Chapter Summaries

Elves observed an experiment that briefly virtualized a small beast and discussed how long it might take for the new technique to transport their true bodies. The chapter toured the Republic’s extreme training grounds and research facilities before a visitor arrived at the Virtual-Real Particle Conversion Research Institute.

• Elves across the Virtual Realm watched a vast array system render a sharp-toothed beast undetectable for 0.134 seconds before it reappeared unconscious.
• Giant Tusk and the other elves decided to follow their original travel plan because teleportation experiments could only transfer tiny amounts of matter so far.
• The chapter described the Republic’s white dwarf training grounds, where elite warriors, casters, and students trained or conducted research under protective arrays.
• A gigantic elf-shaped orbital construct sent a detached hand away as a spindle-shaped spacecraft, which disappeared amid distortions.
• The spacecraft emerged from warp space near the Virtual-Real Particle Conversion Research Institute, transformed into an elf body, and entered the fortress through an opened gate.

Elisa continued researching virtual-reality conversion while investigating a strange thought-ocean she entered through the emotional transformation of her body. Her exploration revealed the Republic’s collective thoughts, virtual worlds, the Hall of Heroic Spirits, and a vast network of divine domains, but she had not yet learned what the vision meant.

• Elisa ordered her staff to prepare to restart the experiment when the assigned molecular-grade spellcasters arrived.
• Elisa’s breakthrough in controlling her physical and virtual states had produced an uncontrolled emotional aura, and she had moved to the remote research fortress to study the phenomenon.
• Elisa transformed a thumb-sized portion of her body into emotional consciousness and found herself drifting inside a giant egg-like aggregation of the Republic’s thoughts.
• Elisa explored the thought-aggregation and discerned imagined and virtual worlds, the Hall of Heroic Spirits, and heroic spirit sub-consciousnesses nearing independence.
• Elisa observed a vast web of thought at the egg’s core, where aggregates formed divine domains and streams of thought flowed into pools of divine power.

The Republic advanced its quasar fortress network and continued experiments to convert matter between virtual and real states. As the Virtual Realm Conversion Institute tested the process, casters waiting near the Shadow Tyrant Group's base hoped the technology would eventually help them infiltrate and escape.

• The chapter described the Republic's military, resource, storage, central, and research fortresses and how elves worked and survived in barren regions.
• Elisa welcomed a collective of casters to the Virtual Realm Conversion Institute, where they joined the core array and helped convert sharp-toothed beasts into virtual particles and back.
• The casters combined their distributed bodies' computing power to analyze the conversion process and sought ways to improve its efficiency and reduce its energy cost.
• A support group waiting near the Shadow Tyrant Group's base considered how virtual-realm traversal could help them infiltrate the base and retrieve cell-level casters.
• The institute continued converting sharp-toothed beasts and examining their bodies and minds after they returned to normal.

Elisa and the Republic’s researchers developed arrays to trace intense emotional signals through the sea of thoughts, eventually locating a collective plea for salvation beyond the Republic. As they began trying to trace individual minds and transfer matter through spirit, a starship invaded a primitive civilization and turned its cities into death matches.

• Elisa sensed distant emotional summons and reported them to the Republic, which sent researchers to help her investigate.
• The team built arrays that stabilized thought imprints, extended exploration, and helped trace emotional fluctuations beyond the giant egg.
• The researchers discovered that powerful aggregates leaving the giant egg were infiltrators from the Yinba base, then traced a fear-born collective signal to a distant sea of thought.
• Elisa and the other arcanists concluded they had to locate an individual within the collective and began testing whether they could guide thought aggregates into matter at that person’s location.
• A starship arrived at a primitive civilization, defeated its resistance, and selected just over ten thousand survivors from nearly ten billion inhabitants.
• The invaders confined the planet’s residents to cities and forced them into terrifying death matches for the aliens’ entertainment.

Aliens drove a mediocre civilization into chaos as the Republic’s sorcerers detected the suffering and debated whether to intervene. A dying youth heard his sister call from the shadows and received a mysterious offer of hope.

• Aliens destroyed escaping officials and broadcast their hunts, driving the population into mass violence for a promised chance of survival.
• Republic sorcerers traced the civilization’s extreme emotions to their source, and the project team discussed striking back with the Grand Archon’s approval.
• A youth fled with his younger sister after looters killed their parents and his older brother abandoned them.
• The youth’s sister stopped breathing after he covered her mouth, and he attacked a pursuing adult in rage before collapsing from exhaustion.
• The youth heard his sister’s voice from the shadows and received the question, “Kid, do you believe in light?”

