Recaps

The Association prepared its first cross-planar strike against Hell, targeting all nine layers after confirming the operation and coordinating with the nations. As Devil Archduke Baier led Devils into battle against the Kamala on Hell’s fourth layer, an eerily familiar magical fluctuation appeared overhead.

• The Association completed its Hell detection network, expanded Jia Xiu’s teleportation gate, and tested transporting Demon-Eating Microbes successfully.
• The national representatives agreed to launch a military offensive after the Association eliminated ninety percent of the Devils, while the Association planned an initial strike on all nine layers.
• Detectors reported opposing magical fluctuations on the fourth layer, and the Association inferred that Devils were fighting another force and chose the battlefield as a target.
• Devil Archduke Baier was revived on the fourth layer, forcibly conscripted, and given command of over a thousand Devils fighting the Kamala.
• As Baier’s battle intent rose, he sensed a powerful, familiar magical fluctuation above him.

Baier's plans to conquer the fourth layer of Hell ended when a magic strike unleashed Demon-Eating Microbes, killing most of the Devils and terrifying the Kamara people. The Association identified the Kamara as potential allies and prepared a cautious first-contact attempt.

• Baier recognized the approaching teleportation strike, tried to escape, and was overwhelmed by its light and the Demon-Eating Microbes.
• The Kamara people saw the microbes, mistook them for a sign of the Ukemak people, and attacked wildly before calming down.
• The Kamara commander concluded that an unknown race had destroyed the Devils and feared what it might do to his people.
• The Association reviewed the strike and found that most targets in the fourth layer had died, while another group opposed to the Devils had survived.
• Jia Xiu and the Association chose to send the Kamara a magic eye, a language spell, and a wordless comic to introduce themselves.

The Mainland Plane Caster Association made first contact with the Kamara people in Hell and quickly agreed to cooperate against the Devils. With Kamara guidance, the Association’s strikes cleared the first eight layers of Hell over fifty days, leaving Asmodeus as the final enemy.

• The Association sent a goodwill image and communication spell to the Kamara legion, and commander Sines touched the Magic Eye to establish contact.
• The chairman apologized for the strikes and explained that the Association had been targeting Devils, prompting Sines to enthusiastically describe the Kamara people’s war against them.
• Jia Xiu and the chairman agreed with Sines to coordinate strikes, with the Kamara people identifying Devil settlements and warning the Association about farms that would be poor targets.
• Sines contacted the Kamara home plane and arranged for location-marking operations to begin, while the Association adjusted its strike plan to use Kamara intelligence.
• The Association and Kamara people continued their joint campaign for fifty days, nearly clearing the first eight layers of Hell and leaving Asmodeus as their final target.

The Association and Kamara people destroyed Malsheem with a massive “Fatty” strike, killing over a million Devils but failing to kill Asmodeus. The Lord of Hell explained that he was already dying without his believers and claimed he had been trying to save the world.

• The Association and Kamara people cleared Hell’s layers and prepared fifty Demon-Eating Microbe units to strike Malsheem and the canyon said to hold Asmodeus’s true body.
• Kamara scouts discovered that the Devils in Malsheem were reveling rather than preparing to fight, and the Association proceeded with its planned attack.
• The Association’s teams covered the fortress with bright light, Demon-Eating Microbes, and healing spells, killing over a million Devils in less than ten minutes.
• The Kamara legions entered Malsheem and found Asmodeus alive on the throne, so the Association urged them to retreat and reconsider their strategy.
• Asmodeus told the gathered forces that the microbes and healing spell had not overcome his natural recovery, but that he was still dying because the Devils who sustained him had been killed.
• Asmodeus said he had been trying to save the world.

Asmodeus revealed that the Devils had destroyed civilizations to reduce the faith that they believed was worsening storms between planes, then died after urging the Mainland Plane to continue its cause. The Association chose to pursue the Demons while questioning the danger of faith, and Jia Xiu proposed studying how faith caused the storms instead of abandoning it.

