Chapter Summaries

The Civilization Devourer consumed the Great Star River World and spread its corruption through the Mayfly Dimension. The Mayfly Dimension Avatar entrusted Richard with the unhatched Mayfly Spirit and the surviving Mayflies, while Richard discovered that black slime was appearing in the Wizard Great World and turned toward a suspicious relic in the Eternal City of Truth.

• The Civilization Devourer covered the Great Star River World in black slime, drained its ley lines, and opened a rift to let a Great Existence enter the Material World.
• The Mayfly Dimension Avatar told Richard that hidden parts of the Civilization Devourer had destroyed research institutes and spread a Meme Curse through the Mind Network, infecting the Star River Mayflies.
• The Mayfly Dimension Avatar asked Richard to preserve the Star River Mayflies and gave him the unhatched Mayfly Spirit; Richard swore to protect them and accepted the egg.
• The Mayfly Dimension Avatar severed the connection between Richard's Mayflies and the dimension, told them to surrender to the Wizards, and then vanished.
• Richard reached the Wizard Great World, ordered the Guardians to investigate the spreading slime and isolate anyone who had seen it, then burned the slime with Miracle Fire.
• Richard suspected the slime was a contingency left by the Civilization Devourer and found a tar-like black fluid among the Predecessor Civilization Relics in the Eternal City of Truth.

Richard sealed a fragment of the Civilization Devourer and ordered Wizard Civilization to contain the spreading black slime while preparing to fight alongside the Star River Mayflies. As Wizard legions raced to establish a defensive line, a vast Furnace Person army emerged from the black ocean and set out on an expedition.

• Richard sealed the black slime in a Stasis Field, then ordered Eternal City of Truth to shut down civilian information channels and activate anti-memetic measures.
• Richard ordered World Guardians to inspect their worlds, isolate anyone exposed to the slime, and carry out Curse Scar’s contingency plan.
• Richard told Great Wizard Blazing Sun that Wizards would likely fight alongside the Star River Mayflies, then returned to the front line to gather Mayflies as the Wizard legions advanced.
• Gawain told Asu that their vanguard was carrying defensive supplies and racing ahead to establish a defensive line, not launching an offensive.
• Tens of millions of Furnace People and their War Machines emerged from the black ocean and flew through a fissure in the World Wall on an expedition.

As the Civilization Devourer invaded the Great Star River World, Richard and the Wizards coordinated with the surrendered Star River Mayflies to defend the major Hub Worlds. Richard and the Physique Crown each encountered a powerful enemy as the fight began.

• Gawain piloted a War Airship into a world swarming with Star River Mayflies and resisted the intoxicating neural connection that could cause Phantom Body Syndrome.
• A Mayfly King delivered Richard's decree to the Wizards, and the Great Wizard agreed to fight alongside the Mayflies and coordinate their defenses against the Curse Meme-capable enemy.
• Gawain and Asu prepared their War Airship for patrol alongside the Void Cracking Insect Swarm while the Astral Realm legion remained behind.
• Richard told the Physique Crown that the Civilization Devourer had conquered the Great Star River World and warned him not to send its avatars or split bodies into dimensions.
• The Physique Crown faced a Black Titan, while Richard flew toward another imposing Titan that had arrived to confront him.

Richard fought a Titan Grandmaster fabricated by the Civilization Devourer, enduring his devastating blows and counterattacking with the power of his four arms. The battle left Richard at a disadvantage, and the Titan Grandmaster mourned that Richard's potential had fallen into the hands of evil.

• Richard faced the Titan Grandmaster, who crossed a light-hour and struck him with a punch powerful enough to wound his Rune-covered body.
• The Titan Grandmaster unleashed Killing Fist: Ten Thousand Strikes in an Instant, but Richard's transparent barrier absorbed most of the attack.
• Richard attacked with Titan's Hammer and two black-hole-like fist radiances, forcing the Titan Grandmaster to defend with Flowing Water Guard.
• The two fighters continued their battle through the Void and a nearby dimension, shattering worlds and killing a Dominator that tried to stop them.
• The Titan Grandmaster shattered Richard's hearts and broke two of his arms, while Richard smashed the Grandmaster's head with Titan's Hammer.
• After they returned to the Void, the Titan Grandmaster called Richard too slow and mourned that his great potential served the Civilization Devourer.

Richard discovered that the Titan Grandmaster’s combat instinct gave him a decisive speed advantage, so he used Dimensional Power to engrave instincts into himself and completed Instinct Engraving. He defeated and killed the Grandmaster, whose phantom questioned Richard’s unfamiliar bloodline as it burned.

