Chapter Summaries

Kroya and his companions defeated two Legendary holy spirits in Rainbow Grass Heaven and divided the spoils, while Ivy explained why Kroya could not remember the gods’ names. In the Elven Kingdom, the laurel tree Daphne awakened and asked to meet the person who had played the song of the sun.

• Kroya used a five-colored arrow to kill the mage holy spirit, and the warrior holy spirit self-detonated before Kroya trapped the fragments inside Rainbow Grass Heaven.
• Kroya collected the holy spirits’ items, and the survivors divided the loot before celebrating and returning to their homes.
• Ivy told Kroya that the World Veil obscured his memories of deities and revealed that it could summon phantoms of Theodore and Miya through their marks.
• Ivy told Kroya that a fragrant, sacred lady was on her way, then attached itself to his wrist as a bracelet.
• Daphne awakened in the Orpheus Family’s sacred grounds and asked Ertanos to take her to the mage who had played the song of the sun.

Kroya summoned the Goddess of the Underworld to the Dark Plane, where the River of the Underworld produced life wool grass that could anchor lingering souls. He gave the little girl and her four companions a new life in the mortal world, then left Kreha and Miya to weave bracelets for the many souls he had preserved.

• Kroya directed his apprentices’ Western Frontier work and listened as the Ivy explained how the little girl’s four companions had died and returned as souls.
• Kroya praised Kashu’s work in the Dark Plane and told him that his father could return.
• Kroya and Agatha summoned the River of the Underworld, whose waters flowed into the mine and produced white life wool grass.
• Kreha emerged from the mine, destroyed a Legendary soul Kroya gave her, and explained that life wool grass could anchor the dead in the mortal world.
• Kreha, Kroya, and Miya wove bracelets that made the girl’s four companions’ souls appear solid, and Kroya arranged for them to join the Northern Frontier’s administration.
• Kroya asked Kreha and Miya to weave bracelets for many more souls, and Miya proudly revealed that Kroya was her apprentice.

Kroya opened passages from the Hall of Heroes so the dead could visit their loved ones, then noticed the Elven delegation approaching the Northern Frontier. As the Laurel Tree prepared to invite the Reef Duke to help redevelop Border Town, a giant water-sword struck the Elven palace and a voice challenged Daphne.

• The Tower Spirit announced that the heroic spirits could enter reality, and Helen returned home to reunite with her mother and help make cream soup.
• Kroya told Ivy he was writing fairy tales to ease his weariness and sealed the Finale of Praise away because he did not want to learn it.
• A high-ranking delegation from the Elven Orpheus Family arrived near the human border, prompting the Seven Gods' churches to send escorts.
• The Laurel Tree told Icarus she wanted to invite the Reef Duke to visit and explore Elven support for redeveloping Border Town.
• As the Elven palace neared the Northern Frontier's border wall, a giant sword of water descended and a voice accused Daphne of making its chosen people suffer.

Kroya watched Daphne clash with the Goddess of Sea and Moon, then welcomed the Orpheus Family ancestor to the Blossom Archipelago. Daphne gave him the Fated Arrow and a trade permit inviting him to build homes and infrastructure for half-elves and Half-Orcs, and she took root in a garden where she happily bloomed.

• Kroya recorded the battle between Daphne and the Goddess of Sea and Moon while Tredan explained Daphne's role in creating the Merfolk Tribe's Dream Bubbles.
• After the battle ended, Kroya transported the damaged elven palace to the Blossom Archipelago, where Daphne revealed she had learned that she and her beloved had lived in different times.
• Daphne gave Ivy the music magic she had learned from Him and presented Kroya with the Fated Arrow, a golden bow tied to the Sagittarius constellation.
• Daphne turned Icarus into a tree for interfering with her decision, and Kroya burned him with magic before sparing him at Daphne's request.
• Daphne gave Kroya a Foreign Trade Permit offering texts from the Grand Wisdom Palace as payment for trade and construction for half-elves and Half-Orcs, and Kroya accepted.
• Kroya brought Daphne to a garden beside a stream, where she took root and bloomed, releasing magic that nourished the nearby plants.

