Chapter Summaries

Locke saved Orian and Selenos from Trella’s knights, then challenged them to reconsider who they were beyond their loyalties and titles. He offered to train Orian as a Forest Ranger in exchange for Orian helping him kill someone in this world, and Orian accepted.

• Orian and Selenos hid from six Trella knights, while Selenos prayed to the God of War and Orian tried to make a weapon from a tree branch.
• Locke animated his Treant incarnation, defeated the knights, and examined the mortal world’s unusual flow of time and lack of Magic Tide.
• Locke questioned Orian and Selenos about who they were beyond their identities as Trella’s people and believers of the God of War.
• Locke offered to train Orian with the Leaf of Power so he could return to Trella and take revenge, in exchange for helping Locke kill someone in this world.
• Orian picked up the Leaf of Power despite Selenos’s warning and accepted Locke’s transaction.

Locke prepared to act in the Three-Cave World while Orian returned to Terilla and killed Theodorola in the War Ritual. When the God of War punished Orian for exposing the murder and claiming his lawful victory, Locke’s Nemesis Path reacted, marking a crucial step in forging his Great Magic.

• After three years of training with Locke, Orian left the forest to challenge Theodorola for control of Terilla, and Locke gave him a one-use charred branch as a weapon.
• Locke discovered a Verdant Spiritual Breath Mine in the Three-Cave World and planned to use it to complete a Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method.
• Orian challenged Theodorola during the War Ritual, blocked his attack, and killed him before the citizens and priests of Terilla.
• Orian declared that Theodorola had poisoned his father, but the God of War answered with a lightning strike and the high priest accused Orian of provoking divine wrath.
• Orian questioned whether the God of War deserved his title, and the Nemesis Path: Leaf of Power around his neck flashed with magical radiance.

Locke investigated whether human nature could drive plant evolution, then watched his experiment with Orian culminate in a confrontation with the War Giant. Orian defeated the giant’s bronze armor and challenged Terilla’s High Priest, but the War Giant struck him with a devastating attack from afar.

• Locke asked Wizard Ackerman for research on human nature and plants, learned that related materials were scarce, and decided the subject was too uncertain for a Special-Grade Funding Grant.
• Locke reflected that his Nemesis Path: Leaf of Power might evolve by absorbing something from students’ souls, and he watched Orian in Terilla to test the idea.
• During the War Ritual, Orian dodged the War Giant’s lightning and fought the bronze armor controlled by the War Principle.
• Orian used the [Light as a Swallow] spell model and his martial training to break the bronze armor, then confronted the High Priest and took the War Scepter.
• The War Giant called Orian a criminal and struck him in the chest with a giant finger, leaving Locke’s Treant incarnation watching in alarm.

Locke restored Orian’s shattered consciousness and used the Three-Cave World’s War Principle to help him return to life with a share of the War Giant’s power. Orian set out to seek justice from the God of Kingship, while the War Giant sent pursuers after him and Locke’s companions discussed the plane’s unusual principles.

• In the Forest Sanctuary, Locke realized that the Three-Cave World’s natives were cut off from the spiritual world and offered Orian a choice between the afterlife and returning to life.
• Orian chose to live and pursue revenge against the God of War, so Locke pieced together his consciousness and placed part of the War Principle within his soul.
• Orian revived in Terilla, killed the high priest, and declared the God of War sinful before setting off for Antoli to seek the God of Kingship’s support.
• The War Giant sensed that Orian had seized part of his power and ordered his servants to hunt him down, while the Kingship Giant descended to the mortal world.
• Aboard the Exploration Pioneer, Locke, Hassan, and Henry discussed the Three-Cave World’s unusual Plane Principle and its potential to benefit them.

Orian sought justice from the God of Kingship, who condemned him for accusing a god and ordered him to accept eternal punishment. Orian rejected the gods’ unjust laws, killed the Kingship Giant with Hassan’s blood curse, and triggered the first godfall since Nicholas’s Rebellion.

• Orian entered Antoli’s Red Copper Hall unarmed and accused the God of War and Theodorola of violating the War Ritual.
• The God of Kingship declared Orian guilty for accusing a god and sentenced him to Dire Wolf Hell, prompting Orian to challenge the gods’ authority.
• Orian used the Forest Breathing Method and the Leaf of Power to reconnect with nature and denounce the Kingship Giant for abandoning his own laws.
• The Kingship Giant attacked Orian, but Orian dodged his blows and retrieved his dagger as he fled through Antoli.
• Orian cut the Kingship Giant’s arm and placed Hassan’s bloodstained Cursed Branch in the wound, killing the giant with the Two-Strike Instant-Kill Blood Curse.
• The Principle of Kingship faltered, the world’s Magic Pressure became unstable, and the gods feared the first godfall since Nicholas’s Rebellion.

