Chapter Summaries

Richard trained the Miracle Monks, continued his experiments on Imilo, and improved a goblin crystal smelting machine while the Church and Royal Court Factions prepared for war. One month later, Tyler led a raid on Victor Green’s fortified manor, where a steel-armored goblin proved able to withstand the guards’ weapons and overpower a knight.

• Richard had the Miracle Monks train with the Fire Lizard Regiment after their strength surged, then ordered Reinhardt to preserve Imilo as a living specimen after he reached his ability threshold.
• Richard improved a goblin crystal smelting machine and began enchanting its crystals for a new kind of Magic Armor.
• Tyler returned to the secret realm after a month, as the Church Faction and the Royal Court Faction’s conflict escalated into war.
• Victor Green stayed in his fortified manor with mechanical servants, knight guards, and heavy weapons, believing it would take hundreds of Prosthetic Knights to breach his defenses.
• A steel-armored goblin raided Victor’s manor, twisted a guard knight’s prosthetic arm, and shattered the knight’s mechanical spine with a punch.

Tyler learned that the Miracle Monks had captured Victor without casualties, but Pope Belt Garrett confronted him by train and urged him to surrender in the name of a Divine Oracle. Meanwhile, Ulysses discovered Prosthetic Knights attacking Miracle Order believers and intervened; Tyler rejected the Royal Court’s demand and vowed revenge.

• Tyler heard that the Miracle Monks had captured Victor and suffered no casualties, then ordered them to withdraw to the suburban platform.
• Ulysses watched Ben cultivate the modified Formless Sacred Canon and sensed that several of his fanatics had been killed.
• Ulysses used the Miracle Order’s statues to see Prosthetic Knights attacking divine officials and sent the Crow God to defend them.
• Belt Garrett contacted Tyler aboard the approaching train and told him to surrender because of a Divine Oracle calling for unity against evil demons.
• Tyler realized the Royal Court had taken control of Belt’s body and refused to surrender, swearing to drag its faction members from their bunkers and make them repent at Belt’s grave.

Richard arrived in Tyler’s carriage during the Royal Court Faction’s attempt to assassinate him, defeated their attackers, and learned that the gods had issued an oracle about a coming war. After hearing that the neighboring Flesh Royal Court struggled with Abyssal corruption, Richard decided to investigate it, while the Miracle Order openly rebuilt its church in Dunling City.

• The Royal Court Faction fired a Gustav Steam Cannon at Tyler’s train, but Richard emerged from a Spatial Rift and stopped the shell with a mana barrier.
• Richard learned that Prosthetic Knights had been mobilized to attack the Miracle Order, then captured a noble in Crystal Power Armor and incapacitated the noble leading the attack.
• The noble said he had authorized the assault after being told the Miracle Order was a rebellious lowborn cult, suggesting a high-ranking traitor had misled the Church Faction.
• Richard gave Tyler a protective pendant and reacted with concern when Tyler reported an oracle calling for unity against kin corrupted by demons.
• Tyler explained that Abyssal Demons often corrupted the flesh priests of the neighboring Flesh Royal Court, and Richard decided to go there.
• After the battle, the Miracle Order buried its dead, repaired its church, and openly displayed its symbol in Dunling City.

Richard interrogated two captured Great Goblins about their crystal armor, God-given Bodies, and the Divine Palace, then decided to investigate Golden Summit Peak in the Flesh Royal Court. In Dunling City, he revealed plans to expand the Miracle Order openly and gave Ulysses blueprints for Signal Towers to spread news across the world.

• Richard forced the Great Goblins to reveal that their Royal Court had over five hundred suits of crystal armor, with ninety-three usable, and that such creations were rare Ancient Heritage.
• Richard examined the Great Goblins and learned their myths said the Complete Master had granted their ancestors God-given Bodies before the Mechanical and Flesh Royal Courts were founded.
• Richard learned that the Divine Palace might be on Golden Summit Peak, north of the Flesh Royal Court, and decided to go there.
• Richard met Ulysses above Dunling City and explained that they would bring the Miracle Order into the open after the attack on its stronghold.
• Richard gave Ulysses blueprints for Signal Towers, explaining that they would let him spread news of great deeds throughout the world within ten minutes.

Richard traveled to the Flesh Royal Court to investigate the Abyss Cult and the legendary divine palace, finding its workers subjected to widespread biological modification. He entered an Abyssal Lair, captured an Abyssal Demon for study, and discovered that its core flesh tumor stirred a faint response from the Life Rule.

