Chapter Summaries

David learned Mutated Lightning and Lightning Body, discovering that Mutated Lightning could penetrate defenses and threaten Earth Knights. He then built shielded mining robots and organized the Black Rock Mining Area to protect the Crystal-Bearing Stone and cultivate a Perfect-grade Krypton Crystal.

• David learned Mutated Lightning and Lightning Body from the Knowledge Light Orbs, gaining a ranged attack and a powerful defensive transformation.
• David tested ordinary lightning and Mutated Lightning on Knight Mark, finding that Mutated Lightning penetrated armor and reached his organs without seriously injuring him.
• David concluded Mutated Lightning could kill an Earth Knight whose bloodline armor was not prepared, though he knew using it could expose him as an evil god believer.
• David entered his collected data into a Smart System and used Constable's experimental workbench to manufacture twenty mining robots.
• David added shielding patterns to the robots and connected them to the Smart System with data cables so they could operate in the Krypton Crystal energy.
• David assigned nineteen robots to work aboveground and one to guard the Crystal-Bearing Stone, which he intended to use to obtain a Perfect-grade Krypton Crystal.

David secured the Crystal-Bearing Stone at the Black Rock Mining Area and then traveled to Bama Main City to join a mission targeting an evil god believers’ base. The mission team assembled under Sky Knight Lydgate and prepared to depart by Starry Sky Flying Boat.

• David left a robot, teleportation array, and warning system to protect the Crystal-Bearing Stone, then sealed the underground entrance and arranged for the mining operation to continue.
• David instructed Butler Jason to manage the mines and return to Bama Main City with Knight Andrew after the work was settled.
• David traveled to Boyue Main City with Knight Mark and Knight Garland, then returned to Bama Star through the Portal.
• Sky Knight Lydgate greeted David at the Law Enforcement Team headquarters and explained that any knights David brought would earn merit for him.
• Sky Knight Lydgate introduced the mission participants, including David, Sky Knight Dick, Sky Knight Bernal, Knight Jasper, Knight Alfonso, and Lady Knight Mary.
• The mission group boarded a Starry Sky Flying Boat to travel to the evil god believers’ base.

The Law Enforcement Team traveled to Moba Star, where David sensed they were being watched and the knights prepared for a sudden dust storm. The storm turned into a giant palm, but Lydgate swiftly shifted their Knight Battle Formation to evade it.

• Lydgate revealed that the mission target was Moba Star and gave the knights life-support discs for surviving there.
• David activated his life-support disc, landed on Moba Star, and told Lydgate that he felt an unseen presence watching them.
• Lydgate sent an Earth Knight ahead to scout, and the knight returned warning that a storm was approaching.
• Lydgate led the twelve knights in forming a defensive Knight Battle Formation as a towering wall of red dust advanced.
• The red dust transformed into a giant palm, and Lydgate shifted the formation into a charge to dodge its strike.

David and the three Sky Knights fought off a red storm on Moba Star, then Lydgate took the Sky Knights to pursue an Ancient God statue while leaving the younger knights to patrol. After learning the statue could earn enough merit for an earldom and territory, David decided to separate from Mary and the others.

• Lydgate, Dick, and Bernal formed a battle agreement and destroyed the red storm with their combined attacks.
• Lydgate assigned Mary, Jasper, Alfonso, and their knights to patrol while the Sky Knights handled the mission, then promised David the merits for destroying the evil god's base.
• David agreed to Lydgate's proposal, and the three Sky Knights flew off to pursue their mission.
• Mary revealed that the Sky Knights were after an Ancient God statue, which could be exchanged for enough merit to promote David to earl and grant him a territory.
• David decided to split from Mary, Jasper, and Alfonso to improve their chances of earning merit.

David used Lightning Body to infiltrate a hidden temple of the God of Shadows while the three Sky Knights fought red rock eagles outside. Inside, he discovered powerful golden-light defenses and learned the believers planned to open a Portal and abandon the temple, so he followed Hurley in search of an opportunity.

• David dismissed Mark Knight and Garland Knight, then traveled unseen through the red dust using Lightning Body.
• David found Lydgate Sky Knight, Dick Sky Knight, and Bernal Sky Knight fighting four Level 4 red rock giant eagles above the temple.
• David tried to send the Shadow Servant through the temple gates, but an unseen attack forced him to recall it.
• David slipped beneath the temple gate as electricity and discovered two black-robed priests directing believers around a statue, while golden rays attacked intruders.
• David learned that the golden rays carried roughly Level 4 power and that the believers intended to open a Portal and abandon the temple.
• David followed Hurley away from the main hall to look for another chance to act.

