprecedented magical beast horde reached the city.
• Thor sensed the assault beginning, continued traveling with his companions, and said he had already sent news to Canaan Academy.
• Fifteen days later, Thor learned that the City of Serbia and the City of Lockxia had been destroyed, and he identified the Church of the Gods as responsible.
• Thor explained that gods and other powerful members of the Church of the Gods were driving the continent into widespread turmoil.
• Neil Morton flew up to Thor, complained that the chase had nearly worn him out, and descended to meet him.

Thor and Neil Morton crossed the troubled Macedon Kingdom and reached the outskirts of the Natural Forest, where Avila and Anna looked forward to returning to elf lands. Nearby, a powerful slave-catching party fled with a captive while elven pursuers struggled to stop them.

• Neil Morton warned Thor that the Salca Kingdom was unlikely to withstand attacks by an Intermediate God because the empires had sent much of their strength to Yulan Continent.
• Thor and his knights crossed into the Macedon Kingdom after the City of Solon was destroyed, and they saw signs of conflict, magical-beast attacks, and blood sacrifices spreading through the region.
• Thor reasoned that the Church of the Gods had weakened the continent through the Outer Realm War and Kingdom War, then focused on improving himself and raising his Canaan Academy ranking.
• Thor's group crossed the Macedon Kingdom and entered the outskirts of the Natural Forest, where Avila and Anna grew excited about returning to their homeland.
• A slave-catching party fled through the Natural Forest with a wriggling sack as elves pursued them, but the attackers fought off the elven squad and escaped with the captive.

Thor and his group entered the Natural Forest, where Thor used his Daily Intelligence to find and rescue Ivie from a slave-catching team. After Thor killed the captors, Avila recognized Ivie, leaving the two elves reunited.

• Slave catchers pursued an elf squad while carrying Ivie, and the elves struggled to stop them from escaping.
• Thor read his Daily Intelligence about the slave-catching team and decided to rescue Ivie as he traveled toward the Elf Kingdom with Avila.
• The slave catchers encountered Thor's group, claimed to be from the Ford Family, and tried to surround them after Thor demanded they leave Ivie behind.
• Thor immobilized the attackers with Sanctuary Realm power and made their bodies explode, then cleared away the remains.
• Thor asked Avila whether she knew the elf girl in the sack, and Avila recognized Ivie as Ivie spotted her.

Thor and his companions reached the Natural Forest during the Life Sacrifice Ceremony, where the Elf Queen thanked him for rescuing Avila, Anna, and Ivie and offered him access to the Life Ancient Tree. The chapter ended with Anna asking whether accepting the elven inheritance would prevent her from leaving the forest, and the Elf Queen assuring her she was free to go wherever she wished.

• Ivie reunited with Katerine and the other elf guards, while Avila argued with Natalie over bringing humans into the Natural Forest and Ivie's capture.
• Avila led Thor and his group deeper into the forest under the wary escort of eight Elf Girls, who watched Anna with curiosity because she was a Nature Elf bound to a Half-Elf by a high-level Life Sharing Contract.
• On the third day, Thor's group entered the Natural Forest, where the Life Ancient Tree's power caused several members of the Knight Order to break through to higher ranks.
• The Elf Queen welcomed Thor beneath the Life Ancient Tree, thanked him for saving Avila, Anna, and Ivie, and allowed his Knight Order to stay for three days and Thor to remain for three months.
• The Elf Queen expressed regret to Anna about Althea and asked what Anna planned to do; Anna asked whether accepting the inheritance would keep her in the Natural Forest, and the Queen said she was free to leave.

Thor and Anna toured the Elf Kingdom with Avila, learning about elven society and the origins of its people while Thor cultivated beneath the Life Ancient Tree. The Daily Intelligence System revealed an approaching Life Tide, and by the fourth day Thor’s Knight Order had grown stronger as another knight advanced to Earth Knight.

