Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting explained that the Trojan War still occurred because the Olympian gods needed conflict to sustain their influence, though its cause differed from the familiar story. The war began after Paris chose Apollo over Zeus, dividing the gods into opposing factions and planting seeds of discord among the Olympians.

• The Olympian gods treated war and danger as ways to preserve Greek faith, and most agreed that Toroi should be drawn into a conflict.
• Zeus became interested in Paris because of his beauty and his family’s connection to Ganymede, while Apollo was already close to Paris.
• Paris chose Apollo over Zeus, and Zeus resented him while Olympus’s need for war and Hera’s hostility pushed events toward conflict.
• Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, and Athena supported Toroi, while Hera, Ares, Hephaestus, Poseidon, and Hermes backed the Greek allied forces.
• The Trojan War began, and the opposing sides deepened divisions among the Olympian gods.

After nearly ten years of war, Toroi defeated the Greek coalition after its heroes and gods shaped the conflict. Paris and Apollo lived happily ever after.

• Greek heroes and the gods fought on opposing sides, and the war dragged on for nearly ten years.
• After Hector killed Patroclus, Achilles returned to battle, killed Hector, and continued defeating Toroi's heroes.
• Atalanta saved Penthesilea, then killed Achilles with an arrow to his heel.
• Odysseus devised the Trojan Horse stratagem, but Medea turned the hidden Greek soldiers into frogs.
• The Amazons ambushed the Greek army beneath Toroi's walls, and the Toroians charged out and killed Agamemnon and Ajax the Lesser.
• Toroi won the war, and Paris and Apollo lived happily ever after.

Ye Ting began traveling around the world with a black cat and a white cat, expanding Hecate's Magic Web across Africa and exploring the Americas. He met Quetzalcoatl in South America and continued his journey.

• The defeat in the Trojan War weakened Greece's old states and strengthened nations led by Argonauts, spreading mortal doubts about the gods.
• Ye Ting concluded that the Greek Divine Realm's decline was underway but that his plans needed to reach beyond it.
• Ye Ting traveled through Africa and brought its ley lines within the range of Hecate's Magic Web, accelerating the process through time travel.
• Ye Ting went to the Americas, where independent spirit essences ruled North America and the Aztec pantheon ruled South America.
• Ye Ting met Quetzalcoatl and remarked that the god-king's original form resembled wind serpents from World of Warcraft.

Ye Ting traveled from the Americas through India and Persia to Canaan, observing the region’s gods and their powers. In Canaan, he found Baal ruling in practice while El held only nominal authority, though El had the potential to become much stronger.

• Ye Ting passed through India and judged its immortals’ methods of imitating divine bodies to be a viable path to power.
• Ye Ting witnessed Arash use Stella to draw the border between Persia and Turan, killing himself with the arrow.
• Ye Ting arrived in Canaan and learned that Egyptian trade had brought much of the region under Egypt’s influence despite the Canaan Pantheon’s strength.
• Ye Ting observed that Baal had become Canaan’s true ruler while El remained its nominal chief god.
• Ye Ting recognized that El could become terrifyingly powerful if he learned another way to strengthen himself.

Ye Ting explained how faith and divine aspects shaped gods, then considered how to use El to weaken the world’s pantheons. He abandoned the idea of an ordinary divine war and saw El, an omnipotent god sustained by faith, as a better instrument for undermining the gods.

• Ye Ting explained that believers’ impressions formed a deity’s aspects, which determined how the deity could use their faith.
• Ye Ting noted that faith could reshape gods, corrupting those whose aspects diverged from their original nature.
• Ye Ting described how El could accept faith from any kind of believer, though this made such gods solitary and prone to conflict with their pantheons.
• Ye Ting considered starting a divine war to turn humanity against the gods but rejected it because victorious pantheons would absorb the power of defeated gods.
• After seeing El, Ye Ting decided that cultivating him could weaken the gods without allowing other pantheons to share in the resulting faith.

