Chapter Summaries

Hedy sold Destructive Fist Eddie a Bracer Ray Gun and a collection of modules and Mana Bombs, while Bellion and two Legendary Mages studied the device’s modular design. Their discussion was interrupted by news that Viscount Rost had brought Mana Bombs made in his territory, leaving Bellion and the mages stunned.

• Hedy persuaded Destructive Fist Eddie to buy a Bracer Ray Gun, spell modules, energy-storage modules, and Mana Bombs, prompting him to say his team would need another job.
• An attendant showed Bellion the Ray Guns and explained how their interchangeable modules controlled the spells and stored energy.
• Bellion recognized the Ray Gun’s military potential and summoned two Legendary Mages to study how it could be recreated.
• After Bellion and the mages spent the night examining the device, an attendant announced Viscount Rost’s arrival and asked whether his Mana Bomb samples should be secured.
• The attendant revealed that Viscount Rost had brought Mana Bombs produced in his territory, and Bellion and the two Legendary Mages reacted with surprise.

Bellion negotiated with Viscount Rost for a massive supply of Mana Bombs and learned Rost might also consider producing Ray Guns. That night, Destructive Fist Eddie’s group encountered a monstrous figure in the mountains, while two hooded men watched their plan unfold.

• Bellion inspected Viscount Rost’s standardized Mana Bombs and learned his workshop could produce seven hundred a day, with plans to increase output to five thousand.
• Bellion agreed that the kingdom would buy Mana Bombs in bulk and asked Rost to consider manufacturing Ray Guns.
• Rost said he would visit Lady Hedy’s shop before deciding whether to produce Ray Guns.
• Destructive Fist Eddie led his group through the mountains at night while two hooded men, including Old Ghost, prepared to capture him for his giant bloodline.
• A stitched, ten-meter-tall monster appeared before Destructive Fist Eddie’s group and knocked down trees with a swing of its arm.

Destructive Fist Eddie and his team fought a giant monster surrounded by poison mist and discovered it had been assembled from spirits with Giant Bloodline. After defeating it, Eddie confronted the cultists behind the attack and wondered whether the mission would earn them a reward.

• The monster charged Destructive Fist Eddie and his team through poison mist, and Eddie held it off while the others attacked.
• Eddie used his Ray Gun to blast holes in the monster, revealing spirits inside its body and recognizing their Giant Bloodline.
• Eddie ordered the team to throw Mana Bombs into the monster and used Corrosive Rays to help destroy it.
• A black-robed cultist appeared and threatened to use Eddie to create a perfect Corpse Puppet, but Eddie revealed he still had ammunition and fired back.
• Eddie and his team defeated the cultists and monster, and Eddie questioned whether they would receive a reward for their losses.

Destructive Fist Eddie publicized his victory with a Ray Gun, drawing widespread attention to Magitech Devices. In Rost Viscountcy, Wild Mage considered an invitation from the Graycastle Empire but became inspired by the possibilities of Magitech Devices and began discussing a Ray Gun workshop with Viscount Rost.

• Destructive Fist Eddie posted about killing a monster and two priests, using different stories on different forums to promote the Ray Gun.
• A prince of the Graycastle Empire invited Wild Mage to move to Gray Fortress with promises of high rank, resources, and royal knowledge.
• Viscount Rost showed Wild Mage two Ray Guns and explained how Magitech Devices combined a main body, magic storage, and a Spell Model.
• Wild Mage and Viscount Rost imagined connecting Magitech Devices to large or miniature Self-Charging Magic Arrays to transform magic and society.
• Wild Mage questioned whether the Graycastle Empire would let him popularize the Self-Charging Magic Array, then agreed with Viscount Rost that their god was extraordinary and asked about starting a Ray Gun workshop.

Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage planned workshops to produce Ray Guns and charge their energy-storage units, while the Graycastle Emperor considered the Wild Mage’s refusal to join him. Berlion Rogers uncovered a Tiele Chiefdom plot as the Dawn Kingdom faced a possible war and royal crisis, and Roger decided to focus on civilian magitech rather than cannon development for now.

• Viscount Rost proposed workshops for Ray Gun parts and Energy-Storage Rune charging, and he and the Wild Mage finalized their initial plans.
• The Graycastle Emperor asked Prince Wilson to summon Archmage Andrew and military leaders after the Wild Mage rejected recruitment, then worried about the Dawn Kingdom’s survival.
• Berlion Rogers learned that the black-robed attackers came from the Tiele Chiefdom and planned to disrupt supplies to the Westlands and possibly assault the capital.
• Betty asked Roger about developing a super cannon, but Roger said he lacked the followers to spread mana cannons and chose to pursue civilian magitech instead.
• Roger explained that civilian magitech could affect more people and help gather faith, though people without mana still could not use the devices.

