Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Nikolayevich summons a more powerful Fire Elemental and merges with it, turning it into a towering flaming giant. It lands the first heavy blows against Sonic’s Nature Titan.
• Sonic controls the Titan from within. The two giants trade brutal attacks, but the Titan’s fire vulnerability is offset by its ability to draw power from Sonic’s pocket world.
• Hiddink, in his Six-Headed Serpent form, and the young Red Dragon Alshfaro join the fight. Their coordinated assault puts the Titan on the defensive. Alshfaro’s concentrated dragon breath pierces its arm, and he tears it off at the elbow.
• The Titan suddenly shudders as four colored beams rise around Faerun City and reveal a vast magical array covering the sky. The array gathers psychic energy and pours it into the Titan.
• The Titan’s chest opens, exposing its Heart of Nature. Ghosts and vengeful spirits are drawn into it, while blood flows from across the city to feed it.
• Now protected by a powerful barrier and strengthened by the ritual, the Titan overwhelms the attackers. Alshfaro’s charge fails; the Titan grabs him, smashes him into the ground, and prepares to break his neck.

Character developments and interactions

• Nikolayevich shows both magical power and close-combat skill, coordinating with Hiddink and Alshfaro. He senses that Sonic is waiting for something, but cannot stop the Titan’s transformation.
• Sonic remains composed throughout the apparent setback, suggesting that he has planned for the fight to turn in his favor.
• Hiddink is wary and perceptive, recognizing the danger posed by Sonic’s unexplained confidence. He ultimately does not intervene when Alshfaro is captured.
• Alshfaro fights boldly and effectively, but his aggression gives way to regret when his allies fail to rescue him. He realizes he misjudged his partnership with the humans.

Significant themes

• Preparation and hidden plans: The battle’s apparent turning point is overturned by the magical array and ritual supporting the Titan.
• Power and its cost: The Titan’s renewed strength comes from consuming psychic energy, spirits, and the city’s blood.
• Trust and betrayal: Alshfaro’s faith in his allies collapses when they stand by as he faces death.
• Courage versus judgment: Alshfaro’s bravery makes him formidable, but his lack of caution leaves him exposed.

Plot points and events

• Sonic, merged with the Nature Titan, snaps Young Red Dragon Alshfaro’s neck and prepares to negotiate with Hiddink and Nikolayevich.
• Hiddink and Nikolayevich admit they had underestimated Sonic. They agree to divide the God of Nature’s remaining Divinity, Divine Core, and Divine Power: 40% for Sonic and 30% each for them, sealed by a binding Magic Contract.
• Alshfaro realizes that Hiddink and Nikolayevich had been pretending to oppose Sonic and that he was the only one deceived. Still alive but mortally wounded, he can do nothing.
• A sudden attacker cuts through the Nature Titan’s arm with a flaming sword, injuring Sonic’s soul and weakening him.
• The attacker reveals herself as a Four-Winged Fallen Archangel, accompanied by two apparent Two-Winged Fallen Angels. Their arrival unsettles Hiddink and Nikolayevich and disrupts the fragile agreement.

Character developments and interactions

• Sonic shows both dominance and pragmatism: he kills Alshfaro, but offers his rivals substantial shares because he needs their help reaching the Nature God’s Divine Kingdom.
• Hiddink and Nikolayevich shift from opposition to cooperation once Sonic proves his strength. They cautiously accept his terms, recognizing the potential value of the God’s legacy.
• Alshfaro dies betrayed and resentful, realizing too late that the others had manipulated him.
• The Fallen Archangel enters as a powerful new adversary, meeting the Nature Titan’s attack head-on. Hiddink and Nikolayevich brace for a difficult fight, unaware that her two companions are far weaker than they appear.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and manipulation: Alshfaro is the sole victim of a conflict that was partly staged.
• Power and opportunism: Hiddink and Nikolayevich accept Sonic’s deal once his success makes the risks worthwhile.
• Fragile alliances: The three men’s agreement rests on shared interests and is immediately threatened by the Angels’ arrival.
• Appearance versus reality: The Angels’ reputation and apparent strength influence the heroes’ expectations, though two of them are impostors.

Key plot points and events

• Green spent 14,000 Psychic Energy to perfectly restore Holly, bringing her to the limit of a Four-Winged Archangel’s strength: combat power 4,999, just short of the six-winged transformation.
• Green planned to stay hidden and wait for his enemies to weaken one another. Instead, he saw Sonic kill the Young Red Dragon while Hiddink and Nikolayevich looked on without intervening.
• Green realized that Sonic, Hiddink, and Nikolayevich had likely allied to seize the God of Nature’s legacy, accepting Faerun City’s destruction and the deaths of its million-plus residents as the cost.
• Seeing a chance to gain a powerful ally, Green sent Holly to sever the Nature Titan’s arm and free the dying dragon. He then approached the dragon invisibly and offered him a new life.
• The dragon, Alshfaro, suspected Green was a necromancer and resisted at first. Green promised not an undead existence, but renewed life and the possibility of becoming an Ancient Dragon. Alshfaro chose to survive, forming a mysterious contract witnessed by the Primordial Dragon God.