• Richard flew to the Flesh Royal Court and found that nearly every goblin in a city had undergone biological modification, while workers were treated much like those in the Mechanical Royal Court.
• Richard consulted a map and headed toward an apartment complex that his senses revealed was disguised as a flesh-and-blood lair.
• Richard entered the Abyssal Lair, found weak Abyssal Spores inside, and burned through the lair's flesh-based defenses.
• Richard trapped an Abyssal Demon with a Hand of Mana, froze it with Rune Chains, and stored it in his secret realm.
• Richard reached the lair's core chamber and saw a huge flesh tumor react faintly with the Life Rule.

Richard investigated an Abyssal Lair core, discovered that its regeneration ritual could grant it rules, and left with the final essence after the lair collapsed. He searched for the Divine Palace on Golden Summit Peak, where the Grand Patriarch of the Church of the Lord of Flesh and Blood arrived and addressed him.

• Richard extracted and sealed an Abyssal Lair core, then recorded the lair growing a replacement core through a ritual that gave it rules.
• Richard cut out another core as the lair weakened; the remaining Life Force contracted into a flesh worm, and the collapsing building drew goblins to the scene.
• The Grand Patriarch learned that a person had taken the nest worms from twelve collapsed lairs and inferred from their locations that he was heading toward Golden Summit Peak.
• Oli traveled with the Grand Patriarch toward Golden Summit Peak, where Richard searched for the Divine Palace and concluded that the peak was not the world's highest point.
• The Grand Patriarch arrived with a burly goblin, bowed toward Richard, and asked whether he was searching for the Divine Palace.

Richard learned that the Divine Palace was hidden behind a guarded entrance in the Daru Highlands, and traveled there with the Grand Patriarch of the Church of the Lord of Flesh and Blood. The Main Control, Lan, admitted Hogg and Richard to the Divine Palace Laboratory after recognizing Hogg as a Dragon King's offspring.

• Richard questioned the Grand Patriarch about the Divine Palace and learned that its Main Control had barred the Church from entering for thousands of years.
• The Grand Patriarch led Richard to the Divine Palace's hidden entrance in the Daru Highlands, where Richard found a Spatial Rift.
• Main Control asked what the visitors had brought, and Richard brought Hogg out from his secret realm.
• Main Control Lan recognized Hogg as a Dragon King's offspring, removed the barrier, and welcomed Hogg and Richard into the Divine Palace Laboratory.

Richard entered the abandoned Divine Palace Laboratory and learned about its systems, history, and dwindling energy supply. After becoming its Chief Researcher, he opened a rift to the secret realm and went to feed the World Mushroom.

• Richard told Lan to admit the Grand Patriarch, then learned that Lan’s emotional module came from Junior Researcher Zebr and that the laboratory had long been abandoned.
• Richard entered the laboratory with Hogg and the Grand Patriarch, who wept upon seeing the Church of the Lord of Flesh and Blood’s long-sought destination.
• Richard asked Lan to analyze Berserk Orc blood, and Lan found that its complex life essence might resist Reverse Meme but would take centuries to study.
• Richard learned the laboratory was close to running out of energy and decided to connect it to another space fragment.
• The laboratory’s permission system made Richard its Chief Researcher, and he opened a rift to the secret realm and called out to the World Mushroom.

Richard relocated the Divine Palace Laboratory into his Secret Realm, then studied its capabilities and began cloning the Mayfly Heart. He abandoned plans to create perfect cannon fodder and turned to improving goblins and producing Mayfly Essence instead.

• Richard used the World Mushroom to move the Divine Palace Laboratory into his Secret Realm, where Ulysses marveled at the laboratory and took the Grand Patriarch away to discuss the Miracle Order.
• Richard studied the Level Two laboratory’s biological modification materials for three days and learned that modified organisms had poor reproductive ability, making them unsuitable as cannon fodder.
• Richard decided to modify goblins to improve their potential while preserving their usefulness as believers.
• Richard asked Lan to analyze the Mayfly Heart and learned that its first degraded clone would take six months to produce.
• Richard ordered the laboratory to clone the Mayfly Heart, relying on the World Mushroom to provide the required resources.

Richard opened the damaged laboratory warehouse and discovered rare materials, a living black beetle, and an intelligent colony organism that could consume matter and reproduce by devouring free elements. He ended the chapter considering the organism’s potential to grow into a Black Tide that could swallow elemental attacks and entire legions.

• Richard opened the warehouse’s spatial bubbles, contained a stone emitting Decay Radiation, and collected Mithril and other rare alchemical materials.
• Richard restrained a World Lord-level black beetle and deduced that its body had survived after its soul perished, then sent it to the World Mushroom for raising.
• Richard discovered that the final bubble held an ultramicro colony organism, named it a Gestalt Organism, and found that it could understand only simple pleas for mercy.
• Richard fed the Gestalt Organism various materials and learned that it consumed most of them quickly, though it could not withstand fire or cutting attacks.
• Lan reported that the organism’s volume increased as free elements decreased, leading Richard to realize it might reproduce by consuming elements.

