Chapter Summaries

Yinsen explained that the light in his hand was a seed containing traces of the island they had visited, which he planned to cultivate inside an Independent Space aboard the Prinz Eugen. He proposed that the crew build and customize the island together, leaving Logan and Hill eager to take part.

• Yinsen told Logan and Hill that the island had not become his; he had separated its traces from absorbed energy, and they had condensed into a seed.
• Yinsen considered storing the island in a container, creating a shipboard space for it, or binding it to himself, but rejected the first and third options.
• Yinsen decided to expand a room aboard the Prinz Eugen into an Independent Space and cultivate the island there.
• Logan and Hill welcomed the plan because they wanted a place to relax and pursue their own activities.
• Yinsen suggested that everyone aboard the ship help build and customize the island, and he offered to make changes such as adding hot springs or beaches.

Yinsen organized the crew to help cultivate an island by combining their different powers, then expanded a room aboard the Prinz Eugen into an enormous black void. He left the group with a space nine times larger than the island they had visited, though it was still smaller than he had hoped.

• Yinsen explained that Logan, Laura, Hill, Selene, and the others could use their powers and magic to help the island grow and create a balanced environment.
• The crew agreed to participate, and Yinsen chose an empty room aboard the Prinz Eugen as the site for an Independent Space.
• Yinsen unleashed his Magic Energy and expanded the room while the crew watched and Betty's detector warned her about the dangerous energy.
• The room transformed into a vast black void where the group could still see one another.
• Yinsen said the space was nine times the size of their previous island and joked that they could drive around it for fun.

Yinsen established a growing island space aboard the Prinz Eugen and assigned the crew to cultivate its day, night, and land while training their magic. After months of progress, the ship reached the Stormy Seas.

• Yinsen planted a seed in the island space, gave Hill and Selene tasks to create daylight and night, and assigned the others to help nourish the island with magic.
• Yinsen began teaching Mordred and Galahad the basics of magic, and Galahad's strength rapidly caught up with Mordred's as he trained and helped water the island.
• Yinsen explained that Mordred's weak foundation limited her progress, so she accepted his basic training rather than pursue strength with hidden weaknesses.
• Selene brought night to the island within half a month, then helped Hill develop her Holy Light so daylight could take shape as well.
• Hill finally brought daylight to the island, and the Prinz Eugen sighted the black wall marking the Stormy Seas.

As the Prinz Eugen crossed the Stormy Seas with ease, Yinsen cultivated inside his Small World and used his new understanding of earth and life to shape an island, ocean, and magical springs. He returned to the bridge to find the ship had already passed through the Stormy Seas, leaving only a last glimpse behind it.

• Betty told Hill that the Prinz Eugen could cross the Stormy Seas in about three days and that the route was no longer a serious threat to the sturdy warship.
• Yinsen mastered the Earth Attribute and learned to shape land while observing the Island Seed grow into a living island.
• Yinsen expanded the island’s base, created an ocean around it, and added mountains, rivers, hot springs, and a source of Arcane Energy.
• Yinsen decided to leave his Small World and seek Logan and Laura’s help in growing plants across the bare island.
• Yinsen found Hill alone on the bridge and learned that the Prinz Eugen had already crossed the Stormy Seas.

Yinsen and the Prinz Eugen reached the Sea of Miracles, where he prepared to investigate the Empire and reconsidered what kind of spaceship they would need if conflict came. After Ada’s infiltration uncovered little about the Empire, she found that the guild’s fleet always visited one particular area during its ten-year circumnavigation.

• Yinsen told Hill that reaching the Sea of Miracles was only the beginning and planned to investigate Miracle Island with Selene and Ada.
• Yinsen showed Hill a hologram of the Prometheus, an exploration vessel he had considered as a backup, but agreed that a heavily armed warship would be safer.
• Yinsen and the others spent a stable period developing their island and training, while Logan learned to cast a druid Healing Spell.
• Ada, Selene, and Yinsen completed their infiltration in one night, but found that the guild had lost contact with the Empire more than eight hundred years earlier and had destroyed its oldest records.
• Ada reported that the guild sent its fleet on a circumnavigation every ten years and that one area appeared on every route.

