Chapter Summaries

Richard sent the Fire Lizard Regiment to scout Green Forest World for World Tree Saplings, using a radar to track them and Return Scrolls to protect them. After the regiment suffered casualties in battle, Richard identified a run of Type Four Saplings and changed direction, eventually reaching an enormous Poisonous Swamp.

• Richard split the Fire Lizard Regiment into twenty-five scouting squads and used Hogg to carry a radar that tracked their locations.
• The regiment’s expanded search increased the area covered, but Number Two Squad of the First Company lost two Fire Lizards to a biological weapon.
• The First Company fought toxic-spore vines, retreated through a Return Scroll, and returned to the Secret Realm for treatment and rest.
• Richard examined a Type Four Toxic Spore Sapling and concluded that repeated Type Four finds placed him near a special region.
• Richard gave the Fire Lizard Regiment two weeks of leave, changed his search direction, and flew northeast alone.
• After three days, Richard found a vast black swamp and recognized it as an enormous Poisonous Swamp.

Richard encountered a Purple-skinned Toad in a vast Poisonous Swamp and narrowly escaped its explosive poison. After witnessing it dissolve a Level Three Scorpion Tail Monster, Richard decided to avoid the swamp, but Ulysses spotted what might be a Crystal Tower within it.

• Richard discovered a Purple-skinned Toad and tried to capture it in an enchanted cage, but its slime corroded the cage.
• Richard trapped the toad in a stronger cage, then fled into the Secret Realm when he sensed danger; the toad exploded and poisoned the surrounding swamp.
• Richard and Ulysses returned to the swamp and found the area around the explosion stripped bare, along with a fragment of Richard's cage.
• Richard identified the toad as the source of his danger when it dissolved a Level Three Scorpion Tail Monster with purple mist.
• Richard decided to avoid the swamp, but Ulysses said he thought he saw a Crystal Tower deep within it.

Richard prepared a modified personal armor and entered the Poisonous Swamp with Ulysses to investigate a Crystal Tower hidden by supernatural mist. They reached the tower and discovered a Purple-skinned Toad whose strength exceeded the normal limits of a Third-level creature.

• Richard overcame his hesitation about exploring the swamp, then spent two months modifying the Mechanist Type I Personal Armor.
• Richard and Ulysses entered the Poisonous Swamp, where Ulysses guided Richard through mist that blocked his senses.
• Richard crossed the swamp in his armor, killed a venomous snake, and watched a giant black snake swallow a Purple-skinned Toad.
• Ulysses captured the black snake and sent it into Richard's secret realm for study.
• Richard emerged from the mist and found the damaged Crystal Tower beside a powerful Purple-skinned Toad.
• Ulysses identified the toad as a creature that had surpassed the limits of a Third-level creature and was nearing the World Lord realm.

Richard learned that pure physique evolution required Soul Sea Light for its final soul transformation, then sought a way past the Toad King by finding the Snake King. He reached the injured Dragon Blood Snake King in the swamp, which warned him that the world was about to die.

• Ulysses explained that pure physique evolution could increase mental power but needed Soul Sea Light for the soul’s final leap, and offered Richard a possible godhood path as an alternative.
• Richard reasoned that a Snake King must exist in the swamp and could help break the deadlock with the Toad King.
• Richard used Ulysses’s Holy Light to understand a black snake, learned its Snake King had fought the Toad King and was weaker, then made it sign a Soul Contract.
• Richard followed the black snake through the Poisonous Swamp, collecting venomous snakes and reaching the Snake King, a wounded golden Dragon Blood Snake coiled around a dead World Tree Sapling.
• The Snake King told Richard that he should not have come because the world was about to die.

Richard learned that the World Tree was consuming Green Forest World and that the Snake King’s inherited memories preserved fragments of the vanished Precursors, whom it called the Supreme Being. After the Snake King directed him toward the Ancient Battlefield for answers, Richard revealed he planned to enter the swamp tower and asked the injured serpent to join him against its guardian toad.

• The Snake King told Richard that the World Tree had betrayed its purpose and was consuming the world, then warned him to flee.
• Richard explained that his lord was battling the World Tree and that he had come to clear its remaining seeds, while the Snake King mistook his dragon blood for kinship with the Precursors’ servants.
• Richard summoned Hogg, and the Snake King respectfully addressed her as the Dragon King’s Son before asking whether the Supreme Being had returned.
• Hogg told the Snake King that the Supreme Being had vanished and that dragons and wizards had partnered, and the Snake King revealed that the Precursors had fought an unimaginable enemy whose traces were erased.
• The Snake King suggested the Ancient Battlefield as a place to learn more, but Richard said he wanted to enter the swamp tower and offered to treat the serpent’s injuries so they could fight the guardian toad together.
• The Snake King refused to fight the toad and settled onto the withered World Tree, but Richard confidently invited him into the secret realm.

