Chapter Summaries

Three World Fortresses arrived to begin the Civilization Devourer’s assault, and Richard destroyed one with his World Annihilation Cannon before the remaining Limit-Breaking avatars dragged him out of the Sea of Aether. Meanwhile, Gawain commanded the Eye Demon forces defending a fortress as enemy troops infiltrated it, and Richard prepared to face three avatars in the Endless Dimensions.

• Three World Fortresses emerged from the Endless Dimensions, prompting Richard to lament that he had left Black Desert behind and could not return for it.
• Richard transformed the Book of Ten Thousand Laws into an Alchemy device and fired its World Annihilation Cannon, destroying one World Fortress in a single strike.
• Three Limit-Breaking Civilization Devourer Minions surrounded Richard and pulled him through a dimensional rift to keep the fight outside the Sea of Aether.
• Gawain used mental synchronization with ten spell support turrets to bombard a Titan Squad, then ordered the fortress defenders to purge the building after enemy troops landed inside.
• Five armored Furnace People emerged from a landing pod and activated a Warp Beacon despite the battlefield’s dangerous spatial turbulence.
• In the Endless Dimensions, Richard faced three Limit-Breaking avatars and readied the Book of Ten Thousand Laws and Creation Hammer, deciding to spend his Dimensional Power freely.

Richard struggled to defeat Civilization Devourer's avatars as they adapted to his abilities, while the Eternal Dark Great World came under attack from seemingly endless Furnace People. The chapter left Richard charging an avatar at great cost and Gawain moving to investigate a new drop pod above him.

• Richard used the Deep Blue Sea to distract Civilization Devourer's avatars, then damaged one with Gravity Divine Ability and Miracle Fire, but the avatar quickly recovered.
• Civilization Devourer's avatars tried to seal Richard, then copied his gravitational technique and countered his technological advantage.
• Richard poured Dimensional Power into the Creation Hammer and charged an avatar behind a Gravity Barrier, choosing to ignore the other two.
• Gawain learned that hundreds of Furnace People in powered armor were pouring into the fortress and ordered several squads to reinforce the threatened positions.
• After a drop pod struck above his position, Gawain summoned Asu and moved up the passageway to investigate.

Gawain discovered the Furnace People's jump beacon and reported their tactic, prompting the Eye Demon Commander-in-Chief to order the Eternal Dark Great World’s abyssal transformation. In the Void, the Civilization Devourer trapped Richard with blasphemous thorns, but Richard used its greed for the Creation Hammer to turn the tables.

• Gawain and Asu attacked the Furnace People setting up a machine in the fortress, killed the three survivors, and Gawain identified the device as a jump beacon.
• Gawain sent his findings to General Headquarters, where the Abyssal Demon proposed transforming the world into an Abyss World to counter the Civilization Devourer.
• The Eye Demon Commander-in-Chief ordered the abyssal transformation of the Eternal Dark Great World.
• Richard fought the Civilization Devourer’s avatars with the Creation Hammer, but they shattered his Gravity Barrier and bound him with mind-disrupting thorns.
• The Civilization Devourer tried to seal Richard and seize the Creation Hammer, but Miracle Fire erupted from the hammer and engulfed three avatars.
• Richard broke free of the thorns and revealed that he had counted on the Civilization Devourer’s greed for the treasure.

Richard used himself as bait to trap the Civilization Devourer’s three avatars, but the enemy unleashed countless Anti-Dominator weapons to keep him occupied. Below, the Abyss Corruption spread across the Eternal Dark Great World as both sides devastated the battlefield, where Gawain survived an ambush and set aside his doubts about the war.

