Recaps

The Dawn Kingdom’s Magitech Railguns and Tractor-style Tanks devastated the War Brutes before they could reach the defenders, despite the War bishop’s repeated use of War Divine Arts. The Lava General watched the bombardment in disbelief as the bishop descended into madness.

• The Church of War bishop sent brainwashed War Brutes charging toward the Dawn Kingdom’s forces, believing their strength would let them take revenge on their former oppressors.
• The Dawn Kingdom’s shells exploded across the battlefield, setting the War Brutes ablaze and killing them in vast numbers.
• Black Knight Caius ordered the bombardment to continue without conserving ammunition, confident that Rost Territory could supply enough shells.
• The bishop strengthened the War Brutes with War Divine Arts and ordered them forward, but the protection only let them withstand the shells a little longer.
• The bishop kept casting War Divine Arts as his eyes reddened and his body showed signs of contamination.
• The Lava General watched the Magitech Railguns and Tractor-style Tanks overwhelm the War Brutes and asked Black Knight Caius whether magitech weapons had truly advanced so far.

Black Knight Caius ordered Truth to bombard the War God Church priests, who continued casting spells until they were killed, freeing the War Brutes from their control. A reporter sent an account of the battle to the World Economic News Agency, where a scholar announced it in the Group Chat and claimed the Lava General had betrayed the Church of War.

• The Lava General marveled at magitech weapons and proposed installing Mana Railguns and Super Cannons in every city.
• The Lava General pointed out the War God Church priests hiding on distant high ground, and Caius ordered the third unit to adjust its angle and fire long-range shells.
• Truth’s ground-scouring bombardment struck the priests, who kept casting divine spells until the shells or flames killed them.
• As the priests died, the War Brutes regained their senses and fled in terror from the battlefield.
• A World Economic News Agency reporter recorded the battle and sent the news to Rost Territory.
• A scholar announced the report in the Group Chat, describing the Lava General as a suspected traitor to the War God Church.

Scholar Stelt’s edited report about the War God Church’s life-draining miracle ignited outrage across the Magic Net. In the Goddess of Magic’s Divine Kingdom, Roger and the Magic Goddess concluded that the War God had been sacrificing priests and considered how mortal forces and the Mana Railgun could thwart its plans.

• Scholar Stelt defended his report by arguing that every sentence was true, despite its slanted framing.
• The published report provoked widespread condemnation of the War God Church, and its priests and believers avoided the Magic Net.
• Roger read the news and wondered whether the War God’s new miracle could explain why the Dawn Kingdom had defeated the orcs so decisively.
• Betty said the bodily-activation miracle had never been used before, and the Magic Goddess concluded that the War God had drained the mysteriously dying priests.
• Roger decided to let mortal forces obstruct the War God’s plans while their faction gained faith and strength.
• The Magic Goddess noted that the Mana Railgun had helped the Dawn Kingdom defeat the War Brutes without casualties.

Roger insisted that Rost Territory keep developing Magitech technology, while the Wild Mage and Apprentice accidentally discovered a rail rune array that could make objects float above rails and imagined using it for trains and production lines. At the Graycastle-Dawn border, the Northlands grand duke worried about the War God Church’s erratic soldiers and the threat they posed to spring planting and the frontier.

• Roger argued that Magitech Devices and weapons could defeat any traditional enemy, but said the Magitech Mecha still needed development because technology had to keep advancing.
• The Wild Mage and Apprentice discovered that their runes made a shell float above a rail, revealing a possible rail rune array for moving objects without contact.
• Apprentice proposed using the array for trains, and the Wild Mage suggested adapting it for Rost Territory’s production lines.
• The Wild Mage and Apprentice decided to test the discovery in the Technology Laboratory and considered asking Viscount Rost to prepare an upgrade.
• The Northlands grand duke and his heir discussed the War God Church’s increasingly erratic soldiers and worried they might threaten the border while the Dawn Kingdom’s southern harvest was already lost.

The Grand Duke of the Northlands learned that many War God-believing generals were behaving strangely and contacted the Emperor’s side, which said it already knew and would make arrangements. In the Divine Kingdom, Roger showed the Magic Goddess and Betty an experiment in Rost Territory that appeared to be a maglev train.