Richard persuaded the Snake King to enter his secret realm, where the Snake King discovered the World Mushroom and learned that Richard wanted to recruit him. After the World Mushroom and Ulysses cured his poison, the Snake King agreed to join Richard and explore the stars.

• The Snake King signed Richard's Soul Contract and entered the secret realm after Hogg and the Dragon Carriage returned.
• The Snake King was astonished by the World Mushroom and misunderstood the relationship between Richard and Hogg before Richard explained that the dragons had been defeated and made into pets and slaves.
• Richard recruited the Snake King by offering him a place among the Great Wizards rather than a future of submission or death.
• The World Mushroom and Ulysses used Life Force and divine spells to purge the Snake King's poison, and his wounds healed as his Life Rule surged.
• The Snake King thanked the World Mushroom and Ulysses, then told Richard he was willing to join his ranks and see the starry sky.

Richard and Snake King led an assault on Toad King to discover how the biological weapon had surpassed mortal limits. Snake King was badly injured when Toad King exploded inside him, but Ulysses recovered a calcified sphere from its remains, which Richard suspected was an Inner Core.

• Richard secured Snake King's service with a Fate Contract and learned that Snake King had once surpassed mortal limits by devouring a World Tree seed.
• Richard, Ulysses, and Snake King set out to kill Toad King and study its remains, while Snake King summoned a vast swarm of snakes to counter Toad King's minions.
• Toad King summoned Purple-skinned Toads and fought Snake King, who gained the advantage with help from a black, flame-wreathed beast.
• Snake King bit and swallowed Toad King, but Toad King exploded inside him and blasted him apart at the waist.
• Ulysses recovered a calcified sphere from Toad King's remains and brought it with the wounded Snake King back to Richard.
• Richard examined the sphere and wondered whether it was a Toad King's Inner Core.

Richard discovered that the Toad King’s stone contained an incomplete Radiation Rule and entered the Crystal Tower to investigate its ancient technology. After extracting the Mist Barrier Generator, he used Energy Vision and realized the tower also concealed a basement.

• Richard examined the Toad King’s white inner stone, and the Snake King explained that a strange energy fluctuation from inside it had nearly caused the Snake King to self-destruct.
• The World Mushroom opened the stone and revealed a black stone that could mutate flesh and contained an incomplete Radiation Rule, which Richard stored away.
• Richard returned to the Green Forest World with Ulysses, who purified the venom-darkened swamp water with a Water Purification Technique.
• Richard entered the Crystal Tower, climbed to its top, and found a damaged Mist Barrier Generator that had been emitting the swamp fog.
• Richard extracted the generator with the Miracle Furnace and learned from Ulysses that it had been spatially displaced rather than detached from its base.
• Richard activated Energy Vision to study the tower’s power system and discovered that the tower appeared to have a basement.

Richard and Ulysses were separately teleported from the Crystal Tower to the Ancient Battlefield, where intense energy radiation and unstable space prevented them from opening a Secret Realm Rift. Richard headed toward a distant structure, while Ulysses was targeted by malfunctioning Crystal Floating Cannons.

• Richard uncovered a hidden basement in the Crystal Tower and activated a malfunctioning Teleportation Array embedded in its floor.
• Richard found himself in another tower on the Ancient Battlefield, confirmed Ulysses was not with him, and discovered the surrounding desert was not part of the Inner World.
• Richard endured the powerful energy radiation, identified the Ancient Battlefield, and set off toward a massive structure to the northwest.
• Ulysses emerged from a separate tower in the Ancient Battlefield and failed to open a Secret Realm Rift.
• Several Crystal Floating Cannons detected Ulysses, switched into extermination mode, and flew toward him.

Richard fought his way across the Ancient Battlefield, where Precursor weapons attacked anything they encountered, and discovered how dangerous the battlefield was without outside assistance. After destroying an Arachnid Puppet, he continued toward a distant shadow as Ulysses headed in the same direction.

• Richard destroyed a group of Crystal Floating Cannons and collected their fragments.
• Richard sent a metal spider carrying a Chimera toward a crystal construct, which awakened and killed the Chimera with a beam.
• The construct became an Arachnid Puppet and attacked Richard with extreme speed, teleportation, and Magic-Breaking limbs.
• Richard used Golden Light and dragon scales to bait the puppet, smashed its limbs, then flung it away before it self-destructed.
• Richard collected the Arachnid Puppet's severed limbs and continued toward the distant shadow.
• Ulysses destroyed another Arachnid Puppet, realized Richard had gone the way he expected, and flew toward the shadow.