Locke completed the Great Bloodwave Pineapple graft and confirmed that Orian’s victory over the Kingship Giant had advanced Locke’s Leaf of Power to the First-Ring level, raising his Magic Pressure to nineteen thousand. As the Overgod withdrew his forces rather than fall into Locke’s trap, Locke began descending into the Three-Cave World as a Saint Incarnation.

• Locke completed the Double Grafting Method on the Great Bloodwave Pineapple, stored the Radiance Factor, and told Douglas to preserve the rootstock sample.
• Mason Witch told Locke that Brandy wanted to meet, but Locke refused; Brandy then decided to question Droma for information about Locke.
• The Overgod spotted Orian standing over the dead Kingship Giant and ordered ten Giants to attack, then recalled them after realizing Locke had set a trap and Orian already possessed Second-Ring-level power.
• Locke confirmed that Orian’s victory had evolved the Nemesis Path: Leaf of Power to the First-Ring level, raising Locke’s Magic Pressure by five hundred to nineteen thousand.
• Locke warned Orian not to take the Kingship Principle, which vanished as the Overgod withdrew the Giants to the upper plane.
• Locke’s Saint Incarnation descended into the Three-Cave World, welcomed by the Plane Principle.

Locke entered the Three-Cave World through his Saint Incarnation and attacked the Celestial Realm, seeking his Half-Body while uncovering the Overgod’s hidden arrangements. After Locke killed the Steel Giant, the Divine Eye sealed the Celestial Realm away from the mortal world, leaving Locke outside the new barrier.

• Locke found the God King missing from the Ringed Mountain and sensed his Half-Body’s influence in the world through a special Plane Principle.
• Locke rode Demon Dragon Rose to the Ringed Mountain, shattered the Celestial Gate with Demon Dragon Breath, and entered the Celestial Realm.
• Locke recognized that the Hidden Principle concealed the Grass Giantess and Seal Stone, then attacked the Grass Giantess’s palace.
• The Overgod used the Mountain Principle to move the Grass Giantess’s palace away, but Locke’s demonic dragon flames killed the Steel Giant in its place.
• The Divine Eye severed the Steel Giant’s mountain, then sealed the Celestial Realm and declared that it would remain forever apart from the mortal world.

Locke defeated the Steel Giant, withstood the Overgod’s attack, and expanded his Great Magic across the Three-Cave World. After Orian killed the giant, Locke discovered that the Leaf of Power could generate new Botany Spell Models and prepared to develop his Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method while Orian guarded him.

• Locke used Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrows to restrain the nearly powerless Steel Giant and deduced that Nicholas was an imprisoned giant important to the other giants.
• The Overgod sent an arrow of Light Principle to kill the Steel Giant, but Locke caught it and concluded that the Overgod was testing him from the Celestial Realm.
• Locke brought the Moon of Evolution into the mortal world, made its plants part of his ecological community, and used the Verdant Spiritual Breath Mine to raise the Magic Tide.
• Locke revealed his true form to Orian and asked him to kill the Steel Giant; Orian affirmed his identity as himself and killed the giant with a dagger.
• The giant’s death strengthened the Nemesis Path: Leaf of Power, and Locke discovered that a Leaf of Power could absorb a Forest Ranger’s trait and evolve into a Spell Model.
• Locke gave Orian the Leaf of Power and asked him to guard against the gods while he began work on his first Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method.

Locke spent five years using the Verdant Spiritual Breath Mine to build the Verdant Nursery · Garden Grotto-Heaven, while drawing hidden enemies out by appearing to weaken. When the demon wolves and Giant Kings attacked, Locke used the Grotto-Heaven to restore his magic power and rise to the Celestial Realm’s height, revealing that his apparent vulnerability had been a trap.

• Locke descended into the Three-Cave World, recognized the Overgod’s foreign Plane Power, and began crafting Grotto-Heaven Foundation Stones from Verdant Spiritual Breath.
• Orian founded Delys City-State, trained its warriors as Forest Rangers, and defended it from challengers while Locke continued constructing foundation stones.
• After five years, Locke assembled more than twelve hundred foundation stones into the Verdant Nursery · Garden Grotto-Heaven, which released magical tides into the Present World.
• Locke discovered that the Synthesis Cube classified the Grotto-Heaven as level 8 and decided to make more before planting the Great Bloodwave Pineapple Wizard Shoes seed.
• Demon wolves, the Wind Giantess, the Victory Giant, the War Giant, the Earth Giant, and the Magic Wolf Giant confronted Locke and joined forces against him.
• Locke drew magical tides from the Grotto-Heaven, restored his power, and rose atop it to the height of the Celestial Realm, revealing the attack had fallen into his trap.

