Chapter Summaries

Orsaga left the Howling Forest and chose a fire-heavy Abyss Layer, where he evolved into a Middle Demon. After emerging from his cocoon with greatly enhanced traits and abilities, he tested his new wings by blasting through the volcanic earth into the sky.

• Orsaga used the Howling Forest’s transfer point and selected an Abyss Layer dominated by fire-attribute demons.
• He arrived in a barren, scorching land beneath five fireballs in the sky and found a suitable place deep underground to evolve.
• Orsaga entered a blood-mist cocoon and endured the painful transformation of his body and soul over several days.
• He emerged as a four-point-four-meter-tall Middle Demon with four wings, a bladed tail, evolved talents, and no remaining Evolution Points.
• Orsaga shot through more than a thousand meters of earth and magma, discovering that his wings now enabled innate antigravity flight.

Orsaga entered the Molten Wasteland, learned the route to its central region, and traveled to Demon Lord Karto’s enormous city. After paying the entry fee with a Soul Crystal he made from a Lower Demon, he entered the city and passed a wary group of humans.

• Orsaga killed the Spider Demon Kro and extracted information about the Molten Wasteland and the distance to its central region.
• Orsaga calculated the local speed of sound and time scale, then flew toward the central region.
• Orsaga reached a vast city surrounded by enormous walls and identified the god’s skull displayed above its gate.
• Orsaga landed under the city’s no-fly barrier and paid the entry fee with a Soul Crystal refined from a passing Lower Demon.
• Orsaga entered the city and briefly examined a group of human travelers, who feared he might attack them.

Orsaga explored the Bottomless Abyss, visited Grig Tavern, and enjoyed a drink while hearing the bartender’s story and entertaining a succubus. He left in high spirits, planning to find a place to settle by choosing another passerby.

• Orsaga wandered through the street and declined to claim two unconscious creatures, which a nearby creature killed and carried away.
• Orsaga entered Grig Tavern, ordered a drink with a Soul Crystal, and found the blood-mixed liquor surprisingly tasty.
• Orsaga learned from the bartender that he had been born in the tavern to outsider parents and had stayed there because he could not survive elsewhere.
• A succubus sat with Orsaga, flirted with him, and heard him explain that he was a mutated Flame Demon.
• After Orsaga left, the succubus addressed the bartender as Lord Grig, and Grig suspected Orsaga had secrets.
• Orsaga left the tavern in a good mood and set out to find somewhere to settle, intending to pick a passerby for help.

Orsaga used divination to choose a direction, killed a lone survivor whose team had died in a devastating attack, and took the valuables he had hidden. Days later, Orsaga enjoyed a luxurious meal with a female Naga and considered traveling to another world.

• Orsaga used the horn of a cave's former occupant as a divination tool and followed the direction it pointed.
• Orsaga found a distressed young man whose companions had died when a White Light struck a Black Market, then killed him and learned where he had hidden valuable goods.
• Orsaga burned the young man's corpse to ashes while nearby creatures kept their distance.
• A few days later, Orsaga dined with a female Naga who had attached herself to him for his wealth and status.
• Orsaga enjoyed his comfortable life but grew bored and thought it was time to visit another world.

Orsaga accepted a contract to guard Silent Heart Academy in exchange for sacrifices, souls, and access to knowledge. Seventeen years later, he had learned about the Wizarding World and let a new group of students enter the academy grounds.

• Orsaga answered Hawthorne Schild’s summoning and agreed to guard Silent Heart Academy for one hundred years in exchange for sacrifices, yearly souls, and the right to trade for knowledge.
• Orsaga settled in the academy’s Forbidden Forest, where a deep crimson flower sea appeared and intruders learned to avoid his domain.
• Over the next seventeen years, Orsaga studied the Wizarding World and concluded that its many world clusters and hidden powers made it too dangerous to challenge recklessly.
• Orsaga opened the mist above the Forbidden Forest to let a wooden whale carrying academy staff and new students pass.
• The leading teacher greeted Orsaga cautiously, and he waved the group on as they left for the academy.

