Chapter Summaries

Lan Mu’s Sapphire withstood the US military’s attacks before he descended into the Bermuda Trench. Convinced the craft might be alien or prehistoric technology, scientists led by Hawking urged the government to investigate, and Hawking proposed detonating an atomic bomb in the trench.

• The US military attacked Lan Mu’s Sapphire with weapons ranging from missiles to lasers, but its shield repelled every assault.
• US commanders concluded the craft was not made by any country and withdrew their forces, ordering reconnaissance vessels to track it without attacking.
• Lan Mu continued to Bermuda and dove into the deep sea, leaving the military unable to follow.
• Scientists and governments debated whether the Sapphire was alien or prehistoric technology, and Hawking joined an expedition to investigate it.
• Hawking proposed detonating an atomic bomb in the trench to map the inaccessible depths through the radiation it would release.

Lan Mu tested the Doom Pyramid with Remiel’s Accelerated Particle Cannon, but the pyramid remained unharmed as probes detected it on the seabed. Alarmed by the evidence of powerful weapons and convinced the target might retaliate, the newly formed Global Defense Council approved the USA’s plan for a united military deployment.

• Lan Mu arrived at the seabed, found the Doom Pyramid, and attacked it with Remiel’s Accelerated Particle Cannon, but it suffered no damage.
• Lan Mu allowed a probe to transmit distorted data that revealed the pyramid and the regular octahedral craft on the seabed.
• Scientists detected signs of powerful high-energy attacks and reported the findings to governments, heightening fears of an alien threat.
• Thirty-three hours after the craft appeared, nations established the Global Defense Council and secretly began mobilizing for war.
• The USA urged a united Atlantic deployment, Europe objected to treating the unknown target as an enemy, and the council ultimately approved the USA’s proposal.

Lan Mu rose from beneath the Atlantic and faced the gathered United Fleet, which attacked after misreading his transformation as a threat. He destroyed the fleet in seconds, leaving its crews alive in the water and the Global Defense Council stunned.

• Lan Mu waited beneath the Atlantic, wondering whether hidden science-made gods existed and whether they would appear if he revealed his power.
• The United Fleet gathered around Lan Mu as he rose from the sea, and its commanders tried unsuccessfully to communicate with him.
• Lan Mu transformed into an asterisk-like shape, and the fleet opened fire when it believed he was gathering energy.
• Lan Mu's Absolute Domain blocked the missiles and lasers, while Hawking warned that humanity's weapons could not match the enemy.
• Lan Mu fired particle streams that sank the fleet's ships one by one, and the crews abandoned ship as the attack continued.
• Lan Mu annihilated the United Fleet in 18.92 seconds, leaving its people afloat and the Global Defense Council silent.

Lan Mu destroyed the USA’s military forces and continued disarming countries around the world, while the Council struggled to understand how humanity could resist. Scientists concluded that the alien treated human weapons like stingers to be removed, leaving humanity on the brink of an era without military power.

• The Truth and scientists inferred that Lan Mu was disarming humanity and predicted that Norfolk Naval Base would be his next target.
• Lan Mu destroyed Norfolk Naval Base’s warships and coastal defenses, then erased the USA’s military forces, including hidden bases and weapons, in fifty-four minutes.
• As Lan Mu disarmed countries across the Americas, some members of the public began supporting his actions because he had caused no casualties and had destroyed nuclear weapons.
• The Council debated launching nuclear missiles, but scientists warned that they could not penetrate Lan Mu’s defenses and might only harm humans.
• Scientists told the Council that humanity had no way to break the deadlock and compared Lan Mu’s actions to a beekeeper removing a bee’s stinger.

With humanity unable to fight off an alien force, Hawking revealed that he had encountered the deceased scientist Hubble and believed eminent scientists became gods after death. He proposed testing the claim by dying, hoping Nobel and Schrödinger would come for him and that their powers could help humanity.

• Hawking argued that weapons could not breach the aliens’ protective barrier and suggested seeking help from another group.
• Hawking and a church deacon explained that Newton, Kepler, Einstein, and other scientists had studied theology after encounters with deceased scientific predecessors.
• Hawking revealed that Hubble had told him scientists of great achievement could become gods after death, and that Nobel and Schrödinger would come to receive him.
• The deacon confirmed that other prominent scientists had reported similar encounters, though the Church could not scientifically verify the afterlife claim.
• Hawking proposed using his death and his black-hole data model to test whether the scientists would appear, and urged the leaders to conceal the truth if necessary.

