Chapter Summaries

Naiyuan and the Dragon Emperor, Chaoduzias Baixion, met amid wary preparations for a possible fight. They exchanged a handshake, but a sudden lightning bolt and dragon-shaped shadows left the encounter on an ominous note.

• The Dragon Emperor reflected on his experiments creating the Dragon Secret Relic, which had enabled the Demon God King and Slilshana to gain dragon concepts and overcome Yggdrasil's restrictions.
• Naiyuan noticed that his Dragon Slayer instinct did not react to the Dragon Emperor, though he still sensed a subtle threat from him.
• Naiyuan broke the tense silence by offering the Dragon Emperor his hand, easing the Minotaur Sage, Slilshana, and the other Players.
• Momonga withdrew his prepared magic, while Herohero and Akemi held back from fighting as the group let Naiyuan lead the meeting.
• Chaoduzias Baixion introduced himself as Chuck and clasped Naiyuan's hand, whereupon lightning flashed and their shadows briefly appeared as two ferocious dragons.

Naiyuan tested the Dragon Emperor after realizing Dragon Slayer did not recognize him as a dragon. The Dragon Emperor revealed his authority of Origin, and the chapter ended with Naiyuan asking him to prove his sincerity through compensation.

• Naiyuan suspected the Dragon Emperor's unknown Talent had bypassed Dragon Slayer's dragon-race identification mechanism.
• Naiyuan attacked the Dragon Emperor with Black Flame to test his strength and settle the score for spying on Nazarick.
• The Dragon Emperor countered with the authority of Origin, which suppressed Wild Magic and interfered with souls.
• Naiyuan realized Origin had transformed the Dragon Emperor's bloodline beyond the scope of a single race, explaining Dragon Slayer's lack of reaction.
• The Dragon Emperor explained that Origin could return things to their roots and reshape them, and Naiyuan asked him to provide compensation as a friendship fee.

The Dragon Emperor and the Players made peace over a generous exchange of Wild Magic, while Naiyuan considered the Dragon Emperor’s motives and asked about the Platinum Dragon Lord. The Dragon Emperor was about to agree to meet his descendant when Naiyuan showed a prepared recording that revealed the Platinum Dragon Lord’s cold response.

• The Dragon Emperor and the Players celebrated their agreement, and Slilshana and the Minotaur Sage were relieved to have avoided conflict and gained benefits.
• Naiyuan examined the Dragon Emperor’s friendship fee, which included Wild Magic that could strengthen spells and extract and bestow concepts.
• The Dragon Emperor explained that he had used Dragon Secret Relic to obtain class concepts from the Eight Greed Kings and the Demon God King.
• Naiyuan asked whether Chuck wanted to see his son, and the Dragon Emperor prepared to agree.
• Naiyuan played a recording of the Platinum Dragon Lord asking why someone who was already dead had returned, leaving the Dragon Emperor speechless.

The Dragon Emperor reflected on how his arrogance and pursuit of power had hurt the Platinum Dragon Lord and contributed to the Dragon Race’s decline. Seeking to atone, he asked Naiyuan to care for Char and offered a World Item, while Naiyuan agreed to consider the request and proposed they get down to business.

• The Dragon Emperor recalled how he had rejected the Platinum Dragon Lord and other Dragon Lords’ objections to summoning World Items, even gravely injuring his son.
• The Dragon Emperor acknowledged his past mistakes and accepted that the Platinum Dragon Lord did not want to see him.
• The Dragon Emperor asked Naiyuan to care for Char, offering a World Item in return as an unqualified father.
• Naiyuan accepted the World Item and passed it to Momonga and Herohero, recognizing its value for Nazarick’s NPCs.
• Naiyuan agreed to consider the Dragon Emperor’s request and suggested they stop testing each other and discuss matters directly.

The Dragon Emperor proposed a genuine alliance with Naiyuan and the others to unite the New World and raise its power through the Great River of Souls and the Ley Lines. When Naiyuan warned that the plan could exhaust the world before it benefited, the Dragon Emperor revealed that he had a way to address the danger: a Plane War.

• The Dragon Emperor asked Naiyuan and his companions to form a genuine alliance.
• Momonga asked the Dragon Emperor to explain his plans, while Slilshana and the others listened.
• The Dragon Emperor proposed uniting the New World and promoting its ascension through the Great River of Souls and the Ley Lines.
• Naiyuan warned that the world might collapse from resource depletion before it could ascend.
• The Dragon Emperor pointed to the rift in the sky and proposed a Plane War.

