Chapter Summaries

Dick defeated the king, but Tiamat appeared, devoured the king, and made Aila the new representative of Echoes of Greed. With the layer beginning to recover, Dick prepared to enter the next layer of Hell while Nameless chose to stay behind.

• Dick fought the king, who used Blood of Madness and instantaneous Hypnosis to burn off Dick’s head, but Dick regenerated and stabbed him through the heart.
• The king called on his master, and Tiamat emerged, swallowed him, and ordered Aila to become the new representative of Echoes of Greed.
• Tiamat released Dick and departed, while the red mist and darkness receded and the people of Hell celebrated the end of the king’s rule.
• Dick explained to Aila how people could pursue money, status, beauty, and power without the king’s bloody methods, and she opened a portal to the next layer.
• Nameless declined to travel with Dick and chose to settle in Echoes of Greed, while Dick said he hoped Nameless would keep living.

Dick entered Unending Wrath, where the level’s influence amplified his anger, and fought his way toward its ruler, Feileijisi. Feileijisi punched him into the blood-red mire, where trapped souls dragged him under and he began reliving a memory of being exploited by his former supervisor, Pang Yun.

• Virgil explained that Unending Wrath’s blood-red mire trapped souls in memories of anger, then vanished and left Dick to fall among fighting demons.
• Dick survived being stabbed by two demon warriors, killed them and more than a dozen others, and continued up the mountain.
• Dick defeated two stone earthworms that attacked him with electricity and mist, then climbed toward the summit.
• Feileijisi identified Dick and punched him into the mire before Dick could explain why he had come.
• The souls pulled Dick deeper into the mire, where he relived a late-night work call from Pang Yun and recalled his happier years at the orphanage.

Dick escaped the blood-red mire after fighting the souls within it, then reached Feileijisi on the mountaintop. Feileijisi agreed to send him to the next layer of Hell if he survived a minute of combat, and opened a spatial gate after Dick endured the challenge.

• Dick's memories in the mire replayed his abuse at work and his violent outbursts before he fought through the souls and escaped.
• Dick tricked the fiery orb guarding the cave into letting him pass by claiming he had shared a meal with its Master.
• Feileijisi explained that the orb was the physical core of Eternal Fire, which he had captured and kept as a pet.
• Dick persuaded Feileijisi to give him a chance to advance by surviving one minute against him using only a third of his strength and no spells.
• Feileijisi battered Dick throughout the minute, but Dick endured, and Feileijisi opened a spatial gate to the next layer of Hell.

Virgil explained the purpose of the sixth level of Hell, Inquisition, and discussed the Eternal Fire’s rise and corruption with Dick. Duncan revealed he had concluded that churches must kill the parasitic church itself before rushing away, and Dick entered a portal to the next level of Hell.

• Virgil restored Dick’s adult body and repaired his clothes and armor before taking him through Inquisition.
• Virgil explained that Inquisition punished those who deceived and harmed people in the name of a church, and said the level itself was its ruler.
• Dick recognized Duncan praying in a church, and Virgil told him Duncan was atoning and could not be harmed under the level’s rules.
• Virgil described how the Eternal Fire had once offered people protection and order, then declined to explain its failure further because something more terrifying than Hell could suppress them.
• Duncan told Dick he had grasped the church’s ultimate truth: the church itself was the bloodsucking parasite that had to be killed.
• Dick decided Duncan had gone mad, left him unharmed, and stepped through Virgil’s portal to the next level of Hell.

Dick entered the Violence Factor arena, where he had to win three fights to earn his freedom, and defeated Zhazha after the six-armed warrior poisoned himself by licking his blade. Dick began his second fight against Blademaster Judiel, who used Wind Walk to strike him from concealment and wound his shoulder and neck.

