Chapter Summaries

Suren fought through the zombie-infested Lighthouse District, using the battles to absorb life essence, grow stronger, and pursue insights into a domain. When Oscar Zimmerman attacked with his Frost Domain, Suren tested his techniques against the Seventh Tier knight, but the fight was interrupted by arriving monsters and allies, including Chijou, whose apparent domain astonished him.

• Bartolo Lance, Raphael, Roberts, and their allies mobilized their forces to begin a decisive purge across Lington.
• Suren battled waves of zombies in the Lighthouse District, drew them away from civilians, and absorbed their corpses to restore himself and increase his Strength.
• Suren sensed that the blood-red moonlight and fear were feeding the Calamity Law, while fighting helped him deepen his understanding of death and domains.
• Oscar Zimmerman arrived and attacked Suren with his Frost Domain, but Suren used Hormone Rampage and the Guma Kaa Technique to fight back and gain insights.
• Powerful Mutated Monsters and Gold-Patterned Cloak allies converged on the fight, and Suren saw Chijou wield lightning with what appeared to be a domain of her own.

Suren and Dawn helped clear the Mutated Monsters in Lington before learning that Empress Charlotte had ordered Master Pierre ambushed. At Friedrich Palace, Pierre confronted Charlotte over her alliance with the Outer God and her betrayal of Lu Ying, then refused her demand to withdraw his troops.

• Suren and Dawn’s allies defeated six Mutated Monsters, then Suren learned a blood-absorption technique from Wordsworth while fighting alongside Qiantiao in the Lighthouse District.
• Qiantiao told Suren how she had reached the Sixth Tier and comprehended her domain, and the two continued clearing monsters while teasing each other.
• Mr. Black reported that Empress Charlotte had sent two Eighth Tier retainers to ambush Master Pierre, prompting Suren to teleport to Friedrich Palace with Mr. Mirror.
• Suren saw Master Pierre badly wounded, the Poison Master Quinn Andrew dead, and Mafa commander Burton Christ standing beside Empress Charlotte.
• Pierre accused Charlotte of sacrificing Lu Ying’s people and betraying the empire, while Charlotte defended her rule and admitted that the deaths of her subjects did not matter to her.
• After Charlotte demanded that Pierre withdraw his troops or be executed as a rebel, Pierre refused and vowed to stop the empire’s collapse.

At Friedrich Palace, Master Pierre survived a coordinated assassination attempt and revealed overwhelming strength, while Ekaterina’s meteors pushed the palace defenses toward collapse. Pestoya then discovered that the Outer God was hidden underground, giving Suren a crucial lead as the battle continued.

• Master Pierre was poisoned by Quinn Andrew’s corpse curse and ambushed by Mafa generals Niconara Jomari and Burton Christ.
• Master Pierre transformed with Servantless: Flame Emperor and Isaac’s Giant Strength Augment Armor, seized Jomari’s armor, and tore off its Mechanical Arm.
• Ekaterina sent a series of meteors at Friedrich Palace, and the palace’s defensive cannons destroyed the first six before its barrier weakened under the seventh.
• Suren and Mr. Mirror teleported clear when the meteor’s shock wave flattened their attic.
• Pestoya emerged from the Rune Black Umbrella and told Suren that she had sensed the Outer God underground, identifying it as the one that had cursed him outside Loton City.

Suren found the Outer God's hidden altar beneath Lington and discovered the statue that anchored its faith, but the god detected him before he could strike. Mr. Mirror destroyed the altar, forcing the Outer God to descend as a red moon appeared over the city and a golden figure emerged from it.

• Pestoya sensed an aura leaking from underground, and Mr. Mirror concluded that the location was a crucial corner of the Outer God's ritual array.
• After Mr. Mirror drew the Outer God's attention, Suren and Pestoya descended through the earth and found a concealed altar filled with blood-refined crystal cores and the Statue of Clarence.
• Suren prepared to attack the statue, but it vanished; the pontiff of the Giant Hermitage Society appeared, and Mr. Mirror arrived to confront him while Suren escaped with a Hundred-Thousand-Person Blood Refinement Crystal Core.
• Mr. Mirror warned that the Outer God was about to descend, and Suren fled as Mr. Mirror destroyed the altar and a shockwave erupted from underground.
• A red moon appeared over Lington, its threads of faith connected to the believers and zombies, and a golden figure began descending from it.

