Chapter Summaries

Azra was formally welcomed by the Elven Realm, then discovered she could sense, absorb, and influence emotions through a new power. The chapter revealed that the witch doctors had engineered her experiences and dreams as an experiment, and that her transformation had just been completed.

• After months at elven headquarters, Azra attended a formal council meeting and negotiated the Snake Spirit Clan’s resettlement with an Executive Government official, who warned that a major war was approaching.
• Azra and Alama shared an intimate farewell before Azra sensed emotions in the surrounding world and found she could absorb some of them to grow stronger and affect Alama’s feelings.
• The witch doctors found that the dying Trolls’ bleak emotions made them unsuitable for their life-field experiment, so they developed a dream-based method and tested it on captives.
• The witch doctors selected Agatha of the Snake Spirit Clan as their experimental subject and used an altered fruit, dreams, and field amplifiers to shape her emotions and affinity for elves.
• After Azra’s council meeting and the impending separation from Alama provided the final emotional stimulus, the witch doctors ordered maximum output and completed her initial transformation.

The witch doctors prepared a plan to transform forty-three dying Trolls into heroic spirits through shared dreams, while the northern factions advanced toward war. After the first vast dream session succeeded, the witch doctors adjusted their plans to reduce the strain on their resources.

• Azra left Elven headquarters, and the witch doctors developed new transcendent paths, including the heroic spirit plan.
• The northern factions advanced toward their battlefield, leaving destruction along their routes as Elven scouts withdrew from danger zones.
• The witch doctors built the dream system, Hall of Heroic Spirits, and supporting infrastructure, then obtained consent from the forty-three dying individuals and participating elves.
• The first dream session shaped the Trolls’ identities and seeded their vitality fields as more than two hundred and ten thousand dreamers participated.
• Azshara and Nesta agreed to freeze the Trolls to buy time and proposed smaller, more entertaining dreams alongside films and novels based on their experiences.

The three western powers concentrated their armies against the Far Eastern Federation, and the Rhine forces breached and captured a major fortress at great cost. As battles continued across the front, the elves watched the fighting through broadcasts and studied the northern powers’ tactics.

• Kaiser proposed concentrating the western armies on the central route, and the Tusk and Mammoth commanders agreed while the Federation shifted troops to meet them.
• The Twin Kings secretly moved forces toward the southern front, but their deployment and new detection and communication capabilities were leaked to the other powers.
• Rhine forces used auxiliary troops, war altars, cavalry, and ground lions to break through a Federation fortress, then killed its shamans and took surviving defenders and other inhabitants prisoner or slave.
• The Tusk People and Mammoth People continued their own offensives, using blood-based attacks and varied altar effects to trouble Federation defenders.
• Giant Tusk and other elves watched battlefield reports through Totem devices and television stations, observing the northern armies’ tactics and the war’s casualties.

Over five years of war, the Thirteen Tribes of the Far East grew more unified while the Black Forest expanded its espionage, resource gathering, and industrial capabilities. By Rune Calendar Year 106, the witch doctors feared the demigods’ domains were transforming the world, even as the Elven Realm’s population and power surged.

• The Far Eastern demigods united their worship into a natural pantheon, while their shamans debated whether to include servant and slave tribes in its faith; intercepted signals linked the Twin Kings to promoting the proposal.
• The united Far East halted the Western Three Powers’ advance in places, won local battles, and struck enemy supply lines and settlements, while the Three Powers sent further reinforcements.
• The Black Forest transported lesser races to mountain plains and islands, raised its Mother Tree numbers, and developed brain-parasitic chips that provided intelligence from Far Eastern shamans.
• By Rune Calendar Year 106, the war had lasted about five years, and the elves recognized the mass deaths of servants and slaves as a means by which the great powers maintained their populations and hierarchy.
• The witch doctors observed the Valiant One’s, the Protector’s, and the Far Eastern pantheon’s domains expanding, and feared their growth could transform the planet’s natural laws.
• The Elven Realm increased its fifth-rank witch doctors to forty-four, automated most production, and saw its citizen population grow from 340,000 to nearly three million, with millions of young elves needing education.

