Recaps

Jiang Yuu and the gods agreed not to obstruct Moneliel’s ascent to the Goddess of Magic’s divine office, provided magic remained available to all living beings. Moneliel began teaching the principles of magic, crediting the Silver Moon Goddess with its original inspiration.

• Aikalia proposed sharing the principles of magic in exchange for the gods not competing with or obstructing Moneliel’s ascension.
• Arodas agreed, and Jiang Yuu also agreed on the condition that magic would not become the elves’ private property.
• The gods accepted the agreement, and the three Greater Gods confirmed it.
• Moneliel entered the classroom, recognized Aikalia, and received the goddess’s encouragement to teach as usual.
• Moneliel explained that magic’s fundamental source came from Aikalia’s Chanting Method and that the Silver Moon staff had inspired the mage’s staff.

After the Elf princess’s magic lesson inspired the growth of magical schools, Jiang Yuu destroyed Gotegus when he tried to ascend to godhood. The Lionheart Kingdom expanded its rule while the gods pursued new Divine Offices, and the chapter ended with Lucifer’s army reaching Sarita City.

• Gotegus raised his Divine Kingdom, but Jiang Yuu cleaved it apart and killed him, claiming the Divine Spark of Wisdom and Healing.
• Arthur Lionheart purged Gotegus’s followers in the Three Forks River territory, killed its governor, and restored the faith of the White Gold Moon.
• Arthur Lionheart won the allegiance of the northern Western Sea Coast Barbarian tribes, enfeoffed seventeen lords, and sent forces south against the Ogres.
• The Lord of Dawn obtained the Divine Office of Contracts and began planning to obtain the Divine Office of Hope.
• The Silver Moon Goddess obtained the Divine Office of Sleep and pursued the Divine Office of Dreams.
• Lucifer led the Winged People’s legion to the gates of Sarita City, the Orc Empire’s capital.

Lucifer's forces reached Sarita City after conquering nearly half the Orc Empire, using surrendered orcs as auxiliaries. Outside the capital, Lucifer's million-strong army demanded the city's surrender, leaving its defenders shaken before battle began.

• Lucifer's army advanced across the Orc Empire, recruiting surrendered orcs and rewarding them for fighting against their former countrymen.
• Lucifer had killed the brilliant orc commander Brian, and his death had broken the Orc army's morale.
• Lucifer arrived at Sarita City with nearly two hundred thousand winged troops and close to a million orc auxiliaries.
• Lucifer ordered a female winged officer to ask the city's defenders to surrender.
• The officer and the assembled army shouted the demand three times, frightening the orc defenders on Sarita's walls.

As the Winged People army reached Sarita City, the Orc emperor prepared the capital’s defenses while secretly arranging an escape. Ofites decided to intervene personally to save the city, despite risking the Lord of Judgment’s retaliation.

• The Orc emperor ordered the Elf Mages to fight, commanded the armies to defend Sarita City, and sent Tolek to seek divine help.
• After the palace emptied, the emperor ordered Katak to protect Imperial Consort Esama and Seventh Prince Yarik, prepare their escape to Sama City, and move the inner treasury’s treasures.
• Jiang Yuu watched the Winged People arrive at Sarita City and challenged Ofites to keep holding back.
• A kneeling Orc emperor pleaded with Ofites to save the capital and preserve the Orcs’ shrines across western Greya.
• Ofites decided to ask the Silver Moon Goddess to restrain the Lord of Judgment, then use divine magic to relieve Sarita City’s crisis.

Sariel was scolded by Aikalia for sneaking out, but their conversation ended when Aikalia went to confront Ofites and blocked Jiang Yuu. After Ofites attacked Sarita City and Andaras announced his ascension, Aikalia rushed north while Jiang Yuu attacked Ofites.

• Aikalia scolded Sariel for repeatedly leaving the Silver Moon Divine Kingdom, and Sariel praised her younger sister Livier’s strength.
• Aikalia left to confront Ofites and sealed space to keep Jiang Yuu from intervening.
• Ofites unleashed a divine attack on Sarita City, killing many Winged People and gravely wounding Lucifer.
• Andaras declared that he had ascended to godhood as the Netherworld Sovereign, and Aikalia abandoned her attempt to block Jiang Yuu to head north.
• Jiang Yuu reached the Divine Kingdom of Strength and struck at Ofites, vowing that no one would save him.

