Chapter Summaries

Merlin returned to the Land of Radiance and asked King Arthur to save him. He abandoned the Wizard System for the Arcanist System, and Raphael appeared behind three goddesses as they came to verify the change.

• Merlin entered the Land of Radiance without a permit after a veteran soldier recognized him as King Arthur’s friend.
• Merlin reached Camelot and knelt before King Arthur, asking him to save him.
• Arthur asked Merlin whether he was willing to give up his identity as a Wizard, and Merlin agreed.
• Merlin destroyed his Wizard System and gained the Arcanist System, causing his power to fall from Intermediate Divine Power to Mortal Legend.
• Four figures descended to verify Merlin’s new system, with Raphael standing respectfully behind three goddesses.

The three goddesses visited Nolan World, where Raphael judged whether Merlin had truly abandoned the Wizard path. Merlin passed the Scales of Justice, and the chapter ended by revealing that Fulina, Nolan World’s Goddess of Dark Night, had come from the Astral Realm.

• Arthur Lionheart welcomed Annatania, Sariel, and Livier, and Sariel praised him as the most outstanding of the Lionheart Bloodborn.
• Arthur Lionheart introduced Merlin as a Rule Wizard who had abandoned his Wizard System and created the Arcanist System.
• Sariel left the decision on Merlin’s fate to Arthur Lionheart and Raphael, who judged returning Wizards together.
• Raphael used the Scales of Justice to weigh Merlin’s light against his sins, and Merlin narrowly passed.
• Raphael declared that Merlin had done no evil and could begin his life anew.
• The chapter revealed that Fulina had told Raphael she came from the Astral Realm.

Fulina, the Goddess of Dark Night, returned to Nolan World during its eternal night and sought a meeting with Jiang Yuu. She revealed that she had come from the Dumanlin Super Great World of Stars and had once been Fulina Night Star, empress of the Kentos Night Star Empire.

• Fulina emerged in Nolan World as faith in the dark night spread and discovered that the Wizards had disappeared beneath the rule of the White Gold Moon.
• Fulina learned that the White Gold Moon had slain the three Truth Wizards and that the Lord of Judgment had waged war against the Wizard Civilization.
• Fulina decided to meet Jiang Yuu and sent Raphael a request to arrange the meeting.
• Jiang Yuu met Fulina, who said they shared common interests because neither of them came from Nolan World.
• Fulina told Jiang Yuu that she had lived in the Dumanlin Super Great World of Stars and had been the empress of the Kentos Night Star Empire.

Fulina recounted how her teacher Dulinman Stars taught fourteen women the Star Arts, then turned against them and conquered Dumanlin World. She told Jiang Yuu that she wanted revenge, while he wanted to conquer worlds.

• Fulina explained that Dulinman Stars taught her and thirteen other women the Star Arts, and they founded fourteen stellar empires in Dumanlin World.
• Dulinman Stars began slaughtering people to advance his cultivation, then secretly instigated wars between the empires, killing over a hundred million people.
• The fourteen rulers stopped Dulinman Stars and removed him as prime minister, after which he hid his Fate Star and disappeared.
• Five thousand years later, Dulinman Stars returned with overwhelming power, defeated the rulers, and founded the Empire of Stars.
• Three sisters died, seven were captured and killed after their Fate Stars were destroyed, and four fled to the Astral Realm, including Fulina.
• Fulina finished her account and told Jiang Yuu that she wanted revenge.

Jiang Yuu offered Fulina a place in Paradise Mountain and promised to preserve her full strength in Nolan World, and she accepted. As Jiang Yuu rewarded Raphael for judging the goddesses’ systems, a Dread Demon legion arrived on the 997th Layer of the Abyss, where one demon recognized the distant portal as a path home.

• Fulina told Jiang Yuu that her teacher had possessed Greater Divine Power when she left and explained her role in laying the groundwork for Nolan World’s Wizard System.
• Jiang Yuu offered Fulina the choice to rebuild her Divine Kingdom in Nolan World or join Paradise Mountain and campaign against Dumanlin World with him.
• Fulina chose to join Paradise Mountain, and Jiang Yuu told her to rebuild her Divine Kingdom and raise it to Nolan Heaven.
• Jiang Yuu forged the Scales of Justice and gave the divine artifact to Raphael as a reward.
• A legion of Dread Demons appeared at the edge of the Blood Plain on the 997th Layer of the Abyss, and a delicate-faced Dread Demon lit up at the sight of the distant portal.

