Chapter Summaries

Gu Mo met Kamizaki, whose immense creative power had accidentally shattered and hastily repaired his Spirit Body. After he asked her for help, she brought his Divine Sense Projection to the desolate world she hoped to create.

• Kamizaki used her power to patch Gu Mo’s Spirit Body, leaving it stable but covered in crude repairs.
• Gu Mo explained that he was a Divine Sense Projection, and Kamizaki guessed that he was an immortal from the East.
• Gu Mo asked Kamizaki for help and learned that she had chosen her own name years ago but had never been asked it before.
• Kamizaki carried Gu Mo through space to her barren, chaotic world and told him she planned to create a world with her own hands.

Gu Mo discovered that Kamizaki had opened a vast, barren space as the foundation for a world she hoped to create, though she had forgotten her original plans for it. After discussing their similar ambitions, he asked her to use her abilities to help make a living humanoid puppet, leaving her to examine his puppet-making techniques.

• Kamizaki explained that she had expanded the space so much that she had not yet begun creating anything within it.
• Gu Mo asked what kind of world Kamizaki planned to make, and she admitted she had forgotten her original ideas and wanted to seek inspiration in the human world.
• Gu Mo suggested they exchange ideas about creating worlds and explained that he was also preparing to create one.
• Kamizaki excitedly wondered whether Gu Mo was one of her kind, but he said he had once been human and had acquired similar abilities later.
• Gu Mo asked Kamizaki to use her abilities to make a living humanoid puppet and offered to show her his puppet-making techniques.

Gu Mo and Shinki completed a highly refined Magecraft Puppet that could nearly match Gu Mo’s original body. After testing it and praising Shinki’s work, Gu Mo asked whether she had noticed any problems, prompting her to realize the body she had crafted might present an awkward issue.

• Gu Mo reflected on how his knowledge of dollmaking magecraft could help him create a powerful body, though he could not yet replicate his original body completely.
• Shinki transformed the hostile dimensional plane around their tower into an oasis with lakes, plants, and small animals, and began considering how to improve the lava-covered landscape beyond it.
• Gu Mo transferred his Spiritual Will into the newly completed Magecraft Puppet and tested its movement, Magic Circuits, and magical furnace.
• Gu Mo declared the puppet nearly perfect and praised Shinki for her craftsmanship.
• When Gu Mo asked if she had noticed any problems during its construction, Shinki realized that crafting his body herself might be concerning.

Gu Mo and Kamizaki left her otherworldly workshop to explore the human world and gather inspiration for the world she wanted to create. They discovered an ancient, largely untamed era and headed toward a distant war to learn more about its people.

• Gu Mo offered to help Kamizaki decide what kind of world to create, and suggested exploring the human world for inspiration.
• Kamizaki asked Gu Mo to accompany her, and they left the otherworldly space together.
• They emerged above a vast, pristine wilderness, and Gu Mo realized the world seemed to be in an extremely ancient era.
• Kamizaki recalled that the earth had once been desolate and that its former inhabitants had left for the moon, other places, or worlds of their own.
• Gu Mo sensed a war in the distance and persuaded Kamizaki to go observe it as a way to understand life's complexity.

Gu Mo and Miss Kamizaki arrived at a primitive battlefield and recognized that the fighting was part of a wider War of Faith. After assessing the divine power empowering both sides, they concluded that one side was losing and discussed how the believers’ strength affected their gods.

• Gu Mo explained that he could not use his faster travel abilities, and Miss Kamizaki grabbed his hand and transported them ahead.
• Gu Mo and Miss Kamizaki observed primitive warriors fighting near a tribal settlement, and Gu Mo scanned the battlefield and surrounding village.
• Miss Kamizaki identified the conflict as a War of Faith, and Gu Mo traced the divine power empowering the soldiers toward distant sources.
• Gu Mo studied the faint divine power and estimated that it increased the warriors’ physical abilities by ten or twenty percent.
• Miss Kamizaki judged that one side was losing, and Gu Mo agreed that the wider conflict depended on both the believers’ battles and the gods’ own strength.

Gu Mo and Kamizaki traced the divine power of a losing god to a region ruled by a young goddess, who planned to surrender to the expanding Gods of Yamato. Gu Mo offered to help her resist in exchange for faith, and she readily agreed.

