Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary:

Peak Fourth Tier! The Terror of [Boundless]!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac reveals that Arrogant Turtle, originally created from the Fantasy Authority Positive Infinitesimal, has advanced to the Fourth Tier. It can now not only defend him with an effectively infinite barrier but also immobilize enemies by infinitely increasing the distance between them and their surroundings.
• Morgan responds by activating [Boundless—Furnace], dramatically enhancing the Furnace power within him.
• Isaac immediately recognizes the danger and retreats, while Morgan’s Furnace devours incoming attacks—including the attacks of Isaac’s four summoned gods and the Flesh Angel’s dimensional bombardments.
• Isaac and Morgan both deliberately prolong the battle:
  • Isaac wants to observe the limits of Morgan’s continuously strengthening [Boundless].
  • Morgan wants to gain enough power to kill Isaac and avenge his father, whom he believes was connected to the Lord of Billions of Flesh and Blood—and possibly Isaac.
• Isaac’s four gods coordinate against Morgan, while Hamon and Isaac launch additional magical attacks. Despite being outmatched individually, their teamwork temporarily holds Morgan back.
• Morgan gradually rises from the Mid Fourth Tier to the High Fourth Tier, then reaches the Peak Fourth Tier after charging through the attacks, killing, and devouring the Flesh Angel.
• Isaac summons another Outer God avatar to continue “feeding” Morgan power. Morgan becomes suspicious and stops absorbing the attacks, realizing Isaac must have a hidden purpose.
• Meanwhile, the lower battlefield becomes overwhelmingly favorable to Isaac’s side. Lapis Lazuli, Little Mouse, and the Holy Master crush the remaining Third Tier and High Knight forces in the royal city.

Character Developments

• Isaac is portrayed as calm, calculating, and experimentally minded. Rather than trying to defeat Morgan immediately, he intentionally allows Morgan to grow stronger so he can study the true potential of [Boundless]. He is also careful not to kill Morgan prematurely because of the unpredictable consequences involving fate.
• Morgan demonstrates his terrifying growth ability. [Boundless] can strengthen him continuously and may potentially allow him to temporarily reach the Fifth Tier. However, his increasing strength is balanced by growing suspicion and unease toward Isaac’s inexplicable strategy.
• Lapis Lazuli displays overwhelming combat ability due to her awakened demon-god servant life rank. Her Authority-type powers are effectively doubled, allowing her to suppress or instantly defeat powerful opponents. Her hidden embarrassment regarding her true form and suppressed mating desires remains a source of tension and comedy.
• Little Mouse continues to act as a highly capable support unit through the divine God’s Visage, weakening enemy domains and preventing High Knights from transforming into Divine Generals. It remains loyal and content simply to stay beside Isaac.
• The Holy Master has developed formidable physical strength by absorbing demon-god powers and enhancing its dragon bloodline, though it remains less perceptive and more emotionally transparent than the others.
• The Flesh Angel serves as both a powerful combatant and, unknowingly, fuel for Morgan’s Furnace. Its death greatly accelerates Morgan’s advancement.

Significant Themes

• Limitless growth versus tactical restraint: [Boundless] appears capable of endlessly increasing Morgan’s strength, but Isaac’s strategy suggests that unlimited power can be manipulated through timing and preparation.
• Knowledge as a weapon: Isaac values observing and understanding Morgan’s Authority more than securing a quick victory. The battle functions as an experiment as much as a confrontation.
• Mutual calculation and hidden motives: Both Isaac and Morgan intentionally stall, each trying to force the other to reveal more. Their similar tactical thinking creates a tense psychological contest.
• Power escalation: The chapter emphasizes the enormous gap between Fourth Tier levels, showing Morgan’s rapid ascent from Mid Fourth Tier to Peak Fourth Tier and hinting at a temporary Fifth Tier transformation.
• Loyalty and revenge: Morgan’s attack is driven not only by political considerations but also by personal hatred over his father’s death. Isaac’s familiars, meanwhile, demonstrate loyalty and cooperation in support of their master.
• Appearance, identity, and concealed desire: Lapis Lazuli’s discomfort over her true form contrasts with her otherwise terrifying confidence and power, adding a humorous emotional subplot beneath the large-scale battle.

Important Character Interactions

• Isaac and Morgan: Their confrontation becomes a battle of patience and deduction. Isaac deliberately empowers Morgan to study [Boundless], while Morgan tries to use the opportunity to kill Isaac and the Flesh Angel.
• Morgan and the Flesh Angel: Morgan specifically targets the Flesh Angel because of its connection to the being he blames for his father’s death. He eventually kills and devours it.
• Isaac and his summoned gods: The Elf God and Flesh Angel provide ranged suppression, while the Dwarf God and Orc God engage Morgan directly. Their flawless coordination keeps Morgan occupied despite their lower individual strength.
• Isaac and Hamon: Hamon supports Isaac by combining elemental magic with his Magic Cannons, adding further pressure against Morgan.
• Lapis Lazuli, Little Mouse, and the Holy Master: The three familiars cooperate on the lower battlefield. Lapis Lazuli provides overwhelming offense, Little Mouse weakens enemy domains, and the Holy Master supplies powerful physical attacks.
• Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli: Little Mouse understands Lapis Lazuli’s sensitivity about her hidden desires and carefully avoids drawing attention to them, while privately recognizing that everyone—including Isaac—already knows.
• Morgan and the Terra Kingdom: Morgan’s actions align with the kingdom’s interests, since the chaotic Small World battlefield gives him an opportunity to eliminate Isaac with limited political consequences.

Ending

The chapter ends with Morgan reaching the Peak Fourth Tier, yet refusing to absorb more of Isaac’s deliberately offered attacks. He senses that Isaac’s behavior conceals a deeper plan. Even the powerful Fifth Tier observers outside the Small World cannot determine what Isaac is attempting, leaving the battle poised for a major reversal.

Chapter Summary: “Privilege Magic: Gulping Maw!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac’s unusual battlefield behavior alarms the Fifth Tier powerhouses observing from outside Brurell. They realize he may be preparing another dangerous ritual, similar to the mass blood sacrifices he conducted as a Second Tier wizard.
• Morgan has been forced to use Gulping Maw to swallow attacks and the incarnations of two Outer Gods. Isaac and four allied gods exploit this ability, deliberately feeding Morgan energy and pushing him toward a temporary breakthrough to Fifth Tier.
• Morgan focuses primarily on survival rather than attacking Isaac, relying on his defensive abilities and the power of [Boundless]. Isaac avoids him through exceptional movement and defensive magic, making himself extremely difficult to catch.
• The battle below ends with Terra Kingdom’s forces defeated. Lapis Lazuli, Little Mouse, and the Holy Lord win their respective fights.
• As Morgan approaches the threshold of Fifth Tier, Isaac suddenly stops attacking. The four gods form a defensive line around him, preventing Morgan from launching a surprise assault or easily breaking free.
• Isaac reveals that his original goal was to study Morgan’s [Boundless] Authority and observe its power. However, he then unveils his true achievement: the Privilege Magic connected to [Boundless], Gulping Maw.
• Morgan considers temporarily advancing to Fifth Tier to capture Isaac, but refrains because of Isaac’s likely preparations, the restrictions against Fifth Tier combat within the Small World, and the certainty that rival powers would use any violation to destroy Terra Kingdom.
• Isaac withdraws after giving Morgan a series of ominous warnings. He explains that Morgan’s consumption of Outer God power may have left hidden traces and advises him to:
  • Cleanse himself with Radiant Holy Water.
  • Avoid rituals, which could attract Outer Gods.
  • Stay out of the Boundless Void.
  • Spend at least five years refining his body in the Boundlessness Furnace.
• Morgan returns to the royal city in fear and plans to have his ancestor inspect him. The distant Fifth Tier observers also detect traces on Morgan, though they cannot identify everything Isaac may have done.
• Isaac leaves as a mercenary, having thoroughly disrupted Terra Kingdom and demonstrated the terrifying potential of his research.

Character Developments

• Isaac is shown to be far more calculating and dangerous than his enemies assumed. He fights defensively, deliberately “feeds” Morgan power, gathers data on [Boundless], and develops a corresponding Privilege Magic. His casual attitude masks extensive preparation and hidden contingencies.
• Morgan demonstrates impressive endurance and growth through [Boundless], nearly reaching Fifth Tier during the battle. However, his reliance on Gulping Maw makes him vulnerable to manipulation, and he becomes increasingly anxious once he realizes Isaac may have planted delayed dangers within him.
• Terra’s Fifth Tier powerhouse becomes deeply worried about Isaac’s possible connection to the Emperor’s prophecy that Isaac would destroy Terra. He recognizes that the prophecy may have been symbolic rather than literal.
• The Otesk Empire and Kingdom Alliance remain opportunistic, waiting for Terra to make a mistake so they can intervene against it. They are pleased by Terra’s worsening position but become cautious after witnessing Isaac’s methods.
• Lapis Lazuli, Little Mouse, and the Holy Lord successfully defeat their opponents and return to Isaac, reinforcing his overwhelming control of the battlefield.

Significant Themes

• Preparation versus brute force: Isaac wins through planning, research, evasion, and manipulation rather than overwhelming Morgan directly.
• The danger of power without understanding: Morgan’s ability to devour energy allows him to grow rapidly, but it also exposes him to hidden contamination and manipulation by Outer Gods.
• Knowledge as power: Isaac’s study of [Boundless] enables him to reproduce its underlying method through Privilege Magic, demonstrating the terrifying potential of wizardly research.
• Uncertainty and concealed threats: Isaac’s warnings suggest that the most dangerous consequences may not be immediately visible. His enemies cannot determine what traps or effects he has already set.
• Political fragility: Terra Kingdom’s survival depends on avoiding open conflict with rival powers. Even Morgan’s potential Fifth Tier breakthrough cannot be used freely because of political and world-level restrictions.
• Prophecy’s ambiguity: The Emperor’s prophecy may not have described events literally, suggesting that seemingly altered prophecies can still come true in unexpected forms.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Morgan engage in a tense verbal exchange after the battle. Morgan demands to know Isaac’s purpose, while Isaac initially claims he only wanted to study [Boundless].
• Isaac humiliates Morgan by revealing that he successfully created Gulping Maw, the Privilege Magic associated with Morgan’s Authority.
• Morgan considers attacking Isaac but is restrained by suspicion, world rules, and the political consequences of violating them.
• Isaac deliberately offers Morgan “helpful” advice before leaving, but the advice is threatening because it reveals the possible consequences of Morgan’s actions and implies that Isaac has left him with hidden problems.
• The watching Fifth Tier powerhouses react differently: Terra fears for its survival, while Otesk and the Kingdom Alliance quietly welcome Terra’s misfortune but are impressed enough by Isaac to avoid mocking it.

