Chapter Summaries

Adam sent Exploration Robots into the Aether Void and led half the Hyperdimensional Mages toward Shanti, while the fleet found several destroyed civilizations along the way. At Shanti, Neham learned about the Demonic Beast attacks and reassured Patriao that the Mage World’s reinforcements would arrive soon.

• The Council approved Neham’s request, and Adam released the Exploration Robots into the Aether Void after debugging them.
• Adam and half the Hyperdimensional Mages departed for Shanti, following the Crowns’ instructions to explore the Disaster Zone and recruit war-torn civilizations.
• The fleet passed three destroyed civilizations and discussed Wendy’s theory that Hypervoid Life was catalyzing worlds as food.
• Neham asked Patriao about the Demonic Beast attacks, the Level Nine Demon Creature, and the warlocks’ ability to resist it.
• Neham told Patriao that reinforcements would arrive soon and that the Mage World had countless people like him.

Neham and Patriao faced a massive Demonic Beast assault as the Mage Legion arrived with fifty starships and devastated the horde. The fleet split between confronting the Level Nine Demon Creature and descending into Warlock Civilization’s planes, where Adam’s forces began clearing out the invaders.

• Patriao and Neham prepared for a probing assault, but Neham recognized that the Mage Legion had arrived.
• Adam’s fleet jumped into the void with fifty starships and fired Hyperdimensional Strikes that wiped out much of the Demonic Beast horde.
• Patriao attacked the Level Nine Demon Creature while Neham shielded the fleet from its counterattack.
• The fleet split, with fourteen starships joining Neham and the others following Adam into Warlock Civilization’s planes to fight the Demonic Beasts there.
• Adam enhanced his forces and sent the Titans, Forest Elves, Garfield, and their companions charging into battle, where they quickly overwhelmed the Demonic Beasts.

Adam and the mages helped the warlocks of Shanti repel a Demonic Beast invasion, then began rebuilding their world and arranging contact between their civilizations. The warlocks would remain on Shanti as the mages prepared to use it as a hub for reaching nearby Resistors and waited for Randolph.

• The Titans, Lina and the Forest Elves, Garfield, Sophia, and the Mage and Slave Legions fought the Demonic Beasts, while Adam watched the void battle and observed the warlocks' abilities.
• Neham and the other mages drove the Level Nine Demon Creature back into its lair, after which the warlocks joined the battle and helped defeat the remaining demons.
• After two days of fighting, the mages and warlocks arranged initial cooperation, and the mages began shielding Shanti from void radiation and Demonic Qi while upgrading its machines and treating the warlocks' succession problem.
• Wendy explained that the warlocks' summons were part of a void transaction, and she told Adam that the warlocks would rebuild Shanti rather than relocate and that the Level Nine Demon Creature would be kept as a research specimen.
• Neham said that nearby worlds had once been in contact with the warlocks, and that the mages planned to make Shanti a hub for reaching surviving Resistors while waiting for Randolph.

Randolph True Spirit joined three Free Faction True Spirits to seal the Red Zone around the newly discovered Hypervoid Life, while the others considered pursuing resources in the Void Zone he had found. On Shanti, Adam and the mages examined an ancient map with Patriao and linked the Cataclysms to the Immortal Civilization and the First Level Nine Immortal.

• Randolph True Spirit and the three Free Faction True Spirits built a vast sealing Magic Array around the Red Zone and took up their guard positions.
• Hill asked Randolph about his newly discovered Void Zone, and the Free Faction True Spirits decided they might join the coming war to gain resources.
• Patriao showed Adam and the mages Shanti’s ancient void map, which recorded nearby planes that had since been destroyed.
• Adam asked Patriao about the Immortal Civilization, and Patriao said Shanti’s first Cataclysm had occurred two hundred and thirty thousand years earlier.
• Adam and the mages connected that date to the First Level Nine Immortal’s arrival and considered whether the immortal had been a Heart Demon nurtured by the Hypervoid Life.

Randolph arrived to negotiate the Warlock Civilization’s alliance with the Mage World as preparations began to clear the Disaster Zone before contacting the Immortal Civilization. After Patriao agreed to join the Mage World, Adam coordinated the warlocks’ relocation and integration, leaving Edith hopeful about their future.

• Patriao accepted that the Immortal Civilization had been unable to help the Shanti warlocks and said they should focus on becoming stronger.
• Randolph arrived and told Patriao that the Mage Civilization would welcome the warlocks as long as they did not obstruct its path of evolution.
• After three days of negotiations, Patriao announced that the Warlock Civilization would join the Mage World as contractual allies.
• Randolph, Patriao, and Neham discussed capturing a live Level Nine Demon Creature while Edith liaised with Adam about preparations for war.
• Adam asked Edith to move ordinary warlocks to Randolph’s temporary plane and arrange Personal Chips for them, and Edith agreed.