• Richard pinned the Civilization Devourer’s avatars with a gravity well and flooded them with Golden Miracle Fire, but countless Anti-Dominator weapons emerged through Dimensional Gates to hold him back.
• The Abyss Civilization spread Abyss Corruption through the Eternal Dark Great World, while the Civilization Devourer deployed machines that burned away corruption and restored the land.
• Gawain scouted targets for destructive weapons, and a strike on his coordinates wiped out a Titan Legion and its war machines.
• Gawain asked Asu what they were fighting for, and Asu said that war was simply the Berserk Orcs’ duty as vassals.
• A hidden Furnace People soldier ambushed Gawain, but Asu killed it; after purifying the attacker, Gawain agreed that the battlefield was no time for philosophical questions.

The Eye Demon Alliance suffered heavy losses as the Civilization Devourer advanced through the Eternal Dark Great World and threatened its vital supply hub. While Richard helped stabilize the Eye Demon Dimension, his rage at being unable to stop the invasion triggered a change in his soul and the Cellular Dimension cores in his body.

• The commanders learned that War Zone 145 had repelled an attack with the help of Gawain's scouting and precise deployment of destructive weapons.
• An urgent report revealed that a Civilization Devourer legion had appeared near Hub World 75, threatening the Alliance's supply lines.
• The Demon Commander announced that Abyss Network Channel technology could enable cross-world transmission, and that simpler teleportation technology was in development.
• Richard learned from Lakat that stabilizing the Eye Demon Civilization Dimension would take another five months, leaving him furious and worried about the invasion.
• Richard's rage caused his soul to change and brought the Cellular Dimension cores in his body into transformation.

Richard discovered that changing his soul structure unlocked the power of his dimensionalized body, letting him destroy a Civilization Devourer avatar before its remaining avatars fled. The Civilization Devourer then began withdrawing from the Eternal Dark Great World, and the Wizard Alliance ordered its forces to evacuate their fortresses.

• Richard realized that merging the dimensions with his flesh had created a bloodline beyond the Life Code, and that his unbroken soul had kept him from accessing its full power.
• Richard shattered one Civilization Devourer avatar with a single punch, but the other avatars fled when his aura weakened.
• Richard opened a Dimensional Gate toward the Eye Demon Dimension so he could stabilize it and reach the Eternal Dark Great World.
• The Civilization Devourer destroyed Eye Demon fortresses and the War Zone Command with weapons of destruction, killing Morenko and Old Morenko among others.
• The Wizard Alliance commanders learned that the World Fortress was clearing obstacles as it retreated, and the Wizard commander ordered fortress personnel to evacuate and scatter.

After the war in the Eternal Dark Great World ended, Gawain was summoned to receive a medal while the Wizard Alliance’s Sovereigns prepared their next offensive. The chapter leaves them considering new World Fortress technologies and Samael revealing a beacon that could summon Abyss strikes across worlds.

• The Civilization Devourer’s World Fortress escaped after destroying the Eternal Dark Great World’s empty fortresses, and the commanders began counting losses and arranging a victory banquet.
• Gawain and Asu learned the war was over, and Gawain received notice that the Eye Demon Civilization would award him a medal before an escort arrived to take him to Central Sky Island.
• Richard told the Sovereigns that every civilization in the cluster had joined the Wizard Alliance and that it was time to plan an offensive.
• Beelzebub revealed that the Sovereign Evolution Potion had been completed, while Richard and Alchemy Crown discussed developing World Fortress technology.
• Wild Wind explained how the Curse Demons had shaped a World Will with Mysterious Power and proposed combining it with a World Tree to improve World Fortress control.
• Samael revealed a beacon that could summon Abyss strikes across worlds without a distance limit.

Richard learned that Samael had completed an initial version of cross-world support-strike technology, then stopped his Supreme Being Trial when its changes threatened to make him like the Civilization Devourer. He asked the Furnace Dimension's Dimensional Avatar to let him use the Calculation Chip to adjust his soul before attempting the trial again.

• Samael revealed that he had completed an initial version of cross-world support-strike technology and said Beelzebub's laboratory would continue developing it.
• Richard urged the Wizard Civilization's Crowns to focus on surviving the war rather than worrying about what would come after it.
• Richard went to the Furnace Dimension and began the Supreme Being Trial, enduring its pain as his soul structure transformed.
• Richard realized the changes were stripping away his emotions and making him resemble the Civilization Devourer, so he terminated the trial.
• Richard asked the Dimensional Avatar for the Calculation Chip to help adjust his soul, and the Avatar agreed to lend it under a Fate Contract.