Yinsen and his companions concluded that the guild was repeatedly visiting the likely control area of an abandoned imperial Training Ground, and Betty revealed the truth about the cadets’ assessments and the locals they exploited. As they continued toward the Outer Side of the Ring Sea, Yinsen offered to take Betty home, while she wondered whether his group were scouts from another civilization.

• Hill suggested that the guild’s repeated voyages to the same area meant it was searching for the Training Ground’s control room, and the group judged the Empire had abandoned the facility.
• After Ada shared some of their findings, Betty told Yinsen everything she knew, including that cadets could use local people to complete their assessments and that the administrators purged locals who learned too much.
• Yinsen explained that the Empire’s silence for more than eight hundred years had allowed local technology to develop, and he planned to sail toward the less-traveled Outer Side of the Ring Sea.
• Betty said the Empire usually removed or destroyed technology when it abandoned a Training Ground, so its disappearance suggested something had happened to the Empire.
• Yinsen told Betty he could take her home, but she doubted that interstellar travel was simple and wondered whether his group were reconnaissance personnel from another civilization.

Yinsen explored the outer edge of the Training Ground, examined its Energy Layer, and tested whether he could open a way through it. After confirming he could bypass the barriers, he suggested the group wait to see whether the Empire or the guild investigated.

• Betty suspected she might have helped the enemy but focused on wanting to return home as the Prinz Eugen sailed toward the edge of the Ring Sea Area.
• Yinsen flew beyond the Sea of Miracles and observed its water cycling back toward the ocean, along with meteorites scattered beneath the Training Ground.
• Yinsen tested a Teleportation Spell against the multilayered Energy Barrier; his first portal collapsed, but his second let a magic bird pass through into space.
• Yinsen returned to the Prinz Eugen and explained the barriers and their hidden mechanisms to the group.
• Yinsen proposed waiting to see whether the Empire or the guild came to investigate, and the group considered the possibility of taking Empire personnel prisoner.

After the Empire’s Training Ground appeared abandoned, Yinsen and the crew left their surveillance post and settled into a quiet routine aboard the Prinz Eugen. Bored young crew members proposed visiting another world for fun, while Yinsen independently considered the same idea.

• After half a month of fruitless surveillance, Yinsen concluded that the Empire had abandoned the Training Ground and ordered the Prinz Eugen to leave.
• The crew sailed unseen through the Outer Sea Area, while Laura, Sherry, and Mordred grew restless during their period of stalled progress.
• Galahad explained that the younger crew members had to develop their existing potential before receiving Enhancement Potions, and revealed the powerful shield Yinsen had made for him.
• Laura and Sherry suspected that Yinsen had made Galahad’s shield to indulge his taste for unusual equipment, then suggested asking him to take them to another world for fun.
• Yinsen, who had also become bored after quickly finishing Galahad’s equipment, wondered which world he should visit.

Yinsen sent Laura, Mordred, Sherry, and Galahad to a zombie-infested world for combat training while he left with Logan to visit another world. After the others declined to join them, Ada accompanied Yinsen and Logan to a world where many monsters were imprisoned beneath an ordinary wooden cabin.

• Yinsen chose a world full of fast, mutated zombies as a place for the young people to train and let them travel there without him.
• Yinsen explained the virus threat, confirmed that the group had supplies and an emergency way home, then left with Logan.
• Yinsen and Logan passed Prinz Eugen's virus inspection, and Yinsen reassured Logan that Galahad could bring the others back if needed.
• Yinsen invited Logan to visit another world, and Ada joined them after Hill, Selene, Evelyn, Jonathan, and the others declined.
• Yinsen told Ada that their destination contained many monsters, all confined beneath an ordinary wooden cabin.

Yinsen, Logan, and Ada arrived in the world of The Cabin in the Woods and identified Curt and the other college students as the organization’s intended victims. They followed the group toward the cabin, and Yinsen subtly arranged for the students’ RV to break down so they could meet them.

• Yinsen explained that the college students had been assigned horror-movie roles by the World Preservation Organization to appease the Ancient Evil Gods.
• Yinsen, Logan, and Ada spotted Curt, who looked like Thor, and decided not to approach the students while an organization operative watched them.
• Ada created disguised identities and bought a used car while Yinsen secretly marked Holden with magic.
• Yinsen guided Logan toward the students using an arrow made of Mind Control Magic energy and explained how he controlled time flow between worlds.
• Logan found the students stranded beside their broken-down RV, and Yinsen admitted he had caused the breakdown.