Raphael borrowed Arjetmista’s simulated power in a dream and fought a Skeleton Mage and Skeleton King, while witch doctors prepared the birth of forty-three Heroic Spirits. As fifteen million elves gathered in the virtual world to nourish the Heroic Spirits, their formation diverged from the plan, leaving their many individual aspects more active than their unified primary consciousnesses.

• Pelene and Raphael scouted a ruined castle, where Pelene’s spell revealed a large skeleton force before the castle detected it and broke the image.
• Raphael summoned Arjetmista’s dark aspect through the Hall of Heroic Spirits, transforming into a shadowy warrior and attacking skeletons around the castle.
• A Skeleton Mage summoned a giant Skeleton King, and Raphael faced their assault in the dream.
• Dream mentors monitored Raphael’s training and discussed the planned births, while witch doctors prepared for the arrival of forty-three Heroic Spirits.
• Fifteen million elves gathered in a shared dream and visualized the Heroic Spirits, whose bodies and consciousnesses began to form in the virtual realm.
• Witch doctors observed that the Heroic Spirits’ many individual aspects had become more active than their unified primary consciousnesses.

The elves transformed their shared dream into an embryonic domain that began merging with the real world, creating a collective power mediated by the Hall of Heroic Spirits and the dream brain. The forty-three chosen Trolls became heroic spirits in unstable dual states, while the elves gained a limited ability to perceive and influence their homeworld.

• More than ten million elves' thoughts formed forty-three heroic spirits from the dying Trolls, whose bodies began transforming into elven forms.
• The heroic spirits merged into the Hall of Heroic Spirits, which spread through the dream and turned it into a shared embryonic domain connected to reality.
• The Hall of Heroic Spirits and its altar remained at elven headquarters as concept-born structures, while the forty-three heroic spirits shifted between illusion and reality and their primary consciousnesses fell into slumber.
• The dream brain sublimated into part of the domain, projected the homeworld within the Hall of Heroic Spirits, and enabled limited control over the planet.
• The witch doctors envisioned expanding the domain's reach, using it to influence Near Gods and northern races, disrupt faith, and provide controllable cultivation methods.

The elves used the dream domain to expand espionage in the north and transform education and research, while witch doctors’ discoveries raised unsettling questions about the universe’s nature. Azshara urged citizens to prioritize growth, and microscopic experiments advanced from atomic nuclei to plans for studying smaller particles.

• The headquarters trained and planted agents among northern races, using brain parasites and dream reincarnations to support espionage and prepare for rebellion.
• The domainized dream world enabled immersive entertainment, remote education, and virtual experiments that accelerated research into the universe and its possible boundaries.
• Witch doctors detected a phenomenon they named void energy and proposed that the universe might be created or virtual, prompting disputes and unrest among elves.
• Azshara called on citizens to keep developing regardless of the world's truth, while orbital witch doctors restricted the spread of negative speculation.
• Witch doctors used the domain microscope to explore atomic nuclei, identify negative and neutral particles, and create the first periodic table of elements.
• After experiments on decay, radiation, isotopes, fusion, and fission advanced rapidly, the witch doctors turned toward studying electrons and the internal structures of negative and neutral particles.

Elisa, a dream sorceress researching consciousness restructuring, struggled to brainwash especially resolute subjects into believing they were elves. While searching the domain dream for inspiration, she discovered an unusual dream nested inside a sleeping mammoth’s dream and began concentrating the intelligent brain’s processing power on it.

• Elisa woke in her residential unit, teased her neighbor Asner, and learned that Freya was preparing to advance to the fifth tier and return to the orbital laboratory.
• Elisa went to the Dream Research Institute, where she led a project that restructured other races’ consciousnesses through elaborate simulated dreams.
• Elisa ordered Special Subject No. 78 to undergo further consolidation and training after reviewing his progress, despite the lengthy process.
• Elisa considered how to overcome the resistance of three stubborn subjects: a Rhine People warrior, an earth-lion mount, and a mammoth warrior.
• Elisa detected an unusually pure signal from a sleeping mammoth’s dream, recognized it as a dream within a dream, and devoted her processing resources to investigating it.

