Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang met Jehovah in Jerusalem and refused to spare Satan, while Gabriel defended Lucifer and gave Jiang Yang a pair of ornamental wings. Gabriel departed, leaving their reunion for the future.

• Holy light spread across Jerusalem, healing believers and strengthening soldiers and holy warriors.
• Baldwin I arrived at the church seeking Jiang Yang’s help and knelt when he witnessed the miracle.
• Jehovah told Jiang Yang that he would become a Supreme and asked him to spare Satan, but Jiang Yang refused because Satan had invaded Earth and killed his compatriots.
• Gabriel emerged from her statue, condemned Satan’s crimes, and declared that the glory of the Supreme would belong to Lucifer.
• Gabriel gave Jiang Yang black-and-white wings of light, then left after he called her his big sister.

After Gabriel erased the mortals’ memories of her conversation with Jiang Yang, her public kiss made him known as a Blessed Knight. Baldwin I then told Jiang Yang about his family’s ties to Gabriel and asked him to rescue his daughter from the Witch Forest.

• Gabriel cleared the mortals’ memories, appeared as an Angels’ Shadow, kissed Jiang Yang’s forehead, and departed.
• The church’s priests and believers hailed Jiang Yang as a Blessed Knight, and Bishop Kang De told Baldwin I that Gabriel had kissed him.
• Baldwin I introduced himself to Jiang Yang and recounted how the angel Edessa had helped establish his lineage.
• Baldwin I explained that his youngest daughter had been taken by a Witcher at the request of Angelica, the Witches God, and that the knights he sent to the Witch Forest never returned.
• Baldwin I asked Jiang Yang to bring his daughter back because the Church could not spare forces to help.

Jiang Yang accepted Baldwin I’s commission to rescue his daughter from the Witch Forest and agreed to accept an estate and noble title as a reward. After hearing about the Witches God, Angelica, he asked Baldwin I to take him to the witcher who knew the forest’s location.

• Jiang Yang accepted Baldwin I’s commission and tacitly agreed to the promised estate and noble title.
• The old priest Kang De said the Holy See should confer Jiang Yang’s title while Baldwin I granted him land.
• Baldwin I explained that the Witches God, Angelica, had led witches for over a thousand years, though the Holy See had not acted against her.
• Jiang Yang asked Baldwin I where the Witch Forest was, and Baldwin I said the witcher who guided his knights knew its location.
• Jiang Yang asked to meet the witcher, and Baldwin I agreed to take him there.

Jiang Yang met the Witcher Ated and agreed to accompany him into the Witch Forest to bring back Baldwin I’s daughter. They left the city together at dawn, with Ated prepared to take the commission seriously.

• Baldwin I introduced Jiang Yang to Ated, who warned that Angelica had not harmed the king’s daughter and questioned whether Jiang Yang could survive the Witch Forest.
• Baldwin I paid Ated and entrusted his daughter’s rescue to Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang and Ated agreed to meet at the city gate the following morning before setting out.
• At dawn, Jiang Yang found Ated waiting at the gate, neatly dressed and ready for the journey.
• Jiang Yang and Ated left the city together and headed north toward the Witch Forest.

Jiang Yang and Ated traveled north from Jerusalem and reached a crowded tavern where demon hunters gathered. A burly man greeted Ated and asked which demon hunter sect Jiang Yang belonged to.

• Jiang Yang and Ated rode north along the Mediterranean, passing docks and newly built noble domains.
• Ated told Jiang Yang that the princess had asked him to take her to find the witch, rather than being abducted by him.
• After traveling for over ten days and passing Constantinople, Jiang Yang and Ated arrived at a tavern in winter.
• Ated invited Jiang Yang inside and said he would handle some demon hunter business while buying the drinks.
• A burly, balding man recognized Ated and asked which demon hunter sect Jiang Yang came from.

Jiang Yang traveled with Ated through the snowy north, demonstrating his strength to the Witchers and frightening Count Dracula into fleeing. After passing through Dracula’s castle, they reached the Witch Forest and opened its gateway.

