Chapter Summaries

Suren arrived in Capitron and reunited with Number Nineteen, who had become a mechanical engineering student and developed her abilities in Mafa. He revealed her rare luck-based talent and gave her damaged divine wings that resonated with her, then learned she had heard of a Black Market bounty connected to the Ouroboros Fragment.

• Suren reached Capitron, marveled at its advanced machinery and mechanical prosthetics, and met Number Nineteen, who now went by Nicole in Mafa.
• Number Nineteen took Suren to her home in C6 District and explained that she studied at the Mafah Royal Mechanical Academy and had built a powerful mechanical body.
• Suren told Number Nineteen that her unusual luck and learning ability suggested she had awakened a rare talent that protected her and brought her opportunities.
• Suren gave Number Nineteen the damaged Battle Angel's Golden Wings, which resonated with her on a soul level.
• Number Nineteen told Suren that someone had posted a Black Market bounty for information about the Ouroboros Fragment and invited him to an illegal modification gathering that night.

Suren investigated a million-crown bounty for the Ouroboros Fragment at an illegal mechanical gathering, suspecting that Heavenly God Plane invaders had posted it. After two Seventh-Tier mages came to collect information, Suren decided to follow them, confident he could handle them despite being Sixth Tier.

• Suren explained to Number Nineteen that the bounty could attract powerful people, possibly even gods, but decided to contact whoever had posted it.
• Buck Ferguson recognized the Ouroboros pattern from the Mountain Dwarf tribe and wanted to claim the bounty, while Claude warned him to protect the dwarves and their trade relationship.
• Suren and Number Nineteen rode to the Illegal Modification Gathering, where Suren explored the Mechanical Castle marketplace and saw the bounty's complete Ouroboros pattern.
• Suren sensed two cloaked Seventh-Tier mages approach the information broker, then waited until they left before deciding to follow them.
• Number Nineteen asked whether Suren could fight the two mages, and he said he was Sixth Tier and expected little trouble.

Suren killed two Seventh Tier mages searching for the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring, then escaped detection when their commander, Jonabel Martha, used a forbidden curse to rewind the scene. He reunited with Number Nineteen, planned a trip to the Monster Mountain Range with her, and ended the night meeting Dora, who suspected his involvement in the battle.

• Suren ambushed and killed two Seventh Tier mages, learned that the Lord of Time sought the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring, and found a lead pointing toward the Monster Mountain Range.
• Suren destroyed traces of the fight and met Number Nineteen, who had followed him; together they returned to the Mechanical Market.
• Jonabel Martha used Forbidden Curse: Time Reversal to view Suren's attack and trace his retreat, but lost the trail when he reached the crowded market.
• Suren and Number Nineteen changed disguises, browsed the market, and agreed to travel together to the Monster Mountain Range because he wanted her Angel's Blessing Aura.
• Dora recognized Suren at the market and questioned him about the night's events; he admitted his involvement but left her secret unspoken.

Suren joined the Iron Shield Adventurer Group’s expedition toward Giant God Mountain to investigate the Mountain Dwarves and the Ouroboros Ring. As his group neared the dwarves’ territory, Jonabel Martha attacked the Sandstone Tribe after her attempt to influence them was exposed.

• Dora left the Mechanical Market after encountering Suren and secretly absorbed the Zabir Alloy she had purchased.
• Suren and Number Nineteen accepted a reclamation mission at Gold-Gazing Outpost and joined the Iron Shield Adventurer Group heading toward Giant God Mountain.
• Suren monitored five hidden mages aboard the group’s Mechanical Castle while the expedition traveled through the Magical Beast Forest.
• After more than ten days, the Iron Shield group approached Giant God Mountain, while the Old Blacksmith Adventure Group met Chief Highhill Barmund at Eagle’s Nest Ravine.
• Jonabel Martha attempted to use Faith Pollution on Barmund, but his helmet resisted her spell and exposed her intent.
• Barmund’s dwarves charged the intruders as Jonabel and the black-robed mages unleashed magic that tore through the ravine.

Jonabel Martha and the Heavenly God Plane’s mages used a forbidden spell to drain life and open a channel for an invading army, but Suren destroyed one of their magic circles before the rift could fully form. As the summoning faltered, a powerful enemy’s killing intent closed in on him.

