Chapter Summaries

Rudy escaped Countess Lilson and went to Magic University, where Nanahoshi told him that someone wanted to see him. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure confronted Countess Lilson and asked whether she had heard of the Human God.

• Countess Lilson questioned Rudy about the power backing the Seven Stars Trading Company, and Rudy left without revealing the person’s identity.
• After the butler reported that Count Ilis had named the Dragon God as the company’s hidden backer, Countess Lilson recognized the name before a terrifying visitor asked her about the Human God.
• Rudy drove to Magic University and met Nanahoshi at their research institute.
• Nanahoshi put their research on hold and told Rudy that someone wanted to see him.

Rudy went with Seven Stars to meet Orsted, who revealed that Rudy’s soul had possessed his current body after the Great Transfer Summoning Magic began. Orsted confronted him in Countess Lilson’s bedroom beside her murdered body and asked whether Rudy had heard of the Human God Apostle.

• Seven Stars told Rudy that Orsted wanted to see him and explained that Orsted had investigated the summoning that brought them to this world.
• Seven Stars revealed that Rudy’s corpse had been summoned before his birth, and Rudy panicked before learning she could not recognize his mangled former body.
• Rudy told Seven Stars that there was still no news of Allen and worried that the search teams were being obstructed in the south.
• Seven Stars drove Rudy to Countess Lilson’s mansion, where Orsted was waiting in the countess’s bedroom beside her dead body.
• Orsted told Rudy that Rudeus Notos Greyrat should have been stillborn and asked whether he had heard of the Human God Apostle.

Orsted tested Rudeus Notos Greyrat by invoking the Human God after killing Countess Lilson, then spared him and revealed his interest in Allen Boreas Greyrat. Orsted concluded that Allen was a Human God Apostle and began searching for an information courier among people connected to him.

• Orsted watched Rudeus’s reaction to Countess Lilson’s corpse and crossed Rudeus’s name off his death list after deciding he was not a Human God Apostle.
• Rudeus panicked and denied knowing about Countess Lilson’s connection to Orsted, and Orsted said he would not kill him and wanted to discuss Allen Boreas Greyrat later.
• Orsted reconsidered his suspicions about Seven Stars and Allen, but after learning that the corpse from the Great Transfer was Rudeus, he concluded Allen was a Human God Apostle.
• Orsted tested Ariel and Sylphiette by sending the words “Human God” into their Magic Car and observed no reaction from either woman.
• Orsted reasoned that Allen needed a discreet information courier and considered people connected to his circle, including a mistress who had borne Rudeus a child.

Sylphy and Ariel discussed Allen’s long disappearance and the worsening royal succession struggle, while Philip concealed his worry for his missing son as he kept up appearances with Hilda. The chapter ended with Allen standing over the remains of 3,742 Sea Folk rebels after defeating them in three minutes inside the Abyssal Sea.

• Sylphy left Rudy behind at Countess Lilson’s residence and drove away with Ariel, who discussed the Magic Car and asked for Sylphy’s support amid her faction’s financial and political troubles.
• Sylphy reflected that Allen had been missing for 409 days and that she, Ariel, and others were still waiting for him to return.
• Philip reassured Hilda that Allen was helping Sauros and that Eris was training under the Sword God, then left her room without revealing his distress.
• Philip reviewed Allen’s plan for the royal succession and checked Paul’s latest report, finding Allen absent from the death list.
• Allen stood atop a mass of charred Sea Folk corpses after annihilating 3,742 rebels in three minutes inside the Abyssal Sea.

After learning that over a year had passed outside the Abyssal Sea, Allen annihilated the rebel forces before him and ordered the R'lyeh army to advance toward Arkham. He planned to use intimidation and carefully staged displays of force to make the remaining rebels submit quickly, leaving the army moving out under his command.

• Allen recalled Madam Zenith, Lilia, Norn, and Aisha as the R'lyeh army arrived after he had already killed its enemies.
• Lokkishi worried that Allen was venting his frustration, but he reassured her and told her he was anxious.
• Allen forced the Iron Skull leader to cooperate by threatening the captured octopus's remaining eye, then ordered the army to march toward Arkham.
• When a scout reported about three hundred enemies fleeing, Allen ordered the army to follow them without killing them and explained that he would spread fear to make the rebels submit.
• The R'lyeh army set off at full speed with Allen standing atop the Iron Skull.

Allen reached Arkham after fighting his way through several Sea Race armies, but Dofi still had not opened the city gate. As Allen prepared to climb over the mountain surrounding the city, a sudden attack arrived and was stopped by Cole.