Locke defeated the giants and dire wolves sent against him, but the Second-Ring Wizard controlling the Dire Wolf King escaped underground. After bringing reinforcements to the Three-Cave World and organizing a mining operation, Locke prepared to question the captured Wind Giantess, when a blacksmith begged him to spare her.

• Locke used the Verdant Nursery Grotto-Heaven and his Magic Plants to kill the five giants and most of the dire wolves, then discovered that the wolves were servants of a Shapeshifting School wizard from Hornochi Academy.
• The Hornochi wizard’s Dire Wolf King incarnation fought Locke with deceptive pupil magic and Transfiguration, but escaped underground after reviving the Magic Wolf Giant and other giants.
• Locke chose not to pursue the fleeing Magic Wolf Giant, refined the battlefield’s remains into Zero Potion, and stopped Orian from chasing the giant.
• Locke summoned Hassan, Old Henry, and six First-Ring Wizards, assigned the wizards to mine the Verdant Spiritual Breath, and sent Hassan and Henry to probe the Sea Realm and Dire Wolf Hell.
• As Locke prepared to interrogate the captured Wind Giantess about Nicholas, a blacksmith from Delys City-State begged him to spare Elinor, saying she had been forced into her actions and was confused.

Locke learned that his other self, Nicholas, had shaped the Three-Cave World and that Elinor and the Magic Wolf Giant had been his students. After Hassan found a dangerous time passage in the Sea Realm, he and Locke confronted Divine Eye, with Hassan revealing that he had lured the entity into a second encounter to complete his instant-kill curse.

• Taeus begged Locke to spare Elinor, and Locke took her, Orian, and Taeus to a secluded peak to question her about Nicholas.
• Elinor recognized Locke as Nicholas after sensing his spirit, then explained that Nicholas had taught civilization to mortals and created the God-Sealing Book, allowing anyone to earn a response from the World Principles.
• Elinor recounted that Nicholas vanished after entering Dire Wolf Hell, while Locke concluded that Divine Eye and the Wolf Lord had likely trapped his other self and the God King beyond the known planes.
• Hassan summoned Locke to the Sea Realm, where they found an unstable time passage containing a three-headed demon goat and rare spiritual breath.
• Locke detected Divine Eye's lingering spirit macro on Hassan and challenged his claim that he wanted to curse Locke for protection.
• Hassan revealed that he had already placed the Two-Strike Instant-Kill Blood Curse on Divine Eye during their first meeting, then struck Divine Eye when it appeared beside him.

Locke and Hassan discovered that Divine Eye was an incomplete remnant of the Persepolis God Clan, whose Divine Immortal Spark let him revive and flee through a Celestial Realm Gate. Locke identified him as the divine name of Fitzgerald, Lord of Wanderers, and the two gained that name from the Spirit Macro they collected.

• Hassan’s Two-Strike Instant-Kill Blood Curse nearly killed Divine Eye, but a Divine Immortal Spark revived him.
• Locke consulted Wizard Ackerman, who identified Divine Eye as likely belonging to the dangerous Persepolis God Clan and described its characteristics.
• Locke concluded that Divine Eye lacked godhood and other traits because he was an incomplete remnant of a god-clan member.
• Divine Eye combined his Divine Immortal Spark with the Three-Cave World’s principles to escape through a Celestial Realm Gate, destroying Hassan’s severed finger before Hassan could curse it.
• Locke refined the Spirit Macro Divine Eye had emitted, and Locke and Hassan received the name “God of Persepolis: Lord of Wanderers · Fitzgerald!”

The Dire Wolf incarnation allied with the Divine Eye to isolate the Present World and trap the wizards, while Hassan returned from the Sea Realm with its remaining Spiritual Breath. Locke revealed that his second Great Magic could break the blockade, but only after he found his missing Half-Body.

