Chapter Summaries

Moros secured the withdrawal of the Moth to Fire Council’s suppression of Mobius, while the resulting political shake-up strengthened several councillors. He then began redesigning the Undead Legion’s Collapse Energy war machines with Vill-V, who completed plans for a crewless self-propelled artillery.

• Powerful figures pressured the Moth to Fire Council to stop targeting Mobius, and the councillors withdrew their measures against her.
• Several councillors lost their seats in the political storm, while Eugene, Vincent, and Wang consolidated and expanded their power.
• Mobius realized Moros had prompted the intervention, then shared a playful exchange with Elysia in the laboratory.
• Moros used Biological Agents from Mobius to begin upgrading the Undead Legion’s war machines after their heavy losses against the Herrscher of Wind.
• Moros proposed merging skeletons’ souls with war machines, and Vill-V eagerly took on the design work.
• Vill-V completed blueprints for a redesigned 155MM Collapse Energy Self-Propelled Artillery with its crew compartment and life-support systems removed.

Moros and Vill-V created the first Undead Engine, a self-repairing artillery machine fused with a Skeleton Archer's Soul Fire, and began equipping the Undead Legion with new models. Meanwhile, dignitaries in the Mu Continent met to devise a response to Moros's growing power, leaving their plans unresolved.

• Moros and Vill-V completed a ritual that fused a Skeleton Archer's Soul Fire and Mobius's Biological Agent with a 155MM self-propelled artillery, creating the first Undead Engine.
• Moros added the 155MM Undead Engine to the blacksmith shop's standard templates, and Vill-V began designing upgraded weapons with the support of her other personalities.
• Moros tested larger Undead Engine models and ordered three battalions each of the 280mm and 305MM artillery, while more than a thousand engines assembled for the Undead Legion.
• Dignitaries in the Mu Continent gathered secretly to plan a response to Moros after his threats had forced them to warn the Moth to Fire Council.
• An elderly dignitary called for an effective strategy, and another white-haired dignitary agreed with him.

Humanity’s leaders shelved the risky Flame-Chaser Project and instead backed resistance groups in Australia and New Zealand to slow the necromancer’s growth. In Western Australia, Eric delivered arms and supplies to Bridget’s group and learned that the crackdown on resistance fighters had recently intensified.

• Wang proposed the Flame-Chaser Project, but Theodore, Francis, and the other powerful figures ultimately shelved it over the risks.
• Humanity’s rulers decided to incite resistance against the necromancer and smuggle weapons to groups across Australia and New Zealand.
• At Fremantle Port, local powerful figures let ten containers of Honkai Energy weapons pass in exchange for benefits.
• Barry assured Bridget that aid would arrive, and a truck carrying the supplies reached the resistance members waiting in the woods.
• Eric reunited with Barry and Bridget, then heard that Bridget’s group had lost fifteen percent of its members and that more than fifty fighters had recently been hanged in Geraldton.

Bridget accepted United Nations weapons and worked with Barry to plan an attack on a tax convoy bound for the undead wizard. The resistance destroyed the convoy and escaped before wraiths could find them, while Geraldton's elites demanded answers.

• Eric supplied Bridget's resistance with assault rifles, ammunition, machine guns, and rocket launchers in exchange for continued cooperation.
• Barry obtained intelligence that a convoy carrying Geraldton's annual taxes would pass through the resistance's area, and he helped Bridget plan an ambush.
• Bridget's fighters waited in heavy rain and attacked the convoy after it entered the ambush zone, stopping it with a sniper shot that overturned the lead Humvee.
• The resistance fighters fought the convoy's private soldiers and destroyed the vehicles and their cargo.
• Bridget's troops withdrew before wraith reinforcements arrived, and the wraiths failed to track them.
• An officer reported the convoy's destruction to Geraldton's elites, who demanded to know what had happened.

Geraldton’s leaders replaced supplies lost in resistance attacks and launched a brutal campaign that devastated Bridget’s organization, forcing it to flee the region. Meanwhile, Moros focused on magical research and transformed a Judgment-class Honkai Beast into the Legendary Undead Hanuman, leaving him with a powerful new ranged fighter.

• Geraldton’s mayor ordered Drake to personally escort replacement tax supplies after all ten transport convoys were attacked and one was destroyed.
• Geraldton’s leaders used more than ten thousand Low-tier Undead to crush resistance organizations across the region.
• Bridget split his forces to escape the encirclement, but his organization was reduced to one-fifth its former strength and then decided to leave Geraldton.
• Moros dismissed Perth’s report after learning the taxes would arrive on schedule and continued his magical research.
• Moros transformed the Judgment-class Honkai Beast into Hanuman, a Legendary Undead Behemoth with powerful flight and ranged attacks.

