Chapter Summaries

Richard learned that the Civilization Devourer had once been sealed by an alliance of three civilizations and that Curse Crown intended to return for the counteroffensive. Back in the Material World, Richard began smelting a Level 4 Life Radiation Rule and used stored souls to cut the process down to thirty days, leaving him time to inspect the recovered technology.

• Richard told Curse Crown that the Myriad Machines Dimension contained a Doomsday Seed Base built by a Civilization Alliance, and that he had salvaged more than half its technology, though some storage mediums were contaminated.
• Curse Crown suggested Richard might eventually take over the Curse School and said he would return after the Age of Dharma's End to join the counteroffensive against the Star River Mayflies.
• Richard warned that the Civilization Devourer fed on war, but Curse Crown said its fate was fixed unless its thread snapped.
• Richard returned to the Material World and began smelting a modified Level 4 Life Radiation Rule using rules extracted from a Mayfly King.
• Richard fed souls from his Divine Kingdom into the Miracle Furnace, reducing the smelting time from hundreds of thousands of days to thirty, and planned to inspect the remaining technology while he waited.

After a month of studying the Furnace People's records, Richard gained the Life and Death Cycle rule and brought a Gold Pattern Furnace to the Truth Council. The Crowns began examining it, and Alchemy Crown was shocked by what he found inside.

• Richard discovered the Furnace People's analysis of Faith Power, which outlined the Miracle path and the divine arts path.
• After sorting through the storage devices and absorbing a Light Sphere, Richard fused the Life Rule and Death Rule into the Life and Death Cycle authority.
• Richard tested his new authority and learned that it could accelerate matter's decay or restore decayed matter by supplying the missing energy.
• Richard entered the Wizard Dimension and summoned the Crowns to a Truth Council meeting.
• Richard showed the Gold Pattern Furnace he had found, and Alchemy Crown was startled when Miracle Fire flared as his mental power entered it.

Richard presented the Gold Pattern Furnace and a trove of advanced technologies to the Truth Wizards, who appointed him an Honorary Truth Wizard and entrusted him with establishing a Library. He then warned them that a sealed Civilization Devourer had destroyed an alliance of powerful previous civilizations, while the Star River Mayflies had gained a new Astral Dominator.

• Richard explained that the Gold Pattern Furnace could fuse compatible rules, and the Crowns recognized it as a valuable public resource.
• Richard distributed information crystals containing advanced technologies, and the Crowns agreed to establish a Library to integrate the knowledge carefully.
• Shaping Crown proposed granting Richard the title of Honorary Truth Wizard, and the other Crowns approved it.
• Richard reported that the Star River Mayflies had gained a newly ascended Astral Dominator, threatening Wizard Civilization's advantage in top-tier combat.
• Richard revealed that the Supreme Beings, the Star-Herding Titans, and the Furnace People had formed an alliance that was destroyed by the sealed Civilization Devourer.

After the Crowns agreed on rules for the Gold Pattern Furnace, Richard registered the Truth title Miracle and began preparing to advance. His ascension shook the Wizard Dimensions and reached the Great Star River World, where Mayfly Dominator wondered whether the new Crown was a threat or bait.

• Shaping Crown persuaded the Crowns to focus on rebuilding and developing before trying to mediate the war, and the Crowns agreed to limit the Gold Pattern Furnace to Fourth Ring Great Wizards.
• The new Furnace system increased Richard’s share of Dimensional Power, and he went to the Eternal City of Truth to register a title.
• When the registration system could not find Richard among ordinary Wizards, he suggested that Keeper of Secrets had moved his records to the Truth Wizard section.
• The magical book recognized Richard as a Crown Lord, and Richard wrote down the title Miracle, causing every Great Wizard to learn that a new Wizard Dimension had ascended to Truth.
• Richard used a Crystal Ball provided by Alchemy Crown to request Sixth Ring advancement materials and flew toward the Far North.
• At the Great Star River World, Mayfly Dominator received news of the new Crown and wondered whether it was a genuine threat or bait.