Character developments and interactions

• Green accepts the heavy cost of strengthening Holly, reasoning that survival against Legendary opponents requires formidable allies. He also shows ambition and ingenuity by risking a difficult attempt to transform Alshfaro into a living Shadow Red Dragon rather than settling for a weaker undead creature.
• Holly becomes Green’s powerful combat partner and acts decisively, cutting off the Nature Titan’s arm to save Alshfaro.
• Alshfaro is proud of his lineage and wary of Green, but his will to live ultimately outweighs his suspicion and pride.
• Hiddink and Nikolayevich reveal themselves as opportunists willing to cooperate with Sonic for the divine inheritance, despite their earlier alliance with the Young Red Dragon.

Significant themes

• Power has a cost: Green spends scarce Psychic Energy to improve his chances of survival.
• Ambition and betrayal: The alliance around Sonic exposes how the promise of divine power can override principles and concern for others.
• Life, death, and transformation: Green’s offer to Alshfaro blurs the boundary between necromancy and genuine renewal, while presenting survival as a choice.
• Pragmatic morality: Green condemns the others’ sacrifices but also treats the crisis as an opportunity to secure a valuable ally.

Plot points and events

• Green begins using Death Corruption to transform the willing Young Red Dragon, Alshfaro, into a Shadow Red Dragon. Alshfaro’s cooperation lets Green’s Death Psychic Energy spread faster, though the process severely strains Green.
• While Green works, Hiddink, Sonic, and Nikolayevich face the three Fallen Angels. Sonic’s Nature Titan has lost an arm, and the Flame Greatsword’s lingering fire prevents the wound from healing.
• Holly is buying time: she and her sisters cannot defeat the Legendary opponents alone, but she hopes Green will finish the transformation and give their side another powerful fighter.
• As the transformation restores Alshfaro’s damaged neck, the enemy realizes he is alive. Sonic tries to crush him, but Holly intercepts the attack.
• Hiddink’s concealed, temporary serpent head then ambushes Holly. Before it can strike, the newly transformed dark-red dragon catches and crushes it, burning its remains with dragon breath.

Character developments and interactions

• Alshfaro moves from doubt to trust, willingly guiding the transformation with his Dragon Soul. He becomes active again just as Holly is in danger.
• Green relies on Alshfaro’s consent rather than forcing the transformation, showing both the limits of his power and the importance of their cooperation.
• Holly risks herself to protect Alshfaro and hold off Sonic, despite knowing her allies are largely bluffing and she faces overwhelming odds.
• Sonic responds immediately when he sees Alshfaro revive, while Hiddink coordinates the hidden serpent ambush. Nikolayevich recognizes how dangerous the Four-Winged Fallen Angel is, even though he is not directly involved in the exchange.

Significant themes

• Trust and cooperation: Alshfaro’s willingness makes a difficult transformation possible.
• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable fighters can be threatened by specific injuries, ambushes, or superior opponents.
• Courage and sacrifice: Holly risks herself to protect an ally while waiting for help.
• Transformation and renewal: Alshfaro returns from apparent death as a new kind of dragon, changing the balance of the battle.

Key plot points and events

• Green spends 4,000 psychic energy to hasten Alshfaro’s transformation. The young Red Dragon becomes a Young Shadow Red Dragon, advancing to young adulthood and reaching mid-level legendary combat strength.
• Alshfaro interrupts Hiddink’s attempted sneak attack, then follows Green’s orders and joins Holly and the other angels rather than rushing to take revenge.
• Green hides nearby in spirit form. The three opponents realize someone must have revived and empowered Alshfaro, but cannot identify the concealed benefactor, leaving them cautious and unsettled.
• Holly demands an explanation for Sonic bringing them through the Space-Time Gate. Nikolayevich offers the angels 30% of the God of Nature’s Legacy; Holly counters with 50%.
• When Sonic and Hiddink object, Holly warns that the angels could have killed them and invokes “His Holiness.” The name frightens the three conspirators, who suspect a powerful figure is backing the angels.

Character developments

• Alshfaro matures physically and temperamentally. His new strength, recovered inherited memories, and increased loyalty to Green make him more disciplined and willing to follow orders.
• Green remains concealed and directs the negotiations through Holly, keeping his own identity and power hidden.
• Holly acts as the angels’ firm, confident negotiator, using their military advantage—and the suggestion of a greater authority—to pressure the opposing trio.
• Nikolayevich shows pragmatism by abandoning secrecy and offering a share of the Legacy. Sonic and Hiddink, though initially defiant, grow increasingly wary.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and gratitude: Green’s rescue of Alshfaro creates a bond strong enough to temper the dragon’s pride.
• Power and leverage: Alshfaro’s transformation shifts the balance of force and gives the angels a stronger negotiating position.
• Fear of the unknown: Green’s concealment and Holly’s reference to “His Holiness” unsettle opponents who cannot judge the real extent of the angels’ backing.
• Negotiation backed by threat: The dispute over the Legacy is framed as a bargain, but both sides understand that force may decide the outcome.

Character interactions

• Alshfaro obeys Green’s unseen direction and takes position beside Holly, helping establish the angels’ strength.
• Holly confronts Sonic over the consequences of opening the gate, while Alshfaro’s roar reinforces the accusation.
• Nikolayevich offers 30% to Holly; she demands half, prompting angry objections from Sonic and Hiddink.
• Holly’s taunts and invocation of “His Holiness” make the three conspirators question whether resisting the angels could be fatal.

