Chapter Summaries

• The Ghosts are reborn in the Nightmare Kingdom. Green moves the Graveyard’s Ghosts there, where they find a radiant city and regain physical human bodies. Convinced they have reached the true Divine Kingdom, they become Fanatic Believers. Each may keep their former profession or choose to become a Sentinel, Crossbowman, or Priest. Roddick chooses Priest; Elsa and Shelly keep their existing professions.
• Green offers the Legendary captives a way out. He gives Hill Morleti, Aliotega, and Frio the option of becoming undead so they can leave the Nightmare Kingdom. Aliotega and Frio accept, preferring freedom despite the cost. Hill Morleti cannot yet be transformed: Green lacks a suitable dragon body for her soul, so she must wait.
• Aliotega and Frio become Liches, but at great cost. Outside the Nightmare Kingdom, they revert to spirits. Green recruits Lich bodies and spends over a thousand Psychic Energy to establish them as a Lich Knight and Lich Arcanist. Their power drops sharply, and Aliotega loses his manifested wyvern, but Green assigns each an expeditionary force to explore the Mist World and regain strength through action. The sudden surge of faith from the Ghosts has already been largely spent.
• Green grows bolder about exploring. He reasons that the Mist World is an abandoned Void world unable to sustain Calamity Rank beings. The Skeleton Lord fled as soon as it escaped, and the weakened Elder White Dragon Angdalagon likely escaped to recover. Believing no fully powerful Calamity Rank opponent remains nearby, Green feels more confident expanding his territory.
• Green’s connection to Wood Slate weakens. In another Void world, Green notices that his view through Wood’s mind has narrowed. Since Wood is his only link to that world—and may hold the answer to how Green’s soul crossed over—he resolves to make another Soul Coffer to preserve the connection.
• The chapter ends with the Lorenzo king’s anger. In Stinnard, Prady XIV smashes a teacup after Cardinal Skodadi leaves. The Cardinal’s outward humility and underlying arrogance have provoked the usually composed king.
  Character developments and themes: The Ghosts’ renewed bodies strengthen their faith, while Aliotega and Frio trade power for freedom. Green remains pragmatic, spending resources only when necessary and turning exploration into a means of recovery. The chapter emphasizes faith as a source of power, freedom’s price, and the uncertainties of crossing between worlds. It also contrasts Green’s expanding confidence with the unresolved danger of losing his connection to Wood.

Key plot points

• King Prady XIV broods over Lorenzo’s decline: the Rune Federation is gaining ground, domestic factions and corruption are weakening the Kingdom, and a recent invasion exposed its vulnerability.
• Grand Duke Mora visits and argues that Prady’s cautious reforms have only encouraged powerful interests. Lorenzo’s real strength, he says, is its three Calamity Rank defenders and control of three Void worlds.
• Mora urges Prady to loosen restraints on nobles and the Holy Light Church while focusing on helping the King reach Calamity Rank. He reveals that he has extracted the source of his own Void world to aid Prady.
• Mora explains that the Rune Federation is already attacking his world. Rather than let them take it intact, he plans to turn it into a costly trap, despite the suffering this will inflict on its inhabitants.
• Meanwhile, Green returns to Wood Slate’s body with a newly made Split Soul Soul Coffer. The merged Soul Coffer lets the body function independently and strengthens Green’s connection to the Void world.
• Green looks toward the Royal Capital and reflects on Lorenzo’s history: it once united a primitive world, but has since decayed as outsiders and nobles seize resources and exploit native people.

Character developments and interactions

• Prady XIV reveals his private frustration and self-doubt. Though exceptionally gifted, he feels trapped by political constraints. Mora’s familiar address, “Little Neil,” briefly restores a sense of warmth and personal connection.
• Grand Duke Mora acts as both stern mentor and ruthless strategist. He sacrifices his Void world’s future to strengthen Prady and retaliate against the Rune Federation, accepting that millions may suffer.
• Green gains a more capable, autonomous avatar through the Soul Coffer, while his view of the Void world’s history highlights the gap between Lorenzo’s founding promise and its present exploitation.
• Mora challenges Prady directly, while Prady’s shock at the sacrifice shows his concern for Mora and awareness of the cost of reaching Calamity Rank.

Significant themes

• Power and political compromise: Mora sees military and supernatural strength—not cautious politics—as the Kingdom’s true foundation.
• Sacrifice and ruthless calculation: The Kingdom’s survival is placed above Mora’s world and its people.
• Decline and exploitation: Lorenzo’s former unity and peace have given way to factionalism, corruption, and resource extraction.
• Personal connection amid duty: Mora’s family affection briefly reaches the isolated King beneath his public authority.

Plot and events

• The chapter explains how the Lorenzo Kingdom’s exploitation of a conquered Void World shifted factories and jobs there, enriching capitalists while impoverishing its natives and weakening Lorenzo’s own economy.
• The Rune Federation secretly backed native resistance, eventually creating a Revolutionary Army and stationing three Calamity Rank fighters on the border to pressure Grand Duke Mora into abandoning the Void World.
• Mora answered by extracting nearly all of the world’s Origin and giving it to Prady XIV to help him reach Calamity Rank. Though this sacrifices the world, it frustrates the Federation’s plan and could leave Lorenzo with four Calamity Rank powers—and provoke a harsh response from its wounded nobles and capitalists.
• Green, occupying the body of bankrupt Baron Wood Slater, learns that Wood was killed by a Revolutionary Army assassin. He sets out for the Royal Capital.
• A sudden, unnatural snowstorm strikes. Green encounters a carriage carrying a Necromancer and a highly intelligent Lich serving as coachman. The Necromancer notices Green’s unusually well-transformed Lich body but declines to approach because he is on a mission for Director Xilabell and is in Stinnard.
• Green chooses not to pursue them, deciding to avoid unnecessary risks while he is new to the area.