• The Elf Queen welcomed Anna, assigned Avila to guide Thor and Anna, and then ordered Avila to spend twenty years in the confinement chamber for leaving the Natural Forest without permission.
• Avila led Thor and Anna around the Elf Kingdom and explained that elves could be born through the Life Sacrifice Ceremony or from plants and trees touched by the Life Ancient Tree’s power.
• Thor learned that the Elf Queen acted mainly as the kingdom’s guardian and that elves were treated as equals, then returned to the Life Ancient Tree to cultivate with his knights.
• Thor’s Daily Intelligence System reported that a Life Tide would arrive in two days and that Thor could receive its baptism near the Life Ancient Tree; it also listed several other future events and valuable items in the Elf Kingdom.
• Thor and his knights cultivated beneath the Life Ancient Tree, and on the fourth day another knight advanced to Earth Knight while the rest reached at least Great Knight level.
• Thor stabilized his Sanctuary Realm and came within one step of reaching its middle stage.

Thor advanced to the middle stage of the Sanctuary Realm during the Life Tide and attempted to inscribe the Laws of Death and Frost alongside Thunder into his Life Seed. The Elf Queen’s Law of Life stabilized the three powers temporarily, leaving Thor one year to find a way to make them permanent.

• The Life Tide advanced Marco to Peak Earth Knight, while the other twenty Eagle Knight Order members also improved before they left the Life Ancient Tree’s area.
• After absorbing the Life Tide for four days, Thor reached the middle stage of the Sanctuary Realm and improved his Law Domains of Thunder, Ice and Snow, and Death.
• Thor tried to inscribe the Laws of Death and Frost into his Life Seed alongside Thunder, but the three powers pushed his body to the brink of collapse.
• The Elf Queen used her Law of Life to stabilize the three Laws within Thor’s body, and Thor realized he had succeeded in forming a domain from all three.
• The Elf Queen told Thor the binding would last at most one year and said he must either comprehend higher Laws or completely fuse the three powers to stabilize them.

Thor waited for the Elf Kingdom’s Life Sacrifice Ceremony, hoping to comprehend the Law of Life and stabilize his Law Domains. On the ceremony’s fourth day, Daily Intelligence revealed that his contract with Anna gave him a chance to perceive the Law of Life, while warning that an Abyssal deity would awaken in seven days.

• Thor cultivated beneath the Life Ancient Tree as the Earth Violent Bear grew and broke through to the late Sanctuary Realm.
• The Life Sacrifice Ceremony began, and the Life Ancient Tree’s power spread across the Elf Kingdom, nourishing Anna and the gathered elves.
• Anna’s Ice Elf, Nicole, met the Nature Elves, while Avila told Anna that comprehending the Law of Life could make her the next queen; Anna said she wanted to follow Thor instead.
• After three days of the ceremony, Thor still had not sensed the Law of Life, and the rising Life Source Power threatened to destabilize his three Law Domains.
• On the fourth day, Daily Intelligence said Thor’s Life Sharing Contract with Anna gave him a chance to comprehend the Law of Life and that he should withdraw his other Law powers; Thor began drawing them inward.

Thor comprehended the Law of Life during the Life Sacrifice Ceremony, calming the competing Law Domains within his body and advancing to the peak of the Sanctuary Realm. As the ceremony ended, Anna remained enveloped in light while the Elf Queen noticed the Life Ancient Tree’s exhaustion, and Thor set his sights on reaching the Divine Realm before the Academy Ranking.

• Thor sensed a faint resonance in the Life Essence and repeatedly tried to connect it with the resonance within his body.
• The Elf Queen saw Avila and Ivie surrounded by light, then recognized the Ancient Elf Legacy gathering around Anna.
• Thor finally guided the resonances together and comprehended the Law of Life as his Mental Power and Spiritual Sea responded.
• When the seven-day ceremony ended, Avila and Ivie discovered that each had gained a trace of the Law of Life, while Anna remained wrapped in light.
• The Elf Queen ended the ceremony and noticed that fewer new elves had emerged and that the Life Ancient Tree seemed exhausted.
• Thor’s Law of Life calmed his three Law Domains, his Tree of Life absorbed the accumulated energy, and he reached the peak of the Sanctuary Realm.

