Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Mrs. Hilgaf senses danger and urgently packs to flee with her daughters, Elsa and Shelly. She warns them to use their abilities without mercy if attacked.
• Mrs. Hilgaf reveals herself as a level-three Bone Warrior, heavily armored and armed with a hammer, shield, and spears. Though usually warm and domestic, she is a ruthless, highly capable fighter.
• Agents of the Anomalies Bureau storm the family’s home. Mrs. Hilgaf smashes through their magical defenses and kills several attackers, leading her daughters—both level-one Transcendents—to join the fight.
• Elsa becomes a Bone Blade Dancer; Shelly manifests as an Undead Cook wielding a cleaver. Together they follow their mother as she fights to escape.
• Major Descartes, who had expected weaker opponents, orders snipers to fire when his agents begin suffering heavy losses. Mrs. Hilgaf blocks the first shots with her shield and continues fighting, but the Bureau’s forces surround her.
• Descartes changes the order from capture to kill. A second sniper volley fatally strikes Elsa. As Mrs. Hilgaf turns toward her daughter, another team opens fire, wounding her. She shields Shelly and prepares to keep fighting.

Character developments and interactions

• Mrs. Hilgaf shifts from protective mother to fearsome warrior, revealing both her combat skill and resolve. Even under fire, her priority is protecting her daughters.
• Elsa and Shelly show courage and step into combat rather than remain helpless dependents. Elsa is killed in the attack, while Shelly remains beside her mother.
• Major Descartes proves willing to abandon the capture plan and risk political consequences to limit his team’s losses. His contempt for Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia influences his decision.
• The mother and daughters show strong mutual loyalty: Elsa vows to protect her mother, the sisters fight at her side, and Mrs. Hilgaf tries to shield Shelly after Elsa falls.

Significant themes

• Family loyalty and sacrifice: The Hilgafs fight together, and Mrs. Hilgaf’s choices are driven by protecting her children.
• Survival and the cost of power: Their abilities offer a chance to resist, but the fight quickly becomes deadly, especially against organized forces and snipers.
• Misjudgment and escalation: The Bureau underestimates the family, suffers heavy casualties, and responds by abandoning its original restraint.
• Violence and moral compromise: Both sides escalate the conflict, with Descartes ordering lethal force despite the mission’s initial capture objective.

Plot points and events

• After watching her sister Elsa die, thirteen-year-old Shelly freezes in shock. A Bureau sniper kills her before she can recover.
• Mrs. Hilgaf, devastated by the deaths of both daughters, abandons escape and attacks the Anomalies Bureau agents in a rage. She kills the entire Second Operations Group, including its leader, White.
• Major Descartes orders the remaining groups to retreat, but Mrs. Hilgaf pursues them. Her leap attacks and Bone Shield let her withstand sniper fire; she kills or cripples agents from the Third and Fourth Operations Groups as well.
• Mrs. Hilgaf’s grief and fury unleash her exceptional combat talent. She breaks through to Formal Rank during the fight.
• Green, impressed by her potential, spends Psychic Energy to raise her to the peak of the Formal Rank’s early stage. Though she recognizes her deity’s aid, Mrs. Hilgaf ends the battle grieving and kneeling in prayer.

Character developments and interactions

• Mrs. Hilgaf shifts from a mother fighting to survive into a nearly unstoppable force driven by grief and vengeance. She mourns her daughters tenderly, then turns on the agents responsible for their deaths.
• Shelly is overwhelmed by the sudden, brutal loss of Elsa and dies moments later, unable to respond to the danger around her.
• White dies fulfilling his duty, briefly thinking of the pension his family may receive.
• Major Descartes realizes too late that his force was unprepared for Mrs. Hilgaf; he regrets ordering the daughters killed first and calls for reinforcements.
• Green watches Mrs. Hilgaf’s breakthrough and intervenes to accelerate her advancement.
• The clash between Mrs. Hilgaf and the Bureau is tragic rather than simply moralized: both sides act from their own obligations and needs, but the agents’ violence against her daughters makes her grief erupt into revenge.

Significant themes

• Grief and vengeance: The loss of her children removes Mrs. Hilgaf’s restraint and transforms mourning into violence.
• Duty and its human cost: Bureau agents follow orders, while Mrs. Hilgaf fights for survival; both choices lead to devastating deaths.
• Faith amid suffering: Mrs. Hilgaf interprets her daughters’ deaths through religious belief, yet her prayers do not ease her sorrow.
• Power forged through crisis: Extreme emotion and battle push Mrs. Hilgaf across the threshold into Formal Rank.

Key plot points and events

• Mrs. Hilgaf advances to Formal Rank, gaining greatly enhanced strength and restoring her White Bone armor and weapons, now stained with a dense crimson glow. She then kills Major Descartes, two elite snipers, and the rest of the force sent to arrest her.
• Colonel Baptiste arrives to find 53 Anomalies Bureau personnel dead. His unauthorized attempt to test the Shadow Trade Association has destroyed much of the Friedenburg branch and put his career in jeopardy.
• At the Association’s secret base, Mrs. Hilgaf brings the bodies of her daughters, Elsa and Shelly. Freya offers her a choice: revive them or send their souls to the Lord’s Divine Kingdom. Mrs. Hilgaf chooses the Divine Kingdom, believing her daughters will be spared the suffering of the mortal world and that they will reunite there someday.
• Green orders Freya, Mrs. Hilgaf, and their companions to flee the city and lie low. Other members are told to suspend their activities; Green expects many empowered followers to be caught in the coming Bureau crackdown.
• At headquarters, Cynthia tells Baptiste she must report the disaster to the director. Before his punishment can be decided, however, attention shifts to strange activity at the Faerun City Ruins.
• The ruins’ first faint spatial disturbance is caused by Legendary mage Murray secretly repairing the Space-Time Gate and sending five Formal-Rank mages through it. Days later, the gate opens violently, and monsters—including Gnolls, Griffin Knights, and Cyclopes—begin pouring into the world.