Chapter Summary: “The Difference Between a Mage and a Brute”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the battle, Isaac reflects on Morgan’s apparent breakthrough and explains that the feat was less technically impressive than others believed. Morgan’s success came from combining:
  • Sixth-Tier divine power containing [Immortality] and [Eternity],
  • Isaac’s high-ranked dimensional mana,
  • Morgan’s Authority of [Boundlessness], which primarily enhances rather than directly enables devouring.
• Morgan cannot fully refine the absorbed Sixth-Tier divine power until reaching Sixth Tier, leaving dangerous hidden consequences.
• Isaac reveals that his main advanced technique was condensing three powerful concepts: [Godslaying], [God-Devouring], and [Godhood]. These came from a ritual intended to trade with a Seventh-Tier Outer God.
• Rather than perform the dangerous trade, Isaac plans to use the concepts in a God Sacrifice Ritual capable of sacrificing Fifth-Tier-or-lower beings to Outer Gods without requiring a reward. The ritual remains theoretical and has yet to be tested.
• Isaac considers whether to use the concepts to develop [Boundlessness] and create an Authority Crystal. If successful, he could transfer the Authority to his “Big Brother,” potentially restoring its “Supreme Bone.”
• He realizes this research may lead to major accomplishments: converting Privilege Magic into transferable Authority and eventually creating a path from [Analysis] Privilege Magic to true Authority. These achievements could nearly complete his Fourth-Tier advancement and prepare him for Fifth Tier.
• Isaac then plans how to strengthen his three familiars: Little Mouse, the Holy Lord, and Lapis Lazuli.
• Little Mouse could be strengthened with a suitable Virtual Divine Spark, possibly advancing it into a Fourth-Tier Divine Species and expanding its Divine Authority toward Dominion.
• The Holy Lord must personally master demonic-god secret arts, dimensional mana, Isaac’s modified Furnace Method, and rituals that allow him to absorb and refine demonic divine power. Isaac can provide guidance and improved rituals but cannot do the foundational work for him.
• Lapis Lazuli can grow much more easily through Isaac’s [God-Stealing] ritual, gaining near-perfect mastery of stolen power. However, Isaac realizes that her real difficulty is psychological rather than technical: she remains deeply troubled by her true form.
• Little Mouse notices Isaac’s concern and appears ready to help, ending the chapter on a light, anticipatory note.

Character Developments

• Isaac: Demonstrates his analytical, cautious nature. He distinguishes genuine technical skill from brute-force power and refuses to risk unnecessary transactions with Outer Gods. He also shows increasing concern for his familiars as companions rather than experimental subjects. His ambitions expand toward creating transferable Authorities and completing his path to Fifth Tier.
• Morgan: His apparent success is recontextualized. Although he reached a Fifth-Tier-like state by devouring powerful divine energy, he has not fully refined it and may suffer hidden dangers. He also deliberately restrained himself during the battle, sparing Isaac and preventing a direct test of Isaac’s God Sacrifice Ritual.
• Little Mouse: Is revealed to have immense potential as a Divine Species. It may advance through Virtual Divine Sparks and eventually broaden its authority toward Dominion. Its intelligence and sensitivity are also emphasized when it recognizes Isaac’s emotional dilemma.
• The Holy Lord: Faces the most demanding growth process. Unlike Isaac’s other familiars, he must actively learn, practice, and perfect the Furnace Method rather than simply receive power.
• Lapis Lazuli: Her strength remains easy to increase, but her emotional conflict becomes central. Her hidden true form is not something she has accepted; she has merely learned to conceal and avoid it. This unresolved insecurity is now identified as a major obstacle.
• Isaac’s “Big Brother”: May benefit from the possible creation of an Authority Crystal, which could restore its lost or damaged “Supreme Bone.”

Significant Themes

• Technical mastery versus brute force: The chapter contrasts Isaac’s careful manipulation of concepts and energy with Morgan’s direct devouring of overwhelming power.
• The dangers of power without refinement: High-ranked divine power and mana can produce hidden consequences when absorbed without proper mastery.
• Knowledge, experimentation, and risk: Isaac constantly weighs potential breakthroughs against the dangers of Outer Gods, unstable rituals, and incomplete theories.
• Growth through personal effort: While Isaac can provide tools and guidance, some characters—especially the Holy Lord—must develop through practice and adaptation.
• Identity and acceptance: Lapis Lazuli’s struggle with her true form highlights the difference between hiding an aspect of oneself and genuinely accepting it.
• Companionship over exploitation: Isaac’s relationship with his familiars has evolved beyond that of a wizard and his test subjects. He values their consent, individuality, and emotional well-being.
• The limits of divine advancement: The discussion of Seventh- and Eighth-Tier gods explores the progression from personal divinity toward abstract concepts and laws, explaining why wizards abandoned the divine path.

Character Interactions

• Isaac mentally compares himself with Morgan, judging Morgan’s achievement and considering how his own ritual might counter it.
• Isaac considers how his research could benefit his “Big Brother,” showing his willingness to share powerful discoveries with allies.
• His planning for Little Mouse, the Holy Lord, and Lapis Lazuli reveals different relationships: potential development for Little Mouse, guided cultivation for the Holy Lord, and direct empowerment mixed with emotional concern for Lapis Lazuli.
• Isaac’s hesitation to discuss Lapis Lazuli’s true form reflects his respect for her feelings and fear of worsening her insecurity.
• Little Mouse observes both Isaac and Lapis Lazuli, recognizes Isaac’s uncertainty, and reaches out physically, suggesting that it may help him address Lapis Lazuli’s emotional problem.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After receiving Little Mouse’s telepathic message, Isaac agrees to let it handle a sensitive matter. He views his companions as a family, with himself as the head and Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli as the younger members.
• Isaac plans their activities in the Small World:
  1. Gather materials for Little Mouse’s Virtual Divine Spark.
  2. Arrange Holy Master’s combat training so he can improve through battle while collecting resources and studying secret arts and the Furnace Method.
  3. Deal with Lapis Lazuli’s original form, either by using [Godstealing] if she does not care about it or by researching a safer solution if she does.
• Isaac assigns missions from the Kingdom Alliance:
  • Holy Master takes combat-oriented missions.
  • Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli perform rituals and gather materials, giving Little Mouse an opportunity to question Lapis Lazuli.
• Isaac debates whether to travel in search of new research opportunities or remain in one place to conduct experiments. He concludes that the best approach is to do both: study the crystallization of Authority from Privilege Magic while secretly observing other wizards’ experiments.
• He reflects on the nature of Great Deeds and extraordinary professions. Paths such as Spellbreaker Swordsmen and Star Wizards can potentially reach the Third Tier, but their spread appears to be deliberately suppressed in the main world because Third-Tier advancement fundamentally transforms living beings and may affect the world’s long-term potential.
• Isaac realizes that conquered Small Worlds serve as experimental grounds where wizards can freely test new extraordinary professions without interference from the main world. Since he has no suitable project of his own, he decides to learn from other wizards’ experiments.
• A week later, Isaac travels to an equatorial island nation in Brurell’s eastern hemisphere, where a Mad Witch is conducting experiments involving dependents.
• The chapter explains the history and modern use of dependents:
  • Originally, they were divine creations containing traces of a god’s power.
  • Witches and later wizards developed similar techniques.
  • Modern wizards generally avoid creating them because they are costly and comparatively weak.
  • Mad Witches, however, use them to safely contain and study dangerous powers obtained from Outer Gods.
• These experimental dependents begin with extremely high potential—sometimes Fifth-Tier in rank—but have their actual strength restricted to the First Tier. This allows wizards to monitor them for hidden corruption or “backdoors” before investing resources in their growth.
• Isaac enters a deserted-looking area while remaining undetected. He stops at a dilapidated house containing a young man accompanied by a ghost.
• The young man is a Spirit Host, a rare dependent whose human body and ghost exist in a mutually strengthening symbiotic relationship. The chapter ends with Isaac noticing that the young man has at least seven spirits behind him and wondering whether this could be a “Martial God Physique.”

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates a more protective, managerial attitude toward his companions, treating them like family while delegating tasks according to their abilities. He also shows increasing strategic ambition, recognizing that observing others’ experiments may be the fastest way to expand his own knowledge.
• His understanding of Great Deeds becomes more nuanced. He begins to suspect that the main world actively limits the spread of extraordinary paths with restricted potential, and he identifies Small Worlds as valuable research environments.
• Isaac remains unusually confident regarding Outer God powers, believing his own abilities are safer because he obtained them through direct acquisition rather than dangerous transactions.
• Little Mouse is entrusted with both practical responsibilities and the investigation of Lapis Lazuli’s feelings and origins, suggesting growing independence and intelligence.
• Lapis Lazuli is placed in a position where her attachment to her original form may become important. Her true feelings remain unresolved.
• Holy Master is assigned to improve through combat, reinforcing his role as the group’s battle-oriented member.
• The unnamed Mad Witch represents the modern, methodical approach to handling Outer God powers, contrasting with Isaac’s unconventional methods.
• The young Spirit Host introduced at the end appears to possess an unusual and potentially powerful constitution.

Significant Themes

• Family and delegation: Isaac sees his group as a family and understands that leadership sometimes means allowing others to handle delicate matters themselves.
• Knowledge through observation: Isaac concludes that secretly studying other researchers may be more efficient than attempting to solve every problem independently.
• The danger and potential of power: Outer God abilities offer tremendous strength but contain hidden risks, while dependents provide a controlled way to study those dangers.
• Suppression and experimentation: The main world may restrict extraordinary professions that could disrupt its balance, whereas Small Worlds function as laboratories for developing new paths.
• Progress through accumulation: Spirit Hosts embody the chapter’s interest in feedback loops and compounding growth, where mutual strengthening can produce extraordinary power.
• Control versus autonomy: The creation of dependents raises questions about whether beings made from external powers can truly remain under their creator’s control.

