Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Baal’s long-planned union with Mephisto has become even more ambitious: with Diabolo, they intend to combine their three supreme powers. Baal wonders whether the result will be annihilation or transcendence.
• Wizard God awakens under the control of a mysterious presence associated with a Bone Throne and Demon Sword. The being overwhelms Baal in close combat, surviving Baal’s strongest attacks without injury.
• The presence identifies himself as Arandir the Lich, also called the “Wound of Ice and Snow That Extinguishes All.” He senses Baal’s demonic nature and launches him skyward. Baal calls for Mephisto and Diabolo.
• Meanwhile, Diabolo follows the Nine-Tailed Ice Fox to a frozen plain dominated by a sealed Bone Throne. The fox reveals that a lich named Nao, the first lich and ancestor of all liches, once destroyed the ancient Wizard civilization and helped bring about the calamity associated with Magic.
• After receiving Baal’s urgent message, Diabolo leaves immediately. Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo converge to reunite their powers. The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox and Ancestor of the Witch Tree follow.

Character developments and interactions

• Baal shifts from confident anticipation of the three-way fusion to alarm when Wizard God’s transformed body proves far stronger than expected. His destruction power can cut the deathly energy Arandir tries to attach to his heart.
• Arandir emerges as a composed, immensely powerful antagonist, apparently taking fuller control of Wizard God’s body. He is intrigued by Baal’s strength and delighted to discover Baal is a Demon.
• Diabolo shows caution around the Divine Punishment-like lightning, but chooses to investigate because the unknown threat outweighs rivalry with Baal. He responds instantly when Baal calls.
• The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox acts as guide and source of ancient history, while the Ancestor of the Witch Tree shares Diabolo’s shock at the revelations.
• The chapter closes with the three former parts of one being—Baal (Destruction), Mephisto (Ruin), and Diabolo (Time and Space)—moving toward reunion.

Significant themes

• Union and transformation: The three Demon Gods’ planned fusion may create something unprecedented, for good or ill.
• Ancient history resurfacing: The liches and the destroyed civilization reveal that the current crisis is tied to deep, forgotten catastrophes.
• Power and vulnerability: Baal’s formidable attacks are ineffective against Arandir, underscoring the scale of the threat.
• Rivalry set aside: Diabolo recognizes that cooperation is necessary when faced with a danger greater than their internal conflict.

Summary

• Plot and events: This chapter is a direct address from Sixue to readers, responding to harsh criticism of Demon God. She repeatedly calls her own writing “trash” and pleads with hostile readers to stop reading rather than continue posting criticism she finds incomprehensible. She says she will avoid the reviews and invites readers with sincere suggestions to contact her privately or join the reader group.
• Character development: Sixue comes across as defensive, hurt, and frustrated, but also appreciative of readers who offer thoughtful feedback. She insists she has listened to criticism from her group and made changes, while refusing to engage with reviewers she believes are acting in bad faith.
• Character interactions: Sixue contrasts supportive readers and friends—whose criticism comes from caring about the book—with certain reviewers whom she accuses of having ulterior motives. She thanks the former and sarcastically condemns the latter, whom she blames for driving authors to abandon their work.
• Themes: The chapter explores the emotional strain of online criticism, the difference between constructive feedback and hostility, the bond between creators and devoted readers, and the limits of trying to win over people who dislike a work. It ends on a joking, competitive note: Sixue wishes good luck to Demon God readers taking their college entrance exams, but not to other students who might compete with them.

Key plot points and events

• The Ancestor of the Witch Tree and the Nine-Tailed Ice Fox discuss the Wizard World’s ancient history. The Lich King Nao, a near-divine leader of the Undead, was sealed in the Wizard World, and his Demon Sword, Frostsnow’s Sorrow, may be stirring.
• The Ice Fox explains that the Wizard World’s damaged Plane Will and its current Barrier state resulted from ancient catastrophes. It describes two calamities of Magic: the first involved the Lich King drawing a powerful fiend into the world; the later one destroyed most Barriers, including the old Northern Frontier. Ruins and the Frozen Throne are among the few traces of the past.
• As they travel, a massive horde of Undead pours from the forest toward Highland. The Ice Fox warns that the creatures are likely only expendable forces, while the Demon Sword above Highland is the greater danger—possibly gathering strength or trying to revive the Lich King.
• The pair decide they must stop the sword and seek help from Diabolo and Baal, despite distrusting both. The Ice Fox argues they have no other choice.
• Baal suddenly erupts in rage at Highland, transforming into an immense Phoenix of Black Flame. His fire annihilates vast numbers of Undead, but more keep advancing. Something appears to have provoked him or pushed him into a difficult fight.

Character developments and interactions

• The Ancestor of the Witch Tree is unsettled by the revelations and openly distrustful of Baal, whom he sees as destructive and nearly as frightening as the Lich King.
• The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox acts as a knowledgeable guide to the world’s buried history. Despite its grave doubts, it urges cooperation with Diabolo and Baal as the only possible way to avert disaster.
• Baal shifts from a looming threat to an active defender against the Undead, unleashing immense destructive power. His fury suggests an unseen setback, leaving the others anxious about what is happening at Highland.
• The Ancestor and the Ice Fox debate whether seeking aid from dangerous beings is worth the risk, then hurry toward Highland as the crisis escalates.