Character developments and interactions

• Mrs. Hilgaf becomes a formidable Formal-Rank fighter, but her victory is overshadowed by the loss of her daughters. Though Freya’s remarks initially sting, Mrs. Hilgaf recognizes that Freya is not to blame. Her decision to let her daughters’ souls depart shows her deep faith and willingness to accept grief for what she believes is their salvation.
• Freya acts as the Association’s representative and spiritual guide. She offers Mrs. Hilgaf comfort through faith, then follows Green’s urgent order to withdraw.
• Green treats Mrs. Hilgaf as a valuable recruit and prioritizes the survival of stronger members over less-tested followers.
• Baptiste realizes his ambition and miscalculation have brought disaster on both his branch and his career. Cynthia, despite their unequal rank, handles him formally and refuses to shield him from accountability.

Significant themes

• Faith, grief, and sacrifice: Mrs. Hilgaf’s choice reflects her belief that death can be a passage to a better life, even as she struggles with the pain of losing her children.
• Power and consequences: The Association’s supernatural influence and Baptiste’s reckless maneuvering both produce outcomes far beyond their control.
• Political instability and survival: The Bureau’s weakened authority creates opportunities for hidden groups, while the Association abandons vulnerable members to protect its core.
• A looming invasion: The chapter’s focus shifts from local conflict to a much larger threat as the Space-Time Gate opens and an army of monsters enters the world.

Key plot points

• A new Space-Time Gate opens in the ruins of Faerun City, bringing a disciplined coalition army from another world. News spreads rapidly, despite the Kingdom’s attempt to suppress it.
• The government publicly downplays the danger, portraying the invaders as primitive, while officials argue over whether to fight or negotiate. The Holy Light Church demands war but expects the Kingdom’s soldiers to bear the initial cost.
• Central authorities send Northwest Province only a vague order to observe and report. Local leaders are left without reinforcements or clear guidance.
• Provincial official Aishak considers defensive measures, but Commander Wulatong refuses to sacrifice ordinary soldiers against an army made entirely of Transcendents. Nikolayevich likewise refuses to commit his bureau to an invasion beyond one province’s capacity. He promises to protect Friedenburg with the Saint Tower; nearby cities begin evacuating.
• At Saint Tower Academy, Green connects the invasion to the Elder White Dragon Angdalagon, whose route through the Mist World appears to lead toward the Gate. He realizes the dragon could devastate the Kingdom if it enters the Main World.
• Rather than treating the crisis as his own, Green sees a possible opportunity and decides to send someone to investigate. He dispatches the Shadow Red Dragon Alshfaro, who reluctantly sets off with gifts to find Angdalagon.
• On the other side of the Gate, a coalition of human city-states, Gnolls, Cyclopes, the Lost Forest, and the Dungeon Legion establishes a camp and defensive positions. Its leaders fear the Kingdom will attack before their foothold is secure, but are puzzled when the Kingdom responds with unusual passivity.

Character developments and interactions

• Aishak recognizes the danger but is constrained by political inaction; he turns from seeking a defense to organizing evacuations and trying to limit casualties.
• Wulatong prioritizes his soldiers’ lives and refuses to send ordinary troops against Transcendents.
• Nikolayevich is firm about the limits of his bureau’s role, though he offers protection to Friedenburg. His authority intimidates Aishak, who can only accept the decision.
• Green shifts from alarm to opportunistic calculation, choosing to investigate rather than commit himself to the Kingdom’s defense.
• Alshfaro dislikes the task and the prospect of approaching an Elder White Dragon, but Green’s promised rewards persuade him to go.
• The coalition’s Gnoll shaman and human Legendary mage are anxious about the invasion’s success and the cost of Angdalagon’s involvement.

Significant themes

• Political paralysis and buck-passing: Kingdom officials debate while local authorities face the consequences without support.
• The limits of conventional power: Ordinary soldiers are no match for a disciplined force of Transcendents.
• Self-interest over loyalty: Green views a national crisis through the lens of personal opportunity, while the Church seeks glory without accepting the first risks.
• Uncertainty and misjudgment: The invaders expect an immediate human response, but the Kingdom’s inaction leaves both sides wary.

Chapter summary

• The invading alliance established a firm foothold in the Mist World after nearly a fifth of its forces crossed the Space-Time Gate. Its leading figure, Havana Gran Sisnado, the Cyclops King, had already gone ahead into the Main World.
• A young Shadow Red Dragon, Alshfaro, arrived carrying a large bundle of gold. He respectfully offered it to Angdalagon, the Elder White Dragon, and asked to join the invasion and take revenge on the humans. Angdalagon accepted the gift and permitted him to come along.
• Alshfaro claimed he had previously entered the Main World and been ambushed there, concealing that Green had defeated and subdued him. Once safely away from Angdalagon, Alshfaro reconnected with Green, who learned that the invading force numbered only a little over five thousand across five factions.
• The invasion’s small size did not make it harmless: its leaders included five Legendaries and Angdalagon, a Calamity-rank Ancient Dragon. The Space-Time Gate needed about three more days of repairs before it could safely transport Angdalagon. The unstable passage had already been strained by sending the Cyclops King through.
• Green considered warning the Lorenzo Kingdom but decided against it. He expected officials to dismiss the warning and potentially accuse him of complicity if disaster struck. His caution was reinforced by a past case in which a student who warned the Kingdom about a planned attack was falsely convicted of treason and died in prison.
• Meanwhile, the Kingdom’s leaders ordered forces from three provinces to surround the invaders and destroy the Gate. The Mage Tower network spread the orders quickly, but the two inland provinces were unprepared, delaying the arrival of their ordinary troops. Their Knights Orders and Anomalies Bureau units moved ahead by supernatural means.
• The assembled force, commanded by High Legendary Nikolayevich, consisted of twelve thousand Knights Order members, a thousand elite Anomalies Bureau agents, twelve senior Knights, two Legendary provincial bureau directors, and Nikolayevich himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Alshfaro presents himself as a wronged dragon seeking revenge, but his account is deliberately deceptive. His gift and respectful address persuade Angdalagon to accept him, while his hidden bond with Green gives Green access to the invaders’ plans.
• Angdalagon is initially threatening but responds favorably to Alshfaro’s lineage, deference, and gold. He treats the young dragon as a useful potential ally rather than pressing him about his story.
• Green proves cautious and pragmatic. He prioritizes secrecy and personal survival over alerting officials he believes will neither trust him nor protect him.
• The Lorenzo leadership acts decisively once it recognizes the threat, though the response is hampered by poor readiness outside Northwest Province.