Character Interactions

• Isaac communicates with Little Mouse telepathically and entrusts it with handling a sensitive issue.
• Isaac pairs Little Mouse with Lapis Lazuli for ritual work and material gathering, giving them time to interact and allowing Little Mouse to question her.
• Holy Master operates separately under Isaac’s direction, focusing on combat missions.
• Isaac observes other wizards’ work from the shadows rather than directly interfering, maintaining his role as a covert learner.
• His encounter with the Spirit Host is entirely observational, but the unusual presence of seven spirits immediately captures his attention and establishes the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary: “Bold Mad Witch!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac examines a defective multiple-spirit Spirit Host, discovering that it contains traces of pure Evil God power and was likely created through an Outer God’s contingency.
• He learns that Mad Witches traditionally divide Outer God power into tiny fragments and test them through familiars to identify dangerous or contaminated portions. The boy before him is one such discarded “filtered” product, possessing a rare multiple-spirit Martial God Body.
• Using his Authority of Analysis, Isaac studies the enormous familiar-conversion ritual covering the island nation. He discovers that the ritual is designed to create a powerful familiar with specialized anti-god abilities.
• The Mad Witch behind the ritual is attempting to create a modified version of a Godspawn—a being capable of fighting gods. Isaac realizes the experiment is doomed because the gods have sealed the creation of artificial Godspawn, reducing the success rate to virtually zero.
• Isaac notices that the ritual still represents valuable research and may produce something similar to a Godspawn, even if it does not create a true one. He later names the intended creation “Godspawn: Revised.”
• Isaac becomes interested in the boy because the Evil God contingency inside him may serve as a two-way channel of power. He theorizes that he could use the boy’s Martial God Body to draw power from the Evil God, potentially raise the boy to the Sixth Tier, and turn him into a new Evil God.
• This plan could allow Isaac to kill the original Evil God, awaken his own Mad Witch Trait, and replace the slain being with the boy as his enforcer.
• Rather than abducting the boy immediately, Isaac leaves a spiritual mark on him and continues exploring the island. He studies its strange familiars and ritual structure, gaining inspiration for Lapis Lazuli’s familiar-conversion plan.
• Isaac eventually determines that the experiment failed because the anti-god ability was inseparably tied to naturally born Godspawn. The Mad Witch managed to create a different kind of Godspawn, but not one with the intended anti-god power.

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates his growing mastery of analysis, ritual studies, and strategic manipulation. He remains detached from the Mad Witch’s larger ambitions, treating the experiment primarily as an opportunity to learn.
• His interest in the boy develops from simple curiosity into a major strategic plan. Isaac begins considering him as a possible vessel, weapon, and replacement for an Outer God.
• Isaac also shows increasing confidence in confronting Outer Gods. He believes his chances of victory are favorable and refuses either to underestimate or excessively fear them.
• The unnamed Mad Witch is revealed to be exceptionally ambitious and reckless. Despite being only Fourth Tier, he is attempting a dangerous anti-divine experiment normally associated with higher-level Mad Witches preparing to fight Outer Gods.
• The boy is revealed to be a discarded but highly valuable creation. His multiple spirits and Martial God Body give him unusual growth potential and make him central to Isaac’s future plans.

Significant Themes

• Forbidden experimentation and scientific progress: Mad Witches advance by testing dangerous methods involving Outer God power, familiars, and divine bodies.
• Luck versus knowledge: Even perfect technique cannot guarantee the creation of a Godspawn because the gods have interfered with the underlying principles of the process.
• Power through contamination: The Evil God contingency that threatens to corrupt the boy may also provide a stable source of power that Isaac can exploit.
• Creation and replacement: Isaac considers creating a new Evil God through the boy, then killing the original—turning a dangerous curse into a tool for advancement.
• Strategic detachment: Isaac does not interfere immediately. He observes, gathers information, and waits for the most advantageous moment.
• The limits of control: Both Outer Gods and wizards attempt to manipulate life and power, but their creations remain vulnerable to hidden constraints, failed experiments, and unpredictable outcomes.

Character Interactions

• Isaac does not directly confront the Mad Witch because such individuals usually flee upon recognizing him. Instead, he secretly analyzes the ritual and studies the Mad Witch’s creation.
• His only direct action toward the boy is leaving a spiritual mark, allowing him to monitor the boy while avoiding premature exposure.
• Isaac’s relationship with the unseen Evil God is framed as a potential future conflict: he intends to use the connection between the Evil God and the boy against its creator.
• Isaac’s discoveries also connect to his broader work with Lapis Lazuli, as the island’s familiars and conversion ritual provide ideas for improving her own transformation plan.

Chapter Summary: “Godspawn? Godkin!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac successfully reconstructs the original Godspawn Transmutation Ritual, a ritual he has long wanted to study. Unlike others, he believes any nonzero success chance can eventually be overcome through sufficient resources.
• He encounters Mike, a battered boy who contains multiple souls and a dangerous mixture of divine and evil-god power. Isaac offers him survival and takes him as a potential future Godspawn Servant.
• Isaac heals Mike, suppresses the spirits within him using Demonic Claw Hamon, and transports him to a temporary mage tower.
• The gray-robed Mad Witch conducting the ritual realizes that Mike has disappeared but is unconcerned, since he had already severed his connection to the boy. He continues his experiment, which is intended not to create a Godspawn but to investigate the origins of the Titans, also known as the ancient Godkin.
• The Mad Witch explains that the ritual is based on fragmentary information suggesting a deep connection between Godspawn and Titans. However, the ritual is overly rigid and repeatedly risks collapse because it lacks the flexibility of ordinary Legendary Wizard rituals.
• Isaac fails to recognize the ritual’s deeper purpose, partly because his knowledge of Arcane Master ritual theory remains incomplete. He leaves mainly because he has gained what he wanted and senses the ritual is about to deteriorate.
• After securing Mike and reviewing resources gathered by Lapis Lazuli and the Puppet Legion, Isaac travels openly to Brurell’s Antarctic, an Arcane Master testing ground.
• He encounters Ai Wen Kelei, an Arcane Master who previously advised him to use an evil-god transaction ritual in place of an advancement ritual. Ai Wen is dismayed to meet Isaac again but remains respectful of Isaac’s status as a Fourth Tier Miracle Wizard.

Character Developments

• Isaac becomes increasingly ambitious and confident. His interest shifts from merely understanding the ritual to potentially creating a Godspawn Servant. He also demonstrates his characteristic opportunism by taking Mike when the Mad Witch is temporarily unable to interfere.
• Isaac’s limitations are made clear: although highly talented and knowledgeable, he lacks a comprehensive understanding of Legendary Wizard and Arcane Master ritual systems. This prevents him from seeing the ritual’s true objective.
• Mike is introduced as a frightened, physically weakened boy whose inner spirits instinctively fear Isaac. He accepts Isaac’s offer of salvation, becoming both Isaac’s dependent and a potentially dangerous experimental subject.
• The gray-robed Mad Witch is shown to be experienced, pragmatic, and accustomed to being used by larger factions. He views experiments and alliances as transactions and is willing to risk resources while avoiding a true “all-in” gamble.
• Ai Wen remains cautious and respectful toward Isaac. His earlier advice had a major influence on Isaac’s advancement, giving their relationship a mentor-like dimension despite Ai Wen’s anxiety about Isaac’s unpredictable nature.

Significant Themes

• Power through experimentation: Both Isaac and the Mad Witch treat dangerous rituals as research problems whose risks can be managed through preparation, resources, and repeated testing.
• Gambling and fate: The Mad Witch’s belief that Mad Witches must eventually go “all in” emphasizes the danger of their path and the possibility that a single failed gamble can erase years of success.
• Creation and divine inheritance: The experiment’s focus on extracting the Titan concept from Godspawn raises questions about the connection between ancient Titans, modern gods, and artificially created divine beings.
• Knowledge and specialization: The chapter contrasts different systems of magical thought. Isaac’s lack of ritual expertise prevents him from understanding the Mad Witch’s work, showing that great power does not equal universal comprehension.
• Using and being used: The Mad Witch accepts that factions exploit him for his experimental abilities, while Isaac similarly takes advantage of the ritual’s instability and Mike’s vulnerable condition.

Character Interactions

• Isaac approaches Mike with a gentle but unsettling offer of life, presenting himself as both savior and potential captor.
• Hamon suppresses Mike’s protective spirits, establishing Isaac’s dominance over Mike’s internal powers.
• The Mad Witch reflects on Mike as a dangerous “dirty bomb,” but because he has severed their connection, he does not attempt to retrieve him.
• Isaac and Ai Wen reunite at the Antarctic testing ground. Ai Wen is embarrassed and fearful that Isaac has recognized him despite disguises, while Isaac warmly credits him as an important mentor whose advice helped him escape the Great Wizard stage.

Chapter Summary: “Plain or Flashy?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ai Wen realizes the frightening implications of Isaac’s advancement to the Fourth Tier: because Legendary Wizards require three rituals per advancement, Isaac’s progress may have exposed the world to at least six potential invasions by evil gods.
• Ai Wen’s colleagues overhear Isaac crediting him as a teacher or guide. Since Isaac is infamous as the “Mad Witch,” they become terrified of Ai Wen, imagining that he is secretly far more powerful and influential than he appears.
• Ai Wen submits Isaac’s required application to enter the research camp. The request is approved because the camp welcomes talented, unconventional researchers and often collaborates with Mad Witches.
• Grand Arcane Master Moens assigns Ai Wen to guide Isaac through the facility. Though Ai Wen finds the situation embarrassing, the assignment gives him access to research data far beyond his usual responsibilities and advances his personal goals.
• Isaac and Ai Wen reunite. Isaac greets him casually, but Ai Wen remains formal and distant because of Isaac’s overwhelming reputation and their enormous difference in status and achievement.
• Ai Wen begins showing Isaac the Association’s research projects. He first presents optimized ice spell models, which deeply impress Isaac.
• The optimized spells are simple to learn, powerful, quick to cast, and flexible enough for researchers to modify freely. Isaac concludes that they function more like true “Arcane Arts” than rigid spell templates.
• Isaac reflects on how much the Association’s magical systems have improved since he first encountered them, attributing the progress to the Arcane Masters’ collaborative and specialized research culture.
• The later projects—such as ecological studies and species evolution—seem dull to Isaac. Ai Wen explains that they are intended to preserve humanity’s research capabilities in case magic is ever lost, but Isaac considers this vision overly distant and idealistic.
• The chapter ends with Isaac encountering something enormous and apparently much more interesting than the previous research.

Character Developments

• Ai Wen is shown to be modest, socially anxious, and uncomfortable with the fame attached to his connection with Isaac. At the same time, he is ambitious and practical: he recognizes that guiding Isaac may grant him access to valuable core research.
• Isaac remains confident, curious, and intensely driven by the pursuit of knowledge. Despite his terrifying reputation, he treats Ai Wen as a trusted friend and sincerely acknowledges Ai Wen’s influence on his development.
• Ai Wen’s colleagues shift from viewing him as an ordinary Second Tier Arcane Master to suspecting that he is secretly ruthless and extraordinarily powerful after learning of his connection to Isaac.
• Grand Arcane Master Moens treats Ai Wen’s assignment as both a practical duty and a reward, recognizing that it can help him advance within the Association.

Significant Themes

• Reputation and perception: Isaac’s nickname and achievements cause others to interpret Ai Wen’s ordinary behavior as evidence of hidden power.
• The gap between appearance and reality: Ai Wen appears mediocre and insignificant, yet his guidance has influenced one of the world’s most powerful wizards.
• Collaboration versus individual genius: The Arcane Masters’ organized, team-based research contrasts with the more solitary methods of Legendary Wizards.
• Innovation and flexibility in magic: The improved spell models demonstrate that magical systems can be designed not only for efficiency but also for experimentation and personal growth.
• Long-term preparation versus immediate usefulness: The camp’s preservation research reflects humanity’s attempt to prepare for a distant catastrophe, while Isaac values research with more direct magical applications.
• The limits of inherited knowledge: The discussion of Great Wizard paths emphasizes that some achievements cannot simply be copied because each path is unique and becomes inaccessible once fully explored.