Yinsen and Logan joined Curt’s group by helping tow their broken RV toward the Wooden Cabin, while Yinsen investigated the organization’s influence on the young people. At the Gas Station, Ada befriended Jules and Dana, and Yinsen accepted an invitation to the cabin, intent on confronting the monsters and the Ancient Evil God.

• Logan and Yinsen stopped to help Curt and his friends after their RV broke down, and Yinsen concealed that he had caused the malfunction.
• Curt’s implanted memories led him to suggest towing the RV to a nearby Gas Station, and Ada supplied Tillerman Road as Yinsen and Logan’s destination.
• Logan hitched the RV to their car, and the two groups traveled together with Curt giving directions and Ada riding with the others.
• Yinsen observed Curt and the others’ strangely impaired judgment while chatting with them on the way to the Gas Station.
• Ada befriended Jules and Dana, who invited her and Yinsen to the Wooden Cabin, and Yinsen accepted so he could investigate the monsters and the Ancient Evil God.

Yinsen suspected that an evil god controlled the Sacrifice Rituals by feeding on human fear and pain, so he prepared escape routes and entered the ritual area with Logan, Ada, and the young people. At the Wooden Cabin, he stopped Curt and the others at gunpoint and showed them cameras, leaving them alarmed and confused.

• Yinsen weighed how powerful the hidden god might be and arranged safe escape routes for Logan and Ada in case the group needed to flee.
• At the Gas Station, Logan frightened the strange old man when he glared back at him, and the group continued toward the Cave Tunnel.
• Yinsen decided to free Curt and the others from their hypnosis and explain the danger before they could be made to follow the ritual's script.
• The group reached the Wooden Cabin, where Yinsen told Curt he needed to speak with him immediately.
• Logan and Ada aimed pistols at the young people while Yinsen said he was trying to save their lives.
• Ada showed the young people the cameras hidden around the cabin, and they turned to Curt for an explanation he could not provide.

Yinsen rescued Curt and his friends from the effects of a drug mixed with power from evil gods, then told them he was an Exorcist who had come to eliminate the monsters in the area. He revealed that the young people had been chosen as sacrifices for the evil gods.

• Yinsen stopped the young people from questioning Curt and had Ada use a jammer to disable the hidden cameras.
• Yinsen used magic to extract the drug from Jules’s hair, and Curt tried but failed to stop him.
• Yinsen examined the extracted substance and identified it as a drug mixed with power from evil gods.
• Yinsen removed the drug’s effects from the others and gave them juice brewed by Mage Merlin to help them recover.
• Curt revealed that he had no cousin and could not remember why he had come to the cabin, convincing the others that Yinsen was helping them.
• Yinsen identified himself as an Exorcist and told the young people they had been chosen as sacrifices for the evil gods.

Yinsen warned the trapped young people about the monsters and the armed organization behind the Sacrifice Ritual, then prevented the control room’s gas from affecting them. Sitterson and Hadley sent out the Buckner Family and additional monsters while preparing armed personnel and a replacement group of sacrifices.

• Yinsen told Curt and the others that the area was sealed and that they would have to face the monsters rather than escape.
• Yinsen warned the people watching through the cameras to release everything, then discovered he had addressed the wrong camera.
• Yinsen dispersed the gas released inside the Wooden Cabin and gathered it into a compressed sphere, leaving Sitterson and Hadley unsure how he had done it.
• Hadley ordered the Buckner Family and additional groups of monsters to attack, while telling the Security Department to stand by.
• Yinsen urged the young people to stay together and warned them that the organization had armed personnel as well as monsters.
• Hadley prepared to abandon the current sacrifice and arrange another group if the Buckner Family failed.

Yinsen kept Dana, Holden, Curt, and the others inside the Wooden Cabin as monsters closed in, then demonstrated that his Holy Light could destroy undead. The group saw that the threat was real when another undead creature attacked through the floor, and Ada and Logan stopped it.

• Yinsen rejected Curt's suggestion to barricade the Wooden Cabin and told the group to stay near him as the Buckner Family approached.
• Logan warned Curt and the others to keep away from the doors and windows, and Yinsen said the undead could be killed by chopping them apart or burning them.
• Yinsen revealed an invisible ghost with a flash of light and destroyed it with Holy Light, showing the group why he had kept them inside.
• Logan pulled Curt away from an undead hand bursting through the floor, while Ada fired Holy Light-infused shells into the creature below.
• Ada checked the hole and confirmed that her shots had reduced the undead creature to an inert corpse.