• The Dire Wolf incarnation attacked Old Pirate Henry in Dire Wolf Hell, but Henry escaped after refusing to betray Locke Augustine.
• The Dire Wolf incarnation and the Divine Eye agreed to cooperate, and the Dire Wolf incarnation lent its Hell Principle to isolate Dire Wolf Hell from the Present World.
• The Divine Eye announced that Dire Wolf Hell and the Present World were completely cut off, severing the Present World's access to the Magic Tide from the Upper Planes.
• Hassan returned from the Sea Realm with five strands of Seaheart Spiritual Breath and warned Locke that his Half-Body had likely traveled into the past and could not return through the Sea Realm.
• Old Henry warned Locke and Hassan to calculate their remaining energy and set a limit before attempting to break through the blockade.
• Locke said his second Great Magic could reopen the Celestial Realm and Dire Wolf Hell, but he first had to find his Half-Body, prompting Old Henry to ask how he would locate it.

Locke coordinated a search for his missing Half-Body and the God-King while preparing a super Garden Grotto-Heaven and a second Great Magic. Hassan performed the Pan transformation ritual using energy Locke supplied, and Locke turned to refining another Garden Grotto-Heaven as his own design remained unfinished.

• Locke ordered Henry’s wizards to search for Spiritual Breath Mines, sent Hassan and the Wind Giant to look for his Half-Body and the God-King, and began work on a super grotto-heaven.
• Hassan explained how he used Blood Curse magic to redistribute Life Energy without harming mortals, then asked Locke to lend him a Garden Grotto-Heaven’s energy for Pan’s Curse Blood-Curse Transformation.
• Locke infused a Red-Earth Holly with Mister’s Power and the magic of the four seasons, but his prototype showed no effect, so he sought Tree-Ring Studies materials at Golden Crown Mountain.
• The Brandy Wizard gave Locke his Tree-Ring Studies notes and offered to keep him informed through the Mutual Aid Association, while Locke remained wary of his motives.
• Hassan activated the Pan transformation ritual, and Locke’s Garden Grotto-Heaven broke apart after transferring its energy through the Red-Earth Holly to Hassan.
• Locke noted that Hassan’s Magic Pressure had risen to fourteen thousand and prepared to refine a second Garden Grotto-Heaven, intending to complete the Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method.

Locke used Elinor and Taeus’s marriage to reveal that mortals could respond to the Plane Principles and become gods, weakening the Celestial Realm and awakening the Three-Cave World. Five years later, he synthesized a Three-Tier Verdant Nursery and raised a second Second-Ring Pineapple Wizard’s Shoe, while the God-Sealing Book’s Plane Power finally responded to him.

• Locke told Orian to spread the news of Elinor and Taeus’s marriage and to guide mortals toward becoming gods through the Plane Principles.
• Elinor and Taeus married, and the Love Principle responded to them both, transforming them into gods; Orian also became a god through the War Principle.
• Over the next five years, 23 people in the Present World responded to World Principles, causing the Celestial Realm to lose power and descend as the Three-Cave World’s Will began to awaken.
• Locke merged three Garden Grotto-Heavens into a Three-Tier Verdant Nursery and planted a Pineapple Wizard’s Shoe seed in it.
• The nursery disintegrated as the Pineapple Wizard’s Shoe reached Second-Ring status, and the God-Sealing Book’s Plane Power began responding to Locke.

Locke claimed the Principle of Prosperity and refused the Divine Eye’s threat to destroy the Three-Cave World, then used the principle to help mortals resonate with Plane Powers and bring the world into a prosperous era. After the five-year manifestation ended and the barriers between the planes weakened, Locke prepared to enter Dire Wolf Hell, eliminate the trapped Magic Wolf incarnation, and claim its resources.

• Locke named his new Air Pineapple Saphirot's Golden Dragon Claw Pineapple and connected with the Principle of the God-Sealing Book as the Celestial Realm began to collapse.
• The Divine Eye withdrew Plane Principles and unleashed the Destruction Principle, but Locke refused to yield; the Divine Eye relented and used the Mountain Principle to keep the Celestial Realm from crashing into the Present World.
• Locke recognized the God-Sealing Book as the Principle of Prosperity, a Second-Ring Spell Model designed by his Half-Body, and opened Plane Principle resonance to Forest Rangers for 1,825 days.
• Atchek remembered Nicholas’s warning and discovered that the Divine Eye’s Hidden Principle had suppressed his memories, while the Magic Wolf incarnation remained trapped behind the barrier to the Present World.
• Over five years, 361 people resonated with Plane Principles and the Three-Cave World prospered; Locke then ended the manifestation period and prepared to enter Dire Wolf Hell with Hassan and Old Henry.
• Locke sent a Golden Sacred Peach through the weakened entrance to Dire Wolf Hell and told the trapped Magic Wolf incarnation that he would come to him.