Character Interactions

• Ai Wen’s overheard conversation with Isaac causes his colleagues to fear and mythologize him.
• Isaac openly credits Ai Wen for helping him avoid mistakes, reinforcing their unequal but meaningful relationship.
• Ai Wen acts as Isaac’s formal guide, while Isaac behaves with relaxed familiarity, highlighting both their friendship and their social distance.
• Isaac silently accepts Ai Wen’s reserve, understanding that the gap in status makes casual interaction difficult.
• Through Ai Wen’s explanations and Isaac’s reactions, the chapter contrasts the Association’s institutional research methods with Isaac’s unconventional, highly personal approach to discovery.

Chapter Summary: “Absolute Truth!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac arrives at a research camp run by the Truth Association and learns that its central project is “Star-Making.”
• Grand Arcane Master Moens explains that the Association is studying Brurell, a planetary Small World, to determine whether an artificial planet could develop into a Star God.
• Isaac questions whether the project is secretly an attempt to create a god, warning that such research would violate divine taboos. Moens insists that the project is legitimate, officially approved, and not intended to provoke the churches.
• Because the Association has only recently obtained access to a planetary Small World, its data is incomplete. Moens asks Isaac to help review and verify their findings, especially because of Isaac’s exceptional knowledge of divine matters and suspected ability to enslave gods.
• Moens leads Isaac through the camp, which is disguised as a collection of igloos and snowmen golems on Brurell’s frozen South Pole. Although the exterior is unimpressive, the interior contains a vast research facility.
• Isaac discovers a huge circular platform with a seemingly bottomless pit at its center. The pit emits strange divine power that he recognizes as belonging to the Unknowable Pantheon.
• Moens assures Isaac that even this dangerous research was approved under contracts witnessed by [Truth], forcing the unknowable gods involved to cooperate.

Character Developments

• Isaac remains suspicious, irreverent, and hypocritical in an amusing way. He immediately assumes Moens may be attempting to manufacture a god, despite his own history with forbidden or dangerous research. His expertise is nevertheless recognized as vital to the project.
• Moens is introduced as a calm, youthful Grand Arcane Master focused on practical research. He is candid about the project’s uncertainties but becomes confident when defending its legality and safety.
• Ai Wen reacts with alarm to Isaac’s suggestion that the project may involve creating a god, highlighting the perceived danger of the research.
• Isaac’s reputation is emphasized: he is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on divine knowledge and may have mastered god-enslavement before reaching the Fifth Tier.

Significant Themes

• The boundary between planets and gods: The central research question is what fundamentally separates a planetary Small World from a Star God, and whether the former can become the latter.
• Forbidden knowledge and divine taboos: The chapter explores how far scholars can investigate godhood without crossing limits imposed by the churches or the gods themselves.
• Truth versus concealment: Moens awkwardly discusses the need to conceal information in research proposals, while the Truth Association claims that even dealings with unknowable gods can be controlled through contracts witnessed by Truth.
• Appearance versus reality: The camp’s harmless igloos and snowmen disguise an enormous laboratory, reflecting how the Association hides extraordinary and potentially dangerous work behind ordinary appearances.
• Hypocrisy and irony: Isaac condemns the possibility of creating gods while being associated with equally dangerous experimentation, creating much of the chapter’s humor.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens exchange polite introductions, though Isaac privately mocks Moens’s youthful appearance and suspected interest in funding and presentation.
• Moens carefully explains Star-Making while trying not to imply that Isaac should falsify his own research proposals.
• Isaac’s accusation that Moens is attempting to create a god leaves both Moens and Ai Wen speechless, especially because Isaac’s own history makes the accusation ironic.
• Moens recognizes Isaac’s value despite his eccentricity and brings him into the facility for expert verification.
• At the discovery of the Unknowable Pantheon’s divine power, Isaac challenges Moens again, while Moens responds with confidence that the Association’s contracts and approval from [Truth] make the arrangement legitimate.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac learns that Moens is willing to cooperate under the protection of [Truth], a Great Creation of the Truth Association. Any contract made under its power becomes an absolute truth of the world until fulfilled, provided both parties are below the Great Wizard rank.
• This reassures Isaac that the Arcane Masters will not betray or manipulate him, since violating such a contract would be impossible.
• Isaac examines the Arcane Masters’ “Abyss” research facility and discovers that they have organized their work into a highly coordinated, genuinely collaborative research program.
• Their project involves creating a planet through force-field magic, rather than the traditional Four-Element World-Creation Method. Their simulated planetary parameters are already extremely close to reality.
• The Arcane Masters have delayed the final experiment because planets may be connected to Star Gods, and they fear accidentally creating or awakening one.
• Isaac realizes that the research is nearly complete—only one final step remains before a planet can be successfully created.
• Moens is surprised that Isaac can see through the Abyss’s powerful defensive barriers and immediately understand the research, despite the fundamental differences between Legendary Wizard and Arcane Master magic.
• Isaac is excited by the prospect of witnessing and participating in planet creation, but regrets arriving too late to claim the achievement as his own Great Deed.
• He then questions whether Arcane Masters are truly unable to trigger Great Deeds. Recalling that the creator of the Spellbreaker Swordsman was an Arcane Master who received Great Deed rewards, Isaac begins to suspect that the Truth Association may be suppressing or preventing Great Deeds from manifesting.

Character Developments

• Isaac becomes more trusting after learning that [Truth] guarantees the reliability of the proposed contract.
• His analytical abilities are emphasized: he instantly comprehends the Abyss’s research despite its sophisticated defenses and unfamiliar magical principles.
• Isaac displays both admiration and envy toward the Arcane Masters’ achievement. He respects their competence but regrets missing the chance to pioneer planet creation himself.
• His curiosity shifts into suspicion when he notices the unexplained absence of Great Deeds among Arcane Masters, suggesting a deeper investigation into the Truth Association.
• Moens is portrayed as cooperative and highly capable. His initial claim that the research is incomplete is revealed to be modest or misleading, since the project is actually nearly successful.
• Moens is also genuinely astonished by the extent of Isaac’s [Analysis] Authority and his ability to penetrate the facility’s information barriers.

Significant Themes

• Truth, trust, and absolute contracts: [Truth] represents a power that transforms promises into reality, making it the foundation for cooperation between potentially dangerous figures.
• Scientific collaboration and research methodology: The Arcane Masters’ success comes from authentic division of labor and coordinated specialization, contrasting with Isaac’s looser research organization.
• Innovation across magical systems: The chapter highlights the difficulty—and significance—of understanding a discipline based on entirely different principles.
• Ambition and missed opportunities: Isaac admires the project but feels frustrated that others have already completed most of the work he might have used to establish his own Great Deed.
• Suppressed history and hidden conspiracies: Isaac questions why Arcane Masters have apparently never triggered Great Deeds despite their transformative inventions, raising the possibility that the Truth Association has deliberately interfered.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens: Their relationship becomes more trusting through the proposed [Truth]-backed contract. Moens guides Isaac through the Abyss and explains the research, while Isaac’s rapid understanding impresses and surprises him.
• Isaac and the Arcane Masters as a group: Isaac evaluates their research methods, compares them with his own, and gains renewed respect for their technical ability.
• The interaction also establishes a subtle intellectual rivalry: the Arcane Masters are close to achieving something extraordinary, while Isaac considers how he might learn from or surpass their work.

Chapter Summary: “Star-Creation Power”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac follows Moens to his office and is given unrestricted access to the complete spell model and experimental data for the Great Arcana Star Creation.
• Using the Authority of Analysis, Isaac quickly grasps the spell’s basic principles. Star Creation is a massive force-field/gravity spell that gathers matter from the void and compresses it into a planet.
• Isaac warns Moens that the experiment will inevitably create a Star God, contradicting the Arcane Masters’ calculations, which had estimated only a twenty-percent risk.
• Moens explains that the experiment was delayed because Outer Gods might have influenced their calculations. Despite the danger, Isaac agrees that a carefully controlled trial is necessary to uncover the truth.
• Isaac and Moens exchange ideas, combining the perspectives of Arcane Master magic and Legendary Wizard magic. Isaac is given temporary lodging while a suitable laboratory is prepared.
• Studying Moens’s data, Isaac independently develops Star-Creation Power, a Legendary Wizard version of Star Creation. It reproduces the spell’s effects on a much smaller scale and can be used by one person without a magic array or support equipment.
• Isaac discovers that the crucial difference between an ordinary planet and a Star God is the concept of Growth. Planets decline over time, while Star Gods develop through distinct stages until they become immortal gods.
• Isaac continues experimenting with his new spell, producing a miniature sun that generates intense heat and gravity.
• Meanwhile, Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli return to the temporary mage tower and observe the mysterious boy covered in Evil God’s Backdoors. They decide to keep him with them, assuming Isaac has a purpose for him, while recognizing that he must learn to control his power.

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates increased confidence and scientific caution. He recognizes the danger of Star Creation but is willing to participate in a controlled experiment to obtain further evidence. He also successfully adapts Arcane Master research into a Legendary Wizard spell.
• Isaac’s curiosity and ambition become more apparent as he views Star-Creation Power not only as a research tool but also as a potential combat ability.
• Moens shows complete trust in Isaac by revealing all relevant research materials. Though concerned by Isaac’s conclusions, he accepts the need for experimentation and values Isaac’s differing magical perspective.
• Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli act cautiously toward the mysterious boy. They trust that Isaac has a plan but remain deeply wary of the Evil God’s Backdoors covering him.

Significant Themes

• The dangers of magical experimentation: Research involving Outer Gods cannot be treated as ordinary science, since even apparently objective calculations may have been manipulated.
• The contrast between magical systems: Arcane Master magic is structured around Truth, precision, and rigorous magical arrays, while Legendary Wizard magic relies on concepts, legends, and the Mystic Side.
• Growth and divine transformation: The chapter suggests that the concept of Growth is what turns a created planet into a living Star God capable of progressing toward true godhood.
• Trust and cooperation: Moens’s willingness to share all his research allows Isaac and the Arcane Masters to combine their strengths despite their different magical traditions.
• Power versus control: Isaac’s new ability has tremendous potential, but its limits and risks require careful analysis and restraint.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens engage in a productive exchange of ideas, with Isaac identifying the hidden danger in Star Creation and Moens organizing the experimental response.
• Their cooperation is based on mutual respect: Moens trusts Isaac’s judgment, while Isaac acknowledges the Arcane Masters’ greater authority in large-scale magical research.
• Isaac’s work indirectly affects Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli, who must decide how to handle the mysterious boy associated with Evil God powers while waiting to understand Isaac’s intentions.

