Recaps

Saine traveled west across the Faelun Continent while investigating its Plane Nodes for the Spider Queen Rose. He learned that temples stood on these nodes and continued toward Purgatory, where he hoped to find answers about the demons.

• Saine flew west from Blackwater City and wondered whether the Faelun Continent was a three-dimensional plane with a boundary between east and west.
• The Spider Queen sent Saine a wristguard that detected, stored, and recorded nearby Plane Node locations.
• Saine discovered that temples across the Faelun Continent had been built atop Plane Nodes, and the Spider Queen explained their benefits.
• The Spider Queen answered some of Saine's questions about Plane Nodes and Death and Darkness knowledge while withholding guidance on other subjects.
• Saine continued toward Purgatory to investigate the demons and planned to mark two hundred Plane Node coordinates before the Spider Queen brought him back to the Wizard World.

Saine resumed his research after recovering on the Faelun Continent and began modifying the half-Undead girl Luo’s body. With the Spider Queen’s guidance, he fused the Flower of Death into Luo, learning that the White Bone Church had planted it to cultivate extraordinary power.

• A month after arriving on the Faelun Continent, Saine recovered his strength and regained access to his equipment, including Yuli.
• Saine asked the Spider Queen whether she had encountered the Dragon Turtle or the Guardian of Spring, but learned nothing about the Dragon Turtle.
• In his third month on the continent, Saine began a body-modification experiment on Luo in a primeval forest.
• Saine chose to merge the Flower of Death at the back of Luo’s head with her body rather than remove it, aiming to preserve her ability to shift between flesh and an Elemental Body.
• After a week of work guided by the Spider Queen, Saine completed the fusion and learned that the White Bone Church had planted the Flower of Death in Luo as a means of cultivating extraordinary power.

After the girl Luo improved following Saine’s modification experiment, he explored the Faelun Continent’s forest races and collected specimens. His investigation with Spider Queen Rose revealed that most of their gods were weaker than true Level-4 lifeforms, leaving their exact status uncertain.

• The girl Luo’s condition and ability to communicate improved, but Saine postponed further experiments until she recovered and adapted.
• Saine observed the Treants’ worship of Green Wood God Foye and abducted several Treants for research without disturbing their totem pillar.
• Saine collected specimens from the Colorful Feather People, Tuskarr, Yalebu Lizardmen, and Swamp Fishmen, comparing their abilities and potential value.
• Saine noticed that most of these races’ gods lacked the oppressive divine power of true Level-4 lifeforms, though the Tuskarr’s god exerted some Level-4 pressure.
• Spider Queen Rose remotely sensed the gods and confirmed Saine’s judgment, but she could not determine their precise level.

Saine and the Spider Queen concluded that Faelun Continent’s unusual laws had allowed it to produce an immense number of seemingly weakened Level-4 gods. The Spider Queen planned to prepare an interplanar attack on one of the weakest gods so they could study it and gauge the world’s true strength.

• The Spider Queen explained that Faelun’s many gods seemed too numerous to be sustained by their followers and speculated that the continent’s laws made divine ascension easier.
• The Spider Queen proposed targeting a weak god, such as the God of Colored Feather People, the God of Yarleb Lizard, or the God of Swamp Fish, for study.
• Saine eagerly agreed to help slaughter a god, but the Spider Queen warned him that crossing the planes would consume enormous divine power.
• The Spider Queen said she needed at least twenty years to prepare and planned to expand the Black Tower’s amplification arrays tenfold.
• The Spider Queen ordered Saine to scout suitable targets and said they would begin with the weakest god.

Saine learned that Faelun Continent’s temples were tracking him and that he would need to shake them off before carrying out the Spider Queen Rose’s God-Slaying Plan. Fifteen years later, pursued beyond endurance, he found refuge in the God of Justice’s territory, where rival temples risked provoking a holy war if they followed him.

• The Spider Queen warned Saine that Faelun Continent’s native beings were following him and said he must lose them before they began the God-Slaying Plan.
• Saine marked several Plane Node coordinates for the Spider Queen, and she later stopped contacting him while he continued exploring the continent.
• Fifteen years later, Saine arrived in Saint Pelantas City, capital of the devout Saint Auster Empire, to escape his pursuers.
• After a Level-3 creature from the White Bone Temple confronted him half a year earlier, Saine had fled and entered the God of Justice’s territory.
• Saine spent six months in the Saint Auster Empire without encountering another pursuer, protected by the Temple of Justice’s power and its hostility toward rival temples.