Ye Ting confronted El in the deserted Canaan divine palace and offered to help him take revenge. After Ye Ting demonstrated the Sea of Chaos, El believed he was powerful enough to help him reclaim what he had lost.

• Ye Ting found El sitting alone on his throne and pointed out that his palace was empty and his divine queen had betrayed him.
• El questioned Ye Ting's motives and suspected he represented another pantheon, but Ye Ting said he acted for himself and offered to help El take revenge.
• Ye Ting summoned Reality Marble: Sea of Chaos, transporting El into a realm where his control over the world's laws failed.
• El raised a divine shield and submitted to Ye Ting's power, then accepted his explanation that he could help reclaim everything.
• El mistook Ye Ting for an unfathomable independent existence, while Ye Ting concealed that El could break the Sea of Chaos with enough divine power.

Ye Ting revealed that he knew how El had been threatened by Anat and betrayed by Baal and Asherah, then pressed El about whether he resented them. El angrily denied caring, while Ye Ting doubted his claim.

• Don Juan told El that he knew about his daughter threatening him and his son taking his throne.
• Ye Ting recounted how Baal seized power, how Anat helped him defeat Yam and Mot, and how Asherah abandoned El for Baal.
• Ye Ting hinted that he knew about El's castration, shocking and enraging El.
• Ye Ting asked El whether he hated Baal and Asherah for betraying him, and El shouted that he did not care.
• Ye Ting shrugged and doubted El's denial.

Ye Ting exploited El’s resentment over his castration and lost throne to forge a deal that would help El regain power and take revenge. After leaving El’s palace, Ye Ting discussed how easily hatred and ambition could manipulate even gods with Bastet.

• Ye Ting offered El a way to grow stronger and reclaim the throne of the King of Gods, in exchange for making his enemies disappear and agreeing to a second condition later.
• Ye Ting inflamed El’s jealousy by describing Asherah’s relationship with Baal, and El agreed to the deal.
• Ye Ting and El set a time to meet again, when Ye Ting would bring him a method for using faith to defeat other gods.
• Ye Ting left the palace with the two cats, and Bastet remarked that he had made a god fall through manipulation.
• Ye Ting told Bastet that hatred and ambition made even gods easy to lead.

Ye Ting gave El the divine spell “Genesis Eden,” a two-sided demiplane that could empower gods with faith or weaken them with hatred and suppress true ether. The spell offered El a way to fight other gods and gave Ye Ting a weapon against the pantheon, while repeated use could steadily reduce the world’s total true ether.

• Ye Ting returned to El’s palace and brought him a powerful divine spell and two sets of divine artifacts.
• Ye Ting explained that “Genesis Eden” unfolded a demiplane anchored to Earth’s ley lines and shaped by humanity’s love and hatred of gods.
• Ye Ting described “Genesis Heavens,” which embodied goodness and faith, and “Genesis Hells,” which embodied corruption and hatred toward gods.
• Ye Ting explained that Genesis Hells could suppress true ether, forcing gods to rely on faith and exposing them to the demiplane’s hostility.
• Ye Ting revealed that Genesis Eden could drain true ether from regions of the world, gradually reducing its total amount through repeated use.

Ye Ting explained how El could use Genesis Eden and gave him artifacts for building a divine realm and creating an angel army. He summoned Icarus to demonstrate the Angel Reincarnation Pool’s creations.

• El examined Genesis Eden and accepted its spell and demiplane seed, finding no traps or spiritual imprint.
• Ye Ting gave El the Angel Reincarnation Pool and explained that it could create powerful winged spirit warriors from souls and divine power.
• Ye Ting described how the pool rebirthed souls as angels, whose strength and wings depended on their souls and the divine power infused.
• Ye Ting summoned Icarus, a winged girl who identified herself as his multipurpose entertainment angel.

Ye Ting had Icarus demonstrate the power of her weapons to El, summoning the Uranus System and devastating a cliff in the Divine Realm. The test left El astonished, and Ye Ting prepared to direct Icarus toward another target.