Lan Mu’s destruction of humanity’s weapons left Earth divided over whether to praise the aliens or prepare to resist, while the Council debated Hawking’s request to die in pursuit of an afterlife experiment. After Hawking died and his friend was arrested for helping him, a black hole appeared above Australia.

• Lan Mu destroyed the last arms factory and remained in the Australian wasteland as humanity’s factions argued over how to respond to the aliens.
• The Council held a third vote on granting Hawking euthanasia, but approval remained below forty percent, so Hawking left with his children and an old friend.
• Hawking persuaded the Science Church deacon to help him die, and the deacon injected him in a Council lounge.
• Agents found Hawking dead and arrested the deacon, who accepted blame while insisting he believed Hawking.
• The Council struggled over how to announce Hawking’s death when a report arrived that a black hole had appeared above Australia.

A growing Micro Black Hole appeared above Australia, prompting the council to argue over whether aliens or Hawking had created it. Tobias reported contact with the Blue White Society and proved he had mastered Trans-dimensional 2D Transmission Technology, leaving the council stunned by the possibility of instrument-free technology that manipulated natural laws.

• Spy satellites detected a slowly expanding Micro Black Hole above Australia, and the council examined footage of it.
• The executive argued that Hawking’s posthumous Divine Duty had created the black hole, while scientists favored an alien explanation.
• Tobias entered the council and claimed he had encountered a coalition of extraterrestrial civilizations and learned about the Blue White Society from a Drift Bottle.
• Tobias failed to summon a Nullifier, then successfully transmitted a table into the council hall using Trans-dimensional 2D Transmission Technology.
• The executive embraced Tobias and declared that the technology demonstrated how a civilization could manipulate natural laws without instruments.

Lan Mu fought Hawking, who had become a god capable of creating and controlling Micro Black Holes, while the Global Defense Council watched the battle over Australia. After Hawking’s black hole attacks failed to breach Lan Mu’s AT Field, Lan Mu revealed two more gods, Nobel and Schrödinger.

• Lan Mu detected a Micro Black Hole forming nearby and blasted it into the upper atmosphere before firing a Particle Cannon at it.
• Hawking appeared as a soul in his wheelchair and controlled the black hole, forcing Lan Mu to fight him directly.
• Lan Mu destroyed the Micro Black Hole, triggering an explosion that Hawking contained with an array of black holes.
• Hawking detonated two pseudo-black holes against Lan Mu’s AT Field, but Lan Mu remained unharmed.
• Lan Mu struck at empty space with his AT Field, revealing Nobel and Schrödinger as two more gods.

Lan Mu fought Hawking, Nobel, and Schrödinger, discovering that Schrödinger’s power could capture particles but could not counter the AT Field. As the scientists struggled to protect Earth, Schrödinger called for Newton to come out of seclusion.

• Lan Mu blasted Nobel and Schrödinger away after they arrived, while Hawking explained that the alien force field made humanity’s weapons useless.
• Nobel formed explosives from the surrounding elements and bombarded Lan Mu’s force field, but the attacks had no effect.
• Lan Mu’s particle cannon forced Hawking to keep creating black holes, and Schrödinger concealed the scientists inside a black curtain that captured the particle beams.
• Lan Mu struck the black curtain with his AT Field, injuring the three scientists and realizing Schrödinger’s power only worked on particles in the microscopic domain.
• Hawking proposed moving the battle to the Science Divine Kingdom, but Schrödinger refused to endanger it and told Nobel to summon Newton.

Lan Mu discovered the science gods’ hidden divine kingdom but stopped short of entering it, then returned to his undersea base. Newton and Maxwell joined the human council’s expedition to the pyramid, where Newton realized something impossible about the structure and urged Maxwell to attack it.

• Lan Mu pursued Nobel into space while Hawking and Schrödinger tried to stop him, then found the divine kingdom’s entrance and chose not to enter.
• The human council watched Lan Mu return to the Bermuda Trench and learned that Hawking and Schrödinger could not overcome his AT Field.
• Newton, Maxwell, Hawking, and Schrödinger met the council, and Newton used gravity to carry a research vessel down to the undersea pyramid.
• Maxwell found that the pyramid returned no electromagnetic information and seemed to be only seawater, while Newton stared at it in terror.
• Newton urged Maxwell to attack the pyramid and insisted that it could not be real.

