Chapter Summaries

Nia controlled Yi Aier’s siege-mode weapon as it erased White Feather Fortress, demonstrating the Magic Empire’s overwhelming power. Back in Ringwraith City, Li Lin ordered Angela to continue the invasion of Kudel while preserving their strength and secrets, and the Goddess of Secrets warned that the God of Justice was striking back with allies.

• Kalin complained that the defenders were boring, while Nia took control of Yi Aier’s siege mode and Beika protected the group with a barrier.
• Nia released Yi Aier’s stored energy at White Feather Fortress, leaving a vast, scorching chasm where the city had stood.
• Soldiers sent to investigate found the fortress completely destroyed and returned unable to approach the overheated ground.
• Yi Aier boasted about her power in Ringwraith City, while Angela challenged her and Anna said she could destroy a city too.
• Li Lin ordered Angela to continue the invasion of Kudel, keep her abilities secret, and conserve strength for their ultimate enemy, the God of Justice.
• The Goddess of Secrets warned Li Lin that the God of Justice had not given up, was striking back, and was not fighting alone.

Li Lin considered the Goddess of Secrets’ cryptic warning while reviewing the Magic Empire’s alliances and learning that Suoxiate had punished Beika for questioning his decision. He reassured Beika that her doubts were understandable, then announced that she and the others would accompany him on an outing the next day.

• Angela complained that the Goddess of Secrets had offered no useful explanation, while Li Lin considered her warning that he would not be fighting alone.
• Li Lin reviewed the Magic Empire’s allies and learned that Princess Shirley faced assassination attempts, which the Dark Elves guarding her had thwarted.
• Li Lin confronted Suoxiate about Beika, and Suoxiate confirmed that she had punished her for overstepping her duties.
• Li Lin visited the Crystal Palace and found Beika bandaged while Yi Aier treated her and the other Weapon Spirits worried over her.
• Li Lin told Beika that he understood her feelings and did not think she had been wrong to question him, though Beika refused to admit she agreed.
• Li Lin told Beika to keep the next day free because he planned to take all the Weapon Spirits out with him.

Li Lin visited the City of a Thousand Towers to discuss its future as a border fortress, then took his three maids shopping. He revealed that the gifts he bought them were birthday presents, though Beika still struggled to accept hers.

• Li Lin reflected on the city’s growing ties to the Magic Empire and its plans to become a fortified border city.
• Li Lin brought Suoxiate, Yi Aier, and Beika to Old Pikachu’s shop while Angela held a deadly race for survivors elsewhere.
• Li Lin asked Old Pikachu to choose distinctive gifts for his maids, and the merchant selected jewelry for each of them.
• Yi Aier and Suoxiate accepted their gifts, but Beika refused hers, believing Li Lin was trying to console her.
• Li Lin told his maids, “happy birthday,” explaining why he had brought them gifts.

Li Lin celebrated the three maids’ shared birthday by giving them jewelry, then met a group of border-region mages seeking to join the Magic Empire. He demanded they kill all Five-Nation Alliance soldiers and civilians in their lands and declare independence, and the chapter ended with Yi Aier destroying an attacker disguised as a mage while Li Lin pressed the gathered mages to choose.

• Li Lin gave Suoxiate, Yi Aier, and Beika birthday gifts at Old Pikachu’s shop, and Old Pikachu accepted payment before explaining to his servant why he had not given the jewelry away.
• Li Lin and the three maids visited the top floor, where the City of a Thousand Towers’ administrators introduced mages from the border regions who had come seeking his protection.
• The old mages explained that they had revealed the City of a Thousand Towers’ connection to the Magic Empire to their allies, who feared the Empire’s invasion and the Magic Association’s abandonment of them.
• Li Lin agreed to let the border mages join the Magic Empire if they killed every Five-Nation Alliance soldier and civilian on their lands and declared independence.
• A mage disguised with Polymorph attacked Li Lin, but Beika stopped and sealed him; Yi Aier blasted him away, and Li Lin urged the gathered mages to make their choice.

Henderson brought Mobius to a ruined altar, where Gabriel gave him seven divine artifacts and ordered them to seek Xialuo's support against the Magic Empire. Meanwhile, Kudel's king learned that the kingdom lacked fire oil to repel the undead and faced disaster on several fronts, until an old man offered one remaining option.

• Henderson led Mobius to an ancient altar and summoned Gabriel, the archangel of the God of Justice.
• Gabriel told Mobius that the God of Justice was fighting the Arcane Mage and gave him seven divine artifacts called the Divine Envoys of the Seven Sages after he swore to fight for justice.
• Gabriel said they would travel to the Xialuo Kingdom to seek its support, then return to Dideyasi and ask Catherine to help form a new alliance.
• In Kudel's royal capital, the king berated his generals after the undead captured five cities in three days, and they explained that a naval blockade had left them short of fire oil.
• The king demanded a way to stop the undead, and an old man stepped forward to say they had only one option left.

