Chapter Summaries

Moros was born to Emma and Frakt, discovered a Golden Finger in his mind, and was brought home after three days in the hospital. The chapter left him asleep in Emma’s arms after she fed him, still too young to explore his Golden Finger.

• Emma and Frakt learned they were expecting a boy and promised to give him a happy home.
• The unborn Moros became conscious, felt his parents’ affection, and received his name from Frakt.
• A shining orb appeared in Moros’s mind as his Golden Finger, but he grew too tired to examine it.
• Moros was born, met Emma, and was welcomed by his tearful father outside the delivery room.
• Three days later, Emma cared for Moros at home, and he fell asleep after nursing.

Moros unlocked the Heart of the Lord, chose the Graveyard faction, and became a Necromancer and Graveyard Lord. After discovering his territory lay in a Demiplane bound to his soul, he began inspecting its resources.

• Moros touched the orb in his mind, learned he had traded his former name for transmigration and a Golden Finger, and entered the ruins of a city in his consciousness.
• Moros found the Heart of the Lord in the Stone Spire’s Throne Hall and chose the Graveyard faction from the available options.
• Moros examined his Hero attributes, chose the Necromancer profession, and acquired the basic Necromancy skill.
• Moros summoned the territory panel and learned that the city ruins and surrounding region were in a Demiplane bound to his soul, which he could enter and leave freely.
• Moros finished sorting through the territory information and began inspecting the Graveyard territory’s resources.

Moros built a Level 1 Magic Guild, learned three deadly spells, and grew into a one-year-old child while secretly studying the world around him. After discovering a dangerous energy that could strengthen the body, he began investigating its potential, and the chapter left him poised to learn more about it.

• Moros spent his scarce resources on a Marketplace, then later gathered enough to build a Level 1 Magic Guild.
• Moros touched the Guild's Spellbook and learned Weakness Curse, Fire Trap, and Eldritch Arrow, gaining the power to kill an adult despite being an infant.
• Moros's parents, Emma and Frakt, celebrated his first grasp, and he chose to toddle over and embrace them instead of selecting an item.
• Moros studied magic and gathered information about the Mu Continent, concluding that its rulers concealed supernatural power from the public.
• Moros discovered that a dangerous energy permeated the world and could strengthen the body if someone endured its harmful effects.

Moros began kindergarten and met Vill-V, recognizing her as a future Flame-Chaser from the Pre-Collapse Civilization and realizing the Herrscher of the End would threaten his world. He befriended Vill-V after learning other children had mocked her hair, and the chapter ended with them setting off to play together.

• Emma brought Moros to kindergarten, where his calmness helped settle the crying children.
• Moros explored the kindergarten and found Vill-V crying alone because other children rejected her for her unusual hair.
• Vill-V introduced herself, and Moros recognized her as the future Flame-Chaser, the Mark of the Spiral, and understood that he was in the Pre-Collapse Civilization.
• Moros recalled the Herrscher of the End's destruction and resolved to grow stronger, trusting his Demiplane as a possible escape.
• Moros comforted Vill-V, offered to be her friend, and she accepted his hand and went with him to play.

Moros deepened his friendship with Vill-V, reached level 2, and chose Enlightenment to accelerate his growth. He recruited a large undead army and marched on the Lumber Mill, where the chapter ended as he deployed his troops against its Peasant and Conscript defenders.

• Moros and Vill-V became close friends at kindergarten, while Moros continued pushing himself to improve his magic and meditation.
• After six days, Moros reached level 2 and chose Enlightenment, gaining a boost to his experience and useful magical knowledge.
• Moros entered Graveyard City’s Tavern to gather intelligence on nearby wilderness resource structures and learned the sizes of their garrisons.
• Moros bought a Ballista, Medical Tent, and Ammunition Cart, then recruited 3,120 Skeleton Archers, 1,980 Zombies, 855 Ghosts, and 175 Vampires.
• Moros led his undead army toward the Lumber Mill and began deploying it against the Peasants and Conscripts guarding the structure.

Moros led the undead army to defeat the Haven faction forces, capture wilderness resource buildings, and raise his level to 12 and the Exemplar Tier. After returning to Earth to find that a full day had passed, he faced questions from his parents, Emma and Frakt.