Significant themes

• Institutional mistrust and the cost of speaking up: Green’s refusal to warn the Kingdom reflects a system in which truthful warnings can be ignored and their messengers punished.
• Deception and strategic self-preservation: Alshfaro hides the truth to secure a place in the invasion, while Green conceals his connection to him and gathers intelligence.
• Power and preparedness: The invaders are few, but their powerful leaders make them dangerous; the Kingdom’s rapid communications contrast with its uneven military readiness.
• Loyalty expressed through ritual and gifts: Alshfaro’s respectful titles and gold help establish rapport with Angdalagon and secure his cooperation.

Plot and key events

• Nikolayevich leads nearly 20,000 elite troops toward Faerun City, unaware that the Calamity Rank Elder White Dragon Angdalagon is about to emerge from the Space-Time Gate. Green, who has learned of the dragon’s arrival through the Shadow Red Dragon, watches the force depart, expecting disaster.
• Angdalagon appears before the troops and destroys almost the entire force with one blast of freezing breath. Of the 17,394 who left Friedenburg, only Nikolayevich and two provincial Anomalies Bureau directors escape. The massacre lasts only minutes and shocks the Lorenzo Kingdom and the wider continent.
• The disaster leaves Friedenburg unstable: with its Anomalies Bureau weakened, unrest and looting resume, and the remaining authorities can do little beyond protecting the noble district.
• Rather than attack further, Angdalagon flies north and eventually settles on Andris Peak, far beyond the kingdom. Its departure surprises both Green and the Mist World coalition, whose plans had relied on the dragon’s destruction creating an opportunity for conquest.
• The coalition’s five representatives meet to decide what to do without the dragon. They divide into three camps: the Gnoll shaman wants to seize cities and enslave locals; human mage Murray favors negotiating with the kingdom; and the Cyclops, Centaur, and Ratfolk prefer a quick raid followed by withdrawal.

Character developments and interactions

• Nikolayevich survives, but the dragon’s overwhelming power leaves him traumatized and humiliated. He fears the experience may damage his confidence and prevent him from advancing as a mage; his private curses conceal fear rather than genuine defiance.
• Green had hoped to exploit the chaos for advantage, but Angdalagon’s unexpectedly brief intervention frustrates his plans.
• The Gnoll shaman and Murray share an interest in using the portal foothold but sharply disagree over how: the shaman sees humans as slaves and a means to expand the Gnoll population, while Murray favors accommodation with a human-majority kingdom he believes his people could join.
• The Cyclops, Centaur, and Ratfolk distrust the coalition’s ability to hold territory and want to take what they can before the Main World’s forces respond.

Significant themes

• The terrifying scale of power: One Calamity Rank dragon can erase an army and shatter a kingdom’s confidence in minutes.
• Fear and its aftermath: Nikolayevich’s survival comes at the cost of lasting psychological damage, while the population faces widespread panic.
• Unreliable plans and unintended outcomes: The dragon’s brief appearance disrupts both Green’s schemes and the coalition’s invasion strategy.
• Competing visions of survival: The coalition’s factions disagree over conquest, negotiation, and retreat, revealing how fragile their unity is once their strongest ally is gone.

Plot points and events

• Five leaders from the Human City-State, Gnoll Tribe, Druid Council, Dungeon Legion, and Cyclops tribe are still arguing over their post-gate plans when an alarm interrupts them: Shadow Red Dragon Alshfaro is attacking the Space-Time Gate.
• Cyclops leader Havana charges at Alshfaro, but the dragon dodges and Havana’s blow hits the already-damaged gate. It collapses, cutting the coalition off from the Mist World and leaving them stranded in the Main World.
• The leaders resist the urge to pursue Alshfaro. Suspecting a larger plot and needing to preserve their forces, they decide to hold their camp and wait.
• Alshfaro escapes into the clouds, where Green’s Spirit Calling spell summons him back to the Graveyard.
• Green has changed his strategy after learning that the Elder White Dragon has left the coalition. He sends his army to take the Mist World’s Space-Time Gate at Ceylan Valley, then plans to attack the nearby Gnoll and Cyclops tribes.
• Green avoids the Human City-State, Druid Council, and Dungeon Legion because each is too well defended or difficult to reach. After a three-day march, his army reaches the Cyclops tribe. With their leader and strongest warriors gone, the remaining Cyclopes submit rather than face Green’s forces.

Character developments and interactions

• Havana’s anger makes him reckless: his attempt to strike Alshfaro accidentally destroys the gate. The other leaders restrain their own anger and prioritize survival.
• The Kobold Shaman is devastated by the gate’s loss and demands to know Alshfaro’s motive, but the dragon refuses to answer.
• Alshfaro appears threatening to the coalition, yet privately fears they will pursue and overwhelm him. He cooperates when Green summons him.
• Green shows strategic adaptability, revising his plans in response to new intelligence and choosing targets he believes he can subdue at low cost.
• The surviving Cyclopes, including capable women warriors, choose submission to protect their people.

Significant themes

• Fragile alliances: Cooperation lasts only while the factions share a goal; once it is achieved, conflicting interests surface.
• Caution under uncertainty: The stranded leaders avoid a risky pursuit because they suspect a hidden plot and cannot afford to lose more fighters.
• The cost of impulsiveness: Havana’s rage turns a crisis into an irreversible disaster.
• Power and survival: Green pursues expansion while weakened groups submit when resistance seems hopeless.

