Chapter Summaries

Murphy survived the battle at Castia, bound the Mistress of Midnight to the Underworld, and gained a powerful divine artifact and the Creation Engine key. As he prepared to support the new elven king and pursue the Holy Bloodlands, his foreign heart began beating erratically and he collapsed.

• Dawn returned after the Mistress of Midnight's godspawn fled, and Triss embraced the sunlight for the first time in centuries.
• Murphy and Lord Protector Paine discussed Triss's Madblood heart and agreed that the Holy Bloodlands held answers, while Paine urged Murphy to prepare before traveling there.
• Murphy agreed to help reconcile the Sanghaians and elves, and Paine departed to guard the Creation Engine.
• Murphy appraised the Long Night Guardian and found that it had become a divine artifact binding the Mistress of Midnight to the Underworld; a message from ??? tried to recruit him to the Void faction.
• Adele delivered the Creation Engine activation key, and Murphy considered turning the battle into an experience for players.
• When Adele offered to look after Murphy, his heart began beating irregularly and he collapsed; Adele carried him away while Little Ashina guarded him.

Murphy survived the implantation of Salokdar’s Golden Blood Eagle Heart, which began transforming his body and granting him new powers as it adapted. Meanwhile, Natalie received the first fruit of the divine oak and set out to deliver it to Murphy, while the mountain people prepared to welcome the Father of the Oak’s followers.

• Murphy endured the Blood Eagle Heart’s rejection as his body adapted, and his character card revealed that rising compatibility would improve his attributes, swordsmanship, wings, and access to Salokdar’s Golden Law Echo.
• Murphy considered using the Longnight Guard and the reversed Blood River to summon Salokdar and other ancient ones, then used his mental form to resume work through the administrator interface.
• The mountain people’s High Elder gave Natalie the first fruit from the divine oak and asked her to deliver the holy relic to Murphy.
• Natalie agreed to carry the relic to the Kingdom of Castile and promote the Father of the Oak, while the High Elder said the mountain people would turn their ancestral settlements into temples.
• Natalie left for the airship terminal, reflecting on how she had begun to balance faith with her own life and how the gods did not object.

Murphy received the Oakwood Grail, which contained the Oakwood Father’s divine blood and unlocked a path to create divine scions. Natalie and Shiragui became the deity’s chosen ones, and Triss proposed discussing the elven kingdom’s future before she and Murphy left Castile.

• Murphy recovered with Mannis’s time reversal, then received a thorn-wrapped case from Natalie containing a grail taken from the Great Oak.
• The grail filled with divine blood, and Triss explained that it could support the divine scion project and likely signaled Avalon’s approval of the plan.
• Murphy appraised the Oakwood Grail and learned it unlocked Nature, Life, and Wilderness talent trees and could grant the special class Grail Knight · Power of the Oak.
• Natalie drank the grail’s holy water and became the Oakwood Father’s first chosen one in the material world, the Great Oak Grail Knight.
• Shiragui also drank the holy water and became the Oakwood Father’s chosen one among the elves.
• Triss suggested that everyone discuss the elven kingdom’s future before she and Murphy left the Kingdom of Castile.

Murphy clarified how the Adell Netherworld would affect Castia’s succession and urged Ivirios and Shiragui to reconcile with the Sanghai Empire. After Phyllosiel volunteered to serve as an envoy and join Murphy’s anti-Chaos forces, the story left her ready to enter the vampires’ warband.

• Murphy explained that the dead could advise but not decide the living kingdom’s succession, and that the Adell Netherworld would eventually leave the material world.
• Murphy told Ivirios and Shiragui that Quirion and Ilenia would initially rule the dead, while Avalon might later become the elves’ death goddess.
• Ivirios said he and Shiragui would postpone their wedding and coronation until Castia recovered, and Murphy offered help rebuilding the capital and Port of Amastasia.
• Murphy invited Ivirios and Shiragui to attend Pharaoh Queen Fuli’er’s coronation in Ptolemy and urged them to begin reconciliation with the Sanghai people.
• Phyllosiel offered to resign as Ranger General, travel to Ptolemy as Castia’s envoy, and help eliminate the dangerous Fallen God’s Children.
• Murphy invited Phyllosiel to lead the Holy Blood Warband, and she accepted, saying she was prepared to enter the eternal night.

