Chapter Summaries

Roger questioned a drunkard from the Fallen about the Fallen World, a dreamlike virtual realm built with inspiration from the Magic Net. The drunkard offered Roger a place among the Fallen, then turned hostile when Roger refused to explain how he detected the world’s anomaly.

• Roger learned that the Fallen World let people experience their inner dreams and that the Fallen used the Magic Net to connect many people’s worlds.
• The drunkard claimed the Fallen had mastered creating these worlds without the Mirror of the Fallen and invited Roger to join them.
• Roger used Data Artisan to seal away the drunkard’s pungent scent but refused to reveal how he had entered and seen through the Fallen World.
• The drunkard offered to help Roger become king of the Dawn Kingdom and make his relatives fall, then demanded an explanation when Roger declined.
• The drunkard made the Fallen World collapse and sent a stream of data toward Roger, threatening to make him fall and read his memories.

Roger released his memories into the drunkard, killing him and contaminating the Mirror of the Fallen, which gave Roger control of the Fallen World. He and Betty considered what the strange world meant for the Data Artisan Authority, and Roger discovered he had gained an Authority called Spirit Realm.

• The drunkard tried to read Roger’s memories, so Roger lowered his mental barrier and overwhelmed him with a torrent of information.
• Roger collected the dead cultist’s fragments and memories as the data torrent continued to wash over the Mirror of the Fallen.
• A gigantic worm appeared in the collapsing sky, but Roger’s lighthouse petrified and disintegrated it, allowing Roger to restore the Fallen World and take control of it.
• Roger and Betty discussed how the Fallen World resembled the Magic Net and whether it could help complete the Data Artisan Authority.
• Roger discovered that he had gained part of the God of Wine Authority, called Spirit Realm, which could read memories and weave the real world.

Roger and Betty discovered that his Spirit Realm authority could combine with Data Artisan worlds to make virtual attacks inflict real psychological damage. After leaving the mirror world, they found the Fallen World’s core technology: living humans kept in a liquor pool as computing units called Thinkers.

• Betty recognized that Data Artisan worlds and the Spirit Realm could be combined to create large virtual worlds whose attacks caused real damage.
• Roger and Betty returned to the city lord’s bedroom, where the Golden Princess slept and a man lay gravely contaminated; Roger took the Mirror of the Fallen and headed to the manor’s secrets.
• In the mirror world, the city lord’s dead wife urged him to leave his illusion, and the Golden Princess arrived as her mother faded away.
• Roger and Betty entered the manor’s basement and found living people immersed in liquor, serving as the Fallen World’s Thinkers.
• Betty recognized the runes around the pool as Magic Net technology she had created.

Roger and Betty discovered and destroyed the Fallen’s brain-powered Thinker system in the Golden City Lord’s Manor, then went into Golden City to explore and spread the Magic Net. The Golden City Lord’s party found the dead Thinkers and learned more about the Fallen, while the Fallen’s leaders were left baffled by Fan En’s death and the Mirror of the Fallen losing its perception.

• Betty dismissed the Thinkers’ rune setup as inefficient, then erased the runes and quietly ended the lives of the people trapped in the wine-like liquid.
• Roger suggested that human brains could provide computing power for the Magic Net and agreed to explore Golden City and distribute Magic Net Rings.
• Betty teleported Roger to Golden City’s busiest district, where they began circulating Magic Net Rings.
• The Golden City Lord, the Golden Princess, and Master Ragewind found the dead Thinkers in the manor basement and blamed the Fallen, while the Princess used a Magic Net Ring to show information about the Dawn Royal House.
• At the Fallen’s headquarters, its members learned that Fan En was dead and the Mirror of the Fallen had lost its perception, leaving them frightened and confused.

The Fallen learned that a Legendary Dream Weaver had died in the Fallen World and that the Mirror of the Fallen had vanished, so Rachelnah proposed connecting their individual Fallen Worlds into a Greater Fallen World. Roger and Betty returned to the Magic Goddess with their gains, including a mirror that she identified as Lady Dream’s long-lost Vanity Mirror rather than the God of Wine’s artifact.

• Rachelnah told the Fallen bishops that a Legendary Dream Weaver had died in the Fallen World, his brain was nearly destroyed, and the Mirror of the Fallen was missing.
• Rachelnah proposed using devices from the House of Spiders to connect the Fallen’s individual worlds into a Greater Fallen World without seeking a vessel.
• Roger and Betty appeared in the Divine Kingdom with bags of goods acquired in the Golden City.
• Betty gave the Magic Goddess a cake, while Roger reported that the Data Artisan’s authority had gained new functions.
• Roger showed the Magic Goddess a mirror, and she identified it as Lady Dream’s lost Vanity Mirror.

