Chapter Summaries

Ronan and Jason traveled into the Destiny Empire during the mourning bells for the Pendulum of Fate’s deceased prophet, and Alazan suspected one of the prophet’s final predictions might involve Ronan. Later, Ronan broke through Spirit Moye Golden Soul to Master Level, creating a soul-focused Golden Fire domain that began fusing with his other Golden Fire domains.

• Ronan questioned Alazan about the mysterious bell he had heard, but Alazan knew nothing about it.
• Ronan and Jason reached a town where bells rang to mark the death of the Old Prophet and the appointment of a new one; Jason explained that the prophet had left three final prophecies.
• Alazan described how Prophecy Wizards gained power from fulfilled predictions and warned that prophecies could act like curses, then speculated that one of the three predictions might concern Ronan.
• Ronan and Jason traveled for two months through the Destiny Empire, unable to find a place to rest because bells rang throughout the region.
• Ronan advanced Spirit Moye Golden Soul to Master Level, gaining a Golden Fire domain that strengthened or damaged souls.
• Ronan’s three Master-level Golden Fire domains began merging into a higher-level domain through the fusion of three Law Domains.

Ronan advanced his Golden Soul spell and reviewed his plans for dream cultivation and splitting the Law Control Rune before meeting Jason, who shared information about Spirit Lake and left to seek entry into Wizard Heart Hall. Three days later, Ronan arrived at Tataka Mountain to pursue Spirit Lake’s entrance selection and encountered two figures on the trail.

• Ronan improved his Golden Soul spell, found it slightly eased the effects of Reincarnation into Dream, and realized he needed more than six Spiritual Power Crystals to split the Law Control Rune.
• Jason met Ronan outside the transit city, gave him information about Spirit Lake, and said he was leaving to try out for Wizard Heart Hall.
• Jason departed, hoping they would both reach Dawn before they met again.
• Ronan traveled by Sparrow Carriage to Tataka Mountain, one of Spirit Lake’s qualification locations, where the Treant Race gatekeeper Tataka. Kilim lived.
• Ronan started up the mountain trail and stopped when two figures emerged from a nearby thicket.

Ronan reached the banyan gatekeeper Tataka and rejected its demand for gifts and flattery. After revealing overwhelming power, he forced Tataka to open Spirit Lake’s entrance and was declared the sole person to pass.

• Ronan arrived at the clearing beneath the ancient banyan and joined the wizards waiting for Tataka to wake.
• Tataka disqualified Lawrence for having too little wizard talent, then let several wizards earn entry by pleasing it with gifts, a joke, or other offerings.
• When Ronan’s turn came, he struck Tataka with a low-grade magic stone and demanded that it open the door.
• Tataka attacked Ronan, but Ronan unleashed the force field of all eleven Spiritual Power Crystals and shredded the incoming branches and vines.
• Tataka knelt, opened a blue vortex in its chest, and declared Ronan the sole person to pass into Spirit Lake.

Ronan entered the Spirit Lake Secret Realm and learned about its three factions before a terrifying Chimera arrived carrying a First Generation Declining Blood. Elsewhere, three gray-robed figures discussed Juventus’s arrival and wondered whether he was the person in a prophecy.

• Ronan passed through the Gatekeeper Tree-person’s vortex and entered Spirit Lake, where he surveyed the vast lake and its three faction symbols.
• Ronan considered joining the Flame Faction but continued descending with the other candidate wizards before a spatial rift opened above them.
• A huge Chimera emerged from the rift with a radiant figure standing on its back, and Alazan identified the figure as a Level Seven First Generation Declining Blood.
• Three gray-robed figures met on an island and discussed Juventus’s arrival, with one suspecting he was the person mentioned in a prophecy.

Ronan entered the Three Towers selection trial and learned that the towers measured intelligence, combat strength, and soul aptitude. After receiving a three-star soul aptitude result, he entered the Flame Tower and found his body transformed into threads of white light.

