Chapter Summaries

Marshal Loren persuaded Princess Livrosa to let him join the war observers traveling to the Pirig Oasis, despite the danger surrounding his fate. At the battlefield, he analyzed the Transians’ rapid air-supported victories and challenged a Netherworld pharaoh to wager on whether the living or the dead would prevail in close combat.

• Loren heard that Transian forces had routed the Netherworld Army at the Pirig Oasis without casualties and asked whether he could join the war observation group.
• Loren persuaded Livrosa to let him travel to the battlefield, saying he would not hide from responsibility or the fate awaiting him.
• Livrosa told Governor Hood that she would pursue the cultists responsible for Loren’s suffering after their child was born and would pass that mission to the child if she died.
• Three days later, Loren examined the captured fortifications from an airship and explained how Transian aerial bombardment and rapid advances had overwhelmed the defenders.
• Loren advised the Netherworld commanders on countering Transian air power, then disputed their confidence in the Netherworld Army’s close-combat ability.
• Loren and a Netherworld pharaoh wagered a Silverkeep musket and a seven-hundred-year-old saber on the outcome of a head-on battle.

Loren watched the Transians rout the Piligrand family's Iron Tomb Legion and learned that Murphy had become Lord of the Underworld, with Sangha granting Transia the Origin Vanguard. As Old Qin prepared to attack Piligrand's main city after discovering its defenders had been turned into potential Chaos Walkers, he announced the use of an even more destructive weapon.

• Loren watched Transian players and airships break the Iron Tomb Legion, winning his bet against the Underworld Pharaohs.
• Loren learned that the Underworld Pharaohs considered Murphy their Lord of the Underworld and were giving Transia the Origin Vanguard, including a solar ship and power-armored knights.
• A Pharaoh presented Old Qin with the Soul-Snaring Blade, and Qin accepted the divine weapon.
• A frontline report told Old Qin that Piligrand's defenders had been dosed with a Chaos potion and that the Pharaoh had poisoned wells near the front line.
• Old Qin ordered preparations for white phosphorus bombs, special munitions, psionic support, and a possible solar bombardment, then introduced the Burning-Gold Reaction-Accelerated Fuel-Air Bomb.

Little Hands and Yaya’s assassins discovered that Pilige City had been overrun by Chaos, while hundreds of thousands of uncorrupted civilians remained trapped in the inner city. As the Transians moved to protect them and battle the spreading monsters, Old Qin prepared to join the fight and challenged the Underworld Pharaohs to face their past sins.

• Little Hands survived Demokel’s corruption and fought the transformed Chaos vanguard as Yaya reported that Chaos had infected the outer city.
• Yaya learned from an injured Sanghaan assassin that civilians were evacuating to underground shelters and urged Soy Milk White Pour to save them instead of focusing on the monsters.
• Yaya and other assassins lured monsters toward the wall, and the injured Sanghaan fired a flare that guided the airships to the bombing zone.
• Soy Milk White Pour ordered the airships to use special bombs against the monsters, then redirect their formation to help evacuate the inner-city civilians.
• Old Qin’s observation group witnessed the bombs devastate part of the wall as Chaos creatures emerged from the ruins and spread through the city.
• Old Qin announced that he would jump into the battle and urged the Underworld Pharaohs to defend Order and answer for their past crimes.

Murphy decided to enter the sealed elven kingdom despite suspecting the Twilight had prepared a trap, while a Chaos crisis devastated Pirig’s Great Oasis. As Murphy set out to recruit elite reinforcements from another world, Brother Fa offered Qin 1,500 trained soldiers for the new “Hell Divers” project.

• Murphy learned that elven forces had sealed their borders and, after three days waiting for Feloceel, decided to fly the Origin Vanguard into the kingdom.
• Adele reported that the Thousand-Year Quicksand had bombarded Pirig’s main city twice after its pharaoh poisoned the wells with a degraded Elixir of Immortality, leaving at least 100,000 dead or potentially Chaos-infected.
• Murphy and Triss suspected the Twilight had created the crisis to distract them and prepared to confront the danger in the elven kingdom, while Murphy refused to draw elite forces away from Fuli’s rebellion.
• Qin and the players fought Chaos creatures in Pirig’s castle ruins as Brother Fa offered him 1,500 elite soldiers for the Hell Divers project.
• Qin agreed to arrange the soldiers and said he would file a report.

