Chapter Summaries

Vanessa captured York and manipulated Rosalind, Sailesi, and [Divine Wings] into pursuing the fish-tail Holy Remains while she prepared to escape with Aeldra. Ed recognized that Vanessa intended to leave the Demon Realm battle royale early, so he shut the spatial rift she planned to use.

• Vanessa impaled York with her blood lance and forced him out of the shadow, promising to spare his life if he stopped resisting.
• Vanessa used her words to influence Rosalind, then threw the fish-tail Holy Remains so Rosalind, Sailesi, and [Divine Wings] would rush after it.
• Vanessa called to Aeldra and leapt toward the spatial rift, leaving York impaled on her lance.
• Ed realized Vanessa was trying to escape with her gains rather than stay for the battle royale’s final circle.
• Ed clenched his giant hand and forced Aeldra’s spatial rift shut.

Vanessa was trapped on the battlefield when an unknown expert’s interference stopped her from escaping, while Ed maintained the disturbance and launched Project Calamity. As Rosalind gained the upper hand against Sailesi and [Divine Wings], [Divine Wings] appeared to consider a dangerous solution and called out to Councilor [Nether Crossing].

• Vanessa failed to reopen a spatial rift because someone was interfering with the space around her, leaving her trapped with York impaled on her lance.
• Ed continued the spatial disturbance from beyond the mountains, contacted Nuowa, and ordered him to commence Project Calamity.
• Vanessa assessed the likely sources of the interference and realized she would have to remain on the battlefield until she found a way out.
• Rosalind swallowed the "Whale Tail" Holy Remains, transformed into a giant python, and began overpowering Sailesi and [Divine Wings] while absorbing Blood Corpses through her tail.
• Sailesi asked [Divine Wings] what they should do, and [Divine Wings] hesitated before addressing Councilor [Nether Crossing].

[Divine Wings] summoned Warlord Osmond and ordered Sailesi to retrieve a new Holy Remains after victory, while Osmond charged through Rosalind’s monstrous body to reach the councilor. The chapter left Osmond advancing into Rosalind’s maw despite her regenerating teeth and corrosive flesh.

• [Divine Wings] told Sailesi they would abandon Whale Tail and instructed him to retrieve the new Holy Remains once victory was secured.
• [Divine Wings] summoned Osmond, who rushed across the battlefield toward Rosalind’s body and put Warlord Palmer in command of his troops.
• Lord Colin led skeletons and players in a counterattack against the Corpse Tide, while soldiers realized Osmond might become a new councilor.
• Osmond struck Rosalind’s scaled body, but the wound transformed into a huge mouth that trapped him in a difficult fight.
• Urged on by [Divine Wings], Osmond concentrated his psionic energy and hacked through Rosalind’s teeth, pushing deeper into her body despite the acid.

[Divine Wings] sacrificed Osmond to forge a sword from his body, then struck the Whale Tail Holy Remains inside Rosalind and triggered a devastating burst. Vanessa, unable to teleport away and with only four and a half minutes left in her peak state, considered how to extend it by looking at the York she had skewered on her lance.

• [Divine Wings] rescued Osmond from inside Rosalind and asked him to merge with the Whale Tail Holy Remains to change the battle.
• Osmond agreed, but [Divine Wings] killed him with his crystal-cluster greatsword and transformed his body into a weapon.
• [Divine Wings] struck the Whale Tail Holy Remains inside Rosalind, unleashing an immense burst of energy within her body.
• Vanessa reviewed her recent actions and realized that teleportation had failed, leaving her trapped on the battlefield with four and a half minutes of peak strength remaining.
• Vanessa considered ways to prolong her peak state and looked at York, whom she had skewered on her lance.

Vanessa captured York as Rosalind fought the skeletal figures, but [Divine Wings] struck Rosalind with a crystal sword and turned her into a towering crystal statue. Sailesi recovered a new Holy Remains from Rosalind’s shattered body, and [Divine Wings] ordered a retreat before an arrogant voice challenged their escape.

• Vanessa engulfed York in flesh and prepared to seize Rosalind as well if she could defeat her opponents.
• [Divine Wings] struck Rosalind with a crystal-cluster sword, crystallizing her fully transformed body in an instant.
• Sailesi shattered Rosalind’s crystal form and found a spine where the Holy Remains “Whale Tail” had been, discovering it had become “Snake Tail.”
• [Divine Wings] ordered Sailesi to retreat with the new Holy Remains to the Sand Capital, leaving the battlefield to the Border Garrison Warlords.
• An arrogant voice challenged [Divine Wings] and Sailesi as they prepared to leave.