Significant themes

• History repeating itself: The Undead and Magic once again appear together, raising fears that the Wizard World is entering another cycle of catastrophe.
• A damaged, haunted world: Ancient wars, lost civilizations, and ruined Barriers have left the Wizard World burdened by its past.
• Uneasy alliances: Survival may require relying on powerful, dangerous figures who could themselves bring destruction.
• Uncertainty and fate: The chapter closes with the Ice Fox questioning whether the world is cursed and whether it can escape its recurring entanglement with Undead and Magic.

Plot points and events

• A cataclysmic battle between Baal and the lich Arandir tears open the barrier between the Northern Frontier and the Underground World. The resulting upheaval shatters terrain, disrupts the sea, and threatens to bring the two worlds into collision.
• Baal’s Divine Soul takes the form of a colossal Phoenix, absorbs the Black Sun of Purgatory, and unleashes an attack against Arandir’s Demon Sword. Their clash destroys and crystallizes the surrounding landscape; even its distant shock wave overwhelms many onlookers.
• The Destruction Squad and other forces gather at a safe distance. Though they cannot aid Baal directly, Xierjie orders troops to protect the battlefield from the growing Undead horde.
• Baal is badly injured, while Arandir appears almost untouched. He uses his mastery of space to seize and repeatedly throw Baal, then offers to spare him as a servant.
• Baal breaks free and takes his position atop the Phoenix. As Arandir finally draws a smaller sword from the giant Demon Sword and prepares to fight in earnest, red lightning strikes and a blue, destructive figure emerges. Baal rises to meet it, and the forces of destruction, ruin, Time, and Space converge.

Character developments

• Baal is pushed to the brink but refuses to surrender. His thoughts suggest a painful reversal: after once forcing the Wizard God to become Undead, he now faces a comparable choice himself. His Phoenix form and final transformation hint that he has been holding something back.
• Arandir is revealed as a vastly powerful Sky Tier being whose control over space makes him seem invulnerable. Initially dismissive, he becomes wary once Baal takes his place atop the Phoenix.
• Xierjie and the Destruction Squad show fierce loyalty and restrained desperation. Unable to help their leader, they focus on protecting him from interference.
• The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox and the Ancestor of the Witch Tree recognize the scale of the threat and are impressed by the Destruction Squad’s discipline and strength.

Significant themes

• Destruction versus rebirth: The torn barrier and the emerging forces leave the fate of the Northern Frontier uncertain.
• Power and helplessness: Even powerful witnesses can only watch as Baal and Arandir reshape the world around them.
• Loyalty and duty: Baal’s followers channel their inability to aid him into defending the battlefield.
• The persistence of the Undead: The corpse army rapidly regrows despite Baal’s earlier efforts, underscoring how difficult it is to defeat.

Character interactions

• Arandir taunts Baal, explains his advantage in controlling space, and offers him the chance to serve rather than die.
• Baal answers Arandir’s offer with defiance, breaks his hold, and prepares for a final confrontation.
• Xierjie rebukes the Blood Demon for speaking carelessly about Baal; Nesser pulls him away before he provokes her further.
• The gathered Wizards and Demons keep their distance from the Destruction Squad while relying on Baal and Diabolo for protection.

Key plot points and events

• The battlefield freezes as Diabolo, the King of Destruction, and Mephisto, the Time-and-Space Demon God, arrive alongside Baal. Their appearance completes the gathering of the Burning Legion’s three giants.
• The three begin fusing under the Taboo Clock’s influence. Lich Arandika attacks, but the clock’s power erases his giant sword and disrupts time and space, allowing the fusion to continue.
• Diabolo merges into the growing sphere of light, wounded but smiling. The sphere expels the surrounding laws of time and space and enters a realm associated with Baleful Intent and Nothingness.
• The fusion suddenly vanishes, leaving the witnesses confused. Arandika flees, while those connected to the Magic Network collapse in fear.
• Beyond the boundary of Baleful Intent and Nothingness, Er Dongsheng awakens as part of a fused will combining himself, the powers of Ruin and Destruction, and the Taboo Clock. He finds that the two incomplete Destruction Runes have formed a new, incomplete Rune representing chaos and the ultimate return of all things to the void.
• Er Dongsheng’s existence is fading in the strange realm, and he searches for a way back. Examining himself, he discovers unfamiliar imprints throughout his body and system, as well as a divine name—“God of Time Cronos”—on the clock. Strange sounds then emerge from the Magic Network’s core, but their source is not revealed.

Character developments and interactions

• Er Dongsheng shifts from participant in the fusion to an incorporeal consciousness in an alien realm. His growing alarm turns toward the possibility that forces beyond his understanding have altered him and his system.
• Diabolo displays eerie composure and anticipation despite being wounded, intensifying the fear others feel toward him.
• Arandika moves from confident restraint to desperation as his power is repeatedly nullified; once the fusion reaches its peak, he recognizes the danger and flees.
• Xierjie and the others can only watch helplessly as Arandika attacks and the three giants fuse. Wizards, Demons, and Magic Network users react with shock and fear.

