Chapter Summaries

Flesh Mountain returned to Scale Clan society and met Benedict from the Provisional Evolver Management Bureau, who invited him to join and asked about his faith. Flesh Mountain agreed, then demonstrated his Body Control ability by sending Benedict crashing through the restaurant window.

• Flesh Mountain reviewed how the Scale Clan Government had investigated new religions and established the Provisional Evolver Management Regulations as Evolvers gained influence.
• Flesh Mountain waited in a restaurant after returning from his voyage, and Benedict arrived to speak with him on behalf of the Provisional Evolver Management Bureau.
• Benedict invited Flesh Mountain to join the Bureau and asked whether he was interested in faith in the God of Evolution.
• Flesh Mountain asked about the Bureau's stance on members' beliefs, then agreed to join after Benedict affirmed freedom of belief and the rule of law.
• Flesh Mountain attacked Benedict with his Body Control ability, and the punch sent Benedict through the restaurant window.
• Benedict calmed the bystanders and returned to speak with Flesh Mountain, newly impressed by the strength of his ability.

Flesh Mountain joined Benedict’s Management Bureau combat team as a probationary worker and went with him to fight Car Man in New Third District. Flesh Mountain defeated Car Man, while Benedict realized that the Mutated had recently grown stronger.

• Benedict approved Flesh Mountain’s employment assessment and assigned him to his combat team as a temporary worker.
• Benedict received an urgent call about a Mutated attacking New Third District, and Flesh Mountain went with him.
• Benedict attacked Car Man with flames, but it transferred itself into a nearby wrecked car and reassembled.
• Flesh Mountain used overwhelming force to destroy Car Man and nearby cars, preventing it from transferring its consciousness again.
• Benedict concluded that Car Man had used psychic power and worried that the Mutated were becoming stronger.

Flesh Mountain joined the Provisional Evolver Management Bureau as a temporary worker and learned that political opponents had blocked his permanent appointment. He used the setback to introduce Benedict to the faith of the Fallen Angel, leaving Benedict wary of the unsettling god.

• Benedict praised Flesh Mountain’s observations and promised to seek him a permanent position at the Provisional Evolver Management Bureau.
• Flesh Mountain returned home, unpacked the Divine Statues, and prepared one statue and an amulet for his visit to the Bureau.
• At the Bureau, Bax described how directors hostile to Evolvers used political maneuvering to undermine Benedict’s team.
• Benedict told Flesh Mountain that his approved permanent appointment had been intercepted and that someone else would take the position without reporting for work.
• Flesh Mountain gave Benedict a Divine Statue and proclaimed his faith in the Fallen Angel, prompting Benedict to warn him against breaking the law.

Flesh Mountain showed Benedict the Fallen Angel Bible and guided him through its prayers, which strengthened Benedict’s Flame Ability. Convinced the faith offered a chance to challenge the Scale Clan’s order, Benedict joined Flesh Mountain’s cause.

• Benedict questioned Flesh Mountain about the doctrine, then became engrossed in the well-crafted Bible.
• Benedict challenged the Bible’s unfamiliar names and places, and Flesh Mountain claimed to be Rosen and said he had not written it.
• Flesh Mountain told Benedict to follow the Bible’s prayers, and Benedict felt his Flame Ability grow stronger.
• Benedict decided not to report the Bible and told Flesh Mountain he would have kept its secret.
• Flesh Mountain described the coming change and their chance to rise, while Benedict insisted their work was for the faith.

Benedict quickly organized the Management Bureau team into the Fallen Angel Church, assigning Flesh Mountain as its Knight Commander and sending Bax to lead a district bureau. Flesh Mountain accompanied Bax to his new post and found an understaffed office focused mainly on reassuring the public about Mutated.

• Benedict gathered his colleagues at a supposed welcome dinner and declared that he would establish the Fallen Angel Church.
• Bax and the others embraced the plan, and Benedict appointed Flesh Mountain as the Church's Knight Commander.
• Bax applied for an external transfer, and Benedict arranged for him to become a district Management Bureau director in another city.
• Flesh Mountain accompanied Bax to the district bureau, where he found that many positions were vacant and the agency's main job was publicizing its response to Mutated.