Ed identified the three newcomers as Grand Duke Wens and two of his dukes, then set off on foot to join the battle. Meanwhile, Rosalind awakened in a blood worm’s body beneath the river and realized the skeletons’ power was anchored in physical remains rather than souls or psionic energy.

• Wens, Bianchi, and Ozilazis appeared before [Divine Wings] and Sailesi and stopped them from leaving the battlefield.
• Ed and Balund discussed Bianchi’s past as a dwarven great swordsman, while Aiboke identified Ozilazis as a former lich and Wens as the figure in the middle.
• Ed left Balund and Aiboke to coordinate with Nuowa and walked toward the battlefield to see who else would arrive.
• Rosalind’s damaged consciousness awakened inside the drop of true blood given to [Whale Tail], and she swam through the river as a blood worm.
• Rosalind recalled that she had failed to devour the skeletons’ power and deduced that it was anchored in physical matter rather than souls or psionic energy.
• Rosalind spotted a large fish swimming nearby as she considered how to escape the battlefield.

Rosalind recovered by taking over a Blood Corpse, but Hall found and struck her down with a Blood Arrow. As Vanessa, Wens, and [Divine Wings] formed a temporary alliance against the lich Ozilazis, Ed searched the battlefield and followed a trace of death energy toward the river.

• Rosalind grew by eating a fish, then took control of a Blood Corpse and cautiously approached the battlefield.
• Hall revealed that he had been observing through Blood Corpses, then shot Rosalind between the brows and fled.
• Wens proposed that he and Vanessa attack together, but Vanessa and [Divine Wings] agreed to fight Wens and Ozilazis first so they could leave.
• Wens invoked Blood Pool, changing the sky over the Demon Realm as the fighting began.
• Ed avoided the combatants, followed the faint trace of death energy to the river, and said he had found someone.

Ed investigated why Samuer could not draw power from Councilor [Whale Tail]'s death, then used a Resurrection Tree to locate and fight Samuer beneath the Demon Realm. As their roots clashed, a massive brass-winged eagle suddenly dove toward Ed.

• Ed considered why Samuer had failed to draw power from Councilor [Whale Tail]'s death and concluded that either Whale Tail was not fully dead or the skeleton people’s power came from another world.
• Ed realized Samuer was watching the battlefield and grew a Resurrection Tree beside the river to keep him occupied and revive dead players.
• Players who had stayed dead cheered when they saw Ed’s Resurrection Tree appear.
• Ed used the tree’s roots to find Samuer beneath the Demon Realm, and the two fought through their roots without their main bodies joining in.
• Ed recognized Samuer’s power and memories as remnants of the body Ed had created, thinking of him as an unfilial son.
• A huge brass-winged eagle with a wingspan over ten meters dived toward Ed.

Ed and the six fighters continued battling as Wens, Bianchi, and Ozilazis overwhelmed their opponents. [Divine Wings] resolved to get the new Holy Remains back to the Skeleton Alliance at any cost.

• Ed used his roots to fight off a giant eagle while Vanessa, Wens, two skeletons, Bianchi, and Ozilazis resumed their battles.
• Vanessa realized Wens had become the strongest of the Demon Realm’s three great generals, and his pool of blood let him recover from her attacks.
• Bianchi’s relentless, precisely timed sword strikes forced Sailesi to dodge and retreat through the air.
• Ozilazis bombarded [Divine Wings] with countless spells, hiding deadly high-tier attacks among weaker ones.
• [Divine Wings] saw Sailesi still carrying the snake-tail vertebrae and decided to return the Holy Remains to the Alliance regardless of the cost.

Palmer answered [Divine Wings]'s summons and was killed so the skeleton could take his sword and combine it with another into a greatsword for the fight against the lich. Meanwhile, Ed drove off the mechanical falcon, and Vanessa trapped Wens in ice before joining the attack on the lich.

• [Divine Wings] appointed Colin acting warlord, and Colin led the remaining troops against Rosalind's Blood Corpses.
• [Divine Wings] killed Palmer with a burst of light and took his longsword.
• [Divine Wings] combined Palmer's longsword with his shortsword to create a giant crystal-cluster greatsword.
• Ed battered the mechanical falcon until it fled with a broken wing, while continuing his root duel with Samuer.
• [Divine Wings] chose to target the lich, and Sailesi flew to support him.
• Vanessa encased Wens in a giant ball of ice and joined the attack on the lich.

