Chapter Summaries

Taylor and the Dwarf Civilization began their arranged battle on a planar battlefield, first clashing with their fleets in the void before landing troops to establish bases. Taylor watched from the still-incomplete Glory of Aokelius Tower as the war shifted toward the broader struggle for the plane.

• Taylor and the Dwarf Civilization gathered their forces, while the White Tower Alliance and Multi-Species United Alliance sent five observers to monitor the battle.
• The 500 Worlds deployed more than 150 warships, and the Dwarf Civilization sent more than 140 heavily armored steam warships.
• The fleets exchanged fire in the void, destroying twelve Dwarven steam warships and five warships from the 500 Worlds before the fighting paused.
• Both sides sent troop transports through the damaged planar barrier and landed on the battlefield, where their legions began building bases and scouting.
• Taylor observed the battlefield from the Glory of Aokelius Tower, a twelve-thousand-meter flagship that Bobby considered less than thirty-five percent complete.

Taylor's Puppet Legion and the Dwarves fought a massive war of attrition, as the Forest Wolf Warband and Burning Legion broke through the Dwarf lines. The battle left the Dwarves' famed Heavy Goat Cavalry engulfed in flames.

• The Dwarves charged Taylor's standard Puppet Legion with Steam Golems, war machines, tanks, and firearms across the vast battlefield.
• Vox and the Forest Wolf Warband joined the fighting, killing Dwarf captains and breaking through their ranks with coordinated attacks.
• The Dwarves brought up Steam Tanks and Heavy Goat Cavalry to counter the Forest Wolf Warband's advance.
• The Burning Legion charged the Dwarves under its officers' command and cut a gap through their forces with its hot, self-destructive Lava Warriors.
• The Lava Warriors set the Dwarf Heavy-armored Goat Knights and their long-furred mounts ablaze, turning the cavalry into walking torches.

Taylor and the Dwarven gods faced off while Kano directed the war between their forces. After learning the Dwarves used steam drones to monitor the battlefield, Kano ordered Dom to attack them with his warship.

• Shadows spread beneath Dwarven command centers and weapons factories, while Taylor and the three Dwarven gods kept each other under watch.
• Taylor delegated battlefield command to Kano, and the Dwarven gods placed theirs in the hands of a council of five kings.
• Kano’s staff issued orders that coordinated the Burning Legion, Basic Puppet Legion, and Achilles Warriors, pushing the Dwarves’ forces into a desperate struggle.
• Kano learned that Dwarven steam drones performed a role like the Shadows and sent Dom an order to deal with them.
• Dom awakened his warship and ordered it to ram straight into the enemy.

The Burning Legion and the 500 Worlds waged a brutal battle against Dwarf forces across Battlefield No. 3, where heavy weapons, War Golems, and Titan Behemoths faced varied Dwarf troops and cavalry. Archimonde led the Lava Greatsword Warband into a clash with the Dwarves’ organized heavy cavalry.

• Orlik led the Crimson Butcher Warband in a violent assault, rallying its warriors to fight for the 500 Worlds and the Golden Dragon Lord.
• The more cautious warbands fell behind as recruits learned to fight without mercy after their restraint left them vulnerable.
• At the battlefield’s core, War Golems and Titan Behemoths crushed Dwarves and fought their steam mechs while the 500 Worlds’ troops endured attacks from many kinds of Dwarf units.
• Dwarf dark killers assassinated two priests who had been strengthening the battlefield with magical buffs.
• Dwarf heavy cavalry charged across the field with their connected bloodline power, and Archimonde led the Lava Greatsword Warband to meet them.

Dom crashed his warship into the Dwarf rear lines, destroying their command post and supplies, but the surviving Dwarf great warriors blamed and insulted Taylor. The 500 Worlds forces prepared to retaliate, and a lava demon emerged to order the Dwarves torn apart.

• Dom's Ship Mind protested as Dom drove their warship through the planar barrier and toward the Dwarf lines.
• The warship crashed into the Dwarf battlefield camp, setting off their reserves and creating a vast mushroom cloud that shattered the Dwarf command system.
• The Burning Legion officers criticized Dom's wastefulness but praised the attack for changing the battle and opening the battlefield.
• Dwarf great warriors lifted the wreckage and cursed the 500 Worlds forces for crushing their rear lines and supplies.
• The 500 Worlds warriors, including Hawkes, Archimonde, and Dom, armed themselves after the Dwarves insulted Taylor.
• A giant volcano erupted behind the 500 Worlds line, and a lava demon emerged and ordered the Dwarves torn apart.

