Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Evan devastates Greenfire’s army of experimental monsters with Toxic Blood, which rapidly corrodes them. He then spreads viruses and spores, turning their remains into vivid green mushrooms and other plague growths.
• Greenfire and Byron No. 1 are shocked by the attack’s power and speculate that Evan’s Bloodthirsty Species trait—and a blessing from the Pale Moon—let him store and combine potion side effects, plagues, and viruses.
• Evan hurls the living growths at the two men. Greenfire drains their vitality with his own ability, enjoying their plague-tainted essence.
• Greenfire summons a Greenflame Dancer, whose curse targets Evan’s Demon Hunter Profession Characteristic by seducing it. The Panel reveals that the Characteristic resents Evan’s dismissal of it and claims to have found someone who understands it.
• The dancer’s descended-being status makes her immune to ordinary Beyonder Characteristics; she also destroys the Garden of Life’s children on contact. Her curse suppresses Evan’s Demon Hunter Sight, transformation, and Toxic Blood.
• Evan remains largely unfazed: his other Beyonder Characteristics do not depend on his profession, so the loss of those abilities does not disable him. He jokes that his supposedly “third-rate” Characteristic has proved useful after all.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan shows how potent and unconventional his abilities are, but also his composure and adaptability when his main combat tools are suppressed. His joking response contrasts with the increasingly bizarre danger around him.
• Greenfire shifts from greedily coveting Evan’s transforming Cane to fearing his power, then eagerly tries the plague growths’ vitality before using the dancer against him.
• Byron No. 1 stays more analytical and cautious, warning Greenfire about the growths and theorizing about Evan’s powers.
• Evan and his Demon Hunter Characteristic are revealed to have a strained, almost comic relationship: the Characteristic is offended by Evan and appears to have an independent will.

Significant themes

• Power and adaptation: Evan’s strength comes from combining abilities in unexpected ways, and his broader collection of traits lets him adapt when one is disabled.
• The costs and limits of power: Evan’s terrifying attacks draw on dangerous forces, while Greenfire’s curse demonstrates that even formidable abilities have counters.
• Bizarre personhood and agency: The Demon Hunter Characteristic behaves like a resentful, autonomous personality, blurring the line between power and identity.
• Monstrosity and decay: The battle’s vivid plague growths and Greenfire’s delight in consuming their vitality make corruption and grotesque vitality central to the scene.

Plot points and events

• Evan’s Profession is locked, causing his Spirituality to manifest as a silver-haired, golden-eyed double. The grim spirit immediately falls for the Green Dancer, prompting Evan to mock it.
• Greenfire restrains Evan with flaming ropes, but Evan’s strange, virus-based power contaminates Greenfire through their conversation. Greenfire’s mutated Demon abilities let him blink and open portals, and the green fire he wields burns away the infection.
• Evan attacks with a Bone Fist Gauntlet and shatters Greenfire’s head. Byron No. 1 intervenes with a wall of grasping hands, briefly disorienting Evan and giving Greenfire time to regenerate.
• Evan recognizes that Greenfire’s green flame may be an advanced version of the Flame of Excellence, and that it counters the Garden of Life’s Viruses. His current Master-level status lets him spread only ordinary Viruses; stronger ones may require reaching Lord level.
• Rather than continue a dangerous fight, Evan argues that other factions—or rivals within their own organizations—could seize the Ruins while Byron and Greenfire are occupied. He urges them to reconsider capturing him and proposes, implicitly, that cooperation may be safer.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan demonstrates that losing access to his Profession does not make him powerless: he can still use his Beyonder abilities, adapt quickly, and fight Greenfire to a standstill. He also shifts from combat to negotiation when he judges the risks too high.
• Greenfire proves resilient, rapidly rebuilding his head and burning the infection from his mind. His open enjoyment of life, decay, and corruption suggests a temperament somewhat like Evan’s.
• Byron No. 1 remains dangerous despite having only a fraction of his Combat Strength, relying on his Master-level Status to protect Greenfire. Both men are unsettled as Evan’s unexpected power disrupts their plan.
• Evan taunts the pair, challenges their assumptions, and points out their shared vulnerability to outside interference.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and underestimated power: Evan’s status change does not strip him of his most important abilities.
• Limits of control: The opponents’ carefully prepared plan falters when Evan changes beyond their expectations.
• Rivalry and uncertainty: External factions and internal organizational divisions make prolonged conflict dangerous.
• Pragmatism over pride: Evan favors a temporary alliance—or at least a pause in hostilities—over a costly fight with uncertain consequences.

Summary

• The author announces that ten free chapters will be released starting at midnight on the 15th: eight at midnight and two around 6 p.m. the next day.
• The author asks readers to support the book with monthly tickets, explaining that free chapters count as missed updates in the recommendation system.
• Recent editing has focused mainly on descriptions and minor errors; the earlier plot remains unchanged, so readers do not need to reread it. The editing workload slowed updates and the story’s pace, but is now finished, allowing the author to focus on writing again.
• The author thanks subscribers and regular readers, whose support helped them continue after the book fell in the rankings and readership declined. They also acknowledge readers who sent tips.

Character Development

• The author describes feeling exhausted and confused by extensive editing, and nearly losing confidence when readership dropped. Reader support restored their motivation, and they now feel ready to resume consistent, higher-quality updates.

Themes and Interactions

• Gratitude and reciprocity: The author offers free chapters as thanks and promises to repay readers’ support through reliable updates.
• Creator–reader relationship: The chapter is a direct appeal for votes and an expression of appreciation for subscribers, regular readers, and donors.
• No story-plot developments or fictional character interactions occur; this is an author’s note rather than a narrative chapter.

