Chapter Summaries

The Slaughter Devil and the Abyss Legion overwhelmed the Imperial defense line until Steel Frenzy and eleven Vitagis Dragon Scale Monks arrived to turn the tide. The twelve Monks charged the Slaughter Devil together, eager for a fight against a powerful enemy.

• Steamed Bun, other players, and Imperial soldiers attacked the Slaughter Devil, but it slaughtered them while the Abyss Legion smashed through the defense line.
• George used a token to report that the 48th Defense Zone could no longer hold, then fired a machine gun at the demons.
• Steel Frenzy led twelve Dragon Scale Monks into battle from the backs of Chimeras, and they crushed Quasits and cut down demons.
• A Dragon Scale Monk knocked over a Gorebull Devil, and Steel Frenzy killed it by driving his Chainsaw Sword through its heart.
• The Dragon Scale Monks broke through the demon horde and charged the Slaughter Devil from every direction.

The Dragon Scale Monks surrounded the Slaughter Devil and fought through its transformed second phase until Steel Frenzy killed it. The demon’s soul vanished instead of returning to the Abyss, and the players crowded around Steel Frenzy to demand their shares of the rewards.

• The Dragon Scale Monks resisted the Slaughter Devil’s profane speech, wounded it with guns and Chainsaw Swords, and blocked its Paralyzing Gaze with their visors.
• The Slaughter Devil transformed, grew four flesh wings, and summoned Vulture Devils through Abyss Teleportation Gates as Steel Frenzy ordered the players to retreat.
• The Dragon Scale Monks trapped the Slaughter Devil in a chain net and attacked it with weapons, spells, and explosives, suffering casualties as it fought back.
• Steel Frenzy used his thrusters to reach the bound demon and drove his Chainsaw Sword into its brow, killing it.
• The Abyss failed to reclaim the Slaughter Devil’s vanished soul, while Steel Frenzy received experience and quest rewards and the other players demanded their shares.

Keosius reviewed the Empire’s war effort and the Dragon Scale Monk program as the Abyss Legion pushed against the Imperial Wall. At the Hall Mountains, Alger’s Wyvern Legion used Keosius’s overwhelming dragon might to break the Abyss Dragon Beast charge and kill Licht Morr.

• Keosius learned that only twelve of the twenty-one Dragon Scale Monks could fight reliably and approved plans to expand the program while charging Starfallers for training.
• Licht Morr led an Abyss Dragon Beast Legion across the Hall Mountains, hoping to invade Imperial territory and take revenge on the Red Scale Conquerors who had defeated his former guard.
• Alger rallied the Imperial Wyvern Legion and ordered its knights and nearly five hundred Wyverns and Flame Wyverns to unleash the Dragon Roar Charge.
• The combined roar summoned a vast phantom of Keosius, whose bloodline pressure sent the Abyss Dragon Beasts tumbling from the sky.
• Alger’s flaming sword severed Licht Morr’s head as the demon struggled against Keosius’s power.

Alger’s Imperial Dragon Legion routed the Abyss Dragon Beast Legion, while Smaug challenged and killed its leader in a one-on-one battle. Alger then ordered the fleeing beasts slaughtered, and the legion wiped them out.

• The Imperial Legion’s first charge killed many Abyss Dragon Beasts and slaughtered the demon cavalry, scattering the enemy formation.
• Smaug challenged the Abyss Dragon Beast leader to a duel while Alger and the legion watched.
• Smaug evaded the leader’s attacks, pinned it in a melee, and killed it by breaking its neck.
• The surviving Abyss Dragon Beasts fled toward the Abyss Teleportation Gate after seeing their leader die.
• Alger ordered the legion to pursue and kill the fleeing beasts, and the Wyverns and Flame Wyverns wiped out the Abyss Dragon Beast Legion.

Alger led the Red Scale Conquerors toward the Third War Zone while Keosius watched the Empire’s decisive battle against the demon hordes. At Hill 014, George’s troops nearly broke under a Bulezau Devils assault, but George awakened his dragon bloodline, killed one of the demons, and held on until silver dragon reinforcements arrived.

