Chapter Summaries

Prince Ilida visited Xiluria to ask him to return to Kuma and inherit the throne after the king died. Though Xiluria understood that Kuma wanted the Crimson King Beast’s power, he decided to return with Talina.

• Ilida arrived at Xiluria’s estate, explained that Kuma needed him, and threatened to take him back by force when Xiluria refused.
• Xiluria blocked Ilida’s strike and showed that he had reached the Eighth Tier, while Ilida revealed that the king had died.
• Xiluria told Talina that the king had died and that Ilida wanted him to inherit the throne, and he reflected on his fading resentment toward Kuma and his father.
• The next morning, Xiluria and Talina left the estate and met Ilida, who was waiting for them.

Arthur awakened after a long slumber, transformed by the Calamity Beast bloodlines he had consumed and gaining a greater affinity with the mist. Realizing that his bloodline was nearing assimilation, he sensed a Demon Wolf descendant nearby and set out to replenish his strength.

• Arthur emerged from underground as a huge black-and-red beast, breaking the witch formations that had concealed and contained the mountain range.
• Arthur realized that consuming too many Calamity Beast bloodlines had begun to assimilate his own bloodline and warned that taking in another source could cause a dangerous rejection.
• Arthur absorbed the mist around the mountains, strengthening himself and discovering that he could draw its power into his body intact.
• Arthur followed the pull of his Demon Wolf curse toward a rampaging Demon Wolf descendant, intending to restore his strength by hunting Calamity Beasts.

Arthur crossed paths with a city threatened by a vast horde of demon wolves and destroyed the beasts before continuing his journey. Still weakened after his transformation, he discovered that the fear and reverence people felt toward him formed mental echoes he could use to affect them.

• An elderly commander on the city wall prepared to fight the approaching demon wolf horde and buy time for the townspeople to evacuate.
• Arthur emerged from the fog, and his immense presence halted the wolves and stunned everyone watching.
• Arthur killed the thousands of weaker demon wolves and consumed a powerful descendant of the Demon Wolf God, then continued past the city.
• Arthur reflected that clearing thirty-seven beast tides had not restored his strength after his transformation and the drain from his contract with Talina.
• Arthur examined an echo from a praying guard and realized he could use their fragile mental connection to influence or send energy to the guard.

Arthur experimented with fear power, then spent several months traveling through the mist and devouring Calamity Beasts. When he met Siria and Iley, he accepted their map of beast hordes and continued on without them.

• Arthur found that soothing a guard's fear broke their mental connection, while intensifying another man's terror strengthened it and yielded more fear power.
• Arthur concluded that fear power was easier to obtain than Soul Power but dangerous to absorb because of its emotional impurities.
• Over several months, Arthur traveled toward the Kuma Kingdom and devoured Calamity Beasts, prompting people in the borderlands to worship him as the Gluttony Demon God.
• Arthur sensed that someone connected to him was waiting ahead and reached a town where Siria and Iley had gathered to meet him.
• Iley offered Arthur a map marking Calamity Beast hordes, and Arthur memorized it before leaving without speaking to Siria and the others.

Arthur continued devouring Calamity Beasts as the Demon Disaster waned, then headed into the mist to face the awakening Demon Wolf God, Yariandora. As Yariandora gathered strength for their coming confrontation, people learned that Arthur might be challenging a Demon God.

• Arthur crushed a demon wolf with a single blow, absorbed its power, and continued toward his next target.
• Over the following months, Calamity Beasts dwindled as the Gluttonous Demon God appeared across the world and devoured them.
• Arthur traveled deeper into the mist, where the Demon Wolf God, Yariandora, awakened and drained nearby Calamity Beasts to restore his strength.
• Talina reported that Arthur was heading toward Yariandora's sleeping place, prompting Xiluria and Ilida to suspect he would challenge the Demon God.
• Iley heard Siria's account and marveled that someone might finally confront a Demon God.

As Arthur and the Demon Wolf God recovered in opposite parts of the Misty Region, their clashing auras devastated the land. Arthur judged that the weakened, prematurely awakened Demon Wolf was vulnerable, advanced north, and launched the first attack, beginning their battle.