Kudel’s starving court debated surrendering to the Magic Empire, and the king chose to seek peace and break from the Five-Nation Alliance. Meanwhile, Li Lin watched Miu'erkasi train an undead cavalry force before Nia delivered an urgent message from Catherine about a serious problem.

• An old adviser urged Kudel’s king to seek peace, explaining that famine, blocked escape routes, and Lalia’s hostility left the country with no viable alternative.
• Kudel’s king decided to send a peace letter to the Magic Empire and declared that Kudel would leave the Five-Nation Alliance.
• Li Lin observed Miu'erkasi drill undead knights and learned that she had adapted her cavalry tactics to their lack of fear and independent will.
• Miu'erkasi lamented that her undead soldiers were cold puppets compared with the lively army she once commanded, and Li Lin comforted her.
• Nia arrived and told Li Lin that Catherine had sent an urgent message about a serious problem.

Catherine told Li Lin that a mysterious girl accompanying Henderson and the young savior was coming to Dideyasi, and Li Lin identified her as an archangel chief. To protect Catherine’s cover, he offered to transform her into a Dark Angel Chief, a dangerous process she accepted; the chapter ended with Li Lin and Nia preparing for her transformation.

• Catherine reported that Henderson had visited the Xialuo royal palace with the young savior and a strange girl whose presence had overwhelmed her and destroyed her spying equipment.
• Li Lin deduced that the girl was an archangel chief and warned that her authority could make Catherine reveal her secrets.
• Li Lin explained that he could transform Catherine into an archangel chief, but the God of Justice might discover her, so he proposed making her a Dark Angel Chief instead.
• Li Lin warned Catherine that the transformation would require her to die and be resurrected, with failure meaning death, and Catherine agreed to take the risk for him.
• After Catherine’s illusion disappeared, Nia told Li Lin that Catherine’s love had already been returned, while Li Lin and Nia went to prepare the materials for the transformation.

Catherine underwent a succubus’s corruption trial, which trapped her in nightmares that tested her loyalty to Li Lin and exposed her doubts about serving him. She rejected the succubus’s attempt to claim her and reaffirmed her devotion to Li Lin, awakening magical wings alongside her dark ones.

• Catherine poured Li Lin’s potion onto the ground, summoning a succubus who recognized her as a saintess and ordered her to reveal her true form.
• The succubus enveloped Catherine in black mist, rendering her unconscious and making her white wings wither.
• In a nightmare, Catherine rejected Herbert, killed him, and condemned the people who had celebrated her sacrifices.
• Catherine dreamed that Li Lin betrayed her during the fall of Ringwraith City and later neglected her, leaving her to question her purpose as his servant.
• The succubus tempted Catherine with a lover and urged her to recognize her own desires, but Catherine awoke and declared that she believed in Li Lin.
• Catherine’s magical light formed a new pair of wings alongside her dark wings, surprising the succubus as the corruption trial neared its end.

Li Lin and Nia discussed Catherine’s transformation into a Magic Angel and agreed to keep its origin secret. Ten days later, Archangel Gabriel met Catherine and presented the God of Justice’s plan to unite Xialuo and Dideyasi as a democratic nation to resist the Magic Empire, leaving Catherine willing to support it despite her doubts.

• Li Lin realized Catherine had gained magic-based powers through her faith in him, and he told Nia the discovery must remain secret.
• Catherine welcomed Henderson, a young knight, and Gabriel to the royal palace, where Gabriel identified herself as the God of Justice’s envoy.
• Catherine followed Li Lin’s instructions and treated Gabriel with respect while concealing her Magic Angel identity.
• Gabriel gave Catherine a letter explaining that Xialuo and Dideyasi would merge into a new democratic nation to unite against the Magic Empire.
• Catherine questioned the timing and risks of changing the nations’ political systems, but said she trusted Gabriel and the God of Justice.

Xialuo and Dideyasi formed a joint government under the God of Justice’s reform plan, but nobles resisted sharing power with commoners. After the Federation Council was established, Catherine attended its first meeting and encountered hostility from the newly elected Xialuo representatives.

• Catherine told Dideyasi’s nobles that the political reforms had to proceed because they were the will of a god, and the proposed council reserved half its seats for elected commoners.
• Angela watched the Temple-supervised election and told Catherine that voting would not help the humans resist her undead army.
• Gabriel placated Xialuo’s powerful nobles, and the final Federation Council gave commoner representatives a vote on proposals but little control over government departments or resources.
• Li Lin criticized the council system to Nia and said that placing a country’s fate in the hands of the majority would eventually lead to failure.
• A month after the elections, Catherine entered the Federation Council’s first meeting and greeted the Xialuo representatives.
• One elected Xialuo representative refused to show Catherine respect, claiming that the representatives were her equals and spoke for the people.

