Chapter Summaries

Richard was appointed supreme commander of World 03245 and received its records before traveling to the front. He found the world understaffed and called on Goblin World and Immortal Village World to prepare legions, then arrived at Wilderness.

• Jimmy told Richard that the Council had appointed him to take over World 03245, and Richard set out for Eternal City of Truth.
• Richard declined Ulysses's offer to join the war, and Ulysses advised him to retreat rather than die fighting.
• At Eternal City of Truth, Richard received three Crystal Balls containing information about World 03245 and learned that its forces were far below the expected strength.
• Richard ordered Ulysses to prepare legions from Goblin World and Immortal Village World, with individual weapons rather than large war machines.
• Richard traveled through four Hub Worlds and arrived at World 03245, known in Wizard records as Wilderness.

Richard took command of the Wizard forces in Wilderness World and ordered a threatened position to withdraw, recognizing that the depleted army could not afford to defend every stretch of land. The Star River Mayfly commander identified Richard’s arrival and planned attacks to test how far he could retreat.

• As Horn Mayflies overwhelmed the 32nd Position, commander Elter asked General Headquarters for permission to retreat.
• Richard reviewed the troop reports and voided the order to hold the 32nd Position, allowing Elter’s unit to withdraw.
• Richard learned that Wizard forces in Wilderness World numbered only three and a half million and concluded the Mayflies’ recent attacks were testing whether a Great Wizard had arrived.
• Inside the Expedition Nest, the Star River Mayfly commander inferred that Richard had taken command from the Wizards’ changed tactics.
• The Mayfly commander ordered several level 3.5 battle groups to assault and distract positions along the front, aiming to stretch Richard’s battle line and prevent an easy withdrawal.

Richard evacuated the Wizards’ front line to preserve their strength and test a mixed force of Wizards and Heroic Spirit soldiers in Wilderness World. After summoning nearly five hundred thousand troops, he equipped and deployed them, leaving the story with the Heroic Spirit Legion training alongside Wizard units for a more proactive campaign.

• Richard marked the evacuated Fortress Cluster No. 43 on the map and explained that he intended to preserve the Wizards and reorganize them rather than defend the old line.
• Richard summoned nearly five hundred thousand Heroic Spirit Warriors in the Command Department’s square and told Abel Frederick to equip them, revealing that he commanded twenty million soldiers in total.
• Richard appointed Abel Frederick as his secretary, gathered the Heroic Spirit Legion’s equipment requests, and sent a supply list to the Logistics Department.
• Richard rejected the Staff Department’s plan to spread the Heroic Spirit Legions across the fortresses and ordered them concentrated for proactive attacks against the Mayflies.
• The Heroic Spirit Legion began mixed-unit training with Wizard legions, whose elemental enhancements, mental links, and scouting sorcery proved more useful to the soldiers than chaplains’ divine arts.

Elter learned that his depleted wizard legion would be broken up to support Richard’s Heroic Spirit Legions as part of an experimental mixed formation. Richard prepared to equip the new formations with adapted spells while Abel arranged their organization.

• Elter received orders to split his legion and serve as an auxiliary unit for Heroic Spirit Legions, and Lyle reported that his legion had received the same order.
• Elter asked Abel whether the reorganization would erase the legions’ designations and structures, and Abel confirmed they would remain intact as part of the Commander-in-Chief’s experiment.
• Elter learned that more than forty legions with fewer than five thousand members had received the order, then urged Lyle to comply and treat the Heroic Spirits as future comrades.
• Richard asked Abel about the commanders’ reactions and said he would adapt spells from the military exchange system for the Mixed-Blood Legion.
• Abel agreed to organize the mixed formations after Richard told him that the Command Department could manage while he rested.

Richard faced the Mayflies’ enormous forces and ordered his commanders to preserve their troops rather than follow a detailed plan. In the Northern War Zone, Tolia activated the Unified Defense Ring Plan, and the fighting continued with heavy attacks from both sides.

• Richard assessed that the Mayflies had deployed ten Level 3.5 battle groups and concluded their numbers would keep growing as their hatchery pools came online.
• Richard rejected using his elite wizards for a frontal assault, hoped his Mixed-Blood Legion experiment would work, and told the Northern War Zone to act independently while minimizing losses.
• Tolia and the other Northern War Zone commanders praised Richard for not micromanaging and activated the Unified Defense Ring Plan.
• Wizard aerial legions used Precursors Crystal Floating Cannons to breach the Mayflies’ energy barrier while dodging their return fire.
• The Fortress Cluster trapped and bombarded swarms of Horn Mayflies, but one wounded Horn Mayfly struck a fortress wall before dying and crying, “Everything for the Mayflies!”

