Chapter Summaries

Garos chose to leave the mysterious world coordinates untouched while he prepared for the Immortal Path, then visited prosperous Silverglow City and learned that Reinhart planned to risk everything to become Immortal. The chapter ended with Reinhart resolved to begin his breakthrough and Bernardo continuing through a peaceful period of growth.

• Garos, Sorog, and Gordon agreed not to investigate the unknown world coordinates, while Samantha and Gordon flew off to settle their dispute in a sparring match.
• Garos returned to deep space to train, and two years later he walked through thriving Silverglow City in disguise.
• Reinhart told Garos that Theo had prospered under Aura's protection and that he was preparing to break through into the Immortal Realm.
• Reinhart asked Garos to care for Theo if he failed, and Garos promised to treat Theo as part of Aura while warning that its fortunes depended on Reinhart's success.
• Garos returned to the White Dwarf to train, while the Cantum Orcs remained weakened, Nausir recovered, and Atlant prospered under Sacred Aura's rule.

Fafweil weighed whether Holden should counterattack the Abyss or retreat after Nosien warned him that history would judge his choice. Meanwhile, Darknight Star approached Garos and proposed an alliance to overthrow Holden’s Imperial Core, leaving Garos to consider what he would gain.

• Fafweil told Nosien that Platinum Star’s Abyssal corruption was receding, but warned that a counterattack could be too risky while Holden faced internal strife and an alleged traitor.
• Fafweil accused Dark Star of serving his own ambitions and suspected that he had helped conceal the Abyss’s corruption within Holden.
• Nosien praised Fafweil’s caution but explained that retreat would brand him a coward, while victory could make him a celebrated ruler; Fafweil remained undecided about activating Platinum Star.
• Garos rested in a lake on the Lain Plateau until Darknight Star revealed himself as Ryan Stanbeck and asked to form an alliance.
• Darknight Star claimed Holden’s rulers and officials might be corrupted, then proposed that he and Garos seize the Imperial Core and reform the Empire.
• Garos asked what he would receive, and Darknight Star offered Sacred Aura all of Atlant, Holden’s technology and knowledge, while promising to relocate Holden’s people to another Material Plane.

Garos weighed Darknight Star’s proposal to join forces against Holden’s Abyss-corrupted government, but chose to wait rather than commit. Nosien then urged Garos to fight alongside Holden in an attack on the Abyss, leaving him to consider three competing paths.

• Darknight Star offered Garos a binding contract and a crystal for contacting him, but Garos said he needed time to consider cooperation against Holden.
• Garos decided to wait and see, focusing on growing stronger instead of accepting Darknight Star’s proposal.
• Nosien arrived at Dragon Court and claimed that Darknight Star had been corrupted by the Abyss, citing his secret attacks on oppressive nobles and redistribution of their wealth.
• Nosien proposed that Sacred Aura join Holden’s counteroffensive against the Abyss and promised Holden would migrate to Theresia Continent afterward.
• Nosien said Holden would attack the Abyss even if Garos refused to join, leaving Garos to choose between waiting, aiding Darknight Star against Holden, or fighting beside Nosien.

Garos weighed Holden’s competing proposals with Seroel and decided that confronting the Abyss was necessary, though he planned to use the conflict to weaken both sides. He rejected Darknight Star and accepted Sunlit Dawn’s invitation with one avatar, then returned to training as Holden prepared to attack within one to three years.

• Garos discussed Darknight Star’s and Sunlit Dawn’s proposals with Seroel, who warned that both Immortal Ones might be influenced by the Abyss.
• Garos argued that Holden’s Floating Cities remained Abyssal anchors and that Holden had to confront the Demon Lord to break free of the Abyss.
• Garos decided to support Sunlit Dawn while intending to make Holden and the Demon Lord exhaust each other, and said he would send an avatar into the Abyss.
• Seroel revealed that her talent’s benefit to Garos would fade as their Life Levels drew closer; Garos said his Life Level was thirty-seven and nearing thirty-eight.
• Garos refused Darknight Star’s proposal and accepted Sunlit Dawn’s invitation, offering one avatar for Holden’s planned attack in one to three years.
• Garos went to the White Dwarf and resumed intense training to strengthen himself before the attack.