Suren watched Mr. Mirror and Pandora weaken the Sea Giant’s faith-based illusion, then saw Master Pierre and Mr. Mirror fight the revealed Outer God. While harvesting the battlefield’s souls, Suren glimpsed the Law of Death and accidentally formed a Death Domain Field, then collected more spoils near the imperial palace.

• The Sea Giant’s divine illusion drew faith from Lington’s people, but Pandora duplicated the Red Moon, stole half the faith, and helped expose the Sea Giant’s true form.
• Master Pierre summoned the Unattendant Divine Venerable and battled the Sea Giant, while Mr. Mirror copied his techniques and joined the fight.
• Suren returned to North City to harvest Soul Fragments and gained insights into the Law of War and the Law of Death.
• Suren unconsciously formed a Blacklight Death Domain Field that rapidly decayed corpses and living things around him.
• Suren harvested souls and collected valuable equipment and materials from more than ten thousand corpses near the imperial palace while Empress Charlotte’s guards stayed inside.

As Master Pierre and Mr. Mirror fought the Outer God, Suren realized that destroying its eight remaining altars might be the only way to defeat it. Ekaterina struck all eight altars at once with a meteor shower while Mafa’s forces joined the battle, and Master Pierre greeted the coming of a new era as the explosions shook Lington.

• Suren realized the Outer God was diverting damage to its believers and concluded that its faith-bearing altars had to be destroyed.
• Marshal Meredith ordered Mafa’s forces to join the fight against the Outer God, and Suren found another altar near the Royal Dock.
• Suren marked the eight remaining altar locations on a map and asked Ekaterina to attack them simultaneously.
• Ekaterina cast “Farewell to the Old Era,” using a meteor shower to conceal eight targeted strikes on the altars.
• A giant Thunder God Armor joined the battle against the Outer God, while Master Pierre smiled at the fireworks and said a new era was coming.
• Eight meteors struck their targets, and the explosions shook Lington City.

Suren tracked the Outer God's faith stele to an Alchemy Sanctuary in North City and repeatedly interrupted its teleportation while battling the Songstress Witch Maria. As Maria nearly killed him, Pestoya disrupted her singing long enough for Suren to awaken a Death Domain Field that largely blocked her attacks.

• After all nine altars were destroyed, Pestoya located the Outer God's stone statue, and Suren teleported with her to an Alchemy Sanctuary near Andrewson Farm.
• Suren used Chronos' Spatial Gloves to interrupt the stele's teleportation array, then faced Maria G. O'Casey, who trapped him in her Magic Choir domain.
• Suren repeatedly teleported back to interrupt the array, but Maria's musical attacks wounded him and forced him to retreat between attempts.
• Maria anticipated Suren's return and struck him with a powerful song, leaving him near death as he tried to interrupt the array for the fourth time.
• Pestoya appeared and interrupted Maria's singing, giving Suren time to awaken a Death Domain Field that suppressed nearly all of Maria's music.

Suren survived Maria’s sound-based attacks, destroyed the Teleportation Array with Pestoya’s help, and held off the Songstress Witch while Pandora began absorbing the faith stored in the stele. Master Pierre bound the Sea Giant Clarence with his final spell, and the Evil God’s will faded as dawn came to Lington.

• Pestoya removed the Teleportation Array’s spatial gemstone, and Suren took it before Maria could reclaim it.
• Suren endured Maria’s sound-based spell with his newly awakened Death Domain Field, then entered the Sanctuary and paralyzed its residents before they could sing.
• The residents exploded into a Flesh and Blood Curse, forcing Suren to escape; he then fought Maria with his puppets while Pestoya explained that she had waited at Mr. Mirror’s direction.
• Pandora emerged from a mirror and began absorbing the faith stored in the stele, while Suren kept Maria from stopping her.
• Master Pierre used Divine Art—God-Binding Chains to restrain the charging Sea Giant Clarence, sacrificing his remaining strength.
• Pandora drained the stele, the Evil God’s will dissipated, and dawn broke over Lington.

After the Outer God was defeated, Suren harvested Maria’s soul and recovered fragments from the ruined valley while Dawn’s members considered their next steps. Mr. Mirror’s warning led them to Frederick Palace, where Empress Charlotte activated the Key to the Celestial Plane Passage, opening a dangerous channel.

