Chapter Summaries

Catherine led the Scourge’s assault on the royal city and confronted her parents, revealing her hatred of being treated as the reincarnation of the founding heroine. She revived the heroine from her tomb and challenged her to a fight, leaving their battle just beginning.

• Li Lin ordered Angela to stop people from escaping the encirclement and sent Catherine to slaughter the royal city.
• Catherine unleashed devastating magic over the city as the Scourge broke through its walls and massacred its inhabitants.
• Catherine entered the palace and accused her parents of loving the legendary heroine she resembled instead of seeing her as their daughter.
• Catherine revealed the heroine’s coffin, then shattered it with the soul stone and restored the heroine to life.
• Catherine declared the revived heroine her enemy and attacked, beginning their battle.

Catherine confronted the Hero, who had returned as an angel, and overwhelmed her with pure Magic Power. Catherine left the defeated Hero alive so she could witness the consequences of the fallen capital and the war.

• Catherine used Gravity magic to drive the Hero into a hole in the castle, then sent Nalu to find her without killing her.
• Catherine searched the castle grounds, where the Hero ambushed her in the garden but failed to break through her protective spell.
• The Hero revealed her angelic wings and challenged Catherine, who answered with her own wings of Magic Power.
• Catherine blasted the Hero with a whirlwind of pure Magic Power, breaking her defenses and leaving her unable to rise.
• Catherine pulled the wounded Hero up by the hair and said there were things she needed to see for herself.

The Magic Empire completed its encirclement of the royal capital and slaughtered those trying to flee. Catherine blamed the captured heroine for the catastrophe and handed her over to desperate soldiers, leaving her fate in their hands.

• The floating cities, Black Edge Knights, and Dark Elves sealed off the royal capital and the surrounding plains.
• Yi Aier ordered a cannon barrage that devastated the plains, while Miu'erkasi led the Black Edge Knights and Anna's Dark Elves attacked the remaining survivors.
• Catherine forced the bound heroine to look at the dead and accused her of causing her people's suffering.
• Catherine brought the heroine to surrounded young soldiers, stripped her with magic, and ordered them to rape her or face death.
• The soldiers pounced on the heroine as Catherine watched and declared that she should perish with her country.

Li Lin’s forces devastated the royal city while the gods weakened the God of Justice and prepared for Mount Celestia’s arrival. When Henderson broke the weakened barrier, Li Lin launched the planar weapon through the rift, creating an opening for the Goddess of Theft’s plan.

• The Elf Goddess reported that the gods had exhausted their efforts to contain the God of Justice, whose power was dwindling as his supply of faith faded.
• Li Lin and Catherine surveyed the ruined city, where the Scourge Legion and steel fortresses attacked survivors, while Li Lin ordered Catherine to keep the heroine alive.
• Henderson waited in the forest under the God of Justice’s orders, then raised his sword and unleashed sacred power when Mount Celestia began colliding with the Prime Material Plane’s barrier.
• Li Lin returned to Ringwraith City, contracted its protective barrier, and opened it to Mount Celestia as the undead recoiled from the sacred light.
• Henderson’s strike split the weakened barrier, and Li Lin launched the planar weapon through the rift toward Mount Celestia, giving the Goddess of Theft her chance to act.

The Goddess of Theft escaped as the God of Justice focused on Mount Celestia’s contamination and sent the Angel Legion to attack Li Lin’s empire. Angela slaughtered the first wave of angels while the empire’s mages opened fire, and the battle escalated into a full-scale war.

• The Goddess of Theft hid as the strange object unleashed chaotic forces that contaminated Mount Celestia.
• The God of Justice ordered the angels to attack the Prime Material Plane while he dealt with the contamination.
• Li Lin ordered a withdrawal and told his forces to prepare Ringwraith City and notify Angela.
• Henderson led thousands of angels through the planar passage, but Angela intercepted them and wiped out the first contingent.
• The mages transformed their ground fortresses and fired spells and magic cannons at the angels as Angela blocked their advance.

Angela, Catherine, Gabriel, and Ringwraith City's defenders fought to stop the angels of Mount Celestia from reaching the city while Li Lin prepared for the possibility that the Goddess of Theft would fail to retrieve the Great Book of Law. The battle remained under control for now, but Li Lin's plans still hinged on whether the book could be secured.

• Angela absorbed the life force of the angels she killed as they tried to slip past her toward Ringwraith City.
• Catherine trapped angels in a vast net of storm-wreathed chains, while Gabriel urged her fellow angels to abandon the war.
• Li Lin ordered Nisi to prepare to govern the elves if their goddess fell and considered sealing off the Prime Material Plane if the gods failed.
• Ringwraith City descended as its satellite cities returned to position, and its defenders destroyed angels who reached its protective barrier.
• The battle settled into a stalemate, leaving Li Lin focused on whether the Goddess of Theft could retrieve the Great Book of Law.

The Goddess of Theft infiltrated the Supreme Temple to locate the Great Book of Law while the God of Justice was occupied by the planar bomb’s effects. On the Prime Material Plane, Li Lin ordered Ringwraith City into attack mode as the battle of attrition threatened to force Angela to unleash her power over life and death.

• The Goddess of Theft used the chaos caused by the planar bomb to enter the Supreme Temple, where she discovered that neither Li Lin nor the gods knew the Great Book of Law’s exact location.
• The Goddess of Theft recalled the Lady of Secrets’ clue that everything was kept where it belonged, then chose a way to continue searching the temple’s many libraries.
• Angela fought the angel legions with her scythe, while Catherine joined Gabriel’s forces and Ringwraith City’s ground troops defended the gap.
• Li Lin warned that Angela could turn the plane into a dead zone if the battle reached its worst point, and ordered Gabriel and Catherine to withdraw.
• Ringwraith City transformed its satellite cities, secured its residential districts, and revealed an enormous array of cannons.