Chapter Summary: “Star-Creation Experiment, Phase One Begins!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac, Moens, and their collaborators begin the first phase of their Star-Creation Experiment.
• Rather than creating a full living planet like Brurell, they plan to create a smaller satellite-like celestial body, which they call a Secondary Planet.
• Although initially intended as a smaller and safer experiment, the Secondary Planet may still possess the potential to develop into a Star God. Making it any smaller would reduce it to nothing more than an unusual rock.
• The experiment has been thoroughly prepared, though reducing the required materials still causes the already enormous budget to rise further. Moens and the Truth Association nevertheless consider it worthwhile because success would allow him to complete the crucial requirements for becoming a Sixth-Tier Grand Arcane Master.
• The experiment will take place in the Boundless Void rather than on Brurell, since creating a planet on the surface would devastate the world’s ecology. A Fifth-Tier Grand Arcane Master is present to supervise, although Isaac and Moens are capable of controlling the incomplete Star God juvenile themselves.
• Isaac and Ai Wen travel through a World Gate hidden inside an iceberg to reach the experimental site.

Character Developments

• Moens is shown to be deeply invested in the experiment. Its success would provide him with a genuine Sixth-Tier Great Arcana and place his advancement within reach. His ambition and dedication outweigh the enormous financial cost.
• Isaac remains confident and pragmatic. He sees the experiment as manageable and considers Moens’s elaborate precautions excessive, given the protection offered by the Truth Association and Moens’s own strength.
• Ai Wen has gradually become less frightened of Isaac after spending time with him. He is excited simply to witness such an important experiment, despite being only a Third-Tier wizard and not an Arcane Master.
• Ai Wen admits that he cannot easily create a Great Arcana himself and hopes to accumulate contributions to exchange for one through the Truth Association.
• Isaac offers Ai Wen a possible path to advancement: he is researching how to create Authority Crystals, specifically one that could grant the Authority of [Analysis].
• Isaac explains that Authority obtained through a traded Authority Crystal cannot naturally grow. His own original [Analysis] Authority, acquired directly from an Outer God, had once been capable of growth, but became fixed after he later obtained a higher-level Authority Crystal.
• Ai Wen is shocked by Isaac’s casual description of dealing with Outer Gods and by the revelation that Isaac may eventually make Authority Crystals into a renewable resource.

Significant Themes

• Creation and scientific ambition: The experiment represents the extreme scale of magical research and the desire to create new celestial life.
• The cost of advancement: Moens’s path to higher arcane tiers requires enormous resources, original research, and personal dedication rather than simple shortcuts.
• Knowledge as power: Great Arcana and Authorities are treated as the defining tools of high-level spellcasters, with original discoveries offering immense strategic value.
• Risk versus caution: The project carries potentially catastrophic consequences, yet Isaac views Moens’s precautions as excessive. The chapter contrasts Isaac’s confidence with Ai Wen’s awe and Moens’s careful preparation.
• Social inequality among magical practitioners: Ai Wen represents ordinary Arcane Masters who must exchange contributions for existing Great Arcana, while rare geniuses like Moens and Isaac can create or develop entirely new forms of power.
• The limits of borrowed power: Authority Crystals can grant an Authority but cannot provide the same long-term growth as an Authority personally developed or acquired through special means.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Ai Wen: Their conversation reveals growing familiarity and trust. Isaac teasingly dismisses Ai Wen’s excitement, while Ai Wen speaks more openly with him than before. Isaac then offers to help him obtain [Analysis], though Ai Wen initially suspects the method may involve dangerous Outer God power.
• Isaac and Moens: Though Moens is not directly present in the chapter’s main dialogue, Isaac’s observations emphasize their contrasting personalities: Moens is highly cautious and formal, while Isaac sees the same security measures as unnecessary.
• Ai Wen and Isaac’s revelations: Ai Wen’s admiration turns into disbelief when Isaac casually explains his dealings with Outer Gods and his research into Authority Crystals, reinforcing the vast difference between their experiences and abilities.
  The chapter ends as Ai Wen opens the World Gate, allowing the Star-Creation Experiment to proceed in the Boundless Void.

Chapter Summary: Celestial Body—Earth-Moon System

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac and Ai Wen travel through the World Gate to a remote area of space above Brurell, a largely land-covered planet with only scattered water regions.
• They join Moens and his research team, who are preparing to test the Great Arcana: Star Creation. Numerous Legendary Knights observe from nearby.
• Isaac summons the Eye of Omniscience, an Authority spell based on his [Analysis] Authority. It connects directly to his Dimensional World, allowing experimental data to be stored externally without burdening his mind.
• The research team completes its final checks, and Moens activates the enormous magic array using earth, water, fire, and wind elemental energy.
• Isaac remains an observer, studying the concept of [Star Creation] and collecting data for the improvement of his own Star-Creation Witchcraft.
• Gravity begins pulling matter from the void. Moens carefully controls and arranges the material, shaping it into a celestial body rather than allowing it to become an unstructured mass.
• The experiment nearly exposes a weakness in the team’s preparations: creating a planet requires not only casting the spell but also controlling and positioning the forming matter. Isaac’s participation had helped prevent this stage from failing.
• The celestial body eventually develops its own gravity and stabilizes. It does not transform into a Star God, confirming Moens’s theory that the Great Arcana: Star Creation is fundamentally correct.
• The new body’s gravity interacts with Brurell’s, causing it to settle into orbit around the planet like a moon.
• Isaac gains a complete understanding of the [Star Creation] concept, enough to support his Star-Creation Power for roughly a year. More importantly, he discovers and captures a new concept created by the orbital relationship: [Galaxy].

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates his superior [Analysis] Authority and his ability to create highly advanced Authority spells. His Eye of Omniscience reveals his preference for careful experimentation and efficient information management.
• He remains outwardly detached and confident, dismissing the Third Tier [Analysis] golem as insignificant compared with his own abilities.
• Isaac’s involvement proves valuable beyond his theoretical knowledge, helping stabilize the experiment and exposing practical issues in celestial-body formation.
• His understanding of [Star Creation] advances substantially, and he unexpectedly acquires the new [Galaxy] concept.
• Moens shows strong technical control and dedication to his research. He is forced to recognize Isaac’s practical value and feels grateful that he overcame his initial prejudice to include him.
• Moens’s theory is validated when the celestial body forms successfully without becoming a Star God.
• Ai Wen remains excited but obedient, observing the experiment from behind Isaac and Moens.
• The research team demonstrates professionalism by suppressing their discomfort with Isaac’s eerie spell and focusing on the experiment.

Significant Themes

• Scientific experimentation and discovery: The chapter presents magic as a precise, collaborative research discipline involving calculations, data collection, and controlled testing.
• Theory versus practical execution: Knowing how to cast Star Creation is not enough; the researchers must also control the forming matter and account for gravitational behavior.
• The value of collaboration: Moens’s success depends partly on Isaac’s participation, showing that overcoming personal prejudice can lead to major breakthroughs.
• Power and self-reliance: Isaac prefers relying on his own Authority rather than external tools, though he uses the staff and Eye of Omniscience strategically for research.
• The emergence of new concepts: The creation of the orbiting satellite produces the new [Galaxy] concept, suggesting that magical principles can arise from relationships and systems, not only from individual objects.
• Creation without divinity: The successful formation of a celestial body without producing a Star God separates ordinary cosmic creation from divine transformation and opens the way for further research.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Ai Wen travel together, with Ai Wen relying on Isaac’s guidance and positioning herself behind him during the experiment.
• Isaac and Moens maintain a professional but contrasting relationship: Isaac is confident and dismissive, while Moens is focused, observant, and increasingly appreciative of Isaac’s abilities.
• Isaac’s interaction with the [Analysis] golem is humorous and highlights his arrogance; he considers its Third Tier Authority far beneath his own, while the golem senses that he is irritating.
• Moens’s research team initially feels uneasy around Isaac’s ominous Eye of Omniscience but chooses professionalism over fear.
• Moens silently acknowledges that Isaac’s presence helped prevent the experiment from failing and recognizes that Isaac has gained as much from the experiment as the research team itself.

Chapter Summary: “Endless Star Sea!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Moens and Isaac’s successful creation of a galaxy-like system inspires Isaac to consider the concept of a galaxy as the foundation for a new Great Creation.
• Isaac compares possible models, including:
  • An endless starfield based on the Endless Sea and Dark Wasteland.
  • A trial space modeled after the Boundless Tower, where participants could earn Star God Familiars.
• Isaac recognizes that major technical problems remain, including how to create the concepts of infinity, Star God Familiars, and long-distance spatial teleportation.
• Isaac gives Moens a multicolored Divinity Fragment that functions as a data-storage device.
• Meixiukante, a god under Isaac’s control, absorbs the data directly from the fragment. This causes Moens to suspect that Isaac may not merely control gods but may actually be capable of creating them.
• Moens reflects on the legends and dangers surrounding Creation Gods, Mad Witches, and the forbidden practice of god creation, but ultimately abandons his speculation.
• The research team begins another series of star-creation experiments. To avoid destabilizing Brurell’s climate and geology, the next satellite is placed farther away.
• Within a month, Brurell gains one moon and four luminous stars. Unlike Earth-like planets, even dead planets in this world emit their own light.
• Isaac begins studying the difference between the Star God Power of planets and that of actual Star Gods, believing it may explain how planets become Star Gods.
• Isaac uses Moens’s newly developed monocle, which greatly improves data processing and spell optimization, while developing his own weaker imitation using a Divinity Fragment.

Character Developments

• Isaac becomes increasingly ambitious and creative. The galaxy gives him a clear route toward a possible Great Creation, something more attainable than inventing an entirely new extraordinary path.
• He also demonstrates growing technical mastery by repurposing Divinity Fragments as advanced information-storage devices and by independently investigating Star God Power.
• Moens gains a deeper appreciation of Isaac’s abilities. He is astonished by Isaac’s handling of Divinity Fragments and begins seriously wondering whether Isaac has created the gods he controls.
• Moens remains cautious and rational, especially regarding the environmental dangers of repeated star creation. Unlike a Mad Witch, he refuses to risk destroying Brurell for the sake of research.
• Meixiukante continues to act as Isaac’s divine assistant and displays clear attachment toward him, reinforcing Moens’s suspicions about Isaac’s unusual relationship with his gods.
• Ai Wen’s importance is indirectly emphasized: Moens believes Isaac’s rapid advancement is largely connected to Ai Wen and Isaac’s observer-side Faith Power.