• Richard realized the Titan Grandmaster’s instinctive attacks were faster than his own deliberate movements and decided to find a way to close the gap.
• Richard defended himself while using Dimensional Power to artificially engrave innate combat instincts into his body.
• After his barrier stopped healing, Richard revealed that he had completed Instinct Engraving and forced the Titan Grandmaster backward with a punch.
• Richard and the Titan Grandmaster fought again, and Richard gained the advantage as the Grandmaster suffered increasingly severe injuries.
• The Titan Grandmaster continued fighting despite knowing he could not win, and Richard finally killed him with a punch.
• As Miracle Fire consumed the Grandmaster, his phantom asked Richard what Titan he was and why he had never seen his bloodline.

Richard rescued Taral Peak, a Titan Grandmaster who had been consumed by the Civilization Devourers, and returned to help defend a Hub World from their invasion. After the fighting temporarily stopped, Richard told the leaders that the enemy was the Devil Master who had escaped from the Savage Great World and returned for revenge.

• Richard rescued Taral Peak's soul with the Miracle Fire and learned that the Civilization Devourers had begun their war again.
• Richard sent Taral Peak into his dimension and headed to help the defenders hold the battle line.
• Gawain and Asu fought off invading creatures and burned away the black slime from their remains.
• The Miracle Crown's return ended the fighting temporarily, and Asu told Gawain about the Miracle Order's Sage.
• Richard ordered the Hub World defended and identified the enemy as the Devil Master returning for revenge.

Richard helped defend the Hub Worlds against the Civilization Devourer and went to investigate the dead Curse Crown’s dimension. There, the Curse Crown’s avatar explained that the thread of fate on Richard was an anchor fixing the worldline toward the Civilization Devourer’s inevitable death.

• Richard warned the Great Wizard that his knowledge of the Civilization Devourer’s many races was incomplete and gave him information about the Furnace People and Star-Herding Titans.
• Richard secured the Mayfly King’s obedience, then preserved the Titan Dominator’s faint soul in the Miracle Dimension after the Titan’s body burned away.
• The Physique Crown refused Richard’s offer of the Abyss Titan bloodline, and Richard assigned him and the Undead and Soul Crowns to guard the three Hub Worlds.
• Richard told the Physique Crown that he was going to the Curse Crown’s dimension to investigate what contingencies the dead wizard had left behind.
• Richard met the Curse Crown’s personality-overwritten dimension avatar, who said the thread of fate on Richard was an anchor fixing the worldline toward the Civilization Devourer’s inevitable death.

Richard learned that the Curse Crown had become a Curse Meme inside the Civilization Devourer, helping anchor its fate while interfering with its decisions. After briefing the other Crowns and arranging new responsibilities, Richard returned to the Miracle Dimension and accepted Taral Peak’s service as the Titan Clan’s new king.

• The Curse incarnation explained that Richard’s fate anchored a worldline in which the Civilization Devourer died, but the anchor could fail if the Devourer killed Richard or recovered to his peak.
• Richard learned that the Curse Crown and other Dominators had turned him into a Curse Meme that could influence the Civilization Devourer and expose its location through Divination Witchcraft.
• Richard chose Curse Scar to inherit the Curse School and told the other Crowns about the Curse Crown’s plan, prompting them to prepare propaganda, research, and physical evolution potions.
• Richard returned to the Miracle Dimension, where Taral Peak reported that a Dominator’s soul and personality had nearly vanished, and Richard told him about the Titan Clan’s sacrifice and the Abyss Titan’s birth.
• Taral Peak recognized Richard as the Titan Clan’s new king and offered to help rebuild the Titan Legion as its former chief instructor.

Richard consulted the Titan King about the Civilization Devourer and his cultivation, then began rebuilding Taral Peak’s body as the war remained quiet. When the Swarm Lord arrived to surrender, Richard said his contract would serve as a public sign that the Wizards were willing to cooperate.

• Richard learned that the Titan King had cut away records of civilizations consumed by the Civilization Devourer and advised him to wait until breaking the limit before weaving Illusory Rules into his body.
• Richard created avatars to hold the Wizard World and cultivate the Titan Legion, then began constructing a new body for Taral Peak.
• A year passed without an attack on the Wizards, while Richard continued building Taral Peak’s body and received no reply from Alchemy or Shaping.
• Eldridge reported that he had encountered Swarm, and Richard traveled to meet the Star River Mayfly Dominator.
• Swarm told Richard that he had come to surrender and sought a contract, but Richard said it would be a new agreement declaring the Wizards’ willingness to cooperate.

Richard proposed using the Swarm Lord and the Star River Mayflies as a banner for a wizard-led alliance against the Civilization Devourer. After the Star River Mayflies’ surrender was formalized and their leaders departed, the wizards made them vassals and established the Wizard Alliance.

