Chapter Summaries

After returning to Earth, Kang De found himself trapped alone in his fog-enclosed hometown, where every living thing had vanished. He gathered supplies and reflected on his daily survival before using his power to return to the deserted island in the other world.

• Kang De added his latest diary entry to the binder and broadcast a plea for help over his homemade radio, but received only static.
• Kang De looked out over the silent, fog-shrouded city and remembered that he had survived the catastrophe only because he could transmigrate between Earth and another world.
• Kang De rappelled from his apartment and walked through the deserted community, passing the covered stone inscription and graffiti he had written during his isolation.
• Kang De gathered food, snacks, and supplies in the shopping center, noting that he would eventually need to grow vegetables as the fresh produce dwindled.
• Kang De prayed for rescue, said goodbye to the city, and used his transmigration ability to leave Earth for the deserted island.

Kang De returned to his home in the other world with supplies and reflected on the precautions he had made to protect his family and the secrets of his travels. After he went to the kitchen, the magical animals acted out a strange performance about him, but scattered when he caught them.

• Kang De carried a shopping cart through the portal and recalled how he had stored specimens and records while keeping the body-strengthening crystals secret to protect his parents.
• Kang De settled into his furnished cave and stepped outside to greet the magical animals, sharing snacks with the parrot, pigeon, kangaroo, and gorilla.
• Kang De went to the kitchen to put away supplies while the gorilla and other animals watched him with concern.
• The pigeon performed an elaborate routine for the gathered animals, who seemed to interpret it as a story about Kang De and reacted with agreement and disdain.
• Kang De asked what the animals were doing, and they immediately scattered.

Kang De complained about his isolation on the deserted archipelago as a violent storm began, while an elven navy attack struck a ship far away. The chapter left the surviving ship’s crew facing the enemy capital ship Wings of Wayne.

• Kang De lamented that he had spent nearly a year stranded without people, a boat, or a way through the white fog, while the magical animals listened around the campfire.
• After Kang De joked that he wanted people sent to him, lightning flashed and a tremendous storm began, prompting him to hurry inside with the animals.
• Kang De settled in to play a computer game and assumed the downpour would have little effect on his life.
• A cyan spell crossed the sea and exploded above two sailing ships, unleashing a tornado, frost nova, and blast that showered one ship with deadly icicles.
• The surviving ship’s lookout reported that the enemy capital ship Wings of Wayne had launched the attack and that the elven navy had found them.

Princess of Goethe chose to flee the elven fleet through the forbidden Holy Seal Archipelago so she could reach the imperial capital and seek aid for Goth. The Penguin left the Bane behind to sacrifice itself as a decoy, while a sleeping man awaited them in the archipelago.

• Captain Oswald presented Princess and Commander Cleveland with the choice to fight, flee, or surrender, and Cleveland offered to raise a white flag to protect her.
• Princess refused surrender and ordered the Penguin to flee toward the Holy Seal Archipelago, believing the elves would not follow them there.
• Captain Oswald agreed to the dangerous course and explained that the Bane would draw the elves' tracking spirits and next magical strike away from the Penguin.
• The Bane's crew prepared decoy bolts to intercept the Nature Spirits as the Penguin sailed away, and Princess watched the elven strike destroy the ship.
• Captain Oswald reflected on the sacrifices made by ordinary sailors, while Princess prayed that their deaths would have meaning.
• In the Holy Seal Archipelago, Kang De slept and dreamed of a traveler carrying a flag from the old world.

After the storm, Tina and her crew reached the Holy Seal Archipelago, where extraordinary powers were suppressed and the Penguin was too damaged to sail. Meanwhile, a dove alerted Kang De’s animals to the stranded newcomers, leaving Kang De unaware that they had gone to investigate.

• Tina watched the crew salvage supplies and establish a camp, then learned from Cleveland that the island suppressed extraordinary powers and was tied to the legendary Gate of Calamity.
• Tina asked to explore the island, but Cleveland refused to let her go without an escort, so she sulked nearby.
• Tina saw a white dove that flew away after seeming to react with surprise and delight to her.
• The dove reached Kang De’s valley and used gestures to tell the animals about the newcomers, prompting them to follow it toward the island.
• Kang De came out to wash his bedding and underwear after an embarrassing dream, then wondered why he had dreamed about a Western woman.

Princess Tina explored the island with Knight Cleveland and was abducted in an ambush by a group of magical animals. They brought her to Kang De, who stared in shock as the parrot urged him to get her.