Thor discovered that Anna had obtained the Ancient Elf Legacy and agreed she should remain in the Elf Kingdom to master it. After returning to Canaan Academy, he learned the Academy Ranking Competition had been moved up and sought a way to reach the Divine Realm, leaving with Neil Morton to pursue a divine-fire breakthrough.

• Thor saw Anna had obtained the Ancient Elf Legacy, and the Elf Queen asked him to let Anna stay in the Elf Kingdom to master it; he agreed.
• The Elf Queen sensed that Thor had comprehended the Law of Life and gave him a Life Mark that let him enter and leave the Elf Kingdom.
• Thor logged into Canaan Academy and learned from Neil Morton that the Academy Ranking Competition would begin in two days, with doubled Merit Point rewards and new prizes.
• Thor asked how to break through to the Divine Realm, and Neil Morton explained he could use divine fire in the Illusory Domain to draw out his divinity.
• Neil Morton offered to pay the ten thousand Merit Points needed to enter the Land of Divine Fire in exchange for one of Thor's future Hell Plane entry slots; Thor agreed and followed him toward the library.

Thor entered the Divine Fire Domain to comprehend divinity and stabilized his Thunder, Death, and Frost Law Domains, with the Law of Life suppressing their turbulence. After discovering a possible way to unite the three laws through the Law of Life, he began his breakthrough into the Sanctuary Realm.

• Neil Morton led Thor to the Land of Divine Fire, where Thor entered its boundless white expanse to comprehend divinity.
• Thor used the Daily Intelligence update and his Law of Thunder Domain to draw out divinity and expand his domain through the white world.
• Blaise Mendoza witnessed Thor's Thunder and Death Domains emerge, followed by the Frost Domain, and marveled at his progress.
• Thor mobilized his Death and Frost Domains, while the Law of Life enveloped all three and calmed the turbulence in his body.
• Thor realized the Law of Life might unite the three other laws and began his breakthrough into the Sanctuary Realm.

Thor broke through to the Divine Domain, returned in time to enter the Academy Ranking Tournament, and discovered a dense blood aura near the Natural Forest. He warned Avila to wait before investigating and stayed in the Elf Kingdom, where he encouraged Marco and the knights to advance their cultivation.

• Thor emerged from the Divine Fire Domain after reaching the Divine Domain and learned that Neil Morton had arranged for him to skip the tournament’s first round.
• Thor registered for the Academy Ranking Tournament, found Delilah Capet winning her match, and left after judging the first-round fighters too weak to interest him.
• Back in the Natural Forest, Thor sensed a dense blood aura and went to the Elf Kingdom, where Avila told him that the Elf Queen had entered seclusion with Anna.
• Thor asked Avila to wait one night before investigating and to recall the elves, then gave Marco a High-Grade Life Potion and promised another to any knight who reached Peak Earth Knight during their three months there.

Thor received intelligence that an Abyssal god was threatening the Natural Forest, then advanced through Canaan Academy’s competition and noticed its ranks contained far more Divine Domain experts than expected. He reached the top thousand, while Ryan was eliminated, and Thor was left questioning why Canaan Academy’s vast strength had not been used to address the wider crisis.

• Thor learned that an Abyssal god was awakening and that Abyssal aura was contaminating the Natural Forest; elsewhere, Nicholas and two other powerful magical beasts watched the contamination spread as they awaited help from the empires.
• Thor entered the second round of Canaan Academy’s competition and easily defeated several Sky Knight opponents as the field narrowed.
• On the final day of the round, Thor defeated increasingly powerful opponents, while Ryan overwhelmed a peak Sanctuary Realm opponent with his Thunder Domain.
• Thor observed more than a hundred Divine Domain experts competing and grew suspicious that Canaan Academy’s strength was much greater than its response to the crisis suggested.
• Thor advanced into the top thousand, but Ryan lost his final match and was eliminated.