• Richard sealed the Swarm Lord until a contract could be signed, then gave Eldridge the flesh of a Dominator after learning Eldridge had reached the Fifth level.
• The Shaping Crown and Alchemy Crown defeated the World Dominator and Artificer Dominator, who accepted terms of exile and paid Wizard Civilization reparations.
• The four Dominators revised the surrender agreement to protect the departing Star River Mayflies from becoming enemies of the wizards.
• At the Eternal City of Truth, Richard argued that protecting the Swarm Lord would help the wizards lead an alliance against the Civilization Devourer.
• The wizards approved terms making the Star River Mayflies a restricted vassal race in the Wizard Alliance, and granted the Swarm Lord freedom to travel to the Endless Dimensions.

Richard prepared to visit the Great Abyss World to invite the Abyss Civilization into the Wizard Alliance, while studying the adaptive flesh of the Tianyan Dominator. After Taral Peak restored his dimension, Richard set out with him for the Great Abyss World.

• Richard finished Taral Peak’s Titan body, and Taral Peak praised it before pledging himself to Richard as his king.
• Richard told Taral Peak to restore the Illusory Dimension and showed him the surviving Titan Dimension, which would help speed the restoration.
• Richard abandoned another attempt at the Titan Trial and studied the Tianyan Dominator’s flesh, observing its rapid adaptation to repeated energy shocks.
• After four months, the Day and Night Guardian reported that Taral Peak had arrived at the Wizard World, and Richard confirmed that he was his subordinate.
• Richard learned that Taral Peak had rebuilt the dimension, opened a Dimensional Gate, and departed with him for the Great Abyss World.

Richard brought Taral Peak, a newly recognized Abyss Dominator, into the Great Abyss World to meet its guardians and discuss an important matter with its Dominators. Beelzebub arrived and mistook Taral Peak for a Creator, but Taral Peak declared that Richard was the one who wished to speak with him.

• Richard entered the Great Abyss World with Taral Peak, whose ascension the Abyss Will recognized by granting him a crimson star beside Richard's Blood Moon.
• Richard brought Taral Peak to the World Tree, where Monitor, Action, and Devourer learned that a new Dominator had appeared and suspected Taral Peak was connected to the ancient Creators.
• Monitor notified Samael, while Action and Devourer went to summon Beelzebub from his swamp.
• Beelzebub emerged from the swamp with a mutated wooden staff and speculated that Richard might be a key to awakening the civilization of the previous era.
• Beelzebub met Richard and Taral Peak, judged Richard to be a resource-built showpiece, and treated Taral Peak with caution because of his ancient aura.
• Taral Peak stood beside Richard and told Beelzebub that his King wished to discuss something with him.

Richard, revealed as Abyss’s new Titan King, sought an alliance with Beelzebub against the Civilization Devourer, but Beelzebub refused to stop the war with the Gods. After Richard challenged him, Taral Peak defeated him, and Beelzebub agreed to a truce.

• Beelzebub mistook Taral Peak for the one in charge until Taral Peak identified Richard as his King.
• Richard asked Beelzebub to join the Wizard Alliance and make peace with the Gods, explaining that the Civilization Devourer had destroyed the previous civilization and that Abyss had been created to fight it.
• Beelzebub accepted an alliance against the Devourer but refused a truce, arguing that Abyss’s war with the Gods should continue.
• Richard revealed his authority over Abyss by absorbing Beelzebub’s poisonous mist and disabling his Abyssal Incantations, then let Taral Peak fight him.
• Taral Peak overwhelmed Beelzebub in battle, and the weakened Beelzebub called his refusal a misunderstanding and agreed to the truce.

Richard secured Beelzebub’s signature on a contract to unite the Abyss with the Wizard Alliance, then turned Beelzebub’s viruses into fuel for his own evolution and traded him a piece of flesh. After a year of research, Richard’s physique had reached 9,000 points when Abyss Dominator Samael returned.

• Richard presented Beelzebub with a Fate Contract, and Beelzebub signed it while warning that Samael’s mark was also needed for it to take effect.
• Richard absorbed Beelzebub’s Life Virus and evolved instead of suffering lasting mutation, increasing his physique by fifty points.
• Beelzebub traded Richard more viruses for a piece of his flesh, and Richard used a Fate Contract to forbid him from sharing or exploiting its secrets.
• Richard told Taral Peak that he expected Beelzebub to try stealing his bloodline and began testing the viruses Beelzebub had left behind.
• Over the next year, Richard developed Virus Infection and raised his physique from 7,500 to 9,000 points.
• Richard and Taral Peak sensed a terrifying pressure outside the World Tree as Samael emerged from a vast vortex.

Richard and Taral Peak met Samael, who demanded a fight before signing a Fate Contract and joined them in the Endless Dimensions. The chapter ended with Samael surviving their opening attacks and urging them to continue.

