Chapter Summaries

Nesta used the giant elf’s domain, technological weapons, and a newly discovered holy-light effect to weaken and destroy the near-divine mammoth. The mammoth’s body was reduced to a living specimen, though Nesta never found its Magic Crystal, and the angel legion was ordered to attack Twin Kings City.

• Nesta maintained the prison around the mammoth while plasma cannons, aircraft, and distant platforms continued attacking it, and he ordered the angel legion to delay its strike on Twin Kings City.
• Nesta and his allies experimented with defining the mammoth as evil, eventually producing holy light that damaged it and slowed its healing.
• Nesta ordered the creation of a domain holy-light pool and transformed the orbital pseudo-celestial body into a lens system while reinforcing a double-layered sphere around the mammoth.
• The focused holy-light beam caused the sphere to explode, destroying most of the mammoth’s body but leaving its core alive and severely weakened.
• Nesta descended and led a sustained assault with aircraft, spears of punishment, Arcane Arts, and repeated holy-light strikes while ordering the angel legion to attack Twin Kings City.
• Nesta used small holy-light strikes to erase the mammoth’s remaining fragments, keeping one tiny living specimen but finding no Magic Crystal.

Alena Tusk grew up in a child-populated elf town before leaving it for the next stage of her growth. She arrived in a futuristic city and prepared to begin her education, while noticing that her new world felt strangely familiar.

• Alena was born from the Mother Tree and raised in the elf town, where children studied, worked, and hunted under the old mayor’s guidance.
• At a farewell feast, Alena comforted a child she had accidentally knocked down and said goodbye to Elno before leaving town the next morning.
• Alena awoke in a futuristic city with a seven-year-old body, adapted the room’s technology with unexpected ease, and looked forward to choosing what to study.

Alena reunited with Shadi in the Virtual Realm, where Shadi showed her the enormous city and explained the school studies awaiting her. The chapter ended with Alena eagerly reading about intermediate mathematics and admiring Lord Pioneer.

• Alena greeted Shadi, who explained that they would be together for four more years and that Alena could visit Elno in another academy city during breaks.
• Shadi took Alena around the city in her aircraft, warned her about dangerous behavior in the Virtual Realm, and showed her the core campus.
• Shadi described the difficult ten-year curriculum and urged Alena to work hard so she could choose her future path wisely.
• Shadi stayed with Alena for her first week of adaptation, and Alena began reading about intermediate mathematics and praising Lord Pioneer.

Alena began her first day at the academy, befriended Rena, and experienced an immersive history of the Trolls’ rise during the opening ceremony. In her first physics lesson, Teacher Cecil took the students on a simulated journey into space to introduce familiar concepts from a cosmic perspective.

• Alena met Rena at the academy, and the two found their way to the freshmen’s grand hall together.
• The Republic’s leaders welcomed the new students, who experienced an immersive history of the Trolls’ development and Alena became eager to begin her studies.
• Alena discussed elective classes with Rena, then went to Teacher Cecil’s introductory physics lesson and met Essex Tusk.
• Cecil introduced his research and urged the students to build a strong foundation in natural physics.
• Cecil transformed the classroom into a spaceship, showed the students the planet and its satellite, and began teaching universal gravitation, planetary magnetic fields, and other concepts from a cosmic perspective.

The narrator had a headache and fever and could not go to school. They stayed in bed and took the day to rest.

• The narrator developed a headache and fever.
• The narrator stayed in bed all day and missed school.
• The narrator took a day off to rest.

After choosing physics as her main focus, Alena learned about a graduating class’s interstellar warfare showcase and discovered that her interest groups took part in competitions. She returned to the mech club, where Pedrosta introduced the club’s training and tournament structure and challenged the children to compete against older students.

• Alena chose Cecil’s physics class as the main focus of her studies for the semester.
• During lunch, Rena showed Alena a notice about the upcoming Deep Space Fantasy Performance, and Alena realized her clubs were connected to competitions.
• After afternoon classes, Alena returned to the mech club and apologized for being absent while she focused on choosing classes.
• Pedrosta welcomed Alena, introduced himself as a sixth-year student, and explained that the combat armor club would eventually run itself.
• Pedrosta described the city and Virtual Realm selection tournaments and explained that students in years one through three competed in the same bracket.
• The children protested that older students had little advantage, and Pedrosta noted that first-years had rarely beaten third-years in the past.