Plot points and events

• Green has the surviving Cyclops tribe counted and reorganized. He keeps its six adult male warriors as a squad, while Rota and Hill escort the rest to settle near the Graveyard under Kobold supervision.
• Green’s force reaches Ceylan Valley expecting to take control of the weakened Gnoll tribe, only to find its settlement burned and every Gnoll dead. The destruction bears the mark of a powerful Necromancer, but searches uncover no tracks, remains, or other clues. Green wonders whether the culprit belongs to the little-known Evil Spirit school.
• Green is abruptly pulled back to the real world when Saint Tower Academy comes under attack. A boulder and a lightning strike batter its protective screen.
• The coalition’s five Legendary Transcendents—Murray, Havana, Macron, Jerry, and the Gnoll Shaman—confront Saint Tower’s three Legendary defenders. The attackers greatly outnumber them in strength, though the Academy’s defenses partly offset the imbalance.
• Nikolayevich attempts to leave the coalition a chance to withdraw, but Murray rejects negotiation. The coalition intends to use Murray’s Forbidden Magic, Thunder of Annihilation, to break through the barrier and let the others rush inside.
• To cast the spell, Murray sacrifices his left little finger to the Lord of Thunder. The chapter ends as the offering vanishes into the Void and the spell begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shows a long-term, strategic approach to managing the Cyclopes, but the Gnoll massacre unsettles him. At Saint Tower, he remains calculating: he tells Holly and Alshfaro to prepare, yet waits to see whether the barrier can hold. He is also privately eager to learn where Nikolayevich keeps the Divinity and Divine Core.
• Murray commits fully to the assault, accepting the permanent loss of a finger rather than risk failure. His exchange with Nikolayevich makes clear that the coalition has no intention of turning back.
• Nikolayevich faces overwhelming odds and appeals to the attackers as “travelers from another world,” hoping to avert a fight. The coalition’s refusal leaves him and the other defenders to rely on Saint Tower’s protections.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and control: Green treats the Cyclopes as a population to cultivate for future military strength.
• Unseen danger: The Gnoll settlement’s destruction introduces a powerful, elusive Necromancer whose methods and identity remain unknown.
• Sacrifice and desperation: Murray’s irreversible offering shows how far the coalition is willing to go.
• Power and uncertain safety: Saint Tower’s formidable barrier offers protection, but the attackers’ superior strength threatens to turn the academy into a battlefield.

Plot points and events

• Murray’s enhanced Thunder of Annihilation tears a temporary hole in the Saint Tower Guardian’s barrier. Though the barrier repairs itself within seconds, High Legendary fighters Havana and Macron slip inside.
• Havana attacks Nikolayevich while Macron’s Thorn Domain pins down the Academy’s two early-stage Legendary defenders. Nikolayevich’s Arcane Missiles barely affect Havana, and the Cyclops threatens the Saint Tower itself.
• To protect the tower, Nikolayevich stops evading and blocks Havana’s hammer with a burst of divine power. He then channels that power into an Arcane Missile, shattering Havana’s armor and gravely wounding him.
• Divine power also damages Nikolayevich. As he struggles with its physical erosion, he realizes he cannot afford to use it enough times to defeat all five enemy Legendaries. He calls on the Centaur Druid to stop, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

Character developments

• Nikolayevich shifts from cautious evasion to determined defense when the Saint Tower is endangered. His hidden ability to wield divine power gives him a powerful advantage, but reveals the severe cost of using it.
• Havana is initially confident and mocking, but is shocked by Nikolayevich’s divine strength and badly injured by the counterattack. He nevertheless remains dangerous.
• Murray displays extraordinary magical force, using the Thunder of Annihilation to breach the Guardian and enable the enemy’s entry.
• Green recognizes that Nikolayevich can forcefully use divine power, though at great risk.

Character interactions

• Havana taunts Nikolayevich and tries to provoke him, then exploits his concern for the Saint Tower to force him into a direct confrontation.
• Nikolayevich’s defense of the tower gives Havana an opening to attack, but also lets the mage counterstrike with divine power.
• Green watches the exchange and understands the danger Nikolayevich faces; Nikolayevich ultimately addresses the Centaur Druid directly, asking him to stop.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Divine power can overcome ordinary defenses, but erodes the body of anyone who uses it without sufficient strength.
• Duty versus survival: Nikolayevich accepts greater personal danger rather than let the Saint Tower be destroyed.
• Tactical limits of strength: Even a devastating blow cannot decide a wider battle when the enemy has multiple powerful fighters and the defender’s resources are finite.

Plot points and events

• Nikolayevich’s use of Divine Power has badly injured him and revealed a secret he had hoped to keep hidden. His enemies now covet the power and demand that he surrender the Divine Power Crystals.
• The Centaur Druid attacks with enormous spirit wolves and venomous ghost vines. Although two of Nikolayevich’s low-level Legendary allies escape the poison, they suffer serious mental damage and are left weakened.
• The Druid heals Cyclops Havana, who can fight at only a fraction of his strength. Nikolayevich nevertheless calls on Freddie, his longtime comrade, who emerges in a towering Legendary combat puppet.
• The enemy leaders divide their opponents: the Druid charges Nikolayevich, while Havana awakens his Titan bloodline to fight Freddie. The awakening rapidly heals Havana’s wounds but burns through his vital blood.
• Havana and Freddie clash in a contest of strength. Havana deforms the puppet’s hand, forcing Freddie to switch tactics. Freddie fires a close-range psychic blast at Havana’s eye, but Havana anticipates it and dodges.

Character developments and interactions

• Nikolayevich recognizes how badly his gamble has backfired, yet resolves to fight on. Freddie’s arrival brings out a more relaxed, trusting side of him, recalling their shared adventures.
• Freddie is revealed to be a Master Alchemist whose original body was nearly destroyed. Nikolayevich preserved his brain and soul, and Freddie built himself a new body; he now controls a powerful combat puppet.
• Havana proves both extraordinarily tough and willing to risk his life by awakening his Titan bloodline. He matches Freddie’s puppet physically and shows he can anticipate its attacks.
• The Centaur Druid is a dangerous, strategic fighter. He tests the opposition, recognizes the threat posed by Freddie’s puppet, and moves quickly to confront Nikolayevich.
• The enemies’ greed over Divine Power eclipses their earlier concerns, turning the crystals into the central prize of the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power’s cost: Divine Power offers enormous force but ravages its user and can permanently expose them to danger.
• Sacrifice and risk: Nikolayevich and Havana both accept extreme costs in an attempt to protect their sides and turn the battle.
• Alchemical ingenuity versus raw strength: Freddie’s machinery and tactics initially meet Havana’s overwhelming physical power, setting up a clash between invention and brute force.
• Loyalty and companionship: Freddie answers Nikolayevich’s call, underscoring a bond forged through shared history and mutual aid.

