Chapter Summaries

Pope Anthony and the Dawn Empire’s Royalist Faction prepared to replace the God of Dawn with the Lord of Radiance, and the pope ordered a purge of the opposition. Meanwhile, the White Wolf King accepted the pope’s demand for cooperation, and Lancelot discovered that Zyra’s anger reading did not match her furious act.

• Pope Anthony learned that Shipeier and Kelongjia were stirring believers against the church’s plans, while Archbishop Kelaolunsi sought a cardinal election.
• Pope Anthony ordered Golden Lion Jiesili to establish the Inquisition and target the Demigod powerhouses supporting the Dawn Empire’s diehards.
• The Dawn Empire’s ambassador asked the White Wolf King to help clear the church of heretics, and the king agreed without asking questions.
• Brinsha watched the ambassador leave as strange white threads appeared and vanished in the White Wolf King’s eyes.
• Zyra confronted Lancelot after he touched her butt, but Lancelot saw that her Anger Value was only 102 and suspected she was pretending.

Lancelot tested the Mouth of Gluttony on Zyra, secured a more favorable contract with its god-level devil owner, and received a Blue Dragon Potion from Logo. He completed his eighth ability awakening in the Totem World, where a pair of enormous lightning wings appeared behind him.

• Lancelot provoked Zyra to raise her Anger Value, then endured her beating in the private arena while recording the results.
• After receiving Gustavo's Oath Badge, Lancelot summoned the god-level devil who owned the Mouth of Gluttony and used the badge to secure a fifty-fifty contract.
• Lancelot discovered the new contract strengthened the Mouth of Gluttony's ability to sense anger and gave it offensive and defensive uses.
• Cleifer delivered Logo's spatial ring, which contained cultivation resources and two Blue Dragon Bloodline Potions.
• Lancelot drank a Blue Dragon Bloodline Potion in the Totem World, destroyed the dragon's residual will, and completed his eighth awakening after two days, gaining a pair of twenty-meter lightning wings.

Lancelot gained the Wings of Thunder ability, reported to Tuoshan Bird Base, collected upgraded equipment, and accepted mission 53. The chapter revealed that the mission was in the Yinniu Kingdom and stemmed from the Sebawen Faith seeking aid after the Dawn Empire’s great purge.

• Lancelot tested his new Wings of Thunder, then concealed his dragon wings and left the Totem World.
• After speaking with Fituosi, Lancelot traveled to Tuoshan Bird Base and reported for duty.
• Yelena issued Lancelot standard equipment and let him exchange his sniper rifle and vehicle for Legend-quality gear.
• Lancelot declined Wenni Claire’s invitation and registered for mission 53.
• The chapter explained that the pope’s great purge had pressured the Sebawen Faith to seek help from the Anti-Dawn Alliance, leading to Lancelot’s mission in the Yinniu Kingdom.

Lancelot entered Desolation City under the alias Dragon Tree to protect Bishop Bolai while secretly serving the Crimson Alliance. After Nadak assigned him to provide sniping and healing support, Lancelot prepared for an enemy attack expected within three days.

• Lancelot reviewed the Sebawen Faith's oppression of the Yinniu People and traveled to Desolation City in a heavily armed vehicle.
• Using his Bald Eagle Company pass and the alias Dragon Tree, Lancelot entered the guarded building where Bishop Bolai's forces were assembling.
• Lancelot told Nadak he was a Tier Nine sniper and healer, drawing attention from the other Transcendents and earning Hadio's goodwill with a payment.
• Nadak assigned Lancelot to the third combat zone's second-ring defense line, where he would provide long-range fire and medical assistance alongside seven or eight High-Rank Transcendents.
• Nadak promised rewards, including divine crystals, to exceptional fighters and warned that the enemy might attack within three days.
• Hadio approached Lancelot after the meeting, and Lancelot agreed to help him during the fighting.

