Recaps

Green examined a seven-year experiment’s successful Mutated Green Vine Tree, which had reached Gold-tier potential but still suffered from dangerous magic buildup in its roots. He assigned further research and agreed to take Isla and Adams’s five-year-old daughter as his student after Miracle Day.

• Isla told Green that the Green Vine Tree at Experimental Planting Base No. 17 had changed, and he hurried there.
• Adams gave Green the experiment records, and Green calmed the tree before confirming its resin, leaves, and bark had improved while its roots accumulated excess magic.
• Green ordered Adams to make armor plates from the resin for strength testing and announced that the tree was a successful but flawed Gold-tier magical plant.
• Green congratulated the thirteen Druids who had worked on the tree for seven years, then sent them home for eight days before they resumed research on its roots.
• Green told Isla and Adams to bring their five-year-old daughter to him after Miracle Day, and they thanked him and celebrated the opportunity for her to become his student.

Green planned to cultivate mutated poison thorn vines to fulfill Blue Gauze County’s request for a plant that could purify sewage. After testing Resin Armor Pieces made from the Mutated Green Vine Tree, he discovered their extraordinary defensive capacity and flew to Star Moon Fort to show Sir Kyle.

• Green decided to have Adams cultivate mutated poison thorn vines for Blue Gauze County and wrote a plan outlining the research steps and required books.
• Adams and Isla brought Green fifteen Resin Armor Pieces, and he told them to rest and spend time with their families.
• Green inscribed a Fortification Magic Array on a Resin Armor Piece and tested its mana capacity and durability, finding it could withstand a full-force strike from an ordinary Gold Low-tier Swordsman.
• Green concluded that the Mutated Green Vine Tree’s resin had properties distinct from those of the original species and considered giving the tree a new name.
• Green gathered the remaining Resin Armor Pieces and flew to Star Moon Fort, hoping to show them to Sir Kyle before he retired.

Green brought Kyle resin armor pieces made from the Mutated Green Vine Tree, and he tested their magical capacity. He directed Green to research resin-based magic scrolls and large-scale cultivation of the tree, then returned to his work.

• Green arrived at Kyle's study with fourteen Resin Armor Pieces and explained how they had been made.
• Kyle tested a piece, found it rivaled Transcendent-tier armor in strength, and reshaped it into red paper.
• Kyle inscribed Energy Accumulation Magic Arrays on the paper, and Green activated all one hundred and fifty at the cost of two-thirds of her magic power.
• In the Demiplane, Kyle tested the paper with Secret Script and Heavenly Script, but it cracked and shattered under the strain.
• Kyle told Green to research magic scrolls made from the resin and large-scale cultivation of the Mutated Green Vine Tree, and promised the Potion Cultivation Center six thousand Star Moon Points.
• Kyle sent Blue to arrange a room for Green, then returned to sorting assessment results and preparing for cultivation.

After the Potion Cultivation Center failed to expand Mutated Green Vine Tree cultivation because the trees needed far more magical power, Kyle proposed using a dangerous demiplane remodeling technique. Velin agreed to transform Kyle’s barren demiplane and promised him another demiplane in compensation.

• Isla told Green that Mutated Green Vine Trees required a high-mana environment during rapid growth, so their expanded cultivation had essentially failed.
• Kyle read the Potion Cultivation Center’s urgent report and went to tell Velin about the cultivation problem.
• Kyle explained the Katoenkas Demonization Technique, which could raise a demiplane’s magical power but would create extreme regions and make its magical energy dangerous to living creatures.
• Velin agreed to remodel Kyle’s barren demiplane, offered him another demiplane in compensation, and said he would persuade Lord Tadius.

Velin visited Tadius in Metal City and learned about the spells Tadius had developed through his research. Tadius eagerly left to arrange an earlier start for modifying a Demiplane, while Velin returned to work on the Floating Battleship.

• Velin arrived in Metal City and saw that Tadius had replaced its central metal tower with an eighty-three-meter Mage Tower.
• Tadius demonstrated [Gel Transformation] and gave Velin three hundred books recording thirty-seven spells he had created.
• Velin asked Tadius to oversee the modification of a Demiplane, and Tadius insisted on starting in three days instead of half a month.
• Tadius vanished to speak with Kyle, while Velin left Metal City to resume building the Floating Battleship.
• A blonde girl emerged from the Mage Tower and asked the bewildered Leibuta where her father was.

