Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Number Four—whose former name is Gregory—decides to take the badly wounded Erik to Dotenard, hoping Modi can offer him a way out of his failing, monstrous body. Erik warns that Modi intends to sacrifice the Kingdom’s people to resurrect the Sea God, but Gregory feels he has no other option.
• Before they can leave, Green and four Legendary-rank Angel Liches arrive. Number Four fights back, but Holly badly wounds him, and he escapes only by sacrificing his left arm.
• Green’s forces catch Gregory outside the city. Under fire, Gregory uses Erik as a shield, worsening the cat’s already critical injuries. Green blocks the escape with a Great Dragon.
• Holly kills Gregory and extracts his Psychic Core. As Gregory dies, he frees Erik from his binding threads and urges him to run, warning that Green is no rescuer.
• Gregory’s body transforms into a diseased monster after death. Erik realizes he cannot escape Green, who turns his attention toward the city. Duke Vra then arrives, armed and empowered by Divine Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Gregory / Number Four: His desperation to escape his deteriorating body drives his choices, including using Erik as a shield. Yet his final act is compassionate: he frees Erik and warns him about Green. His memories reveal that he was once human and close to Erik, Duke Vra, and Lady Isabelle.
• Erik: Although gravely injured and largely powerless, he remains wary of both Modi and Green. His hesitation to flee reflects his awareness that he is trapped—and his complicated history with Duke Vra.
• Green: Calm and commanding, he demonstrates overwhelming force through his Legendary Angels and Great Dragon. He offers safety but gives no sign that Erik should trust him.
• Holly and the Angel Liches: Holly proves far stronger than Gregory, while Green deliberately gives the other Angels a chance to gain experience in combat.
• Duke Vra: His sudden arrival raises the stakes and brings Erik face to face with someone who was once a source of security but became a source of terror.

Significant themes

• Desperation and survival: Gregory’s failing body leaves him willing to gamble on Modi and make brutal choices to stay alive.
• Humanity and monstrosity: Gregory dies wishing he could have died in human form; his transformation into a grotesque corpse makes his loss of humanity literal.
• Trust and betrayal: Erik is caught between dangerous figures, and Gregory’s warning complicates Green’s claim that he can guarantee safety.
• The past’s hold on the present: Gregory’s final memories and Erik’s reaction to Duke Vra reveal relationships shaped by shared history and painful change.

Key plot points and events

• Grand Duke Vra arrives and confronts Green, seeking to take Erik, now a large white cat. Green recognizes that Vra’s Holy Angel Set gives him Early Calamity Rank strength, so he decides not to reveal his own hidden power or provoke a fight.
• Green steps aside, allowing Vra to seize Erik and teleport away. Vra then identifies Number Four’s corpse as Gregory, his late wife’s nephew and his son’s former friend. He burns the body and warns that he can no longer control the modified people, but insists he will resurrect Isabelle at any cost.
• The next day, Green examines information about Mrs. Cassel in his Anomalies Bureau office. A young captain arrives with a folder supposedly sent by General Xihabelon.
• Green detects potent poison on the folder and recognizes the visitor as Number Three. Number Three reveals himself, explaining that he meant to control Green with poison but now intends to eliminate him because Green killed Gregory, disobeyed orders, and hindered Number Zero’s plan.
• Number Three’s devotion to Number Zero makes Green doubt that Vra is the organization’s leader. The chapter ends with Green wondering who Number Zero really is.

Character developments and interactions

• Green stays strategic and guarded: he yields Erik to avoid exposing his Calamity Rank strength, but remains prepared to kill Vra if necessary. He also quickly detects Number Three’s deception and poison.
• Duke Vra appears emotionally unstable and driven by grief. He is furious over Gregory’s death yet remains consumed by his plan to resurrect his wife, Isabelle, even as his control over the modified people collapses.
• Erik is taken by Vra, though his feelings toward the duke remain conflicted, mixing affection and hatred.
• Number Three shifts from apparent ally to open enemy, revealing his loyalty to Number Zero and his willingness to use lethal poison against Green.

Significant themes

• Grief and obsession: Vra’s desire to bring back Isabelle overrides his concern for the people he has sacrificed.
• Deception and hidden identities: Green sees through Number Three’s disguise, while Number Zero’s identity remains uncertain.
• Power and restraint: Both Green and Vra conceal or carefully manage their strength, making their confrontation a contest of judgment as much as force.

Key plot points and events

• Green kills Number Three in his sealed Bureau office. Number Three boasts that the Numbers are ranked by strength, but Green answers by summoning Death Angel, empowered by the Divine Artifact Hundred Thousand Swords to Calamity Rank.
• Death Angel’s Blade Storm strips away Number Three’s protective blood mass and destroys his exposed organs and Divine Power Core. Number Three begs for mercy and offers to serve Green, abandoning his claimed loyalty to Number Zero, but Green kills him and takes his core.
• Green intends to collect the Divine Power Cores of the remaining Numbered People, study their technology, and use the pursuit to flush out Number Zero. He hopes the research may help Princess Mulesina’s Artificial Bone Dragon Project.
• That evening, Green meets Colonel Chilabeka and Mrs. Cassel while disguised as Major Kavarant. Acting under Princess Mulesina’s orders, he assumes overall command of the campaign against Duke Fla’s organization and its Colossal Sacrificial Magic Circle.
• Green assigns Chilabeka’s well-equipped forces to destroy the circle, keeping the rest of the operation for himself. When Chilabeka raises concerns about a threat to Mrs. Cassel, Green reveals that Number Three was responsible and has already been dealt with.

Character developments

• Green remains calm and strategically controlled. He shows little interest in negotiation with the Numbered People, treating their cores as valuable research material, and manages his allies with concise, confident orders.
• Number Three is exposed as a coward when defeat strips away his bravado and supposed loyalty to Number Zero.
• Chilabeka begins wary that Green might sacrifice his troops, but is reassured when assigned a manageable mission. He is also surprised by how quickly Green handles the meeting.
• Mrs. Cassel remains composed, though Green’s authority impresses both her and Chilabeka.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Number Three’s explanation that the Numbers are ranked by strength is undercut by Green’s overwhelming advantage.
• Loyalty under pressure: Number Three’s vows prove hollow when his life is at stake.
• Pragmatism and ambition: Green turns his enemies’ deaths into opportunities for technological research and leverage.
• Command and trust: Green’s fair assignment helps secure Chilabeka’s cooperation while leaving him control over the broader campaign.

