Chapter Summaries

Ang exposed the false Peterson William, then learned that the Empire had halted its advance and considered a risky operation against the other side. As Ang returned to camp with his troops, he warned Dana that his holy light could make them targets on the God-Demon Battlefield and decided to train Gweny, while worrying that their time was running out.

• The Mage Association mage confirmed Ang had dispelled the dark power within him, and the nobles left after realizing Peterson William was a fake.
• Maya's father and Margherita's mother spoke with Ang before a Military Department officer escorted him to the commander.
• The commander said the Military Department would reassess Ang's merits and hinted that the Empire's strategic situation had changed, while Ang accepted his current evaluation and considered an operation against the other side.
• Ang granted his troops a month of paid leave, then left the Central Front Line with his soldiers and Dana.
• Ang explained to Dana that holy light could provoke instinctive hostility from Abyssal Prison races on the God-Demon Battlefield, and said their understanding of the Black Magic Society gave them an advantage.
• Ang told Dana to spar with Gweny every day and worried that the time they had left was running out.

After Peterson William’s death triggered a purge of the Black Magic Society, Ang oversaw northern Volgograd’s new railway and port while weighing the next move. He learned the Empire might agree to a temporary ceasefire with the lizardmen, and the chapter ended with a dance promise to Maya before his planned southern-front campaign.

• The William Family declared Peterson William missing and claimed a Dark Knight had impersonated him, then purged the Black Magic Society and punished nobles accused of funding it.
• Ang and Isi oversaw construction of a northern railway and port, and the completed line spurred nobles to seek a shared trade city.
• Dana told Ang that Gweny had opened most of her Qi force nodes and might soon condense her momentum; Janice later reported Gweny wanted to leave the Rose Warband for the Flame Swordsman Regiment.
• Janice confirmed Ang’s plan to head for Volgograd’s southern front and suggested Maya could explain the situation there.
• Maya told Ang that the Empire and legendary lizardmen were discussing an agreement because a major problem outside the battlefield might require legendary combat power.
• Maya reminded Ang that they had missed their dance at the Celebration Ball, and Ang promised to ask her to dance next time.

Ang led the Flame Swordsman Regiment and allied forces to crush the lizardmen on Volgograd’s southern front, while Augustus secured the surrender of four Lizardman Legends. After Ang was promoted to Third-Class Count, he returned to northern Volgograd and celebrated with his troops at a ball.

• Ang led the Flame Swordsman Regiment to the southern front and coordinated a pincer attack with the noble coalition and Imperial southern garrison.
• The Flame Swordsmen, Archer Group, and allied forces routed the lizardmen, while Augustus obtained the four Lizardman Legends’ signatures on a contract granting the lizardmen rule over unoccupied northern Tasmania.
• The Imperial army wiped out the lizardman force in less than three days, and the Military Department promoted Ang to Third-Class Count for his military achievements.
• Ang returned to northern Volgograd and attended a Celebration Ball honoring his promotion and the new Imperial barons under his command.
• The Rose Warband’s female warriors repeatedly invited Ang to dance, and he stepped on his partners’ feet throughout the evening.

Ang oversaw Gweny’s rapid breakthrough and tempering, shaped Volgograd’s northern government and defenses, and returned to Amnath City to reunite with Quintina and Natiya. He planned to prepare Tier 2 Enchanted Armament for the coming God-Demon Battlefield while promising to help Natiya’s Elf companions reach the World Tree if an opportunity arose.

• Gweny condensed her own Momentum after repeated practice, and Dana began tempering it by crushing and rebuilding it with her Minotaur Ancestor Momentum.
• Ang became the first Speaker of the Northern Volgograd Noble Council, which retained the existing wall and unanimously supported building another along the northern border.
• Ang returned to Amnath City, reassured the jealous Quintina, and spent the evening with her before visiting Natiya at the Magic Workshop.
• Natiya asked whether Ang could help her Elf companions reach the World Tree, and Ang promised to help if an opportunity arose.
• Ang told Quintina and Natiya that he would prepare Tier 2 Enchanted Armament for himself, Dana, and Gweny before the God-Demon Battlefield, and said Gweny might reach Level 2 Great Warrior before they departed.

