Chapter Summaries

Alvitte stopped an army from slaughtering Demi-humans on a floating island and began learning what had happened there. At the World Center, Linsey climbed the Core Stone Pillar through the night and reached its summit, where he spotted distant floating islands and a possible way to escape.

• Alvitte defeated the Awakened soldiers who had been killing Demi-humans and accepted a deer leg from a young wolfman.
• Alvitte told Linsey that the World Center was isolated by a Will Barrier, so he might not be able to leave from inside it.
• Linsey used Suction Cups to climb the smooth Core Stone Pillar, resting to eat before continuing upward.
• Linsey reached the summit late at night and saw sparse floating islands in the distance, raising hope of escape.
• Linsey's Sports Racing skill rose from Level 3 to Level 4.

Linsey used floating blocks and his skills to travel from the World's Summit toward the sky islands, but discovered the Will Barrier surrounding the world’s core blocked him. His attempts to analyze and break it failed, leaving him trapped at its edge.

• Linsey grilled a meal atop the World's Summit, sent Alvitte a selfie, and planned a route to the distant sky islands.
• Linsey crafted Floating Soil Blocks and used them as platforms while gliding toward the islands.
• Linsey gained altitude by repeatedly building upward and using his Bat Staff to pull himself higher with summoned bats.
• Linsey reached the Will Barrier and learned it could only be broken by force or dismissed by its owner.
• Linsey's Red Horn Mistletoe bounced off the barrier, confirming he could not break through it.

Linsey escaped the World Center by using his Blade of Emotion to pierce the Will Barrier. After reaching a floating island, he discovered signs of Mutated Ones and a Flesh Lake, then was suddenly transported elsewhere.

• Linsey failed to break the Will Barrier with his weapons, and Alvitte advised him to use an ability tied to the heart.
• Linsey used his Blade of Emotion to cut an opening in the barrier and escaped onto a floating block.
• Linsey crossed to a nearby floating island and searched the area for signs of people.
• Linsey found a recently built Flesh Lake but no Mutated Ones nearby, and wondered whether it was connected to a battle between top-tier Awakened.
• Strange spatial fluctuations appeared, and the Flesh Lake vanished as Linsey's surroundings abruptly changed.

After a spatial disturbance moved Linsey to an unknown floating island, he and Alvitte suspected that a battle between powerful Seventh Stage Awakened had disrupted the World Center. Linsey planned to map the changing terrain to find a pattern, while Alvitte prepared to follow her conscience and confront the conflict between the newcomers and the World Center’s original inhabitants.

• Linsey discovered that a sudden spatial shift had moved him to an unfamiliar floating island and erased the surrounding terrain from his Strategic Map.
• Linsey contacted Alvitte, who said that a battle between Seventh Stage Awakened could have caused the spatial chaos.
• Linsey and Alvitte considered finding the battle’s source but recognized that shifting islands could make their search futile.
• Linsey decided to use his Strategic Map to record changes in the surrounding islands and search for a pattern.
• Alvitte told Linsey that the newcomers’ troops had clashed with the World Center’s original inhabitants and said she would follow her conscience.

Linsey encountered a silver-backed gorilla tribe slaughtering humans beside a lake and killed the beasts, including their Fifth Stage leader. He rushed to help the two survivors, whose condition remained unknown.

• Linsey waited for another spatial shift and found it occurred two hours later, then explored the newly revealed sky island.
• Linsey found silver-backed gorillas attacking humans by a lake, with one man shielding another as he was beaten.
• Linsey used his Sun Blaze Shooter to kill most of the gorilla tribe and drove its leader to flee.
• Linsey chased down and killed the Fifth Stage gorilla leader, collecting materials and earning the Ape Killer title and Ape Gloves.
• Linsey took a healing potion and hurried to check on the two figures by the lake.

Linsey rescued the unconscious Arona after finding her group dead in a Silverback Gorilla attack, then questioned her about the Dust Road World’s World Center and spatial disturbances. Arona said her people had always lived there and that the disturbances began months ago during a powerful Awakened’s battle; she knew some of their patterns.

