Chapter Summaries

Ocean Goddess Saifeina and the other original gods gained followers, then the Creator summoned them to establish a God-King seat to maintain the world's order. Meanwhile, the elves developed magic and spread beyond Natiya Forest as Gaen Giant King Aismart worried about his people's decline, just as a sky-blue divine light descended.

• Saifeina accepted the Sharon Fish as followers and granted them a way to grow stronger, while the other original gods also began gathering followers among intelligent races.
• The Creator summoned the four gods to Mount Fetlora, announced He would leave to perfect other worlds, and established a God-King seat to oversee the world's order.
• The elves built a city around the Tree of Life, and Natiya created Elf Script and the world's earliest magic.
• The Primordial Elves became transcendent and spread out from Natiya Forest as the gods watched their rapid growth.
• Aismart mourned the Gaen Giants' decline and wondered about their future before a sky-blue divine light descended onto the mountain summit.

Luosi Karl sought support for his bid to become God-King and pressured Aismart into submitting the Gaen Giants, while promising they would not be forced to fight the elves. He then proposed joining with Ruiyawei to bring forth more gods, but she rejected him, and he left promising to visit her daily.

• Luosi Karl told Aismart that he intended to contend for the God-King's throne and chose the Gaen Giants to support him.
• Aismart submitted the Gaen Giants to Luosi Karl, asking that they be allowed to stay out of any future conflict with the elves; Luosi Karl agreed and demanded a temple of the sky atop the peaks.
• After Luosi Karl left, Aismart worried about the turmoil ahead and wondered how the Gaen Giants could acquire divinity without killing someone who possessed it.
• Luosi Karl visited Ruiyawei and asked her to become his partner, claiming that their union could bring forth gods to face future challenges.
• Ruiyawei rejected Luosi Karl and told him to leave, but he promised to visit her every day.

After Luosi Karl and Ruiyawei became lovers and conceived a child, the Creator summoned the gods to choose a God-King. Luosi Karl was selected, but the Creator rejected his request to share the authority with Ruiyawei.

• Luosi Karl’s persistence won Ruiyawei’s love, and several hundred years later she accepted his courtship.
• After their union, Ruiyawei told Luosi Karl she was pregnant, and a wisp of divinity descended upon her belly.
• The Creator summoned the gods to Mount Fetlora to choose the God-King and explained that the ruler’s authority would depend on the support of all living beings.
• The Goddess of the Ocean and Sea God Ansaixi withdrew from the contest, while Ruiyawei supported Luosi Karl and he accepted the responsibility.
• The Creator chose Luosi Karl, but refused his request to share the God-King’s authority with Ruiyawei.

Jiang Yuu warned Luosi Karl that the God-King could be replaced if he failed in his duty, then granted him the God-King’s authority. A thousand years later, Luosi Karl gathered the gods at Fetrola Palace and planned to weaken the elves of Natiya Forest and force them to submit.

• Jiang Yuu froze the world to rebuke Luosi Karl for seeking authority beyond his station, and Ruiyawei defended her husband.
• Luosi Karl apologized, and Jiang Yuu gave him the illusory crown and warned him to protect living beings and maintain order.
• After Jiang Yuu disappeared, Luosi Karl privately viewed Ruiyawei and the elves as potential threats, then asked the other gods to help him govern.
• The four gods established a hall on Mount Fetlora, and a thousand years later Luosi Karl ruled from the completed Fetrola Palace among fourteen deities.
• Luosi Karl told the gods that the elves’ Original Towers and growing power threatened divine authority, and proposed using vassal races to obstruct and weaken them before demanding their submission.

Sky God King Luosi Karl rejected Moweidina’s proposal to coexist with the elves and ordered the gods to oppose their expansion. As several sea gods departed Fetrola Divine Mountain, Ruiyawei warned Luosi Karl that uniting the two sea authorities could threaten the other gods.

• Moweidina argued that the gods should help ordinary elves and avoid provoking the Primordial Elves, but Luosi Karl accused the elves of challenging divine authority and banished her from Mount Fetlora.
• Balen and several other gods supported confronting the elves, while Ansaixi threatened their ships in the Inner Ring Sea and Saifeina reserved judgment about the elves entering her Outer Ring Sea.
• Saifeina left Fetrola Divine Mountain to return to the Outer Ring Sea, and Ansaixi followed to return to the Inner Ring Sea.
• After dismissing the other gods, Luosi Karl asked Ruiyawei why she had contradicted Ansaixi, and she warned that joining the two sea gods’ authority would give the gods reason to worry.