Character interactions

• Green defeats Number Three without revealing the confrontation to the Bureau, then returns to his meeting under an assumed identity.
• He gives Chilabeka direct orders and a Magic Communicator, while making clear that Chilabeka can choose how to carry out his assignment.
• When Chilabeka tries to explain the danger to Mrs. Cassel, Green cuts him off with proof that he has already eliminated the threat.

Plot points and events

• Colonel Chilabeka tells General Green that Number Three threatened Mrs. Cassel. Green reveals that Number Three is already dead and assures them Mrs. Cassel is safe.
• Chilabeka and Mrs. Cassel leave, shaken by Green’s power and mystery. They conclude he is likely a powerful figure sent from the Main World and keep his identity and actions secret.
• Chilabeka warns that the Divine Eagle Empire is involved in the Kingdom’s crisis, including a prince’s visit. Green’s arrival may give their side a powerful advantage, though the conflict could become more dangerous.
• The couple discuss Rondok, whose life was saved but who lost both thighs and his genitals. He must decide whether to undergo bodily modification, which could restore function but risks turning him into a monstrous, inhuman being.
• In Fellentin City, Levitta—Number Five in the organization—learns that Numbers One through Four have been killed. He fears that he and Number Six will be next and considers seeking help from Number Zero or Modi.
• Green suddenly appears inside Levitta’s mansion through Spirit World Traversal. Levitta recognizes that resistance is hopeless and surrenders. Green says Levitta may live because he has information of value, and prepares to question him.

Character developments and interactions

• Green is established as an exceptionally powerful and controlled figure: he has killed Number Three, travels into Levitta’s guarded room with ease, and intimidates Levitta into surrender.
• Chilabeka shifts from hoping Green will handle the threat to recognizing him as a formidable but enigmatic ally. His concern for Rondok shows his compassion and regret.
• Mrs. Cassel supports her husband despite the danger, while urging caution amid the looming conflict.
• Rondok faces a painful choice between permanent disability and potentially monstrous modification; Chilabeka sympathizes but cannot choose for him.
• Levitta moves from anxious speculation to fear and submission when Green confronts him. His intelligent military hound, Alrian, senses Green’s presence and reacts with alarm before Levitta does.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Green’s overwhelming strength changes the balance of the conflict, while Levitta’s rank offers little protection against him.
• Loyalty and secrecy: Chilabeka and Mrs. Cassel agree to keep Green’s identity and role concealed.
• The cost of survival and bodily transformation: Rondok’s dilemma questions whether survival is worth losing one’s humanity.
• Uncertainty and escalating conflict: The Divine Eagle Empire’s involvement and the organization’s successive deaths suggest a wider, increasingly dangerous struggle.

• Green interrogates Levitta: Green asks about Levitta’s secret organization and the identity of Number Zero. Levitta’s reaction confirms that Duke Vra is not Number Zero, and he then tells Green what he knows.
• The organization’s origins are revealed: After his wife Isabelle’s death, Duke Vra fell into grief, drug use, and despair. A mysterious stranger persuaded him that Isabelle might be resurrected, prompting Vra to found the organization and conduct brutal human-modification experiments—including experiments on his own son. The work produced modified humans One through Six but never brought Isabelle back. Later, Modi promised Vra he could succeed.
• Number Zero remains unknown: Levitta suspects Number Zero was the original stranger who manipulated Vra, but he has no proof. Green considers whether the Divine Eagle Empire or Holy Light Church might be behind the scheme. The church seems more plausible to him, though its apparent lack of action leaves the theory unresolved.
• Levitta is removed: Satisfied with the answers, Green sends Levitta through a portal into the Graveyard, a bleak city filled with Death Psychic Energy and patrolled by Skeleton Soldiers. There Levitta sees a Dragon Lich and a living Red Dragon before being met by Arkansas, a scholar eager to study him as an experimental subject.
• Alrian’s unusual behavior: Left behind, Levitta’s military dog panics at his master’s disappearance but soon relaxes after Green vanishes. Although drugs are supposed to limit his intelligence, Alrian briefly shows a strikingly human expression before resuming ordinary barking. A man eventually breaks into the office in response.
  Character developments and interactions: Green remains calm and analytical, treating Levitta’s fear with controlled reassurance while probing the conspiracy. Levitta, frightened but pragmatic, cooperates and reveals the organization’s history. Duke Vra emerges as a grieving, obsessive man whose love for Isabelle made him vulnerable to manipulation. Arkansas’s scientific curiosity hints at what may await Levitta. Alrian’s brief, intelligent-looking reaction raises questions about how much the drug suppression has actually limited him.
  Significant themes: The chapter explores grief exploited for manipulation, the cruelty of experiments pursued in the name of love, and the difficulty of identifying the power behind a conspiracy. It also emphasizes the unsettling contrast between apparently controlled beings and signs of hidden intelligence.

Key plot points and events

• Alrian escapes the burning mansion after a magical explosion destroys the room where Levitta had been. Four hooded operatives arrive, discover Levitta’s mark is gone, and are ordered to hunt Alrian and report to Lord Number Zero.
• Remembering his life as a war dog—and how the White Cat taught him to value freedom—Alrian runs to a dilapidated warehouse near Fellentin’s docks. He finds Shalbayev and tells him Levitta was abducted by a powerful Anomalies Bureau major whose identity may be false.
• Shalbayev suspects the struggle over Levitta involves powerful factions and agrees to take Alrian along. Four hooded Barbarians confront them. Their leader accuses Shalbayev of acting for Duke Vra, and Shalbayev chooses to fight rather than explain.
• Green, having just left Fellentin City, senses that his lost Soul Link with Niderland has returned. He realizes Niderland is in the city and that advanced Soul Magic has imposed a controlling conviction on him. Green turns back to investigate.
• Niderland is among the four attackers. Shalbayev overwhelms them with powerful Fireballs, while Alrian can only cheer from the sidelines. The fight is still underway at the chapter’s end.