After years of searching, Saine chose Fickmos Canyon as the site for a surprise attack on the weak Great Strength God, whose Gray Brain Ape followers lived there. Saine and the Spider Queen prepared their ambush, with the Spider Queen promising she could return them to the Wizard World if the battle went wrong.

• Saine traveled west from Saint Pelantas City and spent more than a decade investigating possible targets before choosing to strike in Wings of Nature territory.
• Saine selected the Great Strength God of Fickmos Canyon, a minor god worshipped mainly by Gray Brain Apes, because the canyon lay near rival factions and offered a concealed escape route.
• Months later, Saine reached the canyon and found its steep cliffs and rugged terrain ideal for hiding the battle and limiting the spread of its disturbances.
• Saine asked the Spider Queen whether she had prepared Divine Power Spider Silk and could pull him back to the Wizard World if necessary.
• The Spider Queen reassured Saine that the corpse of a native god could help them locate the plane's spacetime coordinates, and Saine began setting up magic arrays to lure the Great Strength God out.

Saine attacked the Gray Brain Apes of Fickmos Canyon in his Flame Demon Transformation, while Rose the Spider Queen used the massacre to lure the Great Strength God and gather Blood Essence. Saine was promised the Blood Essence from the dead apes, and the Great Strength God’s response remained to come.

• Rose planned to use the Gray Brain Apes and Saine as bait to draw the Great Strength God into acting.
• Saine activated his Flame Demon Transformation and attacked the Gray Brain Apes, whose strongest warrior was only Rank Two.
• A light red barrier sealed Fickmos Canyon, trapping the apes as Saine rained flaming meteors down on them.
• Rose’s Blood Demon Tool drained blood from the Gray Brain Apes and condensed it into Blood Essence.
• Rose had promised Saine all the Blood Essence produced from the dead apes, and Saine called her generous.

Saine slaughtered the Gray Brain Apes of Fickmos Canyon, leaving their people trapped and desperate as they prayed to their god, Knox. The chapter ended with Saine watching for Knox’s response while the god’s history and modest power were revealed.

• Saine attacked Fickmos Canyon and overwhelmed its Gray Brain Apes with fire and magic, gravely wounding their Level-2 Priest.
• The Gray Brain Apes could neither escape the canyon nor stop Saine, and many turned to prayer as their resistance collapsed.
• The wounded Priest prayed to Great God of Strength Knox at the apes’ ancestral altar, while Saine watched expectantly.
• Knox’s God Kingdom was described as small, holding just over a hundred thousand believers, and he was identified as a god of Weak Divine Power.
• Knox had once been called the God of Gray-Brain Apes, but after seizing divine authority and part of another god’s divinity in a Saint Calamity, he renamed himself God of Strength.

As the Saint Calamity approached, Great Strength God prepared his divine kingdom for the upheaval, then discovered that a demon was slaughtering his Gray Brain Ape believers in Fickmos Canyon. He saw a Level-3 Demon Lord and a mysterious funnel gathering valuable blood essence, and became interested in the treasure.

• Great Strength God considered rumors that the coming Saint Calamity would be unusually severe and reviewed his defenses, including his believers and lack of Holy Spirits.
• His believers' desperate prayers reached him as his Faith Power rapidly dwindled, revealing that they were being slaughtered.
• Great Strength God tried to look into Fickmos Canyon but found it concealed behind a light red barrier that isolated the fighting.
• Using his Faith Power, Great Strength God saw the canyon stained crimson and an Epic-level demon flying above it.
• Great Strength God recognized the demon as a Level-3 Demon Lord and coveted the divine-artifact-like funnel and the valuable blood essence gathering beneath it.

Saine continued slaughtering the God of Strength’s believers in Fickmos Canyon until God of Strength Knox descended to stop him and claim the divine artifact above the canyon. Spider Queen Rose appeared at Saine’s call, ready to confront Knox.

• The God of Strength watched Saine kill thousands more believers and decided to act after finding no sign of a demon army or other helpers.
• Knox descended into Fickmos Canyon and confronted Saine, while the canyon’s energy barrier repaired itself behind him.
• Knox focused on the divine artifact funnel and Blood Essence above the canyon, then threatened to kill Saine with his Axe of Power.
• The surviving Gray Brain Apes became more fervent believers, and the souls of the dead continued murmuring within the blood-colored curtain.
• Saine called for Spider Queen Rose, who appeared and expressed interest in the gods’ use of their believers’ souls.

Saine and the Spider Queen trapped God of Strength Nox in Fickmos Canyon and fought him as he tried to escape. The Spider Queen poisoned Nox, but he continued to attack, and Saine joined the battle with Yuli’s support from a distance.

