Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Protected by Poseidon’s power from Anubis’s aura, Wikina’s party arrives on the tomb’s third level, where they are immediately swarmed by Undead. Wikina is confident they have found Anubis’s tomb and treats confirming it as worth any cost.
• Wikina joins the fight when the group is overwhelmed. His presence turns the battle around, but a powerful Psychic Energy surge soon announces two Stone Giants and a hunched Zombie whose infrasonic attack disorients the others.
• One Stone Giant kills several members of Wikina’s party. Wikina summons the Sea God’s Trident and uses a wave as a feint, then strikes the Giant’s head with the trident, destroying it. The surviving Giant, Zombie, and Undead retreat deeper into the burial chamber, and Wikina pursues them.
• The Golden Dragon Girl and Aldin, concealed by a black crystal, witness Wikina’s power. Despite the danger, she decides to follow him to learn what Poseidon is doing; Aldin reluctantly goes along.
• At Ailing’s location, a narrow Portal finally opens. Erha bounds through first, followed by Green’s Wood Slater avatar, which Green has chosen because it is expendable if he fails to escape the tomb. Ailing recognizes and kneels to Green. Selina arrives in Raven form, then assembles into a robot girl after scouting ahead.

Character developments and interactions

• Wikina proves far more formidable than the Golden Dragon Girl expected. Summoning the trident gives him access to Poseidon’s Divine Power, though it is temporary and costly.
• The Golden Dragon Girl revises her judgment of Wikina and decides that curiosity about Poseidon outweighs the risk. Aldin, aware of their danger, follows her despite his fear.
• Ailing greets Green respectfully, while her affection for Erha is evident: his arrival comforts her, and she happily accepts his exuberant greeting.
• Green takes precautions by sending an expendable avatar, showing that he recognizes the expedition’s serious danger. Selina demonstrates her scouting role and ability to shift from Ravens into her robot form.

Significant themes

• Power and sacrifice: Wikina’s victory depends on divine assistance that carries a cost, while the expedition repeatedly exposes its members to mortal danger.
• Reckless curiosity and duty: The Golden Dragon Girl and Aldin press deeper despite the threat, and Wikina risks his party to verify the tomb’s identity.
• Concealment and divided identities: The black crystal hides the observers, while Green’s Wood Slater avatar allows him to act through a separate, expendable form.

Plot points and events

• Selina discovers scattered remains infused with powerful Death Psychic Energy. Green identifies them as belonging to Anubis, the ancient wolf-headed God of Death, whose soul and Divine Core had been shattered by Zeus.
• Green brings Anubis’s head into the Graveyard. When it begins to stir, he converts it into millions of Psychic Energy points, then absorbs Anubis’s surviving soul as it appears and threatens him.
• Anubis tries threats, bargains, and promises of godhood, but Green refuses to trust him and destroys him. The soul yields less energy than the head but leaves behind an unusually enormous dark-gold Soul Crystal.
• Green converts the rest of Anubis’s remains, raising the Graveyard’s balance above twenty million. A notification unlocks a Graveyard System upgrade; he starts it, though its progress is extremely slow.
• From fragments of Anubis’s memories, Green learns that something valuable is hidden in the tomb and suspects it is what Poseidon’s Sea Knights are seeking. He heads deeper into the burial complex with Ailing, Erha, and Selina.
• The group passes into a vast concealed basin containing Anubis’s Pyramid tomb. Meanwhile, Wikina and her companions reach its entrance and begin to enter.

Character developments and interactions

• Green is shown as cautious, opportunistic, and distrustful of Deities. He prioritizes eliminating Anubis over entertaining his offers, while also acting quickly to collect the remains and investigate the tomb’s treasure.
• Anubis is revealed to be far weaker than his threats suggest: after Zeus’s attack, his surviving soul is fragile and desperate to avoid destruction.
• Selina helps locate the remains and uses a Mechanical Crow to survey the hidden basin. Ailing and Erha accompany Green on the expedition.
• Green’s encounter with Anubis is a direct struggle of intimidation and persuasion against Green’s resolve; Green remains unmoved and destroys him.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a once-mighty High God is reduced to a helpless remnant after defeat.
• Distrust and survival: Green treats Anubis’s promises as manipulation, reflecting the danger of bargaining with powerful, long-lived beings.
• Death as resource and transformation: Anubis’s remains and soul become Psychic Energy, while the Graveyard’s growth opens the possibility of a broader system upgrade.
• Uncertainty and pursuit: Green’s incomplete memories reveal a prize but not its nature, drawing him into a race with Poseidon’s forces.

Plot points and events

• Wikina enters Anubis’s burial chamber, following instructions from Sea God Poseidon to retrieve Anubis’s Divine Soul Crystal. He finds the coffin open and empty, panics, and flees.
• Poseidon orders him back to investigate. Wikina confirms that Anubis’s body is missing. Enraged that he can sense Anubis’s aura but cannot find him, Poseidon commands Wikina to locate the god.
• Poseidon empowers Wikina, raising him from Early to Mid Calamity Rank. The gift also appears to alter Wikina’s mind, leaving him consumed by obedience to the mission.
• Outside, Wikina’s small surviving force is attacked by a well-organized legion of undead, including several Calamity-Rank fighters. Wikina joins the battle but cannot prevent heavy casualties.
• Wikina calls on Poseidon for aid, unleashing a powerful wave that strengthens his allies and weakens the undead. The battle turns in his favor.
• The arrival of the Golden Dragon Girl Arudika, carrying Anubis’s Staff of the Underworld God, draws everyone’s attention. The undead stop fighting and react furiously to the staff.
• Recognizing the staff as a vital clue to finding Anubis, Wikina orders Arudika to surrender it. She dives toward the mausoleum entrance to escape, pursued by Wikina and the undead.

