Chapter Summaries

Kallen escaped Molindi's Forbidden Spell when the Hunger Addiction disrupted Tyranus's sealing magic, but the addiction took control and turned him against his companions. Kevin invaded Kallen's soul to awaken its dormant guardians, and the chapter ended as they and the War Scythe prepared to attack the Hunger Addiction.

• The Hunger Addiction broke Tyranus's seal, freeing Kallen as Molindi died and the Sealing Magic Formation shattered.
• Kallen targeted Little Kangna, bound her with their Master-Servant Contract, and attacked Alfred when he tried to stop him.
• Thousand Enchantments failed to restrain Kallen, so Kevin bit his wrist and entered his soul to provoke Kallen's deeper consciousness.
• Kevin awakened the God of Light, the Dark Moon Goddess, and Dis Immerlis within Kallen's soul while avoiding the Primordial Ancestor Allen and the God of Order.
• The War Scythe awakened and joined the three figures as they turned against Kallen, while Kevin urged them to attack the Hunger Addiction.

Kallen suppressed his hunger addiction after Molindi’s forbidden spell caused him to lose control, then returned to the surface with his wounded companions and Molindi’s remains. He met Daan at the Order Knights Corps camp and reported that Molindi was dead.

• The Dark Moon Goddess, the God of Light’s Dharma Body, Alfred’s prayers, and Kallen’s own resolve helped Kallen regain control before the God of Order’s Dharma Body fully intervened.
• Kallen woke and apologized to Little Kangna, checked on his injured companions, and decided to take Molindi’s remains back to Allen Manor in a coffin for now.
• Kallen and Alfred brought the wounded and Molindi’s remains to the surface, and Kallen thoroughly cleaned the underground site with order fire and Order Purification.
• The Order Knights Corps escorted Kallen to its camp outside Main City, where he noticed signs of preparations for a major war against the Cavern Order God Church.
• Daan asked Kallen whether Molindi was dead, and Kallen showed him her ring and said she was gone.

After reporting Molindi’s death, Daan prepared to lead the Knight Order in an attack on the Dragon Clan Lineage, while Kallen visited his recovering team and Daina. Kallen warned Daina to stay put, but she became excited when she learned about the coming battle.

• Kallen left Daan’s command tent after handing over the ring, while Daan told High Priest Norton that Molindi was dead and prepared for the operation against the Dragon Clan Lineage.
• Kallen returned to the Special Investigation Team’s Office, learned Alfred was asleep, and visited the recovering Ventura, Philomina, and Neo.
• Neo told Kallen that Daina had awakened, prompting Kallen to visit her ward after checking on Alfred.
• Daina asked Kallen about taking her Bone Dragon, and they traded teasing remarks while Blanche treated her wound.
• Kallen warned Daina not to wander because Daan would soon lead an attack on the Dragon Clan Lineage, and Daina eagerly focused on the battle.

Kallen followed Daina to the Knight Order’s camp, where he witnessed the Order launch a coordinated assault on the Dragon Clan Settlement. The chapter ended with Kallen seeing how the Knight Order’s formations and summoned colossi made individual strength seem insignificant.

• Blanche healed Kallen’s shoulder, and Kallen told her to have Aisili monitor Daina before he went to sleep for nearly two days.
• After Daina escaped the hospital, Kallen intercepted her and accompanied her toward the Knight Order, letting her continue after scavengers approached.
• Daina and Kallen reached the army, where Regiment Commander Daan assigned Kallen to protect her, and Aoji arrived as the Knight Order prepared for battle.
• Aoji carried Kallen and Daina into the sky, where they saw Madam Anse and the Knight Order assemble as dragons crossed the mountains to surrender.
• The Knight Order bombarded the mountains and advanced in formation while its summoned colossi supported the assault, leaving Kallen shaken by the force of its organized army.