Catherine struggled to keep the United Council focused on preparing for the Magic Empire, while six commoner representatives argued with nobles over taxes, status, and authority. On Angela’s advice, Catherine offered the representatives control of regional military supplies, then proposed that the people vote on who should manage them.

• At the United Council’s first meeting, a commoner representative objected to Xialuo paying for its own military preparations, and the council descended into arguments over taxes, status, and the Saintess’s place in government.
• After the meeting, Catherine told Angela she doubted the commoner representatives cared about the country, and Angela proposed tempting them with authority to expose their divisions.
• At the next meeting, Catherine offered the six representatives control over military supplies in the southwestern border region, prompting them to argue over who should take charge.
• The king of Xialuo offered non-noble councilors authority over logistics in the northeast, and the representatives’ dispute grew fiercer as the nobles watched.
• Catherine called for a public vote to decide who would manage the military supplies.

Catherine's election scheme distracted the six commoner councilors while the nobles advanced wartime reforms, and Li Lin watched the candidates campaign before Catherine reported that Gabriel had returned to Dideyasi. Li Lin told Catherine to continue moving people from Kudel and Lalia through portals, hinting that Kudel's king was seeking a deal.

• Catherine's proposal led the six commoner councilors to request another election, which the Temple reluctantly organized.
• While the six campaigned for two posts, the nobles pushed through military, financial, transportation, and emergency measures, and Li Lin watched the rallies with his companions.
• The six councilors made promises and attacked one another during their speeches, prompting Kalin, Nia, Angela, and Suoxiate to criticize the election.
• Catherine entered Li Lin's room and told him that Archangel Gabriel had returned to Dideyasi; Li Lin said he would avoid stirring up trouble if he encountered her.
• Li Lin asked Catherine about the portals she had created, and she reported transporting people from Kudel and Lalia to Dideyasi; he told her to continue at a measured pace because Kudel's king was seeking a deal.

Gabriel reported resistance to the God of Justice’s political reforms in Xialuo, while the divided council argued over taxes, military spending, and weapons contracts. As Catherine recognized that Li Lin’s plan was turning the council against itself, Anna assassinated a councilwoman and staged the killing to look like an accident.

• Gabriel told the God of Justice that the reforms had met resistance in Xialuo, and he urged her to press ahead while the Magic Empire threatened the human world.
• Two commoner councilors won military supply allocation posts, splitting their faction and forcing the council to end protests.
• At a council meeting, one allocation commander proposed raising taxes by fifty percent, but Catherine opposed the increase and the council rejected it.
• The council approved military funds and let the two commanders choose weapons suppliers, while disputes over oversight and suspected bribes continued.
• Catherine recalled Li Lin’s plan to have Anna kill a councilor and understood that either target would stir suspicion between the factions.
• Anna entered the councilwoman’s room, wounded and incapacitated her, then killed her with a blow to the head while explaining how to make the murder look accidental.

Li Lin met Gabriel in a quiet tavern, where she offered peace on behalf of the God of Justice in exchange for him halting his attacks. He rejected the offer and reaffirmed that he would reclaim the Magic Empire’s lands, leaving Gabriel to prepare for battle.

• Li Lin and Gabriel discussed his presence in Dideyasi as she asked him not to interfere with the God of Justice’s plans.
• Gabriel offered peace, an end to discrimination against mages, and land for the Magic Empire if Li Lin stopped his attacks.
• Li Lin refused, insisting the occupied lands belonged to the Magic Empire and warning the God of Justice not to break the rules.
• Henderson burst into the tavern and threatened Li Lin, prompting Angela to emerge from his shadow and taunt him.
• Li Lin and Gabriel stopped their companions from fighting, then agreed that they had no common ground and would meet on the battlefield.

Miu'erkasi’s Black Edge Knights assembled outside Kudel while Angela prepared to attack despite Miu'erkasi’s concerns about the city’s defenses. Angela revealed an army of undead buried beneath the valley, sent them into the assault, and handed the remaining attack to Miu'erkasi as a mage’s magic reignited the flames.

• Miu'erkasi explained that she wanted to attack during the expected spring rain, but Angela ordered an immediate assault and dismissed the trenches and tree barriers as obstacles the undead could overcome.
• Angela revealed that the undead had been buried beneath the valley and unleashed thousands of them toward Kudel.
• The undead filled the trenches with their bodies, and Kudel’s defenders fired flaming arrows that set the barriers ablaze.
• Miu'erkasi warned Angela that they would lose many troops, but Angela said she could replenish the ranks with the people of the city.
• As the fire and smoke obscured the battlefield, Angela told Miu'erkasi to lead the next attack, then sensed a mage reigniting the flames and challenged them.

