Chapter Summaries

Ronan defeated Adam and Li Weiqi, leaving only Serena between him and the end of the Helamus Bloodbath. As he approached her at his peak strength, Serena revealed the glowing golden rune on her forehead, beginning their final battle.

• Ronan broke through Adam's defenses and defeated him, then overwhelmed Li Weiqi and shattered the Unclean Mother's spell avatar.
• Ronan shed Li Weiqi's purple curse symbols, absorbed the mysterious lights from Adam and Li Weiqi, and expanded his soul phantom.
• Ronan declared that Serena was next, while spectators and Serena's followers reacted to his victories and debated his chances against her.
• Serena offered to discuss terms again, but Ronan refused her respect and advanced with his full strength and an oncoming wave of frost.
• Serena touched the rune on her forehead, causing it to blaze as Ronan's attack approached.

Ronan fought Serena with increasingly powerful frost magic and a desperate close-range strike, but her Dawn Magical Item set and ten Spiritual Power Crystals overwhelmed him. As Serena prepared a near-taboo golden arrow to finish him, Ronan broke free one hand and called on Hecalto to help him win once more.

• Ronan’s Three Law Domains Fusion attack failed against Serena’s golden defenses, and she revealed a full set of Dawn Magical Items that transformed her appearance and power.
• Ronan unleashed Hecalto’s Ancient Devour, enhanced with Multiple Mirror Lights, then pierced Serena’s barrier with Stasis and Spell Breaking Flame, but she remained unharmed and repelled him with brilliant golden light.
• The spectators saw ten Spiritual Power Crystals circling Serena, and the ancient wizards explained that she had entered the Mist Forbidden Zone and condensed a tenth crystal.
• Serena restrained Ronan with five golden rings and offered him powerful secrets and Helamus’s inheritance if he would obey her, but Ronan kept struggling.
• Serena formed a golden bow and fired an arrow whose power approached the taboo realm; as it descended, Ronan’s right hand broke free, and he called on Hecalto to help him win one more time.

As Serena’s victory over Ronan seemed to end the Talent Seat competition, Ronan survived and underwent a strange transformation linked to the Bloodline Crystal. He returned amid blood-red snowfall to challenge Serena again, leaving the gathering stunned and the conflict unresolved.

• Ronan’s Bloodline Crystal shattered into his heart, and he encountered an immense ancient serpent in a snowy vision before touching a blood-red rune on its scales.
• The gathered wizards believed Serena had defeated Ronan and discussed his legacy, while Havide reassured Orian that Serena likely had spared him.
• Lindis and a shadowy group appeared among the crowd, and Lindis prepared to confront the black-robed old woman, Doru.
• Dark-red lightning and blood-colored snow spread over the ruins, plunging the gathering into an eerie winter silence.
• Ronan’s voice rang out, telling Serena that their battle was not over.

Ronan awakened the Forbidden Red Ice power, defeated Serena, and claimed Helamus’s inheritance as Lindis unleashed a massacre and trapped the spectators in a Rune Array. The chapter ended with Ronan rising above the shaking Fairy Ancient City, while Lindis and the Black-robed old woman clashed in the sky.

• Ronan transformed and revealed the Forbidden Red Ice power, while Vivian recognized the awakening of the Ancient Evil Ice Cold Will and warned that it had to be stopped.
• Lindis sacrificed nearly a thousand spectators to form a Rune Array, trapped the gathering wizards, and ordered Doru to capture Ronan and Serena.
• The Black-robed old woman transformed from a Black Feather Vulture and attacked Lindis, and the two Dawn Rank figures collided above the city.
• Ronan overwhelmed Serena, shattered her golden arrow and armor, and left her defeated on the platform.
• Ronan claimed Helamus’s glass armlet inheritance, which briefly blocked Hecalto’s ancient will as the Fairy Ancient City rose around him.