Character developments and interactions

• Wikina shifts from terrified intruder to a magically empowered, unquestioning servant of Poseidon. His desperation to protect his remaining followers drives him to invoke the Sea God’s power.
• Poseidon shows anger and control over Wikina, rewarding him with strength while apparently manipulating his mind.
• Arudika is revealed to have found Anubis’s staff alongside Aldin, who clings to her in fear during flight. Her desire to remain hidden is thwarted when taking the staff exposes her.
• Wikina’s subordinates rely on him to save them, while the undead respond to the staff as though its theft is an unforgivable violation.

Significant themes

• Power and obedience: Poseidon’s gift makes Wikina stronger but seems to compromise his autonomy.
• The cost of survival: Wikina’s force suffers severe losses even as he gains power.
• Death and authority: Anubis’s staff represents control over the Underworld and the cycle of life and death, making it more than a valuable artifact.
• Escalating conflict: The missing god, Poseidon’s search, the undead legion, and the stolen staff converge, setting up a confrontation over Anubis’s legacy.

Plot points and events

• After the Golden Dragon Girl takes Anubis’s Scepter, Green enters the Pyramid with Selina, Ailing, and Erha to investigate the tomb.
• A hidden fragment of Anubis awakens from the coffin. Green knows Anubis divided his soul, Divinity, and Divine Core between the coffin and the Pyramid’s depths, and that the awakened fragment lacks Divine Power.
• Green orders Selina’s Mechanical Crows to attack. Anubis summons undead from the murals, but Erha and Selina destroy them while Ailing strengthens the group with buffs.
• Unable to keep fighting without draining his soul, Anubis surrenders rather than face permanent death. Green captures a deity but is unsure how to keep him under control.
• Elsewhere, Archbishop Link’s forces suffer heavy losses in the Number Forty-Four Void World. A powerful Sea Knight has learned to counter the Dongfeng One missiles, and Poseidon’s army is pushing the Holy Light Church toward defeat.
• Archbishop Phipas urges Link to retreat. Link insists that Pontiff Saint Fran will return, but Phipas instead offers the Inquisition’s loyalty to Link. Link accepts the allegiance privately while acknowledging that Saint Fran remains Pontiff for now.

Character developments and interactions

• Green acts strategically, prioritizing the tomb over pursuing the Scepter. His knowledge of Anubis’s past gives him the advantage, and the capture leaves him confronting the practical challenge of controlling a god.
• Anubis shifts from furious confidence to desperation and surrender when faced with the prospect of final death.
• Selina, Erha, and Ailing work as a coordinated team: Selina supplies overwhelming attacks, Erha fights directly, and Ailing supports them with buffs.
• Link remains outwardly resolute but accepts Phipas’s political defection, revealing that he is willing to consolidate power amid the Church’s military crisis.
• Phipas abandons confidence in Saint Fran’s cause and pragmatically pledges himself and the Inquisition to Link.

Significant themes

• Fear of death and survival: Even a deity will submit when revival is no longer possible.
• Power through preparation and teamwork: Green’s prior knowledge and his companions’ complementary abilities overcome a weakened but formidable foe.
• Political ambition amid crisis: Military defeat drives Phipas to shift allegiance and Link to strengthen his position.
• The cost of war: The Church’s dwindling weapons, casualties, and threatened retreat show how quickly morale and advantage can change.

Plot points and events

• Holy Light Church leaders learn that Void World 37 has fallen because Archbishop Nanster Wigan defected to Poseidon’s side. Archbishop Link, unsurprised, sets out with Archbishop Phipas to reclaim the world.
• In a town on Void World 37, a Sea Knight and former Holy Light Clerics gather the residents and demand a girl named Venus. They threaten to kill everyone if she is not handed over.
• The residents do not recognize the name because the girl is known locally as Chris. Watching from nearby, Chris realizes the soldiers are looking for her.
• When a frightened man tries to flee, the Sea soldiers shoot him. His mother and another resident attack in grief and are killed too, prompting the townspeople to fight back.
• Chris sees her father shot and her mother trampled to death. Her grief unleashes a powerful psychic blast that kills the soldiers surrounding the crowd. Her parents die with their hands clasped together.
• As psychic energy surges around her, the Sea Knight recognizes her as Venus—the person Poseidon ordered him to find.

Character developments

• Archbishop Link responds to Nanster’s betrayal with grim composure, suggesting he anticipated the defection, and moves immediately to confront it.
• Venus/Chris shifts from a frightened, powerless girl to an awakening force. Her grief breaks through a Seal and releases immense psychic energy, though the extent of her power remains unknown.
• The Sea Knight is shown as a ruthless, single-minded enforcer who prioritizes his mission over civilian lives.
• The townspeople move from fearful confusion to desperate resistance after witnessing the executions.

Significant themes

• Faith and allegiance: The Divine War weakens people’s faith and encourages defections, as humans choose sides based on survival or self-interest.
• Power and exploitation: Ordinary civilians are caught between divine factions and treated as expendable.
• Grief and awakening: Venus’s loss triggers the release of the power bound within her.
• Cruelty and resistance: The soldiers’ violence sparks a futile uprising, while Venus’s power offers a sudden, devastating answer to that violence.

Character interactions

• Link informs Phipas of Nanster’s betrayal and directs him to join the response.
• The Sea Knight intimidates the townspeople and relies on the former Clerics’ prophecy to guide his search.
• The townspeople’s fear turns to anger after the soldiers kill George and two older residents.
• Venus witnesses her parents’ deaths; her grief erupts into an attack that saves the surviving townspeople but cannot save her family.

Plot points and events

• Young Venus awakens overwhelming Psychic Energy after her parents’ deaths and attacks Poseidon’s forces, but a Calamity Rank Sea Knight easily defeats her.
• The Sea Knight stabs Venus through the heart and confirms her death. As his soldiers continue killing the townspeople, Venus’s corpse suddenly rises, now radiating Divine Power.
• Venus releases a wave that kills everyone nearby except the Sea Knight. Revealing herself as a deity, she disintegrates him—including his soul—and condemns Poseidon.
• Poseidon speaks to Venus from afar, and she senses his hostility approaching. She vanishes before his avatar arrives. Poseidon surveys the ruined town, lamenting that his attempt to kill a former High God has failed.
• In another part of Void World 37, Archbishop Link and Archbishop Phipas discover a battle between Poseidon’s forces and defectors from the Holy Light Church. Among the dead are numerous young men with identical faces resembling Archbishop Nanster Wigan’s.
• Link suspects Alchemy Technology was used to create living copies of Nanster’s younger self, raising the possibility that the original Nanster was replaced rather than betraying the Church. He sends Phipas to take some bodies to the Main World and the Lorenzo Kingdom for investigation.