Significant themes

• The limits of power and natural law: Even a Sky Tier being cannot control forces that override the laws of the universe.
• Transformation and cosmic origins: Destruction and Ruin combine into a deeper principle—chaos, the final destination of existence.
• Hidden influence and identity: Er Dongsheng discovers that his body, system, and even the clock carry unexplained imprints, raising questions about who or what shaped them.
• The uncanny and the unknown: The fusion creates both awe and terror, while the void leaves Er Dongsheng isolated and uncertain of his own existence.

Plot points and events

• Prayers through the Magic Network summon a vision of a colossal, machine-like Demon God with three faces and six arms. Its three aspects embody Destruction, Devastation, and Time and Space, represented by Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo.
• The vision appears across the Wizard World and then spreads to the Lucy Angel Plane and the Abyss. Powerful beings—including a Sky Tier Wizard—notice it, while demons recognize Baal and Mephisto but cannot explain the scale of the manifestation.
• The Demon God calls for the return of the “great will.” Across the realms, demons and others begin praying, and the Burning Legion’s factions unite in worship of their new, shared king.
• The vision vanishes, but a supreme Throne forms in the Magic Network. A multicolored structure then emerges from the void: the summoned Demon God has begun to manifest in reality.
• Arandika, the fleeing opponent, realizes the entity has locked onto him. He draws Undead energy from nearby corpses, reducing them to ash.
• In the void, Baal recognizes that the prayers have created a passage through nothingness. As he prepares to leave, he notices marks on his body and decides to take one final action before crossing over.

Character developments

• Baal shifts from a presence in the void to the focus of a vast, faith-powered summoning. He understands the strength of belief and appears to have a specific plan involving the marks on his body.
• Arandika goes from fleeing to preparing a desperate defense, sacrificing the surrounding undead to gather power.
• Xierjie and the Burning Legion embrace the union of Baal’s, Mephisto’s, and Diabolo’s followers under one ruler.
• The wider world’s powerful figures are alerted and unsettled, suggesting that the event may disrupt the Wizard World’s long peace.

Significant themes

• Faith as power: Collective prayer can bridge even the boundary between the void and reality.
• Unity and transformation: The Burning Legion’s separate factions recognize a single, three-in-one ruler.
• The unknowable and the catastrophic: The scale of the vision exceeds familiar ideas of demonic advancement, alarming beings across multiple realms.
• Sacrifice for survival: Arandika consumes the energy of the undead around him to meet the approaching threat.

Character interactions

• Worshippers across the Wizard World, Abyss, and Lucy Angel Plane collectively summon and praise the three-in-one Demon God.
• Xierjie and the Legion publicly affirm the union of the three factions, while Arandika reacts to the manifestation as a direct threat.
• Baal observes the prayers and the forming passage from the void, then prepares to act before entering reality.

Summary

• Plot: The narrator opens by asking readers to subscribe and recommend the story. They report that subscriptions have fallen to a new low and say they are struggling to find the energy to write. They wonder who has continued subscribing and kept Sixue from reaching zero.
• Character development: The narrator comes across as discouraged and exhausted, though they still make a direct appeal to readers. Sixue is mentioned as someone whose subscription count has been kept above zero.
• Themes: The passage touches on the pressures of reader support, creative fatigue, and the uncertainty of relying on an audience.
• Interactions: The narrator addresses readers directly, asking for their support; no other interaction occurs in this brief passage.

Key plot points and events

• Baal discovers that his body contains hidden marks placed by powerful forces: the Abyss, the Great Universe, the Destruction Devil Master and God King, and the powers of Ruin and Time and Space. He also notices mysterious eyes associated with the Abyss and Universe, a golden eye within his system, and an untouchable half of the Scarlet Key.
• Determined to free himself from outside control, Baal first tries cutting away the marks, but the attempt causes intense pain and fails.
• He realizes he can expose marked sections of himself to the surrounding void. Those pieces of flesh—and the marks within them—are destroyed, though the process causes overwhelming agony.
• Baal removes the remaining Destruction and Ruin marks by tearing out a fused Rune and casting it into the void. The powers within it feed the void, which grows into a new Taboo Rune: Chaos Void.
• The Rune restores and strengthens Baal’s body, consumes the Taboo Clock into Forbidden Energy, and removes his bloodlines and most of his external marks. The Abyssal and Universal eyes remain, but close and begin to change.
• Destruction, Ruin, and Time and Space reform as three bloodlines uniquely Baal’s own. He resolves to leave, sensing that others are waiting.

Character developments

• Baal’s long-standing mistrust of anything that has marked or influenced his body becomes decisive: he is willing to mutilate himself rather than remain under another’s control.
• His ordeal is both physically devastating and liberating. By the end, he is stronger and has claimed powers that were once imposed on him as parts of his own identity.

