Chapter Summaries

Lady Dena and Nikita worried that Dagon’s forces threatened Great Reef Province as Transian warriors prepared to advance against another fishman clan. Nikita escorted the Riptide Knight Order to a supposedly barren island, where the knights discovered a transformed paradise and received a prompt opening the Island Tycoon activity.

• Lady Dena examined an unfamiliar fishman badge, and she and Nikita concluded that forces from the open sea had joined Dagon’s threat to the province.
• Nikita sent Lady Dena to check on the wounded and escorted three hundred Riptide knights toward their assigned island camp.
• Taipal and Marcus spotted lush islands where merfolk records indicated there should be barren ones, and Nikita warned that fishmen might be hiding there.
• Taipal led a squad inland and found a beautiful valley with a lake, waterfall, and flourishing ecosystem.
• A game prompt announced that the knights had entered the Paradise Archipelago secret map and instructed players to defend the island to earn a 99-month lease.

Murphy arranged for Great Reef Province to lease its islands to players as payment for military merits and offered to restore the seabed after the mermen were driven out. He agreed to help Governor Hood contact the Aztecs and prepare a favorable battlefield, then hinted that Old Qin should settle matters from his former life before Murphy came to collect him.

• Players on the forums organized to capture islands, and Old Qin approved sending two airships to support them as temporary bases and medical stations.
• Murphy negotiated a lease of Great Reef Province’s islands with Governor Hood to ease the province’s financial burden during the war.
• Murphy offered to reshape newly acquired underwater territory and asked Hood to carry an alliance request to King Osiris in exchange.
• Hood invited Murphy to witness the Abyssal Heavenly Sovereign’s arrival, and Murphy agreed to attend the private audience the next day.
• Old Qin asked Murphy to reshape part of the underwater battlefield, and Murphy said he would use the Creation Engine to prepare terrain for later battles.
• Murphy warned Old Qin to settle matters in his former life, saying he would personally come to pick him up.

Murphy arranged for Sister Cement to prepare a human clone for Grandpa Qin and learned that the Dagonite threat was gathering around Great Reef Province. He joined the merfolk procession to welcome the Sea Abyss Lord, whose colossal avatar appeared as a looming defense against Dagon.

• Murphy asked Sister Cement to prepare a short-lived human clone for Grandpa Qin, and she agreed to have it ready within seven days.
• The players began attacking the second merman clan, where Meow Brother spotted a corrupted giant octopus that the merfolk identified as a creature from the Savage Sea.
• Murphy learned from Katerina that the Sea Abyss Lord patrolled the seas to curb Dagon's spawn, and that its avatar had battled Dagon during the ancient Sea Abyss War.
• Lady Juno announced the Sea Abyss Lord's arrival, and Murphy saw its enormous avatar approach through towering waves.
• Murphy realized that if Dagon took control of the avatar, its power could doom the world.

Murphy learned that the Sea Abyss Celestial Venerable's abandoned avatar contained the god's cast-off husk and prepared the battlefield for Dagon's arrival. Meanwhile, the Big Bird Squad recovered a corrupt crystal from a Dagon Scion, but the crystal attracted powerful monsters, and the players pursued the giant octopus that swallowed it.

• Triton explained that the Sea Abyss Celestial Venerable's avatar was made from the Celestial Venerable's cast-off husk and warned Murphy that losing it could unleash the Savage Sea's suppressed abominations.
• Murphy argued that the coming threats would force other nations to take Chaos seriously, promised rewards for the fight against Dagon, and flew to reshape the seabed near Great Reef Province.
• Meow Brother and the Big Bird Squad killed a Dagon Scion, and Xiao Shou extracted a corrupt crystal from its body.
• A giant blackwater eel attacked the squad and pursued Meow Brother because he carried the crystal, but an enormous octopus emerged and swallowed both the eel and the crystal.
• Meow Brother ordered the squad to hold off the octopus and summoned Smoke with power armor as the monster fled into the darkness.

The Bird Squad defeated a giant Dagon-tainted octopus and delivered its powerful symbiote crystal to Murphy, who rewarded them and revealed the secret of symbiote warriors. Murphy then decided to launch a limited-time Boss Rush mode against Dagon’s elite servants, with a new Chaos-resistant armor set as its prize.