The Dragon Emperor argued that the New World had to prepare for Plane War, then revealed that it was already inside Nine Luminaries' Stomach. His explanation left Naiyuan, Momonga, and the others demanding answers after Jiuyao's powers descended.

• The Dragon Emperor urged the gathered leaders to explore and plunder the Multiverse to strengthen their world, and Herohero recognized that this had been the alliance's real purpose.
• Slilshana endorsed the need to look beyond luck, while Naiyuan warned that a failed Plane War could doom the New World's inhabitants.
• The Dragon Emperor said Jiuyao would descend in about a century and revealed that the gathering place was inside Nine Luminaries' Stomach.
• Four world-destroying auras descended, the Minotaur Sage fell unconscious, and the Dragon Emperor used Origin authority to isolate the area from the world's will.
• Naiyuan and Momonga questioned how the New World could already be in Jiuyao's stomach if Jiuyao would not arrive for a century, and the Dragon Emperor replied that their understanding of Jiuyao was completely wrong.

The Dragon Emperor explained that Jiuyao was a conscious world-devouring existence and that the New World was marked as its future food. He revealed that he had given the world itself the identity of a Player to help it resist Jiuyao.

• The Dragon Emperor described Jiuyao as an entity that intended to devour worlds and explained that the New World lay within its grasp.
• Naiyuan compared Jiuyao to a fisherman and the marked worlds to fish, and the Dragon Emperor clarified that inhabitants could leave if they could travel the Multiverse.
• Slilshana asked whether the rifts contaminated and prepared worlds for Jiuyao, and the Dragon Emperor said they were directly heating them instead.
• The Dragon Emperor revealed that he had suppressed Jiuyao's power and blocked the New World's Great River of Souls to keep the world from drawing Jiuyao's attention.
• Momonga and Naiyuan realized that the Dragon Emperor had given the world the identity of a Player, and the Dragon Emperor confirmed he had bestowed it upon the Great River of Souls and the Ley Lines.

Naiyuan and the others understood the Dragon Emperor’s plan to make the New World a Player and use it to grow stronger by plundering worlds inside Jiuyao. After weighing the risks, they agreed to cooperate with him.

• Naiyuan realized that fate could allow the New World itself to become a Player, making the Dragon Emperor’s plan viable.
• The Dragon Emperor explained that cultivating their own world would benefit both its inhabitants and the Gods who helped it ascend.
• Herohero and Slilshana warned that waging a Plane War could draw Jiuyao’s attention, though the risk seemed low.
• The Dragon Emperor proposed that the Gods first gain authorities and conceal their concepts, then escape the Stomach of the Nine Luminaries with the world.
• Naiyuan, Momonga, Herohero, and Akemi accepted the Dragon Emperor’s proposal and agreed to cooperate.

Yano, a fading former God, escaped the cosmic currents by entering a barren world inside an unborn human alongside the soul that had drawn him there. He secretly watched over the child for more than a decade, waiting to learn what made the soul unusual, until a game caught their attention when Yano was twelve.

• As his True Spirit disintegrated in the currents of space-time, Yano sensed a protected soul near The Rift and followed it into a Material Plane.
• Yano found himself inside the soul’s developing human body and chose to hide within it, preserving his remaining strength by absorbing faint life and soul energy.
• Over ten years, Yano observed the human and learned that the world had no magic, while its polluted environment made ordinary life difficult.
• Yano secretly influenced the human’s judgment and helped it grow up safely, but waited for it to die before deciding whether its soul was unusual.
• When Yano was twelve, a game caught his—or rather, their—attention.

Yano recognized that the game Yggdrasil was the same Yggdrasil he knew, and the discovery made him question whether his life had been guided by fate. He overheard the other soul in his body planning to enter the game and transmigrate when its servers shut down, then chose to retreat deeper into the soul and lie dormant.

• Yano watched a mall advertisement for the DMMO-RPG Yggdrasil and dismissed virtual games as illusions.
• Yano recognized the game's references to Yggdrasil, the Nine Worlds, World Items, Tier Magic, and Super-Tier Magic.
• Yano wondered whether his arrival in this world and Yggdrasil's remnants descending into the Abyss had been predetermined.
• The other consciousness said it planned to play Yggdrasil alongside Suzuki Satoru until the servers shut down and then transmigrate with the guild.
• Yano sensed the other soul's firm belief and decided to retreat further into it and remain dormant.

