Chapter Summaries

Ronan studied the Comb-boned Demon Snail’s Spiral Palace and tested the destructive power of his high-level Ancient Power, then spent five months constructing the First Spiral Palace while traveling to the Central Continent. After arriving, he contacted Evaqu to keep their appointment.

• Ronan discovered that the Comb-boned Demon Snail was an otherworldly creature and learned its life-force method could help strengthen his body against Ancient Power’s backlash.
• Ronan activated [Immaculate Body] with high-level Ancient Power, tore through the Gobi Desert with a claw strike, and suffered severe vitality loss.
• Ronan concluded that the Soul Ignition Potion might hold the key to Ascetic Body Forging, but planned to build the Spiral Palace while traveling to the Central Continent.
• Over the next five months, Ronan constructed the First Spiral Palace and arrived in the Central Continent aboard a badly damaged airship.
• Ronan burned the medicinal powder Evaqu had given him, and Evaqu’s face appeared in the flames to acknowledge their appointment.

Ronan reunited with Evaqu and traveled with him to the Hall of Spirits, where Evaqu prepared a Faceless Stone Man ritual for their entry. As Evaqu explained the ancient origins of Holy Shrines and their imitation divine power, Ronan realized it might be connected to Anglie’s Soul Ignition Potion and felt the sacred tree mark over his heart begin to flicker.

• Ronan waited by a stream until Evaqu arrived, and Evaqu noted that Ronan had nearly resolved his soul problem and might be able to help with Hecalto’s lingering will.
• Ronan and Evaqu traveled through the wilderness for five days and reached a swamp entrance to the Hall of Spirits.
• Evaqu spent three days carrying animal corpses from the swamp and performing soul rites until the swamp vanished, revealing a black Faceless Stone Man.
• Under the full moon, Evaqu and Ronan each offered blood to the stone man, which began shedding black liquid from two holes in its face.
• Ronan recognized the stone as similar to a Holy Shrine Altar, and Evaqu explained that Holy Shrines were ancient wizard-made imitations connected to divine power from the Mythological Era.
• When Evaqu said ancient wizards had used Holy Shrine Power in potions, Ronan connected it to Anglie’s Soul Ignition Potion, and the sacred tree pattern over his heart flickered.

Ronan and Evaqu entered the Hall of Spirits and traveled through its ancient resting place, where generations of spirit wizards lay in stone. At the plaza of the Twenty-Four Wizard Chiefs, Evaqu urged Ronan to seek the inheritance of Dragon Wizard Chief Bahafos, and Ronan agreed to try.

• Ronan and Evaqu submerged themselves in the black liquid and entered the Hall of Spirits Space in their physical bodies.
• Evaqu guided Ronan through the dark space and up a staircase to the Hall of Spirits Resting Place, where they saw plazas of statues representing ancient spirit wizards.
• Ronan and Evaqu climbed through five statue plazas and reached the twenty-four Wizard Chiefs, most of whose statues had collapsed or decayed.
• Evaqu identified the largest surviving statue as Dragon Wizard Chief Bahafos, a Pureblood Dragon and one of three Grandmasters who oversaw the soul transformation system.
• Evaqu suggested Ronan seek Bahafos's inheritance to resolve his remaining soul problems, and Ronan agreed to try.

Ronan failed to receive Bahafos’s inheritance after enduring a violent vision, then agreed to help Evaqu through the Wolf Wizard Chief’s trial despite learning that each intervention could cost him ten years of soul lifespan. While Evaqu entered the trial, Ronan guarded the Soul Disk and heard an unexplained rumbling in the empty plaza.

• Ronan touched Bahafos’s statue and was overwhelmed by a vision of a golden dragon, where he overheard Bahafos angrily rejecting a mysterious whisper before the vision expelled him.
• Evaqu confirmed that Ronan had failed the inheritance trial and invited him to watch over the Soul Disk while he attempted the Wolf Wizard Chief’s trial.
• Evaqu revealed that turning the Soul Disk could consume up to ten years of Ronan’s soul lifespan each time, and Ronan agreed to help despite the possible cost.
• Evaqu entered the black wolf statue’s trial, leaving Ronan alone with the slowly rotating Soul Disk.
• Ronan studied the statues and wondered about the voices he had heard in Bahafos’s vision, then heard a rumbling sound despite the Soul Disk remaining unchanged.