Master Qin approved Alpha Company’s Hellpod project, which would send elite soldiers into Transia under realistic, high-risk conditions to help Murphy with the crisis in Castile. The first 1,500 soldiers arrived at the secret base, and Murphy summoned them aboard the Origin Vanguard as Aztec Sky Clan warriors.

• Master Qin reviewed Alpha Company’s Hellpod proposal and recognized it as a combat-training program with limited lives, realistic senses, and special classes and support abilities.
• After receiving approval from his superiors, Master Qin prepared a 3,000-person special operations force, with 1,500 soldiers arriving at the base and the rest due that night.
• Master Qin told Brother Loyalty to keep the soldiers and project secret, while Brother Loyalty suspected that a major operation was imminent.
• Aboard the Origin Vanguard, Murphy explained to Triss that the Hellpod soldiers’ lack of revival would test their courage against Chaos.
• Murphy summoned the soldiers, who appeared in formation as elite Aztec Sky Clan winged warriors and startled Triss with their fighting presence.

Murphy welcomed Zhao Zilong and 1,499 elite Hellpod troopers aboard the Origin Vanguard, briefed them on their mission to save Castia, and began preparing them for combat. Murphy then learned that the Forest Mother had been corrupted, the druids had allied with the Witch Cult, and the kingdom’s resistance was in crisis, while psychic messages could no longer be trusted.

• Zhao Zilong arrived aboard the Origin Vanguard with 1,499 disciplined Hellpod troopers and reported for duty to Murphy.
• Murphy transformed the soldiers into winged Aztecs, introduced their weapons and training needs, and told them to pose as artificial intelligence created by Alpha Company.
• Daims Goldenleaf sent Murphy a location in Sea Elf territory, and Triss warned that his message might be a trap.
• Murphy contacted Lady Effie, who revealed that the Forest Mother had been corrupted, the druids had joined the Witch Cult, and General Ferosil was missing.
• Lady Effie said the resistance was gathering at the Moon Goddess Temple and urged Murphy to seek help from the Sea Elves, while warning that psychic messages could be intercepted or distorted.

Murphy organized a Transian Elven Task Force to support the Elven Kingdom and protect it from corruption, then led the Hell Divers on a reconnaissance mission. At the rendezvous, he saw through Captain Dammes Goldenleaf and the elven rangers’ disguises and ordered his troops to attack them.

• Murphy decided to investigate the Sea Elf port despite the possibility that it was a trap, and ordered Adele to recruit Vilans, the Shadow Elves, and the Shadow Half-Elves into a task force.
• Murphy appointed Adele commander, named Vilans her deputy, and told her to enlist Maxim and Leannia before taking the force to the royal court.
• Adele and Murphy shared an intimate farewell, and Murphy gave her a pendant containing a divine fragment to protect her from darkness and Chaos.
• Murphy prepared to lead the Hell Divers in a reconnaissance mission while four Hell Divers piloted Desert Tiger power armor and Commander Old Zhao joined the force.
• Murphy reached the forest rendezvous and found Captain Dammes Goldenleaf with elven rangers, whom his abilities revealed as infected by Chaos.
• Murphy drew the Night's Watch and ordered the Hell Divers to kill the disguised abominations.

Murphy and the Hell Divers defeated Chaos creatures in the forest and learned from Dames Goldenleaf that the elven kingdom had been devastated by Twilight’s forces. After securing Dames’s soul, Murphy prepared to aid the sea elves by attacking Amastacia Harbor and confronting the wider threat.

• Murphy and the Hell Divers fought the transformed elven rangers, discovering that ranged attacks barely harmed the elite Flesh Rippers and switching to chainswords and chainaxes.
• Murphy subdued Dames Goldenleaf and purged his corruption, while Triss captured his soul in a jar.
• Dames revealed that the Forest Mother had fallen, the royal court was under attack, and Luna planned to ascend as the Midnight Matriarch; he also warned that Lady Philocil was heading to seize Amastacia Harbor.
• Murphy explained that the Forest Mother’s transformation was part of Avalon’s plan and suspected Twilight had engineered the crisis to trap him.
• Murphy ordered the solar ship to prepare bombardment of Amastacia Harbor and put the God’s Scepter launch array on standby in case the battle required a nuclear strike.