Elisa verified that nested dreams could reach deeper into a subject’s subconscious and began applying the method in Avatar Project trials. After transferring Theosta into a Tusk People body and noticing his intense revulsion, she monitored other subjects as the Rhine People brothers’ reunion triggered an anomaly alarm.

• After eighty lamp-hours of work, Elisa used multiple nested dreams to confirm that they weakened subjects’ awareness and made subconscious alteration more effective.
• Elisa’s research paper was uploaded, and headquarters approved further experiments on the male Tusk People subject and three other captives.
• Theosta awoke in a Tusk People body, struggled to speak, and told Elisa that he regretted joining the Avatar Project.
• Elisa judged Theosta’s disgust toward his body a risk to the mission and discussed the reaction with her team, including Diana Tusk.
• When the Rhine People brothers met in a containment chamber, the intelligent brain detected anomalous fluctuations, and Elisa chose to wait rather than activate armed containment.

Elisa’s team and the orbital witch doctors advanced layered-dream research aimed at weakening or trapping near-gods, while testing showed that consciousness killing was difficult and brainwashing higher magical beasts remained unsuccessful. The Republic prepared to approach the Snake God through Azra’s people, and Giant Tusk publicly demonstrated a breakthrough that let him defeat a fivefold-enhanced armor with his bare hands.

• Elisa’s attempt to reorganize two Rhine twins’ consciousnesses failed when their natural link restored their identities and triggered a coordinated breakout.
• The fifth-tier witch doctors developed methods for locating primary consciousnesses and guiding dreams through seven layers, then tested consciousness killing, brainwashing, and dream cages on higher magical beasts.
• Nesta and Azshara reviewed the results: a seven-layer dream could kill a Cave Wolf’s consciousness under demanding conditions, while dream cages worked more easily and brainwashing failed.
• The witch doctors selected a near-death Snake God whose worshippers lived in the Northern Plateau as a potential target for testing their methods.
• Azra welcomed Alama and newly gathered Snake Spirits, learned that the Republic would soon transport the remaining people, and was told it planned to rescue and ally with the Snake God.
• At a combat tournament, Giant Tusk fought a fivefold-enhanced armor bare-handed, knocked it down, and confirmed that a breakthrough had enabled him to challenge armored warriors.

Giant Tusk’s victory sparked a renewed cultivation movement at headquarters, while the Republic successfully imprisoned the Snake God’s consciousness in a seven-layer dream. The chapter ended as the Snake Spirit Clan began a large-scale sacrifice, giving headquarters a chance to study how collective faith affected the dream prison.

• Giant Tusk defeated arena armor through improved bodily cultivation, and the broadcast inspired a new wave of cultivation at headquarters.
• Elves and witch doctors guided the dormant Snake God through seven dream layers, using subconscious avatars and a simulated worshiping clan to keep it content and unaware of its imprisonment.
• The dream team concluded that the first phase of testing had succeeded, while noting that the Snake God’s persistent faith bond remained a challenge for future trials.
• Headquarters gathered the Snake Spirit Clan in Northern Plateau territory and arranged extensive AI, witch doctor, and dream-domain preparations to observe a major sacrifice.
• The Snake Spirit Clan began its planned ceremony as the dream domain monitored the resulting longing and faith in real time.

As drought, floods, and food shortages weakened the Northern Continent, the Weaver and other gods began empowering oppressed tribes to resist their rulers. Arnte received the Natural Order’s blessing and a call to build a movement, while the elves expanded a dream network across the continent.

• The Rhine King blamed subordinate tribes for the food crisis and ordered harsher measures as allied forces advanced into the Far East.
• Boror accepted the Weaver’s faith and Arcane Arts, but his trusted men killed him and fled with the remaining provisions.
• A drought-stricken tribe received water after praying, then rebelled when Rhine soldiers arrived to slaughter them.
• The tribe’s chieftain called on a god, who chose Arnte, the first rebel, and granted him Natural Arcane Arts and a mission to spread the Natural Order.
• At the elven headquarters, new offices appeared at the Heroic Spirit Altar as a dream network spread across the Northern Continent.