Richard fought his way across the Ancient Battlefield toward a crashed Precursor spacecraft, where a green glow was causing the increasingly intense energy radiation. A mobile Giant Floating Mother Body detected the traces left by Richard’s battle and sent its red Floating Cannon swarm after him, while Ulysses hurried to warn him.

• Richard traveled for half a month through rising energy radiation and discovered that the distant shadow was a crashed Precursor spacecraft.
• Richard transformed into a Dragonman and destroyed more than a dozen Crystal Floating Cannons that tried to surround him.
• Richard sensed something approaching and saw a blue swarm of Floating Cannons accompanying a moving Giant Floating Mother Body.
• The Giant Floating Mother Body detected the remnants of Richard’s battle, activated eradication mode, and replenished its swarm with two new Floating Cannons.
• Ulysses saw the swarm turn red, realized Richard had been detected, and flew toward the spacecraft.

Richard and Ulysses entered a crashed Precursor Astral Fortress after its systems recognized Richard as a Dragon King Species. The Snake King identified the fortress and revealed that the command room containing the star map was dangerous and shrouded in reactor radiation.

• Richard dodged the Crystal Floating Cannons, but Ulysses arrived and burned through them before carrying Richard to the spaceship.
• The spaceship recognized Richard, opened its entrance, and registered Ulysses as his pet.
• Richard and Ulysses resisted the spatial anchor and brought Hogg and the Snake King out of the secret realm, drawing a warning from the fortress intelligence.
• Richard asked the Snake King to help locate a Precursor star map, hoping to trade it for benefits or use it to find worlds to conquer.
• The Snake King asked Fortress Main Control for the command room's location and learned that an unknown enemy had attacked it and reactor radiation now shrouded it.

Richard gained authority to manipulate space in the damaged Astral Fortress and used World Mushroom to shield the group from its lethal radiation. In the command room, he found a damaged Star Chart that the Miracle Furnace could still extract information from, just as Hogg learned someone in the Inner World was trying to contact them.

• Richard learned that Hogg had become the fortress's temporary Fortress Lord and asked her to approve his application to manipulate space.
• Richard registered his plan to send World Tree-type lifeform tentacles through space and enlisted World Mushroom to protect the group from the radiation Aurora.
• World Mushroom sealed the group's path through the damaged fortress and escorted them safely into the command room.
• Richard searched the ruined command room and found a damaged Star Chart that could yield an incomplete Supreme Being Star Chart.
• Hogg told Richard that the Main Control had detected someone contacting them from the Inner World.

Richard learned that the World Tree had trapped Great Wizard Kanon and was preparing a counterattack against the Outer World. Kanon used an ancient teleportation disc to send Richard a powerful beast puppet and tasked him with escorting it back to the Floating City as an enormous Insect Tide advanced toward it.

• Great Wizard Kanon activated a Precursors' communication device and spoke with Richard, who revealed that a teleportation array had stranded him in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Kanon warned Richard that the World Tree had broken and reinforced the spatial anchor, then discovered that an ancient Crystal Disc could bypass it once.
• Kanon sent Richard a beast puppet made from his severed finger and ordered him to escort it to the Floating City, promising first-class merit if he succeeded.
• Richard accepted the dangerous mission and watched the beast puppet emerge as a White Bear with a constitution of three hundred points.
• A Black Robe Wizard fled before an Insect Tide as the World Tree's uprooted guardian forest drove the swarm toward the Floating City.

The wizards prepared their unfinished Fortress Cluster for an overwhelming Insect Tide while addressing threats from the World Tree Sapling’s roots. Jimmy approved Spell Support Vehicle barrages and Black Wizard underground defenses, and the chapter ended as the Insect Tide reached the fortresses.

• Wizards studied Green Forest World creatures and used Insect-Catching Grass to help expand their territory, but the World Tree’s counterattack order forced them to retreat and reinforce their defenses.
• Jimmy convened a command meeting and warned that the Insect Tide contained numerous creatures capable of surviving repeated high-energy attacks.
• The wizards agreed to use Spell Support Vehicles in cooling intervals to conserve their components while bombarding the swarm.
• Jimmy assigned Black Wizards to combat the World Tree Sapling’s roots underground and proposed releasing earth-element knowledge to train more of them.
• Bug-Herding Treants drove the agitated Insect Tide toward the Fortress Cluster, where the swarm arrived like a black sandstorm.

