Chapter Summaries

Banke convinced the Alchemists to request aid from the Empire and halt their advance, while Green observed that the Infinite Divine Machine had turned the war against them. He explained that its macroscopic information network made it extraordinarily difficult to destroy, leaving only nearly impossible ways to eliminate it.

• Banke revealed that the Silver Metal concealed powerful macroscopic abilities and urged the Alchemists to send samples and his research to the Imperial Research Institute.
• Banke rejected a plan to lure the Silver Metal Civilization into a decisive battle, warning that time was short and the approaching Blood-Red World of the Blood-Red Tyrant posed another grave threat.
• The Alchemists approved Banke's request for headquarters aid and ordered the front line to halt its advance and adopt a defensive posture.
• Green observed that the Infinite Divine Machine had reversed the situation and explained how it used information spread across worlds to recover from damage.
• Green concluded that destroying every infected world or reversing the Law of Karma were the only ways to eliminate the Infinite Divine Machine, but neither was feasible.

The Infinite Divine Machine began converging the Northern Void River’s past timelines, prompting the Northern Civilization Alliance and the Alchemy Empire to suspect the Silver Metal Civilization and prepare for war. The alarm spread across the Void Rivers, and the resulting chaos disrupted investigations and left the Northern civilizations vulnerable to espionage and theft.

• Green used the Infinite Divine Machine to make the Northern Void River’s past timelines converge and become fixed fact.
• The Northern Civilization Alliance detected the anomaly, traced its source to the War Front, and the Infinite Lord ordered civilizations to mobilize their Civilizational Foundation for war.
• The Alchemy Empire detected the timeline anomaly at the Former Alliance Fortress, raised its alert level, sent equipment to the front, and reported the incident to the Empire.
• The timeline lockdown’s impact spread across the Void Rivers, prompting civilizations to dispatch personnel, while the Divine World took no action.
• Spies infiltrated the Northern region and incidents of stolen achievements disrupted the investigation into the Silver Metal Civilization.

Researchers in the Alchemy Empire tested the Silver Metal and discovered that it could assimilate a Black Attractor Stone while displaying remarkable intelligence. Their investigation revealed that the Infinite Divine Machine was likely an artificial creation and was still growing, leaving the Empire terrified of its unknown creator and future power.

• Alchemy Empire researchers exposed the Silver Metal to a Black Attractor Stone and watched it probe the force field before conserving its energy.
• When the researchers loosened the force field, the Silver Metal enveloped and assimilated the Black Attractor Stone despite its immense gravity.
• A researcher warned that the intelligent Silver Metal could hide inside alchemical objects and infiltrate the Alchemy Civilization, prompting the Empire's leadership to divert vast resources to the investigation.
• Alchemy Empire researchers extracted information identifying the object as Infinite Divine Machine, New No. 001, and concluded that it was likely created by a powerful lifeform.
• The Alchemists learned that the Infinite Divine Machine in the Northern Void River was still growing and had not reached its peak, and they began to fear its creator and its potential power.

The Alchemists learned that the Infinite Divine Machine was entering a more powerful phase as its Timeline contraction accelerated, while three representatives met in the Origin Sea to discuss the coming conflict. Havik revealed that the Western Divine World was focused on the God of Dominion, who had reached Eleventh-Level power and discovered a path toward Great Divine Power.

• The Alchemists learned that the Infinite Divine Machine’s Timeline contraction was accelerating, prompting debate over whether to withdraw or continue the invasion.
• Tutmoses and the Infinite Lord met Havik in the Origin Sea and paid him for intelligence about the Divine World.
• Havik explained that a True Spirit Civilization member had been reborn in the Divine World and risen to Demigod level.
• Havik revealed that the God of Dominion became a Deity, defeated a Tenth-Level rival, and could wield Eleventh-Level power within the Divine World.
• Havik said the God of Dominion had discovered how to attain Great Divine Power, leaving the Divine World’s Will focused on helping him succeed.

Havik, the Infinite Lord, and Tutmoses learned that the Infinite Divine Machine was an artificial construct and had begun assimilating the True Spirit System. They swore before the Origin River to cooperate in stopping its evolution, with the Alchemy Empire planning a counterweapon in three years.

• Tutmoses shared intelligence revealing that the Infinite Divine Machine was an artificial construct, shocking the Infinite Lord and Havik.
• Havik warned that a powerful Tenth-Level Life stood behind the machine, while the Infinite Lord claimed the Blood-Red King could oppose it.
• Havik revealed that the machine had infected True Spirit members and extracted some of their civilization's inheritance despite the True Spirit Curse Seals.
• Tutmoses proposed interrupting the machine's evolution and said the Imperial Research Institute could build a counterweapon in three years, but they would have only one chance to attack.
• Tutmoses, the Infinite Lord, and Havik swore oaths before the Origin River to cooperate against the Infinite Divine Machine.