As Holden prepared to launch its full-scale counteroffensive against the Abyss, Garos created an Ashen Annihilation Star-Self Clone and visited Cloudpiercer City. On the ninth day, Fafweil rallied Holden’s forces as its vast army prepared to enter the Abyss.

• Holden mobilized its Floating Cities and announced a counteroffensive, inviting other nations and races to join the fight.
• Nosien told Garos that Platinum Star and the mass-transport spell array were ready, and invited him to Cloudpiercer City before the assault began in nine days.
• Garos chose an Ashen Annihilation clone, told Sorog, Samantha, and Gordon not to disturb him, and sent the clone to Cloudpiercer City.
• The Dark Dragon toured Cloudpiercer City, where Darknight Star welcomed him and the residents greeted him without fear.
• On the ninth day, Holden formed enormous planar teleportation passages and assembled its forces around them.
• Fafweil acknowledged Holden’s responsibility for the Abyss’s invasion, rallied the warriors, and declared that Holden would prevail as the expedition prepared to depart.

Asalia prepared to crush Holden’s counterattack at Unov’s Root, where Garos joined Nosien, Dark Star, and Platinum Star in a battle against the Hellfire Lord. Just as Platinum Star’s Time-Stasis Field gave Nosien a chance to strike Asalia, Baquilon entered the frozen battlefield and gravely wounded Nosien; the battle remained unresolved.

• Asalia learned that Holden’s forces had gathered at Unov’s Root and ordered his legions to meet them there.
• Garos arrived in the Abyss and joined Nosien and Dark Star as Holden’s army advanced toward Asalia’s lair.
• Holden’s forces confronted Asalia’s demon army, and Platinum Star emerged from a war fortress to fight the Hellfire Lord.
• Garos, Nosien, and Dark Star helped Platinum Star gain the advantage over Asalia, who struggled against their coordinated attacks.
• Platinum Star created a Time-Stasis Field, allowing Nosien to approach Asalia with the Solar Holy Sword.
• Baquilon entered the frozen field, tore through Dark Star’s shadows, and struck Nosien in the chest before the field ended.

After Holden’s defeat in the Abyss, Garos learned that Tiamat’s apostle had aided the Hellfire Lord and suspected that Abyssal corruption was affecting his judgment. He ordered Sacred Aura to prepare for war but postponed decisions about Holden’s Floating Cities until he could clear the corruption.

• Garos considered attacking the weakened Hellfire Lord, then recognized the plan as unusually reckless and feared the dangers of entering the Abyss with his true body.
• Garos realized that Baquilon’s intervention linked the Hellfire Lord’s forces to Tiamat and that the Abyss had begun influencing him through his clone.
• Garos told Sorog, Gordon, and Samantha that Holden’s counteroffensive had failed, its legions were likely lost, and its Immortal Ones and Platinum Star had fallen.
• Garos warned that the Hellfire Lord and Tiamat’s minions might target Sacred Aura, and he ordered his relatives to put every legion on a war footing.
• Garos proposed destroying Holden’s Floating Cities as Abyssal anchors, but Sorog warned him about the civilians inside and questioned the decision.
• Garos noticed his anger at Sorog was abnormal, acknowledged the Abyss’s lingering influence, and ordered that no major decisions be made until he removed it.

After Holden’s defeat plunged Atlant into panic, Garos used Sacred Aura’s wartime rule to contain the chaos and considered how to deal with Holden’s dangerous Floating Cities. Fafweil came before Garos with a plan to send selected Holden survivors to a New World aboard a hidden Ark and offered Holden’s Floating Cities and resources in exchange for a chance for those left behind to live.