• The announcer explained that Dick had to win three fights in the Violence Factor arena, where antimagic stones blocked spellcasting.
• Dick discovered that his Giantification talent still worked and faced Zhazha, a six-armed warrior with two consecutive victories.
• Zhazha coated his cleaver with toxin from a Big Spider, then accidentally poisoned himself by licking the blade, giving Dick the first-round victory.
• The announcer introduced Blademaster Judiel, an orc seeking a way to save his monster-overrun world, as Dick's second opponent.
• Dick and Judiel exchanged sword strikes, and Dick used Giantification to overpower Judiel's heavy leaping attack.
• Judiel vanished with Wind Walk and wounded Dick's shoulder and neck with successive surprise attacks.

Dick defeated Sword Saint Judiel and Minotaur Minotaurus in the arena, then learned that King Leoric needed his help to regain control of the Violence Factor level of Hell. The Bone King recruited Dick for two remaining matches against the Soul Undertaker, including a team battle and a final duel.

• Dick used Witcher Senses to locate the invisible Judiel by listening for his escaping blood, then defeated him and learned his name.
• Dick faced Minotaur Minotaurus, activated his Blood of Madness and Giantification talents, and repeatedly slammed the minotaur into the arena floor until he surrendered.
• Dick challenged the Bone King over the unfair match requirements, and King Leoric appeared and explained that the announcer had called him Bone King at his suggestion.
• The Bone King revealed that the Soul Undertaker had seized half his authority over the Violence Factor level while he was trapped in the human world.
• King Leoric asked Dick to join a four-person team battle with Minotaur Minotaurus, Judiel, and Zhazha, and to fight the final single combat against the Soul Undertaker.
• The Bone King said he could not duel the Soul Undertaker himself because the enemy's divine spark might be damaged, causing the level of Hell to collapse.

Dick and his teammates crossed the Blood Pool of Violence after he delivered Laven’s pouch and message to Nasus, who opened the bridge for them. They continued toward the Forest of Regret, where the minotaur warned them that surrendered harpies awaited in enemy territory.

• The Bone King sent Dick and his teammates toward the Battlefield of Hatred while he teleported to confront the Soul Undertaker.
• Laven asked Dick to give Nasus a money pouch and tell her, “Daddy loves you,” and Dick joined Zhazha, the minotaur, and Judiel outside the gate.
• The minotaur warned that Nasus might refuse to help them cross the Blood Pool of Violence, where a magical restriction prevented flight.
• Dick threw Judiel, Zhazha, and the minotaur safely across the blood pool, then gave Nasus Laven’s pouch and message.
• Nasus opened a translucent bridge, and Dick’s group crossed; the minotaur explained that Nasus and Laven had been lovers before Laven died in the arena.
• At the Forest of Regret, the minotaur warned that the Soul Undertaker had occupied the area and that surrendered harpies were their next opponents.

Dick and his companions conquered the Forest of Regret and reached the Sands of Hatred, where King Leoric prepared to settle his conflict with the Hell Undertaker through a contest. Dick promised to help King Leoric win as the eight combatants entered the ring and the contest began.

• Dick and his companions defeated the harpies in the Forest of Regret, and their leader surrendered after Dick defeated her forces.
• The harpy chief rejected a subordinate’s plan to ambush the group and ordered her people to tend to their wounded and dead.
• Dick and his companions crossed the Sands of Hatred and joined King Leoric’s army before the contest against the Hell Undertaker.
• The Hell Undertaker introduced four opposing combatants, including a heavily armored warrior, a sorceress, and a stone giant, while King Leoric selected Dick and the minotaur to fight.
• Dick assured King Leoric that he would win, and both sides agreed to the rules before the eight combatants entered the marked battlefield.

Dick defeated the armored warrior in his domain, helping the Bone King's side win the second match. The Soul Undertaker conceded the final match and became King Leoric's adjutant, restoring the Bone King's full authority.