Key events

• Freddie’s war puppet fires its Psychic Annihilation Cannons at the already wounded Cyclops. The Centaur Druid’s Oak Guardian combines with the mark Oaklight left on the Cyclops, shielding him from the blast, though its force knocks him down.
• Freddie pins and pounds the Cyclops, but the assault awakens the Cyclops’s Titan Bloodline more fully. He throws the puppet off and lands crushing punches that badly damage its armor and injure Freddie.
• Two wounded Legendaries intervene to protect Freddie’s puppet. On Murray’s advice, the Cyclops abandons them and charges toward the Mage Tower, prompting Nikolayevich to spend Divine Power to stop him.
• The Centaur shifts his attack to the other defenders and binds the puppet with poisoned vines, but Freddie feigns death and ambushes him. The puppet’s blow breaks through the Centaur’s defenses, injuring him and costing him an Oak Substitute.
• Nikolayevich abruptly orders Freddie back to the Mage Tower and retreats there himself. Saint Tower Guardian contracts around the tower, greatly strengthening its protection but leaving most of the academy’s grounds—and its students and teachers—exposed to the allied army.
• With the barrier about to stabilize and trap them inside, the Cyclops and Centaur must choose between attacking the Mage Tower and escaping while they still can.

Character developments and interactions

• The Cyclops grows stronger as his anger intensifies, displaying more of his awakened Titan Bloodline. His cooperation with the Centaur is tested by the decision they face at the end.
• Freddie proves both resilient and cunning: despite severe injuries, he keeps his puppet fighting and exploits the Centaur’s assumption that he can be killed by poison.
• The Centaur Druid protects the Cyclops with Oak Guardian, then suffers a costly setback when Freddie catches him off guard. He remains formidable, using Oak Substitute to recover.
• Nikolayevich risks further Divine Power to defend the Mage Tower, then suddenly retreats behind its strengthened barrier. His actions reinforce Green’s suspicion that he has hidden the Divinity and Divine Core there.
• Murray directs the Cyclops toward the Mage Tower, while Green watches Nikolayevich’s behavior and draws conclusions about his motives.

Significant themes

• Power and sacrifice: The Cyclops’s fury strengthens him, while Nikolayevich’s willingness to use Divine Power hints at what he is protecting.
• Deception and miscalculation: Freddie’s feigned death reverses the fight, and Nikolayevich’s sudden withdrawal changes the battlefield.
• The cost of self-preservation: Saint Tower’s defenders save the tower by abandoning most of the academy, leaving its people vulnerable.
• A narrowing choice: The contracting barrier turns the battle into a race against time, forcing the attackers to choose between escape and pressing their assault.

Plot and key events

• Murray warns Havana and Macron that the Mage Tower makes it too dangerous to seize Nikolayevich’s Divine Power Crystals. The Cyclops and Centaur withdraw, but the five Legendary fighters redirect the otherworldly coalition into a full assault on Saint Tower Academy and Friedenburg City.
• Nikolayevich’s protective barrier contracts to a small area around the Saint Tower. He and Freddie watch as the academy and city are overwhelmed, with students, teachers, nobles, commoners, and clergy killed or forced to flee.
• Green, unable to help and recognizing that the battle has become a one-sided slaughter, abandons his plan to exploit the conflict. He uses his improved Spirit World Infiltration spell to escape unseen.
• A pillar of golden light erupts from Saint Ivan Cathedral. Its apparent Holy Light burns Gnoll invaders and restores the confidence of the city’s people, who gather at the cathedral to pray. Believing the display signals the Lord of Light’s attention, the five Legendary invaders order a retreat.
• Nikolayevich and Freddie distrust the Church’s intervention. Nikolayevich suspects the Church waited until his defeat to reveal its power; Freddie argues that powerful beings regard ordinary people as insignificant.
• From the Spirit World, Green sees no light or color in the supposed miracle. He suspects it may be a deception, noting that the cathedral likely had no Holy Relic capable of producing a genuine miracle. The chapter ends before he confirms what caused the display.

Character developments and interactions

• Nikolayevich is forced to watch the destruction of the academy and people he cares about. His pain hardens into resolve: the apparent miracle reinforces his belief that only the powerful can protect themselves.
• Freddie remains sardonic and cynical, mocking the Church’s timing and its claims of compassion. His banter with Nikolayevich reveals their closeness and shared distrust of religious authorities.
• Green shows caution and adaptability. Rather than risk himself in a hopeless battle, he retreats and applies his knowledge of the Spirit World to question the miracle.
• Murray’s warning prompts Havana and Macron to abandon their attempt to seize the crystals, while the invaders’ fear of divine retaliation makes them abandon the attack.

Significant themes

• Powerlessness and survival: In the invasion, wealth, rank, and religious office offer no protection.
• Cynicism toward institutions: The Church’s intervention comes only after the city has suffered immense losses, prompting accusations of hypocrisy and indifference.
• Appearance versus reality: The Holy Light looks like a divine miracle to the people and invaders, but Green’s Spirit World perspective casts doubt on its authenticity.
• Power and self-reliance: Nikolayevich concludes that people remain “ants” unless they become powerful themselves.