Roger learned that the Spirit Realm Authority came from the Dream God and that the Tulip Kingdom was a future made real from illusion, then chose to focus on his research. In Rost Territory, Viscount Rost introduced the First-Generation Mana Engine and gradually overcame public fear through training, good wages, and propaganda.

• Roger told the Magic Goddess what he had learned about the Mirror of the Fallen, and she identified it as the Dream God's Vanity Mirror but could not explain its connection to the God of Wine.
• The Magic Goddess explained that the Tulip Kingdom was Lady Dream's dream, summoned from illusion as a future that had become real; Roger considered whether his Virtual Divine Kingdom could be manifested but decided to continue his research.
• As the Month of Renewal approached, Viscount Rost unveiled the First-Generation Mana Engine, and the people of his territory initially feared the machine and resisted operating it.
• Viscount Rost ordered clever people to train as operators and promised them three times ordinary wages, while scholars promoted the machines as safe gifts from the Technology God.
• The people gradually accepted the engines after learning to operate them and seeing familiar names engraved on machines made by local workshop workers; Viscount Rost realized the names had helped reassure them.

Viscount Rost established a highly efficient steelworks and expanded mechanized mining in Rost Territory with Magnemite’s help. He invited thirteen nobles to see the mines, where he planned to reveal a new business venture.

• Viscount Rost decided to hold weekly outdoor parades to ease residents’ fear of magitech machinery.
• Magnemite helped Rost Territory build Mana Engine machines, a route from the mines to the steelworks, and more than a hundred machine-tool sets.
• Viscount Rost established Rost Steelworks with backing from nobles, the royal family, and the Dawn Kingdom treasury.
• Viscount Rost told the Wild Mage he had a better plan than buying ore from outside, then returned to the royal capital and sent more than a dozen letters.
• Viscount Rost welcomed thirteen nobles to Rost Territory and invited them to inspect the steelworks and mines before discussing a new business venture.

Viscount Rost showed visiting nobles the Magitech steelworks and mines of Rost Territory, revealing how machinery had transformed smelting and ore extraction. The nobles’ resistance gave way to greed as they learned Rost intended to sell them the mining machines.

• The nobles marveled at the rune-powered furnaces and machines in Rost Territory’s steelworks, which produced high-quality steel at extraordinary speed.
• Viscount Rost led the nobles toward the mines, where they saw Magitech trains carrying ore along newly built tracks.
• The nobles entered the mine and watched Mountain Breaker One crush and load ore with tremendous force.
• Viscount Rost explained that Magitech Devices handled eighty percent of heavy manual labor in Rost Territory and showed the nobles more mining machines.
• The nobles realized Rost had invited them to discuss buying the machines, and they wondered whether the devices were miracles from the Technology God.

Viscount Rost offered the nobles Magitech mining machinery and explained that they could power it with Energy-Storage Runes or build Self-Charging Magic Arrays and a Magic Energy Network. He revealed that he was willing to help spread the network, leaving the nobles stunned and eager to know if his offer was genuine.

• Viscount Rost showed the nobles that Rost Territory could produce Magitech mining machinery and invited them to discuss buying it.
• Viscount Rost offered to sell the equipment to the nobles at cost and let them pay with ore.
• Viscount Rost explained that the machines could use Energy-Storage Runes or a Self-Charging Magic Array connected to a Magic Energy Network.
• Viscount Rost decided that spreading the network would strengthen Rost Territory and advance Magitech Industrialization, as Roger wanted.
• A noble asked Viscount Rost whether he was truly willing to help establish Self-Charging Magic Arrays and a Magic Energy Network.

Viscount Rost secured agreements to spread Self-Charging Magic Arrays, Magic Energy Networks, and mining machinery across neighboring territories in exchange for ore access and trade opportunities. Roger defended the plan as a way to expand the Magic Energy Network, then agreed to meet the visiting Writing God, Leiyidia.

• Viscount Rost offered magical infrastructure and mining machinery in exchange for five years of first access to neighboring territories’ ore and permission for Rost merchants to trade there.
• Several noble families agreed to cooperate, and the territories finalized contracts and purchased mining machinery, often paying in ore.
• The Wild Mage and Betty questioned whether Rost should sell the technologies, while Roger said widespread Magic Energy Network coverage would support the magitech industry and enable greater information transmission.
• The Magic Goddess told Roger that the Writing God, Leiyidia, had arrived to visit and might be interested in the Magic Net.
• Roger agreed to let Leiyidia enter the Divine Kingdom so they could discuss the visit.