• After defeating the Abyss Dragon Beast legion, Alger ordered the Red Scale Conquerors west to reinforce the Third War Zone.
• Keosius watched the fierce battle unfold and focused on the dangers facing the Empire in the Third War Zone.
• George and his troops defended Hill 014 until thirteen Bulezau Devils used spells and close combat to shatter their position.
• George rallied his soldiers, awakened the power of his Red Dragon bloodline, and killed a Bulezau Devil with his sword.
• Silver dragons arrived and dispersed the fog, and George collapsed beside the demon’s corpse, confident that reinforcements had come.

Adelovel and the Mellward Silver Dragons helped the Imperial army repel Bazuite Devils, but they discovered the invasion was far larger than expected and suspected an Abyss Lord had entered the Material Plane in its true body. As Demon Hunter Spiders devastated the Imperial defenses, Marshal Dolo prepared a counterattack with the Empire’s Steam Tanks.

• Adelovel and Jennycis led Silver Dragon reinforcements against the Bazuite Devils, turning the battle and helping the Imperial soldiers counterattack.
• Adelovel and Jennycis spotted enormous demon forces approaching and concluded that an Abyss Lord had descended into the Material Plane in its true body.
• Adelovel urged Jennycis to notify the elders and summon allies as he led the Silver Dragons toward the main battlefield.
• Olivia struck the demon horde with Dragon Star Cluster, but Demon Hunter Spiders petrified and burned hundreds of Imperial soldiers, while their assault breached defensive lines.
• Adelovel asked Jennycis to tell Marshal Dolo that the Blue Dragons were needed to fight the Demon Hunter Spiders, but Dolo replied that a full-scale counterattack was imminent.
• The Empire’s fortress gates opened, and Steam Tanks rolled through the smoke onto the battlefield.

Imperial Steam Tanks broke through the demonic horde and helped the infantry retake strategic positions, while the players’ tank was caught by an Abyss Dragon Beast. The dragon host led by Alger arrived from the flank to rescue them.

• More than a dozen Steam Tanks charged into the demons, crushed their ranks, and enabled Imperial infantry to reclaim strongpoints.
• Bill’s Emperor’s Wrath repelled a Demon Hunter Spider with its lightning defense and killed it with the main cannon.
• Steam Tanks and infantry pushed the counteroffensive forward as players celebrated their tanks’ firepower.
• An Abyss Dragon Beast attacked Battlefield Wheelchair Man’s tank, which had advanced too far for its electromagnetic defense to recover or the infantry to catch up.
• Alger led the Red Scale Conquerors into battle from the flank, bringing the dragon host to the players’ aid.

The Empire’s forces struggled against a massive demon offensive as Steam Tanks and soldiers suffered heavy losses, while Dolo and Lang Pu discussed the Empire’s dwindling supplies and impending counterattack. At the front, Lonely as Snow’s group fought dangerous demons until Christina and the Blue Dragons of the Faria Family arrived as reinforcements.

• Wyverns and Flame Wyverns attacked the Abyss Dragon Beasts while Demon Bees overwhelmed Steam Tanks, and one tank commander destroyed a swarm with an emergency self-destruct blast.
• Dolo warned Lang Pu that the Empire could run short of supplies within ten days, and Lang Pu suggested that the Empire’s counterattack should begin.
• Lonely as Snow, Charlotte, the Flying Witch, and Ming Yue fought waves of demons, including a Bloodhoof Devil and a Demon Hunter Spider.
• Charlotte freed Lonely as Snow from petrification and sent him to hold off the Demon Hunter Spider as the group faced a major demon offensive.
• Christina and the Blue Dragons of the Faria Family arrived and Christina killed the Demon Hunter Spider with a lightning strike.

