Recaps

Ragehorn led the minotaur army toward Twilight City after the War God answered the priests’ prayers with a blizzard miracle. Lucina prepared the city’s defenders to resist the storm and the charging orcs, and the battle began as Ragehorn entered the traps outside the walls.

• Ragehorn visited the priests’ ritual tent, where the high priest declared that the War God would grant a miracle and ordered him to breach Twilight City within an hour.
• Lucina prepared Twilight City’s defenses for a likely attack as snow gathered over the city.
• Ragehorn rallied the minotaurs beneath the dark clouds, and they roared their devotion to war.
• The War God’s Blizzard Miracle unleashed fierce winds and ice that battered Twilight City’s defenders while sparing the orcs.
• Lucina ordered the defensive formations and mage towers activated, then urged the soldiers to rely on their long-range weapons.
• Ragehorn led the minotaur army into the pits and minefields outside Twilight City.

The Dawn Kingdom's Mana Bomb minefield devastated Ragehorn's Giant Bull Knights, but the War God's miracle gave the Minotaurs courage and one resurrection, allowing them to keep advancing toward Twilight City. Roger watched from the Divine Kingdom and questioned how the War God's power worked.

• The Giant Bull Knights charged through Eagle's Nest Passage and triggered thousands of Mana Bombs, whose Flame Vortexes burned and killed many Minotaurs and war bulls.
• Lucina recognized the destructive power of the specially processed Mana Bombs and watched the charging knights suffer heavy losses.
• Ragehorn rallied his warriors, and the War God's miracle fueled their courage as they pushed through the minefield; fallen Minotaurs rose once more and rejoined the charge.
• The Giant Bull Knights dwindled from five thousand to around two thousand, while Minotaurs who fell again vanished from the battlefield.
• Roger watched the battle and wondered whether the War God's miracle granted resurrection and made the dead disappear to protect morale.

Roger and Betty considered the cost of War God's Miracle as Lucina’s forces bombarded the Orcs, whose troops kept reviving and charging. As the attack continued to devastate the Tiele Chiefdom’s army, the High Priest began preparing an ultimate sacrifice.

• Betty wondered whether the War God used the bodies of twice-killed soldiers as payment, and Roger questioned what the War God gained from it.
• Lucina ordered the defenders to keep firing Mana Bombs, devastating the charging Minotaurs and Orcs.
• The Orcs revived after being blasted, but their bodies changed and their combat strength increased as the bombardment continued.
• The High Priest recognized that the endless attacks were breaking his army’s resolve and ordered the priests to prepare for the ultimate sacrifice.
• The High Priest’s chant filled the priests with fanatical devotion, and he continued the ritual with growing determination.

Twilight City’s defenders destroyed Ragehorn and the Orcs with overwhelming bombardment, but the Tiele Chiefdom’s priests performed the Ultimate Sacrifice and unleashed the War God’s Void Apparition, reviving the dead and empowering the charge. As the battle raged beneath the apparition, a more solid War God appeared outside the Divine Kingdom and confronted the Magic Goddess about interfering.

• Lucina ordered Twilight City’s gunners and archers to focus their fire on Ragehorn, killing him despite his revivals and boosting the defenders’ confidence.
• The high priest and the other War God priests sacrificed themselves in the Flame of War, summoning the War God’s Void Apparition and reviving the fallen Orcs and Minotaur Knight Order.
• Betty explained to Roger that the priests had activated the Ultimate Sacrifice, which let the apparition bring three times the miracle.
• Lucina ordered the magic barrier activated and commanded the defenders to keep bombarding the revived enemies as the apparition’s wind and snow battered the battlefield.
• Outside the Divine Kingdom, a solid War God appeared and asked the Magic Goddess whether she had interfered in the war and broken their agreement.

The Magic Goddess fought the War God as his blood-red battle intent threatened her Divine Kingdom, while Roger watched the War God's power fade from the mortal battlefield. The Dawn Kingdom's forces overwhelmed the Orcs, whose army collapsed into terror and madness.

• Betty told Roger that the War God had appeared before and warned that he might be severely corrupted.
• The Magic Goddess clashed with the War God, countering his battle intent and forcing him back as other gods watched in shock.
• Roger noticed the War God's Apparition fading, and the Dawn Kingdom's soldiers unleashed Mana Bombs and magical attacks on the Orcs.
• The Orcs lost the War God's blessing, and the bombardment killed Ragehorn, destroyed Eagle's Nest Passage, and drove the legions into retreat and confusion.
• Orc soldiers beyond the firing range saw the battlefield's destruction, and some began screaming, running, and attacking in a frenzy.

