Chapter Summaries

Lela and Shrim weighed the opportunities a war might bring and prepared to stockpile supplies, while Captain Qimu tried to recruit them for his team. After they declined, Qimu reopened a quest to collect unusual materials, and Lela and Shrim explored the potions Arthur had put on sale in his attic.

• Lela and Shrim discussed the potential benefits of a war between Xisili City and Soang Territory, and Lela told their merchant-association members to buy and stockpile grain and other supplies.
• Captain Qimu asked Lela and Shrim to join his team, but they avoided giving him a direct answer and preferred to remain independent.
• Qimu left after saying they could approach him later, then ordered his team to reopen the collection quest for unusual materials.
• Qimu explained that Prince Xiso's collection effort appeared to build a database and might support his potion-making.
• Lela and Shrim inspected the Azure Potions and saw that access to Arthur's attic shop required official status and that its wares were too expensive for most players.

Arthur examined the Ancient Jade and concluded that the Ancient King it came from had likely died, while his own Crimson Bloodline had awakened to extraordinary strength. After confirming that preparations for war were nearly complete, he set the departure for two months later.

• Arthur inspected the materials collected by players and checked the Ancient Jade, which was recovering its vitality and releasing spiritual energy.
• Arthur inferred that the Ancient King whose flesh formed the jade had probably died, since the flesh was beginning to revive independently.
• Arthur revealed his fully awakened Crimson Bloodline, which could make him rival the legendary Children of the Ancients and potentially reach the Ninth Order.
• Arthur decided the Crimson Bloodline would be of little use to him and dismissed the idea of using it to empower players, wary that an Ancient King might influence them.
• Ruxiu and Qimu reported that troops, provisions, and supply channels were ready, and Arthur ordered them to set out in two months, prompting Ruxiu to question the schedule.

Qimu persuaded Arthur to attack Soang Territory before it could recover from rebellion, famine, and war, and Arthur ordered the army to march in two months. As the campaign began, Qimu brought Arthur three Soang nobles and merchants who offered their help against the Soang Marquis.

• Ruxiu urged Arthur to delay the war for six months, but Qimu argued that Soang Territory was vulnerable and that waiting would give it time to recover.
• Arthur rejected Ruxiu’s request and decided that the army would march in two months.
• Two months later, Qimu brought three people from Soang Territory to meet Arthur and offered their assistance.
• Qimu introduced Bila, who commanded a five-hundred-man Knight Order, and Soang, a knight and renowned poet.
• Qimu introduced Vivian, whose company had supplied grain to the rebels, and said many others in Soang Territory wanted Arthur to overthrow the Soang Marquis.

Adiel met three player leaders from the Soang Territory and offered them Intermediate Azure Potions as an advance reward for helping pacify the region. As players gathered around Prince Xiso’s growing influence, Alice revealed that someone was already plotting to deliver the Soang Marquis’s head to him.

• Adiel welcomed Qimu, Soang, and Vivian, who had built military, noble, and trading influence in the Soang Territory.
• Soang noticed that one of Adiel’s maids was also a player, highlighting how deeply players had infiltrated the region.
• Adiel gave each of the three visitors an Intermediate Azure Potion as an advance reward for their service.
• Lela and Shrim discussed the potions’ value and the players’ plans to gain Prince Xiso’s favor.
• Alice told Lela and Shrim that someone was already planning to bring Prince Xiso the Soang Marquis’s head.

Arthur’s new quest for players to help the Child of the World unify the Creation World unexpectedly connected him to the World Consciousness. He discovered that the connection was feeding him World Origin, a sign that the Creation World was nearing collapse as it was devoured by the players’ real world.

• Alice told Lela that someone had nearly succeeded in assassinating the Soang Marquis, who had been bedridden for months.
• Arthur promised the players a reward for their service, and the system announced the quest to help the Child of the World unify the Creation World, with the Knight Seed as its reward.
• The players reacted with shock and reverence, and Arthur sent them out of the tent with Qimu.
• Alone, Arthur realized the quest had formed a connection to the World Consciousness without costing World Energy and had instead increased his power.
• Arthur sensed World Origin flowing into him, awakened his Moon Elf features, and concluded that the Creation World was losing control of its origin as it neared collapse.