Jiang Yuu attacked Ofites’s Divine Kingdom with the White Gold Moon and fought the God of Strength in a battle that left their clash hidden from the watching gods. Meanwhile, Andaras ascended to godhood by creating the Underworld, while Arodas held off Aikalia.

• Jiang Yuu hurled the White Gold Moon into Ofites’s Divine Kingdom and charged through its defenses to confront him.
• Ofites and Jiang Yuu exchanged devastating attacks, and their clash obliterated space inside the Divine Kingdom, obscuring the outcome from the watching gods.
• Arodas stopped Aikalia from striking down Andaras’s ascending Divine Kingdom, and the two Greater Gods began fighting.
• Andaras embedded his Divine Kingdom at the world’s edge and proclaimed the creation of the Underworld.
• The world’s will formed the Underworld beyond the world, the Underworld River, and a deep blue Underworld Moon, granting Andaras greater divine power.

Andaras established the newborn Underworld’s foundations while Jiang Yuu defeated and killed Ofites, the God of Strength, then let the Winged People invade Sarita. Lucifer pledged to serve as Jiang Yuu’s vanguard, and by Year 602 the Winged People had occupied the Orc Empire’s territory.

• Andaras discovered that he held only part of the Underworld’s authority over souls, resolved to stabilize the fragile realm, and sought a demigod ferryman named Chiron for the Underworld River.
• The Lord of Dawn and the Silver Moon Goddess ceased fighting after the Underworld Moon’s emergence and turned their attention to gaining greater divine power.
• Jiang Yuu emerged from the ruined Divine Kingdom of Strength holding Ofites’s severed head, and the God of Strength’s statues shattered across Greya Continent.
• Jiang Yuu threw Ofites’s head at Sarita’s walls and allowed the Winged People to storm the city and attack its orc inhabitants and temples.
• Jiang Yuu healed Lucifer, repaired her Holy Sword of Light and Darkness, and asked her to wield his power against the gods; she agreed to serve as his vanguard.
• By Year 602 of the Troll Empire Calendar, Lucifer and the Winged People had occupied the Orc Empire’s territory, and the war ended as many orcs fled across the sea.

Chiron, an aging Legendary centaur, rejected the Lord of the Nether Moon’s offer to serve him, then accepted twenty years later as his lifespan dwindled. After Chiron boarded the god’s Nether River boat and took up the pole, he became a Demigod.

• The Lord of the Nether Moon offered Chiron immortality and a higher realm, but Chiron refused to abandon his faith, country, and family.
• Antfolk arrived on the Feland Continent, and the Lionheart Kingdom opened trade with them and the Bonnis Peninsula.
• The Slake Snake People Kingdom was founded, submitted to the Troll Empire, and sent archers to fight at Fallen Star Lake, while the Eaglemen lost their Royal Court.
• Twenty years after his first offer, the Lord of the Nether Moon returned to Chiron, who swore allegiance to him.
• The Lord of the Nether Moon brought Chiron to the Nether River, where Chiron boarded the boat and became a Demigod through Nether River Ferrying.

The chapter traced the rise of magic technology and the Golden Lion’s ascension, then showed Raphael nearing completion of the Winged People’s Sky City. As the Troll Empire sought aid against advancing enemies, Sophia chose to leave it to fend for itself while the Sky City and Sky Sacred Pool neared completion.

• Serald pioneered mage tower technology, and Moneliel created magic arrays and advanced to Demigod.
• Elf Mages developed magic crystal cannons, which transformed warfare as Moneliel advanced along the Path to Godhood.
• The Golden Lion became the God of Gold and Lions after the Earth Elemental Realm appeared and connected with Feland World.
• Raphael built a small floating city using magic arrays, earning protection and an audience with Jiang Yuu.
• Elf and allied armies drove the Troll Empire back, prompting Troll Emperor Auden Bloodaxe to seek aid from the Winged People.
• Sophia learned that the Sky Sacred Pool and Raphael’s Sky City would be ready in three years, and decided to ignore the Troll Empire’s plea for help.

The Elf army advanced through Troll territory, gained the support of the Lake Fairies, and fought the Trolls near Lake Proadas as Auden Bloodaxe prepared to relocate the capital. In 735, the Sky Sacred Pool dissolved above Yuliel City, triggering the final transformation of all Winged People.