The Orc army collapsed into panic after the Dawnfolk’s bombardment destroyed its elite forces, while Twilight City celebrated repelling the invasion with almost no casualties. Lucina warned that the war was not over and suggested upgrading the close-combat weapons.

• The Orcs farther back lost faith and descended into madness as they witnessed the destruction of their army’s elite forces.
• Panicked troops and spooked livestock caused the Orc army’s middle and rear ranks to collide, scatter, and flee in confusion.
• Orc chieftains entered the largest tent seeking the high priest’s help, but stopped in shock at what they saw.
• A messenger told Lucina that the enemy was in full retreat, and Twilight City’s soldiers celebrated the victory and praised the Technology God.
• Roger felt his Faith Power surge toward overflowing as the battle strengthened the soldiers’ belief in him.
• Lucina told the defensive commander that the war was not over and asked whether the close-combat weapons could be upgraded.

Lucina and the defense commander launched a counterattack against the Tiele Chiefdom after realizing magitech devices could let ordinary soldiers wield extraordinary power. Meanwhile, believers across the lands performed a ritual for the Technology God, and Roger began undergoing a mysterious transformation in his divine kingdom.

• Lucina explained how stones might let ordinary people activate magitech devices, and she and the defense commander ordered a campaign to seize regions with mines.
• Lucina led three thousand knights and fifteen hundred mages and apprentices toward the Tiele Chiefdom, while news of the victory stirred the magic web and caught the Graycastle Emperor's attention.
• Viscount Rost reassured Count Vilan Wells that demand for weapons would continue and urged him to join a ritual for the Technology God.
• Viscount Rost led believers in the Rost Territory in a prayer ritual, while believers elsewhere also felt a wondrous power envelop them.
• Roger's body began to change as streams of faith power surged around him in the divine kingdom.

Roger ascended into the Supreme God of Technology as the believers’ connection to him was established and the world witnessed visions of a magitech future. He completed his transformation, while Betty and Book asked how many divine offices had awakened.

• Roger absorbed the gathered Faith Power and became the Supreme God of Technology.
• A pillar of light appeared over Rost Territory, and believers across the mortal world sensed Roger’s presence and prayed.
• The gods learned that the War God had tried to corrupt the Technology God’s authority, and the Magic Goddess confronted him.
• Roger’s ascension showed believers and gods visions of vast magitech cities, vehicles, factories, machines, and a rocket launching into the sky.
• Viscount Rost and General Lucina were stunned by the vision and began imagining what magitech could become.
• Roger’s Blank Divine Core fused completely with his body, and Betty and Book asked how many divine offices he had awakened.

Roger learned that the War God had tried to corrupt him but had instead lost several authorities to him, including control over magitech, knowledge, industry, and craft. The Magic Goddess warned him that gods could go mad when mortal faith disrupted the balance between humanity and divinity, and Roger proposed filtering prayers through a network system.

• The Magic Goddess appeared and told Roger that the War God had retreated after Roger seized part of their authority.
• Roger described his Magitech Dominion, which let him freely redirect fired rays, and revealed three more authorities: Enlightener, Data Artisan, and King of Industry and Craft.
• The Magic Goddess explained that the God of Industry and Craft had fallen three thousand years earlier and that the War God had held their authority ever since.
• The Magic Goddess explained that gods could go mad when humanity and divinity fell out of balance, forcing other gods to kill them.
• Roger suggested using Data Artisan to create a network customer service system that would filter prayers.

Roger learned that the War God had caused his sacrifice and corrupted the Dawn Royal House, then began planning to weaken the gods by spreading the Magic Net among mortals. A vision of a magitech future stirred excitement among the Technology God's believers, while non-believers regretted what they had missed.

• The Magic Goddess explained that the War God had targeted Roger because of his blood, and that the Marriage Goddess had diverted him from the War God's Divine Kingdom.
• Roger learned that the War God's curse had corrupted the Dawn Royal House and turned the Dawn King into the War God's puppet.
• Roger asked whether widespread use of the Magic Net could weaken the gods, and the Magic Goddess said it could influence mortals and severely weaken them.
• Roger proposed using Flint Magicstone and magitech industrialization to expand access to the Magic Energy Network and promote literacy.
• After the ritual, believers in the Magic Net discussed a vision of a future transformed by magitech, while non-believers grew troubled by missing it.

After the vision of a magitech future shocked mages across Magic Space, the Wild Mage and Viscount Rost found a way to power devices without requiring mages. In Tiele Chiefdom, Lucina considered how the future’s machines could overwhelm even the continent’s mightiest kingdoms.