Murphy’s forces intervened in the Chaos-fueled fighting in Amastasia Harbor while Lumina and her companions were sent as envoys to Queen Ilenia. The airborne assault began rescuing civilians and attacking the monsters, leaving Biji to fight on as the rescued lovers revealed the child’s paternity.

• Little Ashina told Madam Shui and Huozi about the battle she had witnessed, and Huozi warned her not to reveal the soldiers’ secrets.
• Miss Biji announced that Murphy had called a meeting for an operation in Amastasia Harbor, where Twilight and the Witch Cult were attacking the Kingdom of Castilla.
• Biji, Princess Qiuqi, and Little Ashina volunteered to join Murphy, while Lumina asked to pursue a peaceful mission and was appointed a war envoy to Queen Ilenia.
• Lumina and Princess Qiuqi departed for the Great Moon Temple as the Origin Vanguard reached Amastasia Harbor and Murphy ordered an airborne assault.
• Biji saved a human sailor and an elven woman from a flesh-ripper, then learned that the child was the deceased merchant Callem’s heir.

Prince Ivirios fought to defend Amastasia from chaos monsters led by General Felosil, but Murphy intervened before the prince could die. Murphy overwhelmed Felosil and prepared to interrogate her about her fall to chaos.

• Ivirios used his storm powers to defend the governor's residence while Felosil and her chaos forces attacked Amastasia.
• Ivirios ordered his guards to evacuate civilians and the fleet, then unleashed a catastrophic storm to destroy the invading monsters.
• Felosil shot Ivirios with the Star of Adel, but Murphy arrived in the Origin Vanguard and blasted her tower with its solar engine.
• Murphy used blood control to save Ivirios, then intercepted Felosil's attack and trapped her in a chain of attacks and control effects.
• Murphy defeated Felosil, took the Star of Adel bow, and ordered Eden to deploy the Beta Bind device so he could interrogate her.

Murphy revived fallen Hell Divers as undead to turn the battle in Amastasia Harbor, then questioned the captured General Felocir about the attack. Luna took control of Felocir and revealed her plan to make Triss ascend to godhood, and Murphy vowed to confront her at the Elven Court.

• Triss explained that Flesh Rippers spread through corpses and might be suppressed by the elven underworld, while Murphy said the Hell Divers would soon gain elite fighters.
• Murphy used his power as King of the Underworld to revive dead Hell Divers as undead, who quickly overwhelmed the Flesh Rippers in close combat.
• Prince Iverios thanked Murphy for saving Amastasia Harbor and explained how the Ranger-General had deceived him before attacking the city.
• Felocir told Murphy that Luna had corrupted her out of resentment and that the Witch Cult was targeting the Elven King's Proof.
• Luna possessed Felocir and declared that she would help Triss ascend to godhood, but Murphy activated the Omega program and challenged Luna to await him at the Elven Court.

Murphy freed General Felosiel from Luna’s influence and planned to deal with the Mother of the Forest before rescuing the elven king. In the Warp, Hades found the severed aspect of the Mother of the Forest and agreed to kill her when she gave the signal.

• Murphy used the Omega Program to purge Luna’s influence from General Felosiel and sever her connection to the corrupted Mother of the Forest.
• Murphy told Felosiel and Iverios he would first investigate the great tree of Castia, contact his allies, and uncover whether an occult scholar had helped set the trap.
• Triss revealed she had found knowledge about creating Warp godspawn in Castia’s great tree, and Murphy suspected occult scholars had planted it for her to find.
• Murphy explained that Avalon had severed the Mother of the Forest’s aspect and planned to have Hades kill her so her power could be reborn as the Father of Oaks.
• Hades reached the Mother of the Forest’s battlefield in the Warp, fought off Chaos creatures, and agreed to kill her when she sent her signal in exchange for her tree’s heart.
• The Mother of the Forest told Hades to leave, conserve his strength, and visit Ao’s Cloudveil Heaven while he awaited the right moment.