Richard used the Calculation Chip to reconstruct his soul over years of trials, balancing greater rationality and computational power with the ability to feel emotions. Just as he prepared to break the limit of his new soul, a signal from the Ghost God Mask warned that the Great Ghost World was in trouble.

• Richard reaffirmed that he would not abandon his humanity, then connected his soul to the Calculation Chip and doubled his computational efficiency.
• Richard spent years testing soul structures, drawing on the Evil Eyes’ research to preserve his rationality while strengthening his ability to withstand emotional disturbances.
• Richard completed a new soul structure that retained some human warmth and prepared to destroy its remaining original anchor point.
• A spiritual fluctuation bypassed Richard’s soul defenses, and he traced it to the Ghost God Mask.
• Richard summoned the chalk emitting soul fluctuations and realized that the Great Ghost World was in trouble.

Richard received a call for aid from the Great Ghost World after the Civilization Devourer found it, and convened the Wizard Alliance's rulers. The Alliance Council unanimously approved a rescue operation, which began immediately.

• Richard heard a signal from the Great Ghost World and summoned the Wizard Alliance's rulers to a meeting.
• Across the Alliance, Shaping Crown, Beelzebub, Eternal God King, the Great World Tree, Lakat, and other rulers received the summons while pursuing their own preparations and negotiations.
• Richard told the rulers that the Civilization Devourer had found the Great Ghost World and that its people had asked for help.
• Eternal God King supported rescuing the Great Ghost World to gain its advanced technology, and Sun God King agreed despite their past betrayal.
• Beelzebub, the Great World Tree, Wild Wind, and Lakat also agreed, and Richard announced that the Alliance Council had unanimously approved the rescue operation.

Richard prepared the Wizard Alliance for war as Civilization Devourer’s true body attacked the Great Ghost World. He joined Great Elder on the battlefield, received his newly forged hammer, and prepared to confront the enemy in the Endless Dimensions.

• Richard discussed World Fortress energy losses and upgrades with Alchemy Crown, Shaping Crown, and Great World Tree, while Beelzebub reported that the Sovereign Evolutionary Potion was nearly ready.
• Richard asked about weapons development, then opened a door and sensed Civilization Devourer’s true body before urging the Sovereigns to handle their tasks and prepare to support the front line.
• In the Great Ghost World, Ghost Artisans and their forces fought Civilization Devourer’s black legions as His tentacles devoured the world from beyond the heavens.
• Richard arrived beside Great Elder, who explained that Civilization Devourer had trapped the Great Ghost World and that the elders had no way to stop Him from outside.
• Great Elder gave Richard the nearly completed hammer forged around the World Annihilation Stone, and Richard tested it before opening a Dimensional Gate to confront Civilization Devourer.

Richard faced the Civilization Devourer's true body with the World Warhammer, then called the Rulers for help when the creature's attacks cut off his connection to the Civilization Dimension. The Rulers gathered to fight it, and the Great World Tree revealed that World Trees had prepared a way to use the Devourer's minions as fertilizer.

• Richard entered the Great Ghost World and struck the Civilization Devourer with the World Warhammer, carving a massive wound in its body.
• The Civilization Devourer unleashed a storm of attacks and blocked Richard's connection to the Civilization Dimension, but Richard used the hammer to send an emergency message to the Rulers.
• Shaping Crown, Beelzebub, the Great World Tree, Wild Wind, the Myriad Transformation God King, and other Rulers prepared or came to support Richard, while Samael searched for the Devourer's Ruler weapons.
• The gathered Rulers assembled beside Richard, who explained that the colossal creature was part of the Devourer's true body and that destroying it would cost the Devourer an arm.
• The Great World Tree told Richard that World Trees had made special preparations against the Civilization Devourer and said they could use its minions as fertilizer.