As the Rhine King chose to continue the war, Arndt’s growing Church of Nature’s Wrath reached the land granted by the gods and faced a Rhine battlegroup. The chapter ended as the battle was about to begin, with the Rhine Matriarchs revealing their secret devotion to the Mother Goddess of Earth.

• The Rhine King prayed to his Father God, received the order to keep fighting, and sent citizen armies to secure the supply routes as unrest worsened.
• Yuval exposed nobles plotting to betray the fleeing tribes, and Saint Arndt executed them before establishing the Church of Nature’s Wrath with Yuval’s help.
• Nature’s Wrath’s angel descended through Arndt, defeated a Rhine force, and bestowed holy seeds that made chosen believers God-blessed Warriors.
• Arndt led the church through battles and divine-grace forests, and its following grew to nearly one hundred and fifty thousand believers before reaching the land granted by the gods.
• A Rhine battlegroup advanced against the church, while three Matriarchs secretly revealed their allegiance to the Mother Goddess of Earth.

Saint Arendt led the Church of Nature's Wrath through a decisive battle and into a deep forest, where they found the fertile holy land promised by divine revelation. Years later, the church had grown into a powerful community of nearly a million believers, supported by its Holy Tree Altar and other divine structures.

• The Rhine commander and elite cavalry broke through the cult's defenses, but Saint Arendt invoked Angel's Punishment, destroying the commander, his mount, and much of the cavalry in a blazing strike.
• The Rhine forces retreated, and Yuval ordered the Faithguard Army and believers to pursue them; most of the remaining slave soldiers and citizen militiamen were killed or captured.
• After Arendt recovered, the cult entered the forbidden forest and reached a fertile plain with vast herds of broad-antlered elk and an enormous tree that Arendt recognized as their natural altar and future sanctuary.
• Arendt resolved to build a homeland without serfs or nobles and to spread Nature's Wrath; in the following years, the church expanded and resettled suffering tribes in the holy land.
• By Rune Year 112, nearly a million believers lived in the church's holy land, where the Holy Tree Altar and other faith-powered altars supplied food, tools, agricultural support, and military training.

The true-god sects launched a coordinated campaign across the Rhine Kingdom, using divine roads, fortresses, and the Earth Mother Goddess Sect’s influence to win successive battles and undermine Rhine confidence. As the Rhine King struggled with worsening supply problems in the Far East, a trusted messenger arrived with catastrophic news from the kingdom’s rear and demanded to know why the king had not replied.

• The sects agreed to avoid fighting one another, divide the kingdom into faith zones, and coordinate military operations against the Rhine forces.
• Divine roads and fortified supply stations appeared across the kingdom, allowing the sects to move troops and supplies quickly while preventing their enemies from using or destroying the infrastructure.
• The Earth Mother Goddess Sect expanded its influence through the thirteen princess consorts, recruiting clan matriarchs and organizing slave soldiers and tribes into its network.
• The sect armies used superior intelligence, transport, and angelic intervention to defeat Rhine forces, while news of the losses spread and Rhine People began praying for the king’s return.
• The Seventeenth Princess withdrew her soldiers from the Far Eastern war, worsening the Rhine King’s supply crisis, and a trusted subordinate arrived with disastrous news from the kingdom’s rear and demanded an explanation for the king’s silence.

Kaiser withdrew the Rhine army from the Far East after receiving an ambiguous divine reply, then discovered that disaster and rebellion had devastated the route home and much of his kingdom. He gathered reinforcements at the border and prepared to break through the fortress network toward the capital.

• Kaiser received the Father God's message, interpreted it as an order to return, and began withdrawing his troops from the Far East.
• The Rhine army crossed the devastated buffer zone by scouting routes and raiding deserter camps, while reports revealed drought and internal conflict in the Tusk People's territory.
• Kaiser reached the kingdom's eastern border and learned that true god sects had seized much of the realm and that more than seven million allied troops guarded the fortress network.
• Kaiser requested reinforcements, and the queen consorts approved measures to let rival sects weaken one another during the coming battle.
• The capital sent 300,000 hardline Rhine People, three million servant soldiers, and one million slave soldiers east, joining Kaiser's forces with a total of 800,000 main-clan troops and four million servant and slave troops.