Key plot points and events

• A week after Faerun City vanished into another dimension, the Lorenzo Kingdom publicly described it as a devastating earthquake that killed more than a million people. The government sent two divisions to the site under the guise of rescue work, while actually sealing it off and concealing the truth.
• The disaster left only fourteen survivors, including Legendary Transcendents Hiddink and Nikolayevich. The official story claimed they drove off Nature Church High Priest Sonic, but in reality all three negotiated with Green and agreed to divide the spoils.
• To ensure secrecy, they signed a binding Magic Contract with Holly, representing “Your Holiness.” Green secured half the spoils, then sent Holly and Rota into the Nature God’s decaying Divine Kingdom while he and his allies waited outside.
• The group divided the treasures. Green received twenty-six Divine Power Crystals, a Divinity Fragment, part of the God of Nature’s shattered Divine Core, and assorted valuables.
• Green considered taking the God of Nature’s corpse to turn it into an Undead, but rejected the idea because it would be blasphemous, beyond his current ability, and might awaken the God’s Divine True Spirit.
• In the Graveyard, Green discovered that the shattered Divine Core unlocked a new building: the Divine Shrine Altar, which could repair the core through worship and prayer. A complete Divine Core could let a Calamity Rank Transcendent become a Demigod, prompting Green to consider building the altar.

Character developments and interactions

• Green proves shrewd and ambitious, winning a major share of the spoils while carefully avoiding unnecessary risks. He is tempted by the God’s corpse but ultimately chooses caution. The possibility of repairing the Divine Core greatly excites him.
• Holly acts as Green’s representative, signing the secrecy contract and entering the Divine Kingdom with Rota.
• Hiddink, Nikolayevich, and Sonic are revealed as pragmatic “schemers” who quietly compromise and share the gains, despite the heroic public account of their battle.
• The survivors’ cooperation is enforced by the contract, which forbids them from exposing what really happened.

Significant themes

• Public narrative versus hidden truth: The kingdom’s official account masks both the scale of the catastrophe’s cause and the survivors’ actual actions.
• Power, ambition, and restraint: Green seeks extraordinary gains but recognizes the dangers of pursuing the God’s body.
• The cost of catastrophe: Faerun’s destruction and the deaths of its people are used to conceal political weakness and the truth behind the disaster.
• The promise of divine power: The Divine Core offers a path toward Demigodhood, setting up a major opportunity—and potential temptation—for Green.

Plot points and events

• Green decides to postpone repairing the Divine Core and building a Divine Shrine Altar. He has exhausted his Psychic Energy, and he is unwilling to spend the rare Divine Power Crystals until he understands their other possible uses.
• After seven days of questioning, Green and eleven other survivors are released from the Anomalies Bureau’s Oversight Department. They are among the few who survived Faerun City’s destruction, which killed more than a million people.
• Green claims he survived by using Spirit World Infiltration. His explanation is accepted, though the ability draws interest from the Bureau’s new leadership.
• Hiddink has resigned as director and gone to the capital to answer for the disaster. Green suspects the politically shrewd Hiddink will escape serious punishment and benefit from what he gained in the Nature God’s Divine Kingdom.
• Nikolayevich, dean of Saint Tower Academy, becomes the new director of the Northwest Province Anomalies Bureau. Saint Tower Academy itself has been moved by magic from ruined Faerun City to the outskirts of Fleidenburg.
• Green and Lola are assigned to provincial headquarters, along with the other survivors, and each is promoted one rank. Green becomes a Major; Lola becomes a Captain. They complete their onboarding and are led toward Green’s new office.

Character developments and interactions

• Lola is the only person Green knows among the survivors. Her Spirit Tamer abilities helped her endure the catastrophe, and the experience has changed her from a noblewoman treating the Bureau as a résumé boost into a committed soldier.
• The other survivors show varied forms of resilience: a liquid-bodied woman survived underground, while a young man’s extraordinary regeneration restored him from near death in days.
• Nikolayevich accepts leadership of a devastated Bureau, despite the burden, and intends to stabilize it and rebuild its ranks.
• Green and Lola travel together and are welcomed by Wador, a former Fleidenburg branch clerk now handling the survivors’ assignments. They receive new credentials and keys; Green gets a private office, while Lola must share one.

Significant themes

• Survival and transformation: The survivors’ extraordinary means of endurance—and Lola’s changed outlook—show how the disaster reshaped people.
• Institutional rebuilding: The Bureau and Saint Tower Academy must establish themselves anew after Faerun City’s destruction.
• Political self-preservation: Green’s assessment of Hiddink suggests that responsibility and accountability may be displaced by influence and personal gain.
• Prudence and uncertainty: Green avoids spending rare resources before understanding their full value.

Plot points and events

• Major Green Wilson and Captain Lola Claudi report to the Northwest Province Anomalies Bureau and are assigned to its Equipment Department by Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia.
• Their placement reflects the Bureau’s political reshaping after Faerun City’s destruction: the twelve survivors are put in safer departments, while Director Nikolayevich fills the powerful Operations Department with Saint Tower Academy loyalists.
• Cynthia reports Green and Lola’s arrival to Nikolayevich. She suggests using their abilities if possible, or keeping them in low-profile posts while observing them. Nikolayevich offers no clear response.
• Second Lieutenant Woody Silk takes the pair to the Bureau’s enchanted-equipment factory, where Green sees advanced facilities, experimental machinery, and psychic-powered humanoid robots.
• Green hopes his new position will help him improve the enchanted rifles used by his Gun Skeleton Soldiers. He is also mindful of the heavy cannons and rifles he salvaged from the Faerun City battlefield.

