Chapter Summaries

The Succubus Queen warned Saine that several vulnerable Justice League gods had gathered in Saint Jose Kingdom and were likely to face a major attack from the Dark Alliance. Saine became interested in the God of Crafts and the Goddess of Music, leaving open whether he would approach the gathering despite the danger.

• Saine asked the Succubus Queen about the God of Crafts, who had once survived an attack by unknown creatures using a Saint-level Wooden Giant.
• The Succubus Queen explained that the God of Crafts and four other gods had recently gathered in Saint Jose Kingdom as the Saint Calamity intensified.
• She described the threats facing the gathered gods: Storm God Iso targeted the God of Spring Water, Mara threatened the Goddess of Joy, Bane's followers could target the God of Literature, and the Goddess of Music's patron had been badly injured.
• Saine recognized Storm God Iso from his early days on the Faelun Continent and recalled Iso's history of killing Lesser Gods.
• Saine became intrigued by the Goddess of Music's connection to sound-wave mysteries and by the God of Crafts' alchemical knowledge and command of fire laws.

Saine accepted the Succubus Queen’s proposal to target the God of Craft Gond and waited for a chance to act. That chance emerged when the Sea God System’s High-Gods struck back against intruding gods, while Saine’s plans remained poised to exploit the turmoil.

• Saine decided to try to make a move against the God of Craft Gond and began preparing a careful plan with the Succubus Queen’s help.
• God of War of the Sea Wilco killed two gods who had fought in his territory and wounded several others.
• God of the Arctic Ulo Tiru and Ocean Goddess Amberly awoke and condemned other factions’ gods for crossing into the Sea God System’s domain.
• Investigators learned that the two slain gods had killed Wilco’s divinity-bearing offspring, a Mottled Giant Eel, while fighting each other.
• Wilco retaliated in fury, and the three Sea God System High-Gods warned other factions’ gods to leave the seas.

The Sea God System’s southern standoff drew High-God mediators from the Justice League, Dark Alliance, and Wings of Nature, while unrest spread across the Faelun Continent. In the north, Saine set out again as Purgatory Space’s academies and new professions gained the World Will’s favor, though their ability to challenge the gods remained uncertain.

• Wilco remained indifferent to gossip about his harem while the Sea God System’s violence and the deaths of two gods intensified tensions among the Faelun Continent’s factions.
• Tim, Myrkul, and Sylvanas went to the South Sea to mediate with the Sea God System’s three High-God Sea Gods.
• The southern negotiations continued as battles and upheavals in the north prompted Saine to set off again.
• Purgatory Space’s academies attracted people seeking alternatives to faith and godhood, and the new self-cultivation professions and Flynn’s Arcanist system gained the World Will’s favor.
• Purgatory demons protected the academies’ students, though whether the new systems could replace the gods’ entrenched power remained uncertain.

Saine reached the Saint Francisco Empire while pursuing God of Crafts Gond in the Saint Jose Kingdom, where several gods had already been attacked amid growing unrest. After two months without useful leads, Saine learned that over two thousand dragons had invaded the eastern Faelun Continent to plunder the City of Wealth.

• Saine and more than thirty young followers crossed the human kingdoms and arrived in the Saint Francisco Empire, near their destination in the Saint Jose Kingdom.
• Saine learned that God of Crafts Gond and other gods in the Saint Jose Kingdom had faced attacks, including Mara’s assault that cost Goddess of Joy Lilla an arm before God of Courage Tom rescued her.
• Saine waited in an eastern border city of the Saint Francisco Empire for two months but gained no reliable information about the forces targeting Gond.
• More than two thousand dragons from Dragon Island entered the eastern Faelun Continent and targeted the City of Wealth while the Goddess of Wealth’s influence had weakened.

Saine and his people infiltrated Missilu City to attack the hidden God of Crafts, preparing their equipment before launching a coordinated strike. The attack began with explosions and a crimson barrier that threw the city into panic, while the God of Crafts remained their target.

• Two thousand dragons plundered the City of Wealth while avoiding other cities, though the remaining followers of the Goddess of Wealth blamed them for her disappearance.
• Saine led his people into Missilu City, where the God of Crafts was believed to be hiding, and ordered them to prepare for an attack in two weeks.
• Flynn and the others scattered throughout the city, using Performer Masks to conceal their identities.
• Saine's explosions cut off the lake's connections to nearby waterways and underground rivers, trapping the God of Crafts beneath the water.
• Saine activated a blood-red barrier powered by the Fire Cricket God's heart, disrupting Element Power and enhancing his fire magic.
• Explosions and the crimson barrier spread panic through Missilu City, and its residents began fleeing.

