Chapter Summaries

As Vera Squad retreated from Jingu City, Sirian spotted a spreading mist that threatened the city, and Vera chose to enter it with his companions to destroy its core. The mist separated them into strange scenes: Vera found himself in a burning, unfamiliar city, while Sirian recognized the ruins as belonging to the Empire after Arthur the Great’s death.

• Vera promised Feiling he would rescue her if the Demon Race captured her, and Feiyin and Sirian joined their teasing exchange.
• The squad planned to take Lucia to Mushroom Capital as they retreated from Jingu City.
• Sirian spotted the mist approaching Jingu City, and Vera decided to enter it rather than leave the city’s more than ten thousand people without warning or help.
• Feiling, Feiyin, and Sirian chose to stand with Vera, and the mist swallowed all four before they could reach the city.
• Vera emerged in a chaotic palace, chased a fleeing woman, and saw a vast city burning beyond its walls.
• Sirian found a fallen statue bearing Arthur the Great’s name and realized he was witnessing the War of the Hundred Kings after Arthur’s death.

Vera witnessed the soldiers’ massacre of civilians in the breached city and killed one who threatened two children. She reunited with Feiyin and the gravely wounded Feiling in a cellar shelter, then drew the soldiers away to protect everyone inside.

• Vera watched soldiers slaughter civilians and loot the city as she searched for her companions.
• Vera killed a soldier who was threatening two children, then followed them to a hidden cellar.
• Vera found Feiyin and the unconscious, badly wounded Feiling among the people sheltering with Uncle Fu.
• When soldiers discovered the cellar, Vera and Uncle Fu killed the first two who entered, but their noise alerted more soldiers.
• Vera sealed the cellar entrance, killed another soldier, and fled into the burning streets to lead the pursuing soldiers away.

Sirian defeated the mist-born Elias and sacrificed himself to save Vera, who awakened beside Feiling and Feiyin. Meanwhile, Lucia was captured by Goblins and Snake Person warriors, and her hatred triggered the successful Wrath of the Seven Sins judgment as mist swallowed their camp.

• Sirian confronted Elias in the mist, defeated him and caused the mist to disperse, then found Vera gravely wounded in a forest.
• Sirian healed Vera with a drop of liquid, turned into a wooden carving and scattered into leaves, earning the Virtue of Sacrifice achievement as Vera awakened.
• Lucia tried to get help for Vera but was assaulted and captured; when she returned, Vera had stopped breathing.
• Lucia later woke chained in a Goblin and Snake Person camp, grieving those who had died and hating humans and the Demon Race.
• The Wrath of the Seven Sins judgment first failed, but mist then enveloped the camp and Lucia snapped a Goblin's neck, earning the achievement as she called for everything to be destroyed.

A berserk woman named Lucia emerged from the mist and slaughtered a Demon Race supply convoy, drawing Linden’s attention as he discovered she possessed Wrath of the Seven Sins. Lucia continued east toward Three Mountains City, while Linden questioned what her illegal possession meant.

• Bemon confronted Lucia after she killed two Demon Race soldiers and ordered four more to attack her.
• Lucia killed the four soldiers with her bare hands despite being impaled by a spear.
• Bemon attacked Lucia with his Poison Blood Battle Suit, but her escalating strength shattered his bones and killed him.
• Lucia charged at the remaining Demon Race soldiers, and Linden noticed the convoy’s destruction while directing the battle.
• Linden examined Lucia’s status and saw Guidance, Wrath, and Wrath of the Seven Sins: Meteor-like Power (Illegally Possessed), with Lucia heading toward Three Mountains City.

The Sword Saint killed Prince Vesalius and broke the Demon Race’s battle line, but Emperor Mortis Dracone arrived and restored Vesalius. The human victory was thrown into doubt as Mortis took control of the battlefield.

• Linden held back from summoning a giant Puji while Inanna watched the fighting and the threats approaching Three Mountains City.
• The Sword Saint beheaded Vesalius, and Fifteen rallied the human forces as Ern was struck down and the Demon Race’s line collapsed.
• Linden tried to decompose Vesalius’s corpse but found that it would not disappear and that Vesalius’s panel remained.
• Mortis Dracone descended on a throne of blood, reviving Vesalius, who knelt and welcomed his lord.

Mortis Dracone turned the battle around with the Blood Sky Veil, defeated Elwin, and forced the Church’s army to retreat toward Three Mountains City. As Linden tried to evacuate Inanna and recover Elwin’s body, a wolf howl erupted from beneath the crystal cluster where the Sword Saint had fallen.