Character developments and interactions

• Grand Duke Mora is shown as ruthless and willing to sacrifice an entire world to defeat the Rune Federation’s strategy.
• Green is cautious and observant. Although he is tempted to seize the rare intelligent Lich, he prioritizes staying inconspicuous.
• Green’s outward gestures—huddling against the cold despite not feeling it—reveal his effort to preserve human habits and identity after becoming a complete Lich.
• The passing Necromancer admires Green’s transformation and briefly considers adding him to his collection, but his mission takes priority. His exchange with the coachman establishes their master-servant relationship and the danger Green has encountered.

Significant themes

• Exploitation and resistance: Lorenzo’s colonial policy harms both native workers and its own people, eventually fueling rebellion.
• Power politics and sacrifice: Nations use proxy conflicts and strategic threats, while Mora treats the Void World as expendable.
• Identity and humanity: Green’s Lich transformation threatens to strip away his humanity; maintaining small human behaviors becomes an act of self-preservation.
• A world in decline: The sudden, extreme winter is an early consequence of the Void World’s stolen Origin, turning political exploitation into environmental catastrophe.

Key plot points and events

• Green, now posing as Wood Slater, reflects on how Necromancers’ pursuit of immortality can ultimately destroy their souls. A passing Necromancer’s artifact seems to stir painful emotions in him, but Green chooses to experience them rather than suppress them.
• A sudden, unusually severe snowstorm makes travel dangerous, especially for the city’s poor and homeless. Green summons a giant Clay Golem to carry him toward Stinnard.
• Green plans to improve his standing by presenting himself as a talented young noble Necromancer and seeking a military commission. He rejects Wood’s former ambition of joining the Revolutionary Army, believing a noble cannot truly share its cause.
• Near the city, Green encounters a noble convoy. A Knight from the Anomalies Bureau questions him, and he identifies himself as Baron Wood Slater of Kent County.
• Cyrabelle, the Bureau’s director, recruits Green into service for the king. He accepts, unexpectedly gaining a route into the kingdom’s power structure.
• The Knight warns Cyrabelle that Green may be a spy. Cyrabelle doubts he is a Revolutionary Army agent but remains intrigued by him and hints that she would enjoy killing him if he proved hostile.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shows greater willingness to confront his buried emotions, while remaining calculating about his new identity and future. He quickly adapts when Cyrabelle’s recruitment offers an easier path than his original plan.
• Wood Slater’s past is contrasted with Green’s pragmatism: Wood sympathized with the oppressed and hoped to join the revolution, but was killed by the very movement he admired.
• Cyrabelle is introduced as a soft-spoken but formidable figure: a count, lieutenant general, Legendary Advanced Mage, and feared opponent of the Revolutionary Army. Her calm manner masks a ruthless, almost playful interest in potential enemies.
• The blond Knight treats Green respectfully because of his power and noble status, but remains suspicious. She acts as Cyrabelle’s attendant and raises the possibility that he is an infiltrator.
• Green and Cyrabelle do not yet meet face-to-face, but their first encounter establishes mutual uncertainty: she has recruited him, while recognizing that he is unusual.

Significant themes

• Immortality and the cost of power: A Lich may endure physically, but prolonged isolation can erode the soul.
• Class and political belonging: Green rejects Wood’s idealism, arguing that social position shapes loyalties and that a noble cannot genuinely belong to the Revolutionary Army.
• Inequality and suffering: The snow’s beauty to the wealthy contrasts sharply with its life-threatening danger for the poor.
• Identity, secrecy, and suspicion: Green’s assumed identity helps him advance, but his unexplained nature makes him a potential threat in a world governed by surveillance and political conflict.

Key events

• Green joins a military expedition to Northern Province after receiving a summons from the Anomalies Bureau. The summons is part of Countess Cyrabelle’s effort to clear powerful Transcendents out of the Royal Capital before suppressing the rebellion.
• The army gathers at Shettdo Camp: 30,000 soldiers, ten Knight Orders, and 3,000 Transcendents. Cyrabelle uses powerful magic to warm the troops and subtly heighten their devotion and willingness to fight.
• Cyrabelle seems to invite an assassination attempt, hoping to draw out the Revolutionary Army, but no one acts. She orders the force north.
• After three days of magical enhancements and marching, the army reaches Northern Province. Its mines make it wealthy, but brutal labor and oppression have made the province a center of resistance.
• Meanwhile, Green’s work in Landon City intensifies after news spreads of a possible entrance to the Primordial Void World. The Anomalies Bureau, the Holy Light Church, and other factions arrive, creating a boom in activity—and serious public-order problems.

Character developments and interactions

• Green remains cautious and pragmatic. He avoids provoking the other requisitioned Transcendents, practices Necromancy during the journey, and uses the arrival of headquarters personnel to strengthen his connections. His role as bureau director becomes far busier.
• Cyrabelle presents a composed, commanding image but proves both ruthless and calculating. She cares for her troops’ immediate comfort, yet uses magic to make them more devoted and battle-ready. She also deliberately seeks an opportunity to confront or lure out the Revolutionary Army.
• Green and Cyrabelle do not directly clash, but she takes an interest in him after mistaking him for a possible assassin; his uneventful presence disappoints her.
• The other requisitioned Transcendents keep their heads down, wary of Cyrabelle and the consequences of drawing her attention. Green recognizes her manipulation but, like the others, does not challenge her.
• In Landon City, Green warmly welcomes Hiddink, a former superior, and cultivates the relationship while managing the growing influx of visitors.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: Cyrabelle combines military authority with magic and psychological influence, turning care for soldiers into a tool of control.
• Oppression and rebellion: The miners’ exploitation explains why Northern Province has become a stronghold of resistance.
• Political intimidation: The summons and Cyrabelle’s reputation keep the Kingdom’s Transcendents compliant.
• Opportunity and disorder: The rumored Void World entrance attracts factions and hopeful adventurers, bringing prosperity to Landon City alongside instability.