• Samael arrived in the Great Abyss World, recognized Richard as the stronger opponent, and challenged him to fight.
• Richard revealed that the Civilization Devourer was the hidden hand behind the Titans' extinction, capturing Samael's interest.
• Samael agreed to hear Richard's terms but insisted on fighting him before signing the Fate Contract.
• Taral Peak asked to join the battle, and Samael accepted before they entered the Endless Dimensions.
• Richard and Taral Peak attacked Samael with a pitch-black singularity and the Killing Fist, Annihilation.
• Samael emerged with almost no flesh remaining but his aura undiminished, and called on them to continue fighting.

Richard and Taral Peak fought Samael, who overwhelmed them despite sealing his power. Samael forced Richard into a near-fatal battle that triggered his evolution, then left him alive, and Taral Peak carried him back to the Great Abyss World, where Beelzebub considered exploiting his unconscious state.

• Richard and Taral Peak attacked Samael, but he endured their techniques and countered with overwhelming physical strength.
• Richard struck Samael with a punch combining his energy, Runes, Dimensional Power, and probability manipulation, cracking Samael's bones before they rapidly healed.
• Samael shattered his seals and used High-Pressure Evolution to push Richard into a desperate fight for survival.
• Richard's body nearly disintegrated under Samael's attack, but the surviving cells brimmed with vitality as evolution began.
• Taral Peak brought the unconscious Richard to the Great Abyss World, while Beelzebub decided it was an opportunity to steal bloodlines.

Beelzebub began integrating Richard’s Abyss Titan bloodline while Richard observed his body’s reconstruction and learned from Beelzebub’s process. With the Titan King’s guidance, Richard intervened just before the integration finished, and the Abyss Will detected Beelzebub’s authority-smuggling violation.

• Beelzebub prepared his bloodline substrate and began transforming himself into an Abyss Titan, believing Richard was still asleep.
• Richard watched his body reconstruct and answered the Titan King’s summons to observe Beelzebub’s integration.
• The Titan King explained Beelzebub’s skill with bloodlines and urged Richard to let the process continue so he could learn from it.
• When Beelzebub neared completion, Richard used administrator authority to prohibit his Abyssal Incantations and request an authority screening.
• The Abyss Will detected Beelzebub’s authority-smuggling violation, and Richard selected First-level Punishment.

Richard secured the Abyss Civilization’s alliance with the Wizard Civilization and gained a much larger share of Dimensional Power. He then ordered Beelzebub to build a nest for producing Abyss Titans and turned to discuss stealing bloodlines.

• The Abyss Will punished Beelzebub for losing his wager with Richard, binding him as Richard’s contracted slave for 7,777 years.
• Samael signed the Fate Contract, establishing an alliance between the Abyss and Wizard Civilizations and binding their inhabitants.
• The alliance caused the Abyss World to entwine with the Wizard Dimension, greatly increasing Richard’s share of Dimensional Power.
• Richard asked Beelzebub to build a Titan Nest, and Beelzebub explained that each Abyss Titan required five months to gestate.
• Richard assigned Taral Peak to train the newborn Titans into an elite legion, then told Beelzebub they would discuss stealing bloodlines.

Richard traded three Furnace People biotechnologies to Beelzebub for the contents of his treasury and his accumulated research. Both gained useful resources and knowledge, and Richard left to turn the rare materials into Magic Armor while Beelzebub began researching Titans' Nest.

• Richard inspected Beelzebub's treasury and took a room-sized World Annihilation Stone among its rare treasures.
• Richard offered Beelzebub three previously unknown technologies in exchange for the treasury's contents.
• Richard examined Beelzebub's research records, recognized their depth, and traded two more Furnace People biotechnologies for them.
• Richard and Beelzebub completed the exchange, with Beelzebub gaining technologies to strengthen himself.
• Richard left Beelzebub's laboratory to make Magic Armor, while Beelzebub prepared to study Titans' Nest and the new technologies.

Richard sought advice from the Titan King on crafting Magic Armor and learned how Limit-Breaking worked. He refined an Abyssal Incantation into a powerful living armor, named Shanhai, and claimed it as his own.

• Richard consulted the Titan King after realizing his planned Magic Armor would take a thousand years to craft.
• The Titan King explained that breaking the limits of the physique meant pushing the body past its capacity until it shattered, with failure risking regression and lost lifespan.
• Richard studied the Abyssal Incantation Abyssal Suppression and modified it to provide pressure without hindering him in battle.
• Two years later, Richard completed a jet-black chain armor that absorbed Abyss Power and animated into a chain-tentacled monster.
• Richard subdued the armor with his Dominator's pressure, named it Shanhai, and declared himself its master.