• The armored warrior trapped Dick in his domain and weakened him, but Dick pierced the warrior's helmet with an ice spike and burned him to ash.
• Dick returned to the battlefield, where Lina surrendered and the sword saint defeated the dual-blade fighter.
• Dick and the minotaur overwhelmed Tiny, who surrendered at the Hell Undertaker's request, giving the Bone King's side the second match.
• The Bone King chose Dick for the third match, but the Soul Undertaker's remaining fighters refused to face him, so the Soul Undertaker conceded.
• The Soul Undertaker knelt and swore to serve King Leoric as his adjutant, restoring the Bone King's full authority.

After reaching godhood, Dick learned the truth about the Deities threatening the Panda Continent and discovered that King Kelang had guided him through time. Kelang explained the ancient war against Thunder and why he had chosen Dick to help prepare for the gods' return.

• Dick fused the War Divinity Fragment, ascended to Deity, and gained new powers, including the ability to travel through time.
• Dick recognized the dwarf before him as King Kelang, who revealed that he had the Blood of the Source and could wield time and space.
• Kelang explained that Thunder had used advancement trials to kill Demigods and that Kelang had allied with the Sea God and other Deities to rebel.
• Lucifer betrayed Thunder during the final battle, and Kelang and Lucifer defeated Heaven's faction before imprisoning the surviving gods with God-Sealing Chains.
• Kelang revealed that Lucifer became Satan and later sought to return to the mortal realm, while the imprisoned gods were fated to break free and attack the twelve subsidiary worlds.
• Kelang said he had chosen Dick as a representative after foreseeing that monster hunters could earn the willpower needed to grow stronger.

Dick learned that Kelang had projected his soul into other worlds and created the Game Panel from the Blood of the Source’s Plunder ability before Kelang vanished. After killing Daimite in Hell, Dick reunited with Xiya, who was Lucifer, and learned that their unborn twins were weakening the Chains of Order, threatening the mortal world.

• Kelang revealed that he had used Dick as a host and that the Game Panel came from the Blood of the Source’s Plunder ability before dissolving.
• Dick greeted the witchers serving in the Bone King’s army, then opened a portal to settle personal matters.
• Dick killed Daimite with a strike that used the Blood of the Source’s Plunder ability.
• Dick met Ruiwen and learned that Lucifer was Xiya, his wife, who had returned to the Nine Hells after Kelang’s scheme disrupted her plans.
• Xiya told Dick that their unborn twins were consuming the Chains of Order and that Heaven might attack the mortal world once the chains broke.
• Dick promised to protect Xiya, their children, and Ruiwen, then left to put an end to the threat.

Dick gathered the faith of the world and confronted Thunder, who had merged with the gods and transformed into White Frost. Unable to defeat him, Dick reversed time at the cost of his own existence, and two lights from Lucifer’s unborn children entered his fading divine core.

• Lucifer discovered that she was carrying twins and chose to wait in Hell with Ruiwen while Dick gathered the world’s faith.
• People across the world learned that Dick had become a god and connected their faith to him, empowering him as a supreme deity.
• Dick entered Beyond the Stars and faced Thunder, who had absorbed the other deities and turned into White Frost.
• Dick’s faith-powered strike failed to stop the White Frost, and he realized he could not defeat the gods while protecting the world.
• Dick activated Time Traveler and reversed events across space-time, spending his godhood until his existence began to fade.
• Two lights from Lucifer’s unborn children crossed the frozen battlefield and entered the core of Dick’s nearly transparent godhood.

Dick returned to the beginning with his maxed-out skills intact and reunited with Xiya while escorting Little Tom back to Odinburg. He embraced Xiya, who agreed to consider him a partner if he devoted himself to slaying monsters.

• Dick discovered that he had returned to the start of the game with his abilities preserved, though Kelang did not respond.
• Dick took Little Tom toward Odinburg and killed the Broom Witch with a frost attack.
• Xiya confronted Dick, believing he was abducting Little Tom, but Dick embraced her and she returned his affection.
• Xiya told Dick to do his best to slay monsters if he wanted to become her partner, and they walked back toward town together.