Chapter Summaries

Taylor woke up with a head injury and accepted a second-cook job at the Krusty Krab, while Squidward concealed what had really happened the previous night. At the restaurant, Taylor watched SpongeBob offer Mr. Krabs money for the privilege of arriving early to clean.

• Taylor woke up with a painful head and Squidward claimed he had fallen down the stairs after they talked about art.
• Squidward praised Taylor’s paintings and told him Mr. Krabs had offered him a job as the Krusty Krab’s second cook.
• Taylor accepted the job and reflected on how distinctive Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and SpongeBob seemed compared with other Bikini Bottom residents.
• Mr. Krabs watched SpongeBob and Taylor clean the kitchen, then SpongeBob offered to pay him six hundred dollars a month to arrive early and scrub it.
• Mr. Krabs accepted SpongeBob’s offer while Taylor wondered why an employee had to pay to clean the workplace.

During his seventh day at the Krusty Krab, Taylor comforted Squidward after SpongeBob’s antics left him mocked, then saw reality briefly twist while Squidward played his recorder. Suspecting Bikini Bottom’s events followed an unnatural script, Taylor searched for SpongeBob and Patrick and found Gary waiting for him with a startling greeting.

• Taylor recalled Mr. Krabs sending him and SpongeBob to buy cheap ingredients and arrived at the Krusty Krab with bread as customers laughed at Squidward.
• Taylor comforted the dejected Squidward, who thanked him and began playing his recorder.
• Taylor left the restaurant, unaware that Squidward’s body changed and the world around the Krusty Krab warped before returning to normal.
• Taylor wondered why Squidward seemed trapped in a script and went to Jellyfish Fields, where he found no sign of SpongeBob or Patrick.
• Taylor went to Pineapple House and met Gary, who said he had been waiting for Taylor and called him a wizard.

Gary awakened Taylor and explained that the illusion was a spiritual space created by an octopus monster, whose instincts had been absorbed into a witchcraft tool. Taylor went to confront Squidward, who appeared transformed and asked to talk.

• Gary's sound waves helped Taylor recover his identity and escape the mental fog.
• Gary told Taylor that his master's contingency plan had awakened him and explained the illusion's origins and purpose.
• Gary urged Taylor to find the octopus, suggesting he could learn its story or kill it to escape.
• Taylor saw a golden tentacle from Squidward's house and used a blue gemstone to enter it.
• Taylor found Squidward painting a golden three-headed dragon while transformed, and Squidward asked to talk again.

Squidward recounted how his hunger drove him to devour his friends and how Ustier trapped his soul in a magical illusion built around SpongeBob. As Squidward transformed into a Ghidorah-like monster and attacked, Taylor summoned spatial power to bind him.

• Squidward told Taylor how his insatiable appetite led him to eat fish and caused the wise starfish to expose and banish him.
• Squidward described how the Abyssal Will made him devour his homeland, including the starfish and SpongeBob, before Ustier trapped his soul in a magical artifact.
• Squidward completed his painting and transformed into a three-headed, many-winged octopus-dragon as the underwater world became a blood-red apocalypse.
• Taylor recognized Squidward as the hidden danger within himself and invoked a vast Seven-Pointed Star Magic Array.
• Taylor seized the river of space and used Space: World Severing to bind Squidward as the monster attacked with Gravity Beams and tentacles.

Taylor awakened from his coma after resolving hidden dangers in his body, and the 500 Worlds prepared to wage war on Heaven in revenge for its assassination attempt. The chapter ended with powerful figures beyond the Multidimensional Plane Crystal Wall System discussing an exchange of enemies for their chosen young champions.

• Kano and Bobby discussed Taylor’s coma, the Wizard Civilization’s investigation, and its launch of a war against the Angel God Clan of Heaven.
• Taylor awakened, absorbed his Ghidorah form, and broke out of the Giant Wizard Tower.
• Taylor ordered the 500 Worlds to mobilize its warriors and fleet to take revenge on Heaven.
• An old man, a radiant existence, and a mysterious figure discussed exchanging enemies for their respective young champions.

Taylor met a Rank Five Grand Wizard emissary from the White Tower Alliance, who explained that the Wizard Civilization had long planned a large-scale war against Heaven and had used the attack on Taylor as its opening. The Grand Wizard revealed that the Wizards intended to strip Heaven of its concepts and authority to clear the way for their research and expansion.

