Chapter Summaries

Richard used vast numbers of avatars to map the maze and rescue trapped Dominators, while their accounts suggested the maze was an artificial base. After five years, his exploration revealed a hollow sphere with an inner space that likely held the maze’s secret.

• Richard began filling the maze’s spatial currents with avatars to search for trapped Dominators and the First Curse Demon Emperor.
• Wild Wind arrived, learned that Richard had rescued Tower Dominator, and stayed outside the maze to guard him.
• Richard’s avatars found several Dominators, who agreed to leave the maze in exchange for fighting a war for him.
• After finding seven Dominators in one year, Richard learned that a mysterious presence had once cleared the maze to prevent Dominators from gathering.
• Richard’s avatars mapped the maze for five years, revealing a massive hollow sphere containing an inner space.

Richard entered the labyrinth to investigate a hidden boundary and encountered a flesh creature that revealed a laboratory and threatened him into coming along. The creature showed him Lion-head Moke and the Crown of the First Curse Demon Emperor, then declared Richard was essential to its experiment.

• Richard followed a route through the spatial currents, using Shanhai and stored Dimensional Power to overcome Myriad Changes Spirits.
• Richard found a hidden metallic wall at the labyrinth's boundary, but a violent impact destroyed his Space Anchor.
• A flesh slime approached Richard, and he recognized its chaotic rules as a failed attempt at Rule Integration and detected a Teleportation Gate within it.
• The flesh slime called Richard 651 and offered to take him to the laboratory, showing him Lion-head Moke entering its mouth and the Crown of the First Curse Demon Emperor.
• Richard tried to leave, but the flesh slime threatened his clones and main body, then revealed that he was the final piece of its experiment and would not be allowed to escape.

Richard entered the maze master's laboratory to undergo an experiment after arranging for the other trapped Dominators to be sent ahead of him. There, he encountered Lion-head Moke, who proposed they cooperate and identified the experiment as an attempt to perfect The Path of Evolution.

• Richard negotiated with the Flesh Slime to send his clones before the maze's remaining twelve Dominators, and the Dominators agreed to his request.
• Richard asked the Flesh Slime to retrieve his clones, then entered it and was taken to the laboratory at the maze's center.
• A clone Richard had left in the Miracle Dimension realized its connection to Richard had been cut off, but chose to study soulcraft rather than contact Wild Wind.
• Richard explored the laboratory's strange rooms and encountered Lion-head Moke.
• Lion-head Moke proposed cooperating to explore the Super Civilization ruin and told Richard the laboratory owner was trying to perfect The Path of Evolution.

Richard learned that the slime intended to fuse a copied Illusory Rule into his body and suspected it planned to seize him. He secretly joined forces with Lion-head Moke, who revealed a way to weaken the powerful slime, and the chapter left Richard facing Lion-head Moke while pretending he meant to kill him.

• Richard learned that Mind Reading let Lion-head Moke communicate through souls and evade the laboratory’s surveillance.
• The slime showed Richard its plan to fuse a copied dimension into his body, and Richard spotted flaws while suspecting the experiment was meant to seize him.
• Richard realized the slime had fused its soul with the laboratory and was powerful enough to threaten him.
• Richard arranged a private exchange with Lion-head Moke, who revealed that the slime’s recovery was slow and its energy circuits could be destroyed to weaken it.
• Richard returned to Lion-head Moke and claimed he had come to kill him.

Richard and Lion-head Moke secretly cooperated while pretending to be enemies, then began planting traps in the slime's labyrinth. Richard used his Radiation Rule to conceal the Silk Puppet Technique in the energy pathways, while the slime discovered Moke's Demon Seed and triggered it by touching it.

• Richard and Lion-head Moke traded insults in front of the slime while secretly agreeing on their cooperation.
• Richard explored the labyrinth and recognized that the slime's flawed world-like energy pathways could be disrupted with the Silk Puppet Technique.
• Lion-head Moke concealed his actions and planted Demon Seed in the pathways to corrupt the slime and escape the laboratory.
• Richard used his Radiation Rule to disguise the Silk Puppet Technique and slipped it into the pathways without alerting the slime.
• The slime detected Moke's Demon Seed during a cautious inspection and touched it, triggering the trap.

Lion-head Moke and Richard sabotaged Slime’s energy circuits, but Slime eventually found and confronted Moke. While they fought, Richard slipped through the laboratory to search Slime’s collection.

• Demon seeds spread through Slime’s energy circuits, and Richard’s Silk Puppet Technique further disrupted his control.
• Lion-head Moke broke out of his sealed chamber, freed the imprisoned experimental Sovereigns, and used the chaos to evade Slime.
• Slime searched for Lion-head Moke with overwhelming energy and blasted him out of hiding.
• Lion-head Moke transformed into a towering Demon God and taunted Slime, who responded by unleashing a furious storm of energy Thunder.
• Richard concealed himself with a robe of dimensional threads and headed upstairs to loot Slime’s collection while the two fought.