Character developments and interactions

• Alrian shifts from comfortable dependence to action and renewed freedom, drawing on his war-dog training. His memories of the White Cat reveal how their conversations changed his outlook; he now chooses to accompany Shalbayev, partly in exchange for steak and milk.
• Shalbayev is wary of being used as a pawn in the political conflict, but welcomes Alrian as a companion. He meets the hooded Barbarians’ challenge with confidence and mockery.
• Green moves from uncertainty about the Barbarian tribe’s disappearance to a new lead through Niderland’s restored Soul Link. He understands the spell affecting Niderland and acts quickly to return.
• Niderland has reappeared, but is not acting freely: Soul Magic has made a target into a powerful, fanatical conviction, blocking communication with Green.
• Alrian reports Levitta’s abduction to Shalbayev; Shalbayev faces the four Barbarians; and Green’s restored connection to Niderland brings him back toward the same conflict.

Significant themes

• Freedom and agency: Alrian’s memories contrast a life of comfort with the freedom he learned to value, while Niderland’s imposed conviction shows the danger of having one’s will controlled.
• Manipulation and hidden agendas: The false or uncertain identity of Levitta’s captor, the hooded operatives, and the Soul Magic suggest several factions are maneuvering behind the scenes.
• Loyalty and companionship: Alrian chooses to stand by Shalbayev, and Green’s bond with Niderland persists despite their long separation.
• Power and survival: The battle emphasizes the gap between Shalbayev’s strength and Alrian’s limited role, while recalling the brutal survival lessons of Alrian’s training.

Plot points and events

• Sarbayer is locked in a stalemate with four magically modified Barbarians. He can hold them back with fire but is steadily exhausting himself and cannot defeat them.
• Green returns through a tear in space, accompanied by six Legendary Rank allies. His arrival stops the fight and overwhelms both sides.
• Green uses the Soul Link to destroy the soul magic controlling Niderland. Although the process hurts Niderland and leaves him shaken, his memories and thoughts return.
• Niderland recognizes Green as his master and begs him to save the Barbarian People. Green sends him to the Graveyard and spends additional Psychic Energy to remove the lingering danger of his compromised loyalty.
• Green’s forces attack the remaining Barbarians. Two are killed, while their leader, Elder Flamongo, is badly injured. When Flamongo makes a final, frenzied charge, Frio blasts him apart; Green discovers that Flamongo’s soul has already been destroyed.
• Green chooses to spare Sarbayer because he wisely refuses to challenge him. Alrian, hiding nearby, is left alarmed by the sudden reversal.
• After questioning Niderland and examining the dead Barbarians’ memories, Green learns that an unknown man took control of the tribe after its high priest opposed their planned migration out of the Rune Federation.
• The tribe’s warriors have all been turned into modified humans, while its elderly, weak, women, and children have been enslaved to build sacrificial arrays intended to resurrect the Sea God. Niderland hopes Green can rescue these civilians and preserve the tribe’s future.

Character developments and interactions

• Green demonstrates overwhelming strength and authority, but also makes practical choices: he spares Sarbayer, disposes of Niderland until his loyalty can be secured, and gathers the dead Barbarians’ souls for their memories.
• Niderland recovers his true thoughts after Green removes the soul magic. His trust in Green returns, and he becomes a desperate advocate for his people, though his loyalty remains fragile.
• Sarbayer recognizes the hopelessness of fighting Green and chooses restraint, earning a chance to live.
• Flamongo dies in a final act of hatred and desperation. His corrupted, collapsing body continues to crawl toward Green, but his soul is beyond recovery.
• Green and Niderland share a master–subordinate bond that drives Niderland’s plea and gives Green access to the crisis. Green’s arrival also abruptly shifts the power dynamic from Sarbayer’s strained defense to an overwhelming confrontation.

Significant themes

• Control and restored agency: Breaking the soul magic restores Niderland’s memories, but its lingering effects show that freeing someone from control is not immediate or simple.
• The cost of corruption: Modification and soul magic have damaged the Barbarians physically and spiritually, with Flamongo’s destroyed soul representing the worst outcome.
• Survival and responsibility: Niderland’s concern is less about reversing every transformation than saving the vulnerable and preserving a future for his people.
• Power and judgment: Green’s strength gives him the ability to decide who is spared, captured, or killed, while Sarbayer’s self-knowledge helps him survive.

Key plot points and events

• Green accepts Niderland’s request concerning the Barbarian People, then questions Sarbayer, threatening to kill him and read his memories if he refuses to cooperate.
• Green reveals that Sarbayer carries the Wolf God’s bloodline. Sarbayer admits the inheritance has made cultivation unusually difficult, while its power is dangerous to use: the Divine Artifact that summons the Wolf God’s strength can leave him gravely injured or dead.
• Noting the Sea God, War God, and Wolf God are all connected to events in Void World 26, Green suspects a plot involving Three Gods’ Blood—a substance described in an ancient spellbook as made from the blood of three Deities. Its purpose is unknown, but Sarbayer may be one of the necessary ingredients.
• Green leaves Sarbayer and Alrian unharmed but secretly sends more than a hundred Ravens to monitor Sarbayer. He returns to Stinnerls City and decides not to report his unproven theory to Princess Mulesina or Grand Duke Mora, who are occupied and unable to act on it.
• In a separate scene, Rondok fights a modified woman in an abandoned manor. His new alchemical lower body and implanted Psychic Core have made him faster and raised his strength to Early Legendary. After decapitating her, he discovers she can reattach and sew her head back on. He recognizes her as a modified human and threatens her with a disturbing enthusiasm.