• Jonabel Martha wiped out the Sandstone Tribe, harvested its Life Essence, and ordered the adventurer groups and magic corps to begin their assault.
• Suren and Number Nineteen watched the Black Stone Tribe and suspected the Heavenly God Plane’s mages were preparing an attack, so they stayed cautious at camp.
• Mountain Dwarves and Half-Elves attacked the Iron Shield Adventurer Group, then the mages activated Life Forbidden Zone and drained the lives of adventurers and dwarves caught in its light.
• Suren realized the adventurers had been bait to draw out the Mountain Dwarves and saw a vast magic circle begin assembling a mage army from the Heavenly God Plane.
• Suren resisted the life-draining spell with his Death Domain Field, sent his Gargoyles against the five Archmages, and killed them, disrupting the magic circle.
• After another beam went out and the planar rift stopped forming, Suren sensed a deadly killing intent approaching.

Suren fought the time-magic user Jonabel, who rewound time to predict his actions and nearly killed him. With Number Nineteen observing the rewind, Suren discovered that Jonabel’s staff had limited stored energy and fled to force her to spend her final use.

• Suren sensed a watcher, rescued Number Nineteen, and fled as the dwarves withdrew from the camp.
• Jonabel arrived at the camp, used Time Reversal to replay Suren killing the mages, then rewound the local timeline to catch him before he escaped.
• Jonabel struck Number Nineteen with an accelerated lightning spear and pierced Suren’s heart with a magical blade, but Suren survived and healed his wound.
• Number Nineteen told Suren that he had announced the rewind and the staff’s energy; Suren realized she had observed the erased timeline and that the rewind cost 500 energy.
• Suren examined the Staff of Time, deduced Jonabel had enough energy for only one more rewind, and teleported away to make her use it.

Suren outsmarted and killed Jonabel, whose Time Reversal and A-049-Time Trick had nearly killed him, and gained new insight into the Law of Time. After the Heavenly God Plane’s Ten Thousand Mage Corps descended and bombarded the forest, the Mountain Dwarves unleashed the Wailing Fissure, pulling everyone nearby into a Grade T Cursed Space.

• Suren realized Jonabel’s Time Reversal also affected the thousands of people inside his Small Void Realm, explaining its enormous energy cost, and he lured her into using the spell again.
• When Jonabel rewound time and attacked, Suren used Worgins' Pocket Watch to accelerate himself, struck her down, and used Mr. Mirror’s Deity Sealing Scroll to stop the deity’s intervention before killing her again.
• Suren absorbed Jonabel Martha’s Gray Mist, gained insight into the Law of Time, and completed the Logic Loop in his Death Domain Field.
• A god forcibly activated the magic array, allowing the Heavenly God Plane’s Ten Thousand Mage Corps to descend; its bombardment devastated the forest, and Suren rescued Number Nineteen.
• The Mountain Dwarves unleashed the seal on the Wailing Fissure, drawing everyone nearby into the Grade T Cursed Space as a dragon roared across the Giant God Mountain Range.

Suren and Number Nineteen were trapped in the Dwarf King's Cursed Space, where the Black Dragon fought the Heavenly God Plane's Ten Thousand Mage Corps. Suren attacked the corps with Chronos' Bow of Time Curse and harvested fallen mages while the dragon kept the battle raging.

• The Mountain Dwarf elders released the seal and dragged Suren, Number Nineteen, and the invading forces into the Cursed Space, where a Black Dragon attacked the Ten Thousand Mage Corps.
• Suren explained that he planned to find the Dwarf King's secret passage and revealed that the space might contain a fragment of the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring and valuable Activated Silver.
• The Ten Thousand Mage Corps used the Sun Disc and a Ninth Tier Light Magic Forbidden Curse to burn and wound the Black Dragon.
• Suren used Chronos' Bow of Time Curse to kill key mages in the corps formation, weakening its shield before teleporting away from the corps' retaliatory attack.
• The Black Dragon renewed its assault while Suren harvested wounded mages in the forest and fired more arrows to keep the battle balanced.

Suren explored the dwarven underground castle while the Mage Corps battled the Black Dragon, seeking treasure and a way to strengthen himself. He found the imprisoned Dwarf King Iron Helmet Orr and discovered mysterious symbols linking the Cursed Space to the Twilight Cross Society and the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring.