• Linsey found that a man he approached with a potion had died, then discovered the blindfolded Arona unconscious beneath him and confirmed she was alive.
• Linsey collected materials from the dead Silverback Gorillas, buried the human corpses, and performed a simple death rite.
• Arona woke and accused Linsey of killing her companions, but he told her the gorillas had attacked her group and that she alone had survived.
• Linsey comforted Arona as she grieved, and the two introduced themselves.
• Linsey asked why Arona was in the World Center and what caused its spatial disturbances; Arona said her people had always lived there and the disturbances began months earlier during a fierce battle between powerful Awakened.

Alvitte learned that the spatial chaos had trapped the Demi-humans and that its source lay near the World Center, east of the Inner Ring World. After confirming her findings with Linsey, she and the Demi-humans were suddenly transported into a human Awakened camp, where the humans prepared to attack.

• Alvitte questioned a young wolf child and his mother, learning that spatial chaos had lasted for months and made escape routes increasingly dangerous.
• The wolf mother explained that human Awakened soldiers had driven the Demi-humans from their homes and slaughtered them, while the World Center was occupied by the strongest humans.
• Alvitte concluded that a destroyed special technique or object had caused the spatial chaos and that its source was likely near the World Center.
• Alvitte and Linsey compared what they had learned through the Friend Channel and confirmed their information matched.
• The wolf mother warned Alvitte that the source lay east of the Inner Ring World, but a spatial fluctuation transported Alvitte and the Demi-humans into a human Awakened camp.
• The human Awakened readied their weapons to kill the Demi-humans, and Alvitte rose with her longsword.

Linsey fished on a sky island while waiting for spatial fluctuations to teleport him and Arona nearer the World Center. After catching a fish and a treasure chest containing the Floating Hand, they were transported to an island where magical beasts were attacking a town.

• Linsey explained his plan to wait for teleportation to take them closer to the World Center, then sat by a lake to fish.
• Arona warned Linsey that he was unlikely to catch anything, but Linsey soon reeled in a Sky Island Trout.
• Linsey caught a treasure chest containing the Floating Hand and Law Gold Coins, then equipped the anklet for its midair double jump.
• Linsey concealed how the chest had appeared from Arona and continued fishing as they waited for more than two hours.
• Spatial fluctuations transported Linsey and Arona to a new sky island, where magical beasts surrounded and attacked a walled town.

Linsey discovered that three Demi-humans were directing the magical beasts besieging a human city, and raced into the forest to confront them. He killed two and pinned the last one down, preparing to question it.

• Linsey fired explosive arrows into the magical beasts, then followed a trail of white clues toward Red Dots hidden in the forest.
• Linsey told Arona to retreat and carved through the beast horde on his way to capture the ringleader.
• Linsey found three Demi-humans in the forest and recognized their abilities as those of Fifth Stage Beast Tamers using Wilderness Dialogue.
• The Demi-humans turned the surrounding forest against Linsey, but he dodged their attacks and killed the one in the middle with a spear.
• Linsey decapitated another Demi-human, knocked the last one down, and demanded answers.

Linsey reached a human settlement with Arona after defeating the Demi-human Awakened, where he learned how war and resource scarcity had driven humans and Demi-humans into a cycle of hatred. He left Arona among the believers and contacted Alvitte, only to learn that she was leading the Demi-humans against humans.

• Linsey defeated the Demi-human Awakened, and the magical beasts attacking the city scattered after the Beast Tamer's Source Material Skill stopped controlling them.
• Arona explained the floating island's circumstances to Linsey, and the town's guards opened the gate after recognizing her as a respected believer.
• The humans turned hostile toward Linsey's captive after Arona revealed her companions had been killed, and the captive's argument with them exposed the origins of the racial war.
• Linsey learned that spatial upheaval and competition for resources had fractured a long-standing alliance between humans and Demi-humans.
• Linsey messaged Alvitte about the conflict, and she replied that she was leading the Demi-human tribe in resistance against humans.