Kyle taught Tadius and ten High-tier Soul Intent angels the Katoenkas Demonization Technique so they could help modify the Tar Demiplane. After Kyle began draining its magic power, the group started the roughly six-month process.

• Tadius approached Kyle to learn how to modify a Demiplane and promised him a favor in return.
• Kyle asked Tadius to keep the Katoenkas Demonization Technique secret, and Tadius swore he would not share it without permission.
• Kyle led Tadius and ten High-tier Soul Intent angels into the Tar Demiplane and explained the technique's three stages.
• Kyle gave Tadius and the ten angels memory spheres containing the technique and their instructions.
• Kyle left the group to begin the first stage by draining magic power from the Demiplane.

Kyle left the Demiplane transformation to Tadius and ten High-tier Soul Intent angels, then met Velin at the Floating Battleship construction base. Velin assigned Kyle to inspect Qixing Territory’s twenty-four standing army battalions ahead of the first legion’s formation.

• Kyle ordered ten High-tier Soul Intent angels to obey Tadius and assist him with the second phase of transforming the Demiplane, then departed.
• Kyle flew to Star Moon Fort after creating the Soul Intent-tier Spells Calming Flow and Spell Ruminate.
• Velin asked Kyle to inspect the twenty-four standing army battalions for half a month and assess their Battle Formation capabilities and personnel.
• Kyle accepted the assignment and headed directly to Star Prayer City, while the Low-rank Silver warrior arrived at Fountain Square too late to deliver Velin’s message.

Kyle arrived at Qixing Camp to carry out the count’s order to inspect its combat capabilities and determine whether it was ready to form a legion. After selecting four companies to face sixty soldiers from Dawn Camp, he began the inspection.

• Cassius ordered Lemir to audit Qixing Camp’s military supplies and Wendor to secure the records after hearing that Kyle had arrived.
• Kyle told Cassius that the order concerned forming a legion, then explained that he would inspect the camp without favoritism.
• Cassius assembled Qixing Camp’s soldiers, and Kyle counted 5,795 enlisted troops, including those on duty and standing guard.
• Kyle selected four companies totaling 213 soldiers to form the Red Team against the 60 soldiers from Dawn Camp as the Blue Team.
• Kyle announced the start of the combat capability inspection, and red and blue radiances marked the opposing forces.

Kyle’s test pitted four Qixing Camp companies against sixty Dawn Camp angels, whose aerial attacks overwhelmed the larger force. After Qixing Camp’s rapid defeat, Cassius ordered the surviving soldiers to assemble, leaving the gathered troops fearing the consequences.

• The four Qixing Camp Squadron Leaders chose the longest-serving among them as temporary commander and organized their troops into a battle formation.
• Kyle enclosed the drill ground in a barrier, and the Dawn Camp angels launched an aerial assault while the Qixing Camp commander ordered archers to fall back and the rest to charge.
• The Four-winged Angel attacked the Squadron Leaders, and Qixing Camp’s soldiers were eliminated as their red lights shattered.
• The Dawn Camp angels defeated all four companies in less than ten minutes, losing thirteen warriors while more than two hundred Qixing Camp soldiers were forced out.
• Cassius ordered the soldiers to fall in, and the gathered troops feared what would happen to the defeated companies.

Kyle assessed the combat capabilities of the legion’s units, finding major weaknesses among several numbered battalions. Velin gave seven weak battalions another chance and ordered a military exercise to determine which named battalion would become the legion’s pillar.

• Cassius demoted or transferred four squadron leaders after Qixing Camp’s defeat, then learned Kyle had scored the battalion eighty-three out of one hundred.
• Kyle spent a month inspecting the units and reported that seven numbered battalions should be disbanded and reorganized, while others needed more training.
• Velin decided to give the seven weak battalions one more chance, warning that reorganized units would lose important missions for thirty years and receive public security duties first.
• Velin ordered five named battalions and four numbered battalions to gather at Star Moon Great Camp for a military exercise, with the winning named battalion becoming the legion’s pillar.
• Kyle asked whether the final trial would use an illusion realm, and Velin confirmed he could use [Reincarnation—Void] to cover two battalions at a time.

The five title battalions assembled at Star Moon Great Camp to compete for Qixing Territory’s first legion, while their generals concealed their plans from one another. Velin delayed his arrival until after the troops had assembled, leaving the contest’s format unrevealed.

