Recaps

Mikto I died after recalling how he had built the Hasoladi Empire, and Belather Hasoladi succeeded him before becoming a Demigod and imposing worship of the God of Death across the empire. The decree sparked rebellion, while Annatania suspected the God of Death planned to use Feland’s deaths and faith to attain grand divine power.

• Mikto I sent Belather Hasoladi away, but Belather stayed kneeling at his bedside to secure the succession.
• Mikto I recalled his conquests and empire-building, then died as Belather and the palace guards realized he had passed.
• Belather announced Mikto I’s death and succeeded him as emperor, confining his younger brothers in the capital and summoning them to the funeral.
• Belather spent a night in the God of Death Soladis’s temple and emerged as a Demigod.
• Belather abolished worship of all deities except the God of Death, and rebellion erupted across the empire.
• Annatania sat on the Platinum Holy Throne and declared that the God of Death’s plan to gain grand divine power through Feland’s deaths and faith would fail.

Annatania drew confidence from the Platinum Holy Throne while Jiang Yuu awaited a reunion with Yuliel. On the Feland Continent, Belather’s wars and rebellions weakened the First Empire as Jeanne Dake Lionheart’s uprising won major victories and inspired northern kingdoms to declare independence.

• Annatania sat on the Platinum Holy Throne and vowed that Paradise Mountain would remain stable, then wondered when she would meet Yuliel again.
• Jiang Yuu sensed that the reunion was near while Amos struggled to recite Lucifer’s religious texts beneath the throne.
• Belather imprisoned seven princes who had come to the imperial capital, then invaded the Lionheart Kingdom instead of seeking a royal marriage.
• After the Lionheart Kingdom fell, Yepike Hasoladi rebelled, triggering the Rebellion of the Fifty Kings across the empire.
• Jeanne Dake Lionheart raised an uprising in the Northlands, defeated imperial troops, and liberated New Bolek City.
• Jeanne’s forces crushed an imperial army, allowing her to rebuild the Golden Lion Knight Order as northern nobles declared independent kingdoms.

Saintess Jeanne expanded her rebellion against the Hasoladi Empire, gaining Church and foreign support before defeating the imperial army at Fallen Star Lake. The Empire then fractured as peoples and nobles across Feland declared independence and founded new kingdoms.

• Jeanne's victory encouraged more than a hundred nonhuman nations to rise in northern Feland while Emperor Belather Hasoladi postponed suppressing them.
• Jeanne defeated the Empire's forces at Ironstone Fortress, advanced into the Western Sea Coast, and later received the title Saint of Judgment from the Holy Church of Radiance.
• Jeanne captured the major cities linking the Momed Region to the Empire, and the Lionheart Family reestablished its kingdom in the northern Western Sea Coast.
• Jeanne captured Fallen Star Fortress and fought the imperial army to a stalemate at Fallen Star Lake as northern nations sent reinforcements.
• Belather sought help from Soladis, and the Undead Legion defeated Nides Hasoladi's southern army while the Debray Kingdom declared independence.
• After elf armies joined Jeanne, she routed the Empire at Fallen Star Lake, prompting regions, peoples, and nobles across Feland to declare independence and establish new kingdoms.

At Lake Proadas, Saintess Jeanne faced Belather Hasoladi’s last army and declared that the Hasoladi Empire would fall, but the God of Death struck her down. Annatania Gabriel saved Jeanne’s soul and confronted the God of Death, while the enraged rebel army charged into battle.

• Saintess Jeanne and Belather Hasoladi brought their armies to a decisive battle beside Lake Proadas.
• Belather called Jeanne and her followers traitors, and Jeanne answered that the empire had committed atrocities, exploited its people, and forced them to worship the God of Death.
• The God of Death darkened the sky and struck Jeanne down with black lightning.
• Annatania Gabriel removed the God of Death’s power from Jeanne’s soul, entrusted it to Chief Angel Raphael, and confronted the God of Death in the heavens.
• The rebels charged the imperial army, roaring for revenge after witnessing Jeanne fall.

The God of Death Soladis unleashed mass death across Proadas, prompting Annatania to kill him with the Holy Throne of Judgment's power. Soladis died after declaring that he would return when death filled the world and ice and snow covered the earth, while Jiang Yuu sensed Annatania's use of the Sacred Throne from the Valen World.