The warriors of the 500 Worlds erupted into a berserk assault after Dwarven warlords insulted the Golden Void Lord. Rodan, Dom, Sargeras, Archimonde, and Hawkes overwhelmed their opponents, leaving the battlefield in the grip of a fierce clash between the 500 Worlds’ forces and the Dwarves.

• Rodan and other Lava Giant Birds burst from the wrecked warship, attacked Dwarven aircraft, and struck the Dwarven lines with toxic volcanic ash.
• Rodan pinned a Dwarven warlord in God Mode, while Dom fought two more warlords in a violent aerial battle and grievously wounded them.
• The Burning Legion officers and Achilles Warriors charged the Dwarven ground forces in fury over the insult to the Golden Void Lord.
• Sargeras hurled volcanoes at the Dwarves, Archimonde reshaped the battlefield and fought an earth-element warlord, and Hawkes drove back two warlords with his enhanced strength and defenses.
• The Dwarven warlords struggled to understand why the 500 Worlds’ warriors outmatched them, while the narration revealed that Taylor had invested heavily in their enhancements.

The Dwarves and the forces of the 500 Worlds fought fiercely on the ground and in the void as Level 2 powerhouses turned the battlefield into a deadly clash. The Dwarves' gods watched their forces falter, while Taylor assessed the 500 Worlds fleet's weaknesses as boarding actions helped it hold the battle to a draw.

• The Dwarves' frontline troops withdrew as Level 2 battles made the ground battlefield too dangerous, and the Burning Legion and Achilles Warriors pursued them before pulling back to the flanks.
• Dwarf steam warships and the 500 Worlds fleet resumed combat, exchanging heavy fire as steam mechas and combat Puppets fought at close quarters.
• Achilles boarding warriors breached a Dwarf steam warship, killed its crew, and advanced through its corridors toward a steam mecha.
• The Dwarf gods watched Sargeras destroy their heavy cavalry with a mountain transformed into a volcano, though Dwarf mechas continued damaging the 500 Worlds warships.
• Taylor studied the 500 Worlds fleet and noted its weaker technology and defenses, while boarding craft helped its ships fight the Dwarves to a draw.

Taylor challenged the three Dwarf Gods in his Ghidorah form and unleashed the Wizard Civilization’s forces against the Dwarf Steam Fleet. The battle began with Taylor destroying warships and the fleet of the 500 Worlds launching a coordinated assault, leaving the Dwarf Gods enraged and afraid.

• The three Dwarf Gods decided to confront Taylor rather than let the Dwarf Civilization appear weak before other races.
• Taylor transformed into a 5,400-meter Ghidorah and challenged the Dwarf Gods, impressing the watching White Tower Alliance Wizards.
• Taylor released a War Floating City carrying thirty-two Wizards and ordered the warriors of the 500 Worlds to destroy the Dwarves.
• Taylor swept through the Dwarf Steam Fleet, destroying nearly thirty warships with spatial waves from his tail and wings.
• Kano directed the fleet of the 500 Worlds as it bombarded the Dwarves and prepared to board their ships.
• The Dwarf Gods ordered Taylor to stop, but they felt fear after seeing how easily he destroyed their warships.

Taylor fought the three Dwarven gods in Ghidorah Mode and overwhelmed them with his spatial powers and Gravity Ray. When the gods prepared a fusion divine artifact, Taylor separated and trapped them before they could use it.

• The three Dwarven gods attacked Taylor among the Dwarven Steam Battleships, and they battled fiercely in the void.
• Taylor cut through a Dwarven god’s Thunder Colossus punch with a Gravity Ray and wounded him through his God Mode defenses.
• The Dwarven gods pulled out three stone pillars, which the wizards identified as a recently made one-time fusion divine artifact containing Level 4 power.
• The Elves and Stone People moved aside as the wizards called out the Dwarves for concealing the artifact.
• Taylor split the three gods apart with spatial barriers, trapping one in spatial turbulence, another in a spatial fold, and the third in the Mirror Dimension.

Taylor divided the Dwarf Gods and defeated them one by one while the Burning Legion annihilated the Dwarven forces in the west. Sargeras’s legion celebrated beating the Dwarves before the Achilles Warriors, leaving Hawkes frustrated as the eastern battle continued.