Character developments and interactions

• Venus transforms from a grieving, inexperienced child into a powerful divine being after returning from death. Her hatred of Poseidon is personal and longstanding, and she vows to face him again.
• The Sea Knight begins confident in his superiority, but Venus’s awakening overwhelms him. His death also shows that even his soul is vulnerable to her power.
• Poseidon is furious that Venus survived and regards her as a dangerous former rival. Their ancient hostility remains unresolved.
• Link responds to the mystery with caution and analytical thinking, while Phipas is visibly shaken by the apparent human duplication. Link’s explanation gives them a new lead.

Significant themes

• Resurrection and hidden power: Venus’s apparent death conceals a far greater divine nature.
• The cost of underestimating potential: The Sea Knight dismisses Venus as an untrained child, only to be destroyed when her true power emerges.
• Deception and identity: The identical bodies suggest sophisticated technological replacement, casting doubt on Nanster’s supposed betrayal.
• Unfinished divine conflict: Venus and Poseidon’s hatred persists despite the approaching Divine War.

Plot points and events

• Green investigates the identical corpses brought from Anubis’s tomb. Black Claw and Dr. Vincent find no magic or alchemy involved; Green identifies the process as advanced cloning.
• Green suspects the technology came from an unknown ally of Sea Emperor Poseidon—or perhaps from another outsider like himself. He explains the basics to Archbishop Phipas, who carries the information back to Archbishop Link.
• Link recognizes cloning’s potential to create vast numbers of soldiers. Rather than investigate it himself, he considers discussing it with his teacher, Pontiff Saint Fran, whose secret Dark Holy Crusaders are under increasing pressure in the Divine War.
• In Void World 37, a vast underground factory called Oasis produces more than 100,000 clones per batch, modeled on Archbishop Nanster Wigan. The real Nanster is imprisoned and dying after months of experimentation.
• Modi and the Revolutionary Army attack the factory. After heavy casualties on both sides, a white-haired Planeswalker halts the fighting. Modi reveals that he knows the stranger’s identity.
• The Planeswalker warns Modi that the Revolutionary Flame has eroded his soul and may be controlling him. Modi briefly hesitates, then renews his commitment to the revolution. The Planeswalker says he knows what Modi wants and can provide it, but the chapter ends before he explains further.

Character developments and interactions

• Green is intrigued by the cloning technology’s origin, but prioritizes the Graveyard System upgrade, which is nearing completion.
• Link thinks strategically about cloning’s military value and connects it to Saint Fran’s endangered Crusaders.
• Nanster remains faithful to the Holy Light despite betrayal accusations and severe suffering; the attack gives him a possible chance to escape.
• Modi is shown as both powerful and deeply committed to his revolutionary ideal, but the Planeswalker’s warning briefly exposes uncertainty about whether that ideal is truly his own.
• The Planeswalker approaches Modi as a potential ally rather than an enemy, but condemns the Revolutionary Flame’s influence. Their conversation reveals mutual confidence and sharply opposing views of the revolution.

Significant themes

• Science and power: Cloning offers a way to create armies without supernatural means, making it strategically valuable in a world shaped by magic and divine conflict.
• Identity and control: The Planeswalker questions whether Modi’s beliefs are his own or imposed by the Revolutionary Flame.
• Ideals versus consequences: Modi pursues equality, while the Planeswalker challenges him to consider whether his revolution has produced more than destruction.
• Exploitation and ambition: Nanster’s imprisonment and use as a template show the human cost of the factory’s mass-production goals.

Plot points and events

• Modi seeks the Planeswalker Glasgow’s replica-making technology to revive the Revolutionary Army, whose recruitment and strength have declined since losing its base.
• The Holy Light Church arrives to claim the same technology. Pontiff Saint Fran has advanced to mid-stage Saint Spirit Rank, while Archbishop Link accompanies him. Modi can briefly reach comparable power through the Revolutionary Flame.
• Glasgow tries to exploit the rivalry, but Saint Fran and Modi recognize they can bargain together. Saint Fran reveals that the Church has another possible source: Modi’s Cloning Technology. Facing three opponents, Glasgow accepts a less lucrative deal.
• Both the Church and the Revolutionary Army acquire replica-production technology. Saint Fran redirects Glasgow’s resentment toward Green by mentioning his name.
• Green receives Selina’s report about Glasgow’s hidden factory and the arrival of powerful Saint Spirit Rank fighters. Concerned that the Graveyard cannot withstand such an attack, he waits anxiously for its upgrade.
• The upgrade expands and fortifies the Graveyard, strengthening its walls and defenses. Green initially fears the expensive upgrade has only changed its appearance, then discovers functional additions: the Town Center has become the Imperial Council, doubling monthly troop production, and new buildings include a Divine Altar, Bone Dragon Lair, and Knight Barracks. The excerpt ends as the Bone Dragon Lair’s capabilities are described.

Character developments and interactions

• Modi shifts from pursuing the technology alone to cooperating with Saint Fran when it serves their shared interests. He remains wary of being manipulated or overcharged.
• Saint Fran demonstrates both formidable new power and shrewd diplomacy, helping the Church secure technology without yielding to Glasgow’s demands.
• Link feels his confidence shaken when he realizes he is the least powerful person present.
• Glasgow is exposed as a calculating merchant who expected to profit by selling his technology to multiple buyers. His plans are checked by the buyers’ alliance, and he leaves blaming Green.
• Green faces growing insecurity about his military position but hopes the Graveyard’s upgrade will improve his ability to defend Mist World. Selina acts as his scout, using Mechanical Crows to observe the factory and the departing factions.