• Smoke Mulberry joined the Bird Squad underwater in his Desert Tiger power armor, and the team killed the giant octopus and burned its contaminated remains.
• Meow Brother recovered a tainted crystal from the octopus and brought it to Murphy, who rewarded the Bird Squad with a choice of special military gear.
• Murphy told Meow Brother about symbiote crystals and General Fraser’s rise as a symbiote warrior, triggering the special quest “Darkness of the Abyss.”
• Meow Brother posted the secret information on the forums, while Murphy gave the purified crystal to Adele to pass to Old Flynn.
• Adele warned Murphy that Dagon’s elite forces were hiding among the tainted fishmen, and Murphy decided to create a Boss Rush mode for veteran players.
• Murphy ordered 999 deep-sea-themed Wavebringer equipment sets with Chaos Resistance and Chaos Purification affixes and set the event’s release for the next day.

After Dagon-spawn began appearing across the battlefield and inflicting heavy casualties, Old Qin reorganized the player forces and urged the merfolk to fight alongside the Transians rather than wait for the Abyssal Sovereign. Governor Hood chose to keep the merfolk in the war, and the allies prepared to resume their advance against the third murloc clan.

• Domestic 003 reported the Dagon-spawn attacks, contaminated symbiote crystals, and rising casualties, so Old Qin ordered elite players and merfolk hunters to hunt the monsters while ordinary forces prepared for another murloc assault.
• Old Qin and the Fishing Brothers killed a giant cutlassfish Dagon-spawn, then encountered badly wounded merfolk brought to Beastkeep by players.
• Yuan reported that a corrupted whale shark had attacked the merfolk vanguard, and Old Qin proposed coordinating merfolk scouts and support troops with Transian hunters.
• Lady Bichuka advised stopping the advance until the Abyssal Sovereign arrived, but Old Qin insisted the Transians would fight the Dagon-spawn and proceed against the third murloc clan.
• Governor Hood decided the merfolk would stay in the war and march alongside their Transian allies.

The Big Bird Squad used a secret baiting method to farm Tainted Crystals from Dagon's Spawn, but their hunt turned disastrous when a powerful Abyssal Glutton emerged and nearly killed them. Lady Lina and other allies arrived to fight the monster as Old Qu's public alert summoned nearby players.

• The elite hunting squads searched the front lines, while the Big Bird Squad used Tainted Crystals as bait to kill Dagon's Spawn and collect enough crystals for Tidecaller gear.
• The Big Bird Squad ambushed another Dagon Scion, then laid out six crystals to lure a stronger target.
• Abyssal Glutton Nispluman burst from a fissure, swallowed the crystals, and blasted Yansang and Brother Black Silk, leaving the squad overwhelmed.
• Old Qu alerted the world channel to the World Boss and wounded the monster with his rifle while Sanwudou tried to hold it back.
• Lady Lina, Brigadier General Fraser, and Miss Biki arrived to attack Nispluman, and nearby players began gathering for the fight.
• Brother Qu joined Lady Lina's counterattack, while Meow Brother lamented that the squad had lost its morning's harvest.

Brigadier General Fraser negotiated a temporary alliance with his symbiont while the Hunter Squad and arriving players fought the Abyssal Glutton. After accepting the symbiont’s power, Fraser transformed into a Black Nightmare Warrior and charged back into the battle.

• Brigadier General Fraser's Hunter Squad saved the Big Bird Group from the Abyssal Glutton and joined the fight.
• Lady Lina, Bonnie, Fraser, and the arriving players attacked the creature as reinforcements suffered heavy losses and Great Shark summoned Wam to empower his axe strike.
• Old Qin air-dropped fifty powered-armor knights, giving Fraser a chance to leave the front line with the battered San Wudou.
• Fraser stopped himself from suppressing his symbiont and proposed that they cooperate in dangerous battles in exchange for purified crystals afterward.
• Fraser and his symbiont agreed to their bargain, and the symbiont transformed him into a Black Nightmare Warrior.
• Fraser charged at the wounded Abyssal Glutton, while San Wudou realized the corrupted crystals could enable transformations.