Richard learned that Abyssal corruption had reached the Flesh Royal Court and forced its God King into slumber, then studied the Precursors’ research and strengthened himself and the Miracle Monks. As the Miracle Order drove back Abyss Cults and gained believers, a flesh-covered carriage crashed through the royal capital’s gates.

• Richard sealed the Gestalt Organism away and took the Precursors’ unfinished research records from the laboratory.
• Franken became a devout believer, and Ulysses told Richard that Abyssal corruption had reached the Royal Court and put the Flesh God King into slumber.
• Ulysses explained how Magellan became a god by charting an entire world’s seas and advised Richard to conceal his identity when completing a great feat.
• Richard mastered the laboratory’s biological-modification research, upgraded his body, and improved the Miracle Monk surgery.
• Under Franken’s leadership, the Miracle Order rooted itself in the Flesh Royal Court, purged Abyss Cults, and rapidly gained believers.
• A carriage covered in shattered flesh smashed through the gates of the royal capital.

Oli reported that the Flesh Royal Court had fallen after its God King succumbed to Abyssal corruption, while Wally’s workers enjoyed improved lives and their faith gathered toward the birth of a new God. Richard learned that the transformed God King could be countered by sacrificing the Mechanical Royal Court’s world master, and accepted the deaths that choice would cause as a necessary evil.

• Oli contacted Franken and told him the Royal Court had fallen, the God King had devoured nearly all the nobles, and Dis’s fate remained uncertain.
• Franken opened a rift to a secret realm after ending the call with Oli.
• Wally ate beef soup and fried flatbreads with his coworker, and the workers’ collective Faith Power converged in the Gods dimension to form a new God.
• Ulysses explained that the God King’s Web Transformation had created an Abyssal Blessing and that killing the Mechanical Royal Court’s world master could cancel it through Origin Enhancement.
• Richard chose to let the world master die despite the goblins who would be lost, calling it a necessary sacrifice and a Necessary Evil.

Richard and Ulysses prepared the Flesh Royal Court and Mechanical Royal Court for the Abyss’s advance, while the Mechanical Royal Court’s nobles mistook wartime mobilization for rebellion. The Mechanical Royal Court’s God King awakened and summoned his council to learn what had become of his realm.

• Richard told Ulysses that Lan had cultivated ten Degraded Mayfly Hearts, and they agreed to use them to produce Miracle Monks.
• Franken authorized the construction of a Great Wall in the Flesh Royal Court, and Richard and Ulysses halted production of vulnerable biological puppets and wasteful War Beasts.
• Richard improved the Flesh Royal Court’s Biomass Armor as Franken mobilized its factories and modified knights for the coming battle.
• Tyler ordered the Mechanical Royal Court’s factories, mines, and signal towers to prepare for war, prompting Payson and other nobles to accuse him of rebellion.
• The Mechanical Royal Court’s God King awakened on the seventh day after the Flesh Royal Court fell and summoned the council to learn about his territory.

The Mechanical God King learned that his brother had been corrupted and found the Flesh Royal Court’s capital transformed into an Abyssal Lair. After confirming that the Supreme Sacred Mountain’s seal remained mostly intact, he decided to act quickly, unaware that a crack at its base was leaking a dark crimson glow.

• The Mechanical God King summoned the six noble family heads, learned they had begun preparing defenses, and said he would inspect his corrupted brother before attacking.
• Lorraine warned the nobles that they were no longer irreplaceable and urged them to work with Tyler and the commoners.
• The Mechanical God King arrived above the Flesh Royal Court capital, scanned his brother’s unstable condition, and chose to inspect the Supreme Sacred Mountain before fighting.
• The Mechanical God King found the mountain and confirmed its seal was mostly intact, then decided to end the battle swiftly as a crack at its base leaked a dark crimson glow.

The Mechanical God King, Damak, attacked his corrupted brother while Richard and Ulysses watched, expecting the battle to draw out the Great Demon they planned to exploit. The Great Demon broke free from his prison and prepared to leave the Supreme Sacred Mountain.

• Richard doubted Damak could defeat the Abyss-blessed Flesh God King and discussed the Great Demon's plans with Ulysses.
• Damak bombarded the Flesh Capital with Ancient Heritage weapons, but the Flesh God King countered and emerged in the form of a Fallen Angel.
• Ulysses explained Fallen Angels and warned Richard that studying Abyssal Runes could draw him into the Abyss.
• The Great Demon revealed that his weakened appearance was a deception and that both of his hearts still beat.
• The Great Demon shattered the mountain wall that had imprisoned him and opened a path out of the Supreme Sacred Mountain.