Arthur changed his plans to train the players and spent a month taking control of Soang Territory with almost no resistance. Back in Xisili City, he began creating Knight Seeds for a small group of high-performing players, leaving them with the means to awaken their Life Seeds.

• Arthur decided to train the players so he could receive more of the world's legacy through them.
• Bila defected with five hundred knights, the Soang Marquis was assassinated, and Prince Xiso entered Soang City as local forces opened its gates.
• The marquis's eldest son was killed by his own subordinates, and a fire ruined the rebels' food supply before they were defeated.
• Arthur took control of all Soang Territory within a month, then returned to Xisili City with a larger army.
• Arthur used a pale-blue crystal to give Lela and the other selected players Knight Seeds, which could help them awaken their Life Seeds.

Three months after spreading knighthood, Arthur’s training system had steadily increased the World Origin flowing to him. As he studied the Soang bloodline alongside the Ancient King's remains, he left his next discovery unresolved.

• Arthur reviewed his improved status and concluded that teaching players knighthood had earned the World Consciousness's favor and accelerated the flow of the Origin.
• He watched a dozen talented players train in the foundational Arthur Breathing Technique and predicted that one might awaken a Life Seed in three months.
• Arthur observed threads linking the players to him and expected the World Consciousness's favor to increase when someone awakened a Seed of Life.
• Arthur inspected the Ancient King's flesh, which had regained vitality under his protective formation, and noted that it would not revive while in his care.
• Arthur compared the purple-glowing Soang blood with the Ancient King's flesh and concluded that the Soang people shared the bloodline, though it had become impure over generations.

Arthur traced the decline of the Soang royal bloodline to the fall of its source and prepared purified royal blood for dealing with the family’s remaining title and privileges. Meanwhile, a herald announced a highly selective recruitment in Xisili City, leaving the players to wonder what position required such unusual qualifications.

• Arthur concluded that the Soang royal bloodline had weakened after its source fell and that intermarriage had further diluted it over generations.
• Arthur noted that he had annexed the Soang Territory and brought the Soang royal family under his control, while their Marquis title and privileges remained recognized by the Karad Empire.
• Arthur picked up the bottle of purified Soang royal blood he had prepared to manage the consequences of the family’s title and succession claims.
• A herald from Lela’s Founding Association addressed a crowd of players eager to join Prince Xiso’s ranks and clarified that the recruitment was not for constables.
• The herald announced that the position was for one tall, handsome candidate fluent in Karad and Soang, skilled in noble etiquette, and knowledgeable about Aierka State and Karad Empire history.

Prince Xiso's recruitment offered a baptism to candidates with good looks, manners, and knowledge, prompting Shrim and Lela to suspect it was tied to the Soang royal family. Arthur accompanied Qimu to search for a vanished ruin, but the site remained missing despite months of effort.

• The herald announced that Prince Xiso's recruitment would last two months and reward selected candidates with an audience and a baptism.
• Shrim and Lela discussed the requirements, the empire's likely response to the annexation of Soang Territory, and their belief that Arthur would prevail.
• Lela told Shrim that Qimu had been investigating something connected to a ruin.
• Arthur, Ruxiu, and Qimu visited the supposed ruin site, where Ruxiu complained about the fruitless search.
• Qimu explained that the ruin where he had found the black flesh had vanished, leaving no trace of its entrance.

Arthur awakened the black Ancient Jade and used his bloodline as the Child of Crimson to reveal the entrance to the ruins. The stone wall opened into a dark passage, and Arthur led his companions to the threshold.

• Arthur’s Ancient Jade awakened, stirring powerful emotions in Qimu and the others until a sharp sound brought them back to their senses.
• Arthur recognized the surroundings as the ruins’ location and led Ruxiu, Qimu, and the players to a stone wall, where they remembered having been before.
• Arthur transformed into the Child of Crimson, shocking Ruxiu, who realized that only descendants with the purest royal bloodlines could assume that form.
• Arthur’s bloodline power illuminated the wall, revealing an image of a purple-haired woman with a scorpion tail.
• The woman’s eyes opened, the Ancient Jade resonated with her, and the wall melted away to reveal a passage into the ruins.