David infiltrated the temple, killed Hurley, and dismantled the ancient medium-sized Portal before the temple came under attack. As the priests led the believers toward the Portal to escape, David’s five Sky Knights ambushed them in the underground passage.

• David followed a level-three evil god believer to the ancient medium-sized Portal, then had Mark kill him and took his control plate.
• David and Shadow Servant dismantled the Portal and stored its pieces while Mark guarded the stairs.
• Lydgate and two other Sky Knights exhausted the four red rock giant eagles, then attacked the temple, prompting the black-robed priests to retreat with the Ancient God Statue.
• The priests found the Portal missing and encountered David’s five concealed Sky Knights when they reached the underground chamber.
• David hid in his Lightning Body state as Shadow Servant spread thorn barriers through the corridor, trapping a level-two believer and blocking the followers’ retreat.

David led five Sky Knights in killing two level-four black-robed priests and more than twenty evil god believers inside the temple, then escaped before the temple’s defenders arrived. He inspected the loot afterward and discovered a vast space pendant that might contain the Ancient God Statue.

• David’s five Sky Knights overwhelmed the evil god believers and pursued the two level-four black-robed priests, while Shadow Servant summoned the Sonic Boom Ironclad Beetle to block their escape.
• Mark killed the two priests, and Shadow Servant collected the bodies and Spatial Items before David recalled his summoned allies.
• The temple’s safety patterns collapsed, and Lydgate, Dick, and Bernal entered to find the hall empty and traces of battle and a dismantled Portal.
• David escaped underground and traveled far from the temple with Mark and Garland before inspecting the loot in private.
• David found little of value in most of the Spatial Items, but the last space pendant contained an enormous internal world and required exceptionally high mental power to open.

David returned from the mission with a Spatial Pendant containing an Ancient God Statue and many other items, then revealed that he had killed numerous evil god cultists. The mission’s disputed rewards remained unresolved, while the Mein Family learned the scale of David’s gains.

• David discovered that his Spatial Pendant held an Ancient God Statue, which caused the two crystals in his Soul Space to tremble, so he stopped investigating its contents.
• Sky Knight Lydgate gathered David and the other knights at the temple, claimed the evil god believers had escaped through a Portal, and offered them a search of the temple for merit-bearing items.
• Lady Knight Mary, Knight Jasper, and Knight Alfonso found little in the temple, while Sky Knight Lydgate promised David the merit for breaching it.
• David returned to his villa, where Charlie and Baron Blackmer met him to discuss compensation for the mission’s faulty intelligence.
• David told Charlie that he had intercepted two Level Four, five Level Three, and twenty Level One and Two evil god cultists, shocking Baron Blackmer.

David settled the mission’s merit points through the Mein Family, accepted Charlie’s apology and Lord Gould’s payment, then returned to Qinya Manor to begin seclusion. His mind grew stronger from the mission’s soul energy, though the Knowledge Light Orbs he examined required faith in the God of Shadows.

• David gave Charlie the corpses and asked the Mein Family to exchange his merit points, enough to promote him to count, while Baron Blackmer gained enough leftover points for viscount.
• Charlie apologized for Ian’s role in sending David to Barry Castle, explained that Ian had been exiled to a mining planet for ten years, and said the Mein Family would deal with Knight Gaines.
• David accepted Lord Gould’s payment of Level 3 Fortified Meat for preparing fifty portions of Warmheart Lotus Seed Soup, then left Bama Main City with two Sky Knights for Qinya Manor.
• David entered seclusion and transferred his share of the mission’s soul energy from the Shadow Servant, raising his mind from 9 to 9.21 points.
• David inspected twenty-seven Knowledge Light Orbs, found that every ability required faith in the God of Shadows, and returned them to the Shadow Servant’s collection.

David activated the Battle Angel Crystal with energy from the Ancient God Statue, causing the Battle Angel Skeletons to fuse with his body and granting him speed that surpassed a Sky Knight. He then discovered that nearly all the books in the spatial Pendant were scriptures that could influence readers to worship the God of Shadows, while the one ordinary book explained how those scriptures increased spiritual power.

• David connected the Battle Angel Crystal to the Ancient God Statue, and the crystal absorbed its energy before shining over his Soul Fortress.
• David found that the Battle Angel Skeletons had fused with his body and could replenish their life energy by absorbing energy from the surroundings.
• David tested his new speed, caught Number One while he was running, and proved that he could outrun a Sky Knight.
• David inspected the spatial Pendant and found that its Ancient God Statue appeared unchanged.
• David scanned twenty-two books, discovered that twenty-one were spiritually influential scriptures about the God of Shadows, and rejected them as a method for improving his spiritual power.