Vanessa and her allies tried to defeat the hidden lich Ozilazis before Wens and the dwarven swordsman could return to the fight. Sailesi revealed a strange crystal flower and unleashed an ability across the battlefield, leaving Ozilazis puzzled as the chapter ended.

• Vanessa decided to target Ozilazis because she could not kill Wens permanently while his blood remained.
• Ozilazis separated his attackers with spells, then recognized Vanessa’s verbal influence and destroyed his ears to resist it.
• Vanessa shattered Ozilazis’s shield and struck his body, but he vanished using a concealment ability that hid him from sight and psionic perception.
• As Wens’s ice prison began cracking and Bianchi returned, Sailesi offered to reveal Ozilazis and received permission from [Divine Wings] to act.
• Sailesi grew a crystal spider lily, crushed its petals, and sent invisible Psionic Energy across the battlefield, puzzling the concealed Ozilazis.

Sailesi used [Dream of Rebirth] to expose Ozilazis and force him out of hiding, allowing [Divine Wings] and Vanessa to attack him. When Sailesi trapped Bianchi in a nightmare about the dwarves’ Book of Grudges, the dwarf broke free and threatened [Divine Wings], leaving Sailesi to decide which enemy to help defeat first.

• Sailesi made Ozilazis fear that his hiding place had been discovered, and the lich emerged from the gap between reality and Psionic Energy.
• [Divine Wings] and Vanessa attacked Ozilazis while Sailesi prepared to use [Dream of Rebirth] again.
• Sailesi trapped the returning dwarven greatswordsman Bianchi in a vision of the dwarves’ sanctuary and the Book of Grudges filling up.
• Bianchi broke free from the nightmare, knocked [Divine Wings]'s crystal-cluster greatsword aside, and threatened to kill him if he would not let him live.
• Sailesi surveyed the battlefield and considered whether to help finish off Bianchi or Ozilazis first.

Sailesi accidentally drove Wens into a frenzy with [Dream of Rebirth], while Vanessa fought to contain him and tried to explain the ancient grievance that fueled his rage. After Sailesi defeated the lich Ozilazis, Samuer emerged to revive himself, but an emerald-green figure attacked him before he could speak to Sailesi.

• Sailesi activated [Dream of Rebirth] on Wens, who absorbed its Psionic Energy and froze in confusion.
• Vanessa fought Wens as he drained the blood pool, and he raged over Rosalind's abuse from the vampires' early history.
• Sailesi defeated Ozilazis outside the blood pool's healing range and killed the lich.
• Samuer emerged from the ground, drained Ozilazis's corpse, and revealed that he had used Sailesi to help revive himself.
• An emerald-green figure attacked Samuer before he could finish speaking to Sailesi, leaving Sailesi wondering whether he should still listen.

Ed confronted Samuer, who explained his plan to destroy the world and rebuild it through their merger as the World Tree. Ed rejected Samuer’s fatalism and learned that Samuer had returned from another, already-dead world.

• Ed attacked Samuer, but both revealed they were acting through bodies that could regenerate.
• Samuer explained that merging too early would limit their power, and said he intended to destroy the world and create a new one compatible with the Demonic Tide.
• Ed criticized Samuer’s plan and challenged him to take Ed’s power if he wanted it.
• Ed asked what lay beyond the world, and Samuer said he had returned from another world that had already died.
• Ed dismissed the prospect of their future merger and declared that he would cast aside death.

Ed and Samuer agreed to leave the battlefield, since their opposing authorities let them trade avatars indefinitely and Samuer wanted the other fighters to continue without them. As Ed’s avatar began to decay, he concluded that Samuer knew nothing of the Sea of Psionic Energy and revised his plans, deciding he no longer needed to prevent high-tier deaths.

• Samuer suggested that he and Ed leave the battle, and Ed recognized that Samuer would keep trading avatars with him if he intervened.
• Samuer departed as his body rotted away, while Ed’s avatar began aging under the effect of their equal and opposing authorities.
• Ed confirmed that Samuer knew only the Material Plane and believed the dead world beyond it was all that existed.
• Ed concluded that Samuer’s desire to merge with him made him an enemy, and he changed his plans for the rest of the battle.

