Chapter Summaries

Ang prepared oak for his Demon Sealing Boxes and went into the northern rainforest to study Rainforest Wolves. He captured a live wolf and brought it back to camp, where he confined it for research.

• Ang bought hinges, clasps, and tools, then inspected and harvested suitable oak with the stall owner who had sold him White Calamus.
• Ang soaked the oak boards in drying and magic-stabilizing potions overnight while gathering information from Demon Hunters about Rainforest Wolves.
• Ang followed wolf tracks into the northern forest, observed a pack hunting, and recorded their coordinated behavior.
• Ang trapped a lone Rainforest Wolf, fought off the rest of the pack, and escaped with the captive after the wolves retreated.
• Ang confined the live wolf in a Magic Cage at camp and collected meat and a pelt from a wolf killed in the fight.

Ang completed his Rainforest Wolf research and presented his report to Nicholas, who praised his work and collected Ang’s first handmade Demon Sealing Box. After producing 15 boxes, Ang arranged to have one wrapped in protective hide and prepared to sell them at the market.

• Ang recorded the Rainforest Wolves’ behavior and fighting methods, then buried the wolf’s corpse while keeping its hide and magic core.
• Ang finished treating the oak boards and crafted 10 small, 4 medium, and 1 large Demon Sealing Box overnight.
• Ang presented his Rainforest Wolf report to Nicholas, answered his questions, and received praise for completing the assignment first.
• Ang showed Nicholas his handmade Demon Sealing Box, received advice about its rune connections and durability, and let Nicholas keep it for his collection.
• Ang collected his Rainforest Wolf hide mattress, then asked the tannery owner to wrap a small Demon Sealing Box in protective hide before preparing to sell the boxes.

Ang's Demon Sealing Boxes became popular, earned him nearly 240 Magic Crystals, and attracted imitators as he developed his craft. Nicholas then led the students into the rainforest to search for Flower Elves, where he told them how Baron Puss's failed conquest left the territory a dangerous No Man's Land.

• Ang sold his Demon Sealing Boxes, shared his crafting process with Nicholas's students, and gained recognition from mages, adventurers, and herb merchants.
• Nine days later, Ang found cheaper imitations on the market, but he had sold nearly 300 boxes and accumulated nearly 240 Magic Crystals.
• Nicholas led Ang and the other students into the rainforest to search for Flower Elves, and Ang prepared herbs and sturdier boxes for the expedition.
• Qatar spotted a boundary marker reading "Puss Baron's Fiefdom," and Nicholas explained that Baron Puss had failed to conquer the rainforest after magical beasts defeated his forces.
• Nicholas told the students that the territory was now a No Man's Land ruled by magical beasts and nature, and urged them to honor Baron Puss's courage and pursue the unknown.

Ang and his classmates continued searching the Santa Cruz Rainforest for the elusive Flower Elves as the journey wore down their morale and yielded no clear signs of their territory. Ang remained determined, while the group pressed deeper into the rainforest under Nicholas's guidance.

• Nicholas led Ang and his classmates through the rainforest, using their concealment potion to avoid dangerous magical beasts as they searched for the Flower Elves.
• On the third evening, Nicholas told the students they were near the rainforest's core and warned them not to disturb the Flower Elves or act rashly.
• Ang stood night watch and felt that something was observing the camp, while Nicholas's Wyvern dung helped keep most magical beasts away.
• As the group found no signs of flowers or Flower Elves, their morale declined, though they collected valuable magical herbs along the way.
• Ang speculated that the Flower Elves might hide through magic rather than live among flowers, and he kept exploring with Nicholas despite the group's growing fatigue.

Ang and the students followed Nicholas through the rainforest in search of Flower Elves, then changed course toward a flower-filled area after Nicholas found one. Their journey was interrupted by fleeing magical beasts and a battle between a Mountain Giant and a Thick-Scaled Dragon, forcing them to retreat as the forest’s deeper dangers remained unexplained.

• Ang asked whether Flower Elves lived where flowers grew, and Nicholas explained that they were Nature Elves who did not necessarily inhabit flower-filled places.
• Nicholas agreed to search for a sea of flowers and flew ahead to scout, then returned with news of one to the southeast.
• Ang spotted many magical beasts fleeing together and warned the students to seek high ground as an oppressive presence approached.
• Nicholas went to investigate, and Ang saw trees collapsing before a Mountain Giant and a Thick-Scaled Dragon appeared, locked in battle.
• Ang urged the students to flee as the colossal creatures moved away, and the group withdrew from the battlefield.