• Gu Mo explained that believers alone could not determine the outcome of a conflict and said he wanted to explore gaining a divine position through faith.
• Kamizaki offered to have the people she created in the Demon Realm worship Gu Mo, and he learned that she had named the world after his sarcastic remark.
• Gu Mo and Kamizaki followed the divine power to a familiar-looking Shinano Region, where they found a prosperous settlement filled with strong faith.
• A blonde little girl revealed that she was the local god and explained that the Gods of Yamato were absorbing kingdoms to establish a unified country called Japan.
• Gu Mo offered the little girl help against the invasion in exchange for faith, and she agreed.

Yukari reflected on the rapid growth of gods and yokai as humanity's civilization developed, while Gu Mo continued studying faith in the Moriya Kingdom with Miss Kamizaki. The chapter ended with Miss Kamizaki questioning why Gu Mo was making another doll.

• Yukari returned to the Netherworld Realm, where Ran served her a meal and asked whether she had fought the Flower Yokai again.
• Yukari told Ran that the Yamato Gods were suppressing Indigenous Gods and that yokai numbers were also increasing as faith and fear spread.
• Yukari described the growth of new supernatural beings as a natural stage of development that would eventually cause them to disappear.
• Gu Mo continued studying the Power of Faith in the Moriya Kingdom, where Moriya Suwako had permitted a new faith to bring advanced tools and smelting techniques.
• Gu Mo made a doll at his workbench while Miss Kamizaki urged him to finish so they could inspect the villages, then asked whether he was dissatisfied with his current body.

Gu Mo tested the Art of the Puppeteer by building and animating a wooden puppet, then planned to use automatic combat puppets to support the Moriya Kingdom. As Kanako led her army toward the kingdom, a towering Gundam appeared and charged at her forces.

• Gu Mo carved a lifelike wooden puppet, activated its Seven Pores, and tested controlling it with a Life Soul formed from his Mental Power.
• Gu Mo explained to Miss Kamizaki that he planned to aid the Moriya Kingdom with combat puppets because he could not provide direct support across his many Dungeon Worlds.
• Gu Mo decided to build a massive, intimidating machine suited to the ancient clan era and capable of strengthening his reputation and gathering Power of Faith.
• Kanako marched her army toward the Moriya Kingdom, determined to end the long conflict and confront the opposing gods.
• Kanako's troops panicked when a thirty- to forty-meter Gundam appeared outside the tribal village, powered up, and charged toward them shouting, "I am Gundam!!"

Gu Mo’s Steel Golem charged into battle, terrifying the opposing army and inspiring Moriya Kingdom’s people to worship him. As Gu Mo examined the faint faith their awe produced, Kanako confronted the golem, whose pilot was a blonde girl.

• The Steel Golem strode toward the enemy, panicking their troops and drawing cheers from the people of Moriya Kingdom.
• Gu Mo sensed a small amount of Power of Faith flowing toward him and considered why he could absorb so little.
• Kanako advanced to restore her army’s morale and unleashed a hurricane against the Steel Golem.
• The Steel Golem withstood the storm, attacked Kanako with its chain sword and giant fist, and met her wind with a powerful shockwave.
• The blonde girl piloting the golem watched with interest as its systems activated and its resonance rate remained normal.

Moriya Suwako piloted Gu Mo’s Steel Golem against Kanako, and its display of divine power helped shift the believers’ faith toward it. After Kanako retreated, the group pursued her, while Gu Mo tied his hair back and offered the silver-haired girl a ribbon.

• Moriya Suwako powered the Steel Golem with divine power and faith gathered from the awestruck Moriya Kingdom believers.
• Kanako struck at the Steel Golem’s joints, but its damage recovered as the blonde little girl deployed hidden weapons and other tactics.
• Gu Mo explained that the giant’s spectacle was meant to unsettle Kanako’s believers, and Kanako retreated as their faith wavered.
• Gu Mo ordered the Steel Giant to pursue, and its believers followed while chanting, “I am Gundam!!”
• On the Steel Giant’s shoulder, Gu Mo tied back his hair and offered Miss Kamizaki a decorated ribbon; she said she did not know how to tie it herself.

After months of being driven back by Suwako’s Steel Giant, Kanako conceded defeat and sought protection for the believers who had converted to her faith. Suwako agreed, then explained that the reputation for punishing the slightest disrespect belonged to one of the Curse Gods under her command, the Mishaguji God.