Significant themes

• Bodily autonomy and self-determination: Baal rejects even powerful forces’ claims over his body.
• Pain as the price of freedom: His transformation requires repeated, extreme suffering.
• Assimilation and ownership: Powers once tied to others are remade into abilities that belong to Baal.
• Rebirth through destruction: The void erases old marks, bloodlines, and structures, then rebuilds him in a stronger form.

Character interactions

• The chapter contains no direct conversations with other characters. Baal’s conflict is primarily with the lingering influences of the Abyss, Universe, Destruction, Ruin, and Time and Space—and with the pain of removing them.

Plot points and events

• Baal reaches the threshold of entering the Wizard World, while the Destruction Bloodline awakens across the Highland, Lucy Angie’s plane, and parts of the Abyss.
• The awakening transforms the Destruction Squad: captains become Three-Wing Destruction, vice-captains mostly become Two-Wing Destruction, and other members gain one or two pairs of wings. The Magic Network explains that wings reflect the depth of bloodline fusion and increasing power; further fusion can produce individual Awakenings and abilities.
• Baal fully emerges as the three-faced, six-armed Demon God. His gaze traps Arandika in a Time-and-Space-like effect, and he devastates the corpse hordes as Arandika flees among them.
• Baal and Mephisto combine their power in an attack that erases a vast area—including corpses, space, and its rules. Arandika escapes but loses an arm that cannot regenerate because it has been reduced to nothingness.
• Baal explains that the fusion of Destruction, Ruin, Time, and Space creates the Triune Demon God, also called the Chaos Demon God: a being that embodies annihilation and creation. The clock’s hands align at “Taboo,” and all three aspects—Baal, Diabolo, and Mephisto—open their eyes, declaring judgment on Arandika.

Character developments and interactions

• Baal advances toward his ultimate form and demonstrates control over immense destructive power, time, space, and nothingness. He directly targets Arandika.
• The Destruction Squad undergoes a collective evolution, with Xierjie and the other captains rising to power that can challenge Fourth-Level Demons.
• Arandika, previously imposing, is reduced to desperate flight. He cannot counter Baal’s abilities and is horrified when his lost arm proves impossible to restore.
• The Ancestor of the Witch Tree fears that Baal’s attacks could destroy the Northern Frontier and kill its remaining inhabitants. The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox responds coldly that the destruction of the region would also bury the Undead.
• Wizards and Demons watch Baal with fear and awe, while the chapter’s climax sets up the Triune Demon God’s collective confrontation with Arandika.

Significant themes

• Evolution through bloodline and power: Destruction Bloodline ranks are visibly marked by wings, with deeper fusion bringing greater strength and unique abilities.
• Creation and annihilation as complementary forces: Destruction and Ruin undo the Universe, while Time and Space enable creation; Baal’s form unites both.
• The limits of restoration: Arandika’s missing arm cannot regenerate because it has been erased from existence, underscoring the absolute nature of Nothingness.
• Judgment and inevitability: The final verdict—“I judge you guilty. You shall die!”—frames the coming battle as a sentence rather than a mere contest.

Key plot points and events

• Baal, Diabolo, and Mephisto combine into the three-in-one Demon God and unleash Chaos Tide, a force that erases space, time, and matter. Lich Arandika survives briefly inside it with the help of his Demon Sword and tries to escape.
• The Demon God counters the tide with Space-Time Law: Creating Heaven and Earth. The clash between creation and annihilation triggers a vast explosion that devastates the Highland and much of the Northern Frontier.
• The blast destroys the Barrier between the Northern Frontier and the Underground Dark World, accelerating their merger and destabilizing other Barriers. A Space-Time Rift also appears, offering a glimpse of human buildings beyond it.
• Arandika emerges gravely damaged and dies permanently after admitting that his soul is shattered beyond revival. His Demon Sword’s soul-bearing eye also breaks.
• The Demon God absorbs the sword and Wizard God’s body, then turns into a mountain and falls into a deep sleep. Baal, Diabolo, and Mephisto call for slaughter to prepare for their awakening when the Black Sun descends.

Character developments and interactions

• Arandika makes a desperate attempt to survive and rescue Lich King Niao, but fails. In his final moments, he reflects on his repeated defeats and watches the sunlight before dying.
• The three demons demonstrate immense power and unity through their combined attack, but the effort leaves them dormant.
• The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox recognizes the danger posed by the accelerating merger and rushes toward the Frozen Throne without waiting to see the battle’s outcome.
• The surviving Wizards and Demons witness the destruction from safety because the Demon God deliberately protects them.