Richard began his Sixth Ring advancement using a ritual array enhanced by Star-Herding Titan knowledge and materials. As he broke through and glimpsed the Net of Fate, he recognized a thread tied to himself while the Civilization Devourer watched.

• Richard completed the ritual array and gathered the rare materials needed for his advancement.
• Richard dissolved his spiritual power Runes, swallowed the Star-Herding Titan's Blood, and transformed his life core with Titan life information.
• The Civilization Devourer manipulated threads of fate, drawing the attention of rulers including the Curse Crown and the Scarecrow ruler.
• Richard's body grew to a thousand meters as the ritual materials fused with him, his Rules became part of his body, and he broke through the shackles of a Fifth-level creature.
• Richard entered a mysterious realm, saw the Net of Fate, and recognized a thin, tough thread connected to himself.

Richard resisted the Civilization Devourer’s attempt to manipulate his fate and completed his advancement, then met with the Wizard World’s Level Six Guardians. They revealed that the Age of Dharma’s End had arrived early and asked him for protection, prompting Richard to suspect the Truth Council.

• The Civilization Devourer tried to shake Richard’s resolve by questioning the information he had received, but Richard rejected its persuasion and accepted that he might die while remaining determined to change others’ fates.
• After completing his advancement, Richard reflected that the Civilization Devourer had likely noticed him long ago and possibly arranged the Mayfly Dominator’s appearance.
• Three World Guardians brought Richard to a hall where all the Wizard World’s Level Six Guardians had gathered.
• The Guardians told Richard that the Age of Dharma’s End had arrived early and that the World Origin would fall dormant in three years, leaving only mortals and Grand Wizards able to survive.
• The Day and Night Guardian and the Forest Guardian asked Richard to shelter them, and Richard questioned whether the Truth Council intended to move against them.

The World Guardians asked Richard to shelter them as the Age of Dharma's End threatened to leave them vulnerable, and the Wizard World Blessing marked him as their intended leader. Richard gained the Shaping Crown's support for taking them into his retinue and left to advance his Demi-human Wizard Project experiments.

• The Day and Night Guardian explained that the Truth Council considered the World Guardians an unofficial organization and might kill them once the Wizard World Origin fell asleep and they weakened.
• The Day and Night Guardian revealed that Richard's Blessing of the Wizard World meant he should lead the World Guardians, and the Guardians bowed to him as their Commander.
• Richard agreed to raise the Guardians' request with the Shaping Crown but warned that he would not oppose the Crown on their behalf.
• The Shaping Crown agreed to support the Guardians joining Richard's retinue in exchange for a portion of the shares.
• Richard left to accelerate the Demi-human Wizard Project experiments before the Age of Dharma's End arrived, and the Shaping Crown remarked that Curse's eye was venomous.

After Ulysses created an independently developed divine art, Richard shifted his efforts toward building the Miracle School and completing Miracle Sorcery. Recording the finished sorcery drew Mysterious Power and a Cursed Creature to his spellbook, making Richard appear to them as powerful as Curse Crown.

• Richard completed a rune model for the Demi-human Wizards and urged them to consult Tianyan about simple problems before seeking his help.
• Ulysses demonstrated his independently developed divine art, Ulysses's Life Flame, and explained that it used no technology from the Gods.
• Richard decided to make developing the Miracle School a central focus while continuing his Life Editing research.
• After fusing Titan's Blood, Richard gained enough Spirituality to study Miracles more deeply and developed a complete system of Miracle Sorcery.
• Richard recorded Miracle Sorcery in a spellbook, whose radiance attracted Mysterious Power and a Cursed Creature that regarded him as comparable to Curse Crown.

Richard deliberately opened an Abyss Network Channel and spread Abyssal corruption to provoke the World Origin into creating a Demi-human World Guardian. A Third-Ring Demi-human Wizard accepted the World Origin’s contract and became a World Lord, confirming Richard’s plan had succeeded.