• Three gray-robed figures discussed Iglipusa’s prophecies and concluded that chaos had begun, while one warned that the Upper Ring Continent could not produce another Helamus.
• Juventus arrived at Spirit Lake riding a Chimera, and his entry into the Soul Tower produced nine violet stars, astonishing the watching wizards.
• Ronan entered the Three Towers trial, and Alazan explained how elemental spirit rank affected a wizard’s authority, knowledge, and power.
• Ronan took the Black Moon Tower’s soul aptitude test and received three stars; Alazan said Spirit Heart Amber could continue to develop his soul.
• Ronan entered the Flame Tower, where his consciousness left his body and he saw that his hands and body had become threads of white light.

Ronan entered the Spell Tower’s consciousness trial, where opponents grew stronger while his external equipment and abilities were stripped away. He defeated a Level Four Dawn fire wizard by combining ice and spatial magic, then named his new spell Annihilation Winter: Finger Flick Snow Country.

• Ronan realized the Spell Tower had reduced his strength and removed his external gear while preserving his spellcasting abilities.
• Ronan defeated a peak Third Level water wizard with his Extreme Frozen Weapon, freezing the wizard and his two-tailed fish before shattering them.
• The trial shifted to a volcanic battlefield, where a Level Four Dawn fire wizard attacked Ronan with fire magic and Spiritual Power Elementalization.
• Ronan evaded the fire wizard’s attacks while accumulating ice spells, then used Winter Mirror to freeze the battlefield and its flames.
• Ronan shattered the Winter Mirror and compressed its ice and spatial-collapse energies into a snowflake that engulfed the fire wizard and his domain.
• Ronan recognized that the Primordial Star Meditation Technique had greatly improved his spell control and named his new technique Annihilation Winter: Finger Flick Snow Country.

Ronan fought a mid-Level Four fire opponent in the spellcasting trial and earned a five-star evaluation after combining ice magic, his domains, and close-combat skill. He returned to his body and considered the limits of the score, his future growth, and his intention to keep the Immaculate Body rather than elementalize it.

• Ronan entered Clarity Extreme Thought and used Frost Veins to trap the new opponent as it formed from magma.
• A Flame Demon Lord emerged and broke through Ronan’s ice formation, while Ronan used Spirit Maya and Black Steel Touch to restrain it.
• Ronan froze the magma with Five Heads. Hecalto’s Ancient Devour, then armored himself and pierced the iceberg with an ice crystal spear.
• Ronan vanished from the trial and returned to his body, where Alazan told him his final evaluation was five stars.
• Ronan assessed the higher star thresholds and concluded that he might eventually reject Body Elementalization to preserve the Immaculate Body.

Ronan entered the Knowledge Tower and discovered that its trial involved memorizing Primordial Spirit Writing, which strengthened a wizard’s foundation but faded from memory when he learned new writing. After spending a month on one piece, Ronan realized he needed a way to gain more time and asked Alazan for help with an idea.

• Ronan entered the Knowledge Tower and found a seemingly endless library of gray-covered books containing strange red patterns.
• Alazan explained that the patterns were Primordial Spirit Writing, connected to the lost Primordial Ten Origin Runes and capable of strengthening Ronan’s primal spirit.
• Ronan spent a month memorizing one piece of Primordial Spirit Writing and learned that studying a second piece made his memory of the first fade.
• Ronan decided to improve his chances by finding a way to have more time rather than becoming more intelligent, then asked Alazan for help.

Ronan entered a new dream life as a favored companion of Female Pope Sekaterina of the Deep Drowning Church, then fled the Church’s reach by making himself appear horribly disfigured. He settled in the wilderness with a devoted girl he named Moriel, while using Alazan to study Primordial Spirit Writing in the dream.