• Kanako’s believers began to doubt as the Steel Giant repeatedly battered her forces, but she refused to abandon them or the territories she had gained.
• After three to five more months of fighting, Kanako admitted defeat and arranged a meeting with Suwako beside Lake Suwa.
• Kanako asked Suwako to spare her believers, and Suwako agreed without hesitation.
• Kanako questioned Suwako’s quick agreement and said she feared her reputation for inflicting Divine Punishment.
• Suwako explained that the violent reputation came from the Mishaguji God, a Curse God she had learned to restrain.

After defeating Kanako, Gu Mo arranged for her to rule the Moriya Kingdom in name while Suwako and the Indigenous Gods secretly retained their faith. Back at his laboratory, Gu Mo sensed a hidden observer and used the Power of Lies to pull a fox-eared girl with nine tails out of distorted space, mistaking her for Lady Yukari.

• Kanako accepted defeat and agreed to nominally rule the Moriya Kingdom so the Yamato Gods would believe their plans had succeeded.
• Gu Mo introduced himself as Suwako's partner and a passing puppeteer working toward becoming an Apprentice God.
• Gu Mo reflected on his progress as Fangshi and on Miss Kamizaki's work transforming her Demon Realm.
• In his laboratory, Gu Mo sensed someone watching him but pretended to focus on his alchemy.
• Gu Mo used the Power of Lies to seize the hidden observer through a flaw in space, but his grab pulled out a Fox Yokai Girl instead.

Gu Mo confronted Yakumo Yukari after accidentally pulling her shikigami Ran out of her hidden residence while trying to reach the person spying on him. Yakumo Yukari explained that her curiosity came from how out of place he seemed, leaving their encounter calm but unresolved.

• Gu Mo pulled Ran from a concealed space, and Yakumo Yukari opened a rift and demanded that he let her shikigami go.
• Ran returned to Yakumo Yukari, and both sides held back rather than escalating the confrontation.
• Gu Mo asked who they were and why Yakumo Yukari had been spying on him.
• Yakumo Yukari introduced herself and Ran, apologized, and said she had only been curious about him.
• Yakumo Yukari explained that she had first noticed Gu Mo after seeing his Steel Giant near a lake and later watched him because his clothes, creations, and techniques seemed strange.

After Yakumo Yukari and Yakumo Ran apologized for mistaking Gu Mo for a threat, Yakumo Yukari guessed that he had come from the moon, and Gu Mo agreed. Miss Kamizaki and Kanako joined the gathering, and the chapter ended with Gu Mo defending the name Gundam while discussing how to turn the Steel Golem into a source of faith.

• Yakumo Yukari explained that she had watched Gu Mo by chance, and Gu Mo accepted her apology as the three of them cleaned the alchemy room.
• Yakumo Yukari asked whether Gu Mo came from the moon, and Gu Mo confirmed that he did.
• Miss Kamizaki appeared in the alchemy room and warily questioned Gu Mo about Yakumo Yukari and Yakumo Ran; Kanako then arrived.
• That night, the villagers celebrated their victory while both former enemies believed their own side had won.
• Kanako praised Gu Mo's liquor, and Suwako urged him to give the Steel Golem a more meaningful name for their faith; Gu Mo insisted that Gundam was perfect and offered Megatron and Optimus Prime as examples.

Gu Mo left the celebration with Kamizaki to fetch her a different drink, while Suwako and Kanako discussed his origins and Yakumo Yukari questioned Yakumo Ran about his strange, familiar presence. Back at his residence, Gu Mo suddenly staggered as Kamizaki was about to enter.

• Kamizaki tried the strong liquor, disliked its taste, and accepted Gu Mo's offer to bring her another drink.
• Gu Mo and Kamizaki walked toward the mountain, while Kanako and Suwako watched them and discussed Gu Mo's possible connection to the Fangshi and his Divine Sense Projection clone.
• Kanako remarked that Kamizaki was different from them, and Suwako did not elaborate.
• In the Netherworld Realm, Yakumo Yukari asked Yakumo Ran about Gu Mo, and Ran said he felt strangely familiar, like a Nine-Tailed Fox, despite having no Yokai Energy.
• Gu Mo returned to his residence with Kamizaki, but staggered just as she was about to enter.

Gu Mo completed the Human Wisdom Integration ritual, gaining access to the knowledge and computing power of seven billion people while his bloodline transformation continued beneath Europa. The influx began advancing his skills and revealed a path to fuse them, leaving him considering how to allocate his new computational resources.