Character developments

• Green emerges as patient and calculating. He keeps Sarbayer alive, quietly investigates the suspected conspiracy, and avoids spreading a theory without evidence.
• Sarbayer is exposed as a Wolf God Descendant. His resentment toward his inherited bloodline reveals its cost, as well as the perilous, limited nature of its power.
• Niderland cannot confirm whether his people truly descend from the War God, but his uncertainty adds to Green’s suspicion.
• Rondok has become colder and more ruthless after his injury and bodily modification. His desire for revenge against modified humans has turned into a broader fixation on hunting them.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Divine bloodlines and technological modifications grant strength but come with physical danger, suffering, or loss.
• Hidden inheritances and secrets: Sarbayer’s concealed ancestry and the possible Three Gods’ Blood scheme suggest larger forces operating behind events.
• Caution amid uncertainty: Green balances suspicion with restraint, choosing surveillance over premature accusations.
• Revenge and dehumanization: Rondok’s trauma fuels violence, while the woman’s stitched-together body blurs the boundary between human and monster.

Character interactions

• Green confronts Sarbayer and exposes the secret he has been forbidden to reveal; Sarbayer responds with shock, then anger and bitterness.
• Green asks Niderland about the Barbarian People’s connection to the War God, prompting the clue that helps form his Three Gods’ Blood theory.
• Sarbayer and Alrian are left bewildered by Green’s sudden departure, unaware that Ravens are watching them.
• Rondok attacks the modified woman, who mocks him even after being decapitated and repaired. Their exchange sets up a new, hostile confrontation.

Key events

• Rondok confronts Arolinka, Number Six of the Numbered People, and declares that he will kill all modified humans—and anyone who knows he is one—to preserve his identity as “Rondok.”
• Arolinka tries to flee, but Rondok’s speed and wind-blade attacks overwhelm her. She transforms into a giant, hairless cat, gaining a Psychic Energy shield, but Rondok’s stronger attacks break through it.
• Badly wounded and nearly out of Psychic Energy, Arolinka pleads, offers information about Duke Vra, and promises to stop opposing Rondok. He ignores her and kills her.
• Green watches the fight from his office. He had planned to hunt Arolinka himself but arrived too late. He reflects that, despite her weakness, the Numbered People’s exact count of six must be important.
• After Rondok leaves, ravens gather around Arolinka’s remains. The corpse twitches, and a green shoot begins to grow from it.

Character developments and interactions

• Rondok has become consumed by paranoia and hatred. He interprets others’ changed attitudes toward him as the modified humans’ fault, and his killing of Arolinka shows that revenge—not strategy or loyalty—now drives him.
• Arolinka is revealed as the woman Green once knew as Kavarant’s former lover. Their romance was staged, and her earlier apparent death was a feint. In battle, her usual reliance on disguise and assassination gives way to panic; she fights, then begs for her life.
• Green remains an observer, assessing both Arolinka’s place in the organization and the mystery behind its numbers.
• Arolinka tries to bargain with Rondok, but he rejects every appeal and kills her, demonstrating how completely their relationship has turned into a contest for survival.

Significant themes

• Identity and alienation: Rondok’s fear of being seen as a monster twists into a desire to erase everyone who knows his secret.
• Humanity and monstrosity: The modified characters’ altered bodies reflect deeper changes in their emotions and sense of self.
• Deception and survival: Arolinka’s staged romance, impersonations, and feigned death contrast with her inability to escape once she is outmatched.
• Hidden purpose: Green’s focus on why the group must contain exactly six members hints that the Numbered People’s structure—and perhaps Arolinka’s role—is significant.
• Uncertain endings: The sprout growing from Arolinka’s corpse suggests her death may not be final, or that something new is emerging.

Plot points

• Green discovers that Number Six/Arolinka possesses an unusual, seed-like Divine Power Core containing a trace of the God of Nature’s Divinity. The core revives her after Rondok nearly kills her, growing into a plant and then recreating her as a miniature version of herself.
• Arolinka transforms into a hairless cat and escapes. Green suspects the Divinity enabled her resurrection and asks Cyrabelle to investigate Hiddink, one of the possible people who could have placed it in her core.
• Cyrabelle reports that Hiddink disappeared three days earlier, around the time Prince Simdo arrived in the Lorenzo Kingdom. Green is left wondering whether the events are connected—and whether Sonic or Hiddink is behind the mystery.
• Arolinka reaches a concealed underground Modified Human hideout and asks to see Lord Number Zero. Its occupants learn that Rondok has become unexpectedly powerful and that the girl in red has been monitoring him.
• Rondok blows up the hideout with Enchanted Explosives, then uses the rifle concealed in his mechanical left leg to kill the exceptionally tough giant as he tries to escape. He quickly defeats the other Modified Humans as well, though the blast also harms nearby civilians.

Character developments and interactions

• Green acts cautiously, observing Arolinka’s resurrection rather than intervening. His curiosity about the Divine Power Core turns into an investigation of Hiddink and the God of Nature’s legacy.
• Arolinka survives through her core but is reduced to a tiny, vulnerable form. She remains defiant, trading insults with the giant and the hostile girl in red, and urgently seeks Number Zero.
• Rondok reveals that he had discovered the hideout and its surveillance in advance. His explosive ambush and concealed weapon show both his tactical preparation and formidable strength.
• The hideout’s occupants respond differently to Arolinka: the giant checks her for signs of danger, the girl in red mocks her, and the middle-aged man questions her while assessing Rondok’s power.

Significant themes

• Death and renewal: Arolinka’s resurrection suggests that Divinity can grant extraordinary powers, though their origin and limits remain unclear.
• Hidden legacies and conspiracies: The trace of the God of Nature’s Divinity, Hiddink’s disappearance, and the secret hideout deepen the chapter’s mystery.
• Power and vulnerability: Arolinka’s remarkable survival leaves her physically diminished, while Rondok’s strength makes the Modified Humans’ surveillance a fatal miscalculation.
• Collateral damage: Rondok’s attack achieves its aim but kills or injures innocent civilians, underscoring the human cost of secret conflicts.

