Chapter Summaries

Frost King and Sequence 009 found themselves stranded on an unfamiliar world after Qin Leng sent them away. Frost King discovered the planet was in a medieval era and, with no way home, asked a loyal horse to carry him.

• Sequence 009 tested Absolute Hit against Earth and realized he was on another planet, then considered finding advanced technology to build a way home.
• Frost King froze Sequence 009 and repeatedly launched him toward space, discovering that his merged body had become Tier Four.
• Frost King realized he had no way to return to Earth and could not reach Tier Five to travel through the universe.
• Frost King heard hoofbeats and found an armored rider dead from arrows in the wasteland.
• Frost King tried to take the rider's horse, but it stayed beside its dead master, so he asked it for a ride.

The Frost King entered another world, turned its people and beasts into wights, and led them south from the wasteland. Months later, Duke Ash learned that the undead had crossed the northern border and Winter City had fallen, with Ashen City next in their path.

• The Frost King killed an archer, transformed him into a wight, and tested his strength against the pursuing riders.
• The Frost King ordered his new wight to lead him to people, then turned the riders and their horses into wights and set out for a settlement.
• Several days later, Kedis warned a village that Anthony and the others were dead, but the villagers dismissed him until the Frost King's horde arrived and destroyed the village.
• Duke Ash asked a traveling scholar whether the undead spreading through the North could lead to another Shattered War, and the scholar insisted they posed little threat.
• An armored soldier told Duke Ash that the undead had crossed the northern border, Winter City had fallen, and Ashen City would soon be reached.

The Frost King led a vast army to attack Winter City, while Qin Leng watched events unfold from Earth and worried about the missing Sequence 009. Chen Ye appeared in the darkness and pulled a bloody projection from Qin Leng’s eye, revealing the Frost King’s assault on Ash City.

• The Frost King led his evolved Others and a huge army toward Winter City, where mages and other defenders wielded powerful magic but had fragile bodies.
• An Other told the Frost King about humanity’s four strongest figures and the legendary Demon King Baal.
• Qin Leng saw the Frost King attacking a city in the other world and remained unworried, believing powerful beings there could stop him.
• Qin Leng wondered where Sequence 009 had gone as the room suddenly plunged into darkness.
• Chen Ye appeared and pulled an image from Qin Leng’s eye showing the Frost King’s attack on Ash City.

Chen Ye realized that the Land of Dreams could carry him to the world Qin Leng saw, but he needed a stronger coordinate and decided to call in more people. In that world, the ghoul army conquered Ash City, and the Others raised the dead before marching toward Aarons Royal City.

• Chen Ye confirmed the identity of Qin Leng’s world and planned to gather more people to strengthen its coordinate.
• The ghoul army overwhelmed Ash City’s defenders, despite the holy knight’s attacks with holy water and a Mithril weapon.
• An Other challenged the exhausted holy knight to a duel, wounded him, and beheaded him.
• The Other mounted his Frost Horse and watched the dead rise with crystalline blue eyes and white hair.
• The Others announced their next destination as Aarons Royal City and vowed to cover the world in eternal winter.

Chen Ye sent Sequence 008, the True Ancestor, to another world with a Philosopher's Stone potion so he could gather intelligence about its hidden powers. After learning of the Holy Sword and the Frozen Disease threatening the city, the True Ancestor infiltrated a church and began extracting knowledge from its people.

• Chen Ye gave the True Ancestor a Philosopher's Stone potion and sent him to the other world to investigate its experts.
• Priests in a city discussed the Frozen Disease, the frost-walking monsters, and the Holy Sword who had once encountered a mysterious celestial realm.
• The True Ancestor entered the church and asked the priests to tell him about the Holy Sword.
• When a priest's Radiance exposed him as a vampire, the True Ancestor killed the old man and absorbed him with the Philosopher's Stone.
• The True Ancestor learned the world's language and knowledge from those he devoured, continuing his mission to find its hidden experts.

Achilles arrived at Golden City as its defenses collapsed under a ghoul invasion, destroying many of the monsters and forcing the Frost King to retreat. While the Frozen Disease and surviving ghouls still threatened the Empire, the nobles in Aarons Royal City remained oblivious until a mysterious white-haired woman entered a banquet.