• Holden confirmed that its Abyssal legion had been nearly wiped out, with Sunlit Dawn Nosien and Darknight Star Ryan dead and Platinum Star destroyed, while panic and disorder spread across Atlant.
• Garos ordered Sorog to suppress unrest, and Sacred Aura imposed emergency rule and swiftly punished profiteers, cult leaders, surrenderists, and rioters.
• Garos returned from the White Dwarf, reconsidered the risks of destroying Holden’s Floating Cities, and met Hitherfell, who said she would stay in Atlant and fight Demons if they invaded.
• Sorog told Garos that Fafweil had arrived in the royal city, and Garos went to meet Holden’s emperor.
• Fafweil revealed that Dark Star had secretly built an Ark to carry selected young Holden People to a New World, and he offered to hand every Floating City and Holden’s technology and knowledge to Sacred Aura.
• Fafweil knelt before Garos and asked him to give the Holden People left behind in Bernardo a way to live.

Fafweil secured a chance for Holden’s people to survive under Sacred Aura, while secretly sending young pioneers aboard the Dark Star Ark to rebuild Holden in the New World. After the Ark departed, he oversaw Holden’s surrender and resettlement, and died two years later while working at his desk.

• The Red Iron Dragon agreed to spare Holden’s people and ordered Fafweil to prepare the Floating Cities for Sacred Aura’s takeover and Holden’s people for harsh reforms.
• Fafweil secretly sent selected young people, including Edistan, aboard the Dark Star Ark, which sailed safely through a gate to the New World.
• Fafweil issued Holden’s final proclamation of unconditional submission, and his forces suppressed resistance as Sacred Aura took control of the Floating Cities.
• Aura soldiers evacuated Holden’s people to a crude resettlement zone on Atlan Middle-earth while Fafweil mediated the transition.
• In New Calendar 751, Fafweil fell asleep at his desk and never woke again.

Garos learned that Fafweil had died and discussed how Holden’s people might remember their fallen emperor and rebuild under Aura’s protection. He then revealed that the Abyssal invasion was already inevitable, chose to delay confronting it while he grew stronger, and continued his extreme training inside the White Dwarf.

• Garos learned through Mind Link that Fafweil had died in the Resettlement Zone, and he and Deborah discussed the emperor’s regrets and how Holden’s people might judge him.
• Garos said the Resettlement Zone could develop independently under Aura, while warning that any future rebellion would be met by Aura’s dragons and warriors.
• Garos told Deborah that Abyssal corruption had intensified and that destroying the Floating Cities would no longer stop the invasion, only make it come sooner.
• Garos chose to let the Hellfire Lord wait while he used the extra time to grow stronger, explaining that his training on the White Dwarf was changing his body.
• Garos inspected his denser, more compact body on the White Dwarf, then plunged deeper into its crushing interior and silently urged Asalia to attack soon.

Garos endured extreme pressure at the bottom of his descent, hoping to adapt to it as a future hibernation ground. In the Abyss, Asalia chose to wait for the Deepwater Rift before invading, dismissing Baquilon’s warning that the Red Iron Dragon might grow stronger during the delay.

• Garos reached the deepest point of his descent and stretched his body against the crushing gravity, considering the place as a possible future hibernation ground.
• Asalia asked Baquilon when the Deepwater Rift would recover, and Baquilon estimated that it would take four to six years.
• Asalia considered invading the Material Plane immediately, but Baquilon reminded him of his agreement with the Evil Dragon Lord and warned him about the Sacred Aura Dragon Empire.
• Asalia affirmed that he would honor his agreement, then weighed the risks of attacking before the Deepwater Rift was ready.
• Baquilon urged Asalia to attack before the Red Iron Dragon could undergo a qualitative transformation, but Asalia dismissed the warning and decided to wait for the rift to form.

After years of preparation, the Abyssal invasion began as Demons poured through rifts over Atlant and Sacred Aura’s forces met them in battle. Garos watched from the Dragon Court, waiting for the Hellfire Lord Asalia, who had yet to appear.

• Sacred Aura spent years placing Atlant under wartime command while Garos trained on the White Dwarf and waited for Asalia.
• Asalia rallied the Demon legion in the Sulfur Land and sent its vanguard through newly opened rifts toward Atlant.
• Sorog detected the invasion when the Floating Cities’ Rune Bands turned red, and Sacred Aura’s forces mobilized across the continent.
• Demons flooded the Floating Cities, where Sacred Aura’s prepared arrays destroyed the cities and incinerated the first wave, but the rifts remained open.
• Sacred Aura’s dragons, aerial craft, Alchemical Colossi, and ground troops fought the advancing Demon hordes as Garos watched from the Dragon Court, awaiting Asalia.