Kallen and the Order Knights Corps crushed the Dragon Clan Lineage’s resistance, while Madam Anse surrendered its Imperial Guard Legion under a deal that would preserve some dragons but leave them dependent on Order. After Regiment Commander Daan destroyed the Rebel Dragon God’s statue, Little Kangna felt an intense sadness but refused to cry.

• The Order Knights Corps advanced into the Dragon Clan Lineage’s stronghold, and its artillery turned the fighting against the retreating dragons and servitors.
• Kallen explained to Daina that the campaign suppressed Laio’s planned breakaway and that the Special Investigation Team had helped manufacture a pretext for the attack.
• Madam Anse asked Regiment Commander Daan to spare some of the Dragon Clan, then led the Imperial Guard Legion to surrender and shackle itself.
• Aoji lamented that the Dragon Clan had clung to false hopes, while Kallen said the events had clarified what Order protected.
• Daan fired a Magic Crystal Cannon at the Rebel Dragon God’s statue, destroying it as the Dragon Clan Elders wept.
• Little Kangna suddenly felt overwhelming sadness, rubbed her eyes, and stubbornly said she must not cry.

After returning to York City, Kallen met with Byrne and Xinyali, then tracked down the person behind the mysterious skeleton. He confronted Daishan at Mrs. Lake’s home and asked her to die.

• Kallen returned to York City with Kangna, praised the Whip of Order clerics, and accepted Byrne’s assignment to oversee security for a Desert Order God Church delegation.
• Byrne discussed the dangers of reviving the world described in divine myths and arranged for Kangna to be studied at the Demon Beast Research Institute.
• Kallen gave Xinyali a discreet investigation request and ruled her out as the person connected to the skeleton.
• Kallen visited Mrs. Lake and waited until Dora and Doreen returned with their tutor, Daishan.
• Kallen confronted Daishan in private, and she offered to help him advance in the Order God Church.
• Kallen told Daishan that he begged her to die.

Kallen confronted Daishan, who had been secretly watching him and wanted to negotiate, but he deliberately fought her without restraint. After destroying her puppet, he forced her to promise to stop spying on him and left the Whip of Order Squads with a cover story about a Light Remnant's assassination attempt.

• Kallen attacked Daishan in his study after identifying her as the painting tutor who had observed him, and Kangna joined the confrontation.
• Daishan escaped through the window as mist, but Kallen pursued her into the sewer, where she revealed her ties to the Principle God Church and dismantled his Order Cage.
• Kallen and Kangna trapped Daishan in a bone barrier, but Daishan broke free; Kallen then ignited himself with Flame of Light to destroy her puppet.
• Daishan accused Kallen of deliberately changing his usual methods to force her into a direct fight, and Kallen burned her remaining face while refusing to negotiate.
• Kallen warned Daishan that he would expose her ties to the Cavern Order God Church and bring the Order God Church's attention down on her if she watched him again, and she promised to stop.
• Kallen carried the unconscious Kangna out of the sewer and told the arriving Whip of Order Squads that a Light Remnant had tried to assassinate him and he had killed it.

Kallen recovered at headquarters after defeating the Daishan puppet and learned that a secret conference with the Desert Order God Church would require flexible security arrangements. As he considered whether Order would retaliate against the church or pursue its plans to exploit the split, Delong and Madam Tang Li visited the injured Philomina, who revealed that the High Priest had defeated her.

• Kallen brought the injured Kangna to headquarters, arranged for her to be treated at the institute, and asked Aisili to take her with Puer and two Whip of Order Squads.
• Suss approved Kallen’s request to station a hundred Dark Moon Warriors in the district and assigned him security for a secret conference with the Desert Order God Church, warning him to keep the arrangements flexible.
• Kallen suspected Order’s leaders were weighing whether to support separatists in the Desert Order God Church or retaliate over the assassination attempt at the former chief’s home.
• Blanche arrived to treat Kallen’s extensive burns and was delighted to have an excuse to handle him.
• Delong and Madam Tang Li visited Philomina in the hospital, and Philomina said the High Priest had defeated her despite their similar levels of strength.