Adams halted the Netherflame Legion’s bombardment after realizing it was creating an element vacuum, while Richard activated the Astral Fortress’s Scouting Array and found a cache of armed Precursor puppets. The chapter left Richard poised to claim the valuable units hidden beneath the fortress.

• Adams and Jimmy realized the Spell Support Vehicles’ repeated fire spells had created an element vacuum, so Adams ordered the convoy to withdraw and left two battalions behind.
• Richard and his group entered the Astral Fortress’s information hall, where he activated the Level One Scouting Array and recorded a map showing the Poisonous Swamp north of the fortress.
• Richard rejected the hall’s basic projection and touchscreen technologies, then went outside and removed a Scouting Array module to extract its manufacturing technology.
• Richard spotted crystal-like objects in a chamber beneath the fortress, confirmed he was not seeing an illusion, and discovered more than a thousand armed Precursor puppet units.

Richard secured 932 Arachnid armed puppets from the Astral Fortress and learned how to update their authorization systems in the field, hoping to control the Giant Floating Mother Body. He then inspected a surviving Defense Sub-Cannon and discovered that even this ordinary weapon had ten thousand Energy Level of power.

• Richard confirmed with Hogg that he could deploy the fortress's 932 Arachnid armed puppets, then found their complete blueprint could be refined by the Miracle Furnace.
• The Main Control installed a new authorization system, and an Arachnid Puppet recognized Richard as its commander.
• Richard chose to obtain an Information Transmission Crystal so he could update armed puppets in the field, and he considered using it to bring the Giant Floating Mother Body under his command.
• Richard questioned the Main Control about its crystal array, learned he could not enter its chamber, and asked to be guided to the fortress's secondary cannon passage.
• Richard tested a surviving Defense Sub-Cannon and found that the ordinary defensive weapon could deliver ten thousand Energy Level of power.

Richard removed a Radiation Blackstone fuel ring from the Astral Fortress’s power core and discovered that the Miracle Furnace could fuse Rules. Ulysses said the new function could save Richard several epochs of effort and might determine whether Ulysses became a Lord God.

• Richard learned that the World Mushroom could use an energy barrier to protect its tentacles while extracting the exposed fuel ring from the power core.
• The World Mushroom carried the fuel ring into the Secret Realm and stored it underground, where Richard touched it and suffered severe radiation damage before the World Mushroom healed him.
• The Miracle Furnace detected the complete Radiation Rule and offered Rule Fusion, which Richard enabled.
• Richard learned that the Miracle Furnace could fuse Rules and returned to the Astral Fortress after the fuel ring’s removal weakened the radiation.
• Ulysses reacted with shock to Rule Fusion and told Richard that it could save him several epochs of effort and help him become a Lord God.

Richard used the Information Transmission Crystal to bring the Floating Mother Body QE124 under his command, while Ulysses explained how Richard’s furnace could help him fuse rules and reach the Main God throne. Meanwhile, the wizard defensive line remained under relentless attack from the Insect Tide, and Jimmy waited for reinforcements that had not arrived.

• Ulysses explained that Rule Fusion combined rules and said Richard’s furnace could help him fuse rules safely; he offered to lend Richard his rule so he could pursue becoming a Main God.
• Richard promised to help Ulysses reach the Main God throne, then left the fortress with Hogg and the Snake King after Hogg erased records of their visit.
• Richard’s Arachnid Puppets located the Floating Mother Body, and Ulysses used the Information Transmission Crystal to update its system and bring QE124 under Richard’s command.
• Wizards endured a two-month battle against the seemingly endless Insect Tide as a Black Robe Wizard recovered a valuable root beneath a fortress.
• Jimmy coordinated the strained defenses in the Floating City command room, but the Crystal Ball remained dark and the promised reinforcements had yet to arrive.

After the World Tree Sapling learned to devour Fire Elements, treants attacked the wizard defensive line and overwhelmed its positions. The wizards abandoned the first line, while the Green Tide advanced toward the Floating City and the command warned that the Sapling was hiding among ordinary treants.

• An Old Wizard noticed the Fire Element storm dissipating and ordered the fortress forces to prepare for an attack.
• The Fire Element storm vanished, revealing Flame Treants and vast numbers of treants marching on the fortresses.
• Jimmy ordered the first defensive line abandoned, sent available wizards and modified Chimeras into battle, then blasted thousands of treants with a lightning-powered punch.
• A disguised World Tree Sapling struck Third-Ring Wizard Ichak, who warned the Command Department before a bolt of lightning hit him.
• Elco warned all Third-Ring Wizards to identify the Sapling among the treants as the Green Tide closed in on the Floating City.