Chapter Summaries

Chen Changhe promised the slaves freedom and protection if they obeyed him and worshiped the Ork God, and his speech won them recognition as citizens of Blackwater Fief. The Ork Conversion talent transformed them into powerful believers, leaving them awed by the Ork God’s blessing and hopeful for their futures.

• Chen Changhe told the slaves that obedience, honest work, and faith in the Ork God would earn them protection, freedom, and glory.
• The slaves’ emotions stirred, and Chen Changhe’s lord panel registered them as citizens of Blackwater Fief.
• Waaagh Power swept through the newly recognized citizens, strengthening their bodies and changing the demi-humans’ appearance.
• The transformed slaves praised the Ork God and Waaagh, realizing they had received Divine Power Blessing.
• The former slaves celebrated their newfound strength and looked forward to changing their fates.

Chen Changhe hosted a lavish feast for the newly arrived slaves, earning their gratitude and gathering enough faith power to raise Julia's God-Chosen rank to Tier 2. He worried that his rapid rise would draw attention while he prepared to face Nefertari Vivi. Long, the suspected incarnation of the Corruption Goddess.

• Chen Changhe welcomed the exhausted slaves with premium wine and delicacies, and their gratitude generated faith power for his territory.
• Chen Changhe realized he had already gathered enough faith power to raise Julia's God-Chosen rank to Tier 2.
• Chen Changhe worried that his unusual progress would expose him to Nefertari Vivi. Long, who had prepared for decades and controlled the Corruption Mists.
• Ma Dexiang greeted Chen Changhe with reverence, and Chen Changhe considered how the Orkification Lord Talent transformed residents into loyal believers.
• Chen Changhe reflected on the Corruption Goddess's power and resolved to exploit his advantage of remaining hidden.

Chen Changhe reviewed the profits from Miracle City and planned to expand Blackwater Fief while hiding his people’s immunity to the Corruption Mists. Ma Dexiang then reported that Tulip Count had offered Bull Fief in exchange for the Ork Miracle Perfume formula, leaving Chen Changhe to decide whether to accept.

• Ma Dexiang presented the accounts, showing 36,000 gold coins in sales and 16,000 gold coins spent on slaves, supplies, and weapons.
• Chen Changhe considered using the new money and manpower to reclaim more of Blackwater Fief and seize a city.
• Chen Changhe ordered his people to keep purchasing and carrying Corruption Godstone so the Corruption Goddess would not discover their immunity to the Mists.
• Ma Dexiang told Chen Changhe that Tulip Count had offered ownership of Bull Fief for the Ork Miracle Perfume formula.
• Ma Dexiang explained that he had deferred the offer to Chen Changhe, who recognized Bull Fief’s value as a gateway between the Empire and the Northlands.

Chen Changhe expanded Blackwater Fief by training warriors, reopening an iron mine, and building up local blacksmithing with newly Orkified citizens. Julia advanced to a second-tier God's Chosen and gained Ork Bombardment, leaving her much stronger and harder to kill.

• Chen Changhe credited Ork Miracle Perfume to a divine gift and expected Tulip Count's spies among the new slaves to become loyal believers through Orkification.
• Chen Changhe assigned the strongest people to Vasili's warrior training and sent Julia to clear Corruption creatures from a nearby iron mine.
• Chen Changhe put recovered blacksmiths in charge of a new smithy and had them train apprentices to produce basic weapons and equipment locally.
• Chen Changhe planned for Ma Dexiang to seek out more skilled slaves, while the remaining citizens worked in logging, farming, and other production.
• Julia became a second-tier God's Chosen and gained Ork Bombardment, which summoned a powerful Ork that shared most of her damage.

Chen Changhe led his Orkified warriors to Black Snake City and reached the lord’s manor after nearly wiping out its corrupted creatures. There, he faced the corrupted Black Snake Baron and his God's Chosen, but Julia summoned a giant Ork that sent them flying.

• Chen Changhe chose Black Snake City, a mineral- and vineyard-rich city guarded by thousands of corrupted creatures, as his next conquest.
• Vasili led a thousand warriors in a swift assault that nearly wiped out Black Snake City's corrupted creatures, with fewer than a hundred warriors killed.
• Chen Changhe entered the lord's manor with Julia and encountered a huge corpse-like monster and a half-human, half-bat creature.
• The two corrupted creatures attacked Chen Changhe, but Julia summoned an Ork over five meters tall that knocked them away and stopped their assault.

