Chapter Summaries

Linsey and Alvitte ambushed the believers attacking the city and quickly overwhelmed them, completing the Sky Island War task. Linsey captured a Fifth Stage Awakened, but the city guards aimed their bows at him, so he called to Alvitte to retreat with the captive.

• Alvitte charged through the attackers while Linsey followed, knocking down enemies she missed.
• Linsey learned that the believers' faith had awakened their Faith Blades, then broke their attacks and defeated the surrounding Awakened.
• Linsey crushed a Fifth Stage believer's air barriers, seized him by the throat, and saw that the Sky Island War task was complete.
• Linsey received a Living Wing Parachute reward and noted that he could use it to craft Multifunctional Survival Gear.
• The city guards aimed their bows at Linsey and his captive, so Linsey called to Alvitte to withdraw.

Linsey and Alvitte captured three believers and learned that war had driven one of them to join the Only God. Linsey crafted Multifunctional Survival Gear and discovered what he needed to make its next upgrade, while Alvitte’s questioning left the cause of the world’s conflict unresolved.

• Linsey and Alvitte crossed a black-matter bridge from the floating island and captured three believers from the attacking force.
• Linsey crafted Multifunctional Survival Gear, which offered numerous survival effects, and found that he lacked only a Multifunctional Detector for the next upgrade.
• Alvitte bound and suppressed the three prisoners, then questioned one about his faith and the state of Dust Road World.
• The believer explained that Dust Road World was divided into the core region and the habitable Middle Ring World, where war had destroyed his home.
• The believer said the bishop of the Only God had taken him in after he fled the battlefield, and that he fought because he had no other way to survive.

Linsey and Alvitte questioned captured believers about the destroyed Sky Bridges and the Only God church’s plans to conquer the Outer Ring World. After spotting someone approaching from the city, Linsey suggested they cross the bridge to avoid them.

• A captured Fifth Stage believer cursed Linsey and Alvitte, and Alvitte explained that believers of his rank could not be saved by abolishing their skills.
• Linsey knocked the Fifth Stage believer unconscious and questioned two low-stage believers about the Sky Bridges.
• The believers said the Outer Ring World’s inhabitants had destroyed the bridges to isolate their scarce-resource island cities.
• The two believers described the Only God as a sleeping creator who had awakened to aid people suffering through war.
• The believers said the Pope had ordered the church to conquer Outer Ring cities before expanding toward the Middle Ring World.
• Linsey noticed someone leaving the city and heading toward them, then told Alvitte they should cross the bridge to avoid the newcomer.

Linsey and Alvitte traveled across the sky islands toward the City of Law, discussing the believers, the Only God, and the Mutated Ones. They suspected the Mutated Ones had gone to the City of Law, where Alvitte believed they would face fierce resistance.

• Linsey and Alvitte freed three captives from their ropes but kept their source material suppressed as they crossed the black bridges toward the City of Law.
• Linsey stopped Alvitte from attacking a poor believers' camp, arguing that intervening would leave them responsible for the believers afterward, so they continued around it.
• Alvitte explained that Awakened who chose divine authority could form divine traits at the Sixth Stage and a divine core at the Seventh Stage, while those who chose humanity had to forge their own paths.
• Linsey and Alvitte reasoned that the Mutated Ones were gathering strength and might have gone directly to the City of Law after severing the connection between worlds.
• Alvitte declared that even Seventh Stage Awakened could not guarantee safety in the City of Law and that the Mutated Ones would face a dangerous fight there.

Ten years after leaving his hometown, Linsey traveled with Alvitte toward the Middle Ring World and reflected on the passage of time during the Source Material Tide. The chapter ended with Linsey thinking of Vivian, who he believed had become an Awakened.

• Linsey and Alvitte discussed how the Guiding Stone Pillars protected the Middle Ring World and how damaging them could threaten the world.
• Linsey cooked a meal from local fruits while Alvitte kept watch and teased him about his abilities and Earth expressions.
• A powerful Source Material Tide erupted, and Linsey and Alvitte recognized that it was Harvest Day.
• Linsey sensed the tide and gained five points in every attribute on his Data Panel.
• Linsey told Alvitte that it had been ten years since he left his hometown, and she encouraged him to adapt to his changing perspective on life.
• Linsey thought of Vivian and the Source Material Emblem he had left with her, believing she had become an Awakened and received a new name.