Key plot points and events

• In the Void, Cyrabelle leads the Kingdom’s campaign into the Northern Province to crush the rebellion and eliminate its celebrated commander, Sihanu Lawrence, a Legendary Knight secretly from the Rune Federation.
• Cyrabelle’s army avoids the failures of the previous expedition: her magic protects the southern troops from the cold, while the rebels suffer from the worsening weather. Sihanu retreats north, expecting the Kingdom’s magic and supply lines to fail.
• Cyrabelle steadily retakes Groz City and southern farmland without a major battle. When corrupt officials sabotage the army’s supplies, she executes dozens of nobles and has a disrespectful envoy killed, forcing the logistics network to deliver provisions properly.
• Blizzards and overstretched supply lines eventually halt her advance. Cyrabelle orders the army to rest and establishes three forward camps to monitor and harass the rebels.
• Green is assigned to command the second camp, though Cyrabelle considers him expendable. He is unconcerned, confident in his necromantic strength.
• Green discovers that the Void strongly supports undead: Death Psychic Energy is increasing, strengthening undead and helping them evolve. He does not yet know this is an early consequence of the world’s impending destruction.
• The chapter explains that the Void’s growing deaths and disasters will eventually produce a massive surge of Death Psychic Energy. This will trigger the Undead Calamity, in which undead overwhelm the remaining living populations and ultimately fight among themselves.

Character developments and interactions

• Cyrabelle proves herself a formidable, disciplined commander: she protects her troops, advances methodically, and uses ruthless force against corruption. Even Marquis Ristavis, despite his anger and rank, backs down after she challenges him to settle the matter by noble duel.
• Sihanu Lawrence remains cautious and strategic, relying on retreat and the enemy’s presumed logistical weakness; he has not yet grasped how different Cyrabelle is from the previous commander.
• Green shifts from curious observer to an active military commander, while recognizing the unusual advantages the Void offers his undead. His confidence rests on his strength, though he does not understand the full catastrophe building around him.
• The chapter contrasts Cyrabelle’s uncompromising authority with the nobles’ corruption and arrogance, and sets up the coming conflict between her forces and Sihanu’s rebels.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Cyrabelle’s magical protection and leadership prevent the army from repeating past mistakes.
• Corruption versus accountability: Noble privilege fails to shield those who endanger the troops from Cyrabelle’s justice.
• War’s hidden costs: Even without major battles, cold, disease, supply failures, and political scheming shape the campaign.
• Death as an ecological force: The Void’s approaching collapse turns mass suffering into a boon for undead, foreshadowing catastrophe rather than salvation.

Key plot points and events

• Green recognizes that the Graveyard’s Mist World is recovering from a past undead calamity. During that catastrophe, powerful undead reached Calamity Rank, but the dying world’s lack of energy forced them to flee, hide, or be sealed.
• Taking advantage of the rising Death Psychic Energy, Green secretly moves most of his Graveyard undead into the frozen wilderness of Northern Province, where they can absorb it beneath the snow. He keeps only his Death Angel double and Shadow Red Dragon behind.
• Green considers bringing a Calamity Rank Skeleton Lord’s remains into the world, hoping the ambient energy might awaken it. He hesitates, unsure he could control such a powerful creature.
• A hostile stranger arrives outside Green’s camp. The enormous man, Barbarian Niderland, identifies himself as an enemy of the Lorenzo Kingdom and challenges Green, hoping to force the Kingdom’s troops out.
• Niderland leaps at Green with a Totem-empowered greatsword. Green’s soldiers fire, but Green had already recognized Niderland’s attack-reflecting Psychic Energy and stopped them from shooting sooner.
• Green calls Niderland a lackey of the Rune Federation, provoking the bitterness behind his service: the Federation conquered and devastated the Barbarians, but Niderland fights for it so his tribe’s children can receive food, warmth, and training.
• Green summons a Clay Golem between himself and Niderland. The golem blocks the strike, but Niderland’s sword cuts through its arm and stops at its shoulder.

Character developments

• Green acts cautiously and strategically: he conceals his undead forces, assesses the risks of awakening the Skeleton Lord, and prevents his soldiers from triggering Niderland’s defensive ability. He also shows confidence in meeting the attack with a summoned golem.
• Niderland is introduced as formidable, proud, and openly hostile. Beneath his aggression, however, he is driven by loyalty to his people. He serves the Rune Federation not out of allegiance, but to keep his tribe’s children from starving and freezing.

Significant themes

• Survival under oppression: Niderland accepts a hated enemy’s service to protect the next generation of his people.
• Power and risk: Green’s interest in awakening the Skeleton Lord illustrates the temptation to gain a powerful ally—and the danger of losing control.
• Hidden danger and preparation: Green quietly positions his undead forces while the world’s growing Death Psychic Energy signals a new threat.
• The human cost of conquest: Niderland’s people have been reduced by the Federation’s violence, leaving his generation trapped in painful compromises.