Significant themes

• Creation and destruction: the battle pits chaos that annihilates everything against time-space power that creates order; their collision produces both creation and collapse.
• Finality and mortality: Arandika’s death is irreversible, ending the cycle of his repeated revivals.
• Catastrophe and transformation: the battle remakes the landscape and breaks ancient boundaries, ushering in a changed world.
• A new age of violence: the demons’ call for bloodshed frames the emerging era as one shaped by conflict and impending danger.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Three years after Baal’s battle with the lich Arandika, the Northern Frontier remains devastated. As the two worlds merge, volcanic eruptions, rivers of magma, a dark sky, and the growing Black Sun make the region increasingly apocalyptic.
• Baal remains asleep, transformed into a vast mountain. Though he has not awakened, his power continues to intensify and spread through the Magic Network.
• Lulu rules from Baal’s Palace while he sleeps. The first three regions of the Wizard World have been conquered, but the fourth is proving difficult: the fighting has stalled despite the captains’ progress.
• Lulu sends Little Snake to reinforce the campaign and tells it to bring back Bei’er. Little Snake reluctantly leaves Baal’s side, where it has kept watch for three years. The Fire Demon Beast cannot yet fight because it is still merging with the Destruction Bloodline.
• The Destruction Land in the Abyss has remained quiet and defensive for three years. Its forces appear to be preparing for an unknown transformation, and an intruding powerful demon has disappeared without explanation.
• Agatha notices that demons associated with Mephisto have grown stronger and developed blue Flames of Ruin. She suspects he may be building a force comparable to Baal’s Destruction Squads, but she does not know where he is.
• Xierjie rallies the Destroyers of the Demon Domain, urging them to defend their status by invading the Wizard World. The Destruction Bloodline begins reshaping them, and their growth is expected to send power back to Baal and hasten his awakening.

Character developments and interactions

• Lulu has become Baal’s acting authority, directing the war and managing his followers. Her impatience with the stalled campaign contrasts with her gentler, familiar concern for Little Snake.
• Little Snake, feared by outsiders as the King of Thousand Serpents, is revealed to have a childish, sulky side. Its loyalty to Baal is profound: it has guarded him without leaving for three years.
• Baal remains absent but central. His growing influence shapes the Magic Network, the war, and the hopes of the Destroyers.
• Agatha tries to understand Mephisto’s disappearance and the growing power of his followers. Her maid supplies observations, but neither can explain the changes.
• Xierjie acts as a forceful propagandist, turning the Destroyers’ pride and fear of losing status into enthusiasm for invasion.

Significant themes

• Power through transformation and sacrifice: Bloodline merging strengthens the forces while potentially contributing to Baal’s return.
• Loyalty and ambition: Little Snake’s devotion to Baal stands beside the Destroyers’ desire for status and recognition.
• Uncertainty beneath apparent calm: Baal’s sleep, Mephisto’s disappearance, and the Destruction Land’s silence all point to major changes underway.
• Conquest and propaganda: Xierjie frames expansion as a defense of the Destroyers’ identity, mobilizing them through pride and rivalry.

Key plot points and events

• The Fourth Region—also called the Alfano Region—is a former Barrier World newly exposed as barriers merge. The Abyss Demons have already devastated other regions, building Flesh Altars to feed life energy and souls to the Demon Gods.
• In Alfano, Diabolo’s forces have met fierce resistance from the region’s natives and rival invaders. The Heavenly Demons and Demonkin, whose members have fused with Taboo’s bloodline, are attacking the central city of Sicono.
• The region’s beast-fusing fighters prove unusually hard to kill, inflicting growing casualties on Nesser’s forces. Lacking the support available to the Destruction Squad, the invaders fear they are falling behind.
• After receiving authorization from Lulu through the Magic Network, the leaders order a Flesh Altar raised to summon the fearsome King of Thousand Serpents. The summoned image alone overwhelms the commanders, prompting them to hurry.
• Inside Alfano’s Holy City, two allied commanders—one native and one from another faction—observe the attackers’ sudden pause. Their alliance is uneasy: both remember past atrocities committed by the other, and each privately intends to turn on the other once the immediate threat is defeated.

Character developments and interactions

• Nesser is troubled by his troops’ casualties and openly urges a halt to attacks. He also reacts with particular fear to the King of Thousand Serpents, whose power he knows firsthand.
• The Heavenly Demon King relays Lulu’s authorization and the order to summon the serpent, visibly reluctant to deliver its exact wording.
• The Blood Demon, now the Dark Elf King, has joined Diabolo’s side, believing Diabolo would be easier to serve than Baal; the narration hints that this judgment will prove naive.
• Loxia, the Fifth Sea Emperor, warns that the enemy alliance must be broken quickly, though she has little authority despite her status.
• Sancast and Helim, along with other powerful survivors, look to the two kings for direction.
• The two Holy City commanders cooperate against the invaders but exchange accusations over their peoples’ past violence. Their outward alliance conceals mutual distrust and plans for revenge.

Significant themes

• Conquest and exploitation: The invading forces treat whole regions and their inhabitants as resources for awakening the Demon Gods.
• Escalating power and uneasy alliances: Bloodline transformations and rival factions reshape the balance of power, while cooperation is often driven by necessity rather than trust.
• The cost of war: Mounting casualties and memories of destroyed cities underscore the devastation on both sides.
• Fear and coercion: The King of Thousand Serpents’ reputation—and even the pressure of his image—forces the invaders into urgent obedience.