Lancelot prepared to defend the Dragon Tree sub-battle zone as the Judgment Knights arrived and began their assault on Desolation City. After the knights broke through the third defense zone, Lancelot opened fire but found their linked rune formation was built to counter snipers.

• Lancelot set up the Shadow Lady on an air-defense tower and kept the Flame Tyrant compressed as a surprise weapon.
• Bishop Bolai met with Legendary allies Aifuna and an orc, while hidden forces discussed a watched spy and marched through a secluded canyon.
• The Judgment Knights appeared outside Desolation City, and both their commanders and Bishop Bolai held back their full strength to draw out the enemy's hidden experts.
• The Judgment Knights sent magic colossi forward, then broke through the third defense zone with a charge of assault troops.
• Nadak ordered Lancelot to hold three knight squads in his area, and Lancelot shot a Tier Eight knight but failed to kill him.
• The knights formed a linked rune-array fortress that obscured Lancelot's aim and deflected bullets, provoking his excitement for the fight.

Lancelot helped defend Desolation City by destroying Judgment Knight squads, healing the wounded, and supporting his allies as the battle escalated. When the Knights revealed a trap that turned the tide against the defenders, Lancelot and Hadio escaped, and the war ended with the city in ruins but all five Legendaries alive.

• Lancelot used the Flame Tyrant to wipe out the Judgment Knight squads in Dragon Tree's combat zone, then healed more than thirty seriously wounded Transcendents.
• The Judgment Knights launched further attacks with alchemical cannons, and Lancelot's side drove them back despite suffering losses; Hadio mourned a fallen friend.
• Legendary fighters joined the battle, and Bishop Bolai sent a forest elf and an orc Legendary to attack the Judgment Knights' scattered forces.
• Four hidden auras restored the Knights' formation and trapped the Legendaries' attacks, revealing that Bishop Bolai's side had been outmaneuvered.
• Bishop Bolai and Nadak began retreating, while Lancelot ordered Hadio to escape and vanished; Hadio used a scroll to flee, and the Flame Tyrant disappeared shortly afterward.
• Desolation City was reduced to ruins, but all five Legendaries survived, while Transcendents below Legendary level died.

Lancelot pursued Bishop Bolai and Nadak after the battle at Desolation City, confronting them in the form of a powerful lightning dragonman. When Nadak's defenses and Bishop Bolai's divine spells prolonged the fight, Lancelot unleashed the Mouth of Gluttony and left Nadak being devoured.

• Lancelot tracked Bishop Bolai's flying shuttle as it fled Desolation City and attacked it with his lightning domain.
• Nadak transformed into a giant holy knight to protect Bishop Bolai, who cast more than twenty divine spells to strengthen him.
• Lancelot enlarged his dragonman form and fought Nadak, but Nadak's cautious defense prevented him from landing a decisive blow.
• Lancelot activated the Mouth of Gluttony, and Bishop Bolai recognized its power as coming from Hell.
• The Mouth of Gluttony's voice distracted Nadak, allowing Lancelot to pierce his chest with a lightning spear and drag him into its maw with a red tongue.

Lancelot killed Bishop Bolai and recovered hidden divine knowledge for the Alliance, while the Sebawen Faith prepared to act on an oracle. In the Gendaya Royal Court, Logo developed Phoenix-blood creations and upgraded the Sky Eagle Mecha.

• Lancelot killed Bishop Bolai, escaped the pursuing Judgment Knights, and found runes hidden beneath Bolai's skin that contained the divine knowledge the Alliance sought.
• Saint Sebawen told Graham that an oracle called for believers to prepare as darkness spread and suffering created fertile ground for faith.
• After four months of construction, Logo's demiplane had become a growing alchemical production base, and he continued building his private alchemy tower.
• Logo studied Phoenix blood, created Undying Blood, and planned to produce ten Undying Feather Guards.
• Logo sent Gustavo a portion of the Phoenix blood and upgraded the Sky Eagle Mecha with a crimson-gold heart made using the blood.