Richard looted the slime’s exhibition hall and found several sealed Civilization Treasures, including two relics whose lost civilizations left legacies he could claim for free. He broke the seals to distract the slime, which realized Richard had entered its exhibition hall while fighting Lion-head Moke.

• Richard explored the fourth level, collected its artifacts and Dominator-made equipment, and found no Civilization Treasure there.
• Richard found the sealed Thorn Crown and other Civilization Treasures on the fifth level, then considered using their arrival to attract reinforcements for the Wizard Alliance.
• Richard retrieved a Bronze Round Shield and Black Gold Armor whose Civilization Dimensions had been destroyed, and the Miracle Furnace offered him their civilizations’ legacies without cost.
• Richard postponed accepting the legacies and chose to break the seals on the Civilization Treasures to draw the slime’s attention away from himself.
• The slime regained its clarity during its battle with Lion-head Moke and realized Richard had entered the exhibition hall.

Richard unsealed the Thorn Crown and seven Civilization Treasures, then helped them escape the slime’s barrier and attack its laboratory. As the slime recombined its controlled space and confronted Richard and Lion-head Moke, Richard began a plan involving his avatar in the Miracle Dimension.

• Richard used the Silk Puppet Technique to break the slime’s control over the space and used Shanhai’s bronze shield to block its lightning attack.
• Richard donned the Thorn Crown, received the First Curse Demon Emperor’s warning about the laboratory master’s unstable soul, and unsealed all seven Civilization Treasures.
• The slime trapped Richard and the treasures behind an energy barrier, but Richard cut through it with Gravity Threads and the treasures blasted their way out.
• The escaped Civilization Treasures attacked the laboratory, damaging the slime’s controlled spaces and prompting it to sacrifice uncontrolled spaces to form a complete circuit.
• Lion-head Moke prepared to fight the slime with his remaining magical artifacts, while Richard sent a Dimensional Thread toward his avatar in the Miracle Dimension and told the Dominators to attack the maze.

Richard and Lion-head Moke fought the Octopus Monster while the Dominators dismantled the maze outside. Richard transformed into a ghost god and charged alongside Lion-head Moke, who targeted the monster’s unstable mind and body.

• Richard sent a message for reinforcements, and the Octopus Monster realized it needed to kill or exile him and Lion-head Moke before the Dominators arrived.
• Richard armed himself with his completed Black Gold Armor and Rune Battle Hammer, while Lion-head Moke wielded his bone sword against the Octopus Monster’s energy tide.
• The Octopus Monster attacked Richard with powerful energy tentacles, but his Bronze Round Shield, Shanhai, and Black Gold Armor absorbed much of the force.
• As the Dominators began dismantling the maze, Lion-head Moke used Endless Hell and charged toward the Octopus Monster’s body, while Richard transformed into a ghost god and attacked beside him.
• Lion-head Moke noticed that Richard’s ghost-god aura slowed the Octopus Monster and urged him to use more mental attacks against its unstable mind.

Richard and Lion-head Moke fought the Octopus Monster as the Dominators broke through the maze, but the Octopus Monster’s self-destruction devastated the laboratory and ruined Richard’s Bronze Round Shield. Richard captured Lion-head Moke for Deer-head Moke to kill, then received a mysterious invitation and learned that the Buddha and the Great Sky Demon were one being with two bodies.

• Lion-head Moke and Richard attacked the Octopus Monster while the Dominators outside prepared to break through the maze.
• The Octopus Monster tried to self-destruct, so the Dominators joined forces and tore open the maze, restoring Richard’s access to Dimensional Power.
• Richard used the Silk Puppet Technique to capture the Octopus Monster as its self-destruction unleashed a wave of pure white light that weakened the Dominators and destroyed Richard’s Bronze Round Shield.
• Richard stopped Lion-head Moke from fleeing and gave him to Deer-head Moke to kill in fulfillment of their contract.
• Lion-head Moke’s shattered Great Wheel of Fire struck Richard with a red beam, giving him a blood-colored lotus mark and an invitation.
• Deer-head Moke killed Lion-head Moke and warned Richard against trusting him, while information in Richard’s mind revealed that the Buddha and the Great Sky Demon were one person with two bodies.

Richard secured Deer-head Moke’s soul fragments and spinal bone, brought the Curse Demon Empire into the Wizard Alliance, and returned to the Miracle Dimension to plan his advancement. Meanwhile, the Civilization Devourer prepared a World Jump, and Richard resolved to focus on adjusting his soul structure and completing the Supreme Being Trial.