Madam Tang Li began teaching Philomina lessons from her past while Delong and Kallen’s family checked on Kallen’s injuries. Sarayina asked Kallen to host Moon Order God Church exchange students, and Kallen and Suss arranged to route the visit’s funding through the district before Suss proposed expanding the scheme to other churches.

• Madam Tang Li told Philomina she would share stories of her younger days and teach her from experience, while she and Delong later headed to the Whip of Order Headquarters Building to visit Kallen.
• Blanche finished treating Kallen’s burns, and Kallen instructed Vic to prepare security for an upcoming meeting with a Desert Order God Church delegation and to visit the Investigation Minister.
• Kallen learned that Puer, Kevin, and Little Bone Dragon would stay at the research institute for a month, then received a visiting letter from Sarayina.
• Sarayina asked Kallen to host exchange students from the Moon Order God Church and offered to cover their expenses; Kallen said he would consult the district chief and chief bishop.
• Kallen reported Sarayina’s proposal and gift to Suss, who arranged to submit it through official channels and redirect the students’ expenses to support the Dark Moon Warriors.
• Suss asked whether Kallen knew people in Reincarnation or other Order God Churches, then celebrated the opportunity to earn foreign currency.

Kallen received the Desert Order God Church delegation amid growing tension, while arranging a staged attack to prepare for a possible future order against them. The convoy came under several assaults, and when masked Light Remnants attacked near the Ankara Hotel, a disguised Investigation Minister struck Miki as Kallen began forming a defense.

• Suss proposed using Kallen’s special status to bring foreign church students to headquarters and profit from their vouchers, while Kallen agreed to make arrangements.
• Kallen met the Desert Order God Church delegation led by Elanga Boning, Miki Jacques, and the boy Luther, and deliberately treated Luther’s claimed divine status with skepticism.
• A sand giant attacked the convoy, and Kallen’s party switched vehicles while the decoy convoy came under attack.
• A lightning-wreathed sand assault struck Kallen’s VIP Carriage, and later a formation trapped it apart from its security detail as masked attackers approached.
• Kallen ordered Miki to hold off the attackers while he formed a defensive formation, but a Light Remnant in Light Knight armor knocked her aside; the attacker was the Investigation Minister moonlighting for Light.

Neo pursued Miqi to a tidal flat and defeated her with a newly developed blood-and-light spell art. Kallen watched the fight and realized Neo had been studying how to break through Kallen’s own defenses.

• Miqi’s decoy and sand-based attack wounded Neo, but he escaped and chased her while Kallen protected the VIP Carriage.
• Kallen pursued Neo and Miqi to a tidal flat, concealed himself, and watched them prepare for a duel.
• Miqi used a destructive scroll and buried herself behind layers of sand defense, but Neo sealed the scroll in a blood-red crystal.
• Neo fused his Mad Pope and Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon inheritances, then used blood mist and an inverted Tower of Light to break through Miqi’s defenses.
• Neo trapped Miqi with his new spell, Blood-colored Light-Proper Burial, and Kallen recognized that its design targeted Kallen’s Dragon God Armor.

Kallen helped Neo defeat Miqi, then returned to the Ankara Hotel and warned Luther to follow the Church’s security rules. At the banquet, Kallen learned the negotiations’ prospects had shifted in the Desert delegation’s favor and told Leon about the Church’s decision, leaving Leon to accept the change despite his feelings.