• Kamizaki caught Gu Mo when the information surge from his main body made him dizzy, and he reassured her that he was fine.
• Gu Mo's avatars across multiple Dungeons felt the same sudden dizziness as the shock spread through their shared consciousness.
• Beneath Europa, Gu Mo completed the main framework of the Human Wisdom Integration ritual, drawing on the mental network of seven billion people.
• Gu Mo adapted to his new database and computing power, which accelerated his research and gradually raised his profession and ability progress.
• Dozens of Skill Badges fused into a new progress bar for the Seventy-Two Earth Fiend Techniques, prompting Gu Mo to consider expanding his avatars or increasing their COST limits.

Gu Mo used Human Wisdom Integration to accelerate his studies and Mystic Arts training, while Kamizaki remained unconvinced that he was an ordinary human. His experiments produced another vast fog, and he made slow progress refining his Legendary Grade Earth Fiend Skill Badge.

• Kamizaki examined Gu Mo, temporarily shelved her Genesis project, and continued to suspect he was one of her kind despite his repeated explanations.
• Gu Mo used Human Wisdom Integration to combine humanity’s knowledge, experience, and perspectives, making his thinking more efficient and helping him advance his skills.
• Kanako saw Gu Mo’s Mystic Art spread fog across the plain and accepted the recurring anomalies as part of his research.
• Gu Mo practiced Lay Fog in the mountains, gained a point of proficiency, and judged his fortune auspicious.
• Gu Mo continued refining his Legendary Grade Earth Fiend Skill Badge, but after half a month its progress had only reached about one-fifth.

Gu Mo learned that his daily Mystic Arts practice had been sending fog and rain toward a Sunflower Field and angering its owner, a violent Flower Yokai. Yakumo Yukari had persuaded the Flower Yokai to return, and after Gu Mo promised to be more careful, she asked him to make her some clothes.

• Gu Mo practiced his Mystic Arts across a vast area, and Yakumo Yukari visited him in the morning.
• Yakumo Yukari told Gu Mo that the weather from his practice had been interfering with a Sunflower Field beyond the eastern mountains.
• Gu Mo realized that he had been sending fog and rain toward the field without knowing its location or owner.
• Yakumo Yukari explained that the Flower Yokai who owned the field had a violent temper and had planned to confront Gu Mo.
• Yakumo Yukari said she had persuaded the Flower Yokai to return, and Gu Mo thanked her and promised to be more careful.
• Yakumo Yukari asked Gu Mo to make a few sets of clothes for her as thanks.

Gu Mo considered using elegant clothing to build relationships with yokai and gods, then continued preparing a large ship as a future means of travel. Kamizaki joined him at the construction site and enthusiastically approved of the vessel, leaving Gu Mo momentarily unsettled by her choice of words.

• After Yakumo Yukari left, Gu Mo considered starting a high-end clothing venture to make friends and earn favors from nearby and distant beings.
• Kamizaki rushed outside after sensing Yokai Energy, learned that Yakumo Yukari had visited to mediate a dispute, and complained that Gu Mo had patted her head.
• Gu Mo explained that his Projection Magic had reached its maximum level, though it still could not reproduce a certain red Archer's techniques or Noble Phantasms.
• Gu Mo inspected wooden dolls assembling a large sailing ship and told Kamizaki he planned to turn it into a Magic Ship that could serve as a flying home.
• Kamizaki called it a fine ship with great enthusiasm, and Gu Mo briefly wondered whether he was reading too much into her wording.

After the Suwa War, Kanako and Suwako settled their conflict and shared the Power of Faith while Gu Mo continued his work on the Demon Realm. He took Kamizaki on a voyage aboard his Magic Ship, where she proudly described her progress and Gu Mo began imagining a perfect maid model.

• Kanako accepted the outcome of the wager, and she and Suwako reached an agreement to divide the Power of Faith.
• Gu Mo and Kamizaki traveled through a thunderstorm aboard his Magic Ship, whose barrier absorbed lightning to power its engine.
• Kamizaki said the Demon Realm’s environment, ecosystem, and inhabitants were developing well, and she promised Gu Mo her creation would be perfect.
• Gu Mo reflected on how years had passed while he researched the Demon Realm and pursued the fusion of his main body with the Divine Source Material of the Sea of Life.
• After a doll served them unsatisfactory pastries, Gu Mo proposed creating a Super Maid Model with skills including cooking, combat, spatial magic, and time-related abilities.