• Jiang Yang knocked down Wright and Monchi in the Witchers’ tavern, then used the Divine Emperor’s Will to make the other Witchers raise their cups.
• Ated collected materials for his advancement, and he and Jiang Yang continued north through snowbound villages and kingdoms.
• Jiang Yang and Ated reached Count Dracula’s castle, where the vampire army defeated the werewolves outside its walls.
• When Jiang Yang asked Dracula about Angelica, Dracula saw Jiang Yang’s golden eyes and fled as a swarm of blood bats.
• Jiang Yang and Ated passed through Dracula’s castle, where Ated explained that its human subjects traded blood for food and safety.
• Ated used his token to open a rainbow bridge into the Witch Forest.

Jiang Yang entered the Witch Forest to seek Angelica, the daughter of King Baldwin, and easily subdued a bronze Dragon guarding the first trial. The Dragon warned that Jiang Yang would not be able to cross the barren mountain, which was Angelica’s creation.

• A green-gowned witch led Jiang Yang through the portal into the Witch Forest after Ated presented a token and explained their mission to retrieve the king’s daughter.
• Jiang Yang crossed the forest calmly, frightening its wild animals, and rode a grizzly bear to the foot of a barren mountain.
• A bronze Dragon landed before Jiang Yang and ordered him to leave because Angelica did not wish to see him.
• Jiang Yang’s overwhelming spiritual majesty forced the bronze Dragon to the ground, and the Dragon agreed to let him proceed.
• The bronze Dragon warned Jiang Yang that he could not cross the mountain, explaining that Angelica had created it and that it could not sense his power.

Jiang Yang passed the Bronze Dragon’s trial by evading the Stone Giant and reached the edge of the Witch Forest. Facing the impossible path of the Heavenly River and the colossal central tree, he revealed a pair of radiant wings and prepared to meet the Witches God and Angelica.

• The Stone Giant awakened, and the Witches watched as Jiang Yang began crossing its mountain terrain.
• Jiang Yang evaded the Giant’s attacks and advanced until it stopped at the forest’s boundary and returned to its mountain form.
• A Witch studying how ordinary humans could approach transcendents watched Jiang Yang’s physical prowess and considered it a new direction for her research.
• Jiang Yang surveyed the Witch Forest’s spiraling Heavenly River and colossal central tree, recognizing them as the path to the Witches God.
• Jiang Yang addressed the Witches God and Angelica, then spread one black and one white wing formed of radiance.

Angelica and the silver-haired little girl discussed whether their world was real and why they had been brought there, then speculated that Jiang Yang might be the fallen Angel Lucifer. They saw Jiang Yang flying toward the Central Giant Tree and waited to question him.

• Witches across the Central Giant Tree cried out in astonishment when they saw a mortal knight with Angel wings.
• The silver-haired little girl told Angelica that she believed their world was real and that their former civilization might have been destroyed.
• The silver-haired little girl said she believed they had been brought there with a mission and wanted to see her family again.
• Angelica wondered if Jiang Yang was Lucifer from the Holy See's Bible, while the silver-haired little girl pointed out his golden eyes.
• The silver-haired little girl spotted Jiang Yang flying toward them with his wings.

Jiang Yang reached Angelica and Illya in the Sky Courtyard and revealed that he was Lucifer. After Illya refused to return to her father, Jiang Yang agreed to respect her choice and joined the witches to exchange questions.

• Jiang Yang flew to the giant tree’s Sky Courtyard, where Angelica and Illya watched his arrival.
• Jiang Yang told Illya that King Baldwin had sent him to bring her home, but Illya asked him to tell her father she was well and would return when she was ready.
• Jiang Yang accepted Illya’s decision, saying that she could choose her own actions and that he would not violate her wishes.
• Illya said Jiang Yang might be Lucifer, and Jiang Yang confirmed his identity to her and Angelica.
• Angelica invited Jiang Yang into her courtyard so they could exchange questions, and he accepted.

Jiang Yang learned that Angelica and Illya were Players from the First Era who had once created worlds as Pangu. Illya explained that they gave up their authority and reincarnated to escape the worlds that had trapped them.