• Moros ordered volleys from the Skeleton Archers and coordinated the undead army to defeat the farmers and militia occupying the Lumber Mill without losing any troops.
• Moros leveled up from the battle, captured the Lumber Mill, and used Necromancy to raise the dead as Skeleton Soldiers.
• Moros led his army through further victories over monster troops guarding resource buildings, gaining daily wood, stone, and gold income while expanding his skeleton army.
• Moros reached Level 12 and entered the Exemplar Tier, gaining an A-Rank Valkyrie physique.
• Moros returned from the Demiplane to Earth at sunset and realized its time flow now matched Earth's.
• Emma and Frakt confronted Moros about where he had been, and he looked to his mother for help.

After revealing his awakened powers to his parents, Moros stayed in kindergarten with Vill-V while secretly studying magic and developing his Demiplane. Three years later, his magical skills and Graveyard City had grown, and the chapter ended as Vill-V began her graduation performance.

• Moros showed Emma and Frakt a fireball, promised to keep his powers secret, and agreed to say he had only stayed out playing too late.
• Frakt used his connections to settle the story of Moros's disappearance, while Moros chose to remain in kindergarten with Vill-V and continued training in secret.
• Over the next three years, Moros learned to cast Eldritch Arrow more flexibly, studied three languages, and advanced his necromancy while his Graveyard City neared completion of its Capitol.
• At their graduation ceremony, Vill-V took the stage in her Magician's outfit and amazed the audience with colorful magical lights.

After graduating from kindergarten, Moros learned that his parents were sending him to Changkong City, separating him from Vill-V and his mother. Frakt revealed to Emma that he was the mafia’s Godfather and had failed to save his declining gang.

• Moros and Vill-V promised to study hard and reunite at elementary school after Vill-V’s performance and graduation.
• Frakt told Moros that he would leave that night for school in Changkong City, while Emma would stay behind.
• Moros accepted the decision and asked to say goodbye to Vill-V, but Frakt refused and said they would pass along a message.
• After Moros left, Emma asked Frakt about his secret, and he confessed that he had joined the mafia during her pregnancy and risen to become its Godfather.
• Frakt explained that his gang was beset by internal conflict and outside threats, and that he had failed to reverse its decline.

Mr. Frakt agreed to take the blame for the mayor’s Collapse Energy smuggling scheme to protect his son, Moros, while the mayor secretly arranged to have Frakt and Emma killed. Unaware of the danger, Moros sailed toward Changkong City, where he recognized Elysia performing on the ship and approached her.

• Mr. Frakt accepted the mayor’s demand to become the scapegoat after the mayor threatened Moros, and Emma comforted him while asking whether their son would be safe.
• Mayor Yang contacted his backers, planned how to handle the investigation, and ordered his subordinates to eliminate Mr. Frakt and Emma during the voyage.
• Moros left for Changkong City aboard a passenger ship, escorted by two bodyguards, and felt uneasy about leaving his parents behind.
• Moros followed violin music to the deck and recognized the pink-haired Elysia performing for the passengers.
• Moros put money in Elysia’s hat, waited until the crowd dispersed, and told her he wanted to meet her because he liked her music.

After meeting Elysia, Moros was ambushed by assassins on his way back to the cabin. He summoned his undead to kill them and then questioned their souls about who had ordered the attack.

• Moros met Elysia, exchanged names with her, and parted without getting her contact information.
• Several armed men surrounded Moros and his two bodyguards, then shot the bodyguards and wounded Moros in the shoulder.
• Moros summoned an undead squad, which killed the assassins despite their gunfire.
• Moros used necromancy to pull the assassins' souls from their bodies and demanded to know why they had tried to kill him.

Moros survived the assassins’ attack aboard the passenger ship, learned that Mayor Yang had ordered it, and alerted the transit police to the danger facing his parents. As Mayor Yang scrambled to save his position and ordered another attack, Moros reached the city hospital under ghost protection.