• Head Maid Bedela returned with Tina’s belongings, and she approved an escorted exploration of the island.
• Knight Cleveland led Tina and six others across a hill, where they spotted a striking golden parrot.
• Cleveland approached the parrot, but it shouted and slammed into him as a chicken, goose, wolverine, marmot, and kangaroo attacked the escort.
• The kangaroo carried Tina away while the animals overwhelmed the warriors and escaped into the island’s terrain.
• Cleveland told Bedela that the parrot had spoken Zhendan Language, suggesting an easterner from Cathay lived on the island.
• Kang De found Tina unconscious beside the magical animals, and the parrot circled overhead shouting, “Get her! Get her!”

After resisting his impulses, Kang De befriended Princess Tina Terrariel, who had awakened on his island, though they could not understand each other. Realizing she likely had companions nearby, he armed himself and prepared for their arrival.

• Kang De repeatedly retreated to his room to control his desire while Tina lay unconscious nearby.
• Tina woke, introduced herself to Kang De, and accepted his help despite their inability to speak each other’s language.
• Kang De used gestures to apologize for the animals and invited Tina to eat after her stomach rumbled.
• Tina tried to explain that her companions would be searching for her, but Kang De could not understand.
• Kang De concluded that Tina had companions and gathered weapons and improvised explosives from the deserted residential compound.

Kang De assessed Princess Tina and her unfamiliar world, then armed himself and prepared to meet the people who had come to the island. After feeding Tina and agreeing to escort her back, he rallied the animals and set out with guns, supplies, and wine to visit the newcomers.

• Kang De reasoned that Tina was a noble from a magical world with little industrial technology and considered how to defend himself against possible human enemies.
• Kang De loaded himself with firearms, modified weapons, explosives, and throwing axes, deciding that strength would make negotiations safer.
• Princess Tina studied Kang De and the strange objects in his valley, then ate his food and drank Coca-Cola.
• Kang De used gestures to agree to take Tina back and packed unfamiliar food, wine, and Coca-Cola as gifts.
• Kang De returned to the warehouse, instructed the gorilla to bring the animals and distribute equipment, and prepared a reinforced steel bar and another weapon for the strong goose.
• Kang De wrote in his diary that he was bringing guns and wine to visit the people of another world.

Kang De and Princess Tina tried to establish contact as they walked toward his camp, but a misunderstanding led Cleveland’s men to attack Kang De. After nearly being killed, Kang De fought back and prepared to set the attackers ablaze.

• Kang De showed Princess Tina his phone’s camera, video, and music functions, astonishing her with the device’s capabilities.
• Kang De wondered whether he should leave the island if Tina’s people could take him away, but decided to get to know them first.
• Cleveland’s men ambushed Kang De on the slope and demanded that he surrender, mistaking him for one of the people who had abducted Tina.
• Kang De tried to point the men toward Tina, but Cleveland ordered his sailors to capture him, and one sailor fired a crossbow bolt that Kang De barely deflected.
• Kang De shot at the attackers, fought them with his axe and shotgun, and used a flashbang and stun baton to break through their encirclement.
• Kang De summoned a bar-headed goose to dump gasoline over the attackers, then lit a lighter and declared that they would all die.

Kang De’s attempt to burn the Goth sailors escalated into a fight to the death with Knight Cleveland, and Tina’s desperate intervention awakened a strange power. As she embraced Kang De, he began to understand her incantation and felt himself changing.

• Kang De ignited the gasoline vapor, but Cleveland stomped out the flames and ordered the sailors to retreat into the river.
• Kang De summoned his animal companions and attacked Cleveland, whose armor resisted fire and electricity as the two men grappled over a gun.
• Tina rushed onto the battlefield and pleaded with Kang De and Cleveland to stop, but neither man could understand or heed her.
• When Kang De mistook Tina’s approach for a threat and aimed his nail gun at her, Cleveland knocked the weapon aside and took a pistol blow to the head.
• Tina’s magic circle appeared in a burst of starlight, stunning everyone, and she embraced Kang De while reciting an incantation he gradually began to understand.

After the animals carried the exhausted Kang De away, Tina followed them to a hidden underground Hero Altar, where he was laid on its platform to receive an inheritance. Tina recognized the altar’s inscription as “Fire Thief,” but did not know what the name meant.