Richard and Ulysses let Yuri Beelzebub play his part in the invasion, accepting the cost of the goblin deaths while the Mechanical God King fought the Abyss-corrupted Flesh God King. After the Mechanical God King died, Yuri devoured the Flesh God King as the scene was broadcast across the world.

• Ulysses explained that Yuri Beelzebub had left the seal and that the World Will could nurture a new World Master if the Mechanical God King died.
• Richard agreed to let Yuri Beelzebub act, accepting that hundreds of thousands or even millions of goblins might die as a Necessary Evil.
• The Flesh God King's Companion Race finished hatching, and the Abyss Blessing fully empowered him.
• The Mechanical God King discovered the Frenzy rule and wounded the Flesh God King, but the Flesh God King pierced his chest and ate his heart.
• Yuri Beelzebub bound the Flesh God King, revealed that he had deceived him, and devoured him while a strange machine broadcast the scene across the world.

Yuri Beelzebub devoured the Goblin World's two World Guardians and unleashed an abyssal invasion, while Richard and Ulysses cut off the gods' connection to believers to redirect their fear and faith. Richard revealed himself as Sage and rallied the goblins to resist the demons, then prepared to confront Yuri Beelzebub.

• Yuri Beelzebub devoured the Flesh God King and the Mechanical God King, then created an Abyssal Lair and ordered his Change Demons to conquer the world.
• Abyssal Demons invaded the Flesh Royal Court's rear, infecting goblins and throwing twenty-three cities into chaos as Richard ordered priests and monks to contain the outbreak and guards to receive Holy Water.
• Richard and Ulysses severed the Goblin World's prayers from the gods, causing believers across the world to panic and fear they had been abandoned.
• When Franken asked if the crisis was part of Richard's plan, Richard said the gods had abandoned him too, then told Franken to broadcast his message to the world.
• Richard identified the demons as ancient Abyssal Demons and urged the goblins to resist without relying on the gods, while Mind Infection spells in the Crystal Projectors amplified his speech.
• Richard declared that he would eradicate the world's final suffering and prepared to face the demon invasion.

Richard gained the World Blessing and began fighting Yuri Beelzebub, while footage of the battle stirred the goblins to rally around him. The battle continued as Yuri adapted to Richard’s attacks and began using Abyssal Runes.

• Richard and Ulysses received the World Blessing, and Richard learned it made them immune to Mind Control.
• Richard prepared a stone Staff, summoned a Lava Meteorite, and told Ulysses to ambush Yuri Beelzebub while he attacked head-on.
• Goblin priests broadcast Richard’s speech and the battle footage, calming the crowds and prompting some goblins to begin worshipping Richard instead of their absent god.
• Yuri Beelzebub burst through the meteorite, but Richard’s layered magic shields stopped his punch before it reached him.
• Richard trapped Yuri in an earthen force field and struck him with powerful wind blades, while Yuri used Abyssal Runes to divert the surrounding energy.

Richard fought Yuri Beelzebub, who used an Abyssal Incantation to suppress magic and then temporarily evolved after being driven to the brink of death. Richard and the injured Ulysses continued battling him, while Ulysses struggled to stay awake and support Richard.

• Yuri Beelzebub surrounded Richard with blood mist and used its magic-breaking effect to pierce his barriers, but Richard froze the surrounding space and blasted away Yuri’s arm with a punch.
• Yuri recognized Richard as a wizard and offered him a relic and world coordinates in exchange for peace, but Ulysses warned that the coordinates led to an Abyss World, so Richard attacked.
• Yuri survived Richard’s fireball and Ulysses’s flames by calling upon the Abyss and undergoing temporary evolution, while Richard recovered from losing half his body.
• Ulysses revealed that Yuri’s attack had badly injured him, and Richard tried to hold Yuri off as Ulysses forced himself to remain awake and fight.

As goblins worshipped Richard as their Guardian Spirit, their Faith Power transformed him and restored Ulysses’s strength, allowing them to defeat Yuri Beelzebub. Richard then ascended a heavenly staircase and became a brilliant star in the sky.

• Across Goblin World, goblins prayed to Richard as the Sage, and their Faith Power began shaping his divine statue.
• Richard learned that the goblins had made him their Guardian Spirit, and Ulysses urged him to accept the transformation into a Saint.
• Richard used divine arts against Yuri Beelzebub, while Ulysses returned to godhood and joined the battle.
• Richard and Ulysses overcame Yuri Beelzebub with Aurora, Holy Light, and Ulysses’s Abyss-countering flames, destroying him beneath the projection screens’ gaze.
• A staircase appeared before Richard, and he walked into the heavens, becoming a brilliant star as the goblins prayed for his divine throne.