• On the Monen Plain, the southern Human Knight Order fought the Golden Lion Knight Order and was wiped out, while the Golden Lion Knight Order returned after suffering heavy losses.
• The Elf army reached Lake Proadas, where the Lake Fairies welcomed the Elves, exchanged magical items for instruction, and joined their faction; Ninianne attained Legendary status.
• Near Labuyus City, Troll Berserkers attacked the Elf army during its cannon deployment, destroying most of the Magic Crystal cannons at the cost of enormous Troll casualties.
• Auden Bloodaxe continued preparing to relocate the capital as Trolls moved toward the Southern and Western Borders, and some crossed the sea toward southwestern Feland.
• The Sky Sacred Pool returned above Yuliel City and dissolved into particles that entered all Winged People, beginning their final bloodline transformation.

The Silver Moon Goddess and the Lord of Dawn ascended to greater divine power as Jiang Yuu completed the Fourth Paradise Mountain, advanced to the Holy Throne Realm, and declared the mountain to be Heaven. The Winged People gained access to the Angel Pathway, allowing eligible members to become Angels.

• The Silver Moon Goddess established the Silver Moon Dream World and ascended to greater divine power.
• The Lord of Dawn created the rainbow as a symbol of hope and ascended to greater divine power.
• Jiang Yuu completed the Fourth Paradise Mountain, transformed his Divine Throne into a Holy Throne, and declared the mountain to be Heaven.
• The Winged People heard that the Angel Pathway had opened as their exclusive racial advancement.
• Legendary Winged People were summoned to ascend Paradise Mountain, take its mark, and become Emissaries of Heaven, or Angels.

After attaining greater divine power, the Lord of Dawn and the Lord of the Netherworld realized that Yuliel was following a different, stronger path to godhood. They decided to test him by obstructing his daughter’s rise and considered recruiting the Lord of the Earth, Garia, as an ally.

• The Lord of Dawn visited the Lord of the Netherworld to discuss why Yuliel seemed stronger despite sharing their rank.
• The two gods concluded that Yuliel’s ascensions had provoked the world’s malice, suggesting he had seized authority through a different path to godhood.
• The Lord of Dawn and the Lord of the Netherworld planned to hinder Yuliel’s daughter with subordinate gods to draw him into intervening.
• The Lord of the Netherworld proposed helping Garia ascend first, hoping to gain Aikalia’s support and have the Lord of Dawn court Garia.

Arodas and Andaras let the Elves continue their war against the Trolls while planning for humanity’s future, as Jiang Yuu began transforming the Winged People into angels. The Elves captured Labuyus City, and decades later the first members of the Angel Race emerged from the Angel Ascension Pool.

• Arodas asked whether they should arrange a ceasefire between Aikalia's Elves and the Trolls, but Andaras said the Daughter of Misfortune would not listen and agreed to let events proceed.
• Jiang Yuu summoned a hundred Winged People Legendaries, including Aeryta and Raphael, and brought them to the Fourth Paradise Mountain to ascend through the Angel Ascension Pool.
• The Elven army broke through the Trolls' defenses at Lake Proadas and captured Labuyus City after the Troll Berserker legion fought for three days and was annihilated.
• In Year 801 of the Troll Empire Calendar, nearly a hundred rays of holy radiance shone from the Fourth Paradise Mountain as the first members of the Angel Race were born.

Jiang Yuu’s first angels gained agelessness, a path to Demigod power, and reincarnation through the Angel Ascension Pool, while Aeryta became their first Chief Angel. As the Winged People continued ascending in batches, the Elves conquered central Feland and prepared to advance west and south.

• The first angels gained the Paradise Mountain Mark’s benefits, including unlimited advancement, eternal life, and reincarnation if their souls survived.
• Jiang Yuu assigned angels from the Second, Third, and Fourth Paradise Mountains to judgment, protection, and war, while Aeryta became the first Chief Angel.
• Aeryta led the newly ascended angels safely back to earth, and more batches of Legendary Winged People began their ascent.
• The Elves demolished Labuyus City and built Proshir in 876; in 878, Wost developed defensive magic formations and Jobri Arona became a Demigod.
• The Elves besieged Max City in 900, fought the Hundred-Year War of Max, and captured the city in 1002, forcing Auden Bloodaxe to flee south.
• By 1045, the Elves had occupied nearly all of central Feland and gathered forces on the Monen Plain and Wulegu Highlands for campaigns west and south.

The Elves conquered most of Feland, ended their war with the Southern Alliance, and founded the Elf Dynasty under Artes. The chapter ends with Bahamut and Tiamat ascending to godhood in the dynasty’s first year.

