Chapter Summaries

The Physique Crown defeated the Martial Ancestor’s influence, buried his body, and returned to the Savage Great World as a Cataclysm began. The Devil Master broke free from its million-year seal, forcing the wizards to prepare an immediate evacuation while Richard and Ulysses were stranded in the Savage Great World.

• The Physique Crown used his new Illusory Dimension to contain the Martial Ancestor’s corpse and bury it beneath a mountain marked “Tomb of the Martial Ancestor.”
• Richard and Ulysses defeated the Cauldron Heaven Sacred Sect elder, then discussed their injuries and the dangers still ahead on their journey.
• The Physique Crown returned to the Savage Great World, and the alarm warned that Civilization Devourer activity was rapidly increasing.
• The Devil Master burst through the ground and roared after breaking free from its million-year seal, leaving Richard to realize they could not return to wizard headquarters.
• Great Wizard You Yan ordered all Floating Cities to prepare for immediate ascent after the ruins’ Main Control predicted the Devil Master would fully escape within fifteen minutes.

Richard chose to remain in the Savage Great World while the Devil Master’s seal neared breaking, and the Physique Crown summoned the Truth Wizards to confront it. At the conference, the Curse Crown revealed that the Devil Master’s Reverse Meme ability threatened his fated death and demanded that the others help him challenge fate.

• Richard sent his intelligence to the Wizard Dimension Command Department, then debated with Ulysses whether to remain in the Savage Great World or hide in the secret realm, and chose to stay.
• The Physique Crown sensed the seal was about to break and traveled to the Wizard Dimension to convene the Truth Conference.
• The Truth Wizards gathered, and the Physique Crown told them to work together to press the Devil Master back into its seal rather than risk fighting it directly.
• The Curse Crown said the Devil Master’s Reverse Meme ability might be connected to his fated death and urged the others to kill or seal it away.
• The Curse Crown revealed his pursuit of fate had reached a barrier and called on the Truth Wizards to repay their debts by helping him challenge his predetermined fate.

The Truth Wizards launched the Truth Hunt in the Savage Great World as the Devil Master’s seal collapsed and the Devil Master broke free. Richard escaped into the secret realm, while Curse Crown prepared to confront the unleashed enemy.

• Curse Crown, Shaping Crown, Alchemy Crown, Soul Crown, Physique Crown, and Undead Crown agreed to enter the Savage Great World, and Soul Crown created memory backups for them.
• The Truth Wizards’ departure shook the Wizard World, and the five who crossed the Rune Gate named their operation the Truth Hunt.
• Richard saw the seal collapse and learned from Ulysses that the arriving figures were Truth Wizards, but Devil Master’s tentacles and minions began hunting living creatures.
• Richard and Ulysses burned a giant insect minion, but it regenerated through Dimensional Power, so they fled into the secret realm.
• Devil Master broke free and tore the Savage Great World apart as the wizards escaped beyond the Astral Realm.
• Physique Crown, Alchemy Crown, and Curse Crown failed to find Richard, and Curse Crown summoned a staff to face Devil Master.

Trapped in the secret realm, Richard spent three years studying Berserk Orc anatomy while Ulysses searched for a way out. After completing its evolution, the World Mushroom revealed a way to drift through the Astral Realm toward another world, leaving Richard with a possible escape within fifty years.

• Richard discovered that a Fourth-level Berserk Orc's anatomy was far more developed than that of ordinary and martial Berserk Orcs, suggesting Berserk Orcs might be designed to reach Fourth-level.
• Richard considered integrating Berserk Orc bloodline traits into the Myriad Transformation Battle Body and devoted himself to studying their bodies.
• Over three years, Ulysses cast contracts into the Void in hopes of opening a gate to the secret realm while Richard continued his research.
• The World Mushroom awakened after completing its evolution but said it could not locate the Wizard World.
• The World Mushroom explained that it could follow aether currents to find a world and told Richard they were already beside one, whose World Wall they could reach within fifty years.

Richard continued his research inside World Mushroom's secret realm as it traveled through the Astral Realm, then learned that he needed to become a Fourth-level creature to find his way home. Ulysses explained a difficult godhood ritual that could let Richard advance, leaving him to face the challenge of making most of a world's intelligent life believe in an extraordinary deed.

• Richard studied Berserk Orc glands and tested Wuxiang, which transformed into a metal Staff after he branded it with a Rune.
• Thirty-six years after World Mushroom completed its evolution, the secret realm reached a small world and anchored its projection in the Material World.
• Ulysses told Richard he needed to become a Fourth-level creature to communicate with the Wizard Dimension and find his way home.
• Ulysses revealed that Richard could follow an incomplete godhood path without violating his Fate Contract.
• Ulysses explained that the ritual required a pope, more than a dozen bishops, over ten thousand priests, hundreds of millions of believers, and a deed that convinced eighty percent of the world's intelligent life it was nearly impossible.