• The ghoul army overwhelmed the soldiers at Golden City, and a headless paladin split the city gates with Supreme Saint Slash.
• Achilles caught an ice spear, rode into battle on a Winged Horse, and destroyed monsters with his Supreme Saint Slash.
• The Frost King sent a wight to attack Achilles, but Achilles killed the wight and pursued the Frost King, who escaped with his followers.
• Achilles drove the Frost King away, but the remaining ghouls and their incurable Frozen Disease continued to threaten the Empire.
• A duke held a lavish banquet in Aarons Royal City while the nobles ignored the crisis, and he invited a beautiful white-haired woman in a blood-red gown to dance.

At a noble’s estate, the vampire Progenitor Philvon Alice encountered Sequence 008 and realized he was a powerful Blood Clan being from another world. Sequence 008 revealed that his power came from an existence beyond the gods Alice knew, leaving her confronted by a creature stronger than herself.

• Philvon Alice turned the nobles and guests at the estate into blood-eyed monsters, then noticed another predator on the balcony.
• Sequence 008 changed from a white-haired woman into a red-eyed man, and Alice recognized the scent of a high-ranking Blood Clan member.
• Alice recounted how an alchemist created her with the Blood of Immortality, then died while seeking the blood of Fire Eater Nara.
• Sequence 008 confirmed that he came from another world and knew the undead Alice had seen, including the Frost King.
• Sequence 008 formed Blood Hands without using magic, then held a mithril dagger to Alice’s neck and said his power came from an existence beyond the gods she knew.

Sequence 008 transformed Alice into a powerful, beautiful member of his Blood Clan and ordered her to serve blood to the kingdom’s nobles and king. Meanwhile, Achilles stopped pursuing the Frost King at the northern border, and the Frost King encountered a talking skeleton in the Endless Wasteland.

• Alice begged Sequence 008 to transform her, and he remade her into a powerful Blood Clan member.
• Sequence 008 showed Alice the manor’s nearly hundred transformed nobles and ordered her to make the kingdom’s nobles and king drink their blood.
• Achilles led soldiers and church personnel against the ghouls in Golden City, then intercepted the Frost King’s wraiths at the northern border rather than venture over the Endless Wasteland.
• The Frost King considered how to defeat Achilles and kicked a nearby skeleton, which spoke to him in a language he could not understand.

The Frost King agreed to work with Achilles’s uncle after his wight translated the offer, then demanded the promised artifacts within three days. Meanwhile, Sequence 009 fell into the Aaron Empire and met Jena, a lute-carrying Moor, and a Paladin, who tried to help despite their urgent journey to Golden City.

• Achilles’s uncle offered the Frost King artifacts and help defeating Achilles, and the Frost King agreed after the wight explained the proposal.
• The next day, the Frost King demanded that Achilles’s uncle deliver the promised items within three days or face the end of their cooperation and the loss of his head.
• Sequence 009 crashed into a city in the Aaron Empire, complained about being trapped in the medieval era, and struggled to find a way around the language barrier.
• A Moor carrying a lute and the Half-elf Jena encountered Sequence 009 and discovered that Jena could understand his unfamiliar language.
• A Paladin approached and asked Jena to find out where Sequence 009 came from, while the Moor reminded him that they needed to hurry to Golden City because ghouls were running rampant.

Sequence 009 joined Jena and her companions on their journey to investigate the corpses in the Northern Territory, hoping to use Jena as a translator. Frost King rejected an ancient magical bracelet offered by the Elder of the River Styx, confident after learning that Lord Aus had sent him support.

• Sequence 009 asked Jena to teach him the elven language, then agreed to travel with her and her companions to the Northern Territory.
• Jena's companions argued over whether to let Sequence 009 join them, and the paladin agreed to keep watch over him.
• Frost King learned that the Lustrous Jade Bracelet protected its bearer from disease and dismissed it as useless.
• A wight described Achilles's ancient magical relics, including the Holy Sword Zhan Gang, a breastplate, and a necklace.
• Frost King threw the bracelet back and told the Elder of the River Styx to replace it.
• Frost King revealed that Lord Aus had contacted him and promised support, leaving him confident that he had someone backing him.

Achilles received a secret warning from the King of Aaron about vampires and growing corruption in the Empire, so he ordered a retreat from the Endless Wasteland. As he led the soldiers back toward the Imperial Capital, ghouls and mounted wights appeared in the snow, with the Frost King asking whether Achilles had heard of an Absolute Trait.

