Chapter Summaries

Charles and Kolsama continued battling the devil marquis and his forces, while the marquis refused to let his subordinates flee. The chapter left the devils’ ranks dwindling after Charles killed a second viscount, with their pleas to scatter rejected.

• The devil marquis refused to order his barons and viscounts to scatter, knowing he would be left alone against Charles and Kolsama.
• Kolsama killed a devil viscount, and Charles’s wizard tower took the corpse before Kolsama could consume it.
• The devil marquis tried to turn Kolsama against Charles, but Kolsama attacked the marquis and reaffirmed their alliance.
• Charles focused his attacks on the viscounts and barons, while the devils concentrated their attacks on the already injured Kolsama.
• A devil viscount pleaded with the marquis to let them flee, but the marquis refused, and Charles killed a second viscount.

Charles exploited the devils’ retreat to hunt down their weaker forces while Kolsama fought the devil Marquis alone. After killing the fleeing devils, Charles finally moved his wizard tower closer to help Kolsama, leaving the Marquis facing renewed despair.

• The devil viscounts abandoned the Marquis and fled in separate directions, and the devil barons scattered after them.
• Charles ordered his Greater Demons to pursue the fleeing devils while he used the wizard tower to cast Dimensional Anchors across the battlefield.
• Kolsama and the devil Marquis fought alone as Charles hunted down fleeing barons and helped Dorkas kill an injured viscount.
• Charles gathered his forces and watched Kolsama struggle against the less-injured Marquis until Kolsama called for help.
• Charles piloted the wizard tower closer to the fight, and the Marquis realized his situation had become desperate again.

Charles joined Kolsama in fighting the Devil Marquis, but secretly stopped attacking and let the Marquis focus on Kolsama. After the Devil Marquis suddenly revealed he had been hiding his strength, Kolsama fled, leaving Charles to face him.

• Charles arrived with his wizard tower and joined Kolsama against the Devil Marquis.
• The Devil Marquis ignored Charles and concentrated his attacks on Kolsama, while Charles secretly weakened his own attacks and stopped the wizard tower from firing.
• After two days of fighting, Kolsama realized Charles was betraying him and threatened to leave.
• The Devil Marquis suddenly unleashed his full power, shocking Charles and Kolsama.
• Kolsama fled from the battle, and Charles called after him, accusing him of betraying him again.

Charles pursued the Devil Marquis after Kolsama fled, keeping his distance while the devil's strength faded. He killed the Devil Marquis and claimed his heart core, winning a major victory for the Abyss World.

• Kolsama fled the battle, and the Devil Marquis pretended to pursue him before turning to escape.
• Charles chose to pursue the Devil Marquis and trapped him with a new Dimensional Anchor.
• The Devil Marquis chased Charles while Charles attacked from a distance with spells; Kolsama returned to watch, then teleported away when the devil charged at him.
• As the Devil Marquis's strength dwindled, Charles closed in and continued attacking from afar.
• The Devil Marquis made a final charge, but Charles broke his neck with an attack of laws and tore out his heart core.
• Charles celebrated killing his first sixth-rank foe, and the Abyss World celebrated his victory.

After killing the Devil Marquis, Charles received an Abyssal blessing that healed his lingering wounds and restored his access to the Sea of Laws. He returned to Millstone Fortress and ordered his forces to pursue the fleeing devils, where the abandoned devil commanders joined the rout.

• Charles's blessing healed his rule-inflicted wounds and reopened the Sea of Laws to him.
• Charles returned to the wizard tower, where Dorkas, Zarlos, and the Greater Demons praised him for defeating Kolsama and the Devil Marquis.
• Charles ordered his forces to return to Millstone Fortress and kill the remaining devils.
• Charles pursued the fleeing Greater Devils while his demons and flying forces attacked the retreating devil legion.
• The Pit Fiend and War Devil commanders realized the Marquises had abandoned them and fled, leaving their subordinates behind.