• Richard inspected the delayed Abyss Network Channel and judged it could stimulate the World Origin into creating a World Guardian now that Third-Ring Demi-human Wizards had emerged.
• In the Great Abyss World, Istaroth killed the channel’s overseer, appointed a replacement, and ordered him to open the channel within a month using World Lord flesh and blood for Blood Sacrifice.
• Richard confirmed that the Level Three werewolves had been transferred out of Immortal Village World and suppressed the White Wolf God as the Abyss Network Channel opened.
• When the channel’s opening failed to summon a World Guardian, Richard unleashed Abyss Power and spread Abyss Erosion from the underground base across the plain.
• The World Origin answered the corruption by offering a contract to a Third-Ring Demi-human Wizard, who accepted and was empowered into a World Lord.

Richard arranged for Istaroth to bring the Abyss Legion into the Immortal Village World, where they would camp, reorganize, and keep Abyss Corruption under control. He then returned to the Wizard Great World to witness the Age of Dharma's End, as Eternal Night arrived and the world's supernatural barriers began to collapse.

• Richard ordered Istaroth to bring the Abyss Legion to the Immortal Village World and control its Abyss Corruption.
• Richard introduced Istaroth to the White Wolf God and Ulysses, warning Istaroth to respect Ulysses's rank.
• Richard returned to the Wizard Great World to inform the Truth Council and witness the Age of Dharma's End.
• The Wizard Great World's sun set, the last ambient energy vanished, and Eternal Night began.
• The Truth Council received reports that the Sky Islands, Boundary Ice Wall, Boundary Storm, and Quicksand Mountains were collapsing.
• The Shaping Crown called the coming era an age of Alchemy, while the Alchemy Crown declared it an age of truth.

Richard presented a Demi-human Wizard to the Crowns and revealed that he was the World Guardian of the Immortal Village World, created through life engineering. The Crowns debated whether Demi-human Wizards could expand Wizard Civilization despite the political divisions and constitutional concerns their inclusion could cause.

• Shaping Crown led the Crowns into the Eternal City of Truth for a meeting, where Richard presented a Demi-human Wizard as the result of his accelerated experiment.
• Physique Crown examined the Demi-human Wizard, initially found nothing unusual, then discovered that he was connected to the Wizard Dimension but not the Wizard World.
• Richard revealed that the Demi-human Wizard was the World Guardian of the Immortal Village World and explained that his altered life core concealed his Wizard bloodline until he reached Level One.
• Richard argued that Demi-human Wizards could provide thousands of new Great Wizards and expand the Wizard Dimension, giving every Crown a share of the gains.
• Alchemy Crown warned that including Demi-human Wizards could violate the Wizard Civilization Constitution and deepen divisions, while Shaping Crown argued that wartime survival required seizing the opportunity.

Richard and the Crowns agreed to promote Demi-human Wizards, then Richard discovered that the World Mushroom was unconscious after its consciousness became trapped in the Star-Herding Titan’s body. He found no soul inside the Titan and suspected the two had fused.

• Curse Crown backed Richard’s proposal to promote Demi-human Wizards, and the Crowns established plans for their legal status, resources, education, and pilot worlds.
• Richard took Lan to connect it to a powerful computational matrix to support the Demi-human Wizard project.
• Richard discovered that the World Mushroom was unresponsive and learned from Pom-pom that its consciousness was trapped in the Star-Herding Titan’s body.
• Pom-pom gathered the Sacred Tree Elves, who parted the ground and led Richard to the Titan’s body beneath the Sacred Tree.
• Richard searched the Titan’s body for the World Mushroom’s soul, found no trace of it, and wondered whether the two had fused.

Richard investigated a symbiotic Titan, brought Lan to the Truth Council’s computational array, and helped accelerate the Demi-human Wizard Project. As the Star River Mayfly offensive intensified, he suspected the Civilization Devourer was behind the enemy’s new strength and called for a meeting.