After Ronan Damien won the battle for the prize, Level Five Wizards Vivian and Lindis fought while the trapped wizards joined forces to break the Rune Array. Just as their attacks nearly opened an escape route, a crimson-bladed figure arrived and struck the weakening barrier.

• Doru attacked Serena on the central platform after the Protection Rune barrier vanished, while a Dawn Wizard from the Life Royal Court intervened.
• Vivian transformed into a Level Five Wizard and fought Lindis, whose attack killed another Level Four Dawn Wizard and produced numerous powerful clones.
• Southern wizards and young Heaven's Chosen joined forces to attack the Rune Array as Vivian and the Dawn Wizards battled overhead.
• Serena fired a golden arrow that blasted a small gap in the Rune Array, raising hope among the trapped wizards.
• Red snow began to fall, and a figure wielding crimson twin blades slashed toward the crumbling edge of the Rune Array.

Ronan escaped the collapsing Fairy Ancient City Ruins by unleashing the Forbidden Black Hole from Helamus’s arm ring, but the backlash from Hecalto’s will left him facing a new life-or-death crisis. As he collapsed in a wilderness, the power he had borrowed began to transform his body and demand payment for their deal.

• A Level Four Wizard blocked the breach in the rune array and cut down wizards attempting to escape, but Serena’s arrow helped the dark-red figure break through.
• Lindis overwhelmed Doru and nearly crushed the escaping figure with a giant energy hand, until Ronan unleashed the Forbidden Black Hole and fled.
• Lindis abandoned his pursuit of Ronan to chase Vivian and the other fleeing figure, leaving Doru to deal with Serena as chaos spread through the ruins.
• Ronan collapsed in a wilderness and realized Helamus’s Law Adept Arm Ring had helped his Schubert’s Endless Vortex reach the Forbidden Law Domain.
• Hecalto’s will began painfully transforming Ronan’s body, as the price for their deal came due.

Ronan used the Master and Servant contract to divert half of Hecalto’s will into the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, forcing Hecalto to abandon his body and possess the serpent instead. While Ronan prepared to grow stronger before Hecalto returned, Anglie killed Li Weiqi and departed after sensing an irritating presence.

• Ronan invoked Posilena’s Master and Servant contract, sending Hecalto’s will into the dormant Ice Crystal Magic Serpent and clearing his Consciousness Space.
• Hecalto took over the serpent’s body, and Ronan found the lake ruins after the serpent fled.
• Ronan realized Hecalto would return once it recovered, and resolved to grow stronger while he had time.
• At the Fairy Ancient City Ruins, Li Weiqi demanded that Anglie find Ronan for Lord Lindis.
• Anglie killed Li Weiqi, consumed his heart, and took the Black Leather Book.
• Anglie collected the remaining soul fragments and disappeared into the shadows after sensing an irritating old presence.

After inheriting Helamus’s legacy and becoming chief Talent Seat, Ronan hid from the Resurrection Society while seeking a way to resolve his soul crisis and advance to Dawn. As he studied the Magic Controller Legacy, a flaming figure streaked toward his camp.

• The First Ring Master told the Silver Magic Ring’s Ring Masters that the Ancient Wizard Revival Society had caused thousands of deaths and that Wizard Rona had been called to stop the unrest.
• The First Ring Master announced that Ronan Damien had completed Helamus’s Blood War ritual, inherited Helamus’s legacy, and become chief Talent Seat, stunning Kosti and the other Ring Masters.
• A fleeing Serena collapsed before a golden-haired young man who called her his little sister, healed her, and blasted an approaching dark cloud with a beam of white-gold light.
• Ronan ignored most attempts to contact him, arranged to meet Ancient Spirit Wizard Evaqu, and reflected on his need to resolve his tangled soul before attempting to reach Dawn.
• Ronan examined his increased bloodline and Soul Power, then studied Helamus’s Magic Controller Legacy and Mafflin’s cowbell as a crimson meteor appeared to head toward him.