Murphy and Iveyrios advanced Transia and Castia’s military cooperation by testing an elven-grown aircraft body and negotiating an exchange for aircraft seeds. The test showed the project was viable, and the two agreed on a first order while leaving the finished planes’ engines and weapons to Transia.

• Philosir chose political self-exile over her guilt about the massacre, her origins, and her failure to protect Luna, while Shiragui helped her back to her cabin and Triss returned to her laboratory.
• Iveyrios gave Murphy a rune-inscribed Cloud Roc seed and explained that the druids had nearly completed the aircraft-shaping process.
• Murphy and Iveyrios mixed nutrient potion with water and activated the seed in a sunship hangar, where it rapidly grew into the framework of a propeller aircraft.
• Murphy judged the aircraft design suitable for Transia and requested at least three hundred seeds for the first order.
• Iveyrios asked for at least eight hundred otherworldly warriors in exchange, and Murphy agreed while warning him to respect their values and limits.

Murphy learned that the Midnight Matriarch’s neutral aspect was emerging sooner than expected, and he entered her Blood River domain to understand why. He invited the broken spirits of the vampire dead to join the Midnight Faith and become the future Blood Lords who would shape its underworld.

• Murphy defeated Maxim in a practice duel and gave him notes on the Blade of Doom as a reward for bringing the elven vanguard to Castilla.
• Murphy asked Maxim and Kudell to select principled vampire family members for the Holy Blood Legion, and Maxim pledged to help unite the families under Murphy’s leadership.
• As the Genesis Vanguard headed toward the Underworld of Adel, Murphy sensed that the Midnight Matriarch’s neutral aspect was about to emerge.
• Murphy entered the Blood River domain and asked Salokdar’s broken reflection why the Matriarch was changing so quickly.
• Salokdar explained that the Midnight Creed had overwhelmed the Matriarch’s chaotic delusions, while her coming neutral aspect would unite them into an opposition to Order.
• Murphy invited the Blood River’s broken spirits to join the Midnight Faith and become legends known as the Blood Lords.

Murphy told Old Zhao that the Hell Divers’ first operation had ended successfully and offered 800 soldiers a long-term mercenary contract with the Kingdom of the Elves. After Old Zhao received a campaign reward, he learned that officials wanted his battlefield report to help prepare for the possibility that Chaos could reach their own world.

• Murphy praised the Hell Divers’ performance, announced their five days of leave, and offered 800 soldiers a contract to help the Kingdom of the Elves restore order and guard an Explorers’ Guild research outpost.
• Old Zhao asked about command, duties, and compensation, then heard Murphy explain the contract’s limits and invite the soldiers to attend the Pharaoh Queen’s coronation.
• A guard delivered Old Zhao a psychic blade and a commemorative M1911 pistol as rewards from Murphy and Grand Duke Triss.
• Loyal Brother told Old Zhao he had to join a video conference with high-ranking officials, who wanted his account of the fighting and intelligence for a database on Chaos.
• Old Zhao questioned Loyal Brother about the reason for the officials’ interest, and Loyal Brother admitted that they were preparing for the possibility that threats from Transia could cross into their world.

Colonel Zhao and the project leads briefed government leaders on technological advances and the danger posed by Chaos creatures in Transia. Master Qin proposed Project Hidden Dragon, a specialized force trained to counter a possible Chaos invasion.

• Colonel Zhao examined a prototype thermal knife, and Master Ma explained the challenges of powering thermal weapons and building a simulated solar reactor.
• Master Qin told Colonel Zhao to select twenty soldiers to test combat exoskeletons, while Master Ma described new power cells and other technology derived from Creator tech.
• The project leads discussed growing human eyes, classified research, and security before beginning a secure projected video briefing with senior leaders.
• Colonel Zhao reported on his unit’s ten-day mission and warned that conventional weapons could not reliably counter Chaos creatures, showing footage of the battle with the Flesh Ripper.
• Master Qin proposed training a Special Chaos Response Force under Project Hidden Dragon, using Transia for combat training and research into Chaos creatures.

Old Qin’s failing health and his possible resurrection in Transia came up as Colonel Zhao discussed the planned special force with him. Murphy settled the Castile questline and released elf race and faction rewards, prompting Lumina and Madam Shui to change into moon elves.