Adam oversaw the merger of Shanti and the Sub-Plane while Neham, Randolph, and Patriao fought a Level Nine Demon Creature. Wendy sealed the creature and carried it through a temporary portal to Mage World, as Edith marveled at the mages’ power.

• Edith explained the history and principles of Summoning Technique to Adam while her clansmen migrated through the portal.
• Adam delayed the plane merger until Neham, Randolph, and Patriao had engaged the Level Nine Demon Creature.
• Neham drew the demon into his domain, Patriao summoned powerful creatures to restrain it, and Wendy maintained a layered seal around the battlefield.
• Adam and the mages activated the underground arrays, joining Shanti and the Sub-Plane into a vast Energy Stone continent.
• Adam and the Vanguard Legion used the starships to create a temporary Dimensional Hub to Mage World while Wendy fended off Demonic Beasts.
• Wendy sealed the Level Nine Demon Creature, carried it through the portal, and left her sister to take over.

Adam proposed broadcasting Mage World’s arrival and offer of aid throughout the Disaster Zone, and the mages completed preparations to send the message in multiple languages and images. The broadcast reached embattled worlds, displaced civilizations, wandering Demonic Beasts, and the Level Nine Immortals of Da Luo Heaven.

• Adam told Aisha that Exploration Robots had found more than ten inhabited worlds, including three at war, but no Level Nine Demon Creatures near Shanti.
• Adam proposed broadcasting news of the mages’ arrival to the Disaster Zone, and Neham supported the idea.
• Adam asked Edith to translate the message into many languages, while Edith reported that magic power could replenish some warlock abilities but not their Summoning Technique.
• Over the following week, Adam’s team installed Radio Telescopes on Shanti and prepared broadcasts using images and translated messages.
• On the eighth day, the mages broadcast Mage World’s offer of paid assistance, protection, and new homes across the Disaster Zone.
• The broadcast reached wandering Demonic Beasts, warriors fighting Demonic Beasts, displaced civilizations, and the Level Nine Immortals of Da Luo Heaven.

Tai Chu Heavenly Venerable sent Celestial Venerable Wanxiang to meet the mages after their broadcast drew attention from civilizations across the Disaster Zone. Adam completed Shanti’s preparations and welcomed the first Mage World legions, while Wanxiang arrived seeking an audience with the King of Mages.

• Tai Chu Heavenly Venerable judged the mages’ actions worth observing and dispatched Celestial Venerable Wanxiang with an immortal artifact to find them.
• The broadcast prompted desperate planes to send envoys toward Shanti, while other civilizations stayed away or prepared for war, and Demonic Beasts charged toward the announced coordinates.
• Adam oversaw Shanti’s reconstruction as its infrastructure expanded, the outside Demonic Beasts were exterminated, and the first batch of ten thousand Hyperdimensional Mage Towers prepared to arrive.
• Adam activated Shanti’s Dimensional Hub Platform and Star Port, allowing the first Mage World starships and their legions to enter and reorganize.
• A Level Nine Creature arrived outside Shanti, prompting the Hyperdimensional Mages to ready their starships’ Main Cannons, and she introduced herself as Wanxiang of the Immortal Realm and requested an audience with the King of Mages.

Celestial Venerable Wanxiang arrived as an emissary from the Immortal Civilization, prompting the mages to prepare for a possible battle before negotiations began. A day later, she came to Shanti as the civilization’s representative, and Adam outlined the strict rules governing her visit.

• Celestial Venerable Wanxiang approached the mage fleet, whose commanders kept their Main Cannons charged while Randolph and Patriao met her in the void.
• Neham identified Wanxiang’s One Origin, Myriad Renewals ability and warned that the mages would need overwhelming energy to counter it, while Adam and the command team revised their plans.
• After an hour of negotiations, Randolph ordered the forces to stand down and told Neham to meet with him later.
• Neham introduced Wanxiang’s avatar to Adam as the Immortal Civilization’s resident emissary and revealed that Randolph had told her the mages caused the destruction of the Realm of Desire’s Number One Plane.
• Adam welcomed Wanxiang and explained that she would need permission and an escort to enter any area of Shanti outside the private Emissary Reception Area.

Adam established strict limits for the Immortal Civilization emissaries and traded sealing scrolls for a Disaster Zone map. As the mages sent legions toward nearby planes, a battered fleet carrying a desperate people struggled toward Shanti, and its king prepared one final gamble.

• Adam confined Celestial Venerable Wanxiang and future emissaries to a sealed reception area, demanded permission for them to leave, and traded high-level sealing scrolls for a map and language information.
• The mages sent legions toward confirmed planes while Adam adjusted the broadcasts and waited for more emissaries.
• Two months later, the mages detected five damaged Flying Ships seventy light-years from Shanti and watched them make painfully slow progress through the void.
• After a week of watching the fleet advance less than two light-years, the mages decided to notify Adam and offer help.
• The fleet's king learned from Kasmodo that they had energy for only five more jumps and ordered the escort ships abandoned for one last long-distance jump with the clansmen and Newborns.

