Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter introduces the concept of "Going Premium," an in-story service that allows readers to access additional content and features.
• The narrator encourages readers to report errors to speed up updates, suggesting that manual repairs may take 1-3 days if automatic fixes fail.
• Readers are advised to find alternative books to read while waiting for updates to avoid boredom.

Character Developments

• No significant character developments in this chapter as it is primarily a meta-narrative addressing the reader.

Significant Themes

• Patience and understanding: The narrator asks readers to be patient while waiting for updates and repairs.
• Community engagement: Encourages readers to share the book to increase readership and speed up updates.

Character Interactions

• The narrator directly addresses the reader, creating an interactive and conversational tone.

Caroso fought Teresa after she arrived by helicopter, and the two renewed their friendship before the academy exchange began. When Merlin arrived with Avalon Academy, Caroso recognized Nimel’s brother and learned through the Netizens’ revelations that Merlin had a surprisingly embarrassing private life.

• Teresa descended from a helicopter and exchanged dozens of sword blows with Caroso until they called their match a draw.
• Karei feared Caroso’s growing influence, Harvey considered ways to oppose him, and Elena worried that Teresa might pursue a marriage with Caroso.
• Teresa told Caroso she had come to the academy to see him, and they joined the Vice Principal, Blank, Kong, and the prince to welcome the visitors.
• Merlin arrived with the Avalon Academy delegation, greeted the academy officials, and sensed an unexplained threat from Caroso.
• Caroso identified Nimel’s biological brother among the visitors and agreed with Teresa’s suggestion to beat him up.
• The Netizens revealed intimate details about Merlin, prompting Caroso to look at her strangely while Merlin wondered how he seemed to see through her.

Caroso returned to class and chose Nimel as his card-making assistant for the exchange meeting. When he and Bai went to find her, Nimel confronted her estranged brother Maren, and Caroso attacked him as he approached her.

• Teresa visited Caroso's dormitory, praised his potential, and invited him to return to the Presia Empire, but he said staying at the academy was his father's decision.
• Back in class, Bai taught about follower cards and special summoning conditions, while Elena grew jealous when Caroso praised Teresa.
• Rayne and Elena offered to assist Caroso at the card maker exchange, but he chose Nimel because they had worked together for years.
• Caroso and Bai went to the Elemental Mage Academy, where Nimel met Maren and rejected his claim that he had tried to protect her.
• Caroso grabbed Maren by the neck, slammed him to the ground, and stomped on his face for approaching Nimel.

Caroso explained why Nimel's former family had traded her away and revealed that he had known Maren stole her staff, while Bai teased him about being jealous of Nimel. At the cardmaker exchange, the competition rules and materials were announced, and Caroso declared that he wanted to make a card by himself.

• Caroso explained that the Prodemore family had traded Nimel away to benefit Maren, and that Maren had taken Nimel's two-star Legendary Card staff.
• Caroso said he had punished Nimel to teach her to separate herself from her former family, and Bai teased him about being jealous; Nimel realized she feared Caroso abandoning her.
• Bai brought Caroso and Nimel to the exchange, where students from Avalon Academy, Bear Empire Academy, and Mal Magic Academy gathered.
• Kong announced a three-star cardmaking competition focused on versatility, with academy-provided materials, three permitted failed cards, and a three-day limit; Merlin supported the rules.
• After the materials were displayed, Caroso told the viewers that he wanted to create a card himself, despite their urging him to focus on meeting Alita.

Caroso spent most of the three-day cardmaking competition mentally simulating a new design before finally crafting an Epic card from the limited materials. The chapter ended with the card’s purple glow confirming his success, though its versatility and the competition’s result remained unknown.

• Caroso told Nimel that he wanted to create a card himself rather than rely solely on his own abilities, then spent two days simulating possible designs without touching the materials.
• Teresa dismissed Prince Rayne’s attempt to approach her, then befriended Elena and openly said she had come to watch Caroso compete.
• Kong explained that most contestants were making familiar cards while Caroso was mentally testing original designs; several teams submitted ordinary or narrowly useful cards as the competition continued.
• With less than four hours remaining, Caroso began assembling materials with Nimel’s help, prompting Kong and Bai to suspect he was attempting an Epic card.
• Caroso concealed his methods while building an elemental giant and carving magic circles into it, as spectators doubted he could succeed with the available materials.
• Five minutes before the deadline, a purple glow appeared in Caroso’s laboratory, confirming that he had made an Epic card.