• Taylor arrived at the Frontier War Fortress World with a fleet of fifty thousand warships and met a Rank Five Grand Wizard who had mastered the Law of Distortion.
• The Grand Wizard told Taylor that the Wizard Civilization had prepared for a large-scale war and that Heaven's attack on Taylor had provided an opportunity to launch it.
• The Grand Wizard described how the Wizards had used the Abyss War to extend their influence into the Abyss and gradually erode its authority.
• Taylor realized that the Wizards sought to eliminate powerful beings and concepts that obstructed their research and development.
• The Grand Wizard explained that the war against Heaven would strip Angels of positive emotions and laws such as light and healing, claiming those concepts for Wizard research and advancement.

Taylor listened as the Grand Wizard revealed that Wizards had killed Bahamut and Tiamat for occupying conceptual origins, then gave Taylor a spatial vortex mark capable of transporting his army to the true battlefield of the planes. The Grand Wizard departed to join the higher-level war, leaving Taylor to prepare his forces and scout through a physical projection.

• The Grand Wizard told Taylor that Wizards had killed Bahamut and Tiamat because they occupied the conceptual origins of contracts and reproduction.
• Taylor grew impatient as the Grand Wizard talked, eager to lead the nearly eighty thousand warships toward Heaven and advance 500 Worlds’ standing in the Infinite Planar War.
• The Grand Wizard created a spatial distortion node that could transfer one hundred planes at a time and gave Taylor its vortex mark.
• The Grand Wizard explained that Taylor could send a physical projection through the mark to scout, then left to fight in the higher-level war.

Taylor created a Level Two Ghidorah projection and sent it through a spatial vortex to scout the true frontline battlefield. The projection arrived amid the Wizard Civilization’s massive assault on Heaven, where Kurekel directed the campaign against Heaven’s deepest powers.

• Taylor formed an independent Ghidorah projection with shared senses, then sent it through a spatial vortex to gather intelligence.
• Kurekel led thirty World Erasers and thirty million War Floating Cities in an assault on Heaven’s defensive line.
• A black-matter Wizard reported that the Wizards had captured more than thirty thousand planes and breached Heaven’s defenses.
• Kurekel monitored the battle and focused on ancient beings entrenched in Heaven’s root source.
• The chapter described how Level Six beings fought across destiny, time, and space to erase one another completely.

A battlefield between Wizards and Heaven was disrupted when Ghidorah appeared, chose to aid the Wizards, and opened a breach in the angel forces. The Water Element Wizard ordered his troops to exploit the opening as the four-winged angel warrior attacked Ghidorah.

• A Level 2 Water Wizard and more than thirty Level 1 Wizards fought Heaven’s War Beasts across a shattered plane fragment.
• A four-winged angel healed the Heaven War Beasts while the two sides continued their battle.
• Ghidorah emerged from a transparent vortex, and the Level 2 combatants recognized it as a powerful creature comparable to themselves.
• Ghidorah decided to help the element-controlling Wizards and swooped down on the angel and Heaven War Beasts, creating a breach in their formation.
• The Water Element Wizard ordered his legions and Puppets to advance through the breach.
• The enraged angel warrior charged Ghidorah and knocked it out of the battlefield.

Ghidorah fought a four-winged angel, whose attacks failed to overcome its growing resistance and regeneration. The angel tried to send a warning but was killed by a patrolling Floating City, and after the battle a Level 2 Wizard recognized Ghidorah as a beast serving the Golden Void Lord.

• The four-winged angel warrior attacked Ghidorah with light magic, but Ghidorah countered with three Gravity Beams.
• Ghidorah adapted to light elemental power and rapidly regenerated the wounds the angel inflicted.
• The angel tried to send a warning through the void, but a Level 3 Wizard trapped him with Spatial Confinement and annihilated him with an Elemental Blast Beam.
• The Level 3 Wizard recognized the seven-pointed star on Ghidorah as a mark connected to the Golden Void Lord and continued patrolling without intervening in the battle below.
• After the last angel was killed, a Level 2 Wizard stopped the legions, thanked Ghidorah, and recognized the beast as one sent by the Golden Void Lord.

Taylor led the 500 Worlds’ fleet through a spatial vortex to attack remote Light-element planes where Heaven’s forces could be defeated with limited risk. As Ghidorah bowed to Taylor’s arrival, wizards and angels on the battlefield looked toward the sky, while a Level 3 Wizard detected powerful Spatial Waves behind Heaven’s crystal warships.