Yinsen led Dana, Holden, and the others out of the Wooden Cabin to clear the surrounding monsters while the group sought a way to escape. After Ada and Logan effortlessly defeated their attackers, Yinsen continued searching the area for the hidden elevators that brought the monsters up.

• Yinsen warned Marty, Curt, and the others that they could survive if they followed orders, then led them outside to clear the monsters around the Wooden Cabin.
• Logan killed a giant bat that ambushed him, and Yinsen split a Buckner Family Member with a flaming blade and burned it.
• Ada slaughtered the ordinary zombies and stopped a werewolf's ambush with a kick.
• Ada used a chain to swing the werewolf into a zombie horde, then electrocuted it and pulled the chain back.
• Yinsen searched around the Wooden Cabin for the hidden elevators that sent the monsters up.

Yinsen and his companions entered the underground base, where he easily defeated its defenses and sought the people in charge. The group headed for the control room after a captured soldier agreed to guide them.

• Yinsen smashed a hostile mechanical monster with a giant magical hand, and Ada hacked the elevator to take control of it.
• Yinsen, Ada, Logan, Curt, Marty, Dana, and the others crowded into the elevator and passed the many monsters held inside the base.
• Ada opened the elevator doors despite armed soldiers waiting outside, and Yinsen blocked their bullets before knocking them aside with a shockwave.
• Yinsen captured a lightly injured soldier and learned that Mr. Hadley and Mr. Sitterson were in the control room.
• Yinsen made the soldier lead the group toward the control room, freezing a second squad of soldiers who tried to stop them.

Yinsen confronted Hadley and Sitterson over their organization’s sacrifices, then went to face the god beneath the base. At the stone platform, he sensed that the being was stronger than he expected but carried Titan Bloodline, making him eager to confront it.

• Yinsen accused Hadley and Sitterson of sacrificing innocent people and demanded that they take him to the being below.
• Yinsen revealed that he intended to see whether he could kill the god, and he noticed that Hadley and Sitterson had secretly carried out another sacrifice.
• Logan tortured Hadley with his heated Metal Claws while Yinsen forced Sitterson to lead the group to the stone platform.
• Curt and the others chose to stay with Yinsen rather than return to town.
• At the stone platform, Yinsen sensed the power beneath it and discovered that the being possessed Titan Bloodline.

Yinsen prepared to fight the Titan-blooded evil god beneath the stone platform, then lured it to the surface and faced its first attack. The battle began with Yinsen turning the creature’s shattered Space Barrier and its own Berserk Energy into a counterattack aimed at its chest.

• Yinsen sent Sitterson and Hadley into the abyss, then opened a portal so Logan, Ada, Curt, and the others could leave.
• Yinsen equipped the Gemini Gold Cloth, attached the Space Gem, and created three Arcane Orbs to strengthen his magic.
• Yinsen blasted through the stone platform with Purple Thunder, enraging the evil god and driving it toward the surface.
• The evil god emerged from beneath the Wooden Cabin as Curt, Logan, Ada, and the others watched from a distance.
• Yinsen and the evil god attacked each other, and Yinsen deliberately let its fist shatter his Space Barrier before redirecting the resulting energy into a counterattack.

Yinsen used several powerful spells to defeat the Evil God, whose Titan Bloodline let him endure a devastating magical assault. The Evil God died when Yinsen froze and severed his energy core, leaving Yinsen to consider the strength of his magic and the intact corpse he could harvest.

• Yinsen struck the Evil God with lightning and chaotic energy, then battered him with an explosive cosmic spell.
• The Evil God drove back the lightning and shattered Yinsen’s cosmic space with a beam of energy, while the spectators watched the battle’s destruction from a distance.
• When the beam disrupted nearby space and prevented ordinary teleportation, Yinsen absorbed it into an Otherworld Dimension and redirected it toward the Evil God as a feint.
• Yinsen’s hidden ice spear pierced the Evil God’s heart and froze his energy core, killing him while leaving most of his body intact.
• Yinsen reflected that he had become powerful and considered recovering the Evil God’s frozen core and corpse.