• Iley and Siria learned that Arthur remained in the south while the Demon Wolf God stayed in the north, and Talina explained that both were recovering before fighting.
• Ilida observed that Arthur had nearly consumed the region’s force of calamity, signaling that he would soon make his move.
• Arthur finished absorbing the mist, assessed the Demon Wolf God’s age and weakened state, and began marching north.
• Arthur’s advancing aura challenged the Demon Wolf God, who accelerated his own recovery as they approached each other.
• Arthur confronted Yariandora and struck first, and the Demon Wolf God answered with a lethal attack as their battle began.

Arthur fought the Demon Wolf God, who broke his seal and burned his life force to reach near-peak Fourth Order strength. As the battle continued, Arthur saw a memory of the Demon Wolf God as a young wolf.

• Arthur used the power of the Calamity Beasts he had devoured to absorb the mist and resist the Demon Wolf God's advantage on the battlefield.
• The Demon Wolf God opened his three pairs of eyes, unleashing sealed power that brought his strength close to the Crimson King's level.
• The Demon Wolf God's attack shattered Arthur's scales and defenses, but Arthur released the blood energy of his Bloodline Seed to heal and repel the destructive force.
• Arthur recognized that the Demon Wolf God was burning his dwindling life force, while the Demon Wolf God vowed to kill and devour him to replenish it.
• Arthur and the Demon Wolf God clashed again, and their struggle revealed a memory of a thin black wolf beside a stream with a frail wolf pup following it.

Arthur uncovered the Demon Wolf God's humble origins during their battle, then fought back with Silver Glory as the Demon Wolf's strength fluctuated. Both beasts suffered grave injuries, but the Demon Wolf God emerged in worse condition, with cracks spreading across his body.

• Arthur probed the Demon Wolf God's memories and saw that he had once been a frail, ordinary wolf who wandered into an altar where a corpse lay in a crystal coffin.
• The Demon Wolf God sensed Arthur's intrusion and attacked, forcing Arthur to retreat mentally and transform into a primal beast.
• Siria and the others watched the battle from afar as Ilida noted the Demon Wolf God's unstable aura, while Talina reassured Xiluria that Arthur was not near defeat.
• Arthur gathered elemental particles and unleashed Silver Glory, striking the Demon Wolf God after the beast chose to face the attack rather than retreat.
• The collision hurled both beasts apart, but Arthur's Bloodline Seed helped heal him while black blood spilled from the Demon Wolf God and cracks spread across his body.

Adil defeated the Demon Wolf God and began absorbing its power, draining disaster energy from vast misty regions. Half a month later, Talina, her father King Guluo, and their allies entered the Demon Wolf God’s ruins and discovered they belonged to the ancient Ten Star Cult of the First Era.

• Adil survived the battle and killed the Demon Wolf God, though his body and essence were severely damaged.
• Adil began devouring the Demon Wolf God’s bloodline, drawing disaster power from distant misty territories and turning them back into ordinary land.
• Talina told Xiluria and the others that Adil had won, while Ilida considered reclaiming the newly cleared territory.
• Half a month later, Talina met her father, King Guluo, at the ruins alongside Xiluria’s party and the Yarian remnants led by Iley and Siria.
• The groups left guards at the entrance and followed King Guluo’s map underground to a doorway marked by a lion-bodied, human-faced statue.
• King Guluo identified the ruins as belonging to the Ten Star Cult, an organization from the legendary First Era.

King Guluo led the group into the Ten Star Cult ruins, where they uncovered records explaining the origins of the Bloodline Contract and the Mist. The inscriptions ended after describing the Ten Star Empire’s abandonment of its ancestral land, leaving the group with the revelation that the Mist came from a decaying God Corpse.

• King Guluo explained that the ruins held the truth about the First Era, the Mist, and the Demon Gods, then led the group inside.
• Xiluria discovered murals about cultivating Bloodline Warriors and a First Era Sphinx Beast egg that could no longer be hatched.
• At the final stone slab, Talina read that a giant corpse had fallen from the sky and was worshiped by the people of the First Era.
• Talina explained that the God Corpse gave people the power to connect with Demonic Beasts and form contracts, helping them establish the Ten Star Empire.
• Talina read that the God Corpse decayed into black fluid that became the Mist, turning lands into Demonic Domains and forcing the Ten Star Empire to abandon its ancestral land.