Character developments and interactions

• Green and Lola quickly recognize the political significance of their safe assignments and respond with disciplined formality.
• Woody Silk becomes friendly with them, particularly admiring Lola’s rank, beauty, and background.
• Nikolayevich has grown substantially stronger: claiming part of the God of Nature’s remaining divinity helped him reach high-level legendary rank. He has also consolidated political power as rival factions recover from losses.
• Cynthia acts as Nikolayevich’s trusted subordinate, but remains uncertain about his intentions. He keeps his thoughts guarded.

Significant themes

• Political consolidation and factional power: The Bureau is being rebuilt under Nikolayevich’s influence, with Saint Tower Academy gaining dominance.
• Survival and suspicion: The Faerun City survivors are protected but also quietly monitored because their survival may indicate unusual abilities.
• Technology and opportunity: The factory’s advanced, enchanted equipment offers Green a chance to strengthen his forces.

Plot points and events

• Green and Lola are introduced to Mr. Breson, who oversees the workshops and Laboratory. He dismisses them as amateurs and shows little respect for Green’s rank. Woody Silk explains that Breson treats everyone—even Director Cynthia—this way.
• Green accepts his lack of authority at Fleidenburg headquarters without resentment. He believes Director Nikolayevich has sidelined him to make room for a trusted disciple, and prefers the freedom to investigate the Graveyard.
• After storing his share of the God of Nature’s Divinity, Divine Core, and Divine Power in the Graveyard, Green begins hearing faint murmurs during meditation. He discovers that the twenty-six Divine Power Crystals have formed a ring around the Graveyard’s great clock, which represents the Gelfis Meditation Method.
• The crystals seem to amplify the voices, which sound like prayers from the God of Nature’s followers. Green cannot explain why he can hear them without absorbing or refining the divine spoils, and remains cautious about the fallen Deity’s power.
• Sonic, the mastermind behind the Faerun City disaster, hides in a border town under the identity of a retired knight named Nige. He had expected the Faith Ring and Dicamoros’s bloodline to let him receive the God of Nature’s followers’ prayers—and viewed that faith as a major prize. But after settling into his disguise, he discovers that he cannot sense the prayers at all.

Character development and interactions

• Green remains composed and pragmatic: he does not take Breson’s insult personally or pursue authority, choosing instead to focus on the Graveyard. His caution grows as he encounters a possible connection to the God of Nature.
• Lola accompanies Green to the Bureau and is likewise dismissed by Breson; she appears untroubled by his brusque manner.
• Woody Silk tries to smooth over Breson’s behavior and reassures the newcomers afterward.
• Sonic is shown as calculating and secretive. His willingness to surrender half the spoils was motivated by a private plan to exploit the followers’ faith; its failure leaves him frustrated.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Green’s title does not give him real influence, while Breson behaves as though rank means nothing.
• Faith as a resource: Prayers from the God of Nature’s followers may have value beyond the fallen Deity, and both Green and Sonic become entangled with them.
• The unknown nature of divinity: Green’s unexplained connection to the prayers suggests that divine forces may operate beyond ordinary understanding.
• Deception and hidden motives: Sonic’s harmless-looking disguise and concealed reason for accepting the spoils reveal how appearances can hide dangerous intentions.

Key plot points

• Sonic is furious that, unlike the last time he held the Faith Ring, he can no longer hear the God of Nature’s Prayer Echoes. Repeated attempts to restore them—including soaking the ring in Divine Son’s Blood—fail. He consoles himself with the other treasures he has gained: divinity, a Divine Core, Divine Power Crystals, and a Spatial World that could become his Divine Kingdom.
• Unbeknownst to Sonic, Green is hearing the Prayer Echoes while practicing his Meditation Method. His mental power draws the Divine Power Crystals around the Town Hall’s clock, temporarily activating the God of Nature’s divinity and Broken Divine Core. Green is therefore simulating a greatly weakened version of the god.
• Unable to silence the prayers, Green learns to focus on a single voice, pushing the rest into the background. He chooses a young girl named Freya, who prays for help finding her sister and killing those who wronged her.
• By concentrating on Freya’s prayer, Green forms a Mental Link and receives a trace of Faith Power. Some becomes Psychic Energy for the Graveyard, while some flows into the clock and accelerates his meditation. The process is valuable but mentally exhausting.
• Green searches for stronger prayers and learns that powerful Transcendent believers could yield more Faith Power, but few remain nearby. Sonic’s destruction of the Nature Church drove its surviving members abroad. Green considers cultivating Transcendent believers and founding a new church under a different name.

Character developments and interactions

• Sonic struggles to accept losing access to the believers’ prayers, but redirects his frustration by focusing on his substantial gains.
• Green moves from irritation at the overwhelming noise to curiosity and experimentation. He discovers that focused attention can both manage the voices and draw Faith Power from a believer.
• Green and Freya are linked through her prayer, though she does not know who—or what—he is. Her desperate plea also deepens her faith and provides Green with power.
• Green recognizes the consequences of Sonic’s ambitions: the destruction of the Nature Church has scattered its Transcendent believers and left the faith without a foothold in the Lorenzo Kingdom.