Ronan survived Moriel's falling fireball, acquired her broken Red Lotus Scepter, and fled rather than follow its call for help. Over the next three days, he learned the Ghost Arrow inheritance, prepared a powerful Nether Ghost as its arrow embryo, and considered how to advance beyond the Mist level before Itai began stirring strangely.

• Ronan extinguished Moriel's fireball with ice magic and found her broken Red Lotus Scepter frozen inside the falling ice.
• Ronan suspected the scepter was a distress signal, refused to pursue Moriel, and let Itai consume its metal while he recorded its runes.
• Ronan studied Mafflin's cowbell and discovered the Ghost Arrow inheritance, which used Nether Ghosts to attack souls.
• Ronan summoned and subdued Aihaxia, the powerful Nether Ghost Mafflin had raised as a potential arrow embryo.
• Ronan reviewed his strengthening body, growing Spiritual Power, and completed Golden Law soul sigil while considering the Mist Forbidden Zone and a tenth Spiritual Power Crystal.
• Itai began stirring beneath Ronan's robe and across his body.

Ronan pursued the Red Lotus Scepter to a village and found Moriel recovering inside a giant scarlet egg; when she seized him, their powers of flame and frost clashed. Elsewhere, Serena was teleported away after an apparent sacrifice by a royal prince, while Lindis and Doru continued searching for the Phoenix Family girl.

• Itai devoured part of the Red Lotus Scepter, and Ronan let the scepter escape so he could track its summons.
• Ronan followed the scepter to a village, where he found Moriel unconscious inside a giant scarlet object and chose not to take the scepter.
• Moriel awoke, wrapped her arms around Ronan, and dragged him into the scarlet egg as flames engulfed the village.
• A man gave his remaining power to Serena and sent her away with a high-level spatial Teleportation Array before Lindis and Doru arrived.
• Ronan struggled against Moriel inside the egg until his Ancient Frost Hydra Bloodline activated, unleashing frost against her flames.
• Crimson tendrils pierced Ronan from Moriel's body, and the frost outside the egg melted as the flames grew stronger.

Ronan survived Moriel’s attempt at nirvana rebirth when the Ice Ring awakened and froze the flames, revealing its connection to the Ice Emperor Inheritance. After Ronan and Moriel resumed fighting, a rune forced them into a symbiosis contract that linked their pain and senses, leaving them wounded and bewildered.

• Moriel’s Undying Bird bloodline drained Ronan’s vitality as she used him as kindling for her nirvana rebirth, while Hecalto briefly awakened in the Southern Continent.
• As Ronan neared death, Yarlis’ Ice Ring shattered and released a power that froze Moriel, the lava lake, and the surrounding wilderness.
• In the Northernmost Land, an ancient woman told Elsa that the other half of the Ice Emperor’s mark had awakened and sent her to claim the complete inheritance.
• Ronan emerged from the ice sculpture stronger and sensed a summons through the Ice Ring, which he recognized as Yarlis’ hidden power.
• Ronan attacked the revived Moriel, but a rune on each of their foreheads linked them through a symbiosis contract that made them share sensations and injuries.
• Ronan and Moriel fought across the plains until nightfall, then Moriel bitterly wondered how she could have formed a symbiosis contract with him.

Ronan traveled through the Howling Mountain Range with Moriel, bound to him by a growing symbiotic contract, while searching for Evaqu and considering how to make ice and fire energy coexist. He found the Moon Tree forest and announced himself in the local dialect after a thorn arrow attacked.

• Ronan realized Moriel’s interrupted attempt to seize his life force had bound them in a symbiotic contract, and he took her with him because they could not safely separate.
• Over five days of travel, Ronan and Moriel barely spoke, and he experimented with balancing ice and fire spells while heading toward Evaqu’s meeting place.
• Ronan concluded that ice and fire might coexist only if their powers were perfectly balanced and a neutral force harmonized them.
• Ronan and Moriel reached a glowing forest of Moon Trees, where Moriel struggled through the thorn-covered ground and Ronan carried her onward.
• A black thorn arrow flew at Ronan, but he stopped it with his Spiritual Power, then called out in the native dialect Evaqu had taught him.