Luosi Karl turned against the elves and rejected Ruiyawei’s counsel, while the elves discovered the gods were obstructing their expansion. With Moweidina’s help, Natiya agreed to build the Tower of Babel to reach the heavens and strip Luosi Karl of his power.

• Luosi Karl dismissed Ruiyawei after declaring that he would rule all beings and gods, and Ruiyawei discovered that the Hunting Bears’ worship strengthened her.
• The Primordial Elves traced the disasters hindering their expansion to the gods of Mount Fetlora, and Queen Natiya sent Molade to negotiate with Luosi Karl.
• Luosi Karl demanded that the elves submit to the gods, so Molade returned to Natiya Forest and reported the ultimatum.
• Moweidina appeared before Natiya and proposed building a tower to reach the Creator and shatter the laws of the sky that empowered Luosi Karl.
• Natiya agreed to build the Heaven-Reaching Tower, and Moweidina revealed her blueprint for the Tower of Babel.

Natiya and Moweidina agreed to build the Tower of Babel in Natiya Forest, concealing the project from the gods of Feiteluola. Years later, Natiya asked Gaen Giant King Aismart to keep the nearby giants from alerting Luosi Karl, and he asked her to take some Gaen Giants with her.

• Moweidina explained why Luosi Karl had driven her out of Fetrola, and Natiya agreed to build the Tower of Babel to help defeat him.
• Moweidina warned that the Gaen Giants near Natiya Forest might report the tower to Luosi Karl, so Natiya promised to speak with their king, Aismart.
• Several years later, Natiya told Aismart that the elves were building a tower for the Creator and asked him to keep the Anbis Mountains' inhabitants quiet.
• Aismart questioned whether the tower was truly for the Creator, then asked Natiya to take some Gaen Giants with her.

Natiya left Aismart after he promised to use the Gaen Giants’ final glory to protect her, and the gods established new powers across the seas. Tyrande created Goddess of Ocean Currents Anfeili to satisfy Sea God Ansaixi’s demands while preserving her chance to atone to the Moon God.

• Natiya agreed to lead some Gaen Giants away from Mount Anbis, and Aismart renamed them Mountain Giants.
• Aismart told Natiya that he would use the Gaen Giants’ last glory to protect her, then closed his eyes as she departed.
• Goddess of the Ocean Saifeina built the Ocean Sea Palace, subdued the Felo People and Dragons, and blessed some Dragons as Mosasaurs.
• Sea God Ansaixi renamed his palace the Tidal Sea God Palace and courted Tidal Giant Tyrande, who refused to become his queen because she still sought to atone to the Moon God.
• Goddess of Wisdom Moweidina advised Tyrande to use her creation power to meet Ansaixi’s demands, asking for a trace of Wild Giant blood in return.
• Tyrande transformed her severed left arm into Goddess of Ocean Currents Anfeili and presented her to Ansaixi, who accepted Anfeili as his wife and promised to protect Tyrande’s tidal domain.

Jiang Yuu created two new worlds and reflected on the need for something genuinely new in his Land of Being, while civilizations and gods continued to develop across the Prime Material Plane. The chapter ended with Luosi Karl learning that the Primordial Elves had secretly built a Tower of Babel designed to lock down the sky, which he believed was meant to kill him.

• Ansaixi welcomed Tyrande's plan to build the Tidal Divine Palace and have it support the Sea God Palace.
• Jiang Yuu created an ocean world and a second world beneath the Prime Material Plane, each with intelligent life and its own creation myth.
• The Hunting Bears developed humanoid forms, founded a crude city-state, and gained their own Power of the Hunting Bear as Ruiyawei advanced in her study of faith.
• Nuoerwende discovered the Primordial Elves' Tower of Babel in the Natiya Region and realized it was intended to lock down the sky.
• Nuoerwende reported the tower to Luosi Karl, who concluded that the Primordial Elves had been preparing to murder him.

Sky God King Luosi Karl explained to Nuoerwende that the elves’ divine origins made them a threat beyond an ordinary mortal race, then traveled with him to confront Gaen Giant King Aismart. The chapter ended with Luosi Karl demanding to know why Aismart had failed to report the elves’ Heaven-Reaching Tower.

• Luosi Karl praised Nuoerwende for uncovering the elves’ conspiracy but warned him that the Primordial Elves possessed divinity bestowed by the vanished Goddess of Life, Anweinuoya.
• Nuoerwende understood that the gods were effectively contending with a Greater God, while Luosi Karl admitted that even his full God-King power might not subdue the elves.
• Luosi Karl and Nuoerwende traveled to the Anbis Mountains to question the last Titan King, Aismart, about the Gaen Giants’ betrayal of their Greater God.
• Aismart greeted the two gods, but Nuoerwende’s north wind found no Gaen Giants in the mountains, revealing that the people had already been moved away.
• Luosi Karl accused Aismart of hiding his people and called him to account for failing to report the elves’ Heaven-Reaching Tower in Natiya.