Character interactions

• Green’s soldiers react angrily to Niderland’s challenge, but Green restrains them after identifying his defensive trick.
• Green taunts Niderland about serving the Rune Federation, exposing the conflict between Niderland’s hatred of the conquerors and his responsibility to his tribe.
• The confrontation ends in a direct clash: Niderland’s empowered sword strikes Green’s summoned Clay Golem, demonstrating the Barbarian’s strength while leaving the fight unresolved.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Green’s Clay Golem attacks Niderland, an advanced barbarian Totem Warrior. Niderland damages the golem with his greatsword and bear-shaped Totem Power, but the construct rapidly repairs itself.
• Niderland decapitates the golem, only to discover it was a setup: Green’s Bone Spikes strike from behind. Niderland barely blocks them, recognizing Green as a capable combatant rather than an inexperienced noble.
• Green escalates with his upgraded Bone Spear Array, firing volleys of spears at Niderland. The barbarian deflects the first barrage, then dodges Green’s concealed Bone Claw attack.
• A second spear volley catches Niderland in midair. He destroys many spears with a Totem-powered Cross Slash but is ultimately wounded in the shoulder.
• Green orders the camp’s strongest Transcendents to capture Niderland alive if possible, allowing them to confront the enemy themselves. They pursue him; in the Northern Province wilderness, Niderland evades an advanced mage’s Ice Spikes and continues north.

Character developments

• Green demonstrates tactical skill, composure, and formidable magical power. He uses the golem as cover, chains attacks to anticipate Niderland’s reactions, and deliberately lets his subordinates engage the wounded barbarian to establish his authority.
• Niderland proves to be a seasoned, resourceful fighter. Though slower than Green’s attacks, he relies on instinct, swordsmanship, and Totem Power to survive repeated attempts to kill or capture him. Wounded, he remains determined to escape.
• The camp’s Transcendents lose their confidence in questioning Green’s appointment after witnessing his abilities; they obey his command and join the pursuit.

Significant themes

• Skill over status: Green overturns the belief that he is merely a well-connected noble by showing genuine battlefield competence.
• Combat as strategy: Green wins advantages through deception, timing, and layered attacks, while Niderland survives through experience and instinct.
• Authority and fear: Green uses the encounter not only to weaken an enemy but also to demonstrate his power to the camp and compel respect.
• Survival and resilience: Despite being outmatched and injured, Niderland continues fighting and fleeing.

Character interactions

• Green and Niderland engage in a battle of tactics: Green repeatedly tries to predict and trap him, while Niderland reads danger and counters as best he can.
• Green’s command puts the camp’s elite Transcendents in the role of pursuers, turning the fight into a test of both their obedience and their ability.
• The advanced mage directly attacks the fleeing Niderland with Ice Spikes, but the barbarian evades them and presses onward.

Key plot points and events

• Gravely wounded Niderland flees pursuit by a Gun Knight and an ice mage. He uses a burst of Totem Power to evade the Knight’s three enchanted bullets, then senses through the mage’s concealment and wounds him with a backward slash.
• The mage survives only because a magical pendant absorbs the blow, but his injuries force him to abandon the chase. The Knight decides he cannot safely pursue Niderland alone.
• Niderland reaches a forest, removes the bone spear from his shoulder, and painstakingly cuts away flesh corrupted by its Death Psychic Energy. After treating the wound, he plans to return to the rebel camp and report that a powerful Necromancer has joined the Kingdom’s forces.
• As he prepares to leave, a figure appears silently behind him: a Four-Winged Black-Winged Angel. Niderland recognizes that she is far beyond his strength and is overcome by fear.

Character developments and interactions

• Niderland regrets overestimating his ability to assassinate the enemy commander, but thoughts of his family and tribe renew his will to survive. His skill, discipline, and resourcefulness show in both his escape and self-treatment.
• The Gun Knight and the mage recognize Niderland’s exceptional power and abandon the pursuit rather than risk death. The mage’s injury also reinforces how dangerous the barbarian remains despite being wounded.
• Green is shown to be stronger still: the narration compares their combat ratings, explaining that Green’s decisive victory over Niderland reflected a substantial difference in power.
• The Four-Winged Angel enters as an overwhelming new threat, leaving Niderland unable to summon his usual fighting spirit.

Significant themes

• Survival through resolve and adaptability: Niderland survives by relying on both instinct in combat and grim endurance afterward.
• Power and vulnerability: Even a formidable warrior is exposed when injured, outnumbered, or confronted by someone several ranks stronger.
• Duty to family and community: Niderland’s concern for his loved ones and tribe gives him a reason to keep fighting and to carry crucial intelligence back to the rebels.
• The shifting scale of the conflict: The appearance of a powerful Necromancer and a Four-Winged Angel suggests that the war involves forces far beyond ordinary fighters.