• Noble lords encouraged support for the Technology God as mages debated how to bring the vision of ascension to godhood into reality.
• In Rost Territory, the Wild Mage told Viscount Rost he was troubled by how to make the magic-producing ore activate without first using magic.
• Viscount Rost proposed using machinery, and the Wild Mage suggested a mechanical trigger that would strike the ore and power a magitech device.
• Viscount Rost set out to recruit the Wild Mage’s clockmaker friend, while the Wild Mage predicted that the Artisans Association would become a major force in the new era.
• In Tiele Chiefdom, Lucina imagined that future cars, trains, and aircraft could let their builders conquer the continent and even the lands of the dragons.

Lucina wore down the retreating Orc legions with relentless Mana Bomb attacks, while their soldiers turned to looting and slaughtering villages. As the Dawn Kingdom rescued traumatized Rabbitfolk and followers of the Technology God offered them aid, Lucina realized the new faith could help stabilize the region, and Roger watched the Technology God Church take shape.

• Lucina pursued the Orc legions for days, denying them rest and supplies until they began raiding villages and killing their own people.
• Lucina found Rabbitfolk survivors hiding in a cellar beneath a burned settlement, and her soldiers discovered six more dead below.
• Lucina claimed the survivors for the Dawn Kingdom and ordered food and water brought to them.
• Lucina's personal guard reassured the frightened Rabbitfolk, sharing their food and water and promising help in the name of the Technology God Church.
• Lucina used the Magic Net to study how to organize a church, and her forces converted many villages to the Technology God while stabilizing the region.
• Roger watched from within the Divine Kingdom in astonishment as the Technology God Church was established.

Roger watched the Technology God Church spread rapidly through the Tiele Chiefdom and learned that his Data Artisan authority might be incomplete, while the Magic Goddess warned that other fragments could threaten his control. After two more days of bombardment, Lucina saw the Orc troops reduced to numb, starving figures who no longer reacted to explosions.

• Roger discussed the Technology God Church's rapid growth with Betty and argued that its converts gained wisdom through his Fire of Enlightenment.
• The Magic Goddess questioned Roger about his priesthood system, and Roger explained that Magitech Devices and increased learning would empower his followers.
• Roger told the Magic Goddess he suspected the Data Artisan authority could not cover every network environment, and she warned that other data fragments might let rival gods take the authority from him.
• Roger tried to sense the missing fragments for half a day, then asked the book to watch the internet for related discussions.
• Two days later, Lucina saw the Orc troops sitting amid another bombardment, too numb and hungry to flee, take cover, or respond.

Lucina saw the Orc legion collapse after five days of relentless pressure, while the Dawn Legion escorted its exhausted soldiers into the Dawn Kingdom. As the Tiele leaders debated their defeat, Bick ordered them to defend Redleaf Forest, invoke the Ancestor Spirit, negotiate with the Dawn Kingdom, and bring the Technology God’s followers and technology into their land; a young Elf then appeared in a southern border town of the Graycastle Empire.

• Lucina watched the Orcs lose their will to fight and become obedient captives escorted toward the Dawn Kingdom.
• The Tiele leaders gathered in Tongwan City and argued over their losses, their missing Golden Warriors, and whether to keep faith in the War God.
• Ape-man Bick ended the dispute and ordered the Orcs to hold Redleaf Forest, invoke the Ancestor Spirit, and negotiate with the Dawn Kingdom.
• Bick also called for unbelievers to become followers of the Technology God and bring Magitech Devices and the Magic Net into Orc territory.
• A young-looking Elf walked through a southern border town in the Graycastle Empire.

Bonnie Sun-Chaser discovered that the Graycastle Empire was recruiting mages to develop Magitech Devices and relayed what she learned to the Elven Council of Elders. She chose to honor her promise and join the project, while the Council decided to begin limited use of the Magic Net as events outside the Elven Kingdom accelerated.

• Bonnie Sun-Chaser visited a Graycastle border town and found a notice recruiting mages skilled in runes and magic arrays.
• Bonnie registered to learn about the project, then used a forest-root communication network to send her findings to the Elven Kingdom.
• Bonnie told the Council of Elders she would travel to the Graycastle capital and join the Magitech Device development team to honor her promise.
• The Council of Elders ended its contact with Bonnie and remained silent as it considered her report.
• The Great Elder proposed limited use of the Magic Net, warning that outside changes were happening too quickly and citing the Tiele Khanate's army of one hundred thousand Orcs.