• Neo’s red attack devastated Miqi, but Kallen intervened when Neo moved to finish her, and Neo retreated from the fight.
• Kallen carried the gravely injured Miqi to the Ankara Hotel, where he told Luther that Miqi had been hurt after Luther ordered her to pursue the attacker against his objections.
• Luther and Elanga suspected Kallen knew that Walotti had been their Assassin, but Luther said the negotiations would continue because the Desert delegation’s offer could still benefit them.
• At the banquet, Byrne told Kallen that the Dinge District delegation’s change in mood suggested the Desert side had made an offer they could not refuse; Alfred then delivered a message that the wind had changed.
• Kallen had Leon briefed on the Church’s decision, and Leon said he would accept it before Kallen put out a cigarette and admitted he could not pretend to be used to smoking it.

Kallen told Leon that the Order Regulations justified killing the desert delegation, then left the conference and met Neo at the cemetery. He revealed that the delegation’s assassin had nearly killed his entire family and decided they deserved to die.

• Kallen told Leon that the Order Regulations justified his planned action and ordered him to keep managing security without asking about the operation.
• Kallen warned Elanga that anyone who violated Order would be punished, and Elanga realized Kallen was willing to kill the delegation.
• Kallen left the banquet and took a taxi to the cemetery, where he found Neo drinking beside Miss Elisa’s tombstone.
• Kallen told Neo that the higher-ups had changed direction and that he would not let the desert delegation leave York City alive.
• At Dinkum’s grave, Kallen said the delegation’s assassin had nearly killed his whole family and declared that they deserved to die.

Kallen decided to seek cooperation with Dawensi and the fundamentalist Order Followers to kill the breakaway Desert Order God Church’s delegation, since they would not act without his personal assurance. Dawensi agreed, but asked Kallen to show leniency if he ever had to purge them.

• Kallen agreed to stay on leave while promising to return if needed, and told Kallen not to use an extreme approach for the planned operation.
• Alfred showed Kallen Byrne’s three proposed contacts, and Kallen rejected the Desert Order God Church’s original faction and the Light Remnants as unsuitable options.
• Kallen decided to meet Dawensi and personally secure the fundamentalists’ cooperation, while the talks between Luther’s delegation and Order proceeded at the Ankara Hotel.
• Kallen listened to the morning meeting and concluded that the breakaway Desert Order God Church was willing to surrender much of its autonomy to gain Order’s support.
• Kallen received Alfred’s message that Dawensi would meet him, traveled by teleportation formation to a villa, and agreed to discuss cooperation with him.
• Dawensi agreed to send people to kill the delegation if Kallen eased security, then asked him to spare a few fundamentalists if he ever led a purge against them.

Kallen agreed to Dawensi’s request to spare his people from being wiped out if they were ever purged, then learned that Jisen’s arrival had changed the stakes of his planned attack on the Desert Order God Church delegation. Though Byrne warned him that Dawensi’s faction might target Jisen instead, Kallen refused to abandon his plan, and Suss agreed to let it proceed while taking responsibility for the consequences.

• Dawensi asked Kallen to show restraint toward his faction if they were ever purged, and Kallen promised not to wipe them out completely.
• Kallen returned to the Ankara Hotel, rested for several days, and learned that Philomina and the others had recovered and rejoined the team.
• Jisen arrived from Dinge District, and his presence accelerated the meeting and brought the delegation’s departure closer.
• Byrne told Kallen that Suss would take over security and warned that Dawensi’s faction might target Jisen; Kallen refused to cancel his plan.
• Suss told Kallen to proceed with the original plan and said he would accept responsibility, asking Kallen to remember his kindness.

Kallen met Jisen at the Vien Royal Palace, refused his offer of help, and questioned him about the Desert Order God Church’s alleged role in an assassination. When assassins attacked, Kallen recognized the priest supporting them as someone he knew.

• Kallen joined Jisen for dinner at the palace, where the King of Vienne played the violin for them.
• Jisen offered to help Kallen and become his friend, but Kallen rejected the offer and challenged him about rumors linking the Desert Order God Church to an attack on the Chief Bishop’s family.
• Kallen insisted on staying with Jisen after warning that his safety might be at risk, and Drew’s raven fell from the sky as assassins appeared.
• Three black-clad attackers overwhelmed Jisen’s guards, but Drew used enchanted gems to shield Jisen and strike back at them.
• Kallen noticed that the third attacker was healing and blessing his companions, then recognized the priest as someone he knew.