Linsey and Alvitte crossed a self-repairing Sky Bridge toward the Stone Pillar Sky Island, where guards watched the route. They approached openly to seek information, and Alvitte confronted the guards as they blocked their way.

• Linsey and Alvitte discussed the active source material and continued toward the Stone Pillar Sky Island.
• Linsey examined the Sky Bridge and concluded that skill, rather than the bridge's ordinary materials, held it against gravity.
• Linsey spotted two guards and a camp of forty soldiers beyond the bridge, then chose to approach openly for information.
• The guards blocked the bridge with a spear and a hammer, and Alvitte demanded that they let the pair pass.

Alvitte and Linsey crossed onto a Stone Pillar Sky Island, where the border guards yielded to Alvitte’s power. The soldiers agreed to share news about the Dust Road World in exchange for meat and invited the travelers to their camp for wine.

• Alvitte released the guards from her pressure and persuaded them to let her and Linsey cross the Sky Bridge.
• The camp’s guards rushed to meet Alvitte and Linsey, including a newly Awakened boy grieving after Harvest Day.
• The Fifth Stage Awakened leader lowered his weapon when Alvitte revealed her strength and tried to conceal the travelers’ arrival.
• Alvitte asked the leader to explain the Dust Road World and offered gold coins for information, but he refused them.
• Alvitte offered meat instead, and the leader eagerly invited her and Linsey to the camp to share fruit wine.

Linsey and Alvitte shared a banquet with border commander Kang Ding, using Linsey’s roast meat to win his goodwill. As they asked about the Dust Road World and the followers of the Only God, they learned that powerful Awakened dismissed the faction’s growing reach, and Linsey turned the conversation to the Mutated Ones.

• Linsey and Alvitte entered the camp, where Fifth Stage Awakened Kang Ding welcomed them and served fruit wine.
• Linsey set out roast meat, impressing Kang Ding and the other soldiers with its flavor and winning their goodwill.
• Alvitte invited Linsey to try the fruit wine, but he refused because he avoided alcohol for his health.
• Alvitte asked Kang Ding about the Dust Road World, and he described its recurring wars and the followers of the Only God.
• Kang Ding said the followers were known across the Middle Ring World but were dismissed by city-states because their leader had not reached the Seventh Stage.
• Linsey asked Kang Ding whether he had information about the Mutated Ones.

Linsey and Alvitte learned that the route to the City of Law crossed a vast gap and decided to seek flying magical beasts. As they left Kang Ding’s tent, red dots approached the sky island, and Alvitte entered combat mode.

• Linsey explained Mutated Ones to Kang Ding, who said he had never heard of them in the nearby sky islands.
• Kang Ding warned Linsey and Alvitte about traveling to the City of Law, then explained that the eastern route was broken and could be crossed by flight, an airship, or flying magical beasts.
• Linsey and Alvitte chose to seek Seventh Stage flying magical beasts, and Kang Ding said they lived in the center of the world.
• Linsey thanked Kang Ding and left him food as payment for the information.
• Alvitte sensed an approaching threat, and Linsey saw red dots closing in on the sky island on his map.
• Linsey and Alvitte left the tent to investigate as Kang Ding watched Alvitte and murmured, “Righteous Walker.”

Linsey and Alvitte confronted thirteen hostile Awakened crossing the Sky Bridge toward Stone Pillar Sky Island. Alvitte subdued one Fifth Stage attacker with her Righteous Walker skill, and Linsey knocked out the other, leaving the remaining enemies facing them.

• Linsey and Alvitte spotted thirteen enemy Awakened crossing the Sky Bridge and went out to meet them.
• Two Fifth Stage Awakened charged ahead, one wielding a black mechanical crossbow, and demanded that Linsey and Alvitte move aside.
• Alvitte struck with her Righteous Walker skill, making the crossbow wielder collapse and drop his weapon into the Abyss.
• The other warrior endured Alvitte's pressure and rushed past her toward the Sky Island.
• Linsey entered his Concentrated State, seized him by the neck, and slammed him unconscious before stomping down to suppress his source material.