• In 1067, the Elf western expeditionary army and the Northlands kingdoms breached Monen City and advanced west.
• Over the following decades, Elf armies captured territory across western and southern Feland, while Trolls fled and Dwarves and Lizardfolk were driven back toward their homelands.
• In 1143, the Elf southern army met the Southern Alliance at the Eni River, where the armies fought for ten years.
• In 1153, the Elves and Southern Alliance made peace; Auden Bloodaxe abdicated, ending the Troll Empire, and the Sun Elves surrendered the branches of the Tree of Nature.
• After the Troll Empire fell, Artes founded the Elf Dynasty with capitals at Proshir and Nadashil, then relocated the Elf Royal Court to Proshir.
• In the first year of the Elf Dynasty, Bahamut and Tiamat ascended to godhood at the same time.

Lucifer completed her Angel baptism and became a god with Lesser Divine Power, after which Jiang Yuu appointed her Chief Angel of war. She accepted his new title as her Lord but hesitated to ask him for something.

• Aeryta and the first ascended Angels guarded the Greya Continent from Orc rebellions while the Angels continued their ascensions.
• Livier and Sariel watched Lucifer's baptism from the First Paradise Mountain, and Livier complained that Jiang Yuu favored her.
• Lucifer emerged from the Sacred Angel Ascension Pool with a formed divine soul and the strength of Lesser Divine Power.
• Jiang Yuu named Lucifer Chief Angel presiding over war and gave her command of the War Angel Legion.
• Jiang Yuu told Lucifer to call him Lord, and she agreed before hesitantly preparing to ask him something.

Jiang Yuu agreed to reincarnate Lucifer’s parents as angels, and their souls entered the Angel Reincarnation Pool. As Bahamut and Tiamat ascended to godhood, Jiang Yuu sent Lucifer to stop the Five-Colored Dragon and went to investigate the Platinum Dragon.

• Lucifer asked Jiang Yuu to reincarnate her parents, Ludwig and Amphira, as angels.
• Jiang Yuu explained that Amphira could refuse to become an angel, but Lucifer still asked him to proceed.
• Jiang Yuu placed Ludwig and Amphira's souls in the Angel Reincarnation Pool, where they became cocoons of light.
• Bahamut and Tiamat announced their simultaneous ascensions as the God of Good Dragons and Protection and the Goddess of Evil Dragons and Plagues.
• Jiang Yuu told Lucifer to stop the Five-Colored Dragon's ascension and went to examine the Platinum Dragon.

Arodas and Andaras arranged for Garia to gain worshippers and decided to advance their plan when Bahamut and Tiamat prepared to ascend to godhood. As Tiamat raised her divine kingdom, Lucifer confronted her under Arodas’s command while Aikalia sent Loswind to intervene.

• Andaras told Arodas that Garia had agreed to their plan and was gathering faith from the Antfolk on the Balod Continent.
• Arodas decided to move the plan forward after Bahamut asked for protection while preparing to ascend, and learned that Tiamat would ascend alongside him.
• Aikalia recognized Lucifer as an unfamiliar Winged deity and ordered Loswind to stop her from reaching Tiamat.
• Tiamat raised her divine kingdom toward the heavens, and Lucifer declared that she would kill her by Arodas’s command.

Lucifer was blocked by Loswind while trying to stop Tiamat’s ascension, and Jiang Yuu arrived at Bahamut’s Divine Kingdom. Fearing Jiang Yuu, Bahamut surrendered and offered to become his subordinate, just as the Lord of Dawn and the God of the Underworld arrived.

• Lucifer attacked Tiamat, but Loswind intervened and dispersed her sword light with the north wind.
• Lucifer identified herself as the Archangel of War under Yuliel and fought Loswind, but he held her back as Tiamat’s Divine Kingdom moved toward the edge of the world.
• Jiang Yuu reached Bahamut’s Divine Kingdom before the other gods and considered the Platinum Dragon a suitable addition to Paradise Mountain.
• Bahamut feared Jiang Yuu and surrendered, offering to serve him as his subordinate.
• The Lord of Dawn and the God of the Underworld arrived and heard Bahamut’s surrender.

Jiang Yuu let Bahamut ascend to godhood, then attacked Tiamat as she raised her Divine Kingdom. The Silver Moon Goddess protected Tiamat, and the Lord of Dawn and the God of the Underworld joined her against Jiang Yuu.