Caroso won the cardmaker competition by creating the Epic follower Raging Element, then collapsed from exhaustion and fell asleep. The Prince learned that Grand Duke Kolia would go to war if Caroso were killed in the royal capital, while the King asked how the kingdom could salvage the exchange meet.

• Caroso’s Raging Element stunned the judges, and Kong announced him as the competition’s winner.
• Caroso emerged to the crowd’s cheers, then collapsed into Nimel’s arms from exhaustion and depleted magic power.
• The Cleric Academy dean restored Caroso’s magic power, and he fell asleep as the Netizens worried about his safety.
• King told the Prince that Grand Duke Kolia wanted a division transferred to the royal capital and would attack if Caroso died there.
• The Prince reported the kingdom’s defeats at the exchange meet and suggested sending Caroso to compete in the warrior exchange.

Caroso accepted the academy’s challenge to face Teresa in the warrior exchange, and the two fought an increasingly brutal, evenly matched duel. The fight left them battered and still swinging as the headmaster arrived.

• Caroso woke to find Nimel asleep beside him after she had watched over him all night, and he kissed her forehead before leaving to collect his reward.
• Rayne told Caroso that Teresa had defeated every third-rank warrior at the academy, so Caroso agreed to fight her.
• Caroso and Teresa matched each other in strength and traded attacks, then used Blade Storm until both were nearly out of magic power.
• Teresa recognized that Caroso had the God of War’s favor, while Caroso continued fighting without a Warrior imprint.
• Caroso and Teresa wounded each other, shattered their swords, and continued brawling with their fists as the crowd cheered.
• The headmaster arrived to find Caroso and Teresa still fighting furiously in the arena.

Caroso and Teresa fought to a draw, becoming friends before Caroso collected his reward and reunited with Nimel. As Krumen escorted Nimel away, Maren stopped her to explain, and Nimel slapped him with her glove.

• Caroso and Teresa fought until both were injured, then shared a smile and became friends.
• Caroso collected the Legendary weapon Twilight Chrome from the headmaster and chose to keep his invented card rather than sell it.
• Caroso ordered Nimel to confine herself for three days but rewarded her with Magic Crystal Coins and thanked her for the previous night.
• Krumen escorted Nimel back, and she learned that Caroso might be jealous of her contact with Maren.
• Maren blocked Nimel and tried to explain himself, so Nimel flung her glove against his chest.

Nimel rejected Maren’s attempt to reclaim their sibling relationship and challenged him to a duel. She exposed that he still had her staff and used her cards and mage abilities to gain the upper hand, leaving Maren overwhelmed.

• Nimel threw down Maren’s glove, rejected the Proudmoore name, and insisted that Caroso was her older brother.
• Nimel challenged Maren to a duel, and they went to the arena under the rules for a Tier Four fighting a Tier Three.
• Maren summoned a three-star Rose Staff that Nimel recognized as the staff he had taken from her.
• Nimel summoned her own three-star staff and used two Hand of Greed cards to gain an advantage in the duel.
• Maren’s flames nearly melted Nimel’s Ice Elements, but Nimel combined them with Ice Dragon’s Breath and suppressed him.

Nimel defeated Maren in the arena and continued beating him after he tried to surrender, insisting she was following Caroso’s example. Merlin asked the Vice Principal to arrange a meeting with Caroso, while Alita remained unavailable unless Merlin met the tournament champion.

• Merlin praised Nimel’s skill, asked to meet Caroso, and learned that Alita would only meet the tournament champion.
• Maren accused Nimel of exceeding the card limit, but the arena teacher told him to file a complaint after the match.
• Nimel rebuked Maren for doubting her and said Caroso would focus on defeating an opponent rather than questioning the rules.
• Nimel’s Ice Elements knocked Maren down, then stopped him from surrendering and continued attacking him.
• The Vice Principal tried to make Nimel stop, but Nimel claimed Maren was still able to fight and declared the matter a private dispute between siblings.
• After Maren was rendered unconscious, Nimel saluted him and said she looked forward to their next match.