• Suren killed Maria with Mr. Mirror’s help, absorbed her soul to deepen his understanding of the Music Law, and agreed to make her corpse into a singing doll for Pestoya.
• After Master Pierre’s battle with the Outer God ended, Suren collected several incomplete Soul Fragments from the devastated valley and returned to Dawn’s injured members.
• Suren told Chijou he planned to travel to the Mafa Empire to seek mechanical technology, while Mr. Mirror warned that someone had altered the Alchemy Plane’s fate.
• Suren and Dawn traveled to Frederick Palace after Ekaterina reported trouble with the Bona Imperial Family, where the opposition’s grand dukes confronted Empress Charlotte.
• Empress Charlotte demanded that the grand dukes sign a Loyalty Oath Pact and threatened them with the Key to the Celestial Plane Passage.
• A mysterious force intensified Charlotte’s madness, and she activated the key, sending a beam of light into the sky.

After Empress Charlotte exposed the Alchemy Plane’s coordinates to the Heavenly God Plane, Mr. Mirror gathered Dawn’s leaders and explained the threat, the time they had to prepare, and the chance that contact could help restore their plane’s laws. The meeting ended with Dawn preparing for war, while Suren considered several routes to grow stronger.

• Empress Charlotte activated the Plane Key, exposing the Alchemy Plane’s coordinates and connecting it to the Heavenly God Plane; Mr. Mirror told Suren that destroying the key would no longer help.
• Suren and Mr. Mirror left the palace as a crowd stormed inside, then gathered Dawn’s core members in an apartment beside the Roccovallen Riverbank.
• Mr. Mirror explained that a stable invasion channel would take years to establish and that the Alchemy Plane’s broken laws would limit descending gods to Lower Gods for the next hundred years.
• Mr. Mirror told Dawn that the incoming connection could improve the Alchemy Plane’s laws and make advancement easier, while urging the group to prepare for otherworldly raiders.
• Mr. Mirror asked Suren and Ottilia to help her reach the strength needed to resist a Lower God, and Suren resolved to pursue opportunities in the Mafah Empire and Dragon Island.

Suren and his companions watched Lu Ying recover from the catastrophe while Pandora entrusted him with the Divine Vessel that held her life. After Frank McAdam attacked the Dawn Organization and escaped their ambush, Suren and the others left Lington aboard the Eternal Night Emperor.

• Pandora told Suren she had become the God of Calamity and entrusted him with her Divine Vessel for safekeeping in the Small Void Realm.
• Grand Duke Raphael took control of Lu Ying, became acting head of state, and ordered the repeal of belief laws and a crackdown on Outer God cults.
• A three-eyed young man searched Empress Charlotte's soul for the God-Sealing Coffin and learned it might be connected to the missing Mirror Library and Phantom Thief Kit.
• Frank McAdam introduced himself as the Holy Son of the Celestial Race and demanded that the Dawn Organization reveal Kit's whereabouts.
• Mr. Mirror sealed the room while Suren and Qiantiao attacked Frank, severing his arm before divine protection let him escape; Suren took Frank's severed hand and Storage Ring.
• Mr. Mirror received the news she had been waiting for and led Suren and Qiantiao to the Eternal Night Emperor, where they departed over the sea.

After returning to the Eternal Night, Suren learned more about the Celestial Race’s invasion plans and Frank’s power, then raised his physical strength enough to fuse Isaac’s Giant Strength. The fusion succeeded, and Suren demonstrated his new power before the Dawn Pirates as he prepared to refine his control and absorb Master Pierre’s Soul Fragment.

• Suren, Chijou, and Mr. Mirror discussed Frank’s Myriad Manifestations True Understanding, concluding that his ability depended on what he knew and that Suren’s mastery of the Law of Death had protected his domain field.
• Suren identified the three-eyed coffin in the Mirror Library as Frank’s likely target and revealed that Frank’s severed arm had held the Plane Key, a Deity Contract Scroll, and other treasures stolen from Empress Charlotte.
• Aboard the Eternal Night, Suren absorbed the Blood Refined Crystal Core for several days, raising his Strength to 4432 and meeting the requirements to fuse with Isaac’s Giant Strength.
• Suren fused the Epic-level implant gear over nearly two days, gaining a vast increase in physical attributes and greatly expanding his body’s capacity to grow stronger.
• Suren tested his new strength on deck, using the Void Fist to blast enormous holes in the sea and amaze the Dawn Pirates.
• Mr. Mirror advised Suren to train his control of the Law of Strength, while Suren looked forward to using Master Pierre’s Soul Fragment to improve his command of the implant gear.