• Suren and Number Nineteen entered the mines beneath Giant God Mountain, navigated their tunnels, and reached the Dwarf King's treasure hall as the Black Dragon returned.
• Suren stored the hundred-meter Activated Silver statue of the Dwarf King in the Small Void Realm, then escaped into a dark passage with Number Nineteen.
• Suren explained that the Black Dragon was formed from the Dwarf King's resentment and descended a seemingly endless staircase to find Iron Helmet Orr.
• Iron Helmet Orr asked Suren to wear the Legendary Dragon Slayer's Dragon Scale Armor and kill the Black Dragon, and Suren agreed while asking for help.
• Suren recognized a mysterious alchemical symbol from Storm Manor and the Ouroboros symbol on the forging furnace, and realized the Cursed Space might be connected to the Twilight Cross Society's Five Elders and the God King Divine Artifact.

Suren secured Iron Helmet Orr’s help repairing Number Nineteen’s Battle Angel Wings and learned clues about the Black Dragon and ancient Alchemy. While Orr reforged Number Nineteen’s mechanical body, Suren advanced to the Seventh Tier, and the chapter ended with them preparing to leave the Cursed Space to test their new strength against the Mage Corps.

• Suren offered to help the Dwarf King kill the Black Dragon in exchange for repairing Number Nineteen’s wings, and used Vulcan’s Furnace Lamp to relight the Eternal Furnace.
• Iron Helmet Orr agreed to repair the wings and rebuild Number Nineteen’s Mechanical Limb, but required Suren to kill Black Dragon Gurglo; Suren also learned clues about Gurglo, Andreas Libavius, Emerald Jade, and the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring.
• Orr showed Suren the Dwarven Book of Rune of Lunn and began forging the repairs, while Suren started fusing the Blasphemous Crown in an Alchemy Array.
• Suren advanced to the Seventh Tier and stabilized his realm after several days of meditation.
• Orr finished Number Nineteen’s golden wings and reinforced mechanical body, giving her greater defenses and resistance to mental and mystical attacks.
• Suren and Number Nineteen decided to leave the Cursed Space and test their new strength against the Mage Corps.

Suren attacked the Ten Thousand Mage Corps’ camp with his newly advanced Seventh Tier strength and a thousand Mechanical Puppets, overwhelming the five-hundred-man force. Dora inferred that Suren had found the Dwarven underground city and planned to use his knowledge of the Cursed Space to eliminate the entire Mage Corps.

• The Ten Thousand Mage Corps prepared to lure and kill the Black Dragon, while Dora and her Mafa team watched from a hidden mine and discussed Suren’s likely motives.
• Suren and Number Nineteen located the mages’ camps, and Suren realized they were preparing the Forbidden Spell: Skyless Forbidden Domain.
• Suren teleported into a five-hundred-man camp, unleashed his Living Creature Restricted Zone, and killed several Seventh Tier Archmages.
• Suren summoned a thousand Mechanical Puppets and led them in coordinated attacks that broke the mage legion and slaughtered its members.
• Number Nineteen watched the Mechanical Puppet Legion rout the camp, while Dora recognized Suren’s Puppet Theater and deduced he had found the Resentment Source and intended to destroy the Ten Thousand Mage Corps.

Suren used his Mechanical Puppet Legion and Necrotic Smoke Bombs to devastate the Heavenly God Plane’s Mage Corps, then lured out the Black Dragon and drew Boris Wheeler away from the main battle. With Number Nineteen’s surprise attack and Mafa’s forces joining the fight, Suren’s plan to destroy the Ten Thousand Mage Corps gained momentum.

• Suren and his Mechanical Puppet Legion destroyed a five-hundred-man camp and several Hundred-Man Corps, while Mafa’s group watched his Death Domain and tactics in astonishment.
• Suren released Alpas VI Necrotic Smoke Bombs to blind the mages, then detonated explosives beneath the Black Dragon’s lair to draw it out.
• Boris Wheeler attacked Suren, but Suren endured his spells and struck back with Cannon Fist: Second Extreme Kill before the Black Dragon arrived and the forbidden formation trapped it.
• Boris pursued the fleeing Suren while the Ten Thousand Mage Corps fought the Black Dragon, and Dora’s group debated whether to intervene.
• Number Nineteen ambushed Boris with her Battle Angel Wings, severely injuring him, and Suren moved in to finish the attack.
• Dora ordered Mafa’s forces to join Suren, and General Sam realized Suren had intended to annihilate the Ten Thousand Mage Corps.

Suren and the Mafa Mechanical Warriors killed Boris, then waited as the Ten Thousand Mage Corps fought the Black Dragon. Suren destroyed the magic array, unleashing the dragon on the mages, and escaped with Number Nineteen while Adelaide was left facing the pursuing Black Dragon.

