Chapter Summaries

Ainz revived Demiurge and learned that the Imperium of Man had sent a second Primarch, while its forces rapidly advanced toward the Far Eastern Cliff. The True Dragon Lords were alarmed by the threat and demanded that Ainz explain the enemy’s sudden acceleration.

• Ainz revived Demiurge, who reported that the Imperium of Man had unified humanity, imposed strict rule, and sent a second Primarch who killed him.
• Ainz ordered Demiurge to keep infiltrating Imperial territory and sabotaging its resources.
• Aura brought Ainz a scout’s recording of Primarch Leman Russ leading an iron army through the Ork Federation’s last major eastern city.
• Aura and Demiurge warned that the Imperium’s army could cross the remaining demi-human nations and reach the Far Eastern Cliff within a week.
• At the dragons’ council, the True Dragon Lords argued over the enemy’s speed and their readiness, and the Dragon Emperor asked Ainz to explain the sudden advance.
• Ainz said the Imperium had likely realized that the dragons were using its forces to collect souls, then presented evidence.

The Dragon Emperor punished the Brightness Dragon Lord for passing Wild Magic to Draudillon and ordered his sons to delay the Imperium of Man’s advance. Ainz then demonstrated an experiment using a soul crystal, Flesh Abominations, and a captured Imperium prisoner, leaving the Dragon Lords wary of the strange power it unleashed.

• Ainz told the Dragon Emperor that the Imperium of Man had learned about Wild Magic through Draudillon, and the Brightness Dragon Lord confessed that she was his granddaughter and that he had passed the magic to her.
• The Dragon Emperor struck and scorched the Brightness Dragon Lord, then ordered the Sandstorm Dragon Lord and Barren Hill Dragon Lord to mobilize demihumans to delay the Imperium of Man.
• The Dragon Emperor ordered the Brightness Dragon Lord to guard the Far Eastern Cliff and warned him of the consequences if it fell.
• Ainz summoned Albedo, five Flesh Abominations, and a captured Imperium prisoner, then had Albedo embed a piece of a soul crystal in the prisoner’s forehead.
• The soul crystal released souls into the Flesh Abominations and resonated with the prisoner, unleashing a power that made the Dragon Emperor and the other True Dragon Lords grow wary.
• Ainz recalled how an interrogator had learned that the Imperium’s Great Crusade sought to unite humanity and eradicate witchcraft and religion, and that strong souls were said to awaken psychic powers.

Ainz demonstrated a Soul-Melded Abomination to the Dragon Lords, revealing that it attacked humans and could be used against their enemies. Meanwhile, Leman Russ persuaded Magnus to blast a path through a mountain so the Imperium of Man's army could continue its rapid advance.

• Ainz showed the Dragon Lords a flesh-and-soul abomination, horrifying most of them while the Rotted Coffin Dragon Lord admired it.
• The Dragon Emperor stopped the Rotted Coffin Dragon Lord from approaching and asked Ainz whether he could control the creature.
• Ainz released a frightened human, and the Soul-Melded Abomination rushed toward him; Ainz explained that it could be directed at enemy humans.
• The Dragon Emperor accepted Ainz's name for the creature, while the name Chaos Spawn echoed in his mind.
• The Imperium of Man's exhausted forces encountered a mountain blocking their route, so Leman Russ persuaded Magnus to use his psychic power to blast through it.
• Leman Russ carried Magnus to the mountain's foot, where Magnus gathered power and fired a beam of thermal energy.

Leman Russ and Magnus bored a tunnel through a mountain for the Imperial convoy while the Sandstorm Dragon Lord and Barren Hill Dragon Lord brought a vast demihuman force to attack. The two dragons collapsed the mountain over the Primarchs, then began their assault on the human army.

• Leman Russ used a chilling beast’s tooth to freeze the tunnel walls as Magnus carved through the mountain with beams from his eyes.
• The Sandstorm Dragon Lord transported over a million demihumans in a sandstorm, while the Barren Hill Dragon Lord prepared the nations’ hidden weapons for the battle.
• The Barren Hill Dragon Lord heard excavation inside the mountain, and the two dragons decided to bury the Primarchs beneath it.
• The Sandstorm Dragon Lord and Barren Hill Dragon Lord spent five hundred thousand souls to cast Mountain Collapse, bringing the mountain down.
• Believing the Primarchs were dead, the two Dragon Lords flew over the human army, and the Sandstorm Dragon Lord dropped a million demihumans onto it.

Barren Hill Dragon Lord and Sandstorm Dragon Lord attacked the Imperium's forces, but the Imperium killed them both with advanced technology and psychic power. Magnus then split the mountain to continue his work before falling asleep.