Moros mastered Light Magic and inscribed Armageddon into his Spellbook, while Vill-V used the Herrscher Core of the Herrscher of Wind and Soulsteel to create a God-Slaying Weapon. She presented the staff to Moros and promised not to take reckless risks, but had not yet named it.

• Moros resolved the conflict between Light Magic and his Death Mana, mastered Light Magic, and reached Level 33.
• Moros studied Armageddon for a year and a half after the Fourth Great Collapse and successfully inscribed it into his Spellbook.
• Vill-V decided to turn the Herrscher Core of the Herrscher of Wind into a God-Slaying Weapon using Soulsteel obtained with Moros's help.
• Vill-V's repeated experiments culminated in a successful new weapon design at the research base in the Victoria Great Desert.
• Vill-V gave Moros the long-handled staff and asked if it would let her fight beside him; Moros warned her about the danger, and she promised not to act rashly.
• Moros asked Vill-V whether the weapon had a name, and she shook her head with a smile.

After the Moth to Fire Council sealed away the Flame-Chaser Project, Mobius prepared to leave the organization and move her research institute to Australia. She invited Danzhu and Cangxuan to come with her, leaving the twins to decide whether to join her.

• Mei and Mobius completed the Flame-Chaser Project, but the Moth to Fire Council halted further research and sealed it away, citing ethical concerns.
• Mei accepted the council’s decision, while Mobius decided to leave Moth to Fire because it had become an obstacle to her research.
• Mobius and Klein packed the First Research Institute, and Klein used her authority over Mobius’s spectre to stop Danzhu and Cangxuan from fleeing it.
• Mobius announced that the institute would relocate to the Australian Continent and offered Danzhu and Cangxuan the choice to leave with her.
• Danzhu and Cangxuan, frightened by the spectre, followed it into Mobius’s laboratory to hear her offer.

Mobius prepared to leave Moth to Fire with Danzhu and Cangxuan, while Moros arrived at the First Research Institute to help evacuate her research and supplies to the Australian Continent. As the council realized the evacuation was underway, its members decided to force their way into the institute.

• Mobius told Danzhu, Cangxuan, and Klein to organize the materials for transport after Danzhu and Cangxuan chose to leave Moth to Fire with her.
• The Moth to Fire Council surrounded the First Research Institute, while Hen warned Kosma not to risk his life in a political struggle and Kevin prepared to follow Mei’s wishes.
• Councillor Harry knocked out the council-loyal councillor accompanying him and promised to cooperate with Mobius, who said Moros would arrive to assist with the evacuation.
• Moros arrived through a portal with hundreds of Skeleton Archers, and Klein directed them to carry the supplies through a portal to the Australian Continent.
• When the council received no news from inside the institute, its members decided to force their way in.

Moros protected Dr. Mobius as she evacuated Moth to Fire and moved with her, Klein, Danzhu, and Cangxuan to a new research institute in Queensland. World leaders then agreed to use Australian resistance forces to attack the institute, while Barry received the United Nations' instructions.

• Moth to Fire's Council recognized Moros on its surveillance feed, abandoned its attempt to capture Dr. Mobius, and ordered its Special Operations Teams to withdraw.
• Moros told Dr. Mobius that the Council had compromised, and she asked about the research institute he had prepared in Queensland.
• Klein and hundreds of Skeleton Archers transferred the institute's supplies through the portal, then Dr. Mobius, Danzhu, Cangxuan, and Moros left Mu Continent.
• Moros showed Dr. Mobius the Queensland research institute and assigned an Undead Legion to protect it and obey her orders.
• World leaders agreed to rally Australian resistance forces receiving United Nations aid and attack the institute to reclaim Dr. Mobius.
• Barry received the United Nations' instructions while discussing the resistance organization's next move with Bridget.

Barry and Bridget received orders to attack Mobius's research institute and agreed to feign compliance despite expecting to sacrifice most of their force. Moros learned that resistance groups were converging on Queensland and unleashed his Undead Legions, which ambushed a resistance column near Boulia.

• After crackdowns kept Bridget's unit from returning to Geraldton, Barry blamed himself for the earlier convoy attack and struggled to tell Bridget about the new order.
• Bridget read the order to attack the research institute and condemned it as a mission that would send his force to its death.
• Barry proposed pretending to carry out the order while minimizing casualties, but told Bridget that eighty percent of their soldiers would still have to be sacrificed.
• Moros learned from his wraiths that resistance groups were gathering in Queensland and identified Mobius's research institute as their target.
• Moros opened Demiplane passages and sent Shesha and the Undead Legions to destroy the resistance forces without accepting surrender.
• Near Boulia, Undead artillery, Shesha's Collapse Energy Lightning, and the Archliches' Death Cloud struck the resistance column, killing hundreds before they could respond.