Saine began a God Hunting War against God of Craft Gond, who defended his underwater mechanical city with a giant puppet and an array of crafted weapons. The battle escalated into a clash of long-range firepower and artifact spells, leaving Saine and Gond exchanging powerful attacks.

• God of Craft Gond recognized Saine and noted that God of Radiance Musuo had taken an interest in him.
• Gond emerged from the lake atop a hundred-meter wooden puppet giant, while Saine spotted several divine artifacts on him.
• Saine ordered Flynn and the others to bombard Gond’s mechanical city with Magic Guided Cannons as puppet people countered with rune-guided arrows.
• Saine fired instant-cast Eye of Penetration spells enhanced by the Fire Cricket God’s divine spark.
• Gond used his Ruby Ring to raise shields and launch three Fire Ember Impacts at Saine.

Saine and God of Craft Gond fought with divine artifacts and puppets, while Yuli joined the battle in her Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet and wounded Gond’s giant puppet. As the fight continued, an unknown force secretly entered Missilu City, suggesting Saine had become bait for another hunter.

• Saine pierced Gond’s Fire Ember Impacts with Eye of Penetration spells, but Gond restored his shields and deployed combat puppets.
• Gond used his wrench to repel Saine and sent a giant puppet against him as Saine transformed into a Flame Demon Lord.
• Yuli arrived in her Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet, having advanced to Level 3 since the battle with the Fire Cricket God.
• Yuli’s firepower suppressed the giant puppet, and her mental attack briefly distracted Gond before her Black Hole Particle Cannon pierced the puppet’s shoulder.
• Gond teleported behind the giant puppet with the Boots of Divine Stealth while Saine and Gond continued fighting.
• An unknown force quietly infiltrated Missilu City, and Saine remained unaware that he had become bait for another presence targeting Gond.

After four days of battle, Saine forced God of Craft Gond to retreat from Missilu City, but a sudden attack by Ferry, the God of Forging, brought Gondor crashing into the lake. Saine faced the arrival of a Mid-Rank God whose motives and history with Gondor remained unclear.

• Saine and his construct Maid damaged Gondor’s Wooden Giant and depleted many of the God of Crafts’ divine artifacts during four days of fighting.
• Gondor, disappointed that his godly allies never came to help, decided to withdraw after gathering valuable information about Saine’s weapons and tactics.
• Gondor used his Wind-powered staff and other divine artifacts to fend off Saine and rise toward safety.
• A sudden Pickaxe strike pierced Gondor’s defenses and hit him in the heart, sending him and his damaged Wooden Giant into the lake.
• Ferry, the Mid-Rank God of Forging, appeared, and Gondor surfaced to angrily accuse him of being sinister and narrow-minded.

The chapter revealed the long rivalry between Ferry and Gond, rooted in their competition as gods of forging and worsened by a broken commission. After Ferry ambushed Gond in Missilu City and trapped the area inside a concealment barrier, Gond called on Saine and Yuli to fight alongside him.

• Gond had risen to prominence by offering affordable, innovative divine artifacts, while Ferry’s high prices and established reputation fueled their rivalry.
• Seventeen thousand years earlier, Gond had begun forging a divine artifact for the God of Wind Element, but the God of Wind Element ended their contract after learning about the dispute with Ferry.
• During the previous Saint Calamity, Ferry had covertly targeted Gond, and in the current calamity he finally attacked him openly in Missilu City.
• Ferry severely wounded Gond with one strike, then released a rotating Cubic Crystal that concealed and confined the surrounding area.
• Gond urged Saine to join forces, and Saine aimed his Magic Staff at Ferry as Yuli entered combat state.

Ferry attacked Saine and Gondor with his divine artifacts, overwhelming them despite their desperate resistance. Saine and Gondor retreated south together while Yuli supported them, but Ferry’s Crystal Cube barrier still threatened to trap them.

• Ferry refused Saine’s request to leave and attacked him and Gondor, intent on taking Saine to the God of Elements and dismantling Yuli.
• Yuli fired Energy Beams and magic puppet shells, then charged Ferry, while Saine raised layers of Magic Shields and Gondor merged with the Wooden Giant puppet.
• Ferry’s Pickaxe pierced Saine’s chest, and his hammer knocked Gondor and the Wooden Giant back to the lakebed.
• Saine used the Pickaxe’s momentum to flee south, while Gondor rose again and retreated in the same direction as he fought Ferry.
• Saine and Gondor counterattacked as they withdrew, with Yuli supporting them, but Ferry’s Crystal Cube barrier enclosed the battlefield.