Julia summoned a powerful Ork that quickly killed two third-tier corrupted creatures, allowing Chen Changhe to cleanse and claim Black Snake City. The city’s incorporation raised Chen Changhe to a second-tier lord, though he remained concerned about being the weakest fighter in his territory.

• Julia summoned a gigantic Ork with Overweight, Agility, and Strength Boost, and it crushed both corrupted creatures in seconds.
• Vasili and his soldiers watched in shock as Julia’s Ork defeated enemies they would have struggled to survive.
• Chen Changhe poured Waaagh Power into the ground and burned stored Power of Faith to drive out Black Snake City’s corrupted divine power.
• Chen Changhe’s Waaagh Power domain spread across Black Snake City, completing its occupation and adding the city and surrounding area to his territory.
• Black Snake City’s incorporation raised Chen Changhe to a second-tier lord and increased his physical attributes.
• Chen Changhe realized Orkification could not strengthen him personally and reminded himself to guard against assassination.

Chen Changhe settled Blackwater Fief’s people in Black Snake City, then bought six thousand slaves to strengthen the population and gather more Power of Faith. The newly freed residents, including Elves who had suffered brutal exploitation, were welcomed into the fief and began transforming through Orkification.

• Chen Changhe saw that Blackwater Fief’s Power of Faith had reached 6,981 and decided he needed more believers to occupy further territory.
• More than two thousand people moved into Black Snake City while over five hundred remained at the original farmstead.
• Ma Dexiang returned from Bull Fief with six thousand slaves, bringing Blackwater Fief’s population above nine thousand.
• Chen Changhe announced that slaves could become free citizens, prompting them to celebrate and feel a strong sense of belonging to the fief.
• The Elven slaves were accepted as residents, and Waaagh Power began strengthening and transforming their exhausted bodies.

After the Ork God’s miracle converts newly arrived slaves into grateful believers, Chen Changhe considers how to expand Blackwater Fief without attracting Nefertari Vivi Long’s attention. He leaves open the possibility of secretly developing territory beyond the Dragon Empire.

• The newly arrived slaves and several Elves witness the Ork God’s miracle, become devoted believers, and generate a surge of Power of Faith.
• Chen Changhe reviews Blackwater Fief’s attributes and notes that the stored Power of Faith has risen by more than twenty thousand.
• Chen Changhe decides to delay further conquests because his current population can fill the available homes and rapid expansion could draw Nefertari Vivi Long’s attention.
• Chen Changhe considers ways to gain manpower, including suppressing bandits in other lords’ territories, but worries that those actions would attract notice.
• Chen Changhe considers leaving the Northlands and developing in other kingdoms, where Nefertari Vivi Long’s intelligence network may have less reach.

Chen Changhe chose the Goblin Tribal Alliance as his next target, believing its scattered, weak, rapidly reproducing Goblins could become valuable followers through Orkification. After arranging his territory’s affairs and planning to set out, he received an invitation from the Tulip Count and postponed his expedition to Miracle City.

• Chen Changhe ruled out expanding into the Beastfolk Kingdom or Elven lands because of their hostility and power, including the threat posed by Lolth, the Spider Goddess.
• Chen Changhe selected the scattered Goblin Tribal Alliance, seeing the Goblins’ numbers, reproductive rate, and similarity to Orks as advantages for gaining citizens and faith.
• Chen Changhe dismissed the Goblin Source as an insignificant deity and planned to convert Goblins through Orkification.
• Chen Changhe arranged his territory’s administration and assigned work to new slaves, intending to grant them citizenship after they earned ten gold coins.
• The Tulip Count invited Chen Changhe to a meeting in Miracle City, forcing him to postpone his journey to the Goblin Tribal Alliance.

Chen Changhe and Julia rode to Miracle City in refined steel armor, intending to meet the Tulip Count and find buyers for Blackwater Fief’s weapons. He planned to use discreet trades to exchange equipment for residents from struggling frontier territories, while Julia traveled disguised as a powerful Fourth-Tier God's Chosen.

• Chen Changhe and Julia rode across the Corruption Mists-eroded wilderness on warhorses strengthened by living in Blackwater Fief.
• Chen Changhe wore refined steel armor and carried a sword forged by the fief’s smithy, whose craftsmen had learned to smelt steel.
• Chen Changhe planned to seek a market for Blackwater Fief’s weapons and equipment during his trip to Miracle City.
• Chen Changhe hoped to quietly trade weapons for residents from frontier lords who could no longer afford to support them, leaving Ma Dexiang to handle the arrangements.
• Julia wore revealing women's armor and concealed her immense strength by posing as a Fourth-Tier God's Chosen with passive enhancement divine skills.