Richard prepared a two-million-strong Mixed-Blood Legion to break the Star River Mayflies’ encirclement of the Northern War Zone. As the forces headed to battle, Lyle proposed using Heroic Spirits for suicide charges, and Elter asked the Werewolf Commander Su what he thought.

• Richard received a report that the Northern War Zone had repelled nine major Mayfly attacks, then oversaw the Mixed-Blood Legion’s training and settled friction between Wizard Dimensions and Heroic Spirit soldiers.
• After three months of training, Richard ordered the Mixed-Blood Legion to lead an assault across the breach while the Heroic Spirit Legion followed and reconnected the war zones.
• Richard deployed nearly all the forces he could mobilize, sending two million Mixed-Blood soldiers and three million Heroic Spirit soldiers aboard camouflaged War Airships with two Small Floating Cities.
• On an airship, Lyle suggested that priests and Heroic Spirits might combine their powers through suicidal attacks to unleash stronger divine spells.
• Elter asked Su, the Werewolf Legion Commander, what he thought of suicide charges.

The Mixed-Blood Legion deployed on the Wilderness World and began a surprise offensive against the Star River Mayflies, using elite Heroic Spirit scouts to break through patrols. As the legion gathered near an insect nest, its commander gave the order to attack.

• Elter explained Lyle’s proposal to use Heroic Spirit Warriors as power sources, and Roca agreed to test whether it could amplify divine spells.
• The Mixed-Blood Legion landed, formed its eleven-person combat units, and advanced in scattered groups while the mayfly patrols failed to detect them.
• An elite squad silently ambushed a mayfly patrol, destroying its scouting array and killing thousands of mayflies before they could organize a defense.
• A communications mayfly reported several patrols missing, but its superior failed to receive the warning while resting.
• The Mixed-Blood Legion assembled ten kilometers from an insect nest, and its goblin commander ordered the attack.

The Mixed-Blood Corps annihilated several Star River Mayfly battle groups in its first battle, using Goblin firepower and Werewolf Heroic Spirits to break the Mayflies’ defenses. Richard and the Mayfly King sensed each other across the world as the conflict escalated.

• The Mayfly Generals formed a defensive formation after the insect nest came under fire, but the Goblins’ opening barrage killed hundreds of thousands of Mayflies.
• A Mayfly General led the Horn Mayflies against the Mixed-Blood Legion, where Wizards used Quicksand Spells and Werewolf Heroic Spirits slaughtered the grounded swarm.
• The Mayfly battle group formed a defensive formation and tried to flee, but the Goblins’ turrets triggered a Fire Element storm that drained its energy.
• Werewolf Heroic Spirits charged through the Mayflies’ beam attacks, and one Company Commander overloaded his Instant Death Swords to break the Mayflies’ energy barrier.
• The Goblins fired again and annihilated the remaining Mayflies; the front reported that the Mixed-Blood Corps had destroyed several level-three battle groups at a cost of 7,300 men.
• Richard looked west, and the Mayfly King looked east, each sensing the other and anticipating the next clash.

The Mixed-Blood Legion raced to connect two war zones before the Star River Mayflies could surround it, and both forces met in a direct clash. The Legion Shield shattered under the mayflies’ assault, leaving the Heroic Spirit Warriors exposed as the Heroic Spirit Battle Flag blazed with Holy Light.

• The Mixed-Blood Legion advanced toward the Star River Mayflies while Richard weighed the cost of intervening in the battle.
• The priests raised the Heroic Spirit Battle Flag, strengthening the Heroic Spirit Warriors and surprising the wizards, who learned the legion had only just discovered its power.
• The Star River Mayflies opened fire with Penetrating Strikes, but the wizards protected the Mixed-Blood Legion with Earth Element Guard.
• The Mayfly General split the million mayflies into six defensive modules and four offensive modules, while the Mixed-Blood Legion formed a spearhead.
• The Mayfly General ordered the offensive modules to fire light spears exceeding 30,000 Energy Level, and their ninth strike shattered the Legion Shield.
• The priests prayed as the Heroic Spirit Battle Flag shone with Holy Light over the exposed Heroic Spirit Warriors.

The Mixed-Blood Legion broke through and destroyed a Star River Mayfly battle group while Richard’s forces tightened their encirclement. As the Mayfly King unleashed a black storm at the battlefield, Richard intercepted it and challenged him directly.

