Chapter Summaries

Richard organized the Mercenary Dominators’ defenses and noticed political retaliation against Great Wizard Ember Rekindled’s allies in the War Zone Command. He then tried to dismantle the Octopus Monster’s seal, only for the creature to escape into Richard’s dimension and find its path blocked by golden flames.

• Richard explained to World Tree that he would postpone forcing his proposal through and instead subdue Shaping Crown and Alchemy Crown by force.
• Richard assigned defensive zones to the nineteen Mercenary Dominators and ordered the War Zone Command to replace its flat maps with three-dimensional projections.
• Richard recognized that Great Wizard Ember Rekindled’s confidants had been transferred out and reassured him, prompting Ember Rekindled to pledge his support.
• Richard used Dimensional Threads to dismantle the Octopus Monster’s seal, while secretly bringing the Miracle Furnace into his dimension.
• The Octopus Monster escaped the library fragment and tried to seize Richard’s dimension, but golden flames stopped him as Richard prepared to feed him to the furnace.

Richard consulted the Titan King about an advancement plan, learned that the Civilization Devourer was using their wars to recover, and revised the plan to help him break the limit and become a leader. He began advancing inside the Miracle Dimension, and the chapter ended as the dimension started to contract.

• Richard trapped the Octopus Monster's soul in the Miracle Furnace and brought its advancement plan to the Titan King for review.
• The Titan King warned Richard that their attacks supplied the Civilization Devourer with power and advised him to stop offensive wars until he became a leader.
• Richard and the Titan King spent a month revising the plan, removing its harmful effects on the soul and charting a path toward leadership and level 8.5.
• Richard gave the Octopus Monster's soul to the Titan King, who consumed it, confirmed the plan was usable, and gave Richard a stone slab with additional techniques.
• Richard avoided advancing in the Wizard Great World and began guiding Abyss Power into his Miracle Dimension as its magic formation formed over three months.
• Samael and the other dominators watched as Richard's advancement reached its next stage, and they discovered that the Miracle Dimension was contracting.

Richard absorbed the Miracle Dimension into his body and broke through the limit, turning every cell into a miniature Illusory Dimension. As he examined the result, he noticed that unexpected Life Codes had also fallen under the Illusory Rule.

• Samael and Beelzebub watched Richard absorb the Miracle Dimension, and Beelzebub predicted that Richard would lead the Wizards while Samael looked forward to fighting him.
• The Wizard Crowns sensed the dimensional tremor, and Soul Crown and Undead Crown speculated that Richard was making a move against Shaping Crown and Alchemy Crown.
• Physique Crown identified Richard’s disturbance as a limit-breaking advance, while Second Generation Curse Crown warned that someone had pulled out Swarm infiltrators and vowed to retaliate.
• Richard’s Dimensional Power replaced the material structures of his Life Code fragments, while the Illusory Rule kept his edited rules stable.
• Richard drew the entire Miracle Dimension into his body, making each cell a miniature Illusory Dimension, then noticed unexpected Life Codes under the Illusory Rule.

Richard completed his transformation, turning every cell in his body into a resilient Cellular Dimension, and gave Samael the blueprint for the same evolutionary path. The aftershocks reached the Wizard Dimension and set off preparations for civil war, while Richard ordered the Swarm Lord to purge the Star River Mayfly Territory of Shaping and Alchemy loyalists.

• Richard examined his new Cellular Dimensions, discovered that each contained a life core, and found that attacks below one billion Energy Levels barely affected them, though damaged cells recovered slowly.
• Richard opened rifts to the Four Elements Territory, drawing in vast energy and alarming the Dominators; Samael struck him and failed to move him.
• Richard gave Samael the Cellular World blueprint through the Abyss Will and named him the next Abyss Leader.
• The aftershocks of Richard's transformation reached the Wizard Dimension, where Shaping, Alchemy, and other factions prepared for civil war and front-line legions withdrew from the worlds.
• Richard asked the Swarm Lord about the Mayfly Spirit and confirmed that war was coming, ordering the Swarm Lord to clear out its enemies.
• The Swarm Lord eradicated Star River Mayflies and Wizards allied with the Shaping and Alchemy Schools, then welcomed the Mayfly Spirit as it emerged with power beyond ordinary Limit-Breaking Dominators.

Wizard Academies prepared for battle as a civil war broke out, while Richard trained for a confrontation with the Alchemy and Shaping Dominators. He planned to begin his war in half a month and received the ownerless statues he needed to investigate methods of harvesting Dimensional Power.