Sacred Aura fought off the Abyssal invasion as six Archdemons appeared, while Hitherfell and other powerful allies engaged them. Garos confronted Asalia in the Raging Waves Sea, and after enduring the Hellfire Lord’s attacks, he entered Second Shining and resisted Asalia’s black flames with his newly formed Dense Body.

• Gabriel crushed a curse, killed a Soul-Judging Demon Warlock, and helped the dragons and Aura’s legions hold the demon tide at bay.
• Six Archdemons emerged across the war zones, and Hitherfell restrained three of them while other Destiny Rank allies engaged the rest.
• Garos destroyed the central Abyssal rift with a Dragon Aura Bomb, but Asalia emerged unharmed from a rift in the Raging Tide Dragon Realm.
• Garos and Asalia met above the Sea of Raging Waves, where Asalia’s Burning Frontier turned the sea into lava and gave him the advantage with rapid attacks.
• Garos activated Shining Form, then Second Shining, as Dense Body compressed and strengthened him against Asalia’s Unquenchable Flame.
• Asalia triggered the black flames inside Garos with Blazing Fire Across the Wilderness, but Garos’s dense body stopped them from breaking through his scales.

Garos defeated Asalia, but Baquilon betrayed the Hellfire Lord and sacrificed him to summon Tiamat. Naitar intervened to protect Garos, sent him away from the battle, and faced Tiamat beneath the sea.

• Garos crushed Asalia's body repeatedly, but his power faded and Asalia reformed as Garos's Dense Body ended.
• Garos's Battle Evolution awakened, letting him withstand Asalia's final charge and strike the Hellfire Lord with a devastating blow.
• Asalia tried to flee through the sea toward the Abyssal Rift, but Baquilon betrayed him, killed him, and used his sacrifice to summon Tiamat.
• Tiamat appeared in a powerful five-headed form, but Naitar arrived and challenged her after Garos resisted her influence.
• Naitar transformed Tiamat's appearance, rejected her threats, and flung Garos into the sky while he stayed behind to fight her.

Garos considered Naitar’s offer of support from the Joyful Court, then returned to Atlan and destroyed the Abyssal Rifts after announcing that the Hellfire Lord was dead. He sent an Ashen Annihilation Clone into the Abyss and began laying waste to the Sulfur Land, leaving the demons there under attack.

• Garos inferred that Naitar had come on Titania’s orders and considered accepting the Joyful Court’s offer of an alliance.
• Garos told Fenoris and Archer that the Hellfire Lord was dead and that Naitar and Tiamat’s avatar were battling over the Sea of Raging Waves.
• Fenoris sent the dragons of the Raging Tide Dragon Realm toward Atlan, where Garos returned to find the Aura Legion pushed back by the demon invasion.
• Garos ordered Aura’s warriors to retreat, transformed into his Ashen Annihilation Form, and destroyed the Abyssal Rifts as his forces cheered.
• Garos sent an Ashen Annihilation Clone through the final rift, then entered the Abyss and began destroying the demons and burning the Sulfur Land.

Garos watched the allied armies and dragons finish clearing Atlant of the demons, then explained his plan to send a clone to occupy Sulfur Land and adapt to the Abyss's corruption. After Naitar returned from the battle against Tiamat's incarnation with the Hellfire Lord's Divine Power, Garos confirmed that the Hellfire Lord was truly dead.

• Fenoris and the legendary dragons joined the allied armies in hunting down the demons stranded in Atlant.
• Garos told Anqiya that he planned to send a clone to occupy Sulfur Land, both to guard against another invasion and to confront the Abyss's corruption.
• Anqiya offered to use her Nirvana Flame to purify any corruption Garos's clone suffered, then returned to the battlefield to kill demons.
• Garos sensed the battle in the Raging Waves Sea had ended and went to meet Naitar as he emerged from the water.
• Naitar said he had defeated Tiamat's incarnation and gave Garos a flame-shaped emblem containing the Hellfire Lord's Divine Power.