• Old Qin told Colonel Zhao that the proposed soldiers should accept the Kingdom of Castile’s offer so they could gain experience fighting Chaos creatures and help prepare for future crises.
• Colonel Zhao guessed that Old Qin would be resurrected in Transia, and Old Qin revealed that he had applied for a game account for his wife, whose helmet had just arrived.
• Murphy told Triss that Old Qin had only about two months left, then asked Lady Rose to distribute the completed Castile questline rewards to participating players.
• Lumina changed from a half-elf into a moon elf and announced she could pursue the Moon Priest class.
• Madam Shui changed into a weakened moon elf and became a Moon Priest, while Little Rich Bro called for Fire Bro to save his dying manticore.

Little Rich’s manticore survived its first challenge to become a legendary creature, while Murphy learned George had already risen to lead an astral wolf pack and sent him to investigate the astral tree Afidashir. Murphy then arrived in Ptolemy with General Filo'Sill, where Pharaoh Queen Fuli'er confronted the hostility between Sangai and the elves and demanded proof of Filo'Sill’s peaceful intentions.

• Little Rich asked Huozi to save his gravely wounded manticore, which had won its first challenge against a manticore lord but still needed treatment in Murphy’s biological chamber.
• Murphy advised Little Rich to commission legendary armor from old Edward, and Little Rich set off for Greeny Island.
• Murphy scolded George for delaying its legendary challenges, but George explained that it already led an astral wolf pack and needed Murphy to reach Gold tier before it could advance further.
• Murphy sent George to investigate whether the astral tree Afidashir could be revived and arranged for players to tame George’s pups in exchange for wild enhancement for the pack.
• Murphy ordered Revenor to deliver a letter to the Stonemasons' Guild in Transia.
• Murphy and General Filo'Sill arrived at Palace Hill, where Fuli'er's guards moved against the elf general until Fuli'er ordered them to stand down and asked Filo'Sill to demonstrate her sincerity about peace.

Murphy and Fuli'er discussed using the Creation Engine to restore city defense matrices and build peace with the elves, while Prince Filo'xier prepared to explain the conspiracy behind the three-century-old conflict. In Transia, Old Um received Murphy’s invitation to help repair the Skybridge and rushed off to Ptolemy.

• Fuli'er told Murphy that the royal city of Ptolemy’s defense matrix had been activated and that similar systems were being restored in other Sangha cities.
• Murphy proposed making Chardo Port an open showcase for a city defense matrix, and Fuli'er agreed that the system could help win trust and peace with the elves.
• Prince Filo'xier told Fuli'er that he had come to reveal how the Arcanists had manipulated the Sangha people and elves into war over the Skybridge.
• Old Um rejected suspicious construction plans at the Stonemasons' Guild and reported a suspected corruption case to the Shadow Intelligence Bureau.
• Refno delivered Murphy’s invitation for Old Um to attend Queen Fuli'er’s coronation and discuss repairing the Skybridge with the Sangha and elven leaders.
• Old Um left Transia in a rush, declaring that he was going to build the Skybridge.

The player-led army attacked the Sious family’s pyramid while Prince Khufu and General Kudel closed in from another direction. The rebellion was crushed in twenty days, and Prince Khufu captured the Sious pharaoh as he tried to flee.

• Old Soldier of the Qing Dynasty rallied the exhausted players for their final assault on the Sious family stronghold.
• Sister Pomegranate and Cat Bro joined the attack as airships bombarded the battlefield with incendiary bombs, burning undead forces and player vanguards alike.
• Sage Wolf Armament and Loyal Bro led a squad into the pyramid and forced the Sious pharaoh to flee through a hidden passage.
• Prince Khufu, General Kudel, and the Sand Sea Guards surrounded the fleeing pharaoh beneath the desert sun.
• The Sious pharaoh’s concubine revealed herself as a spy loyal to Queen Fuli'er, and Prince Khufu declared the rebellion over before striking the captured pharaoh.

Murphy activated the Creator Engine and gained Apprentice Creator privileges, giving him access to its facilities and the power to reshape regions of the world. After viewing the planet’s vast unexplored lands and underground realms, he proposed beginning their work with a stunt for King Louis.