• Moros tortured the killers’ souls until their leader revealed that Mayor Yang had ordered the assassination, then had the ghosts devour them.
• Moros hid his undead, staged the scene to make it look as though his bodyguards had died protecting him, and convinced the arriving sailors and transit police of his account.
• After receiving treatment aboard the ship, Moros told a transit policewoman that his parents might be in danger, and she reported his suspicions and promised to protect him.
• Mayor Yang learned the operation had failed, won one final chance from his councillor by promising results from the research base, and sent Number Zero to deliver its experimental equipment.
• Mayor Yang ordered Number One and Squads Three, Five, and Seven to eliminate the survivor while Moros arrived at the city hospital guarded by six ghosts.

After Mayor Yang’s private troops attacked Moros during surgery, his undead guards killed them and Moros escaped through the Demiplane. He reached the Vitality Magic Well to restore his depleted magic, while his conflict with Mayor Yang and the Powerful Councillor remained unresolved.

• Moros ordered six ghosts and four vampires to protect him before anesthesia took effect, while police reassigned the constables guarding his hospital room.
• Mayor Yang’s private troops staged a fire evacuation and attacked Moros, but his undead guards killed all three squads.
• Firefighters found the bodies after extinguishing the small blaze, and a hospital leader ordered evidence destroyed.
• Moros woke, learned of the battle, and decided to make a real mess of things before escaping with the undead through the Demiplane.
• Moros traveled from Graveyard City to the Vitality Magic Well, intending to restore his nearly depleted magic.

Moros returned to the city where Mayor Yang lived to rescue his parents, but found it heavily guarded and chose open war rather than surrender. He unleashed an undead army and began overrunning the city as the councillor called for military reinforcements.

• After restoring his mana in the Vitality Magic Well, Moros returned to Graveyard City and led vampires toward the city where Mayor Yang was located.
• Moros recognized that the Mu Continent’s authorities had exposed him and decided to abandon his identity until he reached Legendary Rank, but he still risked returning to save Mr. Frakt and Emma.
• Seeing increased patrols and checkpoints, Moros concluded that stealth was impossible and opened a vast Demiplane passage to summon an undead army.
• The councillor learned of Moros’s supernatural power, ordered nearby garrisons contacted, and prepared to blame Mayor Yang if the city fell.
• Moros sent his undead forces into the city under Death Canopy, where ghosts, vampires, Corpse Mages, Skeleton Archers, and zombies attacked the defenders.
• The constables’ pistols proved ineffective against most undead, while the private troops’ assault rifles struggled to stop the zombies.

Moros’s Undead Legion overwhelmed the senator’s private soldiers and broke through the defenses on the way to City Hall. Moros captured Mayor Yang, who had stayed in the city as bait, leaving his plan to force the mayor to reveal his parents’ whereabouts within reach.

• Private soldiers struggled against zombies, ghosts, vampires, and Corpse Mages, whose powers and durability overwhelmed their limited firepower.
• On Third Avenue, Brook’s squad joined a routed squad to defend a building, but ghosts and zombies killed the soldiers and took the street.
• After learning that Third Avenue had fallen, Moros redirected his Undead Troops toward Fifth Avenue while pursuing his goal of reaching Mayor Yang.
• A Corpse Mage’s Death Cloud destroyed the infantry fighting vehicle and its defenders at the final checkpoint on Fifth Avenue.
• Moros ordered the attack on City Hall, where the defense collapsed, and vampires captured Mayor Yang.
• Mayor Yang had remained in the city as bait after the senator prevented him from fleeing, believing the senator’s private troops could stop Moros.

Moros captured Mayor Yang and tortured him for information about his parents, Frakt and Emma. He learned their bodies had been sent to a suburban research base and that a powerful councilor had orchestrated the events that led to Frakt’s death, giving Moros a new target for revenge.

• Mayor Yang expected Number Zero’s squad to rescue him, but Moros showed him that the squad had been destroyed and tortured him for his crimes.
• As the regular army began destroying Moros’s forces, Moros beheaded Mayor Yang and extracted his soul for questioning.
• Moros used magic to make Mayor Yang’s soul reveal that Frakt and Emma’s bodies had been sent to a suburban research base.
• Mayor Yang explained that a councilor had secretly built the research base and that Frakt had died after being caught in a dispute involving the councilor.
• Moros realized the councilor had been behind his parents’ suffering and resolved to pursue revenge.

Moros destroyed the Collapse Energy research base after learning Frakt and Emma had been cremated, then withdrew with his undead forces to the Demiplane. In the aftermath, Vill-V mourned his departure, a pink-haired girl volunteered to help rebuild Y City, and Moros reviewed his battle rewards.