Plot points and events

• Green scouts Saint Ivan Cathedral from the Spirit World and discovers that the apparent miracle of Holy Light is produced by a three-meter, winged metal sphere. The device has Legendary-level power, but its “miracle” is a deception.
• To expose it, Green sends a weak Ghost to strike the sphere. The Ghost cannot harm it, but its spirit form disrupts the barrier that lets the physical device function in the Spirit World.
• In the Main World, Archbishop Sido and Inquisition judge Frank celebrate the Holy Light Church’s apparent victory: Saint Tower Academy is falling, and the staged miracle is meant to win the city’s faith and weaken the Church’s rivals.
• The false miracle vanishes, revealing the sphere to citizens, defenders, and the retreating allied forces. Furious at having been deceived, the five Legendary fighters rally their troops and charge Saint Ivan Cathedral.
• Sido activates the cathedral’s shield and reveals the sphere’s true nature: the divine artifact called the Holy Light Angel. It transforms into a towering, four-armed metal Angel armed with swords.
• The Angel attacks Havana, the Cyclops. He stops its charge and damages it, but the artifact quickly repairs itself with Holy Light.

Character developments and interactions

• Green uses careful observation and a low-cost Ghost to expose the deception, showing his tactical ingenuity and willingness to exploit the Church’s confidence.
• Sido shifts quickly from triumph to defense, maintaining control under pressure and deploying the Church’s true weapon.
• Frank reveals personal hostility toward Nikolayevich, though its cause remains unexplained; Sido urges him to keep his faith and promises an opportunity for revenge.
• The allied Legendary fighters, especially the hot-tempered Havana and the proud mage Murray, turn from retreat to attack once they realize they were tricked. Their shared anger unites the force.
• Nikolayevich recognizes the Holy Light Angel’s power and contrasts the Church’s usable divine artifact with his own dangerous, body-damaging access to Divine Power.

Significant themes

• Faith versus deception: The Church manufactures a “miracle” to manipulate public belief and political power.
• Appearances and truth: The sacred display conceals a mechanical weapon; exposing the illusion changes the course of the battle.
• Power and its costs: The Church can wield Divine Power through an artifact, while Nikolayevich must risk his body to use it.
• Tactical ingenuity: Green’s seemingly insignificant Ghost succeeds not by force, but by exploiting the device’s vulnerability in the Spirit World.

Key plot points and events

• Green watches the battle from the Spirit World. Though tempted by the Holy Light Angel—a powerful alchemical weapon—he decides to stay hidden until the combatants are weakened. He also thinks through ways to turn the Cyclops tribe into a profitable force, including using their strength to operate heavy cannons.
• At Saint Ivan Cathedral, the Holy Light Church’s defenders use brainwashed civilians as a human shield against the otherworldly alliance. Despite the civilians’ sacrifice, the alliance steadily pushes the defenders back.
• The Holy Light Angel holds off three High Legendary fighters, while Archbishop Sido and Chief Inquisitor Frank battle the Gnoll Shaman and Ratfolk Assassin Jerry. Frank is badly wounded and rescued by Sido.
• The Gnoll Shaman and Jerry join the other three attackers against the Angel. Their combined assault damages it severely, and lightning magic finally exhausts its power, forcing it to collapse into a motionless metal sphere.
• As the attackers pause, a huge magic circle appears in the blood-soaked square. Sido reveals that the Church has prepared a blood sacrifice to summon Divine Punishment. The circle opens a Space-Time Gate, whose destination remains unknown.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shows a calculating, opportunistic side, but recognizes that joining the battle would be too dangerous. He remains focused on exploiting the Cyclops tribe for future gain.
• Nikolayevich refuses to help the Church, dismissing the attack as deserved retribution after the Church mocked his earlier misfortune. He suggests waiting until the alliance has broken into the cathedral before acting.
• Freddie is eager to fight the Cyclops again, but accepts Nikolayevich’s plan to wait.
• Sido and Frank retreat behind the cathedral’s Sacred Defense. After Frank is nearly defeated, Sido saves him; the two then agree that extreme measures are necessary. Sido’s later invocation of the sacrifice shows how far he is willing to go.
• The alliance’s five Legendary fighters work together to defeat the Holy Light Angel, whose Divine Power makes it dangerous even while outnumbered. Murray recognizes its value to alchemical research, while the others are reminded of how fortunate the Cyclops was to survive Nikolayevich’s earlier blow.

Significant themes

• Fanaticism and sacrifice: The Church’s faith-driven defenses turn civilians into expendable weapons, and Sido treats the dead as offerings.
• Opportunism amid conflict: Green, Nikolayevich, and the other fighters weigh risks, rewards, and the right moment to act.
• Power and its cost: The Angel can fight beyond its natural strength through Divine Power, but its stored energy is finite; coordinated opponents eventually overwhelm it.
• Escalation and uncertainty: The blood ritual and opening gate signal that the battle is about to enter a more dangerous phase.

Plot points and events

• The Holy Light Church unleashes a colossal Hand of Divine Punishment, summoned through a scroll and the sacrifice of tens of thousands of believers. It descends on the allied otherworldly army and part of Friedenburg City.
• Green escapes in the Spirit World, where the Hand’s effects can reach but its barrier does not apply.
• Havana the Cyclops King catches the Hand and holds it aloft for five seconds, giving others time to flee. His effort destroys his body, but the Hand eventually crushes him and much of the army.
• The attack nearly wipes out the invasion force: only about three hundred soldiers and three Legendary fighters escape, and all are weakened by Divine Power. The surviving soldiers are expected to die from its effects.
• The three Legendary fighters retreat, vowing revenge on the Holy Light Church.
• Nikolayevich and Freddie decide not to pursue them, judging the risk too high and unwilling to eliminate a threat to the Church.
• They discover that the exhausted Holy Light Angel has vanished. Church officials search for it, while Nikolayevich suspects an unseen opportunist took it.