Logo tested the Phoenix-blood-enhanced Sky Eagle Mecha, studied the time-and-space-based Panbosaier Restriction Belt, and discussed the New Blood Plan’s dwindling blood essence with Alex. He then arrived at Sunset Territory as the four great lords prepared to attack the Dawn Empire, leaving both sides’ massive forces mobilized for war.

• Logo piloted the Sky Eagle Mecha and judged its power sufficient to raise his combat strength to roughly legendary tier two.
• Logo examined the damaged Panbosaier Restriction Belt, while his Devouring Insect swarm expanded and his second-generation insects neared production.
• Alex told Logo that blood essence would run out in six months, and vowed to keep the New Blood Plan moving by confronting the Old Blood Faction.
• Logo arrived at Sunset Jungle, where Luomu Yigeng welcomed him and reported that the southern coast’s attack on the Dawn Empire would begin at three the next morning.
• Luomu showed Logo the territory’s war preparations, including massed rats, Ironclad War Elephants, and armies of monsters moving toward the front.
• Logo saw undead gathering in the Abyss, sandworm and insect forces advancing under the Dusk Lord, and the Mist Lord’s lizardmen and dragons heading toward the battlefield.

Logo joined the attack on Leyn City's spatially protected Underdark, where he assigned Walpole to maintain space bubbles and began analyzing the barrier. As the four great lords' ground forces advanced, both sides engaged across the barrier and war erupted.

• High Priest Gate learned that the Royalist Faction had sent fewer reinforcements than promised, then ordered Leyn City's commanders to defend the empire regardless.
• Logo sent his allied army marching toward the front and directed the old count to give certain people difficult and dangerous missions.
• Logo and Walpole joined Chief Steward Luomu at a Space Detection Tower, where Logo assigned Walpole to maintain the space bubbles and began studying Leyn City's spatial barrier.
• The four great lords' ground forces charged Leyn City's first line of defense as all four Space Detection Towers launched space bubbles toward the Underdark.
• Leyn City's defenders met the attackers across the spatial barrier, and war erupted.

Logo used his Eye of Insight to protect his forces from enemy attacks while the war against Leyn City escalated. By deploying Devouring Insects to weaken the city’s fortress defenses, he led the Heavenly Eye Force to break through Leyn City’s first defensive line in just three days.

• Logo warned his forces to evade a space orbital cannon strike, saving many warriors and reprimanding those who hesitated.
• Logo’s foresight helped his army avoid attacks, while Leyn City’s spatial assassins failed to reach him and were killed by his guards.
• Logo recognized that peak Demigods were fighting above the southern coast, and the Planet Oklo Council forced them to move their battle into dimensional space.
• Logo assessed Leyn City’s defensive line and released Devouring Insects, which consumed the light-element formations protecting its fortresses.
• Logo ordered the Heavenly Eye Force to attack, and its mecha warriors captured fortress after fortress.
• Deputy City Lord Kaierman learned that Leyn City’s first defensive line had fallen only three days into the war.

Kaierman and Nelson tried to halt Logo’s advance by adapting Leyn City’s defenses and creating a weapon against the Devouring Insects. Logo countered with second-generation insects, and their distant contest ended when Leyn City’s lord fell from the sky as a corpse.

• Nelson identified the Devouring Insects as weapons that targeted light-based defenses and promised Kaierman a countermeasure within days.
• Logo’s forces attacked the second defensive line as Kaierman deployed troops, decoys, and self-destructing fortresses to slow them.
• Nelson developed mechanical spheres that disrupted the insects’ gene chains, briefly restoring Leyn City’s defenses.
• Logo examined a broken sphere and sent his second-generation Devouring Insects into battle while requesting more research resources from the Community.
• Kaierman summoned Nelson after the spheres stopped working, and Nelson eagerly set out to study the new insects.
• The ground war continued as Logo and Nelson’s research contest unfolded, until Leyn City’s lord’s corpse fell from the heavens.