Kroya failed to learn prophecy directly, so he used Breichina's Eye to study it and discovered that the Arrow of Fate could destroy the plant. Meanwhile, Ryan and Jamie met the Elves and Half-Orcs at the Gray Sand Desert border, where Jamie learned that the newly ascended Half-Elf God was watching their effort to improve Half-Elf living conditions.

• Kroya rejected the Church of the Goddess of Love's offer to provide security for the border trade, keeping the Churches of the Seven Gods out of the arrangement.
• Kroya used Nature Sight through Breichina's Eye to ask for tomorrow's weather, then tried to study the Arrow of Fate; a starlight arrow from Sagittarius destroyed the plant.
• Kroya's second attempt to study prophecy also failed, and he concluded that he needed to learn the first cyan movement before he could access prophetic magic.
• Ryan and Jamie arrived at the Gray Sand Desert border, where a Half-Orc delegation offered goods in exchange for meat and grain, and the Elven envoy challenged Jamie's abilities.
• Jamie negotiated with the Elven envoy about building a home for the Half-Elves and learned that the Half-Elf God was watching the effort through a divine oracle.

Jamie and Ryan investigated the Demon Half-Elves’ demands while overseeing their new community, then witnessed a ceremony that summoned a holy apple tree and white snake. The creature’s arrival disrupted the Main Plane’s stable space, leaving its identity and purpose unknown.

• Jamie and Ryan went to address the 1,352 Demon Half-Elves after receiving word of trouble, and Jamie insisted that their magical conduits remain under Reef’s supervision.
• Jamie met the leader Lu Xishuo, accepted an invitation to the Half-Elves’ blessing ceremony, and learned that the group shared a faith tied to feather-shaped magic charms.
• Lu Xishuo and the other Demon Half-Elves revealed their black wings, showing that every one of them carried Fallen Angel ancestry.
• The Demon Half-Elves danced beneath the moon and fed feathers to an apple-wood bonfire, while their wings sealed the community off from outside magic.
• Nina spotted a sacred apple tree and a white snake growing from the flames as the space around the ceremony began to change.

Ryan received the fallen angels’ wisdom apple, gained their inheritance and a way to travel between planes, and Kroya arrived to investigate. Kroya struck a bargain with Molly for a fragment of the Void Luminary Ark in exchange for milk-and-honey water, leaving Molly and Lu Xishuo reunited.

• The sacred white snake gave Ryan the wisdom apple, and he gained the Deep Gloom Divine Feather inheritance, black wings, and a feather that could summon or transport him to the fallen angels’ dwelling place.
• Ryan used his scarlet stone to summon Kroya, who ordered the demon half-elves to leave and had Jamie draw a cross-plane summoning array.
• Molly emerged from the array and explained that the apple tree came from her bargain with the elven chief god, which secured a place for fallen angel offspring in the Main Plane.
• Kroya recognized Lu Xishuo’s bloodline inscription and questioned Molly about her emotions, her son, and the fallen angels’ need for nourishment.
• Molly offered Kroya an ancient fragment of the Void Luminary Ark and information about the Church of Light’s mining in exchange for milk-and-honey water, and Kroya agreed to let Lu Xishuo oversee the river.
• Kroya vanished, and Lu Xishuo embraced Molly and called her Mother.

Kroya guided Jamie, Ryan, and Nina through plans to summon and manage the River of Milk and Honey from Gluttony Paradise, while Ryan struggled with the prospect of marrying a Fallen Angel. Days later, the river project took shape beneath the border city, where Nina met Beren of Time and Wind, who arrived with a host of wind creatures, including two dragons.