Significant themes

• Faith as power and resource: Prayer can produce Psychic Energy and accelerate magical progress, explaining why gods compete for believers.
• Power’s limits and costs: Green gains benefits from faith, but maintaining the Mental Link quickly exhausts him; even a handful of prayers challenge his capacity.
• Unintended consequences: Sonic’s pursuit of power has damaged the institution whose believers might otherwise have sustained the God of Nature’s legacy.
• Ethical unease: Green feels he is eavesdropping on private prayers and considers the burden of receiving others’ pleas, even as he weighs exploiting faith by founding a church.

Plot points and events

• Fleidenburg’s economic decline has left its Factory and Lower Districts poor and increasingly controlled by gangs. Even Ruhr Street, near a police station, offers little real protection.
• After their father—a skilled technician—died in a disaster during a trip to Faerun City, fifteen-year-old Selina and eleven-year-old Freya were left vulnerable. Their mother had died earlier, and their family’s faith in the God of Nature is now kept private.
• Selina went out in the morning to handle some business but failed to return. Freya, sensing that something was wrong, searched for her and tried to report her missing; the police dismissed her.
• Feeling she was in danger, Freya hurried home and hid on the apartment building’s stairs to see whether she was being followed. She spotted Jack, a local gang member, and a stranger she instinctively judged far more dangerous.
• Following Selina’s earlier instructions, Freya avoided their home and hid in a concealed rooftop shelter stocked with food and water. Alone and frightened, she prayed silently to the God of Nature.
• Freya’s strong spiritual sensitivity transformed her prayer into Prayer Echoes that reached Green, who was meditating and chose to hear it.

Character developments

• Freya shifts from a frightened child to a resourceful, alert survivor. Her intuition, intelligence, and spiritual abilities help her recognize danger and follow Selina’s precautions.
• Selina is absent for most of the chapter, but her care and foresight are evident in the hiding place and the instructions she left.
• Green is introduced as the person who receives Freya’s prayer, setting up a possible connection between them.

Character interactions

• Freya’s memories of Selina’s warning guide her actions and show the sisters’ closeness and mutual care.
• Freya’s attempt to seek help from the police ends in rejection, underscoring how little support the sisters can expect from local authorities.
• The two men—Jack and his more threatening companion—watch Freya’s building, creating an immediate danger she must evade.
• Freya’s prayer reaches Green, linking the sisters’ crisis to the wider spiritual conflict surrounding the fallen God of Nature and the increasingly extreme Nature Church.

Significant themes

• Vulnerability and survival: Poverty, bereavement, and weak institutions leave the sisters exposed to exploitation and violence.
• Family loyalty: Selina’s preparations continue to protect Freya even while Selina is missing.
• Faith and uncertainty: The sisters remain devoted to the God of Nature despite their father’s death and the Church’s corruption; Freya turns to prayer when human help fails.
• Intuition and hidden power: Freya’s foreboding and spiritual sensitivity may be crucial to her survival.

Key plot points and events

• During Freya’s prayer, Green secretly reads her memories and answers while posing as the Lord of Nature. He senses her strong mental talent and wind-and-fire affinities, but can only guide her toward becoming a Necromancer, which costs him Psychic Energy.
• Green’s message urges Freya to reject helplessness and claim power over her fate. She awakens as a Necromancer Apprentice, and her first spell—a Bone Shield—bursts through the shack where she is praying.
• Wanting not only to protect her sister but also to punish those who threaten them, Freya’s Bone Shield transforms into a new spell: the Bone Claw, a massive skeletal hand with both defensive and lethal potential.
• Green discovers that Freya has become a rare Bone Mage and that her newly developed spell has been added to his own abilities. He tests it, producing a much larger claw that smashes a deep handprint into the Town Center’s marble floor.
• Freya interprets her awakening as divine favor and declares herself a Chosen One and the True God’s Divine Agent.

Character developments and interactions

• Freya shifts from a frightened, grieving child to a determined protector, driven by her father’s death and uncertainty about her sister. Her protective instincts coexist with an emerging aggression: she wants power to strike back, not just defend.
• Green acts as a hidden, self-interested patron. He is impressed by Freya’s talent and excited by the possibility that her future training may improve his own copied spell, though Freya remains unaware of his motives.
• Their interaction is indirect: Green guides Freya through a staged divine message, while her intuition makes her uneasy about being watched.

Significant themes

• Agency and resilience: Freya is urged to stop enduring suffering and take control of her fate.
• Protection and vengeance: Her wish to keep her sister safe develops into a desire to punish evildoers.
• Power and faith: Freya’s awakening is genuine, but her belief that it comes from a true god rests on Green’s deception.
• Talent and innovation: Freya’s personal desires reshape a conventional spell into a distinctive new form.

Key plot points and events

• After becoming a Necromancer apprentice, Freya spends half a day absorbing the shock, then practices controlling the Bone Claw spell. She can sustain it for about half an hour, though doing so exhausts her.
• Determined to find her sister, Selina, Freya waits on a rooftop for her Magic Power to recover rather than acting impulsively. She eats the food Selina left behind and meditates.
• Green observes Freya through their Faith Power connection, impressed by her patience despite her urgency. He reflects on the gulf between his own abilities and those of a true deity.
• Jack and Sam break into Freya and Selina’s apartment, find it empty, and discuss their orders. They reveal that Selina has already been captured by Ludi, and that their boss, Sislame, wants both sisters brought back before dawn.
• Freya secretly listens from the staircase. When Jack insults her dead father, she feels murderous anger but holds back, intent on learning why Sislame wants the sisters. Jack and Sam leave separately.