The Writing God visited the Magic Goddess and Roger to propose a Magic Net feature for publishing and reading, with readers praying or spending points to access chapters. Roger saw the plan’s potential, and the Writing God claimed thousands of creators would join without incentives, leaving him wondering why her believers were so eager to write.

• The Magic Goddess guided the Writing God into the Divine Kingdom, where she and Roger sensed traces of each other’s divine contamination.
• The Writing God explained that she had published a story on Tieba and attracted more than eighty thousand followers.
• The Writing God proposed a Magic Net space for writing and reading, where readers would pray or spend points to access later chapters.
• The Writing God offered the Magic Goddess and Roger fifty percent of the faith generated by the service.
• The Writing God estimated that at least two thousand creators would join without incentives, and Roger asked why they would be so willing to write.

Writing God Leiyidia explained how the Writing Church’s divine arts grew through knowledge, fame, and making fiction seem real, leading Roger to negotiate a partnership built around the Magic Net. The gods agreed that Roger and the Magic Goddess would receive seventy percent of the Faith Power if the network reached specified user numbers, and the Magic Goddess questioned whether the deal was excessive.

• Writing God Leiyidia described the Writing Church’s nine divine arts ranks and explained that fame strengthened believers’ powers from Sequence 7 onward.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess recognized that the Magic Net could help the Writing Church spread its works and gain fame.
• Roger agreed to the Writing God’s offer of fifty percent of the Faith Power only if they also signed a wager for a seventy-percent share once the Magic Net reached eight hundred thousand supernatural users or three million ordinary users.
• The Writing God accepted Roger’s terms, and they signed a divine contract.
• Roger gave the Writing God a Magic Net Ring and said the new function would be ready in one to thirty days.
• After the Writing God left, the Magic Goddess asked Roger whether demanding seventy percent had been excessive.

Roger explained how the Magic Net could help the Writing Church and other gods spread their faith, then set out to develop a Second-Generation Magic Net. At Fallen Headquarters, Rachelna and the returned Pope began merging the Fallen Worlds into a Greater Fallen World in hopes of resisting the contamination afflicting them.

• Roger told the Magic Goddess that the Magic Net could let writers grow stronger by creating works and could eventually read books aloud to readers.
• The Magic Goddess proposed inviting the Music Goddess, and Roger summoned the book to explain how to create a writing function for the Second-Generation Magic Net.
• At Fallen Headquarters, Rachelna prepared twelve bishops and more than three thousand believers for an experiment to merge their Fallen Worlds.
• Rachelna revealed that the missing Pope had returned and that all the Fallen Worlds would merge around his Fallen World.
• The bishops linked their miniature worlds, beginning the formation of the Greater Fallen World as the Fallen at headquarters fell asleep.
• The Pope spoke through Rachelna, and the two prepared to test whether the Greater Fallen World could withstand the contamination and whispers that had nearly overwhelmed them.

Rachelna and the Fallen watched their combined world evolve into a landscape overrun by Blood Beasts, while the Pope revealed that the War God had contaminated him and planned to assimilate their Fallen Worlds. In the Goddess of Magic's Divine Realm, Roger sensed the crisis and wondered whether he should investigate.

• Rachelna and the other Fallen entered the Greater Fallen World and watched it form from a barren, volcanic planet into a world where life began to emerge.
• Burning meteors fell, flames and blood spread across the world, and Blood Beasts attacked the helpless creators of the Fallen Worlds.
• Rachelna suspected the War God was behind the contamination, but she and the other Fallen could neither escape nor stop the transformation.
• The Pope appeared as a crimson cloud and admitted that he had turned to the War God, who promised forgiveness if the Fallen Worlds were assimilated into a Battle Realm.
• A crimson serpent entered a bishop and spread red markings across his body as Rachelna struggled to escape.
• Roger sensed that the Fallen were in danger and considered going to investigate.

Rachelna learned that the War God had contaminated the Pope and the Greater Fallen World, while the Lord of the Fallen urged her to seek aid from the Technology God. She chose to travel to Rost Territory and post on the Magic Net, where her plea drew disbelief and offers of help, and the book alerted Lord Roger to the crisis.