After the devil nobles fled and shattered their legions’ command structure, Charles turned the retreat into a slaughter by sending Flame Ratmen and demons to attack across the battlefield. He joined the pursuit with his wizard tower, devastating a legion of more than a hundred thousand devils before teleporting away.

• The devil nobles and most Greater Devil commanders fled, causing the devil legions to lose their organization and collapse into a rout.
• Charles returned to Millstone Fortress, loaded his wizard tower with Flame Ratmen, and teleported above the fleeing devils to send them through portals onto the battlefield’s flanks.
• The Flame Ratmen charged the fleeing devils while Charles ordered his Greater Demons to organize the pursuit, kill the enemy, and avoid ambushes.
• Charles piloted the wizard tower across the battlefield and slaughtered fleeing devil legions alongside his forces.
• Charles teleported above a legion of more than a hundred thousand devils and unleashed hundreds of third-ring area-of-effect sorceries, leaving only a few thousand alive before the wizard tower departed.

After the devils’ defeat, Charles negotiated with the wounded Demon Lord Kolsama over the pact they had made. Charles invited Kolsama to Millstone Fortress to collect his reward, leaving Kolsama stunned and wary.

• The surviving Great Devils mourned their legion’s losses and decided to report to the Demon General for a new assault on the Abyss World.
• Anog teleported through Purgatory while wounded and cursed the devils hunting him.
• Kolsama hid in an underground cavern, cursed Charles and the devils, and contacted Charles to claim the reward promised in their pact.
• Charles showed Kolsama the Devil Marquis’s heart core and asked him to hand over his Abyss World authority in exchange for the devil corpses and heart cores.
• Kolsama agreed to give Charles the authority after receiving the sixth-rank heart core, and Charles told him to come to Millstone Fortress to collect his reward.

Charles pressured the wounded Kolsama to reveal his location, but Kolsama refused and hid underground. With no demon able to challenge him, Charles sent his greater demons and their legions to conquer the Abyss World in his name.

• Charles offered to deliver Kolsama's haul personally, but Kolsama feared he would be killed and extinguished the projection without revealing where he was hiding.
• Kolsama regretted helping Charles fight the devils, while Charles recognized that Anog and the badly wounded Kolsama could not interfere with his plans.
• Charles summoned his twenty-five greater demons and ordered them to conquer territory and make the Abyss World submit to him.
• Zarlos, Bruce, Kaseron, Dorkas, and the other greater demons led their legions out to reclaim lands the devils had taken.
• Demon Worms began appearing in the Styx again, while Charles's forces planted his flame-wreathed banner across castles, settlements, mountains, and plains.

Charles invaded Kolsama’s ancient city and claimed it as his territory, forcing its demons to submit. Kolsama used the true name of his surviving Greater Demon to kill him and vowed to return and reclaim everything.

• Charles traveled from Millstone Fortress to Kolsama’s city and overwhelmed its demons with his power.
• Charles declared that he had defeated Kolsama and claimed the city as his territory.
• Charles seized the city’s Greater Demon and demanded his submission.
• The Greater Demon agreed, but Kolsama shattered his soul through his true name and threatened to return.

Charles gathered Kolsama’s belongings and used their aura with the Book of Causal Paths to locate him. After reconsidering the danger of keeping a powerful Demon Lord alive, Charles decided to pursue Kolsama without expecting to kill him in one attempt.

• Charles took the city, stationed a Greater Demon there, and gathered items linked to Kolsama to extract his aura.
• Charles traveled to Kolsama’s former territory, where the demons surrendered and brought him more of Kolsama’s belongings, including shed scales.
• Charles used the gathered aura to track Kolsama and asked the Book of Causal Paths to help locate him.
• The Book of Causal Paths warned Charles that Kolsama could become a threat if allowed to recover, prompting Charles to change his plan.
• Charles asked the Book of Causal Paths to weave an outcome in which he found Kolsama, accepting that he might need to kill him more than once.