Plot points and events

• Byron No. 2 explains that Greenfire’s Azure Flame of Excellence combines life and decay, allowing him to drain life force, inflict decay, and teleport between planes. He also praises Evan’s ability to hide a calculating mind behind an innocent appearance.
• Before the group can settle whether Byron No. 1 will cooperate with Evan’s proposal, an explosion announces the arrival of fifteen outsiders in the Ruins.
• The newcomers include Rudolf, captain of the Worcester Special Operations Team; Duma, a researcher; and Yit, a young man accompanying him. Evan recognizes Duma’s group as targets on Great-Grandmother’s kill list.
• Duma reveals that he tricked Rudolf into opening the entrance through his Spirituality resonance and intends to take the Sun Bloodline in Rudolf’s body. He says the outsiders have served their purpose and are now expendable.
• Yit attacks Rudolf. Rudolf’s powerful punch sends him flying, but Yit emerges unharmed and transforms, manifesting a partial pair of Black Sun’s Wings and several grotesque mouths.
• Byron No. 2 identifies Yit as the God-Devouring Child, a forbidden creation of the Keen Insight Institute. Yit has activated Black Sun’s Wings to the second stage and Black Sun’s Shadow to the first.
• Yit charges back into battle, while Rudolf, energized by the challenge, bursts with golden energy and eagerly welcomes the fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan treats Byron No. 2’s praise as confirmation of his own strategic cleverness, then abruptly recommends that No. 2 study emotional intelligence. Their exchange reinforces Evan’s confident, unconventional manner and No. 2’s admiration of him.
• Byron No. 2 reveals both his knowledge of the outside world and his willingness to betray Byron No. 1. He asks Evan to preserve No. 1’s body so he can study it; Evan agrees.
• Greenfire is furious at Duma’s unexpected arrival and resents his smug, manipulative behavior. Duma, in turn, taunts Greenfire about his secretive preparations.
• Evan sees Duma and Yit’s arrival as a chance to fulfill Great-Grandmother’s orders and advance his own plans.
• Rudolf and Yit quickly become enthusiastic combatants, each appearing to relish the other’s strength.

Significant themes

• Deception and strategic appearances: Evan’s foolish-looking face disguises a calculating mind, while Duma’s pleasant manner conceals ruthless intentions.
• Forbidden research and exploitation: The God-Devouring Child embodies the Institute’s willingness to manipulate divine powers and create dangerous weapons; Duma likewise treats his companions as disposable.
• Power, ambition, and opportunity: Evan views the unexpected confrontation as a chance to pursue his targets, while the fight showcases the destructive potential of competing supernatural abilities.
• Identity and loyalty: Byron No. 2’s rejection of Byron No. 1 raises questions about ownership, selfhood, and whether shared existence creates any bond of loyalty.

Key plot points and events

• Rudolf’s attack on Yit loses its force on impact, and Yit’s chest-mouth bites off and devours Rudolf’s fist—apparently able to consume power as well as flesh.
• Greenfire suddenly burns Yit with sticky green flames. Duma shields Yit with a demon spirit, which absorbs the fire but is badly scorched.
• While Duma and Greenfire argue, Rudolf attacks. His blast leaves a crater and kills six of Duma’s ten companions; Duma escapes with Yit and three others.
• Greenfire privately proposes an alliance with Evan against the newcomers. Evan agrees, partly because Yit could be a valuable source of nourishment. Their candid exchange insults Byron, who angrily takes offense.
• Two more factions arrive: the Healing Church’s feared Holy Sword Execution Squad and the Eye of Horus, whose group includes Evan’s acquaintance Gust.
• The Eye of Horus leader claims they did not come to fight over the ruins. Duma accuses them of stealing, including the Church’s Holy Blood, prompting the Church’s warriors to attack.
• The Holy Sword Execution Squad kills the Eye of Horus leader—a Master-level Prophet—with a coordinated assault, demonstrating its overwhelming combat power.
• The squad’s captain announces that they seek the Radiance Prism, not the Black Sun relics. As his team moves on, he recognizes Evan’s unusual Copperization and Master-level advancement with intense interest.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan remains alert and pragmatic, agreeing to cooperate with Greenfire when their interests align. His abilities attract the Church captain’s attention.
• Greenfire reveals that he hates Duma more than Evan and is willing to form a temporary alliance. He openly mocks Byron.
• Byron reacts angrily to Greenfire’s insult, worsening tensions within the group.
• Duma protects Yit from Greenfire’s flames but suffers heavy losses in Rudolf’s attack.
• Rudolf proves devastatingly powerful, though Yit’s ability to absorb his attack surprises him.
• Gust recognizes Evan and discreetly signals relief, suggesting a quiet connection or trust between them.
• The Holy Sword captain is cold and authoritative; his sudden fascination with Evan shifts attention toward Evan as a possible target.

Significant themes

• Unstable alliances: Rivals cooperate when a greater threat appears, but suspicion and personal grudges persist.
• Power and vulnerability: Even powerful figures can be countered by unusual abilities, as Yit’s consumption and the Church squad’s tactics show.
• Violence as a display of authority: The Church squad’s swift execution establishes it as a formidable force.
• Competing motives: The factions converge on the ruins for different prizes, setting up further conflict.