Saine began casting a single-target Forbidden Spell to break the Cubic Crystal barrier while Gondor fought Ferry to buy him time. The spell’s red-and-white light erupted just as Ferry taunted Gondor about the quality of his divine artifacts.

• Gondor struck the Cubic Crystal barrier with the power of three divine artifacts, creating a small crack, and Saine told him to hold Ferry back.
• Saine reached the barrier’s southern edge, activated the Green Source Seed, and found that the crack had already begun repairing itself.
• Saine wedged his Magic Staff into the crack, added the light-element divine spark from his Demon Mask beside its fire-element spark, and began casting a Forbidden Spell.
• Ferry gained the upper hand against Gondor, who revealed a stone-slab divine artifact that disrupted the trajectories of Ferry’s attacks.
• Ferry mocked Gondor’s slab as an imitation Fate Stone Slab, and Saine’s spell erupted in a beam of red-and-white elemental light.

Saine used an immature forbidden-spell-level Eye of Penetration to pierce the Crystal Barrier, injuring himself and forcing a path out. As the God of Crafts emerged in a weakened state, Saine ordered his companions to flee, while gods elsewhere noticed the battle and one purple-gowned woman headed toward it.

• Saine aimed his Eye of Penetration at the Crystal Barrier, pierced it, and was blasted aside by the spell's recoil.
• The beam streaked across the sky above the Saint Jose Kingdom, drawing the attention of gods across the Faelun Continent.
• A Purple-Skirt Woman decided to investigate and flew west toward the Saint Jose Kingdom.
• Saine activated his Demon Body and escaped through the breach, then ordered the gathered little ones to scatter and flee.
• Ronaldo, Flynn, and Obiye ignored Saine's order and rushed to him, while the God of Crafts escaped the barrier in a gravely weakened state.

Saine and Yuli escaped Ferry’s devastating barrage after Saine protected Flynn, Obiye, and the critically wounded Ronaldo. They fled south toward chaotic energy disturbances, while Ferry salvaged Yuli’s discarded magic puppets and watched their escape routes with growing concern.

• Yuli emerged from the ruins in her battered Constructed Magic Puppet, having lost all her auxiliary puppets, as Ferry unleashed energy beams from his Honeycomb Divine Artifact.
• Saine shielded Flynn, Obiye, and Ronaldo through Ferry’s sustained barrage, while Ronaldo took severe injuries protecting the others.
• Saine placed the injured companions in passenger Space Equipment, summoned Yuli, and retreated south with her toward chaotic energy disturbances.
• Ferry arrived at the Crystal Barrier’s breach with two of Yuli’s scrapped auxiliary puppets and watched the directions Saine and Gondor had fled.

Saine fled south after escaping Ferry, only to find the Saint Jose Kingdom engulfed in a larger battle between Justice League and Dark Alliance gods. After locating the badly wounded Gondor, Saine chose to fly toward him with Yuli, unwilling to leave without pursuing his goal.

• Ferry's clash with Gondor ended with Ferry gaining Construct remains and puppet giants, while a Plant Monstrosity rose and attacked him again.
• Hall attacked the wounded Tom in the south, where Lilla and Melofu helped Tom hold him off as Justice League reinforcements arrived.
• Mara joined the fighting, prompting Dinair and Aidas to enter the battle, and Iso's vast water-and-storm Domain intensified the clash between the gods.
• Saine sensed that Ferry was no longer pursuing him, then saw the southern battlefield's enormous Domain and located the badly wounded Gondor.
• Saine flew southeast toward Gondor after asking Yuli whether she could still fight, and Yuli answered that she could.

Saine watched the Justice League gods battle the Dark Alliance gods, then planned to exploit the chaos and strike the wounded God of Crafts. He ordered Yuli to send the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet toward God of Crafts and detonate it.

• Saine observed the gods clash while God of Courage Tom protected Gond from God of Hunting Mara.
• Storm God Iso brought out the Storm Horn as the Dark Alliance gods launched attacks against the Justice League gods.
• Saine decided not to join the main battle and kept God of Crafts as his target.
• Saine asked Yuli to remotely propel the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet toward God of Crafts and activate its self-destruct sequence.
• Saine promised Yuli he would build her a better puppet after they returned to the Wizard World.