• Taylor isolated the three Dwarf Gods in separate spatial environments and destroyed each of them, erasing their remaining wills.
• More than a month passed on the ground battlefield as Sargeras led the Burning Legion to bury the Dwarven forces in the western region beneath lava.
• The Burning Legion celebrated its victory and Sargeras taunted the slower Achilles Warriors in the east.
• Hawkes grew anxious about the competition with Sargeras’s legion as its cavalry officers arrived to boast and insult the Achilles Warriors.
• The Demon Spirit Envoys and Forest Wolf warbands nearly attacked the visiting cavalry, but their leaders held them back and urged them to wait for their chance.

After Taylor's forces annihilated the Dwarf fleet and ground army, the White Tower Alliance demanded ten metal-rich planes from the defeated Dwarves for Taylor. The three wizards then met Taylor aboard the Glory of Aokelius Tower and began discussing knowledge and experimental collaboration.

• The 500 Worlds fleet destroyed the remaining Dwarf warships with Apocalypse Catastrophe, while hired wizards salvaged resources and high-ranking Dwarf corpses.
• An elf record keeper and the Stone Person watched the battle end, and three wizards told the elf to demand ten metal-rich planes from the Dwarves for Taylor.
• The elf agreed to deliver the demand after a wizard warned that the defeated Dwarves had no room to bargain.
• The three wizards appeared outside the Glory of Aokelius Tower and greeted Taylor, who invited them inside.
• Taylor and the three wizards went to the mobile precision laboratory to exchange research and discuss experimental collaboration.

Thirty years after the planar war, Taylor’s 500 Worlds had grown into a powerful empire of 500 planes, and Taylor completed his advancement to Level 4 by mastering the Spatial Law. He prepared to leave, owing the White Tower Alliance five large-scale planar wars in return for the wizards who had helped unite his planes.

• The 500 Worlds expanded across 500 resource-rich planes, building up its legions, fleets, puppet forces, and subordinate races under Taylor’s rule.
• Taylor’s achievements inspired young wizards throughout the Wizard Civilization to pursue their own territories and conquests in the Infinite Planes.
• At the central Wizard Tower of Aokelius Tower, Taylor triggered a vast spatial phenomenon as he advanced to Level 4.
• Taylor awakened with a nascent mastery of the Spatial Law and recognized the transformation in his power and life level.
• Taylor said it was time to leave.

Taylor toured Aokelius Tower in disguise to ease the strain of comprehending laws and saw how prosperous its cities had become. In Doralto, he accepted Wiers’s offer to guide him around the port city and its deep-sea settlement.

• Taylor walked through Aokelius Tower in disguise and observed its bustling streets, advanced defenses, and diverse visitors.
• Wiers, a Sea Folk resident of Doralto who dreamed of being a tour guide, offered his services to a fire-element wizard, who declined and headed to an experimental district.
• The fire-element wizard reflected on Taylor’s rise to Level 4 before renewing his resolve to pursue his own experiments.
• Wiers kept looking for customers and approached Taylor when Taylor showed interest in touring Doralto and its deep-sea city.
• Taylor continued touring Aokelius Tower in different identities to relieve the mental strain of comprehending laws and adjust his condition.

A mysterious figure stole the Pink Nightmare from Ustier’s vault, then took it to Heaven to use against Taylor, the young level-four wizard. The figure revealed his plan to cripple Taylor and taunted Bariel, but his own face still bore the pain and humiliation of a prior encounter.

• A mysterious figure stole the pink starfish-shaped magical tool from Ustier’s secret vault, triggering its defenses, but vanished before the Elemental Giant could strike him.
• More than a hundred powerful wills discussed the stolen tool, Pink Nightmare · Patrick Star, and its supposed ability to ensnare or kill level-four beings.
• The Infinite Planes’ civilizations grew anxious after hearing of Taylor’s rapid rise and his victory over the Dwarf Civilization’s elite army.
• At the core of Heaven’s forces, a ten-winged figure held the Pink Nightmare and planned to use it to destroy Taylor’s hopes and leave him crippled.
• The figure invoked Bariel and screamed in anger over the humiliation and pain he still felt.

Taylor discovered that his Ghidorah Bloodline carried a hidden instinctive will that could take over his body and transform him into Star-Eater Ghidorah. The chapter left him aware that the bloodline’s apparent lack of side effects had concealed a long-term threat.

• The Pink Nightmare disappeared without prompting any visible reaction from the Wizard Civilization, while a white-bearded old man watched events unfold from beyond the planes.
• Taylor patrolled the 500 Worlds in Ghidorah Mode, but his growing agitation made him suspect that his Bloodline was affecting him.
• Taylor realized that he had reached the end of his Ghidorah Bloodline development and that its source-level essence imposed a subtle restriction on him.
• Taylor sensed a Ghidorah mark and faint instinctive will within his Extraordinary Particle Factor and concluded that Star-Eater Ghidorah was trying to take over his body.
• Taylor recognized that the bloodline’s earlier destruction during his advancement to a Level 1 Wizard had likely been a deception.