Character developments and interactions

• Havana makes a final, self-sacrificing stand to protect his allies, revealing the extraordinary force of his Titan bloodline.
• The three surviving Legendary fighters shift from regret over their invasion to hatred and a determination to repay the Church.
• Nikolayevich weighs an opportunity to strike but chooses caution; he is more troubled by the Angel’s unexplained disappearance than by possible Church retaliation.
• Freddie is moved by Havana’s courage, which stirs memories of his former adventuring companions. He agrees with Nikolayevich not to intervene.
• Green survives by recognizing the danger and using the Spirit World’s different rules to escape.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and courage: Havana’s doomed resistance buys others a brief chance to live.
• The cost of fanaticism and ambition: the Church’s mass sacrifice and the invasion’s near-total destruction leave countless dead.
• Power and vulnerability: even Legendary fighters and a Titan-blooded warrior cannot withstand divine force indefinitely.
• Political calculation and hidden schemes: Nikolayevich’s restraint and the Angel’s mysterious theft suggest that the conflict extends beyond the visible battle.

Plot points and events

• Green steals the exhausted Holy Light Angel by activating its Spiritualization Barrier and hauling it through the Spirit World to an abandoned factory in Friedenburg.
• The Holy Light Church sends a Shadow Priest to search the Spirit World, but he finds no trace of the angel. Archbishop Sido orders another search and insists the loss be kept secret, fearing the consequences.
• Sido blames Chief Inquisitor Frank’s earlier retreat for leaving the angel to face too many opponents. Frank outwardly obeys, but privately plans to tell his influential patron and lover, Saintess Xiweina Ye, so she can turn the loss to political advantage.
• Green examines the angel but cannot access its attributes or bypass its safeguards. Wary of drawing the attention of the Lord of Light, he has not yet taken it to the Graveyard.
• He summons Alshfaro, the Shadow Red Dragon. Alshfaro recognizes the angel’s Holy Light power and says he knows a way to claim it—but only if they take it to the Graveyard. Green hesitates over the risk.

Character developments and interactions

• Green is resourceful but cautious: he secures the angel, avoids testing it recklessly, and turns to Alshfaro’s inherited knowledge for help.
• Alshfaro proves useful beyond combat, drawing on ancestral dragon knowledge. His admiration for Green increases his loyalty.
• Sido loses his composure under the pressure of the Church’s potentially catastrophic loss, while remaining determined to recover the angel and conceal the failure.
• Frank reveals himself as self-serving and politically calculating. Though Sido saved his life, Frank prioritizes his relationship with Xiweina and the opportunity the crisis presents.
• The Shadow Priest’s blank obedience highlights the Church’s exploitation of the Shadowfolk, whom it conquered and reduced to tools.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: The Church’s treatment of the Shadowfolk mirrors its instrumental use of the Holy Light Angel.
• Political self-interest: Frank treats a major institutional crisis as leverage, while Sido struggles to protect himself and his faction.
• Caution versus opportunity: Green’s potential prize could be valuable, but meddling with Holy Light power risks attracting a far greater force.

Plot points and events

• Alshfaro reassures Green that the Holy Light Angel’s divine power is too weak and remote to attract a true deity’s attention. Green has him bring the metal sphere containing it into the Graveyard.
• Green returns briefly to Saint Tower Academy, where the surviving students and teachers are cleaning up after the attack. The academy is subdued and resentful: President Nikolayevich’s decision to abandon them has badly damaged his authority and the unity he once built.
• In the Graveyard’s Town Hall, Alshfaro melts the sphere with his dragon fire. The exposed Holy Light Angel can now be inspected by Green’s system.
• Green discovers that the construct contains several hidden dangers: a soul imprint, mental mark, spatial anchor, and self-destruct device, along with damage requiring repair. He spends 3,600 Psychic Energy to remove the threats, making the angel a blank, neutral construct.
• Green considers turning it into a powerful fighter or using it as a vessel for one of his Split Souls. He favors the latter, which would give him the secondary body he has long wanted.
• Death Corruption fails because the angel’s Holy Light resists Green’s Death Psychic Energy. The usual solutions—waiting a century or two, or paying a Master Alchemist to alter it—are impractical.
• Green hits on another possibility: use the Graveyard’s connection to the God of Nature’s Divinity to strip away the Holy Light. He begins testing the idea.

Character developments and interactions

• Green acts decisively in securing and disarming the angel, then weighs how best to use it. His academy studies have expanded his understanding of necromancy and strengthened his ambition to create a true secondary body.
• Alshfaro advises Green on the risks of divine attention and helps by retrieving the sphere and melting its casing. Green trusts him because of his True Dragon knowledge and proven loyalty.
• Nikolayevich is absent, but the consequences of his retreat are clear: his former students’ admiration and trust have eroded, putting his leadership and the academy faction at risk.
• Green’s relationship with the angel is purely instrumental: he wants to overcome its holy nature and make it serve as a vessel for his own Split Soul.

Significant themes

• Trust and leadership: Nikolayevich’s choice may have been understandable, but abandoning the academy’s people has fractured the bonds that sustained his authority.
• Power and hidden risks: The angel is valuable, but its concealed safeguards could have exposed or destroyed anyone who tried to claim it carelessly.
• Adaptation and resourcefulness: Green rejects slow or costly conventional solutions and looks for a way to use the Graveyard’s divine connection instead.
• Identity and control: By removing the angel’s imprints and planning to house a Split Soul within it, Green seeks to transform a weapon of the Holy Light Church into an extension of himself.

Key plot points and events

• Green strips the remaining Holy Light from the damaged Holy Light Angel using the God of Nature’s Divinity. The process damages the creation further but reveals a new, unusable skill: False Divinity.
• With the Holy Light gone, Death Corruption can finally take hold. Green spends more than a month infusing the angel with Death Psychic Energy, transforming it into a four-armed, four-winged Death Angel. He keeps all four arms because removing them would weaken its Swordsmanship Master skill.
• Green repairs the Death Angel and places his Split Soul inside it using a Soul Coffer, successfully creating an avatar. He can shift his primary consciousness between his body and the avatar, and the two can share skills, though not skill levels. The avatar is Legendary Rank, with combat power 3550; Green’s original body gains Swordsmanship Master and Divine Power Enhancement at level 1.
• In the Mist World, the surviving Cyclops submit to Green’s power and settle near the Graveyard. Green finds no trace of the Necromancer who destroyed the Gnoll Tribe and abandons plans to secure the nearby Space-Time Gate, choosing development over a costly confrontation with the Lorenzo Kingdom.
• In Friedenburg, the surviving Legendary experts from the other world remain missing. The Holy Light Church’s search for its missing angel fails. Nikolayevich resigns as dean of Saint Tower Academy, unsettling the academy and weakening its emerging faction within the Anomalies Bureau. Green considers leaving the academy and sees a possible opportunity to become director of the Landon City bureau.