Plot points and events

• Rondok discovers that Arolinka—whom he had killed before—has returned to life in a weakened, shrunken form. He threatens to kill her again unless she explains how she revived.
• Arolinka claims she serves Number Zero and is important to him. Her words make Rondok question Colonel Zilabeka’s loyalties and wonder whether Number Zero supplied the technology that turned him into a Modified Human. He carries Arolinka to Zilabeka’s secret camp to investigate.
• Rondok notices ravens watching him and kills several with Wind Blades, but finds no sign that they are anything other than ordinary birds. Amid widespread conflict and disorder, ravens have become common.
• At the camp, Mrs. Cassel has sealed Colonel Zilabeka’s Psychic Energy with Magic Runes and tells him to remain quiet while she carries out a plan. Zilabeka realizes she may have betrayed him from the beginning; she apologizes, saying she might have loved him under different circumstances, but her fate was already decided.
• The two hooded visitors reveal themselves as Lieutenant General Hiddink and Sonic, High Priest of the Nature Hermitage. They have reunited and are cooperating with Mrs. Cassel, though their alliance is uneasy.
• Hiddink delivers a rune-protected box. Mrs. Cassel effortlessly removes its powerful seals, revealing strength that surprises both men. Inside is a Black Orb that fills the Basement with starlight. Rather than harming her as Sonic and Hiddink expect, it causes her Psychic Energy to rise and makes her appear more radiant.

Character developments and interactions

• Rondok grows suspicious of Zilabeka and begins questioning the origins of his transformation. His encounter with Arolinka turns him from simple curiosity about her resurrection toward investigating his own past.
• Arolinka is helpless but invokes her connection to Number Zero to protect herself.
• Zilabeka shifts from bewilderment and hurt to controlled resignation. He recognizes that Mrs. Cassel has the upper hand and accepts that their relationship is over.
• Mrs. Cassel reveals a cold, determined side beneath her familiar tenderness. Her power is greater than Sonic and Hiddink anticipated, and the Black Orb appears to benefit her.
• Sonic and Hiddink cooperate with Mrs. Cassel but remain wary of her, suggesting their partnership is based on shared interests rather than trust.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and hidden loyalties: Rondok questions Zilabeka’s allegiance, while Zilabeka confronts Mrs. Cassel’s apparent long-term deception.
• Identity and uncertainty: Rondok’s transformation raises questions about who enabled it and who has been directing events.
• Power and manipulation: Mrs. Cassel controls Zilabeka through sealing magic and impresses even powerful allies.
• Resurrection and mysterious forces: Arolinka’s return and the Black Orb’s effects deepen the chapter’s supernatural mysteries.
• Collapse and surveillance: Social upheaval brings death and vast raven flocks, while the birds’ watchful presence hints at possible observation.

Key plot points

• Sonic and Hiddink discover that Mrs. Cassel possesses the eye of a true Void Yin Spirit. They identify her as its worshipper, but Sonic agrees to keep working with her because their plan still benefits him. Mrs. Cassel warns that his growing reputation as a “godslayer” will attract dangerous attention.
• A blast reveals that Rondok has returned to the secret camp and is slaughtering its inhabitants. Watching from below, Mrs. Cassel approves: the violence is meant to cultivate a soul capable of hosting the Void Yin Spirit’s consciousness.
• Colonel Zilabeka realizes Mrs. Cassel’s decade-long scheme is to bind the spirit’s consciousness to Rondok, rather than summon the entire entity. Rondok’s exceptional body and soul make him a suitable vessel.
• Green recognizes that dormant Soul Magic is manipulating Rondok, inflaming his anger and killing instinct. Rondok senses something is wrong but gives in to the urge to kill.
• Elsewhere, Sarbayer tries to avoid being drawn into the turmoil around Stinnerls City. Major General Hainem intercepts him and takes him to a fortified castle housing a secret testing ground. Rather than being imprisoned, Sarbayer is put in charge of its defenses, with Alrian alongside him.
• Green investigates another, larger castle believed to be Duke Vra’s main Modified Human testing ground. Unsure whether Duke Vra or the mysterious Number Zero controls it, he intercepts a carriage and confronts the white-haired scholar inside.

Character developments and interactions

• Sonic remains pragmatic, choosing cooperation over confronting Mrs. Cassel, though her teasing about his “godslayer” reputation unsettles him.
• Mrs. Cassel is revealed as a calculating Void Yin Spirit worshipper. She is satisfied by Rondok’s slaughter and intends to use him as a vessel.
• Colonel Zilabeka regrets subjecting Rondok to Human Modification and recognizes the full scope of Mrs. Cassel’s plan.
• Rondok has changed from a warmhearted boy into a volatile killer, his mind compromised by Soul Magic.
• Sarbayer avoids openly resisting Hainem and adapts to his unexpected role as commander of the testing ground’s defenses.
• Green continues working from the outside, identifying the force driving Rondok and investigating Duke Vra’s facilities.

Significant themes

• Ambition and manipulation: Mrs. Cassel’s carefully staged plan turns Rondok’s potential into a means of bringing a supernatural consciousness into the world.
• The cost of transformation: Human Modification and Soul Magic have distorted Rondok, while Zilabeka’s regret highlights the consequences of trying to remake people.
• Power and reputation: Sonic’s “godslayer” title brings danger as well as prestige.
• Uncertainty and shifting allegiances: Secret factions and testing grounds make it difficult to know who controls events or whom to trust.

Plot points and events

• Green uses his soul magic to take over the body of Dr. Vincent, a low-ranked scholar, and reads enough of his memories to convincingly impersonate him.
• He travels to a castle that has come under the control of the mysterious Lord Number Zero. His real objective is to steal the Soul Key, which is hidden in the underground test site.
• Green learns that the Soul Key was made from Divine Power Crystals and the souls of victims from the Human Kingdom’s recent rebellions. It is meant to activate a vast sacrificial circle that would kill tens of millions and resurrect the Sea God.
• Passing security by posing as the influential Dr. Vincent, Green enters the heavily guarded underground base. He pretends to be concerned about an experiment involving six Modified Humans.
• An alarm interrupts his inspection. Intruders attack the base, but security forces quickly defeat them. Green uses the distraction to continue toward the lower levels.
• In the second-level laboratory, Green sees Experimental Subject Number Six: a woman who looks exactly like Arolinka and has matching Psychic Energy and soul fluctuations. The chapter ends as the assistant begins explaining the subject’s intermittent instability.