• Cassius ordered Qixing Camp to assemble in three days, and Kyle’s orders mobilized the other title battalions for the competition.
• Cassius, Hebrew, Iden, Greg, and Doxius met privately, probing one another for information while hiding their true thoughts.
• Velin told Kyle that the generals expected paired battles, but he planned a different contest format.
• More than twenty-five thousand warriors assembled before dawn, following the military regulation Cassius had written and Velin had signed.
• Kyle informed Velin that the troops were ready, and Velin flew to Star Moon Great Camp, where more than twenty-seven thousand warriors waited.

Velin began choosing Qixing Territory’s first legion by placing Qixing Camp and the Ice Sword Battalion in an accelerated siege-war illusion, with Cassius defending West Wind City and Hebrew attacking it. After thirteen assaults, the city still stood; the soldiers returned with their memories of the battle, leaving Qixing Camp proud and the Ice Sword Battalion dispirited.

• Velin announced a contest to determine the legion’s founding battalion and used [Reincarnation—Void] to send more than 10,000 soldiers into an illusion where their memories were sealed.
• Cassius organized West Wind City’s people and supplies for defense while Hebrew built siege engines and conscripted men for the assault.
• Cassius and Hebrew fought a brutal war, using soldiers and civilians as resources while enforcing military discipline.
• After thirteen siege battles, Qixing Camp’s banner still flew over the city, while Hebrew had executed fleeing illusion-created troops to deter further desertions.
• Velin criticized Hebrew’s harsh punishment and said he would teach him a more effective approach after the contest.
• Two days later, the soldiers’ consciousnesses returned, with Qixing Camp standing proud and the Ice Sword Battalion dispirited.

Velin tested the battalions in increasingly overwhelming battles, forcing the Qixing Camp and Blue Veil Battalion to experience a war between legends and gods. After their soldiers returned shaken and humbled, Velin raised the Battle Soul Flag and called five commanders forward.

• Velin tested the Star Moon Battalion against one thousand two-winged angels, and Doxius was killed by their combined self-destruction.
• Velin sent Cassius and Iden’s battalions into a war between Valheim’s legends and gods, where their soldiers were rapidly annihilated and both battalions were wiped out.
• Velin explained that the ordeal would prepare the battalions for future wars, while Kyle suspected he also meant to suppress their pride.
• Velin summoned the Seventh, Eleventh, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Battalions, then used the Battle Soul Flag’s golden light to restore the soldiers’ fighting spirit.
• Velin called Cassius, Sarduin, Gugode, Tarnak, and Renos to step forward.

Velin established the Qixing Legion, appointed Cassius as its commander, and discovered that the Battle Soul Flag had marked its soldiers with an unknown imprint. He ordered Cassius and Kyle to investigate the imprint’s abilities and granted the new legion additional resources and weapons.

• Velin founded the Qixing Legion under Cassius’s command and bestowed its Battle Soul Flag, which marked more than eighteen thousand soldiers with an emblem.
• Velin asked Cassius about the imprint, and Cassius explained that it could store battle aura or magic power equal to roughly three times his own reserves.
• Velin assigned Kyle and Cassius to test the imprint’s functions and develop specialized Battle Formations.
• Velin promised the Qixing Legion priority access to new equipment, academy graduates, and a fifty percent increase in military supplies.
• Cassius requested opposition training against Dawn Camp and a Magic Energy Cannon unit, and Velin approved the training and granted a fifteen-hundred-man battalion with cannons.

Velin and Kyle entered the resource-rich demiplane from Alp Island to open its sealed treasures, and Kyle deciphered the first door’s Abyssal script without speaking its dangerous true name aloud. Inside, they found nine soul-forged Abyssal crystals and a lone book, whose cover left Velin visibly unsettled.

• Velin asked Kyle to help open the two treasures in the demiplane, and Kyle agreed to keep the demiplane’s abundant resources secret.
• Kyle cleared a passage through the mine to the first treasure door while Velin teased him about becoming a craftsman.
• Kyle deciphered the door’s Abyssal script but avoided speaking the characters aloud because they formed a potentially dangerous true name.
• The door’s chains became nine Oswald Source Crystals, which Velin ordered Kyle to seal and store for the Star Moon Treasury.
• Kyle tested the opened treasury with a clone, then entered with Velin and found a lone book whose cover made Velin’s expression turn unnatural.