Significant Themes

• Creation versus advancement: Isaac seeks to create entirely new systems rather than merely improve existing magic.
• Scientific ambition and ethical restraint: The researchers pursue extraordinary discoveries but must balance experimentation against the potential destruction of Brurell.
• The nature of divinity: The chapter questions whether gods can be manufactured, controlled, or redesigned like magical constructs.
• Knowledge as power: Divinity Fragments, monocles, and data-processing systems show the merging of divine power with arcane technology.
• The limits of understanding: Isaac has a clear conceptual direction but recognizes the enormous distance separating him from true Great Wizards.
• Reputation and institutional prejudice: Isaac’s identity as a Mad Witch may cause the Truth Association to restrict research involving gods, regardless of the scientific value.

Important Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens discuss Isaac’s new ideas and exchange research data, showing their increasingly effective partnership.
• Moens reacts with shock when Isaac casually produces a Divinity Fragment for data storage, revealing the gap between their abilities.
• Meixiukante retrieves and absorbs the data, then embraces Isaac, causing Moens to scrutinize their relationship and reconsider the nature of Isaac’s gods.
• Moens and Isaac continue collaborating on star-creation experiments, with Moens providing technology while Isaac contributes insight into divinity, Star Gods, and cosmic structure.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac and Meixiukante’s data-processing team works faster than Moens’s group, but their analysis of the Star Creation Project fails to identify what causes a planet to become a Star God.
• Isaac worries that the project’s enormous costs will allow only three or four more attempts, producing too little data. He considers finding a more direct method: capturing a living Star God for dissection or interrogation.
• The Truth Association cannot openly authorize such an experiment because capturing a Star God for research could provoke the gods and expose the true purpose of the Star Creation Project.
• Isaac considers using a trading ritual to negotiate with an Outer God, but recalls that the Legendary Gate does not completely prevent Outer Gods from exploiting loopholes or contaminating the results of an exchange.
• He therefore designs a modified trading ritual modeled partly on demon contracts, intended to restrict or bind Outer Gods into assisting with experiments.
• Isaac submits a proposal to cultivate Mad Witches and use Outer Gods in experiments. Its original title is so extreme that Moens and the other Arcane Masters are horrified.
• The proposal also aims to investigate why Isaac’s chosen candidates can become Legendary Wizards but cannot successfully become Mad Witches, despite having highly favorable trading-ritual conditions.
• Isaac theorizes that “Mad Witch aptitude” may not be an innate quality. Instead, anyone whose actions fit the conceptual definition of a Mad Witch might acquire the corresponding power, possibly explaining how Grand Princess Filo forced her way through the process using the Emperor Token.
• To test this, Isaac plans comparative experiments involving Arcane Masters, an Emperor Token–like artifact, and his Virtual Deity. Success could allow him to awaken his own Mad Witch Trait without killing a god.
• Moens secretly changes the alarming title to the more acceptable “Some Reflections on the Essence of Mad Witch Trading Rituals” and fast-tracks the proposal to the review committee.
• The proposal is approved within fifteen minutes, and the Truth Association assigns a Sixth Tier wizard to oversee and protect the experiments.

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates increasingly bold and unconventional thinking. He moves from frustration over the Star Creation Project’s lack of results to pursuing a potentially revolutionary study of Mad Witches and Outer Gods.
• He remains cautious despite his recklessness, recognizing the dangers of ritual loopholes, contaminated Authorities, political backlash, and insufficient experimental data.
• Isaac also reveals a long-term ambition: awakening his own Mad Witch Trait without resorting to killing a god.
• Moens is initially appalled by Isaac’s proposal but gradually recognizes its extraordinary feasibility and research value. His intellectual curiosity overcomes his reservations, and he uses his influence to secure approval.
• Moens’s willingness to rename and fast-track the project shows that he is becoming more comfortable accommodating Isaac’s methods, even when they conflict with ordinary Arcane Master standards.

Significant Themes

• Scientific progress versus ethical and political limits: The most efficient methods—capturing, dissecting, or interrogating Star Gods—are blocked by social and divine consequences.
• Research through controlled risk: Isaac seeks ways to study dangerous beings without relying on brute force, using rituals, contracts, and safeguards to make experimentation possible.
• The instability of rules and loopholes: The Legendary Gate offers protection but not absolute security, emphasizing that systems can be exploited when powerful beings are willing to pay the cost.
• Concepts shaping reality: Isaac’s theory that behavior matching a concept can grant its power reflects the broader nature of Legendary Wizards and suggests that identity and supernatural authority may be constructed through action.
• Innovation challenging bureaucracy: Isaac’s outrageous proposal succeeds once Moens translates it into language acceptable to institutional reviewers, showing how presentation can determine whether radical research receives support.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens clash over the shocking nature of the proposal, with Moens loudly condemning it while Isaac remains relaxed and confident.
• Isaac relies on Moens’s institutional knowledge, while Moens relies on Isaac’s creativity and unconventional theories.
• The surrounding Arcane Masters react with disbelief and amusement, viewing Isaac’s plan as proof of his “Mad Witch” reputation.
• Although Moens alters the proposal without openly consulting Isaac, Isaac notices and accepts the tactic because it improves the project’s chances of approval.
• Their partnership becomes increasingly productive: Isaac supplies dangerous, groundbreaking ideas, while Moens provides the credibility, administrative skill, and institutional access needed to make them viable.

Chapter Summary: “Mad Witches Wholesale!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Truth Association approves funding and support for Isaac and Moens’s research into Mad Witches and transaction rituals, recognizing its potential importance.
• Isaac proposes two possible applications:
  • Using powerful ritual methods to force Outer Gods into transactions, allowing Arcane Masters to follow the Mad Witch path.
  • Negotiating with righteous gods to conduct safer Authority trades with wizards.
• The second proposal is considered more practical and valuable. If wizards could obtain useful Authorities—especially [Analysis]—many Arcane Masters might greatly increase their chances of developing Great Arcana and advancing.
• Isaac and Moens divide their responsibilities:
  • Isaac will optimize the rituals and handle the experimental design.
  • Moens will select participants, including Legendary Wizards from the Flesh Cult and suitable Arcane Masters.
• Moens chooses Ai Wen as an ideal candidate. After reading the proposal, Ai Wen initially hesitates but ultimately agrees, motivated by his lost ambitions and the possibility of escaping his stagnation at the Third Tier.
• Twelve Arcane Masters are approached, and all agree to participate voluntarily. Moens reflects that even a dangerous choice may seem preferable to having no path forward.
• Isaac develops three categories of First Tier transaction rituals:
  1. Rituals targeting his Virtual Deities.
  2. Ordinary transactions with evil gods.
  3. Potential rituals involving righteous gods, pending negotiations.
• The Arcane Masters successfully learn how to arrange the rituals, but none can activate them. This leads Isaac to realize that transaction rituals are actually a form of Ancient Ritual, whose effectiveness depends on scale and on a special requirement called Concept Resonance.
• Isaac interprets Concept Resonance as a kind of “password” or identity verification. Outer Gods possess the correct resonance, while Arcane Masters and righteous gods do not.
• This explains both why Arcane Masters cannot become Mad Witches and why righteous gods cannot normally be targeted by transaction rituals.
• Solving the “password” problem would require creating new forms of resonance for both Arcane Masters and righteous gods. Isaac recognizes this as another Great Deed-level project, potentially allowing him to solve the Authority Crystal conversion problem as well and reach Peak Fourth Tier.
• Isaac suspends the Arcane Master experiments for the moment and begins the more fundamental study: determining what truly causes someone to become a Mad Witch.
• Twelve Legendary Wizards, many driven by desperation or personal problems, are selected as a control group. Isaac performs detailed physical examinations using the Eye of Omniscience and the [Analysis] Authority.
• The Legendary Wizards receive specially protected magic stones modeled after Emperor Tokens. The ritual begins under heavy safeguards, with Isaac relying on golems and the deity Meixiukante to observe the process indirectly.
• Even the watching Outer Gods are impressed by Isaac’s extreme caution, especially given his reputation for aggressively analyzing everything.

Character Developments

• Isaac remains ambitious, inventive, and highly analytical. He continually turns unexpected complications into new research opportunities. However, he also shows unusual caution, using multiple layers of protection and refusing to expose himself directly to potentially dangerous data.
• Moens demonstrates sound judgment and respect for participant autonomy. He recognizes Ai Wen’s potential and selects him because of his unusual suitability, but he does not pressure him into joining.
• Ai Wen experiences a major emotional turning point. Once a brilliant Arcane Master, he had resigned himself to remaining trapped at the Third Tier. Isaac’s earlier promise reignites his ambition, and he chooses to risk becoming a Mad Witch rather than accept a life without further advancement.
• The Arcane Masters collectively reveal their desperation for a path beyond their limits. All twelve volunteer, contrasting sharply with the much smaller number of Legendary Wizards willing to attempt the dangerous Mad Witch path.
• The Truth Association is portrayed as powerful but cautious and principled. It prefers peaceful negotiations with gods, insists on voluntary participation, and provides exceptional protection for the experiments.

Significant Themes

• Choice versus stagnation: The chapter emphasizes that even a dangerous choice can be preferable to having no choice at all. This explains why both Arcane Masters and desperate Legendary Wizards are willing to gamble with the Mad Witch path.
• The cost of advancement: Progress in the wizarding world requires enormous risks, resources, and sacrifice. Arcane Masters are especially disadvantaged because their path offers hope but little practical means of advancement.
• Science and discovery through failure: The failure of the Arcane Master rituals is not treated as defeat. Isaac uses it to uncover the deeper nature of transaction rituals and identify Concept Resonance as the central problem.
• Cooperation between wizards and gods: The possibility of trading with righteous gods suggests that wizards and gods need not remain permanent enemies. Mutually beneficial cooperation could accelerate the wizarding era.
• Caution versus recklessness: Isaac is fascinated by dangerous research but carefully controls his exposure. His restraint contrasts with his bold ambitions and highlights the discipline required for high-level experimentation.
• The limits of systems and identity: The “password” concept suggests that magical rituals are governed not only by technique but also by metaphysical compatibility and recognized identity.

Important Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens briefly compare their research progress before agreeing on their respective responsibilities.
• Moens evaluates Ai Wen’s file and later personally offers him the chance to participate in the experiment.
• Ai Wen and Moens discuss the experiment, with Ai Wen making the final decision voluntarily and resolutely.
• Isaac distributes the experimental rituals to the Arcane Masters and observes their inability to activate them.
• Isaac relies on Meixiukante to receive information from the Eye of Omniscience, avoiding direct exposure himself.
• The Outer Gods observing the experiment comment on Isaac’s unusually careful behavior, creating a moment of ironic contrast between his reputation and his actual restraint.