Ronan discovered a living Dark Silver Tail-less Dragon hidden beneath Bahafves's statue, and the dragon nearly killed him with a single blow. As it pursued him across the plaza, Ronan unleashed his Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline and attacked with the secret art Five Heads. Hecalto's Ancient Devour.

• Ronan investigated the altered shadow beneath Bahafves's statue and was swallowed by darkness, where he encountered a hidden creature.
• The Dark Silver Tail-less Dragon struck Ronan across the plaza, leaving him severely injured as the Vitality Orb began repairing his body.
• The dragon emerged from beneath Bahafves's statue and chased Ronan as he tried to escape and wait for Evaqu.
• Ronan activated Ancient Ice and cast Snow Country in Palm, but the dragon crushed the spell with one claw.
• Ronan gathered the scattered frost into an ice lake and used Five Heads. Hecalto's Ancient Devour to attack the dragon with five giant serpent phantoms.

Ronan endured the dark silver tail-less dragon’s pursuit and chose to turn Evaqu’s Soul Disk for a second trial chance, even as the dragon struck him down. His Ancient Demon God Body awakened and he launched a powerful punch at the dragon, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Ronan’s Hecalto’s Ancient Devour froze the dark silver tail-less dragon briefly, but the dragon broke free and pursued him across the statue square.
• When Evaqu’s Soul Disk began reversing, Ronan decided to turn it and give Evaqu another chance despite the dragon closing in.
• The dragon slammed its claw down on Ronan, but an unseen force lifted it and blasted the dragon away.
• Ronan emerged in his Ancient Demon God Body, empowered by the First Spiral Palace and the Blue Snail’s life energy.
• Ronan shielded Evaqu’s Soul Disk and attacked the dark silver tail-less dragon with a powerful punch, and their blows collided in an explosive clash.

Ronan fought the Dark Silver Tail-less Dragon in the statue plaza, using his newly formed Spirit Force Battle Axe to sever its claw before being overwhelmed by its rage. As the dragon moved to attack Evaqu, the oldest humanoid Wizard Chief statue collapsed, and a Golden Ladybug appeared, frightening the dragon away and flooding Ronan with information.

• Ronan clashed with the Dark Silver Tail-less Dragon and formed a Spirit Force Battle Axe from his Ancient Power.
• Ronan severed one of the dragon’s claws, then aimed another strike at its neck.
• The enraged dragon repelled Ronan and pursued him as he fled around Bahafves' statue.
• The dragon turned toward Evaqu's Soul Disk, and Ronan rushed to intercept it as Evaqu began emerging through a door of light.
• The oldest humanoid Wizard Chief statue collapsed, and a Golden Ladybug appeared, making the dragon retreat in terror.
• The Golden Ladybug enveloped Ronan in golden light and sent a torrent of information into his mind, causing him to lose consciousness.

Ronan received an ancient soul-cultivation inheritance called Spirit Heart Amber from Alazan, the former guardian of the Hall of Spirits, while learning that Evaqu had been possessed by Gorini. After Ronan insisted that the Golden Ladybug sign his Master and Servant contract, Alazan revealed himself as its voice and began to explain the inheritance before falling asleep from exhaustion.

• Ronan woke in the forest after escaping the Hall of Spirits, and the Golden Ladybug showed him Evaqu being abandoned by the Wolf Wizard Chief and possessed by Gorini.
• Possessed by Gorini, Evaqu escaped the Hall of Spirits and planned to recover his strength and seek out Alazan.
• Seven days later, Ronan examined the completed inheritance in his Consciousness Space and identified it as Spirit Heart Amber, a soul-cultivation legacy.
• Ronan refused the Golden Ladybug's contract and demanded that it accept his Master and Servant contract instead; the contract formed successfully.
• Ronan crushed Evaqu's Communication Stone and mourned his fate before the Golden Ladybug spoke, identified itself as Alazan, and fell asleep after beginning to explain Spirit Heart Amber.