Sky God King Luosi Karl tortured Aismart to death for refusing to reveal the elves’ plans, and Aismart used his final words to prophesy that a newborn power would someday take the sky’s authority. A day after Aismart died, Goddess of Wisdom Moweidina poured Tyrande’s blood onto his remains, causing his skeleton to change.

• Luosi Karl accused Aismart of hiding the elves’ plans and demanded that he confess, but Aismart denied knowing anything.
• Luosi Karl bound Aismart to a stone pillar and ordered Nuoerwende to have the Anbis Giant Eagles peck him to death.
• As the eagles attacked, Aismart cursed Luosi Karl, defended the pride of the Gaen Giants, and prophesied that a newborn power would take the sky’s authority.
• Nuoerwende kept the eagles and cold winds tormenting Aismart, who died after three days of agony.
• Moweidina visited Aismart’s remains the next day and dripped Tyrande’s blood onto his corpse, changing his skeleton.

Goddess of Wisdom Moweidina watched Dwarves emerge from Aismart's remains and saw a chance to establish her own devoted race. She named them and declared them her followers, leaving their civilization to be developed with the Elves' guidance.

• Goddess of Wisdom Moweidina observed Aismart's remains transform for seven days as blood and stone mingled in the valley.
• Thousands of short, sturdy intelligent beings emerged from the remains, and Moweidina identified them as a new race.
• Moweidina named the newborn race Dwarves and claimed to be one of their creators.
• Moweidina declared the Dwarves her devoted race and said they would build a civilization beneath the radiance of wisdom.
• The Dwarves praised Moweidina, and she accepted their response with satisfaction.

After learning of Aismart’s death, Natiya prepared the elves for conflict with the Gods of Feiteluola and sent elves to help the dwarves survive in the Anbis Mountains. Luosi Karl gathered the gods at Fetrola Divine Mountain and called for an attack on the elves and their Tower of Babel.

• Moweidina told Natiya that Aismart had been pecked to death by ten thousand eagles, and Natiya ordered the elves to speed up construction of the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
• Natiya gave Moweidina permission to take several hundred elves to the Anbis Mountains to help the dwarves.
• The elves taught the dwarves survival skills and basic magic, and the dwarves established homes and a temple among the mountains.
• Luosi Karl strengthened the Anbis Giant Eagles into Fetrola Divine Eagles and sent them to summon the gods to a council.
• Luosi Karl accused the elves of defying the gods and declared that he would lead an attack to topple the Tower of Babel and seize control of the world's authority.

God-King Luosi Karl rallied the gods to launch a war against the elves in three months, while Moweidina warned Natiya that their followers would attack elven settlements across the world. Natiya prepared the elves to defend themselves, and Moweidina revealed that the completed Tower of Babel held an object that could challenge the God-King.

• Luosi Karl gained the gods’ agreement to attack Natiya Forest and topple the Tower of Babel, with their followers striking elves across the world.
• Natiya and Moweidina discussed the Gaen Giants’ legacy and how their knowledge had shaped elven magic.
• Moweidina warned Natiya that the gods had declared a holy war and would attack elves indiscriminately.
• Natiya ordered elves throughout the world to defend their camps and prepared the Forest Guardians, Earth Rogues, and Royal Guard Legion in Natiya Forest.
• Moweidina said the Tower of Babel was complete and that an object at its summit could make the coming battle difficult for Luosi Karl.

Gods’ follower races attacked Elf settlements across the world while the Elves prepared to defend Natiya Forest at Feist Plain. The chapter left the opposing armies assembled for a massive battle before the Tower of Babel.

• The Hunting Bear chief learned that his people had destroyed nineteen Elf villages and planned to copy the Elves’ magic tomes so all Hunting Bears could learn their own form of magic.
• Fish People landed on the eastern coast of the Inner Ring Sea, where Elf archers attacked them and Dwarf goat cavalry waited in the woods.
• Elves in the Northlands killed waves of North Wind Wolves and resolved to defend their village while trusting Queen Natiya and her people.
• Attacks by the gods’ follower races forced many Elf villages to fall, endure sieges, or gather their survivors into larger communities.
• Hundreds of the gods’ follower races assembled on Feist Plain as an armed Elf army and Dwarf cavalry stood opposite them before the Tower of Babel.