Lucifer hid among Lalun’s demon legion as the Abyss prepared to invade Valen World. When the armies began crossing the Gate of Spacetime, a hero’s party suddenly teleported into the Blood Plain, leaving them surrounded by demons.

• Demon Monarch Butila ordered the Demon Lords to collect souls in Valen World or face the consequences.
• Lucifer learned from Lalun that the invasion would be delayed two days because a powerful god of war had slain a Demon Monarch and many Demon Lords.
• Demon Monarch Jilaimusi arrived with an enormous legion, and Butila opened the Gate of Spacetime for the demons to enter Valen World.
• As Lucifer followed Lalun toward the gate, a party of five led by a golden-armored hero suddenly teleported onto the Blood Plain.
• The hero’s priestess worried that they had come to the wrong place, while Butila recognized them as Valen’s children of destiny.

A five-person party entering the Abyss was targeted by Demon Monarch Butila, but Fulaya recognized Lucifer as the person fate had guided them to find. Lucifer offered to leave with the party if their portal led to a region of light, as their protective barrier neared collapse.

• Demon Monarch Butila ordered the demons to enter the Gate of Spacetime and attacked the five-person party with dark claws.
• The hero used a divine necklace to shield the party while Christina began opening a portal to the Prime Material Plane.
• Fulaya stopped the others from leaving, insisting that fate had led them to the person they were seeking.
• Lucifer approached the party and asked where their portal led, offering to leave with them if it led to a region of light.
• The hero questioned Lucifer as she warned that their golden barrier was about to break.

Lucifer revealed her divine form and struck down Demon Monarch Butila as he attacked her and the heroes. With Butila incapacitated, she urged the party to hurry through the portal to the Vasily Kingdom.

• Demon Monarch Butila broke the heroes’ golden barrier, but the female priest used a divine artifact to restrain his hand.
• The female mage explained that her portal led to the Vasily Kingdom, and Aaron agreed to trust Lucifer and leave with her.
• Lucifer shed her demonic form, revealed herself as a four-winged goddess, and charged at Butila as he attacked with fire and a black hole.
• Lucifer’s sword strike cut through Butila’s defenses and severed his head, terrifying the demons and stirring Demon God Silver Eye’s true body.
• Lucifer returned to the heroes, said Butila would be unable to reach their world for some time, and urged them to leave through the Gate of Spacetime.

Lucifer stayed behind as the silver eye above the Abyss began to awaken, while the wounded Demon Monarch cautiously approached the Blood Plain. The hero’s party returned through the Gate of Spacetime to the Vasily Kingdom, where a four-winged goddess descended in the cathedral.

• Lucifer sensed the silver eye waking and urged the hero’s party to retreat through the portal while she covered them.
• The Demon Monarch suppressed the injuries caused by the Judgment Sword Intent and decided to approach the Blood Plain from a distance.
• Aaron emerged into the Vasily cathedral, where the princess greeted him warmly, and the rest of the hero’s party followed.
• The female Priest warned the king, nobles, and cathedral Priests that a powerful goddess would descend in her true form.
• A radiant goddess with four wings of light stepped through the Gate of Spacetime and appeared in the cathedral.

Lucifer met Thetis, the Goddess of Radiance and Wisdom, and explained that she had come to learn how Feland World could resist the Abyss. Thetis confirmed that the Abyss had marked Feland World and described Valen’s desperate war against Demon God Silver Eye, leaving Lucifer aware that her world faced a grave threat and that Valen needed outside aid.

• Thetis descended in the Temple of the Goddess of Radiance and welcomed Lucifer as the goddess foretold to bring Valen victory.
• Lucifer introduced herself and explained that her world had repelled an Abyssal invasion but feared further attacks from Demon God Silver Eye.
• Thetis confirmed that worlds marked by the Abyss Will entered Silver Eye’s records and recounted how he had invaded Valen a thousand years after a Demon Monarch was slain there.
• Thetis said that even three gods of grand divine power could only draw against Silver Eye, whose strength exceeded that level.
• Thetis explained that Valen had lost a third of its world and that its nations and wounded gods now needed outside aid.

The Goddess of Radiance Thetis explained that the Book of Fate had chosen Lucifer to change Valen’s fate and heard how Lucifer had crossed the Abyss to reach her. Since Lucifer’s Spacetime Beacon could not reach Feland, Thetis took her to the Divine Realm to seek help contacting her lord.