Key plot points and events

• The Holy Sword Execution Squad captain singles out Evan, intending to capture him because the Copper Plague within him has fully matured—more successfully than the Squad’s experiments.
• Greenfire intervenes, declaring Evan one of her group and refusing to hand him over. The confrontation erupts into a chaotic battle involving the Squad, Greenfire, Madu, Rudolf, and the surviving members of the Eye of Horus.
• The captain pursues Evan. Evan fights back with his transforming Cane, which becomes a Chain Sword and then a Fist Gauntlet, and uses his remaining Black Sun’s Wings to strike the captain.
• The captain recognizes the aura of the Bone Saint Child in Evan’s Magic Artifact and realizes Evan was the one who survived the earlier battle surrounding Sapp’s failed ascension. His revelation draws the attention of everyone nearby, making Evan an even more tempting target.
• While the captain boasts that the Squad fears no rivals, Evan lands another blow and infects him with Viruses and Plague. The captain’s supposedly purified, contamination-proof brass body begins to melt and then explodes.
• Flaming growths—tumors, mushrooms, and skull-faced flowers—spread over the captain’s remains, demonstrating that Evan’s Plague and Viruses can burn, contrary to the usual belief that heat destroys them.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan shifts from cheerful to cold and angry when the captain’s bullying evokes memories of being singled out and humiliated as a teenager. Though unnerved by the captain’s knowledge and the crowd’s attention, Evan responds with defiance and reveals a devastating new capability.
• Greenfire openly protects Evan and fights to keep him from the Squad. Seeing his burning Plague, she realizes he had concealed a dangerous trump card and feels relieved she never faced him in a fight to the death.
• The captain treats Evan as an experimental prize and remains confident that his brass body is immune to disease. Evan’s attack shatters that confidence, producing his first visible surprise before his destruction.
• Madu and the other onlookers recognize Evan’s connection to the Bone Saint Child’s artifact and the past disaster involving Sapp. Their curiosity and greed increase, while the battle forces former observers into active conflict.

Significant themes

• Trauma and defiance: A present-day threat revives Evan’s old humiliation, but this time he refuses to submit.
• The danger of being exceptional: Evan’s unusual powers make him valuable to enemies and attract unwanted attention from allies and rivals alike.
• False certainty and adaptation: The Squad trusts that sacred brass and heat can resist contamination, but Evan’s evolving Plague overturns both assumptions.
• Power, secrecy, and greed: Revealing Evan’s history and artifact makes him a target, while his concealed ability turns the tide against an apparently invulnerable foe.

Plot points and events

• Evan destroys the captain who challenged him with one punch, unleashing long-suppressed anger. He tries to escape with the conspicuous Sacred Bone Scepter, but Duma’s enormous three-headed Demon Spirit knocks him down and grabs him.
• Duma attempts to control Evan through the Demon Spirit. Evan resists with his Garden of Life powers, using red Plagues to corrode the green flames and force the creature to release him.
• Evan flies toward Byron No. 1, hoping to make him an ally and use his body to restore Byron No. 2. Greenfire intercepts him and attacks with Flame Spirits and a powerful bone artifact, but Evan’s Blood Chains sever its Spirituality and absorb it.
• Greenfire’s flame cage is then broken by a strange doglike head emerging from Evan’s chest. Its howl terrifies the Flame Spirits, allowing Evan to pass.
• Byron No. 1 splits into fleeing chunks of flesh. Evan transforms the Sacred Bone Scepter into an enormous, self-aiming rifle and fires Plague-carrying bullets, destroying several pieces and forcing Byron’s true body to the ground.
• As Greenfire tries to intervene, Duma blocks him, while Yit rushes toward Byron and Rudolf. The wounded captain recovers enough to order his squad to attack everyone indiscriminately, plunging the battlefield into chaos.
• Cornered, Byron No. 1 activates a Golden Badge, threatening to take everyone down with him.

Character developments

• Evan reveals both greater emotional intensity and a dramatic expansion of his combat abilities. He is no longer limited to close-range attacks: the Scepter can become a self-aiming rifle that delivers his Plagues at a distance. He also shows distrust of Greenfire and a practical willingness to seize useful artifacts.
• Greenfire proves that his offer of cooperation hides self-interest. His confidence is shaken when Evan steals his bone artifact and his Flame Spirits recoil from Evan’s strange doglike power.
• Duma is determined to capture Byron No. 1, putting him at odds with Greenfire and others. He also tries to bring Evan under control.
• Byron No. 1, a weak fighter despite his ability to split apart, becomes desperate as Evan destroys his escape fragments.

Themes and interactions

• Power and adaptability: Evan’s changing weapons and new ranged attacks transform him from a vulnerable target into a threat to multiple opponents.
• Trust and opportunism: Evan’s suspicion of Greenfire is justified; amid shifting alliances, each character pursues personal goals.
• Revenge and buried anger: Evan’s outburst after killing the captain suggests the fight has triggered memories of past pain and helplessness.
• Escalating chaos: Evan, Greenfire, Duma, Yit, and the recovering captain clash over their competing aims, while Byron’s final threat risks drawing everyone into mutual destruction.