Character developments and interactions

• Green demonstrates his skill at soul manipulation and deception, adapting his manner to Dr. Vincent’s prickly reputation. He stays focused on reaching the lowest level, where the Soul Key is stored.
• Dr. Vincent’s identity gives Green access and authority, though Green finds the scholar’s frail body uncomfortable.
• Butler Sinboggs and the guards treat Green respectfully because they believe he is Dr. Vincent. The guards’ strict checks reinforce how protected the base is.
• The female assistant is powerful enough to protect Dr. Vincent, but she defers to his authority. She reports the experiments’ problems and suggests retreating to the Safehouse when the alarm sounds; Green refuses.
• The security chief appears calm and capable, overseeing the defeat of the intruders.

Significant themes

• Deception and identity: Green’s impersonation shows how easily status and reputation can open doors.
• The cost of power: The Soul Key and the planned resurrection depend on mass death and the harvesting of souls.
• Control and exploitation: The Modified Humans are treated as experimental subjects, while the wider population is being manipulated into a sacrificial scheme.
• Cloning and uncanny resemblance: Number Six’s exact likeness and soul signature to Arolinka raise questions about their connection.

• Green infiltrates the underground base as Dr. Vincent, using Vincent’s memories to maintain the disguise despite his limited understanding of the experiments. When Modified Human Number Six goes berserk, Green calmly orders the standard treatment, which settles the subject. He then sets out to inspect Number One.
• Green spots an impostor, Harvis, who pretends to be a researcher from B3 Laboratory. Green recognizes signs of a short-range communication spell and suspects Harvis has an accomplice. He soon learns that Dr. Hisrol moved Number One to the third level—and that Harvis likely took Hisrol hostage.
• Number One and Hisrol are found dead in a storage room. Green takes charge, orders the base placed on maximum alert, and shuts down the teleportation array to prevent the intruders escaping. He then heads toward the lowest level with his female assistant, claiming they must secure the Soul Key.
• Green and the assistant encounter two other intruders: a fierce young woman and a powerful man named David, carrying a box that Green recognizes as containing the Soul Key. Green is willing to let them pass, since he has little personal interest in the artifact and wants to avoid exposing his duplicate body. The assistant, however, challenges them.
• The young woman attacks with nearly invisible threads, apparently cutting down the assistant. She then attacks Green, but an Invisible Sword forces her to retreat. In a twist, the apparent victim was actually David: the assistant had somehow switched places with him, tricking the woman into killing her own companion. The Soul Key falls, and the woman is left furious and shocked.
  Character developments and interactions: Green shows composure and tactical restraint, relying on his disguise while quietly assessing everyone around him. His assistant proves far more dangerous and calculating than she first appeared, though her methods and motives remain unclear. Harvis’s attempted cover is exposed to Green’s suspicions, while the young woman’s confidence gives way to rage after her misjudgment costs David’s life. The chapter’s shifting alliances and disguises make nearly every encounter a test of perception.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes deception and mistaken identity, the value of staying calm amid uncertainty, and the danger of underestimating opponents. It also introduces competing interests around the Soul Key, while showing that apparent weakness or vulnerability can conceal a lethal trap.

Plot points and events

• Green discovers that Dr. Vincent’s assistant is far more capable in combat than her memories suggest. He suspects she may be an impostor, but avoids taking the Soul Key and slips upstairs instead.
• The assistant and the wolfish “cute girl” reveal they know each other and were acting together. They retrieve the Soul Key, but an explosion signals that another group is inside the base.
• Green suspects the young researcher who escaped earlier stole the Divine Power Core from Number One’s body. A Ghost confirms the core is missing.
• As the women pursue their escape, a second blast shakes the base. The assistant recognizes the danger: someone has released the Black-Winged Angel, an ancient angelic corpse hidden beneath the facility.
• Green recalls that the corpse is transforming into an Undead being. If it completes the change, it could become a Calamity Rank threat, potentially beyond Princess Mulesina’s ability to control.
• Green doubts Number Zero would deliberately destroy the base and deduces that Princess Mulesina is likely behind the maneuver. The Soul Key may be a diversion designed to conceal her real aim: obtaining the angel’s corpse as a powerful Undead summon.

Character developments and interactions

• Green stays cautious, refuses to get drawn into the fight over the Soul Key, and uses observation and his Ghost to piece together the theft and the larger conspiracy.
• The assistant is revealed as a seasoned operative rather than the academic helper she appeared to be. She and the cute girl recognize one another but remain wary, cooperating only because the situation demands it.
• The cute girl follows the assistant’s lead once she understands the scale of the danger.
• The escaped researcher is suspected of stealing the Divine Power Core, though his purpose remains unclear.
• Princess Mulesina emerges as the likely hidden force behind the crisis, while Duke Vra may have exposed the secret to draw her into the conflict.

Significant themes

• Deception and concealed motives: The apparent struggle over the Soul Key masks a more consequential contest.
• Distrust and pragmatic alliances: Even familiar partners keep their guard up, while cooperation is driven by necessity.
• Power and the value of life: Green reflects on how little powerful elites seem to care about ordinary people’s deaths.
• Escalating danger: The conflict shifts from a covert theft to the possible awakening of a catastrophic Undead being.

