Chapter Summaries

The Twin Goddesses escorted Ponte Lionheart to the Lord of Heaven, who honored him for his service and made him the first human angel of this era. The Lord then decreed that believers of every race could ascend to Paradise Mountain and become angels, establishing a rule that would last forever.

• The Twin Goddesses welcomed Ponte Lionheart and took him past the lower tiers of Paradise Mountain to the First Paradise Mountain.
• Ponte Lionheart saw the Lord of Heaven’s throne and recalled a dream in which he had knelt before the god as a sinner.
• Ponte Lionheart bowed before the Lord of Heaven, who praised his prophetic achievements and foresight about the Abyss’s invasion.
• The Lord of Heaven offered Ponte Lionheart angelic wings and a sword so he could fight, guard him, and spread faith, and Ponte accepted.
• The Lord of Heaven made Ponte Lionheart Paradise Mountain’s first human angel of this era.
• The Lord of Heaven decreed that believers of every race could ascend to Paradise Mountain and become angels, beginning with Ponte.

Jiang Yuu welcomed Ponte Lionheart into the angels, while Uriel completed the Paradise Mountain Edicts and proposed creating a sacred written language that could wield transcendent power. Jiang Yuu appointed Uriel Chief Angel in charge of the edicts and punishment, and years later Ponte became a Faith Angel.

• Jiang Yuu ordered Aeryta to take Ponte Lionheart to the Angel Reincarnation Pool, where Ponte sank into its waters to become an angel.
• In Year 1701, Uriel completed the original eleven Paradise Mountain Edicts and presented them to Jiang Yuu.
• Uriel proposed creating a written language for Paradise Mountain that could manifest transcendent power through its edicts.
• Jiang Yuu praised Uriel and appointed him Chief Angel responsible for overseeing the edicts and administering punishment.
• In Year 1734, Ponte Lionheart became a Faith Angel, and another human believer ascended to join the angels.

Jiang Yuu advanced the Angel Race’s script and expanded Paradise Mountain’s reach as conflicts reshaped the Orcs and Sirens. The Mother of the Deep Sea, Charybdis, cast her Divine Kingdom into the ocean and attained Greater Divine Power, prompting the Lord of Dawn to reflect on how her creations had undone her.

• Jiang Yuu directed Uriel, Ougekexi, Ingerit, and Silvanus to create a concise Angel Script linked to Paradise Mountain’s laws and rhythms.
• Jiang Yuu marked conquered worlds with the White Gold Moon and connected them through teleportation arrays, accelerating construction of Paradise Mountain’s fifth level.
• Frusen led Orc slaves in overthrowing the Gualori Merchant Association and seizing Gualori City, where they began calling Orcs to establish a nation.
• The God of Fire’s daughter became the Goddess of Blossoms, while the Sea Folk expelled Themis and her sisters to the North Sea, where the exiled Sirens began luring ships with their songs.
• Charybdis cast her Divine Kingdom into the Deep Sea and attained Greater Divine Power, and the Lord of Dawn remarked that her creations had ultimately undone her.

After Charybdis gained greater divine power, Jiang Yuu suppressed the raging sea and warned her to control her influence. In 1966, the northern and southern Human Race kingdoms agreed to jointly develop a massive magic crystal vein on the Balod Continent and formed an alliance through marriage.

• Feleims, Garia, Andaras, the Shadow Realm's Greater God, and the Silver Moon goddess reacted to the Mother of the Deep Sea's rise in power.
• Jiang Yuu calmed the storming ocean and warned Charybdis not to let her success go to her head.
• Charybdis reined in her divine power, and the world's seas settled, leaving ships becalmed.
• In 1966, the Arona Royal Family sent envoys to the Lionheart Royal Family to discuss developing the Balod Continent together.
• The two kingdoms agreed to exploit the continent's enormous magic crystal vein, each establishing a duchy and arranging a marriage alliance between their royal families.

Jiang Yuu oversaw the first small world merging into Feland and established a rotation for the Greater Gods to incorporate future worlds. In later years, Arodas and Aikalia each merged another small world, with Aikalia shaping hers into a plain that still did not reach the Finoton Continent.

• The Greater Gods debated whether to merge a weak small world into Feland, and Annatania argued that incorporating worlds would strengthen the gods.
• Jiang Yuu merged the small world into Feland, creating a narrow strip of land that connected the Feland and Greya Continents.
• Jiang Yuu explained how future worlds could be merged and set a rotation for the Greater Gods to take turns.
• In 2013, Arodas merged a small world toward the Opler Continent, but it did not bridge the distance.
• In 2034, Aikalia merged another small world beyond the Lain Peninsula and shaped it into a square plain, intending to connect it to the Finoton Continent over several attempts.

