Chapter Summaries

Richard and Ulysses gathered a Star Core from a planet in the Star Dimension, then entered the Soul Dimension to seek the Crown of the King of Souls. As Richard faced the first attacking souls, a black-robed figure tracked him to the Soul Dimension and entered it.

• Richard discovered that the Star Dimension lacked Four Elements Rules and that its unusual laws empowered Energy Witchcraft and altered the effects of speed and time.
• Richard and Ulysses went to a lifeless planet, dug down to its molten iron-nickel core, and collected Star Core for their task.
• Ulysses opened a gate to the Soul Dimension, warning Richard that they would have to kill the King of Souls to obtain its Crown.
• Richard and Ulysses entered the Soul Dimension, where Richard trapped several attacking souls in a magical force field.
• A black-robed figure used a bloodstained Staff and a summoned arrowhead to track Richard to the Soul Dimension, then entered through a gate.

Richard and Ulysses defeated a King of Souls in the Soul Dimension, then encountered the Curse Crown while he hunted a powerful Unspeakable Being. The Curse Crown marked Richard and ordered him to join the Curse School, leaving Richard with a new protection as the Crown departed.

• Richard and Ulysses were attacked by a King of Souls whose death-mist domain trapped them, but Richard destroyed it with Dragon's Lament and finished off the creature.
• A massive black-robed figure appeared in the Soul Dimension, sealed a group of Unspeakable Beings, and stopped one from escaping as a black ray.
• The figure, the Curse Crown, marked Richard with Mysterious Power while he and Ulysses tried to flee, then appeared before them.
• Richard introduced himself and explained that he was an Alchemy School wizard and a Vice Dean under Kanon.
• The Curse Crown told Richard to join the Curse School under Great Wizard Curse Mark and explained that the mark would transfer curses directed at him.
• The Curse Crown opened a door beyond the dimension and departed.

Richard prepared and began his promotion to become a Fifth-level creature, dismantling his old Rule Body and assembling a new Composite Rule Body with the help of a vast Magic Array and rare offerings. His life core shattered as the decisive transformation began, leaving his success uncertain.

• Richard and Ulysses returned to the Soul Dimension in soul form, where Richard discovered that Soul Crystals could provide Soul Origin.
• After a month of searching, Richard and Ulysses defeated a Fourth-level King of Souls, and Richard sealed its canine fang for use in his promotion.
• Richard spent three months building a vast Magic Array in the Immortal Village World and prepared its five Altars with precious materials.
• Richard activated the array, dismantled his Rule Body, and used a Soul Origin potion to complete the framework of a new one.
• Richard placed his Composite Rule into the new Rule Body as the Altars activated their offerings, including the Crown of the King of Souls and the fruit of the World Tree.
• Richard's life core shattered as his promotion to the Fifth level began.

Richard completed his physical and spiritual evolution into a Fifth-level creature, gaining control over Life Force and fusing the Life and Radiation Rules. He began preparing an expedition by expanding his armies and turned the captured Abyssal Demon over to Ulysses before deciding its fate.

• Richard endured the reconstruction of his life core and resisted the savage instincts unleashed by his evolution until his body and soul completed their transition.
• Richard appeared before Ulysses and the White Wolf God, demonstrated his fused rules, and revealed his new ability to control Life Force.
• Richard ordered the Werewolf Legion expanded to one million and announced that his forces would begin an expedition.
• Richard's command set the Goblin World’s factories and armories to work while veterans returned to the Goblin Legion and werewolves trained alongside goblins.
• Richard gave Ulysses the captured Abyssal Demon after Lan located its hidden soul, then told the demon he would kill it once it had no further value.

Richard inspected the Floating City Research Institute’s fourth-generation Flesh and Blood Computer, named it Tianyan, and accidentally made it a Holy Relic. As he continued fusing his Rule Body, he and Ulysses sent Invasion Scrolls toward a distant world to begin an expedition without Richard’s true body.

• Anson showed Richard the fourth-generation Flesh and Blood Computer and explained how its living neural network handled calculations and organized data.
• Richard named the machine Tianyan, and Holy Light transformed its Faith Power into a mark that made it a Holy Relic.
• Ulysses explained that named offerings from the Miracle Church system became Holy Relics that could let others borrow Richard’s authority and power.
• Tianyan greatly accelerated the Floating City Research Institute’s work, and Richard answered researchers’ questions before returning to the Mystic Realm.
• Ulysses abandoned his attempt to create a way into the target world through a contract gap, and Richard asked him to use a simpler method while Richard fused his Rule Body.
• Richard opened a dimensional rift, and Ulysses threw several dozen Invasion Scrolls into it to travel toward the distant world.