• Richard found fungal filaments and the Titan’s body sharing a harmonious energy cycle, recorded the phenomenon, and told the Sacred Tree Elf not to heal the fissure or enter it.
• Richard brought Lan to the ruins and learned that copying Lan into the computational array could increase its computing power at the cost of shortening its lifespan, so he consulted Physique Crown and the Truth Council before they approved the plan.
• With Lan operating the array, the Truth Council completed pilot cultivation of Demi-human Wizards for one hundred Elemental Equilibrium worlds in less than five years.
• Richard and Physique Crown reviewed reports of a growing Star River Mayfly offensive and noted that the insects had gained strength and possibly found ruins from a previous civilization.
• Richard sensed the Civilization Devourer’s involvement and asked Physique Crown to call a meeting so they could make plans.

The Crowns discussed how the Civilization Devourer manipulated fate to prolong war and devised a plan to eliminate a Star River Mayfly ruler, though Richard’s memories of it were erased. After the World Mushroom awakened in symbiosis with a Titan body, Richard tested its strength and prepared to return to the front lines as Commander-in-Chief of 3612 World.

• The Curse Crown explained that the Civilization Devourer used subtle manipulations to prolong wars, and proposed swift attacks to stop the Star River Mayfly’s advance.
• The Curse Crown announced a plan that might eliminate one of the Star River Mayfly’s rulers, and Richard later realized his memories of the plan had been removed.
• Richard observed the World Mushroom awaken in symbiosis with the Star-Herding Titan’s body after five years of receiving Soul Origin.
• Richard tested the awakened Symbiotic Titan in the Mystic Realm, where it used Unity of Heaven and Man to strike with ten million Energy Level of force.
• Richard caught the World Mushroom’s punch, advised it to adapt to its new body, and revealed that he would return to the front lines as Commander-in-Chief of 3612 World.

Star River Mayflies renewed their assault on Ash Sun World, and Gawain survived a devastating attack before being reassigned. Richard arrived to take command and immediately confronted the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor, whose attack began as the two prepared to fight.

• Star River Mayflies overwhelmed the Wizards’ defenses, and Gawain narrowly escaped a beam that destroyed his firing chamber.
• During a brief lull, Gawain reported that he was the sole survivor of Squad Six, then received orders to join Third Company with Asu.
• Great Wizard Absolute Zero learned that Miracle Crown would replace him as commander, and he and Holt sensed Richard and the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor arriving.
• Richard inspected Ash Sun World’s death-energy rule, met Great Wizard Absolute Zero, and went to confront the enemy Quasi-Emperor.
• The Mayfly Quasi-Emperor transformed into a green storm and charged Richard as their battle began.

Richard fought the Star River Mayfly Quasi-Emperor with the Titan's Hammer, and the two took turns inflicting severe wounds while battling Behind the Curtain. Their final clash left the Quasi-Emperor with only its Mayfly Heart and Richard with two hearts, after which both withdrew to their own lairs.

• Richard struck the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor with the Titan's Hammer, and the Quasi-Emperor used Furnace People armor and Life Rule energy to fight back.
• Richard's Abyss Power destroyed the Quasi-Emperor's alien energy, and the Quasi-Emperor mistook him for an Abyssal Demon before opening a rift Behind the Curtain.
• Richard and the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor continued their fight Behind the Curtain, where Richard's hammer strikes weakened its armor and Abyss Power hindered it.
• The Mayfly Quasi-Emperor drew on the Mayflies' contribution to unleash its full strength, and Richard consumed over ten million units of Magic Essence for a decisive hammer strike.
• The clash reduced the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor to its golden Mayfly Heart and left Richard with two hearts, and both combatants retreated to their respective lairs.

Richard recovered from his battle with the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor, assessed his gains, and began experimenting with the Transformation Rule while ordering Wizard forces and trade to expand into the world. Meanwhile, the Civilization Devourer altered fate so five Dominators of Star River Mayfly became connected to Richard’s thread, prompting Curse Crown and the Scarecrow Dominator to act to protect it.