Brigadier General Frazier used his symbiote’s power to help the players defeat the Abyssal Devourer, then handed its corrupted crystal to the Dragonflame Lady for Governor Murphy. Afterward, the players discussed how the symbiotes could become future transformation devices and help them resist Chaos, while Meow Shark revealed a nearby dungeon full of rare sea creatures.

• Frazier transformed with his symbiote, fought the Abyssal Devourer, and helped the players bring the monster down.
• Frazier warned the players away from the corrupted crystal, which the Dragonflame Lady sealed and carried to Murphy with Bonnie and Dorothy.
• Frazier ended his transformation, thanked Knight Liwen and Pixie, and explained that the symbiote had left him desperately hungry.
• Sanwudou and the other players discussed the transformation they had witnessed, and Meow Brother shared what he knew about the symbiotes and corrupted crystals.
• A-Cha, Lumina, and Joyful Clubfoot speculated about future transformation and Chaos-resistance features, while Firebro noted the limited new armor set reward.
• Meow Shark described the rare creatures in the merfolk’s forbidden Dragonbone Harbor, prompting another player to consider visiting it.

After the merfolk and Transians defeated the Abyssal Glutton, their campaign against the fishmen accelerated, while the first military merit payout strained Great Reef Province’s finances. The Abyssal Celebration began with the arrival of the Venerable’s enormous kun avatar, as Kaspar warned that the altered seabed and restless corruption foretold trouble.

• The merfolk gained confidence after the Abyssal Glutton’s defeat, and their cooperation with Transian players helped them capture a third fishman clan ahead of schedule.
• Players rapidly emptied several treasuries during the first military merit settlement, so Governor Hood arranged island leases, Dragonbone Bay admissions, and aid from Red Earth Province to fund future rewards.
• Lady Rose announced the Abyssal Celebration and its offering rite, prompting Meow Brother and other players to prepare Sanwudou with Tidebringer armor and a captured Dagon holy son as a sacrifice.
• Little Rich noticed that the seabed near the festival grounds had been reshaped, and Kaspar sensed that Dagon’s corruption was unusually restless and warned him to be careful.
• Lady Bechuka rang the ancient bell, and the Abyssal Venerable’s colossal kun avatar emerged as the players gathered to watch.

Murphy and his allies prepared a trap for Dagon during a merfolk celebration, while Sanwudou killed Dagon’s holy scion and received the Sea Abyss Heavenly Venerable’s blessing. As Dagon’s army attacked and the evil god emerged from a Warp rift, Murphy summoned his forces to begin the battle.

• Murphy monitored the assembled forces and weapons ready to destroy Dagon when the evil god appeared.
• Sanwudou killed Dagon’s holy scion during the offering ritual, and the Sea Abyss Heavenly Venerable blessed him as Little Katerina watched.
• Murphy, Prince Bai, and Queen Fulier sensed Dagon’s gathered army closing in on the celebration.
• The Sea Abyss Heavenly Venerable’s avatar sank beneath the waves as a storm broke, and Dagon opened a Warp rift and appeared.
• Murphy summoned the Undying Blood River and called his allies to fight as Prince Bai transformed into a dragon.

As Dagon’s armies attacked the anniversary celebration, players and their allies prepared for a desperate battle while Lord Qin joined the fight despite his failing health. The fighting escalated as reinforcements arrived, and Zhao led the Hell Divers into the battlefield.

• The Goddess of WIFI announced Dagon’s invasion and set kill-count thresholds for summoning support forces.
• Yansang ordered the hunting squad toward the southeast as Lord Qin sent the strategists to their positions and prepared to fight.
• Lord Qin took a dragon strength potion, equipped his weapons, and leaped from the airship toward the island battlefield.
• Niu Niu and the players fought overwhelming waves of Dagon’s spawn as the first support forces and Sangha Empire solar ships arrived.
• Niu Niu rescued Serakfenda and the halfling first mate from the crashing Merchant Dynasty, and Serakfenda joined the battle with a machine gun.
• Zhao led three thousand Hell Divers from the Origin Vanguard into the battle against Dagon’s spawn.