Character developments

• Freya gains confidence and a sense of power: the men who once frightened her now seem weak. She also shows restraint and tactical patience, choosing to observe and gather information before acting.
• Green takes a measured, partly experimental interest in Freya, watching her progress while deliberately avoiding reading all her thoughts.
• Jack is revealed as an opportunistic but cowardly thief, eager to advance under Sislame yet afraid of Sam and the consequences of failure.
• Sam appears more threatening and ruthless than Jack, pressing the urgency of their mission.

Significant themes

• Power and transformation: Freya’s new abilities alter how she sees herself and the people who once controlled her.
• Patience and self-control: Though anxious to save Selina, Freya waits, trains, and gathers intelligence instead of rushing into danger.
• Observation and manipulation: Green watches Freya as a test subject, while Freya turns her newly sharpened senses toward uncovering her enemies’ plans.
• Vulnerability and revenge: The mention of Freya’s father exposes a deep personal wound and foreshadows possible retaliation.

Character interactions

• Freya’s bond with Selina remains central: she resolves to find her and relies on the provisions Selina left.
• Green silently monitors Freya’s choices, judging her potential without intervening.
• Jack and Sam clash over the failed search, with Sam blaming Jack and Jack nervously promising to find Freya.
• Freya overhears their exchange but keeps her presence hidden, choosing information over immediate confrontation.

Key plot points and events

• Freya follows Sam through the dark, dangerous Lower District and into the safer, patrolled Upper District, suspecting he may lead her to her missing sister, Selina.
• Sam enters an apartment but leaves quickly with a small case. Freya hears no one inside and concludes Selina is not there.
• Sam then visits the Police Station and is welcomed by officers on duty. Freya realizes the Police are cooperating with the gang, explaining why they ignored her earlier and why she was followed afterward.
• As Sam heads back toward the Lower District, a gigantic Bone Claw bursts from the ground and impales him.
• Freya uses Psychic Energy to silence Sam and has the Bone Claw bring him to her. She demands to know where Selina is, but Sam panics and refuses to answer.

Character developments

• Freya shows patience and skill in tracking Sam, and discovers that her new Transcendent abilities can be used instinctively to control Psychic Energy. She is becoming more confident, though she is still learning how her powers work.
• Sam, a former soldier and experienced gang member, reacts quickly to danger but is overwhelmed by the Bone Claw and Freya’s powers.
• Green’s influence has an unintended effect: Divine Power left in Freya’s Psychic Energy damages Sam’s fragile soul and drives him into hysteria.

Character interactions

• Freya follows Sam covertly, first hoping he will lead her to Selina and then witnessing his connection to the Police.
• When she confronts him, she offers to spare him if he reveals Selina’s location. Sam’s terror and distrust prevent him from cooperating.

Significant themes

• Institutional corruption: The Police, meant to protect the public, are allied with the gang.
• Power and vulnerability: Sam’s training cannot protect him from the supernatural, while Freya’s newly acquired abilities give her control but remain difficult to manage.
• The unintended cost of power: Freya’s use of Psychic Energy harms Sam’s mind, complicating her attempt to get information.

Plot points and events

• Freya kills Sam with her Bone Claw after he has become unable to communicate. She is briefly troubled that she may have broken him, but shows little distress over his death.
• Green watches Freya from the Anomalies Bureau dormitory and recognizes her growing decisiveness and capacity for violence.
• Freya goes to the police station to ask about her missing sister, believing the officers are involved in her disappearance.
• Officer Aliov dismisses her and tries to send her away. Freya accuses him of lying and kills him with a bone finger from her Bone Claw.
• Chief Joey Jackson hears the disturbance and finds Aliov dead. He tries to retrieve his gun, but Freya strikes him with the Bone Claw and uses Psychic Energy to gag him.
• Joey realizes Freya is a Transcendent and understands that his connection to crime boss Sislame has put him in danger.

Character developments

• Freya shifts from a frightened-seeming girl seeking help into a confident and ruthless attacker. She is learning to control her powers, including using Psychic Energy deliberately.
• Green views Freya as unusually talented, ambitious, and dangerous.
• Aliov is shown as lazy and self-serving rather than openly cruel; his habit of avoiding trouble does not save him.
• Joey Jackson is revealed as corruptly connected to Sislame, though he is now terrified and helpless before Freya.

Significant themes

• Power and transformation: Freya’s supernatural abilities radically alter how she can act and how others perceive her.
• Corruption and complicity: The police station is tied to Sislame’s criminal operation, undermining its role as an authority meant to protect people.
• Violence and moral detachment: Freya kills with startling ease, treating her victims as insignificant even as her powers and confidence grow.
• Fear and reversal: Men who once held institutional or physical power become defenseless against Freya.

Character interactions

• Freya’s brief recognition of Aliov gives way to accusation and violence when he refuses to help her.
• She attacks Joey before he can reach his gun, then restrains and silences him, controlling the encounter completely.
• Green observes Freya from afar, while Joey’s realization that she is a Transcendent comes only after she has already overpowered him.