Green ordered the Infinite Divine Machine to expand aggressively and stop treating the Northern Void River civilizations as allies, prompting it to attack the Eternal Night World. The Eternal Night Civilization prepared an energy-based defense, but its fragile ranged line faced the Infinite Divine Machine’s close-combat assault.

• Tutmoses assigned Havik’s True Spirit System to supply resources and prevent True Spirit reincarnation, while the Infinite Lord and Havik prepared for a joint attack in three years.
• Green noticed the Alchemy Empire and the Northern Civilization moving to surround the Infinite Divine Machine, then ordered it to expand and treat nearby civilizations as enemies.
• The Infinite Divine Machine grew across the Northern Void River and advanced toward worlds controlled by the Alchemy Civilization as the Alchemy Empire and Northern Civilization positioned their forces.
• Krebus and the Eternal Night Civilization prepared for the new threat by deploying energy-based Eternal Night Guards and keeping ranged warships behind them.
• The Infinite Divine Machine launched a direct attack on the Eternal Night World, whose defenses were vulnerable if its guards were breached.

The Infinite Divine Machine launched a surprise attack on the Eternal Night World, overwhelming its defenders as the Eternal Night Civilization awaited reinforcements that could not come. Krebus ordered Vadiak to carry the Civilization Inheritance to a backup world while he stayed behind to hold off the attackers.

• The Infinite Divine Machine assessed the Eternal Night World’s defenses and began a surprise assault with Silver Metal Creatures.
• Eternal Night Guards and ranged warships used Distortion Force Fields and restrictive weapons against the attackers, but the Machine suffered no losses and assimilated fallen guards.
• Krebus learned that all Core Defensive Worlds along the front line were under attack and Alliance headquarters could not send reinforcements.
• Krebus ordered Vadiak to take the Civilization Inheritance downstream to the Backup World while he held back the Infinite Divine Machine.
• Vadiak departed, and Krebus accepted that he would likely die defending the Eternal Night World.

Krebus sacrificed himself to destroy the Silver Metal Creations attacking the Eternal Night World, allowing Vadiak to escape with the civilization’s legacy. As the Northern Civilization’s defenses collapsed amid mass migration, the Infinite Divine Machine infiltrated the fleeing Civilization Remnants with hidden Sub-entities.

• Vadiak watched Krebus’s final message and ordered the fleet to flee toward the Backup World under maximum stealth.
• Krebus broke free of the Silver Spike’s assimilation and detonated himself, damaging the Eternal Night World but saving its un-evacuated lifeforms.
• The Eternal Night World was knocked into the Void River current, while the Silver Spike reformed and flew toward a world under the Northern Civilization’s Dominion.
• Mass migration and conflict between the Civilization Remnants and Northern Civilization’s Support Forces caused the first two defensive lines to collapse.
• The Northern Civilization Alliance withdrew to its third defensive line and allowed the Civilization Remnants to pass through.
• The Infinite Divine Machine secretly spread its Sub-entities among the Civilization Remnants across the Northern Void.

Diophis led the Alchemy Empire’s Third Fleet into a costly attack against the Infinite Divine Machine while five hidden Sages slipped away from the battlefield. Seven days later, the Sages met with the Northern Void River’s Lords of Civilization to discuss a weapon against the machine, unaware that it had secretly marked them.

• Diophis hurried the Third Fleet toward the front, where five Alchemy Empire Sages revealed that the fleet would serve as a diversion for their secret mission.
• Diophis led the Third Fleet in a desperate assault that halted and pushed back the Infinite Divine Machine at the cost of heavy losses.
• The five Sages disguised themselves as ordinary Alchemists and escaped the battlefield, while the Infinite Divine Machine attached disguised particles to them.
• Seven days later, the five Sages entered a top-secret meeting at the Northern Civilization’s Alliance headquarters.
• The Infinite Lord asked Envoy Gilles about the weapon being developed to stop the Infinite Divine Machine, and Gilles indicated another representative should answer.

The Alchemy Empire presented three weapons designed to suppress the Infinite Divine Machine, then clashed with the Northern Civilization over the brutal cost of one of them. The Infinite Lord calmed the confrontation, and Gilot sat down after Gilles rebuked him.