Velin and Kyle searched two treasuries in the Demiplane, finding an experiment diary and thousands of Demon Eggs. After Velin ordered Kyle to destroy the eggs, they left to resume their separate work.

• Velin opened a book titled My Search for Love in the Abyss and discovered it was a madman's experiment diary about breeding Succubi with Demons and other creatures.
• Velin learned from the final entry that the experimenter had fled the 17,563rd layer of the Abyss and left the book behind, then shared the diary's contents with Kyle.
• Velin and Kyle left the first treasury and traveled to the second, where Kyle broke the stone door's restriction.
• Velin recognized the trembling Demon Eggs inside as products of experiments and ordered Kyle to burn them, destroying thousands with Holy Flame.
• Velin returned to the Floating Construction Base, while Kyle checked the Tar Demiplane's modifications and went to study the Battle Soul Flag's mark with Cassius.

Velin and Xuemya joined Odor and Flora to witness the transformed Tar Demiplane, where Odor explained the dangers of its extreme zones. Velin persuaded Odor to investigate a magic tide energy-gathering device, leaving Odor’s work on three Xing ships postponed.

• Velin and Xuemya met Odor and Flora at Fountain Square, where Xuemya recorded the couple sitting together with a Magic Memory Crystal Orb.
• The four entered the Tar Demiplane and saw destructive magic tides colliding in an extreme zone.
• Velin asked Odor whether the extreme zones could be used, then coaxed him into helping with a project.
• Velin showed Flora the recorded scene, and Odor gave Velin a list of Magic Materials to gather for building a magic tide energy-gathering device.
• Odor accepted the project as an experiment, postponing repairs to three Xing ships, and rejected Velin’s offer to send two Arcanists to assist.

Kyle completed the Demiplane’s mana-node reconstruction, triggering a massive backflow of mana from the Outer Dimension. As two enormous storms began to merge and produce explosive Magic Crystals, Kyle, Odor, and Tadius sensed the Law of Creation and entered a state of enlightenment.

• Kyle redeployed 3,782 mana exchange nodes and stabilized the Demiplane’s mana flow while Tadius watched and memorized his work.
• Kyle told Tadius that the reconstruction was basically complete, and the final mana backflow began as storms moved across the Demiplane and pillars of mana lit the sky.
• Odor explained that the approaching thunderstorm and blue Magic Power Storm would produce unstable Magic Crystals, but he declined to collect them for Velin.
• The two storms collided, flinging out Magic Crystals that exploded and ravaged the surrounding space.
• As the storm cores began fusing at night, the Law of Creation flickered between them, drawing Kyle, Odor, and Tadius into enlightenment while Xuemya and Flora sensed their reactions.

As the Demiplane stabilized after the storm, Kyle and Odor revealed the creations they had developed through their comprehension of the Law of Creation. Odor explained that Concept Engraving could format souls as a form of resurrection, and promised to keep the dangerous spell to himself.

• The Demiplane’s vegetation flourished, and the exchange of magic power between it and the Outer Dimension reached a new balance.
• Kyle transformed a rock into a Low-grade Magic Crystal, but explained that creating one consumed a hundred times its magic power.
• Odor demonstrated Illusory Outline, which used Soul Power to create a nonliving rabbit doll.
• Odor used Concept Engraving to give a Magic Puppet personality traits, and Velin destroyed it after it spoke in his voice.
• Odor explained that Concept Engraving could format souls as an alternative form of resurrection and promised not to teach it to anyone.
• Tadius recovered from his frustration over his unfinished [Source of Heartfire] and reaffirmed his commitment to his own path.

Velin left Kyle to assist Tadius while he continued work elsewhere, and Xuemya let Kmelia off her planned test. Three days later, Kyle brought Green to a remodeled Demiplane to transplant the Mutated Green Vine Tree and told him he would eventually entrust the Demiplane to him.

• Velin promised to gather what Tadius needed, then left him with Kyle for three days of instruction.
• Xuemya told Kmelia she had passed for the day, leaving Kmelia disappointed after she had prepared to demonstrate Ember of Burning Stars.
• Three days later, Kyle took Green to a Demiplane remodeled for the Green Vine Tree and said he would hand control of it to Green once its mana exchange stabilized.
• Green uprooted one mature Green Vine Tree and thirty saplings, then transplanted them into the Demiplane, where the saplings rapidly grew as they absorbed magic power.