• The Heroic Spirit Legion’s vanguard flew past the Horn Mayflies, broke through the Star River Mayflies’ defenses, and survived a Thunder storm beneath the expanded Divine Blessing Field.
• Goblin spirits fired seven volleys from their portable Alchemy Turrets, and the Werewolf Heroic Spirits pursued the fleeing Mayflies and killed the Mayfly General.
• Wizards destroyed the remaining Mayflies, and the Mixed-Blood Legion resumed its advance after completing the battle in twenty minutes.
• Abel reported that 193 of 200 Mixed-Blood Legions had reached their positions and helped annihilate more than ten million Star River Mayflies as the encirclement tightened.
• Richard ordered the Staff Department to take command, then confronted the Mayfly King after he sent a black storm toward the battlefield.

Richard confronted the Mayfly King in the Astral Realm, and the two Fifth-level creatures tested their rules and combat abilities. The Mayfly King mistook Richard’s limited experience for severe injuries, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Richard and the Mayfly King recognized each other as formidable enemies and enlarged their bodies for battle.
• The Mayfly King unleashed a storm of death that withered space and light, but Richard dispersed it with an attack combining the Life Rule and Radiation Rule.
• Richard fired an enhanced Aurora at the Mayfly King, whose Death Rule field twisted the attack and left him unharmed.
• Richard opened a rift to the Fire Element Domain and fought the Mayfly King, countering his Ghost Rule with opposing rules.
• The Mayfly King sensed that Richard’s combat skill was crude and concluded that his injuries must be severe.

Richard and the Mayfly King agreed to halt their personal fight and let soldiers face soldiers, leaving the Wilderness World in an uneasy lull. Richard prepared for a future counterattack with vassal armies while pursuing Life Editing and gathering powerful Magic Beast bloodlines.

• Richard and the Mayfly King agreed not to risk their lives over the Wilderness World and accepted the rule of soldiers against soldiers and generals against generals.
• Richard returned to General Headquarters, reviewed the Mixed-Blood Legion’s successful battle report, and ordered the wizards to strengthen defenses while they waited for a counterattack.
• Richard told Abel that armies from his two vassal worlds would provide reinforcements, then gave him a list of Magic Beast bloodlines to obtain.
• The wizards and Star River Mayflies stopped attacking as they rebuilt and patrolled, leaving the Wilderness World in an uneasy stillness.
• Richard’s attempt to integrate another creature’s life information caused his ring finger to collapse, but it quickly regenerated.
• Richard focused on Life Editing and prepared to integrate seven powerful Magic Beast bloodlines to increase his combat abilities.

After months of failed attempts to edit his Life Core, Richard realized Abyss Power might let him guide life information into his cells. He began testing the dangerous method on himself and ended the chapter by preparing to see how outside conditions affected an evolved finger.

• For three months, Richard failed to alter any Life Core fragments and reconsidered his experimental methods.
• Richard connected the traits of Dragons and Abyssal Demons to his research, then decided to use Abyss Power despite the risk of becoming an Abyssal Demon.
• Richard contacted Jimmy and obtained Physique Crown's research on Abyss Power after receiving permission to exchange battle merit for it.
• Using the research, Richard began a self-experiment in which Abyss Power transformed his finger without causing it to collapse.
• After a day, Richard tore off the evolved finger, placed it in Nutrient Solution, and began testing how external conditions affected its evolution.

Richard completed his research into combining creature bloodlines and used Life Editing with Abyss Power to create Abyssal War Body 1.0. The Abyss, Wizard Dimension, and Gods' Dimension struggled over him as he finished the transformation, and Abel was left unable to recognize him.

• Richard recorded more than a hundred experiments and completed a spellbook on integrating other creatures' bloodlines.
• Richard began integrating selected bloodlines into his body, while Wizard Dimension power and Gods' Dimension power guarded his soul from the Abyss's corruption.
• Monitor and Devourer discovered that the Abyss had noticed Richard and was trying to seize him.
• The Keeper of Secrets and an angel from the Gods' Dimension attacked the Abyss Will, helping protect Richard as the three dimensions' powers reached a balance.
• Richard completed Abyssal War Body 1.0 and emerged with greatly increased combat strength.
• Abel entered Richard's room, stared at his transformed appearance, and asked who he was.

After his bloodline integration transformed him into an Abyssal Demon-like being, Richard discovered that Abyss Power was opening a path to the Great Abyss World. He told Ulysses he intended to contact Abyss Civilization and then sought the Wizard Civilization’s help, learning the Abyss Origin had tried to enslave him.

• Richard inspected his altered body, found that his life core and soul had not changed, and wondered whether Abyss Power alone had transformed his appearance.
• A pull from the Void drew Abyss Power out of Richard and formed a Dimensional Gate, which he recognized as a route to the Abyss Dimension and possibly the Great Abyss World.
• Richard considered establishing relations with Abyss Civilization, destroyed the vortex, and told Ulysses of his idea; Ulysses urged him to follow his judgment despite their personal feelings.
• At the Eternal City of Truth, the Keeper of Secrets revealed that the Abyss Origin had tried to invade Richard’s soul and make him its slave, while the Keeper and another dimension had prevented it from succeeding.
• Jimmy and the White Bear arrived, and Richard explained that Abyss Civilization was summoning him into the Great Abyss World and that this might help Wizard Civilization.