Murphy learned that Avalon’s plan required his forces and the faithful to help bring the Father of Oaks into being, and he ordered a rapid mobilization. Meanwhile, Princess Chuchute’s delegation reached the Great Moon Temple, where the Kingdom of Castia welcomed them and the elven racial main quest began.

• Murphy ordered Triss to gather Transia’s faithful, mountain folk, Shadow Elves, and Sea Elf forces to support Avalon’s plan at the Castia Great Tree.
• Murphy told Triss to prepare Adele’s joint Shadow Elf and Half-Elf force and summon Ivelios’s Sea Elf elites as marines for the Origin Vanguard.
• Princess Chuchute and her party arrived at the Great Moon Temple, while Lumina discussed elven templates and her bard rivalry with Potato Dad.
• Princess Shiragui Galanodel welcomed Chuchute, and Lumina presented Murphy’s letter after Chuchute accidentally used an insulting nickname for the elves.
• Shiragui explained that the Army of Salvation awaited the delegation, and players received notice that the Kingdom of Castia’s racial main quest, “Song of the Verdant Leaves,” had begun.

Princess Shilagui learned that her injured mother, Queen Ilenia, planned to lead the Army of Salvation herself and keep Murphy and his allies out of the fight. After Shilagui was stripped of command, Ilenia revealed that the ghost Perona was coercing her to obtain the King's Proof and the Creator Engine's activation key before Murphy could reach them.

• Princess Shilagui visited Queen Ilenia in the Great Moon Temple and reported that the Army of Salvation was assembling, with Murphy and his allies ready to help.
• Queen Ilenia warned Shilagui that Murphy might seek the King's Proof and ordered her to defeat the Twilight Witch's forces without his involvement.
• Shilagui argued that the elves should trust Murphy and engage with the wider world, but Ilenia removed her from command and ordered her to guard the temple.
• After Shilagui left, Ilenia saw Perona in a mirror and learned that the ghost was demanding the King's Proof and the Creator Engine's activation key.
• Ilenia accused Perona of causing past disasters, but Perona threatened her and insisted that she complete the mission.

Lumina and the players investigated Princess Hilagui’s suspicion that Queen Ilenia had been affected by Chaos after abruptly leading the elven army out. They lured the Moon Sisters away to search the Moon Temple’s inner chambers, but two guards remained, leaving Lumina to prepare an unusual move.

• Ms. Rose generated quests in real time as Lumina and other players explored the Great Moon Temple.
• Lumina spotted the elven army mobilizing and received Goji Bro’s message about a hidden quest from Princess Hilagui.
• Princess Hilagui told the players that Queen Ilenia’s sudden change in behavior and reaction to Murphy worried her, and asked them to search the queen’s chambers for evidence of Chaos’s influence.
• Princess Chuchute proposed using a Decree of the Underworld to draw the Moon Sisters away, and Hilagui agreed to carry out the plan.
• After the alarm and Hilagui’s signal arrow drew most guards away, two Moon Sisters stayed behind, so Lumina prepared to use Potato Dad’s signature move while Goji Bro readied tranquilizer rounds.

Lumina and the players raided the Moon Temple, uncovered evidence that Queen Ilenia shared her body with another soul, and escaped after abducting and drugging two Moon Sisters. Murphy and Triss watched the revelations unfold, while Old Edward agreed to come and demanded that Ilenia remain alive until he could confront her.

• Lumina and the players ambushed the Moon Sisters with a vision, anesthetic darts, and a stunning club before searching Queen Ilenia’s chambers.
• Paimon Can't Fly deduced from Ilenia’s clothes that two different souls had controlled the queen’s body for decades.
• Lumina found a hidden box containing Perona Mithiral Fuller’s identity card and research equipment, while Brother Goji Berry decoded Ilenia’s diary about the other soul and her pregnancy.
• The players took the evidence, scattered objects to frame twilight and chaos, collected Moonwell water, and fled after finding Rope Art Master had tied the Moon Sisters to a tree and repeatedly drugged them.
• Murphy and Triss watched the raid from the Origin Vanguard, and Old Edward said he would come and ordered them not to let Ilenia die before he arrived.