• An Alchemy Empire representative demonstrated Assimilation Suppression Metal, which could reduce the activity of the Infinite Divine Machine’s silver metal and weaken it further when its constructs were destroyed.
• The representative unveiled the Microscopic-Macroscopic Unified Interferometer, which could suppress the Infinite Divine Machine’s recovery and evolution.
• The representative introduced Void Metal Toxin, a short-lived, indiscriminate weapon made from the lives of the current Void River and capable of diminishing metal activity.
• A Lord of Civilization demanded an explanation after sensing the spiritual auras of lives from their civilizations in the toxin, and the representative accused the Northern civilizations of being worthless and dependent on the Alchemy Empire.
• The Lords of Civilization and the Alchemy Empire delegation exchanged threatening auras until the Infinite Lord suppressed them and reminded them that they had come to discuss the Infinite Divine Machine.
• Gilles told Gilot to sit down, and Gilot returned to his seat.

Gilles and the Infinite Lord negotiated the terms of an alliance between the Alchemy Empire and the Northern Civilization against the Infinite Divine Machine. They agreed to a spoils-sharing arrangement and signed a contract witnessed by the Origin Sea.

• Gilles explained that the Third Fleet had been sacrificed to reach the meeting safely, and the Northern Lords withdrew their auras rather than provoke Gilot.
• Gilles demanded that the Alchemy Empire receive all metal products related to the Infinite Divine Machine and proposed a peace treaty based on the existing battle lines.
• The Infinite Lord and the Northern Lords rejected the Empire's terms, arguing that it must withdraw from the Northern Void River after the war.
• After ten days of negotiations, the Infinite Lord invoked the Blood-Red King to pressure Gilles into agreeing that the Empire would withdraw from the Northern Void River.
• Gilles and the Infinite Lord agreed to assess the spoils together and give the Alchemy Empire three-quarters of the spoils in every grade.
• The Infinite Lord and Gilles signed the contract with their fingerprints, easing the Northern Lords.

Gilles and Infinite Lord agreed that the Alchemy Empire and Northern Civilization would begin a war against the Infinite Divine Machine in thirty years, while the machine secretly prepared countermeasures. Green discovered that the Northern Void River’s Void Will was driving the machine’s expansion and identified a world where a Child of Fate was being born.

• Gilot gave the Northern Civilization three metal blocks containing weapon manufacturing methods and blueprints, and Gilles said production would take about thirty years.
• Infinite Lord agreed that the North would join the Alchemy Civilization in war against the Infinite Divine Machine in thirty years.
• The Alchemy Empire and Northern Civilization secretly began preparing weapons, but the Infinite Divine Machine had already learned of their plans and started developing countermeasures.
• The True Spirit Civilization secretly supplied resources to the other two civilizations, which inflated their claims, while it tolerated the overcharges as long as they stayed within its limits.
• Green observed that the Northern Void River’s Void Will was pushing the Infinite Divine Machine’s expansion and wondered how it would control the machine.
• Green used Fate to locate a world on the Northern front where countless Fate Threads converged and a Child of Fate was being born.

Green watched a Fate Thread seek a host in the Blood-Red World while Sario, Kraler, and Klenfien traveled there to ask the Blood-Red King about the Infinite Divine Machine. When they arrived, Green decided to conceal his connection to the machine and invited them closer.

• Green summoned a Fate Thread into the Blood-Red World, repelled an attempt to trace it, and used the Chip to check for surveillance.
• Sario, Kraler, and Klenfien discussed why the Northern Civilization Alliance needed confirmed information about the Infinite Divine Machine and the powers behind it.
• The three reached the Blood-Red World and sent the Blood-Red King an unencrypted request for an audience.
• Green recognized the visitors as Sario and the others, resolved not to reveal that he had made the Infinite Divine Machine, and invited them to approach.

Green traded the Northern Civilization Alliance information about the Tenth-Level Life behind the Infinite Divine Machine and warned its envoys of a coming upheaval across the Origin River. Sario and the others rushed back to report the warning, while Green received a message through the Fate Threads.

• Sario offered Green a warship full of healing Miraculous Objects in exchange for information, and Green accepted the trade.
• After the cargo transferred to the Blood-Red World, Sario, Klenenfi, and Kraler recovered from the pressure of Green's power and prepared to hear his revelation.
• Green told them the being behind the Infinite Divine Machine would not join the war because openly acting in the Void would get him repatriated.
• Green warned the three that a terrifying storm could sweep across the Origin River and urged the Northern Civilization Alliance to prepare.
• Sario took Klenenfi and Kraler back to their warship and sped downstream to deliver the warning, while Green expected the Alliance to investigate and target Void's Child of Fate.
• After the warship disappeared, Green received a message through the Fate Threads.