Ed realized the plan to let high tiers die could continue as long as their Authorities were inherited and Samuer did not outpace him. In Valhalla, Willow Seretima unexpectedly became a high tier and immediately recognized flaws in her alchemical golem designs, leaving her eager to test her improvements.

• Ed sensed a powerful psionic fluctuation from the west and realized it marked the birth of a new high tier, likely Willow.
• Willow collapsed while researching an alchemical golem, then discovered her mind and psionic perception had become dramatically sharper.
• Willow relived a memory of her mother and teacher, Yiwenni, describing the experience of becoming a high tier as a second life.
• Willow examined the Seretima Type I and spotted major inefficiencies in its Psionic Energy Circuits.
• Willow swiftly modified the golem but found herself without a suitable opponent to test it on.

Ed told Willow that Ozilazis’s death had made her the last lich and granted her the liches’ Authority, and she asked for Wens’s coordinates so she could confront him. As Ed’s clone neared death, he offered Vanessa a way to leave the battlefield in exchange for a favor, but the chapter ended before he explained what he needed.

• Ed told Willow that she had advanced because Ozilazis had died, leaving her as the last lich with the liches’ Authority.
• Willow learned that Wens was on the battlefield and demanded Ed’s coordinates so she could reach him.
• Ed realized Vanessa was tiring and that Wens might win before Nuowa arrived, so he used psionic pulses to help Willow and Nuowa locate him.
• Ed contacted Vanessa and offered to let her leave the battlefield if she did something for him before departing.
• Vanessa recognized Ed as the source of the battlefield’s spatial interference and asked what he wanted, but Ed’s request was cut off.

Vanessa agreed to the King of Domination’s deal, then used Aeldra’s power to escape through a spatial rift while Wens tried to stop her. She left Sailesi and [Divine Wings] to face Wens as a familiar figure began to appear beyond the rift.

• The King of Domination agreed to Ed’s deal, and the spatial disturbance vanished when Ed’s clone dissolved into ash.
• Vanessa called on Aeldra, opened a rift, and hurled her lance with York inside through it toward the Amber Dragon.
• Vanessa pursued the lance, but Wens raised a towering sea of blood to block her escape.
• Vanessa veered past Sailesi, drawing Wens’s blood waves toward him, while Sailesi broke through them and [Divine Wings] fought Bianchi.
• Vanessa circled the blood barriers, reached the rift, and escaped as a familiar figure began taking shape beyond it.

Vanessa and Aeldra restored time across the Eternal Domain, sealed its borders, and prepared to begin a purification ritual with York. The story then shifted to the Demon Realm battlefield, where Ed’s preparations for the battle royale came into focus.

• Vanessa returned to her throne and fused with Aeldra, restoring time and the Eternal Domain’s inhabitants.
• Aeldra ordered Silvis to seal the Eternal Domain’s borders and gave two servants bloodline powers to guard the palace.
• Vanessa summoned the lance containing York, and she and Aeldra prepared to begin their ritual after Vanessa declared herself purified.
• Ed assigned the Graycast Corridor to monitor the Eternal Domain and produce parts for combat machine spirits.
• Ed, Duma, and Nuowa divided their preparations: Ed went to the Demon Realm, Nuowa recruited players, and Duma mobilized the Soul Returner Legion.

Ed’s Calamity Plan teleported a massive player force into the Demon Realm, where Duma led them into battle. As Wens advanced and Sailesi faced being trapped, [Divine Wings] gave Sailesi his crystal-cluster wings and stayed behind to hold off Bianchi.

• Nuowa used Grand Thunder Teleportation to bring players, Soldier Bees, and mobile fortresses into the Demon Realm, completing the Calamity Plan’s deployment.
• Duma declared the attack, and [Autumn Light and Osmanthus Shadows] led the Soldier Bee pilots into the air as the Calamity Legion advanced.
• Wens ordered Lombardi to speed up the march and challenged Sailesi and the other skeletons to fight rather than attempt to teleport away.
• [Divine Wings] told Sailesi to retreat and transferred his six crystal-cluster wings to him, placing much of the Skeleton Alliance’s strength in Sailesi’s hands.
• [Divine Wings] split the crystal-cluster greatsword and attacked Bianchi, driving him back beneath the blood pool and stabbing him under the arm.