• Ye Ting explained to El that Icarus was a strategic all-purpose angel and asked where they could test her weapons.
• El said the isolated valley was abandoned and allowed Ye Ting to destroy anything nearby.
• Ye Ting chose a distant mountain as a target, and Icarus transformed into combat mode and summoned the Uranus System.
• Icarus fired a swarm of fusion-powered missiles that blasted the cliff apart, leaving El stunned by the weapon's godlike destructive force.
• Ye Ting turned toward another direction as the demonstration continued.

Ye Ting learned why Lilith had left Eden and reassured her that he would not abandon her. Lilith revealed that Samael had helped her and became determined to regard the angel as her friend.

• Ye Ting asked Lilith why she had left Eden, and she explained that Adam wanted to be on top during reproduction while Yahweh sided with him.
• Lilith feared Ye Ting would send her away and offered to accept being underneath, but Ye Ting stopped her from undressing and comforted her.
• Ye Ting asked how Lilith had found him, and she said Samael had sheltered her, given her a book, and directed her toward him.
• Lilith pleaded with Ye Ting not to harm Samael, and he promised to leave her friend alone.
• Ye Ting explained what friendship meant, and Lilith resolved that Samael was her friend.

Ye Ting reflected on how El’s transformation into Yahweh and creation of Adam, Eve, and Lilith echoed myths from other worlds despite Ye Ting never teaching him about them. He concluded that worlds might share a hidden origin or developmental logic, and considered whether discovering it could eventually help him travel between worlds.

• Ye Ting considered how El had renamed himself Yahweh and created Adam, Eve, and Lilith, matching figures from Christianity despite Ye Ting’s influence being unintentional.
• Ye Ting compared the limited changes he had seen in world history with the different path of the Egyptian Divine Realm and the familiar occurrence of Greek epics.
• Ye Ting recalled how Judaism, Christianity, and Canaanite religion were connected, and wondered why El’s creations and scriptures resembled those of another world.
• Ye Ting rejected the idea that higher worlds had imposed identical myths on every world and instead proposed that worlds shared an underlying connection or origin.
• Ye Ting speculated that understanding this connection might let him carry the world’s favor or divine authorities into other worlds, but admitted the research was beyond him for now.

Lilith learned from Samael that Adam and Eve were forced to spend their lives reproducing, and she reflected on how fortunate she was to have escaped that fate. Years later, she discovered that Samael had transformed into a half-serpent fiend, but recognized her friend beneath the changed appearance.

• Samael told Ye Ting that Adam and Eve were living in Eden as tools for humanity’s reproduction, while only a few of their many children inherited their bloodline strongly.
• Lilith told Samael that she considered her former life in Eden degrading and was grateful to have left with Ye Ting.
• Samael wondered whether wisdom was truly important after hearing Lilith’s views.
• When Lilith returned years later, she found a dark-winged, half-human, half-serpent being in place of Samael.
• Lilith recognized Samael, dispelled her protective storm, and uncovered her friend’s face beneath her black hair.

Lilith reunited with the fallen Samael and learned that Yahweh had cursed and exiled her for encouraging Adam and Eve to eat the Fruit of Wisdom. Ye Ting explained the reason behind Yahweh’s punishment, while Samael’s shame over her fallen state left the others unsure how to comfort her.

• Lilith met Samael and offered to help her take revenge on whoever had caused her fall.
• Samael revealed that she had encouraged Adam and Eve to eat the Fruit of Wisdom, after which Yahweh cursed her, corrupted her power, took her legs, and drove her from Eden.
• Lilith questioned why Yahweh had punished Samael so harshly, and Ye Ting answered that wisdom hindered humanity’s desire to reproduce.
• Lilith introduced Ye Ting and Astraea to Samael, who felt inferior beside them and stepped away.
• Astraea eagerly approached Samael to talk, pleased to have finally met an angel junior to her.

Ye Ting comforted Samael about her corrupted appearance, changed her clothes, and unsealed the gender seal in her body. Samael learned that Ye Ting and his companions had created the angels, while Astraea resumed arguing over who was senior.