• The principal ordered the Wizard Academy to establish a defensive line, and its teachers armed students and activated the barrier.
• A Shaping Wizard led a legion against the academy with an Alchemy Assault Vehicle, while the Command Department ordered the squad to destroy the barrier generators and seize the Miracle School's Library.
• An Abyss-corrupted attack damaged the assault vehicle, and the academy prepared to saturate the enemy with fire.
• Richard told the Swarm Lord to destroy any front-line legion that attacked them and said he would begin the war in half a month.
• Action delivered the ownerless statues Richard had requested, which he intended to use in studying the Ten Directions Buddhist Land's and Endless Demon Kingdom's methods for collecting Dimensional Power.

Richard received seventeen thousand faceless statues from Action and planned to use them as array foundations for a Palm Demon Kingdom in his Cellular Dimension. Meanwhile, the civil war reached Wizard Academy No. 77, where seven-year-old John lost his teacher in an attack and was told the battlefield did not believe in tears.

• Action delivered seventeen thousand faceless statues, and Richard praised him before absorbing them into his Cellular Dimension.
• Richard prepared to use the statues to build a kingdom seed that would expand through Faith Power, though he worried that he had only a few decades or centuries.
• Spell Support Vehicles bombarded Wizard Academy No. 77 as defenders relayed orders inside the tower without relying on the Mind Network.
• Anka spotted a Gustav Type Mortar and an area-of-effect Confusion Charm, then injected John with a stimulant and sent him to warn the Command Department.
• A blast killed Anka, and John reported his warning to another Wizard, who rushed toward the top of the tower without comforting him.
• An unfamiliar Wizard gave John a handkerchief and welcomed him to the battlefield, telling him that it did not believe in tears.

Ulysses delivered Richard’s orders for protecting Miracle School’s Academies and told Old Abel that the war would begin in about seven days. When Storm Eye and allied Great Wizards attacked the headquarters, Ulysses used Richard’s Truth-grade magic equipment to kill Storm Eye and announced that headquarters would be defended.

• Old Abel learned that the Miracle School’s Academies were under threat and that the Legal Department would not intervene directly.
• Ulysses arrived with Hogg, relayed Richard’s order to use the escape passages if Academies were breached, and said Richard’s war would begin in about seven days.
• Storm Eye and Great Wizards from the Shaping School, the Alchemy School, and other schools confronted the Miracle School headquarters.
• Ulysses summoned the Black Desert, whose energy torrent pierced Storm Eye and turned his body into an expanding lightning storm.
• Ulysses identified the Black Desert as Richard’s Truth-grade magic equipment and told the gathered wizards to clean up the attack’s aftermath.

Richard returned to the Wizard World with his defenses reinforced and confronted the five Crowns, demanding their submission or death. The Dominators separated to fight, while the Shaping Crown and Alchemy Crown engaged Richard and the Mayfly Spirit, and the Shaping Crown’s evolving energy attack began draining his world.

• Richard completed his kingdom seed, strengthened his defenses with Abyss Power and seven Mystic Realms, and returned to the Wizard World with the Swarm and his allies.
• The five Crowns appeared in their true forms, and Richard demanded that they submit or die.
• The Second Generation Curse Crown fought the Physique Crown, the Swarm Lord fought the Undead Crown, and the Dominator Puppet engaged the Soul Crown in the Endless Dimensions.
• The Shaping Crown enveloped Richard in his world while the Alchemy Crown trapped the Mayfly Spirit in his Mechanical World.
• The Shaping Crown unleashed his Energy Self-Evolution attack on Richard, then noticed that the energy in his world was continuously decreasing.

Richard absorbed the Shaping Crown’s energy tide, broke free of his Dimensional Amber Sealing Technique, and forced him to concede defeat. He then entered the devastated Mechanical World and demanded that the Alchemy Crown submit or die.

• Richard absorbed the Shaping Crown’s energy tide and asked him to use more Dimensional Power.
• The Shaping Crown sealed Richard in a Dimensional Amber, but Richard shattered it with the strength of his Cellular Dimensions.
• The Shaping Crown admitted defeat, and Richard presented him with a Fate Contract to make Wizard Dimension accept a leader.
• The Mayfly Spirit broke through the Alchemy Crown’s Mechanical World and offered to take his Soul Chip, but Richard stopped him.
• Richard entered the ruined Mechanical World and demanded that the Alchemy Crown submit or die.

Richard defeated Alchemy Crown, secured the obedience of Alchemy Crown and Shaping Crown, and ended the fighting among the Wizard Civilization's Dominators. He took the title of Archon and entered the Council Hall to lead the assembled Crowns.

• Alchemy Crown turned the Mechanical World into his body and struck Richard with the World Annihilation Cannon, but Richard survived with only part of his Cellular Dimensions destroyed.
• Alchemy Crown conceded defeat, and he and Shaping Crown signed Richard's Fate Contract, pledging to obey him until the war against the Civilization Devourer ended.
• Richard announced the battle's conclusion, prompting the other Dominators to stop fighting and gather at Eternal City of Truth.
• Keeper of Secrets explained that Archon was the ancient title for the leader of Seven Hills City, and Richard accepted the name.
• Richard entered the Council Hall, took his seat at the head of the long table, and invited the Dominators to sit.