Murphy enlisted Mannis to rescue Lumina’s group and prepare for Avalon’s coming rebirth, receiving Palom’s golden halberd as a gift. As Murphy and Triss approached Castia, the giant tree’s besieged druids received a prophecy naming the Midnight King as their hope.

• Mannis answered Murphy’s call with sarcastic complaints about the promised divine spark, and Murphy offered him creation energy and a share of future Truth as compensation.
• Murphy exposed Mannis’s recovery as an act and tasked him with rescuing the elf-obsessed group hunted by the Moon Sisters and preparing for Avalon’s new godhood.
• Mannis gave Murphy Palom’s Solar Insect Halberd, and Murphy asked Triss to inscribe and refit it as a weapon for his Warmaster armor.
• Murphy told Triss that Avalon’s death and rebirth would spark a wider war between Order and Chaos, while their forces approached Castia.
• On the tenth day of the siege, the druids were near collapse, and the dying Master Macafiel prophesied that the Midnight King would come to Transia bearing the Fang of Hope.

The Origin Vanguard reached the burning Castia Giant Tree, where the Hell Divers and players prepared to assault the Twilight forces. Murphy coordinated with Hades about Avalon’s death and rebirth as he armed himself to join the battle.

• Captain Zhao thanked Fire Bro for teaching the Hell Divers Transian combat techniques before leading his troops to prepare for deployment.
• Fire Bro warned the players to equip nature resistance and described the powerful druids guarding the Castia Giant Tree.
• Fallen elven divine scions attacked the Origin Vanguard, but Grand Duke Triss killed them with ravens made from the Flame of Creation.
• The players saw the Castia Giant Tree and nearby elven towns burning, then boarded their drop pods for the assault.
• Hades told Murphy that he and the other gods planned to bring about Avalon’s death and rebirth, while Murphy prepared to fight at the burning tree.

Triss and Murphy led the Creator’s Chosen in a surprise assault on the Fallen around the burning giant Castia tree. As the Hell Divers pushed toward the tree’s heart, the Witch Cult’s fanatical welcome horrified Triss, and a sudden burst of Holy Light signaled that the Golden Peach Knight had awakened to battle.

• Bonnie and Triss landed among the Fallen Druids, where Witch Cultists mistook Triss for the Mother of Midnight and begged her to ascend; Triss rejected them and ordered Bonnie to purify them.
• Murphy and the Hell Divers broke through the Fallen’s defenses, using power armor, the Insect Glaive Dragon Lance, mortars, and flamethrowers to burn through monsters and corrupted treants.
• Triss used her creation flames to destroy a Witch Cultist, while Bonnie cut down the cultists who continued worshipping Triss despite the attack.
• Murphy prepared to press toward the heart of the giant Castia tree when the Hades Bug relayed Gaia’s warning about an abnormal fluctuation in the Holy Light.
• A brilliant golden light erupted behind Murphy, and the Golden Peach Knight announced that she had suddenly lit up and charged into the fight.

Peachie became the Holy Light’s vessel and fought her way toward the corrupted Castia World Tree with Liwen, believing she had to protect the Holy Light and ensure Avalon’s rebirth. Murphy ordered solar bombardment to clear their route, while Old Zhao prepared the Hell Divers for future combat training.

• Peachie was engulfed in holy radiance, then used Peacebringer to kill a Deathfang Vampire captain and a Witch Cult priest as Liwen supported her in dragon form.
• Peachie sensed that the Holy Light feared corruption linked to Avalon’s changing fate and set out with Liwen for the heart of the Castia World Tree.
• Moonfire struck Liwen as she approached the World Tree, and she and Peachie crashed into its canopy platform.
• Murphy ordered Eden to launch solar bombardment, using the strike and the Fist of Flame to overwhelm the corrupted druids and clear a path toward the World Tree.
• Old Zhao advanced with the Hell Divers and ordered a weapons assessment after the operation, treating the mission as preparation for future soldiers.