Chen Changhe and Julia encountered a corrupted God's Chosen in the forest near the Tulip Count's territory, where Julia defeated her creatures and wounded her. Chen Changhe ordered Julia not to kill the enemy, hoping to make her his second God's Chosen.

• Chen Changhe used his minimap to spot corrupted creatures approaching through the mist as he and Julia traveled toward the Tulip Count's territory.
• Julia killed three attacking rotten corpses and struck a fourth corrupted creature out of the air with her sword.
• Chen Changhe identified the wounded winged enemy as Madobusha Dan, a second-tier corrupted God's Chosen.
• Madobusha Dan charged Julia after declaring she would eat her, and Julia attacked while holding back on Chen Changhe's orders.
• Chen Changhe intended for Julia to defeat Madobusha Dan without killing her so he could claim her as his second God's Chosen.

Chen Changhe turned Madobusha Dan into his second Ork Chosen and gained access to her Death Scythe and Death Harvest. He and Julia reached Miracle City, where its immense scale surprised him, and he explored its busy streets before heading to Tulip Count’s castle.

• Chen Changhe made Madobusha Dan his second Ork Chosen, awakening her Death Harvest skill, Death Scythe artifact, and a method for creating a flying army.
• Chen Changhe sent Madobusha Dan back to Blackwater Fief to help defend it and kept the Death Scythe, which let him use Death Harvest and gave Madobusha Dan a way to teleport to him.
• Julia hid her jealousy over Madobusha Dan and was pleased to have Chen Changhe to herself again.
• Chen Changhe and Julia rode to Miracle City without encountering more corrupt creatures, and Chen Changhe was astonished by the city’s vast size.
• Chen Changhe entered Miracle City after showing his identification and paying the fee, then strolled through its busy streets with Julia as some travelers followed women soliciting customers.

Chen Changhe and Julia explored Miracle City, where several lords showed interest in trading for Blackwater Fief’s equipment and horses. Chen then visited Tulip Count’s castle and discovered divine script around the Count’s study door, leaving him suspicious that the Count had a hidden problem.

• Chen Changhe hurried Julia away from the city gates and drew attention from nobles with his fine armor and horses.
• Several lords agreed to discuss trading for equipment and horses in exchange for residents moving to Blackwater Fief, and Chen collected their contact information.
• Chen Changhe and Julia approached Tulip Count’s castle, where he sensed powerful opponents inside but decided to continue with the visit.
• Guard captain John Richard recognized Tulip Count’s invitation and escorted Chen and Julia into the castle.
• Chen Changhe noticed divine script on the study door, thanked John Richard, and entered the room alone.

Chen Changhe met Tulip Count and discovered she was a powerful Chosen of Corruption with a hidden network in Miracle City. Tulip Count claimed to be his godmother and intended to make him her captive, while Chen Changhe remained wary of her strength.

• Chen Changhe was startled to find that Tulip Count was a beautiful, youthful woman, and she teased him for being shy.
• Tulip Count compared Chen Changhe to his father, Wang Defeng, and called Wang a living corpse, prompting Chen Changhe to suspect that someone controlled him.
• Tulip Count claimed she had been close to Hannah Tarashuk, had held Chen Changhe as a baby, and had once discussed becoming his godmother.
• Chen Changhe recognized Tulip Count as a powerful Chosen of Corruption and saw that Miracle City held over a hundred such Chosen.
• Tulip Count was surprised that Chen Changhe did not accept her godmother offer, while she secretly planned to make him her captive.

The Tulip Count met Chen Changhe under orders from Nefertari Vivi to recruit him and exploit his claim to the Lion Earl's Domain. After confirming his identity, Chen Changhe left Miracle City with Julia and a large gift of Corruption Godstones, while the Tulip Count wondered whether he had detected her true strength.

• The Tulip Count assessed Chen Changhe's armor, Julia's Fourth-Tier strength, and his plans to trade equipment for subjects.
• Chen Changhe worried that the Tulip Count might try to seduce him, then considered whether he could convert her into an Ork God's Chosen.
• After talking with Chen Changhe for more than two hours, the Tulip Count gave him 150,000 units of Corruption Godstones.
• Chen Changhe left the castle with Julia and fled Miracle City, abandoning his plan to sell Ork Miracle Perfume there.
• The Tulip Count confirmed that Chen Changhe was Hannah Tarashuk's son and dismissed her suspicion that he had discovered her Eighth-Tier strength.