• The Golden Lion Knight Order and the rebels drove the Empire's army back as Emperor Belather Hasoladi watched, relying on the gods' battle to decide the war.
• Annatania's golden arrows clashed evenly with Soladis's pale flames before he cast his scythe and formed a circle of death over Proadas.
• Death Mages appeared beneath the plains and reaped lives across the battlefield, forcing Annatania to shield both armies with her divine power.
• Annatania summoned the Holy Throne of Judgment and struck Soladis with a powerful golden arrow, burning his divine body and soul.
• Soladis explained that he needed to die after causing enough deaths to grasp the true meaning of death, then prophesied his return when endless ice and snow covered the earth.
• Jiang Yuu sensed Annatania using the Sacred Throne's power, suspected trouble in Feland, and decided to trust her.

After the First Human Empire fell, Jeanne was reborn as an angel and became Annatania’s guard. Centuries later, Jiang Yuu reclaimed the gods’ authority over the Divine Realm, ascended to the Astral Realm’s Land of Origin, and emerged transformed as the God-King of Judgment, calling on the gods to choose.

• Annatania found no trace of the God of Death and told the gods they would answer to Yuliel when he returned.
• The rebels captured and beheaded Emperor Belather, ending the First Human Empire and dividing its lands into hundreds of kingdoms.
• Centuries later, Jeanne was reborn as an angel and pledged herself to Annatania as her guard.
• Jiang Yuu reclaimed the gods’ authority as he ascended through the Divine Realm, causing the gods’ power to collapse.
• Demon God Silver Eye, Hughes, seized the chance to grievously wound the weakened three God-Kings.
• Jiang Yuu’s true spirit entered the Astral Realm’s Land of Origin, and he returned transformed before commanding, “Gods, make your choice!”

Yuliel claimed control of the Divine Realm and offered its gods a choice: remain under his rule or leave with their Divine Kingdoms. The gods chose across the battlefronts, with many Greater Gods departing and several powerful gods joining him, while most neutral gods on the central front stayed.

• Yuliel's voice rang across Valen World as the Sacred Throne shone like a White Gold Sun, and he declared that the Divine Realm belonged to him.
• Shireya knelt before Yuliel, pledged to remain as his war goddess, and led her subordinate gods to follow her example.
• On the eastern front, most Greater Gods chose to leave with their Divine Kingdoms, while neutral gods split evenly; Firos decided to leave Valen World and develop the Star Dragon Empire.
• On the western front, Telipeisi merged his Divine Kingdom into the Divine Realm, while the other Greater Gods departed and the neutral gods split evenly; Aikalia lamented that she could no longer catch up to Yuliel.
• Thetis chose to merge into the Divine Realm, as did Younala, Oubakela, and Aisitake, while most neutral gods on the central front chose to remain.

Jiang Yuu united the Divine Realm with Paradise Mountain and attained grand divine power. He then rose into the Highest Heaven to confront Hughes.

• Jiang Yuu purified the Divine Realm and sent most divine kingdoms into the heavens, leaving the three gods of grand divine power untouched for the moment.
• Jiang Yuu connected the Divine Realm to Paradise Mountain, causing Paradise Mountain to stabilize as a real plane and rise above the World Tree's crown.
• Annatania recognized that Yuliel had attained grand divine power as Paradise Mountain separated from Feland World.
• Jiang Yuu merged the Divine Realm with Paradise Mountain, grew a fifth pair of wings, and used their light to heal mortals, empower angels, and burn demons.
• Jiang Yuu announced that he had attained grand divine power and declared that Hughes had already lost.
• Jiang Yuu quelled the world's reaction with his sword and rose into the Highest Heaven.

Jiang Yuu arrived in the Highest Heaven after ascending to grand divine power and confronted Demon God Silver Eye Hughes. He countered Hughes’s Abyssal attack with his champion’s will and Paradise Mountain, then advanced with his sword as the battle began.

• Demon God Silver Eye Hughes and the three God-Kings sensed Jiang Yuu’s ascension, and the God-Kings hoped he would help defend Valen.
• Hughes dismissed the newly ascended god and intensified his power, crushing the God-Kings beneath his pressure.
• Jiang Yuu appeared in the Highest Heaven and promised the God-Kings he would repel the enemy.
• Hughes summoned the power of the 997th Layer of the Abyss and unleashed attacks meant to corrupt and destroy Jiang Yuu.
• Jiang Yuu used Champion’s Will and I Am the Holy Throne to dispel the Abyssal effects and manifest Paradise Mountain.
• Jiang Yuu challenged Hughes, drew his sword, and invoked Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies and Radiance Is Me.

Jiang Yuu shattered Demon God Silver Eye’s Abyss Reflection and resisted the Abyss Will, then spent Paradise Mountain’s remaining power on a decisive sword strike that destroyed Silver Eye. He stood victorious in the Highest Heaven, bloodied and with his eyes closed.