• Deer-head Moke entered nirvana, and Richard captured his soul fragments and took his spinal bone.
• Richard stored the Library space containing the Octopus Monster’s possible remnant soul, then gave the departing Dominators a coordinate and returned the Thorn Crown to Wild Wind.
• Wild Wind signed a Fate Contract with Richard, bringing the Curse Demon Empire into the Wizard Alliance, while he explained that Wild Cloud Dominator was still being hunted.
• The Civilization Devourer’s fleets opened a rift for a colossal entity to jump into the Astral Realm, and a Titan Commander praised the World Jump.
• Richard returned to the Miracle Dimension, judged that the war’s changing circumstances meant he needed to grow stronger, and chose soul-structure adjustment and the Supreme Being Trial as priorities.

Gawain and Asu’s assault squad captured a Furnace People fortress at heavy cost, then learned a Dominator had descended as invasions spread across seven worlds. With every other Crown occupied, the War Zone Command requested support from Miracle Crown, and Richard was summoned from his soul adjustment.

• Asu and Gawain led their squad into Fortress 345, where they used Specters to scout and clear traps before fighting through the Furnace People defenders.
• The squad cleared the fortress but lost more than half its members, and Asu treated his severe wound with a battlefield recovery injection despite Gawain’s warning.
• Gawain and Asu discussed Dona’s transfer to the rear and Asu’s ambition to become a Martial Saint before a Dominator’s arrival forced Wizards to retreat.
• The Astral Realm War Zone Command learned that Dominators had invaded seven worlds and contacted the Keeper of Secrets because the Crown was occupied.
• The chief of staff approved contacting Miracle Crown, and Richard was summoned to support the front lines.

Richard halted the Wizard Alliance’s offensive after Dominators began appearing across the front, then realized the Civilization Devourer might be targeting the Spirit Desert Civilization instead. He prepared the legions to resume battle while planning to gather the rescued Dominators, and Gawain returned to training as the temporary respite ended.

• Richard ordered Great Wizard Ember Rekindled to withdraw the front lines and later instructed him to keep the regrouped legions ready to fight.
• Richard killed two Dominator-level Civilization Devourer Minions and noted that the enemy’s forces had surged while the front remained strangely calm.
• Richard concluded that the Civilization Devourer’s real target was the Spirit Desert Civilization and decided to gather the rescued Dominators ahead of schedule.
• Richard ordered the Wizard Dimension legions to prepare for another attack, saying he would handle the Dominators.
• Gawain declined the Mood Plugin’s thought therapy and told Asu to meet him at the training grounds because his leave was over.

Richard learned that a Dominator had attacked the Hub World and used a modified Miracle Sorcery to summon the Dominators bound to him by Fate Contracts. The Wizard Alliance’s defenses failed against the Civilization Devourer, but Richard arrived and struck its avatar, revealing that it had recovered enough to create a limit-breaking avatar.

• A Civilization Devourer-led fleet emerged through a rift and attacked a Floating City Fleet near the World Ring.
• Richard used the Miracle Codex to modify Contract Tracking Technique and send the contracted Dominators a message to prepare for war.
• The Civilization Devourer battered the World Ring’s barrier until it failed, then sent its legions to land on the ring.
• The Civilization Devourer’s avatar struck the defenses again, overloading Shield Generators as Alchemist Wizards and Alchemy Bugs rushed to repair them.
• Richard arrived behind the Civilization Devourer and blasted its avatar thousands of kilometers away with a Miracle Fire warhammer.

Richard used his inherited Black Gold Armor and an aether bomb to destroy the Civilization Devourer’s avatar, but discovered that multiple Wizard Hub Worlds were under attack. He summoned the Golden Eagle Dominator from the Bewitching Dimension for help, and the Dominator agreed to enter the war despite being angered by the interruption.

• Richard survived the Civilization Devourer’s Small Dimensional Annihilation Cannons with his Black Gold Armor and struck back with a black hole infused with compressed aether, disintegrating its avatar.
• Richard detected the Civilization Devourer’s black mist contaminating the Sea of Aether and cleared it before it could threaten the Floating City Fleet and World Ring.
• War Zone Command reported attacks and Dominator sightings at Hub Worlds Number Twelve, Number Eleven, Number Five, Number Six, and Number Three, forcing Richard to turn his attention to the widespread assault.
• In the Bewitching Dimension, Richard’s avatar called on the Golden Eagle Dominator, who complained that the summons had nearly endangered its unborn offspring.
• The Golden Eagle Dominator told Richard to open the door so it could see the war.