After leaving Miracle City, Chen Changhe decided to limit Ork Miracle Perfume sales to avoid provoking Nefertari Vivi Dragon and focus on taking control of the Goblin Tribal Alliance. His experiences in two Node Divinity trials had quietly elevated his state of mind, though the change would only become apparent when he returned to his true body.

• Chen Changhe left Miracle City and planned to bring Ma Dexiang's caravan back to trade openly there.
• After suspecting Tulip Count wanted to monopolize Ork Miracle Perfume for Nefertari Vivi Dragon's benefit, Chen Changhe decided to sell one-tenth of his planned stock at ten times the price.
• Chen Changhe resolved to avoid provoking Nefertari Vivi Dragon until he returned from the Goblin Tribal Alliance and gathered more believers.
• As Chen Changhe rode toward Blackwater Fief, he reflected that he would pursue his ambitions without guilt, treating life in the plane world as a temporary dream.
• Chen Changhe unknowingly experienced an elevation of his state of mind from the two Node Divinity trials, a change that would emerge after he returned to his true body.

A month after Blackwater Fief reached fifty thousand residents, Chen Changhe left alone to travel across the Northlands toward the Goblin Tribal Alliance, hoping to grow strong enough to challenge Nefertari Vivi. Long and the Corruption Goddess. He carried two divine artifacts for protection and disguise, while Madobusha Dan remained responsible for the fief in his absence.

• Chen Changhe wore newly developed metal-thread mail and set out on foot for the Goblin Tribal Alliance.
• Chen Changhe kept Blackwater Fief's population at fifty thousand and concealed the residents' Orkification by attributing their physical changes to Julia's Ork God fief enhancement.
• Chen Changhe recalled that Hannah Tarashuk's sixth-tier divine artifact had passed to one of his half-brothers after he was expelled from House of the Lion Earl.
• Chen Changhe carried the Virgin Goddess's Iron Coffin, which could protect him by enclosing him in an iron coffin.
• Chen Changhe also brought the Phantom God's Mask, which Madobusha Dan had bought for one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins and which could exchange the wearer's appearance with a target.

Chen Changhe left his fief in disguise and studied battle aura while camping, then used his divine power to develop a far stronger combat technique. He headed toward the Goblin Tribal Alliance with increased confidence, though he disliked the technique’s green aura.

• Chen Changhe used a mask to leave his fief while a trained soldier impersonated him, and Madobusha Dan continued handling covert operations.
• Chen Changhe camped for the night and studied a basic battle aura manual that Madobusha Dan had bought.
• Chen Changhe quickly understood the principles of battle aura and improved the technique, greatly increasing its power and adding light damage against evil creatures.
• Chen Changhe adapted the technique to channel Waaagh Power, gaining a 300% attribute boost and additional combat enhancements.
• Chen Changhe realized his new technique made him stronger than Madobusha Dan and nearly as strong as Julia, but he complained that its aura was green.

Rock Hunter, a powerful Goblin Hero, led his tribe on the edge of the Northlands as the Corruption Mists spread and drove other Goblin tribes away. He chose to remain near the expanding blight, relying on his protection from the mists and his ability to control undead creatures.

• Rock Hunter patrolled his tribe, standing out as an enormous, muscular Goblin Hero blessed by the Goblin Source.
• Rock Hunter recalled that his tribe had joined the alliance’s campaign to enter the Dragon Empire through the Northlands in exchange for rich land and captives.
• Corruption Mists blocked the invasion, destroyed Goblin tribes that entered the Northlands, and forced Rock Hunter’s tribe to retreat three times.
• As the mists spread and made it harder to capture breeding vessels, many Goblin tribes withdrew deeper into the alliance’s territory.
• Rock Hunter chose to keep his tribe near the Northlands, where he could withstand the Corruption Mists and control undead creatures, including many Corrupted Creatures.

Rock Hunter celebrated creating the Corrupted Goblins and imagined conquering the Northlands with his new race. His ambitions collapsed when a horde of enormous Orks emerged from the Corruption Mists and slaughtered his tribe, leaving him paralyzed with despair.

• Rock Hunter recalled breeding Corrupted Goblins from corrupted creatures and praised himself for creating a new race.
• The Corrupted Goblins’ strength helped Rock Hunter advance from a third-tier to a sixth-tier goblin hero.
• Rock Hunter planned to fill his tribe with Corrupted Goblins and conquer the Northlands, enslaving other races.
• A horde of enormous Orks charged out of the Corruption Mists and attacked Rock Hunter’s tribe.
• The Orks slaughtered and devoured the goblins, and Rock Hunter collapsed to the ground in despair.