• Kroya explained the modified magic arrays and river plans to Jamie, Ryan, and Nina, then told Ryan he could choose whether to marry a Fallen Angel or have his demonic genes removed.
• Workers excavated and coated an underground river channel, while water-storage trees and Pure White Sea Spirit Coconuts began bringing in River of Milk and Honey water from Gluttony Paradise.
• Nina showed Lu Xishuo the harp corals that purified and distributed the river water, and he agreed to guard the channel and contain any demonic aura.
• Nina met Beren, a member of Time and Wind, who used time magic to restore her vitality and revealed that he was an undead.
• Beren opened a portal and brought wind creatures, including two dragons, to the city, leaving Jamie calculating how to accommodate them.

Jamie received the Wind Shaman's legacy and the magical beasts from Beren, while Kroya tested a new summoning array and struck a bargain with Beren to train bards. Afterward, Kroya began planning to create a hero who could end the war between the Church of Light and the Earth Mother Goddess Church.

• Beren gave Jamie the wind magical beasts and the Wind Wheel, explaining that it could connect someone to the wind and asking him to find a suitable user.
• Kroya used processed divine power to summon Beren to Reef Island, then gave him a bracelet that could let the dead walk freely in the world.
• Kroya asked Beren to train bards to travel, protect themselves, and gather intelligence, and Beren agreed in exchange for up to a hundred bracelets.
• Kroya asked Deimos about the God of War Tanshi's authority and learned that ending the unjust war could earn a hero support from other deities.
• Kroya decided to create a hero to stop the war and wondered whom to choose.

A magical blue-and-white cat helped William Daops escape his bleak life in Martin City and brought him to a Half-Orc village, where he befriended Lolisa and her brother. Their brief peace ended when they saw Church forces attacking the village, and William and Lolisa let go of each other’s hands.

• William found a blue-and-white cat in his desk drawer, and it used a wooden figurine to take his place at work.
• The cat opened a door to a wild landscape, where a Half-Orc man threatened William before Lolisa intervened.
• The cat produced an endless feast and helped William create a warm tree house, easing the hostility between the humans and Half-Orcs.
• William told Lolisa about his hardships in Martin City, while her brother described how ordinary people suffered from the Church’s resource plundering.
• Lolisa took William to see her village, but they encountered a Church army killing a captured Half-Orc and released each other’s hands.

William overcame his fear and killed thirty Church knights who were slaughtering Half-Orcs, while Kroya learned how to anchor higher-order power in the Outer Astral Region. Inspired by the possibility of turning his constellations into orbital attacks, Kroya headed to his Floating Island to prepare a meteor shower against the Church.

• The little Blue Cat gave William a radiant sword and urged him to act, and William killed thirty Church knights while narrowly dodging their attacks.
• Kreha told Kroya that William's hopeful soul made him a good choice for the Heroic Epic plan, then explained how souls were drawn toward places they had hoped to reach.
• Kreha proposed using the Ruby Dragons' life essence, an Ark keel fragment, and a special mineral vein to anchor a Small Plane in the Outer Astral Region.
• Miya exposed Kreha's suspicions about her desire for revenge, and Kreha retreated into Underworld mist after giving Kroya a book titled "Star Array: Ingenuity for Restraining Deities."
• Kroya realized he could anchor his constellations in the Outer Astral Region and use them to bombard the Church with a meteor shower, then traveled to his Floating Island to begin working.

Kroya used Red Dragon blood and the Astral Body Inscription Technique to grow a satellite lotus, while rescuing hopeful spirits by bringing them into Eden. After two months of study, he completed the lotus’s transformation and launched its first orbital bombardment at David City, where the Church’s Holy Flame Knight Order was stationed.

• Kroya mixed gaseous Ruby Dragon blood with lotus seedlings, attracting vengeful spirits that the Astral Body Inscription Technique identified as hopeful spirits.
• When the spirits’ hope turned to despair after they consumed the lotuses, Kroya promised to soothe their suffering and drew them into Eden.
• Kroya spent two months deciphering the spirits’ emotional essence, then infused a flame of hope and despair into a lotus alongside Constellation power and the Star Void Luminary Cannon.
• Kroya connected his consciousness to the transformed lotus and used it to observe much of the Semrio Continent, though his mental power and the lotus’s vitality waned.
• The lotus completed its transformation into Kroya’s satellite lotus, granting it observation, orbital cannon, and concealment abilities.
• Kroya ordered the Lotus Elf to strike David City, and the satellite lotus fired a shower of flaming lotus seeds toward the city.