A temporal attack struck Taylor as his bloodline’s instinctive will began to awaken, leaving him unconscious and prompting the 500 Worlds to declare martial law. He awoke in Bikini Bottom believing his life as a powerful wizard had been only a dream, then headed to the Krusty Krab for lunch.

• A hidden noble figure crushed a pink starfish wizardry tool, unleashing an invisible temporal attack on Taylor.
• The Time Stone shielded Taylor’s head, but his bloodline’s instinctive will stirred and the pink particles fused with his body and soul, overpowering that will.
• Taylor drifted unconscious for three months before a 500 Worlds patrol fleet found him, and the 500 Worlds entered martial law while the Wizard Civilization and other great powers stayed silent.
• Taylor woke in Bikini Bottom, remembered his life as a wizard as a dream, and got dressed for a new day.
• Taylor walked through Bikini Bottom past fish who reacted uneasily to his smile, then reached the Krusty Krab as noon arrived.

Taylor ordered butterfly fries and seaweed juice at the Krusty Krab, prompting Squidward to snap his pencil in surprise. SpongeBob turned the half pencil into a treasured companion for a cauliflower while Squidward tried to get Taylor’s order served.

• Squidward served a hesitant customer before Taylor reached the counter.
• Taylor ordered butterfly fries and seaweed juice instead of a Krabby Patty, and Squidward snapped his pencil.
• SpongeBob found the half pencil in his frying pan, wrapped it in tissue, and leaned it beside a cauliflower.
• Squidward called SpongeBob back to work, and SpongeBob quickly prepared Taylor’s order.
• SpongeBob asked Squidward for the other half of the pencil, delaying Taylor’s lunch as they went back and forth.

Taylor dreamed of ruling the 500 Worlds, then developed new thoughts and decided to change his clothes and learn to drive a boat. At Boating School, he met Mrs. Puff and took a seat in her class, where SpongeBob arrived late as usual.

• Taylor dreamed that he was a powerful ruler commanding strange machines and beings, then wondered why he kept having these dreams.
• Taylor changed into white clothes and chose to visit Boating School so he could learn to drive and buy a boat.
• Mrs. Puff welcomed Taylor, mistook him for a new student, and told him to avoid SpongeBob in the last row.
• Taylor obediently sat in the second row while Mrs. Puff prepared to start class.
• SpongeBob arrived late, cried until he sprayed Mrs. Puff with tears, and returned to his seat when she ordered him to.
• Mrs. Puff began introducing Taylor as the class's new student.

Taylor noticed that SpongeBob’s bizarre behavior and sudden appearance went unquestioned by everyone else, and he began to suspect that Bikini Bottom was behaving strangely. After school, SpongeBob’s stories about eating two Krabby Patties and Patrick Star’s brief encounter left Taylor more uneasy, while SpongeBob and Patrick went jellyfishing without remembering Taylor.

• Taylor noticed that the class accepted SpongeBob’s sudden arrival and his move to Taylor’s desk without surprise, and fragments of Taylor’s past life returned to him.
• Taylor thanked SpongeBob for the butterfly fries and seaweed juice, but SpongeBob laughed loudly and then claimed Taylor had suggested a guessing game and eaten two Krabby Patties.
• On the way home, SpongeBob said Squidward’s order slip had listed two Krabby Patties and that Squidward had given him half a pencil.
• Taylor met Patrick Star outside his metal-can house, but Patrick Star stared blankly during their introduction and seemed not to remember Taylor once Taylor went inside.
• SpongeBob and Patrick Star set off to catch jellyfish, and Patrick Star denied having met Taylor.

Taylor visited Squidward to discuss art and drew a vivid landscape inspired by his dreams. As Squidward studied it, the world began to dissolve and Squidward transformed into a golden-scaled creature, then struck Taylor and told him to rest.

• Taylor bought art supplies and went to Squidward's house, claiming he wanted to discuss paintings and artistic styles.
• Squidward welcomed Taylor inside and showed him his paintings and sculptures while recounting the misery caused by his neighbors.
• Taylor drew a striking landscape based on scenes from his dreams, and Squidward became absorbed in the painting.
• Taylor noticed the sky and world dissolving around them as Squidward's body transformed, growing golden scales, sharp teeth, a barbed tail, and a vertical pupil.
• Squidward apologized and lashed Taylor across the face with a scaled limb, telling him to rest.