On his sixth birthday, Char arrived at the Wizard academy and began to gain confidence after meeting Prince Saya Glens. As the new students entered the academy, they encountered dangerous red flowers, while Orsaga and Hawthorne discussed Wizards’ bloodline experiments and identity.

• Char left his room aboard the flying vessel and met Saya Glens, the seventeenth Prince of the Kingdom of Dort, who encouraged him to feel confident about his future as a Wizard apprentice.
• The recruitment party leader announced that the vessel was nearing the academy and instructed the students to prepare for its descent.
• Char and the other students watched the vessel pass through an opening in the mist and descend beside a sea of red flowers; the lead instructor warned them not to touch the flowers.
• The students were enchanted by the flowers’ scent, but the lead instructor sensed that a force was suppressing their power and prepared to lead everyone away.
• Orsaga spotted Hawthorne and questioned why Wizards conducted bloodline experiments, and Hawthorne replied that Wizard identity mattered more to them than race or bloodline.

Orsaga discussed the Wizarding World’s scarce wizard aptitude with Hawthorne and suggested using mortals to develop technology, but Hawthorne rejected the idea. Orsaga continued developing his Death Tribulation Flower as a way to resist world suppression, while trusting the Evolution System and his own accumulated knowledge.

• Orsaga asked Hawthorne how many of the 1,200 candidates could become formal wizards, and Hawthorne estimated fewer than thirty.
• Orsaga suggested that mortals should develop other technologies instead of serving as breeding stock, but Hawthorne rejected the proposal and left through a spatial rift.
• Orsaga lamented that he would miss the spectacle of a technological civilization colliding with the wizard civilization.
• Orsaga examined a Death Tribulation Flower and considered how his plague could establish areas where he could resist the world's suppression.
• Orsaga reflected that the Evolution System had helped him overcome problems and decided that his knowledge and experience gave him confidence, even if he lost his powers.

Saya and Char arrived at the academy’s student assignment hall, where mentors chose apprentices, and discovered that the selection process was far stranger and more dangerous than they had expected. As the mentors assessed the new students, Derek finished his monthly duty and departed for his next trip.

• Char and Saya admired the sea of flowers, while their guide knew it could be deadly to anyone who approached without protection.
• Saya surveyed the academy and held his head high, inspiring Char to imitate his confidence.
• Derek explained that mentors would choose some students in advance, while the rest would be assigned according to talent and aptitude.
• The mentors floating above the new students argued over which apprentices to take, including whether a promising student might be used for experiments.
• Derek left after completing his monthly task and prepared to travel to another country to collect new students.

Char and the other new apprentices discovered that their assigned mentors were deeply eccentric, leaving them doubting whether they could complete their training. Three years later, Orsaga demanded an invented spell from a young wizard and used force to make him offer it freely.

• Char arrived at his mentor’s wooden house, where a talking vine greeted him and its elderly owner rambled incoherently.
• Saya met a mentor who wore women’s clothes on one side and men’s clothes on the other, while a young apprentice was forcibly injected with a strange substance by his old mentor.
• After their first day at the academy, most of the new apprentices began to doubt their futures.
• Three years later, Orsaga asked a young wizard at Silent Heart Academy to sell him the Activation Spell’s knowledge.
• When the wizard refused, Orsaga slapped him into submission and made him offer the spell as a gift.

Orsaga used an Activation Spell as inspiration to expand his power, allowing him to turn any physical object into a Death Tribulation Flower. After cleaning up the flowers near a busy district, he continued wandering and reflected on how uneventful his powerful life had become.

• Orsaga adapted the Activation Spell and transformed a tree, birds, and insects into Death Tribulation Flowers.
• Orsaga realized he could now transform any physical object into a Death Tribulation Flower, making it easier to erode the world without blood sacrifices.
• A black-robed woman told Orsaga to clean up the poisonous flowers scattered near the busy district.
• Orsaga burned away the flowers, tucked one into the woman's hood, and left while humming.
• Orsaga thought about his artistic pursuits, his occasional acts as a Demon, and his boredom at having no enemies.

Saya Glens celebrated his progress with his faction and gave Char a rare knight body-tempering manual, hoping it would help him overcome a training bottleneck. Char discovered the manual was one fragment of a scattered twelve-part technique and learned its mysterious author’s name.