Significant themes

• Power and changing alliances: Shared interests temporarily unite rivals, while the rise of Saint Spirit Rank fighters changes the balance of power.
• Leverage and negotiation: Glasgow’s attempt to control the market fails when buyers coordinate and reveal alternatives.
• Preparation and vulnerability: Green’s intelligence gathering and Graveyard upgrade are responses to the threat posed by stronger enemies.
• Uncertain rewards: The costly upgrade initially appears cosmetic, but its value becomes clearer as Green uncovers its new defenses and buildings.

Key plot points

• Green inspects the Graveyard’s upgrades. The Bone Dragon Lair can now produce ordinary Calamity-Rank Bone Dragons, potentially allowing him to build an army of them. The Knight Barracks has also gained a new troop type, the Death God Attendant, though Green cannot produce one because its activation condition is unmet.
• Green suspects the new troop may be connected to Anubis, the ancient God of Death he has imprisoned in the Graveyard. He also considers whether the Divine Altar might offer a way to deal with Anubis, rather than handing him over to the unreliable Four Gods Alliance.
• Green brings Anubis to the altar and provokes him into rushing for a floating Divine Power Crystal. The altar traps him, and Green activates the sacrifice, causing it to drain Anubis’s Divinity and Divine Power.
• Anubis refuses Green’s offer to stop the sacrifice in exchange for loyalty. He then reveals he still has a hidden reserve of Divine Power, uses it to seize a crystal, and tries to absorb it. Green orders Talaga to intervene, but she does not act. The crystal suddenly cracks as Anubis grips it, leaving the outcome unresolved.

Character developments and interactions

• Green grows more ambitious after learning the Graveyard can produce Calamity-Rank troops. He remains cautious about political allies, rejects a deal with the Four Gods Alliance, and uses calculated provocation to lure Anubis into the altar’s trap.
• Anubis shifts from outward contempt to apparent panic, then reveals that his weakness was partly an act: he had concealed enough Divine Power for a last attempt to escape and regain strength. His pride and cunning make him dangerous even while imprisoned.
• Talaga, Green’s strongest subordinate, responds listlessly to his urgent command, creating a moment of apparent vulnerability that Anubis exploits.
• Green and Anubis trade insults and threats. Green challenges the idea that gods are inherently sacred, while Anubis insists that a Deity’s dignity must not be profaned.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a god can be defeated and reduced to dependence, but apparent weakness may conceal a final advantage.
• Trust and political risk: Green decides that trading Anubis to the Four Gods Alliance would be too dangerous.
• Manipulation and control: Green sets a trap by exploiting Anubis’s desire for Divine Power, while Anubis waits for the right moment to counter him.
• Divinity challenged: Green argues that gods are powerful rather than inherently sacred, framing divine status as something that can be lost.

Key events

• Green reveals that the Divine Power Crystals he offered Anubis were fake; the Divine Core and Divinity were genuine. Anubis realizes he has been tricked and is being ground down by the Divine Altar.
• Facing imminent death, Anubis struggles between his pride as a god and his instinct to survive. He splits into two aspects: one clings to his dignity and accepts death, while the other begs Green to spare him.
• Green suspects the pleading aspect is scheming and chooses to destroy it. The aspect is ground away, increasing the Altar’s Divine Core and Divinity values.
• Green then offers the surviving Anubis a compromise: rather than become his subordinate, Anubis can sign a Soul Contract and work for him for 300 years. Anubis accepts.
• Anubis joins Green’s heroes as a damaged ancient Deity, ranked as a high-level Demigod. Green realizes how dangerous he would have been at full strength.

Character developments and interactions

• Green shifts from confidence to uncertainty as Anubis resists, then relies on caution and instinct to decide which aspect to destroy. He ultimately balances pragmatism with negotiation.
• Anubis is divided between divine pride and fear of death. The proud aspect refuses enslavement, but accepts a time-limited contract once Green offers terms that preserve some dignity.
• Their relationship changes from captor and captive to a wary, contractual partnership. Green makes clear that refusal would mean death; Anubis accepts, relieved to survive without pledging personal loyalty.

Significant themes

• Pride versus survival: Anubis’s internal conflict shows the cost of holding onto dignity when death is near.
• Trust and deception: Green’s fake crystals and Anubis’s possible feints make every choice dangerous.
• Power and negotiation: Green uses overwhelming force but secures cooperation by offering a compromise.
• Caution under uncertainty: Unable to know Anubis’s intentions, Green chooses the option he considers least risky.

Chapter Summary: “Upgrading the Skeleton Lord”

Key plot points and events

• Though Anubis is now under contract, Green keeps his Divine Power sealed and treats him as a last-resort asset. Anubis’s identity is dangerous: Zeus, the powerful new Titan God King, once destroyed one of his avatars.
• Green confirms that the Graveyard can produce Death God Attendants, but each costs 500,000 Psychic Energy. His main goal, however, is to test whether Anubis’s lingering God of Death traits can strengthen undead enough to challenge Saint Spirit Rank enemies.
• Green chooses the Mecha-equipped Skeleton Lord for the experiment. After spending over a million Psychic Energy, adding a Divinity Fragment, and having Anubis bless it, the Skeleton Lord transforms into a towering, half-machine, half-Zombie Ancient Giant.
• The upgrade succeeds: the Skeleton Lord reaches Saint Spirit Initial Rank. Green considers fitting it with a newer Mecha for an even greater boost and decides to apply the same process to Talaga, who may become stronger still.
• Elsewhere, Princess Mulesina continues developing the Calamity Virus, inspired by Green. It can greatly strengthen muscles and healing, but may cause addiction or create a separate infection that corrodes the body and turns victims into unstable, explosive acid weapons.
• Mulesina has spent over a month working without sleep, hoping to improve the virus enough to raise her own Early Calamity Rank strength toward High Calamity Rank. Green summons her with news of “something good,” and she travels to his castle. There, she sees the upgraded Skeleton Lord and is left astonished.