Ronan touched Alazan’s black dandelion and endured a seventy-two-year life as a powerless child, wandering bard, and failed wizard before returning to his body. Alazan revealed that the Spirit Heart Amber had strengthened Ronan’s will, and the memories from the dream formed his eleventh Spiritual Power Crystal.

• Ronan sent a bluebird message to the Elemental Magic Ring and touched the black dandelion in his Consciousness Space.
• Ronan awoke in the body of a village child and feared that Alazan had taken over his life and that his wizarding past might have been a dream.
• Ronan fled the village, became a wandering thief and bard, and spent his life pursuing wizardry without gaining the ability to meditate.
• Ronan died beside a campfire after a final failed attempt at meditation, then awoke in the cave and realized he had returned from the Reincarnation Dream Realm.
• Alazan told Ronan that he had spent seventy-two years in the dream but only seventy-two days in reality, and the memories merged into Ronan’s soul to form his eleventh Spiritual Power Crystal.

After the Dream of Reincarnation gave Ronan an eleventh Spiritual Power Crystal, Alazan explained how Spirit Heart Amber strengthened a soul by layering real lives and warned him to recover before attempting another dream. Ronan left the Blazing Flame Realm cave and reached the Elemental Magic Ring wizards, where Cooper greeted him as a long-awaited future pride of the Arcane Circle.

• Ronan condensed an eleventh Spiritual Power Crystal, and Alazan explained that Dream of Reincarnation excavated the soul’s buried potential by adding the memories of another real life.
• Alazan warned Ronan not to attempt another reincarnation dream until he had sorted through its memories, then returned to slumber inside Ronan.
• Ronan saw that his Spiritual Power had begun increasing beyond its former limit, replenished his strength, and sent his reply bird toward the Elemental Magic Ring wizards.
• Ronan flew across the Blazing Flame Realm and approached a huge bird-shaped magical aircraft while recording the landscape with Speerbit’s Myriad Treasure Orb.
• Cooper Eldrick and Lumian Malcolm Bell met Ronan, and Cooper enthusiastically welcomed him as the future pride of the Arcane Circle.

Ronan inspected the surveillance arrays in his new quarters and arranged for Alazan to monitor Cooper and Lumian. As the Silver Falcon crossed the Storm Realm, Cooper warned Ronan about the Storm Weaver and the danger surrounding Helamus's Magic Controller Legacy, then secretly called for preparations to make a move.

• Ronan found more than thirty surveillance arrays in his villa and discovered that its protective barriers could not be opened from inside.
• Ronan asked Alazan to watch Cooper and Lumian, and Alazan agreed to alert him if they made any unusual moves.
• Cooper explained that the Silver Falcon was crossing the Storm Realm, home to the powerful Storm Weaver, and warned Ronan not to challenge it.
• Ronan showed Cooper the arm ring from Helamus's Talent Competition, and Cooper warned him never to display the Magic Controller Legacy carelessly.
• After leaving Ronan, Cooper summoned someone and said it was time to prepare to make their move.

Ronan discovered that his first Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline deduction had instead purified his Moonlight Elf bloodline, then learned from a vision that Cooper and Lumian planned to poison him. He escaped their ambush aboard the Silver Falcon and confronted them near the Storm Realm, where he revealed a powerful Spiritual Force Field.

• Ronan completed his first bloodline deduction, which purified his Moonlight Elf bloodline and reduced his Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline concentration from six percent to five percent.
• Ronan continued practicing the Primordial Star Meditation Technique and discussed with Alazan the lingering effects of his Dream of Reincarnation and the unavailable ingredient for Clarity Potion.
• A vision showed Cooper and Lumian discussing Fomingge's plan and using Purple Mist Flower Juice against Ronan, so Ronan decided to leave the airship early with Alazan's help.
• Cooper poisoned a bowl of soup for Ronan, but Ronan used a clone to fool the surveillance array and escape the Silver Falcon.
• Cooper and Lumian tracked Ronan through the storm and cornered him beside the Storm Realm, where Ronan unveiled a vast golden Spiritual Force Field and warned that he did not want to kill Arcane Circle people.