• Barren Hill Dragon Lord used a Magic-Sealing Crystal to cast Earth Rift, but the Imperium countered the spell and its forces survived.
• Barren Hill Dragon Lord swooped toward the red armored vehicle, where tech-priests fired the Gravitational Imploder and crushed him into a solid sphere.
• Sandstorm Dragon Lord fled as the vehicle turned toward him, but Magnus emerged from the shattered mountain and forced him out of his sand form.
• Magnus crushed Sandstorm Dragon Lord into a sphere, then returned to the mountain with Leman Russ and split it in half using psychic power.
• Magnus greeted Leman Russ and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Mare and the Brightness Dragon Lord prepared the Far Eastern Cliff’s defenses against the advancing Imperium of Man. After Mare received Ainz’s Soul-Fused Abominations, the Imperium began its assault with explosions that raised mushroom clouds inside the mountain range.

• Undead laborers and Mare strengthened the Far Eastern Cliff with traps, while the Brightness Dragon Lord reviewed the forces assembled to defend it.
• Mare rejected the Brightness Dragon Lord’s suggestion to request more troops from Ainz.
• Battle maids delivered a chest of Soul-Fused Abominations and a booklet explaining how Mare could command them.
• Mare reacted with cruel delight to the abominations’ name as the Imperium of Man’s projectiles flew overhead and exploded in the Far Eastern Cliff.

Leman Russ led the Imperium’s assault on the Far Eastern Cliff, where Mare’s magical defenses slowed the advance and threatened the army with an eruption of lava. As Mare unleashed the volcanoes, Magnus intervened with a storm of cold to hold back the lava.

• Leman Russ ordered the Imperium forces to advance toward the banner he had thrown onto a distant mountain.
• Magma Slimes hidden beneath the cooled lava ground exploded under the vehicles, damaging transports until auxiliary soldiers and Fellblade tanks attacked them.
• Mare entered the depths of the Far Eastern Cliff and used the super-tier spell Creation to trigger a volcanic eruption and send a tide of lava toward the Imperium army.
• Leman Russ told Magnus to handle the lava, and Magnus exhaled a freezing breath that became a snowstorm and halted its advance.

The Imperium of Man fought through a vast army of summoned creatures as Leman Russ advanced into the Far Eastern Cliff. Mare sprang his magical ambush on Russ and emerged to confront him, but Russ mocked him as a femboy.

• Magnus enchanted Leman Russ's Wolf Blade with freezing power, forcing Mare to abandon his position underground.
• The Imperium of Man's forces battled waves of summoned demons, angels, beasts, elementals, undead, and goblins while Leman Russ and the Space Wolves pushed forward.
• High-tier demons and a Demon Prince inflicted heavy losses before tracking anti-tank rockets killed the Demon Prince.
• Leman Russ led his guard into a library hall, where magic-sealing crystals triggered a devastating magical attack that he resisted with ice fortresses from the Wolf Blade.
• Mare emerged from underground with cages and declared that Leman Russ would die, but Russ insulted Mare's feminine clothing and mocked him as a subordinate of the skeletal wizard.

Mare unleashed the Soul-Fused Abominations against Leman Russ and used spells to hinder the Space Wolves, but Russ survived the attack that pinned him and tore his way free. As Russ charged Mare, Mare sent waves of rock crashing toward him.

• Mare used the World-Class Items Greed and Disorder to open the prisons and release Ainz's Soul-Fused Abominations.
• Leman Russ ordered the Space Wolves to destroy the abominations, while Mare strengthened the creatures and targeted the warriors' equipment with spells.
• Leman Russ fought a gigantic abomination, but Mare trapped his legs and the creature pinned him beneath a heavy arm.
• Mare struck Leman Russ in the throat with World Tree's Shadow and believed the Primarch had been killed.
• Leman Russ tore apart the abomination with his bare hands and charged Mare, who sent waves of rock crashing toward him.

Leman Russ crushed Mare's forces and brutally tortured him while Ainz watched from the Great Tomb. Afterward, Ainz and Demiurge decided to use the remaining prisoners to create more Soul-Fused Abominations.

• Leman Russ used a Soul-Fused Abomination as a weapon, then charged through Mare's other abominations and elemental emissaries.
• Ainz failed to reach Mare through his communication item, while Aura recognized that Mare had lost control and could not harm Leman Russ.
• Leman Russ broke Mare's arms and crushed his waist, then left him alive as a warning to Ainz and the Great Tomb.
• Ainz left the Throne Room as Aura struggled to watch, and Albedo urged her to train more monsters for revenge.
• Ainz and Demiurge discussed how Soul-Fused Abominations might be strengthened and decided to use the prison's remaining 999 otherworldly mortals and eight Space Marines.