The murals led King Guluo to believe the God Corpse was the source of the world’s calamities, but Talina and Xiluria warned him against seeking it. More than eight hundred years later, the weakened Prince Kadan reached the Dila Mountain Range and prepared to perform a Blood Sacrifice to awaken the sleeping Gluttony Demon God Arthur.

• The murals showed beasts, including the Eight Demon Gods, devouring the God Corpse, and King Guluo concluded it was the source of the world’s powers and calamities.
• King Guluo announced that he would search for the God Corpse, but Talina and Xiluria cautioned him and Xiluria said he would rather wait for Arthur to awaken.
• The group searched the ruins and then withdrew to develop them, while Arthur’s transformation drew calamity power from the mist and caused mist-covered regions to disappear.
• The Kuma Kingdom, the Guro Empire, and the Arian Kingdom expanded into the newly revealed lands, and more than eight hundred years passed.
• Prince Kadan and his companions reached the Dila Mountain Range, where the old man urged him to perform a Blood Sacrifice to awaken Arthur.
• Kadan agreed that the ritual was worth attempting, since his contracted beast was dead and he expected to die soon anyway.

Kadan approached the Gluttony Demon God's altar to undergo Blood Sacrifice, but a beautiful woman named Talina appeared and stopped the altar from draining him. She identified herself as a contract holder and Kadan's ancestor, leaving him bewildered.

• Kadan found the burial ground where generations of Arian Royal Family members who had died through Blood Sacrifice were laid to rest.
• Kadan approached the golden crystal on the altar and felt it draining his life force and Soul Power.
• A young woman arrived and stepped onto the altar without being harmed, causing the Blood Sacrifice's pressure on Kadan to disappear.
• Talina explained that the Red King's flesh and blood would not harm a contract holder and asked why Kadan had come.
• Talina introduced herself and told Kadan that he might have to call her his ancestor.

Arthur awoke after more than eight hundred years in a golden coffin, where Talina revealed him to Kadan, who had hoped to awaken the Gluttony Demon God to save the fallen Arian Kingdom. Arthur restored Kadan’s ruined body, then learned from Ilida that preparations were ready while he continued recovering from flaws in the Bloodline Secret Tome.

• Kadan told Talina that the Arian Kingdom had fallen into civil strife and that he hoped to awaken the Gluttony Demon God through a Blood Sacrifice.
• Talina led Kadan to a golden coffin in a cave, where Arthur awoke and identified Kadan as a descendant of Xiluria.
• Arthur’s blood energy healed Kadan’s damaged body, and Arthur ordered him to leave the cave.
• Ilida returned and told Arthur that preparations were in place, with Xiluria overseeing matters in Kuma.
• After Talina and Ilida left, Arthur recalled that flaws in the Bloodline Secret Tome had nearly left him unconscious for more than eight hundred years.

After defeating the Serpent God and unifying the human nations under his rule, Arthur set out alone into the mist to seek the God Corpse, which he believed could help him advance beyond the Fourth Order. He left Talina and the others in charge of the empire, determined to continue despite the dangers and the loss of those who had not survived to see his return.

• Arthur learned that the God Corpse had corrupted the world and sensed it calling to the bloodline he had inherited from the Demon Wolf God.
• Years later, Arthur killed the Serpent God, the fourth Demon God he had defeated, while Talina, Ilida, and the others watched.
• Arthur said that the Demon Disaster was not truly over because the other Demon God remains and the God Corpse had not yet been dealt with.
• Talina and the others failed to find the last two Demon God corpses, but unified the human nations under Arthur's rule.
• Arthur told Talina and Ilida to govern the empire while he entered the mist alone, and reflected that Iley and Siria had died before his revival.

Arthur entered a strange living space deep within the mist, where the World Consciousness awakened and lent him its Source Power. After breaking through the space’s forceful resistance, he sensed that his destination lay at its center.

• Arthur felt the World Consciousness awaken and pour its Source Power into him as he walked through the dark, lifeless mist.
• Arthur realized the World Consciousness had been gravely wounded by the God Corpse and that its power would aid him in facing it.
• Arthur reached a separate space filled with unusual plants and creatures, but his arrival caused them to freeze and flee.
• Arthur endured the space’s pressure and recognized that its living beings carried a pure trait resembling the Demon God's bloodline.
• Arthur sensed that the center of the space was his destination and continued walking toward it.