Linsey learned that Alvitte was helping Demi-humans fight humans, though they agreed to honor their opposing positions if they met again. As Linsey set out toward the City of Law, Arona stopped him with intelligence about the spatial chaos and revealed that her people worshipped the Righteous Walkers and their laws.

• Linsey and Alvitte discussed their opposing choices in the conflict between humans and Demi-humans, and Alvitte said she would fight him if their positions still clashed when they met.
• Linsey left the town to fix the spatial distortion and head east toward the City of Law.
• Arona caught up with Linsey and offered intelligence, so he agreed to speak with her privately.
• Arona told Linsey that a powerful wonder controlled by an Elemental Creature had caused the spatial chaos after the creature was angered by a war several months earlier.
• Linsey asked Arona about her faith, and she said her people believed in the Righteous Walkers and the laws they established.

Linsey questioned Arona about the Believers’ faith and learned that her faction worshipped the Righteous Walkers, hoping to aid a destined king. After telling her that he had encountered Only God worshippers and witnessed preparations for ancient gods’ revival, Linsey decided to contact Alvitte despite their recent argument.

• Linsey asked Arona whether her ancestors had worshipped a Righteous Walker, and she explained that her Believers hoped to support the king destined to restore the world.
• Linsey questioned Arona about the Only God worshippers he had encountered, and she admitted she knew nothing about them.
• Linsey told Arona that the Only God faith might be connected to the revival of ancient gods he had witnessed, but the Believers doubted his claim.
• Linsey decided that the danger mattered more than his pride and messaged Alvitte through the Friend Channel.

Alvitte and Linsey agreed that the Only God and the Mutated Ones were shared enemies, while Alvitte led a group of Demi-humans toward their nearby kin. When they encountered infected Demi-humans, she lowered her sword after learning they had taken the power to protect themselves, and resolved to judge them by their actions.

• Alvitte and Linsey discussed the Righteous Walkers' power, the King's Artifacts, and the Only God, then agreed to face the Only God and the Mutated Ones together.
• Alvitte followed a young wolfman across a floating island toward a nearby Demi-human tribe, promising to protect him and the others.
• Alvitte sensed Corruption Poison and drew her Law Steel Sword as more than a dozen infected Demi-humans emerged to surround the group.
• The young wolfman explained that the Mutated Ones were his kin and that Alvitte had saved and protected them, easing the tension between the two sides.
• An adult Demi-human told Alvitte that the infected kin had taken the power to protect themselves, so Alvitte withdrew her skill and said she would judge them by their actions.

Linsey and Arona arrived on a floating island saturated with Corruption Poison, where Linsey discovered that a Demi-human had deliberately consumed it. After learning from Alvitte that some Demi-humans used the poison to gain power for self-protection, Linsey cleared the island of Corruption Poison, leaving their conflict over the practice unresolved.

• Arona left her believer companions and followed Linsey as he continued toward the center of the battlefield.
• Linsey and Arona were teleported to a floating island covered in Corruption Poison, and Linsey gave Arona a Purification Fruit to counter its effects.
• Linsey found a Demi-human corpse and used his Scouting Skill to learn that the man had voluntarily eaten Corruption Poison until it killed him.
• Linsey warned Alvitte that Demi-humans were consuming Corruption Poison, and she explained that some used the dangerous practice to gain techniques for self-protection.
• Linsey burned the corpse according to the School of Death's doctrines, then planted Withered Overlord Flower seeds to clear the island's Corruption Poison.

Linsey and Arona waited on a floating island while discussing Arona’s faith, hopes, and the believer stages. After another spatial distortion, they arrived at a battlefield where humans fought smaller versions of the Dragon Beasts that had attacked Silver City.

• Linsey realized the latest teleport had taken them farther from their previous location, so he decided to wait for a more favorable distortion.
• Arona admitted that her faith in Linsey had led her to leave the other believers and follow him, hoping to help save everyone and find a peaceful home.
• Arona explained the first five stages of a believer’s power and said later-stage knowledge was restricted to the believers’ home world.
• Linsey prepared food for Arona, and three hours later another spatial distortion carried them to a battlefield.
• Linsey recognized the flying, fire-breathing lizards fighting human soldiers as smaller Dragon Beasts like those that had attacked Silver City.