Bax found the District Bureau poorly staffed and ineffective, then began training several Evolutionaries while searching for a way to break the deadlock. He and Flesh Mountain agreed to wait for an opportunity before taking action themselves, though Flesh Mountain secretly planned to create one without leaving a trace.

• Bax learned that the District Bureau had too few capable Evolutionaries, and its Combat Squads lacked enough members to function effectively.
• Bax toured the bureau and watched staff pass a monster report to the Public Security Bureau instead of responding themselves.
• Bax asked Flesh Mountain to stay and help him deal with the bureau's dire state, and Flesh Mountain agreed.
• Bax proposed creating an opportunity if none appeared soon, and Flesh Mountain reluctantly agreed to wait before intervening.
• Flesh Mountain privately decided he could create a heaven-sent opportunity and clean up after Bax.
• Bax selected several Evolutionaries from a Combat Squad for basic training while searching for a target.

Flesh Mountain secretly caused a Mutated attack in the city to give Bax a chance to prove the District Bureau’s worth. Bax arrived at the administrative district as a towering flesh monster terrorized the area, where Flesh Mountain began fighting it.

• Flesh Mountain planted chunks of flesh near the administrative district, then returned to Bax while the District Bureau’s Combat Squad remained unprepared.
• Bax treated the Combat Squad to dinner and encouraged them by describing how powerful Evolvers could become.
• An energy weapon blast shook the city, and Flesh Mountain flew to the scene while Bax hurried back to the District Bureau.
• Flesh Mountain told Bax that a Mutated had appeared and urged him to come make a name for himself, so Bax brought the Combat Squad to the administrative district.
• The officials and military struggled to stop a flesh monster that had survived a laser cannon and caused more than a hundred casualties.
• Flesh Mountain descended from the sky and staggered the giant Mutated with a punch.

Flesh Mountain and Bax defeated a powerful Mutated, earning the city bureau's gratitude and admiration. The next day, the city bureau director asked Bax to help recruit capable people from headquarters, and Bax agreed to put him in touch with the leaders.

• Flesh Mountain fought the Mutated without trying to finish it off until Bax arrived and joined the battle.
• Bax and Flesh Mountain coordinated their attacks, bound the Mutated, and brought it crashing to the ground before the Aerospace Fighters arrived.
• City officials and Evolvers praised Bax and Flesh Mountain, while Bax privately recognized that the fight had made him the center of attention.
• The next day, the city bureau director offered Bax a deputy director position, but Bax refused.
• The city bureau director asked Bax to help recruit people from headquarters, and Bax offered to connect him with the leaders.

Bax used his position in the District Bureau to attract Klein, an ambitious but disadvantaged evolver, into the Fallen Angel Church. Klein accepted the faith and received a Divine Statue and Bible, with Knight Commander Rosen set to baptize him.

• After half a month of handling the incident's aftermath, Bax assessed his subordinates and began looking for useful recruits.
• Bax planted signs of his faith around the District Bureau until Klein asked which deity he worshipped.
• Bax warned Klein that faith could endanger his Bureau career, but Klein admitted he saw no future through ordinary advancement.
• Bax told Klein about the Fallen Angel Church and warned that learning of the Great True God meant there was no turning back.
• Klein agreed to join, and Bax gave him a Divine Statue and Bible, promising that Knight Commander Rosen would perform his Baptism.

After studying the Bible, Klein received a Baptism from Flesh Mountain and awakened a powerful lightning ability through Fallen Angel. Bax promoted him to captain of the Combat Squad, and Bax prayed as the church began expanding its believers.

• Klein returned to the District Bureau after several days of studying the Bible, surprising colleagues who had worried about his absence.
• Bax arranged for Flesh Mountain to Baptize Klein, who declared that evolution was the Lord’s grace and a path to redemption.
• Flesh Mountain prayed before the Divine Statue, and Klein gained a powerful lightning ability that caused widespread destruction in the office.
• Bax appointed Klein captain of the Combat Squad, and Klein vowed to spread God’s will and evolution among the Scale Clan.
• Bax prayed to Fallen Angel and felt his own supernatural ability grow stronger as the believers began preparing to expand into other District Bureaus.