Kroya used Magic Plants in the Outer Astral Region to destroy several cities and knight orders belonging to the Church of Light and the Earth Mother Goddess Church, then established the Orbital Strike Garden. The Church of Light blamed the attacks on enemies near the Outer Astral Region and began a Holy War under the saint’s command.

• Lotus flames and falling starlight overwhelmed David City, destroying its shield and consuming the Holy Flame Knight Order in despair.
• Kroya planted olive trees in the Sea of Clouds, and their Vengeful Spirits sent swords and shields to destroy the Golden Lion Knight Order.
• Kroya imprinted thirsty sea glow algae, Air Coral, and gopherwood, whose Vengeful Spirits unleashed floods, spatial attacks, and powerful magic against three more cities.
• After exhausting the plants’ mana, Kroya named the concealed garden in the Outer Astral Region the Orbital Strike Garden and considered how to continue his plans.
• The Archbishop told the saint that four major knight orders had been wiped out and that the attacks likely came from the Outer Astral Region.
• The saint ordered the Holy Light Knight Order to proceed with its original objectives, then announced God’s Word and began the Holy War.

William helped the Half-Orcs recover inside Dora’s magical painting refuge, then met three Archbishops who gave him divine blessings and taught him about the war. After absorbing their knowledge through enchanted bread, William learned that more Church leaders were coming to teach him as brilliant light appeared in the meeting house.

• Lolisa visited her wounded brother and told him that William had saved the Half-Orcs, prompting Sas and the others to get out of bed and offer to tend the livestock.
• William demonstrated Dora’s harmless air-bullet weapon, entrusted the pasture and animals to Sas, and explained that the Church’s knights were attacking David City despite a projection of Saint David.
• William left the painting under Dora’s Stone Hat and met Archbishops of the Goddess of Wisdom, the God of War, and the Goddess of Love.
• The Archbishops blessed William with a Rose Emblem, a Truth Emblem, and a shield that protected his loved ones, then dictated their knowledge onto bread for him to absorb.
• After William ate the bread and absorbed their lessons, the Goddess of Love’s Archbishop told him that Archbishops from two more Churches were coming, and brilliant light appeared in the house.

William left with Dora and the blessings of three deities, then led a growing coalition against the Churches of Light and the Earth Mother Goddess. Kroya discovered that World Tree Coal could create demons and learned how to build the Solar Furnace, then went to gather materials from the Kaba Beasts.

• William chose not to ask Kroya questions beyond whether Dora would stay with him, and Kroya promised that Dora would remain his friend.
• Over the next three years, William led a diverse army against the Churches of Light and the Earth Mother Goddess, while Dora helped keep the coalition together.
• Kroya showed Daphne coal containing World Tree particles and revealed that his flames could use it to breed demons; Daphne recognized that Kroya, the deity, and the Sun God were chapters of the Sun.
• Daphne explained the Solar Furnace and its role in creating demons, and Kroya learned that World Tree Coal, solar fire, and midday sun iron were needed to build one.
• Kroya developed a method for making midday sun iron with his magic plants and went to the lake bed, where the Kaba Beasts had accumulated legendary-rank iron ingots.

Kroya discovered that the Kaba Beasts had forged legendary metal and gained the ability to master every forging technique, then appointed one as his attendant. He appointed the Sunflower as his high priest and joined Tredan on an island raised from the Deep Sea, where he recognized it as the Eye of Telnas, the ancestor of all sunflowers.

• Kroya examined the Kaba Beasts’ legendary iron, praised their forging, and discovered their new inscription let them learn and adapt any forging or refining method.
• Kroya appointed the first Kaba Beast he had met on Reef Island as his attendant, binding its life to his composition with a Bedrock Note.
• Kroya visited the Sunflower, explained that he wanted clear oracles, appointed it his high priest, and took some of its holy oil for his planned ritual.
• Tredan asked his uncle Randy to raise an island from the ocean, and Randy summoned a sun-shaped island from the Deep Sea.
• Kroya gave Randy a miniature trident and joined Tredan on the island, where he identified it as the Eye of Telnas, a magic plant and the ancestor of all sunflowers.