• Arodas refused the God of the Underworld’s proposal to attack Bahamut and allowed his former servant to ascend.
• Jiang Yuu reassured Bahamut and told him to move his Divine Kingdom to Paradise Mountain after ascending, where Silvanus awaited him.
• Jiang Yuu declared that only one good Primordial Dragon was needed and struck at Tiamat with the Light of Judgment.
• Aikalia blocked Jiang Yuu’s attack with a silver moon and diverted Tiamat’s ascent elsewhere.
• Jiang Yuu challenged Aikalia, and Arodas and the God of the Underworld appeared beside her to confront him.

Jiang Yuu confronted three Greater Gods who questioned the divine path he followed and declared that he was the Lord of Heaven, seeking to become the gods’ ruler. The gods were shocked, and the God of the Underworld asked whether he intended to become the King of the Gods.

• Arodas, Andaras, and the Silver Moon Goddess stood together against Jiang Yuu, while Lucifer and the Father of Oaks took their places beside him.
• Arodas asked Jiang Yuu what divine path he followed, noting that his strength had surpassed the other gods.
• Jiang Yuu warned the gods he would slay a dragon and offered to explain his path if Arodas agreed to a future request.
• Jiang Yuu declared himself the Lord of Heaven and said he walked the path of the Supreme, demanding that the gods acknowledge him as their lord.
• The God of the Underworld asked whether Jiang Yuu meant to become the King of the Gods, while Livier and Sariel admired him from within the Silver Moon.

As the gods prepared for battle, the Antfolk Goddess and Flaims began their own plans to ascend to godhood. Jiang Yuu attacked the three Greater Gods with the world-suppressing power of his sole god authority.

• In Amy City, the Antfolk Goddess told Lisa to begin preparations for her ascension while the gods were focused on the coming battle.
• Flaims remembered how he had led the Frost Giants to the Ferris Plain and transformed them into Flame Giants, then ordered Gulenis to prepare for his ascension alongside Garia.
• Jiang Yuu swung his Purple Gold Longsword at the three Greater Gods, channeling his champion's will and judgment divine power into a vast sword light.
• The Silver Moon Goddess recognized that Jiang Yuu's Fourth Paradise Mountain had granted him a share of the world's authority, a Holy Throne Realm trait called sole god authority.

In the 997th Abyss layer, Azeba decided to invite other Demon Lords to help him conquer Feland World rather than risk attacking it alone. In Feland, Jiang Yuu fought three Greater Gods with greater divine power and held them to a standstill.

• Great Demon God Silver Eye ruled the young 997th Abyss layer and waged war on a great world of gods.
• Azeba reflected on his losses, his difficulty paying Silver Eye, and his desire to conquer Feland World without sharing it.
• Azeba ordered Muweis to contact nearby Demon Lords and invite them to conquer Feland with him.
• In Feland's heavens, the Silver Moon Goddess, Andaras, and the Lord of Dawn attacked Jiang Yuu.
• Jiang Yuu used his combat awareness and ten manifestations to fight the three gods evenly, remaining calmer than they were.

As Garia began ascending to godhood, Jiang Yuu negotiated with the Greater Gods and claimed her Creation Authority in exchange for allowing her and Felaims to ascend. He headed west to meet the rising God of Fire, while Garia continued her ascent.

• Garia raised her Divine Kingdom as the Antfolk praised her, and Bahamut and Tiamat completed their ascensions nearby.
• Jiang Yuu withdrew from his battle with the Silver Moon Goddess, the Lord of Dawn, and the God of the Underworld after the dragon gods ascended.
• The three Greater Gods agreed to accept Garia's ascension, and Jiang Yuu demanded half of her Creation Authority as the price for allowing it.
• When Felaims began ascending as the Sovereign of Fire, Garia asked Jiang Yuu to let her close friend ascend too.
• Garia gave Jiang Yuu all of her Creation Divine Office and Authority, and he set off west to meet Felaims.

Fire God Felaims prepared to ascend to godhood, but the Lord of Judgment appeared above him and cast doubt over whether a new god could ascend without his approval. Feleims defended Garia’s ascension as beneficial to the world.

• Flame Giants praised Feleims as his Divine Throne appeared above their temple.
• Feleims paused his ascension when he sensed the Lord of Judgment approaching on a White Gold Divine Throne.
• Feleims saw Garia’s Earth Divine Kingdom rising safely into the heavens and felt relieved.
• Jiang Yuu questioned Feleims for worrying about Garia during his own ascension.
• Demigods watching the confrontation began placing the Lord of Judgment’s will above their plans to ascend.
• Feleims told Jiang Yuu that Garia was his kind friend and that her ascension would benefit the world.