• The Blood Sky Veil strengthened the vampires and Church Werewolves, but left the other Demon Race soldiers struggling to breathe.
• Mortis Dracone confronted Vesalius and demanded that Elwin kneel or die; Elwin feinted at Vesalius and attacked Mortis, but Mortis used [Envy] to interrupt his skill and crushed him with blood pillars.
• The archbishop ordered the Church Warriors to cover the retreat into Three Mountains City while Mortis sent the Demon Race after them.
• Linden, Number Ten Ji, and Cave Four Ji tried to force Inanna into the Underground Network as Linden warned that the city was doomed.
• Linden found Elwin’s broken body beneath the Dark Red Crystal Cluster, which then cracked apart as a wild wolf howl sounded from the pit.

Tanaka infiltrated Twilight Castle through Abyss Magic and released the Slime-folk sealed inside the Demon King's cube, setting off the alarm before escaping. At Three Mountains City, Mortis’s shattered ring distracted him long enough for Elwin to wound his neck, though Elwin fell pierced by blood spears.

• Latir used Abyss Magic to send Tanaka’s Sloth Avatar into a sealed room inside Twilight Castle, while Blood Guards rushed to the mansion.
• Tanaka cut off his trapped foot, broke through an invisible barrier, and opened the white cube, releasing a Slime-folk who disabled the room’s runes and teleported away.
• The teleportation triggered Twilight Castle’s alarm, so Tanaka dispelled his clone; the Blood Guards found only failed runes, and Tanaka cried out in pain from a carriage hundreds of miles away.
• At Three Mountains City, Elwin dodged Mortis’s blood-crystal spears and searched for an opening while Mortis kept him trapped beneath a blood curtain.
• Mortis’s ring shattered, distracting him, and Elwin slashed three marks into his neck before falling from the sky covered in blood spears.

Mortis killed the Sword Saint and left Vesalius to finish the battle for Three Mountains City, but a violent impact struck the Blood Clan camp. Wrath arrived at the camp in a fractured, burning state, still drawn toward Three Mountains City without knowing why.

• Mortis concealed his neck wound, crushed the Sword Saint beneath Blood Crystal spears, and departed after telling Vesalius to handle the cleanup.
• Vesalius found the Sword Saint reduced to a broken skeleton and concluded that Three Mountains City's fall was only a matter of time.
• Vesalius began assigning Ern to deal with the rear camp, but an explosion shook the mountain forest before he could finish.
• Number One Puji confronted Number Two Puji over the captured warehouse, then the Puji and the warehouse were destroyed when Wrath crashed down from above.
• Wrath burned everything in her path as she approached Three Mountains City, though she could not remember why she was going there.

Linden devoured the Sword Saint’s soul and discovered that obtaining the [Ultimate Sword] was taking longer than his other plunder. Meanwhile, Wrath’s power surged as she rampaged toward Three Mountains City, where she killed Vesalius and tore through the demon army before continuing to seek more victims.

• Linden used mycelium to consume the Sword Saint’s corpse and plundered his skills and Dragon Crystal Potion, but found that the [Ultimate Sword] was still connected to his soul.
• Linden saw that Wrath’s attributes were rising rapidly as she advanced toward Three Mountains City, while Number Ten and Number Four escorted Pink Puji and Inanna through the Mycelium Tunnel.
• Alama and Lorenzo withdrew with their remaining forces after the Pujis helped stop Xenophon from pursuing them.
• Vesalius trapped Wrath inside a vortex of Blood Bats while Ern reorganized the demon army for the siege.
• Wrath broke free, killed Vesalius, tore through Ern and the demon formation, then headed toward Three Mountains City demanding more to kill.

Wrath’s soul-burning power devastated the Demon Race forces and killed their commanders, while Linden created a Behemoth Puji and sent Cave Four Ji to stop her. Wrath shattered Cave Four Ji’s tentacles, and the confrontation continued.

• Wrath smashed through a Blood Shield, killed the Blood Clan duke and Xenophon, and slaughtered the fleeing Demon Race soldiers.
• Linden recognized that Wrath’s soul was burning and judged that her power should be enough to defeat Alama.
• Linden used Familiar Creator to transfer Cave Four Ji’s soul into a newly formed Behemoth Puji.
• Cave Four Ji tried to stop Wrath with four Mycelium Tentacles, but Wrath destroyed them and turned toward him.

Wrath destroyed Cave Four Ji before her body crumbled, leaving Linden with the inactive Wrath of the Seven Sins and unexplained numbers on his Panel. The war ended with devastating losses on both sides, while new threats drew the Empire’s attention elsewhere.