• The heir told the Grand Duke of the Northlands that children of War God-believing generals had reported their elders acting strangely and muttering unfamiliar words.
• The Grand Duke of the Northlands estimated that most Graycastle generals believed in the War God and feared the scale of the threat.
• The Grand Duke of the Northlands contacted the Emperor’s side through the Magic Net and was told that His Majesty already knew and would make arrangements.
• Roger’s spell test nearly hit Betty, who complained to the Magic Goddess, and Roger stopped the mecha after sensing something.
• Roger showed the Magic Goddess and Betty a Rost Territory experiment in which a small train floated above a rune-covered track and raced around a loop.

Roger recognized that the Wild Mages had invented an extraordinarily fast and stable Ultra-High-Speed Maglev Train, and he planned to use Rost Territory’s Magitech Devices and Druid Potion trade to build a rail network across the continent. The Wild Mages’ tests succeeded at extreme speeds and across long distances and harsh weather, leaving them eager to bring the invention to Viscount Rost.

• Betty called the Wild Mages’ invention ordinary, but Roger explained how an Ultra-High-Speed Maglev Train could connect cities, speed travel and trade, and advance civilization.
• The Magic Goddess identified Thunderstone as the tracks’ main special material and said it was abundant in the Dwarves’ homeland, easing Roger’s concerns about construction costs.
• Roger proposed using the demand for Magitech Devices and Druid Potion, along with the Golden Merchants’ Guild, to secure permission and build a continental rail network and Magic Energy Network.
• The Wild Mages tested their train on tracks up to ten thousand meters long, reaching a speed equivalent to 450,000 meters per hour while remaining stable in wind, rain, and snow.
• The Wild Mages celebrated the successful tests and said they would go find Viscount Rost.

Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage considered how to fund and coordinate the expansion of the Magic-Energy Ultra-High-Speed Hover Train across the mortal world. Roger chose to let them develop their own plans, while revealing that a bank would be part of his future plans for the Magic Net.

• Viscount Rost rushed to the Technology Laboratory, saw the hovering train, and weighed ways to fund its construction and coordinate routes with nobles and the Golden Merchants' Guild.
• The Wild Mage proposed using the Golden Merchants' Guild to promise benefits to lords and tie their interests to the railway once construction began.
• Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage combined their ideas as they discussed how to persuade nobles to provide land and funds.
• Betty asked Roger how the railways could spread, and he said he would let the tide of the age teach the lords while their inventors worked things out.
• Roger told Betty and the Magic Goddess that he planned to establish a bank to support future online shopping through the Magic Net.

The War Pope began a ritual to ignite a continent-wide frenzy among believers of the War God before Celebration Day. As the influence spread, believers across the Graycastle Empire and the Dawn Kingdom began attacking their rulers and destroying their communities.

• The Dawn Kingdom continued sending conscripts to the Southlands as the War God Church consumed nearby small nations and Faith Power declined.
• The War Pope confirmed preparations for Celebration Day and started a ritual using the souls of fallen Missionary Knights and Holy Crusaders.
• The War Pope entered the flames and gave his followers final orders, sacrificing himself to ignite the war.
• A ripple spread from War God Churches across the Graycastle Empire and beyond, making believers' hearts feverish and intensifying their desires.
• A knight and his men attacked their lord in a town near the Graycastle capital, and similar uprisings and riots spread through the empire.
• The frenzy reached the Dawn Kingdom's Southlands, Westlands, and Eastlands shortly before Celebration Day.

The War God Church’s influence drove believers across the Dawn Kingdom and Graycastle Empire into chaos, while Lucina’s conquered Tiele territory remained calm. The Graycastle Emperor realized the Church was mobilizing believers for a massive invasion and questioned whether Celebration Day should be stopped.

• War God believers and compromised guardian knights caused unrest across the Dawn Kingdom, while Lucina’s conquered Tiele lands stayed peaceful and the beastmen-held regions grew volatile.
• Lucina received reports of the disturbances and warned her forces to prepare for a sneak attack from the Tiele Chiefdom.
• The Grand Duke of the Northlands found the Graycastle Empire’s army camp empty and concluded that War God believers had marched toward the Dawn Kingdom.
• The Graycastle Emperor learned that the War God Church had mobilized its believers through extensive blood sacrifices, using the Southlands as the source of its influence.
• The Graycastle Emperor’s heir asked whether they should stop Celebration Day.

The War Pope told the Graycastle Emperor that the War God’s Apotheosis would unite the world’s pantheons, and the bells marking its arrival unleashed widespread violence and rebellion. As the Graycastle Empire attacked the Dawn Kingdom’s border, unrest erupted within the Dawn Kingdom itself.