Lan Mu concealed himself beneath the seafloor while Newton, Maxwell, and the Council investigated a pyramid that defied their powers and scientific understanding. As the group focused on the pyramid, Lan Mu studied the AT Field and began considering how to strengthen it and awaken it in humans.

• Maxwell found that the pyramid reflected electromagnetic waves but had no presence in his magnetic field, while Newton feared it lacked gravity.
• Hawking attacked the pyramid with a Micro Black Hole, and a Council guard fired a torpedo, but neither damaged it.
• Lan Mu used an AT Field from underground to observe the group as Newton explained his ability to transfer gravity and admitted it could not affect the pyramid.
• Newton and the Council spent the next five days surveying the pyramid, giving Lan Mu time to study the AT Field and pass his mandatory period.
• Lan Mu learned to reshape and amplify his AT Field, concluded human AT Fields could potentially be awakened with knowledge and extreme stimulation, and decided to strengthen his own sense of self.

Lan Mu answered Tobias’s 301st transmission and explained that the Blue White Society could intervene in Earth’s crisis because the pyramid civilization’s attack fell under its jurisdiction. He revealed that the invaders were not after resources or technology, but were attacking Earth for fun.

• The Council focused on researching the pyramid and high-energy weapons while Tobias repeatedly tried to contact the Blue White Society.
• Tobias’s 301st transmission succeeded, and Lan Mu appeared before the Council’s Interstellar Diplomacy Group.
• Lan Mu explained that the Blue White Society generally avoided interfering with lower civilizations but could intervene in this case.
• Lan Mu told Tobias that war between civilizations was normally allowed, but higher civilizations could not freely attack civilizations far beneath them.
• Lan Mu said the pyramid civilization was not invading Earth for resources or technology, but for fun.

Lan Mu explained to Tobias and the others that the alien probe’s invasion was likely entertainment for a civilization far above humanity, then outlined how vast differences in power could create a cosmic hierarchy. The chapter left humanity’s survival looking dependent on Earth’s unusual qualities and the Doom Pyramid, while weaker civilizations might be trapped or destroyed by advanced ones.

• Lan Mu told Tobias that advanced civilizations had little reason to invade Earth for its technology or resources and might stage an invasion for entertainment.
• Lan Mu explained that the sapphire probe had likely been provoking and observing humanity rather than pursuing a genuine conquest.
• Lan Mu recalled the Amun Civilization’s hint that even a kind civilization might play with primitive peoples, and reasoned that less benevolent civilizations could exploit or destroy weaker ones for amusement.
• Lan Mu described a cosmic hierarchy in which civilizations of similar levels might compete, while higher-level civilizations could treat lower ones with contempt or indifference.
• Lan Mu said Earth had been fortunate to encounter the humanoid Amun Civilization and to possess unique qualities and the Doom Pyramid, while other weak civilizations could be trapped as caged birds or eliminated.

Lan Mu, posing as the advanced alien Remiel, explained the dangers facing Earth and refused to provide technology without something valuable in return. He proposed trading several minor technologies for the Spiritual Space where the scientist gods lived, leaving the Council to ask the Science Church to persuade them.

• Lan Mu met Council and Science Church leaders, identified their attackers as Apostles, and warned that Earth’s pollution and limited development window threatened its future.
• Lan Mu refused requests for technology and explained that civilizations unable to reach spaceflight in time became trapped on their home planets.
• The Council offered Earth’s biological specimens as trade goods, but Lan Mu dismissed them and revealed that he wanted the scientist gods’ Spiritual Space.
• Lan Mu offered several minor technologies in exchange for the Spiritual Space, while insisting that the scientist gods themselves were not part of the deal.
• The Council members left the decision to the Science Church and asked it to persuade the gods to give up their home.

Lan Mu negotiated the Science Church’s transfer of the divine kingdom and explained how to counter the Apostles’ AT Fields. He demonstrated the Spear of Best to the gathered scientists and leaders, leaving them to consider its power as the transaction and fight against the enemy moved forward.

• Lan Mu kept the divine kingdom’s purpose secret while the Science Church persuaded the science gods to relocate in exchange for future star systems as fiefs.
• Hawking helped convince Newton and the other gods, and the Science Church secured the spiritual space in Earth’s geosynchronous orbit.
• Hawking, Newton, Tesla, Einstein, and other divine spirits joined the Council and Science Church’s envoys to meet Lan Mu and assess his ability to defeat the pyramid civilization.
• Lan Mu explained that the Apostles’ AT Fields could stop attacks and said he could break them with his own field or a sufficiently powerful Plasma Cannon.
• A Science Church deacon warned that the Apostles might retaliate, and Lan Mu offered to resolve the threat personally with the Blue White Society’s support.
• Lan Mu summoned the Spear of Best, which the science gods could not alter with their powers, and said it specialized in breaking AT Fields.