Character developments and interactions

• Green becomes more confident after acquiring his first Saint Spirit Rank fighter, giving him greater leverage against major powers such as the Holy Light Church and the Divine Eagle Empire. He remains cautious about Anubis and is already planning further undead upgrades.
• Anubis serves as a powerful but risky support figure. His blessing proves effective even though he has lost his former Divine Office and kingdom.
• Princess Mulesina is shown as brilliant, ambitious, and dangerously obsessive. Her virus research reflects her desire to grow stronger before the coming Divine War, while Mahabam repeatedly urges her to rest.
• Mahabam acts as Mulesina’s concerned attendant and alerts her when Green calls. Mulesina promptly abandons her experiment to meet Green, showing her trust in him and curiosity about his discoveries.
• Green and Mulesina’s reunion is brief and direct: he reveals the Skeleton Lord rather than explaining, and her shock underscores how extraordinary the transformation is.

Significant themes

• Power gained through experimentation: Green’s divinity-and-blessing experiment produces a major breakthrough, while Mulesina pursues strength through risky biological research.
• The costs and dangers of progress: Both characters’ methods demand enormous resources or carry severe consequences—ranging from the threat posed by powerful gods to addiction, infection, and explosive mutations.
• Preparation for looming conflict: Green and Mulesina independently seek ways to improve their strength ahead of the approaching Divine War.
• Caution versus ambition: Green restrains Anubis to avoid attracting Zeus’s attention, while Mulesina pushes herself and her research to extremes.

Chapter summary

Princess Mulesina is stunned to discover that Green’s Skeleton Lord has become a towering, complete Ancient Giant—and that the creature is a Saint Spirit Rank undead under Green’s command. After signing a confidentiality contract, she asks Green to transform one of her own undead. He gives her a vague explanation of his method, and she chooses her Bone Dragon, Mahabam.
Green successfully transforms Mahabam, though the result falls short of the Skeleton Lord’s power. Mahabam reaches the peak of Calamity Rank rather than Saint Spirit Rank, apparently because his original foundation was weaker. Green is disappointed, but Mulesina is thrilled: Mahabam has surpassed the strength she had been working toward, and may still grow stronger. As a half-machine, half-flesh undead, he can also be equipped with Bone Dragon Mecha.
Meanwhile, spies from the Divine Eagle Empire observe Mulesina’s visit. Unable to uncover its real purpose—and eager to keep their intelligence post funded—they invent a report claiming Green has a way to strengthen undead. The rumor spreads widely and attracts the attention of the Death Council.
The Council’s leader, Saint Spirit Rank necromancer Heinri, decides to approach Green in hopes of acquiring the method, despite others’ concerns about provoking someone connected to the powerful Grand Duke Mora. That night, Heinri enters Green’s castle.

Character developments and interactions

• Green reveals a major advancement in undead enhancement, while keeping its workings confidential. He treats Mulesina as a trusted ally but carefully limits what he tells her.
• Princess Mulesina responds pragmatically: she signs the contract and invests in upgrading Mahabam. Her excitement at his improvement contrasts with Green’s disappointment.
• Mahabam becomes much stronger, though he does not reach Saint Spirit Rank.
• The Divine Eagle spies choose fabrication over risky investigation, motivated by greed and fear of losing their post.
• Heinri sees Green’s method as valuable and is willing to pursue it, while the other Council members worry about the political danger.

Significant themes

• Power and secrecy: Green’s breakthrough could shift the balance of power, making confidentiality and control of information essential.
• Ambition and opportunism: The spies invent intelligence for personal gain, while Heinri seeks to exploit Green’s achievement.
• Uneven progress and potential: Mahabam’s transformation is impressive but limited by his weak foundation, leaving future growth uncertain.
• Political risk in wartime: With Divine War approaching, even a private visit can draw attention from major factions and invite dangerous intervention.

Key plot points

• Green is considering Bone Dragon Mecha for Mahabam when his warning system alerts him to a visitor: Heinri, a senior figure in the Death Council.
• Heinri tries to intimidate Green into revealing or providing his method for strengthening undead creatures. Green refuses to be bullied, insisting that any work must cover its costs.
• Heinri attacks, but Green summons Talaga. The Saint Spirit Intermediate Rank angel easily defeats Heinri, destroys his prized undead creature, and leaves him barely alive.
• With Heinri subdued, Green summons the other Death Council members. They assume Grand Duke Mora intervened, and neither Green nor Heinri corrects them.
• Green sells them upgrades for their undead creatures at enormous prices. The Necromancers willingly pay because the enhancements are so powerful; unbeknownst to them, the modified creatures are effectively offerings to Anubis, who could take control of them.
• Heinri reveals that the Lord of Death has been gravely wounded and driven into hiding by the God of Death and the Mechanical God. The Divine War has left the Lord of Death isolated and difficult for even his followers to contact.
• Green considers whether the Lord of Death’s possible fall could let him bring the powerful Death Council under his own command.

Character developments and interactions

• Green stays composed under pressure, uses Talaga rather than risking a direct fight, and turns Heinri’s attempted coercion into a lucrative business opportunity. He also begins thinking strategically about the Death Council’s future.
• Heinri arrives arrogant and threatening, expecting his rank and reputation to cow Green. After Talaga defeats him and destroys his trump card, he becomes submissive and apologetic, though Green remains wary of his apparent repentance.
• Talaga demonstrates the strength of her Saint Spirit Intermediate Rank advancement, decisively overpowering Heinri and protecting Green.
• The Death Council members are shocked by Heinri’s defeat and misattribute Green’s power to Grand Duke Mora. Their need for stronger undead creatures makes them accept Green’s costly services.