The Dominators unleashed new techniques against the still-weakened Civilization Devourer, but it countered with soul-warping declarations of death and punishment. While the others endured its attacks, Richard resisted them with reason and brought down his enlarged hammer, declaring the Devourer's death.

• The Great World Tree, Beelzebub, the Eternal God King, Wild Wind, and Lakat attacked the Civilization Devourer with newly developed techniques.
• The Great World Tree absorbed the Devourer's power while Miracle Fire purified the corruption, and Beelzebub, Wild Wind, and Lakat damaged or seized control of its tentacles.
• The Civilization Devourer unleashed a Death Edict that made Richard and the other Dominators feel they should die, but each resisted through their own methods.
• The Civilization Devourer followed with a sound that inflicted unbearable punishment, leaving the Dominators suffering while Richard remained unaffected.
• Richard enlarged his hammer, declared, "I declare death," and struck the Civilization Devourer.

Richard and the Sovereigns battered the Civilization Devourer while the Ghost Artisans fought its legions inside the Great Ghost World. The Devourer returned a stolen fragment of the world through a Dimensional Gate before Richard destroyed its body, leaving him uneasy about what it had prepared.

• Richard struck the Civilization Devourer with the World Warhammer, severing its tentacles and creating a black hole, then urged the Sovereigns to attack.
• The Eternal God King and the Myriad Transformation God King summoned Twilight, which led a host of heroic spirits against the Devourer as the Sovereigns and Ghost Artisans joined the assault.
• The Civilization Devourer blasted the Sovereigns away and began opening a Dimensional Gate, but the Eternal God King used his Divine Word Spell to kill its tentacles while Richard tried to disrupt the gate.
• The Devourer issued a Punishment Edict, shrank to the size of a Medium World, tore away part of the Great Ghost World, and maintained a small Dimensional Gate despite the Sovereigns' attacks.
• After the Curse Crown warned Richard to stop, Richard hesitated, and the Devourer sent the stolen world fragment through the gate inside an egg before Richard shattered its body with the World Warhammer.

Richard negotiated the Ghost Artisans’ support against the Civilization Devourer, securing their technical assistance and a Fate Contract with the Great Elder rather than the whole Great Ghost World. As the Ghost Elders moved their world through space, Richard learned how the technology worked and considered its potential use for World Guardians.

• Richard returned to Moon Elder Village and asked the Great Elder whether the Ghost Artisans would aid the Wizard Alliance.
• The Great Elder agreed to provide weapons and technical support but refused to have the Great Ghost World sign a Fate Contract, fearing the Civilization Devourer could trace the connection if the alliance failed.
• Richard proposed signing a Fate Contract with the Great Elder alone, offering protection for the Great Ghost World in exchange for the Ghost Artisans’ full effort, and the Great Elder agreed.
• The Ghost Elders communicated with the World Origin and began shifting the Great Ghost World’s occupied space.
• The Great Elder explained that the technique drew on a world’s influence over space, and Richard considered whether it could let World Guardians operate beyond their own worlds.

Richard learned that Great Ghost World would provide the technology needed to mass-produce World Fortresses, while the Wizard Alliance prepared to strengthen its forces for the coming battle. The Civilization Devourer continued expanding the Great Star River World and turned its attention toward Richard.

• Richard told the Council that Great Ghost World would share its world-navigation technology, making mass production of World Fortresses possible.
• At Miracle School, Old Abel reported that Star Mayflies strengthened wizards and could support them in combat; Richard ordered the completed report sent to the other Crowns and the technology deployed once stable.
• The Great Elder discussed World Fortress technology with Alchemy Crown and Shaping Crown, who said the Alliance would fight the Civilization Devourer despite having a possible escape route because only a few could leave.
• The Great Elder agreed to teach the Crowns the navigation technique and offered suggestions for improving the fortress designs.
• In the Great Star River World, the Civilization Devourer incubated World Fortresses and merged hundreds of worlds into its expanding domain before turning its attention toward Richard.