David entered seclusion to master the speed granted by the Battle Angel Crystal, but its effects also transformed his energy perception and cultivation. After perfecting the Panther Breath Breathing Method, he advanced to Earth Knight in one session and began relearning how to move with his enhanced speed.

• David practiced with a heavy sword and then used the Panther Breath Breathing Method, discovering that the Battle Angel Crystal let him sense energy within two hundred meters.
• David adjusted the Panther Breath Breathing Method and drew in vast amounts of energy, causing powerful winds to rise around Qinya Manor.
• David filled his Heart Sea space and formed liquid bloodline power as his cultivation rapidly advanced.
• David advanced to Earth Knight after one training session and celebrated, though his altered perception made his movements and voice feel out of sync.
• David checked his attributes with Shadow Servant, found that the Panther Breath Breathing Method had reached 1% Perfect, and tested whether the Battle Angel Crystal could improve his other abilities.
• David found no further flashes of insight and walked around the training room to adapt to his new speed.

David tested the ancient medium-sized Portal and discovered it could connect anonymously to the current transmission network, including a mysterious destination. He traveled there with five Sky Knights and found an empty Safe House of the Church of the God of Shadows stocked with food and water.

• David cooked fifty portions of Warmheart Lotus Seed Soup and sent them to Lord Gould through Steward Claude.
• After a month of cultivation, David reached the strength of a mid-level Earth Knight, then paused when he depleted the energy around Qinya Manor.
• David reassembled the ancient medium-sized Portal and learned that it could access the current transmission network and an unnamed destination marked with symbols.
• David chose to travel to the mysterious destination, taking five Sky Knights with him in a protective Knight Battle Formation.
• David arrived in a dark cave and discovered a secret Safe House of the Church of the God of Shadows, with spatial chests full of food and water but no evil god believers.

David discovered a concealed Church of the God of Shadows Safe House on Lomb Star, then hid underground when a formation of twenty-five Sky Knights arrived. He watched the knights vanish over an inland lake, but as he moved to investigate, five powerful figures approached and triggered his sense of danger.

• David found that the cave concealed an ancient medium-sized Portal and could not be sensed from outside, then emerged cautiously through the stone and rock.
• David spotted twenty-five Sky Knights flying in formation and concealed himself underground to observe them.
• Gilbert joined the formation after signing up for a Berger Family mission whose reward included access to cultivation methods and notes.
• The Sky Knights reached an inland lake, walked across its surface, and suddenly disappeared from Shadow Servant's sight.
• David searched the area and suspected the lake's surface was involved, but stopped when his spirit sensed danger from five approaching figures.

David followed the five lords into a poisoned world where they planned to slay a god, then found the twenty-five Sky Knights facing a hundred black god servants. The knights began engaging the enemy while Gilbert took comfort in their apparent weakness.

• Lord Gould led the other four lords through the lake’s hidden passage, and David followed as lightning after recalling his Shadow Servant.
• David entered a black, poison-filled world and followed the traces left by the knights, avoiding the deadly terrain as he searched for the lords.
• David found twenty-five Sky Knights confronting a hundred black, Level 4 creatures in a circular spear formation, but could not see the five lords.
• Gilbert realized the poisonous world was draining the Knight Battle Formation and feared the mission would kill him, while the formation continued deeper into the forest.
• Gilbert identified the black creatures as god servants and felt hopeful that their Level 4 strength meant the god they guarded was weak.

The Sky Knights charged the black divine servants, but discovered that the servants could revive even after being dismembered, and the battle cost the knights several lives. David approached under cover and sent the Shadow Servant to harvest souls, beginning with two fallen Sky Knights.

• Gilbert led twenty-five Sky Knights in an arrowhead charge that pierced the black divine servants’ formation, but poison and reanimated corpses killed one knight and cost another his leg.
• The Sky Knights charged again, yet the black divine servants regenerated from scattered fragments, while another Sky Knight died after his armor was breached.
• David noticed the Shadow Servant’s strong desire for the black divine servants’ souls and moved closer to the battlefield using boulders for cover.
• The Sky Knights formed a tighter defensive formation and collided with the black divine servants again as David summoned the Shadow Servant.
• David sent the Shadow Servant to absorb the souls of the two fallen Sky Knights.