Significant themes

• Power and leverage: Heinri’s rank initially gives him the upper hand, but Talaga’s superior strength reverses the encounter instantly.
• Pragmatism over pride: Green remains calm and turns hostility into profit; Heinri retreats when survival demands it.
• Hidden control and moral ambiguity: Green’s upgrades appear to serve the Necromancers, but the creatures become vulnerable to Anubis’s control.
• Opportunity amid upheaval: The Lord of Death’s vulnerability threatens the Death Council’s stability while opening a possible path for Green to gain influence.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After sending Heinri and the others away, Green weighs the possibility of seizing the Death Council’s power and resources, but decides to wait until the Lord of Death’s fate is certain.
• He then receives a report that Xiweina Ye has died. Since she and Green each possess part of the Mechanical Spark, the news surprises him: he believes he would have sensed her death. Still, he investigates, hoping to learn what happened—and potentially gain her share if the report is true.
• Green travels under the identity of Wood Slater to Xivir, a remote border town that is secretly a stronghold of Destroyer King Kongs. Its buildings, vehicles, and apparent residents are all disguised machines.
• At the tavern, Green asks for Xiweina. The wary robots threaten him and seal the exits, but Green summons the Saint Spirit Rank Skeleton Lord. Overwhelmed, the town’s defenders agree to take him to her.
• Beneath the town, Green finds Xiweina critically injured and connected to life-support equipment. He quickly realizes that the figure he sees is only a projection, not Xiweina’s actual body.
• Xiweina explains that she is taking precautions because she is vulnerable—not only to Green, but also to her own subordinates, who might try to seize the Mechanical Spark.
• Green has no intention of attacking her now. He wants to avoid drawing the Mechanical God’s attention, preserve the possibility of future cooperation, and focus on the Death Council instead.

Character developments

• Green is revealed as patient and calculating. Though he initially sees Xiweina’s reported death as an opportunity to obtain the other Mechanical Spark fragment, he reassesses when he learns she is alive. He uses overwhelming force to secure an audience but makes clear he does not want unnecessary conflict.
• Xiweina Ye is badly weakened but remains cautious and strategic. Even in hiding, she anticipates threats from both outsiders and her own faction, reflecting the same intelligence and ruthlessness that helped her survive political struggles in the Holy Light Church.
• The Destroyer King Kongs are shown to be organized and protective of Xiweina. Their apparent hostility gives way to obedience when Green reveals the Skeleton Lord’s strength.

Character interactions

• Green confronts the tavern owner and Madick, intimidating them into escorting him to Xiweina.
• Green and Xiweina recognize each other despite his Wood avatar. Their guarded exchange shows mutual wariness, but also respect and an awareness that they may benefit from cooperation.
• Green considers Xiweina’s danger from her own followers and accepts that her precautions are justified, rather than treating them as a personal insult.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Green could exploit Xiweina’s weakness, but judges that the risks outweigh the immediate reward.
• Trust and internal betrayal: Xiweina must protect herself from her own followers, while Green approaches her with caution despite their potential alliance.
• Strategic survival: Both characters prioritize staying alive and preserving future options over acting impulsively.
• Political calculation: The Mechanical Spark, the Death Council, and the Mechanical God are pieces in a wider struggle, and Green carefully avoids provoking a stronger power unnecessarily.

Plot points

• Green recognizes that Xiweina Ye’s Solar Core could benefit most Destroyer King Kongs, while Xiweina could supply valuable blueprints and specimens. He shows her a sample core, earns her trust, and is taken to her hidden underground refuge.
• Xiweina is genuinely present but gravely damaged, missing limbs and suffering a major wound. Green suspects she has another hidden safeguard. He meets her assistant, Wendosa, and learns through Red Queen that he is Prince Wendosa, son of Sison’s king. Sison has been weakened by its losses and the Holy Light Church’s retaliation.
• Archbishop Link has recently survived a serious assassination attempt. Green suspects Xiweina may have been involved, but the timing, the attacker’s self-destruction, and her possible motive remain unexplained. He decides not to pursue the matter for now.
• Red Queen reports that Count Paul—Green’s chief administrator—has been murdered by a powerful High-Level Legendary assassin. Frio retrieves Paul’s soul, but it is too damaged for a meaningful restoration.
• Paul’s son Vincent grieves, then takes charge of the territory’s administration and formally swears allegiance to Green as Paul’s heir. Green promises to find the assassin.

Character developments and interactions

• Green balances caution with pragmatism: he courts Xiweina as a useful potential partner, keeps Wendosa’s status in perspective, and chooses to focus on strengthening himself rather than investigating Link’s attack.
• Xiweina’s severe injuries reveal how vulnerable she is, though Green remains wary of her hidden defenses. Wendosa’s pride and hostility hint at his high status, but Xiweina explicitly frames Green as an ally.
• Vincent moves quickly from grief to duty. His conversation with Green reinforces their friendship and establishes his political allegiance, even as he privately recognizes how difficult replacing his father will be.

Themes

• Power and vulnerability: Xiweina’s formidable capabilities coexist with devastating physical damage, while even a powerful political leader like Paul can be killed.
• Duty amid grief: Vincent must suppress his sorrow to protect his family’s territory.
• Trust and hidden motives: Green’s dealings with Xiweina and his suspicions about the assassination attempts show how alliances remain uncertain.
• The cost of political conflict: Sison’s decline illustrates how losses and retaliation can leave a kingdom dependent on outside support.

Plot points and events

• Frio investigates Count Paul’s assassination, focusing on people who helped prepare it rather than pursuing the suspected Assassin. He believes the attack required inside assistance.
• Intelligence points to Feidimsi, a City Hall section chief whose gravely ill mother recently recovered in suspicious circumstances. Frio orders his arrest.
• Before Frio can question a witness he has been tracking, an explosion destroys the shop where the man entered, killing or injuring dozens. Frio concludes the blast was meant to silence him.
• Feidimsi’s home reveals a worse discovery: he, his wife, their two children, and his mother have all been dead for some time. Their souls have been erased, preventing Frio from questioning them through Necromancy.
• Two women leaving the building appear frightened, but Frio notices a trace of mockery in one woman’s expression and orders agents to follow them. He reports the investigation’s failure to Green.
• Green learns from other intelligence that the assassins were likely connected to the Rune Federation and suspects demonic influence. With the Federation weakened by invasion and people accepting demonic transformation, Green fears the demons may be preparing to attack the Lorenzo Kingdom through Alsa Province.
• Green sends Selina to assess the border and orders Frio to arrest everyone in his territory tainted by demonic energy, supported by Erha and the Skeleton Lord.