• Thetis explained that she had guided generations of heroes and that the Book of Fate had identified Lucifer as the person destined to change Valen’s circumstances.
• Lucifer told Thetis she had crossed the Abyss alone over hundreds of years on her lord’s orders and had finally reached Valen.
• Thetis praised Lucifer for resisting the Abyss’s corruption, while Lucifer said she had not noticed its effects.
• Lucifer tried to use her Spacetime Beacon to contact her lord, but it was too weak to bridge the distance between Valen and Feland.
• Thetis invited Lucifer to the Divine Realm so her father could convene the gods and seek the God of Space and Time’s help; Lucifer agreed and claimed her lord was nearing greatness.
• Thetis praised Aaron and promised the hero’s party a reward before she and Lucifer vanished.

After the goddesses left, Aaron and his companions departed the church, while Lucifer toured the Goddess of Radiance’s palace and learned about her realm-spanning power. The Goddess of Radiance then invited Lucifer to the purification hot springs to remove any lingering Abyssal influence.

• The Kingdom's princess admired Aaron after the Goddess of Radiance declared he had the potential to become a god, and Aaron led his companions out of the church.
• The Elf archer and Gnome Assassin celebrated surviving the encounter, while the Mage warned Aaron to avoid the princess.
• Aaron wondered whether becoming a god would let him return to his homeland.
• The Goddess of Radiance showed Lucifer projections of the worlds under her command and explained how they supplied believers and soldiers for the war against the Abyss Demons.
• The Goddess of Radiance invited Lucifer to the purification hot springs, and Lucifer agreed.

After decades of studying Wizard knowledge, Annatania completed a plan that would make better use of faith and returned to Paradise Mountain. She told Jiang Yuu that Faith Angels offered a way to stop wasting his power of faith.

• Annatania finished studying Wizard books in Nolan Heaven and decided to return with the Twin Goddesses.
• Legends spread through Nolan's Land of Eternal Night about the Fortune and Misfortune goddesses, while Demon Hunter organizations and Camelot's Virtue Knights gained influence.
• The three goddesses returned to Paradise Mountain, where Sariel went to the Silver Moon Divine Kingdom and Livier went to visit the Father of Oaks.
• The Father of Oaks sought Wizard materials on life as he prepared to pursue peak intermediate divine power.
• Annatania rushed to Jiang Yuu's Sacred Throne and announced that Faith Angels could make better use of his power of faith.

Annatania explained her plan to use Paradise Mountain and the power of faith to create permanent divine-spell templates that let believers become Faith Angels. Jiang Yuu praised the proposal and imagined a vast host of Angels gathering on Paradise Mountain.

• Jiang Yuu asked Annatania to explain the Faith Angels.
• Annatania described how she adapted Wizard research on Tower Spirits to create permanent divine-spell templates powered by believers’ faith.
• Annatania explained that Winged People could become Faith Branch Angels through bodies made from faith or Holy War Branch Angels through their own strength.
• Jiang Yuu praised Annatania’s idea and envisioned countless Angels standing on Paradise Mountain.

Jiang Yuu established a Faith Angel system based on radiance and ordered Sophia to recruit a hundred thousand devout Winged People. Sophia explained the new angels’ role to Michael, who agreed to carry out the selection.

• Jiang Yuu chose Divine Power of Radiance as the foundation of the Faith Angels, aiming to spread faith through an image of light and justice.
• By Year 1549, Jiang Yuu had designed a system combining radiance with eight attributes and distinguished Faith Angels from Holy War Angels.
• Jiang Yuu ordered Sophia to select a hundred thousand devout, good-hearted Winged People willing to become Faith Angels.
• Sophia visited Michael at the White Stone Fortress and told him to prioritize devout Winged People with Divine Offices while excluding those with exceptional talent.
• Sophia explained that Faith Angels would be baptized by divine power, wear the Raiment of Faith, and spread their Radiant Wings, while Holy War Angels would ascend through the existing path.
• Michael accepted Sophia’s instructions and pledged to carry out the selection.

Over the years, Lucifer secured Valen's gods as allies by recounting Jiang Yuu’s rise, while Paradise Mountain expanded its influence across worlds. Arthur Lionheart and the Goddess of Dark Night later joined the Heaven Pantheon, with the Goddess of Dark Night swearing allegiance before the Sacred Throne.