Adil led Ruxiu and Qimu into ancient ruins connected to the Soang royal family, where murals revealed true records of powerful beings. One mural recounted the Purple Woman’s rise to become a Primordial Ancestor, and Ruxiu began to explain that the royal descendants shown there were absent from known records.

• Adil refused Ruxiu and Qimu’s offer to send scouts ahead and entered the ruins, warning that even Qimu might not be able to escape.
• Qimu and Ruxiu sensed a terrifying presence within the cave, while Adil’s aura repelled the force surrounding them.
• Adil illuminated a vast hall lined with murals, and Qimu was drawn into a vision of a dying Demonic Beast before Adil’s warning and power dispelled the effect.
• Adil explained that the murals recorded real lives and studied the Purple Woman’s story of gaining supernatural power, defeating bloodline descendants, and becoming a Primordial Ancestor.
• Adil wondered why the Purple Woman’s history had been erased, and Ruxiu said the Royal Descendants in the murals were never mentioned in any records.

Arthur and his companions explored a temple lined with murals and the remains of powerful Royal Descendants. After they collected the corpse of a long-lost High Priest, a faint pressure emerged ahead, where they discovered a massive corpse.

• Arthur studied murals depicting vanished Royal Descendants and strange creatures before leading the group deeper into the temple.
• Ruxiu found that a skeleton could withstand his enchanted sword and identified the remains as those of at least Fourth Order Royal Descendants.
• Ruxiu recognized one corpse as Ailansilia, the third High Priest of Ximoluo Kingdom, who had disappeared seven hundred years earlier.
• Arthur ordered the Royal Descendant's remains collected, and Qimu's men packed the body into a sack.
• Arthur and the others continued past many more Royal Descendant corpses until a faint pressure appeared and they saw a massive corpse ahead.

Arthur discovered a massive corpse belonging to a third-level bloodline descendant and found that contact with his Ancient Jade revealed the dispersing Origin of a fallen Ancient King. He touched the purple Origin and sank into its memories and insights.

• Qimu and the others saw an enormous, intact corpse whose lingering majesty nearly overwhelmed them.
• Arthur identified the corpse as a third-level bloodline descendant and wondered how it had died in the temple.
• Arthur touched the corpse and released the seal on a piece of black Ancient Jade, causing the corpse to crack apart and expose a purple Origin.
• Arthur recognized the dispersing purple crystal as the Origin of a fallen Ancient King and reached for it.
• Arthur touched the Origin, and his silver Origin resonated with it as he became immersed in its fragmented memories and insights.

Arthur encountered a living clone of a powerful purple-haired woman, who revealed she had waited for a future possibility and urged him to grow stronger before their eventual meeting. He received coordinates to the Progenitor World, but discovered they carried a growing summons that could eventually force him to go there.

• Arthur awoke in a vision of a withered forest filled with scorpions, where a purple-haired girl emerged and addressed him as someone she had been waiting for.
• The girl explained that she had created a clone to await a future possibility and said her true self was in another Great World.
• Arthur sensed that the girl was at least Level Five before the vision shattered and disappeared.
• A violet coordinate flew into Arthur and revealed the immense Progenitor World, which Arthur sensed was stronger than the Wizard World.
• Ruxiu and the others asked Arthur what was wrong, and Arthur noticed the coordinate was exerting a growing summons on him.
• Arthur realized the summons might eventually compel him to visit the Progenitor World and suspected the girl had arranged it deliberately.

Arthur realized the Ancient King was an avatar of a powerful being from another world that had planned for his arrival, and the growing pull from its coordinates meant he would eventually be dragged there. In the real world, strange disturbances revealed that World Integration had begun, with thirty-three days remaining on the countdown.