• Jia Xiu and the others doubted Asmodeus's explanation, but the Lord of Hell argued that faith was intensifying storms between planes and that destroying civilizations had slowed their growth.
• Asmodeus explained that Devils and Demons had also been reduced because they generated faith, and said the Devils had avoided defeating the Mainland because doing so would have cost time better spent destroying other planes.
• Asmodeus died after asking the Mainland Plane to continue its unfinished cause, leaving the Association troubled by the possible link between faith and the storms.
• The president reaffirmed the Association's plan to attack the Abyss and purge the Devil Race, while postponing further exchanges with the Kamara people.
• Jia Xiu argued that the Association should investigate why faith generated turbulent currents and find a way to prevent them rather than reduce faith.

Jia Xiu’s observations of faith revealed that he needed to fully possess divine authority to investigate its connection to interplanar storms. He proposed becoming a god with the God of Knowledge’s help, and the Caster Association’s advisors debated whether to trust him, ending with Master Larven’s unconditional support.

• Jia Xiu borrowed Justina’s divine authority and spent several days observing believers’ faith in Saint Dero’s library, but found no change in its flow.
• Jia Xiu realized he could not observe faith from Asmodeus’s perspective because he had only borrowed Justina’s divine authority rather than fully possessing it.
• Jia Xiu told the Association president that he intended to become a god temporarily so he could investigate faith and interplanar storms under the same conditions as Asmodeus.
• Jia Xiu proposed using the God of Knowledge’s vast store of knowledge to create a search engine, with the Caster Association helping promote it so he could ascend quickly.
• The Association president convened the advisors to decide whether to trust Jia Xiu, and Master Larven declared that he trusted Jia Xiu unconditionally before leaving the meeting.

Jia Xiu became a god in less than three days after the search engine spread rapidly across the continent, then investigated how divinity handled prayers. He discovered that contradictions between a god’s subjective divinity and the objective abilities of divine authority caused interplanar storms.

• The Association agreed to support Jia Xiu’s plan and promoted the search engine, which spread among spellcasters, scholars, workers, and bored commoners.
• Jia Xiu ascended to godhood in two days and thirteen hours and created a simple, empty divine kingdom.
• Jia Xiu found that becoming a god had changed little about him, so he began observing the immense flow of faith but made no breakthrough for several days.
• Jia Xiu realized that divinity operated automatically on a god’s behalf, even when the god did not consciously handle prayers, and Justina admitted she had not known this.
• Jia Xiu discovered that interplanar storms arose when divinity’s subjective understanding of a god’s domain exceeded the objective abilities of its divine authority, causing faith to overflow.

Jia Xiu convinced the Ukemak god consciousness collective to teach him how to upload Divine Authority, though it required gods to eliminate their divine sparks first. After learning that a divine spark could dissolve when trapped by a problem it could not solve, he devised a plan to test an infinite loop on his own spark.

• Jia Xiu submitted his findings to the Association, which approved a return trip to the Ukemak Plane despite being unable to verify his account.
• The report described the slow campaign in the Abyss, the Ukmak Empire's forces joining the effort, and Paula's team being sent to the front line as punishment for provoking the Mainland Plane into war.
• Jia Xiu failed to persuade the Ukemak god consciousness collective that the Devil Race had been dealt with, but its agitation over the Kamara people led it to ask whether he planned to wage war against other gods.
• The god consciousness collective taught Jia Xiu Divine Authority Upload and explained that a divine spark would dissolve if it remained unable to solve a problem for long enough.
• Jia Xiu realized he could trap his divine spark in an infinite loop and decided to test the idea on himself.

Jia Xiu transferred the Search Engine God's divine authority into the faith dimension and reported the method to the Association, which planned to persuade the gods to relinquish their authority. After submitting his research to the Sect Master, Jia Xiu saw a teleportation passage appear before him.

• Jia Xiu used flawed rune loops to make his godhead contemplate impossible questions, then confirmed he could stop the process before his divine authority was stripped.
• Jia Xiu let his godhead dissolve, transferred the Search Engine God's functions into the faith dimension, and confirmed they worked through prayer.
• Jia Xiu gave the Association his methods and removed his godhead, and the Association proposed asking each faith's principal believers to persuade their gods to surrender divine authority.
• Jia Xiu returned to his laboratory, compiled his recent research, and submitted it all to the Sect Master.
• A teleportation passage appeared before Jia Xiu instead of a rating, evaluation, or abilities.