After the Leyn City lord was killed, Logo recognized the pope’s role in the political purge and pressed the attack while Nelson fled Leyn City with secret information. Logo’s forces rescued Nelson, who revealed he possessed part of Leyn City’s defense plans.

• The Sunset Lord confronted Golden Lion Jiesili while the Mist Lord shielded them and the Dusk and Death Lords left the scene.
• Logo told the old earl that Pope Anthony Douglas had abandoned the Leyn City lord, then urged their forces to exploit the opening and continue attacking.
• Nelson escaped Leyn City in a shuttle, and Holy See pursuers chased him through dimensional space as he released biological weapons.
• Logo sent Steward Luomu to intercept the pursuit, and the Inferno Demonic Bull’s arrival sparked a fierce battle that let Nelson get away.
• Logo met Nelson and learned that the pope had ordered the pursuit because Nelson held part of Leyn City’s defense plans.

Logo helped the coalition breach Leyn City's logistics base, seized vast spoils, and planted spatial beacons before the Church forced his forces to withdraw. As the war shifted into a prolonged campaign, Logo's equipment and resources grew, and his Power of Immortality reached 60.12%.

• Logo recruited Nelson for a thirty-year term after receiving Leyn City's defense plan and binding Nelson to a cursed contract.
• Logo gave the defense plan to Chief Luomu, and the four lords' coalition used it to breach the logistics base and loot its production lines, materials, and specialists.
• Logo had Crassus plant spatial beacons, but the Church's elite forces counterattacked and drove the coalition out of the Underdark.
• Golden Lion Jiesili stopped the battle outside Leyn City and declared that the war had only just begun, while the Sunset Lord told Mist Lord Yilanisi that her forces would keep attacking and planned to make Logo Campbell the fifth chief.
• Half a month later, Logo discovered that his Polaris sniper cannon had reached Immortal quality and his Power of Immortality had risen to 60.12%.
• Caesar reported the coalition's vast spoils to Logo and said Nelson was thriving under his new arrangements.

Logo accepted the chief administrator position and responsibility for commerce in the Sunset Territory, then traveled to Planet Guta to meet Kusisi about cooperation with the Ximenjia Consortium. Meanwhile, Gustavo prepared to target talented Guta Star People, and the chapter ended as Logo began discussing a commercial partnership with Kusisi.

• Logo explained that he would continue developing the Underdark, attended a decoration ceremony, and identified Aierwen, Gu An, and Tanduyin as promising future commanders.
• Logo told Caesar they would visit Planet Guta, then accepted the chief administrator position and took charge of the Sunset Territory's commerce and trade.
• Gustavo learned that Logo was coming to Planet Guta and confirmed that Brooks had prepared to find academies and talented people for his plans.
• Brooks explained Gustavo's task to Diwoer, and the two went to the food street while Logo's spaceship traveled to Planet Guta.
• Logo arrived at the Cloud-Touching Tower and met Kusisi at the Ximenjia Consortium headquarters.
• Logo told Kusisi he wanted to discuss commercial cooperation between the Sunset Territory and Ximenjia.

Logo secured a stronger partnership with the Ximenjia Consortium and began scouting talented students across Planet Guta for Gustavo to secretly control and nurture. On Planet Oklo, Lancelot recovered from battle and began cultivating with sunlight particles to form the S-rank Tree of Life Innovation Skill.

• Logo persuaded Kusisi to expand the Ximenjia Consortium’s partnership with the Sunset Territory, while Kusisi and Alberto discussed recruiting him without exposing Ashes’ connection to the Federation.
• Logo warned Caesar to build a solid foundation for the Ruibete Group, then took him to Claudir Magic Academy to inspect its facilities and select eleven promising students.
• Gustavo collected the students’ auras and gave their names and auras to Diwoer, who divined their future movements so they could be targeted for Parasitic Spider Eggs.
• Logo continued scouting talented people across Planet Guta, while Gustavo planned to nurture those he controlled and use them to influence the Federation’s resources.
• After healing from the battle at the Light-Bathed Sea, Lancelot returned to his residence, took out sunlight particles, and began cultivating to form the Tree of Life Innovation Skill.

