Vol. 5The Death Overlord’s Rise

Dunn ascended from Death Overlord to elder divine power amid wars among gods, Ancient Gods, and the Cleanser. After learning the World Will and Kaelsas had influenced his rise, he returned to the Astral Plane and chose to preserve their stalemate while seeking control of the world.

  • Dunn chose Yala as his heir, defeated the factions that interfered with Atlantis, and ascended as the Death Overlord before withdrawing into the Astral Plane Depths.
  • Yala expanded Atlantis through war while Dunn gained the death portfolio and watched the gods organize a nascent pantheon.
  • Dunn navigated the divine war and the return of the Ancient Gods while Lolth rose in the Underdark and he discovered the Devil Fruit Tree could cleanse poisoned Faith Power.
  • At the Pantheon council, the gods discussed advancement and divine offspring, and Tiamat offered Lolth troops for her Underdark campaign.
  • Dunn helped shape the gods’ alliance as Divine Abominations emerged and the first Council targeted the Elf Empress and Wizard Speaker.
  • The Fate Overlord’s plan drew the gods into battle against the Elf Empress, the Natural Ancient God, and the Wizard Speaker, while the Mother of Sea Monsters turned on Lolth.
  • The Cleanser’s arrival drove the gods and Ancient Gods into a brutal struggle, and Dunn used the war and the Pale Disaster to rise to elder divine power.
  • After the World Will and Kaelsas revealed their roles in his rise and asked him to choose between them, Dunn returned to the Astral Plane and decided to preserve their stalemate while seeking control of the world.
Chapters 401–500 Read from Ch. 401

Arc 17Ascension of the Death Overlord

Dunn chose Yala as his successor, defeated the factions that interfered in Atlantis, and ascended as the Death Overlord. Yala expanded the empire while Dunn withdrew into the Astral Plane Depths and watched the Gods begin organizing a pantheon.

  • Dunn declared Yala Moore his heir after she defeated Wells in the crown prince tournament and enfeoffed Wells and Kailant as members of the King's Seven Warlords of the Sea.
  • Dunn unleashed the Death River against the visiting factions, allowing Atlantis’s Legendaries to resurrect while Poseidon and Evelyn protected his Apotheosis Ritual.
  • Dunn ascended as the Death Overlord, killed nearly all the opposing Legendaries and Jing, and survived Yi’s Falling Star at the cost of severe damage to his Divine Kingdom.
  • Dunn trained Yala after the battle devastated Atlantis, abdicated in her favor, and ascended to the Astral Plane with his Divine Kingdom.
  • Yala rejected Lilith’s demand that she marry Wells and secured Annie’s support to force through a war decree against resistance from Atlantis’s Legendaries.
  • Yala and Annie led Atlantis into a three-way war, expanded its territory nearly tenfold, and fortified its gains before peace resumed.
  • Dunn gained widespread faith through promises of an afterlife and acquired the divine portfolio of death while the Gods prolonged the continental war and increased their power.
  • Dunn withdrew into the Astral Plane Depths and recognized Banboer and the God of Intrigue’s plan to bind wandering deities into a nascent pantheon.
Chapters 401–42525 summaries Read

Arc 18The Pantheon Council

Dunn navigated a widening divine war, the return of the Ancient Gods, and the rise of Lolth while seeking a way to cleanse Faith Power’s poison. At the Pantheon council, the gods discussed advancement and divine offspring, and Lolth secured Tiamat’s offer of troops for her Underdark campaign.

  • Dunn sheltered Gunara in his hidden Divine Kingdom as the wandering deities attacked lesser divine kingdoms and began a war against the gods.
  • Banboer ascended as the War Overlord, resumed the war, and later attacked Lyon I, whose deification restrained the gods and drew Dunn into the conflict.
  • Dunn baited the War Overlord into fighting Lyon I, while Sterling Carvel became the Fate Overlord and revealed that he had siphoned faith from gods across the world.
  • The Eight Ancient Gods returned, and their intervention helped end the war, and Annie became the Weather and Travelers God and founded a Divine Kingdom near Dunn’s.
  • The Elf Empress cast Aruoshi into the Underdark, where Aruoshi became Lolth, corrupted many elves into Drow, and rose to greater power in the Abyss.
  • Dunn found that the Devil Fruit Tree could cleanse poison from Faith Power, though the resulting fruits permanently transformed Petitioners and dominated them with a single emotion.
  • Dunn expanded Atlantis’s territory and joined a Pantheon council where the Fate Overlord discussed the poison in Faith Power, advancement, and divine offspring.
  • Dunn said he could not produce divine offspring because he was infertile, refused Lolth’s request for troops in the Underdark, and watched Tiamat offer her dragons instead.
Chapters 426–45025 summaries Read