Levins witnessed the Opler Continent connect to Feland as the Lord of Dawn expanded the world. Centuries later, Jiang Yuu’s Paradise Mountain ruled a growing cluster of worlds, and he prepared to keep Nolan World separate from Feland while nearing the peak of greater divine power.

• Levins saw newly reclaimed land join the shore and discovered that Feland and Opler had become connected.
• Over several centuries, the Greater Gods expanded Feland more than tenfold, while the Platinum Holy Throne’s will spread through the world.
• The Angel Legion discovered Desert World, and Jiang Yuu defeated Bentos, subdued his gods, and placed a White Gold Moon in its sky.
• Spacetime School Mages traveled into newly arriving worlds to secure their resources.
• When Nolan Great World arrived, Jiang Yuu chose to make it a world neighboring Feland rather than merge it into Feland.
• Jiang Yuu neared completion of the Fifth Paradise Mountain and foresaw that grand divine power would let him detach it from Feland.

In Year 2612, Jiang Yuu watched his system’s countdown and faced a bottleneck at the pinnacle of Greater Divine Power while the world cluster continued to grow. In Year 2634, the injured Demon Monarch Azkele was ordered to return to the deadly war in Valen World before he had recovered.

• Jiang Yuu considered the unknown origins and purpose of his system and realized that he had reached a bottleneck with no one to guide him along the Path of the Sky Lord.
• The Fifth Paradise Mountain spread across Feland’s high heavens as angels and Mages built Spacetime Teleportation Gates among the worlds of the growing world cluster.
• Azkele consumed most of the Abyss Worms born on Worm Beach to recover from his injuries, causing their numbers to plummet.
• A four-winged Demon Monarch arrived and told Azkele that another Demon Monarch had died in Valen World and that Azkele had to take his place.
• Azkele begged Lord Tuweike to let him recover first, but Tuweike refused and warned him not to keep Lord Hughes waiting.

Azkele learned that Shireya, the Goddess of Revolution, War and Victory, had killed another Demon Monarch and decided to keep his head down while gathering troops for the Blood Plain. On Valen World’s eastern defensive line, warriors drove back an Abyssal assault as the Demon Monarchs hesitated to intervene, while the gods watched from a sky palace.

• Azkele wondered whether Shireya had killed another Demon Monarch and resolved to avoid provoking her.
• Azkele prepared to gather his demon legions and head for the Blood Plain.
• Warriors defending a city on Valen World’s eastern line fired on the demons crossing the river.
• A Demigod Knight led a crimson-cloaked order in a charge that split the demon army, and warriors poured out of the city after them.
• Mandos asked the other Demon Monarchs to join the battle, but they told him to lead his own forces, so he and his Demon Lords held back.
• The gods gathered around a goddess in a sky palace above the city.

Goddess of Revolution Shireya held off the Abyss Demon Monarchs while worrying that Valen’s declining defenses could not be reversed. Meanwhile, Thetis, Teripes, and Lucifer neared Feland World, where Lucifer spotted the radiance of her lord’s Paradise Mountain.

• Shireya taunted the Demon Monarchs after they withdrew, then returned to her Divine Throne and considered how badly wounded she remained.
• Shireya reflected that Valen had been losing ground for a thousand years and wondered whether Thetis could bring reinforcements.
• Shireya recalled the many figures named by the Book of Fate as possible saviors, including Aaron, Lucifer’s Greater God, and Firos Aitosas.
• Thetis and Teripes traveled with Lucifer through the Astral Realm and realized they were nearing Feland World.
• Lucifer spotted the distant radiance of her lord’s Paradise Mountain and excitedly pointed it out to Thetis and Teripes.

Lucifer returned to Feland World with Thetis and Teripes, two Greater Gods from Valen World, and introduced them to Yuliel. The Valen gods asked him for help against Demon God Silver Eye Hughes and the invading Abyssal army.

• Thetis and Teripes saw Paradise Mountain and the worlds gathered around Feland World as they approached with Lucifer.
• Yuliel sensed Lucifer’s return, left his throne, and welcomed her and the two Valen gods.
• Lucifer knelt before Yuliel and thanked him for welcoming her home.
• Thetis and Teripes introduced themselves to Yuliel as the Goddess of Radiance and God of Space and Time from Valen World.
• Thetis asked Yuliel for reinforcements against Silver Eye Hughes and the demon army invading Valen World.