After the Empire and the Lizardmen agreed to jointly govern Tasmania Continent, Ang focused on developing his territory and preparing for the God-Demon Battlefield. As the Rose Warband set out to travel and Gweny struggled to find her path as a warrior, Ang urged her to discover why she wanted to become stronger.

• Dana questioned whether the Empire’s war with the Lizardmen had ended and whether the World Tree’s region remained theirs, and Ang confirmed the agreement left that land to the Lizardmen.
• Margherita told Ang she wanted to visit the Lake Grace Volcano Group, and he described the region while warning the Rose Warband about the dangers of traveling north.
• Margherita asked whether Gweny would join Ang’s ranks, and he said Gweny would not join before becoming a Level 2 Great Warrior.
• Ang developed the former battlefront as adventurers arrived, while the Rose Warband divided into teams and set out to travel.
• Ang asked Gweny what she wanted as a warrior; after hearing Dana’s ambition and sharing his own goal of meeting Legendary and Epic experts, he advised Gweny to find her reason for seeking strength.

Ang brought Gweny to Amnath City so she could rest, meet his companions, and see the Magic Corps she was joining. After a welcoming meal and an evening celebration, Gweny felt she had finally found a place where she belonged.

• Quintina and Natiya urged Ang to bring Gweny to Amnath City, so he traveled to the military camp and invited her to visit.
• Ang took Gweny through the Magic Teleportation Array to Amnath City, where Quintina and Natiya welcomed her and shared breakfast with her.
• Gweny rested in a room prepared for her while Ang told Quintina and Natiya about her past and arranged Enchanted Armament for the group.
• Ang introduced Gweny to the Magic Corps at a gathering in the Governor's Mansion, and the members welcomed her as one of their own.
• Dana encouraged Gweny to join the dancing, and Gweny relaxed among the mages and experienced a sense of belonging.

Ang researched Tier 2 Enchanted Armament while the elves completed powerful new longbows, and Preston arrived in Amnath City to ask Ang to look after Margherita. Preston revealed that if he became a Rank 2 Archmage, he would have to go to the dangerous God-Demon Battlefield, where his return was uncertain.

• Ang encouraged Gweny to follow her own path, then danced with Natiya and Quintina at the Governor's Mansion celebration.
• Ang began testing Tier 2 Enchanted Armament materials and planned different elemental enhancements for himself, Dana, and Gweny.
• Natiya demonstrated the elves' new bows, Wind Breaking Two and Wind Breaking Three, and the group assigned them to Linya and Natiya.
• Ang studied Ancient Elf runes with the elves while continuing his research into Enchanted Armament.
• Preston visited Ang and asked him to take care of Margherita, explaining that becoming a Rank 2 Archmage would require him to go to the God-Demon Battlefield.

Ang learned that the Abyssal Race had breached the God-Demon Battlefield’s third line of defense and warned his companions that the war could threaten their plane. Elsewhere, the Cloaked Figure investigated a hidden spatial weak point and began preparing a secret operation, though she delayed it and weighed how to transport supplies.

• Preston told Ang that Level 2 Great Warriors and Archmages were conscripted to the God-Demon Battlefield, where the Abyssal Race had breached the third defense line and casualties were mounting.
• Ang told Quintina and Natiya about the worsening war, and Natiya explained that the battlefield’s chaotic elements and accumulated negative energy were deadly to those below Level 2.
• Ang reassured Dana that they would keep Gweny’s training plan unchanged and promised to protect their companions as they strengthened themselves.
• In a hidden valley, the Cloaked Figure examined a Weak Point in Space and agreed to delay opening a Temporary Passage while the lizardmen’s legendary powerhouses remained nearby.
• The Cloaked Figure chose sea transport over an Interplanar Magic Teleportation Array, then left as the mage set up a Terrain Stabilization Magic Array.