• Adele told Murphy that the campaign had captured at least twenty-four rebel Underworld Pharaohs, while player rewards had left the Church of the Death Moon and the Sangha Empire facing enormous expenses.
• Murphy discussed collecting player data and setting a price for energy batteries, then headed to Origin Holy City to restart the Creator Engine.
• Adele reported that Transian mechanics and Sangha workers had repaired nearly a hundred power armor suits and were developing more than fifty hybrid weapons.
• Murphy used the activation key and his blood to restart the Creator Engine, gaining Apprentice Creator privileges and access to the Regional Reshaping function.
• The Creator Engine displayed a globe revealing vast unexplored continents and the Darklands, and Murphy asked where they should begin reshaping the world.

Murphy explored the Creation Engine’s ecological templates and discovered they could reshape regions of the Warp, then used it to begin creating Hadies’s Star-Devouring Hive divine realm. He planned a test of the Engine in the Savage Sea and set out to inspect the Creator’s solar-ship shipyard, giving Lord Payn the Origin Vanguard as the Bloodline Chapter’s headquarters.

• Murphy found that the Creation Engine could reshape regions through manual changes or preset templates, but the templates came with risks and warnings against use in the material world.
• Murphy realized the Abyss template could function in the Warp and helped Hadies connect his divinity to the Creation Engine to create a Star-Devouring Hive divine realm.
• Lord Payn chose uninhabited islands in the Savage Sea as a safe place for Murphy to test the Creation Engine’s world-reshaping power.
• Murphy announced that the Creation Engine’s activation had reopened the Creator’s shipyard in the Thousand-Year Sea of Sand, where four unfinished solar ships and the decommissioned Hound of the Underworld were stored.
• Murphy gave Lord Payn the Origin Vanguard as the Bloodline Chapter’s mobile headquarters and the Midnight Church’s mobile holy see, and said two unfinished solar ships would go to the Explorers and Transia.

Murphy inspected the Creator's shipyard and discussed with Rose how to restore its systems, while Rose asked him to help split her divine aspects and grant the shadow elves the Underdark. The group reached the construction bays to assess four unfinished Sunships, where an engineer's attempt to dismantle a solar engine triggered an alarm.

• Murphy and the Origin Vanguard entered the hidden shipyard, where trapped Sangha engineers reunited with their colleagues after two months.
• Rose told Murphy the shipyard's central AI had destroyed itself a thousand years earlier and proposed helping rebuild its control system, despite the risk to her identity and divine domains.
• Rose asked Murphy to split her into light and dark aspects and grant the shadow elves the Underdark, while also seeking a chance to become the Elven God of Death; Murphy refused to agree for now.
• Prince Khufu welcomed Murphy and the vampire grand dukes, then led them underground to inspect four Sunships at different stages of construction.
• Khufu explained that Sangha engineers had once tried and failed to use a solar engine in the Heart of Ptolemy because their ship could not withstand its power.
• An engineer dismantled a solar engine in the warehouse, triggering the shipyard alarm, and Murphy urged Rose to take control of the systems.

After Lord Ma nearly triggered the solar engine’s catastrophic countermeasure, Murphy authorized its dismantling and revealed that Lady Rose’s database held the complete blueprints. The heroes agreed to focus on completing four solar ships, and Murphy’s offer of reinforcements led to a legendary quest that left Lord Ma preparing to rally engineers and players.

• Lord Ma accidentally triggered the solar engine’s countermeasure, but Murphy remotely authorized the system and stopped its countdown before the dock base was destroyed.
• Chizao Yaowan scolded Lord Ma and urged him to take a three-day break, while Lady Mosna warned the group about the danger of disturbing the engine’s precise core modules.
• Murphy revealed that Lady Rose’s data divine realm contained the complete solar engine blueprints and said the heroes should prioritize finishing the four solar ships.
• Lord Ma explained that the project lacked enough skilled workers, and Murphy offered a recruitment channel for engineers and scientists from the foreign heroes’ world.
• Murphy promised that Lady Rose would share the Creator’s knowledge if the heroes completed the ships, triggering a legendary manufacturing quest with recruitment slots and tiered rewards.
• Lord Ma ordered the others to log off, rally the troops, and begin organizing the work.