• Moros killed Mayor Yang, used his soul to locate the research base, and sent vampires and ghosts to massacre its personnel.
• Moros learned from the researchers' souls that Frakt and Emma's bodies had been cremated, then destroyed the base and retreated to the Demiplane with his undead troops.
• A senator signed a proposal bearing the emblem of Moth to a Flame while considering the fallout from the failed mission and destroyed research base.
• Vill-V visited the ruins of Moros's former home, grieved that he had left Earth, and vowed that they would meet again.
• After hearing a report about the attack on Y City, a pink-haired girl accepted a volunteer flyer and decided to help with reconstruction.
• Moros checked the Hero Panel after retreating and received 42,204 experience points for his victory.

Moros left Graveyard City to strengthen himself and his Undead Legion, then attacked a Gem Mine guarded by thousands of Cerberuses. He used Death Cloud and Law of Delay to blunt their charge, but the battle was still underway as another volley killed nearly 3,000 Cerberuses.

• Moros recognized that his Undead Legion could not yet withstand the Mu Continent regular army and resolved to grow stronger before seeking revenge.
• Moros led his Undead Legion away from Graveyard City and captured wilderness hero enhancement structures, raising his primary attributes by more than a hundred points in total.
• Moros sent an elite force of Corpse Witches, Vampires, and Ghosts toward a Gem Mine guarded by nearly 10,000 Cerberuses.
• Moros ordered the Vampires and Ghosts forward while 450 Corpse Witches killed more than 2,000 Cerberuses with Death Cloud.
• Moros cast Law of Delay to disrupt the Cerberuses' charge, then ordered a second Corpse Witch volley that killed nearly 3,000 more.

Moros swept the Demiplane, reached the Legendary realm, and captured every wilderness structure except the three Sylannas Ancients he had saved for later. After the Capitol opened the way to improve his hero quality, he postponed the dangerous advancement task and spent the next two years preparing by studying magic and improving his control of his power.

• Moros defeated the Cerberus guarding the Gem Mine, revived his fallen undead, and reached level 20.
• Moros upgraded his skeleton soldiers into Skeleton Archers and captured wilderness resources until he reached level 21 and entered the Legendary realm.
• Over the next three months, Moros conquered the Demiplane’s wilderness structures and reached level 24, leaving three Sylannas Ancients untouched for later.
• Moros recognized that his rapid advancement had left him with poor control over his power and decided to study at the Mage Guild.
• After the Capitol was completed, Moros learned that improving his hero quality required a dangerous task in another world, so he delayed it and spent two years preparing.

After six years of study in his Demiplane, Moros mastered his magic and returned to Earth to pursue revenge, seeking information in Dusk Street. He subdued punks who followed him into an alley, then chose not to visit the owner of a nearby monastery.

• Moth to Fire lowered the priority of its search for Moros as research into Collapse Energy advanced, while Dr. Mobius discovered his blood sample differed from that of ordinary adapters and secretly ordered Klein to prepare another sample.
• Moros spent six years studying Magic Tomes, learned to cast spells without the Hero Panel, and decided he was ready to settle his grudge.
• Moros left his Demiplane and entered Dusk Street to learn what had happened on Earth since he fled.
• Several punks followed Moros into a deserted alley, where he used Weakness Curse to knock them down and read their spirits for information.
• Moros left the alley and, after seeing a dilapidated monastery, decided not to visit its owner.

Moros visited Twilight Wine on Dusk Street to buy intelligence and was referred to Fox’s representative. After testing Fox’s reach with a report on Moth to Fire, Moros paid for the report and requested all available intelligence on the organization.

• Moros entered Twilight Wine and asked the bartender how to obtain sensitive intelligence about government officials.
• The bartender directed Moros to Fox’s representative upstairs after Moros ordered a glass of Golden Wine.
• Fox’s hooded representative explained that Fox had to approve transactions and quoted fifty thousand for intelligence on newly established international organizations.
• Moros paid for the report, found information on Moth to Fire, and judged that Fox could access classified intelligence.
• Moros asked for all intelligence on Moth to Fire, and the representative quoted two hundred and fifty thousand.