The Elven Council agreed to introduce Magic Nets and establish a Magitech Research Society after the First Elder argued that Magitech could strengthen the kingdom and restore the Primordial Elves’ glory. At the Dawn Kingdom’s peace talks with the Tiele Chiefdom, the king asked Viscount Rost for further demands as strange crimson threads reached toward him, while a rune-covered cube stood in the Goddess of Magic’s Divine Kingdom.

• The First Elder argued that Elves could pray to other gods and should consider Magitech Devices for security and economic growth.
• The First Elder suggested combining Dawn Kingdom production methods with Druid knowledge to mass-produce potions, persuading the elders to support Magic Nets and a Magitech Research Society.
• Nations including the Graycastle Empire, the Elven Kingdom, and the Tiele Chiefdom began researching Magitech Devices after the Twilight War.
• The King of Dawn asked Viscount Rost whether the kingdom should accept the Tiele Chiefdom’s peace offer and what additional demands to make.
• The King of Dawn proposed taking all Tiele lands east of Redleaf Forest, including Eagle's Nest Passage, while crimson threads spread toward Viscount Rost.
• A rune-covered cube with flowing magic power stood before a massive magic tower in the Goddess of Magic’s Divine Kingdom.

The Magic Goddess examined Roger’s Mana Engine as he explained that machine tools could make its components cheap to produce. When Divine Pollution from the War God’s Giant invaded Viscount Rost through the Dawn King, Roger’s Fire of Enlightenment burned it away, and the Dawn King offered Rost the post of Minister of Finance.

• The Magic Goddess and Betty discussed the Mana Engine’s unstable operation and high mana consumption, while the Magic Goddess questioned whether mortals could afford its components.
• Roger explained that machine tools could make ordinary metal parts inexpensive, then sensed that the Fire of Enlightenment he had left in the mortal world was under attack.
• Viscount Rost proposed opening trade ports with the Tiele Chiefdom to obtain minerals and expand the Dawn Kingdom’s Magitech industry.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess saw the Dawn King’s Divine Pollution spreading into Viscount Rost, but Rost’s Fire of Enlightenment began to suppress it.
• Roger sent more Fire of Enlightenment through the faith channel, and it engulfed and burned the gray Giant before the Dawn King offered Viscount Rost the post of Minister of Finance.

King of Dawn appointed Rost as Minister of Finance, while Roger weakened the War God’s corruption inside the king and discussed using magical production to advance industry. Roger agreed to create a Magic Life, but Betty redirected attention to the Mana Engine before the Magic Goddess insisted they study the creature first.

• King of Dawn appointed Rost as Minister of Finance and left Bellion to handle the rest.
• Roger told the Magic Goddess that he had weakened the War God’s corruption in the king and could use the king as a conduit to affect the War God.
• Betty asked Roger to explain machine tools, and Roger described how they could help produce Mana Engines.
• The Magic Goddess proposed creating a Magic Life that could control materials and work continuously, and Roger agreed to make one.
• Betty returned to the problem of quickly resetting the Mana Engine’s piston, but the Magic Goddess said they should first study how to create a Magic Life.

Roger and the Magic Goddess combined mechanical engineering with magic runes to stabilize the Mana Engine, while Roger began designing a Magic Life and learned that Faith Power was no longer needed to maintain the Divine Kingdom’s barrier. The chapter left Roger realizing that his rapidly increasing Faith Power had made the recent surge seem ordinary.

• Roger designed a bizarre form for the Magic Life, and the Magic Goddess sent her avatar to prepare its materials.
• Roger proposed adding a flywheel to stabilize the Mana Engine’s power output.
• The Magic Goddess suggested using runes on refined iron for the flywheel, and she, Roger, and Betty developed a low-cost solution.
• Book admitted that he could not follow the mechanical discussion and flew behind the Magic Goddess when he sensed Betty’s pressure.
• The Magic Goddess told Roger that Faith Power now maintained the Divine Kingdom’s barrier without his divine power.
• Betty explained that Roger’s Faith Power grew so quickly that he had not noticed its recent surge.

Roger, the Magic Goddess, and Betty completed the Mana Engine, which Roger expected to drive rapid industrialization across the mortal world. Meanwhile, Rost and Wild Mage successfully tested a Magic Sword 2.0 that anyone could use, though Wild Mage said one problem remained.