After Mare’s death, Leman Russ sent Magnus back to the Emperor with evidence of a new Chaos-born abomination and a warning that the corruption was spreading. The Emperor confirmed the threat through Magnus’s memories and dispatched Valdor with Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence, while Magnus wondered why the Emperor would not go himself.

• Leman Russ urged Magnus to warn the Emperor about the evil creatures, then sent him away with a tube containing fragments of their filth.
• An Adeptus Mechanicus Archmagos launched Magnus in a hypersonic rocket that passed through the portal and delivered him to the Emperor.
• Magnus gave the Emperor the sealed tube and explained that Leman Russ had begun attacking the enemy’s flesh factories.
• The Emperor scanned Magnus’s memories and learned that Chaos corruption in the other world was still in its early stages.
• The Emperor summoned Valdor to lead Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence through the portal, prompting Magnus to doubt their fighting ability.

The Emperor and Magnus sensed a threat approaching as the four Warp gods united to breach reality and attack humanity’s hidden world. Perturabo discovered the gods’ Living Universe bearing down on the Iron Warriors, and his Legion suffered its first losses.

• The Emperor considered Magnus’s request to enter the other world, but the portal began shrieking and bleeding, and The Emperor sensed that something was coming.
• Tzeentch revealed that The Emperor had found a world beyond the gods’ reach, so Tzeentch, Slaanesh, Nurgle, and Khorne joined forces to attack humanity and breach the Webway.
• Perturabo smugly imagined The Emperor trusted him more than Rogal Dorn, until alarms sounded aboard the Iron Blood.
• Perturabo saw a Living Universe charging toward the Iron Warriors’ defenses and watched it swallow their outposts, killing two thousand seven hundred Legionaries.

Magnus learned that the Thousand Sons had been corrupted through his bargain with Tzeentch and accepted that he had to kill them. As the Emperor faced the Chaos Gods’ assault, he revealed to Malcador that spells from another world worked in their universe and hinted at a much larger gamble.

• Valdor told the Emperor that the mutated Thousand Sons were being eliminated, and Magnus realized his bargain with Tzeentch had doomed them.
• The Emperor urged Magnus to kill his corrupted sons, and Magnus accepted the painful duty before hurrying to their encampment.
• The Emperor sent Valdor, the Adeptus Custodes, and the Sisters of Silence to help Leman Russ.
• The Emperor and Malcador discussed the coming daemon assault and the possible use of spellbooks from another world to change how magic worked.
• The Emperor smiled at Malcador’s speculation, suggesting that his true goal went beyond weakening the Chaos Gods.

Angron built a Primarch-grade Dreadnought and arranged Titan support for Leman Russ, then joined Valdor’s forces heading to the front. At the Far Eastern Cliff, Leman Russ learned of his Legion’s losses and prepared Thor to face the possibility of killing his transformed brother Ragnar.

• Angron modified a Leviathan-class Dreadnought, then gave the Warlord Titan’s pilot a teleportation tablet to bring Titan support to the front.
• The Adeptus Custodes and Sisters emerged from the portal, and Angron persuaded Valdor to take him along while the Collegia Titanica stayed behind.
• Leman Russ received reports that sorcerous traps had devastated the auxilia and nearly destroyed the Chimera armored columns.
• Leman Russ recognized Thor as Ragnar’s brother and asked whether he could kill Ragnar if his brother had become one of the abominations.
• Thor saw Ragnar’s face in a twisted mountain of flesh and sensed his brother’s soul burning within it.

Magnus confronted the devastation his foolish use of psychic power had brought upon the Thousand Sons, but The Emperor stopped him from killing the survivors and taught him Rubric magic. After Magnus bound the Legion’s souls to himself and sent its dust-filled armor to aid Perturabo, The Emperor sent him into the Webway to summon reinforcements.

• Magnus slaughtered his mutated sons, then hesitated when the remaining Thousand Sons knelt and offered their lives.
• The Emperor seized control of Magnus before he could kill Ahriman and Khayon, and gave him the knowledge of Rubric magic.
• Magnus, Ahriman, and Khayon cast Rubric magic, binding the Thousand Sons’ souls to Magnus and filling their armor with dust.
• Magnus ordered Ahriman and Khayon to lead the undying Thousand Sons to aid Perturabo against the Demons.
• The Emperor gave Magnus a Webway map and a crystal, ordering him to gather his brothers and legions without traveling through the Warp.
• Magnus used the crystal to enter the Webway and vanished.

The Emperor used vast stores of Aeldari psychic essence to help Malcador cast a spell that locked time across the star system, buying the defenders time as reinforcements approached. Perturabo and Leman Russ’s forces remained in desperate battles, while a massive coalition prepared to kill Russ and turn him into a weapon.