David watched the Sky Knights and black divine servants fight as the Shadow Servant absorbed souls, preventing slain servants from reviving. The battle grew increasingly deadly, and David secretly collected weapons and fallen Sky Knight bodies while hoping Gilbert survived.

• The Sky Knights charged through the black divine servants' formation, and three servants stayed dead because the Shadow Servant absorbed their souls.
• The black divine servants spread out and repeatedly hurled returning spears, forcing the Sky Knights to split into smaller groups.
• David had the Shadow Servant collect black spears and store fallen Sky Knight corpses and their equipment in its Space Ring.
• A weakened four-knight group was overwhelmed and killed as both sides suffered mounting casualties.
• Gilbert cut off his injured left arm to avoid the servants' poison, while David watched and hoped he would survive.

David collected the battlefield spoils while the surviving Sky Knights fell, and the five lords confronted Plague God Gladstone. The god-slaying battle began with Gladstone marking the lords as blasphemers and drawing out their long-suppressed fear and fighting spirit.

• David and Shadow Servant collected the fallen knights' bodies, equipment, and black spears as the Sky Knights and black divine servants fought.
• The giant watched David and Shadow Servant from its throne but held back, wary of the gods behind them.
• Gilbert and the three surviving Sky Knights charged the treants and died, while Shadow Servant collected their bodies and belongings as David fled the world.
• Lord Gould and the other four lords confirmed that their Sky Knights had died, then declared a god-slaying challenge against Plague God Gladstone.
• Plague God Gladstone opened its eyes, branded the five lords' souls as blasphemers, and provoked their fear and desire to fight.

The five Grade 5 Temple Knights tried to drain Plague God Gladstone’s power so Lord Gould could obtain His divinity and break beyond level five, but Gladstone’s attacks proved far more dangerous than they expected. As Gladstone bound them with the world’s rules, an energy clone emerged from Lord Ferdinand and sacrificed itself to stop three beams of black light.

• David returned from Plague God Gladstone’s world and hid underground, leaving his Shadow Servant to watch the confrontation.
• Lord Gould led the five Temple Knights in a charge, but Gladstone repelled them with a black ray that pierced their defenses and evaded their attacks.
• Lord Gould and the other lords resolved to keep attacking and draining Gladstone’s energy, hoping to seize His divinity and escape the limits of level five.
• Gladstone launched three beams of black light and used Rule Binding to freeze the five lords as the beams corroded their bloodline-power barrier.
• An energy clone emerged from Lord Ferdinand, grabbed the three beams, and exploded with them before they could reach the trapped lords.

Lord Ferdinand and the other Level 5 Temple Knights fought Plague God Gladstone, but their attempt to kill Him ended in the deaths of four lords. Lord Gould escaped through a rift with their bodies, though Plague God Gladstone’s black light struck him as he emerged.

• Lord Ferdinand detonated his energy avatar, disrupting the world’s energy and freeing the knights from Plague God Gladstone’s rule-based restraints.
• Lord Merlin, Lord Emil, and Lord Luca empowered their swords with their energy avatars, while Lord Ferdinand sacrificed himself to interrupt Plague God Gladstone’s attack.
• The three lords’ combined strike tore open Plague God Gladstone’s world, exposing it to the true world, but He counterattacked and killed them.
• Lord Gould collected Lord Ferdinand’s and the three lords’ bodies and escaped through the rift, carrying their Space Rings.
• Plague God Gladstone struck Lord Gould with black light as he escaped, but Lord Gould stopped it near his heart before collapsing outside the closing rift.

David rescued the unconscious Lord Gould after the failed attempt to slay Plague God Gladstone, then weakened the poison in his body before Lord Gould recovered and returned to Mein Star. Lord Gould warned his family that the other lords had fallen and sought healing, while he wondered who had saved him.

• David saw Lord Gould emerge from the rift alone, grabbed him with the Shadow Servant, and took four Space Rings before fleeing the lake.
• David used Poison Imbuement patterns to draw some of the poison from Lord Gould, then concealed the treatment with antidotes and headed for the God of Shadows Church's Safe House.
• Lord Gould woke, discovered the poison had weakened, and drank ten servings of Warmheart Lotus Seed Soup, which eased his wounds and steadied his emotions.
• Lord Gould traveled through a Portal to Mein Star, where his arrival triggered a lockdown, and he ordered Baron Blackmer to warn the families that the lords had fallen in battle.
• Lord Gould asked Charlie to summon Bishop Borin and wondered what mysterious rescuer had weakened Plague God Gladstone's poison.