• Kang De gained the ability to understand Tina and the locals, then collapsed and told A Xing to take him home and not trust the humans.
• The animals gathered around Kang De and appeared to make a solemn decision before A Xing carried him away; Tina chose to follow, while Cleveland and some of her people went with her.
• Cleveland felt guilty about the conflict and lamented that Kang De might never reach a Hero Altar in time, but Tina said their cooperation could help Goth and urged him to look ahead.
• The animals led Tina and Kang De to a concealed cave, allowing Tina inside but keeping Cleveland at the entrance.
• Deep underground, Tina found a glowing Hero Altar, and the gorilla placed Kang De on its platform as the animals watched in silence.
• Tina returned to Cleveland and revealed that she had seen a Hero Altar; she recalled the inscription she had recognized: “Fire Thief.”

Kang De woke in an unfamiliar cave and discovered he could extract Elements from objects and flames, then attach them to other things to grant them new properties. Outside, Tina waited for him while explaining the risks of awakening rituals, and Cleveland tried to deny that he hoped Kang De would gain a powerful inheritance.

• Kang De woke alone in the glowing cave and realized his perception had changed after Tina’s ritual.
• Kang De extracted sharpness, steel, and piercing Elements from a knife and nails, then attached them to objects to test their effects.
• Kang De extracted a flame Element and attached it to a nail and a folding knife, creating a fiery projectile and melting a flashlight’s casing.
• Kang De found his phone contained too many complicated Elements to extract and wondered what extraction would do to a living being.
• Tina refused to leave the cave entrance, and she explained to the knight that an awakened person could gain recognition from another world’s laws during the three-day ritual.
• Cleveland insisted Kang De was unlikely to receive a powerful inheritance, prompting Tina to tease him about secretly hoping otherwise.

After discovering that Element Extraction worked on Earth, Kang De tested it on the white mist surrounding his compound and triggered a torrent of energy that nearly overwhelmed him. He channeled the energy into his watch, which transformed into a fantasy gadget, leaving him wondering how it had happened.

• Kang De disintegrated a neighbor's door and used a passage element to walk through a wall.
• Kang De tried to decompose the white mist, but its complexity overwhelmed his mental power and caused it to surge toward him.
• The torrent engulfed Kang De and began filling his body with violent energy.
• Kang De directed the energy into his wristwatch until the torrent calmed and the inheritance of the Armor-Donning Ritual continued.
• Kang De found that his watch had transformed into a gadget resembling Detective Co[beep-]'s tranquilizer watch and wondered why.

Kang De experimented with extracting and applying elements to watches, discovering that the process could create fantasy items but often failed or produced incomplete results. After destroying a wristwatch that displayed error messages, he named the ability the Law of Two Blossoms and returned to the other world when his time on Earth ran out.

• Kang De extracted elements from the spent tranquilizer watch and identified a deep-sleep element, which he smeared into iced black tea.
• Kang De poured mysterious elements into more than twenty mechanical watches, causing many to explode and transforming some into fantasy watches, including several tranquilizer watches.
• Kang De found a wristwatch displaying errors about the world, mission, and reward points, then smashed it with a fire axe.
• Kang De examined incomplete transformed watches and reasoned that more powerful fantasy items were rarer and harder to create.
• Kang De named his ability the Law of Two Blossoms and wondered whether its results depended on his own fantasies or everyone’s.
• Kang De realized his time on Earth had ended and vanished in a streak of black light.

After the battle, Princess Tina urged her people to approach Kang De with respect rather than impose claims on him, while privately admitting to Knight Cleveland that she was heartbroken. When Kang De emerged from the cave, he and Cleveland exchanged apologies, leaving Tina hopeful that they could move forward peacefully.

• Tina told Captain Oswald and the others to address Kang De respectfully and not treat the ritual’s consequences as a debt he had to repay.
• Tina encouraged her people to accept their losses and seek a peaceful arrangement with Kang De, then admitted to Cleveland that she could not accept what had happened.
• Kang De emerged from the cave with his animal companions, and Tina and Cleveland wondered about his origins and the island’s mysteries.
• Cleveland apologized to Kang De for attacking him, explaining that he had acted out of fear for Tina’s safety.
• Kang De apologized for hurting Cleveland and for his animals’ role in the conflict, and Tina felt more hopeful as the two men made peace.

Kang De escorted Tina and her party back to camp, shared warnings about the island’s dangers, and considered inviting Tina over for a writing lesson. Knight Commander Cleveland asked to visit him the next day and teach him the language, and Kang De accepted for the sake of building trust and learning about the world.