Richard and Ulysses tried to enter a small world by sending out Demon Contracts, hoping to find someone willing to accept one. After Ben Victor was badly burned in a factory accident and faced financial ruin, he signed the contract, connecting his fate to Richard.

• Richard realized that spreading a shocking claim to most of the world's intelligent life would be difficult, and Ulysses warned him that manipulating a world's collective consciousness would itself fulfill the requirement.
• Richard and Ulysses sent Demon Contracts through the World Wall and waited for someone inside the world to accept one.
• Ben Victor struggled to save money and improve his prospects as a Mechanist in Bruno City's harsh industrial conditions.
• Ben dreamed of a strange man offering him a contract, then woke to find an ornate leather scroll in his hand and hid it beneath his pillow.
• A ruptured steam pipe severely burned Ben, leaving him unable to afford the treatment and convinced his life was ruined.
• In his despair, Ben met the strange man in a dream again and signed the contract; the names Ben Victor and Richard appeared on it.

Richard and Ulysses entered a world of steam technology, where they recruited Ben as their first believer and learned about the world’s rival churches and mechanical and biological modifications. Richard brought Ben to his secret realm to begin flesh modification, while Ulysses warned that he would soon enter slumber and Richard would have to build the church himself.

• Richard and Ulysses entered the world through a Spatial Rift, and Richard healed the injured Ben with the World Tree Staff.
• Richard named Ben’s species gnomes and learned that Ben lived in District 13 of Bruno City in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Machines.
• Ulysses taught Richard to communicate with Ben and explained that the world had two God-Kings, rival churches, and an ancient religious history.
• Ben described the world’s widespread prosthetic and biological modifications, and Richard decided to investigate the rival churches before preaching openly.
• Richard asked Ben to undergo flesh modification, then brought him into the secret realm, where Ben became a fanatic believer.

Richard explored the goblins’ industrial city and investigated the Church of the Lord of Ten Thousand Machines, where he discovered a mechanically modified priest strong enough to survive his attack. As Richard prepared to take the priest for study, Ulysses found a hidden place beneath the church resembling Richard’s laboratory.

• Richard left Ben asleep in the World Mushroom and ordered Ulysses to use Mayfly Essence to raise him to Level One before they explored the city.
• Richard observed the goblins and their factories, noting their physical modifications and the extensive development of Steam Technology.
• Richard and Ulysses entered the Church of the Lord of Ten Thousand Machines and found that its priests and deacons were Level One lifeforms.
• Richard struck a mechanically modified priest, assessed his strength, and knocked him unconscious for study.
• Ulysses appeared and told Richard he had found a place beneath the church that resembled Richard’s laboratory.

Richard explored the Church of the Lord of Ten Thousand Machines, discovered that Bruno City's goblins had inherited Precursor technology and developed crystal machinery of their own, and abducted Bishop Orson for study. A month later, Orson's disappearance prompted the church to send Guardian Knights to Bruno City, while the Miracle Order spread among local Mechanists and workers.

• Richard examined the church laboratory, recognized its machine tool as related to a crystal machine tool from the Astral Fortress, and recorded the goblins' mechanical blueprints.
• Richard returned to his secret realm with anatomy atlases and found the priest he had captured awake and watching the Fire Lizards.
• The priest attacked Richard with high-pressure steam darts, but Richard subdued and anesthetized him before preparing to study his body.
• Ulysses told Richard that his time in the secret realm had made him more tolerant of alien creatures, and Richard admitted he had changed.
• The Bruno City Daily reported Bishop Orson's disappearance, and the Church of the Lord of Ten Thousand Machines announced that Guardian Knights would investigate.
• The Miracle Order spread among Mechanists and workers in Bruno City's eastern district.

Richard completed Ben's extensive body modification, and Ben's first tests revealed an unexpected ability to draw on Miracle Power. The chapter left Richard wondering whether the talent came from the Berserk Orc bloodline.

• Richard implanted a specially cultivated heart and other auxiliary organs into Ben, then healed him and woke him from anesthesia.
• Ben mistook his transformed body for nobility, but Orson identified himself as a bishop before Ulysses explained that Orson had converted to Richard's side.
• Richard explained that Orson had switched sides after learning about other worlds and being impressed by Richard's knowledge.
• Ben tested his strength on a target dummy and produced strikes reaching 1,500 Energy Level, far beyond Richard's expectations.
• Ulysses recognized that Ben unconsciously drew on Miracle Power and warned Richard that the ability depended on Ben's confidence.
• Richard considered whether Ben's new talent came from the Berserk Orc bloodline.