Richard won the Truth Council’s approval to establish contact with the Abyss Civilization and used Physique Crown’s ritual to reach an Abyss Lord. The connection instead reached a demonic dragon that recognized the wizards and roared in helpless dismay.

• Physique Crown agreed to contact the Abyss Civilization, and the Truth Council unanimously assigned Richard to establish relations.
• Physique Crown gave Richard a communication ritual and encouraged him to pursue a seat of Truth.
• Ulysses warned Richard that he would have to report the planned relations to the God Kings, though he chose to delay doing so for a few years.
• Richard set up the ritual outside the General Headquarters and summoned an Abyssal being with fourth-level creature sacrifices.
• A demonic dragon redirected the communication from Carlos to itself, then roared at Richard that the wizards had not spared it.

Richard persuaded Istaroth, the Abyssal Demon Dragon, to relay Wizard Civilization’s offer of communication and trade to the Abyss’s ruler. Back at General Headquarters, Richard learned that reinforcements—including the vassal race legions he had requested—had arrived.

• Richard subdued the Demon Dragon and asked him to contact the Abyss’s ruler about Wizard Civilization’s offer to communicate and trade.
• The Demon Dragon suspected a Wizard conspiracy, but Richard used genuine Holy Light and reports of Alchemy Puppets to convince him that Wizard Civilization’s claims were credible.
• The Demon Dragon agreed to relay Richard’s proposal, ended the ritual, and attacked Carlos before flying off with the demons.
• Richard collected the ritual materials, considered which rule to pursue next, and decided to seek the Rule Codex from Shaping Crown after the war.
• Abel told Richard that reinforcements had arrived, including the goblin and werewolf vassal legions Richard had requested.

Richard welcomed the assembled armies to the battlefield and swore he would never abandon any soldier, even as he accepted the danger of their losses. His Divine Oath bound itself to his soul and granted him the ability to protect devout souls across vast distances.

• Commander Chuck saw how powerful the other races were and worried that the goblins would be outmatched, but his friend urged him to trust their faith and accept the risks of war.
• Wizard retainers arrived, followed by 2.7 million goblins and two million werewolves from their worlds.
• Richard offered the soldiers a chance to leave, but none raised a hand.
• Richard vowed to lead his soldiers to victory or death and never abandon them.
• The World of Gods bound Richard's Divine Oath to his soul, granting him the power to protect devout souls even when they were tens of millions of miles away.

Richard discovered that Abyss Blessing strengthened him while leaving his soul vulnerable to Abyssal transformation if the Wizard Dimension’s protection failed. As the Star River Mayflies prepared for another offensive, he approved an erosion campaign and defended his Mission-Oriented Tactics, leaving the General Staff Department facing a major change in command policy.

• Richard learned that his body contained Abyssal Rune Arrays that produced Abyss Power, confirming Ulysses’s diagnosis of Abyss Blessing.
• Richard recognized that Abyss Blessing boosted his combat abilities but could let the Abyss transform him if the Wizard Dimension lost the war.
• Richard received reports that the Star River Mayflies were likely preparing a new offensive after their five-year growth cycle.
• Abel told Richard that the soldiers had completed training and presented the Erosion Strategy, which aimed to seize smaller Earth Vein Nodes and weaken enemy forces.
• Richard approved the strategy and insisted that subordinate legions should be allowed to pursue strategic objectives independently, with failures forgiven when they stayed within the Command Department’s intent.

The Wizard Dimensions launched a new campaign against the Star River Mayflies under Richard’s decentralized command model, scoring major early victories. Richard ordered the legions to prepare for the Mayflies’ counterattack and sought broader frontline reports as the Mayfly King reacted to the renewed offensive.

• Wizard Dimension legions deployed, and Lyle and Elter welcomed the freedom to choose their own tactics despite the risks of taking responsibility for failure.
• At a Mayfly Mother Nest, an Old Wizard Dimension disabled its energy shield through Energy Resonance, allowing the Mixed-Blood Legion to destroy the nest with a concentrated volley.
• Abel reported that two hundred legions had destroyed ninety-one Mother Nests and killed nearly thirty-five million Star River Mayflies.
• Richard warned the frontline legions that surprise attacks would no longer work and requested reports from the wider front to prepare for the coming grand offensive.
• The Mayfly King reviewed the battle report and recognized that the Wizard Dimensions had resumed attacking.