After new research linked negative emotional sedimentation to the gestation of evil spirits, the Republic established the Cosmic Security Force to intervene in afflicted worlds. Elisa answered a boy’s plea to save his sister by descending through his body, appearing as a giant before an alien spacecraft.

• The Republic’s researchers discovered that negative emotions accumulated in connected thought-aggregates and could give rise to evil spirits, prompting the central authority to approve interventions that could bring hope.
• Nesta proposed a Cosmic Security Department, and the Republic established the Cosmic Security Force with supervisory, technical, and volunteer operations groups, rejecting his suggested Land of Light identity and adopting purple-and-silver disguises.
• Researchers found how the beast king’s All Things Listening ability transmitted thoughts and developed Arcane Arts and array-based alternatives to it.
• Elisa contacted a badly injured boy and agreed to save his little sister after he offered his body in exchange for her survival.
• Elisa’s body vanished from the array as a new heartbeat emerged in the boy, and a giant Elisa appeared before the alien spacecraft.

Elisa calmed the survivors, then fought off an alien pirate force attacking from orbit and captured its spacecraft. She rescued the abducted natives as the city's survivors began organizing a provisional government and tried to contact her.

• Elisa soothed the planet's survivors with her chants, and they prayed that she would defeat the invaders.
• Elisa spotted the alien spacecraft in orbit and sensed the abducted natives and combat personnel aboard it.
• Led by 'Lived Freely,' the aliens launched a purple beam and waves of combat craft and soldiers toward the planet.
• Elisa activated Superpower Mode, deflected the beam, destroyed incoming attackers, and protected the planet's surface as she charged into space.
• Elisa struck the spacecraft with an Arcane Arts sphere that drove the aliens into madness, then dragged the ship down and tore open its hull.
• Elisa rescued the abducted natives and soothed them while the city's survivors formed a provisional government and requested contact with her.

After the invasion, the natives restored order and formed a unified temporary government, which met Elisa to learn about the wider galaxy and the danger of further attacks. Elisa shared what she had uncovered about the raiders and a possible hidden planner, then gave the natives a repaired spaceship and knowledge to help them seek protection through the Council.

• The remaining military and government forces organized disaster relief, restored essential services, and formed a unified global temporary government.
• Elisa rescued the captives from the spaceship and examined its data, identifying the raiders as a third-rate pirate group connected to an infiltration operation.
• Elisa found evidence that the natives had been the voyage’s intended target and suspected a nearby civilization might have sent the pirates to act as its proxy.
• The natives’ temporary government sent officials to meet Elisa, and she used a translation spell to explain the Pan-Universe Security Force, the Council, the raiders, and her suspicions about a planner.
• Elisa declined the natives’ request for stationed protection, repaired the spaceship, gave it and its star map to their government, and transmitted knowledge of repair and piloting to their scholars and engineers.

Elisa returned from her mission, leaving the boy and his sister alive after defeating the pirates and helping the provisional government prepare for the future. The boy reunited with his older brother as his civilization began relief and recovery efforts, while the government sent ships to seek the Council and safeguard their species.

• Elisa destroyed the pirates’ and servants’ bodies, concealed her presence, and returned to the woods, where her projected body disappeared and the boy and his younger sister were left behind.
• The boy woke with memories of Elisa’s actions and technology, thanked her, and asked to join the Pan-Universe Security Force; Elisa explained how kindness and justice could qualify him for trials as a reserve member.
• Elisa’s mental link ended, and the boy left the forest with his sister before finding his older brother among the disaster relief workers and forgiving him.
• The provisional government housed the surviving family and provided relief, while the boy’s older brother joined a work-for-relief program to support them.
• The government sent a ship carrying the species’ genetic database toward a Council branch station, with plans to seek refuge elsewhere and expose the pirates’ mastermind if the civilization faced destruction.

Elisa reported problems from the latest two-state conversion test, especially the loss of body inscriptions, companion-beast support, and equipment access. The chapter contrasted the mind-transmission and array-transmission projects, then described the Republic’s expanding civilian transmission network and the construction of hundreds of transmission fortresses.