Key events

• Byron, desperate to prevent defeat, activates a device that releases a vast supernatural force. The Ruins plunge into darkness as water and strange creatures seem to invade.
• In the Real World, a magical array causes nearly everyone in the hotel laboratory to collapse. Professor Freem and Morales remain conscious.
• Two vampiric Deep Ones, empowered with the normally human Bloodthirsty Species Profession, explain that they are using the students’ dreams to sustain the array. They promise the students will survive and reveal that Evan is safe in the Dreamlands. Freem agrees to observe rather than fight, judging that combat would endanger the students.
• In the Ruins, Evan defeats Byron Number One and has the Rabid Divine Carbuncle consume his soul. Byron Number Two merges with his own body.
• Byron explains that Number One’s device is a Solar Dynasty communicator, used to summon an ancient expeditionary force. The force’s soldiers—the Sun Sons—were artificially enhanced, capped at Master level, but could wield Lord-level strength with their armor and weapons, and were said to live as long as sunlight remained.
• A golden beam appears, and a three-meter-tall Sun Son in golden armor emerges. Evan recognizes him as the warrior who has hunted him in the Dream. The Sun Son sees Evan’s black wings and regards him as a heretic associated with the Black Sun.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan acts decisively, killing Byron Number One despite the threat that doing so might strand him in the Dreamlands. His knowledge of the Sun Sons surprises Byron, and his black wings immediately make him their enemy.
• Byron Number Two returns to his own body and shares crucial history about the communicator and the Solar Dynasty.
• Freem reveals a frightening combat form but ultimately prioritizes protecting the unconscious students. He challenges the Deep Ones’ plan, then accepts their offer to monitor the array.
• Morales is frightened and looks for Evan, whom he had relied on, but Evan is absent.
• The Deep Ones display both unusual power and political ambition: their new Profession challenges the assumed boundary between human and monster capabilities. They use Arkham’s safety and the students’ welfare to persuade Freem not to intervene.

Significant themes

• Ancient threats returning: A relic from the Solar Dynasty summons warriors across the ages, showing that the past remains dangerous.
• Power and its limits: The Sun Sons trade the ability to advance for immense strength and longevity; the Deep Ones’ new Profession similarly disrupts established rules.
• Protection versus intervention: Freem must choose between confronting the Deep Ones and protecting the students from the consequences of a fight.
• Identity and heresy: Evan’s black wings mark him as an enemy to the Sun Son, regardless of his intentions.
• Loyalty and survival: Evan’s group faces betrayal and danger while trying to stay alive in a world where allies, monsters, and ancient powers overlap.

Key plot points and events

• Dan Tie awakens among the ruins of Sun Empire structures, covered by coral and signs of spiritual corruption. Pain and bloodlust threaten to overwhelm him, but he steadies himself by repeating his devotion to the sun and his belief that his Holy Blood remains pure.
• He recognizes the area as fallen Sun Empire territory and spots the Black Sun’s enormous Giant Egg. Seeing people whose auras he considers defiled, he identifies them as enemies and attacks.
• Dan Tie kills Evan in a lightning-fast strike, then decapitates and hacks apart Yit, despite Duma’s attempt to protect him with a Demon Spirit.
• Greenfire and the Holy Sword Execution Squad captain move to claim Evan’s staff and spirit. Evan rapidly reconstructs himself, transforms the staff into a gauntlet, and convinces them to flee together: the Giant Egg’s ruins are Black Sun territory, where Dan Tie may be unable to follow.
• The group races toward the Egg. Evan uses Blood Chains to pull Gust from hiding and carries him tucked into his waistband.
• Dan Tie repeatedly blasts Evan apart with his armor’s cannon, but Evan continually regenerates—even while still running or speaking. His companions are astonished by how effortlessly he survives.

Character developments

• Dan Tie is revealed as a fanatical Sun Son whose devotion is also a way of restraining violent instincts. The ruined empire and the Black Sun provoke his fury, turning him into an immediate threat.
• Evan displays extraordinary regeneration and quick judgment. Though repeatedly dismembered, he stays focused on escape and uses humor to keep talking.
• Duma acts protectively toward Yit, but his intervention cannot stop Dan Tie.
• Greenfire and the captain put aside their hostility toward Evan when survival becomes the priority.
• Gust is frightened but is pulled into the escape by Evan.

Significant themes

• Faith and corruption: Dan Tie’s belief in the purity of his bloodline clashes with the devastation and corruption around him.
• Old loyalties turned violent: The Sun Empire’s ruins transform Dan Tie’s pride into rage against those he sees as blasphemers.
• Survival over rivalry: Former adversaries cooperate when faced with a far stronger enemy.
• Resilience and dark humor: Evan’s near-limitless regeneration makes him difficult to kill, while his jokes under fire offer comic relief amid the carnage.

Character interactions

• Dan Tie attacks Evan and Yit on sight, judging them by their association with the Black Sun and their perceived corruption.
• Duma tries to shield Yit, but Dan Tie kills him; Evan’s apparent death briefly draws Greenfire and the captain toward his remains.
• Evan halts their opportunistic fighting, persuades them to flee, and brings Gust along. As Dan Tie continues attacking, the captain and Greenfire react with growing disbelief at Evan’s repeated recoveries.

Key plot points and events

• Evan’s repeated resurrection frustrates Dan Tie, who redirects his attention to the revived Yit and the Master Duma, leaving Evan’s group to reach the Giant Egg.
• At the egg’s entrance, Greenfire admits he knows little about what lies inside beyond the fact that a Black Sun Characteristic is needed to pass its safeguards. The Holy Sword Execution Squad captain offers a cryptic prophecy about light and darkness, then enters; Greenfire follows, and Evan goes in after him.
• Inside is a vast, ruined hall containing the remains of dead guards and a central platform bearing a Taiji Sphere, its black and white halves linked by threads that appear to maintain a balance.
• Invisible traps tear apart members of the squad and Greenfire. A constant pull drags everyone forward, while a strange voice attacks their minds. Evan survives thanks to his resilient brain and the Black Sun’s Wings.
• By activating the Blood Moon Spirit’s Status, Evan sees the traps: black, rift-like openings that devour whatever they reach. He also understands the voice, which welcomes the newcomers as food.
• Evan flies through the dangerous hall and rescues Greenfire just before he is swallowed. He turns the unconscious Greenfire into a Blood Slave by injecting him with blood and Blasphemous Plague.
• Evan moves to save the squad captain, but the captain rises despite having his brain devoured. Using Blood Chains to pull his squad away, he offers Evan information about the origins and dangers of the Copper Plague in exchange for help.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan shows quick judgment and unusual resilience. He recognizes that the traps are stationary, finds a way to perceive them, and risks crossing the hall to save Greenfire. His rescue also becomes an act of control: he makes Greenfire his Blood Slave.
• Greenfire is exposed as ready to ambush Evan, but the traps leave him helpless. Evan saves him and takes command of him through the Blood Slave transformation.
• The squad captain shifts from arrogant confidence to wary pragmatism. Even after his brain is attacked, he can still act through his coffin and Blood Chains, and bargains with Evan rather than simply fleeing.
• Evan and Byron exchange information before entering, but Byron admits he has no useful guidance. Evan’s later actions rely on his own observations.
• Dan Tie, Yit, and Duma remain engaged in battle outside, while the newcomers face the hall’s dangers within.