Lan Mu used the Spear of Best to destroy the Apostle near Miami, ending the threat to Earth. The gods mistook a vampire clone’s self-destruction for the Apostle’s remains, while Lan Mu warned that the civilization behind it would face retaliation if it attacked the Blue White Society.

• Lan Mu formed the Spear of Best from Best Metal and led the scientific gods from their Miami base toward the Apostle offshore.
• Lan Mu sent electromagnetic signals toward the seabed, and the Apostle emerged before fleeing toward space without firing its Particle Cannon.
• The Spear of Best pierced the Apostle’s AT Field and struck its body, after which a burst of bloody light and burning rain appeared above the ocean.
• Lan Mu returned to the ground, and Tobias asked whether the Apostle had been defeated; Lan Mu confirmed it and explained that he had warned the civilization behind it.
• The scientific gods collected the burning remains, unaware that they came from Lan Mu’s vampire clone and contained no genetic information.

After defeating the Apostle, Lan Mu traded the Spiritual Space to Earth’s Council and gave humanity a vast collection of technologies to help it enter the space age. He claimed the Bermuda pyramid was a Blue White Society monitoring outpost, then took control of the emptied divine kingdom and warned that unauthorized entry would be treated as a declaration of war.

• The Council announced that Earth was safe, promoted Remiel and the Blue White Society as humanity’s powerful allies, and asked Lan Mu to remove the pyramid near Bermuda.
• Lan Mu bluffed that the pyramid was a Blue White Society monitoring outpost and left it on Earth.
• The gods relocated from the divine kingdom to a desert in the western USA, allowing Lan Mu to take ownership of the kingdom through the Council’s trade.
• Lan Mu transmitted technologies including fusion, spaceflight, plasma weapons, and combat mechs to Tobias, the gods, and more than a hundred scientists.
• Lan Mu flew to the divine kingdom and declared it his private property, warning that anyone who entered without permission would be treated as an enemy.

Lan Mu explored the Science Pantheon’s rulerless divine kingdom and discovered its open boundary allowed matter to enter freely while preserving souls. He planned to attach the kingdom to Best Metal so he could take it away and claim it as his own.

• Lan Mu entered the five-kilometer-wide Spiritual Space and examined its tiny planet, gravity generator, and the science gods’ residences.
• Lan Mu learned that the divine kingdom could sustain deceased souls and that its entrance could draw matter into it.
• Lan Mu discovered the Science Pantheon had no chief god, leaving its divine kingdom permanently open and vulnerable to invasion.
• Lan Mu decided to move the divine kingdom by attaching it to an object, since he lacked the authority to bind it to himself.
• Lan Mu chose Best Metal as the vessel because it was ownerless, controllable through Spiritual Power, and strong enough to withstand the kingdom’s pressure.

Lan Mu planned to use the Science Pantheon’s Divine Kingdom as a temporary base and sought a member to administer it. At Area 51, he found Nikola Tesla and declared him his Divine Kingdom administrator.

• Lan Mu considered using the Science Pantheon’s simple Divine Kingdom to receive and strengthen his followers, but needed a member of the pantheon to manage it.
• Lan Mu decided that the administrator should come from the Science Pantheon, whose members shared equal access to their Divine Kingdom.
• Lan Mu flew into Area 51, where the Science Pantheon lived and conducted research, and found only one god on guard.
• Lan Mu recognized the solitary god as Lightning Dharma King Tesla, a brilliant but unsociable inventor whose intuition led him to build inventions before developing their theories.
• Lan Mu addressed Nikola Tesla and named him his Divine Kingdom administrator.

Lan Mu watched Tesla realize the Plasma Cannon and recognized his extraordinary talent. He invited Tesla to leave Earth with him, and Tesla accepted as the Council arrived too late to stop them.

• Tesla redesigned and built a Plasma Cannon powered by electricity drawn wirelessly from across the world, then fired it into space.
• Lan Mu praised Tesla’s achievement and explained that his abilities set him apart from ordinary humans.
• Lan Mu invited Tesla to come with him, and Tesla agreed without hesitation.
• As the Council’s forces arrived and tried to bargain for Tesla, Lan Mu and Tesla rose into the sky and left without responding.