Alena and her friends learned how the armor club would train them, and Alena later faced a disappointing first-year competition before resolving to try again. During vacation, the girls visited Alama’s restaurant, where she agreed to tell them about her missions in the material world.

• Pedro explained the club’s gradual armor training program and showed the children designs created by older students.
• Alena studied the Blazing Fury Gale and learned from Pedro that the Virtual Realm and its apparent objects were sensory simulations.
• After a year of classes and club activities, Alena earned excellent grades but failed to qualify for the Hundred Cities Selection Competition, then decided to work toward next year’s selection.
• Alena and Rena met Shadi after exams and went with her to Alama’s restaurant, where Alama welcomed them and served Snake Spirit-style dishes.
• The girls asked Alama to tell them about her missions, and she began recalling stories from the material world.

The chapter showed Ashley’s peaceful farming life with her family under the God of Beauty and her nervous trip to Kuru Snow City to sell milk. Alama then hinted to Rena, Alena, and Shadi that a mission involving her heroic moment was about to begin.

• Ashley prayed, prepared breakfast, and reminded Bati and Stuta to wash and pray before they ate.
• Bati and Stuta left to work in the fields while Ashley prepared her younger twins for a trip to the city.
• Ashley agreed to sell her sister’s milk and buy blue-black nuts for the frail baby Amir.
• Ashley and the children entered Kuru Snow City, where Ferreira and Litoto promised to attend church school together.
• Rena and Alena pressed Alama to tell them about a fighting mission, and Alama said her heroic moment would come soon.

Alama recounted meeting an antelope family at Kuru Snow City’s market before revealing that the Goddess of Beauty’s holy land had been invaded. When giant apes attacked the city with falling boulders, Alama rescued the antelope mother and her children and saw four apes emerge amid the market’s ruins.

• Ashley brought patterned-horn antelope milk to the east market, where a black-furred novice priest assigned her a stall and explained the fees and Divine Grace scale.
• Alama, disguised with platinum skin, bought milk from Ashley and attracted the attention of Ashley and her children.
• Alama told Alena, Shadi, and Rena that she had visited Kuru Snow City on vacation and had only bought milk, then announced that the Goddess of Beauty’s holy land was invaded.
• Several hundred giant apes climbed out of a gorge and charged toward Kuru Snow City as tremors shook the ground.
• Alama sensed danger, received a warning from Captain Dilansta, and carried Ashley and her children away as enormous stones struck the market.
• Alama set the antelope family down and saw four mad apes standing among the market ruins.

The Ape King and its tribe attacked Kuru Snow City, overwhelming its defenses while the grand archangel and local defenders prepared to fight. With Republic reinforcements fifteen lamp-minutes away, Alama and her team chose to stay and protect the residents.

• The Ape King and more than a dozen ape lords hurled boulders at Kuru Snow City, breached its walls, and devastated its defenses.
• The grand archangel detected the attack, ordered an evacuation and battle preparations, then charmed a frenzied ape into protecting her.
• The city’s Divine Grace Knight Order arrived as the grand archangel assessed the threat from the frenzied apes.
• The Republic carrier dispatched six hundred Angel-grade soldiers, estimated to arrive in fifteen lamp-minutes, and asked Dilanstar’s team to help protect the residents.
• Alama hesitated to refuse the optional mission, helped trapped antelope-kin hide, and voted to stay; the captain announced that all five team members had chosen to remain.

Alama recounted how she and her team fought to protect Kuru Snow City's residents while racing toward the central church for a combat enhancement. She left the story at the moment the team prepared to use the church as a vessel for power against the creatures invading the city.

• Alama used her armor core to deploy emergency armor, then killed one Rampaging Ape and lured three others away from fleeing residents.
• Alama learned that her teammates were each being pursued by large groups of Rampaging Apes, and the captain redirected them toward the central church.
• The church's defenders faced overwhelming numbers, but the archbishop and the knight division commander transformed through their dances and temporarily drew the apes into infatuation.
• Alama led her pursuers into the church's special influence zone, then heard that Beast King-class and Lord-class creatures were entering the city.
• Alama told Alena, Shadi, and Rena how the team planned to use the central church as a vessel for power, ending with her captain's joke about forming the crotch.