Baal Sterger survived a Wind Beast attack after the leather scroll he carried shielded him, then woke in a Control Bureau hospital and was questioned about a voice in his dream. Specialist K investigated the scroll’s possible anomaly, and an earthquake struck as she opened its safe.

• Baal Sterger hid from a Wind Beast that had killed his expedition, but the creature struck him when he tried to leave his hiding place.
• The dark red leather scroll under Baal’s clothes stopped the Wind Beast’s attack, and Control Bureau personnel found him as he collapsed.
• Specialist K questioned Baal about a voice offering a deal in his dream, identified his location as a Control Bureau hospital, and warned him to report the voice if it returned.
• Baal learned the attacker was a Wind Beast from another world, then Specialist K had nurses sedate him when he demanded to know what she meant by returning to normal life.
• Specialist K reviewed Item 1275’s file and considered whether the scroll had changed or encountered special conditions; the ground shook as she opened its safe.

Specialist K joined the task force to fight a Class 3 invasion and killed a giant snake, but a far more powerful World Lord emerged through a spatial rift. As Specialist K faced despair, Item 1275 offered her help.

• Specialist K learned that the invasion had escalated to Class 3 and took four items before flying to the battle site.
• Specialist K used Item 111, Item 456, Item 784, and Item 1275 to fight the giant snake, whose bloodline pressure and resistance to the Imprisonment Nail raised her suspicions.
• Specialist K recorded the snake's wind talent and killed it with a single blade strike.
• A colossal python entered through a spatial rift, killed or incapacitated people across the battlefield with a sound wave, and Specialist K recognized it as a World Lord from another world.
• Item 1275 sent Specialist K a psychic message asking whether the desperate lamb needed help.

Specialist K, later identified as Angelina, summoned Richard to stop the Calamity Serpent in exchange for saving her city. After defeating and sealing the serpent, Richard learned about the Control Bureau and the repeated invasions affecting this world, which had connections to more than five other worlds.

• Specialist K accepted Item 1275's contract and opened a Spatial Rift to summon a powerful being to kill the Calamity Serpent.
• Richard and Ulysses emerged from the rift, and Angelina identified herself as a Control Bureau field agent and asked Richard to fulfill their contract.
• Richard froze the Calamity Serpent briefly, allowing Ulysses to wound it and remove its heart, then sealed the still-living serpent in a Magic Space.
• Richard questioned Angelina and Anderson at the Control Bureau's Base L-1 about the world's structure and its invasions.
• Richard and Ulysses concluded that the world had formed deep connections with more than five other worlds, an unprecedented scale of world collision.

Richard learned that the world's invasion disasters were likely caused by a World Collision and assessed the Control Bureau and Four-Eyed People while considering how to conquer the world. When he sensed an attack on Base L-1, he confronted the approaching soldiers.

• Richard told Anderson that the world's many different invasions suggested a World Collision, though he could not identify its exact nature.
• Anderson left to report the news, and Angelina explained that the Control Bureau concealed invasions to preserve public stability after the Cataclysm.
• Richard assessed the Four-Eyed People, their military response to invasions, and the difficulty of persuading them to accept him as a god.
• Richard sensed that Base L-1 was under attack and warned Angelina.
• An unmarked force advanced on the base, and its commander reported that the Snake King had not stopped them before Richard addressed the soldiers in an unfamiliar language.

Richard learned that the Fusion Party planned to accelerate world fusion and sacrifice most ordinary Four-Eyed People, while the Control Bureau opposed its approach. As Angelina guided him through the city, Richard and Ulysses realized its scattered religions offered an opportunity to establish their own influence.

• Richard subdued the invading force, learned from a communicator that the Fusion Party had attacked, and killed the Four-Eyed Person whose soul he then searched.
• Anderson explained that the Fusion Party wanted to hasten world fusion, and Richard questioned how the Control Bureau planned to handle the threat.
• Richard asked Anderson to arrange a guide and explored the city while learning that the Fusion Party favored abandoning ordinary people in favor of supposed elites.
• Angelina guided Richard through the city and told him that its many religions were mostly small local sects.
• Richard and Ulysses concluded that the city was an unclaimed virgin land.

Richard and Ulysses found the Four-Eyed People's growing religious scene ripe for recruitment, while the Control Bureau's Director learned of their power and sought to arrange a meeting. Two days later, Richard saw Ulysses preaching to a crowd of devout believers and asked how he had gathered them so quickly.