After the students waited for Nicholas, they discovered he had been injured by the Mountain Giant while recording its battle with the Thick-Scaled Dragon. Ang and the others found and treated him, then prepared to carry him away from the dangerous battlefield.

• Ang led the students away from the ruined battle site, collected three Thick-Scaled Dragon spikes in exchange for magic crystals and herbs, and helped the group settle in a clearing to wait for Nicholas.
• Nicholas approached the battle between the Mountain Giant and the Thick-Scaled Dragon to record it, but the Mountain Giant attacked him and knocked him from his Magic Broom, leaving him unconscious with serious injuries.
• After their signal flares went unanswered and only four remained, Qatar and Ang led the students to search for Nicholas along the battle trail.
• Nicholas woke briefly, saw the students' signal flare, and launched one of his own to guide them to him.
• Ang treated Nicholas with the Holy Light Technique, splinted his fractured legs, and helped Qatar give him a Lesser Healing Potion; Nicholas awoke, and Ang made a stretcher so they could carry him to safety.

Ang led his exhausted companions through the forest while they carried the injured Nicholas toward camp, then kept watch overnight after making a concealed campsite. By morning, after killing a Shadow Leopard and meditating through the night, Ang and the others packed up and resumed their journey to camp.

• Ang led the group on a detour toward their previous campsite, but stopped to make camp when Qatar and the other senior could no longer carry Nicholas's stretcher.
• Ang treated Nicholas with the Holy Light Technique, concealed the tent, and spread Tracking Potion and Wyrm Dung Powder around the camp.
• While keeping watch, Ang killed a lurking Shadow Leopard with a Thick-Scaled Dragon spike and stored its corpse in his Demon Sealing Box.
• Ang meditated through the night, sensing the rainforest with his spiritual power and feeling his connection to nature deepen.
• At dawn, Ang checked on the rested group, helped pack the camp, and led them onward toward camp with Nicholas on the stretcher.

Ang led the exhausted group toward camp while a Rainforest Wolf pack stalked them and Mentor Nicholas remained unconscious. After reaching the Danube River and securing the tents, Ang secretly killed the wolf king, causing the pack to scatter, and returned to camp safely.

• Ang ordered the group to rest and had Lilithija use the Water Therapy Technique to lower Nicholas's dangerously high temperature.
• Ang urged the group onward toward the Danube River as the Rainforest Wolves continued to trail them.
• Ang led the group to a tributary of the Danube River, set up camp, and arranged for the senior students to protect the tents with Magic Shield Scrolls.
• Ang used Tracking Potion and Mixed Scent Potion to approach the wolves and killed the wolf king by hurling his Thick-Scaled Dragon spike into its skull.
• The Rainforest Wolves scattered after their leader fell, and Ang returned to camp unharmed, telling the senior students the danger had passed.

Ang and the exhausted team crossed a dangerous river in the rain forest using an ice bridge, then camped in the safer outer region. After sharing a meal made from magical beast meat, they rested and prepared to continue their journey.

• Ang gathered rare magical herbs and found that a swift tributary inhabited by aquatic magical beasts blocked the team's return route.
• Ang used water magic to locate the beasts, and Lilithija and the senior girls formed a temporary ice bridge with the Ice Freeze Technique.
• A Giant Crocodile leaped at the group as they crossed, but Lilithija knocked it back into the river while Ang helped carry Nicholas's stretcher to safety.
• After reaching the outer rain forest, Ang set up camp and harvested the hides and meat of the Shadow Leopard and Grey Wolf King.
• Ang cooked magical beast meat for the team, and he and the senior students felt their strength and physical condition improve.

Ang’s exhausted team rested in a relatively safe rainforest camp while he discovered that Nicholas’s fractured legs had healed out of alignment. Ang operated on both legs and reset the bones, leaving the team to wait and see how Nicholas recovered.

• Ang checked Nicholas’s injuries, tended to him with Holy Light Technique, and shared the night watch with Qatar and another older male student.
• Ang let the exhausted team sleep through the morning, then served them food and arranged for them to rest before continuing toward camp.
• Ang and the older students examined Nicholas’s legs and found that the fractures had healed crookedly, risking permanent deformity.
• Ang operated on Nicholas, removing excess bone and breaking and resetting the misaligned fractures; Nicholas briefly woke in pain, then used Shockwave Technique to knock himself unconscious again.
• Ang and the older female students finished treating and stitching both legs, but the effort left Ang and two students exhausted, with the team waiting for Nicholas to wake and recover.

Ang and the others stayed behind to care for Nicholas until he woke and began recovering, while Hepburn recorded the treatment and developed an interest in combining magic and medicine. After teaching them about Coma Potion, Nicholas gave the group an idea for dealing with the terror crocodiles, and they began planning their next move.