Yano secretly influenced the choices of the person whose soul he inhabited as they played Yggdrasil, then recognized Momonga and realized that the game's shutdown could lead to another world. Twelve years passed, and Yggdrasil reached its scheduled shutdown.

• Yano watched the other person grow up and quietly removed dangers that might interfere with his plans.
• When the other person entered Yggdrasil, Yano guided him toward choosing a Demon character and later influenced his class and racial choices.
• Yano recognized Momonga, a skeletal Undead, and suspected that Yggdrasil's shutdown would cause them to enter a New World.
• Yano chose not to devour Momonga's soul, deciding to remain hidden because Momonga seemed to be the protagonist and the name Jiuyao worried him.
• Twelve years passed, and Yggdrasil reached its shutdown.

Yano waited for Yggdrasil to shut down, then revealed that a Demon had been controlling his body and used the shutdown to reach another world. After destroying the planet and losing most of his recovered strength, Yano departed for a new journey, leaving his human corpse behind.

• Yano logged into Yggdrasil as the shutdown approached, and the Demon revealed it had been waiting for the same moment.
• The Demon transformed Yano into a powerful form, flew into space, and watched Momonga and Herohero before Herohero logged out.
• At midnight, Yano sensed that the shutdown had connected him to another world and gained something through the change.
• Yano manifested as an enormous Ancient Demon and annihilated the planet, consuming it as pure energy.
• Yano's strength fell to one ten-thousandth again, but he followed the new world's coordinates and left, while his human corpse remained in space.

Five years into the world-spanning war, Drodilon traveled with Neia and her companions to visit Dragon Kingdom soldiers, while Neia recalled why she had left the battlefield. The carriage party planned a short rest, though the Dragon Kingdom’s prime minister faced mounting work and news of the Sorcerer Kingdom’s ley-line project.

• Drodilon rode in a royal carriage pulled by Dragonkin relatives, accompanied by Rachius, Tian, Tina, Neia, and the Dragon Kingdom prime minister.
• Neia declined to return to the front lines, where she had fought before leaving the war after witnessing the slaughter of surrendered people and enslaved humans.
• Neia recalled that the allied armies had conquered the continent and invaded the Central Continent, where soldiers could return to battle after resurrection and earn military merit.
• Drodilon learned that they would reach the Dragon Kingdom in about half a day and ordered the group to take three days off after their inspection tour.
• Rachius, Tian, Tina, and Neia planned to visit Gagaran, while the prime minister worried about his workload and the Ley-Line Teleportation Anchors under development.

Albedo continued his alchemy research in the Sorcerer Kingdom, where he had become its chief alchemist and developed the Vision. After Naraku visited, Albedo agreed to reconnect with old friends, and Naraku said Neia was returning and the five-year war was nearly over.

• Albedo successfully created a new alchemical mixture and told Naraku the result was partly due to luck.
• Naraku gave Albedo candy and asked about his experiment, while Albedo described his research and work developing an Evil Eye.
• Albedo apologized for acting coldly and suggested meeting old friends for a meal, then asked how the war was going.
• Naraku said Neia had messaged him about returning to the Sorcerer Kingdom and arranging a gathering because Albedo had not read her messages.
• Naraku told Albedo that the war was almost over after five years.

Naraku and Albedo met Sucrose while dining at the Oath of Blazing Flame BBQ House, where Naraku offered to fund her research. The chapter ended as Neia, Arche, and their companions arrived and found Sucrose joining Naraku and Albedo for dinner.

• Naraku reflected on why the powerful leaders had allowed the war to continue for five years, seeing the prolonged conflict as a source of entertainment and benefit.
• Naraku and Albedo arrived at the Oath of Blazing Flame BBQ House, where Albedo recognized Sucrose, a junior alchemist working her first shift.
• Naraku learned that Sucrose needed research funds and promised to help her obtain the maximum stipend by the next day.
• Naraku invited Sucrose to dine with him and Albedo, and Albedo reassured her that Naraku owned assets in the restaurant's commercial district.
• Naraku ordered every dish on the menu, and Neia, Arche, and their companions arrived to find Sucrose sitting with him and Albedo.