Key plot points

• Green realizes Grand Duke Mora may be using him to help Princess Mulesina, but accepts the arrangement and decides to claim the Six-Winged Black Angel for himself. He summons the Death Angel Clone and Skeleton Lord, both Calamity Rank fighters.
• The Black-Winged Angel breaks free beneath the underground base, unleashing death-filled Psychic Energy and causing panic and widespread destruction.
• She targets the cute girl, who carries the Soul Key. The girl initially resists abandoning it, but finally throws it down to escape.
• The Angel lunges for the Soul Key, but the Skeleton Lord attacks through a portal. His hammer shatters the box and key, releasing hundreds of thousands of souls. The Nightmare Kingdom, the Angel, and the Skeleton Lord absorb them.
• The souls restore the Angel somewhat and awaken her eyes, but she remains newly undead, instinct-driven, and weaker than her full potential. She attacks the Skeleton Lord, whose bones withstand her cutting force.
• Their clash destroys the underground base and collapses the castle above. The Skeleton Lord sends the Angel flying and pursues her to the surface.
• The female assistant and cute girl escape and witness the two Calamity Rank beings. They realize that, alongside Princess Mulesina and Modi, four such fighters are now gathered in Void World 26—raising the prospect of catastrophe.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shifts from suspecting Mora’s favoritism to pragmatically embracing the opportunity, intending to profit from the crisis while concealing his full strength.
• The cute girl prioritizes survival over the mission and gives up the Soul Key when the Angel’s pursuit becomes unavoidable. The female assistant quickly identifies the key as the reason they are being hunted and urges her to discard it.
• The Black-Winged Angel awakens as a powerful but incomplete undead creature, driven by instinct and anger. She fights the Skeleton Lord after losing the souls she sought.
• The Skeleton Lord proves nearly impervious to the Angel’s attacks and dominates their physical confrontation, while also taking some of the released souls.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and self-interest: Green accepts being used because he sees a chance to gain something himself.
• Survival versus duty: The cute girl abandons the mission’s objective to stay alive.
• Power and instability: The Angel’s incomplete resurrection and the destructive clash show how dangerous immense power can be when uncontrolled.
• Escalating catastrophe: The arrival of multiple Calamity Rank fighters makes the fate of the entire Void World uncertain.

Key plot points and events

• The Black-Winged Angel, still confused and driven by rage, repeatedly charges the Skeleton Lord instead of fleeing. Their battle devastates the castle and surrounding ground, and its shock waves kill nearby civilians.
• The Skeleton Lord reveals a second pair of arms, grabs the angel’s wings, and batters her into the earth with his warhammer. Her injuries trigger a surge in power, raising her combat strength to about 15,000.
• Green, hidden nearby in his Death Angel Clone, attacks at the moment the angel is most vulnerable. His sword cannot pierce her alone, so he holds her in place while the Skeleton Lord reveals his true strength—about 30,000—and strikes again.
• With her attention and Psychic Energy committed to defending against the Skeleton Lord, the Black-Winged Angel cannot stop Green’s sword from piercing her. Green captures her through the Graveyard and transfers her to the Hero Hall.
• Green orders the Skeleton Lord to kill every living thing within twenty kilometers. The Skeleton Lord wipes out the survivors, including the female assistant and the cute girl.
• As Green prepares to return to Stinnells, Princess Mulesina arrives with three Bone Dragons. Green escapes through Spirit World Traversal, pleased that he secured the angel before she arrived.

Character developments

• Black-Winged Angel: Her battle instincts remain undeveloped; rage overrides the sensible choice to retreat. Under pressure, however, she unlocks a major increase in power, showing substantial potential.
• Green: Demonstrates patience and tactical cunning, deliberately concealing his forces and timing his attack to exploit the angel’s moment of greatest vulnerability. He shows little compassion for the casualties.
• Skeleton Lord: Reveals hidden abilities and a much greater true strength than he initially displayed. His apparent restraint was part of Green’s plan to keep the angel from fleeing.

Significant themes

• The cost of power: Battles between Calamity Rank beings devastate landscapes and kill ordinary people through mere collateral force.
• Strategy over raw strength: Green wins by coordinating his clone and the Skeleton Lord, exploiting timing and distraction rather than relying on a direct contest.
• Potential cut short: The angel’s power surges, but Green captures her before she can develop further.
• Moral ruthlessness: Green’s pursuit of his objective culminates in the deliberate extermination of all witnesses and survivors.

Character interactions

• The female assistant and the cute girl share their fear as they recognize that the battle could destroy the Void World.
• The Black-Winged Angel fights the Skeleton Lord in an escalating exchange, while Green’s concealed Death Angel Clone waits for an opening.
• Green and the Skeleton Lord work in coordination: the Skeleton Lord draws and occupies the angel, while Green’s clone strikes from behind.
• Green and Princess Mulesina do not meet face-to-face; her late arrival prompts his escape.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points

• Princess Mulesina discovers that the six-winged Angel’s corpse has been stolen. Furious, she unleashes her largest Bone Dragon, which devastates the surrounding area before she returns to punish Modi.
• Mulesina’s three impressive, artificially assembled Bone Dragons are powerful but lack the energy source needed to reach Calamity Rank. She had hoped the Angel’s corpse would solve her shortage of suitable undead.
• Green returns to the Graveyard with the corpse and restores Dr. Vincent’s soul to a Lich body. He assigns Vincent and Arkansas to improve the Graveyard’s units and develop a stronger Divine Power Core—something Green hopes to trade to Mulesina for a high price.
• Green initially cannot find the Angel in the Hero Hall, but discovers her in the Zombie Crypt. The consciousness she developed as an undead has collapsed, leaving her a corpse again.
• Green considers letting a new consciousness grow naturally or implanting a prepared soul. He asks Talaga, the youngest and most powerful of the Six Witches, whether she wants the body. Talaga eagerly accepts, and Green begins fusing her soul with the Angel’s body.

Character developments

• Princess Mulesina is revealed as a brilliant but frustrated necromancer. Despite her Calamity Rank, she lacks a Calamity Rank summon, and the disappearance of the Angel’s corpse deepens her anger.
• Green thinks strategically: he sees Mulesina’s need for a powerful energy core as a chance to turn his research into leverage.
• Dr. Vincent quickly embraces his new life as a Lich and his position in the Graveyard, where he can experiment openly and with abundant resources.
• Talaga shows enthusiasm, confidence, and little concern for the risks of possessing the Angel’s body. Her rare devouring ability and strong soul make her a promising candidate for it.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Mulesina’s elaborate Bone Dragons demonstrate that excellent construction is not enough without a sufficient power source.
• Ambition and exchange: Green treats scientific progress as both a means of strengthening the Graveyard and a bargaining asset.
• Identity and transformation: The Angel’s body has lost its emergent consciousness and is about to receive Talaga’s soul, raising questions about what defines the resulting being.
• Ethics and necromancy: Vincent’s delight in unrestricted experiments underscores the chapter’s dark, pragmatic treatment of life, death, and research.