• Ang and the others decided to wait until Nicholas had recovered enough to travel, while Hepburn recorded the surgery and discussed its details with Ang.
• Hepburn cared for Nicholas and documented his treatment until he woke, then called the others to his bedside.
• Nicholas thanked his students for saving him, and the group wept with relief as Ang helped him drink water.
• Nicholas reviewed the recorded surgery, advised Ang and the senior girls, and taught them how to make Coma Potion and its antidote.
• Nicholas gave the group a bottle of Coma Potion, and Hepburn proposed using it against the terror crocodiles they had encountered near the Danube River.
• The group divided the potion and discussed a plan for the crocodiles while Ang continued monitoring Nicholas's recovery.

After Nicholas recovered enough to travel, Ang and the team tested the Coma Potion on a dread crocodile at the Danube tributary. Ang dragged the unconscious beast ashore, killed an attacking crocodile, and the team secured both hides as valuable enchanting material.

• Nicholas regained enough strength to walk briefly, and Ang made him a wheelchair while the team prepared tactics using the Coma Potion.
• Ang baited the dread crocodiles with potion-treated Shadow Leopard meat, and one crocodile eventually fell unconscious.
• Ang rushed into the shallows and dragged the unconscious crocodile ashore as the others retreated into deeper water.
• Ang used a Thick-Scaled Dragon spike to fend off the crocodiles and killed a larger one that lunged at him on land.
• The team hauled both crocodiles to safety, and Nicholas praised their success and the hides’ value as enchanting material.

Ang and the others dissected a terror crocodile and helped Hepburn transplant the adult’s limbs onto a younger one. The young terror crocodile survived and awakened, leaving the team with a successful experiment and many magical mechanisms still to investigate.

• Ang harvested the adult terror crocodile’s hide, magic core, teeth, and meat.
• Hepburn proposed and performed a limb transplant on the unconscious young terror crocodile while Ang and the others supported the operation with spells.
• Hepburn discovered and recorded a magical rune in the young terror crocodile’s tail, and Ang helped attach the adult’s limbs.
• Nicholas gave the exhausted team time to recover and treated the young terror crocodile with a Healing Potion as it healed overnight.
• Nicholas administered the antidote, and the young terror crocodile woke, tested its transplanted limbs, and survived the experiment.

Ang and the others released the recovered young terror crocodile after marking its habitat with a monument, while their healing practice improved their magic and helped Nicholas regain some mobility. Ang then used newly learned runes to build Nicholas a levitating wheelchair, which worked successfully but required ten Magic Crystals to operate.

• The young terror crocodile recovered enough to hunt, so Ang and the others released it after carving a monument and marking its tail with an iron ring.
• Nicholas taught the students magic techniques, Ang learned the Levitation Rune and Weight Reduction Rune, and their healing spells helped Nicholas's legs recover enough for him to walk briefly.
• Ang noticed that carrying Nicholas was burdening Qatar and another senior boy, so he proposed modifying Nicholas's wheelchair with runes.
• With Qatar and the senior boy helping, Ang carved and assembled rune tablets, adding Levitation, Weight Reduction, and Wind Gathering Runes to the wheelchair.
• Ang tested the completed levitating wheelchair, and Nicholas rode it as the students praised Ang's invention.

Ang and Nicholas's group returned to the human camp and found it destroyed by the beast tide, with no survivors in sight. They left the ruins and pushed through the rainforest toward Aktobe City, which came into view as they neared the forest's edge.

• Ang discovered that Hepburn's high flight had consumed half the hovering wheelchair's Magic Crystal energy, and Nicholas reassured the group that they had enough crystals.
• The group traveled through the rainforest, fought low-level Magical Beasts, gathered valuable materials and herbs, and improved their teamwork and magic.
• Ang's group found signs of destruction from the battle between the Thick-Scaled Dragon and the Mountain Giant near the human camp.
• Nicholas and his students reached the camp and found it reduced to ruins, with no living people or bodies; Nicholas concluded that the beast tide had devastated it.
• Hepburn and Qatar urged Nicholas to leave, and he led the group toward Aktobe City, which they spotted after traveling for a day and night.

Ang and Nicholas’s group returned to Aktoobe after the beast tide devastated the rainforest camps, then gathered supplies and reflected on the dangers and lessons of their study tour. As they prepared to return to the academy, the students recognized Ang’s combat, rune, and medical skills, while Ang resolved to grow stronger and develop a weapon from the Thick-Scaled Dragon spikes.