Richard began a mental limit break using a vast Magic Array and World Origin Power, but the process exposed the overlooked soul of Li Cha, his past-life self. Li Cha resisted the Civilization Devourer’s attempt to seize him, and Richard’s soul reconstruction appeared to succeed.

• Richard activated the ley-line array and shattered the final piece of his original soul, letting World Origin Power bind the fragments.
• Li Cha emerged from the soul’s collapse, and the Civilization Devourer realized the thread of fate was attached to him instead of Richard.
• Li Cha moved toward a bewitching light, but the Titan King ignited Richard’s Miracle Furnace and golden Miracle Fire burned him awake.
• Li Cha resisted the light’s temptation, endured the fire, and gradually accepted Richard’s memories as the soul rebuilt around him.
• Richard’s soul reconstruction finished, and he remarked on how stubborn he had been.

After completing his soul breakthrough, Richard became the first Leader-class Dominator of the Wizard Civilization and gained access to the dimension’s full Dimensional Power. He offered to guard Samael through his own leadership breakthrough, while Beelzebub completed and drank a potion that greatly increased his strength.

• Richard reshaped his soul structure, raising his mental power to fifty thousand, then went to the Eternal City of Truth to become a Leader-class Dominator.
• The Keeper of Secrets revealed that he had foreseen Richard ascending as the wizards’ leader, and Richard signed a contract making himself Governor until ten thousand years after the war ended.
• Richard felt himself connected to the entire Civilization Dimension and gained access to its full supply of Dimensional Power.
• At the Hub World, Richard told Samael he would guard him as he attempted to become a leader, and the two exchanged challenges about their strength and authority.
• Beelzebub finished brewing a potion in the Great Abyss World, drank half a ladle, and felt his strength and life radiation surge.

Richard presented the Sovereign Evolution Potion, which could help Sovereigns break their physical limits but caused reversible Abyss Erosion, and asked the Wizard Alliance to gather its rare ingredients. As the alliance began choosing candidates and arranging other preparations, Richard learned that the Civilization Devourer had intensified its assault on the Spirit Desert Civilization, which was close to falling.

• Beelzebub told Richard the potion relied on rare Dimensional Treasures and would cause Abyss Erosion that could only be reversed after the war.
• Richard shared the potion formula with the Sovereigns, and Lakat explained that his Trading Voucher let him access the shifting Trading Dimension and its Dimensional Merchants.
• Richard explained the potion's side effect and limit-breaking process; Lakat and Wild Wind accepted, Eternal God King agreed to try it, Myriad Transformation God King refused, and Sun God King deferred to Eternal.
• The Great World Tree asked Richard to provide worlds for its evolution, and Richard agreed to prioritize its needs over the World Fortress.
• Richard received a report that the Civilization Devourer had intensified its offensive and the Spirit Desert Civilization was close to being unable to hold out.

Sand Spirit Great World fell to the Civilization Devourer, and Horad led Spirit Desert Civilization’s seed through the Black Domain toward the Wizard Alliance. Corrupted Dominators ambushed Horad on the way, leaving him facing four Limit-Breaking foes.

• The Sand Spirit Sage foresaw Sand Spirit Great World being swallowed, so Horad and Sha Mantian departed with the civilization’s seed while the remaining Emperors stayed behind to delay the Civilization Devourer.
• Richard learned that Sand Spirit Great World had fallen months earlier and decided to go receive its survivors, while the Dominators discussed a safe territory for them.
• Horad and Sha Mantian crossed the Black Domain toward the Wizard Alliance, avoiding the Endless Dimensions to hide from the Civilization Devourer.
• Mokar and two Limit-Breaking Titans confronted Horad and accused him of defecting, though Horad recognized that Mokar had been corrupted.
• Mokar struck Horad’s barrier, and three more Titan Dominators joined the attack, leaving Horad outnumbered by four Limit-Breaking foes.