Green expanded cultivation of Green Vine Trees to support Qixing Territory’s armor production while rumors spread that King Valient was preparing for war. As nobles grew uneasy across Ilia Kingdom, Qixing Territory stayed peaceful, and Clever Islet received a secret letter at the chapter’s end.

• Green recovered from repeatedly casting [Root Proliferation], agreed to return to the Demiplane in three months, and accepted Kyle’s offer to study in the Star Moon Library.
• Green recruited Druids skilled in plant-growth spells to expand the Green Vine Trees for producing resin needed to make inner armor for the Qixing Legion.
• Velin and Kyle discussed rumors that Valient was preparing for war, and Velin decided to step down as Speaker of the Noble Council of Cadro Province.
• Kyle flew to the Magic Potion Cultivation Center to prepare for handing over the Demiplane before his upcoming trip to Holy Dragon Kingdom.
• As nobles sought allies and sent younger family members to safety in Qixing Territory, Clever Islet burned a secret letter and looked grave.

Clever received a royal assignment to sell healing supplies and began considering how to strengthen his position, while Velin learned that a stowaway from another world would appear in six months and planned to meet them. The chapter ended with Kyle returning to Qixing Territory and Kavir leaving to face the Eagle Marquis’s elders.

• Clever received orders to disguise himself as a merchant and sell healing supplies in the Kube Kingdom for a share of the profits.
• Clever deduced that the king intended the proceeds to fund his army and considered asking Qixing Count to receive him.
• Velin observed life around Star Moon Fort before Fate Guidance warned him that a stowaway would appear north of the Xenops Subcontinent in six months.
• Velin decided to communicate with the stowaway and planned to take a vacation when his Floating Battleship reached its fourth stage.
• Kyle returned to Qixing Territory with more than seventeen thousand Spellcasters and over sixty thousand other personnel, and Seraphina and Cyrus resumed keeping their relationship discreet.
• Kavir left Windsor Castle to spend decades undergoing tests by five elders until they recognized him as heir to the Eagle Marquis.

Kavir left Windsor Castle for Qixing Territory with his new personal guard, while Xuemya arranged a meeting between Velin and Clever Islet. Clever received word that Velin had agreed to see him in three days and prepared to keep the news secret.

• Kavir departed for Qixing Territory with twelve Guardian Knights and two hundred knights as Ilisis watched him leave with Talisha and Aisilia.
• Xuemya received Clever Islet’s letter and brought it to Velin at the Floating Battleship construction site.
• Velin accepted Clever’s invitation and scheduled a meeting for three days later.
• Clever received Star Moon Fort’s reply and told Anila to keep the meeting secret from other nobles.

Clever and Anila traveled from Star Prayer City to Star Moon Fort, where Velin waited to receive them. After sensing Clever’s hidden strength, Velin arranged for Cassius to come to him so he could find a way to test Clever in a fight.

• Hilda welcomed Clever and Anila on behalf of her master and sent them toward Star Moon Fort with twelve Silver Knights as their escort.
• Clever observed Qixing Territory’s troops and defenses during the journey but found they did not reveal the strength of its standing army.
• While waiting at Star Moon Fort’s East City Gate, Velin teased a young Soldier about his love life and handed out fruit to the soldiers.
• Velin sensed Clever’s arrival and suspected that Clever had concealed his true strength.
• Velin ordered an officer to summon Cassius to Star Moon Great Camp in six hours, then received Clever and Anila at the gate.

Velin hosted Clever and Anila in Qixing Territory, then negotiated a trade for supplies and Magic Energy Cannons. He offered Clever a discount and a Transcendent Knight's Longsword in exchange for a full-strength duel, which Clever accepted.

• Velin guided Clever and Anila around the Inner City District before hosting them for luncheon.
• After the meal, Clever revealed that he had brought twenty million gold coins and wanted to buy potions, equipment, and Magic Energy Cannons.
• Velin agreed to sell Ice Blue Magic Potions, weapons, armor, one hundred Small Magic Crystal Cannons, and six Medium Magic Energy Cannons, but refused to sell Large Magic Energy Cannons.
• Velin offered Clever a ten percent discount and a Transcendent Knight's Longsword if he fought Velin's general at full strength.
• Clever realized Velin had seen through his disguise and agreed to the duel and their trade agreement.