Charles used the Book of Causal Paths and a black crystal ball to track down Kolsama, who fled to a new hiding place. Unable to pinpoint him precisely, Charles cursed Kolsama using one of his scales, leaving the demon lord in agony and furious at Charles.

• The Book of Causal Paths burned its pages to reveal the route to Kolsama, and Charles followed the black crystal ball through repeated teleports.
• Kolsama sensed danger, left his underground cavern, and hid in a new location.
• Charles tracked Kolsama to a broad area but could not locate him exactly, so he used one of Kolsama's scales to cast a fifth-circle curse.
• Black runes spread across Kolsama's body and tortured his soul, and he realized Charles had cursed him.
• Kolsama endured the curse and vowed not to give Charles another opportunity.

Charles repeatedly cursed Kolsama through a scale, overwhelming the sixth-rank demon lord until he emerged from hiding, battered and furious. Charles arrived with his wizard tower and followers, preparing to face Kolsama while Zarlos reflected on the danger of leaving behind scales or blood.

• Charles used Kolsama’s scale to cast repeated curses, drawing on the Abyss World’s rule power and the wizard tower’s assistance.
• Kolsama endured a succession of curses underground until he could no longer withstand the pain and burst through the cavern.
• Kolsama accused Charles of betraying an ally, recalling that he had supported Charles during the devils’ siege.
• Charles appeared through a teleportation gate with his wizard tower, bringing his greater demons and demon lord inside for protection and support.
• Zarlos watched Kolsama’s battered state and resolved never to leave any scales or blood behind.

Charles confronted the wounded demon lord Kolsama and demanded his true name so he could enslave him. Kolsama refused, and the two prepared to fight as Charles launched the first attack.

• Charles revealed that he had cursed Kolsama to draw him out and demanded Kolsama's true name in exchange for letting him remain in the Abyss World.
• Kolsama refused to become Charles's slave, explaining that he had already spent thousands of years enslaved by Hachiwote.
• Charles blocked Kolsama's escape with a Dimensional Anchor and declared that they would settle the matter through battle.
• Charles gathered rule power and used spells from his wizard tower to empower his Balor body and elemental true body.
• Kolsama vowed that he would never become a slave again, even if it meant dying, and Charles struck him in the head.

Charles fought Kolsama with the strength of a veteran sixth-rank Demon Lord and used the Book of Causal Paths to prevent him from self-destructing. Charles killed Kolsama by tearing out his demon core, leaving him with a sixth-rank core to claim.

• Charles overwhelmed Kolsama with attacks, shields, spells, and support from his forces while Kolsama refused to surrender.
• Charles asked the Book of Causal Paths to keep Kolsama from self-destructing, and it burned pages to give Kolsama the fate to keep fighting.
• Charles repeatedly attacked Kolsama's soul until his mind became confused and his counterattacks weakened.
• Kolsama recalled his violent rise through the Abyss and lamented that every chance at freedom had been destroyed.
• Charles told Kolsama he was still not strong enough, then pierced his chest and tore out his core, killing him.

After Charles killed Kolsama, the Abyss’s authority passed to him and greatly increased his power. Charles ordered his subordinates to conquer the entire layer of the Abyss World so he could claim more territory and authority.

• The will of the Abyss rebuked Charles for killing Kolsama, then bestowed Kolsama’s authority on him because the Abyss World depended on Charles to resist Purgatory.
• Charles’s Fear Radiance and power surged, stunning Dorkas and making Zarlos and the other demons submit to him.
• Zarlos boasted about his loyalty, prompting Kaseron to accuse him of competing for the title of Charles’s most loyal subordinate.
• Charles declared that he needed more territory and authority, then ordered Bruce and the other Greater Demons to launch a war across the Abyss World.
• Zarlos vowed to seize everything for Charles and set out with the others to conquer territory.