Chapter Summary: “The Lovesick Deity!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac conducts an Outer God trading-ritual experiment with twelve participants. Ten successfully become Mad Witches, while two fail—despite the rituals being carefully designed and the participants being chosen from reputable members of the Mad Witch Market.
• The failures demonstrate that Outer God interference introduces an unpredictable risk that even highly optimized rituals cannot eliminate. Isaac uses this to warn Moens and the formal wizards not to underestimate the danger of the Mad Witch path or the Outer Gods.
• Isaac’s Eye of Omniscience examines the participants before and after the ritual. He discovers a clear alteration in their soul structures, giving his research a major breakthrough.
• He divides the subjects into experimental groups to study whether soul changes depend on ritual frequency. He also plans separate experiments involving soul creation and soul modification, hoping to reproduce the altered structure.
• Isaac becomes so absorbed in this research that he temporarily forgets the original purpose of visiting the Small World.
• Meanwhile, Little Mouse, Lapis Lazuli, the Holy Master, the Silver Knight, and the Martial God Physique youth return to the Virtual Mage Tower for instructions. Meixiukante tells them Isaac is unavailable because he is conducting an important experiment and refers to them as “unrelated personnel.”
• Lapis Lazuli reacts angrily and attempts to target Meixiukante, but the Sixth-Tier Meixiukante is far beyond her current strength. Little Mouse intervenes before the disagreement escalates and negotiates a remote meeting with Isaac.
• Isaac’s projected image appears, allowing the group to report in and receive guidance. He notices the Martial God Physique youth has advanced to roughly the First Tier, but is pleased that the youth has progressed slowly and stably rather than explosively.
• The chapter explains that the youth’s seven spirit bodies are being controlled through a divine technique created by Little Mouse. The technique temporarily transforms the spirit bodies into undead, separating them from the youth so he can absorb their power gradually instead of suffering the dangerous collapse associated with rapid Spirit Host advancement.

Character Developments

• Isaac: Demonstrates his caution, scientific curiosity, and responsibility as a researcher. Although excited by the soul-structure discovery, he remains aware of the dangers posed by Outer Gods and does not want his subjects to underestimate the risks. His obsessive focus on experimentation also causes him to neglect his companions and forget the reason for his visit.
• Moens: Initially views the successful transformations as surprisingly easy, but Isaac’s explanation makes him recognize the terrifying unpredictability of Outer God interference. His cooperation with Isaac reflects an interest in combining Arcane Master methodology with Isaac’s Legendary Wizard perspective.
• Little Mouse: Acts as the group’s perceptive mediator. It immediately senses Lapis Lazuli’s hostility, understands the political and emotional implications of the conflict, and prevents the situation from becoming violent. Its custom divine technique also reveals considerable ingenuity and concern for the youth’s safety.
• Lapis Lazuli: Shows possessiveness and growing hostility toward Meixiukante, viewing her as a rival for Isaac’s affection and attention. Although she cannot currently challenge Meixiukante, the chapter emphasizes her long-term combat potential.
• Meixiukante: Reveals her extreme devotion to Isaac. She is indifferent to her own survival or identity as long as she can remain by his side, even if reduced to an unconscious Virtual Divine Spark. Her bluntness and lack of concern for social conventions create the conflict with Lapis Lazuli.
• Martial God Physique youth: Makes steady progress while learning to control his dangerous power. His development suggests that stability, rather than rapid strength increases, is essential for Spirit Hosts of his type.
• Hamon: Remains largely uninvolved, occupying a unique position as Isaac’s magical pet and “judge” rather than a rival in the struggle for Isaac’s favor.

Significant Themes

• The danger of unknowable powers: Even flawless preparation cannot completely counteract Outer God interference, emphasizing the limits of rational control.
• Scientific curiosity versus ethical responsibility: Isaac pursues potentially groundbreaking soul research, but also recognizes the need to warn and protect those involved.
• Stability over rapid power: The youth’s training illustrates that uncontrolled advancement can be destructive, while gradual adaptation offers a safer path to strength.
• Devotion and possessiveness: Meixiukante and Lapis Lazuli’s opposing attitudes toward Isaac reveal different forms of loyalty—one self-sacrificing and absolute, the other competitive and emotionally possessive.
• Innovation through collaboration: Isaac’s methods, Moens’s Arcane Master techniques, and Little Mouse’s divine technique demonstrate how different systems of knowledge can produce new discoveries and solutions.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens discuss the apparent ease of the ritual, with Isaac correcting Moens’s misunderstanding and emphasizing the hidden danger of unexplained failures.
• Isaac cooperates with Moens by allowing him to conduct a second examination of the participants, combining different investigative approaches.
• Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli silently coordinate when Meixiukante calls them “unrelated personnel”; Little Mouse restrains Lapis Lazuli and handles the diplomatic response.
• Meixiukante and Lapis Lazuli are positioned as rivals for Isaac’s affection, though Meixiukante remains unconcerned with competition or even her own physical existence.
• Isaac evaluates the Martial God Physique youth during the remote meeting and approves of his controlled progress, while the chapter credits Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli with helping him train safely.

Chapter Summary: “The Golden Finger’s True Function!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac reassesses his plans for Little Mouse, deciding that its necromantic expertise is poorly suited to his current soul-structure research. Instead, Little Mouse will help train the youth with the Martial God Physique.
• He reviews the advancement prospects of his companions:
  • Lapis Lazuli has not yet chosen a path.
  • Little Mouse lacks resources for its Virtual Divine Spark.
  • The Silver Knight can advance only through costly upgrades or extremely slow natural growth.
  • The Holy Master is the only one currently capable of advancing, though Isaac postpones helping it reach the Fourth Tier.
• Isaac assigns Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli to continue teaching Mike, while hinting that he has a separate plan for the boy.
• Isaac continues researching the unusual soul structure found in Mad Witches. He concludes that it is not caused by divine power, ordinary faith, or Sanctification, but may instead result from contact with an unknown concept connected to Outer Gods.
• Over the course of a year, Isaac develops an Arcane Master Code, allowing Arcane Masters to participate in rituals for obtaining Outer God power.
• Of twelve Arcane Masters tested, only three successfully complete transactions with Outer Gods. Unlike the earlier Legendary Wizards, however, none of the three develops the special Mad Witch soul structure.
• This confirms that the soul alteration is caused by something beyond simple contact with Forbidden Knowledge or divine power. Isaac begins considering whether the unknown concept must be located—or even captured.
• Isaac realizes that the Arcane Master Code remains essential and plans to develop related systems, including a True God Cipher and a Virtual Deity Code.
• The chapter concludes when Anjie, representing Meixiukante, confronts Isaac about his unfinished Witch Potion research. Isaac admits that he forgot the assignment while absorbed in his other experiments and promises to complete it within a few days.

Character Developments

• Isaac becomes increasingly absorbed in research and demonstrates remarkable confidence in his ability to identify the correct direction for experiments. He also shows humility by immediately admitting his failure to complete the Witch Potion work rather than making excuses.
• Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli continue serving as Isaac’s reliable subordinates, accepting his orders without questioning his unusual instructions regarding Mike.
• The Holy Master is placed on hold but is promised Isaac’s assistance in making a future breakthrough.
• The Silver Knight’s limitations are clarified: advancement is possible but either prohibitively expensive or so slow that it is impractical.
• Mike receives a specially assigned path, suggesting that Isaac sees unusual potential or a particular purpose for him.
• Moens is deeply impressed—and pressured—by Isaac’s research speed. He begins comparing himself to Isaac after realizing how powerful Isaac’s guidance and analytical abilities are.
• Anjie is initially frustrated by Isaac’s delay but also recognizes that his research is likely extremely important. Her attitude reflects both exasperation and respect.

Significant Themes

• The true value of Isaac’s Golden Finger: Its greatest advantage is not merely increasing success rates or reversing causality, but revealing whether a research direction is fundamentally correct and identifying what knowledge is missing.
• Scientific uncertainty and experimentation: Even successful research produces unexpected results. Isaac’s code works functionally, but it fails to reproduce the Mad Witch soul transformation, forcing him to revise his theories.
• Limits of knowledge: The unknown concept behind the Mad Witch trait remains beyond Isaac’s understanding, emphasizing that even his extraordinary abilities cannot instantly solve every mystery.
• Progress through correct direction: Isaac advances quickly because his Golden Finger prevents him from wasting time on fundamentally wrong approaches, though insufficient resources and technical knowledge can still slow him down.
• Research versus responsibility: Isaac’s dedication allows major breakthroughs but also causes him to neglect commitments, as shown by his forgotten Witch Potion project.
• Power and advancement: The chapter contrasts different paths to growth—rituals, resources, bodily upgrades, divine power, and slow natural development—highlighting that advancement depends heavily on an individual’s nature and available resources.

Character Interactions

• Isaac gives Little Mouse, Lapis Lazuli, and the Holy Master direct instructions while quietly coordinating with Little Mouse about Mike.
• Little Mouse and Lapis Lazuli accept responsibility for teaching Mike despite being curious about Isaac’s hidden intentions.
• Isaac and Moens observe the Arcane Master experiment together. Moens is astonished by Isaac’s progress, while Isaac remains focused on the disappointing lack of soul transformation.
• After Isaac leaves, the nine unsuccessful Arcane Masters crowd around the three successful participants, eagerly questioning them about their experiences.
• Moens chooses not to interrupt and reflects on Isaac’s overwhelming research ability.
• Anjie confronts Isaac through a mirror communication. Isaac apologizes for neglecting the Witch Potion research and confidently promises to finish it soon.

“Ten Years (Part 1)” Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac assures Anjie that he can complete the Witch Elixir within a few days, despite having only a 13% success rate and incomplete materials. Anjie suspects he intends to use the Time Fruit to accelerate his research.
• The Time Fruit provides:
  • Ten years of “blank time” through its flesh.
  • Three opportunities to alter or anchor the future through its pit, which grows the Future Tree.
• Isaac has delayed using the fruit because its powers are limited and best suited to research that is already well developed or requires extensive verification rather than entirely speculative breakthroughs.
• He organizes his research priorities for the ten-year period:
  1. The Witch Elixir.
  2. The Divine Cipher and the Virtual Deity’s cipher.
  3. Comparative soul-structure research involving Legendary Wizards, Arcane Masters, and Mad Witches.
  4. Future soul-structure deduction, potentially related to the Mad Witch Trait and Arcane Master advancement.
• Isaac plants the Core of Time, producing three emerald leaves that represent his future-anchoring opportunities. He then consumes the Time Fruit’s flesh and experiences a brief vision of the enormous World Tree, gaining a powerful reminder of the vast gap between his strength and that of higher existences.
• He awakens in a stagnant timeline on the same snowfield in Brurell. The environment and facilities remain real, but there are no living beings anywhere. The World Gate and black Abyss are inactive because the frozen timeline lacks sufficient energy, though the Abyss is also partly protected by the power of a deity.
• Isaac begins work on the Witch Elixir. He plans to develop both:
  • A luxurious version using rare, expensive ingredients.
  • A cheaper general-use version requiring more difficult research but offering greater market potential.
• His first attempt produces a Third-Tier Dragon Witch Elixir, capable of strengthening dragon-related Witch Bloodlines and advancing lower-level Witches by one minor rank.
• However, the potion is not considered a true success because it required an enormous 1,583% fault-tolerance expenditure, effectively forcing the result through excessive resources.
• Even so, the successful product raises the project’s completion rate from 13% to 37%. Isaac continues brewing additional versions, and the research progresses rapidly.