• Ronan woke in Papal Palace and learned that Sekaterina had dreamed of a black snake coiling around the world.
• Ronan summoned Alazan and received Primordial Spirit Writing through dream transmission, confirming he could study it in the dream.
• Ronan left Papal City to avoid Sekaterina’s favor and the Church’s succession struggles, prompting her to order a search for him.
• Ronan disguised himself with severe-looking injuries, and two Black Snake Knights failed to recognize him in a village pigsty.
• The girl carried Ronan to a cave, where he treated his wounds and named her Moriel, asking her to stay with him.

Ronan repeatedly entered the Dream of Reincarnation to learn Primordial Spirit Writings, pushing his Spirit Heart to its limits despite Alazan’s warnings. After the trial ended and ten deep-blue crystals appeared around him, the scene shifted to the Spirit Lake Secret Realm, where the academy factions gathered as stars began appearing across the lake.

• Ronan spent decades in the mountains with Moriel, who eventually died of old age; three years later, Ronan died and awoke in the Knowledge Tower after an eighty-five-day reincarnation.
• Ronan told Alazan that he remembered fewer than half of the 432 Primordial Spirit Writings, and Alazan warned him not to enter dreams again before advancing to Dawn.
• Ronan ignored Alazan’s objections and entered reincarnation twice more, then a fourth time, emerging with a muddled mind as Golden Fire burned away impurities from his soul.
• After Ronan gradually regained clarity, Alazan told him the trial was over, and ten deep-blue crystals appeared around him as the realm pushed him outward.
• The higher-ups of Spirit Lake’s three academy factions gathered above the secret realm, and their ritual caused lights resembling stars to appear in ripples across the lake.

The selection trial ended with Juventus displaying extraordinary talent and Ronan emerging with ten deep-blue suns but only three faint purple stars, leaving the factions unwilling to recruit him. Ronan remained calm as Juventus watched him, while the chapter left his chance to enter Spirit Lake unresolved.

• The Spirit Lake wizards selected candidates whose ratings met the requirements, and Juventus emerged surrounded by twenty-five great suns, prompting the gray-robed observers to praise his potential.
• A green-haired woman with Eight-Star Soul Aptitude appeared, and wizards from several factions disputed over recruiting her before she joined the Black Moon Faction.
• A second immense vortex formed, and Ronan emerged with ten blazing deep-blue suns and three faint purple crystals, causing the Deep Sea Faction to halt its advance and the other factions to lose interest.
• Alazan told Ronan his Soul Aptitude fell two stars short of the entry requirement, but Ronan said Spirit Lake was not essential to him and that his chance to study Primordial Spirit Writing might come only once.
• The factions selected the other successful candidates but left Ronan alone because his soul seemed to require too many resources, while Juventus continued watching him.

Ronan joined Spirit Lake as Heliodore’s assistant in Magic Potion Studies, but Heliodore’s invasive probe revealed that others were interested in him. After learning that Spirit Lake held part of Helamus’s inheritance, Ronan signed contracts with Spirit Lake and Deep Sea and received a Soul Simulation Technique from Alazan.

• Heliodore led Ronan beneath Spirit Lake and told him he had chosen him as an assistant for Magic Potion Studies.
• Heliodore forcibly probed Ronan, but Alazan concealed the five Spiritual Power Crystals and other secrets in Ronan’s Consciousness Space.
• Heliodore explained that Helamus had once traded part of his inheritance for access to the Spirit Writing Hall, and Ronan resolved to seek that inheritance at Deep Sea.
• Ronan asked Alazan for protection against another probe, and Alazan sent him information about the Soul Simulation Technique.
• Heliodore returned with two contracts, and Ronan signed them with soul power before receiving his joining items and instructions.

Ronan settled into his private Secret Realm Space as a new member of the Spirit Lake's Deep Sea Faction and reviewed the gains from his four lifetimes in the Knowledge Tower. By combining Primordial Spirit Writing symbols through the Primordial Star Meditation Technique, he confirmed that they could form new symbols and connected the discovery to Helamus and the Primordial Star Book.