• The Spider Queen reinforced Saine’s array around Fickmos Canyon and spread a Domain of God that hindered Nox’s escape.
• Nox invoked the God of White Oak and his faction for protection, but the Spider Queen attacked him with a divine hooked blade.
• Nox’s Power Law blasted the Spider Queen back, but she wounded him with poisoned strikes.
• The Spider Queen transformed into her half-human, half-spider form and ordered Saine to help.
• Saine summoned Yuli in the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet, and they supported the Spider Queen with ranged attacks as the battle shook the canyon.

Saine and Yuli supported the Spider Queen as she fought and gradually subdued the Great Strength God in Fickmos Canyon. After two months, she had trapped him in a Divine Power Light Cocoon, though he remained alive and the victors were badly injured.

• Saine attacked the Great Strength God with Flame Rays and Flame Drills while Yuli fired her ammunition at him.
• The Spider Queen used her superior combat skill, poison, and sustained attacks to weaken the Great Strength God as the battle wore on.
• After two months, the Spider Queen bound the Great Strength God inside a Divine Power Light Cocoon and said he needed more time to be subdued completely.
• The Spider Queen was left with a Divine Artifact Giant Axe lodged in her neck, while Saine and Yuli suffered wounds from the battle and its stray attacks.

After the Spider Queen defeated Great Strength God, Saine reflected on the battle’s risks and the research opportunities it had given him. The Spider Queen claimed the captive god and its treasures, while Saine helped remove her wound and began clearing the battlefield.

• Saine recognized the gulf between Level 3 and Level 4 powers and resolved not to challenge stronger opponents recklessly.
• Saine considered the knowledge and research materials he had gained, including Great Strength God and the Blood Essence promised by the Spider Queen.
• The Spider Queen assessed Great Strength God’s divine axe, animal-hide shorts, and knowledge as valuable gains.
• The Spider Queen ordered Saine to pull the divine axe from her neck, and he freed it from her wound.
• Saine and the Spider Queen arranged for the battlefield to be cleared, with Saine prioritizing the removal of Wizard Civilization magic array patterns.

Saine and the Spider Queen prepared to leave Fickmos Canyon after trapping the Great Strength God, but its stubborn survival and the cost of transporting its divine body forced them to stay longer. The Spider Queen promised Saine the god’s blood essence, then rejected his request for spider silk to make a new Magic Robe.

• Saine told the Spider Queen that he had cleared away the active magic arrays but could not check every fragment in the canyon ruins for traces.
• The Spider Queen agreed they should leave before other gods discovered the battle, and she returned to human form after teasing Saine about his appearance.
• The Divine Power Light Cocoon shrank to two meters, but the Spider Queen said the Great Strength God was still alive and could not yet be placed in the Silver Spider Ring.
• The Spider Queen said she needed to redraw magic arrays and replenish their energy, so Saine would have to remain in the Faelun Continent longer.
• The Spider Queen promised Saine the Great Strength God’s blood essence, then refused to give him Divine Power Spider Silk for a new Magic Robe.

Saine continued west across the Faelun Continent as the Spider Queen Rose used Knox’s memories to assess the plane’s many divine factions and overwhelming strength. She concluded the world might hold three True Spirit Dominators, though its sole God Above Gods, Ao, had vanished, and she left Saine to wonder how the Wizard Civilization could ever conquer it.

• Saine continued west, while information extracted from Knox revealed powerful Dragon and Sea God Systems across the Faelun Continent.
• The Spider Queen Rose learned that the continent had numerous Level-6 Creatures, potentially enough to support three True Spirit Dominators.
• Rose noted that the God Above Gods, Ao, appeared to be the Faelun Continent’s only Dominator, but he had vanished.
• Rose considered the Wizard Civilization’s conflict with the Galente Federation and doubted it could launch a war against the Faelun Continent.
• Rose’s mood worsened after defeating Knox, so Saine stopped asking her about magic and formation studies.

Saine and the Spider Queen witnessed the Great Strength God’s divine kingdom fall into the eastern sea, confirming the god’s death and severing his believers from their divine powers. The event stirred the Godslayer Society, whose members in the Savage Snow Mountain Range believed the Saint Calamity and a new path to godhood were approaching.