Character developments and interactions

• Green demonstrates patience and strategic restraint. He turns the former Holy Light Angel into a powerful soul-bound avatar, gains access to rare skills, and chooses to consolidate his strength rather than risk a premature conflict with the Lorenzo Kingdom. He also recognizes that Nikolayevich’s resignation may create an opening for his own advancement.
• The Death Angel becomes Green’s second body and a source of Legendary-Rank power and skills. Its False Divinity remains unexplained and unusable.
• The Cyclops survivors accept Green’s rule as a means of survival and preserving their people.
• Nikolayevich resigns despite others expecting him to cling to his position. His departure leaves teachers and students uncertain and disrupts the academy faction’s cohesion.
• Archbishop Sido reacts furiously to the Holy Light Angel’s disappearance, launching a disruptive but fruitless citywide search.

Significant themes

• Transformation and adaptation: Green turns a symbol of Holy Light into an instrument of death, while its unexplained False Divinity hints at further change.
• Power and its limits: The avatar grants extraordinary abilities, but Green’s original body does not inherit its full strength or skill levels.
• Patience and strategic growth: Green accepts a slow process and abandons an expensive territorial objective in favor of strengthening the Graveyard.
• Political opportunity and instability: Nikolayevich’s resignation reshapes the academy and Anomalies Bureau, creating uncertainty—and an opening for Green.

Plot points and events

• Half a month after leaving Friedenburg, Green returns to Landon City as its new Anomalies Bureau director, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. His convoy includes Lola, now a Captain, and a team of trusted Transcendents recruited to rebuild the depleted bureau.
• Freya and other members of the Shadow Trade Association arrive separately with new recruits. Green plans to expand the association’s work across Landon City, Rhine City, and nearby towns.
• City officials, nobles, and business figures warmly welcome Green, increasingly aware of the dangers posed by Transcendent conflicts. He greets Mayor, Viscount Paul, Vincent, and Doctor Wilkins, now president of the Mages Association and a Formal Rank mage.
• Green returns to Wilson Castle after the welcome banquet, publicly signaling his close alliance with the Wilson Family.
• The next day, Green settles into the bureau and retains Deputy Director Bobby, whose survival through past upheavals suggests he is more capable than his bumbling manner implies. Lola brings news that the Holy Light Church has cornered three escaped otherworldly Legendaries in Wolf City.

Character developments and interactions

• Green has risen from a struggling apprentice steward to a powerful Mid Formal Rank Necromancer and bureau director. He uses warm personal ties and political alliances to secure support while keeping his larger intentions private.
• Lola has advanced to Captain and taken up the influential role of Green’s assistant.
• Viscount Paul welcomes Green but privately recognizes the risks of tying the Wilson Family to his ambitions. Vincent, by contrast, openly trusts Green and hopes their alliance will raise the family’s fortunes.
• Bobby quickly pledges loyalty; Green sees him as a useful, politically seasoned survivor, though not someone to trust completely.
• Doctor Wilkins has advanced to Formal Rank, reflecting changes among Landon City’s mages.

Significant themes

• Power and social mobility: Green’s rapid rise transforms how the city’s elite treat him.
• Political loyalty and risk: The Wilson Family’s support offers influence but may draw them into danger.
• Public fear and institutional authority: Recent catastrophes have made elites seek protection from the Anomalies Bureau.
• Survival and hidden capability: Bobby’s continued presence suggests that apparent mediocrity can conceal practical skill.
• Expanding conflict: The hunt for the escaped Legendaries signals that the wider struggle with otherworldly forces continues.

Key plot points and events

• Green learns that two of the three Legendary fugitives from another world are confirmed dead in the Lanlock Desert; the lightning mage, Murray, remains missing. The Anomalies Bureau has ordered agencies to watch for him.
• Green meets black-market arms dealer Old One-Eye and requests at least 10,000 Enchanted Rifles and more than 100 Field Cannons. Old One-Eye is wary of the scale and the Kingdom’s tighter scrutiny, but Green offers staggered delivery over a year. Lured by the substantial profit, Old One-Eye agrees to take the proposal to the Royal Capital.
• Vincent reports that Viscount Paul has authorized the Wilson Family to support Green and mobilize its resources. Green directs them to establish a manufacturing plant for equipment.
• To secure the plant’s supplies and skilled labor, Green authorizes Viscount Paul to invite Mayor Woodskin and Doctor Wilkins as shareholders, offering up to 40 percent of the shares in exchange for raw materials and Enchanting Mages.
• Green then turns to the Shadow Trade Association, whose members are staying temporarily in a Lower District apartment bought by Selina as a future base.

Character developments and interactions

• Green demonstrates strategic patience and political skill. His enormous weapons order is partly a signal of his wealth and influence, while the factory will supply his expanding Retainer Army without consuming Psychic Energy. He also willingly shares ownership to bring powerful allies into the venture.
• Old One-Eye initially probes Green’s intentions and the limits of the deal, but Green’s intimidating presence and generous terms persuade him to pursue it. He leaves eager to secure the contract.
• Vincent approaches Green with caution and respect, reflecting Green’s elevated standing, but remains an effective intermediary for his father. He is impressed by Green’s willingness to share factory profits.
• Green’s dealings with Old One-Eye, Vincent, and the prospective shareholders show him building relationships through mutual benefit rather than relying on the Wilson Family alone.

Significant themes

• Shared interests as political leverage: Green uses business ownership and profit-sharing to bind influential people to his plans.
• Power and negotiation: His wealth, supernatural presence, and carefully chosen concessions shape how others respond.
• Preparation for expansion and conflict: The weapons order and factory are intended to equip Green’s growing forces, even as the Kingdom’s security concerns tighten.