Key plot points and events

• While Alfano’s defenders debate their dire situation, a vast altar of flesh, bones, and skulls rises beneath the Holy City. Its markings name three Demon Gods: Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo.
• The defenders do not understand the ritual, but the refined man resolves that they must hold the city. The tiger-striped commander also has a personal reason to stand firm: the Holy Temple’s lords would punish him if he failed.
• The altar absorbs energy from the Magic Network, transforming from a grisly mound into a clear, blood-red crystal. The invaders use it to summon the Great Lord of Thousand Serpents across time and space.
• A gigantic serpent begins forcing its way through a rift. Its head, claws, and enormous body emerge, tearing the rift wider; finally, its wings unfold and cast a vast shadow over Alfano’s Holy City.

Character developments and interactions

• The refined man and the tiger-striped man remain tense and distrustful, but their shared fear of the approaching threat briefly eclipses their rivalry.
• The refined man shows resolve, choosing to defend the Holy City despite the hopeless odds.
• The tiger-striped man masks his fear with contempt for the natives and remains motivated by fear of punishment from his superiors.
• Nesser and Loxia react with astonishment to the creature’s arrival, while the Heavenly Demon King falls silent. Even the invaders tremble before their summoned lord.
• Little Snake is presented as powerful and impatient, violently tearing through the spatial rift rather than shrinking to fit.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and helplessness: Alfano’s people face threats far beyond their ability to control.
• Fear and reluctant resolve: The defenders’ terror does not erase their determination to protect the city.
• Ritual and sacrifice: The horrific altar transforms death and blood into a means of summoning.
• The arrival of a legend: Little Snake’s entrance marks the beginning of the “Thousand Serpents” legend and shifts the balance of power dramatically.

• Events: Sixue leaves university permanently at eleven o’clock and enters the working world. The narrator feels both sad and relieved, welcoming the chance to leave the city and people they would rather avoid. The narrator also shares plans to maintain two daily updates for Demon God, with occasional extra chapters, despite drinking heavily and nursing a headache. A previously written, million-character urban novel may be uploaded, but that decision depends on real-life pressures.
• Character development: Sixue’s departure marks a major transition into adulthood and employment. The narrator likewise takes a plunge into working life, uncertain what lies ahead but resolved to continue.
• Themes: Change and new beginnings, mixed feelings about leaving the past behind, perseverance amid uncertainty, and balancing creative work with real-life demands.
• Interactions: The narrator addresses readers directly, reassures them about the update schedule, apologizes for a title typo, and asks for votes and subscriptions.

Key plot points and events

• Little Snake, the Lord of Thousand Serpents, enters Alfano’s Holy City and destroys its wall, buildings, and streets with his immense body, tail, venom, and Flame of Destruction. The city’s usual defensive advantages prove useless against him.
• Alfano’s residents suffer heavy casualties. Outside the city, Nesser and the other Heavenly Demons refuse to enter the danger zone, leaving Little Snake to rampage undisturbed.
• The tiger-striped commander attempts to retreat with his troops, but Alfano’s warriors block them. A careless sweep of Little Snake’s tail kills many, and the two human groups then fight each other. The commander orders his troops to kill the Alfano defenders.
• Their hatred and despair awaken the Flesh Altar. Its crimson halo and strange prayers intensify people’s bloodlust, driving them into even more violent slaughter.
• Little Snake’s attacks crack the ground and release an uncanny frost. The ice withstands his blows, heals wounded Alfano natives, and pursues the tiger-striped commander and his followers. The commander abandons his troops and flees.
• Enraged by the ice clinging to him, Little Snake stops playing and unleashes his full aura. His destructive pressure collapses buildings and kills weaker people. Nesser’s group retreats, while Little Snake rises above the city, apparently preparing another attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Little Snake shifts from gleeful destruction to anger when the mysterious frost resists him. His pride in his dragon bloodline and his determination to assert his power become explicit.
• Nesser and the other outsiders are terrified of Little Snake and prioritize their own safety, refusing to enter the city and retreating when his aura intensifies.
• The tiger-striped commander shows himself to be selfish and ruthless: he blames the Alfano defenders for his losses, orders their massacre, then abandons his own troops when danger rises.
• Alfano’s defenders first appeal for help, then turn to desperate resistance and mutual violence as the situation collapses.
• Loxia treats Little Snake’s rampage with mocking amusement, but her teasing does nothing to ease the others’ fear.

Significant themes

• Power and helplessness: Alfano’s defenses and the city’s strength mean little against an overwhelming force.
• Self-preservation and betrayal: The outsiders and the tiger-striped commander abandon others rather than risk themselves.
• Hatred as a destructive force: The Flesh Altar feeds on despair and conflict, intensifying violence and seemingly moving toward awakening the Three-Faced Demon God.
• Mystery and reversal: The frost is powerful enough to resist Little Snake, yet protects Alfano’s natives while attacking the invaders, suggesting a hidden force beneath the city.

Key plot points and events

• Little Snake transforms into his third and most powerful form: Acnologia, the Destruction Demon Dragon. His enormous, rune-marked body and destructive wings inspire awe among the Burning Legion.
• The narration recalls Acnologia’s past devastation: during a stalemated campaign on another plane, he single-handedly crushed the resistance and nearly destroyed several nations.
• Acnologia unleashes a black sphere of destruction on Alfano Holy City, erasing the city and its inhabitants while precisely limiting the devastation to the city and the ground beneath it. The blast leaves a pit nearly ten thousand meters deep.
• A mysterious, invisible-to-Acnologia river of seven-colored energy is revealed deep within the pit. It gives off immense power, and everyone present feels compelled to consume it.
• Purgatory’s Black Sun descends toward the energy. Diabolo then appears as a vast projection and orders his followers to find “them” and hasten the Demon Gods’ awakening, declaring that a new world is coming.

