Chapter Summaries

Su Luo defeated Experiment Subject 003 and cleared the dungeon, then encountered the strange light of Grantham Sylvester, who offered him a path beyond the mage class. As the teleportation countdown ended, Grantham urged Su Luo to seek his sealed legacy after reaching level ten.

• Su Luo fought the Alchemical Puppet, using layered Flame Walls, Flame Threads, a curse, and sustained fire attacks to weaken it.
• Su Luo destroyed Experiment Subject 003 with an Annihilation Blackflame Orb and received a Class Change Certificate as the dungeon cleared.
• A point of light followed Su Luo through the dungeon, and an unseen voice told him it could not harm him under the system's rules.
• The voice identified itself as Grantham Sylvester, a level 20 Morningstar Wizard, and praised Su Luo's talent and study of Mana.
• Grantham told Su Luo that the destroyed puppet had once been his assistant and held knowledge and a legacy that Su Luo could seek after reaching level ten.
• The teleportation light arrived, and Grantham urged Su Luo to seek Truth as he was transported away.

After rejecting Grantham Sylvester’s offer of a wizard legacy, Su Luo used his Class Change Certificate and entered the Rise of Superpowers Dungeon. He reached a modern city and learned that strange events were disrupting technology and weakening gunpowder, but the cause remained unclear.

• Su Luo suspected Grantham Sylvester’s offer was a trap and decided not to seek his legacy, while considering the level restrictions and class-change thresholds.
• Su Luo used the Class Change Certificate, received the Wildman identity, and was tasked with surviving for thirty days.
• Su Luo found that the Dungeon world had no ambient supernatural energy and realized his stored Mana was a limited resource.
• Su Luo left the forest, hitched a ride with a driver, and inferred that the world resembled modern civilization.
• The driver told Su Luo that events following Le Lingyan’s livestream had caused satellites to fall and small-caliber pistols to lose their power.

Su Luo investigated the world inside the profession Dungeon and learned that supernatural powers had begun appearing as technology and physical laws were disrupted. He settled in an abandoned villa outside the city to solve his Mana shortage before exploring further.

• Su Luo learned Charm Spell and used it to borrow a man's phone so he could research the world.
• Su Luo watched the livestream of Le Lingyan dancing into the sky, which revealed supernatural powers to the world.
• Su Luo found reports of technology failures, altered physical effects, and people awakening superpowers while authorities suppressed the information.
• Su Luo concluded that the world's rules were weakening modern technology and decided to address his Mana supply before acting.
• Su Luo left the city and made an apparently abandoned villa on the edge of a remote town his temporary home.

Su Luo studied mana and elemental energy, discovered that elements could be converted back into mana, and built a system to replenish his reserves. After learning that mutant beasts were attacking cities and advanced weapons had failed, he flew toward the local prefect’s office to investigate.

• Su Luo experimented with mana and elements in a stabilization field and confirmed that elemental energy could revert into mana under certain conditions.
• Su Luo learned Flame Attachment and modified its model to convert earth, wind, fire, and water elements into mana.
• Su Luo checked the news and learned that the Great Yong Dynasty had established the Superpower Management Bureau as mutant beast tides began attacking cities.
• Su Luo discovered that advanced weapons and complex machinery had stopped working, while phones and communications remained functional.
• Su Luo looked up Wang Shouye’s prefectural office, covered his face, and flew there.

Su Luo contacted Prefect Wang Shouye, revealed himself as a mage from another world, and arranged a meeting with Great Yong’s leadership in exchange for sharing Mana knowledge. After leaving, Su Luo examined files on the Superpower Management Bureau and learned about its new chief, Chen Hu.

• Su Luo entered Wang Shouye’s office, subdued his guards, and demonstrated his control of the elements and Mana.
• Su Luo asked Wang Shouye to keep his origins secret, arrange an encrypted meeting with Great Yong’s senior officials, and avoid using the Superpower Management Bureau’s channels.
• Wang Shouye agreed to contact the higher-ups by the next morning and gave Su Luo files about the bureau and its senior personnel.
• Su Luo left by flying out the window, while Wang Shouye called the emperor to report the encounter and Su Luo’s claim about long life.
• Su Luo read the files and learned that Chen Hu had taken control of the bureau’s predecessor after its first chief died, then gathered Awakened and seized power.

Su Luo reviewed Dongli Cang’s rise and Le Lingyan’s abilities before negotiating an exchange with Great Yong’s emperor. He agreed to provide introductory Mana knowledge in return for research support and the Empire’s pre-collapse technology records.