Keosius ordered the Empire to launch a full counteroffensive against the Abyss Legion, bringing its armies, dragons, players, and spellcasters into a massive battle. The Empire’s forces pushed forward despite heavy losses, while Misha identified Leo Bosk among the enemy and the fighting continued across the ground and sky.

• Keosius ordered the Empire’s counteroffensive, and Blue Dragons struck the demon horde with lightning as the Abyss Legion summoned powerful monsters and rallied its forces.
• The Empire opened its fortress gates and mobilized its tanks, infantry, dragon legions, paladins, and mages, while Lang Pu personally appeared and rallied the troops.
• Misha sensed Leo Bosk atop the Abyss Giant Monster and vowed to find him, while Alger led the Red Scale Conquerors into an aerial charge against the Abyss Dragon Beasts.
• Steam Tanks and the Empire’s ground forces devastated the demons with artillery, while players fought at the front and both sides suffered heavy losses.
• A malformed Abyss monster killed Steamed Bun and attacked Alger’s squad, but Blue Dragons arrived, destroyed it, and joined the Wyverns in supporting the aerial battle.
• The Empire’s mages and dragons attacked the Abyssal monsters as the Steam Tanks and Terrestrial Dragon Beasts pushed the battle line forward, despite casualties from demon sorcery.

The Empire’s counterattack tore through the Abyss Legion, while Dragonkin Paladins killed a Gorebull Devil and sacrificed its head to the Dragon Lord. Leo Bosk revealed himself as a Balor driven by vengeance against the Empire and attacked, inflicting heavy losses as the chapter ended.

• The Empire launched a coordinated assault with Steam Tanks, infantry, artillery, mages, dragons, and Dragonkin Paladins, breaking into the demon horde.
• Alger and the Red Scale Conquerors killed a Slaughter Devil, while dragons hunted the airborne Abyss monsters.
• Anthony led the Dragonkin Paladins in surrounding and killing a Gorebull Devil, then offered its head to the Dragon Lord.
• Leo Bosk recalled the war that had destroyed his former life, revealed his hatred for the Empire, and transformed into a Balor.
• The Balor swept into the battle, killing hundreds with his Storm Greatsword and striking down more than a dozen Terrestrial Dragon Beasts with his flaming whip.

Leo’s Balor overwhelmed the Empire’s forces, but the Dragonkin Paladins summoned a Red Dragon incarnation and allied fighters managed to immobilize him. Misha appeared with the Dragon Pact Sorcerers and prepared to confront Leo Bosk with her revenge.

• Leo’s Blasphemous Words knocked Wyverns, including Tinia, from the sky, and he destroyed more attackers with lightning and Abyssal fire.
• The Empire’s spells and artillery failed to harm Leo, who began tearing through the army and prepared a devastating strike against the Imperial Wall.
• Anthony and the Dragonkin Paladins used their Dragon Vein Chain formation to withstand Leo’s lightning slash, then summoned Dragon Lord’s Descent to fight him.
• A Silver Dragon froze Leo’s wing, and Lang Pu immobilized him with a spell and radiant chains.
• Misha and the Dragon Pact Sorcerers arrived through Flame Teleportation Gates, and Misha raised a blazing hand to make Leo face her revenge.

Misha and the Empire’s forces fought Leo Bosk’s Balor as it tried to tear Anzeta into the Abyss, but Misha summoned Keosius to confront it. Keosius destroyed the Balor with his Flame Breath, only for Jierlazarax’s power to restore it completely.

• Misha transformed further into a Red Dragon and attacked the Balor, revealing that she had sought revenge on Leo Bosk for five years.
• The Balor broke free of its restraints, resisted the combined assault, and tried to drag Anzeta into the Abyss by invoking Jierlazarax.
• Misha summoned Keosius across a fiery rift, and the Burning Dragon descended over the wasteland.
• Keosius recognized the Balor as his former friend, Duke Leo Bosk, and engulfed it in an empowered Flame Breath that reduced its upper body to ash.
• Jierlazarax’s phantom remained in the sky, and Abyssal mist rebuilt the Balor until it had fully revived.