Alama and her teammates used the Goddess of Beauty’s power to turn Kuru Snow City’s church into a mech, which held off the Beast King until angels captured the apes and restored the city’s survivors. After the battle, Alama got permission to stay behind and explore, then later told Alena the story before setting off to work.

• The two third-rank clerics used the domain’s power to stop the berserk apes, but the strain left them near collapse before pink light spread across Kuru Snow City and subdued the attackers.
• Alama, the captain, and their three teammates connected their armor cores to the church’s arrays, transforming it into a giant mech that charged the Beast King and fought to restrain it.
• The Beast King battered the church mech and rallied the apes, but the mech countered with lightning and sensual magic while the angels arrived and captured the Beast King and the other berserk apes.
• Angels rebuilt the church and healed the surviving clerics and believers; the damaged church mech collapsed after the angels departed with the captured apes and five containers.
• Alama persuaded Captain Dylanta to let her leave the transport ship and continue exploring Kuru Snow City, while her teammates teased the captain about Alama.
• Alama later finished telling Alena the story, watched her and her companions leave, then made her storefront vanish and disappeared to get to work.

Alena and her friends traveled to Academy City No. 032 for the Hundred Cities Mecha Selection Tournament, where they met Quenna Tusk and her companions before spending their vacation at events across the cities. The chapter follows Alena’s school years and competitions until she graduates from the Virtual Realm and learns she can be born into reality after half a year of accelerated cultivation.

• Shadi took Alena and Rena to Academy City No. 032, where Quenna Tusk and three male elves lifted them above the crowd and accompanied them to their hotel.
• Quenna explained how elves could grow taller and heavier by transforming and incorporating matter and energy with their life force fields.
• The three friends spent the rest of their vacation attending competitions and other events before returning to school.
• Over the following years, Alena excelled in her studies and competed in the Hundred Cities tournaments, eventually winning two championships and earning enchanted rings.
• Shadi graduated after presenting her painting “Deep Space,” while Alena continued through tenth grade and promised Rena they would meet in reality.
• After entering a new world and choosing the warrior path, Alena learned that two years of accelerated cultivation would prepare her for birth in reality after half a year.

After passing her exams in the Virtual Realm, Alena Tusk formally applied for birth and emerged into the real world after a decade of guided development. She collected her belongings and prepared to leave Mother Tree Space Station No. 345 for Earth.

• Alena passed all required exams, confirmed that she wanted to keep her name, and formally applied for birth.
• In Rune Calendar 201, Alena completed her growth in a cultivation chamber and was welcomed into the real world by the nursery monitor.
• Alena retrieved her intelligent terminal and belongings, checked her contacts and credit, and prepared for independent life.
• Alena kept Ilya inside her Totems while they spoke, then followed the terminal through the station to the observation deck.
• The station announced that a return flight to Earth was being dispatched for Alena.

Alena toured Mother Tree Space Station No. 345 and watched short films showing how the Republic captured Beast Kings and near-gods, expanded Mother Tree production, and rapidly built up its civilization. The films then revealed that the dramatic increase in little elf production came at a growing environmental cost, as forests withered and food yields fell.

• Alena explored the station’s ring corridor, saw the sun and her home planet, and connected to a light screen showing historical short films.
• The films showed the Republic’s council approving plans to expand little elf increment and capture Beast King-class creatures and near-gods.
• Republic forces captured Beast Kings and near-gods across the world, fighting especially fierce battles in the Far East.
• The Republic used new technologies to create hundreds of Beast King Mother Trees and forty-eight near-god Mother Trees, raising production to one hundred million little elves every ten years.
• The Republic built factories, mines, farms, cities, and the Virtual Realm to support its growing population.
• The films showed forests withering and reports of reduced food production, prompting the Republic to investigate soil fertility and global climate.

Alena watched a historical presentation showing how the Republic’s expanding cities and Totem plants were exhausting soil nutrients and cooling the climate. The high elves began planning to spread production across the Northern Continent and power Totems with electricity, while the Pioneer asked about atomic energy research.