• Kang De told Tina’s party they could gather food freely and gave them sketches of animals they should avoid.
• Kang De warned the group about the Black Beasts, described their traits and weaknesses, and advised them to keep watch at night and use fire.
• Kang De escorted Tina and the others to their camp, where he and Tina said goodbye while both sides remained wary.
• Kang De thought of inviting Tina over under the pretext of learning to write her language.
• Cleveland asked to visit Kang De alone the next day and offered to teach him the language and share his knowledge.
• Kang De agreed to meet Cleveland so he could learn more about the world and encourage communication between their groups.

Tina and her companions discussed their impressions of Kang De while Cleveland resolved to meet him and judge his character for himself. Back in the valley, Kang De demonstrated his new enchanting power to the animals, who laughed at his use of it before turning solemn and withholding the reason; elsewhere, an elf aboard the Wings of Wayne sensed impending destruction and considered attacking the humans.

• Tina asked Bedela, Oswald, and Cleveland for their impressions of Kang De, and Oswald judged him a confident, highly educated equal while Cleveland withheld his opinion until after their meeting.
• Cleveland privately considered Kang De dangerously unstable and resolved to observe him closely to protect Tina.
• On the way home, Kang De warned the animals to stay alert and said he would set out screaming chickens as alarms.
• Kang De demonstrated how he drew fire from the campfire and enchanted a fruit knife, prompting the animals to laugh until he threatened to withhold spicy strips and alcohol.
• The animals indicated that Kang De had used his power incorrectly, but the kangaroo comforted him and the group walked away without explaining; A Xing appeared equally bewildered.
• Aboard the Wings of Wayne, an elf told the captain that his intuition urged him to attack the humans, but he planned to pray again that night.

Kang De met Cleveland and learned that the knight's party was struggling with insects on the island, so he offered mosquito nets and medicine. After accepting a valuable gift from the princess, Kang De discovered that the enchanted shortsword inside held crimson elements that caught his interest.

• Kang De and Cleveland awkwardly exchanged greetings, and Kang De described the spices he had used to cook lobster.
• Cleveland explained that mosquitoes and other insects were troubling the princess and the women aboard the ship, and Kang De offered nets and insect medicine.
• Cleveland returned Kang De's fire axe and stun baton and presented him with a gift from the princess in return for the wine and candy he had brought.
• Kang De opened the gift box and picked up an enchanted shortsword, noticing crimson elements woven into its flame pattern.

Kang De studied the enchanted shortsword Cleveland gave him and realized his ability to extract and arrange elements could let him reproduce its enchantments without conventional alchemy. After extracting lifesteal elements from dead mosquitoes, he came up with a bold new idea involving an optical shop, leaving his next experiment unresolved.

• Kang De examined the shortsword’s Sharpness of the Divine Edge, Roar of the Crimson Flame, and Life Drain enchantments and saw that he might be able to copy their elemental patterns.
• Cleveland explained that alchemists used magical beast blood, affinity materials, and magic power to create enchantments, while Kang De recognized that his own method worked differently.
• Kang De asked Cleveland for the dead mosquitoes collected by the maids, then extracted a lifesteal element from them.
• Kang De wondered whether lifesteal could be applied beyond melee weapons and remembered an optical shop, sparking a bold idea.

Kang De learned from Knight Cleveland that the Goth refugees had fled an elven navy and that the Dusk Moon Dynasty used the enslavement of elves as a pretext for expansion. Cleveland then revealed that the elves considered the Holy Seal Archipelago forbidden, but stopped himself and asked Kang De about predictions that always came true in reverse.

• Kang De offered Cleveland bottled water, and Cleveland mistook its ordinary packaging for a refined Cathayan provision while praising Kang De's supposed austerity.
• Kang De learned that Cleveland and his companions were from Goth and had fled to the island after encountering the elven navy.
• Kang De asked whether Goth enslaved elves, and Cleveland explained that the Dusk Moon Dynasty threatened war over elf enslavement and exploited such cases to justify expansion.
• Cleveland described how the elves allegedly used spies to manufacture evidence of abuse before launching wars, surprising Kang De with their political tactics.
• Kang De asked whether the elves would pursue the refugees, and Cleveland blurted out that the Holy Seal Archipelago was forbidden to them before abruptly covering his mouth.
• Cleveland asked Kang De about predictions that produced the opposite result, and Kang De called the phenomenon a jinx.