King Hozia and his black dragon died after bringing the Mopu people to Shanti, where Adam and Neham helped rescue them. As more endangered races sought aid, the war against the Demonic Beasts began, and Adam led an expedition to the former Mopu Plane to find survivors and fight back.

• King Hozia sent Kasmodo to find reinforcements and plead for help saving his daughter, while the Mopu people gathered their remaining energy to power the King and his dragon.
• Adam and Neham helped the Mopu mothership reach Shanti, but Hozia and his black dragon died after seeing their people rescued.
• Envoys from across the Disaster Zone arrived at Shanti seeking aid, and Adam arranged for fleets and armies to go to their threatened regions.
• Mages and War Mages gathered at Shanti as the war officially began, and Adam set out with the Titans, Neham, and Mopu warriors to attack the Demonic Beasts on the former Mopu Plane.
• Kasmodo assured Adam that the Grand Princess and the Mopu Empire's great nobles were still alive and waiting for reinforcements.

Kasmodo recounted how the Mopu people lost their plane to demons and fled, while Adam pressed him to reveal what enabled Mopu’s warriors to advance. Adam and his forces reached the demon-infested Mopu Plane and prepared their campaign, with protecting certain intelligence sources as the top priority.

• Kasmodo described how the demons overwhelmed Mopu, forcing the kingdom to send its king away aboard Flying Ships while the Grand Princess and nobles stayed to resist.
• Adam challenged Kasmodo about the Mopu survivors’ dwindling strength and their reliance on war beasts, and Kasmodo admitted that he had concealed information.
• Adam’s Electromagnetic Number made three jumps and reached the Mopu Plane, where scans detected up to one and a half million Demonic Beasts, including more than a hundred hyperdimensional beings.
• Evans Mage briefed Adam on the enemy numbers, and Adam warned his mages to guard against soul contamination while promising to cover seventy percent of their resurrection costs.
• Adam ordered Evans Mage to send Infiltration Type mages to find and protect the intelligence he had provided, making it the campaign’s most important mission.

Adam prepared to lead the Mage World's legion in a campaign against the Demonic Beasts of the Mopu Plane, learning to delegate and command as Neham advised him. After the legion completed its preparations and repelled probing attacks, Adam officially began the extermination war.

• Adam ordered Combat Types to launch probing attacks on the fourth day while Infiltration Types carried out rescue missions, prioritizing their survival and authorizing them to kill anyone who resisted.
• Neham advised Adam to delegate command duties and broaden his knowledge of the Mage World's history and spells.
• Fifty thousand War Mages built a War Fortress, coordinated with their forces, and used traps to drive back the Demonic Beasts' probing attacks.
• Garfield teased Adam for seeming unnecessary, so Adam stuffed him into the Electromagnetic Number's control core.
• Evans Mage reported that preparations were complete, and Adam announced the start of the extermination war against the Mopu Plane's Demonic Beasts.

Wall led a squad across the Mopu Plane to investigate a Demonic Beast gathering, while the Grand Princess and the remnants of the Flame Dragon Knight Order mourned Duke Yanlong after he failed to defend the Water Source. The Grand Princess recited the Knight’s Code and prepared to address the surviving knights.

• Wall learned that scouts had found an abnormal Demonic Beast gathering and led his six squad members toward it.
• Wall’s squad reached a life-filled valley under attack by Demonic Beasts, and Wall chose to enter despite the risk of failing the mission.
• A dying Duke Yanlong reported that the Flame Dragon Knight Order had been annihilated and that he had failed to hold the Water Source.
• Duke Yanlong ordered the surviving knights to protect the Grand Princess and asked her to remember the Knight’s Code.
• The Grand Princess and the knights recited the code as Duke Yanlong died, and she closed his eyes before rising to speak to the survivors.

The Grand Princess led the Mopu survivors in a desperate attempt to escape as Wall's team traced a spatial passage to their Safe House. Adam and Neham recognized her Gungnir attack and prepared to meet her.

• The Grand Princess and her knights mounted their war beasts and prepared to fight through the demons before their Safe House was breached.
• Wall's team battled its way into the valley, but found a dead Level Seven Demonic Beast and the nearly extinguished life signs of its inhabitants.
• Wall's team located evidence of spatial teleportation, and Wall held off the approaching demons while the mages traced the Safe House coordinates.
• As the mages opened the passage, the Grand Princess's Gungnir attack overwhelmed their defenses, but Adam's cannon struck the spear and saved the team.
• Adam and Neham identified the attacker as the Mopu Grand Princess, and Neham confirmed her identity with Kasmodo before they set out to meet her.