Significant themes

• Balance between opposites: The Taiji Sphere and the prophecy frame the ruins as a conflict between light and darkness.
• Survival through adaptation: Evan’s bodily oddities, resilience, and ability to change form prove unexpectedly useful.
• Power and control: Evan saves Greenfire but immediately binds him to his will; the captain, meanwhile, uses his own power to protect and withdraw with his squad.
• Knowledge as leverage: The captain’s offer about the Copper Plague opens a possible alliance based on information and mutual need.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• A mysterious armored woman possessing the Captain identifies herself as the Copper Saintess. She reveals that she died 400 years ago and is trying to resurrect herself; she needs the Radiance Prism as the final spark.
• The Saintess explains that the Prism is a powerful crystal of concentrated sunlight, once used by the Sun Empire as a teleportation beacon. Byron confirms her account and describes the Saintess’s former role: she could control Copperization and command the Tribunal and Copper Armor Corps.
• The Saintess proposes an alliance, claiming Evan wants the Black Sun’s Shadow, while she wants the Prism. She also reveals that she has erased the squad members’ independent minds and taken control of them.
• The Black Sun’s Shadow announces itself as the heart and master of the Black Sun, then uses immense gravitational force to pull Evan toward a Taiji-like sphere. Evan’s Black Sun’s Wings resist by gripping a pillar and urge him to destroy the Shadow.
• The Saintess and the squad combine their powers in an incantation. Their attack awakens the sphere’s luminous side, which suppresses the Shadow’s darkness, weakens its pull, and closes spatial rifts.
• The Shadow retaliates by sending a parasitic monster after Evan. It drains his physical strength, blood quality, and mental power. Byron tells Evan to use the Black Sun Forger’s Ribs, which counter the Shadow.
• Evan drives a Rib into himself. Though it does not injure the creature directly, its aura repels the monster, which withdraws. A clash between the sphere’s light and darkness then erupts, and the Saintess tells Evan to take on the Shadow while she goes after the Prism.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan remains bold and irreverent, even threatening to let the Saintess’s host body die when she evades his questions. He cautiously verifies her claims with Byron, then accepts that she may be useful—but her ability to seize control of Copperized people makes her a serious threat.
• The Copper Saintess shifts from evasive and coercive to candid and pragmatic. She admits her resurrection goal and offers cooperation, while demonstrating that her command over Copperization is formidable.
• Byron supplies crucial historical context and tactical advice, particularly the fact that the Black Sun Furnace’s power counters the Shadow.
• The Black Sun’s Wings reveal hostility toward the Shadow, framing it as an enemy within the Black Sun’s own components.
• The chapter ends with a temporary, uneasy partnership: Evan and the Saintess divide their targets amid the battle between light and darkness.

Significant themes

• Power and control: The Saintess’s ability to erase minds and command Copperized people parallels the Shadow’s attempt to dominate space and consume Evan.
• Rivalry within a whole: The Black Sun’s components oppose one another, suggesting that its parts have conflicting identities and agendas.
• Uneasy alliances: Evan cooperates with the Saintess because their immediate goals align, despite her earlier aggression and dangerous abilities.
• Resilience and adaptation: Evan survives through quick improvisation, using the Black Sun Forger’s Ribs in an unconventional way to repel the Shadow.

• Key events: The narrator spends 16,000 yuan on a “zero-gravity” computer pod, expecting a more comfortable workspace. After skipping an update to install it, they discover several defects: the backrest cannot be adjusted as promised, the keyboard tray sags, and the uneven armrests make typing awkward. They request a return and even offer to accept a 3,000-yuan reduction in the refund to cover shipping, but the seller refuses.
• Dispute escalates: The seller dismisses the narrator’s discomfort, blames their reclining posture, and makes a remark that idealizes how foreigners sit. Taobao customer service also rejects the return, calling the complaints subjective and suggesting installation may have caused the problems. When the narrator proposes having a technician reinstall it and then assessing the defects, customer service again implies the narrator may have damaged the product.
• Character development and interactions: The narrator’s initial excitement turns into frustration, disbelief, and self-reproach. They remain willing to compromise but feel trapped by the seller and platform, whose responses shift responsibility back onto them rather than resolving the complaint.
• Themes: The chapter highlights misleading product claims, consumer frustration and weak recourse, and the way complaints can be dismissed by blaming the customer. The narrator plans to make a video documenting the pod and treats the purchase as an expensive lesson, while warning that the day’s update will be late.