• Richard ordered Great Wizard Absolute Zero to reorganize the war zone, bring in the Abyss Legion, establish trade, and deploy new tactics.
• Richard assessed his injuries and increased bloodline integration, then found that the Miracle Furnace could not yet smelt the Illusory Rule Seed into an Illusory Dimension.
• Richard used the Transformation Rule to create and strengthen alien Life Mutation energy, deciding to study it while his body recovered.
• The war intensified as both sides poured legions into World 3612, while the Civilization Devourer resonated the world's fate threads and connected five Dominators of Star River Mayfly to Richard's thread.
• Curse Crown identified Richard as the chosen one, and the Scarecrow Dominator said the other Dominators had been notified so they could prevent his fate thread from being torn apart.

Richard judged that the Wizards’ advantage in mid-tier combat power made a shift from passive defense possible, and ordered preparations for a localized offensive against the Star River Mayflies. He planned to use incoming Abyss Legions in a cautious trial attack, while Gawain noticed that the fortress had already begun suffering fewer losses.

• Richard reviewed the battlefield figures and concluded that the Wizards should stop relying entirely on defensive positions.
• Richard told the Old Wizards that he intended to launch a localized offensive, but they warned that shortages, Abyss Corruption, and unknown Star River Mayfly subspecies made an attack risky.
• Richard said Abyss Legions would arrive through the trade passage and ordered the Old Wizards to plan a small-scale offensive once they could work alongside the Wizard legions.
• Richard dismissed the meeting after directing the Wizards to adapt to offensive warfare while remaining cautious.
• Gawain and Asu observed that fortress losses and rotation frequency had fallen, and Gawain hoped Asu would survive the war and marry his childhood sweetheart.

Richard approved a cautious joint campaign plan, ordered Abyssal Demon artisans to share their technology, and received the Cancer of Flesh and Blood as food and research material. The first Wizard-Abyssal Demon assault captured Small Earth Vein Node Number Three, though the victory cost thousands of Wizards and many demons and retainers.

• Abyssal Legion Commander Istaroth met Richard, who ordered unrestricted Abyss conversion and commanded the Demon Artisans to cooperate with Wizard researchers.
• Gawain and Asu joined the technical exchange between Wizards and Abyssal Demons while Richard approved Absolute Zero’s conservative attack plan.
• Richard received the Cancer of Flesh and Blood and ordered it roasted for an extra meal at General Headquarters.
• Abyssal Demons shielded the Wizards as Barrier Shatter Bombs broke the Star River Mayflies’ Legion Shield, and the combined forces captured Small Earth Vein Node Number Three.
• Gawain repaired Asu’s armor and warned him to be careful as he left to help fortify the node.
• Richard read the battle report, which recorded heavy losses among the allied forces, and judged the results not bad.

After the probing offensive, Richard’s staff assessed the Wizard losses, new Star River Mayfly subspecies, and an approaching Scorched Snowstorm before debating when to launch the next attack. Meanwhile, Gawain and Asu noticed a change in the battlefield’s death energy and narrowly escaped a Mayfly strike.

• Absolute Zero reported the offensive’s losses and gains, including captured Earth Vein Nodes and Abyssal Lairs that could rapidly train Abyssal Demons with the Illusionary System.
• Absolute Zero showed Richard’s staff a powerful Hunter Mayfly upgrade and warned that the Star River Mayflies might be undergoing a transformation.
• Absolute Zero reported that a Scorched Snowstorm could arrive in half a year, and Richard ordered research into countermeasures before asking the staff to assess offensive plans.
• Richard rejected plans with excessive risks and set conditions for attacking before the storm, otherwise deciding to wait until afterward.
• Gawain repaired an Alchemy Turret while Asu remarked that the death energy had decreased, then Asu shoved Gawain out of a firing room moments before a beam destroyed it.