• Angelina explained the Fire Worship Society to Richard, who recognized an opportunity to spread Ulysses's faith; Ulysses vanished to build a church.
• Anderson reported Richard and Ulysses's abilities to the Director, who ordered the Bureau to accommodate them unless they killed someone.
• The Director visited the Curtain and learned from an aged Four-Eyed Person that Spatial Tremor Bombs were worsening the world's fusion with other worlds.
• The Director told the old man that two powerful world lords had entered their world and that one had likely banished a great serpent, then sought to meet them.
• Richard watched a Miracle Order priest serve mushroom cakes and soup to hundreds of believers and asked Ulysses how he had attracted them in two days.

Richard received permission from Anderson to spread his religion in the new world, while Ulysses reported that researchers had solved a key problem in the Divine Kingdom System. Richard went to hear their findings as the gathered cardinals anticipated a way to continue living after death.

• Ulysses explained that he had converted a small church, and Richard said the world’s natives could serve as stewards but not masters.
• Richard returned to the Control Bureau with Angelina and told Anderson he intended to spread his religion; Anderson granted him permission to preach freely.
• In the Mystic Realm, Ulysses told Richard that the Divine Kingdom System researchers had found a solution.
• Richard reviewed the system’s long development: he had integrated the Underworld Rule and tasked researchers with finding a way to guide or store believers’ souls.
• Richard and Ulysses arrived at the research institute’s conference hall, where Pope Franken and the assembled cardinals awaited the findings.

Martin presented a Divine Kingdom system that stored the dead in Prayer Amulets, transferred their souls through Staffs of Guidance, and sent them to blessed idols, where Richard guided one soul into the Divine Kingdom to become a Heroic Spirit soldier. Ulysses proposed combining divine arts with a super-large Magic Array to create an Earthly Divine Kingdom, while the Miracle Order completed its conversion of the city and Angelina arrived to summon Richard and Ulysses to meet the Director.

• Martin demonstrated the Prayer Amulet, Staff of Guidance, and blessed idol, which together stored and transferred souls.
• Richard opened the Divine Kingdom and transformed a soul from an idol into a Divine Grace Goblin Heroic Spirit soldier, then ordered production of Prayer Amulets for the coming war.
• Ulysses explained that an Earthly Divine Kingdom could use ley lines and an Underworld Rule to guide believers’ souls, and Richard agreed to explore simulating it with a super-large Magic Array.
• Anderson learned that every other sect and association in the city had been eradicated, leaving only the Miracle Order, and prepared to report the change.
• Ulysses told Richard that the city had been fully converted to the Miracle Order, and Angelina arrived to say the Director wished to meet them.

Richard met with Avery and Grigo of the Control Bureau and agreed to an initial partnership to study the invasion phenomenon. Their meeting was interrupted by a Spatial Rift and the arrival of Stasin, a former Bureau deputy director who founded the Fusion Party.

• Richard entered the Control Bureau conference room and recognized Grigo as a sixth-level creature, while Grigo identified Richard and the Black Crow as avatars.
• Avery questioned Richard about his travels and the world's invasion phenomenon, then agreed to let him and his companion remain and help study it.
• Richard and Avery discussed the Control Bureau's efforts to use religion to steady the population after the meeting.
• A Spatial Rift opened near the Bureau, revealing a prairie and a gigantic elephant being drawn toward it, while an unseen voice addressed Avery.
• Avery identified the speaker as a traitor, and Stasin introduced himself as a former Deputy Director who had founded the Fusion Party.

Richard and Avery confronted Stasin over the Four-Eyed People's future as a giant Magic Beast World Lord emerged through a Spatial Rift. Richard wounded the beast with powerful sorcery, but it fled back to its world, leaving Avery and the others shaken by the magic Richard had nearly completed.

• Richard secretly detected Stasin hiding in a deeper layer of the Curtain and listened as Stasin and Avery argued over world fusion, Grigo, and the Calamity Beasts' endless revival.
• A mountain-sized magic elephant charged through the Spatial Rift, and Richard identified it as a Fifth-level creature while Avery protected the nearby Control Bureau members.
• Richard used Sun's Gaze to pierce the elephant, then began forming complex sorcery as the wounded beast tried to flee.
• Richard's black-flame Raven Claws seized the elephant, but it tore free and escaped into its world while the unfinished sorcery's fading structure frightened Avery and the other World Lords.

Richard drove off a Calamity Beast, then studied Control Bureau records about invasion disasters and The Cataclysm. After discovering he could no longer reach the Mystic Realm, he found a secluded cave at Moonlit Mountain to use as a research site.