Caroso visited Professor Alita and learned that she needed Water of Blessing and New Moon Gold to make a curse-resistant leg for her father. He promised to retrieve the rare material from a third-tier dungeon, and Alita agreed to work for him if he succeeded.

• Caroso heard students say Nimel had beaten Maren and was pleased that she had stood up to her biological older brother.
• Caroso met Professor Alita in her concealed laboratory and offered to obtain the materials she needed to make her father a new leg.
• Caroso explained Alita's long search for New Moon Gold, then promised to bring her some from a third-tier dungeon within a week.
• Alita shared how her father's injury, failed hopes, and financial struggles had driven her to shut herself away, and she agreed to serve Caroso if he helped her father.
• Caroso left, insisting that he was different from Merlin and that he had his companions' support.

After his card-crafting exchange victory, Caroso returned to class, reviewed his test scores, and asked for another week of leave. He told Elena he planned to accompany Teresa and build ties with her, while Elena worried that their relationship might become a political match.

• Caroso told the principal he was not ready to craft a card and would return in a few days, then went back to class.
• Caroso asked Bai for seven days of leave and handed her the completed test papers she had assigned.
• Bai gave Caroso his scores; he considered them low despite passing every subject and scoring above ninety in two.
• Caroso told Elena he would take Teresa around to build a good relationship with her, making Elena jealous and uneasy.
• Rayne returned with the other cardmakers, congratulated Caroso, and class began with a lesson on plants.

Merlin invited Caroso to join Utopia, presenting it as a mobile, armed mutual-aid organization for researchers. Caroso declined to commit, and afterward told Teresa’s exchange group that he valued them over Utopia.

• After class, Caroso met Merlin and the Vice Principal, who asked to speak with him in the Vice Principal’s office.
• Merlin praised Caroso’s cardmaking and mental simulation, then explained her plan to gather researchers in Utopia and protect them aboard an airborne carrier.
• Caroso questioned whether Utopia could truly protect its members and asked if it would join a large-scale war; Merlin said it would remain focused on research.
• Merlin invited Caroso to become an outer member, but Caroso only offered to cooperate with Utopia if an opportunity arose.
• After leaving the office, Caroso went to Teresa’s exchange group and said Utopia did not appeal to him, adding that he would choose the group over a mature Utopia.

Caroso recruited Teresa to help him enter a dangerous third-tier dungeon in five days, then attended the warrior exchange meeting. Teresa told him that his controlled fighting style might be holding back his strength, leaving him to consider whether emotion could help him reach his potential.

• Caroso asked Teresa to accompany him into a third-tier dungeon appearing in five days, and she agreed to delay her departure and prepare.
• Caroso brought Nimel to the exchange meeting and attended the warrior session, where students from other academies questioned his choice to become a cardmaker.
• Caroso defended his profession and argued that his God of War's mark and ability to use warrior cards made him a capable fighter.
• Teresa challenged the Avalon student's cautious approach to combat and said Caroso could have beaten her in their match.
• Teresa explained that Caroso's calm, calculating style might limit his potential because he had never experienced how emotion could fuel his strength.

Caroso struggled with Teresa’s advice about emotion before joining the card maker exchange, where his critiques and ideas sparked debate and taught him as much as they taught the other students. He explained that his epic card traded combat power for discounted card draws, and the audience applauded its practical value.

• Caroso questioned whether Teresa was right that emotion could help him, then arrived at the card maker exchange meeting.
• Bai invited Caroso to share his views, and he identified flaws in the students’ cards and suggested ways to improve them.
• Caroso argued with a card maker about innovation and proposed adding Demon Blood to the Fishman Card, while Bai kept their debate on track.
• Caroso reviewed the other cards, winning some arguments and learning from card makers whose experience exceeded his own.
• Caroso revealed his epic card and explained that its reduced mana cost let students use otherwise wasted points to summon extra White Elite minions, earning applause from the audience.

