Chapter Summaries

Bax entered Council Member Granger’s home with the help of a devout maid and waited for him to return. Granger knelt and pleaded when he saw Bax, but Bax killed him; explosions then sounded outside.

• Bax followed the liaison’s instructions and entered Granger’s home with help from Granger’s maid.
• Bax and his group waited all day while Granger attended council business and social engagements.
• Granger received a warning that council members had been assassinated and hurried home for safety.
• Granger saw Bax, recognized him, and fell to his knees pleading that it was a misunderstanding.
• Bax killed Granger with a Wind Blade and picked up his head, then heard explosions outside.

Bax rescued Church priests from a military attack, while the Church’s purge pushed the Council toward a split over whether to submit or fight. Miao Miao and other powerful councilors secretly agreed to mobilize the fleet and destroy the Church, leaving Benedict unaware of the threat gathering against him.

• Bax arrived to rescue priests who had been ambushed while trying to attack Councilor Granger, then destroyed the military shuttles that tried to stop him.
• Bax ordered the priests to retreat after they thanked him, and he escaped into the crowd before military warships could arrive.
• The Church’s violent purge caused the Council to divide between councilors who wanted war and those who sought to appease Benedict.
• Benedict decided to exploit the Council’s fear and place Church supporters in council seats, while recognizing the councilors might fight back.
• Miao Miao and other powerful councilors secretly agreed to mobilize the fleet and wipe out the Church, carefully concealing their plans from Benedict.

A covert fleet arrived at Capital Star and threatened to bombard Church headquarters, leaving Benedict and Bax to rally the priests who stayed behind. As they waited for the attack, Benedict accepted that the Church might be struck down but believed it would survive and be remembered.

• The fleet ignored Capital Star's warning, cut off external communications, and broadcast that it would bombard the planet unless the council cleared its way.
• Bax returned to Church headquarters, where he urged the remaining priests to face the threat together rather than flee.
• Benedict joined Bax in comforting the crowd and declared that their shared resolve made the place sacred.
• Bax told Benedict he had misjudged his faith, and Benedict admitted that he served as Archbishop despite struggling to believe in the Fallen Angel.
• Benedict waited for the bombardment and hoped to be remembered as an Archbishop who stood firm while the Church survived its defeat.

The Scale Clan fleet attacked the Fallen Angel Church headquarters after the Capital Star garrison withdrew, while Benedict and the remaining believers prayed for protection. Derek intervened as the laser cannon struck, destroyed its beam, and sent the Divine Statue into space to confront the fleet.

• Bax and Benedict debated whether the gods would intervene, while Osborn rejected the councilors’ proposal to exploit the attack on the church.
• The fleet shot down a satellite, causing the Capital Star garrison to yield and exposing the Fallen Angel Church headquarters to its cannons.
• Derek watched the councilors pray to the Fallen Angel and waited for the right moment to act.
• Benedict returned to the headquarters, welcomed the believers who had gathered there, and led them in prayer.
• The fleet commander fired the main cannon at the headquarters, and the Divine Statue began to glow as Benedict and the others prayed.
• Derek invoked divine power to erase the laser beam, then sent the Divine Statue flying into space toward the fleet.

Derek used the Fallen Angel’s divine power to destroy the Scale Clan fleet, then returned the Divine Statue to the church headquarters. His display of power left Osborn eager to approach the Divine Son of Slaughter, while Benedict and the other church leaders awaited Derek’s attention.

• Derek sent the Divine Statue into space and invoked Fall, surrounding the Scale Clan fleet with a gray divine domain.
• Derek’s power decayed warships, disrupted machines, and awakened fallen thoughts among the soldiers as he tested how divine power could grow.
• Derek intensified Fall until the fleet and its surviving soldiers were destroyed, then descended toward the church headquarters.
• Derek destroyed the surveillance cameras as a warning, and Osborn reacted by ordering Fallen Angel statues placed throughout his home.
• Osborn decided to seek an opportunity to approach the Divine Son of Slaughter, while Benedict and the other church leaders bowed their heads before Derek.

Derek rewarded Benedict, Bax, and Flesh Mountain with Holy Power for expanding the Fallen Angel’s faith, setting them on the path to sainthood. Benedict used the deity’s descent to rally believers and reshape the Scale Clan Civilization, while Gwen finally noticed the waiting Osborn.