Ronan unleashed overwhelming Spiritual Power and fought Cooper and Lumian, two Level Four Dawn Wizards, after tearing up his Silver Magic Ring Soul Contract. He froze Lumian inside an iceberg and turned toward Cooper, who questioned whether he was really Ronan Damien.

• Ronan revealed Spiritual Power that surpassed both Cooper and Lumian, then destroyed his Soul Contract after they attacked him.
• Ronan unleashed his law domains and spells against Cooper and Lumian, resisting their combined attacks and blocking Cooper’s elemental Spiritual Power with the Diamond Heart Spell.
• Ronan’s ancient frost and forbidden domain overwhelmed the battlefield, freezing Lumian inside an iceberg while Golden Tentacles pierced his chest.
• Cooper fled to the edge of the battlefield and saw Ronan standing beside the frozen Lumian.
• Cooper demanded to know whether Ronan was the real Ronan Damien, and Ronan calmly told him his will to fight was too weak.

Ronan was lured into the range of a Remote Projection Array as Cooper and Lumian helped unleash an attack from a Level Five Wizard’s Elemental Spirit Avatar. Ronan killed Lumian and faced the barrage in his Ancient Demon God Body state, while Cooper watched in horror as the surrounding energy began flowing toward Ronan.

• Ronan exposed Cooper’s Purple Mist Flower Juice deception, but Cooper turned to black smoke and fled, drawing Ronan toward the Silver Falcon Airship.
• Alazan warned Ronan that a Remote Projection Array was summoning an Elemental Spirit Avatar, and Ronan tried to escape as the airship’s rune-lit screens formed a vast hexagram.
• Lumian attacked Ronan, and the hexagram fired spatially guided black energy beams that Ronan narrowly dodged.
• Ronan entered his Ancient Demon God Body state, seized Lumian, and used an incoming energy beam to kill him before capturing his emerging soul in the Square-Horned Cowbell.
• Ronan defended himself against the next barrage while Cooper watched, then noticed the sky grow calm and all the energy in the area flow toward Ronan.

Ronan escaped Fomingge by entering the Storm Realm, while Fomingge ordered Cooper to report that Ronan had been executed. Kosti learned of the report and set out for the central region to confront her Mentor as Ronan faced the Storm Realm’s dangers and asked Alazan to guide him.

• Ronan escaped Fomingge’s collapsing Forbidden Black Hole and stopped at the edge of the Eye of the Sky, where Fomingge’s projected figure halted its pursuit.
• Ronan showed Fomingge the Law Adept Arm Ring, entered the Storm Realm, and vowed to return.
• Fomingge told Cooper to report in Goodman’s name that Ronan Damien had murdered his fellow disciples, betrayed the Arcane Circle, and been executed outside the Storm Realm.
• Kosti received the report, burned the messenger, and left for the central region to ask her Mentor why Damien had supposedly died.
• Ronan emerged in the storm-wracked Storm Realm, where Alazan warned him of an ancient elemental spirit watching him.
• Ronan resolved to survive and train in the Storm Realm, then asked Alazan to guide him as he released an item from his Space Ring.

Ronan used Dodol III to navigate the Storm Realm and fought his way through its elemental storms. After reaching a plain crowded with hostile Elemental Lifeforms, he charged into battle and later hid in a cave, insisting to Alazan that he had managed the danger carefully.

• Ronan summoned Dodol III, whose survival skills and Alazan's soul guidance helped him navigate the Storm Realm.
• Ronan fought through relentless wind and lightning attacks, using his Ancient Demon God Body, Spirit Force, and healing potions to keep moving.
• Ronan and Dodol III reached a high slope overlooking a vast plain filled with hostile Wind, Lightning, and Storm Elemental Lifeforms.
• After Alazan warned him that he could turn back, Ronan asked Alazan to tell him stories and launched himself into the elemental horde.
• Months later, Ronan hid in a cave with Dodol III after evading pursuing Elemental Lifeforms, and told Alazan he avoided enemies stronger than the third tier.