• Elisa explained that two-state conversion prevented her engraved body inscriptions from manifesting and cut off companion-beast links to the database and Virtual Realm network.
• Elisa said communication, spellcasting support, and equipment access were inadequate, and the researchers agreed to prioritize inheriting body inscriptions.
• The chapter described how the headquarters institute developed array transmission, transferring supplies and elves between distant arrays while continuing to address its technical limits.
• The Republic’s civilian-commercial transmission arrays entered deployment, connecting prosperous systems, resource regions, and key stations across its expanding territory.
• Engineering teams built nearly two hundred transmission fortresses that were nearing completion, while hundreds more remained under construction.

The Republic advanced its teleportation-fortress network and reorganized research groups while preparing for the technology’s long-term expansion. After Elisa returned, the Pan-Universe Security Department launched a public mission platform, and the Republic planned how to conceal sensitive technologies and operations as exposure became increasingly likely.

• The Republic outlined a plan to build over eight hundred teleportation fortresses and explained how the network would shorten travel times while supporting regional development and continued research.
• The Headquarters Research Institute split into civilian, military, and rule-essence research groups, which began exchanging knowledge and cooperating with civilian institutions.
• After Elisa returned, the first security mission’s results prompted technical adjustments; within half a year, the team solved the inscription loss problem and launched the mission platform in the virtual world.
• Elves eagerly joined the platform’s combat missions, though the number of monitored threats and available missions remained limited and was expected to grow with advancing technology.
• The Republic prepared concealment plans for spellcasters, sorcerer vision, security operations, and the relationship between elves and humans as it anticipated eventual exposure.

Giant Tusk and his companions tested a new body-inscription array that let elves shrink their enormous bodies for easier movement, then bought permanent access to it. The array’s creators, the young elves of the Starry Sky Castle Community, earned enough from sales to cancel their welfare and its behavioral regulations.

• Giant Tusk and his companions tested the body-inscription array after spotting it in the Virtual Realm marketplace.
• The array shrank Giant Tusk from roughly seventy meters to four meters, letting him move freely inside the spacecraft but greatly reducing his strength.
• Giant Tusk expanded back to normal in an instant and accidentally punched through his sleep chamber.
• The five elves agreed the array was worth buying, purchased permanent usage rights, and added updates to their watchlist.
• The Starry Sky Castle Community’s sales passed a hundred million, giving its young elf residents enough money to cancel their welfare and escape its behavioral regulations.

The chapter described how binary-conversion spells and public facilities made body-size control and portable storage widely useful, while Giant Tusk and his companions traveled toward a teleportation-fortress site. It also explained how the Divine Realm Alliance governed its member states and how angelic oversight exposed past abuses, punished officials, and secured compensation for victims.

• Elven researchers developed body-size conversion from existing technologies, giving elves greater freedom of movement and earning the developers and Republic substantial returns.
• A private organization created portable binary storage for spacecraft, houses, weapons, and equipment, and the nation bought the facilities and expanded them across its territory.
• Researchers pursued smaller arrays that could let portable terminals store and release objects without relying on public facilities.
• Giant Tusk and his companions changed their travel plans and headed for Special Ecological Planet 1-6, near a resource fortress and an upcoming teleportation-station deployment.
• The ruling Archangel and the angelic supervisory corps used emotional-vision technology to expose abuses by sects and city-state governments, order trials and reforms, and require up to a century of retroactive compensation for victims.

Giant Tusk's group arrived in the star system, collected their external armor, and headed down to the ecological planet. After exploring the wilderness in their armor, they laughed off the awkwardness of being seen by a passing farmer.

• Giant Tusk's group passed the Republic's navigation checkpoint and traveled toward the ecological planet region.
• The group found that their five sets of external armor had arrived and inspected them before paying for the delivery.
• Night Tusk located a nearby entrance to a bistable storage facility, and Giant Tusk urged the group to try it.
• Giant Tusk's group reached the ecological planet and ran around its wilderness in their armor.
• A farmer saw the five elves playing in the wilderness, and they stopped before turning their embarrassment into laughter.

Giant Tusk and his group repaired the environmental damage from their play and traveled to Great Tree City, an enormous elven metropolis on planet 1-6. They learned that the city and five others had agreed to shrink and return to flat layouts, and the proposal was sent to the national central authorities.