• The Emperor gave Malcador psychic essences taken from Aeldari Craftworlds, and Malcador used them to cast a spell that extended the star system’s day indefinitely.
• The Emperor told Perturabo to hold the line and said reinforcements were on their way, while Tzeentch raged that the time-locking spell copied his idea.
• Thor protected the Space Wolves’ heavy firepower and fought Death Sages and Hungry Giant Worms as the legion suffered heavy losses.
• An old Space Wolf died after destroying a dragon with a meltabomb, leaving Thor grieving as the battle worsened.
• Leman Russ fought the Rotted Coffin Dragon Lord and faced a coalition of Dragon Lords and Nazarick’s forces, while Ainz and the Dragon Emperor prepared Wild Magic to erase him if needed.

Leman Russ fought the Guardians at the Far Eastern Cliff, where Mare’s formations and Demiurge’s tactical coordination strengthened their encirclement. After blocking a combined attack from Albedo and Cocytus, Leman Russ stopped Shalltear’s lance with his teeth, and she taunted him with a necklace made from Space Wolves’ bones.

• Leman Russ assessed the Guardians and True Dragon Lords surrounding him, then resolved to keep fighting despite having no brothers to support him.
• Shalltear attacked Leman Russ, while Albedo and Cocytus moved in from either side to trap him.
• Demiurge used enhanced magic to cast Immovable Mountain on Albedo and Cocytus as Aura concealed his spellcasting.
• Leman Russ blocked Albedo’s shield and Cocytus’s halberd with his fists, then stopped Shalltear’s lance by biting it.
• Shalltear mocked Leman Russ and showed him a necklace made from Space Wolves’ bones.

Leman Russ overwhelmed Shalltear, using her as a weapon against Albedo and Cocytus while Demiurge summoned a devastating meteor. After Russ redirected the meteor toward Ainz and the Dragon Emperor, the Dragon Emperor ordered the Guardians aside and sent the True Dragon Lords to confront him.

• Leman Russ exploited Shalltear's thirst for his blood, freezing her and tearing off both her arms after stopping her magic-sealing crystal from exploding.
• Leman Russ swung Shalltear into Albedo and Cocytus, driving them back as her body and armor were battered.
• Demiurge cast Hell Meteor while Aura supported him, and Albedo and Cocytus teleported away to escape its blast.
• Leman Russ used Magnus's magic to turn Shalltear into a weapon and hurled the meteor toward Ainz and the Dragon Emperor, but Ainz blocked it with ten magical barriers.
• The Dragon Emperor ordered the Guardians to stand aside, and the True Dragon Lords descended as Leman Russ raised the broken Shalltear to face them.

Leman Russ fought the Rotted Coffin Dragon Lord until the True Dragon Lords prepared a lethal Wild Magic attack, but Ainz cast Fallen Down to stop them and protect Shalltear. As Angron reached the devastated battlefield, he used a teleportation plate to send the Titan Legion there.

• The Rotted Coffin Dragon Lord attacked Leman Russ with Death Wind, but Leman Russ leapt into the air and tore into the dragon’s corpse-built shell.
• The Rotted Coffin Dragon Lord abandoned his shell as the True Dragon Lords prepared Wild Magic powered by a million souls to kill him and Leman Russ.
• Albedo pleaded with Ainz to protect Shalltear, and Ainz cast Fallen Down, forcing the True Dragon Lords to abandon their attack and retreat.
• Angron arrived at the Far Eastern Cliff, saw the Imperium’s heavy losses, and used a teleportation plate to summon the Titan Legion.
• The Titan Legion was transported toward the Far Eastern Cliff as a Tech-Priest realized the spell altered the Titans’ spatial coordinates.

The Imperium’s Titan Legion and reinforcements broke through the monsters to support Leman Russ, while Ainz wavered and the Dragon Emperor armed the True Dragon Lords with millions of souls. As the True Dragon Lords prepared to face the Primarchs, the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord unleashed Soul-Slaying Breath at Leman Russ and Angron.

• Count Beaumont ordered the Titans to purge the Far Eastern Cliff, and the Titan Legion began devastating the summons and advancing toward Leman Russ.
• The Space Wolves, World Eaters, Adeptus Custodes, and Angron reached the battlefield as Ainz questioned his resolve over Shalltear.
• The Dragon Emperor distributed millions of collected souls among the True Dragon Lords, steadying them for the coming fight.
• Angron found Leman Russ badly injured by Ainz’s spells, and Leman Russ said he did not know whether the charred Shalltear had survived.
• The Deep Darkness Dragon Lord cast Wild Magic: Soul-Slaying Breath at Leman Russ and Angron.