Neia questioned the purpose and extremity of the war, prompting Ulysses to accuse her of defying the Three Majesties and nearly turning the gathering against her. Naraku intervened by offering to relay her thoughts to Your Majesty, leaving Neia hopeful as she explained her objections.

• Neia watched Naraku socialize with Arche, her sisters, and others before admitting to Ulysses that she wondered whether continuing the war had any meaning.
• Ulysses drew his bow and accused Neia of expressing dissatisfaction with the Three Majesties, while Arche defended her and the crowd stayed silent.
• Neia accepted blame for speaking carelessly and stopped Arche from risking trouble for her sisters.
• Naraku told Albedo he could not oppose the Sorcerer Kingdom's laws, then offered to personally relay Neia's thoughts to Your Majesty.
• Neia explained that she did not reject Your Majesty's decision but believed the war had become extreme and was consuming lives beyond what correcting old customs required.

Naraku entered Nazarick’s expanded small world and surveyed its immense, heavily defended forests, realizing that the main body had filled them with high-level mercenary monsters. He concluded that Nazarick had become a World Tomb and used a ring to teleport toward the main body.

• Naraku passed identity verification and entered the small world at the edge of the Katze Plains.
• Naraku detected a vast forest filled with hundreds of high-level monsters and learned that the small world extended across at least 30 million square kilometers.
• Naraku reached Nazarick’s central entrance, where monsters generally hovered around level 90, and wondered how the main body had funded so many summons.
• Naraku reasoned that Nazarick had used the Ancient Library’s summoning books and its abundant resources to build up its defenses.
• Naraku called Nazarick the World Tomb, put on a ring, and teleported toward the main body.

Naraku visited Naiyuan in the Throne Room, where he saw the newly transformed Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown and suffered its dangerous aura. Naiyuan used the Torrent of Calamity to frighten Naraku as punishment for overstepping, then Naraku prepared to return to the Sorcerer Kingdom.

• Naraku entered the Throne Room and saw Naiyuan resting on the Crystal Throne beside the transformed Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown.
• Naraku was injured by the staff’s Despair Aura, and Naiyuan warned that its transformation was too new for its fluctuations to be controlled.
• Naiyuan sensed Naraku’s mark of calamity and demonstrated his authority by making Naraku briefly believe that shit smelled and tasted appealing.
• Naiyuan stopped the effect, and Naraku collapsed, dry-heaving and admitting that he understood his punishment.
• Naraku told Naiyuan he would return to the Sorcerer Kingdom to meet the junior girl waiting with him at the school gate.

Naraku asked Naiyuan to end the war early after Neia spoke up against the Allied Forces’ slaughter, and Naiyuan agreed. Naraku left to help Neia apply for a stipend while Naiyuan rested in the Throne Room.

• Naraku explained that years apart had made him a distinct individual who was changing for the better, though he had no intention of rebelling against Naiyuan.
• Naraku showed Naiyuan a scroll recording Neia’s appeal and reminded him that Neia and Arche Eeb Rile Furt were among his Apostles.
• Naiyuan ordered Lana to announce that the war would end before the end of the year, earlier than planned.
• Naraku joked about how the people would praise Naiyuan, then rolled out of the Throne Room after Naiyuan told him to get lost.
• Naiyuan closed his eyes to rest as the radiance within him grew brighter and his soul’s fire intensified.

The allied army overwhelmed the Six-Nation Alliance’s fortress defenses as Vijar Rajandala and White Elder fought on the front lines. Enri found her sister Nemu, now a Dark Knight, and confronted her about coming to the battlefield.

• The allied forces of humans, Wood Elves, Dwarves, giants, Ghouls, and other Demi-humans attacked the Orc, Minotaur, and Troll defenders, whose fortress line began to collapse.
• Vijar Rajandala eagerly killed enemies to earn military merit and reduce his tribe’s debts, while White Elder warned him not to charge too far ahead.
• White Elder killed Trolls and Orcs, then headed toward the other members of the Ten Greats.
• Enri and Nemu fought side by side, with Nemu’s armor and greatsword marking her transformation from a Paladin into a Dark Knight.
• Nemu told Enri she need not have come to the front lines, and Enri lamented the path her younger sister had taken.
• Unable to answer Enri’s lecture, Nemu decided to kill more enemies to relieve her boredom.