Linsey and Alvitte questioned the captured attackers, and Kang Ding learned from Ma Xia that the Silver Witch had defeated his city and turned the West Ring Island into a battlefield. The chapter ended with Ma Xia advising Kang Ding to flee to the Outer Ring World, leaving the fate of Kang Ding’s home and family uncertain.

• Linsey asked Kang Ding to identify the thirteen captured Awakened, and Kang Ding recognized one leader as Ma Xia, a Fifth Stage craftsman from Stan City.
• Alvitte explained that Fifth Stage craftsmen could use prepared equipment to become exceptionally powerful Awakened.
• Kang Ding questioned Ma Xia about why he had attacked the camp, and Ma Xia revealed that Stan City had fallen after the Silver Witch was defeated and retreated to West Ring Island.
• Ma Xia told Kang Ding that the Borderlands were the main battlefield, and Kang Ding feared for his family and hometown.
• Ma Xia advised Kang Ding to leave the Borderlands and seek safety in the Outer Ring World.

After the Silver Witch conquered Kang Ding’s homeland, Kang Ding and his soldiers decided to flee the Middle Ring World for the Outer Ring World. Linsey and Alvitte accepted temporary identification before Linsey discovered that the sky-island pillars protected the world from falling into the Sea of Wandering.

• Kang Ding abandoned his unspoken plea for revenge and told his soldiers they had to leave the Middle Ring World.
• Ma Xia urged Kang Ding’s group to flee to the Outer Ring World, and Kang Ding rejected surrender as impossible under the Silver Witch’s orders.
• Kang Ding gave Linsey and Alvitte identity phosphor stones as tokens of gratitude while his soldiers and Ma Xia’s group prepared to withdraw.
• After the others left, Linsey examined the sky-island pillar and learned that the Pillars of Oath guided matter and protected the world from the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey considered taking material from the pillar but gave up after learning it helped protect the world.

Linsey and Alvitte traveled through the Middle Ring World as Linsey studied its sky islands and discovered a Hidden Space inside a cloud. Linsey began stacking dirt blocks upward to reach it, leaving Alvitte in a house below as he climbed out of sight.

• Linsey and Alvitte crossed more than a dozen sky islands and entered the Middle Ring World.
• Linsey estimated that islands wider than 210 meters gained Sky Bridges, while smaller islands floated without roads.
• Linsey detected a Hidden Space in a cloud with his Sky Compass, though Alvitte could not sense it.
• Linsey explained that Hidden Spaces had yielded the Purple Leaf Vine Branch he used to repair a connection between worlds.
• Linsey stacked dirt blocks beneath himself to climb toward the cloud and left Alvitte to wait in a house.

Linsey discovered a hidden Cloud Island in the clouds and collected its rare Atmospheric Essence and Floating Cloud Layer. He left the island planning to strip it for materials before returning to Alvitte.

• Linsey used the Bat Staff to confirm that a solid surface lay inside the clouds, then leaped onto Cloud Island.
• Linsey mapped the island with the bat and followed the Sky Compass to its center, where he found Atmospheric Essence.
• Linsey examined crafting formulas and realized he lacked the materials to make an Air Crest and Freedom Mark.
• Linsey headed back toward Alvitte, then tore several chunks of Floating Cloud Layer from the island.
• Linsey messaged Alvitte to wait while he gathered more materials.

Alvitte reflected on the devastation war had brought to ordinary people while Linsey stripped a hidden Cloud Island of its materials. After Linsey revealed that Elemental Creatures inhabited the Dust Road World’s atmosphere and storms, he and Alvitte continued toward a city occupied by the Silver Witch, hoping to find an airship.

• Alvitte considered how war had made survival difficult for ordinary people and resolved to return and help end it.
• Linsey told Alvitte that he had found miraculous items on a Cloud Island and planned to move the island itself.
• After Linsey removed the cloud layer’s hidden core, he fell from the clouds but used a new ability to land safely.
• Linsey showed Alvitte Atmospheric Essence, Floating Cloud Layer, and several crafting formulas; Alvitte explained that ordinary Elemental Spirits were usually mild-tempered, unlike aggressive storm-related elements.
• Linsey learned that Elemental Creatures could provide the crystals he needed for equipment and continued onward with Alvitte toward the Silver Witch’s occupied city, hoping she had an airship.