• Jiang Yuu used the authority of the 997th Layer of the Abyss hidden among his divine swords to shatter Demon God Silver Eye’s Abyss Reflection and drive back the darkness.
• Demon God Silver Eye unleashed Abyss Gaze, shattering Jiang Yuu’s eyes and trying to corrupt him, but Jiang Yuu’s Champion’s Will expelled the Abyss Will.
• Demon God Silver Eye sacrificed his source power to prepare a second Abyss Gaze, pressing every living being in the Valen World to the ground.
• Jiang Yuu gathered Paradise Mountain’s remaining power into one sword strike and pierced Demon God Silver Eye’s demonic body, making the giant eyeball explode.
• Jiang Yuu lowered his sword, coughed blood, and declared that Demon God Silver Eye had been unable to withstand a single strike.

After defeating Hughes, Jiang Yuu recovered on the Platinum Holy Throne and considered the Abyss authority he had seized, while the system revealed that only eight hundred years remained until the game launched. The three God-Kings thanked him for saving Valen World, and he offered them a choice about their Divine Kingdoms.

• Jiang Yuu suppressed the 997th Layer of the Abyss authority in the Sword Tomb of Myriad Armies and healed his external injuries after killing Hughes’s main body.
• The system identified Jiang Yuu as the temporary master of the 997th Layer and offered him three choices concerning its authority, but he declined to follow its guidance.
• Jiang Yuu checked his updated status panel and noted that the game launch was eight hundred years away.
• The three God-Kings arrived to thank Jiang Yuu for defeating Demon God Silver Eye, and he confirmed that he would keep the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Yuu told the God-Kings that he had separated their Divine Kingdoms from the Divine Realm and offered them the choice to merge them or leave with them.

Jiang Yuu persuaded the three God-Kings to join a campaign against the 997th Layer of the Abyss, where Demon God Silver Eye’s remaining body still lived. In Valen World, the demons fled after Silver Eye’s defeat, and Jiang Yuu prepared to use the survivors as slaves and cannon fodder for the counterattack.

• The three God-Kings initially refused to become Jiang Yuu’s subjects, but agreed to follow him against the Abyss after learning Hughes could return unless his body in the 997th Layer was destroyed.
• The demons panicked after Demon God Silver Eye fell, but found the Gate of the Abyss closed; many fled or were stranded in Valen World.
• Valen’s gods led the armies in pursuit, killing at least half the demons and trapping the rest as the people praised the Lord of Judgment.
• The young Legendary Swordsman Chris and his companions Bianna and Xiwei realized the war was over and decided to go home.
• Amos learned that Jiang Yuu had killed Hughes and was ordered to ask the demons at the Gate of the Abyss whether they chose life or death, as Jiang Yuu needed slaves and cannon fodder.

Amos was sent to impose order on the demons trapped after the Gate of the Abyss vanished, while Jiang Yuu watched from above. Amos began his brutal training by ordering the demons to remain silent and killing those who disobeyed, and Jiang Yuu considered using him to divide the demons against one another.

• Jiang Yuu instructed Amos to recruit demons as slaves and cannon fodder while ensuring they understood some order.
• Amos descended before the trapped demons and announced that they could choose to embrace order and live.
• When asked what embracing order meant, Amos said it meant following rules and doing as they were told, then warned that survivors would serve as the vanguard in a counterattack against the Abyss.
• Amos ordered every demon to remain silent and crushed those who continued speaking, killing nearly half the gathered demons.
• Jiang Yuu watched Amos's training and considered using it to divide the demon races and turn them against each other.

As Jiang Yuu prepared a counteroffensive against the Abyss and drew the Feland World Cluster closer to Valen World, Annatania promoted Michael to High Angel Chief with Jiang Yuu’s authority. The chapter ended as Demon God Silver Eye awakened in the 997th layer of the Abyss.

• Jiang Yuu gathered willing gods and mortal nations for an expedition into the Abyss and named the former Gate of the Abyss site Expedition Plain.
• Jiang Yuu used Paradise Mountain to pull the Feland World Cluster toward Valen World, and Silivans endured the strain of the force.
• Annatania convened the gods of Paradise Mountain and asked Michael to pledge himself to Jiang Yuu.
• Jiang Yuu accepted Michael’s loyalty and authorized Annatania to confer the High Angel Chief title on him.
• Annatania merged Paradise Mountain’s authority into Michael, appointing him High Angel Chief.
• In the 997th layer of the Abyss, Demon God Silver Eye’s silver eyeball awakened.

After being defeated by a god, Hughes feared the loss of his Abyss and sought help from Biberzius, the Demon Dragon of Destruction who ruled the 999th Layer. Biberzius was furious at the interruption and demanded that Hughes justify it.