• Allen defeated the Spike Chariot Army and the Aocui Race cavalry, whose survivors led him to the Armored Foot Land Army and then claimed they were loyal to Cole.
• The Armored Foot Land Army surrendered under threat of Allen's Inferno Flame Bomb, and Dofi's father later begged Allen to spare Dofi and offered him a Conch Mother.
• Allen learned that Arkham's mountain gate required Dofi's Sea God Orb and rejected Cole's plan to wait for the city to run short of food.
• Allen carved a large crater into the mountain, judged that forcing his way through would waste too much battle qi, and announced that he would climb over to confront Dofi.
• As a gray-white attacker rushed toward Lokkishi and Melna, Cole sprang to intercept it but halted, and a shockwave burst through the area.

Allen killed King Dofei and hurried to Arkham’s palace after realizing Laplace might have arrived, hoping to learn what was happening and return to the surface. He found the palace deserted and bloodied, then faced a sudden, devastating sword attack.

• Allen killed King Dofei, whose proliferating flesh rebuilt his body and drove him berserk, then learned from Cole how the Dofei mutation worked.
• Allen flew over the mountain and saw Arkham’s soldiers and civilians fleeing from the palace, leading him to suspect Laplace had arrived to punish the Anti-Sea God Cult.
• Allen rushed into the city, anxious about Zenith, Aisha, Norn, and Lilia, and entered the empty royal palace amid heaps of dead sea clans.
• A dying gray grouper sea clansman cursed Allen, and an unseen attacker unleashed a sword slash that split the palace mountaintop in two.

Allen fought Doffy, whose mutated body wielded devastating mana sword qi and the Front Dragon Gate, and discovered that Laplace’s God of Combat Armor was controlling him. The battle left Allen facing an opponent whose attacks carried Laplace’s combat experience and could still kill him despite his evasions.

• Doffy’s sword qi split the mountain and nearly killed Allen, who escaped the attack and realized Doffy could unleash such strikes repeatedly.
• Allen countered with Wind Pierce and then wind-and-fire Mixed Magic, but Doffy blocked the spell with the Front Dragon Gate.
• Laplace watched the battle through Leviathan’s heart crystal sphere and reflected on the gods’ indifference to mortals.
• Doffy’s sword qi connected with Allen’s lingering mana and created a gigantic blade of light, but Allen increased his Air Blast Spell output and escaped.
• Allen spotted the God of Combat Armor beneath Doffy’s mutated flesh and concluded that Laplace’s armor and combat experience were controlling Doffy.

Melna explained the God of Combat Armor’s history and worried that Aisha had hoped to use Laplace’s consciousness-splitting ability to save Allen. In Arkham, Allen exploited Doffy’s remaining will and defeated him by stripping away the armor and cutting him apart.

• Melna told Lokkishi that the God of Combat Armor contained a fragment of Laplace’s consciousness and could erode its wearer’s mind; she speculated that the Human God had engineered Laplace’s division by exploiting an old wound in his soul.
• Melna realized Aisha may have wanted to inhabit an automatic doll and use Time Magic to save Allen, then looked up as a vast sword aura rose over Arkham.
• Allen tested Doffy and concluded that the God of Combat Armor had not fully taken control, leaving Doffy inexperienced and reliant on sight.
• Doffy charged under Laplace’s urging, and Allen used Dragon Saint Battle Qi, his remaining mana, and a flaming Sea Folk spine to evade and close the distance.
• Allen feinted with the Sword of Light, used a blast of air to slip past Doffy’s attack, and unleashed thirty-two strikes of Twenty Slashes.
• Allen’s first three strikes removed the God of Combat Armor from Doffy, and his remaining twenty-nine killed Doffy.

After defeating Doffy, Allen suspected the Human God had engineered his ordeal and feared for his family, then became fixated on the God of Combat Armor as it urged him to take it. The chapter ended with Allen absorbing magic stones and putting on the armor.

• Allen surveyed the blood-soaked plaza after defeating Doffy and realized the God of Combat Armor had not entered autonomous combat mode.
• Allen suspected the Human God had arranged the Abyssal Sea confrontation and began imagining that his family might have been killed while he was away.
• The God of Combat Armor appeared to speak inside Allen’s mind, urging him to abandon his original plan and use its power to escape.
• Allen resolved to put on the armor, break through the Abyssal Sea, and seek Orsted’s help in killing the Human God.
• Allen absorbed mana from nearby magic stones, and the God of Combat Armor opened so he could pull it over his head.

Allen watched memories of his childhood at the orphanage and the people from his life pass by on a train, while his younger self stomped on ants beside him. When a golden-haired girl called him Lord Laplace, Allen recognized her as Eris and began questioning how he could remember a scene absent from the novel.