Kaiser led the Rhine Legion toward the royal capital, breaking through the sect coalition’s defenses despite devastating divine-grace weapons. When the coalition summoned the Gates of Heaven, more than fifty thousand towering figures appeared, revealed as armored elves from the Republic’s angel legions, and the long-awaited war began.

• Kaiser bypassed the fortress network and fought through the coalition’s field blockades as both sides suffered heavy casualties.
• The Rhine Legion broke through successive defenses, but the coalition delayed its advance and gathered millions of troops for a final stand.
• The sect leaders began a continent-wide ritual, and the coalition’s prayers opened enormous gates in the sky.
• The Rhine forces halted as the gates shattered and more than fifty thousand giant figures appeared above the battlefield.
• The Republic’s plan revealed that the angel legions were armored elves, deployed from aerospace carriers to take part in the northern war.

Seventy thousand angels encircled the Rhine Legion and offered surrender, but the Rhine King chose to fight. The angels swiftly overwhelmed the army with nonlethal attacks, leaving the sect coalition to wonder whether the survivors would join the Earth Mother Goddess Sect.

• The angels deployed interference and communications fields, while their commander warned them to keep Rhine Legion casualties below twelve percent.
• An angel destroyed the Rhine war altar with a javelin strike, sparing the shamans, and the angels surrounded the battlefield to demand surrender.
• The Rhine King saw his people were afraid but unwilling to submit, so he ordered them to fight.
• The angels incapacitated waves of Rhine warriors with electric attacks, then subdued charging earth lions, cavalry, and griffin riders with close-range methods.
• The sect coalition watched the angels overwhelm the Rhine Legion while sparing most soldiers, and worried that the survivors might convert to the Earth Mother Goddess Sect.

The angel legion and allied sects conquered the Rhine Kingdom, divided the western, northern, and eastern regions into church-states, and began their advance on the Mammoth Kingdom. As the Mammoth Twin Kings' desperate mass ritual failed to reach the Father God, the Protector's mind collapsed into chaos, and a colossal Mammoth emerged from beneath Twin Kings City and charged south.

• Kaiser surrendered after the angel legion defeated the Rhine forces, and angels sealed the prisoners in forty sect-run prisons.
• The angels captured the capital region, while the Rhine queen dowagers and other leaders accepted conversion to the Earth Mother Goddess; the church established the Holy Earth Mother Theocracy.
• The forty sects divided the western continent, while the north and Far East were likewise broken into church-states under the true gods' authority.
• The angel legion and allied forces advanced on the Mammoth Kingdom, and the Twin Kings recalled their army, purged sects, and gathered around two hundred million Mammoths and Protected People for a desperate ritual.
• The Protector's recollections and reason unraveled under a mysterious summons, and a gigantic Mammoth burst from the ground at Twin Kings City and flew south.

The mammoth demigod broke free of the layered dreams and charged toward the Black Forest headquarters, forcing the witch doctors to mobilize their forces and confront it. Nesta, Azshara, and the other fifth-rank witch doctors used a giant elf-like mimic body and coordinated attacks to wound and restrain the Protector, but it continued struggling inside a metal prison.

• The mammoth demigod tore through the dream layers, awakened in the real world, and began charging south toward the Black Forest headquarters.
• Nesta arrived at the observation center and learned that prayers from other races and the weakened dream mind had driven the Protector mad while also strengthening it.
• Azshara ordered continent-wide prayers, weapons mobilization, and the deployment of the Angel Legion as the witch doctors prepared to fight the demigod.
• Nesta, Azshara, and six other fifth-rank witch doctors fused with a giant mimic body and traveled toward the mammoth demigod.
• The giant elf-like body used the domain to disrupt the demigod's powers while aircraft and Punishment Spears battered it with spell effects and meteor-like strikes.
• The attacks pierced the mammoth's defenses and trapped its lower body inside a cube of solidified metal, though it continued to struggle.