• Hughes realized the forces of the 997th Layer had been wiped out and feared the god would invade his Abyss.
• Hughes decided to seek help from Biberzius, hoping the greedy Demon Dragon would accept payment.
• Hughes sent a silver apparition toward the 999th Layer of the Abyss.
• Biberzius was interrupted while abusing a four-horned magical beast and crushed it to death.
• Biberzius roared at Hughes and demanded to know why he had interrupted him.

Demon God Silver Eye Hughes sought Biberzius’s help against a god invading the 997th Layer of the Abyss and negotiated away half his territory and most of its future souls. After they sealed their contract, Hughes’s expression changed drastically.

• Hughes told Biberzius that Judgment had reached Grand Divine Power, ambushed him while he was fighting three Grand Divine Powers, and left him gravely wounded.
• Biberzius mocked Hughes and demanded control of the entire 997th Layer of the Abyss in exchange for help.
• Hughes and Biberzius haggled until they agreed that Biberzius would receive half the layer and ninety percent of its harvested souls for the next hundred thousand years.
• Hughes and Biberzius sealed their contract before the Abyss Will, and Hughes’s expression changed drastically.

Biberzius and Hughes prepared to face their pursuers as Valen’s assembled armies gathered to invade the Abyss. Jiang Yuu led the expedition through the Abyssal Gate, vowing to break the enemy realm.

• Biberzius burned and swallowed the demons and captured females around him, then agreed to join Hughes and finish the fight.
• Valen’s forces, angels, gods, and a surrendered demon legion gathered on Expedition Plain before the Abyssal portal.
• Jiang Yuu descended from the heavens, receiving the worship of the assembled armies and the bowed gods.
• Jiang Yuu declared war on the 997th Layer of the Abyss and vowed not to rest until its realm was broken.
• Jiang Yuu drew his sword and entered the Gate of the Abyss first.

Jiang Yuu led the armies of Valen into the 997th Layer of the Abyss and trapped Demon God Silver Eye Hughes with a sword strike. The Demon Dragon of Destruction arrived and freed Hughes, but Jiang Yuu seized the opening to launch a powerful attack at the dragon.

• Jiang Yuu and the armies of Valen crossed into the 997th Layer of the Abyss and assembled on the Blood Plain.
• Demon God Silver Eye Hughes used his Abyss authority to crush the invaders, but Jiang Yuu pushed back the pressure and challenged him.
• Jiang Yuu severed Hughes's connection to spacetime and imprisoned him in a cage of sword energy, intending to refine him into a divine artifact.
• The Demon Dragon of Destruction arrived, demanded a greater share of Hughes's Abyss, and signed a contract with him.
• The Demon Dragon of Destruction shattered his claw trying to break Jiang Yuu's sword cage, then freed Hughes with a stronger attack.
• Jiang Yuu drew on supreme sword intent and slashed at the Demon Dragon of Destruction with a brilliant sword strike.

Jiang Yuu killed the Demon Dragon of Destruction and Demon God Silver Eye, then turned his attention to breaking through seven layers of the Abyss. His armies agreed to follow him as he prepared to lead the assault.

• Jiang Yuu’s sword obliterated the Demon Dragon of Destruction’s attacks and killed him, temporarily giving Jiang Yuu control over the 999th Layer of the Abyss.
• Jiang Yuu sealed the spacetime around Demon God Silver Eye, erased his consciousness, and temporarily suppressed control over the 997th Layer of the Abyss.
• Jiang Yuu purified Silver Eye’s remains and transformed the eyeball into the Eye of Oversight to watch for violations of order.
• Jiang Yuu decided to break through the six layers beyond the 997th Layer and sever seven layers of the Abyss in total.
• Jiang Yuu asked the assembled gods, angels, demons, and Valen’s army to follow him, and they all eagerly agreed.

After conquering the 997th Layer of the Abyss, Jiang Yuu recruited Arodas and Aikalia into the Paradise Mountain Pantheon and agreed to make Aikalia a Chief Angel. He opened the Gate of Spacetime and led the armies home to Feland World.

• Jiang Yuu's armies swept through the 997th Layer of the Abyss, defeating its remaining demons and taking decades to subdue the entire layer.
• Many warriors from Valen World were corrupted by the Abyss and joined Amos's surrendered demon legion.
• Jiang Yuu invited Arodas and Aikalia to join the Paradise Mountain Pantheon, and both Greater Gods accepted.
• Aikalia asked to become Jiang Yuu's Chief Angel, and he agreed to prepare the ritual after their return.
• Jiang Yuu ordered Azkele to open the Gate of Spacetime, then announced that the expeditionary armies were going home to Feland World.