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates strategic maturity by carefully allocating the Time Fruit’s limited powers instead of wasting them on uncertain or overly ambitious projects. He recognizes that the ten years of uninterrupted research are more valuable to him than the future-anchoring ability.
• He remains highly confident—even theatrically so—despite the weakness of his initial research position. His confidence is partly justified by his special ability to adjust fault tolerance during potion brewing.
• Isaac becomes increasingly ambitious after glimpsing the World Tree, briefly wondering whether it might surpass the Legendary Gate. He immediately suppresses the thought, recognizing that he must first reach the Fifth Tier.
• Anjie becomes more assertive in her dealings with Isaac because she is both his client and financial backer. She tolerates his relaxed attitude only because she knows he is using the Time Fruit and because the Witch Elixir is progressing.
• Isaac’s priorities reveal that his relationship with Witch Country is more important than simply fulfilling his contract: successful research could grant him access to valuable Witch-related knowledge, materials, and research authority.

Significant Themes

• Time as a limited resource: The ten-year period is powerful but cannot be interrupted, making careful planning essential.
• Research and uncertainty: Isaac distinguishes between projects with mature theoretical foundations and those involving too many unknowns to benefit reliably from accelerated time.
• Cost versus achievement: Producing a working potion is not the same as completing the research successfully. The Dragon Witch Elixir technically functions, but its enormous resource cost makes it impractical.
• Ambition and power hierarchy: Isaac’s vision of the World Tree emphasizes the immense gap between Fourth-Tier beings and higher cosmic entities, reinforcing both his ambition and his awareness of his limitations.
• Practicality and commercialization: Isaac plans multiple potion versions to serve different markets, balancing technical difficulty, ingredient costs, profitability, and customer demand.
• Knowledge as influence: The Witch Elixir is valuable not only for profit or contractual reasons but also because it may deepen Isaac’s access to Witch bloodline research and improve his political relationship with Witch Country.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Anjie: Their exchange combines negotiation, suspicion, and unequal leverage. Isaac projects confidence, while Anjie recognizes his likely reliance on the Time Fruit and presses him as the project’s sponsor.
• Isaac and Witch Country: Though Witch Country does not appear directly, Isaac’s research is closely tied to its approval, resources, and future cooperation. The potion may significantly improve his standing with the country.
• Isaac and the World Tree: Isaac’s brief encounter is not an interpersonal interaction but functions as a confrontation with a vastly superior cosmic power. It humbles him and redirects his focus toward advancing to the Fifth Tier.
• Isaac and his research: The chapter portrays Isaac treating research almost as an adversary—planning around obstacles, reserving future anchors for bottlenecks, and repeatedly refining his methods through experimentation.

Summary of “Ten Years (Part 2)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac completes research on the deluxe premium Witch Elixir in only three months. The process is relatively easy for him because of his mastery of conceptual blending, his Golden Finger’s guidance, and his near-perfect brewing success rate.
• He begins work on a far more difficult potion: one capable of developing Witch Bloodlines using ordinary Witch-related materials rather than extremely rare bloodline-enhancing ingredients.
• Isaac gathers an unusual collection of Witch-associated materials through the Cottage in the Woods, including clothing, bodily fluids, personal objects, and eventually an intimate item belonging to a Fourth Tier Witch. This dramatically raises the potion’s “fault tolerance.”
• Despite reaching over eighty percent completion, the potion cannot be perfected through ordinary calculations or the Golden Finger alone. Isaac therefore uses one of the Future Tree’s leaves to activate Anchor the Future.
• The ability reveals countless possible outcomes and guides Isaac toward a successful path. Over three months, he produces a single gray potion capable of developing Witch Bloodline.
• Isaac spends another month making basic refinements, completing Anjie’s commission and temporarily concluding the Witch Bloodline research.
• He reflects on the limitations of Anchor the Future: it has only three uses, cannot anchor an impossible or excessively distant future, and provides a complete successful process rather than simply forcing a result.
• Isaac uses the remaining two opportunities successfully on Divine Cipher and

Soul Structure Derivation

• Divine Cipher also completes the related research into the Virtual Deity Code.
• Soul Structure Derivation succeeds immediately, revealing that the relevant soul structure is perfected at the Second Tier rather than the Third Tier as Isaac expected.

Character Development

• Isaac continues to demonstrate extraordinary research efficiency, combining his Golden Finger, potion-making expertise, conceptual manipulation, and the Future Tree’s power.
• He becomes more aware of the distinction between forced success and genuinely reproducible research. His earlier methods depended on his unique Golden Finger, while Anchor the Future allows him to experience and potentially replicate a successful research process.
• Isaac also develops a more cautious understanding of his abilities. He realizes that Anchor the Future is limited and cannot guarantee success in every area, particularly the research related to the Mad Witch Trait.
• His curiosity and scientific mindset remain central. Even though he appreciates success, he regrets being unable to observe the failed futures that were excluded by Anchor the Future.
• He shows increasing strategic judgment by using the remaining Future Tree opportunities on projects with the greatest practical payoff.

Significant Themes

• Scientific research and experimentation: The chapter emphasizes trial and error, resource costs, incomplete knowledge, and the difference between theoretical completion and practical reproducibility.
• The limits of knowledge and power: Even Isaac’s Golden Finger cannot solve every problem, and Anchor the Future can only guide him toward futures that are genuinely attainable.
• Fate versus agency: Anchor the Future appears to predetermine a successful outcome, yet Isaac must still carry out the entire brewing process himself.
• The cost of success: Failure is traditionally considered necessary in legendary potion-making, both to preserve resources and because of the belief that success rates are predetermined.
• Efficiency versus understanding: Isaac’s earlier success could be seen as an artificial result of his Golden Finger, while the Future Tree gives him a more complete understanding of the path leading to success.
• Accumulated knowledge and innovation: Low-level materials become capable of producing high-level effects through conceptual blending, demonstrating the importance of ideas and relationships rather than raw power alone.

Character Interactions

• Isaac’s main “interactions” are with the Witch community indirectly through their materials and with the Cottage in the Woods, whose marketplace makes the research possible.
• His work fulfills Anjie’s commission, tying the experiment to an external obligation.
• Isaac reflects on Witches’ distrust of Legendary Wizards and the difficulty of obtaining rare materials from them, especially because failed experiments would waste resources valuable to the Witches themselves.
• The chapter also highlights Isaac’s relationship with his supernatural tools—his Golden Finger, the Future Tree, and Anchor the Future—which function as essential partners in his research.

Chapter Summary: “The Terrifying Gap!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Isaac completes the three most important stages of his research into Mad Witches, using all three leaves that had been Anchored into the Future.
• The soul structure he studies is only Second Tier, but its sole function is to strengthen soul stability. This gives Isaac new insight into the Mad Witch Trait and raises questions about why Mad Witches remain mentally unstable despite having stronger souls.
• With the major discoveries finished, Isaac spends ten years analyzing accumulated data inside a time-frozen interval created with a Time Fruit.
• When time finally resumes, Isaac is overjoyed by the return of normal time. Moens worries that ten years of complete isolation may have worsened Isaac’s mental state.
• Isaac gathers the entire research camp to reveal his breakthroughs in both the Star-Creation Experiment and Mad Witch research.
• For Star-Making, Isaac unveils Star Veil Magic, a spell capable of simulating the birth of primitive planets and Star Gods. This may allow researchers to identify the fundamental difference between planets and Star Gods.
• He also presents extensive data, deductions, and several Magic Formulas that can improve the research and refinement of Great Arcana related to Star Creation.
• Moens realizes that Isaac personally developed these achievements in only two years. Isaac’s research ability is far beyond Moens’s own, creating a profound sense of disparity and even despair.
• The Star-Making researchers leave inspired and eager to finish their project.
• Isaac then presents his progress on Mad Witch research: a complete deduction of the soul structure, a full deciphering of the relevant “code,” and a method for locating unknown concepts.
• Although these discoveries will greatly accelerate the project, the researchers are disappointed because they expected more dramatic results. Isaac remains satisfied, emphasizing that research must advance gradually and cannot be completed through sudden leaps.

Character Developments

• Isaac demonstrates extraordinary research ability, completing in two years what Moens estimates would take him at least ten years. His work also extends into areas—such as Star Gods—that Moens cannot easily study.
• Despite ten years of isolation, Isaac remains mentally functional and focused. His obsession with research and his ability to concentrate protect him from suffering a major psychological breakdown.
• Isaac’s understanding of the Mad Witch Trait deepens, especially regarding the relationship between soul stability, Outer God power, and insanity.
• Moens shifts from concern about Isaac’s mental condition to awe and unease at Isaac’s achievements. He recognizes the enormous gap between their abilities and regrets that Isaac could not become an Arcane Master.
• The research teams gain renewed enthusiasm from Isaac’s discoveries, particularly the Star-Making group, whose progress is suddenly accelerated.

Significant Themes

• The limits and dangers of power: Even enhanced soul stability cannot prevent the mental corruption caused by Outer God power, suggesting that the influence of such beings is overwhelming.
• Isolation and sanity: Isaac’s decade of absolute solitude raises questions about the psychological cost of research, though he manages to endure it through intense concentration.
• Genius and disparity: Isaac’s achievements reveal a terrifying gap between his research talent and that of even an experienced Grand Arcane Master like Moens.
• Scientific progress: The chapter stresses that research depends on accumulated data, established methods, and gradual advancement rather than fantasy or miraculous shortcuts.
• Knowledge versus capability: Isaac’s Legendary Wizard status does not prevent him from producing work superior to that of Arcane Masters, showing that research talent and magical specialization are not the same thing.
• The incomprehensibility of Outer Gods: The fact that soul stabilization still fails to ensure sanity highlights the vast and dangerous nature of Outer God power.

Character Interactions

• Isaac and Moens: Moens questions Isaac after the time experiment and worries that isolation has made him even crazier. Isaac instead calmly announces his breakthroughs, surprising and impressing him.
• Isaac and the Star-Making researchers: Isaac gives them Star Veil Magic, new data, and Magic Formulas. His findings leave them stunned and greatly inspired.
• Isaac and the Mad Witch researchers: He provides major advances in soul-structure analysis and conceptual investigation, though their reaction is muted because the results are less spectacular than expected.
• Moens and Isaac’s achievements: Moens recognizes that Isaac’s work is genuine and personally developed, not merely produced through Anchoring the Future. This realization intensifies his admiration, envy, and sense of the “terrifying gap” between them.