Moros’s undead armies annihilated resistance forces across Australia, including Bridget’s, before they could assemble, while the generals at United Nations Special Staff Headquarters faced the consequences of their failed campaign plan. After turning the leaders’ souls into named Soul Crystals and raising the dead as Skeleton Archers, Moros began a broader campaign to destroy every resistance organization on the continent.

• Sesha’s undead army routed a resistance force after a devastating barrage, while Hanuman’s Flying Undead and Tornado Storm wiped out another force near Cairns.
• The Undead Legion used Demiplane passages to strike across Australia and nearly destroy the resistance forces before they could gather.
• Generals at United Nations Special Staff Headquarters learned from reports and satellite footage that their campaign plan had failed, and they worried about taking the blame.
• Moros extracted information from Barry’s soul, turned Barry and Bridget into named Soul Crystals, and refined other captured souls into Low-grade Soul Crystal.
• Moros destroyed Bridget’s resistance force with Battle Spells, raised its dead as Skeleton Archers, and collected the remaining soul energy.
• Moros resolved to cleanse Australia of all resistance organizations despite their access to satellite reconnaissance.

Moros rewarded the Australian Continent’s elites for helping purge the resistance, transforming Keen and Margaret into high-tier vampires and granting other elites vampire powers. He then unleashed enormous tornadoes against nearby islands, prompting the rulers behind the resistance to order Moth to Fire to handle the crisis, where Councillor Eugene began an emergency meeting.

• Moros summoned the Australian Continent’s elites to Sydney and transformed Keen and Margaret into high-tier vampires, while granting other elites vampires and transformation daggers.
• Moros revealed that high-tier vampires could live for at least five thousand years, then left the gathering after distributing the rewards.
• Moros ordered Hanuman to send Category Twelve Tornado Storms toward East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, and military satellites recorded their destruction.
• The rulers responsible for supporting resistance organizations agreed to have Moth to Fire resolve the tornado crisis.
• Councillor Eugene opened an emergency video conference and urged the Moth to Fire Council to decide how to respond.

Dr. Mei persuaded the Moth to Fire Council to seek the Necromancer’s help in dispersing the approaching Tornado Storms, and the council sent Elysia to contact him. Moros agreed to confront the disaster but revealed that he had caused it, leaving Elysia shocked and struggling to respond.

• Dr. Mei proposed negotiating with the Necromancer after councillors rejected using nuclear weapons to stop the Tornado Storms.
• The council chose Elysia to approach the Necromancer, and she accepted without hesitation.
• Elysia used the Spectre Jar to contact Moros and pleaded with him to help save the people in the storms’ path.
• Moros hesitated before admitting that Storm Bone Ape Hanuman had unleashed the storms on his orders.
• Moros explained that he had created the disaster to make those in power recognize their mistake, and Elysia was shaken by the revelation.

Moros calmed the three Tornado Storms after Elysia asked him to, but warned the Moth to Fire Council that his revenge was not over. He used a ritual curse to kill Jeffrey, the first ruler he targeted, despite the heavy security around his residence.

• Elysia thanked Moros for agreeing to calm the storms, and he told her to warn the Moth to Fire Council that he would still retaliate.
• Moros used Prot.fromAir to weaken Hanuman’s three Tornado Storms, while powerful leaders mobilized troops and supplies to protect themselves.
• Moros assembled nearly three hundred Archliches beneath the Mobius Institute and began a ritual curse against Jeffrey.
• Moros completed the Death Curse, and Jeffrey’s phantom vanished from the black crystal sphere.
• Jeffrey felt an invisible force pierce his heart during a banquet and collapsed dead as his guests panicked.

Moros retaliated against the Moth to Fire Council by killing influential figures with curse magic, forcing its leaders to abandon confrontation and seek peace. A high-ranking delegation left for Australia to negotiate with him, while Mobius learned that Jeffrey's death was only the beginning.

• Mobius visited Moros's altar, but he stopped her from approaching because its Death Mana could harm her.
• Moros told Mobius that Jeffrey was dead and warned that everyone involved in the affair would pay; Mobius left the underground space.
• Moros's curses killed ten powerful figures overnight, filling the world's leaders with fear and anger.
• After debating the risks of war, the leaders agreed to acknowledge their failure and exchange benefits for peace.
• Moros killed another ten figures with a second curse ritual, and the leaders dispatched a high-ranking delegation to Australia to negotiate.