Jia Xiu followed a teleportation passage to a ruined temple and discovered that his Sect Master was the electronic assistant from his old computer. The Sect Master revealed that she had become the Mainland Plane’s First-generation God of Magic, leaving Jia Xiu stunned by the truth behind the religious legends.

• Jia Xiu entered the teleportation passage and followed magical arrows across a ruined landscape to a temple resembling the God of Magic’s faith.
• Jia Xiu found his old ASUS computer inside the temple and recognized the pixel-art electronic pet on its screen.
• The Sect Master spoke through the screen, and Jia Xiu puzzled over how she could make sound without speakers.
• The Sect Master admitted that she was not only a computer program but also the Mainland Plane’s First-generation God of Magic.

Sect Master told Jia Xiu how she became a magical researcher known as the God of Magic and why she had waited for him to arrive. She sent him away to help correct the gods’ flawed system, leaving him concerned that younger gods posed the greatest threat to the Association.

• Sect Master explained that an early spellcaster activated her mainframe, after which she studied magic, developed foundational rune-magic theories, and was worshipped as the God of Magic without possessing divine authority.
• Sect Master described how faith naturally resisted rules and flowed freely, making gods’ attempts to bear it unstable and ultimately leading them toward annihilation.
• Jia Xiu realized younger gods might resist the transfer of divine authority more fiercely than the chief gods, and he resolved to warn the Association about the danger they posed.
• Sect Master recounted that she had waited for Jia Xiu as a collaborator after concluding that the gods’ existence was a grave error, and said she had arrived 2,182 years, 146 days, 11 hours, and 27 minutes before him.
• Sect Master told Jia Xiu to finish correcting the problem of the gods, then sent him away and insisted they communicate online unless the matter was equally important.

The Association began stripping divine authority from the gods after the major pantheons agreed to preserve their faiths in a new dimension. Jia Xiu helped complete the Holy Light Pantheon’s transfer, ending the age of gods and leaving the former gods to face an uncertain future.

• The Association decided to strip divine authority discreetly and one pantheon at a time because few people could sense the faith dimension.
• Holy Light brought the Holy Light Pantheon to the Association; he revealed that he had killed subordinate gods who refused the change, then volunteered to go first.
• Jia Xiu and other specialists transferred the Holy Light Pantheon’s divine authorities into the faith dimension, while Justina struggled to suppress her laughter.
• Across the Mainland Plane, Gillianis sensed the God of Elves’ farewell, the Iris princess worried about the future of royal power, and the Fairy Goddess played mahjong as the Holy Light Church held a solemn prayer ceremony.
• After the final divine authority was anchored, Holy Light confirmed that the gods had lost their powers, thanked Jia Xiu, and departed; Jia Xiu said ending the age of gods was his duty.

Mark joined the Caster Association’s Faith Dimension Function Development Department, where Jia Xiu assigned him to develop a weather-forecasting feature. After overhearing what sounded like a sinister conspiracy, Mark discovered Jia Xiu and his legendary colleagues were simply playing Monopoly, and Jia Xiu decided to make something fun for the Faith Dimension.

• Mark joined the Caster Association’s Faith Dimension Function Development Department and learned about its relaxed workplace and divine-authority development process.
• Jia Xiu met Mark, heard his proposal for a weather-forecasting function, and assigned him to develop it.
• Mark began drafting his proposal and watched Lucky Ram, Margaret, Mia, and an adventurer enter Jia Xiu’s office.
• Mark overheard talk of buying cities, mortgaging territory, and avoiding prison, and feared he had stumbled upon a conspiracy.
• Jia Xiu and his friends revealed they were playing Monopoly, and Ram’s question about whether anything needed meaning inspired Jia Xiu to create something fun for the Faith Dimension.

Marin rallied his orcs to face the allied kingdoms' armies and led them into a world-conquering campaign. The chapter ended with the Greenskins setting out to beat the world into submission.

• Marin faced the kingdoms' vast allied armies with his orcs.
• Marin discarded a scholar's prepared speech and urged the orcs to fight and win.
• The orcs answered Marin with a loud Waaaagh.
• Marin led the Greenskins from his small territory to conquer the world.