Knight King Artoria struggled to hold together the weakening Golden Lion Knight Kingdom as rival powers grew across the continent. When a Gate of the Abyss appeared on the Proadas Plains, she stayed to face the threat, and an elite army marched through it.

• Artoria reflected on the Golden Lion Knight Kingdom’s declining influence and the conflicts and ambitions of the continent’s many nations.
• A brilliant blue Gate of the Abyss appeared on the Proadas Plains, frightening Artoria’s warhorse and her guards.
• A guard recognized the gateway from the kingdom’s records and warned that demons were coming to invade their world.
• Artoria steadied her guards, ordered Sona to alert the ministers and Holy Church, and remained to watch the gate.
• An elite army with a chilling air of slaughter marched out of the Gate of the Abyss.

Artoria and her knights watched elite legions emerge from the Gate of the Abyss and recognized them as the ancient expeditionary army returning from the Abyss. The Golden Lion Knight Order welcomed the Lionheart Kingdom’s soldiers, and Artoria met her ancestor Lannit Pendragon.

• Artoria suspected the first legion emerging from the Gate of the Abyss might be demons, but her knights identified its orderly soldiers as human warriors from the ancient expedition.
• The Dawn Legion, Silver Moon Elves, and an allied army of Feland’s races emerged and formed ranks on the plains.
• The Lionheart Kingdom’s legion appeared, and Artoria led the Golden Lion Knight Order down from the hill to welcome the returning ancestors.
• Lannit Pendragon introduced himself to Artoria, who recognized his portrait and told him she was his ninth-generation descendant.

Artoria reunited with Bonilai Lionheart and revealed that both the Elf Dynasty and the Lionheart Kingdom had fallen. Jiang Yuu returned to Feland as the Lord of Judgment, sent the expeditionary army home, and stirred fear among the gods.

• Bonilai Lionheart welcomed Artoria as the Golden Lion Knight Order's grand master and asked why the order was in Proadas.
• Artoria told Bonilai Lionheart and the Lionheart expeditionary army that the Elf Dynasty had fallen, then revealed that the Lionheart Kingdom had fallen too.
• Jiang Yuu emerged from the Gate of the Abyss with the Silver Moon Goddess and the Lord of Dawn as the expeditionary soldiers bowed before him.
• Jiang Yuu told the expeditionary soldiers to return to their homelands and promised he would stand behind them; they vowed to answer his summons if war came.
• Jiang Yuu declared that he had returned to Feland, and gods across the divine kingdoms rose in fear, remembering that judgment never failed to come.

Jiang Yuu returned to the Feland World, where Annatania was delighted to see him and the expeditionary army began preparing to disperse. He met Artoria Pendragon, praised her, and tasked her with explaining how the world had changed before telling Arodas and Aikalia to prepare to join Paradise Mountain.

• Annatania sensed the Abyss’s aura in the Feland World, found Jiang Yuu returning through the Gate of the Abyss, and joyfully greeted him.
• Jiang Yuu dismissed the expeditionary army, and its allied warriors, Arodas’s Dawn Legion, and the Silver Moon Elves considered where to go next.
• Jiang Yuu met Artoria Pendragon, recognized her as a descendant of his bloodline, and praised her as a potential source of strength for Paradise Mountain.
• Jiang Yuu asked Artoria to explain the changes in the Feland World and told the expeditionary soldiers to choose their own destinations.
• Jiang Yuu instructed Arodas and Aikalia to prepare their Divine Kingdoms for relocation to Paradise Mountain, then greeted Annatania in the heavens.

Jiang Yuu reunited with Annatania and told her of his campaign in the Abyss, then asked her to become his Divine Queen. Annatania accepted, and the Divine Kingdoms of Dawn and Silver Moon moved into Paradise Mountain the next day.

• Jiang Yuu and Annatania surveyed Paradise Mountain and discussed the major changes in Feland during his absence.
• Annatania listened as Jiang Yuu recounted his Abyss campaign and his plan to conquer seven layers and establish a base called Hell.
• Jiang Yuu told Annatania that Arodas and Aikalia would join the Paradise Mountain Pantheon and that Aikalia would become a Chief Angel, upsetting Annatania.
• Jiang Yuu asked Annatania to become his Divine Queen, and she accepted after he told her he loved her.
• Jiang Yuu and Annatania discussed making a home on the Second Paradise Mountain and having children together.
• The Divine Kingdom of Dawn and the Silver Moon Divine Kingdom moved from their former positions into Paradise Mountain.