• Jiang Yang asked Angelica and Illya about Huang An, whom he had met in Animo World hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Angelica and Illya explained that they called people who sank into oblivion Players and that Huang An might have reincarnated or died.
• Illya said their civilization came from the First Era, when the game Dawn of Epoch selected tens of thousands of humans to create perfect worlds.
• Illya explained that after the Players created nine perfect worlds, the game operator trapped them in the game, gave them talents, and eventually sent them to their own worlds.
• Illya said the Players became world-creating beings called Pangu but could not leave their worlds while retaining their authority.
• Illya said Players began relinquishing their authority and reincarnating as ordinary people so they could leave their original worlds.

Illya recounted how she, Angelica, and their companion endured countless reincarnations across the worlds before becoming powerful enough to reunite. She revealed that returning to Earth would end their endless rebirths, then turned the conversation to Jiang Yang’s identity as Lucifer Morningstar.

• Illya explained that the players’ first lives in the Great Thousand World ended in widespread deaths, beginning the first sinking.
• She said players began sealing away their memories after repeated failures, until only she, Angelica, and one companion remained lucid.
• Illya recounted how the three eventually became powerful and reunited, learning about the epochs and the Angel and Immortal Clans.
• Their companion later asked whether they wanted to return to Earth and warned that they would have only one life there.
• Illya said she and Angelica chose to return, but declined to explain the details to Jiang Yang.
• Illya called Jiang Yang Lucifer Morningstar and invited him to tell his story.

Jiang Yang told Illya and Angelica how the Divine Clan survived the Fifth Epoch’s apocalypse, rebuilt civilization, and eventually left Earth to establish the Divine Realm. The three discussed the First Era’s unknown fate and the hidden operator of the game “Dawn of Epoch,” but could not uncover the operator’s identity.

• Jiang Yang revealed that he came from the Divine Clan of the Fifth Epoch and that his real name was Jiang Yang, the emperor of the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Yang recounted how the Divine Clan’s technology-based civilization suffered an apocalypse, lost nearly ninety-nine percent of its people, and later rebuilt Earth after survivors awakened supernatural powers.
• Jiang Yang explained that the Divine Clan created the Golden Humans, then left Earth for the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens as Earth increasingly rejected them.
• Jiang Yang, Illya, and Angelica discussed how little the epoch civilizations knew about the First Era and its enemy from the depths of the stars.
• Illya suggested that the operator of “Dawn of Epoch” might know the First Era’s secrets, but Angelica and Illya could not recall identifying details about the operator or game company.

Jiang Yang finished his visit with Illya and Angelica, who chose to remain in the Witch Forest and offered to help if the Solar System or Human Civilization faced calamity. He returned to the Mortal Realm without Princess Illya, carrying a message and keepsake for her father, and promised Ated he would explain the situation to Baldwin.

• Jiang Yang gave Illya and Angelica a Golden Crow Crest and discussed their plans to live in the Witch Forest while searching for old friends.
• Illya and Angelica declined to meet the other Lords of Civilization but agreed to help Jiang Yang if danger threatened Human Civilization.
• Illya gave Jiang Yang a wooden statue and letter for her father, explaining that she was safe and would visit him in a few years.
• Jiang Yang said farewell to the witches and flew out of the Sky Tree Court.
• Jiang Yang emerged from the Witch Forest with the Green Veil Witch and told Ated that Illya had chosen not to return.
• Jiang Yang agreed to explain the situation to Baldwin as he and Ated headed back.

Jiang Yang and Ated returned from the Witch Forest and stopped at Dracula’s castle, where Jiang Yang reassured the vampire count about his pregnant human wife and their unborn child. The pair then continued south.

• Ated praised Jiang Yang for meeting Angelica, and Jiang Yang encouraged him to pursue the Witches God after his Advancement Ritual.
• Dracula warmly welcomed Jiang Yang and Ated to his castle, mistaking Ated for Jiang Yang’s servant.
• Dracula introduced his pregnant wife, Mera, and said she had been carrying their child for thirteen months.
• Jiang Yang assured Dracula that Mera and the child were healthy and told him to wait patiently for the birth.
• Jiang Yang and Ated spent the night at the castle and continued south the next day.