Key plot points and events

• Evan witnesses a titanic battle between the Radiance Prism, a sacred pyramidal crystal, and an absolute darkness. Both forces unleash devastating power, but the structure’s pillars withstand the clash.
• The Copper Saintess sings an ancient hymn, drawing the weakened Radiance Prism to her. She seals it inside her coffin and escapes with the remaining execution squad, leaving Evan to face the darkness.
• A shadowy creature—calling itself a Devouring Lord with the Black Sun’s Shadow Bloodline—tries to consume Evan. Evan’s Beyonder powers are locked, so he defends himself with the Black Sun Forger’s Rib and releases the Rabid Divine Carbuncle and Blasphemous Plague from his Garden of Life.
• Greenfire explains that the creature is weakened and can be harmed if its true body is exposed to intense sacred sunlight. Gust, a Prophet, produces a golden sun from his Spirituality, illuminating the darkness despite the severe toll on his body.
• The light reveals a small crystal-like core. Evan recognizes it as the creature’s weak point and forms a miniature domain with his Garden of Life and the two plagues, preparing to attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan remains pragmatic under pressure: he recognizes the Saintess’s manipulation, accepts that all parties had their own schemes, and uses whatever tools he has rather than yielding to the Devouring Lord’s claims.
• The Copper Saintess proves to be calculating and well-informed. She understands Evan’s Blood Moon state, distracts him, secures the Radiance Prism, and abandons him once she has achieved her goal.
• Gust risks his life to create the sacred light needed to expose the enemy’s core, showing courage and resourcefulness; the effort leaves him close to collapse.
• Greenfire and Byron, speaking from Evan’s inner space, help identify the creature’s weakness. Their familiar bickering gives way to urgent cooperation.
• The Devouring Lord presents itself as a great being entitled to consume Evan, but its grandiose commands and hatred of the Sun Bloodline make it seem increasingly unstable.

Significant themes

• Rival schemes and uneasy cooperation: Evan, the Saintess, and the Devouring Lord pursue different goals; survival depends on allies who may not share them.
• Power and vulnerability: Evan’s usual abilities are unavailable, while Gust’s powerful light comes at a steep personal cost.
• Inherited bloodlines and ancient conflict: The Black Sun and Sun Bloodlines are tied to a longstanding struggle, and the creature’s reaction suggests the old conflict is not over.
• Defiance against imposed destiny: Evan refuses the Devouring Lord’s demand that he submit and become an offering, choosing instead to fight.

Plot points and events

• Evan confronts the Devouring Lord, reasoning that despite its frightening powers it is only a Lord, not a Higher One. He advances using the Black Sun Forger’s rib and the Sacred Bone Scepter, whose umbrella form protects him from the creature’s darkness.
• He unleashes the Necronomicon Fragment. Its supernatural force blasts the darkness away, though the recoil destroys part of Evan’s body; his domain gathers the scattered flesh for regeneration.
• The blast reveals the Devouring Lord’s true core: a black, fanged mouth hidden in the darkness. Evan binds it with Blood Chains, while the Lord summons the Devouring Shadow to intervene.
• Evan counters by launching his head—wreathed in the Blood Moon God’s Gift and Burning Authority—at the shadow. Repeated strikes burn and infect it with a virus, slowing it down.
• He then smashes the Devouring Lord’s mouth, breaking its teeth and dispelling its repulsive force. With the core weakened and bound, Evan pulls it close and devours it.

Character developments

• Evan demonstrates confidence, improvisation, and an unusually varied arsenal. Though badly damaged, he relies on regeneration and combines his powers creatively, ultimately turning the Devouring Lord’s own attempt to control the fight against it.
• The Devouring Lord shifts from arrogant certainty to shock and fear. Exhausted after centuries of conflict with the Radiance Prism, it had hoped to use Evan’s Black Sun connection as a way to escape, but realizes Evan is its natural enemy.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and resourcefulness: Evan survives by combining tools and abilities rather than relying on a single strength.
• The danger of underestimating others: The Devouring Lord assumes Evan is a manageable intruder and is overwhelmed by his unexpected powers.
• The passage of time and decline: The Lord’s comments about modern humanity’s “weak” Spirituality reveal how much the world has changed since its campaigns.
• Predator becomes prey: The creature that fed on others is ultimately captured and eaten itself.

Character interactions

• Evan and the Devouring Lord engage in a direct contest of strength and control: the Lord insults and commands him, while Evan answers with attacks rather than submission.
• The Devouring Shadow attempts to protect its master, but Evan disables it with his flaming head, leaving the Lord exposed.
• The Devouring Lord’s internal reflections reveal its fear and confusion as Evan draws near and devours its core.

Key plot points and events

• Evan finishes consuming the Devouring Lord’s core. The Lord’s threats about the Great Devouring Bloodline’s terrible side effects prove useless, and the ancient being dies without disturbing Evan’s body.
• Evan’s Panel offers to reverse the core’s side effects. The process will occupy five slots and take 9,000 hours, but may grant substantial Black Sun’s Shadow progress and help awaken the Nine Dragons Tyrant. Evan accepts.
• With the Devouring Lord dead and the Radiance Prism gone, the hall returns to normal. Evan thanks Gust for providing the sun that helped them succeed; Gust credits their friendship and does not pry into Evan’s strange transformations. Evan puts him in the Rectal Space to rest.
• Evan discovers the core’s effect: a movable, featureless black head with a cross-shaped mouth. It can pull objects toward Evan when open and repel them when closed. Its force reaches about twenty meters, and it can move objects up to roughly Evan’s own strength, with a capacity of around a hundred cubic meters. Anything it swallows can be sent to Evan’s stomach or intestinal space.
• Evan searches the ruined temple with the new mouth but finds no useful relics; the ancient equipment has crumbled.
• Evan then suffers intense dizziness and weakness. Byron explains that Evan’s Spirituality is nearly depleted from prolonged, high-intensity fighting in the Dreamlands, where Spirituality cannot recover. He needs to find his physical body and return to the Real World.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan remains pragmatic and curious: he accepts a year-long reversal process because he expects a powerful reward, then enthusiastically experiments with his new ability. His confidence is tempered by the sudden realization that his Spirituality is critically low.
• The Devouring Lord dies in despair, unable to escape being consumed by someone he considered beneath him.
• Gust is shaken but trusts Evan and respects his privacy. Their exchange reinforces their friendship and mutual gratitude.
• Byron and Greenfire are astonished by Evan’s ability to eat the Devouring Lord. Byron later recognizes Evan’s exhaustion and explains the danger he is in.