Character developments and interactions

• Frio is ambitious and frustrated by being outmatched by other members of Green’s forces. He hopes the investigation will earn him greater authority, but the enemy’s killings and erased souls leave him with few leads. Though reluctant, he admits he may need Green’s help.
• Green responds to the assassination as both a personal challenge and a threat to his territory. He suspects the enemy has mistaken his restraint for weakness and escalates the response.
• Frio and his agents work together to identify and pursue suspects, but Frio’s caution and experience are repeatedly tested by the enemy’s ability to eliminate witnesses.
• Green and Selina coordinate the response: he gives her an urgent reconnaissance mission, which she accepts immediately. Green also reinforces Frio’s investigation with powerful allies.
• The two unidentified women attract Frio’s suspicion through their seemingly staged reaction to the massacre; their motives remain unknown.

Significant themes

• Witness silencing and the limits of investigation: The enemy kills suspects and their families, destroys evidence, and erases souls, frustrating even magical methods of inquiry.
• Power, ambition, and authority: Frio wants recognition and influence, but the crisis tests whether he can meet the responsibility entrusted to him.
• Fear and corruption: Demonic transformation appeals to people seeking longer lives, while the demons exploit political instability and human greed.
• Escalating conflict and deterrence: Green believes failing to retaliate would invite further attacks, so he treats the assassination as a warning of a broader invasion.

Key plot points

• Two women, Isa—later identified as Elizabeth Franton—and her Contract Demon, Aigrila, enter Lorraine City’s South District. Their presence frightens local criminals, while they kill Frio’s men when the men try to follow them.
• Frio orders slum boss Belondo to find the women. Belondo sends Scarface Lanslo, but soon learns that all three hundred of his men have been slaughtered. Frio realizes the situation is far beyond an ordinary manhunt.
• At a mansion, Elizabeth and Aigrila discuss their campaign of violence. Aigrila boasts that they have outmaneuvered the city’s authorities, but Elizabeth warns her to conceal her demonic aura and obey their lord’s instructions.
• Green appears through a Portal and recognizes Elizabeth, whom he knew before. He questions her about the attempted assassination of Count Paul. Elizabeth denies involvement in the assassination but admits their mission was to disrupt the city and implies she knew of the plot.
• Green presses her about who gave them their orders. Aigrila attacks, but Green sends her through a Portal to the Mist World. He takes Elizabeth away as well.
• Alone, Green concludes that a hidden power is trying to blame the assassination on demons from the Asgar Kingdom and provoke a war. He considers the Four Gods Alliance, the Holy Light Church, and the Divine Eagle Empire, while suspecting Gaia in particular.

Character developments and interactions

• Elizabeth is revealed as a former acquaintance of Green and a powerful Demon Warlock now nearing Calamity Rank. She remains composed under pressure but recognizes that she and Aigrila cannot defeat him.
• Aigrila is bloodthirsty and impulsive, eager to kill and dismissive of the danger. Her confidence gives way to an attack when their cover is exposed, but Green easily removes her from the scene.
• Green acts decisively and uses intimidation and his command of Portals to control the encounter. He sees the women as clues to a larger conspiracy rather than the masterminds themselves.
• Frio and Belondo are briefly aligned by authority and fear: Frio threatens Belondo, who in turn threatens Lanslo. Their attempts to control the situation collapse when Belondo’s gang is wiped out.
• The central exchange between Green and Elizabeth shifts from recognition to interrogation. Their past acquaintance adds tension, but neither treats the meeting as a reunion.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable criminals and high-ranking figures are helpless before stronger forces.
• Conspiracy and false blame: The violence appears designed to frame demons and ignite conflict between larger powers.
• Violence as political leverage: The women’s attacks destabilize the city, while the concealed assassination plot threatens to escalate into war.
• Restraint versus recklessness: Elizabeth tries to follow orders and hide her nature; Aigrila’s appetite for violence repeatedly risks exposing them.

Key plot points

• The Holy Light Church and Divine Eagle Empire appear to be trying to redirect the Abyssal Demons’ hostility toward the Lorenzo Kingdom. Green cannot identify the instigator and decides the Abyssal Demons are the most practical target for retaliation.
• Before Green can act, more than 300,000 Abyssal Demon forces attack his territory. He suspects they have been manipulated by a similar false-flag plot, but, as ruler, he has no choice but to defend his lands.
• Green orders General James to hold the border rather than counterattack. He then launches Dongfeng One, destroying roughly a third of the Demon army and forcing the survivors to retreat.
• Demon Lord Dante warns Green not to use the weapon again. Green replies diplomatically but firmly, inviting Dante to visit while making clear he will not be intimidated.
• Green learns that another 200,000 Demon troops had planned to attack from the Rune Federation side, creating a pincer. Dongfeng One’s devastating strike makes the Demons abandon the plan.
• Elsewhere, Zeus leads the revived Titan Race as it rapidly expands through the Void. A fleet serving the newly awakened Fire God sets out to claim an ancient, dying Void World. Its commander, Balti, expects an easy conquest—but intelligence reports that the world has a powerful necromancer-ruled nation.

Character developments and interactions

• Green moves from frustration over the political conspiracy to decisive action once his territory is attacked. He balances restraint—ordering his troops to hold the line—with overwhelming force, then uses a courteous but pointed message to assert his position to Dante.
• General James follows Green’s orders and understands the reasoning behind them.
• Dante shows caution despite his anger: he sends a warning rather than confronting Green directly, suggesting that Dongfeng One has made him wary.
• Balti, a former minor noble now favored by the Fire God, is ambitious and confident in the mission. His belief that the target world will be an easy conquest may be tested by its organized undead regime.
• The Demon messenger remains formally respectful despite recognizing Green’s implicit challenge.