Kroya performed a sun ritual on Sun Island, but the Eye of Telnas interfered to help the sunflower ascend to godhood. After Kroya sealed the Eye and harnessed its solar power, the ritual produced a divine artifact, whose emergence the Void God concealed.

• Kroya learned from Tredan that the Deep Sea was a world suppressed by the Void God and agreed to help him study the merfolk inheritance later.
• Kroya began a midday sun iron ritual on Sun Island, drawing sunlight from the surrounding sea and sending Tredan to sustain the sea creatures with a ring of light.
• The Eye of Telnas revealed that it had absorbed the ritual’s sunlight to help its sunflower descendant ascend to godhood.
• Kroya provoked the Eye into attacking, then sealed its spiritual body with the Ring of Radiance and captured its scorching solar power.
• The island’s power quenched the metal into a divine artifact, while the azure power of the great tree and the Void God sealed away its emergence.

Kroya struggled to control the rainbow iron created from the Eye of Telnas until Miya sealed it and brought him, Tredan, and Sun Island into Ark Garden. There, Kroya discovered the elemental-world forest and learned to use the Elemental Hourglass to analyze the metal.

• Kroya failed to bind the rainbow iron with the Ring of Radiance, and Miya explained that its chaotic natural elements required her to seal it herself.
• Miya proposed using the Eye of Telnas to help open Ark Garden, and she asked the merfolk whether Tredan would become their next king.
• The sea and moonlight recognized Tredan by forming sacred armor around him, and Miya took him, Kroya, and Sun Island into Ark Garden.
• Kroya saw that the crystal trees in Ark Garden contained elemental planes and elemental deities, while their power flowed into the Elemental Hourglass.
• Miya imprinted the Elemental Hourglass's instructions into Kroya's mind, and Kroya decided to use it to analyze the rainbow iron and practice by making a trident.

Kroya studied elemental magic, forged a living Solar Furnace, and discovered it could create rapidly multiplying Solar Elemental Demons. The demons’ ability to consume elemental power alarmed him, leaving him to consider how to control them and why they lacked flesh and blood.

• Miya took Tredan to face a sea monster tied to the Merfolk Tribe’s history and instructed him to record the truth about William and the making of epics.
• Kroya inscribed ancient Merfolk runes into rainbow-colored iron, creating a trident that commanded the ocean, and Miya took it away to Tredan.
• Kroya spent three years building the living Solar Furnace from rainbow-colored iron and began testing it with world tree coal, flames, and elemental ores.
• The furnace produced a Solar Flame Elemental Demon that devoured different elemental ores and generated lesser demons of varied attributes.
• Kroya created twenty-one Elemental Demons, including Illusion Luminary and Void Luminary Demons, then worried they could consume entire elemental worlds and questioned why they had no flesh and blood.

William inspected Sun City's construction and Mir's Aether Mage laboratory, where volunteers were being transformed with aether moss and magic plants. Mir showed him Aether Mages attacking a Church of Light stronghold and explained that Kroya's long-planned intervention was meant to let the allied army choose its own future.

• William reflected on the war's near-victory and inspected Sun City's growing infrastructure, remembering Dora's warning against burning cities and abandoning ordinary people.
• William visited Mir's laboratory and saw eager volunteers receive aether moss before choosing magic plants to grow in their wounds.
• Mir explained that accepting too much aether moss could turn Aether Mages into magic crystal and gradually cost them their humanity.
• Mir showed William a force of about three hundred Aether Mages attacking a Church of Light city guarded by three archbishops and a Legendary Cardinal.
• Mir told William that Kroya had planned the intervention long ago and that the remaining conflict would be settled through higher-level discussions, leaving William staring at the battle images.