Arc 19The First Council and the War

Dunn helped shape the Gods’ alliance as Divine Abominations emerged and the first Council of Gods targeted Heaven’s Mandate and Wizards. The Fate Overlord’s plan brought the Gods into battle against the Elf Empress, the Natural Ancient God, and the Wizard Speaker, while the Mother of Sea Monsters turned on Lolth.

  • Lolth and Tiamat made a pact over the Underdark’s believers, while Miriil asked to join Dunn’s pantheon and Dunn instead assigned the gods to build alliances with powerful pantheons.
  • Dunn spread the Land of the Dying to attract believers, but the birth of Divine Abominations led to deaths, attacks on Divine Kingdoms, and a call for the first Council of Gods.
  • At the Council, the gods agreed to target the Elf Empress and Wizard Speaker, recruit the Dragon Emperor and Wrath of the Firmament, eliminate high Legendaries, and gradually destroy Wizard legacies.
  • Mistris ordered the gods to confine Divine Abominations in one region of the Astral Plane, while Dunn and the Silver Mirror Council planned to use her actions as leverage against her.
  • Shar proposed a marriage alliance with Dunn, but he rejected her, and the Fate Overlord separately explored ways to divide Avalon and the Elf Empress and recruit the Mother of Sea Monsters.
  • The Fate Overlord fed the Munch-Munch Fruit to the Mother of Sea Monsters, awakening her reason and prompting her to pursue the Wizard Speaker across the world.
  • Lolth attacked the Elf Empress as hundreds of deity clones gathered, but the Mother of Sea Monsters turned on Lolth and trapped her clones in an oceanic divine kingdom.
  • Mistris led the Gods’ assault on the Elf Continent, attacking the Wizard Speaker as he expanded Arcane Hall, while the battle’s devastation killed countless Elves.
Chapters 451–47525 summaries Read

Arc 20Dunn Ascends

The Cleanser’s arrival drives the Gods and Ancient Gods into a brutal struggle, while Dunn uses the war and the Pale Disaster to rise to elder divine power. After the World Will and Kaelsas reveal their roles in his rise and ask him to choose between them, Dunn returns to the Astral Plane and decides to preserve their stalemate while seeking control of the world.

  • The Cleanser crossed the Old World, killed the Mother of Sea Monsters, and drove the Ancient Gods and bearers of Heaven’s Mandate into the Astral Plane before retreating to the Deep Sea.
  • The Ancient Gods and deities fought over divine kingdoms for shelter, while Lolth brought Abyss Lords into the battle and the War Overlord joined the Gods’ side.
  • Dunn ascended to greater power as the Atlantis Empire’s war and the Cleanser’s destruction brought him faith, then killed Wrath of the Firmament as Angharradh and the Wizard Speaker cursed the Main Plane and Astral Plane into separation.
  • The War Overlord destroyed his Divine Kingdom to cripple the Ancient Gods, and Dunn helped kill the Flame, Thunder, Water, and Golden Ancient Gods while Cyric absorbed the War Overlord’s power and became mad.
  • Dunn unleashed the Undead Calamity across the Main Plane, fought the Gods for a year, and slaughtered living beings and deities to gather faith and divine portfolios.
  • Dunn secured the Death Divine Portfolio from the Plague Lord and became an elder power, then learned from the World Will and Kaelsas that they had influenced his rise and asked him to choose between them.
  • Dunn refused to choose between the World Will and Kaelsas, returned to the Astral Plane, and decided to maintain their stalemate while preventing others from reaching elder divine power.
Chapters 476–50025 summaries Read
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