• The Magic Goddess showed Roger and Betty that the Magic Net had spread throughout the Elven Kingdom, increasing their Faith Power.
• The book reported that Elves were studying Magitech Devices and that the chief Druid was pestering Viscount Rost to learn industrial production techniques.
• Roger learned that the Magic Net had over three hundred thousand users, including more than ten thousand converts to the Technology God and over five hundred fanatics.
• Roger, the Magic Goddess, and Betty built and improved the Mana Engine, and Roger predicted it would transform manufacturing and transportation.
• Viscount Rost pressed a button to activate the Magic Sword 2.0, and Wild Mage said the weapon could now be used directly by anyone but still had one unresolved problem.

Viscount Rost discussed with the Wild Mage how to make the Magitech Sword easier to switch off, and agreed to fund further experiments through the nobles invested in Rost Territory’s Magitech industry. Exhausted from managing both the territory and the kingdom’s finances, Rost fell into a strange vision of a Divine Kingdom and wondered whether he had died from overwork.

• The Wild Mage told Viscount Rost that he and Horace were trying to create a way to cut off the Magitech Sword’s mana supply without removing its Energy Storage Module.
• The Wild Mage explained that Horace had proposed a mechanical rune-switching mechanism, but worried it would wear down the runes and cost too much to manufacture.
• Viscount Rost urged the Wild Mage to test his ideas using the nobles’ money, saying the investors would fund technology that could equip every soldier.
• After the Wild Mage left, Viscount Rost admitted to himself that he was exhausted from managing Rost Territory and the kingdom’s finances.
• Viscount Rost drifted into a strange darkness where points of light and darkness formed a world and a majestic temple surrounded by prayer-like lights.
• Viscount Rost wondered whether he had died from overwork and arrived in a Divine Kingdom, then worried about his family, businesses, and the god’s expectations.

Roger summoned Viscount Rost’s consciousness to the Void Divine Kingdom, where he discovered that his power could absorb memories and knowledge from people with Magic Net Rings. Rost awoke determined to put the knowledge from his encounter with the Technology God to use and set out to visit the Wild Mage.

• Roger welcomed Viscount Rost to the Void Divine Kingdom and explained that he had not died, but that his consciousness had followed his faith there.
• Roger discovered that he could read Rost’s memories and add his knowledge to the Divine Kingdom’s store of information.
• Roger praised Rost’s plans and warned him that changing the world would mean standing against the old era.
• Rost told Roger that he believed the world could change under the Technology God’s guidance.
• Rost woke beside Lady Rost, declared that the real war was only beginning, and left to visit the Wild Mage.

Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage discovered that the Mana Engine could power widespread mechanized production, but they could not manufacture its advanced components. They summoned the Technology God’s help through a ritual, and the divine messenger arrived and introduced itself as Magneto.

• The Wild Mage studied Viscount Rost’s Mana Engine plans and realized they could greatly improve production and power machinery.
• Viscount Rost described using Mana Engines for factories, tools, weapons, and other forms of mass production.
• Rost and the mages and artisans failed to produce the necessary materials and components, so Viscount Rost organized a ritual to seek divine help.
• The Technology God answered the ritual by sending a strange floating, spherical divine messenger to the altar.
• Viscount Rost greeted the messenger, which introduced itself as Magneto.

Magnemite demonstrated its metalworking ability to Viscount Rost and the believers, impressing them and promising to help build magitech industry. In the Divine Kingdom, Roger explained that his wider plan was already underway, while Book arrived to announce a completed Magic Net feature.

• Magnemite forged tiny, lifelike statues for the gathered believers and showed Viscount Rost how precise its metalworking could be.
• Viscount Rost praised Magnemite's ability and said its help would make their Magitech Devices spread across the continent.
• Magnemite said it had been trained to build magitech industry and could consult its master through the Magic Net.
• Betty asked Roger whether Magnemite's arrival would soon set his plan in motion, and Roger said the plan had begun when he met Rost.
• Book told Roger that the new Magic Net feature was complete and had been installed for him and the goddess to test.

Roger launched Magic Knows, a user-powered Q&A app for sharing questions and answers on the Magic Net. Meanwhile, Master Ragewind investigated a mysterious crystal mirror that had left Gaoldes City's leaders gravely weakened, and turned to the Magic Net for help.

• Roger unveiled Magic Knows and added Soybean Emotes and emoticons to the Magic Net.
• In Gaoldes City, the Golden Princess told Master Ragewind that her father and the city officials had begun praying to an ancient crystal mirror and had fallen ill.
• Master Ragewind used a Druid spell to restore some of the city lord's strength, but could not repair his mind.
• The Golden Princess offered Ragewind a reward and asked him to stay; he declined the money but agreed to investigate the mirror.
• After finding no abnormalities in the manor, Ragewind returned to his room and opened the Magic Net to ask his old friends for advice.