• Allen recalled how he had tried to help Aihao and Aiqiu get adopted, then drove Aiqiu away when he returned to the orphanage after his own adoption failed.
• Allen sat beside his younger self by the riverbank and watched a train approach, while the boy stomped on strange ants, including one with blue eyes.
• Allen saw Aihao and Aiqiu waving from the train, followed by Sylphy, Lokkishi, Rudy, Zenith, Paul, Rolls, Norda, Hilda, and other familiar faces.
• Allen recognized the golden-haired girl at the rear of the train as Eris, who had called him Lord Laplace, and wondered why he could see her in a memory he thought belonged to Laplace.
• Allen's younger self decided to crush the blue-eyed ant, while Allen questioned what he meant by a novel.

Allen struggled against Laplace and the God of Combat Armor for control of his body, while Lokkishi’s cries helped him awaken. He tore off the armor after it split Arkham in two, then stood with Lokkishi amid the ruined city, unable to recover the memories of Little Allen.

• Inside a Memory Carousel, Allen recognized Lokkishi and woke to find himself choking her while the God of Combat Armor urged him to kill her.
• Laplace seized Allen’s body, attacked Lokkishi and Melna, and unleashed a sword strike that tore through Arkham’s soldiers and city.
• In his sea of consciousness, Allen realized Laplace was trying to erase him, but Little Allen pushed him back toward the surface and told him to handle the world outside.
• Allen awakened, resisted Laplace, and ripped off the God of Combat Armor, revealing that its sword strike had split Arkham in two.
• At the palace altar, Lokkishi and Melna told Allen what he had done while he struggled to recall Little Allen, whose existence had vanished from his memories.

Allen questioned Cole and the octopus about Laplace, Eris, and the God of Combat Armor, concluding that Laplace had hidden his memories of Eris inside the armor and later recovered them. He used the damaged magic circle to reach Leviathan’s heart, where he finally met Laplace and discovered the heart had been turned into a crystal ball for a vast Prophecy Art.

• Lokkishi reassured Allen after he thanked her for helping save his companions, while Cole accepted the destruction of Arkham and the octopus proposed giving Allen the God of Combat Armor.
• Allen questioned Cole and the octopus about Eris and Laplace, then reasoned that Laplace had stored his memories of Eris in the God of Combat Armor before the Second Human-Demon War.
• Allen forced the octopus to let him use the damaged magic circle, which could transfer one person, and traveled alone to Leviathan’s heart.
• Allen followed his dream’s memories through the Dragon Race Ruins and descended the deep pit to a Magic Absorption Stone gate.
• Allen opened the gate and saw Laplace beside Leviathan’s heart, which displayed the same scene through a large-scale Prophecy Art.

Allen learned that Laplace’s Prophecy Art could reveal the Six-Sided World’s future, and saw the world reduced to darkness and scattered settlements five thousand years ahead. Laplace explained that the Human God was not the true cause behind the coming destruction and identified the second god as the God of Annihilation, or the Millish God.

• Allen recognized that Laplace’s Prophecy Art drew mana from the Magic Absorption Stones covering Leviathan and learned how the mana-free Abyssal Sea affected time and existence.
• Laplace questioned Allen about escaping the God of Combat Armor’s consciousness erosion, then destroyed the octopus eyeball and offered to trade information.
• Allen asked whether Laplace was working with the Human God, and Laplace said that helping Orsted defeat Him would be meaningless.
• Laplace activated the Prophecy Art and showed Allen the Six-Sided World five thousand years in the future, dark and nearly destroyed.
• Laplace named the creator god and a second god outside the world, calling the latter the God of Annihilation or the Millish God.

Allen and Laplace traced the Millish Faith and Divine Children to the God of Destruction, then reasoned that the Human God was a split consciousness of the God of Combat Armor. Laplace questioned why the God of Destruction would destroy the world, and Allen realized the Human God might know the answer.

• Allen deduced that the Millish Faith's true god was the God of Destruction and that Divine Children were Its incarnations, not the Human God's.
• Laplace explained that he had built a Prophecy Art using Leviathan's corpse and ownerless Magic Absorption Stones, but the resulting World-Ending Scroll foretold the world's destruction five thousand years later.
• Allen and Laplace concluded that the Human God was a consciousness split from the God of Combat Armor, which had been sealed in the World of Nothingness.
• Laplace questioned why the God of Destruction would destroy the world, and Allen realized the Human God might know the reason and had warned that the world would end if Orsted killed him.