Character developments

• Acnologia/Little Snake is shown as overwhelmingly powerful, controlled, proud, and disdainful of those he considers lesser. Despite his strength, he cannot perceive the hidden river, leaving him puzzled and restless.
• Nesser remains observant and thoughtful: he proposes that Acnologia cannot see the river because he is an outsider, then shares what he sees through the Magic Network.
• Diabolo appears to recognize the significance of the river and responds with a cryptic command tied to the Demon Gods’ awakening.

Significant themes

• Destructive power and awe: Acnologia’s transformation and attack make him a near-mythic symbol of annihilation.
• Pride and hierarchy: Acnologia’s treatment of others as “ants” reflects the rigid power imbalance within the Legion.
• The unknown and hidden realities: The river is visible to some but not to Acnologia, suggesting limits to even immense power.
• A coming upheaval: Diabolo’s words foreshadow a major transformation or conflict.

Character interactions

• The Legion’s members worship and cheer for Acnologia, even as they fear him.
• Acnologia asks the gathered followers about the unseen phenomenon; one Heavenly Demon cautiously responds and is blasted away by his sneeze, though he survives.
• Nesser helps bridge the gap between Acnologia’s perception and the others’ by transmitting the river’s appearance through the Magic Network.
• Diabolo’s intervention shifts attention from the discovery itself to its apparent role in awakening the Demon Gods and bringing a “new world.”

Key plot points and events

• The battle for Alfano ends when Acnologia destroys Nesser’s invading force in a single blow. His reputation spreads, and neighboring regions abandon thoughts of invasion.
• The story shifts to the Central World, the Wizard World’s heart and the source of much of its magical knowledge. Its rulers, the Regional Lords, govern through the Holy Temple, which is divided among three factions.
• The White Dragon Eagle King leads the strongest faction; Aldos represents an alliance of mid-ranking lords; Anna leads the mysterious Ancient Remnants, who seek particular things in newly discovered Barriers.
• The Holy Temple’s leaders confront one another after an expedition to Alfano disappears. The White Dragon Eagle King and Aldos have both lost forces, including a Tiger-Stripe Squad.
• Anna admits the Remnants wanted Alfano’s Holy City, but says their people were killed by an unknown enemy. The White Dragon Eagle King uses the crisis to demand that she reveal what the Remnants have been searching for. Aldos joins the demand, placing the Remnants under pressure from the Temple’s two largest blocs.

Character developments and interactions

• Acnologia remains offstage but emerges as a decisive force whose victory alters the balance of power around Alfano.
• The White Dragon Eagle King shows his anger over his losses, but his accusations also serve a political purpose: forcing Anna to explain the Remnants’ secret agenda.
• Aldos first performs distress over his alliance’s losses, then drops the act and backs the King’s demand, revealing a more calculating side.
• Anna remains composed and openly dismissive of the dead expedition members, but confirms the Remnants’ interest in Alfano’s Holy City. She does not reveal their broader objective.
• The Holy Temple’s uneasy factions shift toward a confrontation: the King and Aldos unite against Anna and the Ancient Remnants.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: Acnologia’s overwhelming victory changes the calculations of neighboring regions.
• Factional rivalry and political maneuvering: Leaders use a military disaster to advance their own interests.
• Secrets and suspicion: The Remnants’ unexplained search fuels distrust, while the missing forces leave the true cause of their fate uncertain.
• The costs of ambition: The Temple’s attempt to plunder Alfano ends in heavy losses and a deeper political crisis.

Plot points

• Anna reveals that the legendary Sunwell—a vast river of magical energy once used by the ancient Wizard World—really exists and may be found in Alfano. She shows the White Dragon Eagle King a map of suspected locations and asks him to share what he knows about the strange events there.
• The Eagle King distributes intelligence reports describing powerful invaders who have forced Alfano’s people and an allied army to unite. The reports feature Nesser, the Heavenly Demon King, and Loxia, the Blood Demon; their appearance frightens the assembled region lords.
• To make the danger undeniable, the Eagle King shows the group the allied army’s last recording. It ends with the colossal Apocalyptic Demon Dragon Acnologia descending amid black flames, leaving everyone in shock.
• The Eagle King proposes reinforcing the Barrier gates bordering Alfano and placing all Temple Forces under his personal command. Terrified, the region lords agree. Anna and Aldos accept reluctantly.
• After the meeting, Anna asks whether the invaders are truly “Magic”—a legendary, catastrophic force feared by orthodox Wizards. The Eagle King refuses to be intimidated and reveals that he is also interested in obtaining the Sunwell, or at least one of its tributaries.