• Su Luo read reports about Dongli Cang’s appointment, rapid rise, loyal followers, and Le Lingyan’s recruitment into the Superpower Management Bureau.
• Su Luo learned that Le Lingyan had SSS-grade talent and that Dongli Cang had created the Empire’s superpower grading system.
• Su Luo met with the emperor and asked about the origins of the world’s superpowers, which the Empire admitted it did not understand.
• Su Luo questioned the value of cooperation, then agreed to the Empire’s offer of facilities and resources while promising introductory Mana knowledge.
• Su Luo asked the Empire to compile records of every major technological field from the First Industrial Revolution to the technological collapse.

Su Luo provided Great Yong with foundational mage knowledge and began investigating the physical basis of supernatural abilities at Hudu’s new research institute. After finding no clear source of power in several subjects, he probed a living assistant’s mind, then removed him from the experiment when the assistant became infatuated with him.

• Su Luo explained that Great Yong’s candidates could not sense Mana because their world lacked it, and said he would later create Mana conversion devices while they studied the theory.
• Su Luo began learning the incomplete Spell Permanence Technique and arrived at Hudu’s underground research institute three days later.
• Su Luo dissected several supernatural ability users and found mutations linked to their abilities but no distinct energy source.
• Su Luo examined a volunteer assistant with the Gluttony ability, detecting an enlarged stomach and auxiliary tissues but no unusual energy reactions.
• Su Luo cautiously explored the assistant’s hazy mental world, but the assistant became overwhelmed and told Su Luo he smelled good.
• Su Luo withdrew his mental power, kicked the assistant out, and chose another living subject for experiments.

Su Luo discovered that superhumans had a strange light orb in their souls that supplied energy for their abilities, then watched Dongli Cang lead a livestreamed battle against a beast tide. The chapter ended with Su Luo recognizing that Wang Shouye suspected Dongli Cang.

• Su Luo tortured a condemned superhuman while probing his soul and discovered a light orb near its core.
• Su Luo observed the orb release energy when the subject used his Iron Arm ability, and repeated experiments improved his soul-probing technique.
• Su Luo ordered an underground level cleared for a Mana Conversion Device and continued studying his spell-permanence technique.
• Wang Shouye told Su Luo that no reliable method existed to trigger awakenings, and Su Luo requested mutated-creature materials.
• Wang Shouye showed Su Luo Dongli Cang's livestream of elite fighters charging a beast tide, then questioned why communications remained stable when other machines failed.
• Su Luo said Dongli Cang was saving a city and playing a game, then recognized that Wang Shouye suspected him.

Wang Shouye argued that Dongli Cang’s rise and the world’s selective technological collapse suggested he was the beneficiary of a “Protagonist Aura,” and asked Su Luo to help investigate superpowers. Two days later, Su Luo studied the global disaster and mutated beasts, then expelled an unauthorized woman from his laboratory.

• Wang Shouye laid out his suspicions about Dongli Cang and asked Su Luo to assist with an upcoming probing operation.
• Su Luo neither accepted nor refused, while Wang Shouye reflected that the Great Yong Court had been forced into conflict with Dongli Cang and the Superpower Management Bureau.
• Two days later, Su Luo read a report showing survival rates of 21% in Great Yong and 9% globally, with the Superpower Management Bureau controlling much of the surviving territory.
• Su Luo dissected mutated beasts, identified their unstable and dangerous energy, and named it Aberration Energy.
• Su Luo fired the assistant who had admitted a beautiful woman into his laboratory and ordered the woman to leave, then asked who she was.

Su Luo weighed the danger of Eldest Princess Di Yubing’s arrival in Hudu and decided to remain in his laboratory while learning [Body Modification (Blue)]. On his sixteenth day in the world, Wang Shouye told him that the casing and framework for the Mana conversion device were complete.

• Su Luo learned that Di Yubing was the Eldest Princess and that many women on Great Yong’s beauty ranking had come into Dongli Cang’s orbit, so he suspected she was another target on Dongli Cang’s list.
• Su Luo considered leaving Hudu but chose to stay, reasoning that he could fly away if the beast tide or the ensuing chaos threatened him.
• Su Luo reflected on the difficulty of the Class Change Dungeon and how saving free attribute points might have helped him overcome its Mana-related challenges.
• Su Luo switched from studying [Spell Permanence Technique (Blue)] to practicing [Body Modification (Blue)] on mutated beast materials, mastering basic modifications for D- and C-rank beasts but making limited progress with B-rank materials.
• On his sixteenth day in the world, Wang Shouye contacted Su Luo to say the casing and framework for the Mana conversion device were finished and ask whether they should deliver them to the underground laboratory.