Thetis and Teripes sought Jiang Yuu’s help against the Abyss, and Thetis was impressed by his power. After hearing about Valen’s dire situation, Jiang Yuu agreed to go and asked the gods of Paradise Mountain whether they would join him.

• Thetis asked Jiang Yuu for help, and he invited her and Teripes to Paradise Mountain to discuss Valen’s situation.
• Thetis and Teripes entered Paradise Mountain and were shocked by how much it resembled the divine realm of the Valen World.
• Jiang Yuu gathered the gods and angels, explained that Lucifer had found Valen, and asked Thetis to describe its plight.
• Thetis recounted Valen’s dire circumstances, and Annatania asked Jiang Yuu if he would go.
• Jiang Yuu said he would go because Feland was also threatened by the Abyss, then asked the gods whether they were willing to join him.

Jiang Yuu gathered the angels and gods to plan support for Valen World against the Abyss, then convened the gods of Feland to seek volunteers and contributions. A few gods agreed to fight, while the rest accepted his demands to provide resources and keep the peace during the campaign.

• Jiang Yuu asked the gods of Feland to help Valen World, and the angels and gods of Paradise Mountain volunteered to fight.
• Jiang Yuu ordered Aeryta to recruit more faith angels and told Annatania to host Thetis and Teripes while Lucifer rested for the campaign.
• At the assembly in Sky City, the Goddess of Radiance explained the Abyss's invasion of Valen World, alarming the assembled gods.
• The Silver Moon Goddess and Arodas volunteered to fight, while most other gods stayed silent or refused to go.
• Jiang Yuu required the gods who would not fight to provide people or resources and warned them not to disrupt the world's balance in his absence.

Jiang Yuu organized Paradise Mountain’s preparations for the expedition to Valen World and assigned Annatania to guard their home while he and the others were away. He left her plans for defending their allies and faith, then the gods began preparing for a departure a century later.

• Jiang Yuu told the gods of Paradise Mountain that most gods who had stayed behind were cowards and that someone needed to protect their territory.
• Jiang Yuu assigned Annatania to stay behind, explaining that she was the only Greater Divine Power besides him, and she accepted.
• Jiang Yuu ordered all the High Angel Chiefs and Bahamut to join the expedition and told Sophia, Aeryta, Lucifer, and Uriel to expand their Angel Legions over the next hundred years.
• Jiang Yuu directed most of Paradise Mountain’s resources toward the four Angel Legions preparing to depart.
• Jiang Yuu warned Annatania not to confront any attackers directly and instructed her to contact him if Paradise Mountain came under threat.
• Jiang Yuu told Annatania to move steadfast believers among the Winged People to the Fifth Paradise Mountain, shelter other races’ core members in Sky Cities, and leave those with wavering faith alone.

After the council of gods, Jiang Yuu prepared the Angel Legion and arranged for Teripes to build a Great Spacetime Portal for an expedition to Valen World. The chapter also introduced Suoluola World’s conflict over aiding Valen and ended with the rise of the Star-Forging Dragon, a powerful young dragon who had founded a great nation.

• Faith Angels emerged from the Angel Reincarnation Pool and joined the Angel Legion’s expeditionary force, which planned to send one million Angels to Valen World after a hundred years of training.
• Teripes began preparing the Great Spacetime Portal, and Jiang Yuu found a medium-sized world where he could build its Gate and use the origin power of several worlds to fuel it.
• The gods of Suoluola World disagreed over aiding Valen, while the God of Thunder had traveled there and slain a Demon Lord.
• Suoluola’s gods sought non-divine systems and sent powerful individuals to fight in Valen, but those fighters could not match the scale of the threat.
• A young dragon abandoned as a hatchling followed a Transcendent Path, founded a great dragon nation on Suoluola’s North Continent, and reached the peak of intermediate divine power as the Star-Forging Dragon.

Firos, emperor of the Star Dragon Empire, considered whether to join Valen World’s war against the Abyss after the God of the South Wind offered him an alliance. Firos agreed to send his legions once he attained greater divine power, leaving the empire’s intervention dependent on his breakthrough.