After digesting the Soul Fragments, Suren strengthened his grasp of the laws but chose to delay his Seventh-Tier advancement while he perfected his domain. As the Plane Laws grew denser and the Dawn Pirates sailed toward Gold Digging Island, a squadron led by Moloch Bourbon caught up with the Eternal Night.

• Suren spent ten days digesting Pierre Rey Polnareff's and Sea Giant Clarence's Soul Fragments, greatly improving his comprehension of the laws and gaining insights into Calamity.
• Suren considered fusing with the Blasphemous Crown to advance, but decided to wait until his Death Domain Field and foundation were more complete.
• Suren learned from Qiantiao that the Plane Laws were growing denser, that Grand Duke Raphael had barred the Dawn from Lu Ying over Pandora, and that Fick had become Regadi's first heir.
• Suren and Qiantiao continued cultivating together aboard the Eternal Night as the changing Plane Laws made High-Level Laws easier to comprehend.
• While Suren and Qiantiao meditated on the voyage to Gold Digging Island, a communicator announced that Moloch Bourbon's pirate squadron had caught up with them.

Suren killed the West Sea Fleet squad tracking the Dawn Pirates and learned that the Heavenly God Plane’s visitors had allied with Moloch while searching for Mímir’s Well. He chose to ambush the visitors for information, then swiftly killed their space mage and left the remaining Celestial Race members horrified.

• Suren spotted a West Sea Fleet ship following the Dawn Pirates, then teleported aboard and killed Mori Willard and his squad with his Death Domain Field.
• Suren searched the pirates’ souls and learned that the Heavenly God Plane’s visitors had allied with Moloch and were seeking Mímir’s Well on a horseshoe-shaped island.
• Suren decided to capture the incoming visitors for information, alerted Sister Chijou and Qiantiao, and prepared an ambush aboard the pirate ship.
• A white-bearded Seventh Tier space mage arrived with six Celestial Race companions, and three of them headed toward the Eternal Night Emperor.
• Suren attacked the four who remained, countered the space mage’s barriers and teleportation, and killed him with his Black Scythe.
• The remaining three Celestial Race members froze in horror after seeing Suren kill their companion.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates defeated the Heavenly God Plane’s seven-member expedition, then Suren learned from their memories that a much larger invasion could follow once the Plane Channel stabilized. He warned Qiantiao to prepare for large-scale Plane Wars as the Eternal Night continued toward Gold Digging Island.

• Suren killed one mage, severed a Rune Mage’s hand, and used his puppets and treasures to overcome the remaining three before they could summon a god.
• Suren returned to the Eternal Night after Qiantiao and the Dawn Pirates had killed their own three opponents, and the crew divided the seven corpses and other spoils.
• Suren harvested the seven mages’ souls and learned that they belonged to the Aisden Empire’s royal mage corps, sent ahead to gather intelligence and search for treasures.
• Suren told Qiantiao that the Heavenly God Plane was a vast Higher Plane with Mage Corps powerful enough to threaten the Alchemy Plane.
• Qiantiao accepted the warning with sharpened fighting spirit, and the Eternal Night continued toward the western Desolate Sea.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates approached Gold Digging Island and infiltrated the underground city beneath it, discovering Grand Duke Raphael’s vast ancient ore mine and its hundreds of thousands of miners. Suren saw the mine’s immense rare-metal wealth and learned that a Mafah Empire spy was secretly plotting to seize the research institute.

• Suren reviewed his battle against four Seventh-Tier mages, concluded that Gargoyles could counter mage legions, and wondered where he could find enough Activated Silver to build them.
• Tani warned Suren that mechanical creatures guarded the waters near Gold Digging Island, so Suren chose to infiltrate rather than attack openly.
• A technician at the underground research institute secretly gave a guard Mechanical Magical Beast plans and asked the Mafah Empire to send reinforcements for a takeover.
• Suren used his Shroud and teleportation to evade the island’s animal scouts, then burrowed underground with an Earth Elemental Wax Figure.
• Suren found an ancient mining city beneath the island and discovered its extraordinarily rich Rainbow Ore deposits and vast population of miners.
• Suren mingled with the miners and watched Captain Mark’s hunting team return to the city after clearing Cave Giant Rats and finding a purple-gold vein.