Ang developed and tested three experimental Tier 2 Enchanted Armament sets for Dana, then forged a new set and began searching for a compatible Level 4 earth-element Magical Beast soul. As Ang considered traveling to other planes to find one, the William Family decided to exploit the search as an opportunity to target him over Peterson’s death.

• Ang forged three Enchanted Armament sets and tested them with Dana, who found them powerful but lacking the Black and White Shield’s spirit.
• Ang explained that the armor needed a compatible Magical Beast soul, then completed a new armament and determined that it required a Level 4 earth-element soul.
• Ang issued a bounty for information, but a week of inquiries produced no suitable leads, so he proposed searching other planes and replenishing Soul Stones in the Guanda Plane.
• A William Family noble learned of Ang’s search and ordered his butler to arrange a gift for him, hoping to exploit the situation while avenging Peterson’s death.

Ang and Dana traveled to the Guanda Plane to replenish their Soul Stones and search for clues about a Level 4 earth-element magical beast. After posting a quest and visiting Monag County City, Ang recognized Bubuta, whom he had saved years earlier, and she recognized him in return.

• Ang left Natiya and Quintina behind and traveled with Dana through Fortress of Will to the Guanda Plane.
• Ang and Dana posted a guild quest offering fifty magic crystals for accurate information about a Level 4 earth-element magical beast, and Dana earned Advanced Adventurer certification.
• A guild mage told Ang that such beasts were most likely found in the Tar Magical Beast Forest or the Transverse Mountain Range.
• Ang and Dana teleported to Monag County City, where Ang spotted a merchant caravan and thought he recognized its brown-haired leader.
• Ang approached the woman and called her Bubuta, and she remembered him as the person who had saved her and her brother.

Ang reunited with Bubuta and Roel in the Guanda village, learned that a beast tide had made Andalutin Forest a human-forbidden zone, and then set out with Dana to find materials there. The chapter ended with Ang summoning the increasingly powerful Nightmare King as the group headed toward an ancient altar deep in the forest.

• Ang met Bubuta, who told him that Roel led the Guanda people and warned that a beast tide had made Andalutin Forest dangerous.
• Ang and Dana visited the Guanda village, where Roel explained how the community had rebuilt and shared what he knew about the forest's powerful beasts.
• Ang learned that most Guanda tribes once scattered through the forest had been killed or driven away, but he decided to enter it anyway.
• Ang and Dana spent two days in the village, where Ang described the outside world to Bubuta and the other villagers.
• Ang and Dana reached the forest's edge, where Dana's aura frightened off the watching magical beasts.
• Ang summoned the Nightmare King, and the three set off toward the ancient altar deep in Andalutin Forest.

Ang and Dana traveled through the Andalutin Forest, gathered Soul Stones and magical beast materials, and discovered a diamond ore vein in a cave on the vast plains. Ang connected a Magic Teleportation Array to Amnath City and stepped into the gate to bring help.

• Ang uncovered and collected the two halves of an ancient Guanda people Sacrificial Altar before heading with Dana to the lake where they had found Soul Stones.
• Ang drained the lake through a rift to the Water Elemental Plane, while Dana and the Nightmare King killed trapped aquatic magical beasts; Ang then mined 976 Soul Stones from the lakebed.
• Ang and Dana searched abandoned Guanda people sites, collected fewer than a hundred more Soul Stones, and traveled through the forest to the endless plains.
• Dana spotted a glint in a cave wall, and Ang uncovered diamonds that he suspected belonged to a diamond ore vein.
• Ang built a Magic Teleportation Array and sent instructions to Quintina to add a World Tree branch spear to the Amnath City array, stabilizing the connection.
• Ang stepped into the teleportation gate to return to Amnath City.