Richard appointed Ben as Pope of the Miracle Order and urged him to change the workers’ harsh living conditions. As Ben visited the dying factory worker Barnaby, Barnaby’s son arrived, believing Ben could cure him.

• Richard gave Ben the Staff of Healing and named him Pope of the Miracle Order, while Orson explained the Church’s factions and planned to contact his teacher.
• Richard showed Ben the workers’ overcrowded, disease-ridden housing and challenged him to help build better homes, but Ben admitted he did not know if he could change things.
• Richard encouraged Ben to try despite his uncertainty, and Orson recorded the moment that would later be remembered as Divine Revelation.
• Barnaby’s factory work left him crippled by occupational illnesses, and he was fired before he could afford treatment.
• As Barnaby lay near death, his son told him that Brother Ben had arrived and could cure him.

Mayor Adlan welcomed Guardian Knight Elvin and his team to investigate Bishop Orson’s disappearance, while Ben healed the dying Barnard as far as he could and refused payment. Elvin found evidence of an unusual repair in the church prayer room but could not identify who had taken Orson, so he divided his knights among several investigations.

• Adlan met Guardian Knight Elvin and eleven other machine-rebuilt knights at Bruno City Station and led them to the scene of Bishop Orson’s disappearance.
• Ben revived Barnard and treated his injuries, but explained that only a lung replacement could cure the dust-filled lungs; he refused the family’s coins and asked them to attend his sermons.
• Ulysses watched Ben leave and recognized that his growing compassion was the quality Richard and Ulysses wanted to cultivate in their first saint.
• Elvin discovered a repaired section of steam pipe behind the prayer room wall and concluded that someone with unusual methods had entered the room.
• Elvin ruled out the Church of the Lord of Flesh and Blood as the likely culprit but could not determine whether the Royal Court or the Church was involved.
• Elvin ordered his knights to investigate Orson’s daily activities, a noble, and local cults, instructing two knights to help any cults grow and blame them if possible.

Elvin chose to frame Bishop Orson’s disappearance on the Abyss Cult, while Orson met Bishop Tyler and showed him alchemical technology from another world. Tyler considered capturing Richard to seize the technology, but Richard disabled him and introduced himself as the Sage of the Miracle Order.

• Elvin gave the Guardian Knights sealed Abyss Blood Crystals and ordered them to use the Abyss Cult as a scapegoat to deal with Bishop Tyler.
• Orson secretly met his teacher, Bishop Tyler, at Tyler’s estate and showed him a lightweight prosthetic arm powered by alchemy.
• Orson explained that Richard came from another world and wanted to establish a church that would improve life for slave workers.
• Tyler considered capturing Richard to obtain the new technology and eliminate the cult, then asked to meet him.
• Richard appeared, immobilized Tyler’s prosthetics, and identified himself as the Sage of the Miracle Order.

Richard persuaded Bishop Tyler to join the Church after demonstrating his power and promising to help workers gain strength. In Bruno City’s eastern district, Church agents Loren and Imilo investigated rumors about Brother Ben and decided the supposed healer was likely a fraud.

• Richard explained to Tyler that he would give workers the strength to change their lives, and Anson confirmed that Richard had elevated a mortal Mechanist into a knight.
• Richard restored Tyler’s prosthetic limbs, and Tyler knelt and asked the Sage to guide him onto the righteous path.
• Old Geli told Old Gunter that Brother Ben had cured his illness and described him as a tall man carrying a wooden staff given by the Sage.
• Loren and Imilo, Church agents watching the goblins, left the tavern and discussed the rumors about Brother Ben.
• Loren dismissed the healing stories as a peasant’s superstition and said a cult would not withstand Steam Darts.

Ben healed goblins and spread the Miracle Order through the East District before two Guardian Knights ambushed him. Protected by Divine Blessing and empowered by Ulysses, Ben overpowered their attacks and faced them as their weapons failed against his flesh.

• Ben healed Old Charlie with God's Blessing, then crossed his name off the Miracle Order's list of families to visit.
• Ben sensed danger in an alley, where Loren and Imilo blocked both exits and demanded his cooperation.
• Loren and Imilo attacked Ben, but a Holy Light barrier let him escape their first assault.
• Ulysses blessed Ben, and the Guardian Knights' Steam Dart and holy sword could not harm him.
• Ben struck Loren through his armor, and Imilo asked how Ben's flesh could withstand the holy sword.

Ben and Ulysses captured Imilo and discovered an Abyss Blood Crystal, leading Ulysses to question how the Abyssal Demons had been sealed in this world. Meanwhile, Richard subdued Bishop Tyler and introduced him to alchemy, leaving Tyler eager to investigate how goblin energy could be used with it.