• Holly recruits Niderland: After Niderland escapes the Rune Federation’s pursuers, the Four-Winged Angel Holly offers him a stark choice: join her master and fight for his people’s future, or die. Hoping to avenge his tribe and protect its children, Niderland agrees, though he remains uncertain about who Holly’s powerful master is.
• Niderland faces a freezing test: Holly leads him to a snow-filled hollow and orders him to endure the cold without using Totem Power. Believing refusal would mean death, he obeys. He soon loses consciousness as the cold brings him close to death.
• Green prepares to win over the tribe: Back at camp, Green reviews intelligence about the Rune Federation’s oppression of the Barbarians. The surviving tribe is isolated, impoverished, and exploited by government-approved merchants; its population has even declined since the massacre ten years earlier. Young warriors such as Niderland risk their lives on dangerous missions to secure supplies. Green sees an opportunity to gain the tribe’s allegiance by offering protection and better treatment—but intends to transform most of its warriors into his shadow followers.
• Green begins the transformation: Holly summons Green to the hollow, where Niderland is barely alive. Green has deliberately brought him to this threshold between life and death, the condition he believes best for using Death Corruption. He plans to make Niderland the first Shadow Barbarian, or Shadow Totem Warrior, and use the result to judge whether other Totem Warriors can be transformed. Women and children are excluded so the tribe can continue to grow.
• The transformation begins: Niderland’s Totem Power manifests as a Brown Bear and resists Green’s Death Psychic Energy, but his near-death condition leaves him too weak to fight it off. The energy begins corrupting both his body and the bear-shaped power.
  Character developments and interactions: Niderland’s desperation to save his people leads him to accept Holly’s dangerous offer and endure the test, though he does not know Green’s true plan. Holly acts as recruiter and enforcer, bringing Niderland to Green. Green is strategic and calculating: he presents himself as a potential protector while planning to bind the tribe’s warriors to his power.
  Themes: The chapter explores survival under colonial exploitation, the search for hope amid oppression, and the moral ambiguity of rescue when it comes with coercion and bodily transformation.

Key plot points and events

• Niderland faces a supernatural trial in a dream: he must accept black energy that corrupts his soul or freeze to death. He chooses the energy, completes the trial, and awakens as a Shadow Totem Warrior.
• His Totem Power takes the form of a massive brown bear infused with Death Psychic Energy. Rather than weakening him, the energy makes his power more corrosive and dangerous.
• Niderland pledges himself to Green, and Green orders him to return to the rebel forces as an undercover source of information, without taking unnecessary risks.
• Green promises to send food and supplies to Niderland’s struggling tribe, and offers them land in another Void World in exchange for two thousand elite warriors. Niderland’s loyalty rises sharply.
• News arrives that rebel Transcendents have badly damaged two other forward camps, inflicting heavy casualties among their defenders. Second Forward Camp escaped the worst of the attacks.
• After learning that Green repelled an attack and defeated Niderland, Count Cyrabelle visits him to assess his abilities and loyalty. Their conversation is interrupted by a red flare announcing an enemy attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Niderland changes from a defeated, endangered warrior into a stronger Shadow Totem Warrior. His devotion to Green grows from cautious service to near-total loyalty, driven especially by the prospect of securing his tribe’s future.
• Green proves both strategically capable and politically perceptive: he turns Niderland into an informant while motivating him through concrete aid to his people. He also refuses to reveal how he became a Necromancer, invoking a private secret and his teacher.
• Cyrabelle is impressed by Green but remains suspicious of his sudden rise from low-level Knight to high-level Necromancer. She speculates that a powerful political figure may be backing him, while trusting her own strength to handle any hidden agenda.
• Green treats Niderland as a soldier rather than demanding courtly manners. With Cyrabelle, he uses a respectful but dignified noble’s greeting, presenting himself as her social equal.

Significant themes

• Power and sacrifice: Niderland survives by accepting corruption, turning a threat into a source of strength.
• Loyalty and mutual benefit: Green earns Niderland’s allegiance by addressing his tribe’s immediate needs and offering them a future.
• Secrecy and political suspicion: Green’s unexplained transformation invites Cyrabelle to imagine larger schemes behind him.
• War and vulnerability: The attacks on the forward camps reveal how exposed the Kingdom’s Transcendents are, despite the relative safety of the ordinary troops.

Plot points and events

• A flare warns of an enemy attack. Cyrabelle joins Green at the camp’s north wall, where she sees he has reinforced it with a thick layer of ice.
• A wounded assassin races back toward camp with two rebel Transcendents close behind. Cyrabelle tells Green to act as commander, leaving the decision to him.
• Green uses his Death Vines to kill the first pursuer as he attacks the fallen assassin. He then detonates a Corpse Explosion on the dead man, killing the second pursuer.
• Green reflects that the rebels’ fury may be induced by the Rune Federation, which manipulates native fighters into risking their lives while presenting itself as their liberator.

Character developments and interactions

• Green demonstrates initiative, combat skill, and tactical control. He chooses to fight personally, both to protect the camp and to show Cyrabelle his abilities.
• Cyrabelle trusts Green to command and observes his methods, gaining a clearer sense of his strength.
• The rebel pursuers are driven by intense hatred of the Kingdom’s army; one cites the death of his five-year-old child. Their grief and rage make them especially dangerous, but also vulnerable to manipulation.
• The wounded assassin nearly reaches safety but is saved by Green’s intervention.

Significant themes

• Manipulation disguised as liberation: Green believes the Rune Federation exploits native resentment and turns people into expendable soldiers.
• War and vengeance: The rebels’ personal losses fuel a cycle of hatred and violence.
• Pragmatism in conflict: Though Green and Cyrabelle recognize the natives may be victims, they treat armed opponents as enemies who must be stopped.
• Competence and trust: Cyrabelle’s willingness to delegate lets Green prove his judgment and abilities.

Key plot points and events

• Green demonstrates near-flawless Necromancy, impressing the Legendary Mage Cyrabelle. She assumes his casting skill comes from exceptional talent, unaware that it is the Graveyard’s character-template system.
• An injured Assassin reaches the camp and reports that a rebel force is approaching. Cyrabelle heals him and learns the attackers are equipped with Construct Armor—powerful, costly gear strongly implicating the Rune Federation.
• Green is less concerned by the approaching soldiers than by their armor. He has long wanted Construct Armor for his undead troops and sees the invading force as a chance to acquire it.
• The rebel army arrives, but it is far larger than the Assassin reported: at least forty thousand troops. Alongside roughly twenty thousand human rebels is a similarly large coalition of Void World peoples, including Orcs, Kobolds, Gnolls, and others. The human troops carry modern Rune M1860 rifles and Construct Armor; the native coalition is poorly equipped.