Ronan reached the Storm Weaver and used Nash's Finger Bone to hide from its perception, then deliberately threw himself into a storm lightning bolt to seize a chance to grow stronger. In the Central Continent, a pursued young girl detected a burst of lightning and ran toward it, clutching a silver ring.

• Ronan learned from Alazan that the pale relic was Nash's Finger Bone, then left the cave and fought through the Storm Elemental Lifeforms with Dodol III.
• Ronan reached the Storm Weaver, a colossal being surrounded by raging winds and lightning, and drew the attention of its gaze.
• Ronan crumbled part of Nash's Finger Bone, concealing himself from the Storm Elemental Spirits while destructive thunderbolts still struck around him.
• Ronan rushed toward a small storm lightning bolt and let it pierce him, while Alazan watched in shock.
• In a swamp in the Central Continent, a fleeing young girl sensed a burst of lightning, gripped the silver ring around her neck, and ran toward it.

Ronan emerged from the Storm Realm and killed a girl whose apparent plea for help concealed a corrupt soul, then learned that her silver ring was a Linked Ring tied to a Treasure-Hoarding Goblin’s private treasury. After Alazan asked how Ronan felt after enduring the Storm Weaver’s lightning, the story left him considering the effects of his transformation.

• A wounded girl begged the figure in the storm for protection, claiming her family had been slaughtered over the silver ring and offering herself and its treasure secret in return.
• Ronan dismissed the girl’s story, struck her dead with lightning, and trapped her filthy, resentful soul in a spell net.
• Ronan released Aihaxia from the Square-Horned Cowbell, and the resentful spirit devoured the girl’s soul to recover its strength.
• Ronan examined the silver ring and learned from Alazan that it was a Linked Ring, a key to a Treasure-Hoarding Goblin’s private treasury.
• Alazan said the ring belonged to a low-ranking Silver Ear Goblin and asked Ronan how he felt after being tempered by the Storm Weaver’s lightning.

After surviving the Storm Weaver’s storm, Ronan discovered that the baptism had inscribed incomplete Storm Runes into his body, and Alazan explained how those runes related to bloodlines and the wizard ranks. The discussion ended when a robed figure hurried through the marsh mist toward Ronan.

• Ronan checked his Character Panel and found Ascetic Body Forging one proficiency point short of its next level, while his body had gained new resistance and Storm Runes.
• Ronan let Alazan examine him, and Alazan said his body resembled an innate [Declining Blood] but was still a growing sapling rather than a failing Level Seven wizard.
• Alazan explained that Dawn Wizards nurtured elemental spirits to approach truth, while Level Seven wizards forged Fundamental Runes that could become inherited bloodlines.
• Ronan realized his [Immaculate Body] might let him absorb and inscribe the Storm Weaver’s power, and suspected Ascetic Body Forging needed Holy Shrine Power to advance.
• A figure in billowing robes appeared through the marsh mist as Ronan and Alazan were about to continue their conversation.

Ronan traded Jason Franklin the Linked Ring for a map, then traveled with him toward the Pendulum of Fate and considered joining Spirit Lake. As Ronan crossed into the Destiny Empire, he heard a mysterious pendulum chime that Jason could not hear.

• Ronan returned the Linked Ring to Jason Franklin in exchange for a map, and the two introduced themselves and left the swamp together.
• At a tavern in White Pine Town, Jason told Ronan about the Pendulum of Fate, its ruling Seer, and its rival factions, Wizard Heart Hall and Spirit Lake.
• Jason invited Ronan to travel with him toward Wizard Heart Hall, while suggesting that Ronan might find a suitable path at Spirit Lake.
• Jason gave Ronan a bat-shaped communication device and promised to invite him to explore the treasure linked to the ring once he found it.
• After traveling for more than half a month, Ronan and Jason reached the glowing fungal border of the Pendulum of Fate and crossed into the Destiny Empire.
• Ronan heard an ancient pendulum chime as he crossed the border, but Jason heard nothing and asked whether Ronan had imagined it.