• The Graycastle Emperor refused to stop the coming unrest, hoping it would weaken the old nobility and resolve resource conflicts.
• The War Pope appeared before the Graycastle Emperor and said that after Celebration Day, every god would become subordinate to the War God.
• Midnight bells marked the War God’s Apotheosis Day, and a strange wave drove people across the continent to fight, rebel, slaughter, or protect others.
• At the Dawn Kingdom’s southern border, its forces fired thousands of Mana Railguns at the advancing Graycastle Empire.
• In Grano Territory, unemployed citizens attacked Count Grano’s castle, while a neighboring lord’s War God-follower captain killed Magitech-capable soldiers and led a revolt against his lord.
• Nobles and extraordinary individuals unaffected by the wave reported the chaos spreading across the Magic Net.

The War God caused conflicts to erupt across nearly the entire continent, and Roger and the Magic Goddess realized his actions threatened other gods as well as the mortal world. When the War God attacked the Magic Goddess’s Divine Kingdom, she went to confront him while Roger stayed behind and contacted the Writing God.

• Magic Net users reported widespread fighting, from wars between kingdoms to violent disputes in villages, and blamed the War God Church.
• Book told Roger and the Magic Goddess that the war had spread across almost the whole continent, while Betty reported changes in Faith Power and an increase in Divine Spirit production.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess reasoned that the War God could gain strength as other gods lost believers and power.
• The Magic Goddess’s Divine Kingdom came under attack, and she left to face the War God after recognizing his move as revenge.
• Roger stayed behind, considered gathering other gods against the War God, and sent a message to the Writing God through the Magic Net.

The War God attacked the Magic Goddess and demanded the Authority of Technology, while Roger brought the Music Goddess to Rost Territory to test her power. Her melody calmed people driven to violence, and Roger waited to see whether her divine voice could spread throughout the world.

• The War God attacked the Magic Goddess with a giant flaming spear, then demanded the Authority of Technology and threatened to reclaim the Authority of Magic.
• The Magic Goddess met the War God's charge with golden light, and the two fought amid the ruins of former Divine Kingdoms.
• Roger brought the Music Goddess to Rost Territory and promised that her music could reach millions, especially Transcendents.
• The Music Goddess played a gentle melody that soothed the people of Rost Territory and stopped fighting and panic.
• Roger watched the effects and prepared to test whether the Music Goddess's divinity could spread through her voice.

Viscount Rost found the Magic Net’s new music function and used an amplification spell to spread the Music God’s Requiem throughout Dawn Palace and the surrounding city, calming people affected by the War God’s influence. Roger and the Music God confirmed the music worked through the Magic Net, and Roger launched the music function worldwide as the network’s reach began to grow.

• Viscount Rost discovered the Magic Net’s music function and played the Music God’s Requiem.
• Viscount Rost amplified the music with a spell, calming the Dawn King, palace residents, and nobles who had been stirred into chaos.
• The nobles blamed the War God Church for their actions and agreed to seek revenge, while extraordinary individuals regained their composure and focus.
• The Requiem reached the outer districts and calmed citizens who had fallen into violence and destruction.
• Roger confirmed to the Music God that its power worked through the Magic Net and promised to spread its voice across the world.
• Roger commanded the Divine Kingdom’s book to announce the launch of the music function and the availability of the Requiem.

The Magic Net’s new music function played the Music God’s Requiem, calming people affected by the continent-wide chaos and helping them resist the unrest. As the Magic Goddess fought the War God in the divine realm, mages in Brighton County amplified the Requiem and sent its sound toward the War God Church, where it met a terrifying roar.

• People learned that the Magic Net’s new music function used the Music God’s Requiem to calm minds, then connected their Magic Nets to nearby Magic Energy Networks.
• Listeners used Amplification Magic to spread the Requiem between territories and restrain the chaos.
• The War God intensified his attacks on the Magic Goddess as the prayers empowering him began to weaken.
• In Brighton County, mages confirmed that the Requiem could calm the riots and amplified it across the region.
• The mages heard roars from the War God Church clash with the Requiem, then raised the volume until the sound surged toward the church.

The Music God's Requiem weakened the mutated War God's Void above the War God Church until it vanished, while people learned that the church had performed blood sacrifices. Across the Magic Net and Magic Energy Network, anger turned into attacks on War God Churches, and the chapter left the world quiet at dawn but filled with smoke and captured priests.