Arthur reached the golden coffin at the altar and opened it, discovering a colossal golden skeleton covered in markings of calamity power. After his ordinary attack failed to harm it, he entered the coffin and prepared to act using his Bloodline Seed.

• Arthur followed traces of the past up the altar, and the World Consciousness helped him resist the laws guarding the golden coffin.
• Arthur opened the coffin, endured a terrifying aura that he sensed was related to Soul Power, and used his purple Ability Imprint to see through a golden illusion.
• Arthur saw that the God Corpse was a giant golden skeleton covered in black markings and recognized them as calamity power eroding the remains.
• Arthur struck the skeleton with elemental power, but the attack vanished without harming it, while the corpse's power appeared to grow stronger.
• Arthur entered the coffin and studied the nearly powerless but still imposing skeleton, then stepped forward as his Bloodline Seed began to shine.

Arthur used World Power as World Fire to temper himself and absorb the golden God Corpse, gaining its divine laws and a glimpse of its past. He emerged with immense power reaching beyond the fourth level and concluded that the corpse had been completely dead for ages.

• Arthur severed this clone's connection to his true body and began tempering himself with the God Corpse using World Fire.
• Arthur's Bloodline Seed absorbed the God Corpse's broken divine laws as its golden chains were burned apart.
• Arthur glimpsed memories of a towering divine figure struck down by a silver spear, then stopped probing the corpse's past as the vision drained his mental power.
• The God Corpse vanished into the Bloodline Seed, and World Fire formed a new body from golden divine power and calamity.
• Arthur emerged after only a few years with immense power and a pulse of a realm beyond the fourth level, then reasoned that the God Corpse had been completely dead since its defeat by a stronger being.

Arthur returned from the world where he had refined the God Corpse, leaving the Falkus Empire at peace, and reunited with Solana and Gloria in the Wizard World. He agreed to let Solana attempt advancement and prepared to use the unstable wizard formation despite its risks.

• Arthur gained the World of Gods coordinate and reached the Fifth Order bloodline threshold, but found that the incomplete Gudola Secret Codex offered no path beyond it.
• Arthur founded the Falkus Empire, unified the human nations, and later entered the mist; the mist dissipated and the world's calamity faded.
• Arthur returned to the Wizard World after decades had passed there, with his experiences from the other world vivid in his memories.
• Solana told Arthur she was ready to attempt advancement to become a Level 3 Wizard, and he approved and gave her a silver seal for protection.
• Gloria told Arthur the reconstructed wizard formation remained unstable, but Arthur said they could not wait and assured her he had a way to handle the risks.

Arthur activated the newly completed teleportation array, used his Transmigration Ability to stabilize it, and arrived safely in a wilderness after spending 300,000 units of World Energy. Half a month later, he explored a modern city in the High Domain and began reading its newspapers.

• Arthur ordered Kular to activate the untested teleportation array and entered the golden spatial gate.
• When the array began to collapse mid-transit, Arthur burned Source Power to correct the space, elements, array, and coordinates, stabilizing the teleportation.
• Arthur arrived in a desolate wilderness and realized the teleportation had cost him 300,000 units of World Energy.
• After half a month, Arthur reached a bustling modern city where he sensed people with varying levels of spiritual power.
• Arthur entered a library and read news about a magic stone deposit in southern Chrisu and the Emerald Tower's plans to expand into thirty-seven worlds.

Adil witnessed a violent attack in the plaza, subdued two assailants, and used the Moon God's power to save a gravely wounded boy. After sensing that the attack was a diversion from a conflict at a Wizard Tower, he returned to his inn, where a young man came to see him the next day.

• A black horned horse and black-clad attackers rampaged through the plaza as a Magnetic Storm struck, killing and injuring civilians.
• Adil defeated and subdued two attackers who charged into the library, then found Mechanical Police had contained the wider attack outside.
• Adil healed a boy with a devastating chest wound using the Moon God's power and helped the injured until the plaza was under control.
• Adil sensed a magical battle inside a distant Wizard Tower and suspected the plaza attack had served as a diversion, but chose to return to his inn.
• The inn's receptionist told Adil that a notorious Blood Wizard gang had attacked several cities, and he advised her to stay indoors.
• The next day, a tall young man arrived at Adil's room, and Adil opened the door for him.