Shui Huaimeng confronted Dongli Cang over his failure to defend Hudu and discovered her mother hiding under his desk. Dongli Cang revealed that he had engineered the beast tides to create chaos, and he ordered the system to draw them toward Hudu for a dramatic rescue of Di Yubing.

• Shui Huaimeng broke into Dongli Cang's office and accused him of neglecting Hudu while the bureau's cities were under attack.
• Dongli Cang claimed the bureau lacked troops, but Shui Huaimeng split his desk open and found her mother hiding beneath it.
• Shui Huaimeng reminded Dongli Cang of his vow to save humanity, condemned what he had become, and left.
• Dongli Cang refused the system's recommendation to lift restrictions on Legacy Cores, despite its warning that humanity could be wiped out in fifteen days.
• Dongli Cang recalled that he had created the beast tides and suppressed technology to plunge the world into chaos, then ordered the system to draw nearby beast tides toward Hudu for a rescue of Di Yubing.

Su Luo completed and tested Mana Conversion Devices, then showed them to Wang Shouye, who reported that Dongli Cang likely controlled the beast tides and global livestreams. The devices were assigned to mana exploration as Wang Shouye arranged a stable power supply.

• Su Luo inscribed and tested the Mana Conversion Device, but its mana output could not yet sustain its operation.
• Su Luo added containment and stabilization models, and the device ran longer before failing again as his Spirit attribute increased to 12.7.
• Su Luo demonstrated three Mana Conversion Devices to Wang Shouye and explained their power needs and operating risks.
• Wang Shouye arranged a prioritized power supply and designated the underground level for mana exploration.
• Wang Shouye told Su Luo that intelligence linked Dongli Cang to global livestreams and nearly all beast tide movements, while a test had undermined the suspicion that he possessed prophetic abilities.

Su Luo learned that grotesque, continent-scale Aberrations had overrun the world outside Asia and began investigating how Aberration Energy fueled them. As a beast tide threatened Hudu, he moved his laboratory underground and prepared to test whether Aberration Energy could absorb Mana.

• Wang Shouye showed Su Luo satellite footage of colossal Aberrations covering Oceania and other regions beyond the Asian Continent.
• Su Luo reasoned that the extinction of humanity elsewhere had lifted a restriction on Aberration Energy, allowing the monsters to draw power from the planet.
• Wang Shouye returned to defend the Imperial Capital and asked Su Luo to protect Di Yubing, but Su Luo suspected Great Yong had a hidden reason for leaving her in Hudu.
• Su Luo studied Aberration Energy in his laboratory and concluded that it could absorb energy from Superpower users while conventional energy sources remained restricted.
• Su Luo moved the laboratory underground and began preparing an experiment to see whether Aberration Energy could absorb Mana.

Su Luo investigated the likely source of Dongli Cang’s powers and began observing an unscheduled Superpower awakening in a researcher. He discovered that the awakening’s energy rapidly transformed the researcher’s body, soul, and genes, and decided to find a way to obtain a Superpower light ball.

• Su Luo suspected Dongli Cang had used a system to gain power and wondered why he was livestreaming in a world where most people had died.
• Su Luo trained [Appraisal] to mastery and concluded that its effectiveness depended unusually strongly on the system’s rules.
• After the laboratory was relocated and calibrated, Su Luo prepared to experiment on a D-rank mutant beast, but an urgent call reported a researcher awakening a Superpower.
• Su Luo rushed to the C3 Living Area and restrained the convulsing researcher with airflow while probing his spiritual world.
• Su Luo observed a light ball enter the researcher’s soul and release energy that rapidly strengthened and modified his body, soul, and genes.
• Su Luo resolved to find a way to obtain a Superpower light ball.

Su Luo investigated a Superpower Orb’s defensive mechanism and recorded a theory about how the orbs transformed their users. Di Yubing then revealed that she had already learned several Spells, leaving Su Luo astonished.

• Su Luo’s spiritual probe was instantly severed when it touched the Superpower Orb, so he withdrew and watched the awakening finish safely.
• Su Luo theorized that Superpower Orbs protected themselves and gradually transformed users into vessels suited to their powers, then recorded his findings.
• Di Yubing told Su Luo that someone had condensed Mana and learned basic Spells, prompting him to follow her to a testing ground.
• Di Yubing revealed that she was the one who had learned the Spells and demonstrated Fireball and Ice Arrow for Su Luo.

Su Luo discovered that Di Yubing’s extraordinary talent for learning Spells came from a mysterious affinity with the world, which appeared to protect her from harm. He suspected that the World Will had chosen her to resist the outside invasion, and the lingering malice around him weakened after he explained his theory.