Character developments and interactions

• Anna reveals enough about the Remnant Clan’s long-running Sunwell search to secure intelligence, though she remains cautious and suspects the invaders may be Magic. She warns the Eagle King against provoking them.
• The White Dragon Eagle King uses the crisis to gain command of the border defenses. His outward concern for safety masks personal ambition: he hopes to exploit the Sunwell’s power and believes his strength can overcome even Magic.
• Aldos and the region lords shift from skepticism to fear after seeing the recording, making them willing to accept the Eagle King’s leadership.
• Anna and the Eagle King clash in outlook: she speaks from knowledge of Magic’s devastation, while he dismisses warnings from someone who has never faced it.

Significant themes

• Fear versus arrogance: The recording shows the scale of the threat, but the Eagle King’s confidence blinds him to the danger.
• Power and ambition: The Sunwell promises extraordinary strength, motivating both the Remnant Clan and the Eagle King.
• Secrets and uneasy alliances: Anna trades partial disclosure for information, while the region lords unite only because fear leaves them little choice.

Plot points and events

• The Burning Legion’s invasion is reshaping Alfano. A vast blood-red haze, a black sun, and demonic energy transform the landscape, while living creatures and even minerals mutate under the Magic Network.
• Blood-colored Flesh Altars—built from bodies, bones, souls, and emotions—act as ground-based energy stations. They draw power from the world, convert otherwise-wasted energy, and feed the Magic Network and the sleeping Demon Gods.
• The altars can replenish Burning Legion fighters during battle, giving them renewed destructive power when their reserves run low. This makes the Legion exceptionally difficult to exhaust.
• In the newly established Sunwell Area Two, Nier finds that its altar is drawing energy from an underground river. It instantly restores her energy and begins healing her injuries.
• Nier realizes the Sunwell has extraordinary properties and urges the search for its other tributaries, while the Legion waits for the three Demon Gods to awaken.
• At Demon God Mountain in the Northern Frontier, the transforming Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo open their eyes. Their evolution remains incomplete: they sense that something is missing, identify the Sunwell, and call the needed next step a “forbidden advancement.”

Character developments and interactions

• Nier demonstrates confidence and command, testing the altar herself and recognizing how it could dramatically improve the Legion’s endurance and combat strength. Her curiosity about the Sunwell hints at its greater importance.
• Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo appear to have reached a critical stage of transformation, but are not yet able to complete it. Their brief exchange shows them independently recognizing the Sunwell as essential.
• Burning Legion fighters and altar-controlled corpse puppets work alongside one another. The altars’ intelligence and ability to support troops make them more than mere structures.

Significant themes

• Corruption and remaking: The Magic Network alters the natural world to suit demonic life.
• War through infrastructure: The Legion’s altars turn conquered territory into a self-sustaining system of energy, healing, and military support.
• Power and transformation: The Sunwell may be the missing catalyst for the Demon Gods’ forbidden advancement.
• Endurance as an advantage: The altars’ ability to restore fighters shifts battles by making the Legion difficult to wear down.

Key plot points and events

• Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo have been sealed on Three Demon God Mountain since the battle three years earlier, when their fusion destroyed the Highland. The attack exhausted Baal’s energy.
• As Baal recovered, his energy repeatedly transformed into a Flame of the Void. The flame devoured all other energy and resisted his control, forcing him to remain sealed while he sought the strength to master it.
• The Void’s influence also trapped Mephisto, while Diabolo’s unstable Time and Space power was nearing a dangerous breakthrough. The three risked losing their accumulated strength if they stayed sealed much longer.
• Purgatory’s Sunwell energy supplied the Void with material it eagerly consumed, but also produced a life-rich substance Baal calls Sun Essence. This substance began strengthening his body beyond the limits of a Fourth-Level Demon.
• Baal believes physical strength may offer a path past Purgatory’s restrictions—and eventually allow him to control the Void. He resolves to find the Sunwell’s source and obtain more Sun Essence.
• The three decide to advance Diabolo immediately. Baal sends him a torrent of rules, and Mephisto helps separate him from their fused state. Diabolo breaks through the seal, just as the Flame of the Void arrives and realizes its “meal” has escaped.

Character developments and interactions

• Baal shifts from simply trying to contain the Void to pursuing bodily evolution, inspired by the Sun Essence and his belief that raw physical power can surpass reliance on energy.
• Mephisto remains weakened and uncomfortable under the Void’s grip, which has taken away the Flame of Ruin. He argues for locating the Sunwell’s main artery or source.
• Diabolo is on the verge of losing control of his expanding Time and Space power. He asks the others to give him their strength so he can advance and form his own domain.
• Though they occupy three bodies, Baal, Mephisto, and Diabolo are still one person at their core. They coordinate their powers and make a joint plan: free Diabolo first, then seek the Sunwell’s source.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Baal’s catastrophic strength left him depleted and trapped, while the Void’s immense power is as dangerous to its wielder as to others.
• Evolution through different paths: Baal turns toward physical strength as an alternative to conventional energy and rule-based advancement.
• Unity and divided selves: The three bodies have distinct needs and problems, but remain bound by a shared identity and cooperate to survive.
• Escalation and risk: Each breakthrough offers a way forward but threatens instability, loss of control, or the destruction of hard-won strength.