Ang brought his mages and Flame Swordsmen to the Guanda Plane to mine diamonds and hunt magical beasts, while preparing them for the God-Demon Battlefield through harsh combat training. After the first dangerous expeditions, the group gathered herbs and Ang discovered that the female mages had been holding back because they feared battle scars; he began refining a potion that could repair them.

• Ang reinforced the teleportation array with diamonds, then led the Late Level 1 mages to the Guanda Plane, where kobold miners established a camp and began extracting diamonds.
• Ang divided the forces into hunting teams and ordered the Water Mages to take offensive roles, while Natiya guarded the mine and shot down attacking flying beasts.
• The hunting teams returned with injuries but gathered nearly a thousand Rank 1 magical herbs and a dozen Rank 2 herbs, and Ang healed the wounded.
• Ang refined the Rank 2 Soothing Spring Skin Beautifying Dew, which repaired scars and improved complexion, drawing eager interest from the female mages.
• After Gesang explained that the mages feared becoming scarred like Natiya, Ang inspected a veteran Flame Swordsman's skin and found faint marks left by old wounds.

Ang demonstrated a scar-removing potion, watched the Magic Corps improve, and investigated reports of increasingly coordinated magical beast attacks. He and Dana ventured deeper into the wilderness, where they found an unusually high number of beasts and suspected a beast tide.

• Ang used Soothing Spring Skin Beautifying Dew to erase the Flame Swordsman's scars and told the mages the potion was a reward for their hard-won ingredients.
• Dana asked Ang for the potion to improve his appearance, and Ang promised to treat his scars once he replenished his stock.
• Ang warned Ade to focus on training and not let Gesang overtake him, while Gweny and Gesang showed major progress and Natiya said Pri might be near a breakthrough.
• After hunters reported that magical beasts had begun attacking in groups, Ang suspended hunting and decided to investigate with Dana the next day.
• Ang and Dana flew deeper into the wilderness and found many Level 3 beasts, some Level 4 beasts, and an abnormal concentration of magical creatures.

Ang and Dana discovered that powerful Magical Beasts were migrating toward the wasteland’s outskirts, then witnessed two Level 6 beasts fighting over a mysterious golden plant. Ang stole the plant, and the pair fled as both beasts pursued them and the surrounding Magical Beast migration erupted into chaos.

• Ang and Dana flew deeper into the vast wasteland and saw increasing numbers of Magical Beasts migrating toward its outskirts.
• They found the Bog-Abyss Electric Devourer and Tremor-Scale Swamp Croco-Turtle, two Level 6 Magical Beasts, locked in a destructive battle.
• While the beasts fought and moved away, Ang and Dana approached a golden plant that gave them an overwhelming urge to worship it.
• Ang uprooted the plant with the surrounding soil and stored it in his Magic Waist Pouch, causing both beasts to stop fighting and locate them.
• Ang and Dana escaped on the Magic Broom as the two Level 6 beasts chased them and the nearby Magical Beasts scattered in panic.

Ang and Dana fled across the Guanda Plane with two Level 6 Magical Beasts in relentless pursuit, while Natiya evacuated the diamond mine camp and removed the World Tree branch spear from its teleportation array. After escaping through the Transverse Mountain Range and returning to Amnath City, Ang and Dana collapsed from exhaustion.

• Ang and Dana evaded the two Level 6 Magical Beasts for days as Ang sent Natiya an urgent order to evacuate everyone, including the kobolds.
• Natiya evacuated the diamond mine camp, removed the World Tree branch spear from the teleportation array, and shut down Amnath City's main array.
• Ang and Dana fled toward the mountains, where Ang used the rugged terrain to shake off the beasts temporarily before deciding they had to leave the Guanda Plane.
• The pursued beasts rampaged through the Transverse Mountain Range, killing its guardian Level 6 Magical Beast and triggering a devastating beast tide.
• Ang and Dana escaped the Guanda Plane through several teleportation arrays and returned to Fortress of Will in Amnath City, where they collapsed unconscious.