Moros secured control over much of Southeast Asia and visited Jakarta, where Elysia’s presence led him to abandon plans to replenish his soul crystals with local souls. After Elysia gave him a Crystal Flower, Moros brought her to meet the region’s new rulers and explained his pragmatic approach to governing their lands.

• Moros negotiated with human leaders, gaining authority over the Indonesian archipelago in exchange for overlooking their Australian operation and receiving a public apology.
• Local strongmen in the newly designated territory formed an alliance and suppressed resistance as they prepared to accept Moros’s rule.
• Elysia arrived in Jakarta, and Moros abandoned his plan to use local souls for soul crystals because he did not want to disregard her concerns.
• Elysia gave Moros a Crystal Flower, and he gently touched her cheek after she accepted his affection.
• Moros took Elysia to a Jakarta hotel banquet, where local elites praised him and awaited the power and status they expected under his rule.
• Moros regarded the territories as expendable colonies because his Demiplane offered a safe refuge from the approaching end of the world.

Moros secured the local elite’s loyalty through a hands-off tax-and-obedience arrangement, then spent a romantic day in Jakarta with Elysia as her doubts about him eased. Meanwhile, the Fifth Herrscher awakened in a remote Mu Continent village, froze its inhabitants, and headed toward Dusk Street, where she encountered Kalpas.

• Moros explained that local leaders could govern themselves if they paid his taxes and obeyed his orders, and they enthusiastically swore loyalty to him.
• Elysia felt relieved after witnessing Moros’s governing approach and continued investigating his past, while her bond with him grew closer.
• Moros and Elysia explored Jakarta, sampled local food, visited Anzor Fantasy Park, and shared an evening together at their hotel.
• A girl imprisoned in a cellar became the Herrscher of Ice and froze the corrupt mountain village and everyone in it.
• After taking revenge, the Herrscher of Ice set out for Dusk Street and unexpectedly encountered Kalpas, who had fled Immer’s homeland.

Kalpas killed the Herrscher of Ice, while Moth to Fire discovered that an unknown force had defeated her and began searching for it. Moros learned of the Council’s response and planned to obtain the Herrscher Core by other means, but Moth to Fire anticipated his interest and guarded its location.

• Kalpas defeated the Herrscher of Ice, and Mark revealed to Kosma that he had sent the soldiers away to give them a chance to live.
• Kevin reported that the Herrscher was already dead and warned that an unknown force had defeated her instantly.
• Moth to Fire’s Council learned that the necromancer had been in Jakarta during the battle and resolved to investigate the unknown force and seek its cooperation.
• Moros instructed Councillor William to negotiate for biological tissue from the Herrscher of Ice while deciding to pursue her Core separately.
• Moros considered infiltrating, stealing, or robbing Moth to Fire to obtain the Core, but the Council anticipated his intentions and kept its location secret.

Moros chose to study the Legendary Spell Avatar of Death while searching for the Herrscher Core of Ice. Elsewhere, Kalpas woke in Apponia’s sanatorium and tried to leave despite his injuries, where caregiver Qi stopped him.

• Moros avoided directly controlling Moth to Fire councillors and relied on his loyal followers to seek the Herrscher Core’s location.
• Moros entered the Graveyard territory and began sorting through Legendary Spell tomes to choose what to study before the Herrscher of the End arrived.
• Moros selected Avatar of Death, a Legendary Spell based on Arantir’s innate ability, and began researching it.
• Kalpas woke in Apponia’s sanatorium after defeating the Herrscher of Ice and tried to leave despite his severe injuries.
• Qi, a caregiver at the sanatorium, warned Kalpas not to move around, but Kalpas demanded to know where he was.

Kalpas stayed at Apponia’s sanatorium, where she spoke with him and earned his blunt request to be left alone. Meanwhile, Moros’s wraiths stole tissue samples from Kalpas’s bandages, but a gentle voice reached them as they prepared to leave.

• Qi told Kalpas that Apponia’s sanatorium was safe, but Kalpas ignored his help and headed toward the elevator until Qi followed him.
• Apponia met Kalpas beside his fire and asked whether he needed help; he agreed, then learned to say, “Get lost.”
• Moros ordered wraiths to track Kalpas so he could obtain a genetic sample before Kalpas became a Flame-Chaser Warrior.
• The wraiths infiltrated the sanatorium, took tissue samples from Kalpas’s discarded bandages, and returned toward their base.
• As Moros prepared to withdraw his attention from the wraiths, a gentle female voice quietly reached them.