After his promotion, Klein led the Combat Squad into the field for its first Mutated assignment. The squad reached a residential building to deal with a Mutated cat, but the residents doubted the Provisional Evolver Management Bureau and Klein had to earn their trust.

• District Bureau staff gossiped about Klein’s promotion, while he focused on serving his faith.
• Klein told the Combat Squad that they would take Mutated assignments and prove themselves worthy of advancement.
• The communications officer confirmed the mission with the bureau chief and spent two days selecting a low-risk target for the inexperienced squad.
• Klein and the Combat Squad traveled by armored flying vehicle to investigate a Mutated cat that had attacked its former owner’s family.
• Residents questioned why the arriving team was not from Public Security, and Klein asked them to lead him to the Mutated cat.

Klein led his team to deal with a Mutated Cat and used lightning to kill it, earning the admiration of his teammates and the District Bureau. He returned with the body and report, then told the team to prepare for more assignments and hinted that their fate might change.

• A warmhearted neighbor led Klein and his team into the homeowners’ house, where they searched for the Mutated Cat.
• The Mutated Cat lunged at Klein, and he deliberately took a seemingly reckless position before striking it with lightning.
• Klein’s team watched in shock as he killed the Mutated Cat, then collected its body and left the scene.
• The neighbor praised Klein’s power to the arriving Security Team, which learned that an Evolved had dealt with the incident.
• Klein returned to the District Bureau, where his coworkers celebrated his success, and he told his team to rest before taking more assignments the next day.

Klein used his leadership of the Evolver squad to recruit potential followers into the Fallen Angel Church, explaining that faith had strengthened his abilities and giving them its Bible to study. After two months, the squad members qualified for Baptism, and Bax welcomed them into the church’s new branch beside the District Bureau.

• Klein led the Evolver squad on daily patrols, building its reputation while withholding clear answers about how his abilities had grown.
• After the squad invited him to dinner, Klein admitted that his strength was related to faith and gave its members the Fallen Angel Church’s Bible to study before Baptism.
• Klein observed the four squad members’ progress, received Bax’s approval, and prepared to baptize them.
• Bax bought a building beside the District Bureau for a church branch as the Fallen Angel Church began expanding at the grassroots level.
• Klein led the squad to the branch, where Bax welcomed them and spoke of upholding a shared goal in the new era.

Klein baptized new believers and helped the Fallen Angel Church grow into a powerful Evolver force, attracting the attention of the city bureau. A special Investigation Team arrived in Bax’s territory and began infiltrating the church, leaving Lucius inside its branch to survey the church-like interior.

• Klein led four people through the Baptism, and their abilities strengthened as they evolved under divine power.
• Klein welcomed them into the church and urged them to recruit believers, while promising that their Evolver squad would join the District Bureau’s combat roster.
• The Evolver squad expanded to six full squads, making the District Bureau more effective than the city bureau and spreading word of the Fallen Angel Church.
• A special Investigation Team arrived in Bax’s territory and planned to infiltrate the church and investigate its connection to the Evolver Tide.
• Lucius gained entry to the church branch through a contact, listened to the man boast about knowing Klein, and examined the church-like interior.

Lucius visited a Fallen Angel Church branch while his neighbor suspected him of plotting against the church and reported him to a priest. Klein and Director Bax learned of the apparent investigation, and Bax decided to invite Lucius in and try to turn him.

• Lucius's neighbor brought him to the church service, then secretly sought a priest because he distrusted Lucius's sudden visit.
• The neighbor told the priest that Lucius was likely investigating the church to advance his career, and the priest reported the warning.
• Klein concluded that someone higher up had sent Lucius to probe the church, while Bax noticed observers watching from a bus across the street.
• Bax rejected Klein's suggestion to cause an accident and decided to meet with Lucius to see if he could turn him.
• Klein volunteered to invite Lucius, who was pretending to pray after preparing by reading the Bible.