Richard redirected the unfinished Truth Codex into the Book of Ten Thousand Laws, a wartime weapon that recorded Wizard Civilization’s spells and let him cast them without prerequisites. He then brought the Star River Mayflies closer into the Wizard Civilization and ordered punishment for those who had caused unrest during the civil war.

• Richard rejected the Truth Codex’s long-term goal of recording and deriving wizard knowledge, and changed its gestation toward serving the present war.
• The Truth Codex became the Book of Ten Thousand Laws, which recorded Wizard Civilization’s completed spells, let Richard cast them for Dimensional Power, and produced spell-bearing pages for other wizards.
• Richard proposed closer ties with the Star River Mayflies, and Swarm Lord agreed to follow his commands.
• Richard ordered Physique to work with the Swarm on changing the Mayflies’ bloodline and directed Soul’s Truth Department to begin its work without concealing history.
• Richard reassigned the Day and Night Guardian to lead the Executive Department, appointed Four Seasons to the Legal Department, and ordered rioters sent to replenish the Atonement Army.

After the civil unrest, Richard consolidated the Miracle School’s rise while Old Abel struggled to rebuild and manage its Academies. Richard helped Ellie overcome a Star River Mayfly research problem, then received alarming news from the Curse Demon Empire that a world had disappeared.

• The Truth Council announced severe punishments for the civil unrest, and the Miracle and Curse Schools began dealing with looted Academies and disrupted administration.
• Richard assigned Old Abel to bring young wizards and apprentices to observe a joint experiment by the Physique School and the Star River Mayflies.
• Ellie explained that her team could not strengthen the Star River Mayflies’ psychic link, and Richard secured permission from the Swarm to introduce fragments from other bloodlines.
• Richard told Ellie to test the revised bloodline within the Miracle School and warned her not to expand Abyss wizard research on a large scale.
• Richard received a message from the Curse Demon Empire reporting that a world had disappeared.

Richard traced the disappearance of a World Cluster to the Civilization Devourer and revealed that a three-dimensional star chart exposed a hidden route between it and the Curse Demon Empire. He announced the Wizard Civilization’s unification and pushed through military reform, leaving him in effective control of the Wizard Alliance.

• Wild Wind told Richard that a small World Cluster had vanished, and they concluded that the Civilization Devourer was responsible after confirming the star chart coordinates.
• Richard presented a three-dimensional star chart that showed the Civilization Devourer and the Curse Demon Empire were separated by only a small Black Domain, revealing that flat maps had concealed their proximity.
• Richard disclosed that the Wizard Civilization’s Civilization Treasure had come into being, and the Dominators realized he had unified the Wizard Civilization.
• Richard proposed merging the legions and reforming the military, and the Dominators approved the resolution unanimously.

Richard outlined a defensive strategy to buy time for research and prepare for a future counteroffensive, while Gawain learned that Dona had given birth to their daughter, Sil. Richard then set out to contact the final civilization that might join the fight against the Civilization Devourer.

• Richard explained the Alliance’s defensive strategy, and Beelzebub reported progress on a semi-finished Critical Evolution Fluid.
• Gawain learned that Dona had joined the Miracle School and was being considered for regional supervisor.
• Dona showed Gawain a photograph of their daughter, Sil, and urged him to stay alive for her.
• Richard and Wild Wind saw an enormous fleet emerge from the Void, and Wild Wind said he could handle it.
• Richard told Wild Wind that he planned to visit the last civilization and bring it into a possible counteroffensive.

Richard crossed a vast Dimensional Storm on his way to contact an unknown civilization, discovering that its power could nourish his Cellular Dimensions. He rescued an Eye Demon Dominator from Dimensional Nematodes and learned it was also trying to reach the other side of the storm to seek aid.

• Richard told Wild Wind that he sought power to destroy the monster, while Wild Wind warned him to find a successor before abandoning his position.
• Wild Wind unleashed his domain and sent Cursed Creatures into the world as the Civilization Devourer's fleet tried to engulf it.
• The Eternal God King warned Richard that a massive Dimensional Storm blocked the route to the unknown civilization, but Richard insisted on going because it might face the fiercest attack.
• Richard entered the storm, found that it could not harm him, and absorbed its Dimensional Power, which expanded his Cellular Dimensions and altered their dimensionalized life cores.
• Richard burned away the Dimensional Nematodes attacking an Eye Demon Dominator, which told him it was traveling through the storm to seek aid on the other side.

Richard encountered Antiochus, an Eyeball Demon seeking aid, then fought a colossal King of Dimensional Threadworms in the Dimensional Storm. Unable to kill the creature as it rapidly regenerated, Richard escaped with Antiochus into his Cellular Dimension while the worm pursued them toward the storm’s edge.

