The Awoken take two First Kills on Holdest and tame the Montosaurus, which loses its divine nature, but becomes a battle avatar of Scyth.
Apophis, summoned by Yemi, refuses Scyth outright at first. Then Scyth summons the Montosaurus. The ancient dinosaur serves as proof that the young man is capable of going toe to toe with the ancient snake. Apophis decides not to test this and fulfills the request.
Once on Terrastera, Scyth tests out the artifact Isis’ Blessing. For a day, it creates perfect weather conditions within a fifty yard radius, without the acid rain debuffs of the toxic continent. Once certain that his living friends would not die there and could safely level up, Scyth brings in not only the Awoken, but also the three priests from Yoruba.
He hands in the quest to build a second temple to Tiamat and earns two new divine abilities: Sleeping Justice, which increases Scyth’s stats if he is attacked first, and Assistance of the Sleepers, which restores health, mana and vindication for killing an enemy.
The orc Sarronos, chief of the Broken Axe, is eager to defend Tiamat’s temple. Morena’s cultists and the troggs want to do the same, impressed by the taming of the Montosaurus. The goblin woman Kusalarix responds to Scyth’s request to help move several thousand sentients to Tiamat’s temple and gives him a portal beacon and two coins that activate one-hour portals. Scyth appoints Kusalarix as a priestess of the Sleepers. In response, the goblin agrees to send a thousand of her best mercenaries and Arena gladiators to protect the temple, and to help the Awoken build a castle on Kharinza.
Grinding on Terrastera exceeds all expectations: Yemi, Babangida, Francesca, Crawler, Infect and Bomber reach level four hundred and sixty. Gyula gets to level four hundred. Irita, who just emerged from the sandbox, reaches level three hundred along with Patrick. In addition, they make a First Kill and get Dalezma Egg, which Scyth gives to Infect, and he cracks the egg at the place of power.
The army of Light begins its attack on Tiamat’s temple, news of which Nega the succubus relays to Scyth. The Awoken teleport to the temple.
Tiamat creates an oasis for a mile around, allowing the living to survive in the desert without Nergal’s blessing. She removes the undead curse from Scyth and his friends, along with the guardians and all the non-citizen workers. They are alive again. In addition, Tiamat restores Sharkon, the undead Underground Terror, back to life, along with Crusher, the undead wolf from Gloomwood. The fates of these creatures are inseparably linked to Scyth, and they become his battle pets.
The orcs of the Broken Axe, the sewer troggs and Morena’s cultists portal in to protect Tiamat’s temple. They are joined by mercenaries and Arena gladiators from the Green League, sent by the goblin Kusalarix.
Apart from a hundred thousand players, the temple is also besieged by King Bastion’s soldiers and Emperor Kragosh’s legions, the high priests of Nergal and Marduk, and the immortal Aspects of Light and Colossi of Darkness.
With great losses, Scyth manages to hold the temple. The guardians, the orcs of the Broken Axe, the troggs and Patrick O’Grady all die permanently in the battle.
Gyula reports that one of the workers tried to contact him, but the builder couldn’t answer in the heat of battle, and now there is silence from the fort on Kharinza. Feeling that something is amiss, Scyth teleports there and finds the fort destroyed, Behemoth’s temple captured by the Destroying Plague, and the kobolds and non-citizens turned undead. Scyth encounters Mogwai, who is certain that he can now kill the former legate alone and eliminate the Threat.
At that moment, the emergency exit procedure from his capsule is activated by an unknown man. Scyth realizes that his nightmare is coming true in real life, but at that moment everything disappears, and he finds himself in the Lakharian Desert again, at the beginning of the battle. Everything that happened over this time was a manifestation of Divine Revelation.
Scyth decides to sacrifice the temple so that his allies can stay alive, defend the fort and have time to leave their shelter in Alaska in case Divine Revelation had, through some miracle, shown what would happen even in the real world. The temple is left undefended, but Scyth not only manages to defend the fort — which, as it turns out, Mogwai reached with Tissa’s help, — but also succeeds in taking Mogwai to a magical cell in the basement of the former Widowmakers castle, where Eileen had kept Scyth prisoner. The castle now belongs to the Green League, but Kusalarix has agreed to help.
Alex, Hung and the security officers hurry to leave the house in Alaska and fly away to Cali Bottom. Ed, Malik and Willy are headed there too. On the way, they check the news: Tiamat’s temple has been destroyed, Nergal’s event is over, and the Destroying Plague faction, now joined by several dark gods, has become officially available to players.
Racking his brains to figure out how Tissa, who was in the sandbox, could have met with Mogwai, Alex remembers another former emissary of the Destroying Plague, Polynucleotide, Big Po, and decides to meet with him.
Prologue: Fen
FIRST MOGWAI’S GLORY echoed throughout the world, and then the fifteen-year-old boy behind the character, Fen Xiaoguang, became a household name.
In the battles of the Junior Arena of 2063, a druid animalist in the Azure Dragons stood out. He was blasted with fireballs, frozen with ice, cut with swords, pierced with arrows, torn with teeth, but he remained alive for an astounding length of time and the spells did nothing but slow him down a little. It seemed nothing bothered him, the Unbreakable Bear,