Character interactions

• Mulesina’s conflict with Modi has kept her occupied, while her schemes also aimed to draw hidden enemies—and the Black-Winged Angel—into the open.
• Green recruits Vincent and works with Arkansas on research, relying on their expertise while holding Vincent’s soul and loyalty.
• Green consults Talaga rather than deciding for her; she gladly chooses the Angel’s body, and he begins the fusion.

Key events

• Green uses 158,500 Psychic Energy to complete the fusion of Talaga’s Xignos Banshee spirit with the Six-Winged Angel corpse. After more than three hours, the process succeeds.
• Talaga awakens as an Angel Lich, level 11, with combat power of 56,000—far stronger than Green expected and above the Skeleton Lord. Her Devour ability briefly appears as a mouth across her stomach before fading.
• Green equips her with gear from the Graveyard, since the angel’s original equipment is missing. He concludes that ordinary gear will do little for someone so powerful.
• At a separate secret base, Mrs. Cassel learns that her main facility has been destroyed, costing her the Six-Winged Angel, laboratories, and Modified Human production line. Her intelligence officer suspects Duke Vra revealed the base’s location, though the attackers’ identities remain uncertain.
• Duke Vra confronts Mrs. Cassel. They agree to stop interfering with each other: he will pursue Isabelle’s resurrection, while Mrs. Cassel summons the Void Yin Spirit. Both consider the Kingdom and Princess Mulesina common enemies.
• Mrs. Cassel reveals that Duke Vra is her brother-in-law and Isabelle, the woman he wants to resurrect, is her older half-sister. She admits jealousy and regret over her past, but the chapter ends before she explains what she did. Rondok interrupts by asking if she killed Isabelle.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shifts from anxious observer to exhilarated commander as Talaga’s unexpected strength becomes clear, then resumes his practical, researcher-like composure.
• Talaga endures a painful, hostile fusion through sheer stubbornness and emerges excited by her new body and abilities. She is unembarrassed by Green’s inspection.
• Mrs. Cassel keeps her anger controlled until she is alone, then reveals a vulnerable mix of grief, jealousy, longing, and guilt.
• Duke Vra shows that his devotion to Isabelle outweighs his attachment to power or self-preservation. He and Mrs. Cassel are adversaries, but their family bond and shared aims complicate the conflict.
• Colonel Zilabeka, still forced to obey Mrs. Cassel through a painful control device, sees an unfamiliar, emotional side of her and asks about her relationship with Duke Vra. His assumptions about a romantic rivalry are corrected.
• Rondok’s blunt question turns Mrs. Cassel’s confession toward the unresolved question of Isabelle’s death.

Significant themes

• Transformation and cost: Talaga’s powerful rebirth requires a huge expenditure and painful bodily rejection.
• Power versus equipment: Talaga’s strength makes ordinary weapons and armor nearly irrelevant.
• Family, guilt, and divided loyalties: Mrs. Cassel and Duke Vra are bound by family and Isabelle, yet pursue conflicting plans.
• Control and vulnerability: Mrs. Cassel can dominate others, but the destruction of her base and memories of her sister expose emotional wounds beneath her control.

Key plot points

• Mrs. Cassel recounts that her sister Isabelle was kind but secretly pursued a way to become a god. Mrs. Cassel helped her, initially treating it as a harmless venture, but it ended in Isabelle’s death and the loss of Mrs. Cassel’s husband.
• Rondok returns with a pale-gold artifact fragment bearing traces of Psychic Energy and the aura of Holy Light. Mrs. Cassel fears it could implicate the powerful Holy Light Church in the conflict over Void World 26.
• Mrs. Cassel consults Sonic and Hiddink. They agree to verify the evidence and proceed cautiously, though they think the church may be focused on Modi, the suspected rogue Archbishop Ye Lijin, and the Sea God’s nest in Dortnad Town.
• Colonel Zilabeka advises hiding their plan to summon a Void Yin Spirit—an enemy of the Lord of Light—and trying to reconcile with Duke Vra. Mrs. Cassel says Vra is beyond reason, consumed by his attempt to bring Isabelle back.
• Three days after Number Zero’s base is destroyed, the factions fall into an uneasy pause. Rumors of Holy Light Church involvement spread, prompting the Divine Eagle Empire to reconsider its support for Modi and Prince Simdo to meet with Grand Duke Mora.

Character developments and interactions

• Rondok tests how much he can challenge Mrs. Cassel, using his returned rationality to probe her control. He remains dependent on her sedative injections, but his unusual behavior catches Zilabeka’s attention. He and Zilabeka exchange a knowing look.
• Mrs. Cassel reveals grief and regret beneath her controlled exterior, then quickly returns to a guarded, commanding manner. She insists Zilabeka share responsibility for their plan, calling it their goal.
• Zilabeka recognizes the danger in the Holy Light Church’s possible involvement and urges secrecy and reconciliation with Vra. Though Mrs. Cassel rejects his advice, he does not press her.
• Sonic and Hiddink respond cautiously to the new threat, balancing concern with the belief that the church may target other players first.

Significant themes

• Power and control: Mrs. Cassel keeps Rondok dependent, while Rondok looks for ways to test and alter their unequal relationship.
• Ambition and its consequences: Isabelle’s dream of becoming a god leads to catastrophe, and Vra’s effort to restore her has driven him into madness and conflict with Mrs. Cassel.
• Secrecy and shifting alliances: The factions conceal their aims, spread or assess rumors, and adjust their strategies as the Holy Light Church’s possible involvement threatens to reshape the political balance.