• Richard learned from Antiochus that the Eyeball Demon Clan had lost three priests and that its remaining Dominators were struggling against a stronger enemy.
• Richard exposed a gigantic King of Dimensional Threadworms hiding in the Dimensional Storm and warned Antiochus to stay close.
• Richard split the worm with a gravitational blade, then smashed and burned it with a force-field hammer and Miracle Fire, but it regenerated by absorbing the storm.
• Richard took Antiochus into his Cellular Dimension, astonishing him because he believed no one could enter a dimension from within a Dimensional Storm.
• Richard fled the worm, which pursued him toward the edge of the Dimensional Storm.

The Civilization Devourer escalated its assault on the Eyeball Demons’ mother world, destroying their positions with annihilation weapons until the Eyeball Demon Commander-in-Chief authorized unrestricted use of their own. Richard then arrived near the Eternal Dark Great World with Antiochus and prepared to attack the fleets surrounding it.

• The Furnace People called for support as purple beams devastated their fleet, and Titan drop pods descended to attack the Eyeball Demons’ over-the-horizon artillery position.
• The Eyeball Demons destroyed the incoming Titans, but successive gravity strikes wiped out their artillery positions before they could escape.
• After learning that the Civilization Devourer had begun attacking the Eternal Dark Great World, the Eyeball Demon Commander-in-Chief unrestricted the use of annihilation weapons and delegated authorization to position commanders.
• Richard rode a captured Dimensional Nematode into the Astral Realm and told Antiochus that the Civilization Devourer was attacking the Eyeball Demons’ mother world.
• Richard checked the surrounding Titan fleet for weapons capable of targeting Dominators, then decided to take the fleets.

Richard used the Sea of Aether to corrode the Civilization Devourer’s fleet and force It to reveal more of Its power, while Antiochus helped destroy Its legion in the Eternal Dark Great World. After the Civilization Devourer withdrew, Richard secured the Eyeball Demon Clan’s decision to join the Civilization Alliance.

• Richard boiled the Sea of Aether, breaking the fleet’s energy barriers and corroding its armor until the Civilization Devourer took control of the ships.
• The Civilization Devourer transformed the fleet into black liquid, while Richard concealed himself, Antiochus, and the King of Dimensional Threadworms from Its probing scans.
• The fleet formed steel satellites using technology from before the Previous Civilization, but the King of Dimensional Threadworms exposed Richard’s position as Richard sealed the satellites with aether and Dimensional Power.
• Richard corroded the steel satellites and ignited them with Miracle Fire, while Antiochus purged the Civilization Devourer’s legion and the Eye Demon Elders withdrew from the Endless Void.
• Richard warned the Eyeball Demon Clan that the Dimensional Storm would disrupt communication and that the Civilization Devourer had likely anchored their dimension, and the clan’s leader agreed to sign the alliance contract.

Richard secured the Eye Demon Civilization's entry into the Wizard Alliance and arranged a technological exchange to strengthen their defenses against the Civilization Devourer. As the Eye Demons began working with Wuxiang and Eldridge, the Civilization Devourer assembled a vast fleet and activated a World Fortress.

• The Eye Demon Leader tested Richard's sincerity, signed the alliance contract, and discovered that the Eye Demon dimension had connected to the Alliance Dimension, though its coordinates needed repair.
• Richard met Elder Mora and learned that the Eye Demon Civilization built its technology from ultramicro Gestalt Organism particles bound to the Eyeball Demons through symbiosis.
• Richard released Wuxiang and Eldridge so they could exchange knowledge of primordial particles with Elder Mora and his people.
• In the Great Star River World, the Civilization Devourer failed to erase the curse branded into its will and gathered War Machines from several civilizations.
• The Civilization Devourer opened a dimensional rift, revealing a colossal World Fortress and announcing that the war continued.

As the Eye Demons and Wizard Alliance argued over whether to abandon surrounding Hub Worlds, Richard studied the time-like defenses of the King of Dimensional Threadworms and examined a Dimensional Nematode. The chapter ended when Eye Demon scouts detected tens of thousands of probes triggering as a colossal world emerged into the Sea of Aether.

• Eye Demon and Wizard Alliance commanders disputed the cost of equipping troops, and an Abyssal Demon commander urged the Eye Demons to abandon Hub Worlds to defend their mother world.
• Richard found that Miracle Fire briefly softened the suspended King of Dimensional Threadworms, but its body became indestructible again as soon as he recalled the flame.
• Richard sealed the King of Dimensional Threadworms and began studying a Dimensional Nematode for clues to its immunity to Dimensional Power.
• Eye Demon scouts detected tens of thousands of intelligence probes triggering simultaneously and saw a colossal world emerging from the Endless Dimensions into the Sea of Aether.