Jiang Yang returned to Jerusalem by sea after meeting Illya, who chose to remain away from her father, and gained renown for slaying a giant sea beast. Baldwin I accepted Illya’s letter and carving, then promised Jiang Yang a fief, while a priest announced that the Holy See would grant him the title of baron.

• Jiang Yang and Ated sailed from Venice toward Jerusalem, where an enormous octopus attacked their ship and Deep Sea Naga sounded a conch.
• Jiang Yang killed the octopus, and the Naga fled after their leader recognized his golden eyes as a sign of the gods.
• Jiang Yang arrived safely in Jerusalem and parted ways with Ated as his fame spread along the Mediterranean coast.
• Jiang Yang told Baldwin I that Illya had chosen not to return and gave him her letter and the wooden knight she had sent.
• Baldwin I said Jiang Yang had fulfilled his commission and promised him a fief, while a priest announced the Holy See would make him a baron.

Jiang Yang built a castle and a loyal guard, then spent more than a century serving as a noble and completing missions for the Holy See. Ated visited him as an old mortal with his son Dante and asked him for a favor.

• Jiang Yang captured Turkic Cavalry and dark creatures to make them build his castle, which rose on a hill a few years later.
• Jiang Yang trained orphaned wanderers into a loyal guard and led them into battle when Jerusalem called for aid.
• Jiang Yang completed missions for the Holy See and received an estate in the Kingdom of the Franks, where he stayed each winter.
• More than a hundred years later, Ated arrived at Jiang Yang's castle with a young boy named Dante.
• Ated told Jiang Yang that he had destroyed the power within him after failing to advance as a witcher, leaving him mortal, and introduced Dante as his son with the witch Aligi.

Ated asked Jiang Yang to protect his son Dante before leaving to finish an undisclosed final task, and Jiang Yang agreed to raise the boy. Ten years later, Dante asked to follow his father's path and become a Witcher, and Jiang Yang agreed to help him obtain a powerful legacy.

• Ated told Jiang Yang that Dante's mother, Aligi, had been taken to Hell by a Devil Lord's projection and asked him to shelter Dante.
• Jiang Yang agreed to raise Dante, but Ated refused to stay and left after bidding his son farewell.
• Ten years later, Dante completed his swordsmanship practice at Faslu Castle and told Jiang Yang he wanted to become a Witcher.
• Jiang Yang warned Dante that Ated had hoped he would live as an ordinary mortal, but Dante insisted on his choice.
• Jiang Yang agreed to help Dante obtain the finest Witcher legacy and methods.

Jiang Yang brought Dante to the Witch Forest to ask Angelica for help finding Damon, the progenitor of the Witchers, so Dante could train as a Witcher. Angelica gave Dante a bloodline-purifying potion and revealed that Damon was guarding Amun’s temple in Egypt.

• Jiang Yang flew with Dante into the Witch Forest and told him that he had once taken the form of an Angel called Lucifer.
• Jiang Yang met Angelica and Illya at the Sky Tree Court and explained that Dante, the son of his former companion, wanted to follow his father’s path as a Witcher.
• Angelica gave Dante a bloodline-purifying potion that Damon had also drunk, and Dante accepted it with Jiang Yang’s approval.
• Angelica told Jiang Yang that Damon was in Egypt guarding Amun’s temple, also called Karnak Temple.

Jiang Yang and Dante traveled to Karnak Temple, where they found Damon, the progenitor of the Witchers. After revealing himself as a god, Jiang Yang asked Damon to take Dante as his apprentice and guide him along the Witcher's path.

• Jiang Yang remembered that Amun had been one of Ra's names in the Mortal Realm.
• Jiang Yang and Dante traveled from France to Egypt and reached Karnak Temple after five months.
• Jiang Yang met Damon beneath Amun's statue and revealed his divine identity, prompting Damon to bow to him.
• Jiang Yang told Damon that Angelica had directed him there and asked Damon to train Dante as a Witcher.