• Arthur told Ruxiu and the others to gather supplies and leave, while wondering why the powerful being from another world had prepared for him.
• Lela and Shrim emerged from their game pods and discussed how weak their real-world bodies felt compared with their enhanced bodies in the game.
• An explosion, tremors, flickering devices, and screams shook the area around Lela and Shrim as monstrous black birds crossed the distant sky.
• Lela sensed an approaching danger, but the premonition faded after the birds disappeared.
• Researchers at a base detected the start of World Integration and announced that thirty-three days remained until the countdown reached zero.
• A middle-aged man angrily reacted to the announcement as a woman urged him to stay calm and finish anything he might regret leaving undone.

Lela and Shrim’s shelter was breached by giant insects, leaving them trapped in a desperate fight for survival. In another world, Arthur sensed a connection across worlds as Ruxiu warned him about the mass unconsciousness of players.

• Lela endured the disasters and repeated monster attacks alongside Shrim and other refugees in a fortified shelter.
• After several hundred people vanished from training, giant insects broke into the shelter and sent the crowd fleeing.
• Lela and Shrim found the exits blocked, grabbed iron rods, and charged toward the insects.
• Ruxiu told Arthur that half of Xisili City’s residents had fallen unconscious after the players’ connection to their world was severed.
• Arthur sensed something unusual, turned his eyes silver, and looked through the barrier between worlds.

Arthur sensed Lela’s danger through the mark he had placed on him and arrived in the real world, where monsters were attacking a refuge. After destroying the monsters and healing Lela and Shrim, he faced a crowd of wounded survivors pleading for help.

• Arthur saw visions of the merging worlds and sensed that Lela was in mortal danger.
• Lela and Shrim fought off monsters until they were gravely wounded and close to death.
• Arthur appeared before them, froze the surrounding space, and burned the monsters to ash with his awakened bloodline power.
• Arthur healed Lela and Shrim, restoring their wounds and lost limbs.
• The survivors recognized Prince Xiso and crawled toward Arthur, begging him to save them.

Arthur healed the surviving people at the shelter, reinforced its gate with his Bloodline Mark, and watched the Creation World absorb a smaller world as disasters ravaged the present-day world. When survivors prayed to his mark for protection, Arthur sent power toward the shelter.

• Arthur used his bloodline power to heal the living at the shelter and restore its shattered gate as a magical barrier, then left.
• Arthur observed the Creation World, the present-day world, and a smaller world caught between them, which broke apart and was absorbed five days later.
• Ten days afterward, uncontrolled tsunamis, earthquakes, and meteorites devastated the present-day world, killing more than a hundred million living beings.
• Arthur concluded that a Level Four being could not stop the worlds' struggle, while he heard the suffering and prayers of survivors below.
• Survivors gathered at the shelter prayed to Arthur's blessed gate, and he sent power through its crimson mark as it began to shine.

Arthur protected the shelter as the world disintegrated, and its final blessing returned accumulated World Power to its inhabitants. As violet fragments of World Origin scattered, one merged with Arthur and greatly strengthened his Origin.

• Arthur's crimson barrier protected Lela, Shrim, and the shelter as the collapsing world split apart.
• The World Consciousness died as the world was subsumed, and crimson rain returned the world's accumulated World Power to its inhabitants.
• Arthur explained that the survivors could benefit from the world's final blessing but would face hostility from the new world's consciousness and pressure on their descendants.
• A violet fragment of World Origin merged with Arthur, rapidly increasing his power and advancing his Origin.
• Countless more violet fragments scattered across the world.

Arthur watched the World Origin disperse to worthy recipients, then returned to his body and found the Creation World growing more vibrant after devouring two worlds. He resisted a summons from the reviving Crimson King and anticipated that the recovering world would soon become a battlefield for the Ancient Kings.

• Arthur watched fragments of the World Origin reach Lela and Shrim before his projection returned to his body.
• Arthur sensed that the Creation World’s World Particles had become more active and would grow denser as it digested the two devoured worlds.
• A call from the Crimson King stirred Arthur’s bloodline, but Arthur used his Origin to suppress it and sever the connection.
• Arthur realized that King Kurid could also sense the Crimson King’s revival and wondered what the other Ancient Kings were doing.
• Arthur checked his improved stats and reflected that the world-devouring had brought him extraordinary gains.
• Arthur foresaw that the recovering world would soon become a battlefield as the Ancient Kings emerged to claim its rewards.