• Taylor assessed the battlefront and chose remote Light-element planes without nearby Level 4 combatants as targets for the 500 Worlds’ army.
• Taylor rallied the 500 Worlds’ warriors and opened a spatial vortex for their fleet to reach the front line.
• Ghidorah rampaged through a Light-element plane, then bowed as Taylor arrived, drawing the attention of the battling angels and wizards.
• Outside the plane, wizards used enslaved Void Behemoths to attack Heaven’s crystal warships, whose light cannons wounded the beasts.
• A Level 3 Wizard sensed powerful Spatial Waves behind the crystal warships and exclaimed in surprise.

A fleet of 500 Worlds Warships emerged from a gigantic spatial vortex and joined the battle between Heaven and the Wizards. The Wizards prepared to support the fleet, while the Angel commander realized the Golden Void Lord’s forces had entered the war.

• A massive spatial vortex appeared, freezing the battling void forces and alarming the Angel commander and the Wizards.
• Five hundred Worlds Warships poured from the vortex, including flagships belonging to Sargeras, Archimonde, Dom, and Hawkes.
• The chapter described how Bobby’s work and Dwarven technology had improved the 500 Worlds’ warships, and that the fleet hoped to study Heaven’s latest crystal warships.
• A Level 3 Wizard recognized the Golden Dragon emblem and Seven-Pointed Star Mark and identified the fleet as belonging to the Golden Void Lord.
• Two Level 3 Wizards moved their War Floating City to support the fleet, while the Angel commander’s last hope vanished.

Sargeras used the Void Flame to destroy the souls of the angels aboard the surrounded Crystal Warships, and the 500 Worlds began a coordinated counterattack. The chapter followed Vox and the Forest Wolf Warband as they fought Angel Special Forces in a forest, ending with Vox striking at a Level 2 Light Elemental angel.

• Sargeras enveloped the Crystal Warships in Void Flame, burning the Angel commander's soul and the souls of everyone aboard.
• The 500 Worlds' transport warships restrained the paralyzed Crystal Warships and collected them for research and processing.
• Taylor rallied the forces of the 500 Worlds, which divided across the battlefronts to attack the enemy.
• Vox led the Forest Wild Wolves through a forest battle against Angel Special Forces, where both sides suffered heavy losses.
• A Level 2 Light Elemental angel leaped from a tree and attacked Vox, who dodged and counterattacked with his Rending Claws.

Vox encountered Tilikli and the Gale Ranger Warband while fighting Angels in the forests, where the two warbands prepared to coordinate their attacks. The chapter left the Forest Wolves and Gale Rangers poised to continue their campaign against the Angels.

• Vox killed a Level Two Angel with Rending Claws and heard someone nearby reciting a dramatic praise-poem.
• Vox recognized Tilikli, leader of the Gale Ranger Warband, and asked whether he had come to sing praises.
• Tilikli defended his poetry and assured Vox that the Gale Rangers would not hinder the Golden Void Lord’s movements.
• Tilikli displayed Storm's Sting and the Gale Rangers’ wind-based abilities, which made them effective in forests and other complex terrain.
• The Forest Wolves and Gale Rangers had combined pack attacks and roaming wind assaults to overwhelm Angel forces.
• An Angel’s account described how a Gale Ranger stopped him from killing himself so the warrior could finish singing.

Kano coordinated the 500 Worlds’ campaign as reports showed its forces gaining ground while suffering heavy losses from elite angels and powerful native creatures. The chapter ended at the Forge Plane, where Bobby drove its workers to increase the flow of weapons and supplies to the front.

• Kano reviewed reports of victories and losses across the planes and ordered reinforcements for struggling warbands.
• Angel forces disrupted the 500 Worlds’ rear areas, while powerful native creatures forced warbands to withdraw or wiped them out.
• Hawkes’s Champion Warriors and Sargeras’s Doom Warriors were sent to confront Level 3 threats, though both groups had limits against normal Level 3 Lifeforms.
• The Forge Plane supplied weapons, ammunition, and machinery to the expeditionary army as Bobby pushed its workers to produce faster.