Ronan met Evaqu in the Uta Clan and learned that their soul connection came from an Undying Bird nirvana gone wrong. Evaqu invited Ronan to enter the Hall of Spirits, where Ronan might also resolve the soul-fusion obstacle blocking his advancement, and Ronan ended the chapter considering a return to his hometown.

• Ronan and Moriel followed the Uta Clan to Evaqu, who was shocked to see Moriel and heard Ronan's account of their transformation.
• Evaqu explained that Moriel and Ronan's souls had intertwined, gave Ronan a finger bone that could conceal his soul fluctuations, and assured him that Moriel would not want to harm him.
• Evaqu revealed that he had entered the Hall of Spirits before and wanted Ronan, a soul aberrant, to assist him in a new inheritance trial; he also identified Anglie Leo as another possible candidate.
• Evaqu explained that fulfilling the unresolved obsessions of the souls within Ronan could help complete their fusion and ease his advancement to Dawn.
• Ronan considered the original Ronan's ties to his hometown, asked where the Hall of Spirits was, and joined the Uta Clan's banquet while Moriel sat apart by the bonfire.

Ronan prepared to leave Homer Blue for his East Coast homeland while studying his Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline and Helamus's inheritance. When a Level Four Dawn wizard arrived, Ronan opened the Forbidden Gate and prepared to hold him off as Moriel fell into danger.

• Ronan arranged passage to the East Coast through the Black Swan Chamber of Commerce and traveled to an inn in Homer Blue with Moriel.
• Moriel resented Ronan and threatened to make him repay her suffering, while Ronan struggled with the danger of keeping her beside him.
• Ronan cultivated and explored the Ancient Ice state, reflecting that using Scarlet Ice too often could make him Hecalto's servant.
• Ronan sensed Moriel singing next door, but she detected his attention and soon warned him that danger was approaching.
• A Level Four Dawn wizard in bone armor arrived above Homer Blue within a vast gray cloud, and Moriel taunted Ronan as he tried to knock her unconscious.
• Ronan carried Moriel out through a window, pushed open the Forbidden Gate, and prepared to confront the approaching wizard.

Ronan used Evaqu’s mysterious finger bone to escape the Resurrection Society wizard’s destruction of Homer Blue Town, shielding Moriel but suffering devastating burns. Seven days later, Ronan and Moriel were aboard a ship heading out to sea, with Ronan badly injured and still determined to take revenge.

• Moriel charged toward the approaching enemy, but Ronan restrained her as a Level Four wizard’s power descended on Homer Blue Town.
• Ronan found that his Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline suppressed Moriel’s Phoenix bloodline, preventing him from entering the Scarlet Ice state.
• As the enemy wizard destroyed the town, Ronan broke part of Evaqu’s finger bone and used its power to conceal himself and protect Moriel.
• After the wizard burned Homer Blue Town and left, Ronan and Moriel emerged from the scorched earth; Moriel wept for Vivian, and Ronan vowed to make the Resurrection Society pay.
• Seven days later, Ronan and Moriel boarded a ship bound for the sea; Ronan reflected on the departing apprentices before his mask fell and revealed his badly burned face.

Ronan recovered from his Bone Flame injuries while cultivating in seclusion aboard a ship bound for the East Coast. After he emerged, Moriel revealed she had told their shipmates that they had eloped, just as the sky suddenly darkened and the sea turned turbulent.

• Ronan treated his wounds, trained in Golden Fire Spirit Moye’s spells, and researched runes while Itai devoured the Red Lotus Scepter and Dodol III wandered his room.
• After more than a month aboard ship, Ronan’s injuries had mostly healed, and he went out onto the deck for the first time.
• Ronan noticed that Moriel’s strength was recovering, and she said she did not want to remain helpless under his control.
• Moriel described the green-haired girl’s tragic past, then explained that she had told the others she and Ronan had eloped and that his family opposed their relationship.
• The fiery clouds vanished, the sky darkened, and the sea began to churn violently.