Character developments and interactions

• Cyrabelle recognizes Green’s impressive magical precision and becomes more wary as the invasion’s scale and the Kingdom’s vulnerability become clear. Though powerful enough to defeat the army herself, she fears the Rune Federation has a hidden force prepared to contain her.
• Green views the invasion as an opportunity to seize valuable equipment, revealing his practical, acquisitive focus even in the face of a major threat.
• The Assassin returns injured but delivers crucial intelligence. Cyrabelle responds calmly, reassures the camp, and heals him.
• The defenders initially dismiss the enemy’s numbers, but the revelation of Construct Armor and then the much larger army dampens their confidence.

Significant themes

• Power and precision: Magical skill depends on minimizing errors; Green’s uncanny accuracy is mistaken for innate genius.
• War and technology: Construct Armor and modern rifles transform ordinary troops into a serious military threat.
• Political decline and vulnerability: Cyrabelle’s thoughts expose the Lorenzo Kingdom’s weakening position and the burden placed on its few remaining defenders.
• Opportunity amid danger: Green sees the enemy’s costly equipment not only as a threat, but as a potential prize.

• Plot and events: A rebel army of roughly 40,000—made up of humans and supposedly vanished nonhuman peoples—advances on Second Forward Camp. Count Cyrabelle refuses to retreat and orders the Kingdom’s main army to march from headquarters, where a prepared mobilization plan allows the troops and elite reinforcements to respond quickly. She then launches a devastating solo attack, diving into the enemy as a fiery “Meteor” and killing more than 3,000 rebels in the impact zone. Green follows her onto the battlefield, summoning a Clay Golem and opening portals that release an enormous force of Kobold Zombies.
• Character developments: Cyrabelle’s calm, gentle appearance gives way to a reckless, bloodthirsty confidence in battle. She is revealed as an exceptionally powerful high-tier Legendary Mage who welcomes the chance to fight the rebel army directly. Green, impressed by her strength, remains composed and sees the enemy as a source of Psychic Energy. He also shows strategic restraint: he deploys the Kobold Shaman and its expendable zombie horde while keeping his more distinctive and powerful troops concealed.
• Character interactions: Green initially asks whether Cyrabelle should fall back, but she brushes aside the danger and challenges him to join her. Though surprised by her audacity, he agrees. Cyrabelle orders Ayla to alert headquarters, while Green’s display of mass summoning astonishes the camp’s defenders and even Ayla.
• Themes: The chapter contrasts appearances with reality: Cyrabelle’s angelic beauty masks terrifying destructive power, while Green’s seemingly modest force can multiply into thousands of undead. It also emphasizes preparation and controlled risk—Cyrabelle’s army mobilizes without chaos because of prior planning, and Green limits the zombie horde’s size to avoid overloading its commander. The clash frames overwhelming numbers not as an automatic advantage, but as a resource that powerful and strategic individuals can exploit.

Plot points and events

• Green arrives with nearly 6,000 Kobold Zombies, whose combat power rises by 20% under Fearless Horn. Equipped with enchanted weapons and armor made in his Landon City factory, they are far better fighters than ordinary undead.
• Cyrabelle approves of Green’s forces but recognizes that he is holding back stronger undead. She assigns him to handle ordinary troops while she takes on the powerful Transcendents.
• Cyrabelle detects a hidden threat: Rune and the rebels have secretly released someone and concealed him in the Spirit World. She promises to appoint Green a special adviser to the Anomalies Bureau if he survives, then transports him through the Spirit World.
• Green observes Cyrabelle’s advanced Spirit World Traversal, learning how she spiritualizes her body and navigates the dangerous realm. They emerge aboard the Golden Nightmare, an ancient Void vessel recovered and repaired by the Rune Federation. Its interior contains a vast, icy Spatial World.
• The vessel’s defenders include Sisonawa, a Legendary White Dragon. He intends to kill Cyrabelle and take revenge on Lorenzo for his century of suffering in the Sea of Death.
• Cyrabelle confronts Sisonawa and tells Green to seize control of the ship while she fights the dragon.

Character developments and interactions

• Green demonstrates the scale and quality of his forces while protecting his valuable high-level undead from needless losses. He remains confident in his assigned role and uses the journey as a rare chance to study Cyrabelle’s magic.
• Cyrabelle reveals both her confidence in Green and her willingness to reward him, but also takes the dangerous fight upon herself. Her calm manner masks a keen awareness of the ambush and its risks.
• Sisonawa emerges as a vengeful enemy, convinced that the Grand Duke cannot intervene. His exchange with Cyrabelle exposes tension between his desire for revenge and the possibility that Rune’s allies intend to exploit him.
• Green and Cyrabelle’s partnership shifts into a practical division of labor: she engages the dragon while he is tasked with taking the vessel.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Green has stronger undead but avoids risking them in a battle of attrition.
• Knowledge gained through danger: Green turns a perilous journey into an opportunity to study advanced magic.
• Political betrayal and uneasy alliances: Rune’s secret preparations and Sisonawa’s possible use as a weapon complicate the conflict.
• Revenge and its cost: Sisonawa’s century of resentment fuels his threat to punish Lorenzo’s people.