Jiang Yuu observed the Elves’ Tower of Babel and the Fire Seed at its summit, then decreed that the laws and authority of war would be perfected in the coming battle. As the gods confronted the Elves, Goddess of Wisdom Moweidina withdrew far from the battlefield while Elf Queen Natiya rejected the gods’ demands and faced their threat of war.

• Jiang Yuu saw that the Elves had placed the Fire Seed atop the Tower of Babel and declared that the coming battle would perfect the laws and authority of war.
• Moweidina sensed an examining gaze, left the Primordial Elves and the Tower of Babel, and retreated to a hill far from the battlefield.
• Elf Queen Natiya and the Primordial Elves faced Sky God King Luosi Karl and the assembled gods.
• Luosi Karl accused the Elves of threatening the gods’ interests, while Natiya and another Elf argued that the gods feared the Elves’ growing strength.
• Luosi Karl demanded that the Elves either open their faith to the gods or return to Natiya Forest, warning that refusal meant war.

Elf Queen Natiya rejected the gods of Fetrola and led the elves in battle, using the Superkill Magic Array to tear open the Law of the Sky and grievously wound God-King Luosi Karl. Luosi Karl rallied the gods and their followers to attack, and the war began in earnest.

• Natiya told Luosi Karl that the elves worshipped only the Creator and Anweinuoya, and challenged the gods to attack.
• Natiya ordered the Primordial Elves to deploy the Superkill Magic Array and rallied the elven army to hold its ground.
• More than a thousand Primordial Elves joined their power through the Tower of Babel, and Natiya anchored the array with her divinity.
• The array tore open the Law of the Sky, causing Luosi Karl to bleed from his eyes and his God-King crown to totter.
• Luosi Karl called on the gods and their followers to annihilate the elves, and both sides unleashed their powers in battle.

As the Gods of Feiteluola and the Primordial Elves fought above the Tower of Babel and their armies battled across the Feist Plain, three new Greater Gods were born from the Sun, the moon, and the night. Waxilun, Mosela, and Moluosi each paid homage to the Creator and greeted one another, leaving the divine war to continue without their intervention.

• Elf Queen Natiya confined the gods’ attacks to the heavens while God-King Luosi Karl intensified his assault on the Tower of Babel.
• The armies of both camps clashed across the Feist Plain, where countless beings died and their vitality rose from the earth.
• Waxilun emerged from the Sun as its Goddess, bowed to the Creator, and anticipated the birth of her younger sibling.
• Mosela emerged from the moon as its Goddess, bowed to the Creator, and greeted Waxilun as her elder sister.
• Moluosi emerged from the night as its God, bowed to the Creator, and greeted Waxilun and Mosela.

Sun Goddess Waxilun, Moon God Mosela, and God of Night Moluosi watched the battle between the Elves and the Gods of Feiteluola and discussed how to secure their own future. As they began planning to take in survivors or cultivate other divine kin, something unexpected happened.

• Waxilun, Mosela, and Moluosi observed the battle at the Tower of Babel and agreed they would not submit to the Fetrola Divine Court.
• Moluosi predicted the Tower of Babel might inflict heavy losses on the Gods of Feiteluola despite the Elves' likely defeat.
• Waxilun proposed taking surviving Primordial Elves as attendant gods and making ordinary Elves their divine kin, and Mosela agreed.
• Moluosi refused to take in Elves and revealed that he planned to become the Greater God of the Terror Baboons he had found in the Land of Night.
• The three gods began discussing their plans, but something unexpected happened.

The Gods of Feiteluola shattered the Primordial Elves’ defense and toppled the Tower of Babel, but Elf Queen Natiya’s trap engulfed Luosi Karl in the Creator’s Creation Fire Seed. As Luosi Karl faced certain death, the law of the sky began to collapse, and the heavens broke apart.

• Luosi Karl and the Gods of Feiteluola destroyed the elves’ great magic formation, forcing Natiya and the surviving Primordial Elves into the Tower of Babel.
• Luosi Karl offered Natiya a divine office in exchange for surrender, but Natiya refused and he struck down the tower.
• The Creator’s Creation Fire Seed burst from the tower and set Luosi Karl, Natiya, and dozens of Primordial Elves ablaze.
• Seweier led the surviving elves away from the ruins after learning Natiya had stayed behind to lure Luosi Karl into the trap.
• Luosi Karl recognized the fire as the Creator’s Creation Fire Seed and warned Nuoerwende to take the gods away as the law of the sky shattered.