A storm revealed an enormous ancient silver sea eel, and Ronan pursued it under the pull of his bloodline and what he believed was fate before waking safely at sea. He returned to the spellship, reflected on his desire to understand and control his destiny, and later learned the ship would reach the East Coast in less than a week.

• A violent storm struck the spellship, and a colossal silver sea eel rose from the waves and passed nearby, destroying the ship’s protective array.
• Ronan felt compelled to pursue the creature, leapt into the sea, and saw its full form underwater before losing consciousness.
• Ronan woke floating on calm water and rejoined the spellship with the stern black-marked man, while Moriel pretended to be relieved and embraced him.
• Moriel explained that ancient creatures’ life force fields could draw weaker beings toward them, and Ronan concluded that his pursuit had also been driven by fate.
• Ronan resumed cultivating as the journey continued, and Beatrice asked Moriel whether she would travel with them when the ship reached the East Coast.

Ronan and Moriel traveled toward the East Coast with Beatrice and her companions when the Voodoo Cult caught up to them. Ronan revealed his late Third Level strength, killed a pursuing Third Level Wizard with his Golden-enhanced spell, and left everyone aboard the airship stunned.

• Beatrice invited Moriel to stay with her after they parted ways, while Ronan teased Moriel about their supposed romance.
• Ronan noticed a red-haired apprentice hoping for help, examined Evaqu's mysterious bone finger, and saw a Voodoo Cult airship approaching.
• Soby fought a Voodoo Cult Third Level Wizard with his strange armor, while Beatrice urged Ronan and Moriel to escape with her.
• Another Voodoo Cult Third Level Wizard immobilized the airship with his Spiritual Force Field, but Ronan broke free and revealed his late Third Level strength.
• Ronan struck the Wizard with Spirit Maya Black Steel Touch, then used Schubert's Golden Law to transform the spell and kill him as he fled.

Ronan effortlessly killed a Third Level Wizard of the Voodoo Sect, then learned that Beatrice Perik’s family was being hunted over ancient [Malice Weapons] and their blueprints. Moriel identified the [Cowardice Set] as an evil magical implement modeled on an Abyss Demon, leaving Ronan with a new connection to investigate.

• Ronan froze the Voodoo Sect Wizard and nearly ten miles of sea, while the stern man and the apprentices watched in shock.
• Beatrice Perik offered Ronan a hundred thousand high-grade magic stones and an iron box; Ronan accepted them and found a strange dagger and black parchment inside.
• The stern man explained that the dagger was a [Malice Weapon] and that the Perik Family was being hunted for three sets of ancient blueprints.
• Ronan assembled the [Cowardice Set] blueprints into the image of a savage monster and learned that the Perik Family had five [Malice Weapons] and three sets of blueprints.
• Moriel explained that magical implement sets imitated powerful creatures and identified the [Cowardice Set] as modeled on the [Cowardice Demon] among the [Abyss Demons].

Moriel revealed that the ancient wizards’ reckless use of World Stones brought Abyss Demons into the world, and Ronan and Moriel parted ways with Beatrice before returning to the East Coast. Ronan sensed that the region could help resolve his soul problem, sent Harry toward Demili Plateau, and arrived near his old home as Wild Wheat was ready for harvest.

• Moriel told Ronan that Abyss Demons had helped cause the ancient catastrophe and that the Resurrection Society served them, seeking to reopen sealed Space Passages.
• Moriel secretly marked Beatrice during their farewell, and Ronan and Moriel left the ship while Harry swam after them.
• Ronan gave the exhausted Harry a Rune Stone that revealed the name Demili Plateau, inspiring him to keep pursuing the chance to become a wizard.
• After reaching the East Coast, Ronan sensed that returning there could help resolve his soul problem and continued inland with Moriel.
• Ronan and Moriel reached the area near his home, where Ronan picked Wild Wheat and recalled the hardship of the commoners under his father’s rule.