Plot points

• Cyrabelle sends Green toward the Golden Nightmare’s hidden control center while she confronts Sisonawa, the Legendary White Dragon, with a gigantic summoned statue of the Goddess of War, Akaliuose.
• Green reaches the location quickly. Cyrabelle warns that Rune forces have noticed their arrival and that Xihanu Lawrence may come with reinforcements; she gives Green five minutes before she must withdraw.
• The control center is concealed underground and phased into a spiritual state, making it difficult to attack. Green uses Eye of Spirit Sight to uncover a Psychic Energy trap powerful enough to kill him—and likely intended as a last-resort defense against Cyrabelle.
• Recognizing the danger, Green starts to retreat into the Spirit World. Before he can finish preparing, Xihanu arrives. Green abandons the spell and summons the Death Angel Clone to protect Wood Slater.
• Xihanu identifies the Death Angel as a Divine Artifact Rank puppet and boasts that Rune will win the Void World. The chapter ends with the Death Angel facing him.

Character developments and interactions

• Cyrabelle reveals her formidable combat ability and strategic caution. Though she tests Green’s resolve, she also warns him rather than treating him as expendable.
• Green demonstrates ambition, resourcefulness, and good judgment: he risks his clone to earn Cyrabelle’s trust, detects the concealed trap, and changes plans immediately when a Legendary enemy appears.
• Xihanu Lawrence arrives with overwhelming confidence, convinced that Rune’s victory is assured.
• Cyrabelle and Green coordinate through magical transmission, while Green’s Death Angel intervenes between Wood Slater and Xihanu.

Significant themes

• Deception and layered traps: The Golden Nightmare’s apparent accessibility conceals a lethal defense.
• Risk and ambition: Green accepts danger to secure future standing with Cyrabelle.
• Power and confidence: Cyrabelle and Xihanu both display extraordinary strength, while Green survives through adaptability rather than direct force.
• Uncertainty in war: Despite Xihanu’s certainty, the confrontation with the Death Angel leaves the outcome unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Xihanu Lawrence arrives at Golden Nightmare intending to kill Green, whom he mistakes for a minor threat. His original plan had been to lure Cyrabelle into a battle while White Dragon Sisonawa ambushed her, but Cyrabelle instead attacked Sisonawa directly.
• Green avoids Xihanu’s surprise charge and summons Death Angel, an artifact-level metal Angel. Xihanu realizes she is a serious opponent and attacks with Holy Knight Charge.
• At the last moment, Death Angel consumes a Divine Power Crystal and unleashes overwhelming swordsmanship. She cuts off Xihanu’s right hand and kills his beloved Dragon Horse, though Xihanu survives the strike.
• The Divine Power burst leaves Death Angel nearly immobilized. Xihanu transforms into a towering Behemoth, gaining immense strength but losing much of his reason.
• Green judges that defeating Xihanu would cost too many Divine Power Crystals and would not serve his goals. He withdraws Wood Slater and sends Cyrabelle a message, while Death Angel holds Xihanu off without spending more crystals. Green waits to learn whether Cyrabelle has defeated Sisonawa before deciding whether to call for help or retreat.

Character developments

• Green proves resourceful under attack, but remains pragmatic: he refuses to risk himself or his resources for a battle that is not his to decide.
• Xihanu Lawrence shifts from confident aggressor to shocked and furious survivor. His attachment to his Dragon Horse briefly surfaces, but he presses on with the fight. His Behemoth form boosts his power at the cost of his reason.
• Death Angel reveals a devastating ability powered by Divine Power, but its immense strain leaves her vulnerable afterward.
• Cyrabelle is absent from the confrontation, yet her battle with Sisonawa determines Green’s next move.

Significant themes

• Power has a price: Death Angel’s extraordinary strength consumes Divine Power and leaves her nearly frozen.
• Pragmatism over heroism: Green weighs the likely cost against the value of the fight and chooses caution.
• Plans can collapse unexpectedly: Xihanu’s carefully arranged ambush is disrupted when Cyrabelle targets Sisonawa, and his own attack on Green goes badly.
• Strength and control: Xihanu’s transformation makes him stronger but less rational, showing the danger of power that overwhelms its user.

Character interactions

• Xihanu dismisses Green as insignificant, then discovers that Green commands a formidable artifact.
• Death Angel meets Xihanu’s charge head-on and inflicts a severe physical and emotional blow.
• Green and Death Angel act in coordination: she delays Xihanu while Green withdraws and contacts Cyrabelle.
• Xihanu’s grief over his Dragon Horse contrasts with his determination to continue fighting.

Plot points

• Wood Slater tells Cyrabelle that Xihanu Lawrence has transformed into a Behemoth and that a mysterious Four-Winged Angel is fighting him.
• Cyrabelle continues battling the White Dragon, Sisonawa. When he tries to flee, she unleashes a Divine Power Crystal through her battered Goddess of War statue, enabling it to kill him.
• Cyrabelle captures Sisonawa’s soul and compresses it into a Dragon Soul Pearl, though the statue crumbles from the strain.
• While Cyrabelle rushes to the Behemoth’s battlefield, Wood Slater secretly returns to claim Sisonawa’s corpse. He sends it through a portal to the Graveyard, planning to use it to create a powerful undead dragon.
• Cyrabelle and the Death Angel recognize that they can cooperate against the Behemoth. But Xihanu’s bestial instincts fixate on Cyrabelle, and he charges directly at her.