• Saya Glens celebrated becoming an intermediate apprentice with the students he had gathered around himself.
• Char asked Saya about his plans, while privately questioning whether his admiration and loyalty made him Saya’s friend.
• Saya led Char to his study and presented him with a rare knight body-tempering technique from the Glens royal family.
• Char practiced the illustrated bear movements and felt the technique stimulate the life force in his body.
• Saya explained that the manual was one twelfth of a scattered complete set, and Char found the final page naming Orsaga and Unspeakable Xingyi Quan—Black and White Iron Eater Chapter.

Orsaga discovered an intruder concealed in the Forbidden Forest’s sea of Death Tribulation Flowers and fought it after it attacked him. He identified it as a likely being from another world with technological abilities, while the intruder remained largely unharmed by his powers.

• Char was deeply moved when Saya gave him a valuable knight training method, seeing it as a major step toward becoming a formal wizard.
• Orsaga detected a four-armed, metallic-scaled creature hiding among the Death Tribulation Flowers and offered to let it leave.
• The creature attacked Orsaga with a silent strike that pierced his chest, though his force-dispersal technique limited the injury.
• Orsaga transformed into his true form and trapped the intruder in a sealed space among the flowers before attacking with poisonous, corrosive flames and claws.
• Orsaga’s attack passed through the intruder with little effect, and he concluded that it was likely from another world and had technological abilities.

Orsaga figured out how Glenva’s microscopic machines made him difficult to hit and killed him by concentrating Bloodflame until it melted them. He left with Glenva’s head to eat, while Hawthorne was left holding a Memory Crystal containing the intruder’s memories.

• Orsaga discovered that Glenva’s hands used high-frequency cutting attacks and that the lizardman could be damaged while attacking.
• Orsaga learned through the power of plague that Glenva consisted of countless tiny machines that separated to evade strikes and then reassembled.
• Orsaga contracted the Death Tribulation Flower barrier and used concentrated Bloodflame to melt Glenva’s machines before removing his head.
• Hawthorne asked about the energy aura, and Orsaga showed him Glenva’s head and asked for the barbecue seasoning he had requested.
• Orsaga gave Hawthorne a Memory Crystal containing Glenva’s extracted memories and left to eat.

The Wizarding World’s leaders decided to begin worldwide pre-war mobilization after learning that Jianser had sent powerful infiltrators to scout their world. Orsaga welcomed the coming conflict and evaded a measure that marked non-native lifeforms as a vast translucent curtain descended over the world.

• At the Heart of the World, the Wizarding World’s leaders discussed the captured Jianser infiltrators and concluded that Jianser combined machinery, psionics, and a powerful cultivation system.
• The leaders agreed to sound the alarm and prepare for all-out war, issuing orders for worldwide mobilization.
• Orsaga reflected that he had given Hawthorne intelligence because he wanted a large battle between the Wizarding World and Jianser, whose civilization he had learned about by consuming Glenva’s memories.
• When a concealed ripple spread from the world’s core to mark non-native lifeforms, Orsaga used Hawthorne’s soul imprint in the Abyssal Contract to avoid detection.
• Orsaga saw a huge translucent curtain descending over the world and realized the Wizarding World was preparing to act decisively.

Wutoma Ge's Wall descended, signaling that the Wizarding World had entered a state of war. At Silent Heart Academy, Hawthorne announced the Wizard Council's order confirming that the hostile Jianser civilization had infiltrated their world and could make direct contact within two years.

• Char saw Wutoma Ge's Wall descend, and Todd explained that it marked the Wizarding World's entry into war.
• Todd reassured Char that apprentices would likely handle logistics, though he privately feared for their safety before embracing the chance to witness a historic conflict.
• Hawthorne ignored an award of 1,500,000 contribution points for reporting intelligence from Orsaga and watched Wutoma Ge's Wall descend.
• Hawthorne received an order and summoned all teachers and students at Silent Heart Academy.
• Hawthorne read the Wizard Council's announcement that Jianser infiltrators had entered the Wizarding World with hostile intent and that the two worlds were expected to make direct contact within two years.