• Saine kept Luo in a specially made space equipped with concentrated death aura, while Luo resisted returning to it because she wanted to stay with him.
• About a month later, Saine and the Spider Queen watched the Great Strength God’s divine kingdom fall from the sky and crash into the eastern sea.
• The Great Strength God’s death severed his believers’ connection to him and stripped away the divine skills and spells he had granted them.
• Gods across Faelun Continent reacted with alarm to the godfall, while ordinary creatures watched the blazing divine kingdom descend.
• Members of the Godslayer Society in the Savage Snow Mountain Range saw the godfall as a sign that the Saint Calamity and the legendary path to godhood were near.

After the Spider Queen killed the Great Strength God, she left Saine with its corpse to study while she prepared a way to return him to the Wizard World. The chapter then introduced the God of Justice, a powerful Faelun deity, and the other great figures he recognized on the continent.

• The Spider Queen told Saine to store the Great Strength God's corpse and study it while she prepared the materials needed to bring him home.
• The Spider Queen returned to the Silver Spider Ring, explaining that sustaining her avatar had been costly and that she would notify Saine when it was time to leave.
• The chapter described the God of Justice's immense divine kingdom and established that his Level-6 Peak strength made him one of the strongest gods on the Faelun Continent.
• The God of Justice reflected on his past defeat by Lady of the Night and regarded her, the God of Elements, and the Sea God as the continent's only gods worthy of his attention.
• The God of Elements was described as an ancient power and the Faelun Continent's guardian, credited with helping contain the Saint Calamity.

The God of Justice considered the Faelun Continent’s rival factions and discussed the world’s mysteries with Musuo, the God of Radiance. He believed reaching the realm of a Main God could let him break the world’s barriers and uncover what lay beyond.

• The God of Justice judged the Sea God a powerful rival, while dismissing Blood War Lord Lev Tolstoy, the Dragon God System, and the ancient gods of the Far-Northern Desolate Snowfield as lesser threats.
• The God of Justice explained how dragons had secured their place on the continent by cultivating ties with powerful gods, including white dragons who lived in his divine kingdom.
• The God of Justice asked Musuo what the sun was, and Musuo said it seemed to be a law made tangible through which he had comprehended light.
• The God of Justice told Musuo that the fallen Sun God had suggested the sun possessed a true body, though a crystalline barrier kept the gods from reaching it.
• The God of Justice said that Ao, the foreign Demon and Dragon systems, and the barriers of the world suggested there were truths beyond the Faelun Continent.
• The God of Justice planned to use the faith of his countless believers to become a Main God and break through the world’s shackles.

The God of Justice and the God of Radiance discussed the Fate Stone Slabs and Lady of the Night’s attempt to breach the world’s barriers. The God of White Oak delivered the God of Elements’ warning that a vast Heretical Power had entered the world, and the God of Justice agreed to seek its location through prophecy.

• The God of Justice and the God of Radiance discussed the three known Fate Stone Slabs and the missing fourth fragment, which might help gods break through the world’s barriers.
• The God of White Oak arrived at the God of Justice’s kingdom with a message from the God of Elements and reported that the Great Strength God had fallen without leaving clues.
• The God of White Oak said the God of Elements sensed a Heretical Power larger than the former Demon System had infiltrated the world and might have killed the Great Strength God.
• The God of Justice dismissed the warning at first, arguing that the world could absorb outside powers and that fighting them might bring him divine rewards.
• The God of White Oak asked the God of Justice to have the Goddess of Luck Timora use prophecy to locate the heretic, and the God of Justice agreed.

Goddess of Luck Timora divined that a silver spider-like being had killed the Great Strength God, but her vision was interrupted just before it revealed Spider Queen Rose’s face. At the edge of Wizard Civilization’s territory, a black-robed Dominator sensed that someone had traced fate back to her and turned his attention toward the Wizard World.

• Goddess of Luck Timora showed the God of Justice and the other gods the ruined canyon where the Great Strength God had fallen, then divined a young man wearing a Silver Spider Ring.
• The God of Justice empowered Timora’s divination, revealing the final Fate Stone Slab and a hazy female spider deity as the Great Strength God’s killer.
• As Timora’s vision neared Spider Queen Rose’s face, the scene shifted to the Bone Tomb Star Region, where a black-robed old man captured the Bone Tomb Pioneer and condemned his civilization for betraying the Wizard Civilization.
• The black-robed old man sensed that someone had traced fate back to Spider Queen Rose and turned to investigate who had done it.

Naige'er shattered Timora’s attempt to divine Spider Queen Rose, badly injuring Timora and the God of Justice, then left the Bone Tomb Star Region to Carter Gustavo and the Kada Star Thief Group. Rose sensed her adoptive father had protected her and wondered when he had placed Dominator Power inside her.