• Blood Beasts attacked Rachelna as the Greater Fallen World flickered, revived, and its grid lines restrained Pope Red Cloud before fresh warfare released the War God's contamination again.
• The Lord of the Fallen revealed himself to Rachelna, told her to escape, and urged her to seek help from the Technology God.
• Rachelna awoke in her body and discovered that the Pope, his Fallen World, and her own Fallen World had disappeared from within her.
• Rachelna asked Magic Net users how to contact the Technology God, then decided to go to Rost Territory and post her plea on Magic Space, Magic Knows, and Magic Encyclopedia.
• Magic Net users questioned Rachelna's story while others offered aid, and the book told Lord Roger that the Fallen had encountered another major incident.

Roger learned that the newly formed Greater Fallen World had produced the Lord of the Fallen, who was being corrupted by an unknown god. He and the Magic Goddess traveled to the Fallen headquarters, where Roger walked them into the Greater Fallen World.

• The Magic Goddess explained that the Lord of the Fallen might be a Demigod or False God and could become Roger’s Subordinate God through an agreement.
• Roger decided to investigate the Fallen World, and the Magic Goddess chose to accompany him.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess appeared before the fleeing Rachelna, who described what had happened and led them to the Fallen headquarters.
• Roger took the Magic Goddess’s hand and stepped through the boundary into the Greater Fallen World.

Roger and the Magic Goddess found a wooden goat-head statue that held part of the God of Wine’s authority and offered Roger the Fallen Authority to keep it from the War God. As the War God’s contamination closed in, the Magic Goddess stopped it with a streak of illusory light, leaving the statue stunned.

• Roger and the Magic Goddess crossed into a desolate Fallen World and followed a trace of divinity to a wooden goat-head statue.
• The statue told Roger that the War God’s contamination was close to devouring the world and seeking the God of Wine’s authority, part of which the statue possessed.
• The statue explained that it had been born after the God of Wine’s fall and had learned about its origins from the former pope of the Fallen, whom it had eaten after the War God contaminated him.
• The statue urged Roger to take the buried Fallen Authority and keep it from the War God, saying it trusted its instincts and wanted to see the real world beyond its own.
• The War God’s flames and blood spread through the grid connecting the Fallen Worlds, but the Magic Goddess froze the contamination with illusory light, astonishing the statue.

Roger contained the War God’s pollution and reshaped the Greater Fallen World, then offered the Lord of the Fallen a chance to become his Lower God. The Lord of the Fallen accepted Roger’s power, allowing him to remove the War God’s and God of Wine’s pollution.

• The Magic Goddess froze the War God’s pollution while Roger studied how the Greater Fallen World used people’s unused computing power.
• Roger told the Magic Goddess to confine the pollution and let more gather so he could pollute the War God in return.
• Roger rearranged the Lesser Fallen Worlds, erased the gaps between them, and restarted the world’s stalled evolution.
• Roger offered the Lord of the Fallen knowledge and freedom from the War God’s pollution in exchange for becoming his Lower God.
• The Lord of the Fallen stopped resisting and let Roger’s power expel the pollution left by the War God and the God of Wine.

Roger used the Greater Fallen World's rules to fight the War God's projection while cleansing its pollution, leaving the War God furious in his Divine Kingdom and preparing a counterattack against the Technology God.

• The War God's projection appeared in the Greater Fallen World and fired an arrow at Roger, but Roger's Giant blocked it.
• Roger's Giant fought the War God's projection while Roger infused the world with his own rules and cleansed its pollution.
• Roger's Giant cut off the War God's arm and sent Technology God pollution through the passage into the War God's Divine Kingdom.
• The War God raged at the Technology God and Magic Goddess, then poured divine power and Faith Power into the passage to counterattack.

Roger trapped the War God's Void phantom in the Greater Fallen World and contaminated much of the divine power the War God had sent there before the world began collapsing. The War God withdrew his remaining power with contamination hidden inside it, while Roger and the Magic Goddess considered the unusual nature of their new Subordinate God, the Lord of the Fallen.

• The War God poured immense divine power into his Void phantom, and Roger and the Magic Goddess realized he did not know they had descended in their true forms.
• Roger attacked the War God's phantom with a Giant and formed a cage of divine power to contaminate the power surrounding it.
• As regions of the Greater Fallen World vanished, Roger accelerated the contamination while the Magic Goddess refused to join in so she could preserve the purity of magic.
• The War God withdrew his divine power, but Roger devoured most of it and planted contamination in the portion the War God took back.
• Roger explained that the Lord of the Fallen existed between the Void and reality, and the Magic Goddess asked whether he could descend into the real world.