Linsey discovered that Poison Fire Flying Dragons had spread from Dragon Island after the Fire Dragon King’s death, then drove the beasts from the battlefield. The humans remained divided and poised to fight, so Arona stepped forward to urge them to unite.

• Linsey identified a dead Poison Fire Flying Dragon and learned from Arona that the species lived on Dragon Island under the Fire Dragon King.
• Linsey told Arona that the Fire Dragon King was dead, then attacked the Poison Fire Flying Dragons with his weapons.
• The flying dragons surrounded Linsey, but his lava attack concealed an Annihilation Blade assault that left many beasts incapacitated and drove the survivors away.
• Linsey received a Fire Resistance Pearl, then saw the humans split into two armed factions despite the battle’s end.
• Arona approached the factions and asked them to put down their weapons and unite against the crisis facing Dust Road World.

Arona stopped the humans from fighting by urging them to cooperate and revealing that the Fire Dragon King was dead. Linsey followed newly appeared clue-lights to the Sky Bridge, where he confronted two fleeing demi-humans and their Poison Fire Flying Dragons.

• Arona used her standing among the Righteous Walker's followers to calm both groups and stop the battle.
• Arona learned that the groups had fought over scarce food and directed them to bury the dead and use the Poison Fire Flying Dragons as food.
• Arona revealed that the Fire Dragon King was dead, and the crowd recognized Linsey as its likely killer.
• Linsey noticed new clue-lights, told Arona to handle the scene, and raced toward the edge of the empty island.
• Linsey spotted two demi-humans fleeing with Poison Fire Flying Dragons, then aimed two javelins at them using the FPS module.

Linsey killed two Poison Fire Flying Dragons and captured the Mimic demi-humans who had controlled them, learning that other companions had taken dragons to different floating islands. A new spatial-chaos shift then teleported Linsey and Arona away, leaving the captives with them but making everyone and everything else vanish.

• Linsey used the Blade of Emotion to torment a captured demi-human until he revealed that his group had encountered, mimicked, and controlled flying dragons after teleporting, while other companions had taken dragons elsewhere.
• Linsey verified that the demi-human did not know how many companions were involved or where they had gone.
• Arona approached Linsey and learned that Mimics might have brought all the Poison Fire Flying Dragons from Dragon Island under their control.
• Spatial chaos enveloped Linsey and Arona, teleporting them away with the two captives while the humans and dragon corpses disappeared.

Linsey and Arona raced toward the battlefield’s center, where they sensed nearly ten Seventh Stage Awakened and other powerful beings gathered beneath storm clouds. As they approached, Linsey’s Sky Compass warned him about a massive shadow in the darkness.

• Linsey learned that people caught on Sky Bridges during spatial transmission had vanished, and he and Arona concluded they were near the battlefield’s center.
• Linsey crippled the two demi-humans’ Source Material Skills, then carried Arona across sky islands and Sky Bridges at high speed.
• Linsey and Arona sensed nearly ten Seventh Stage forces beneath the storm clouds, along with dangerous magical beasts and Elemental Spirits near the World Center.
• Linsey decided to continue despite the danger, and Arona insisted on accompanying him.
• As they neared the dark-clouded region, Linsey’s Sky Compass sounded an alert about a massive shadow overhead.

Linsey carried Arona up to a Cloud Island, where he collected its Atmospheric Essence and prepared to fish with his new Cloud Sea Fishing Rod. The chapter ended as he wondered what the island’s clouds might yield.

• Linsey spotted a Cloud Island and decided to reach it with the Cloud Sea Fishing Rod materials he had crafted in Silver City.
• Linsey carried Arona upward by building blocks beneath his feet, and they landed on the Cloud Island.
• Arona cautiously explored the cloud-covered ground and fell forward, then insisted she was fine.
• Linsey found and collected the island’s Atmospheric Essence, giving him two pieces to use for crafting.
• Linsey found no Elemental Creatures and took out his Cloud Sea Fishing Rod to try fishing.