As the war between the Sea Abyss Celestial Venerable and Dagon raged, Meow Brother’s crew fought off Dagon’s forces while Three or Five Measures left to rescue Katerina’s family. He arrived with two summoned demigods just as Katerina was being forced to flee her mother and sisters, and set off to help them.

• Meow Brother’s plant army battled the fishmen until an Abyssal Devourer attacked, and the Varm Brotherhood helped bring it near defeat with a bombardment from the Sun Ship.
• Rabbit brought the wounded Lady Nikita to shore and told Three or Five Measures that Katerina and her family were trapped by a Chaos demigod.
• Great Shark gave Three or Five Measures a talisman that could summon Hayes, and Three or Five Measures went with Rabbit to rescue Katerina’s family.
• Lady Biquka ordered Juno and Katerina to escape while she and Juno prepared to remain behind and defend their position.
• Katerina was carried away from her family by whale sharks, but Three or Five Measures arrived with summoned demigods and took her back toward the trench to help rescue them.

Murphy and his allies fought Dagon’s forces as Chaos demigods poured into the material world, revealing that the apparent crisis was part of a plan to lure them into a trap. The arrival of the Golden Divine Generals turned the tide, and the battle against Dagon and the Original Sin faction began in earnest.

• Murphy killed a Chaos demigod with Hades’s power, then prepared to seal Dagon’s rift while Mannis reported that more than ten demigods had entered the battle.
• Murphy ordered Mannis to lure more demigods from the Astral Realm and arranged for Prince Bai’s Divine Generals and the Colossi to join the fight.
• Murphy closed Dagon’s gate as players and merfolk suffered heavy losses against the growing enemy forces.
• Li Ji and Prince Bai defended the solar ship, while Lord Qin arranged for a Golden Divine General to arrive at Giant Shark’s location.
• The Golden Divine General and two more machines attacked the demigods, and Giant Shark realized the battlefield was a vast trap designed to destroy Dagon’s forces.

Murphy activated the Creation Engine to trap and weaken Dagon while the Order forces launched a decisive counterattack against the Chaos army. As Dagon tried to possess the Heavenly Venerable of the Sea Abyss’s human vessel, Ze urged Murphy to burn them both in the Creator’s flames.

• The Great Shark led the Golden Man Divine Lord through the battlefield, where Golden Men and the Colossi slaughtered Chaos demigods and Dagonspawn.
• Murphy awakened the Creation Engine, creating an Order Barrier that weakened Chaos creatures and gave surviving warriors thirty minutes to fight before the battlefield was reshaped.
• Old Qin’s sanity and strength returned in the Light of Creation, and he charged the Dagon fishmen as players and merfolk rallied to counterattack.
• Murphy revealed that the energy of creation was primarily meant to seal and weaken Dagon, then flooded the god’s battlefield with enough power to melt and reshape everything there.
• Dagon tried to escape the creation energy, but the Heavenly Venerable of the Sea Abyss’s human vessel bit into it, triggering Dagon’s attempt to possess the body.
• Ze told Murphy to increase the heat, explaining that the vessel had become a cage that would keep Dagon from escaping into the subspace.

Murphy used regional reshaping to destroy Dagon, who tried to escape by revealing Constance’s plan to revive the Children of Eden with resistance to Chaos. Murphy rejected the offer and left Dagon to be erased as the Crystal Trench was reshaped.

• Murphy learned that Dagon had parasitized the Abyssal Sovereign’s human vessel to gain a more powerful host, but Creation energy was dissolving them both.
• Dagon offered Constance’s ultimate answer in exchange for its life, and Murphy refused to spare it despite wanting the information.
• Dagon revealed that its biological iterator was meant to help the Life Greenhouse revive the Children of Eden with the ability to resist and use Chaos.
• Murphy paused the reshaping countdown while Dagon pleaded to serve him, then restarted it and erased Dagon.
• Murphy declared that he would not allow Eden District’s people to escape the consequences of destroying the world as the Crystal Trench was reshaped.