Green sent a fragment of his soul into Fate Space to observe the Child of Fate, where hostile beings attacked him through Fate Threads. He unleashed the Crimson Curse to destroy or drive off the watchers, then merged his spirit with a red thread whose destination remained unknown.

• Green used Fate Traversal to send a Soul Shard into the Dark Space and formed a spirit body from it.
• Green burned the Fate Threads that wrapped around him, but a Fate Force dagger struck his barrier and vanished.
• Green awoke on the villa sofa and used the Crimson Curse to send crimson mist along the red thread into Fate Space.
• The crimson mist corrupted the Fate Threads and caused Writhing Flesh, arms, and blood-red worms to attack the watching eyes; some fled, while others were devoured.
• Green extended a red thread through Fate Space and merged his spirit into it before it faded away.

After Green vanished, beings in Fate Space discussed the Blood-Red Tyrant’s entry into the contest for the Void’s Child of Fate and the dangers posed by powerful figures across the Void Rivers. In the Northern Void, a black-robed man subdued a Flesh Curse, then vanished after hearing a wail from the sky.

• Eyes in Fate Space reacted to Green’s disappearance and identified the new force as the Blood-Red Tyrant of the Northern Void.
• The black-robed man suffered as a blood-red worm drained his strength through a Flesh Curse.
• The black-robed man drank a Potion and used two White Stones to suppress the curse and purify its corruption.
• After warning himself to be more cautious in the contest, the black-robed man heard a wail from the sky and vanished from his cave.

A black-robed man escaped a world consumed by the Flesh Curse, leaving behind a creature that drained the world and followed him through a passage. Guided by the Fate Thread, Green Vieran Kloze woke in an Anomalous world and was killed by a gray figure, while all life inside his body died with him.

• The black-robed man saw the Flesh Curse transform the sky and overrun the world, then fled through an unstable blue passage as his Magic Array burned away.
• A featureless humanoid creature arose from the flesh, formed a passage of its own, and drained the world until it was dead and barren.
• The creature entered its dark-purple passage, adding to the chaos in the Northern Void.
• Green Vieran Kloze woke at midnight and got out of bed, but moonlight and sunlight overlapped in the doorway and released an Anomalous force.
• A gray figure twisted Kloze's head around and killed him, then vanished as the door shut; days later, his body remained unchanged and all living things inside him were dead.

Green reconstructed his body after descending into the already-dead Kloze, then discovered that the world's extreme chaos suppressed supernatural powers and made information difficult to obtain. Unable to recover Kloze's memories, he set out to explore the world and find the Child of Fate.

• Ten days after Kloze's death, Green used his soul's power to rebuild Kloze's body and take it over.
• Green recognized that his Fate Thread guidance had gone awry because the world's fate was unpredictable and Kloze's soul had dissipated.
• Green sensed that the world's compressed, chaotic structure tangled its Laws, suppressed supernatural abilities, and allowed different power systems to function.
• Green suspected the Northern Void Will had created the world to help the Child of Fate grow by absorbing power systems.
• Green tried to extract memories from Kloze's neural circuits, but the world's chaos interfered with the Chip and yielded no useful information.
• Green decided to explore the world without information, intent on finding the Child of Fate and recording data.

Green searched the room and found a hidden notebook describing the world's Anomalies, the Saviors Organization, and a city that trapped anyone who tried to leave. He decided to seek equipment from his Avatar in the Blood-Red World before venturing outside, then shifted his consciousness there.

• Green searched the room and found a worn notebook hidden upright in the bottom desk drawer.
• The notebook's entries described the Weird Meme disaster, the spread of Anomalies, the Saviors Organization, and the construction of a city where residents could not safely leave.
• Green concluded that the Northern Void Will had likely caused the world's changes and that the city's surroundings posed the immediate danger.
• Green decided that sending powerful equipment from his Avatar in the Blood-Red World was safer than creating a channel to transfer power.
• Green lay down and shifted his consciousness to the Blood-Red World, leaving his body motionless in the room.

Green completed two powerful weapons for his Avatar in the Unknown World, but the Northern Void River's will could prevent them from entering. He considered ways to smuggle them in and settled on combining a discreet transfer with a diversion.

• Green returned to his Blood-Red World and spent two and a half years in a time-dilated laboratory designing equipment for his Avatar.
• Green completed the Guardian Crown and the Obsidian King Sword, then checked both weapons and left the laboratory.
• Green realized that the Northern Void River's will might intercept the weapons because their combined power could reach Level 10.
• Green asked the Chip to analyze delivery methods and chose to combine Micro-Transfer with a diversion created by the Infinite Divine Machine.