• Suren, Number Nineteen, and Dora’s Mafa forces surrounded Boris and killed him after he opened his Sacred Domain and unleashed powerful wind spells.
• Suren harvested Boris’s soul and gained Eighth Tier Wind Element Law insights, while Dora revealed that her body had a regenerating metallic interior.
• Suren and the Mafa forces hid as the Ten Thousand Mage Corps continued fighting the trapped Black Dragon, which they eventually wounded severely.
• Dora anticipated that Suren would act before the mages used their hidden trump card, and Suren destroyed crucial nodes in their magic array with the Bow of Time.
• Adelaide ordered the mages to scatter after the array collapsed, and the freed Black Dragon slaughtered thousands of them as it pursued the survivors.
• Suren put Number Nineteen in the Small Void Realm and teleported away, leaving Adelaide alone before the approaching Black Dragon.

Suren and his allies killed the Black Dragon, recovered the final Ouroboros Fragment, and discovered that the Dwarf King's lingering spirit had been waiting to entrust him with the Mountain Dwarves' inheritance. Iron Helmet Orr began attempting to repair the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring with Suren's rare materials, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Suren harvested Adelaide's soul and gathered his treasures before asking Dora and Mafa's forces to help restrain the Black Dragon and attach Spatial Coordinates to its back.
• Number Nineteen and General Sam distracted the Black Dragon while Suren repeatedly teleported onto its back and wounded it with Sigurd's Dragon Slayer Dagger and dragon-suppressing powder.
• After nearly an hour, the Black Dragon fell and dissolved into black liquid, revealing the missing quarter of the Ouroboros Fragment; Dora and the Mafa forces then left through the portal.
• Suren went to the underground city, where Iron Helmet Orr offered the Mountain Dwarf inheritance and asked him to deliver it to the Dwarven people along with their ancient covenant.
• Iron Helmet Orr recognized Suren's three fragments as the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring and began trying to bond them with the Sands of Time and a Spatial Crystal Core.

Su Lun repaired and refined the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring, then used it to absorb the Dwarf King's Resentment Cursed Space and greatly expand the Small Void Realm. He returned Iron Helmet Orr's inherited treasures to the Mountain Dwarves and proposed renewing their covenant with the Alchemy Civilization.

• Mountain Dwarf King Iron Helmet Orr repaired the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring over sixteen days while Su Lun used the Rune Black Umbrella to sustain his fading remnant soul.
• Su Lun discovered the ring's powerful time-space abilities, refined it, and integrated it into the Small Void Realm.
• Su Lun used the ring to absorb the Cursed Space, expanding the Small Void Realm by dozens of square kilometers and eliminating the spatial rifts.
• Su Lun and Number Nineteen reached the dwarves' underground treasure hoard, where the Dwarf King Barrel Beo and his clansmen were searching for their inherited treasures.
• Su Lun returned Iron Helmet Orr's treasures and told Barrel Beo that the Mountain Dwarves could renew their covenant with the Alchemy Civilization.

Suren explained the Heavenly God Plane’s invasion to the Mountain Dwarves and explored a hidden tomb, where Andreas Libavius revealed insights about time. After teleporting to meet Sister Chijou and Mr. Mirror, Suren learned that Ekaterina Lance had ascended the throne as emperor in Lu Ying.

• Suren told Barrel Beo and the Mountain Dwarves about the invasion and asked them to renew their alliance, and Barrel Beo promised a decision after consulting the elders.
• Suren and Number Nineteen descended the endless staircase after Suren recited an alchemical incantation, reaching a huge iron gate where Andreas Libavius’s shadow spoke to him about time.
• Suren returned to the surface with Number Nineteen and used his new spatial ability to teleport to Sister Chijou in Zambra Ironfall Province.
• Suren found Sister Chijou and Mr. Mirror bathing in a hot spring, and Mr. Mirror explained that she had come to investigate the fighting around the Plane Channel.
• Sister Chijou told Suren that Ekaterina Lance had become emperor in Lu Ying, leaving him stunned.

Suren learned how Ekaterina became empress of Lu Ying after Grand Duke Raphael's death and discovered that she was pregnant with his child, conceived during their drunken encounter at the Daru Tribe's Emerald Sacred Land. As Suren discussed Ekaterina's reforms and the looming threats to the Alchemy Plane, he planned to recruit engineers in Mafa and then travel to Dragon Country.