• Ronan used Alazan's Soul Simulation Technique to hide his Soul Aura while signing faction contracts through Alazan.
• Heliodore sent Silver Coin to guide Ronan through a waterfall and light door to his private Secret Realm Space.
• Ronan inspected the space, claimed temporary ownership through its blue crystal ball, and summoned Arrietty to care for it.
• Ronan examined the fifteen Spiritual Power Crystals and recalled memorizing 1,382 Primordial Spirit Writing symbols during four lifetimes in the Knowledge Tower.
• Ronan connected the Primordial Spirit Writing to Helamus, the Primordial Star Book, and the Primordial Star Meditation Technique.
• Ronan used the meditation technique to combine two Primordial Spirit Writing symbols into a new symbol.

Ronan struggled with the worsening soul aftereffects of his reincarnation experiences while advancing his Golden Fire spells and planning his path to Level Four. After three months in Spirit Lake, Heliodore summoned him, but the costly materials needed for promotion left Ronan facing a severe financial shortfall.

• Alazan warned Ronan that his layered memories would erode his emotions, disrupt his soul, and damage his body, while Ronan hoped a Level Four advancement could temper his soul.
• Ronan received Spirit Lake and Deep Sea School robes and tools, learned that Jason had joined Wizard Heart Hall, and resumed training with Golden Soul's Golden Fire.
• Ronan advanced Brass Head to Master Level, scorching part of his practice lawn and reassuring the upset Arrietty that it would recover.
• Ronan continued inscribing the Law Control Rune and considered using his remaining Spiritual Power Crystals for the Broken Space and Scarlet Ice runes.
• Heliodore summoned Ronan after three months, and Ronan hurried to meet him because he was short on money and could afford only about a third of the materials needed for a Level Four promotion.

Ronan visited Heliodore in Spirit Lake and negotiated paid work processing potion materials to help fund his advancement to the fourth level. He began mastering the demanding formulas, with his Magic Potion Studies proficiency steadily increasing as he worked in a cycle of potion preparation and cultivation.

• Ronan used the Spirit Lake Book and his Spirit Lake Spell Ring to travel through the Crystal Passage to Heliodore's space, where Silver Coin let him in.
• Heliodore ordered Ronan to process materials for ten thousand potion formulas over two years, but Ronan asked about compensation and prepared to leave when Heliodore refused.
• Heliodore offered to support Ronan with Deep Sea resources if his performance satisfied him, then gave him a Space Ring filled with precious Magic Potion Materials.
• Ronan studied Heliodore's notes, cleaned the tools and vessels, sorted the materials, and began preparing the first formula the following morning.
• Ronan worked for seven days at a time before returning to his residence for half a month of spellcasting and meditation, while his Magic Potion Studies proficiency increased.

After Heliodore recognized Ronan’s talent in potion-making, he rewarded him with access to the Spell Repository’s fourth floor. There, Ronan touched a mysterious crystal scale that awakened his connection to Helamus’s inheritance and stirred a silver-haired young man from meditation.

• Ronan completed a Unicorn Healing Tears potion, and Heliodore praised his progress after three months of work.
• Heliodore gave Ronan a golden badge that let him enter the Spell Repository’s fourth floor and directed him to its third inheritance pillar from the left.
• Ronan passed through the repository floors and reached the fourth floor, where he found a hollow pillar containing a purple crystal scale wrapped in rune chains.
• When Ronan touched the pillar, his Spiritual Power Crystals and glazed arm ring reacted, and he sensed an ancient power connected to himself.
• Ronan realized the Spirit Lake held Helamus’s inheritance as a silver-haired young man awoke with purple light shining in his eyes.

Ronan glimpsed Helamus's inheritance in the Spell Repository, but Juventus took the purple Crystal Scale before Ronan could claim it. After six months of cultivation, Ronan mastered the fusion of five Golden Fire domains and left Spirit Lake to pursue missions and clues about Holy Shrine Power, while an unknown figure followed him.