Plot points and events

• Freya questions Chief Joey about her missing sister, Selina. Joey confirms he knows where she is and identifies Sislame as the person who took her.
• Joey explains that Selina was tricked with forged debt papers and persuaded to work as a maid at Viscount Luciwang’s villa. In reality, the elderly viscount uses the villa to train female slaves. Selina left a note for Freya, but Sislame discarded it.
• Freya thanks Joey and promises to grant him supernatural power. While Joey believes the transformation is beginning, Green secretly uses Death Corruption to try to turn him into a Shadow Warrior. Joey’s body and soul prove too weak, and he dies before the process is complete.
• Green accepts the failure but learns that, with Freya’s consent, he can cast spells through her body at relatively little cost, using her as a relay.

Character developments and interactions

• Freya shows how deeply she cares for Selina: the news brings out excitement and hope beneath her composure. She treats Joey courteously and makes a sincere promise, unaware of the full danger facing her sister.
• Joey shifts from terror to hope, tempted by the possibility of becoming a Transcendent. His cooperation helps Freya learn Selina’s whereabouts, but he is ultimately manipulated and killed.
• Green reveals his strategic, calculating nature. He uses Freya’s promise to lower Joey’s guard, tests his ability to corrupt Joey, and turns the failed attempt into useful knowledge about casting through Freya.
• Freya and Joey’s exchange is shaped by their unequal positions: she holds his life in her hands, while he trades information for survival and the hope of power. Green covertly controls the outcome.

Significant themes

• Deception and exploitation: forged debt and false employment lure Selina into danger.
• Hope as a vulnerability: Joey’s dream of supernatural power makes him easier to manipulate.
• Power and moral ambiguity: Green justifies Joey’s death by judging him a bad person, while using Freya’s trust and body as instruments.
• Family devotion: Freya’s determination to find Selina drives the scene, despite her incomplete understanding of the threat.

Key plot points and events

• Freya watches Joey Jackson die after Green’s spell fails to save him. Rather than question her beliefs, she concludes Joey was unworthy of the True God’s mercy.
• At Viscount Luciwang’s secret mansion, Selina is imprisoned in a basement used to train and abuse female slaves. Her hands and feet are bound, and her confinement is designed to strip away her dignity.
• Selina fears for her sister Freya and realizes that the people who captured her may be targeting them both.
• Miss Sigma, the mansion’s cruel overseer, threatens Selina but is ordered not to injure her skin.
• Rondo arrives and reveals that the Viscount intends to train Selina and her sister together. This confirms Selina’s worst fear that Freya has also been captured or is in danger.

Character developments

• Freya has become a fanatical believer: she interprets even failure as proof of divine judgment rather than evidence against her faith.
• Selina remains outwardly silent and controlled despite her terror. Rondo’s revelation turns her despair into intense hatred and anger at her own helplessness.
• Miss Sigma is sadistic and jealous, but her behavior is constrained by the Viscount’s orders.
• Rondo treats Selina as an object and relishes provoking her; he is deferential to the Viscount’s authority.

Significant themes

• Fanaticism and self-justification: Freya’s faith lets her explain away a failed miracle without questioning it.
• Dehumanization and abuse of power: Luciwang’s operation treats women as possessions and makes cruelty part of an organized system.
• Helplessness turning into resistance: Selina’s fear and regret begin to harden into hatred, suggesting a darker transformation.
• Appearance and status: The nobles’ acceptance of Luciwang’s slaves shows how exploitation has become a fashionable mark of social standing.

Character interactions

• Freya watches Joey die and interprets his death as deserved.
• Miss Sigma intimidates Selina, while Selina stays quiet to avoid provoking further abuse.
• Rondo overrides Sigma’s treatment of Selina and reveals the Viscount’s plans, crushing Selina’s remaining hope for her sister.
• After Rondo leaves, Sigma resumes her cruelty, spitting into Selina’s cage.

Plot and events

• Freya helps Selina escape the Basement. Selina has killed Miss Sigma and left a trail of slaughter among the castle’s servants and guards, including an Apprentice Knight.
• Selina has developed a new, ruthless personality after extreme trauma. This self is determined to protect her and Freya at any cost, though Selina retains her reasoning and composure.
• Freya discovers that killing enemies gives her Soul Essence. Green draws it through their Soul Link, converts it into Psychic Energy, and spends some to raise Freya to Bone Mage level 2.
• Freya improves her Bone Claw spell and gains sharper senses and stronger mental abilities. Convinced these changes are gifts from her new god, she becomes a Fanatic Believer.
• Selina prays sincerely, overcome by guilt over her former half-hearted worship. Green grants her the Crow Mage class; she receives two skills, Crow Transformation and Summon Crows.
• The sisters realize their massacre will bring the police and Viscount Luciwang after them. Freya suggests killing “bad people” to grow stronger, while Selina urges caution because other, more experienced Transcendents may be stronger.

Character developments and interactions

• Selina shifts from a traumatized victim into a calm, fiercely protective figure. Her new personality removes her fear and moral restraint, but she remains strategic and thoughtful.
• Freya grows more powerful and more fanatically devoted to Green, interpreting her advancement as divine favor. She is eager to protect Selina and to keep gaining strength.
• Green uses the Soul Link to harvest Freya’s Soul Essence and empower both sisters, while observing their choices.
• The sisters’ bond remains central: Freya rescues Selina, and Selina promises to protect Freya. Their differing temperaments—Freya’s zeal and Selina’s caution—shape their plans.