Thor advanced to the top five hundred by defeating Baruto, then entered the second stage, where students had to hold an arena for twelve hours or defeat four opponents in a row. He deliberately concealed his strength on Platform No. 93 and narrowly beat Ryan’s former opponent, but Yakub Copeland immediately challenged him.

• Thor used his Thunder Domain to overpower Baruto’s Gravity Domain, and Baruto conceded the match.
• Thor reached the top five hundred and watched the Imperial Eldest Princess claim Arena No. 1 before the second stage began.
• Thor chose Platform No. 93 and challenged the student who had eliminated Ryan, intending to conceal his strength.
• Thor suppressed his Thunder Domain and narrowly defeated his opponent after nearly half an hour.
• Yakub Copeland appeared on Thor’s platform and challenged him.

Thor defended his arena against two challengers before facing Tiluo Ersuo, whose powerful Earth Domain threatened to overwhelm him. Thor revealed his Thunder and death Dual Domain and forced Tiluo Ersuo to surrender, leaving the arena unchallenged as he began to study what he had learned.

• Thor defeated Belkin Vichy after a prolonged battle, winning his second match in a row.
• Thor watched the other arenas and saw that the contestants still standing in the top thirty possessed High-Tier Divine Domains.
• Tiluo Ersuo challenged Thor and used a damaged High-Tier Divine Domain beast soul and Earth Domain to suppress Thor’s Thunder Domain.
• Thor revealed his Death Law Imprint and stabilized his Thunder Domain, exposing his Thunder and death Dual Domain to the watching students.
• Tiluo Ersuo charged Thor but surrendered as Thor’s enormous Silver War Hammer and combined domains threatened to strike him.
• With challengers deterred, Thor sat cross-legged on his arena and began comprehending the gains from the fight.

Thor passed the second-round assessment and learned that Tulip Kingdom had suffered a devastating attack, prompting him to order closer surveillance and plan an early return. At Canaan Academy, he discovered the third round required students to purge Church of the Gods strongholds, and the map showed fewer strongholds in Tulip Kingdom and Violet Kingdom than in many other nations.

• Thor waited twelve hours without another challenger, passed the assessment, and advanced into the top one hundred.
• Ryan told Thor that three Count families in Frost Moon Province had been wiped out and over five hundred thousand people had vanished; Thor ordered the Eagle Merchant Guild to gather intelligence on Eastern Moon Province.
• Thor remained beneath the Life Ancient Tree to cultivate, and the Daily Intelligence System warned that a god from the abyss was about to descend as Natural Forest became a sea of blood.
• Thor returned to Canaan Academy and learned that the third-round competition required students to purge Church of the Gods strongholds for points based on their strength.
• Thor examined the stronghold map and saw that Tulip Kingdom and Violet Kingdom had fewer red dots than many other nations, while some kingdoms appeared almost completely infiltrated.

Thor began the third round by studying Daily Intelligence, then traveled with Avila and his Knight Order to Detas City, where he prepared to stop an impending Church of the Gods sacrifice. The chapter ended as three black silhouettes trapped the wounded city lord in a black-mist domain while more figures gathered outside.

• Thor learned that the Church of the Gods had prepared strongholds across the region and that a sacrifice in Detas City would claim more than five hundred thousand people.
• Avila left the Elf Kingdom with Thor, and the group traveled through the Natural Forest toward the Macedon Kingdom.
• Thor chose the Church of the Gods stronghold in the Macedon Kingdom as his first target and reached tense, riot-stricken Detas City.
• Thor told Avila that Detas City would be destroyed in three days if they did not intervene, then waited there with his Knight Order.
• On the fourth night, three black silhouettes spread mist over the City Lord's Mansion and pulled the wounded city lord into a black-mist domain.
• More black silhouettes appeared beneath the three figures as the city lord remained trapped in the domain.