Allen and Laplace concluded that the Human God had delayed the apocalypse by destroying other worlds and concentrating their mana in the Human World, while Allen rejected the god’s claim to be its savior. Laplace revealed that the Creator God’s attention had shifted from Lokkishi to Allen, and Allen realized the Human God had been guiding him toward becoming the chosen savior so he could eventually kill him.

• Allen realized the Human God’s unique knowledge of how to avert the apocalypse was the hidden lifeline the god had kept from everyone.
• Allen and Laplace reasoned that mana came from the Creator God’s corpse, and that mana loss would eventually disorder the world and trigger the God of Destruction’s apocalypse.
• Allen argued that the Human God had destroyed other worlds to gather their mana and extend the Human World’s lifespan, and that the god would keep sacrificing lives to preserve its ambitions.
• Laplace revealed that the Creator God had chosen Allen as the current savior, after previously directing its attention toward Lokkishi.
• Allen connected the Human God’s schemes and the dangers he had faced since awakening from the Incarnation Manual, realizing the god had been shaping him into a savior it intended to kill.

Allen persuaded Laplace to consider an alliance against the Man-God by revealing the traces of the Cycle Secret Art within him and claiming he was a more trustworthy ally. Laplace agreed to reconsider if Allen found a real way to resist the future destruction, and Allen prepared to leave the Abyssal Sea.

• Allen reasoned that the Man-God needed Zenith and Lilia alive as leverage, then received his abandoned Secret Sword from Laplace.
• Allen dismissed the healing Magic Circles inside his body, prompting Laplace to suspect he was reincarnated and to reject the idea that the Creator God had granted him his abilities.
• Allen admitted he had been steering Laplace toward his own conclusion and explained that he wanted Laplace as an ally against the Man-God.
• Laplace refused to ally with Allen until he found a method to resist the destruction, but agreed to consider it if Allen returned with proof.
• Allen told Laplace he was leaving the Abyssal Sea, then turned back to ask for magic stones and noticed the stone in Laplace's sleeve was Eris's.

Allen persuaded Laplace to take him to land after Laplace refused to lend him Eris’s magic stones. Laplace brought Allen and the seafolk to the eastern coast of the Land of Conflict, where Allen could continue toward the surface world.

• Allen explained that he needed to return to the surface urgently, but he and the seafolk lacked mana and had no ship.
• Laplace refused to share the magic stones left behind by Eris because he felt guilty about her past and wanted to preserve what she had left.
• Allen recognized that Laplace’s refusal came from his attachment to Eris’s magic stones and used a deliberate request-and-concession tactic to steer the conversation.
• Laplace declined to lend the stones but offered to have Leviathan take Allen wherever he wanted along the coast.
• Laplace guided Leviathan beneath the continental plates, and they reached the eastern coastline of the Land of Conflict in less than half an hour.

The chapter recounts the Land of Conflict’s proxy wars and follows Lilia, Zenith, Norn, and Aisha as they struggle to survive amid the fighting. It leaves Aisha traumatized and unable to believe she will ever see Allen again.

• The Dragon King Kingdom, Asura, and the Millish Holy Empire turned the Land of Conflict into a battleground by backing rival small nations as proxies.
• After the Great Transfer Disaster, the Marquise Mercenary Nation became isolated, and Dikut and the Broz Empire besieged it in a bloody war that devastated the region.
• Lilia, Zenith, Norn, and Aisha hid near Raleigh Town, enduring hunger, thirst, and the threat of soldiers while fleeing the fighting.
• Norn shared the little water they had with Zenith, while Aisha silently tried to collect rainwater in a wooden bowl.
• Lilia comforted Aisha after the girl managed to call her mother, but Aisha remained numb and believed she would never see Allen again.

Laplace rejected the Human God’s attempt to turn him against Allen and destroyed Y'thlps’s remains. Allen and his companions emerged from the Abyssal Sea eight months later than expected and set out toward Zenith, while Allen investigated his recovering mana and the special nature of Demon Eyes; Cole quietly remained behind as they departed.

• Laplace heard the Human God speak through Y'thlps, recalled Allen’s promise about Eris, and refused to trust the Human God’s warning that Allen would die.
• Laplace crushed Y'thlps’s regenerated eyeball and returned to the Prophecy Workshop.
• Allen, Lokkishi, Melna, and their companions reached the northeastern coast of the Land of Conflict, where they realized they were eight months late for the expected reunion.
• Allen asked the Incarnation Manual about mana costs and learned that activating his Demon Eye’s location search consumed mana, while his mana was recovering outside the Abyssal Sea.
• Allen thanked Cole for helping him in the Abyssal Sea and headed toward a fishing village, while Cole drifted back into the water.