Significant themes

• Endurance and reversal of power: The Devouring Lord, once a devourer of others, is itself consumed.
• Power with a cost: Evan gains a versatile new ability and potential long-term advancement, but prolonged exertion in the Dreamlands leaves him vulnerable.
• Trust and restraint: Gust helps Evan and chooses not to investigate his unsettling transformations, valuing their friendship over curiosity.
• Transformation and adaptation: Evan’s increasingly strange body becomes a source of practical power, which he approaches with fascination rather than fear.

Plot points

• Evan presses Byron and Greenfire for an explanation of what happened to his body. Their childish argument reveals they dismembered it and turned the pieces into Spirituality-resonating amulets to reinforce the Deep Sea’s protective Magic Array.
• The array has sealed the area for ten hours, trapping them until it expires.
• With the Devouring Lord dead, the massive shadow over the platform disappears. Evan sees Dan Tie still fighting Duma and Yit, while Rudolf remains strangely unconcerned.
• Duma spots Evan’s weakened state and attacks, hoping to turn him into a specter servant and steal his power. He sends three scythe-wielding spirits to strike from different directions.
• Evan appears cornered, but Byron and Greenfire suddenly reappear and block the other attacks. Evan then uses the Blood Moon Spirit’s form to break Duma’s weapon.
• Duma is drawn into Evan’s newly revealed Garden of Life domain, where its warped rules immobilize him and prevent him from controlling his Spirituality. A monstrous dog swallows him, killing him; the garden absorbs his Spirituality-rich remains.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan remains quick-witted under pressure, using apparent panic to bait Duma into attacking at close range. He now has enough trust with Byron and Greenfire for them to defend him without hesitation.
• Byron and Greenfire’s quarrel exposes their embarrassing past conduct, but their coordinated defense shows their loyalty to Evan despite their bickering.
• Duma’s confidence turns to terror when he realizes Evan possesses a Lord’s domain and can overpower him within it.
• Duma’s hunt for Evan intersects with Evan’s alliance with Byron and Greenfire, while Dan Tie’s pursuit of Duma and Yit continues in the background.

Significant themes

• Trust and teamwork: Byron and Greenfire’s willingness to protect Evan contrasts with their petty rivalry.
• Predator becomes prey: Duma expects to exploit Evan’s weakness, only to be caught by Evan’s trap.
• Power and transformation: Evan’s Garden of Life is a grotesque domain that imposes its own rules, revealing the scale of his growing power.
• Dark comedy: The researchers’ absurd argument and the dog’s matter-of-fact disposal of Duma temper the chapter’s violence with grim humor.

Summary

• The author announces a Bilibili video about a 16,000-yuan computer chair, under the sensational title “Web Novel Author Earning 300,000 Yuan a Month Gets Fleeced for 16,000 by Taobao After-Sales Service!” They say the video can be found by searching its title or the author’s name, Veteran Flop Huang Ye.
• In the footage, the seller’s staff defend the chair and blame customers’ sitting habits, claiming Chinese people do not sit properly compared with foreigners. A customer-service representative also says that sitting for ten minutes qualifies as prolonged sitting and suggests that working while lying down is becoming common.
• The author says Taobao’s official customer service confirms that the seller will not accept a return and that the platform cannot help. The video also shows the chair’s quality, which the author presents as inadequate for its price.
• Apologizing for interrupting readers, the author promises extra updates at the end of the month—though not ten chapters—followed by ten chapters on the first. The closing “Z, I’m on my knees” is a playful, pleading appeal to someone.

Character and interaction notes

The author presents themself as frustrated by the purchase and the failed after-sales process, but keeps a humorous, promotional tone. Their interactions with the seller and platform are adversarial: the seller defends the product and rejects a return, while Taobao customer service says it cannot intervene. The author also addresses readers directly, apologizing and promising more chapters in return for their support.

Themes

The post centers on consumer frustration, poor accountability in online shopping, and the gap between an expensive product’s price and perceived quality. Its promotional framing and jokes temper the complaint, while the update promises acknowledge the author’s relationship with their readership.

Plot points and events

• Evan kills Duma instantly after Duma attacks him, leaving Byron and Greenfire stunned by the extent of his power.
• Yit, enraged by his father’s death, turns on Evan. Dan Tie defeats him, thwarting his attempt to escape the Dreamlands before killing him for good.
• Dan Tie then nearly attacks Evan’s group, but Rudolf restores energy to his armor with solar aura and calms him. Rudolf explains that Dan Tie sees Evan’s strong solar aura and has mistaken him for a Death Sinner.
• Evan reunites with Rudolf, who says he was dragged into the Dreamlands while investigating the Deep Ones. A vast shadow appears beneath the waves, followed by Deep One Priests and more than a hundred Deep Ones, accompanied by forty-nine of Evan’s former classmates.
• Priest Graeme declares Evan a suitable sacrifice and offers him a place in R’lyeh. When Evan refuses, Graeme threatens to kill the students to force him to submit.
• Evan refuses to be coerced and attacks immediately. Byron, Greenfire, and Rudolf join the fight, while Evan recognizes that conflict between humans and Monsters is unavoidable.