• Richard drove away the magic elephant, while Ulysses evaded Stasin's observation and ventured deeper into the gaps in the veil.
• The rift healed, and Richard gained more devout believers after the invasion caused little damage; Avery gave him the Control Bureau's research report before leaving.
• Richard read that at least ten worlds had intersected with this world and that Disaster Beasts could revive repeatedly without apparent loss, unlike other invaders.
• Richard found that his Secret Realm Rift led to the gaps in the veil instead of the Mystic Realm, then asked Anderson for a large, secluded location.
• Anderson marked an abandoned mine at Moonlit Mountain on a map, and Richard found its sealed natural cave as a potential research site.

Richard prepared a cave laboratory, subdued the Calamity Great Serpent, and questioned it about its revival and the Beastlands. The serpent revealed that Beast Kings revived inside the Beastlands after dying elsewhere and hunted in other worlds, while Richard suspected the Beastlands was part of a Large World and began examining the serpent for more clues.

• Richard reinforced the cave with mana circuits and Runes, cleared away its stalactites and growth, and tested the defenses with a powerful fireball.
• Richard pulled the wounded Calamity Great Serpent from his sealing space and forced it to shrink by threatening it with Miracle Fire.
• Richard discovered that the serpent felt no pain from his attacks until it sensed Miracle Fire, then compelled it to answer his questions.
• The Calamity Great Serpent explained that Beast Kings revived in the Beastlands after dying outside it and that its kind entered other worlds to hunt for food.
• Richard learned that the serpent had heard of strange creatures entering the Beastlands but knew of no wars, leading him to suspect it belonged to a Large World.
• Richard ended his questioning and prepared to examine the Calamity Great Serpent's body for hidden secrets.

Richard discovered that the Calamity Great Serpent contained a rule resembling those found in illusory creatures, suggesting that it might be a semi-illusory creature. Unable to find a safe way to exploit the serpent’s valuable body, he returned it to its seal, while Baal woke from recurring nightmares and spotted a familiar figure in a new expedition team.

• Richard studied the Calamity Great Serpent and discovered an unfamiliar rule within its flesh that might explain its ability to resurrect without loss.
• Richard considered the serpent’s many valuable properties but could not devise a way to harvest them without risking its death, so he fed it and returned it to the seal.
• The Calamity Great Serpent asked whether Richard intended to raise it like livestock, and Richard said he might release it in a few decades.
• Baal woke from a recurring nightmare about a monster attacking him and remembered that his former expedition had been wiped out in circumstances he could not recall.
• Baal kept a strange, bulletproof Devil Scroll beneath his clothes and returned to sleep after smoking a cigarette.
• The next morning, Baal saw a well-equipped expedition team arrive and recognized someone among its members.

Angelina and Baal’s expedition teams raced through the Kro Mountains toward the same ancient ruin, with Baal’s group taking a hazardous shortcut through an earthquake fissure. After emerging from the fissure, the teams neared the ruins, and blue light flashed beneath Baal’s skin.

• Angelina met Baal, who recognized her despite having no memory of their past encounter, and both expedition teams learned they were headed to the same ruin.
• Angelina discovered Baal’s team was using a shortcut through the mountains and ordered her Control Bureau team to move faster.
• Baal’s team entered a narrow, unstable fissure to cut through a mountain and reach the ruins sooner.
• Baal’s team crossed the fissure without incident and continued toward the ruins, while a streak of blue light appeared beneath Baal’s skin.

An expedition led by a mercenary commander opened a heavily fortified ruin and discovered it belonged to the mysterious Kel Dynasty and once housed a Supreme Research Institute. At the research level, they found a glowing crystal sphere besieged by living flesh, and a tendril attacked one of their members as hurried footsteps approached from behind.

• The leader measured thirty percent Lanthanum Metal in the hidden ruin’s door, then used a disk-like machine to open it.
• Baal and the expedition entered the enormous, corpse-free ruin with Professor Loren and Professor Baron.
• Baal recognized the blackened writing at a corridor fork as Kelvin, and Professor Loren translated it as “Lighthouse... extinguish.”
• The team found diaries identifying the ruins as a branch of the Supreme Research Institute, where researchers had studied the Supreme Being Relic.
• At the research level, the expedition saw a glowing crystal sphere fighting off masses of flesh, and a tendril struck an expedition member, causing him to swell as energy gathered around him.
• The leader ordered everyone to retreat as hurried footsteps sounded behind the group.