After killing the Hellfire Lord, Garos considered the Flame Dominion Emblem as a possible path to Immortality for his companions and welcomed the trouble he had caused Tiamat. Naitar invited him to the Fey Wilds on Titania’s behalf, revealed a hidden time ring entwined with Garos’s timeline, and departed after Garos agreed to visit the Joyful Court.

• Garos compared the Flame Dominion Destiny Core with the Bronze Dragon King’s Judgment Core and considered giving suitable Divine Powers to Samantha, Sorog, and Deborah to help them reach the Immortal Realm.
• Garos joked with Naitar about Tiamat’s anger, then signed Naitar’s wings as Red Emperor Pale Star and Lord of Aura.
• Naitar invited Garos to the Fey Wilds and explained that Titania valued him for defeating an Immortal One; Garos declined to leave until he had recovered and helped clean up the Abyssal invasion’s aftermath.
• Naitar spotted a golden ring entwined with Garos’s timeline and warned that forcibly removing it could damage it, recommending that Titania examine it instead.
• Garos agreed to visit the Joyful Court, and Naitar returned to the Fey Wilds through a multicolored vortex.

After the Abyssal invasion, Garos spoke with Talamond about Sacred Aura’s rule, Nausir’s alliance, and the rebuilding of the Elven Moon, then continued his assault on the Sulfur Land. He discovered signs that his abilities resembled those of a Force Dragon, but chose to recover before returning to train on the White Dwarf.

• Talamond congratulated Garos on defeating the Demons and pledged that Nausir would remain Sacred Aura’s ally, while warning that the Orcs might be plotting.
• Talamond told Garos that the Fury Curse had been eradicated and that Nausir’s Immortal Ones were constructing a new Elven Moon; Garos examined him for signs of Frenzied Flame but found none.
• Garos let Talamond depart for Nausir, then burned the Rift Demon to ash and continued destroying the surviving Demons in the Sulfur Land.
• Garos tried to sense the Gravity Field and wondered whether his changing scales and abilities were leading him toward becoming like a legendary Force Dragon, but he dismissed the idea of pursuing that path.
• Exhausted from battle and destruction, Garos returned to his palace, ate, and fell asleep to recover before resuming his training.
• Sacred Aura repaired the war damage, and its records marked New Calendar 757 as the year Garos slew the Demon Lord and destroyed the Abyssal Rifts.

Sacred Aura rebuilt Atlant with Holden technology, creating the Aura Star Network and Cloud Rail while integrating Holden into the Empire. After testing Reinhart’s new Divine Power in space, Garos approved Holden’s restoration as a subordinate nation and discussed Sacred Aura’s future expansion and his planned visit to the Fey Wilds.

• Sacred Aura absorbed Holden’s Alchemy knowledge and built the Aura Star Network and Cloud Rail, transforming travel and communication across Atlant.
• Holden rebuilt its cities and honored Red Emperor Pale Star, while the younger generation adapted to life under Sacred Aura.
• Reinhart tested his attacks against Garos in space and explained that his Divine Power, Light and Dark, could enter a dangerous Finality State.
• Garos approved Holden’s restoration as a subordinate nation after Sorog argued that it would benefit the Empire.
• Sorog urged expansion toward the Theresia Continent, and Garos agreed but postponed the Great Expedition until after his next slumber.
• Garos told Sorog he would visit the Fey Wilds before sleeping, intending to meet Titania after Naitar’s invitation.

Garos arrived at Verdant Gardens, where the fae welcomed him and began preparing a feast. Vera confronted him about giving another Fairy Dragon his signature, then learned the dragon was Naitar, who appeared just as she vowed revenge on him.

• Garos landed in Verdant Gardens and was welcomed by the fae, who invited him to stay for a carnival and feast.
• Vera accused Garos of giving another Fairy Dragon his personal signature and stealing her spotlight.
• Garos confirmed that he had signed a Fairy Dragon's wings, prompting Vera to theatrically mourn the loss of her status as his only Fairy Dragon friend.
• Garos revealed that the Fairy Dragon was Naitar, and Vera vowed to take revenge on him.
• Naitar appeared through a portal and praised Vera's declaration while asking her to help devise a prank against himself.