• Wrath battered Cave Four Ji until its regenerative abilities failed, then killed it with a final heavy punch.
• Wrath’s remains were swept onto the Fungal Carpet, and Linden acquired the inactive Wrath of the Seven Sins skill.
• Linden briefly took control of Little Sig to gorge on rock candy and red wine, then wondered whether something in the mist had sent Wrath to feed him.
• The surviving humans and demons escaped or crawled from the ruins after Wrath destroyed Three Mountains City and devastated both armies.
• The Empire faced a Dwarven attack, a northern cold disaster, and the escape of the former Demon King, bringing the war to a temporary end.

After the war, the kingdom began preparing defenses while survivors mourned and heroes gained fame, and the Mushroom Race attracted attention from both humans and demons. Linden reviewed his gains from the Battle of Three Mountains City and, while reviving fallen numbered Pujis, conceived an experiment involving his Sun Stone and the Sword Saint's soul.

• The kingdom mobilized civilians and mages to build a defensive system centered on Oath City as the mist receded from the western coast.
• Bianka continued working at Puji House despite grieving her father, while Naxi, Olivia, and Inanna St. Clair became celebrated war heroes.
• Cave Four Ji publicized the Mushroom Race in Dragon Roar Valley, and surviving warriors praised the Puji that had saved them.
• The Demon Race investigated the Mushroom Race while its emperor directed his forces to search for something resembling a Slime.
• Linden reached Level 69, gained new titles and skills, and continued absorbing [Ultimate Sword].
• While reviving numbered Pujis who had died at Three Mountains City, Linden looked at his Sun Stone and the Sword Saint's soul and decided to conduct an experiment.

The chapter recounted Elwin Slayne’s rise from a farm boy to the Sword Saint, ending with his apparent death in battle against a Blood Clan emperor. He awoke as a mushroom creature among the Puji, who welcomed him as Number Fourteen.

• At twelve, Elwin killed his father to save his mother from being sacrificed to the Hand of Passing, but his mother later died of grief.
• Elwin became an adventurer, survived a shipwreck with a mermaid’s help, and returned to land after she cursed him so sea beasts attacked whenever he sailed.
• Elwin rescued Galadriel Twilight Song from the Hand of Passing, helped defeat its city-wide sacrifice plot, and learned swordsmanship from the Elf King.
• At twenty-seven, Elwin defeated the cult’s high priest, comprehended [Ultimate Sword], and later adopted orphans, with Fifteen becoming his final surviving sword disciple.
• Elwin fell after being pierced by blood-colored crystal spears while fighting the Blood Clan emperor, then awoke inside a Mycelium Cocoon surrounded by Puji.
• Number One Puji and Number Two Puji welcomed Elwin as Number Fourteen, and he realized he had become a mushroom creature.

After dying as a Puji, Elwin Slayne awakened again in the Mushroom Garden and discovered his new body had unusual skills. The chapter left him confronting another rebirth as someone greeted him as the Sword Saint.

• Elwin learned that the Puji had named him Fourteen after the Fungal Lord bestowed numbers on newborn mushrooms.
• Number One and Number Two showed Elwin the Mushroom Garden and its Mushroom Servants, and he accidentally sliced a Mushroom House apart with a stone shard.
• Number Five suggested Elwin could help fight the Black Demon, but Little Black arrived and the other Puji fled.
• Elwin tried to fight Little Black, but [Moon Treading] failed and she gnawed him to death.
• Elwin awakened from a Mycelium Cocoon again, confirmed his previous experience had been real, and heard someone ask whether he was getting used to his mushroom body.

Linden revealed himself to Elwin as the Fungal Lord and showed him Fungal Fortress, where many races lived in peaceful symbiosis. After explaining that humanity had survived a crisis but faced a greater threat, Linden declared his intention to save humanity, the Demon Race, and the world, then proposed a deal to Elwin.

• Linden kept the Sword Saint's soul in a Puji body after testing the Sun Stone, deciding to postpone digesting [Ultimate Sword].
• Elwin recognized Marshal Puji as the Fungal Lord and agreed to see his purpose for himself.
• Marshal Puji took Elwin through a mixed-race community whose residents lived in symbiosis with the mycelium and greeted him warmly.
• Elwin saw the prosperous Fungal Fortress in the Far North and realized that its many races coexisted harmoniously.
• Linden told Elwin that humanity had survived a crisis for now, but that the Empire was not humanity's greatest threat.
• Linden said he would save humanity, the Demon Race, and the world, then offered to make a deal with Elwin.