Gawain’s unit retreated from the Furnace People assault after he saved the gravely wounded Asu by preserving his head in his armor’s life-support system. As unfamiliar Dominators began arriving across multiple Hub Worlds to fight the Civilization Devourer, Ember Rekindled realized Miracle Crown was behind the reinforcements and prayed for victory.

• Gawain ordered his team to retreat as the Furnace People destroyed their fortress, then rushed to Asu and severed his head to activate the armor’s life-support system.
• Gawain put Asu’s helmet in his storage compartment and led the combat company through a tunnel as the fortress collapsed behind them.
• A Golden Eagle Dominator arrived outside the Hub World, received Richard’s warning about the Civilization Devourer, and entered the world to fight it.
• Ember Rekindled received reports that unfamiliar Dominators had appeared to support several Hub Worlds, including one fighting alongside Miracle Crown’s avatar.
• Ember Rekindled concluded that Miracle Crown had arranged the reinforcements and silently prayed for him to lead them to victory.

Richard defeated a Civilization Devourer avatar, brought the Tower Dominator into the Wizard Alliance’s dimension, and proposed exchanging technology. After the Golden Eagle Dominator’s victory ended the fighting around the World Ring, Gawain helped Asu adapt to a replacement body.

• Richard destroyed the Civilization Devourer’s avatar and gave the weakened Tower Dominator Miracle Fire to remove its contamination.
• Richard explained the Civilization Devourer’s history and asked the Tower Dominator to guard the War Zone Command while the other Dominators were still fighting.
• Richard offered the Tower Dominator a technical exchange, and the Tower Dominator requested metal materials and expressed interest in Four Elements Creation technology.
• The Ember Rekindled Grand Wizard welcomed the Tower Dominator and arranged materials and a technician for the exchange.
• After the Golden Eagle Dominator defeated the Civilization Devourer and the World Ring battle ended, Gawain helped Asu adjust to his new body, which lacked his former muscle memory.

Grand Wizard Aether Crystal and the Tower Dominator negotiated an exchange of Wizard and Tower Clan technologies. After evaluating the Tower Dominator’s practical technologies, the Wizard researchers offered twenty-two in return for any two of three technologies.

• Grand Wizard Aether Crystal presented the Tower Dominator with Nano Intelligence, Soul Programming, and the Small Dimensional Annihilation Cannon.
• The Tower Dominator offered its own technologies, but Aether Crystal explained that the Wizards had already mastered them and suggested trading practical technologies instead.
• The Tower Dominator gathered more technologies from the civilizations of other Dominators and gave them to Aether Crystal for evaluation.
• Senior Researchers in the Wizard Dimension selected twenty-two practical technologies as suitable for a trade, then argued over what to demand in return.
• Aether Crystal returned to the Tower Dominator and offered twenty-two technologies in exchange for any two of the three Wizard technologies.

Tower Dominator traded twenty-two technologies for Nano Intelligence and Soul Programming, strengthening the Wizard Dimension. At an alliance meeting, Richard revealed a treasure that could help Dominators break their limits, while the leaders considered what its discovery meant for the war against Civilization Devourer.

• Tower Dominator chose Nano Intelligence and Soul Programming in exchange for twenty-two technologies, and the Wizard Civilization’s research directors approved the trade.
• Richard noticed that the Wizard Dimension had grown and told Physique Crown the growth came from the technology trade he had arranged with a Dominator.
• At the alliance meeting, Shaping Crown warned that Civilization Devourer was recovering quickly, and Richard urged the alliance to keep attacking and cultivate stronger leaders.
• Richard revealed Critical Evolution Fluid from a dimension he had found in the Curse Demon Empire, and the Dominators confirmed that it could help them enter a critical state.
• Alchemy Crown proposed that she, Physique Crown, Beelzebub, World Tree, and Medicine King discuss the treasure’s wider potential.

Richard proposed deeper cooperation and merged legions to improve the Alliance’s declining war efficiency, but the Alchemy Crown and Shaping Crown blocked him by invoking a rule drafted while he was missing. He recognized that he lacked the strength to overcome their maneuver and concluded that he still needed to break the limit.

• Richard secured the Medicine King’s agreement to cooperate on the Critical Evolution Fluid, then proposed exchanging military technologies and merging the Alliance’s legions.
• The Shaping Crown and Alchemy Crown opposed the merger, citing its short-term combat and logistical costs.
• Richard argued that targeted equipment was increasing casualties and reducing offensive efficiency, and the Alchemy Crown defended continuing the current offensive.
• Richard called for a vote, but the Shaping Crown said major proposals had to be submitted in a civilization’s name, a rule adopted while Richard was missing.
• The Alchemy Crown and Shaping Crown used the rule to keep Richard’s proposal off the agenda unless he left the Wizard Civilization.
• Richard dropped the proposal and resolved that he still needed to break the limit to overcome the two Crowns.