Suren discovered Steel City’s hidden Mechanical Magical Beast research base and led the Dawn Pirates in a raid to seize its equipment, data, and researchers. The pirates overwhelmed the defenders and began looting, while a captured Mafa spy realized the raid had destroyed her plans to claim the base for the empire.

• Suren killed Young Master George and his bodyguards after finding them assaulting Mark’s wife, then gave Mark a Storage Ring containing materials needed to advance to the Fourth Tier.
• Suren used the memories he harvested to locate the Inner City and infiltrated its secret Mechanical Magical Beast laboratories.
• Suren discovered production lines for several kinds of Mechanical Magical Beasts and a central laboratory modifying enormous, high-tier beasts.
• An alarm exposed Suren, but he defeated the approaching Super Mechanical Warriors and summoned the Dawn Pirates to seize the base.
• The Dawn Pirates captured researchers and looted equipment and research data, while a Mafa spy among the researchers lamented that the raid had ruined her plan to secure the base for the empire.

Suren and Qiantiao fought Dewen Coboloni and Raphael’s forces while the Dawn Pirates looted Gold Digging Island’s secret laboratory. Suren escaped with Qiantiao, the laboratory’s most valuable equipment, and more than a thousand researchers, returning to the Eternal Night with the raid a success.

• Suren and Qiantiao emerged from the laboratory and subdued hundreds of guards without killing them.
• Dewen Coboloni attacked with his Iron-Backed Centipede, and Qiantiao engaged him while Suren fought the swarms of Mechanical Magical Beasts and Dewen’s other beasts.
• Raphael’s reinforcements arrived after nearly an hour of fighting, while the Dawn Pirates finished gathering the laboratory’s contents.
• Suren used his Spatial Ability to remove production lines, laboratories, archives, rare materials, cultivation rooms, and more than a thousand researchers from the base.
• Suren teleported Qiantiao away from the reinforcements and returned with her to the Eternal Night, completing the raid.

After the Dawn Pirates looted Gold Digging Island, Suren expanded his War Workshop with captured technicians and discovered a Mafa spy named Dora Moses hiding among them. He spared Dora and learned of a dangerous Ancient Dwarf Ruins rich in Activated Silver, while beginning to explore whether she could become an ally against the Plane Invasion.

• Suren and the Dawn Pirates celebrated their successful raid as Grand Duke Raphael issued enormous bounties against them.
• Suren settled more than a thousand captured technicians in the Small Void Realm after Pandora overwrote their Ideological Imprints, but the influx of equipment and people strained the realm’s space.
• Mr. Black detected Dora Moses, a Mafa spy using the God-Defier Augment Armor to evade mental interference, and Suren exposed her identity.
• Dora revealed that she was the granddaughter of Mafa Navy Grand Marshal Meredith Ben Moses and explained how her Augment Armor had protected her from the faith brand.
• Suren negotiated with Dora for information and learned that an Ancient Dwarf Ruins in the Monster Mountain Range held at least one hundred thousand tons of Activated Silver.
• Suren told Dora about the Lington Catastrophe and the Plane Invasion, considering whether she and the Moses Family might become allies.

Suren exchanged Dora for a ransom from her grandfather, Meredith Ben Moses, aboard an airship bound for Capitron. Their talks about Sir Isaac’s alchemical notes and the Plane Invasion left Dora questioning her loyalties and revealed Suren’s identity as the Regadi Family’s first heir.

• Suren traveled with Dora toward Capitron while the Dawn Pirates split up to avoid attention, and he discussed her identity and his ransom demands with her.
• Meredith Ben Moses boarded the airship, reunited with his unharmed granddaughter, and gave Suren a Storage Ring containing six hundred tons of Activated Silver and intelligence about the Dwarf Ruins.
• Meredith said Sir Isaac’s alchemical notes were in Mafa and promised to try to obtain them after Suren explained that Mr. Mirror was Sir Isaac’s direct descendant.
• Meredith asked Suren about selling the technology taken from Raphael’s mine, but Suren questioned whether Mafah would use it internally or externally and left when Meredith did not answer.
• Dora asked Meredith about the Celestial Race, then learned from him that Suren was the Regadi Family’s first heir.