Character developments and interactions

• Cyrabelle proves ruthless and resourceful, spending an expensive Divine Power Crystal to finish Sisonawa and recover value from his soul. She then forms a tacit alliance with the Death Angel.
• Sisonawa abandons the Rune Federation alliance when defeat seems imminent, but Cyrabelle anticipates his escape and kills him.
• Wood Slater stays clear of the Legendary battle, then opportunistically takes the dragon’s body for necromantic use.
• Xihanu Lawrence has largely lost his human consciousness to the Behemoth’s instincts. His deep-seated fixation on Cyrabelle drives him to attack her, despite the Death Angel being his opponent.
• Cyrabelle and the Death Angel cooperate without discussion, united by their shared need to stop the Behemoth.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism over loyalty: Sisonawa’s alliance ends as soon as it stops serving him, while Cyrabelle and the Death Angel temporarily join forces against a greater threat.
• Power at a cost: Cyrabelle’s Divine Power Crystal delivers victory but damages the statue and is extraordinarily expensive.
• Death as a resource: Sisonawa’s corpse and soul become valuable materials for Cyrabelle and Wood Slater.
• The loss of self: Xihanu’s transformation leaves only fragments of his former consciousness, now overwhelmed by violent instinct.

Plot points and events

• Xihanu Lawrence, transformed by the Behemoth bloodline, attacks Cyrabelle with startling speed and strength. Her powerful defenses let her survive two direct blows.
• Cyrabelle’s counterattack redirects the Behemoth toward Green’s Death Angel. Green strikes back with a concentrated Sword Qi attack, but the Behemoth counters in midair and drives the Death Angel into the ground.
• Green sacrifices one of the Death Angel’s arms to absorb the impact. The damage already costs 3,100 Psychic Energy to repair, and the battle is still underway.
• The Behemoth is wounded, but the Death Angel’s swords can barely penetrate its hide. Green refuses to use Divine Power Crystals, judging the cost unjustified because Xihanu may revert to human form upon death.
• Cyrabelle traps the Behemoth in a spatial seal formed from more than a hundred linked magical screens. The creature breaks free through sheer strength, but is left dazed and temporarily vulnerable.
• Cyrabelle calls for an attack. Green notices how exhausted she is and considers killing both the Behemoth and Cyrabelle while they are weakened; the chapter ends before he decides.

Character developments

• Green shows tactical skill and resourcefulness, sacrificing the Death Angel’s arm to protect its body. He remains calculating and cost-conscious, and his opportunistic nature resurfaces when Cyrabelle is weakened.
• Cyrabelle demonstrates extraordinary resilience and advanced spatial magic. Though initially using the Behemoth’s attacks to test Green’s commitment, she ultimately focuses on defeating their common enemy. Her powerful spell leaves her visibly drained.
• Xihanu Lawrence / the Behemoth is revealed to have gained formidable strength through a reckless fusion with Behemoth blood. Cyrabelle believes this choice tainted his bloodline and cost him the chance to advance to Calamity.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: The Behemoth’s strength, Green’s costly repairs, and Cyrabelle’s exhausting magic all carry consequences.
• Pragmatism and self-interest: Green weighs every resource and opportunity, even considering betrayal when it might benefit him.
• The limits of brute force: The Behemoth can break a powerful spatial seal, but doing so leaves it vulnerable.
• Reckless shortcuts: Xihanu’s pursuit of immediate strength may have sacrificed his long-term potential.

Character interactions

• Cyrabelle redirects the Behemoth toward Green, effectively forcing him to fight rather than hang back; Green recognizes this as a warning and a test.
• Green and Cyrabelle cooperate against the Behemoth, though neither fully trusts the other. Cyrabelle watches Green’s skill and intentions, while Green remains wary of her magic and considers whether to exploit her exhaustion.
• Green’s attacks wound the Behemoth, and Cyrabelle’s spatial trap creates the opening for their next assault.

Plot and events

• Green considers exploiting Cyrabelle’s apparent weakness, but decides her political connections and intelligence are more valuable than killing her.
• As the Behemoth Xihanu Lawrence begins reverting to human form, Green’s Death Angel attacks and seemingly kills him. Green senses a trap and retreats.
• A Psychic Energy bomb detonates beneath the battlefield, revealing that the Rune People aboard the Golden Nightmare had moved the weapon into position. Xihanu’s apparent death was also a ruse: he used a substitute Magic Artifact to escape and reappeared wounded in the rebel camp.
• The bomb’s blast disrupts space, preventing Cyrabelle from using spatial magic and leaving her vulnerable. Green initially has the Death Angel fly away, but then opens a Portal and pulls Cyrabelle to safety.
• Green’s route runs through the Graveyard, whose protection allows his Spirit Calling to function despite the explosion. Cyrabelle survives without realizing how he rescued her.

Character developments and interactions

• Green chooses long-term advantage over immediate betrayal, then risks saving Cyrabelle when she is stranded. He keeps the method secret.
• Cyrabelle faces death calmly, recalling her family and teacher and revealing her fierce hatred of the Rune People, whom she wants to destroy in revenge. Afterward, she is surprised and suspicious of Green’s rescue, but acknowledges the debt and promises to repay it.
• Xihanu Lawrence demonstrates desperation and cunning, using both a substitute artifact and the bomb’s chaos to escape.
• Green and Cyrabelle’s cooperation shifts into mutual wariness after their shared enemy appears defeated, but his rescue creates a new bond between them.

Significant themes

• Trust and strategic alliance: Green’s choices are driven less by affection than by the value of keeping Cyrabelle as an ally.
• Deception and survival: Xihanu’s escape and Green’s hidden rescue route show how appearances conceal the real situation.
• Revenge and loss: Cyrabelle’s memories and final words reveal that her ambition is rooted in profound personal grief and hatred of the Rune People.