The King of Dawn received Bellion’s report and ordered the kingdom to prepare for war with the Tiele Chiefdom, while secretly revealing his hostility toward the Technology God. At the western border, Tiele forces continued gathering toward an army of one hundred thousand under the War God’s command.

• Bellion reported the Orc threat and border intelligence to the King of Dawn, who appeared lucid and calm.
• The Tiele Chiefdom sent a list of protests and threatened to use force, and the King of Dawn told Bellion to prepare weapons and troops for war.
• After Bellion left, the King of Dawn spoke to his reflection and vowed that the Technology God’s possessions would become part of the war.
• Ragehorn surveyed the Tiele encampment, where troops from more than a hundred tribes had gathered and were approaching one hundred thousand.
• A hunched Orc reminded the assembled chieftains that the War God had ordered them to wage a great war against the Dawn Kingdom.

The Tiele Chiefdom's enormous army marched toward the Dawn Kingdom, while Lucina Herick took command of Twilight City's defenses and assessed its weapons and troops. Roger watched the approaching war, which he hoped would replenish the last five percent of his Divinity and let him become a god.

• The Tiele Chiefdom's High Priest sent an army of more than one hundred thousand toward the Dawn Kingdom, expecting the troops to become sacrifices for the War God's Miracle.
• Ragehorn led the Minotaur vanguard as the loosely organized army marched toward the border.
• Lucina Herick arrived in Twilight City and insisted that the Western Border Guard Army commander address her as Wolf General.
• Lucina took charge of Twilight City's Technology Legion and asked about its Mana Bombs, Ray Guns, energy modules, magic apprentices, and conventional weapons.
• Roger asked Book about the delayed Group Chat feature and noted that the war might replenish the final five percent of his Divinity.

Book launched the Group Chat feature after Roger ordered it to be released immediately, and users quickly found ways to use it. In Twilight City, Lucina tested a Ray Gun and joined the Western War Command Group, where she learned how scopes and other supplies would reach the front.

• Roger ordered Book to release Group Chat at once, despite Book's wish to polish the feature further.
• Magic Net users discovered Group Chat's advantages and began creating groups with friends and colleagues.
• Lucina tested a Ray Gun at the Twilight City training grounds, finding that it had a long range, good accuracy, and low magic power consumption.
• Lucina asked about the aiming scopes Viscount Rost had mentioned, and a guard official said he had not heard where they were.
• After learning about Group Chat, Lucina accepted several invitations, including the Western War Command Group, and learned that scopes and other supplies would be transported by ground forces.

Lucina and the defense army commander prepared their forces against the Tiele Chiefdom, relying on Magitech weapons and the Magic Net while considering the Graycastle Empire’s likely response. As the commander struggled to accept how warfare had changed, he proposed burying Mana Bombs, and Lucina questioned how they could be detonated.

• Lucina learned the army’s deployments and logistics through the Group Chat, where Bellion judged that Graycastle would wait unless the war against the Tiele Chiefdom became difficult.
• Lucina questioned why the defenses used only Electric Shock Wave spells, and the commander explained that lightning could paralyze the tough Orcs.
• Lucina arranged catapults, Ray Gun teams, archers, and throwers to maximize the army’s Mana Bomb bombardments.
• The defense army commander lamented that Magitech weapons and new tactics had made his knight training and battle formations outdated, while Lucina urged him to adapt to changing warfare.
• The commander asked about burying Mana Bombs to detonate beneath the enemy, and Lucina pointed out that they needed magic power and questioned whether he meant to use mages as suicide troops.

Lucina and the Defense Army discovered that unusual stones from Eagle Nest Mountain could trigger Mana Bombs, and they prepared a trap at Eagle Nest Pass for the approaching Tiele Chiefdom army. As Ragehorn neared the pass, a bird summoned him to the High Priest to hear about a miracle of the War God.

• The Defense Army commander showed Lucina a strange stone that activated magic power when struck.
• The commander explained that scouts had discovered the stones could detonate Mana Bombs, and Lucina proposed using them as traps against the War Giant Bulls.
• Lucina arranged for traps made from the stones and Mana Bombs to be laid at Eagle Nest Pass, the route to Twilight City.
• Ragehorn watched the Tiele Chiefdom army approach the pass and anticipated capturing Twilight City.
• A small bird summoned Ragehorn to the High Priest regarding a miracle of the War God.

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.