Kallen watched Drew fight three black-clad attackers while refusing to protect Jisen, their intended target. When Jisen activated a powerful protective spell and threatened to settle accounts with Kallen later, Kallen’s formation disrupted it, and he destroyed the sphere before the spell could finish.

• Drew fought the giant warrior and assassin with weapons summoned from gems, but they repeatedly wounded him while a third black-clad figure supported them.
• Kallen refused Jisen’s demands to join the fight, arguing that the attackers targeted Jisen and that Jisen knew how to fight.
• The assassin gravely wounded Drew, who collapsed on the pavilion steps as the attackers prepared to continue.
• Jisen activated a protective sphere blessed by his ancestor, expecting it to alert his family and shield him.
• Kallen revealed that his defensive formation was interfering with Jisen’s spell, then drew the Diamans Sword and shattered the sphere.
• Kallen asked Jisen what accounts he had wanted to settle with him.

Kallen protected Jisen from the attackers, while allies prepared to aid him and a larger operation unfolded around the Royal Palace. The chapter left Kallen facing the three attackers as Tang Li, Delong, Vic, Suss, Byrne, Puer, and Neo each prepared to act.

• Kallen saved Jisen from the Assassin’s needles, put him to sleep, and faced the giant, the Assassin, and the old acquaintance after they threatened him.
• Tang Li brought Delong to the Royal Palace, where he calculated how to break its formation so she could help Kallen.
• Alfred told Vic that he was key to the revised mission and that passing his test could earn him a major reward.
• Suss prepared to record an important remote meeting, while Byrne kept Dawensi under watch and defended Kallen’s actions under the Order Regulations.
• Puer, riding on Little Kangna as she pulled a cart carrying Aisili and others, headed out to help Kallen.
• Neo ended his vacation, revealed his scarlet face, and prepared to join the action.

Kallen’s allies launched their counterattack at the Royal Palace, where Puer and Kevin silently eliminated the guards before Puer joined Kallen’s fight. The Little Bone Dragon arrived in time to stop the giant’s charge, while Kallen confronted an old acquaintance in Dragon God Armor.

• Puer and Kevin entered a skeleton puppet and used Puer’s firefly Spell Art to burn twenty-one concealed sentries to ash.
• Madam Tang Li noticed the sentries’ deaths, and Delong used a prepared scroll to break a gap in the palace barrier.
• Puer flew into the barrier with a Fire Phoenix and used Purgatory of Fire to reshape the battlefield around Kallen.
• Kallen moved Director Jisen out of the magma’s path and blocked an assassin’s strike while Puer’s skeleton recharged.
• The Little Bone Dragon arrived, blocked the giant’s charge with enormous ribs, and Kallen faced the old acquaintance watching from the distance.

Kallen’s team battled the attackers in the magma-filled city while Alfred waited nearby, confident that the hidden reinforcements would soon turn the tide. The chapter ended as Bernie recognized the blood-soaked Neo, who pretended not to know him.

• Little Kangna helped Kallen restrain the giant, while Ventura arrived and fought it in a desperate brawl.
• Xianty brought Aisili, Blanche, and Richard to the battlefield, but its illusion caught fire on the magma and was destroyed.
• Blanche and Richard healed and supported Ventura, allowing him to keep fighting the giant while Kallen watched.
• Philomina countered the Assassin, and Muli shielded her from his sudden attack after a Blessing strengthened him.
• Alfred chose to wait at the Royal Palace art studio rather than join the battle, telling Vic and Tu Shu to keep the Light Remnants in line.
• Bernie was exposed by the corrosive blood-bat swarm, recognized Neo, and heard Neo ask, “Do I know you?”