Saya struggled to understand his role in the newly announced world war and was assigned to manage a million revived Magic Beasts beneath Heart of Silence. Char, meanwhile, tried to supervise a group of awakened ancient wizards whose unruly behavior left him overwhelmed.

• Saya reflected on the world war and his inability to do much, while mortal kingdoms received orders to increase their populations and force marriage matches.
• Saya learned that Heart of Silence had thirty-six beast-pen levels and was assigned to manage recently revived Magic Beasts on the eleventh level.
• Saya watched supplies being delivered to the million weakened beasts under his command and wondered how Char was handling the ancient wizards.
• Char watched awakened wizards brawl, argue, and indulge themselves, despite their immense strength and his responsibility for looking after them.

After an old man urged Char to stop doubting himself and focus on improving, Char decided to help Saya reach his dream of standing at the highest point. Three months later, Char won first place in his class and earned a place in the Wizarding World All-Academy Unified Competition, prompting Saya to resolve to catch up.

• An old man told Char that he should keep moving forward and improve himself instead of doubting his abilities.
• During class, Saya shared his goal of reaching the highest point, and Char promised to help him achieve it.
• Char became more serious about his studies while Saya dismissed his change in demeanor and focused on class.
• Three months later, Char took first place in his class and earned a spot in the Wizarding World All-Academy Unified Competition, while Saya ranked in the thirties.
• Saya felt happy for Char and decided to work harder to catch up with him.

Saya became a formal wizard ahead of schedule and began learning to control his new defensive radiation field, while Char also advanced. Two years later, the Wizarding and Jianser Civilizations prepared to meet in a jointly created battlefield, where Char operated a Sorcery Tower aboard the Star of Alsop as the countdown to contact neared its end.

• Saya qualified for the competition with Char's encouragement, and the two strengthened each other with Silent Heart Academy's support.
• Saya advanced to become a formal wizard, received a message from Char, and began familiarizing himself with his new powers while confined until he could control his radiation field.
• Orsaga recognized that fighters in the arena were using techniques resembling moves from his discarded comic, Unnamable Fist.
• Two years later, the Wizarding and Jianser Civilizations prepared to fight in a small independent space between their worlds rather than risk large-scale invasions of their homelands.
• Char adjusted a Sorcery Tower on the Star of Alsop, Mobile Destroyer, as the countdown showed a little more than one day until contact with the enemy army.

Orsaga refused Hawthorne’s offer to work on the battlefield and secretly entered the war zone as an Avatar, while Char watched the Star of Alsop: Mobile Destroyer repel an opening attack. As the opposing forces drew close, Char saw the enemy’s far larger fleet and braced himself to serve as a repair hand.

• Orsaga rejected Hawthorne’s battlefield job, insisting that cautious work like guarding suited him better.
• After Hawthorne left, Orsaga rode a mud-formed bicycle around the area, having slipped in with Hawthorne’s soul imprint to scout the terrain.
• When the countdown reached zero, an enemy beam emerged from a Space Wormhole, but the Star of Alsop: Mobile Destroyer’s barrier exiled it without significant damage.
• The controller of the Star of Alsop began a counterattack using the power of several thousand Sorcery Towers, while Char realized the countdown marked entry into attack range.
• As the two sides closed in, Char saw several hundred shielded mechanical warships facing the more than ten Stars of Alsop.

As the Wizarding World and the Jianser Civilization traded probing attacks, Orsaga quietly collected overlooked souls from the battlefield while Saya struggled with the Magic Beast war effort. At the Wizard Council, the commander warned that Jianser might possess a vast fleet like the Koren Civilization, prompting the Councilors to discuss how to counter the threat.

• Char felt overwhelmed while working to keep the Sorcery Tower operating amid the ongoing harassment attacks.
• Orsaga rode his bicycle through the battlefield under camouflage, cautiously gathering unattended souls and avoiding powerful targets.
• Saya managed the transport and recovery of Magic Beasts as millions died each day and reinforcements continued heading to the front.
• The Wizarding World's battlefield commander told the Council that Jianser's war machines resembled Koren ships and might be available in overwhelming numbers.
• The Councilors discussed how to confront Jianser and warned one another not to underestimate a civilization that hunted others.