After completing the Tree of Life Innovation Skill, Lancelot reached Tier Nine, gained control of the law of life, and developed the Legendary Power of Decay. On his flight back to the Crimson Alliance, Zyra stopped two Black Spider assassins targeting him, and she urged him to prepare for the great opportunity connected to the Key of Luolunsi.

• Lancelot completed the Tree of Life Innovation Skill, reached Tier Nine, and learned to wield the law of life and the Power of Decay.
• Two days later, Lancelot flew back to the Crimson Alliance disguised as Dragon Tree and fell asleep aboard the plane.
• Two Black Spider assassins tried to capture Lancelot, but Zyra caught them and interrogated them about their assignment.
• Zyra knocked out the assassins and explained that the academy could use its mind sorcerers to question them.
• Zyra reminded Lancelot that he had received the Key of Luolunsi and told him to prepare for the great opportunity tied to it.

Lancelot prepared to graduate by challenging the Holy Sword Stairway, while arranging for Nancy and Kelar to establish Terra Technology. As his climb became a public Alliance broadcast, he reached the 998th step and faced a projection of Steel Tiger Kamori.

• Lancelot told Senior Nancy and Kelar he planned to graduate soon and asked them to keep managing his affairs by founding Terra Technology with his patents.
• Lancelot entered the Holy Sword Stairway and defeated opponent after opponent, climbing past the rankings of the academy’s legendary figures.
• Zyra showed Mona the projection of Lancelot’s climb, while academy leaders debated whether to release the footage.
• Dean Urta overruled Vice Dean Nether Eyes Louis and ordered the academy to broadcast Lancelot’s challenge live across the Alliance, despite Steel Tiger Kamori’s concerns about assassination threats.
• Lancelot reached the 998th step and recognized the final-stage opponent as a projection of Steel Tiger Kamori, who immediately attacked in the form of a steel war tiger.

Lancelot defeated Director Iron Tiger’s Legendary projection on the Holy Sword Stairway, then faced the projection of Blood Weeper Boros. As their battle turned into a brutal exchange of attacks, Boros and Director Iron Tiger watched and wagered on the outcome.

• Lancelot used Thunder Dragon Flash to evade Director Iron Tiger’s metal spikes and countered his metal defenses with the Power of Decay.
• Lancelot lured Director Iron Tiger into a concentrated burst of decay, stopped the metal ground from restoring him, and destroyed his projection with a powerful kick.
• Lancelot’s victory drew attention from allies and enemies, and the Blood Ancestor ordered Ashes to try to assassinate him.
• Lancelot encountered Boros’s projection on the next step, while Director Iron Tiger and Boros bet on which fighter would win within five minutes.
• Lancelot attacked Boros head-on, endured his blood blades and Blood Qi, and traded a barrage of decaying punches with Boros as both projections suffered heavy damage.

Lancelot defeated Boros in the livestream, then cleared the final step of the Holy Sword Stairway by defeating Moon Breaker’s projection. The academy announced that Lancelot had set a new record and granted him major rewards, including an SSS-rank Innovation Skill selection.

• Lancelot outlasted Boros’s blood-qi assault and destroyed his projection with a final blow.
• Director Iron Tiger sent Boros an Annihilation Blood Stone through Vice Dean Louis’s sprite, insisting Boros owed him a favor.
• Lancelot began the 1,000th step of the Holy Sword Stairway and faced Moon Breaker, Maxwell’s projection.
• Lancelot converted his life force into the Power of Decay and unleashed his burst skills to keep Moon Breaker at bay.
• Moon Breaker reached Lancelot and landed a final punch, but his body disintegrated from the Power of Decay, allowing Lancelot to clear the stairway.
• The academy announced that Lancelot had ranked first since its founding and awarded him credits, an SSS-rank Innovation Skill selection, increased clearance, a Holy Sword Token, and access to its secret cultivation grounds.