Significant themes

• Trauma and transformation: Selina’s suffering creates a dark, protective personality.
• Faith and divine reward: Both sisters turn toward Green after their former beliefs failed them, and their sincere devotion brings supernatural power.
• Violence as advancement: Killing grants Soul Essence and strength, making survival and moral boundaries increasingly entangled.
• Protection and responsibility: Each sister wants to save the other, but their new powers and the consequences of the massacre threaten to pull them into greater danger.
  The chapter ends as Selina begins to explain what she thinks they should do next, leaving Green stunned by her proposal.

Plot points and events

• Selina rejects the idea of lying low and proposes killing Viscount Luciwang, whom she blames for their troubles. Freya eagerly agrees, and the sisters head for his mansion in Friedenburg’s heavily guarded Freudenburg District.
• Selina scouts from above in crow form, using her enhanced vision and controlling summoned crows. Freya advances on foot, killing a six-man patrol that tries to stop her. She believes anyone protecting the Viscount is evil and deserves to die.
• Green watches without intervening. He sees the sisters’ rampage as a useful way to divert Director Nikolayevich’s attention from the survivors of Faerun City, whom Green suspects are under surveillance.
• The chapter situates the attack amid a political struggle: Nikolayevich wants to reclaim the power he lost, while the battered Dietrich Family and other factions complicate his plans.
• Freya reaches the mansion during a private banquet. She kills two servants who try to capture her, hides their bodies, and walks through the grounds unchallenged. Selina keeps watch outside, ready to support Freya or help her escape.
• Inside the banquet hall, guests mistake Freya for one of the Viscount’s abused “pets” and make leering, approving remarks about her. The chapter ends before Freya confronts Luciwang.

Character developments and interactions

• Selina is now cold and decisive, embracing violence rather than caution. She takes the role of aerial scout and backup.
• Freya is increasingly ruthless and morally simplistic: she treats anyone who obstructs her revenge as evil. She nevertheless shows practical judgment by concealing the servants’ bodies.
• Green remains detached, treating the sisters as test subjects and their attack as a possible strategic distraction. His surveillance concerns and suspicions about Nikolayevich reveal his broader agenda.
• The banquet guests expose the Viscount’s predatory reputation through their assumptions and casual objectification of Freya. The sisters’ coordinated plan contrasts with the guests’ complacency.

Significant themes

• Corruption of innocence: The sisters’ youth and appearance contrast sharply with their growing capacity for violence and the adults’ exploitation of children.
• Moral distortion and revenge: Freya’s simplistic division between good and evil fuels indiscriminate killing.
• Power and political maneuvering: Personal violence unfolds against a wider contest among Nikolayevich, the Dietrich Family, and other institutions.
• Observation and manipulation: Green’s watchful distance and Selina’s aerial reconnaissance frame the action as both an assassination attempt and a calculated distraction.

Key plot points and events

• Freya enters Viscount Luciwang’s mansion in a bloodied, ragged dress. The household’s guests treat her appearance as a curiosity, while those who know the viscount pity her for going to meet him.
• She locates his study, guarded by two former Knights Order soldiers. Though they hesitate over her identity and manners, Freya orders them to bring Luciwang out.
• Freya kills both guards with her upgraded Bone Claw Spell, summoning individual Finger Bones from the floor. She then uses a bone to break the study door’s lock.
• Before she can enter, a gunshot rings out, drawing the mansion’s armed guards and its resident Magic Apprentice toward the study.
• Inside, Luciwang is still alive and physically robust despite his age. A young girl lies dead on his desk, beneath a large Magic Array.

Character developments

• Freya is increasingly confident and ruthless. She sees the guards as targets rather than threats, and her new spell technique lets her attack precisely and efficiently.
• Green, observing from the Graveyard, is impressed by Freya and Selina’s abilities. He considers using their notoriety to recruit workers and establish a secret religious organization, but decides to wait.
• The bodyguards reveal a conflicted, compromised morality: one briefly feels pity for Freya, but both remain in the viscount’s service. Their caution about noble power cannot protect them from her attack.
• Luciwang is established as a powerful, predatory figure who uses medicines and “Evil Rituals” to preserve his strength.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Freya looks harmless and ragged, but is a lethal combatant; the guards’ assumptions prove fatal.
• Complicity and compromised conscience: The bodyguards recognize the viscount’s depravity yet continue serving him.
• Power and abuse: Luciwang’s status and physical vitality contrast with the vulnerable girl found in his study.
• Violence as opportunity: Green views the killings not only as a rescue or confrontation, but as a chance to build influence.

Character interactions

• Mansion guests gossip about Freya’s dress and watch her go upstairs, but no one intervenes.
• The guards try to assess Freya cautiously, caught between obeying Luciwang’s authority and avoiding offense to a possibly important visitor.
• Freya gives them no explanation and kills them when the moment favors her.
• Green comments on Freya’s efficiency and weighs how her and Selina’s actions might serve his larger plans.
• Luciwang calls out from inside the study after hearing the disturbance; the approaching reinforcements signal that Freya’s confrontation with him is about to begin.