Character developments and interactions

• Byron and Greenfire’s awe at Evan’s power deepens their respect for him; they are beginning to accept his ruthless, direct approach.
• Dan Tie’s initial hostility gives way to calm after Rudolf uses solar aura to restore his armor and explain Evan’s role.
• Evan and Rudolf greet each other warmly, recalling their earlier work together in Worcester.
• Evan rejects Graeme’s moral blackmail without hesitation, and Rudolf responds by joining him against the Deep Ones.

Significant themes

• The inevitability of conflict: Cooperation and friendly appearances cannot erase the fundamental divide between humans and Monsters.
• Power and perception: Evan’s abilities—and especially his solar aura—shape how others judge and respond to him.
• Refusal of coercion: Evan will not let threats or appeals to duty dictate his actions, even when lives are used as leverage.

Key plot points and events

• Evan, Byron, and Greenfire join forces against Priest Graeme and his Deep One army, confounding Graeme’s expectation that the humans would weaken one another first.
• Evan and his allies devastate the Deep Ones. Dan Tie arrives and cuts through their ranks with overwhelming lightning-fast sword strikes, revealing strength near that of a Lord.
• Graeme attempts to summon a Higher One-class sea monster by tearing out his own organs. Dan Tie kills him, but the Ritual continues: the sea itself acts as a Magic Workshop, drawing Spirituality from the dead Deep Ones and forty-nine students.
• The group cannot stop the Ritual because the key to the students’ sealing Amulets was left in reality. Evan spots Morales, who secretly opens the Amulets and frees the pieces of Evan’s dismembered body.
• Evan draws everyone’s attention by proclaiming, “Praise the sun!” His body parts descend like meteors and reattach to his soul. His aura surges beyond that of an ordinary Master.

Character developments

• Evan proves both a powerful fighter and an unconventional tactician, though the battle leaves his Spirituality nearly exhausted. His remarkable solar blessing impresses Dan Tie, and his body is finally restored.
• Dan Tie displays immense combat power and recognizes Evan’s potent solar blessing, considering the possibility that Evan belongs to the secretive Death Sinners.
• Graeme loses control of his carefully planned ambush, panics at the unexpected allies, and dies trying to complete the summoning.
• Morales, revealed as the Bone Saint Child, quietly helps Evan by opening the Amulets, hinting at a hidden role in events.
• Byron and Greenfire continue fighting alongside Evan despite their prior conflict, but bicker when their sealing plan proves impossible to undo.

Significant themes

• Unlikely alliances: Former rivals cooperate against a greater threat.
• Faith and power: Evan’s solar blessing and invocation of the sun appear linked to his strength and restoration.
• Plans undone by uncertainty: Graeme’s intelligence fails because he misjudges both his opponents and the forces entering the battle.
• The cost and persistence of magic: Even after its caster dies, a Ritual can continue when its environment sustains it.

Character interactions

• Evan openly praises Dan Tie’s fighting, while Dan responds coolly but takes note of Evan’s blessing.
• Byron warns the group about Graeme’s summoning; he and Greenfire then blame each other for leaving the Ritual’s key behind.
• Evan draws everyone’s attention with his proclamation, giving Morales an opening to release the Amulets.
• Dan Tie silently approves of Evan’s sunward gesture, and Rudolf confirms that the sun seems to answer it.

Plot points and events

• Evan’s severed, grotesquely mutated flesh reassembles and fuses with his Master-level spirituality. His body and soul finally unite, completing his transformation into a true Master.
• The transformation gives him greater physical power and a new ability to sense the boundary between the Dreamlands and the Real World. His body also radiates astonishing life energy—which, unusually, sustains viruses and bacteria rather than healing ordinary life.
• Evan removes the “advanced weight of burden” side effect from his black sun’s wings, solving the severe energy drain that had disrupted his daily life and finances. His bloodline improvement had already eliminated his bloodthirst side effect.
• The magic array collapses, allowing the group to return to the Real World. Before they escape, Priest Graeme announces that the stars are aligning and that the Deep Ones’ “Heavenly Father” is about to awaken.
• During the passage between worlds, Evan and Byron glimpse a rust-red planet, shifting stars, and a vast shadow with an octopus-like head obscuring Earth. The experience leaves both badly shaken.
• Back in the underground laboratory, Greenfire suppresses Byron’s violent, uncontrolled mutations. Evan recovers enough to identify the looming threat: Cthulhu is showing signs of awakening.

Character developments and interactions

• Evan completes his Master transformation and gains confidence from his newfound power and long lifespan, but the vision of Cthulhu leaves him frightened. He calms himself by holding and petting his orange cat.
• Byron is far more severely affected by the vision, suffering physical mutations and near-loss of control. Greenfire’s quick intervention shows concern beneath their usual antagonistic banter.
• Greenfire helps suppress Byron’s bestial impulses and pushes the group to escape, though he does not perceive the cosmic terror Evan and Byron witnessed.
• Priest Graeme remains defiant and taunting even while weakened, framing the coming awakening as the Deep Ones’ triumph.
• Byron gets the students through Greenfire’s portal, while Rudolf, Greenfire, and their groups leave ahead of him and Evan.

Significant themes

• Transformation and wholeness: Evan’s true ascension only occurs once his flesh and spirituality are reunited.
• Life and corruption: Evan’s life-giving aura supports plague organisms, blurring the line between vitality and disease.
• Cosmic horror and human limits: The glimpse of Cthulhu’s immense presence overwhelms even powerful Beyonders.
• Friendship beneath hostility: Greenfire and Byron’s practical concern for each other contrasts with their habitual mockery.