• Ang and the others returned to Aktoobe and learned that the beast tide had destroyed camps and left many refugees, dead, and missing people.
• Ang bought magical herbs to support Nicholas’s research, and Nicholas rewarded the students for their contributions during the journey.
• Nicholas examined Ang’s Thick-Scaled Dragon spikes and recommended making them into spears, while Ang considered combining them with runes.
• Nicholas told Ang and the others they would leave for Akreli in two days and promised to arrange advanced combat and rune training at the academy.
• Ang planned to forge a rune-enhanced weapon from the spikes and resolved to improve his combat strength after facing a lord-level Magical Beast.
• Hepburn, Qatar, and the other students gained respect for Ang’s combat, rune, and medical expertise as they prepared to return to the academy.

Ang attended a mages’ ball with Herax and Qatar, where Herax introduced him to Viscount Fernando and explained the influential magical organization Star of Flames. Ang agreed to investigate two mysterious runes for Fernando’s family, leaving the ball focused on the research and its possible connection to Herax’s plans.

• Ang considered the cost of forging his own Enchanted Armament and practiced engraving runes while preparing for the ball.
• Ang attended the ball with Herax and Qatar, met Viscount Fernando, and learned that he belonged to Prince Ak Alfred’s family.
• Herax explained that Fernando was part of Star of Flames and said he hoped to join the organization after becoming a Rank 1 Mage.
• Herax persuaded Ang to examine a rune-combination problem connected to Fernando’s family, and Ang cautiously agreed to investigate it.
• Herax gave Ang two Rune Tablets and a parchment describing their unrelated effects, and Ang began studying the runes as Herax asked him to solve the problem within a year.

Ang and his companions celebrated their return journey after the study tour, while Nicholas completed his mission report and confirmed their travel plans. On their last day in Aktoobe, Ang and the senior girls explored the city and carved their names into its walls before preparing to leave for the academy the next day.

• At the ball, Ang’s companions discussed the limits of their status and resources, congratulated him on becoming a Senior Magic Apprentice, and thanked him for protecting them during the rainforest expedition.
• Nicholas reported that the search for Flower Elves had failed, recommended canceling the mission, confirmed his legs had healed, and arranged the group’s return to the academy.
• Ang told Nicholas he planned to study the Rune Tablets, and Nicholas said the group would return by airship the day after tomorrow.
• The next morning, Ang told his companions they would leave Aktoobe by airship the following day, then joined Lilithija and Hepburn to visit the city’s sights.
• Ang carved his and his companions’ names into Aktoobe’s city wall, and the group shared dinner before returning to the inn for the journey ahead.

Ang traveled by airship from Aktobe City toward Akreli, studying runes and considering how to turn his Magic Broom into a flying vehicle. Conversations with merchants revealed that the Demon army was advancing on the Maple Sugar Plane and that war was disrupting the magic market, leaving Ang aware of the challenges ahead as the journey continued.

• Nicholas led Ang and the others aboard an airship bound directly for Akreli, and Ang spent the first days studying his Rune Tablet.
• Ang considered modifying his Magic Broom into personal transport, but airship staff denied his request to inspect the confidential power system.
• Lilithija and Hepburn invited Ang to the entertainment room, where he learned that passengers were divided among four levels according to status.
• Ang spoke with the merchant Ernit, who reported that the Demon army had advanced across the Maple Sugar Plane and reached the borders of Wolf City.
• The merchants told Ang that plane wars were driving up material prices and causing Healing Potions to become scarce, while rare magical materials were appearing more often.
• Ang continued gathering stories from the merchants over the following days and recognized that war could affect his future research and adventures.

Ang demonstrated his rune engraving and potion-making skills to Ernit and the merchants, revealing profitable opportunities for cooperation. After they were impressed by his enchanted dagger and unusually potent Healing Potion, Ang and Ernit agreed that they would likely work together in the future.

• Ernit learned that Ang could prepare common Magic Potions and engrave runes, then asked him to enchant a merchant’s dagger.
• Ang engraved Sharpness Runes on the dagger, enhanced it with supplied materials, and explained how to maintain its enchantment.
• The merchant tested the dagger on a wooden board, and Ernit proposed a long-term partnership to produce sought-after Enchanted Weapons.
• Ernit arranged a quiet room and provided herbs so Ang could prepare a Healing Potion while the merchants watched.
• Ang used Glow Crystal powder and his knowledge of the Holy Light Technique to make a cloudy white Healing Potion, which Ernit drank and praised as exceptionally potent.
• Ernit and the other merchants showed interest in long-term cooperation, and Ang said they would have many opportunities to work together.