Locke broke into Dire Wolf Hell and defeated Gregory Newman, exposing his fear of leaving the realm and using a Golden Peach to strengthen the spell that pinned him. Locke then entered the Hellfire safely in duplicated Golden Dragon Claw Pineapple Wizard's Shoes, while Hassan fell into the depths and Locke approached Gregory with the Tree of Prosperity.

• Locke shattered Dire Wolf Hell's planar barrier with a Golden Peach and confronted the dire wolf avatar, whom he identified as Gregory Newman.
• Locke accused Gregory of abandoning his pursuit of truth and revealed that the Garden Grotto-Heaven fragments were a trap, unsettling Gregory enough for Locke to pin him with a Goldflow Fern Spear and seal him with an Ice-Plum Wheel.
• The Golden Peach strengthened Locke's spear and Ice-Plum Wheel, preventing Gregory from escaping with Transfiguration Magic.
• Locke duplicated a Golden Dragon Claw Pineapple with the Tree of Prosperity and used the Wizard's Shoes to walk across Dire Wolf Hell's Hellfire.
• Old Henry failed to enter Dire Wolf Hell, while Hassan forced his way in with Blood Ancestor's True Form but fell into the depths.
• Locke approached the trapped Gregory as Gregory offered information about the Persepolis God Clan and property in the Southern Witch Capital, and Locke raised the Tree of Prosperity.

Locke destroyed Gregory Newman's Dire Wolf Incarnation and fought the Divine Eye of the Persepolis God Clan in Dire Wolf Hell. As the Divine Eye revived through its Divine Immortal Spark, the Magic Wolf Giant gave Locke a memory left by Nicholas.

• Locke trapped Gregory Newman's Dire Wolf Incarnation with the Tree of Prosperity, destroying it and turning its remnants into a forest of Thorn Queens.
• Gregory Newman revealed that the Bannaladga God Clan, also known as the King of Titans, had arrived in the world before the Persepolis God Clan, then the Divine Eye shattered his soul and summoned a Lava Behemoth.
• Locke confronted the Divine Eye in Dire Wolf Hell, broke its Destruction Principle attack and Fire Giant form, and repeatedly killed it despite its revivals.
• The Magic Wolf Giant ran to Locke and handed him Nicholas's memory, which Locke recognized as the Archaeology Spell model [Historical Reenactment].

Locke and his allies captured the Divine Eye while Locke entered Nicholas’s Historical Reenactment Spell to witness the Three-Cave World’s creation. They learned that a Bannaladga creator had formed the world’s foundations but abandoned it when danger approached, leaving the world flawed and its past entangled with the Secret of Creation.

• Locke restrained the weakened Divine Eye with four Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrows, while Hassan sealed him with the Earth-Binding Blood Curse and the Magic Wolf Giant refused to help him escape.
• Locke, Hassan, and Old Henry entered Locke’s historical memory and saw the Three-Cave World before creation, where a Bannaladga God Clan member arrived aboard the Divine Crocodile.
• The Bannaladga creator fished the sun, moon, and a river from the Imaginary Sea out of the Three Caves, then used a Great Land and Ringed Mountain to begin forming the world.
• The Bannaladga creator transformed into the world’s foundations, but fled with the Divine Crocodile after discovering the Nightmare Legion, Persepolis God Clan, and Throne Wizards nearby.
• Locke concluded that the Three-Cave World’s creation had been flawed from the start, while Hassan and Old Muli noticed the reenactment was improving their Magic Pressure and meditation methods.

The Three-Cave World’s incomplete creation brought forth the Sky God and the Life-Creating Divine Cow, whose power revealed the Secret of Life Creation to Locke and Hassan. As the world neared collapse, a World Tree Leaf evolved into a Creation Lotus Leaf and helped the Sky God support it.

• After the Bannaladga God Clan severed his connection to the Three-Cave World and departed, the Sky God emerged from the world’s chaotic umbilical cord and lifted the Ringed Mountain in place of Earth.
• The Form of Creation produced an Ox that scattered milk over stones, creating life; Locke and Hassan entered deep meditation and gained insights into life creation, Spirit Macro, and bloodline magic.
• Locke obtained the Spirit Macro [Life-Creating Divine Cow] and suspected that the Three-Cave World held something he had been searching for.
• The Sky God created the Wind Goddess from a rib, and Locke realized that the world’s Wind Principle carried the force of love.
• When humans killed the Divine Cow for food, the Sky God said their descendants would lose the ability to connect directly with nature, while the world’s increasing weight overwhelmed him.
• As the Three-Cave World began sinking toward the Imaginary Sea River, a meteorite brought a World Tree Leaf that evolved into a Creation Lotus Leaf and helped support the world.