Bobby completed work on an Energy Core enchantment as the Five Hundred Worlds expanded its role in the planar war. Meanwhile, Kurekel reflected on Taylor’s origin in another Infinite Planes and the prophecy that Taylor would lead the Wizard Civilization beyond the infinite box.

• Bobby worried about Taylor and Kano at the front, then resolved to protect the Five Hundred Worlds and led his technical team in completing the Energy Core enchantment.
• The chapter explained how Taylor had developed the enchantment by adapting Celestial technology and how the Five Hundred Worlds planned to build a divine power system rooted in Taylor’s laws.
• Kano reached the front to discuss further gains with Taylor, while the Five Hundred Worlds’ forces were reported to have conquered more than two hundred Heaven Fortress Planes and overcome nearly three hundred others.
• Kurekel praised the Five Hundred Worlds’ military achievements and decided to continue sheltering the faction as it grew.
• Kurekel recalled that Taylor’s soul came from another Infinite Planes and that Ustier’s prophecy had persuaded wizarding powers to let Taylor follow his own path toward leading the Wizard Civilization beyond the infinite box.

Twenty years into the Infinite Planar War, the 500 Worlds prospered as the Wizard Civilization pressed Heaven’s forces back and its armies adapted to the war. The chapter ended with a defeated twelve-winged angel burning his Faith Power and obscuring the flow of time and fate as he vowed to face Kurekel again.

• The Wizard Civilization continued its advance under Kurekel, while the 500 Worlds gained knowledge, resources, and growing recognition across the Infinite Planes.
• The 500 Worlds’ warships adapted to Heaven’s weapons, and its varied warbands and the Burning Legion became known for their distinctive fighting styles.
• The 500 Worlds broke through Heaven’s three blockades, and Taylor resolved to protect his subordinates despite the war’s profitable gains.
• A twelve-winged angel in Heaven’s command center watched Kurekel and recalled their long rivalry and his own defeat.
• The angel burned his Faith Power and began obscuring time and fate as he promised Kurekel their conflict was not over.

Five Demon Monarchs gathered in the Lower Abyss to discuss the war between Heaven and Wizard Civilization, with Brutality and Greedfall urging them to exploit the conflict. Their meeting ended without a decision, while Sinful Desire recalled how the wizards had shattered part of his concept.

• Brutality proposed mobilizing Abyssal agents to intensify the war between Heaven and Wizard Civilization.
• Greedfall supported Brutality's proposal and said the Abyss could gain power from the war.
• Filthy Hatred threatened Greedfall with a corrosive blast if he continued speaking in his manipulative manner.
• Sinful Desire recounted how the Wizard High Council had broken his concept of desire for knowledge and released its authority.
• Delusive Foolishness remained silent and uninterested in the other Demon Monarchs' discussion.

Taylor gave Ghidorahs to his subordinates as combat partners and mounts, while learning more about his ability to travel beyond the Infinite Planes. He decided to focus on growing stronger and leave his questions about Ustier and his ability for the future.

• Commanders and elite fighters of 500 Worlds admired the Ghidorahs Taylor had created, which were becoming a totemic species blessed by Faith Power and able to reproduce.
• Sargeras, Hawkes, and other commanders chose Ghidorahs suited to their fighting styles, while Dom selected the most beautiful Ghidorah and showered it with treasures.
• Taylor reflected on how his ability let him cross beyond the Infinite Planes Box and suspected powerful figures had long known about it.
• Taylor concluded that Ustier might speak with him when he became a Level Five Wizard and chose to strengthen himself rather than speculate about the future.

Forty years into the Infinite Planar War, Taylor had become a celebrated wizard commander whose achievements against the Angels strengthened Wizard Civilization’s resolve. Meanwhile, Demon Monarchs in the Lower Abyss prepared to break through the seals and unleash chaos across the Infinite Planes.

• The war entered its second phase as Heaven and Wizard Civilization reinforced the remaining fronts for an escalated campaign.
• Taylor’s 500 Worlds Warships became popular among wizards, while his victories over more than a thousand Six-Winged Angels and three Eight-Winged Angels made him famous.
• Heaven did not retaliate against Taylor, and younger wizards grew more confident and fought the Angels more ruthlessly.
• In the Lower Abyss, Greater Demons restrained their followers while the Under-Demons descended into chaos and consumed one another.
• The Demon Monarchs began gathering power to break through the blockade and dimensional seals, declaring that the age of Demons had begun.