Angela unleashed a hidden power that turned the battlefield’s dead into giant skeletal monsters and sent Miu'erkasi’s Black Edge Knights to breach the city walls. After confronting the city’s mage, Angela immobilized him and the city lord and forced them to watch as the city faced destruction.

• Angela summoned more Ghouls, but the city’s spreading flames destroyed the undead waves.
• Angela used an unknown power to raise giant skeletal monsters from the burned undead and sent Miu'erkasi and the Black Edge Knights forward.
• Miu'erkasi led the Black Edge Knights in a coordinated charge that shattered the city wall and carried the knights into the city.
• Angela found the middle-aged mage and demanded to know why he defended people who persecuted mages; he said he fought to protect humans and his home.
• Angela used her red-eyed power to immobilize the mage and the city lord, then ordered them to watch the city and its people die.

Angela and Miu'erkasi's Black Edge Knights annihilated the city and its fleeing inhabitants, leaving the city lord and mage helpless witnesses. When reinforcements arrived, Angela confronted them at the gate and demanded that they kneel, while her undead forces gathered for battle.

• Miu'erkasi's four thousand Black Edge Knights charged through the city, smashing defenses and trampling soldiers and civilians as Angela forced the city lord and mage to watch.
• Angela whistled, and a thousand Black Edge Knights blocked the refugees' escape and slaughtered them while skeletal behemoths and black water consumed the city.
• Angela taunted the mage and city lord, then said she would prepare a gift for the approaching reinforcements.
• Two hours after the signal fires were lit, Kudel's reinforcements arrived to find the roads covered in corpses and thousands of bodies hanging from the city wall.
• Angela greeted the soldiers, made a splendidly dressed man prostrate himself before her, and demanded that they kneel; when they fired arrows, a skeletal hand deflected them and undead forces appeared behind her.

Nisi led the elves’ campaign to reclaim their territory and attacked a town defended by a young paladin, but his scepter and divine power stopped her magic. A divine envoy named Nalu appeared and challenged Nisi to prepare to die.

• Nisi reflected on the elves’ costly war and continued reclaiming territory while human forces retreated inland to face the undead army.
• An elven guard reported that more than three hundred soldiers, including a paladin, remained in the town, and Nisi went to inspect them.
• Nisi saw a teenage paladin directing the defenders and cast Lightning Strike against the town.
• A barrier from the paladin’s scepter blocked Nisi’s lightning, so she set the surrounding grass ablaze and sent smoke toward the town.
• A divine power disrupted Nisi’s magic, and the paladin’s scepter transformed into light that destroyed her final lightning strike.
• Nalu appeared above the town, identified herself as a Divine Envoy of the Seven Sages, and declared that she would destroy Nisi.

Nisi fought a mysterious Divine Envoy of the Seven Sages and was gravely wounded before the Lady of Secrets rescued her. After learning that the envoy wielded powers from several divine domains, Li Lin sent Nia and the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys to investigate and confront them.

• Nisi rejected the Divine Envoy's claims and attacked, but their spells initially met in a draw.
• A Hell Hound and powers associated with destruction, storms, and other divine domains overwhelmed Nisi, while Mobius struck her with a sacred sword.
• The Lady of Secrets brought Nisi to Li Lin, who treated her as she recovered and recounted the battle to him and Nia.
• Li Lin and Nia suspected the God of Justice had created a Weapon Spirit capable of using multiple divine powers.
• Li Lin ordered Nia to lead the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys into elven territory to find the Divine Envoys, capture them if possible, and retreat if the situation became dangerous.

Li Lin investigated how the Divine Envoys of the Seven Sages could possess souls and ordered Nia to capture one alive so he could learn their origins. Nia and the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys decided to attack the human border towns, expecting the Divine Envoys to intervene.

• Li Lin concluded that neither gods nor Arcane Mages could create souls from nothing and suspected the God of Justice had made the Divine Envoys of the Seven Sages to oppose him.
• Li Lin ordered Nia to capture a Divine Envoy alive, hoping to discover where its soul came from.
• Kalin, Yi Aier, Beika, and Anna discussed the unknown Divine Envoys, while Nia warned that their powers might include divine arts absorbed by the God of Justice.
• Nia and Suoxiate proposed searching the human border towns, and Yi Aier suggested bombarding them to force the Divine Envoys to appear.
• Nia gained the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys' agreement to attack alongside the elves and set out to crush the enemies standing in Li Lin's way.