Saine used the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet’s self-destruction to kill the God of Spring Water and critically injure the God of Crafts, whom Saine then finished off. As Saine moved to claim the spoils and escape, a mysterious Purple-Skirt Woman appeared behind him.

• Saine ordered Yuli out of the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet and sent the damaged puppet flying toward the God of Crafts to self-destruct.
• The God of Courage withdrew from the God of Storms’ attack, allowing the God of Spring Water to flee as the God of Hunting and the God of Suffering attacked the Goddess of Joy and the God of Literature.
• The God of Storms’ strike drove the God of Spring Water into the puppet’s crimson explosion, killing him, while the blast annihilated the Justice League believers around the God of Crafts.
• Saine recalled Yuli, flew to the wounded God of Crafts, and killed him with the Flames of Ash before preparing to collect his spoils.
• A Purple-Skirt Woman appeared behind Saine, unharmed by the lingering shockwaves and seemingly untouched by any force around her.

Saine encountered Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, on the God's Battlefield, where she questioned him about his Flames of Ash and Flame Demon bloodline. Mystra offered him the God of Spring Water's corpse, divine spark, and Coral Staff in exchange for cooperating in her research, just as more powerful beings arrived.

• Mystra questioned Saine about his Flames of Ash and his Flame Demon bloodline.
• Mystra caught Max, the God of Stealth and Seclusion, attempting to steal the God of Spring Water's corpse and divine spark, and he escaped after abandoning them.
• The gods recognized the Purple-Skirt Woman as Mystra, the Goddess of Magic.
• Mystra returned the God of Spring Water's corpse and divine spark to Saine and asked him to cooperate in her research.
• Mystra revealed that more beings had arrived as two waves of divine power appeared and tore through space.

The Blood War Lord Lev Tolstoy and the God of Radiance arrived with their forces, turning the battlefield into a tense standoff. After Mystra left, the Succubus Queen launched the demons into battle against the Justice League and the weakened defenders.

• The Blood War Lord Lev Tolstoy arrived with the Succubus Queen Anna Karenina and more than a dozen Demon Kings, while the God of Radiance appeared with the Justice League gods.
• Saine proposed an academic exchange with Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, in Purgatory Space, and she agreed to seek him out later.
• Mystra gave Saine the corpse and godhead of the God of Spring Water before leaving the battlefield.
• The God of Radiance tried to capture Saine, but Lev Tolstoy shattered his divine cage with the Blood Demon Sword.
• The Succubus Queen ordered the demons to attack the weakened God of Courage and his allies, while the Demon Kings engaged the Justice League gods.

The Purgatory demons joined the battle, forcing the Dark Alliance gods to retreat while the demons clashed with the Justice League gods. Saine remained trapped on the battlefield until Anna Karenina arrived, as the Blood War Lord continued to hold off the God of Radiance.

• The Purgatory demons charged into the battlefield, and the Storm God Iso and the other Dark Alliance gods withdrew from the fighting.
• The God of Suffering, Hall, flew toward the southwestern horizon, while the God of Hunting, Mara, reluctantly set aside his pursuit of the Goddess of Joy.
• Saine stayed on the battlefield because his weakened condition and the battles around him kept him from leaving.
• Anna Karenina flew to Saine in her true succubus form and took on much of the pressure from the Storm God Iso.
• Saine reflected that he had obtained the divine spark and corpse of the God of Crafts, as well as the corpse and divine spark of the God of Spring Water.
• Lev Tolstoy remained seated on the Blood Throne and blocked the God of Radiance with his Blood Demon Sword.

Saine followed the Succubus Queen through the Blood Throne’s spatial distortion to a position behind the Purgatory demons, while the battle between Lev Tolstoy and the God of Radiance continued. He focused on the throne, leaving the Storm God Iso to watch the high-level clash with growing reverence.

• Saine and the Succubus Queen arrived behind the demon legion using the Blood Throne’s spatial power.
• The Justice League gods failed to stop them, while Iso watched Saine but turned his attention back to the battle.
• Iso observed that Lev Tolstoy and the God of Radiance were holding back, yet their fight still offered him valuable insight.
• Iso’s dissatisfaction with the Purgatory demons shifted toward reverence for their power.
• Saine ignored the surrounding battle and focused on the Blood Throne, while the Succubus Queen grew excited.