• Ronan explored the Spell Repository, studied Level Four Ice Magic, and encountered Juventus, who recognized him as the wizard who had comprehended ten stars of Primordial Spirit Writing.
• Ronan returned to the repository and found Helamus's inheritance missing; Heliodore said someone had taken it and promised to compensate him later.
• Over the next half year, Ronan advanced his training, completed the five-domain fusion of True. Golden Fire, and brought the Law Control Rune inscription to five-sevenths.
• Ronan accepted missions from fellow Spirit Lake wizards and left the secret realm to search for Holy Shrine Power, unaware that someone watched him depart and reported his movements.
• A handsome young man in a deep blue wizard's robe appeared beside a lake, watched the Black Swans, and stopped beneath a poplar tree.

Ronan followed a Holy Shrine locator while traveling, but a Sea Goshawk repeatedly obstructed him and led him into a fight with its Level Four Dawn wizard owner. After the wizard seemingly overwhelmed Ronan, Ronan revealed a Forbidden Law Domain and trapped him with golden molten tentacles.

• Ronan collected Rot Bone Bat droppings, then used the Holy Shrine waste liquid in a stone sphere to locate the next shrine.
• A Third Level Sea Goshawk watched Ronan and later blocked his path across a Silver Silk Grass field.
• Ronan attacked the Sea Goshawk with Ice Blades, and its owner, a Level Four Dawn wizard, descended and pursued him with powerful wind magic.
• Ronan used Space Silvering to teleport and create mirror-image clones, but the wizard’s wind domain destroyed the decoys and engulfed his remaining figure.
• Golden lightning and a Forbidden Law Domain erupted, revealing Ronan’s immense golden form and ancient Evil God apparition.
• Ronan declared that he stood at the end of the mist as golden tentacles shattered the wizard’s force fields and bound him.

Ronan defeated and tortured Sindison Bolzinjis, a Level Four wizard from Sky Weaver, to learn that a famous Deep Sea Faction wizard had hired him to kill Ronan before the contest for Son of the Deep Sea. Ronan then devised a plan to exploit the would-be rival’s confidence and ordered Sindison to carry it out.

• Ronan subdued Sindison with Spirit Maya’s Golden Fire, removed his rings, and used Nails of the Soul to force him to reveal his identity and affiliation with Sky Weaver.
• Sindison admitted that a wizard from Spirit Lake’s Deep Sea Faction had hired him to kill Ronan because Ronan threatened the wizard’s bid to become Son of the Deep Sea.
• Sindison explained that the New Prophet would bless the most outstanding prodigy from each major school and organization, granting a blessing that could help its recipient escape a fatal calamity.
• Ronan learned that his ten-star knowledge evaluation made him a threat to the rival, who was a highly talented late Level Four wizard seeking to eliminate competitors before the selection drew near.
• Ronan asked what the rival would do after Sindison’s failure, then outlined a plan and persuaded Sindison to carry it out in exchange for lifting the restrictions on his soul.

Misha learned that Ronan Damien had offered him loyalty in exchange for extensive resources and signed the Soul Contract, planning to use Ronan to strengthen his power. Ronan received confirmation that the contract was formed, while Sindison suspected he had hidden a way to evade its binding.

• Misha accepted the Soul Contract Ronan had written after verifying its soul aura and reviewing the resources Ronan demanded.
• Misha signed the contract and ordered Zorn to reserve Ronan a place in the upcoming Silent Corridor and deliver the requested resources.
• Sindison left with his reward, suspected Ronan had a way to escape the Soul Contract, and resolved to find a way to remove the Nails of the Soul himself.
• Ronan received the contract's soul imprint and Sindison's message while flying through the mountains.
• Alazan told Ronan he had taken on another burden, and Ronan replied that the contract would not affect him.