• Naige'er broke the fate-probing power around Spider Queen Rose, causing Timora to suffer a severe backlash and the God of Justice’s kingdom to shake.
• Naige'er ordered his forces to kill Bone Tomb creatures above Level 4 and reduce the Bone Tomb World to a Low-Level Plane before returning toward the Wizard World.
• The chapter revealed that Carter Gustavo and the White-Eyed Demoness led the Kada Star Thief Group as secret enforcers for the Wizard Civilization.
• Carter Gustavo commanded the demons to slaughter Bone Tomb creatures for New Hell’s flesh-and-blood sacrifices, while a devil tricked a Level 4 creature into selling its soul before killing it.
• Spider Queen Rose sensed Naige'er had erased the prophecy aimed at her and realized he had placed some of his Dominator Power inside her.

After Faelun Continent’s gods tried to divine the Spider Queen and Saine, a trace of Naige'er’s Dominator Power struck back and badly wounded the Goddess of Luck Timora. Saine headed for the demons’ territory while the God of Justice concluded that a being on Ao’s level might be behind the power threatening the continent.

• The Spider Queen warned Saine that the Faelun Continent’s gods had discovered them and might have learned his appearance, then concealed his Qi Mechanism with divine power.
• Saine put the half-undead girl into his Space Equipment and flew west toward Purgatory, hoping to hide among the demons while awaiting the Spider Queen’s attempt to retrieve him.
• The God of Justice and the other gods in the God Kingdom of Justice reeled from the backlash of Naige'er's Dominator Power, which left Timora near death and severely injured the God of Justice.
• The God of Justice said the being who had struck from afar might be on the same level as Ao and reassured the gods that Ao would return if the Faelun Continent faced such a powerful threat.

The God of Justice ordered the Fate Stone Slabs activated to begin the Saint Calamity early, hoping to defend Faelun Continent and investigate Saine. After the Goddess of Luck slipped away, the God of Justice realized that Naige'er’s attack had brought him closer to breaking through to the realm of the main gods.

• The God of Justice told the God of White Oak and the God of Radiance to contact the God of Elements and Lady of the Night and prepare to activate the Fate Stone Slabs.
• The God of Justice planned to use all four Fate Stone Slabs to intensify the Saint Calamity, pull gods into the Prime Material Plane, and investigate Saine’s memories.
• The Goddess of Luck quietly left the God Kingdom of Justice after losing nearly half her life force and glimpsing an unfavorable future.
• The God of Justice realized that Naige'er’s Dominator Power had cracked his long-standing shackles and brought him closer to the realm of the main gods.

Saine remained on the run as the gods of Faelun Continent joined the hunt, while Rose completed a Time-Space Altar in the Wizard World. Naige'er warned that conquering Faelun would be extremely dangerous and impossible before the Wizard Civilization’s war with the Galente Federation, but promised to help afterward.

• The God of Justice ordered his followers to hunt Saine, and the gods of nearly every divine system joined the pursuit.
• Saine evaded his pursuers across Faelun Continent and repeatedly asked the Spider Queen when he could return to the Wizard World.
• Naige'er returned to the Black Tower and found Rose had completed the Time-Space Altar using enormous amounts of resources.
• Rose told Naige'er what she had learned about Faelun Continent and explained her plans to conquer it.
• Naige'er warned Rose that Faelun’s defenses and powerful native gods made invasion too dangerous, especially before the war with the Galente Federation.
• Naige'er promised to help Rose consider conquering Faelun after the Civilization War ended.

Rose and Naige'er discussed exploiting Faelun Continent, but the Saint Calamity sealed it and prevented Rose from retrieving Saine. When Naige'er opened the channel, he examined the Fate Stone Slab and inferred that a powerful woman from the Wizard World had injured its owner and sent the fragment there.

• Rose considered killing Faelun Continent's gods for their godheads and God Blood, while Naige'er advised her to cultivate believers and use them to open a Flesh and Blood Gate.
• Rose asked whether to retrieve Saine, and Naige'er told her to bring him back because he wanted to inspect Saine's stone slab.
• Rose failed to open the Time-Space Channel because the Saint Calamity had sealed Faelun Continent, but Naige'er used his level-eight power to open it.
• Naige'er saw Saine being pursued by an army and shifted the view to the Fate Stone Slab in Saine's Silver Spider Ring.
• Naige'er recognized traces of Death Element, Darkness Power, and frost particles on the slab and concluded that a powerful woman had injured its owner and sent the fragment to the Wizard World.
• Naige'er hinted that the woman had traveled through the Despair World with the Supreme Knight Dominator and might have surpassed him, leaving Rose demanding to know who she was.