Lucius, a government official who had infiltrated the Fallen Angel Church, insisted that gods did not exist until Bax summoned the Divine Statue. Under the Fallen Angel’s gaze, Lucius felt a god’s presence and his worldview began to collapse.

• Klein exposed Lucius and brought him before Bax, who questioned him about the government officials waiting outside.
• Lucius denied the existence of gods, arguing that the Bible’s claims about heaven and hell were unproven.
• Bax challenged Lucius’s assumptions about divine judgment and offered to let him experience God’s presence.
• Lucius demanded to feel the divine presence, and Bax prayed before the Divine Statue.
• The Fallen Angel’s gaze overwhelmed Lucius, making him sense a true god and reconsider whether Evolvers were gifts from the gods.

After learning that gods existed, Lucius abandoned the Investigation Team’s plans against the Fallen Angel Church and agreed to provide Bax with intelligence. Bax then moved to expand the Church’s influence by sending Klein and other personnel to a neighboring District Bureau, where Klein was promised a deputy director position.

• Lucius agreed to withdraw from the Investigation Team and supply Bax with intelligence after Bax threatened consequences for offending God.
• Bax rejected Klein’s suggestion to use violence and ordered him to watch the government’s spies and turn them into the Church’s agents.
• Bax told Klein to lead a team to support neighboring District Bureaus as part of his plan to expand the Fallen Angel Church.
• Bax persuaded a neighboring bureau director to accept three teams and arrange a deputy director position for one of Bax’s people.
• Bax reminded Klein to seize the deputy director opportunity.

Lucius proposed a plan for the Investigation Team to frame the Fallen Angel Church, then warned Bax about the scheme. Bax reassured him that the Church had contacted the other spies and would monitor the team’s preparations.

• Bax promoted Klein to deputy director, and Klein thanked the Church and God.
• Lucius attended the Church service, found no other spies there, and reported that he had seen nothing suspicious to the Investigation Team.
• When the team leader suggested using underhanded methods against the Church, Lucius proposed staging an incident with chemical agents and a Mutated.
• The team leader expanded the plan to capture an Evolver and fabricate evidence, then told Lucius to gather more information before they acted.
• Lucius told Bax about the plan, and Bax said the Church had contacted Lucius’s colleagues, while one who refused to cooperate had been silenced in a car accident.

Lucius learned that the Investigation Team planned to capture a living Mutated that night, but he was trapped without his communication devices until a Fallen Angel Church Evolver contacted him telepathically. After Lucius passed along the plan, Bax used detection equipment to locate eleven enemy Evolvers gathered nearby.

• Lucius heard that a colleague who had opposed cooperating with the Fallen Angel Church had been killed, and he abandoned the idea of playing both sides.
• The Investigation Team leader told Lucius they would move that night and revealed that outside Evolvers and the Public Security Bureau's rapid response unit would support the operation.
• The team leader confined everyone to the hotel floor and collected their communication devices, leaving Lucius unable to send a warning himself.
• A Fallen Angel Church member contacted Lucius telepathically, and Lucius shared the operation's details while cautioning that the team leader might be spreading false information.
• Bax sent subordinates to investigate, and their flying car detected eleven Evolvers gathered together as reinforcements.

The Investigation Team leader staged an attack on the Fallen Angel Church, using a Mutated and planted evidence to frame the Church and possibly the Management Bureau. The plan began to collapse when the state Evolvers’ supply packs exploded, even as the Investigation Team moved to plant chemical agents.

• The Investigation Team leader secretly summoned state Evolver experts and set out to test whether Lucius or anyone else would act on the information he had leaked.
• The state Evolvers drove a Mutated to the Fallen Angel Church, while the Special Response Team waited nearby and the Investigation Team leader prepared to frame the Church.
• A citizen reported the Mutated, prompting Public Security officers to head to the Church as a bureau officer declared it an evil cult and ordered the Special Response Team to protect the public.
• The state Evolvers entered the Church, where their flashing supply packs exploded and killed them.
• The Investigation Team leader ordered his members to move out early, carrying chemical agents to plant among the evidence.