Keosius unleashed his mastery of flames against the invading demons and repeatedly killed the Balor, Leo Bosk, whose body kept reviving through the Abyss’s power. After Leo teleported to Tieri Peak in the Anstica Mountains, Keosius let him go and tore open a Spatial Rift to pursue him.

• Keosius engulfed the battlefield in fire, burning the demons and helping the Empire’s soldiers counterattack.
• The Balor revived after Keosius repeatedly pierced, tore apart, and incinerated it, while Keosius taunted Leo Bosk and challenged Jierlazarax.
• Leo chanted an Abyssal spell and teleported toward Tieri Peak in the Anstica Mountains, where Keosius suspected Jierlazarax was waiting.
• Keosius allowed Leo to escape, then declared that the ordained fate would be destroyed and tore open a Spatial Rift to pursue him.

Keosius killed Leo Bosk on Tieri Peak, but Leo’s death summoned Jierlazarax in Kareks’ colossal body. Keosius confronted the Abyss Lord as the two prepared to fight amid the collapsing Anstica Mountains.

• Leo Bosk emerged from a Space Rift on Tieri Peak and vowed to take revenge on Keosius.
• Keosius arrived and killed Leo by crushing his heart, while Jierlazarax abandoned the Balor and gathered the released Abyss energy.
• Abyss energy formed a vast vortex, and Keosius sensed the dragon might of a Progenitor Dragon within it.
• Jierlazarax emerged in Kareks’ body, a colossal Red Dragon remnant that he had claimed and empowered.
• Jierlazarax explained that Keosius had freed him by taking Kareks’ heart, then declared his intent to become a World-Destroying Dragon.
• Keosius challenged Jierlazarax, and their roars shook the Anstica Mountains as avalanches swept down the slopes.

Keosius unleashed his strongest magic and fought Jierlazarax as the Abyssal Dragon spread chaos across Anstika, but their breath attacks reached a dangerous stalemate. Pablicheko Mellward arrived at the battlefield and could only pray that Keosius would win.

• Keosius unleashed a barrage of legendary spells against Jierlazarax, but the Abyssal Dragon dispersed them with chaotic power.
• Keosius dodged Jierlazarax’s attacks while the Abyssal Dragon corrupted the mountains and absorbed nearby creatures, growing to nearly two hundred meters long.
• Jierlazarax fired a Breath of Chaos at Keosius, who answered with Primal Breath but began losing the contest as chaos threatened to awaken within him.
• Keosius invoked his Supreme True Dragon Crown and combined divine power, elemental resonance, and the Fire Elemental Plane’s power to overpower Jierlazarax’s Chaos Fire.
• Pablicheko Mellward arrived through a portal, realized he could not intervene, and prayed to Bahamut for Keosius’s victory.

Keosius fought Jierlazarax in the devastated Anstica Mountains, injuring the Abyssal Dragon before facing its vast demon horde. Imelda, Pablicheko, Celestial Beings, Metallic Dragons, the Empire's forces, and tens of thousands of players arrived to support him, and the battle against the demons expanded into a combined assault.

• Jierlazarax attacked Keosius with devastating scarlet rays, but Keosius evaded them and wounded the Abyssal Dragon with his fire breath.
• Jierlazarax summoned hundreds of thousands of demons and commanded them to overwhelm Keosius, who fought them while devouring the souls of those he killed.
• Pablicheko hesitated to help Keosius until Imelda urged him to put aside his grudge and defend the Prime Material Plane; they then flew to join the battle.
• Imelda opened portals that brought Celestial Beings and Metallic Dragons to the Anstica Mountains, while Imperial leaders and tens of thousands of players arrived through other portals.
• Imelda and Lang Pu rallied their forces, and the Celestial Beings, Metallic Dragons, Imperial troops, and players charged the demons, opening a gap in the horde attacking Keosius.