• Di Yubing told Su Luo that contact with Mana had clarified her studies and made Spell models feel familiar, and that she sensed an affinity with the world’s energies.
• Su Luo cast a mental intimidation Spell on Di Yubing to test his suspicion, provoking overwhelming malice and rejection from the world.
• Su Luo stopped the Spell and told Di Yubing that the world seemed to be protecting her as someone favored by the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Yubing asked why the world had chosen her, and Su Luo suggested that she represented the World Will’s resistance to the invading Superpower system and Mutated Beasts.
• The malice surrounding Su Luo weakened after he explained his theory to Di Yubing.

Su Luo realized World Will was using Di Yubing’s Protagonist Aura to manipulate him, so he fled Hudu after leaving her his Spell knowledge. Meanwhile, the emperor and Wang Shouye discussed their secret preparations against the Beast Tide and the powerful beings beyond the continent.

• Su Luo agreed to help Di Yubing fight the Beast Tide, then sensed his thoughts being twisted and broke free by suppressing the abnormal feelings with Mana and mental power.
• Su Luo concluded that World Will was using World Malice and Di Yubing’s Protagonist Aura to bind him to her cause, and decided to stay away from her.
• Su Luo left a USB drive containing his Spell knowledge for Di Yubing, then fled Hudu for the mountains of Sichuan-Chongqing.
• The emperor told Wang Shouye that the Water girl had accepted the information he gave her and was secretly working with them.
• Wang Shouye told the emperor that he had made a backup arrangement, though he doubted it would succeed.

The emperor and Wang Shouye plotted to use the Grand Princess and the Great Yong Beauty Ranking to frustrate Dongli Cang and the otherworldly mage. After escaping Hudu, Su Luo built a Mana Conversion Device in a mountain laboratory and discovered that Mutated Beasts were drawn to Mana, giving him a possible energy source.

• The emperor and Wang Shouye discussed sending the Grand Princess to meet the mage and shifting the conflict onto him and the system host.
• The emperor revealed his plan to use information from the Great Yong Beauty Ranking to disgust their enemies, while the third prince's severed head lay on the table.
• Su Luo fled Hudu, recovered his clarity away from Di Yubing, and sensed that the World Will had withdrawn its malice after Di Yubing obtained the USB drive's information.
• Su Luo carved a cave beside an abandoned mountain road and built a simple Mana Conversion Device, but found himself without an energy supply.
• Su Luo prepared a mountain laboratory and tested a wisp of Mana on a Mutated Beast, confirming that the creature was irresistibly attracted to it.

Su Luo built an automated system that lured Mutated Beasts into a fire-filled pit, converting their energy into mana while he studied their bodies and captured Aberration Energy. On the twentieth day since the visitors from another world arrived, a tide of tens of millions of mutated creatures reached the gates of Louyi and Kuaiji.

• Su Luo made hundreds of Mana Beacons and set them to guide Mutated Beasts into a natural depression rigged as a massive incinerator.
• Su Luo burned two S-rank Mutated Beasts, captured dozens of A-rank and B-rank specimens, and dissected them while maintaining the Mana Conversion Device.
• Su Luo mastered the relevant knowledge about B-rank Mutated Beasts and began studying the more complex bodies of A-rank specimens.
• Su Luo filled his Mana Pool and optimized the Dual-Cycle Method while his automated system continued converting fire element into mana.
• Su Luo sealed a wisp of Aberration Energy in a biological container and prepared to study it.
• On the twentieth day, a tide of tens of millions of Mutated Beasts, including enormous worms and monstrous birds, reached the gates of Louyi and Kuaiji.

Di Yubing guarded the southeastern city alone as the beast tide approached, while the Imperial Capital and Dongli Cang’s bureau abandoned any serious response to the looming catastrophe. The chapter ended with a bureau subordinate entering Dongli Cang’s villa district for a night of debauchery.

• Di Yubing used her sword and wind elements to kill an S-rank flying mutant beast, then wondered whether she could withstand the massive beast tide.
• The emperor’s court received reports that the eastern vanguard would reach Hudu by the next afternoon and that giant sea beasts had come ashore, but the emperor and his ministers continued their drunken revelry and killed messengers who brought the news.
• Terrifying beings from other continents looked toward the Central Plains as the emperor chanted about the city’s coming destruction.
• Dongli Cang refused to visit Hudu or send troops, telling his subordinate to leave while he lounged with two women.
• Dongli Cang’s subordinate saw the guard deny an anxious couple entry to the villa district while allowing a burly man inside, then accepted directions to an available villa and went in to relax.