• A soldier warned Achilles that the troops could not endure the Northern Lands' extreme cold, while fighting in the wasteland risked awakening the Ancient God.
• A knight delivered a secret order bearing the Church's and royal seals, in which the King of Aaron described signs of vampires and urged Achilles to return to the Imperial Capital.
• Achilles ordered a retreat but stayed with the hundred thousand soldiers, prioritizing their safety and his paladin vows over rushing to the king.
• An undead creature controlled by necromancy approached Achilles and called him its dear nephew, but Achilles destroyed it with sacred light.
• Ghouls and mounted wights emerged through the snow, and the Frost King asked Achilles whether he had heard of an Absolute Trait.

The Frost King and an undead ally tried to strip Achilles of his protective amulet and kill him, while the undead revealed that Alice had joined their attack on the Imperial Capital. Their plan failed when Achilles revealed he still had the genuine amulet, and the battle continued as he drove his holy sword into the ground.

• The undead told Achilles that he had allied with Alice and claimed the king in the Imperial Capital was in danger, but Achilles refused to abandon the battle.
• The Frost King froze time and attacked Achilles, whose golden barrier blocked the strike.
• The Frost King lodged a Dragon Crystal throwing knife in Achilles's barrier, allowing the undead to use the Hand Stealing Curse to take an amulet from him.
• The Frost King took the stolen amulet and attacked Achilles with the Verdant Flame Sword, but the golden barrier repelled him.
• Achilles revealed a second amulet that seemed to be genuine, exposing the stolen one as a fake, then thrust his holy sword into the ground.

Achilles recalled how he had exposed his uncle Zorn Musa’s necromantic experiments to survive, then used his holy sword to block the Frost King and Underworld River while he escaped. As the pair considered how to get past the barrier, a familiar stranger appeared and the Frost King asked whether Qin Leng had sent him.

• Achilles remembered that Zorn Musa had raised the dead to win the Battle of the Underworld River and had later tried to turn Achilles into an Abomination.
• Achilles recalled earning Zorn Musa’s trust before exposing his necromantic experiments and becoming the youngest Temple Apprentice.
• Achilles drove his holy sword into the ground, creating a vast Holy Light Barrier that separated the Frost King and Underworld River from the ghouls.
• The Frost King and Underworld River realized Achilles had used the barrier to escape, but the holy sword’s light curtain resisted their attacks.
• A stranger carrying two throwing knives appeared before the Frost King, who asked whether that lord or Qin Leng had sent him.

Arthur joined the Frost King and shattered the Sacred Barrier with his Absolute Traits, while Leviathan and Siren were sent to scout the other world. Half a month later, a group searching the Endless Wasteland found only corpses and tried to question a dead ghoul.

• Arthur broke the Sacred Barrier with a slash and pulled the holy sword from the ground.
• Arthur told the Frost King that two more allies had been sent over but could not land with him.
• Leviathan plunged into the ocean with Siren on his back, tasked with scouting for powerful beings beneath the sea.
• Half a month later, a group of four reached the Endless Wasteland and found it covered in ice and corpses.
• The lute-playing man used a pendant to question a ghoul, but wasted his questions on the corpse's answers before it lay back down.

Latt’s group learned that more than a hundred thousand ghouls were heading for Aaron’s capital, and Latt chose to go there despite the odds. Achilles returned to the fallen capital and revealed that he had abandoned his paladin oaths, yet still wielded radiance.

• Latt questioned the dead and learned the enemy still had over a hundred thousand people advancing toward Aaron’s capital.
• Latt argued that his group could not defeat the horde alone, but he decided to head for the capital.
• Achilles entered the silent, bloodied capital and found the church’s Codex of Light torn in half.
• Achilles discovered civilians and church personnel sheltering in the church vault, where they told him the Codex no longer repelled the undead.
• Achilles killed the people gathered in the vault, including a church member who condemned him for breaking his oaths.
• Achilles continued wielding radiance despite having violated more than ninety of his oaths.

Achilles retrieved the wedding ring key to the Atula Treasury, then was surrounded by the Blood Clan, the undead, and the Frost King's ghouls. Arthur cut Achilles apart, but Achilles revived as a human fused with a Celestial Creature and revealed that his radiant power came from an Angel's Heart.