Metallic Dragons, Celestial Beings, and players battled the Magic Tide while Singo led a party toward the Abyssal Dragon, Jierlazarax, hoping to kill it with a Magic Forbidden Bomb. Jierlazarax awakened, wiped out most of the attacking players, and turned Singo and his bomb to ash without being harmed.

• Metallic Dragons, Celestial Beings, and Embers of the Burned Empire players fought the demons as Keosius unleashed devastating attacks on them.
• Singo, Steamed Bun, Born Battle Maniac, and Xia Ye Qiuyu sneaked toward Jierlazarax with a plan for Singo to strike its unscaled chest with a Magic Forbidden Bomb.
• Jierlazarax rose, exposed the party, and summoned more Abyssal Devils, prompting over a hundred players to charge the dragon.
• Jierlazarax struck the ground and released shockwaves, Chaos Fire, and abyssal mist that killed more than half the players, including Steamed Bun and Born Battle Maniac.
• Singo rode his Wyvern toward Jierlazarax's chest and detonated the Magic Forbidden Bomb, but Jierlazarax used Decree of Death to turn him and his mount to ash, leaving the explosion ineffective.

Jierlazarax annihilated the players and grew into a nearly three-hundred-meter Abyssal Dragon before confronting Keosius in the sky. Keosius wounded him with swift attacks, but Jierlazarax’s Blasphemous Verse disrupted the Red Dragon and sent him crashing into a mountainside.

• Jierlazarax released a devastating roar that wiped out the players and rose into the sky as Abyssal power enlarged his body.
• Keosius flew up to confront Jierlazarax, who mocked him and attacked with chaotic power and thousands of Spears of Revenge.
• Keosius used his crown, elemental authority, spells, and Dragon Absorption to counter Jierlazarax’s attacks.
• Keosius evaded Jierlazarax’s assaults and repeatedly tore chunks of flesh from the much larger dragon with close-range strikes.
• Jierlazarax used the Blasphemous Verse to awaken the Abyssal curse in Keosius, then struck him into a distant mountainside.

Jierlazarax devastated the battlefield with a catastrophic dive, but Keosius survived by escaping into an alternate dimension and fought back against the Abyssal Dragon. As Keosius began to lose ground, Tyr, Ilmater, and Bahamut arrived, and Jierlazarax rose to face them.

• Jierlazarax plunged into the mountain ruins, destroying much of Anzeta and killing the creatures who failed to escape as the dragons, Celestial Beings, Empire forces, and players fled.
• Keosius emerged alive from the smoke after using Order Divine Power, Shelter Egg, and defensive spells to survive Jierlazarax's impact.
• Keosius attacked Jierlazarax with fire and repeated charges, but the Abyssal Dragon's power suppressed him and left him badly wounded.
• Tyr, Ilmater, and Bahamut appeared as divine incarnations, prompting cheers from the Metallic Dragons and Celestial Fighters.
• Jierlazarax declared that the gods could not stop the Abyss, then rose into the air and roared about revenge, destruction, and oblivion.

Keosius lured Jierlazarax to Tieri Peak, where he unleashed the Empire Domain’s ultimate order and turned the tide of their confrontation. Jierlazarax recognized the power as something like a Divine Kingdom and reacted with fear.

• Jierlazarax used most of his Abyssal power to block the Three Gods of Justice, then attacked Keosius, hoping to devour him and complete Kareks' Body.
• Keosius fled toward Tieri Peak while Jierlazarax pursued him, closing in and nearly catching him several times.
• Keosius revealed that he had spent years shaping the area around Tieri Peak into the Empire Domain as the setting for his revenge.
• At Tieri Peak, Keosius invoked the Bloodscale Berserker's power and transformed into a giant semi-elemental dragon, while the Supreme True Dragon Crown resisted the Abyss Will's corruption.
• Keosius unleashed the Empire Domain, annihilating the surrounding black mist and bringing everything within several miles under his control.
• Jierlazarax felt fear before Keosius's power and asked how anyone could establish a Divine Kingdom on Earth during the Third Era.