Chapter Summaries

Amos, the Champion Demon King, entered Valen through the Gate of the Abyss and challenged Jiang Yuu, the God of Judgment. Jiang Yuu’s aura matched and then overpowered Amos’s, and the two faced each other in the sky.

• Amos stepped through the Gate of the Abyss, and the demons bowed before him as he asked where to find the God of Judgment.
• The Silver-Patterned Demon Monarch pointed to the White Gold Moon, and Amos declared that he would kill its god and open the Abyss.
• Jiang Yuu appeared above the White Gold Moon and released a holy aura that dispelled Amos’s pressure and restored the courage of Valen’s forces.
• Jiang Yuu’s aura gradually surpassed Amos’s, frightening the demons and drawing cheers from Valen’s warriors.
• Amos rose into the air to confront Jiang Yuu, who said he did not like looking up at others.

Jiang Yuu confronted Amos, the Champion Demon King, and killed a Demon Monarch who interrupted their exchange. Amos’s desire-based attack failed to affect Jiang Yuu, who destroyed his nine rivers of desire and severed Amos’s arm; Amos then charged him, determined to settle the fight through combat.

• Jiang Yuu teased Amos, then killed a Demon Monarch who boasted about Amos’s strength with a single sword strike.
• Amos recognized Jiang Yuu’s power and challenged him to fight.
• Amos unleashed nine rivers of desire, but Jiang Yuu’s indomitable will resisted their corruption.
• Jiang Yuu destroyed the rivers with nine sword strikes and severed one of Amos’s arms.
• Amos regrew his arm and charged Jiang Yuu, declaring his confidence in a same-rank fight.

Jiang Yuu fought Amos, the Champion Demon King, for three days and nights, devastating Valen World while his Power of Holiness protected its inhabitants. After Amos believed he had won, Jiang Yuu revealed that he had fought only a projection and forced Amos to kneel beneath his sword.

• Jiang Yuu and Amos clashed across Valen World, reshaping the land and transforming some creatures into Giant Serpents of Darkness and Holy Eagles of Radiance.
• After three days and nights, both fighters appeared gravely wounded, and Amos offered Jiang Yuu power in the Abyss or threatened to kill him.
• Jiang Yuu revealed that the battered figure was a projection and appeared as a Monarch seated upon the White Gold Throne.
• Amos raged at having been deceived and tried to attack Jiang Yuu again.
• Jiang Yuu crossed the distance between them, drove Amos into the earth, and shattered his knees with Judgment Divine Power, forcing him to kneel.

Jiang Yuu defeated Amos and offered to spare him if he submitted, then learned how a Demon Monarch could open and separate an Abyssal plane. He left Amos under his control and announced that he would accompany him to open the plane after attaining grand divine power and killing Demon God Silver Eye.

• The gods and demons bowed before Jiang Yuu after he defeated Amos, while the former Sky Lord warned Firos that Yuliel’s overwhelming presence could crush his ambition and urged him to leave Valen World.
• Amos expected Jiang Yuu to kill him, but Jiang Yuu asked whether he wanted to live or die.
• Amos explained that a Demon God's Proof allowed him to open an Abyssal plane and that its master could separate it from the Abyss, provoking an Abyss Blood War.
• Jiang Yuu offered to spare Amos if he submitted unconditionally and accepted measures imposed upon him, and Amos agreed.
• Jiang Yuu told Amos not to leave for the Outer Abyss yet, saying he would first attain grand divine power and kill Demon God Silver Eye, then accompany Amos to open and separate his plane.

Jiang Yuu subdued Amos and returned to the Divine Realm, while the Hasoladi Empire’s victory at Fallen Star Lake set its southward campaign in motion. As Mikto I vowed to conquer Feland, Michael planned to lead the Winged People into Paradise Mountain and sent their forces to fight the invading army.

• Jiang Yuu implanted the Power of Judgment in Amos, making the Demon Monarch his subordinate, and took him to the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Yuu’s Radiant Projection revealed it was only a projection, but the Demon Monarchs remained still and the battlefield quieted.
• Demon God Silver Eye raged at Amos’s defeat and attacked the three wounded God-Kings more fiercely.
• The Hasoladi Empire defeated the Elf Dynasty at Fallen Star Lake, and Mikto I sent one army south after the elves and another toward the Winged People’s Kingdom.
• Mikto I swore to conquer Feland and make humanity its ruling race.
• Michael welcomed the Hasoladi invasion as a chance for the Winged People to ascend into Paradise Mountain, then ordered their elite troops to confront Mikto I’s main force.