• The Music God's voice silenced the Divine Spirits as a mutated War God's Void emerged above the War God Church and fought against the Requiem.
• A mage urged the others to keep channeling mana, and the Music God's Requiem steadily weakened the Void until it dissipated.
• Mages reported the incident on the Magic Internet, exposing the War God Church's blood sacrifices and prompting people to attack its churches.
• People discovered that destroying churches where blood sacrifices had occurred could restore those unaffected by the Music God's voice, and the Guardian Faction turned against supporters of Ultimate War.
• At dawn, many War God Churches lay destroyed and priests had been tied to crosses for people to determine whether they were incarnations of evil.

Enraged townspeople burned War God Church priests after the priests’ followers had attacked and slaughtered people across the territory. Roger and the Music God watched the backlash spread and discussed how the War God’s loss of mortal faith would bring Him down, while the Music God questioned what Roger had promised the other gods.

• The lord's heir accused the War God priests of corruption and ordered them to undergo a trial by fire, then lit the wood beneath their crosses.
• The burning priests proclaimed that the War God alone could save the world, further inflaming the crowd, which shouted for their deaths and added fuel to the fire.
• Roger observed through the Magic Net that people across many territories were turning against the War God Church and regretting their prayers to the War God.
• The Music God noted that unrest persisted in regions where the War God’s influence was strong or the Magic Net had not spread, but said the crisis was already bringing Him many prayers.
• Roger said people would soon destroy the War God Church chapels, including its temple in the Graycastle Empire, and that the War God would lose without mortal faith.
• The Music God asked Roger what he had promised the other gods to persuade them to join the effort against the War God.

As the War God weakened under the Magic Goddess’s attacks and the doubts of his believers, the gods joined forces against him. He revealed that he had absorbed numerous divine authorities and began drawing their attacks and powers into himself, intent on becoming the world’s only god.

• The Magic Goddess struck the unstable War God, who destroyed a minor god’s Divine Kingdom and swallowed its Faith Power.
• After the War God was battered by the Magic Goddess, more than a dozen gods attacked him together.
• The War God revealed that he had taken authorities from many gods, prompting even the Ocean God and Hell God to join the battle.
• The War God called on the gods to merge into him and become the Astral Spirit God, then absorbed their attacks as their authorities began to loosen.
• The War God declared that he would devour the other gods and become the planet’s only god.

Roger used the War God’s own authority to attack it, exploiting the chaos in its powers to injure and destabilize it. He launched a heavily charged rocket as his ultimate trump card, then retreated toward the Magic Goddess’s Divine Kingdom before seeing the result.

• The War God absorbed the gods’ authorities and continued rampaging despite warnings that the world’s mortals could be wiped out.
• Cone-shaped constructs struck the War God with attacks infused with War Divine Power, injuring it and sending smaller constructs through gaps in its armor.
• Roger directed the assault from inside a giant mecha, explaining to the Music God that War Authority could fight the War God over control of the same authority.
• Roger launched a rocket charged with accumulated magic power and the power of war, then piloted the mecha back toward the Magic Goddess’s Divine Kingdom.

Roger’s rockets and the gods’ attacks weakened the War God until he vanished into the Void, leaving much of his authority contaminated by Roger. Before disappearing, the War God revealed that he had fought to prepare for an invasion from beyond the planet, and the gods were left facing the threat he described.

• The Magic Goddess redirected Roger’s rocket fragments into the War God, and the other gods joined the assault after seeing that the attacks could pierce his defenses.
• Roger fired rockets repeatedly from hiding until the War God weakened and more than half of his authority became contaminated by Roger.
• The War God’s other authorities flew away as his body shriveled, and he regained enough clarity to explain that he had been preparing to resist enemies from beyond the planet.
• The War God vanished into the Void after warning that he might return when the Technology God fell, and the Magic Goddess caught the falling rocket and artillery fragments.
• The Ocean God asked the Nature God about the War God’s warning, and the gods focused on the possibility of an invasion from another planet.

After the War God’s defeat, Roger reassured the gods that industrialization and the Second-Generation Magic Net could multiply the mortal population and strengthen them against future threats. He returned to his Divine Kingdom focused on developing the world and claiming the War God’s authority, while the threat of the Astral Spirit Deities remained unresolved.

• Roger urged the gods to prepare for future crises by developing their strength and promised that industrialization would multiply intelligent mortal life and Faith Power.
• The gods offered to help and asked about the Magic Net, and Roger said the Second-Generation Magic Net would benefit them once order among mortals had been restored.
• The Magic Goddess gave each god a Magic Net so they could create accounts and form a Group Chat, and the gods restored the void before returning home.
• Back in his Divine Kingdom, Roger discussed the Astral Spirit Deities and said that increasing their strength mattered most.
• Roger resolved to take over the War God’s legacy, noting that he now held all of the War God’s authority and had gained enormous power.