Charles resumed his cultivation while holding the heart cores and souls of Kolsama and the Devil Marquis. After learning that Hachiwote had escaped with part of the Abyss Lord’s authority, Charles decided to forge Kolsama into a weapon and the Devil Marquis into armor, leaving both souls horrified.

• The great demons returned to their legions through portals Charles opened, and the war of conquest began again.
• Charles analyzed Kolsama’s heart core while Kolsama pleaded for his soul to be released.
• Charles told Kolsama he had deliberately prevented him from surrendering and asked what Kolsama knew about Hachiwote’s escape.
• Kolsama said Hachiwote had taken part of the Abyss Great Lord’s authority and fled into the void.
• Charles announced that he would forge Kolsama’s corpse and heart core into a weapon and the Devil Marquis’s remains into armor.
• The Devil Marquis cursed Charles as Charles revealed his plan to use the Marquis’s soul as material for the armor.

Charles designed a weapon from Kolsama's corpse and built the Sun Furnace to reach the heat needed to forge it. He activated the furnace by drawing power from the Sea of Rules, and Kolsama watched in horror as it began to work.

• Charles designed Kolsama's corpse as the basis for an executioner's greatsword but decided ordinary furnaces and the Fire Elemental Plane could not forge it.
• Charles studied the sun of rules and built a colossal furnace at the plane world's highest peak, using supreme-grade fire elemental crystals inscribed with sorcery runes.
• Charles named the completed furnace the Sun Furnace, set up a vast sorcery array, and made the wizard tower its controller.
• Charles ignited a flame of rules and used his authority to draw power from the Sea of Rules into the Sun Furnace.
• The array pulled a pillar of light from the sky and focused it through the furnace's fire crystals, prompting Kolsama to howl in dismay.

Charles used the Sun Furnace to forge a powerful decapitating greatsword from purified materials and the corpse of the demon lord Kolsama, embedding Kolsama’s heart core and soul within it. The weapon was completed and named Demon Sword: Doomsday Wildfire.

• Charles reinforced the Sun Furnace’s surrounding space and smelted Abyssal Demon Iron and other precious materials into a concentrated solution.
• Charles smelted Kolsama’s corpse, refining its complete rules and fusing the resulting liquid with the prepared materials.
• Charles shaped the merged substance into a greatsword and layered it with runes that gave it powerful permanent effects.
• Charles ignored Kolsama’s pleas and embedded his heart core, containing his soul, in the sword’s crossguard.
• Charles named the completed weapon Demon Sword: Doomsday Wildfire.

Charles forged the demon sword Doomsday Wildfire and a rune-covered suit of armor named Immortal Calamity Ashes from the remains of two Devil Marquis. After planning to turn the Sun Furnace into a vast smelting center, he gained the crown of an Abyss Grand Lord.

• Charles ignored the Devil Marquis's curses and forged his corpse and materials into armor, embedding its Heart Core in the breastplate.
• Charles named the armor Immortal Calamity Ashes and returned to his wizard tower with his new equipment.
• Charles planned roads and mining routes to transport Abyssal Demon Iron to the Sun Furnace and expand ore processing across his Abyss World.
• Charles felt his authority strengthen, and the crown of an Abyss Grand Lord descended onto his head.

After conquering the entire first layer of the Abyss World, Charles became its Abyss Overlord and felt his authority and power grow. He proclaimed that the demons would serve him in wars across countless planes, and they roared their loyalty in response.

• Charles received the invisible crown and became the Abyss Overlord, though he sensed that part of his authority was missing.
• Charles's image appeared in the souls of demons across the Abyss World, and countless Ratmen and demons knelt before him.
• Zarlos and Bruce led their legions in kneeling to Charles, while Bruce remembered how Charles had raised him from an ordinary rat to a Greater Demon.
• Charles declared that all the land in the layer belonged to him and called on the demons to serve him and join his wars across countless planes.
• The demons roared their loyalty, and Bruce swore to follow Charles until his death.