• Qiantiao explained that Grand Duke Raphael unified Lu Ying, became emperor, and died suddenly ten days later, after which Ekaterina took the throne with support from Regadi, the Lance Family, the Luobuci Family, and the remaining nobles.
• Qiantiao revealed that Ekaterina was pregnant, and Suren recalled that he had slept with her while they were both drunk at the Emerald Sacred Land of the Daru Tribe.
• Mr. Mirror described Ekaterina's reforms, her unification of Lu Ying's northern and southern territories, and her alliance with Mafa against the Plane Invasion.
• Mr. Mirror reported that Ekaterina had sent Suren the promised Gusmao Airship and discussed the difficult fighting around the Plane Channel and the threat posed by infiltrating mages.
• Suren recounted his recent discoveries and decided to recruit mechanical engineers in Capitron before traveling to Dragon Country to search for Mímir's Well and Cosmic Origin Matter.
• Mr. Mirror said she would remain near the Plane Channel to ambush otherworldly experts and advance toward the Ninth Tier while Suren and Qiantiao relaxed with her in a hot spring as snow fell.

Suren met Dora at the Mafa Royal Mechanical Academy Library to discuss wartime cooperation and the blueprints for a Mechanical Castle, while investigating the rumored Library Ghost. He sensed the powerful Holy Son Frank McAdam nearby, then received a message from the Library Ghost asking him and Dora to come below and bring its disciple.

• Suren arranged for the Mountain Dwarf Race and its treasures to settle in his Small Void Realm, then returned to Capitron and waited for Dora.
• At the academy library, Dora confronted Suren over political efforts to unite Mafa and Lu Ying, and told him the Isaac Manuscript was unavailable for now.
• Suren showed Dora the Mechanical Castle blueprints and asked her to find craftsmen, while she requested to join the project privately but could not explain why.
• Suren sensed the Library Ghost and then detected Frank McAdam nearby, warning Dora and the hidden spirit not to attract the Holy Son's attention.
• The Library Ghost contacted Suren mentally, revealed that Dora was its disciple, and asked Suren and Dora to come down and bring her along.

Suren met Lucien Pepys, whose consciousness lived in a Nightmare Unicorn brain and God-Defier Augment Armor, and shared what he knew about the Celestial Race. Lucien predicted Frank’s moves, but Frank summoned a divine will and killed Mafa Emperor Harris III, leaving the empire in crisis.

• Dora led Suren and Number Nineteen through the Mafa Royal Library’s hidden laboratories, where Suren discovered Lucien’s half-mechanical existence.
• Lucien explained his research into mechanical lifeforms and asked Suren to transmit his knowledge of the Heavenly God Plane and Celestial Race.
• After receiving Suren’s information, Lucien ordered Dora to alert the military and predicted that Frank would attack the imperial palace.
• Frank broke through Mafa’s traps and fought the forces surrounding him as Lucien analyzed his movements and directed the response.
• Frank summoned a divine will and killed Harris III with a divine spell before leaving the ruined palace.
• Suren and the others watched the emperor’s death, and Lucien declared that the situation was bad.

After Mafa’s emperor was killed, Suren learned that the Alchemy Plane was destined to lose the coming war and helped Lucien prepare to preserve its civilization. Suren left Mafa for Dragon Country with Dora, a large group of mechanics, and the Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript, whose account of the Void Mother gave him a dangerous new idea.

• Lucien’s simulations predicted Mafa’s collapse within five years and the Alchemy Plane’s defeat within ten, so he ordered emergency plans to move industry, build a secret Steel Ship Island, and prepare a strategic retreat.
• Suren gave Lucien the Sky Fortress Blueprint, and Lucien offered mechanics, equipment, and library backups in exchange for help preserving the Mechanical Alchemy lineage.
• Dora joined Dawn to become the Sky Fortress’s central control system, while Lucien stayed behind to protect Mafa.
• Suren gathered library backups, factories, laboratories, two Special-Class Mechanics, and thousands of mechanics and their families in the Small Void Realm, where they began building the Sky Fortress.
• Five days after Harris III’s assassination, Suren sailed toward Dragon Country aboard the Evernight Emperor and read Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript.
• Suren learned that a Void Mother was an ideal material for the Blasphemer Augment Armor and wondered whether he could send the exiled creature to the Heavenly God Plane.