• Derek dismissed the others, spoke privately with Benedict, Bax, and Flesh Mountain, and granted each Holy Power.
• Benedict, Bax, and Flesh Mountain thanked Derek and left the divine domain after he withdrew.
• Benedict told the crowd that the Fallen Angel had descended, then announced the deity’s grace and new church policies.
• Believers flocked to the church headquarters as spacecraft from the Evolver Management Bureau cleared away the conspiracy’s remnants.
• Osborn waited outside Gwen’s door until she finally noticed him.

Gwen rejected Osborn’s attempt to secure special support for the Mixed-Blood Scalekin, though he still chose to believe in her. A Deity Data Panel then appeared, and Gwen and her siblings explored its features as Derek rapidly updated it.

• Gwen connected with Osborn through her divine power, and he pledged the Mixed-Blood Scalekin’s faith to her.
• Gwen accepted their faith but refused to offer special support, telling Osborn there were many other civilizations and pastures available.
• A notification prompted Gwen to open the new Deity Data Panel, which displayed her divinity and other information.
• Gwen messaged her siblings about the Panel, and Qin ranked first on its new Demigod Leaderboard while Gwen ranked fifth.
• Qin asked Derek for a Do Not Disturb feature, and Derek patched the Panel as his children’s use of it supplied data for further improvements.

Derek created a stripped-down Saint Panel that let saints communicate, and Elf used a Holy Power Panel to settle her debt to Franz. With the new Panels inspiring competition, Elf began conquering a civilization and building faith, leaving its first believer transformed by her sacred power.

• Elf asked Derek whether the Panel could be assigned to saints, and he created a stripped-down Saint Panel while adding a Holy Power option to the Deity Data Panel.
• Elf offered Franz a Holy Power Panel in place of the money she owed him, and he accepted and agreed that their debt was settled.
• The Panel spread through House Augusta and its subordinate saints, inspiring Elf and the others to compete through rankings.
• Elf attacked a civilization with her Angel Armament and divine power, declaring it her promised land and beginning to establish her faith there.
• Elf drew the civilization's first believer into her divine domain, explained her power, and made him evolve before sending him back.

Elf reached the limit of demigodhood as the God of Combat, and Derek forged his combat divinity into a Divinity Core. He transferred the Core’s power to Elf, leaving her with an independent divine authority, which she began using to sense prayers and communications.

• Elf’s followers gained evolved abilities as wars and other trials rapidly spread faith and increased the gods’ power.
• Elf accumulated ninety-nine strands of divinity, reaching the limit of demigodhood as the God of Combat.
• Derek gathered combat divinity and broke through, creating a Divinity Core with its own Deity Data Panel.
• Derek severed his connection to the Core, and Elf fused with it, gaining complete divine power and an independent Panel.
• Elf used her new authority to detect Fissman hosting Slaughter Games and praying when Gwen arrived to absorb slaughter power.

Elf became a god of combat with Derek's help, then showed off her new status to Gwen and the rest of the family. As the Augusta Family's divine order expanded and its gods prepared to explore the universe, Gwen sensed an unfamiliar spacecraft whose crew had arrived to investigate damaged Interstellar Passages.

• Elf descended before Gwen, revealed she had become a god, and granted Fissman permission to return to Gwen's side with a strand of sacred combat power.
• Elf teased Gwen about her slower progress, visited her siblings to show off, and blocked their messages on the Panel.
• Derek questioned Elf about her new divine senses, confirmed that she was mentally unharmed, and began granting Divinity Cores to family members who reached their divinity limits.
• Derek claimed blank divine domains while the Augusta Family's gods divided civilizations among themselves, and the number of saints grew as Interstellar Passages connected more civilizations.
• A human spacecraft emerged from the void to investigate damaged Interstellar Passages, and Gwen detected the outsiders as soon as they arrived.

Gwen discovered a spatial anomaly and encountered Galaxy Civilization, whose forces soon faced the Augusta Pantheon. After conflict and internal upheaval, Derek and Galaxy Civilization formed a new civilization, and Derek became the supreme god of the universe.

• Gwen appeared before a Galaxy Civilization spacecraft, seized it, and learned about the civilization by invading its crew’s minds.
• Gwen summoned the Augusta Pantheon, and Galaxy Civilization’s cleanup fleet arrived to find a multitude of divine incarnations.
• The cleanup fleet attacked the incarnations with High-Energy Annihilation Bombs, but their divine rules nullified the assault.
• Galaxy Civilization mobilized against the pantheon, then suffered a growing religious conversion as the Augusta Pantheon spread its faith.
• Derek anticipated an attempt to summon foreign gods, and the Augusta Pantheon compromised with Galaxy Civilization to build a new civilization.
• Derek learned the multiverse’s true nature and declared himself the supreme, omniscient, omnipotent Lord Augusta.