• Achilles opened seven doors in the underground vault, took the wedding ring, and left for the Atula Treasury's distant location.
• Achilles emerged to find the Blood Clan had slaughtered the people he had escorted, while the Frost King's undead army and the Styx arrived.
• Alice introduced Sequence 008 as a Blood Clan Progenitor from another world who she served.
• The Frost King froze Achilles, and Arthur's holy sword shattered his defenses and cut him into pieces.
• Achilles's body reassembled, and he revealed that he had grafted a damaged Celestial Creature's body onto his own and gained radiant power from its Angel's Heart.

Achilles revealed that he had secretly fused his body with parts of a slain Celestial Creature to gain Legendary power, while using the Church’s oaths to conceal his true nature. As Arthur and the Frost King confronted him, Achilles activated Holy Sanctuary, and the Frost King’s Absolute Freeze failed to stop him.

• Achilles’s body transformed into an abomination, revealing the stitched-together creature Styx had designed.
• Achilles recalled betraying Styx, killing a Celestial Creature, and secretly using her body parts to replace his own until he reached Legendary Grade.
• Achilles admitted that his perfect reputation and hundreds of Church precepts were a cover for his ambition and broken oaths.
• Achilles blamed the group for ruining his plans to become Pope and seize the treasury’s wealth.
• Arthur challenged Achilles, but Achilles summoned the holy sword back to himself and activated Holy Sanctuary with a platinum key.
• The Frost King’s Absolute Freeze failed to affect Achilles, so he warned Arthur to come back.

Achilles used the heavenly key Sanctuary to attack from an independent space, forcing the Frost King and the others to flee. Sequence 009 carried Arthur through a rift into Sanctuary, where Arthur severed Achilles’s head, but Achilles regenerated and his strongest strike could not harm Sequence 009.

• Arthur’s knives passed through Achilles’s projected body, and Achilles cut Arthur in half before Sequence 008 rebuilt him with the Philosopher’s Stone.
• The Frost King realized Achilles was attacking from another layer of space, and Achilles revealed the Sanctuary key let him strike outward while remaining unreachable.
• Achilles began charging Supreme Saint Slash, so the Frost King, the True Progenitor, and Styx fled while Sequence 009 carried Arthur toward him.
• Arthur cut open space, and Sequence 009 used Absolute Hit to cross into Sanctuary, where Arthur decapitated Achilles with Absolute Sever.
• Achilles regenerated and unleashed Supreme Saint Slash at Sequence 009, but the attack only stripped off his clothes, leaving Achilles bewildered.

Chen Ye assessed the world’s strongest beings and sent Angel Mo to take revenge on Achilles. Angel Mo killed Achilles and tore out his golden heart, leaving the angelic body stitched onto Achilles to rot.

• Chen Ye judged the four Legendary experts weak, identified the local gods, Baal, and the sea monster Rag as potential threats, and considered investigating the Celestial Realm.
• Chen Ye told Angel Mo he would give him a chance for revenge and sent him into the other world.
• Achilles fled the Holy Domain, but Angel Mo appeared and kicked him into the ruins of a city.
• Angel Mo recognized Achilles as the human who had wounded him and severed his arm during their fight.
• Angel Mo evaded Achilles’ Most Holy Slash, pierced his chest, and tore out his still-beating golden heart, killing him.

Angel killed Achilles, took his heart, and used its radiance to unleash a devastating sword strike near the imperial capital. Meanwhile, Chen Ye’s forces divided their spoils and pursued separate plans, while Sequence 009 seized Jena as a translator and Arthur attacked her companions.

• Angel tore out Achilles’s heart, absorbed its radiance, and cleaved a distant mountain with a golden sword strike.
• The Progenitor killed Styx and claimed his corpse, while the Frost King turned Styx’s dragon into a frost thrall and took the dragon and an ancient creation.
• Chen Ye ordered the Frost King to investigate the God of Death, Fire Eater Nara, beneath the northern wasteland; the Progenitor planned to conquer the former Aaron Empire, and Sequence 009 chose to pursue his own plans.
• Sequence 009 and Arthur appeared before Jena and her companions outside the ruined imperial capital, and Sequence 009 forced Jena to come with him as his translator.
• When the paladin attacked Sequence 009, his sword broke against Sequence 009’s head; Arthur then severed the paladin’s sword arm with a throwing knife.