Significant themes

• Provocation and false-flag schemes: Outside powers manipulate rival factions toward war, while leaders struggle to distinguish genuine hostility from engineered conflict.
• Deterrence and restraint: Green uses immense force to stop an offensive, then avoids escalating into a counterattack. The weapon’s impact changes the enemy’s calculations.
• Power reshapes diplomacy: The threat of Dongfeng One influences Demon decisions as much as battlefield losses do.
• Renewal and expansion: The Titan Race’s awakening revitalizes old powers and sets off a new contest for territory across the Void.

Key plot points and events

• Balti leads three Void Warships toward Mist World, dismissing reports of an “Undead Kingdom” as unimportant. Before entering, his fleet detects an immense Psychic Energy presence: a sleeping, dragon-shaped creature clinging to the World Crystal Wall. Balti is frightened but decides not to investigate, orders the fleet around the anomaly, and plans to report it to the Fire God.
• Balti brings more than 400,000 troops—not because he expects a major fight, but to give the newly awakened Titan Race’s largely inexperienced Retainer Army battlefield training. He leaves the warships outside Mist World and intends to establish a Portal for the troops.
• In Mist World, the Holy Light Church and Dark Holy Crusaders have withdrawn following their agreement with Green. Their former territories pass peacefully to the Undead Empire.
• Mist World’s revival brings denser Psychic Energy, fertile land, more wildlife, and rapid population growth among humans, Orcs, and Gray Elves. Green’s food policies help keep children healthy, and the population boom makes the empire’s need for food and territory increasingly urgent.
• The empire expands quickly: Penny’s Southern Legion pushes south, while the Northern Legion splits to advance east and west. Green avoids provoking the White Dragon King until he understands the dragon’s intentions. The empire’s territory triples.
• At the boundary of grassland and rainforest, Penny’s legion unexpectedly encounters a force of fewer than a thousand soldiers. A battle begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Balti begins with contemptuous confidence but is shaken by the colossal creature. Caution overcomes curiosity, though he remains eager to bring the discovery to the Fire God in hopes of earning favor.
• Green sees his empire becoming more than a regime maintained by fear: the population increasingly trusts and supports it. He is encouraged by human and Orc children playing together, while remaining uncertain whether their coexistence will endure.
• Penny continues leading the southern expansion, bringing the empire into its next conflict.
• Human and Orc families gradually become less suspicious of one another as their children play together. Undead peace officers contain their quarrels before they escalate.
• Balti and his captain share unease over the mysterious creature; the captain is relieved when Balti chooses not to send a scout.

Significant themes

• Caution in the face of the unknown: Balti’s decision to avoid the sleeping giant shows that strength does not remove the need for restraint.
• Recovery and growth: Mist World’s ecological revival drives prosperity and population growth, but also creates pressure for expansion and resources.
• Unity across difference: Children’s friendships offer a hopeful first step toward human–Orc coexistence, though Green recognizes that lasting peace is not guaranteed.
• Power, loyalty, and fear: The Fire God rules through terror, whereas Green’s growing popularity and citizens’ genuine loyalty suggest a different basis for authority.

Plot points and events

• Penny cautiously organized the Southern Army into layered forces, with a 1,700-soldier squad encountering and destroying the Fire God Army’s first vanguard. More than 300 enemy soldiers were captured.
• Green’s Necromancers read captured soldiers’ memories and identified the enemy as the Fire God Army, which serves a deity. Concerned about its possible high-ranking fighters, Green went to the front with the Skeleton Lord, Talaga, and elite mechanical troops.
• Penny withdrew and established a defensive line. The Red Queen and Green’s hidden Raven network gathered intelligence, revealing a second enemy force of about 2,000 and a powerful, unidentified presence.
• Green’s combined army—over 50,000 troops, including two Saint Spirit Rank fighters and five Calamity Rank fighters—prepared to encircle the enemy. He ordered Penny to fight normally, trusting that their own elites could handle the enemy’s powerhouse.
• Balti, commander of the Fire God Army, discovered that the enemy was far stronger and better equipped than expected. He ordered construction of a Portal for reinforcements and a second Portal farther behind the lines.
• Rather than stop the Portal effort, Green welcomed the chance to test new weapons and ordered the Undead Empire into Level Three Combat Readiness.

Character developments

• Penny shows disciplined caution and confident command: she plans defensively, then responds swiftly when Green gives her the order to attack.
• Green treats the threat seriously but remains confident. He relies on reconnaissance, evaluates the enemy’s plans, and sees the encounter as an opportunity to test new weapons.
• Balti initially dismisses the enemy, but regains his composure after losing his vanguard. Faced with unexpected strength, he shifts to gathering intelligence and securing reinforcements.
• The Red Queen demonstrates the efficiency of the Empire’s surveillance and battlefield analysis, building a detailed tactical picture from drones and linked reconnaissance.

Significant themes

• Arrogance versus adaptation: Both sides initially underestimate the other, but Balti adjusts once evidence contradicts his assumptions.
• Preparation and intelligence: Layered forces, reconnaissance, and coordinated communication give Green’s army a major advantage.
• Power and confidence: The Undead Empire’s vast resources make even a deity-backed enemy’s landing force seem relatively minor.
• Escalation: Portals and reinforcements promise a larger conflict, while Green’s readiness order signals that the Empire is preparing for what may follow.

Character interactions

• Balti receives a grave report from his deputy commander, dismisses it at first, then listens and makes a more measured plan.
• Green consults with the Red Queen and Penny about enemy strength and intentions, then entrusts Penny with the fighting while assuring her that the enemy’s elite will be handled.
• The Red Queen and Selina share reconnaissance through their Soul Link, allowing Green’s forces to coordinate battlefield intelligence.