Murphy reshaped the seabed after erasing Dagon and recovered the eternal amber containing the completed Anti-Chaos Equation, which strengthened the Order faction’s fight against Chaos. He then learned that Dagon’s dying symbiotes had infected merfolk, including Lady Dena and Lady Bichuka, and ordered a mass purification while preparing to appear badly injured.

• Murphy watched the World-Reforging Program transform the seabed into a crystal trench and seal Dagon’s remains in a crystal sarcophagus.
• Murphy identified the amber as Dagon’s Biological Iteration Device and had Eden extract the Anti-Chaos Equation it contained.
• Murphy gained the Chaos Core knowledge and Pathfinder upgrades, including Chaos Slayer for Pathwalkers in his Order faction.
• Adele reported that Dagonian half-breeds had launched suicidal attacks, spreading symbiotes that infected many merfolk, including Lady Dena and Lady Bichuka.
• Murphy confirmed Dagon had been erased, ordered Prince White to gather the infected for mass purification, and planned to make himself look more injured.

After Dagon’s death, the merfolk rallied against his fleeing forces, but Dagon’s spawn infected about two thousand merfolk by self-destructing. Murphy arranged a dangerous cleansing ritual, and Three-and-a-Half Measures volunteered to assist.

• Dagon’s death sent the mermen fleeing and briefly devastated the merfolk, but the Deep Sea Celestial Venerable restored their morale and urged them to fight.
• Dagon’s spawn charged into the merfolk and broke apart, spreading symbionts; Yan Sang warned the commanders, and Old Qin ordered the contaminated waters sealed and bombarded.
• Players rescued infected merfolk, while Prince White contained the corruption and Brigadier Fraser sent players to collect symbiont crystals.
• Murphy arrived and learned that about two thousand merfolk, including Lady Bichuika, had been infected after following the Celestial Venerable’s call back to battle.
• Murphy offered to cleanse the infected merfolk with help from bodiless Otherworlders, warning that the ritual could strand them in the Astral Realm.
• Three-and-a-Half Measures volunteered to assist Murphy, and Murphy ordered the cleansing ritual to begin.

Murphy purified the symbiote-tainted sea with help from Three to Five Dou and the merfolk players, then hurried to the Origin Vanguard after learning Grandpa Qin was dying. Murphy collected Grandpa Qin’s soul and led him toward a new life, where they considered how the two worlds were connected and whether both might have been created by the same Creator.

• Murphy sent Three to Five Dou and the merfolk players into the contaminated sea as purification nodes, while he weakened the symbiotes infecting the merfolk.
• After the purification, Murphy sent the afflicted merfolk to Origin Harbor for treatment, and the surviving players received a quest to collect symbiote crystals.
• Hell Divers told Murphy that Grandpa Qin was near death, so Murphy went to the Origin Vanguard and asked the other players to leave him alone with the old man.
• Murphy projected himself into Grandpa Qin’s real-world vision and offered him the choice of rest or a new life; Grandpa Qin chose to follow Murphy.
• As they traveled through the Warp, Grandpa Qin asked about the danger it posed, and Murphy wondered whether both worlds were creations of the same Creator.

Lord Qin received a living clone and began adapting to his new life as a Transian general, while Murphy reviewed the Bloodbound Legion’s first battle and ordered a major expansion and enhancement program. The chapter left Lord Qin heading toward his new duties and the legion preparing for far more demanding wars.

• Sister Cement reassured Lord Qin that both worlds could be real, then guided him into a cloned body and told him to keep his old name.
• Lord Qin awakened in the clone, learned it had Silver-rank strength, and received orders to train before reporting to Lord Kudel at the Maginot Line.
• Sister Cement told Lord Qin to keep his experiences secret and previewed Murphy’s coming expedition to reclaim the Life Greenhouse.
• Murphy challenged Maxim over the Bloodbound Legion’s combat record, while Maxim reported that the mixed-clan squad structure had worked but still needed training.
• Murphy ordered the legion’s planned strength doubled and selected twenty-five squads for symbiotic, Chaos Core, and organ-augmentation enhancements.
• Murphy said the Night Singers would use faith and warfare to discipline the enhanced vampires and build the Bloodbound Legion into a feared tradition.