• Astraea cried because Samael was her senior, and Ye Ting comforted her as Samael began speaking more comfortably with them.
• Ye Ting told Samael that power had no inherent distinction between good and evil, and Lilith demonstrated her control over deathly power.
• Ye Ting transformed Samael's tattered clothes into black scale armor and reassured her that her serpent tail was beautiful.
• Ye Ting unsealed Samael's gender, causing her body and feelings to change, and Samael grew more fond of him.
• Ye Ting confirmed that he and his companions had created the angels, and Astraea protested Samael's claim that she was the younger sister.

Ye Ting welcomed Samael into Hecate’s service by connecting her to the Magic Web, while Yahweh’s growing Israelite people began conquering Canaanite tribes. The Canaanite gods’ attempts to recruit Yahweh failed, leaving them facing an inevitable divine war.

• Ye Ting offered Samael a home and connected her to the Magic Web as a guardian angel under Hecate.
• Samael accepted her new source of power and prayed to Hecate, cutting off Ye Ting’s direct intelligence from Eden.
• Yahweh’s human population grew beyond ten thousand as the people established themselves outside Eden.
• The Israelites entered Canaan, annexed tribes, and demanded that they worship Yahweh.
• Canaanite gods sent forces against the Israelites, but some gods vanished amid fire and darkness, and their tribes were defeated.
• The Canaanite gods’ envoys failed to return, and the gods realized a divine war was inevitable.

Yahweh led the heavenly host against the Canaan Pantheon, revealing himself as El and fighting the gods who had betrayed and humiliated him. Anat counterattacked fiercely while angelic formations surrounded her, and Yahweh moved against Baal and Asherah.

• Yahweh trapped the Canaan gods in Genesis Hells, where their unfamiliarity with the realm's lack of true ether gave his side the advantage.
• Yahweh's fighting style exposed him as El, causing lesser followers to hesitate and Baal and Asherah to retreat in shame.
• Anat attacked Yahweh and the angels, cutting through the heavenly host and showing the Canaan gods how to fight in Genesis Hells.
• Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael led angelic formations to surround Anat and wear down her divine power.
• Yahweh led the remaining angels in an assault on Baal and Asherah.

After defeating the Canaan Pantheon, Yahweh expanded his power by conquering smaller pantheons and sweeping through Eastern Europe. When he returned centuries later, Egypt had enslaved the Israelites, so he led the angels to Egypt and unleashed the Ten Plagues.

• Yahweh defeated Baal, captured Anat and Baal’s loyal gods, killed Baal’s children, and absorbed the Canaan Pantheon.
• Yahweh used the Seal Ring to plunder the Canaanite gods’ faith and grew powerful enough to conquer nearby minor pantheons.
• Yahweh led the heavenly host east into Eastern Europe, where they sealed and slaughtered local gods until the remains of the giant god Sefar halted their advance.
• While Yahweh was away, Egypt defeated the Christian Alliance, enslaved the Israelites, and prompted other annexed peoples to abandon Christianity.
• Yahweh led the angels to Egypt, ordered the Israelites to leave, and brought down the Ten Plagues.

Ramses II and Moses's struggle ended with the Israelites leaving Egypt after Yahweh and the Heliopolitan Pantheon negotiated a ceasefire. Back in Canaan, Yahweh consolidated his faith and established an Israelite kingdom whose throne passed from Saul to David and then to Solomon.

• Yahweh's forces fought the Heliopolitan Pantheon, and both sides agreed that the Israelites could leave Egypt while Yahweh would not take revenge on the Egyptians.
• Ramses II defied the agreement and sent troops after Moses, but Moses parted the Red Sea and the waters swallowed the Egyptian army.
• After the Israelites returned to Canaan, Yahweh punished the gods who had betrayed him, including Asherah, and exiled Lucifer and Azazel.
• Yahweh recognized that conquest had drained his sources of faith and established a formal Israelite kingdom under Saul.
• Saul lost Yahweh's favor, and David succeeded him, building wealth and power before his son Solomon inherited the throne.