• Ben broke through the Guardian Knight's armor and shattered its heart, while Ulysses freed Imilo from an illusion and Ben captured him.
• Ulysses removed the Abyss Blood Crystal from Imilo's pouch and demanded to know where it came from; Imilo explained that the Abyss Cult used it to transform demons.
• Ben told Ulysses the legend of the Complete Master suppressing the Abyssal Demons, and Ulysses considered how the demons might have reached this world.
• Richard placed Holy Favor on Tyler, gave him Basic Alchemy, and asked whether he could use it without modification surgery.
• Tyler's first attempt to activate an Alchemy Array exploded, but he chose to study whether goblin energy could power alchemy.
• Richard asked Tyler for detailed records on goblin modification as he prepared for future resistance against the Royal Court.

Richard studied the Church of the Lord of Ten Thousand Machines’ prosthetic-body research before Ulysses warned him that Abyssal Demons had already invaded the world and might soon break their seal. Richard chose to remain, organize the sect’s work, and investigate the Church’s scheme involving Abyss Blood Crystals.

• Tyler showed Richard a library containing the Church of the Lord of Ten Thousand Machines’ public technologies, and Richard began researching goblin prosthetic bodies.
• Ulysses summoned Richard and explained that Abyssal Demons had been sealed in the world, though their pure Abyss Blood Crystals suggested they might eventually break free.
• Richard agreed to stay in the world, told Ulysses to continue preaching with Ben, and asked him to look for strong goblins for future modification surgery.
• Ulysses proposed teaching goblins divine spells, and Richard approved the plan.
• Ulysses revealed that Imilo, a captured Guardian Knight carrying an Abyss Blood Crystal, had helped the Church create a false Abyss Cult to frame it for Orson’s disappearance.
• Richard ordered Ulysses to keep Imilo alive as a test subject and capture or kill any Guardian Knights who caused trouble.

Richard designed and standardized a goblin modification surgery combining Berserk Orc bloodlines, prosthetics, auxiliary organs, and Alchemy Power Armor. After overcoming a shortage of low-grade materials, he performed the first surgeries on six goblins, who awoke transformed as the Miracle Order’s first Miracle Monks.

• Richard spent months absorbing the Church’s knowledge while Ulysses helped the Miracle Order spread through Bruno City and dealt with the Guardian Knights.
• Richard designed a modification surgery that combined Berserk Orc bloodlines, mechanical prosthetics, auxiliary organs, and Alchemy Power Armor, then trained technicians to perform it.
• Carrion told Richard that the secret realm lacked the low-grade alloy needed for production, so Richard ordered him to make samples from high-grade substitutes.
• Richard summoned Ulysses and ordered him to select goblin subjects and recruit factory owners, allowing reliable believers to replace them if necessary.
• Richard selected six goblins for the first surgeries and instructed Anson to learn the procedure and teach it to the technical priests.
• After a month of surgery, the six goblins awoke stronger and taller with mechanical left arms, and Anson recorded their new title as Miracle Monks.

Anson continued performing goblin modification surgeries as the Miracle Order took control of Bruno City and improved conditions for workers. Richard then revealed that the Royal Court Faction had declared war, and ordered Anson to train priests in Dunling City and gather monks for combat experience.

• Anson successfully connected a goblin’s nerves to a prosthetic arm, continuing his work as the Miracle Order’s technical bishop.
• The Miracle Order replaced Bruno City’s factory owners with loyal believers and began demolishing old apartments to provide workers with better housing.
• Richard summoned Anson to the secret realm, where Anson reported that he had completed around two hundred and fifty modification surgeries and trained about ten priests.
• Tyler told Anson that the Royal Court Faction had declared war, four regional bishops had been assassinated, the Guardian Knight Order was showing signs of splitting, and Royal Court Knights were marching out.
• Richard ordered Anson to teach the modification techniques to priests in Dunling City and gather monks to gain combat experience.

As the Church Faction and Royal Court Faction prepared for a bloody civil war, Richard equipped and rallied his Miracle Monks for their first battle. His words strengthened their bodies through their faith, and he showed them they could punch through steel.

• After the Royal Court Faction’s assassination attempt, Tyler mobilized the Church Faction and three regional bishops were killed, while both sides retreated to fortified estates.
• Richard told Tyler that his martial-arts-trained Miracle Monks could defeat Prosthetic Knights, and Tyler left to prepare a train and intelligence for the war.
• Richard addressed the Miracle Monks, whose faith in him caused their constitutions to rise as they believed his words were divine.
• Richard gave each monk an Annihilation Fist equipped with bombs and a flamethrower, then demonstrated that one monk could punch through two centimeters of steel.