• The God of the South Wind delivered Lord Anlamasi’s offer of land, a divine domain, and treasures in exchange for Firos’s support against the Abyss.
• Firos questioned Valen World’s prospects, citing the Abyss’s advance and Demon God Silver Eye’s threat to the Sky God’s Holy City.
• The God of the South Wind urged Firos to trust Valen’s Destined Savior and suggested Firos himself might become a being capable of turning the war around.
• Firos agreed to lead his imperial legions to Valen World after attaining greater divine power, on the condition that the God of the South Wind become the Star Dragon Empire’s diplomat if Valen fell.
• Firos declared that he would attain greater divine power within a hundred years.

Azkele’s small demon army joined the invasion of Valen World, where the central defensive line collapsed and more kingdoms fell. After a century of preparation, Jiang Yuu led a million-strong Angel Legion from Paradise Mountain and ordered it to war.

• Boaibis mocked Azkele for arriving with a small demon army, and Azkele threatened him in response.
• A silver-eyed Demon Monarch ordered the demons through the Spacetime Teleportation Gate and assigned Azkele’s army to the central front.
• The newly arrived demon forces helped break Valen World’s central defensive line, and the Rodi Kingdom fell as the front shifted to the Manta Kingdom.
• Refugees fled toward Valen World’s rear as kingdoms were destroyed and many of their deities had already died in battle.
• A million angels assembled above the Fourth Paradise Mountain, and the four High Angel Chiefs led them in bowing to Jiang Yuu.
• Jiang Yuu raised his sword and ordered the Angel Legion to march to war.

Jiang Yuu prepared to lead his million-strong Angel Legion into battle alongside Feland's allied forces. Before he left, Annatania gave him a golden battle flag and asked him to return safely, and he promised to carry it and defeat their enemies.

• The million-strong Angel Legion arrived at the transit world, astonishing the allied forces and Silver Moon Goddess Aikalia and Lord of Dawn Arodas.
• Jiang Yuu watched his angels pass through the portal from Fourth Paradise Mountain.
• Annatania appeared before Jiang Yuu and gave him a golden battle flag she had made with divine power.
• Annatania asked Jiang Yuu to remember their promise and return safely from the campaign.
• Jiang Yuu accepted the flag and promised Annatania he would carry it, defeat every enemy, and return.

Jiang Yuu and Valen’s gods sent a vast allied army from Feland to join the war against the Abyss. A century later, Firos heard that Thetis had returned with unimaginable reinforcements and asked Shireya who had arrived.

• A million angels and Feland’s allied army prepared to travel through the Spacetime Teleportation Gate as Teripes linked the worlds.
• Aikalia, Arodas, Thetis, Jiang Yuu, and Teripes entered the gate after the expeditionary forces began their long journey to Valen.
• Firos led his Star Dragon Empire legions in Valen, where he helped Shireya repel demon attacks, kill Demon Monarchs, and reclaim territory.
• Shireya told Firos that Thetis had returned with immense reinforcements, and Firos asked who had arrived.

Firos learned from the ancient voice in his ring that the Divine Realm was left behind by a failed Sky Lord and that the Path of the Empire offered a less deadly route to power. At Valen’s eastern defensive line, Arodas arrived with the Dawn Knight Order and charged into demon territory after Firos challenged him to prove his strength.

• Firos spoke with the ancient voice in his ring, who revealed that Valen’s Divine Realm was a remnant of a failed Sky Lord and explained the dangers of that path.
• The ancient voice told Firos that the star-forging Path of the Empire was a safer alternative, and Firos vowed to follow it and avenge his mentor.
• Arodas, God of Dawn of Feland World, arrived at the eastern defensive line with his Legendary Dawn Knights to fight the Abyss.
• Firos challenged Arodas to charge into the demon-held lands, and Arodas led his knights into battle.

Arodas, Firos, and Shireya routed the demons on the eastern line, while Jiang Yuu arrived at the central battlefield with his angel army and confronted dozens of Demon Monarchs. The chapter ended as Jiang Yuu drew his sword and challenged the demons with overwhelming power.

• Arodas led the eastern charge, and Firos and Shireya joined him to break through the demon host and drive back the Demon Monarchs.
• After the victory, Firos praised Arodas and asked whether Aikalia and Yuliel were like him; Arodas said Aikalia would fight the demons to the death but admitted he could not understand Yuliel.
• Jiang Yuu arrived at the central defensive line with ten Sky Cities and a million angels, where Demon Monarchs mocked his forces.
• The angels rebuked the demons, and Jiang Yuu blocked the Demon Monarchs' combined aura with his own overwhelming presence.
• Jiang Yuu advanced before the Demon Thrones, drew his sword, and declared that the demons were like mayflies before the heavens.