Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Yuu installed Anna as Divine Queen, welcomed Aikalia and the Dawn and Silver Moon pantheons into Paradise Mountain, and conquered Feland’s world will. After issuing decrees to govern the subordinate worlds, he turned his attention to Feland’s authority over death.

• Jiang Yuu reflected on resting after his Abyss campaign and told Anna that he would make her the Divine Queen of Paradise Mountain.
• Yuliel announced that the Goddess of Wealth and Chief Wisdom Angel, Annatania Gabriel, would be crowned Divine Queen, and Jiang Yuu appointed Aikalia as Arcane Chief Angel.
• The Dawn and Silver Moon pantheons merged into the Paradise Mountain Pantheon, and their subordinate gods joined them.
• Jiang Yuu suppressed Feland’s gods and conquered the world’s will after keeping his wings spread across the heavens for three years, becoming Lord of the World.
• Jiang Yuu forbade deities from directly interfering in mortal affairs, required demigods to obtain permission before ascending, and hung the Eye of Oversight above Paradise Mountain.
• Jiang Yuu turned his gaze toward the authority over death within Feland’s world will.

Jiang Yuu discovered how Soladis had used death to become one with Feland’s law of death and evade the world’s will. He severed Soladis from the law, but the world’s countermeasures began restoring him, leaving Soladis to laugh as he came back to life.

• Jiang Yuu examined the law of death and found that it had taken the form of a pale scythe because Soladis’s aura had merged with it.
• Jiang Yuu realized Soladis had chosen death so the world’s will would not detect him taking its law.
• Jiang Yuu decided to punish Soladis for interfering with Feland’s mortal realm and treating Anna with contempt.
• Jiang Yuu used his authority as Lord of the World to restore the law of death to a formless state and sever Soladis’s connection to it.
• The world’s countermeasures stirred vitality in the separated aura, and Soladis laughed as he began to resurrect.

Jiang Yuu destroyed Soladis, reunited with Annatania, and told her he planned to establish Hell by severing the Seven-Layer Abyss. He then prepared Paradise Mountain for his next campaign, leaving Annatania in charge while he was away.

• Jiang Yuu seized Soladis in the space of laws, shattered his soul, and burned every fragment to ash.
• Jiang Yuu returned to Paradise Mountain and learned that Annatania was carrying their child; he told her Soladis was gone.
• Jiang Yuu explained his plan to occupy the remaining Outer Abyss layers and establish Hell, but refused Annatania's request to accompany him and forbade her from going alone.
• Raphael painted Jiang Yuu pushing Annatania on a swing, and his painting, "The Swing of the Heavenly Kingdom," later became famous.
• Jiang Yuu told the gods and Chief Angels that World Tree-based Gates of Spacetime would connect their worlds and create trial grounds, assigning Silivans to oversee the work.
• Jiang Yuu declared that Annatania would command Paradise Mountain during his absence and that all the gods must obey her.

Jiang Yuu announced Annatania’s pregnancy and prepared to enter the Abyss with Arodas and Aikalia. After the gods departed through the Gate of the Abyss, Artoria rallied the Golden Lion Knight Kingdom’s army for its eastern expedition.

• Jiang Yuu announced that Annatania was pregnant, and Livier and Sariel rushed to greet her and listen to the baby.
• Jiang Yuu told Arodas and Aikalia to accompany him into the Abyss and warned the gods that allies from Valen World would join them in a few hundred years.
• Jiang Yuu, Arodas, and Aikalia descended to Feland World and entered the Gate of the Abyss to Proadas.
• Artoria saw the three rays of divine light enter the Gate of the Abyss before it vanished, then told her army that their lord had blessed the expedition.
• Artoria ordered the nearly hundred-thousand-strong army to march east to reclaim Barito Kingdom’s territory and repel the Sea Folk.

Artoria led the eastern alliance to defeat the Sea Folk with help from returning Abyss Expeditionary Army veterans, while the expeditionaries reshaped kingdoms and magical research across Feland. Decades later, the Goddess of Magic, Moneliel, completed the Feland Magic Weave and gained greater divine power.

• Artoria marched east with an army that grew to five hundred thousand and entered the Vast Sea Forest to confront the Sea Folk.
• Artoria rallied the allied army with a speech invoking the Lord, and the Sea Folk were defeated after several days of battle.
• Half the former Lionheart Kingdom's expeditionary army joined Artoria, while other veterans established the Temple Knight Order, returned to their families, or helped form new states.
• Yaliante Arona and Dawn Legion veterans restored the southern Dawn Kingdom and formed the Dawn Federation, while Silver Moon Elf veterans crowned Talis the Laurel Queen.
• Returning expeditionaries brought transcendent technologies to Feland, and Moneliel began constructing the Magic Weave with Paradise Mountain's support.
• Decades later, Moneliel completed the Feland Magic Weave and attained greater divine power.