• Giant Tusk and the other elves applied for ecological restoration, and the planet’s arrays erased the damage they had caused.
• The five elves rode a large wheeled vehicle toward the coastal metropolis known as 1-6-1 or Great Tree City.
• Giant Tusk’s group viewed the city’s vast floating buildings and found its scale awkward for elves living in smaller bodies.
• Residents of all six cities approved plans to reduce their cities and return urban construction to a flat layout.
• The six cities submitted a comprehensive proposal to the national central authorities, which governed foundational communities and individuals rather than cities.

Elvinsen caused a chain-reaction aircraft crash in floating-island district 1-6, which turned into a massive brawl among the elves involved. After a young elf activated his combat abilities in anger, the community militia arrived and bound him, ending his combat state.

• Elvinsen sped through the district above the speed limit, collided with another aircraft, and triggered a chain crash that restored ten elves to their full sizes.
• An elf whose aircraft was destroyed attacked Elvinsen, and the other crash victims joined the brawl, drawing a crowd of spectators.
• A burly elf threw a forty-meter young elf out of the fight, humiliating him in front of the onlookers.
• The young elf activated his combat form and fired an energy beam at the burly elf, who swallowed it with a shadowy barrier.
• The community militia arrived and bound the young elf with chains, immediately ending his combat state and clearing his rage-clouded mind.

Cynthia Tusk led the militia in arresting the brawlers after a street-racing crash and transported them to the Legal Affairs Division station. As Giant Tusk and his brothers approached the metropolis, they heard that Cynthia had been disciplined for a mass killing during an earlier mission.

• The militia restrained the brawlers and Cynthia Tusk ordered them transported to the Legal Affairs Division station.
• Giant Tusk and the others flew toward the metropolis and received notices describing the crash, the offenders’ penalties, and the city’s upcoming scale-reduction procedure.
• Wood Tusk recognized Cynthia Tusk’s name in the notice and wondered why she was serving as a militia officer on district 102.
• Night Tusk said Cynthia Tusk had been punished for slaughtering more than a million lives in a dark entertainment den during a guard force mission.

Giant Tusk and his brothers traveled to Floating Island City 102 to visit their old friend Cynthia Tusk at her residence. They arrived before she returned and began looking around her enormous home, where the chapter left them in the private hangar on the seventh floor.

• Night Tusk contacted Cynthia Tusk and learned she would finish at the Legal Affairs Directorate's station within an hour and invited them to wait at her residence.
• Wood Tusk piloted the group to Floating Island City 102 while they discussed traffic violations and the consequences of breaking city rules.
• The group entered the city through a designated aircraft portal and followed its speed limit to Cynthia Tusk's residence.
• Cynthia Tusk's intelligent steward welcomed them, granted them high-level visitor permissions, and said she would return in an hour.
• Giant Tusk and the others left their aircraft in the seventh-floor hangar and saw Cynthia Tusk's collection of aircraft and the central atrium.

The chapter explained how Cynthia's residence functioned as a component of the Republic's broader economic and administrative system, detailing its floors, intelligent brain, dormant systems, and production links. It ended with basement levels three and four handling the residence's assigned production tasks and exchanges with the surrounding community.

• The chapter described the Republic's need to coordinate production, markets, taxation, welfare, and the Divine Realm Alliance across its settlements.
• Cynthia's residence was outlined from its living quarters and training areas down to its storage and visitor-accessible basement.
• The building's intelligent brain connected to the Republic's central core through the Virtual Realm, supported Cynthia and her equipment, and varied in range according to energy, arrays, and environmental erosion.
• Dormant functional core bodies stored on basement level two preserved systems that could be reactivated when the building's circumstances required them.
• Basement levels three and four linked Cynthia Residence to community and district collectives, distributing production duties, resources, costs, waste, and tax settlements.

Giant Tusk and his companions toured Cynthia’s private residence and discovered that her enormous external armor was suspended inside the central atrium. The chapter left them examining the cultivated giant elf body and comparing its strength with their own.

• Giant Tusk’s group chose to wait for Cynthia in the reception room instead of exploring her residence freely.
• The intelligent butler guided them down to the recreation floor and described its rooms as they walked toward the reception room.
• Wood Tusk noticed that the atrium extended far below the floors and was told not to investigate it recklessly.
• The liquid in the atrium cleared, revealing Cynthia’s sleeping external armor, a giant elf body over six hundred meters tall.
• Wood Tusk inspected the armor and remarked that only Giant Tusk and Frost Tusk seemed stronger than Cynthia.