• Alena reviewed records showing the Republic had built twenty-three cities and a vast industrial complex around Headquarters, with a rapidly growing population.
• A scholar warned the council that Mother Trees and other large consumers were depleting soil nutrients, risking worldwide desertification, while Totem plants could drive long-term cooling.
• Alena considered how population growth and industrial production intensified environmental strain, and suspected the high elves had turned toward space to address it.
• The council approved preparations to present high elves as descendants of angels and shift some production to the Northern Continent through trade.
• The council discussed powering Totems directly with electricity, and the Pioneer asked the Atomic Energy Research Institute about progress in weapons and energy applications.

Alena learned how the Republic developed fission technology and launched the Arcane Moon Project to pursue fusion. After boarding a ship bound for the home planet, she saw that the violet-gold space station was connected to the Arcane Moon by more than four hundred passages, possibly marking the birthplace of all little elves.

• Alena reviewed the Republic’s fission research, from early decay studies and Heavy-Nucleus Fission Art to physical and Totem-controlled weapons and reactors.
• Nesta led a large-scale research effort that gathered the Republic’s secondary researchers to develop the Arcane Moon fusion project.
• A terminal announcement prompted Alena and several hundred little elves to board a shuttle bound for the home planet.
• Alena experienced the shuttle’s weightlessness and watched it depart the violet-gold space station.
• Alena saw the enormous Arcane Moon and realized that more than four hundred passages connected it to the station, matching the Republic’s number of Mother Trees.

Freya and Agatha traveled toward Inferno Star aboard a crewed spacecraft to begin its exploration and prepare a planetary base. When the Virtual Realm signal failed beyond the planet’s range, Agatha proposed moving Inferno Star closer to the primary planet, and Freya considered how such a project might be possible.

• The Republic selected Inferno Star as the Arcane Moon Project’s material source and sent probes that revealed its extreme heat, dense atmosphere, corrosive clouds, and rich volcanic resources.
• After determining that elves could survive Inferno Star’s conditions, the Republic launched a crewed expedition from its high-orbit base on July 36 of Rune Calendar year 150.
• Freya and another tier-5 spellcaster piloted a mimetic spacecraft equipped with two Beast-King-grade cages toward Inferno Star.
• Freya tried to restore the Virtual Realm signal after it disappeared during the voyage, while Agatha Tusk appeared aboard the spacecraft and discussed possible communication relays with her.
• Agatha proposed pulling Inferno Star into a closer orbit and connecting it to the primary planet, and Freya speculated about technologies that might make the plan feasible.

Freya and Agatha arrived at Inferno Star, established their space station in orbit, and began preparations to explore the planet. They launched exploration craft and decided to wait for atmospheric and surface data before sending their avatars down.

• Freya and Agatha fused with their spacecraft, and Freya guided it into orbit around Inferno Star before transferring control to the station’s intelligent brain.
• Agatha detected three surviving surface beacons, decoded their locations, and sent the coordinates to Freya.
• Freya chose to explore the planned optimal sites and ordered the station to shift orbit and prepare exploration craft.
• When the intelligent brain detected a strong thunderstorm, Freya dispatched one shielded craft to investigate it, four craft to gather atmospheric samples, and two supply craft.
• Agatha reported traces of Element One escaping from the atmosphere, likely from magmatic water, and Freya postponed their descent until they had more environmental data.

Freya and Agatha landed on Inferno Star to test the surface environment and prepare for construction, while their avatars investigated materials, atmospheric conditions, and ways to breathe. After Agatha’s bodily adaptation proved the most efficient breathing method for high-level spellcasters, Freya began investigating how their shared thoughts could communicate instantly across vast distances.

• Freya and Agatha landed their disc-shaped craft beside a vast volcanic crater, a site selected as suitable for construction.
• Freya directed the intelligent computer and exploration teams to monitor the craft, survey geology, test materials, and study methods of producing water and life-supporting gas.
• Agatha split into several bodies to test breathing methods, and one body transformed its hair, eyes, and respiratory system to withstand Inferno Star’s corrosive atmosphere.
• Agatha’s bodily adaptation proved more energy-efficient and reliable over time than body inscriptions or external breathing equipment, though the other methods remained more accessible to most kin.
• Freya received Agatha’s findings and wondered how their avatars shared information instantly across distance, then sent a message toward the homeworld to investigate the phenomenon.