After recovering from their ordeal, Ang and Dana reunited with their companions, and Ang explained the danger of the Guanda Plane beast tide. News that the Empire had lost Jean William made Ang consider the death a stroke of luck because Jean belonged to the hostile William Family; Ang planned to wait for the situation to stabilize before returning to the Guanda Plane.

• Ang woke after three days of sleep, then used Holy Light Blessing to help Dana recover while Beibei anxiously watched over him.
• Ang and Dana reunited and ate with their companions, and Ang recounted their escape from the Guanda Plane beast tide.
• Ang postponed returning to the Guanda Plane, continuing the mages' trial, and revealing the magical plant until the danger had passed.
• Quintina told Ang that a Legendary expert had been killed by the Bog-Abyss Electric Devourer, and Ang learned the dead expert was Jean William.
• Ang ordered Quintina to confirm Jean William's connection to the William Family, then decided to wait for the Empire's investigation to end before returning to reactivate the Magic Teleportation Array.

Ang gathered the mages at Magic Prison to examine the mysterious golden plant, which exerted a powerful influence on those who saw it and appeared to nourish mental power. After Natiya compared it to a plant mutated by divine blood and Ang tested it with holy light, they named it the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout, though its origins remained unknown.

• Ang went to Magic Prison, corrected Leon about his new title as count, and offered Leon and Candice their lives in exchange for signing master-servant Magic Contracts; both agreed.
• The summoned mages gathered around the golden plant, and nearly all of them fell to their knees under its influence until Ang's mental shock awakened them.
• Golden droplets from the plant evaporated into the air, and the mages found that inhaling the golden motes had slightly increased their mental power.
• Natiya recalled an ancient account of the Moon Goddess Night-Blooming Cereus, a magic plant mutated after contact with divine blood, and suggested the sprout might have a similar origin.
• Ang bathed the plant in holy light; its golden glow intensified and soothed those present, but he detected no divine will or clear response.
• The mages agreed to treat it as a possible divine-blood magic plant and officially named it the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout.

Ang tested the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout, confirmed that its radiance strengthened mental power across races and professions, and found that his darkness magic subtly transformed the plant. He freed Leon and Candice and sent them back undercover in the Black Magic Society to gather intelligence for him.

• Ang sealed the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout’s existence with Magic Contracts and tested its effects with Dana, Natiya, Quintina, and Aisha for three days.
• The group found that the plant increased everyone’s mental power, and Quintina reached a threshold that could let her contact the Elemental Plane.
• After the others left, Ang used darkness magic on the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout, which responded without harm and developed a faint dusky light within its golden radiance.
• Ang confirmed that the plant had caused no lingering harm, then released Leon and Candice from the Magic Prison and returned their belongings along with extra magic crystals.
• Ang ordered Leon and Candice to infiltrate the Black Magic Society again, report intelligence every three months or immediately if his territory was threatened, and seek information related to Light Magic.

After the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout was declared safe, Ang helped the mansion’s mages begin cultivation and hosted Margherita, whom Preston had assigned to stay under his protection. Margherita remained at Ang’s side as he searched for a Level 4 earth-element magical beast, and the chapter ended with her quietly reading his intelligence reports in his office.

• Ang checked on Quintina, who reported that her magic power flowed smoothly and that she was studying how to communicate with the Ice Elemental Plane.
• Ang announced that the Golden Radiance Divine Sprout was safe, and the mansion’s mages began their cultivation plans.
• Margherita arrived under Preston’s orders, and Ang assigned her protection in Amnath City while refusing her request to follow him.
• Ang continued searching for a suitable Level 4 earth-element magical beast for Dana’s Tier 2 Enchanted Armament, then teased Margherita and restrained her when she attacked him.
• Margherita returned and acknowledged being Preston’s fiancée; Ang provoked her, but stepped away before anything further happened.
• Margherita insisted on staying beside Ang and threatened to tell Natiya and Quintina about his behavior, then sat down to read his intelligence reports.