Roger planned to use the War Authority to restore order and advance Magitech Industrialization, while he and the Magic Goddess considered investigating Lady Dream’s apparent death. After making his promised offer to the gods, Roger’s plans left Geyera waking in a strange divine realm after his apparent death.

• Roger considered how games on the Magic Net could draw faith through the War Authority, and the Magic Goddess saw the potential in fair games that included mages.
• Roger told the Magic Goddess he would recruit the War God Church’s Guardian School into the Technology God Church to suppress rebellions and promote Magitech Industrialization in iron-rich small nations.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess agreed to postpone investigating Lady Dream’s reported death in the Tulip Kingdom until the unrest ended and Roger released a promised new feature for the gods.
• Geyera, exhausted in a military camp, lost consciousness and awoke in a realm of data and geometric shapes, wondering whether he had entered the Technology God’s Divine Kingdom.

Roger recruited Geyera to lead a Tech Combat Force and reform the remnants of the War God Church, while preparations began to bring wireless transmission devices and related technologies to the public. The chapter left Roger monitoring the rollout of the new Magic Net function.

• Roger asked Geyera to form a Tech Combat Force and resolve the chaos left by the War God Church.
• Roger showed Geyera the disorder across the world, and Geyera agreed to lead the new force after seeing what was happening.
• Roger transformed Geyera's War Divine Arts into Technological War Divine Arts and sent him back to reality.
• The Lava General awoke and sought the Black Knight, while Roger reassured the Magic Goddess that Viscount Rost would support Geyera.
• The Magic Goddess told Roger that wireless devices would begin use in the Dawn Capital soon, and Roger confirmed he would make the technology public alongside the Self-Charging Magic Array and Magic Energy Network.

Hedy the Coffin Bearer's shop launched Wireless Transmission Devices, whose coverage let people use the Magic Net remotely and increased the density of local magic power, making cultivation faster. The device spread excitement across the Magic Net and left Graycastle researchers and rulers facing the prospect of relying on Dawn Kingdom technology.

• Hedy the Coffin Bearer's shop began selling Wireless Transmission Devices in the Dawn Capital.
• Wilton's disciple reported that the devices increased cultivation speed by dispersing magic power across their coverage area, and Wilton recognized their importance to mages.
• Magic Net users celebrated remote music playback and discovered that the devices made nearby magic power more active.
• Graycastle researchers saw Dawn Kingdom release the same wireless technology they had been developing, while Graycastle's rulers realized they could not afford to reject it.

Nations and merchants learned that the Wireless Transmission Device’s principles and manufacturing plans were already available in the Magic Encyclopedia, prompting rapid interest in mass production. Viscount Rost met Lava General Geyera, who asked Rost Territory to equip the new Tech Combat Force with Magitech Devices.

• Bonnie Sun-Chaser watched Graycastle Empire officials discuss obtaining Wireless Transmission Devices and Magitech Devices from Rost Territory, while she struggled to understand their changing attitude.
• The Magic Encyclopedia revealed instructions for making and industrializing Wireless Transmission Devices, making the other nations’ attempts to acquire them unnecessary.
• 'Odd Coin' Ayr Thompson and Labuliekang recognized the device’s industrial potential, while Viscount Rost ordered a workshop converted to produce it.
• Viscount Rost met Lava General Geyera at the Technology Laboratory and welcomed him into the Technology God Church.
• Lava General Geyera asked Viscount Rost to provide Magitech Devices for the Tech Combat Force.

Lava General Geyera’s Tech Combat Force crushed the unrest in Dawn Southlands, while Viscount Rost installed a blood heir in Highcourt and began consolidating the region. Roger welcomed the Southlands as the center of Magitech industrialization and looked forward to expanding the changes into neighboring lands.

• Viscount Rost supplied Magitech Weapons, and Lava General Geyera gathered about 5,000 War Priests in three days to form the Tech Combat Force.
• Geyera’s forces suppressed the unrest across Dawn Southlands, destroyed the Missionary Knights and Holy Crusaders, and left about 1,000 War Priests to maintain order.
• Viscount Rost brought a supposed sole blood heir of the Grand Duke into Highcourt and began establishing control over the Southlands in his name.
• Rost advised the heir to delay claiming the title until he had stabilized the region and won the surviving nobles’ support.
• Roger approved of making the Southlands the base for Magitech industrialization, while he and the Magic Goddess discussed an upcoming update to the book.