Old Qin agreed to transfer his base’s management and logistics staff to the Sangha Empire’s shipyard project, while Murphy investigated a possible Creator superweapon and prepared to distribute Genesis energy rewards. The chapter ended with Murphy planning an upgrade to the game’s high-level combat system and new content.

• Lord Ma and Uncle Tea explained that the shipyard mission supplied blueprints, autonomous machines, and plans for four solar ships, so they needed managers, coordinators, cooks, and medical staff.
• Eat Dates Before You Die proposed moving Old Qin’s trusted base staff to the shipyard, and Old Qin agreed to discuss the transfer while arranging temporary helmets for a few higher-ups.
• Lord Ma revealed that the shipyard records listed a BFG Tower-Type Planet-Destroying Cannon, and Murphy asked Eden where the weapon might be hidden.
• Eden guessed the cannon was inside the Heart of the World and guarded by the Sentinel Legion, with Murphy needing Creator-level access to fire it.
• Murphy promised Mannis an extra portion of Primordial Genesis energy as interest on his overdue wages, but refused to let Mannis collect the other demigods’ rewards.
• Murphy decided to settle the demigods’ rewards individually and planned to upgrade the game’s high-end NPC combat strength with new factions, reputations, and events.

Murphy learned from Hathor that Lady Constance had secretly created the Callem people and arranged a pact that would require his help with her resurrection. He then used the Creation Engine to offer primordial creation energy to four demigods in exchange for joining his development team, leaving three of them hesitating over the contracts.

• Murphy confronted Hathor at the Creation Engine, but she stayed to explain the Secretblood Clan’s ancient agreement with the Callem people.
• Hathor revealed that Lady Constance had created the Callem people as a servant army, spared them genetic control, and arranged their rise as part of a pact with Murphy.
• Hathor said Lady Constance needed Murphy’s help to complete her resurrection and warned that she would die if he refused.
• Murphy opened a safe route to the Astral Realm and brought Slippery Snake, the Wanderer, Liji, and Hayes to the Creation Engine for strengthening.
• Murphy offered the demigods different doses of primordial creation energy and extra doses for signing work agreements to help develop the Path system and create the first Gold-ranked player.
• Mannis and Slippery Snake signed and entered their pods, while Liji and Hayes hesitated as Murphy prepared to strengthen Mannis first.

Murphy used Primordial Creation Energy to strengthen Mannis, whose body endured dangerous melting before he reversed time and achieved a major increase in power. After examining Mannis and preparing the other demigods for strengthening, Murphy stopped Eris from fleeing and declared he would be sent to the Astral Realm.

• Liji and Mannis traded jabs about inheritance and compensation while Murphy prepared the strengthening pod.
• Murphy began Mannis’s treatment at 5% concentration, then raised it to 15% at Mannis’s insistence.
• Mannis began melting under the Primordial Energy, but Ao urged Murphy to let him endure the trial; Mannis reversed time to restore himself as the spell restraints dissolved.
• Murphy ended the session after Mannis cried out, and Appraisal showed that Mannis had become a lower-tier Primordially strengthened demigod with all attributes above 60.
• Mannis described his gains and warned Murphy to use no more than 10% on the other demigods, who entered the pod for their own treatments.
• Eris arrived with Triss and tried to flee, but Murphy froze him with Mannis’s time power and announced he would send Eris to the Astral Realm.

Murphy used the Creator’s enhancement chamber to strengthen Eris and the demigods, then risked the process himself to channel creation energy into the Mistress of Midnight. The chapter ended with the Mistress of Midnight being subjected to a 10% concentration trial of order while Murphy’s exemption let him endure the process.

• Murphy and Triss forced Eris into the enhancement chamber, where creation energy strengthened him enough to become a demigod.
• Triss warned Murphy that the chamber could kill beings below demigod level, but Murphy proposed using it to shape the Mistress of Midnight’s neutral aspect.
• The demigods completed their enhancements, developed crystals of order, and took Eris to the Astral Plane to choose his domain.
• Murphy entered the chamber at 1% concentration and discovered that his Apprentice Creator authority lowered the enhancement tests to Gold tier.
• Murphy had the chamber transfer the enhancement to the Mistress of Midnight and told Triss to raise the concentration to 10%.
• Triss increased the concentration, and the Mistress of Midnight roared in pain as Murphy grinned at her suffering.