• Ten years later, one hundred thousand Winged People became Legendary Angels, and Angel armies spread across Feland.
• Thetis brought Lucifer to Valen’s gods’ assembly, where Lucifer described Jiang Yuu’s power and Feland’s resistance to the Abyss.
• Valen’s gods accepted Feland as an ally and entrusted the God of Space and Time with connecting the two worlds.
• By 1566 of the Elf Dynasty Calendar, Faith Angels helped activate Spacetime Beacons and conquer many small and medium worlds for Paradise Mountain.
• In 1601, Arthur Lionheart ascended as the god of knights, virtue, and the sun, then moved his Divine Kingdom into Nolan Heaven.
• In 1634, the Goddess of Dark Night joined the Heaven Pantheon after speaking with Annatania and swearing allegiance before the Sacred Throne.

Raphael became Paradise Mountain’s fourth High Angel Chief, taking the Divine Office of Fairness. In 1653, news of a newly uncovered Previous Era kingdom’s treasury reached Annatania, who was left momentarily dazed.

• Jiang Yuu marked Raphael as a Four-Winged Angel and appointed him High Angel Chief of Justice.
• Akaduosos discovered Previous Era ruins near Lionheart’s western coast and sold their location to the Vadoras Adventurers’ Association.
• A royal Mage and his companions broke the ruins’ restrictions and found a kingdom’s treasury containing records, inheritance materials, and knowledge of Sequence Users.
• Royal Scholars identified the ruins as the Gabriel Kingdom, whose Merchant Sequence inheritance included incomplete records of the Merchant, Banker, and Financial Magnate sequences.
• Lionheart’s king reported the discovery to the Holy Church of Radiance, and an Angel relayed the news to Annatania as she planned class-entry points with Ougekexi and Ingerit.
• Annatania looked dazed when she heard the news.

Annatania discovered that the ruins were the Gabriel Kingdom’s hidden treasury and realized her brother had sacrificed himself to protect her after the kingdom fell. She reclaimed the Gabriel name and vowed to honor her family.

• Annatania learned that the Lionheart Royal Family had found the Gabriel Kingdom’s ancestral treasury and hurried to the ruins.
• Annatania read the history of the kingdom and remembered how her brother had ordered her abandoned while they fled after their father sent them away.
• Annatania concluded that her brother had staged her abandonment to protect her from the guards who had learned of the treasury.
• Annatania visited the treasury’s defenses and found the remains of eleven people, recognizing her brother among them.
• Annatania apologized to her brother and declared that she was still Annatania Gabriel.

After discovering her deceased brother Aguli Gabriel in an undersea treasury, Annatania conceived the Relic Inheritance Method and planned to seek help implementing it. In 1677 of the Elf Dynasty, Jiang Yuu launched new expeditions while Lucifer and two gods hurried toward Feland World from the Deep-Space Astral Realm.

• Annatania ordered Aguli Gabriel's remains buried in the treasury and realized relics could carry rare class inheritances in exchange for payment.
• Annatania covered her brother's skeleton with a cloak and left to consult the God of Knowledge and the God of Inheritance before telling Jiang Yuu about her plan.
• The Angels told the royal Mages to hand the treasury's wealth over to the Temple of Wealth, and the Mages agreed.
• Jiang Yuu comforted Annatania over her brother's death and welcomed her as part of the family of Paradise Mountain's gods.
• In 1677 of the Elf Dynasty, Jiang Yuu sent the Sky City Expeditionary Army to explore and conquer nearby worlds.
• Lucifer left Valen World for Feland with the God of Space and Time and the Goddess of Radiance.

Jiang Yuu ordered Uriel to draft edicts for Paradise Mountain and considered creating a Chief Angel role to enforce them. Years later, Ponte Lionheart died after directing Ted to move the Holy Church’s headquarters, and the Twin Goddesses invited Ponte’s soul to Paradise Mountain.

• Sophia proposed establishing edicts to govern Paradise Mountain’s growing angel population and recommended Uriel as their drafter.
• Jiang Yuu approved Uriel’s appointment and privately considered creating a Chief Angel to oversee the edicts, the Angel Legion, and punishments.
• In 1678 of the Elf Dynasty Calendar, Uriel began compiling the paradise mountain edicts.
• In 1699 of the Elf Dynasty Calendar, Ponte Lionheart died after instructing Ted to move the Holy Church’s headquarters to the Holy City.
• The Twin Goddesses appeared to Ponte’s soul and invited him to Paradise Mountain.