The Grand Princess and her knights burst into the Main Plane, where Neham trapped Gungnir and Adam calmed the situation. After Kasmodo was identified as the Royal Court Knight Commander, the Grand Princess demanded news of her father, and Kasmodo revealed that the King was dead.

• The Grand Princess and more than a hundred knights charged through the collapsing spatial barrier, but found no Demonic Beasts and lost Gungnir.
• Adam and Neham rescued Wall and the others, while Neham trapped Gungnir inside a Mobius Ring and sealed Kasmodo.
• Adam sent Wall and the team back to the War Fortress, and Neham freed the knights as the Grand Princess asked where Gungnir was.
• Kasmodo recognized the Grand Princess, but the knights attacked him after his identity as Royal Court Knight Commander was confirmed.
• The Grand Princess seized Kasmodo and demanded to know what had happened to her father, and Kasmodo showed her a Dragon Egg and said the King was dead.

Kasmodo recounted the Mopu people’s ordeal and died by suicide, leaving the Grand Princess devastated. Afterward, Matilda Gunter thanked Adam for his support and asked whether his intended payment concerned the Origin Domain.

• Kasmodo told the Grand Princess that her father had died after the Mopu fleet dwindled to five Flying Ships and fewer than fifty thousand people, then warned her that Adam’s rescue was a transaction and urged her to grow strong.
• The Grand Princess tried to heal Kasmodo, but he said he had lived long enough after sending his family to their deaths and chose to die; his soul dispersed and his Family Crest shattered.
• Neham gave Adam potions for the survivors and left, while Adam stayed outside the valley and held back the approaching Demonic Beasts with a Defensive Magic Array.
• Matilda Gunter emerged with a Knight Order of more than a hundred people, saluted Adam, and received the Mobius Ring before taking up Gungnir again.
• Adam said the rescue came at a price and apologized for overhearing Matilda’s conversation with Kasmodo; Matilda replied that Kasmodo had not betrayed his heart and asked if Adam’s target was the Origin Domain.

Adam coordinated the Mage World's search of Mopu and learned how Void Knights formed bonds with war beasts. After Matilda was crowned ruler of the weakened Knight Kingdom, Adam reviewed her agreement for rescue and urged her to join Mage Civilization, leaving her to consider the proposal.

• Adam ordered Evans Mage to search Mopu for surviving Knight Order members and map the Demonic Beasts and Origin Domain, while allowing the ground forces to advance.
• Neham explained the Void Knight system, its limits, and its reliance on contracts between humans and war beasts.
• Neham speculated that the Origin Domain and Gungnir might be connected to a powerful civilization.
• Matilda was crowned ruler of the Knight Kingdom, which had just over Fifty Thousand people and only a small number of powerful fighters.
• Matilda submitted the Knight Kingdom's agreement to contribute its system in exchange for rescue, and Adam asked whether she would join Mage Civilization.
• Adam showed Matilda the vast Disaster Zone and warned that her kingdom could not rebuild Mopu or reach safety without Mage World's help.

Adam briefed Matilda on the Knight Kingdom’s losses and ordered her forces to follow Mage command as they prepared to join the war. As the Frontline War Fortress reached the Mopu Plane, Adam launched the landing battle and took charge of the battle network, while Matilda led the Royal Court Knight Order into the enemy tide.

• Adam told Matilda that four-fifths of the Knight Kingdom’s Supply Points had fallen and that their Knight Commanders had died fighting the Demonic Beasts.
• Adam ordered Matilda’s forces to prepare to join the war under unified command and warned that disobedience could be punished under Wartime Regulations.
• At dawn on the third day, the Frontline War Fortress advanced toward the Mopu Plane, with Matilda’s New Royal Court Knight Order taking the vanguard at her request.
• When the fortress reached the enemy, Adam commanded the cannons and Mage Legion to attack the assembled Demonic Beast Army.
• Matilda led the Royal Court Knight Order into the battle, while Adam returned to headquarters and connected to the command network in Overload State.

Adam’s forces fought to secure a landing on the Mopu Plane while casualties were resurrected and the Mage Legion gradually gained ground. Neham identified the Origin Domain as the source of powerful Demonic Beasts, warning that the landing battle needed to end quickly.

• The Mage Legion and the Royal Court Knight Order battled Demonic Beasts as reports showed the landing operation advancing, though both sides suffered casualties.
• Adam opened a temporary Resurrection Passage and used legion funds and aether to help restore fallen mages.
• The mages seized key coordinates, established temporary fortresses, and shifted toward positional warfare as Evans Mage projected that the enemy would eventually withdraw.
• Neham showed Adam a map revealing high-energy auras near the Origin Domain and warned that powerful Demonic Beasts there could prolong the battle unless the legion landed quickly.