Caroso prepared for a dungeon expedition with Nimel and Teresa, but Kong arrived to give them newly developed Communication Snail cards and explain their upcoming release. After the group exchanged soul imprints, Kong pulled Caroso aside and asked him to keep a secret.

• Caroso and Nimel spent several days crafting practical cards before the agreed day of their expedition arrived.
• Kong gave Caroso three one-star Communication Snail cards and explained that Avalon Academy had developed them for a mass release on September 16.
• Teresa criticized the delay in releasing a card that could help dungeon adventurers, while Caroso and Kong discussed its cost and potential benefits.
• Caroso passed one Communication Snail card each to Nimel and Teresa, and the three exchanged soul imprints while concealing their own cards.
• Kong called Caroso aside and asked him to keep his secret.

Caroso, Teresa, and Nimel went to a tavern in Cantwell to enter a special advancement dungeon. While waiting for the entrance to appear, Teresa asked Caroso whether he wanted to change the world, and he said he hoped to improve Azure Wolf Province after considering his friends’ ideas.

• Caroso realized that Kong had given him the card because Kong remembered Caroso identifying his S++ mental power potential at the start of school.
• Caroso, Teresa, and Nimel arrived at a tavern in Cantwell, where Caroso confirmed that a dungeon entrance was hidden inside.
• Caroso learned from the comments that the dungeon entrance would appear in a wall between 9:10 and 9:20 and that its opponents would be Tier Four.
• Teresa drank cheap liquor and discussed the difficult lives of the tavern’s patrons, while Caroso stopped Nimel from drinking.
• Teresa asked whether Caroso wanted to change the world, and Caroso said he might listen to his friends’ visions before deciding on reforms, with the aim of making Azure Wolf Province better.

Caroso followed information from his friends to a hidden dungeon entrance beneath the tavern, bringing Nimel, Teresa, and Will with him. Merlin arrived with hired adventurers and entered after restraining Will, then questioned how Caroso had found the unrecorded entrance.

• Will drove away a group of drunken men by revealing his seventh-tier card.
• Caroso led Nimel, Teresa, and Will through a wall in the tavern kitchen after the comments identified it as the entrance.
• Merlin arrived with hired adventurers and restrained Will with a Binding Spell.
• Merlin warned the adventurers not to hurt a little girl carrying a greatsword, and they entered the dungeon until its challenger limit was reached.
• Merlin asked Will how Caroso had known about the unrecorded dungeon entrance.

Caroso, Nimel, and Teresa entered the Wax Museum dungeon and discovered that their supposed companions were monsters in disguise. Teresa attacked them, while the black-robed figure controlling the dungeon struggled to read Caroso and Nimel’s memories and cards.

• Caroso and Teresa realized that the adventurers who appeared with them might be monsters, and the comments warned Caroso not to trust them.
• Caroso used his Communication Card to test the people around him, and Teresa received his warning that everyone before her was a monster.
• Teresa unleashed Blade Storm, exposed the monsters’ featureless faces, and killed four before fleeing as they summoned endless wax minions.
• The dungeon increased to Tier 4, and Teresa decided to use ambushes and tactics to fight the monsters.
• On the sixth floor, a black-robed man discovered that his magic circle could not read Caroso and Nimel’s bullet-comment-related memories or cards, then interpreted the failure as a trial from his lord.

Caroso kept the adventurers from suspecting the impostors while investigating the fourth-rank dungeon, where a priest melted to death and the group uncovered links to the Wax Museum. After Caroso triggered a wax statue, Fake Teresa destroyed it, deepening his conviction that the Faceless Monsters were convincingly imitating his companions.

• Caroso comforted Fake Nimel and let Fake Teresa take charge as the adventurers panicked over the dungeon's rank increase.
• The priest melted into wax, and Caroso suspected he had copied a teammate's cards and died before noticing the impostors.
• Caroso and the spectators identified the dungeon as resembling the Wax Museum and discussed how its monsters and mechanisms might work.
• At the spectators' suggestion, Caroso struck a differently colored wax statue, causing it to awaken and attack him.
• Fake Teresa cut the statue in half with her greatsword, and Caroso realized the monsters were genuinely dying to sustain their act.