Yi Aier unleashed her ten-thousand-cannon array, wiping out the angels in the invasion force and damaging Mount Celestia, while Angela survived and argued with her. Amid the attack, the Goddess of Theft reached the God of Justice’s library, bypassed its seals, and found the Great Book of Law.

• Yi Aier transformed her metal fortress and fired tens of thousands of magic cannons at the invading angels.
• Angela survived the bombardment and quarreled with Yi Aier until Li Lin ordered them to stop and conserve magic.
• The cannon barrage destroyed the angels on the Prime Material Plane and much of their reinforcements, while leaving a huge fissure in Mount Celestia.
• The Goddess of Theft steadied herself after the impact and continued to the God of Justice’s temple library.
• The Goddess of Theft nullified the spirit seals, opened the sealed entrance, and found the Great Book of Law on an altar.

The Goddess of Theft found the Great Book of Law and prepared to overcome the many traps protecting it while Li Lin’s forces faced the God of Justice’s assault. As Mount Celestia entered the Prime Material Plane, Li Lin held the planar collision at bay and gave the Goddess of Theft thirty minutes to succeed before sealing the passage and retreating.

• The Goddess of Theft recognized the Great Book of Law and spotted dozens of traps guarding it, including defenses devised by several gods.
• The God of Justice stopped purifying the contamination and forced Mount Celestia through the planar barrier after Yi Aier’s attack damaged his domain.
• Li Lin ordered Angela to retreat and told Beika to brace for the planar storm as Mount Celestia’s arrival caused a destructive collision between planes.
• Angela, Yi Aier, and Kalin argued amid the chaos while Beika defended Ringwraith City and Miu'erkasi organized its troops to keep order.
• Li Lin decided to wait thirty minutes for the Goddess of Theft, then seal the planar passage and retreat if she had not returned.

The Goddess of Theft stole the Great Book of Law but was fatally weakened while escaping Mount Celestia. Angela arrived to help, seized the book after the Goddess of Theft's soul was destroyed, and faced the God of Justice as Mount Celestia's power attacked her.

• The Goddess of Theft triggered the God of Justice's final trap, sacrificed her body, and escaped with the Great Book of Law as a wisp of divine soul.
• Li Lin sent Angela into Mount Celestia with a rune that would return her after fourteen minutes, ordering her to find the Goddess of Theft and retrieve the book.
• The God of Justice began absorbing divine power across Mount Celestia, pulling the weakened Goddess of Theft toward him until her consciousness vanished.
• Angela fought through the angels, but one of their arrows destroyed the Goddess of Theft's divine soul and sent the Great Book of Law falling.
• The God of Justice reached for the book, but Angela rose from her apparently fatal wounds and seized it, declaring that it belonged to Li Lin.
• As Mount Celestia's holy power burned and warped her body, Angela told the God of Justice to die.

Angela used the power of life and death to kill Mount Celestia and retrieve the Great Book of Law for Li Lin, while sparing the God of Justice for her master to deal with. The God of Justice destroyed the book’s contents, but Li Lin revealed that its cover could activate a hidden copy in the Eternal Library.

• Angela drained the life from Mount Celestia, transforming it into a dead realm and restoring her own vitality.
• Angela returned to Li Lin with the Great Book of Law, leaving the God of Justice alive as Li Lin’s target.
• The God of Justice used divine power to destroy the book’s pages, then vowed to return and attack Li Lin’s empire.
• Li Lin explained that the Great Book of Law had a hidden duplicate in the Eternal Library and that its cover could make the copy official.
• Li Lin summoned the duplicate, placed the surviving cover over it, and commanded the Great Book of Law to activate.

Li Lin activated the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys and used the Great Book of Law to restore order across the world, while the God of Justice believed his immunity to divine power would protect him. The power of order stripped away the God of Justice’s stolen powers, divinity, and godhood, leaving him defeated before Li Lin.

• At Li Lin’s command, the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys formed a ritual array to activate the Great Book of Law and target the God of Justice.
• The God of Justice tried to escape through a planar gate, but Li Lin’s restored rules destroyed it and prevented him from using spatial power.
• Believing he was immune to divine power, the God of Justice expected the Great Book of Law’s attack to fail.
• Li Lin unleashed the power of order, which swallowed the God of Justice and restored the world’s natural cycles.
• The God of Justice appeared unharmed, but cracks spread across his body as the power of order separated him from the divine powers he had devoured.
• The God of Justice lost his divine power, divinity, and godhood, and Li Lin told him that he had always been destined to fail.

Li Lin defeated the God of Justice and watched Catherine eliminate the last survivors of the Five-Nation Alliance before taking her own life. As the empire rebuilt, Li Lin and his companions continued their travels, deciding to visit Sigil and then seek a portal to Earth.

• Li Lin seized the God of Justice’s soul and Angela destroyed it, ending Tang Longfei forever.
• Catherine killed Henderson and the last surviving boy of the Five-Nation Alliance, then took her own life.
• Nisi handled the burdens of governing and rebuilding while the empire’s mages and knights continued their work.
• Li Lin, Angela, Nia, and Catherine destroyed another Mind Flayer city and decided to travel to Sigil.
• Li Lin agreed to seek a portal to Earth after Nia said she wanted to visit it.