While crossing the floating islands, Linsey and Alvitte encountered Awakened pursuing civilians and intervened to stop them. Alvitte questioned the survivors about where they came from and why civilians were being persecuted.

• Linsey and Alvitte discussed whether he could fish in the sea of clouds as they crossed a damaged suspension bridge.
• They spotted Awakened pursuing civilians on a nearby floating island and entered stealth to investigate.
• Alvitte charged into the battle and killed the Law Knight, then immobilized his subordinates with her Righteous Walker will.
• Alvitte questioned the pursuers and punished those who had willingly followed the Queen's orders, while sparing those who claimed they had been forced.
• A Fifth Stage man thanked Alvitte, and she asked him where his group came from and what lay ahead.

Linsey and Alvitte helped fleeing civilians defeat the Law Knights pursuing them and learned about the Calamity School. They reached Silver City, the Silver Witch’s stronghold, and considered how to enter.

• A Fifth Stage Awakened told Linsey and Alvitte that the Silver Witch had renamed White Asia City Silver City and was purging the former administrators’ relatives and friends.
• Linsey and Alvitte handed the defeated pursuers over to the fleeing civilians, and Linsey learned that their Awakened rescuer belonged to the Calamity School.
• Linsey explained his rules for collecting Prey Material, and Alvitte accepted the Game Module and gathered materials from the Law Knight’s corpse.
• Alvitte described the Calamity School’s two paths to surviving the universe’s end and said she would confront the calamity rather than flee it.
• Linsey and Alvitte reached the sky islands surrounding Silver City and weighed taking a detour against infiltrating the city to find an airship.

Linsey and Alvitte discovered that supply convoys and craftsmen offered a way to enter Silver City, so Linsey proposed posing as a builder. To hide Alvitte’s identity, he gave her Mud Catfish Head, leaving them to continue toward the city in disguise.

• Linsey and Alvitte observed Silver City’s floating islands and identified three large islands that carried supplies and people directly from the east without the usual inspections.
• Linsey realized that treasures such as airships might travel with the supply convoys, and Alvitte showed him Awakened craftsmen building camps on the satellite islands.
• Linsey proposed that they sneak into Silver City as craftsmen, using his Construction Module to gain access during the city’s construction.
• Alvitte worried that someone might recognize her, so Linsey asked about attitudes toward Demi-humans and learned that intelligent species were considered equal.
• Linsey gave Alvitte Mud Catfish Head to conceal her identity, and she equipped it, transforming into a fish-headed humanoid.
• Linsey suggested that they use the Friend Channel for complicated conversations because Alvitte might have trouble speaking through the disguise.

Linsey and Alvitte passed Silver City's inspection by claiming to be craftsmen, then arrived at the core island. A worker immediately recruited them to help build a camp.

• Linsey and Alvitte told the Law Knight inspecting arrivals that they were craftsmen seeking peaceful work in Silver City.
• Alvitte assured Linsey through the Friend List that the Law Balance could not expose his lies, and Linsey passed the inspection.
• Linsey and Alvitte discussed how Law Knights' power depended on whom they served and how their will could be overwhelmed by law.
• Linsey and Alvitte rode a floating island to Silver City's core island and handed over their identities.
• A worker recognized Linsey and Alvitte as craftsmen and hurried them off to help build a camp.

Linsey and Alvitte surveyed Silver City's construction and were assigned to build temporary houses while gathering information. When a wounded person was brought into Linsey's first finished house, he discovered the person had been infected with Corruption Poison, a toxin tied to the Abyss School and the path of aberration.

• Linsey used his map to learn that Silver City was being rebuilt around the Silver Witch's unfinished Palace, with residential and agricultural districts planned.
• Linsey and Alvitte reached a camp outside the city walls as a neighboring floating island aligned with Silver City, bringing wounded people and supplies across temporary bridges.
• A staff member ordered Linsey and Alvitte to build temporary shelters and told them that meals would be provided, while pay and rewards were still being determined by Queen.
• Linsey and Alvitte began building houses and gathering information while maintaining their disguise as craftsmen.
• A wounded person was carried into Linsey's first completed house, and Linsey identified the person's condition as Corruption Poison developed by the Abyss School.