After Elwin’s death, Fifteen brought his broken sword to Galadriel, who mourned the Sword Saint and hoped he might be reborn. Meanwhile, Elwin had returned as Number Fourteen Ji of the Mushroom Race and set out to verify the coming apocalypse and retrieve something for the Fungal Lord.

• Fifteen crossed the Scarecrow Abyss and gave Galadriel the broken Longyue, prompting her to remember her past with Elwin and grieve his battlefield death.
• Galadriel recalled an ancient theory that souls might shed their bodies and enter new vessels, and wished she could meet Elwin again in another life.
• Elwin surveyed Mushroom Capital as Number Fourteen Ji and reflected on the Fungal Lord’s warning that the mist had reached the continent and released Wrath.
• Elwin tested his bestowed Moon Treading skill and checked the elemental swords he carried, then prepared to leave with Number Five Puji.
• Number Five Puji warned Elwin to avoid the surface and led him toward a dark burrow, so Elwin reluctantly crawled inside.

As the Demon Race struggled with the aftermath of the war, Sigismund faced accusations of treason at an imperial conference. He survived Mofulei’s mental interrogation when his roommate intervened, and Emperor Mortis began the meeting without addressing the incident.

• The Demon Race dealt with damaged defenses, food shortages, disputed territories, and other problems as Emperor Mortis called an imperial conference.
• Sigismund arrived at Twilight Castle and entered the great hall, where Mofulei accused him of conspiring with Alama.
• Mofulei used her mental powers against Sigismund, threatening to expose the roommate in his head.
• Sigismund’s roommate shouted, “Don't fucking touch me!”, and Mofulei collapsed from the backlash.
• Blood Guards carried Mofulei away, and Emperor Mortis appeared and began discussing other matters while Sigismund silently felt relieved.

Sigismund offered Mortis Twilight Kiss to lessen the punishment for his command error, and Mortis assigned him to help Eleanor search for the Holy Scripture. After leaving, Sigismund told Linden he was more interested in investigating Mortis’s recent movements than in carrying out the mission.

• Sigismund presented Mortis with Twilight Kiss, blood Linden had prepared, and claimed it came from specially cultivated half-Elves.
• Mortis tasted the blood, then ordered Sigismund to surrender two eastern mines’ management rights and pay twenty percent of three years’ taxes to compensate Valerice.
• Mortis assigned Sigismund to assist Eleanor in retrieving the Holy Scripture, whose location had appeared in the north.
• Mortis concluded that a traitor remained within the Empire and savored the rest of the blood after Sigismund had left.
• On the road to High Keep Fortress, Sigismund drank his own stock of Delicious LV10 blood and told Linden he intended to investigate Mortis’s deployments and spies.

Linden monitored the Mad Spirit excavation, demonic activity on The Kingdom's western coast, and a self-proclaimed Puji God preacher in Mushroom Capital. Though Linden denied creating a religion, Julia believed the preacher and began quietly spreading faith in the Puji God.

• Spark told the Yellow Book that he had replaced Red Gold Stone with Silver Calendar Stone in the Fungal Fortress city-defense array, and the Yellow Book berated him over the weaker magic conduction.
• Linden learned that excavators had uncovered ancient, rune-covered stone archways near the Mad Spirit and continued watching the ruins beneath the Northern Territory.
• Linden tracked fighting and soul-less corpses on The Kingdom's western coast, suspecting an evil cult that worshiped the God of Death.
• A cloaked veteran preached that the Puji was a god in Mushroom Capital, and guards arrested him for a third time.
• Julia, a Mushroom Farmer whose husband had survived the Battle of Dragon Roar Valley, believed the preacher and resolved to spread the Puji God's faith in secret.

Fifteen set out from the Elf Royal Palace with Number Nine and encountered the Sword Saint, reborn as a Puji, in Scarecrow Abyss. The Sword Saint attacked Fifteen, leaving Number Nine unable to warn him as the fight began.

• Fifteen waited for an escort out of Isildorin and reflected on Galadriel's grief for his deceased master while Number Nine played with his hair.
• Echo arrived to guide Fifteen, and he traveled through the City of Trees and Scarecrow Abyss with Number Nine.
• The Sword Saint entered Scarecrow Abyss through a network passage to test his new Puji body, while Number Five waited outside.
• Fifteen recognized the Puji as a threat and drew his twin swords, while Number Nine struggled to identify it as one of the Mushroom Race.
• The Sword Saint struck with a lightning-wreathed sword, forcing Fifteen to dodge and knocking Number Nine off his head before charging at Fifteen.