After Michael’s victory over the Hasoladi Empire, the Winged People relocated from Feland and Greya Continent to the Fifth Paradise Mountain, completing their kingdom’s ascension and becoming angels in name. Jiang Yuu checked his game panel and reflected that the visitors should arrive in about a thousand years.

• Michael led a force of three thousand elite Winged People in a charge that killed Gaige Harasodi and broke the Hasoladi Empire’s million-strong army.
• Michael pursued and nearly destroyed the Nightmare Knight Order and Death Mage Corps as the imperial army fled.
• Mikto I considered marching south again but accepted his ministers’ advice to let the army recover.
• In 4052, the gods of Paradise Mountain moved the Winged People and their cities from Feland into the Fifth Paradise Mountain, while some stayed behind with their elven partners.
• In 4053, the Winged People of Greya Continent were relocated as well, completing the kingdom’s ascension and transforming the Winged People into angelic reservists.
• Jiang Yuu opened his game panel, saw the launch countdown, and wondered whether the visitors would arrive in about a thousand years.

After the Winged People left, Orc slaves on Greya rebelled and established a tribal assembly, while the Gargoyles refused Michael’s invitation to Paradise Mountain. Michael told Annatania about them, and she suggested that Nolan’s Goddess of Dark Night might help.

• After the Winged People's departure, races settled across the Feland Continent, while the weakened Hasoladi Empire withdrew its army and built a city at Fallen Star Lake.
• Kadefei killed his master and led Orc slaves in a rebellion against the upper-class Orcs, later overthrowing their rule and establishing the Tribal Assembly with himself as its first great chieftain.
• Kadefei granted human nobles who had aided the Orc rebellion land on Greya’s southern coast, where they founded a kingdom that remained friendly with the Orc tribes.
• Michael traveled to Lomanda and invited Totomans and the Gargoyles to ascend to Paradise Mountain, but Totomans refused, saying the Gargoyles no longer belonged with the light.
• Michael heard the Gargoyles declare their devotion to their Lord and their resolve to uphold justice in the night, then told Annatania about them.
• Annatania suggested that Nolan’s Goddess of Dark Night might be able to help the Gargoyles.

Fulina, the Goddess of Dark Night, visited Lomanda Mountain City to bless the Gargoyles and recruit followers for Paradise Mountain. Totomans and half the Gargoyles agreed to follow her, and she granted them powerful blessings tied to the night.

• Fulina went to Lomanda Mountain City after Annatania asked her to check on the Gargoyles, and Totomans identified himself as their leader and a follower of the Lord of Judgment.
• Fulina concealed the mountain city with her dark night divine power after Totomans asked her to keep it hidden.
• Fulina told Totomans she wanted some Gargoyles to become her followers, and he went to consult his people.
• Totomans returned and said that he and half the Gargoyles were willing to follow Fulina.
• Fulina blessed the Gargoyles with strength, defense, movement, reproduction, and the power to remain undying in the night as long as their energy lasted.

The Hasoladi Empire defeated the Elf Dynasty and expanded across nearly all of Feland, but years of war and oppression left the new Human Empire unstable. As Emperor Mikto I neared death, he summoned his son, with the Empire's future in doubt.

• Fifty thousand Gargoyles followed Fulin to Nolan World, while the remaining Gargoyles stayed behind as Lomanda's Gargoyle Mountain City faded into darkness.
• Duke Keynes overthrew the Arona Family and founded the Keynes Kingdom, plunging the southern Human lands into chaos.
• Mikto I's first southern campaign failed, but in 4200 he led the Hasoladi Empire into a prolonged war against the Elf Dynasty.
• The Dwarf and Lizardfolk forces betrayed the Elf Dynasty during the assault on Proshir, and the Eternal King mortally struck Mikto I before the capital fell.
• The Hasoladi Empire conquered the Elf lands and gained the submission of surrounding kingdoms, while discontent grew among nobles and commoners.
• After completing the Empire's conquests, Mikto I collapsed and summoned his son to his sickbed.

On his deathbed in Proladi City, Mikto I gave his son Belather Hasoladi instructions for preserving the empire after his death. He left Belather with a plan of religious tolerance and a marriage alliance with Lionheart, warning him to heed the power of the Lord of Judgment.

• Mikto I lay dying in the imperial palace while Belather Hasoladi knelt beside his bed and ministers and nobles waited outside.
• Mikto I told Belather to trust his brothers, whom he had given fiefs across the continent.
• Mikto I instructed Belather to seek the hand of the Lionheart Kingdom's princess, though he did not explain why.
• Mikto I ordered Belather to allow worship of all gods and faiths, rather than restricting the empire to the God of Death.
• Mikto I revealed that he sought the Lionheart alliance in part because of the Lord of Judgment and feared the God of Death's madness.

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.